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Re: The 'wireless' of the Magnia SG20 (Reply to this comment)
by silverstreak9
I'm a bit puzzled why your inability to get this to work for you resulted in a 'Not Helpful' rating for me. The review was never intended to explain and fully diagram every potential use of the Magnia SG20, particularly for those users who come along two years after the review was written.
No problem. We all get frustrated at times! ;-)
Number 1, you CAN'T HAVE two DHCP servers on the same network. Won't work. One must be disabled.
So if you're trying to use your own router/DHCP you can only implement DHCP on the Magnia if you create a separate network. Because internet access is coming from the second network, it disconnects.
Check out this page:
http://eswebs.com/sg20_and_router.htm
My Magnia is accessible for read/writes across all computers on my network. It uses the address 192.168.1.3 where the main router/DHCP is 192.168.1.1 (again, I'm not using the Magnia as a DHCP server.)
I would suggest going to one of the links provided in the review, to Yahoo Groups and asking some of the people there who have used this server successfully to link other computers to the internet.
In its default configuration, this is an INTRANET server. That's all Toshiba promises. As noted in the review, when you start making it an internet server, you void the warranty.
But MANY people have succeeded where you have failed. I have used it to serve music across the internet. I don't use it as a wireless DHCP server, but others have...successfully.
Don't give up! There's a lot to learn about Linux.
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Jul 02 '06
5:59 am PDT
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The 'wireless' of the Magnia SG20 (Reply to this comment)
by argenex
Well there is scant documentation which assumes that the wireless network should work very simply.
Truth is it doesn't work, and frequently disconnects.
Support claims that updating the drivers resolves the disconnection of the wireless network, which takes place every 5 minutes. However after doing so, it still continues.
Connecting to the wireless point, is fairly simple in setup and administration, and the connection actually does connect. However you cannot access any of your LAN at all, nor the internet.
Now what XP prefers to do, is for you to create a bridge with the connection to access the network. When doing so, you can then actually connect to the workgroup/domain on your LAN through the SG20, however you cannot view any of the computers nor can you access the internet.
Then Toshiba claims that removal of the bridge, will allow you access to these things. However this is untrue. It reverts back to 'being connected' but you can no longer view your local workgroup or domain, nor can you access the network.
Also the SG20 does not utilize the DHCP across the Wireless connection to give out any ip addresses or dns information.
I then went about manually setting these, yet again, to no avail.
Unfortunatly the documentation is extremly slim, and nothing is very clear on exactly and precisly how to connect via the wireless connection, to the LAN and internet.
As well I have found many comments/complaints online saying the same precise thing, however no solution to be found. I assume that much like myself, everyone has simply given up and moved on.
Other than that however, everything else as far as the server functions go, works wonderfully and is extremely easy to administrate.
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Jul 01 '06
3:58 pm PDT
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