Re: [NTLK] Wi-fi connection problem

From: hellsop_at_ninehells.com
Date: Tue May 24 2005 - 16:23:45 PDT


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:19:33PM +0100, Russ Bravo wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Having problems with my wifi setup, chaps, so would appreciate some
> advice. Haven't managed to get it to connect at all yet.
>
> Every time I try to send Simplemail I get a '550' mail error, and when

You have not satisfied some requirement of your mail relay server to
send mail. We don't know what your relay requires to allow mail to be
sent, so we can't diagnose this further. It could be related to below.

> I try to get online (eg using Courier to go to www.google.com, I get a
> 'Moved 320' error, whatever that is.

That's probably a "transparent" caching proxy from NTL. Connecting
completely raw from an exposed IP, I see no redirect from Google.[1]

> I'm using a Lucent WaveLAN Silver card and have a wireless network via
> a Netgear WGR614 wireless router (plugged in to NTL cable broadband,
> 2mb, UK). I have WEP disabled on the network but have specified only
> certain MAC addresses can get on the network, including the address on
> the bottom of my Lucent card.
>
> Any ideas?

Get a new ISP? This is not a DNS or DHCP issue as mentioned by another
poster. These are much higher level errors than those kinds of things.
These are SMTP and HTTP level issues, which expect much more
sophisticated stuff than your Newton is currently configured to do.

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[1]
$ telnet www.google.com 80
Trying 64.233.167.99...
Connected to www.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / http/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie:
PREF=ID=18c4009795a39d0a:TM=1116976362:LM=1116976362:S=Km2meYQX6lIc3r1u;
expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Server: GWS/2.1
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:12:42 GMT
Connection: Close

<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Google</title><style><!--
body,td,a,p,.h{font-family:arial,sans-serif;}
.h{font-size: 20px;}
.q{color:#0000cc;}
//-->
</style>
<script>
<!--
function sf(){document.f.q.focus();}
// -->
</script>
</head><body bgcolor=#ffffff text=#000000 link=#0000cc vlink=#551a8b
alink=#ff0000 onLoad=sf() topmargin=3 marginheight=3><center><img
src="/intl/en/images/logo.gif" width=276 height=110
alt="Google"><br><br>
<form action=/search name=f><table border=0 cellspacing=0
cellpadding=4><tr><td nowrap><font
size=-1><b>Web</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a id=1a class=q
href="/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&ie=UTF-8">Images</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
id=2a class=q
href="http://groups-beta.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&ie=UTF-8</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
id=4a class=q
href="/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8">News</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
id=5a class=q
href="/frghp?hl=en&tab=wf&ie=UTF-8">Froogle</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
id=7a class=q
href="/lochp?hl=en&tab=wl&ie=UTF-8">Local</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b><a
href="/options/"
class=q>more&nbsp;&raquo;</a></b></font></td></tr></table><table
cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td width=25%>&nbsp;</td><td
align=center><input type=hidden name=hl value=en><input type=hidden
name=ie value="ISO-8859-1"><input maxLength=256 size=55 name=q
value=""><br><input type=submit value="Google Search" name=btnG><input
type=submit value="I'm Feeling Lucky" name=btnI></td><td valign=top
nowrap width=25%><font size=-2>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href=/advanced_search?hl=en>Advanced Search</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href=/preferences?hl=en>Preferences</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
href=/language_tools?hl=en>Language
Tools</a></font></td></tr></table></form><br><br><font size=-1><a
href="/ads/">Advertising&nbsp;Programs</a> - <a
href=/intl/en/about.html>About Google</a></font><p><font
size=-2>&copy;2005 Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web
pages</font></p></center></body></html>Connection closed by foreign
host.
$

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