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Paul Davis (pdavis@lpccomp.bc.ca)
Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:46:43 -0800
> 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.
I recently set up the Telus $39.95 plan on Red Hat 6.2.
If your Windows configuration has the "Obtain address automatically" turned
on (DHCP), then the same should be used on Linux. Here is my
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file:
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
That was all that was needed. When the system boots, the "pump" program
gets the IP address using DHCP and sets the default route etc. It also
sets the /etc/resolv.conf file to point to the right name servers.
> 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.
The hostname isn't really important. If your MAC address hasn't been
registered with them through their web site, you should still be able to
get to http://oca.bc.hsia.telus.net.
Watch your system bootup and see if it brings up the eth0 interface correctly.
If it fails, then the pump program has had problems getting an IP address.
If it works, "netstat -rn" should include lines similar to:
216.232.192.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 216.232.192.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
This shows your network card was assigned it's address and that you have
a default route to the Internet through gateway 216.232.192.254. The
IP addresses will probably vary depending on where you are.
If the above doesn't work, from root do a "ifdown eth0" and then
an "ifup eth0". You can look at the /var/log/messages file to see
output from the pump command at this time to see what is happening.
Also watch the LAN and ADSL status lights on the modem to see if
they flicker with activity at all while this is happening.
I have seen another weird problem. My network card tries to autodetect
between 10baseT and Thin ethernet. After the DHCP request went out from
my machine, the LAN light on the ADSL modem goes out and the network card
driver starts switching between 10baseT and Thin ethernet. While it was
doing this, it didn't receive the DHCP reply and so never got configured.
I had to reboot to get it to behave.
> 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,
If there was no special software installed on your PC to set up PPPoE,
then you won't need it on Linux.
-- Paul Davis pdavis@lpccomp.bc.ca LPC Computer Consulting www.lpccomp.bc.ca-- This message came to you via the Vancouver Linux Users Group mailing list. For unsubscription instructions do not email the list, but rather send mail to <vanlug-request@gweep.bc.ca>.
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