Belkin N150 router wireless light won't come on

[Scott Allen]

Since I haven't seen any other replies, I'll offer some generic 
advice. Start with the simplest setup and work your way up.

- Disconnect the N150 from eveything so that it is "stand alone". 
This way, if anyone tries to attack you during testing, they can only 
get to the N150 itself, and possibly the netbook (back up the 
netbook).

- Disable all security/encryption then try to connect to the N150 in 
unsecured mode. Also disable DHCP and just set static IP addresses in 
the N150 and netbook. Get to the point that you can ping the N150 and 
talk to its HTTP configuration interface.

- Now enable DHCP and get that working so that, again, the netbook 
can communicate with the N150.

- Next, enable encryption and get things working again. You may want 
to try WEP encryption before getting WPA working.

If you have trouble anywhere above, you might wan't to try a few live 
CD or USB distributions on the netbook in case it's a problem 
specific to your Gentoo setup.

- Once you can talk to the N150 itself over a secure wireless link, 
you can re-connect the N150 to the ST546. Now get the netbook talking 
to the ST546 (through ping, web interface, ssh, whatever).

- Finally, work on netbook to PC communication.

Note that since the netbook is on a different network than the ST546 
and PC, you may need to set up static routes in one or more of the 
devices, or use a routing protocol (such as RIP or OSPF). This may 
not be necessary if you're using NAT/PAT on the N150.

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