Ian Hogan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get my DSL connection to work under Mandrake 7, and am having
> some troubles. If anyone has any insight, I would be very grateful.
> Pertinant details are below. Thanks for any help you can provide,
>
> ian
>
> The gist: I have a Cisco 605 Internal DSL modem. I guess it's technically a
> bridged ethernet router, but they call it a modem anyways. When linux boots,
> the light on the card never comes on, leading me to believe the device is
> never recognized. I have a static IP from my ISP and USWest, and under
> windows, TCP/IP is the only protocol installed.
>
> The Mandrake installation process seems to have tried to deem it an isdn
> device, as looking at the bootlog gives a lot of isdn4linux issues. Under
> netcfg, I tried to create an entry for eth0, which netcfg has no problems
> with, but error messages under boot-up and shutdown indicate that "no ne
> device found".
>
> If I 'cat /proc/net/dev' the only network device is loopback.
>
> Under Windows 98 (hopefully I'm not committing faux pas by mentioning it),
> the modem/router appears as following:
>
> PCI ADSL Adapter Driver for 1483 Bridging
> IRQ = 11
> I/O Range = 1400 - 14FF
>
> Looking under KDE Control Center -> Information -> PCI, I get the following
> info for my modem, which leads me to believe that linux at least knows about
> it:
>
> Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
> ATM network controller, unknown vendor, unknown device(rev 1).
> vendor id=12ce. Device id=1.
> Slow devsel, Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11.
> Master capable latency = 64. Min Gnt = 5. Max Lat = 21
> I/O at 0x1800 [0x1801]
> Non-prefetchable memory at <long memory string>
>
> As I've probably already demonstrated, I'm a bit out of my league trying to
> figure out next steps. If anyone has any thoughts or insights, I'd be
> forever grateful. If all else fails, I can always buy an external DSL modem
> and then hook in with my 3com nic, but I'd hate to have to spend another
> $150 to achieve the same functionality. Thanks for reading,
>
> ian
I have a Cisco 675 that is doing me absolutely no good in an area
where rates are $330/month for 128K DSL IF you can get the
service. I cannot because there is no spare pair of wires coming
to where I live.
Email me privately and I will drop it into snail mail for you.
Just remember that you are running in BRIDGING mode so the modem
doesn't have an IP address and is not routing anything. Your
ethernet card will need the static IP.
The difficulty is in activating the right ethernet module for the
card. In linuxconf you will see Networking->Basic Host
Information->Adapter and numbers
You could configure there as eth1 and exhaustively try the
modules available--(leave off the .o in the line describing the
module/driver) The list is at /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net. If
one of them works, we can save the 675 for someone else. In each
case, give eth1 your static IP from your ISP.
Civileme
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