How do I set up SBC DSL for suse 9.1 pro ?

wearetheborg · 12-07-2005, 05:11 AM

I just got an SBC connection. Havent set it up.
I have speedstream 4100 modem
Linksys WRT54G wireless router V3.1

How do I set it up ?
I guess I need to set up an account on windows first ?
During that, should I put in the router or does it come later ?
Complete networking noob. Dont even know what DHCP means.

wearetheborg · 12-07-2005, 06:56 PM

Bump, anyone ?

cuiq · 12-07-2005, 07:14 PM

First, tell us which distro you're using?

Then plug everything into the router (sorry if you already knew that)

Peace V

wearetheborg · 12-07-2005, 10:38 PM

I'm using SUSE 9.1 pro
So I plug evrything into the router before I register ?

cuiq · 12-08-2005, 10:16 AM

Open Yast, click Network Devices, make sure the ethernet card is set to DHCP.

Now open a browser and type in the ip address of the router. The ip address should be listed in the documentation for the router along with the default password for the router. This is configuration screen were all the information from the ISP is entered (i.e. Static IP address that was given to you (if you have one), gateway address given to you by the ISP and subnet mask.) make sure the the router's DHCP server is on as well, This will allow any computer connected to it to be autmaticlly detected.

If you were not assigned a Static ip by your ISP then there should be other options available, like PPoE, PPTP etc...

All of these are setup in the router. However if you do not have a Static Ip address you'll have to find out from your ISP if they are using PPoE or PPTP etc...so that you'll know how to setup up your router.

This router also has very good documentation on it's website on how to setup each type of configuration.

Peace V

cuiq · 12-08-2005, 11:50 AM

Here is another link, here at LQ of users with the same ISP

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=177097

Peace V

wearetheborg · 12-11-2005, 05:31 AM

From a couple of threads on this forum, I was able to partially solve the problem.
I had to do the coomand "route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 "

and create a /etc/resolv.conf file which contained "nameserver 192.168.1.1"

Now route lists the default gateway.
However on rebooting, it disappears and I have to give the route command agaain.
Any way of fixing this ?

Is SUSE not good with networing in general ? My years old laptop with mandrake 8.0 worked straitaway. No configuring required

BittaBrotha · 12-11-2005, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by wearetheborg

I just got an SBC connection. Havent set it up.

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Is SUSE not good with networing in general ? My years old laptop with mandrake 8.0 worked straitaway. No configuring required

Well I guess Mandrake didn't use SBC either!

I'm thinking of switching to sbc dsl, is that a usb modem or ethernet modem sbc uses?

wearetheborg · 12-11-2005, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by BittaBrotha

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Well I guess Mandrake didn't use SBC either!

I'm thinking of switching to sbc dsl, is that a usb modem or ethernet modem sbc uses?

Eh ?
Evrythings on SBC.

SBC gave me a speadstream 4100 ethernet modem.
I had read here that its much easier to set up linux with a router, so I used a Linksys router and connected that to linux.

wearetheborg · 12-12-2005, 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wearetheborg

From a couple of threads on this forum, I was able to partially solve the problem.
I had to do the coomand "route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 "

and create a /etc/resolv.conf file which contained "nameserver 192.168.1.1"

Now route lists the default gateway.
However on rebooting, it disappears and I have to give the route command agaain.
Any way of fixing this ?

I

Bump, anyone

cuiq · 12-13-2005, 01:11 AM

If you have a router then you don't need to set the gateway ip address. All you have to do is enable dhcp on your computer and the router should handle the rest. This is what makes using the router easy because all the configuration is done in the router setup screen, while in linux or windows you just have to make sure dhcp is enabled.

Peace V

wearetheborg · 12-13-2005, 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cuiq

If you have a router then you don't need to set the gateway ip address. All you have to do is enable dhcp on your computer and the router should handle the rest. This is what makes using the router easy because all the configuration is done in the router setup screen, while in linux or windows you just have to make sure dhcp is enabled.

I did enable dhcp, but the network doesnt come up unless I give the route command.

cuiq · 12-13-2005, 02:14 PM

Check out the second post in this thread.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=387699

Also please post the results of.

ifconfig

Peace V

wearetheborg · 12-14-2005, 02:39 AM

ifconfig gave the following (in the eth1 section):

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XXXXXX
inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: XXXXXe262/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10179233 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10110684 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2463109746 (2349.0 Mb) TX bytes:3847611543 (3669.3 Mb)

cuiq · 12-14-2005, 07:49 AM

I noticed that it says eth1. Is the other card working (eth0)?

Also found this on the suse website. It is instructions for the setup of more than one card. Shows step by step graphically.

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11505.html

Peace V