--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: caught flatfooted with a 2wire gateway model 4011G > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 10:37 AM > On Qua, 30 Jun 2010, Hugo Vanwoerkom > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had to dismantle the Debian Sid system and move to a > new location (Mexico). There I subscribed to Telmex´s ADSL > package. They gave me a 2wire ´wireless´ gateway model > 4011G and said they only support the unmentionable OS. So > support is, as usual, non-existent. > > > > 2 questions: > > > > 1. I don´t understand what the ´wireless´ part of > this gateway is. You connect 3 things, the phoneline via a > microfilter, the power cord and the ethernet cable to the > eth0 port. What is wireless? > > It could be a wireless router/access point. Does it have an > antenna? If not, then I don't know what it means. > > > 2. 2wire says that this gateway has a builtin pppoe > client. So to configure it I only run pppoeconf and specify > the userid and the password and then run pppd? > > No. Since the device has a pppoe client, it can do > authentication itself. You only plug your computer and it > receives an IP via dhcp and connects to the internet. The > computer is unaware how the connection is established, your > device takes care of the details. > Thanks Eduardo, but why does the ´manual´ tell me to have my userid and password ready? When and where are those entered? Of course the package came with a windows CD that you are supposed to run. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
