detecting network routers in gnome?

kendell clark coffeekingms at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 21:35:50 UTC 2015


hi all
This one is an odd question to ask, since I'm not a windows user.
Mellisa tells me that on her windows box she can see our belkin n300
wireless router in the network section of file explorer. I've tried to
get this working in gnome, since it would be nice to simply click on an
icon and have the browser open to my gateway's setup page instead of
having to remember an IP address. Normally I'd just bite the bullet and
remember the IP address, since it's no big deal. However, I'm going to
be getting a new router soon and sometimes the IP address varies from
192.168.2.1, 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.0.1, and others. Does anyone know
if this is possible? Nautilus seems to be fairly hardcoded in it's
network view. There's always a windows network option, even if no samba
servers are active, and there's a "tigger" option, which refers to my
computer, but I get a connection refused error  when clicking on that,
but no router. I'm a novice at networking and only understand the
basics. Does anyone know how I might get this working in fedora? By the
way, fedora 23 rc6 is fantastic, great job everyone! I'll be sure to
inline quote if I get responses this time.
Thanks
Kendell clark


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