I just setup the same SBC Yahoo DSL service with the same modem, and my machine has its IP address setup manually with ifconfig as 192.168.0.2. I see people here saying to use DHCP instead of doing what I did, but here I am online. Are there any foreseeable problems with doing it this way?

Did you use adsl-setup? if not you ARE probably doing DHCP if your modem has the fifth "Internet" light, except the modem is set to give you an internal IP by default. You have to go into your modem config settings and tell it to give you a WAN routable IP i think it calls it. The benefit of doing this is if you have services running (DNS, web,mail,dhcp,etc) and it makes setting up your firewall a bit easier.

SiegeX-

I have the newer Speedstream 5100 and I'm trying to
set up Yahoo DSL in SuSE, but I'm not having any
luck.

I was wondering if you could look at my message
in the SuSE forum and provide some suggestions?

linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&forumid=14&threadid=246099

I would greatly appreciate your wisdom!

Thanks!

Judah

I have the newer Speedstream 5100 (since I have the "Internet" light). I have a couple questions for you (hopefully SiegeX could answer them for me)...

1) What does the "Internet" light denote? That's a rather vague label.
2) You're saying I don't need to mess with pppoe at all? It's done entirely by the modem and all I have to worry about is DHCP?

I had DHCP set up on my external network card, and I was not getting an IP. What should I try first? I tried setting up pppoe, but didn't have any luck.

The "Internet" or "DSL" light means you have sync to the DSLAM. In a easier way to picture it, it means you're DSL line good and has a solid connection to the phone company.

Not all Speedstream/Efficient Networks are PPPoA/E. They also support Bridging and Routed modes. To be 100% safe before making any changes, it's a safe bet to contact your ISP and confirm which mode you're Speedstream router is in, then have them explain to you how it 'works'. Try not to tell them you're using a OS other than Windows as well....this will usally scare them off.

>The "Internet" or "DSL" light means you have sync to the DSLAM. In a easier way to picture it, it means you're DSL line good and has a >solid connection to the phone company.

Actually, the new Speedstream 5100 modems have BOTH a "DSL" light and an "Internet" light. The DSL light pertains to what artistikone described above, and AFAIK the "Internet" light means that a PPP connection has been established allowing the PPPoE frames to be unwrapped.


As for your other question, as long as you have the 5-light Speedstream modem (Power, Ethernet, DSL, Internet, Activity) then yes, linux does not even have to know you are using PPPoE at all, its undistinguishable from a cablem modem connection. To set this up you need to go into the modem's web config, and make sure "PPP is on the Modem" is checked/bulleted. Then I also like to tell it to pass the WAN IP to my computers interface. If you do all that, then all you have to do is tell your distro that the interface connected to the DSL modem gets its IP using DHCP.

You don't need pppoe. Personally, I didn't use DHCP. I may be slightly mistaken in my memory of how I set it up, because I'm using a linksys router now that gets an IP from the 5100 with DHCP automagically, instead of connecting my computer directly to the 5100 as I did at first. But as I recall, I set it up with:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 up
route add default gw 192.168.0.1 (or whatever the ip of the 5100 is - it's printed on the bottom of the modem and I don't feel like looking it up right now).

That's it, just as if the 5100 were a router. Anytime you spend with Roaring Penguin or pppoeconf is wasted time.

With the above setup, you should be able to contact the modem at its IP adress. If you are not properly registered with sbc, you will not be able to connect to the internet except for a special registration site, which could give the impression that your system has problems that it doesn't.

I have the same stuff, it worked out of the box by leaving everything as DHCP. Just have NIC drivers on hand (you never know what might happen).

I've got SBC DSL and use a Slack 10 box to do the PPPoE. I get better transfers and better latency times when I run PPPoE off of my PIII-500 system vs. the modem itself.

I've done PPPoE through the modem and on the Slack box, so I can help you with either direction.

And yes, you'll need to get that ethernet card running before you can do much of anything. Assuming you have a stock kernel and modules, look for the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules:

# RealTek 8129/8139 (not 8019/8029!) support:
#/sbin/modprobe 8139too

Remove the "#" from the "#/sbin/modprobe 8139too" line, and reboot.

"ifconfig -a" should show an eth0 device after you reboot. From here you can run the netconfig command, and set it up for DHCP. Then try hitting http://192.168.0.1/ in a browser, and see if you get the DSL modem config page.

Ha! I didn't see the last two pages of this thread... :-) Oops!

Well, anyways... Glad to hear the original poster got his mom's system going.