Setting up adsl

[BigAl-sa]

Can you boffs help me setting up adsl? I tried pppoeconf, but it can't find a device. The irony (sorry froot ), is that I plugged my missus's XP PC in and it worked without setting anything up (communicating from that machine).

(Excitement at being able to switch off iBurst!)

 

[sn3rd]

Are you using wired or wireless?

Is your connection running?

sudo ifup wlan0

for wireless (assuming wlan0 is your wireless device)

sudo ifup eth0

for wired (assuming eth0 is your wired device)

ifconfig

to see a list of configured interfaces and their status (UP/DOWN, addresses etc)

Are you able to see your router and/or its web interface (if it has one) ?

get 10.0.0.2

assuming your router's IP address is 10.0.0.2
That will download the index.html file from the router.

If you are able to see that your router is accessible by your computer, you can pretty much assume that the issue doesn't lie with connectivity between Linux and the router.

Is your router in bridged mode?

 

[MyWorld]

Do you need pppoeconf?

How does your XP machine connect to the internet, through a dial-up connection or just straight through the router?

 

[BigAl-sa]

Are you using wired or wireless?

wired

Is your connection running?

sudo ifup wlan0

unknown interface

ifconfig

to see a list of configured interfaces and their status (UP/DOWN, addresses etc)

see the two ethernet cards + l0 and pan0

Are you able to see your router and/or its web interface (if it has one) ?

get 10.0.0.2

assuming your router's IP address is 10.0.0.2
That will download the index.html file from the router.

get: command not found (strange, I thought get was std)

If you are able to see that your router is accessible by your computer, you can pretty much assume that the issue doesn't lie with connectivity between Linux and the router.

Can't get to the router from linux or XP

Is your router in bridged mode?

That I have no idea.

I am talking to you from XP, via the modem/router. I'll phone WA to find out how they set it up.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Do you need pppoeconf?

How does your XP machine connect to the internet, through a dial-up connection or just straight through the router?

Straight through router. I do need pppoeconf, otherwise no network connection.

 

[sn3rd]

Since you're using wired, wlan0 might not exist. What are the two ethX connections?

ifconfig

Assuming your two adapters are eth0 and eth1, what are their addresses?

What router are you using?

 

[BigAl-sa]

Assuming your two adapters are eth0 and eth1, what are their addresses?

What router are you using?

No IP addresses on either, just MAC. XP is giving the expected IP address.

Router: Billion 7300 RA

 

[sn3rd]

No IP addresses on either, just MAC. XP is giving the expected IP address.

Router: Billion 7300 RA

Please post output of

ifconfig

Have you tried sending the appropriate adapters up? Assuming eth0:

ifconfig eth0 up

or

ifup eth0

Is your network configuration handled by a DHCP server? If so:

dhclient eth0

 

[BigAl-sa]

I'm up!

I have no idea which of the commands you gave made it work, but thanks a million! I'll go through them slowly tomorrow and then report back.

BTW, this is from the linux box!

Am I allowed to smile



You guys are tops!

 

[sn3rd]

I'm up!

I have no idea which of the commands you gave made it work, but thanks a million! I'll go through them slowly tomorrow and then report back.

BTW, this is from the linux box!

Am I allowed to smile



You guys are tops!

Great to hear!
You'll probably find that your adapter was simply "DOWN".

If you'd like it to automatically go back "UP" every time you reboot, you can edit your /etc/network/interfaces file. Whichever interface is up should have a stanza that includes an "auto" line.

Example:
1)

ifconfig

check which adapter is being used for your internet. It's the one that has the IP address.
2) Assuming your adapter is eth0, your /etc/network/interfaces file should have something that looks like

auto eth0

 

[BigAl-sa]

looks like

dhclient eth1

does the trick.

Thanks again.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Ok, now the next step is setting up static IP addresses. Does this look like it's necessary?

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-set-a-static-ip-address-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex.html

Need to do something as VBox's shared folders are irritating the hell out of me.