On 6/14/05, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > Did you power cycle the wl-330g before plugging the PAP2 into it? And > you realized that in order to plug the PAP2 directly into the wl-330g > you'll need a crossover ethernet cable.... > > When your wl-330g wireless access point gets power cycled, it should > renegotiate everything with its wireless internet connection, hopefully > allowing a new MAC address (in this case the MAC address of the PAP2 > instead of the computer ethernet card) to be recognized and a new IP > address to be allocated via DHCP (the same mechanism that makes your > eth0 card work). The only other choice would be to power cycle the > wireless internet connection, but I fear that you don't have access to > that and all the other users of it may be annoyed if you do. ... I unplugged the wl-330g, turning it off. then I plugged its power cable in and connected it to the PAP2 with a crossover cable. (it has a power cord and ethernet jack, seperate.) I played around with the squence, trying the PAP2 with power first and so on, plugging in the crossover cable before the wl-330g's power cable, etc. the phone was always plugged in. I used the phone not long ago, so I "know" that the phone works ;) the best I could get were some pretty lights from the PAP2, then a blinking, intermittent light. no dial-tone from the phone. this setup is premised on the wl-330g's ability to renegotiate the MAC on the fly? I don't think it's that smart. I don't have the source, but I looked into this previously. -Thufir
