speedstream 5100 dsl, sbc yahoo and slackware 10
 

hiya... got a couple of questions that i was hoping someone could help me with. here's the deal... my mom's got an old computer running win98- we want to wipe the hard drive and install slackware 10. only thing is... she has DSL. (i don't have all the info on her computer) but it's a speedstream 5100 modem and she's using sbc yahoo. NOW- i've never configured a DSL modem for linux (or any DSL modem.. on any OS for that matter...) she lives out of town and basically- i'm going to need a good 'how-to' that i can refer to before i go down there and try getting online. basically- if i can't get it online... i can't get online to ask questions on how to get online. lol. i'll be forced to run back and forth from my computer at home to hers trying to figure it all out- and that will never work...lol. SO- i digress... how do you get a speedstream 5100 DSL modem online using sbc yahoo on linux with slackware 10 with relative ease and lack of hassle. any ideas, suggestions, tips and advice would be greatly apprecated. lol... i want to go into this prepared.

I too have Yahoo DSL! and if you have the latest 5100 modems then you are in luck cause you dont have to do anything to get it to work! Well, not quite anything, you have to run 'netconfig' and set your NIC to grab its IP using DHCP. You see, the latest modems have a built in PPP client which initiates the PPP connection for you and grabs an IP. The modem will then pass that WAN IP to your computer through DHCP. So long story short, getting an IP from DSL is no differnt than grabbing an IP using cable.

Things you want to check to make sure the modem can do this and is set up correctly to actually do it. First hook your DSL modem up to your computer then go to http://192.168.0.1 That will toss you into your modem's web config page. Click on Advanced and type the Modem access code if it asks (its on the bottom of the modem). Now click on the Connection Configuration button and at the bottom put a dot next to Yes, use public IP address. Now click on the PPP Location button and put a dot next to PPP is on the modem. Click on Save Changes then click on Login to connect your modem. Once connected reboot your box and it should all work! Lemme know if you face any problems.

hiya.....

the 2nd paragraph... i think i can understand... the first paragraph... completely losted me...lol,. i use a phone line at home- no cable ...no dsl. so here's what i understand... here what i don't...lol.

i understand typing 'netconfig' lol... i can do it!
i have no clue what NIC means.
i have no clue what DHCP means.
ppp and ip i understand.

your 2nd paragraph makes sense to me... lol... i think i can follow your instructions. so.. um... mind explaining what a NIC and a DHCP are... ? land what i do with them? lol... thanks

Ehh, I thought the whole point of your post was because you do use DSL , so do you or don't you?

As far as understanding goes, the 2nd paragraph is the important one, so if you can understand that then you should be able to get it working, but for your education, here are some definitions:


DHCP = Dynamic Host Control Protocol

To put it in laymens terms, when your computer uses DHCP to "grab an IP", it basically says to the network "Hey, whos got an IP for me to use???" Since your modem is running a DHCP server, it sees your question and says back to you "Hey man! I got an IP for you, here you go!" The opposite of getting your IP using DHCP is to statically assign your IP by hardcoding it into your /etc/rc.d/inet1.conf file.

NIC = Network Interface Card

Your NIC is nothing more than the (usually) PCI card in your computer that you connect your modem to with a CAT5 cable. Alot of the newer motherboards have an on-board NIC, but the port looks exactly the same from the outside of the case, basically an oversized phone jack.

my mom has dsl on her computer.... i'm putting slackware 10 on her computer. my computer (here at home) is already running slackware 10 and uses a phone line. so- i don't ...she does. and hey- thanks.

I use a speedstream 5100 modem with sbc/yahoo DSL on slackware 10.... I can tell you an even easier way to get it running then manually configuring it via ifconfig.......

answer 5 or 6 REALLY staraight forward questions...

enjoy the web......

Actually, you would not want to run those commands if you have the latest Speedstream modems. adsl-setup is configuring the PPP client on YOUR BOX. The point I was trying to get across was that the PPP client is now on THE MODEM, so no need to set up the client, and even better no need to have a ppp0 interface.

