Subject: Re: SuSE and dsl
From: Greg Jetter (greg@lazymountain.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 10:04:10 AKST
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:57 pm, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Well, nobody else seems to be taking at stab at this so I'll try to get
> the ball rolling.
>
> It sounds as though you may be using the wrong driver. Are you getting
> any error codes, or is it just failing to get an IP?
>
> You might also see if you can assign the card to the same IP it is
> receiving under Windows. I have seen situations where I couldn't get an
> IP using DHCP from a particular server under Linux while I could under
> windows with the same hardware.
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
> On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 13:15, Steve Pilkington wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't really post much, but I am having a problem setting up dsl
> > through acs (The Pipe) as a single user with dhcp in SuSE 7.3. I have a
> > dual boot machine (Win 98/ Linux) and the win side is set up and working
> > fine so I know the hardware is in order. Through Yast2 I get to the part
> > where it is trying to get a dynamic address when starting network and it
> > fails. Anyone have any suggestions or can point me to a good howto?
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Steve Pilkington
I was just reading about the DSL stuff in Suse. , I got the 7.3 pro box set
to evaluate and was reading through the manuals that came wit it . it says
when setting up DSL you got to assign some dummy IP addresses as place
holders during the initial setup if your using the DSL wizard
on page 83 of their network manual it says:
using YAST
"Enter an IP address in the field "IP address of your machine" that,
however ,may NOT be assigned internally in a private network or over the
internet. For insrtance,192.168.22.1 is a good choice."
it goes on to say on page 84
NOTE:
The value for the IP address of your machine and netmask are only
Placeholders.
i'm assumming that it is changed by the pppoe program at connect time to
reflect the IP address asigned by the ISP.
it then says to edit the "etc/pppoe.conf " file
adding you username, password ,interface , device .
then you can start it all up by issuing the command
as root rcpppoed start.
personelly I would grab a copy of roaring penguin and the tkpppoe program
and do it that way , then you don't have to go through all these gyrations.
just install the rpm and launch tkpppoe tell it what net card is connected
to the DSL and start using it.
hope this help ya a bit.
Greg
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