[plug] David's ADSL Problem

[Jonathan Young]

David wrote:

> Jonathan Young wrote:
>
>> While trying to help David, Jonathan wrote:
>>
>>> So your ADSL modem is connecting, but you are using your dial-up 
>>> connection to do your work, true?
>>
> YES that is true.
>
>>> Does that mean that Internet and email are working properly, in 
>>> Linux, on the same machine that you now want to connect to your ADSL 
>>> modem?   Does that mean that Internet and email are working 
>>> properly, on the dial-up connection only? 
>>
> it does not work on the ADSL modem at all.
>
>>> If so, all we need to do is get your computer to network to the 
>>> modem and request information from your modem.  Nothing else should 
>>> have to change.  Once you are connected email will work just like it 
>>> does on the dial-up connection.
>>
> but it dose not

But it will.  What you are describing, I think, is that your computer is 
not connecting (networking) with your ADSL modem.  When it does, 
Internet (including Email) will 'just work' without changing anything else.

>>> So the next thing I would like to know is, how is your modem 
>>> connected - USB or Ethernet (CAT5 / blue network cable)?
>>
> Ethernet (CAT5 / blue network cable)

Great.  This should be easier that USB would have been.

>>> I may have some time on Friday to answer a few questions, but if 
>>> not, it will be next Tuesday before I am back online.
>>
> ok i am here the morning ok./

Well, I am online too for about another 20 minutes.  I will need the 
help of some other PLUG people to do this though as Debian Sarge is not 
/that/ familiar to me and I have no Linux based PCs here at the moment 
to work through it.

>> I am waiting for some answers from David to try to work out exactly 
>> what is an isn't working and therefore what needs to be fixed, but I 
>> have my suspicions...
>>
>> Therefore:
>>
>>> TO THE REST OF THE PLUG LIST:  Supposing that a modem is working and 
>>> connected and attached to you Debian Sarge based PC via Ethernet, 
>>> what would be the steps (1, 2, 3, 4 etc.) that you would do in an X 
>>> Windows session to tell your computer to use 192.168.1.1 as the 
>>> Default Gateway with transparent proxy and DNS from the modem and to 
>>> ignore your dial-up connection and use the Ethernet instead.
>>
>> Can some people who are more familiar with this OS than I am please 
>> post some really simple steps to help make the changes required.
>
This is the bit that I will still need help with from the rest of the 
PLUG list... anyone?


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