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## reconfiguring my home "network" setup

Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:27 pm

This question is not related to refracta at all!
Per chance i got an Apple AirPortExtreme.
If i understand correct it comes with one plug for wired connection and wireless
(+ a bit of voodoo for a network printer and such, but i don't need such options at all).
I am not sure how to use it.
Here is my actual setup.
I got a modem from my ISP.
To that modem i got a non-wireless router connected. It is from Netgear: RP614v4
It has four plugs for wired connection.
I got the following computers connected:
a desktop PC for my daily ride.
an imacG4, which i use a few times a week.
a server, which is running 24/7
The last plug i usually use for the laptop.
Every other day i connect one of my old PCs, do do some tests to the very same plug i usually use for the laptop.
That means that i need two wired connections all the time (one for a PC and one for the server), but four are better, so i don't need to plug/unplug all the time.
Now comes my question:
My goal is to use the Apple AirportExtreme to make the laptop connect wirless to the internet.
To do so i got a netgear WG111v3.
If i want to do that, what would be the way to go?
Just plug the AirportExteme in the router?
The other way around?
Use the AirportExtreme, and buy a switch, but leave away the netgear router?
I ain't got a clue, and not even a tiny one. I wouldn't even know what i had to search for.
Thanks in advance.
meandean

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## Re: reconfiguring my home "network" setup

Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:44 pm

In the end I would think you should be able to plug the airport into the port on your router and be good to go. Obviously it will take some experimentation to reach that though.
Do you know the username/password of the airport and how it is configured? If not then you should probably reset the airport to default settings. You usually do that via a little push and hold button somewhere on it. Sometimes it is a tiny hole that you insert a paperclip in and push and hold for 5 seconds. Othertimes it is unplug, push/hold while plugging up. Othertimes it is push, release, then push hold for 5 seconds or so. I usually do all of the above.
So the laptop does not have wireless built-in? You use a usb wg311v3 for the laptop?
You could start by just trying to connect the laptop to the airport before even plugging the airport into the router.
crank up the laptop, pull up wicd, and see if you can find and connect to the airport
nadir

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## Re: reconfiguring my home "network" setup

Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:13 pm

You are the man. Perfect answer

> meandean wrote:In the end I would think you should be able to plug the airport into the port on your router and be good to go. Obviously it will take some experimentation to reach that though.

Good, i will simply try and experiment (not today, and perhaps not tomorrow neither, but soon)
I did not know if something like that was possible at all.

> Do you know the username/password of the airport and how it is configured? If not then you should probably reset the airport to default settings. You usually do that via a little push and hold button somewhere on it. Sometimes it is a tiny hole that you insert a paperclip in and push and hold for 5 seconds. Othertimes it is unplug, push/hold while plugging up. Othertimes it is push, release, then push hold for 5 seconds or so. I usually do all of the above.

I don't think i got a username/password, but i got a handbook as big as the bible, so somewhere it might be. I think it is unused so far (at least no one cared to unpack the handbook).
Anyway: in case of i will reset it.

> So the laptop does not have wireless built-in? You use a usb wg311v3 for the laptop?[/url]

It comes with a broadcom xyz, but i don't use contrib/non-free. That is why i bought the netgear usb. Could activate the broadcom for troubleshooting, though.

> You could start by just trying to connect the laptop to the airport before even plugging the airport into the router.
> crank up the laptop, pull up wicd, and see if you can find and connect to the airport

Now that is a trick i would never have thought of. Great.
Feedback will take a bit, as i am busy and always hesitate to fiddle with hardware.
You gave me enough info to get a long way. Thanks a lot.
yours sincerely : Aunt nadir
Edit: more here: http://linkfam.holeinthewallhosting.net ... 1321632249
Saving a link to the manual of airport2-config (it _was_ hard to find):
http://gicl.cs.drexel.edu/people/sevy/a ... anual.html
http://bamajr.com/2011/02/01/kubuntu-co ... -in-linux/
nadir

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## Re: reconfiguring my home "network" setup

Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:23 am

Just ignore.
I need to save the following at a save place, and here seems a perfect solution
(the airport is now at a friend who uses it. I do it very seldom, and each time got to crawl through the web and then the configuration. Both takes hours, so a place with the how-to is very handy for me. Thanks).
ttp://gicl.cs.drexel.edu/people/sevy/ai ... anual.html
http://bamajr.com/2011/02/01/kubuntu-co ... -in-linux/
0) packages needed:
apt-get install airport-utils
apt-get install java-default
apt-get install gcj
To run the configurator, "cd" into the directory containing it and type "java -jar AirportConfigurator.jar:
ROOT# locate airport | grep jar
/usr/share/java/airport-utils/Airport2BaseStationConfig.jar
/usr/share/java/airport-utils/AirportBaseStationConfig.jar
1) plug in the middle <---->
2) connect device /pc or laptop/ to airport-extreme, in unix land:
dhclient eth0
3) /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj-4.4/bin/java -jar /usr/share/java/airport-utils/Airport2BaseStationConfig.jar
4) enter password
default password, after reset:
public
else, set the password
lower/upper case matters
(hint: resize the window, else passwd-entry can't be seen, its at the top )
5) retrieve actual settings
Click on "retrieve settings"
wait
6) for bridged mode
bridged mode:
FritzBox connects to internet,
AirportExtreme is connected to FritzBox (bridge) and
offers wireless to devices (laptops, PCs, phones, etc).
set to:
disable dhcp #panel DHCP Functions
set to "No NAT" (network address translation) #panel Bridging Functions
7) click on "update" and pray
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