installing problem of nightly-firefly at NSLU2

[goana]

thanks all for your help.

I guess I have a fundamental error. My setup is as following:

| Router | <====> | PC | <====> | SLUG |

Is it possible to make any updates, such as “ipkg update” by a telnet session with this setup.
Is this the failure…..do I have to put the SLUG directly into the router?

My router is in the first floor and my SLUG and PC in the second floor, this is the reason, why I have connected the SLUG not directly to the router.
My PC has a WLAN-USB stick to get a connection to the WLAN.

I am really no expert, but I am very happy for any help.

[sonichouse]

You will probably need to do something like this

192.168.1.1                   192.168.1.101

+

+    W         W   +

+

| Router | ---+         +---| Your PC  |

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+                  +

+

||

||

+

+

|  SLUG  |

+

+

192.168.1.77 

The alternative is to put a wireless access point and switch in the same room as your PC and Slug.

[goana]

hi sonichouse,

“The alternative is to put a wireless access point and switch in the same room as your PC and Slug.”

Sorry, for that stupid questions, but I do not understand this? Can I put a WLAN-USB stick into the SLUG to get connetion to the router?

[sonichouse]

@goana wrote:

Can I put a WLAN-USB stick into the SLUG to get connetion to the router?

I have never tried but the nslu2 wiki suggests that this is possible

[rpedde]

@sonichouse wrote:

@goana wrote:

Can I put a WLAN-USB stick into the SLUG to get connetion to the router?

I have never tried but the nslu2 wiki suggests that this is possible

Another possibility would be to use connection sharing on the pc, and let the slug pick up an address with dhcp. That should work, too.

[fizze]

Before you buy a WLAN-USB stick, Id suggest getting a wireless-lan bridge.
A modded Linksys WRT54G serves this purpose for me just great. And it has a builtin 10/100Mbit 4-port switch too.
They arent too costly, and you do not need to fiddle on your slug, or any other device you may or may not connect.

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