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Dan Berladyn (dberladyn@home.com)
Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:32:17 -0800
Please forgive my laziness in my original post, and perhaps any laziness in this
post aswell. I am just beginning to come down with a cold, and my head hurts from
attempting to figure out what is wrong with something that I do not fully
understand.
Like I had stated, I didnt have a problem hooking up Rogers Cable to the Linux
Computer. When I had first recieved the ADSL service on Friday, I decided to get
it working on my windows machine first. What I had done, is taken the same
network card from the Linux machine, and installed it on the windows machine. I
followed the directions provided by Telus, registered my NIC's mac address, and
voila, I had high speed service on my WINDOWS machine.
Next, I uninstalled the card, and reinstalled it into my Linux machine.
Everything should be simple enough right, same network settings? Using the
command "netconf" I made sure everything in the eth0 settings, and all other
network settings where blank, and that the DCHP option was checked.
Oops! Linux wants me to assign a Hostname, ok.... I can do that.... what is my
hostname? I tried everything from localhost, to my username.bc.hsia.telus.net, to
my IP.bc.hsia.telus.net, and anything else that I found at the Telus website.
Eachtime I made a change, I rebooted, and attempted to get to the site
http://oca.bc.hsia.telus.net , and naturally, each time failed.
When I had the ADSL running on my windows machine, I wrote down all the info I
recieved when I registered my MAC address at http://oca.bc.hsia.telus.net . So
next, after repeated attempts at finding a forum, or a webpage with the
appropraite information on using Linux with Telus'es ADSL, I then tried placing
the information from the http://oca.bc.hsia.telus.net directly into my network
configuration. I think I had tried everything I could think of. And again, I
rebooted each and everytime, trying to get to the site
http://oca.bc.hsia.telus.net .
Finally, after fighting the urge to look into buying Windows2000 for an easier
server setup I found this place. As an experienced Bulletin Board user, I
searched all the threads looking for someone else having the same problem, who
may have my answers in the replies to their respective questions. I know it can
get very frustrating helping someone out, who doesnt have near the experience
that you may have, but it definitely is rewarding to a newsgroup such as this to
attract and invest time in new users so that this news group can grow.
I just reinstalled Linux again to insure a clean start, and I would appreciate it
if someone could walk me through the setup process. I suppose a great start would
be knowing if I need to install this rpm rp-pppoe-2.6-1.i386.rpm from the website
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ . As I have read in some Linux documentation
that some ADSL ISP's use PPPoE, I have no clue if Telus does or not, actually, I
really don't have a clue about a lot of related things, and that is why I am
here, gracefully dependant upon you,
Dan Berladyn
Port Moody, BC
P.S. the network card does work, as I have had my Rogers Connection working
through it and my Linux operating system.
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