My thanks to Grant, James and Graham for their help. I am now hooked up
successfully. Graham generously talked me through the process by phone.
I like what I see with Suse and will stick with it as my distros of
choice. But, the experts behind Suse still have a long way to go before
they are effective communicators so far as the average desktop user is
concerned.
I love the open source philosophy and really admire the generosity of
the people involved. However, I think there is an opportunity for a
consultancy that bridges the communication gap between experts and the
average computer user.
There ends my lecture for the day.
John.
Grant Parnell wrote:
On Mon, November 14, 2005 5:18 pm, John Gibbons said:
I have just installed Suse 9.3. It did not automatically connect with my
internet service provider, Unwired. Can someone give me a GUI based
guide to getting it to communicate? Or else spell out a command line
communication? Thanks for any help.
John.
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Turn off your unwired external ethernet modem, turn it on again, use DHCP
on your Linux box. If you haven't actually signed up yet, fire up a web
browser and go to any web page to get the unwired modem registered, then
you'll have to re-fetch an IP address (down the interface and up it
again).
It's important to note that I found the unwired modem will only talk to a
single MAC (ethernet card) address. Thus if you had it working on another
computer and just move the cable you'll pull your hair out trying to get
it to work until you turn it off/on again. I've also had this happen with
iBurst and some other ADSL and cable modems too.
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