kernel module for router

[nadir]

I got a router i wanted to set up.
Accessing it's interface in the browser did not work. I booted a stock Debian kernel, and it worked.
I assume i need a kernel module, but would not know which one. lspci does not seem to have helped.
How can i find out which module is being used?
Router is: Belkin N Wireless, F5D8236 version 3

[dilberts_left_nut]

I got a router i wanted to set up.
Accessing it's interface in the browser did not work. I booted a stock Debian kernel, and it worked.
I assume i need a kernel module, but would not know which one. lspci does not seem to have helped.
How can i find out which module is being used?
Router is: Belkin N Wireless, F5D8236 version 3

I'm lost...
It's a separate router, not a device on your pc? (lspci ??)
If so, how are you connecting to it?

Stock kernel? on the router?? or your pc?
Assuming pc, the web-interface works when booted with stock kernel but not when booted with custom kernel (which?)?
Sounds very strange to me.

[nadir]

I got a router i wanted to set up.
Accessing it's interface in the browser did not work. I booted a stock Debian kernel, and it worked.
I assume i need a kernel module, but would not know which one. lspci does not seem to have helped.
How can i find out which module is being used?
Router is: Belkin N Wireless, F5D8236 version 3

I'm lost...
It's a separate router, not a device on your pc? (lspci ??)
If so, how are you connecting to it?

Stock kernel? on the router?? or your pc?
Assuming pc, the web-interface works when booted with stock kernel but not when booted with custom kernel (which?)?
Sounds very strange to me.

- It is a separate router.
- I plug the router into the modem, and the PC into the router. I boot the PC, open a web-browser, go to "192.168.2.1" and got access to the web-interface.

kernel:
- I got my own, localmodconfig-self-compiled, kernel. When booting that one, 192.168.2.1 tells me that it is not able to open the site.
- I booted a different kernel: i go to 192.168.2.1 in a web-browser, and the webinterface opens
(mhh... the different kernel i used is a different OS too, refracta, mhhh....let me do a few reboots again).

[cynwulf]

Also confused...



//edit: so you can't get to the router's configuration page using your custom kernel? But you can with the stock kernel? That honestly makes no sense...

[nadir]

Does that mean that if i add a router, whatever kernel and kernel-modules i use,
should "see" the router?
That is what i have expected, and i was puzzled that it could not see it. Took me a while to decide to boot into a different environment, and there it worked right away.
It is not that i would plug in a new router twice a week. When i made the kernel, the actual router was in place. Hence i am not sure what i am supposed to see.

Ups: You edited your post:

//edit: so you can't get to the router's configuration page using your custom kernel? But you can with the stock kernel? That honestly makes no sense...

Good. In that case i have to investigate it different. I assumed that would be the problem, but probably have overseen something else
(i used epiphany, without any plug-ins, so i would not be sure what might be the problem).

[dilberts_left_nut]

My guess would be basic networking - dhcp fail?

[nadir]

My guess would be basic networking - dhcp fail?

I was fixed and focused on the kernel-module (no idea why, it simply was that way).
After you both said: "nope, makes no sense whatsoever" i thought a bit more, and have thought about a missing "dhclient eth0" or such too (at the laptop i neither user a gui-manager nor an entry in interfaces, but start it with dhclient).
Let me investigate tonight or tomorrow (i bet that was the problem, but we will see).

If that was the problem i look a bit dumb, but that's ok.

[craigevil]

might try a different browser.Firefox doesn't connect to the configuration page on my crappy virgin mobile router/modem but chrome does no clue why.Firefox just says it can't find the page.

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[nadir]

If that was the problem i look a bit dumb, but that's ok.

What shall i say? Nuff said? I wish i could...
Yup, that was the problem. Hard to believe, i assume.
Thing is: i am never sure when to run "dhclient", when "ifdown ... ifup" and when "/etc/intit.d/networking restart". I usually use the raw method (try and error), but this time i seem to have missed something (probably too excited or confused).
Anyway: thanks.

might try a different browser.Firefox doesn't connect to the configuration page on my crappy virgin mobile router/modem but chrome does no clue why.Firefox just says it can't find the page.

Good point. I had that problem with the other router (netgear RP614). Was a pain to figure it out ( i tried all kind of browsers, all failed, and opera finally did it. A fellow at the German debianforum ran into a thread at the German Ubuntu forum, where it was mentioned. Once you know -and keep it in mind- easy. Else: brainfeck).

[CiaW]

I would 2nd trying another browser, if you know you're using the right IP for the router interface. I had an issue with some config options on my ooma interface page while using the Midori browser (ooma is a voice-over-IP device). When I switched to the Opera browser, it worked just fine.