Assuming you have the cable modem on the uplink port and the boxes connected to the switch
boot from gentoo live cd #ifconfig eth0 "your ip provided by telstra" netmask 255.255.255.0 then #route add -net default gw "telstra gw" netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1 install gentoo before rebooting into new gentoo install add the 2 DNS ip's to /etc/resolve.conf Cheers Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:04 PM Subject: Telsta cable help > > Hi All, > > I have an AMD xp 2200 box.500mb ram, > 2 cdrw/dvd drives, > 2 hard drives (1 for windows 80G, 1 for linux 40G > hard drive enclosure usb, 20G > cable modem (surfboard sb5100i, connected usb) > gigabyte 4 port switch/hub? connected usb, networked to my sons > computer,working with windows xp. > realtek ethernet card > > I multi-boot winxp, mandrake 9.2, and untill about 2 weeks ago gentoo 1.4 > > Just recently signed up for telstra cable broadband and downloaded > gentoo 2004 live cd + packages, > decided to install gentoo 2004 and scrapped 1.4, stupid I know, should > have tried to update but I couldn't get my cable modem to > work. > Haven't been able to get gentoo working again since, but I will, I > prefer it to anything else I've tried so far. > I'm still driving with L plates as far as Linux goes, and my networking > skills are almost zero. > > I would like to get my cable modem working at first in Mandrake, later > for gentoo. > If someone in the group would be kind enough to give me some pointers it > would be much appreciated, > > My modem and ethernet card seem to be recognised on bootup, but I have > no idea.....on almost everything......but specifically > how do I send my Telstra, username and password for instance, is there > something like kppp,? > > I have a settings sheet from Telstra with, static ip address > 2 gateways and 2 dns numbers, but I don't know how to configure these. > > I have googled around,....and just got more confused....... and played > with linuxconf networking among other things, > but I'm really just floundering here. > Hope the formatting on this post is ok, I'm having to paste everything > to open office, save as ms office doc, save to floppy, and paste to > mozilla in windows, > so I guess anything could happen. > > Sorry about the long post, I would have snipped dmesg, but I'm not sure > what might be important. > > > Thanks, > Brian Connell. > > # ifconfig returns.............. > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:79:5E:61 > inet addr:203.79.64.21 Bcast:203.79.64.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:14412 (14.0 Kb) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf000 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:10908 (10.6 Kb) TX bytes:10908 (10.6 Kb) > > > > bc]$ dmesg returns............. > > Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version > 3.2 (Mand > rake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS) > BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data) > BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > 511MB LOWMEM available. > Advanced speculative caching feature present > On node 0 totalpages: 131056 > zone(0): 4096 pages. > zone(1): 126960 pages. > zone(2): 0 pages. > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=341 devfs=mount > hdc=ide-scsi hdd=i > de-scsi quiet > ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi > ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi > Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. > Found and enabled local APIC! > Initializing CPU#0 > Detected 1795.833 MHz processor. > Console: colour dummy device 80x25 > Calibrating delay loop... 3578.26 BogoMIPS > Memory: 515508k/524224k available (1176k kernel code, 8332k reserved, > 444k data, > 136k init, 0k highmem) > Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. > Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) > Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) > Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) > Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) > Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) > CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000, vendor = 2 > Advanced speculative caching feature present > Disabling advanced speculative caching > CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) > CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) > CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbf7 c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 > Intel machine check architecture supported. > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. > CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbf7 c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Common caps: 0383fbf7 c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 > CPU: AMD Unknown CPU Type stepping 00 > Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. > Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX > enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 > ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 > ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 > Using local APIC timer interrupts. > calibrating APIC timer ... > ..... CPU clock speed is 1795.7742 MHz. > ..... host bus clock speed is 266.0406 MHz. > cpu: 0, clocks: 2660406, slice: 1330203 > CPU0<T0:2660400,T1:1330192,D:5,S:1330203,C:2660406> > mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb400, last bus=1 > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent > PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3099] at 00:00.0 > isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... > isapnp: No Plug & Play device found > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 > Initializing RT netlink socket > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16) > Starting kswapd > VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized > devfs: v1.12a (20020514) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > devfs: boot_options: 0x1 > vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0800000, size 65536k > vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2 > vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:f880 > vesafb: scrolling: redraw > vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 > Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 30412 bytes). > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16 > fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device > Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. > pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured > Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT > SHARE_I > RQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89 > VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > VP_IDE: VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:11.1 > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > hda: WDC WD800BB-75DKA0, ATA DISK drive > hdb: WDC WD400BB-00CAA0, ATA DISK drive > hdc: CD-RW BCO1612IM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: CD-RW BCE1610IM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > hda: 156250000 sectors (80000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9726/255/63, > UDMA(100) > hdb: setmax LBA 78165360, native 66055244 > hdb: 66055244 sectors (33820 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4111/255/63, UDMA(100) > Partition check: > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 > p3 p4 > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. > md: autorun ... > md: ... autorun DONE. > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP > IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536) > Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 121k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > Mounted devfs on /dev > Journalled Block Device driver loaded > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Mounted devfs on /dev > Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed > Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e > usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs > usb.c: registered new driver hub > usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe4933000, IRQ 12 > usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0b.0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] USB 1.1 Controller > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe4935000, IRQ 10 > usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0b.1, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] USB 1.1 Controller > (#2) > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe4937000, IRQ 11 > usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0b.2, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] USB 1.1 Controller > (#3) > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:49:04 Sep 20 2002 > usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled > usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 12 > usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 12 > usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 12 > usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver > usbdevfs: remount parameter error > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,65), internal journal > Adding Swap: 811240k swap-space (priority -1) > hub.c: USB new device connect on bus4/2, assigned device number 2 > usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x7b2/0x5100) is not claimed by any > active driver > . > hub.c: USB new device connect on bus3/2, assigned device number 2 > usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x40) is not claimed by any active > driver. > usb.c: registered new driver acm > acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN > adapters > usb.c: registered new driver hiddev > usb.c: registered new driver hid > input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with > IntelliEye( > TM)] on usb3:2.0 > hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Vendor: BTC Model: BCO1612IM Rev: 0.34 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Vendor: BTC Model: BCE1610IM Rev: 0.19 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > NTFS driver 2.1.0a [Flags: R/O MODULE]. > NTFS-fs warning (device 03:01): parse_options(): Option iocharset is > deprecated. > Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future. > NTFS volume version 3.1. > NTFS-fs warning (device 03:05): parse_options(): Option iocharset is > deprecated. > Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future. > NTFS volume version 3.1. > EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option umask > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.25 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe499f000, 00:40:f4:79:5e:61, IRQ 11 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' > eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner > ability 45e1. > EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option umask > inserting floppy driver for 2.4.19-16mdk > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 1x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] > lp0: using parport0 (polling). > Splash status on console 0 changed to off > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > bc]$ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
