[newbie] Telus ADSL Setup
Jason McGeachie
newbie@vlug.org
Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:51:10 -0700
OK guys & gals
Last night I downloaded/burnt/ran Knoppix. Everything ran exactly the same as my previous reply. This is what I did to try to connect:
According to the FAQ on their site to connect to dhcp you add the lines
[auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp]
to the file /etc/network/interfaces, then reset the network with:
> /etc/init.d/networking restart
I got:
Reconfiguring network interfaces... Operation Failed.
I'm really at a loss for ideas. Plus it's really been too nice out to set aside a whole day fixing this.
Thanks for your help & suggestions,
Jason
P.S. I don't know if this makes a difference but when I registered my MAC address the leading zeros of the addy got cut off after submitting. For example if it was "00:12:03:5B..." after pressing submit it would display as "0:12:3:5B...". Issat cool?
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason McGeachie <infinitycool@shaw.ca>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:21 pm
Subject: Re: [newbie] Telus ADSL Setup
> 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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