[ILUG] Fixing WiFi Security with Eircom Broadband, and Netopia 2247NWG under Debian Linux == changing the settings

[Cian Brennan]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:51:56PM +0000, spirals wrote:
> Hi, I have recently received a Netopia 2247NWG as part of a Eircom 
> Broadband deal. Although I do not yet have broadband operational . I 
> have solved the Netopia 2247NWG. WiFi Security issue fairly  simply.  As 
> I am running Debian 2.6.17 on my machines, the installation disk for 
> windows was not much use to me. With the 2246 directly connected to the 
> NIC port on my machine, I was able to determine it's  IP address.  Not 
> *192.168.1.254* as stated in the "Software User Guide V76-Clsc.pdf" I 
> downloaded from the  Motorola/Netopia web site, but *192.25.206.10*.  By 
> the simple expedient of re jigging eth0 on my machine to be the same 
> network (at 192.25.206.9) together with placing an entry in my host 
> file  for netopia at 192.25.206.10. I was able to establish 
> communications via Firefox as  http://netopia.   At that point I was 
> asked for a name and  password. The correct values are  
> */eircom at eircom.net/* and /*broadband1*/.  Once in and entering "expert 
> mode" I was able to change the key settings for WiFi and then disable 
> it, as well as make other changes including the IP address of the 2247 
> to a IP  within the unroutable range  I use on my LAN.  I hope this of 
> some help for anyone attempting to connect Linux via Eircom Broadband. 
> (dja.)
> 
>
Even on linux, you should have been able to acheive all of that by pointing a
web browser at 192.168.1.254...

If you're netopia has a different IP(by default), I would suggest that you've probably been
sent out the wrong one, possibly a hotspot router or the like. Also, eircom
router's shouldn't require a password to log into the routers, merely for the
PPPoE connection.
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