Have you considered using a wireless provider? Outperforms anything I have seen on the market :-)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz) Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lacking Linux ADSL connectivity over MSN Broadband On 23 Dec 2001, Alan E Derhaag wrote: > I'm stuck! What's my best options at this point? > > It took better than a month for the negotiation of Qwest and MSN to > get ADSL to my house. It was nearly insignificant getting my girl's > WindozXP station hooked up to it but that is a different connection > than I would choose. My dialup account used to furnish connectivity > to the internet over a home LAN but I have been unsuccessful in > getting Linux to communicate to MSN over the Arescom NetDSL800u modem > (MSN Broadband indicates is the exclusive modem type). It appears > that the windoz box uses only DHCP to negotiate only the connection > available with that modem with the address 192.168.1.2 to the modem at > 192.168.1.1. Running http://192.168.1.1/index.html allows the modem > to indicate the status of the connection which, now, always indicates > the ethernet connection is up as is the PPP (PPPoA), among other > status items. This request must be posted from the 192.168.1.2 > address otherwise there is no response from the modem. Alan, Other people already got back to you with some pretty sensible suggestions, so I won't bother to answer about this particular problem here. However, I did want to recommend the following site that one of Qwest's DSL users put up sometime ago. It contains lots of good advise, links to up to date drivers, etc. http://www.users.qwest.net/~rlutton/ADSL/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
