[newbie] Telus ADSL Setup

[Jason McGeachie]

Thanks for your help!  :>

I have dhcpcd and when I try to connect w/ it it times out before getting a valid server responce.

I used Slackware's netconfig to set my network settings to the ones specified with the Telus osa site. (hostname : xxxxxxxxx , domain : bc.hsia.telus.net, ip : dhcp, dhcp server : blank*)    (*I have also tried putting bc.hsia.telus.net into the dhcp server field)

Upon boot it recognises my 3Com590cx (using the 3c59x tornado driver). lsmod reports it too.

When I run ifconfig w/o any arguments I just get the loopback interface. Running with eth0 results in :

eth0      Link encap: Ethernet   HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
          TX packets: 9 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
          collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 100
          RX bytes: 0 (0.0 b) TX bytes 5310 (5.1 Kb)
          Interrupt: 5  Base address: 0xb000


Running dhcpcd causes the modem's activity lights to blink once. Also the ADSL and Ethernet LCDs are steady green.

I've been working on this for a couple of days now and tried a few things I've found:

  - changing the rc.inet1 file to
         HOSTNAME=`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`
         /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
         /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo  (an error on startup)
         /sbin/dhcpcd

  - using a different nic (tried my old Etherlink... same thing)

  - praying, donating blood, coffee (I even moved my Windows 98 disk out of the room)

Since trying those I've formatted and , reinstalled Slackware 9.1 from scratch.

Thanks again

Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Murray <ken@bcvnet.com>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:59 pm
Subject: Re: [newbie] Telus ADSL Setup

> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 16:35, Jason McGeachie wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone list the basic steps to connect to Telus?
> 
> Does the same computer with the same NIC, cable, etc. get an IP 
> addressin Windows or any other OS?  If you don't have a Windows 
> partition, you
> could try booting with Knoppix, Tom's Root Boot, or Linuxcare's 
> BootableBusiness Card and see if it gets an IP address.
> 
> When you installed Slackware, did you specify that your IP address is
> acquired via DHCP or did you choose static?
> 
> Is Slackware even seeing your NIC?  What's the output of ifconfig 
> eth0? 
> What's the output of lsmod?  What kind of NIC is it?
> 
> 
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