Previous Wireless connection has disappeared.

[utopiasf]

Hi All, thanks for taking the time to read this thread. Firstly as the Forum suggests I'm a total newb when it comes to Unix & Amahi so your patience is appreciated.

My problem is, after the installation of Amahi it asks for a reboot following the :-


su -
hda-install ********

section of the installation guide.

But now my wireless network has disappeared and I was using this to connect out to the net.

Is that supposed to happen and Amahi only works on a wired connection?

Thanks again for your time.

[cpg]

you need to explain your network architecture/topology better.

are you connecting your amahi hda to the network via a wireless link?
(that's not such a good idea, as these tend to be reliable and your hda is built to be serving the net all the time that the net is on)

[bsk]

But now my wireless network has disappeared and I was using this to connect out to the net.

Is that supposed to happen and Amahi only works on a wired connection?

Ide say thats what he means

[utopiasf]

Cheers for the responses so far.. I'll explain further.

Installed Fedora 10 and established internet connection via my wireless.
Installed Amahi using the guide but after a reboot the wireless connection and all configuration for it has disappeared like its been disabled.

Was wondering if that's supposed to happen, and if so.. Why?

Thanks again for your time.

[cpg]

only eth0 is supported.

what is "my wireless"?

if it's some wifi in the HDA box that connects you to the rest of the network and the internet,
it's not supported out of the box.

you can hack it if you want to go deep into the network settings, however connecting the home server into a network via a wireless connections is just unreliable and will give you a lot of grief.

one day we will get patches to provide a way to select which device to use, however, for now, that's not there yet.

[bsk]

Cheers for the responses so far.. I'll explain further.

Installed Fedora 10 and established internet connection via my wireless.
Installed Amahi using the guide but after a reboot the wireless connection and all configuration for it has disappeared like its been disabled.

Was wondering if that's supposed to happen, and if so.. Why?

Thanks again for your time.

Currently, like cpg said, eth0 is the only thing that works "Out of the Box", meaning when you isntall Amahi onto your linux box, you have to be plugged in through the main Ethernet port on the back of your computer.

eth0 is an ethernet port (hardlined and not over wifi) and normally, wlan0 is the wireless setting. Amahi is set to run off of eth0 out of the box.

Wireless is not reliable at all and is very slow when:

1. Backing up files from different clients as it has to go through the air to the router (if your using wifi on the client) and then through the air to the HDA (Amahi box)
2. When browsing files and or using http://hda, things are slower because the signal to the hda can be dropped (as in all computer connected to wifi)

Its just not very reliable at the time.

[utopiasf]

Thank you all for answering my question. Happy Monday.

[mdhodgson]

Hello,

Thank you all for explaining why it doesn't work. I am a noob to this and can only use a wireless connection. I will not be using the HDA to backup so think it is worth trying to use the wireless connection.
What would i have to do to change it to the wireless connection.

Many thanks,

[cpg]

find all the places that use eth0

fine what your wireless lan connection is, say for the sake of example, wlan0.

then change the settings of the wlan connection to match your network configuration (i.e. same as programmed in amahi.org)

then replace all the settings from eth0, to wlan0.

here is a guide on how to run on eth1.

in your case, instead of eth1 would be how to run on wlan0.

report back how it went for the benefit of others.