help setting up thomson speedtouch modem with wanadoo

shawn59 · 12-15-2004, 02:33 PM

I AM MEW TO LINUX, AND USING SUSE 9.1. I HAVE A BROADBAND CONNECTION THROUGH WANADOO USING A SPEEDTOUCH 330 MODEM. I HAVE DOWNLOADED AND INSTALLED THE DRIVERS, BUT NO JOY.

I RANG WANADOO AND THEY SAID THAT THEY DID NOT SUPPORT LINUX, BUT ACCORDING TO OTHER POSTS IT CAN BE MADE TO WORK. THE DEVICE DRIVER IS SHOWN AND I HAVE TRIED YSAT NUMEROUS WAYS BUT STILL UNABLE TO GET ONLINE.

I REALLY WANT TO GIVE LINUX A GO AS IT LOOKS TO BE EXCELLENT, BUT POSSIBLY A DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTION WOULD HELP. I AM LOST, SO CAN ANYONE HELP AND PLEASE KEEP IT SIMPLE.

CHEERS

Andrew Benton · 12-15-2004, 03:24 PM

DON'T SHOUT YOU'LL WAKE THE CHILDREN.
When you say you downloaded and installed the drivers, which ones do you mean? There are several different ways to skin this particular cat. I've not used suse so I don't know what works best with that distro but my experience has been that newbies usually find the Speedtouchconf the easiest package to use. If you want specific details, ask specific questions.

saurya_s · 03-06-2005, 08:23 PM

Thanks mate. I did follow the instructions. however i am not able to see web pages. I manually start the adsl and it shows no error but fails to display any webpages? What is wrong with my system?
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Andrew Benton · 03-07-2005, 03:24 AM

It may be a problem with domain name resolution. Can you browser by numerical address? Does http://64.179.4.149/ work but not http://www.linuxquestions.org/ ? If so, check /etc/resolv.conf . It should have the word nameserver followed by the numerical address of your ISP's nameserver. If that is the problem, try putting

Code:

usepeerdns

In the file you use to configure pppd (is it /etc/ppp/peers/adsl?) then replace /etc/resolv.conf with a symbolic link pointing at /etc/ppp/resolv.conf

Code:

mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.original.conf
ln -s ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf