belkin blues

Hi everyone, and a quick thanks to waterhead (I think that was the name) for his post on extracting as much info as possible from your system before presenting a network problem on the forum.

Where to begin? This is so bizarre. I installed intrepid for a friend a while back (this is cross-distro stuff - it even affects his xp installation as well) and all had been good. Yesterday he tells me he was in his Yahoo email account, when the app asked him to log out and back in again. I know James, and there is no way on God's Earth he would have been doing anything out of the ordinary. Anyways, he does as instructed and finds that he can't log back in again. In fact he can't log into any site on the net that requires him to login. Hotmail, Yahoo, Facebook...all of them ain't playing. Anything that doesn't require a login, fine. So I flushed firefox of ALL private info, cache, cookies - everything, and nope. No joy there, still no logins allowed into sites on the net.

So I pasted the routers IP address into the address bar of Firefox, pressed enter and was taken to the opening page of the router configuration stuff. Which follows:

Quote:

Belkin router
NAT Enabled
Firewall settings enabled
UPnP disabled

LAN MAC 00:1C:DF:11:94:37
IP address 192.168.2.1
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
DHCP Server Enabled

Firmware version 5.01.16
Boot version v2_0 - built 02:26:32, Jul 5 2005
Hardware F5D9230-4 v5000
Serial Number 150737R9507122

WAN MACAddress 00:1C:DF:11:94:38
Connection Type Dynamic
Subnet Mask 255.255.254.0
Default Gateway 77.100.104.1
DNS Address 62.31.176.39

Wireless Enabled
WLAN MAC 00:1C:DF:11:94:37
Wireless Mode 802.11g & 802.11b
Wireless Channel Auto
SSID Belkin_G_Plus_MIMO_119437
Security Enabled

OK. Its a start.

I then ping the router using the same IP address used to access the above. Ping fails. Odd, that. So for some unknown reason I changed the last number in the address from 1 to 2. Pinged that - as expected, it failed. But then I changed the 2 back into a 1. Pinged the original IP address again, ping succeeds. Eh? To make sure I wasn't dreaming I went back and repeated the exact same process with the exact same result. But whatever, lets be grateful that the ping worked. Went back onto the net, same problem persisted.

So, enter lsusb, lsmod and uname -r

from uname -r

Quote:

2.6.27-11-generic

Straightforward vanilla kernel I believe.

from lsusb - the usb stick he is using is a 3com. I copied this from the back of it (naturally enough he hadn't kept all that tedious packaging and information that came with it)...3CRUSB10037- anyways from lsusb

Oh dung. Seems I had only copied pasted a section of the output. Whoops, my bad, but I think the relevant line is in the mix (I hope so, and my apologies):

Quote:

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c040 Logitech, Inc. Corded Tilt-Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS WLA-54L WiFi
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:0007 Seiko Epson Corp. Printer
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Finally, lsmod:

Quote:

Module Size Used by
ipv6 263972 14
isofs 40100 1
udf 88356 0
crc_itu_t 10112 1 udf
af_packet 25728 4
binfmt_misc 16904 1
sco 18308 2
bridge 56980 0
stp 10628 1 bridge
rfcomm 44432 0
bnep 20480 2
l2cap 30464 6 rfcomm,bnep
bluetooth 61924 6 sco,rfcomm,bnep,l2cap
ppdev 15620 0
speedstep_lib 12676 0
cpufreq_powersave 9856 0
cpufreq_stats 13188 0
cpufreq_conservative 14600 0
cpufreq_userspace 11396 0
cpufreq_ondemand 14988 0
freq_table 12672 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
sbs 19464 0
container 11520 0
sbshc 13440 1 sbs
wmi 14504 0
pci_slot 12680 0
video 25232 0
output 11008 1 video
battery 18436 0
iptable_filter 10752 0
ip_tables 19600 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 22916 1 ip_tables
ac 12292 0
lp 17156 0
arc4 9984 2
ecb 10880 2
crypto_blkcipher 25476 1 ecb
zd1211rw 53252 0
mac80211 216820 1 zd1211rw
cfg80211 32392 1 mac80211
evdev 17696 9
usblp 20480 0
snd_usb_audio 89728 1
snd_usb_lib 24192 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hwdep 15236 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hda_intel 384176 3
snd_pcm_oss 46848 0
snd_mixer_oss 22784 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 83204 3 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 10884 0
snd_seq_oss 38528 0
snd_seq_midi 14336 0
snd_rawmidi 29824 2 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 15232 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 57776 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 29960 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 15116 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd 63268 19 snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_ seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
pcspkr 10624 0
soundcore 15328 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 16136 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_viapro 15764 0
nvidia 6909268 26
i2c_core 31892 2 i2c_viapro,nvidia
parport_pc 39204 1
parport 42604 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
button 14224 0
shpchp 38036 0
pci_hotplug 34976 1 shpchp
via_agp 16256 1
agpgart 42184 2 nvidia,via_agp
ext3 133256 1
jbd 55828 1 ext3
mbcache 16004 1 ext3
sr_mod 22212 1
cdrom 43168 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 42392 4
crc_t10dif 9984 1 sd_mod
sg 39732 0
pata_acpi 12160 0
usbhid 35840 0
hid 50560 1 usbhid
pata_via 16132 0
sata_via 15492 4
ata_generic 12932 0
via_rhine 30216 0
mii 13440 1 via_rhine
uhci_hcd 30736 0
ehci_hcd 43788 0
libata 178208 4 pata_acpi,pata_via,sata_via,ata_generic
usbcore 149360 8 zd1211rw,usblp,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usbhid,uh ci_hcd,ehci_hcd
scsi_mod 155212 4 sr_mod,sd_mod,sg,libata
dock 16656 1 libata
thermal 23708 0
processor 42156 1 thermal
fan 12548 0
fbcon 47648 0
tileblit 10880 1 fbcon
font 16512 1 fbcon
bitblit 13824 1 fbcon
softcursor 9984 1 bitblit
fuse 60828 5

OK, with all this I thought about my personal time issues (he had failed to tell me that XP was totally borking with the net until afterward my next move (he is a computer user, after all) and decided, as he had everything backed up, that a re-install of intrepid would be the quickest route forwards. So, wiped the partition, reformatted it as ext3, then let the ubuntu installer loose on it. Logged in went on the net and...same problem. Then, and only then do I find out that XP was borking.

Deep breath.

Anyways, the connection is shared between two windows machines and his dual boot machine.

Any help would be very, very welcome, and thank you in advance for anything you may do to help. LF