Also, netconfig is not manually doing it using ifconfig, its an automation script that asks you questions. And actually with the new modems, you can get it to work in just one step. Edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file and in the "Configure information for eth0" section, simply put a "yes" in quotes next to USE_DHCP[0]="yes"

so... if a person modifies that one file to say 'yes' does that mean i still have to go in http://192.168.0.1 and do all that stuff?

well, you dont HAVE to, you could just say "yes" in that one file and restart your computer and see if everything is working. Its quite possible that the modem does all this stuff by default. However if it does not work, then you would want to go into the modem and check the appropriate options as I detailed in my 1st post.

hiya... trying to get the dsl to work on my mom's computer (might want to read above posts to know where i'm at..lol) anyways.. when i type in http://192.168.0.1 i get .....

connection was refused when trying to contact http://192.168.0.1

i typed in stty and it tells me....




root@dog:~# stty
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
-brkint -imaxbel

my ifconfig is....

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:616 (616.0 b) TX bytes:616 (616.0 b)

i tried the 'adsl-setup' adsl-start thing... didn't work

root@dog:~#

tried putting yes in m/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file...basically i'm losted and don't know what i'm doing.... any help would be apprecated...lol

no need to use 'stty' because your modem should be connected to your linux box using ethernet, if its not let me know. Also the fact that 'ifconfig' is only showing 'lo' means that It has not found any ethernet NIC's in your linux box. This is either because you dont have any (and if thats so how do you expect this to work) or because you didnt load the necessary module by uncommenting it in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

well... she has a nic.... though i'm not 100% sure what kind (and have been trying to look it up to no avail...) so here's my questions (by the way... i'm back home now... so i don't have access to her computer first hand...)

a) what's the right mod in rc.modules for a speedstream 5100? i've been trying to figure this out and guess work isn't going well...lol

b) i know the orignal modem was pulled out..... i think it's just a standard card they through in there in it's place. is there something in rc.modules i need to uncheck to get that going too?

lol... forgive me ... i still got some newbie happen...lol

also... tried

cat /proc/pci

...and this is what she has.....

PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530 Host (rev 2).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000 [0xefffffff].
Bus 0, device 0, function 1:
IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 208).
Master Capable. Latency=16.
I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffaf].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 177).
Bus 0, device 1, function 1:
Class ff00: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] ACPI (rev 0).
Bus 0, device 1, function 2:
USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 17).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Max Lat=80.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xebfff000 [0xebffffff].
Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (rev 0).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 16).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xde00 [0xdeff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xebffef00 [0xebffefff].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 1).
IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc3f].
I/O at 0xda00 [0xda0f].
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd80f].
I/O at 0xd600 [0xd603].
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd403].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS530 3D PCI/AGP (rev 162).
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff000000 [0xff7fffff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7ef0000 [0xe7efffff].
I/O at 0xbc00 [0xbc7f].
root@dog:~#

...well... anymore thoughts on what a person should do next? lol... thanks again....

Good thing you did lspci cause here is your mom's NIC:

I have no idea what linux kernel module you need for it, you might want to google for that and why you find out look for it in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and uncomment it and then restart your computer. By the way, you do not need any kernel support for the modem just as you do not need any kernel support if you were to hook you NIC up to a router or a switch or what have you.

well... i don't have the computer right here ... right now... but i think i *might* have to do a 'what if...' on ya.
'what if...' my mod- '/sbin/modprobe 8139too' is on? i just say this because while i don't have the computer here... i did copy down a few things (like the lspci...) anyways there's a note here about 'realtek 8139' .. i thought that *might* be the mod for it. now let's say i didn't make a simple mistake and turned on the wrong mod.... what would could it be then? or couldn't it be anything else *besides* the rc.module? just trying to be prepared. lol.... thanks again.....

Re: speedstream 5100 dsl, sbc yahoo and slackware 10
 

Does mom still have a working yahoo DSL on windows 98? Keep her working system on Win 98 and use your linux box to configure to DSL modem. Ofcourse, you must install a ethernet (NIC) card to configure it correctly. If you go down there blind with no way of knowing what to do, then expect headaches.

My suggestion would be to configure your box to run on Yahoo DSL using ethernet (NIC) card first before working on her working Win98.