Please Help With Suse 10 And Adsl+ - canīt connect to the net with linux

Hi Peoples, I just installed SUSE Linux 10 on my PC, everything worked fine. BUT i canīt connect to the net... I do have a Huawei MT882 adsl+ Modem/Router what works fine on my windows installation. Please help, where do i have to start to keep on going. If you need some more specific info please pm me Thanks Blix

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How is the modem connected to your machine ?
USB or Ethernet ?

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Hi qwijibow, the modem is connected trough ethernet.On my gnome desktop it shows me also in top taskbar that i have an active ethernet dsl0 connection, but still canīt access any website.
I also put my userdata in the networksetting (name/password)

Any Idea?

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PS. I checed the network stattus and got error "SIOCGIFFLAGS failed on socket"

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Im sure they are probably many ways of setting up and using aDSL.
Especially now broadband is so popular.

So many different people and tutorials may give differant advice.

I havent setup ADSL for a long time, so my method may not be the best, but here is how i did it a few years back.

I used the program rp-pppoe
this may already be installed, try to run the commands "adsl-start, adsl-status, and adsl-stop." as root.

if you get a command not found error, then you need to unstall it first, the porgram can be downloaded from http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/open...ce_rp-pppoe.php

Alternativly, the program may also bo on your install CD's

you will need to know the following things...
1) Your broadband username and password
2) <possably> your broadband DNS server IP. (this is often auto-detected)

then run the following commands....



you can now start and stop the broadband with the commands



Like i said earlyer, this is the old way of doing it, there may be a better graphical way with newer linux distro's.

but i hope it should still work for you.

 

 

 

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Thanks for this info, i downloaded this pro extracted it on root but canīt compile it - Might be a stupid question for you but i have really no idea how to do this. I did follow the instructions in the readme files and the go / go-gui commands work but with the error msg no compiler in path!?

BTW is thre any one from Porto/ Portugal here at astahost who know linux ?

Thanks for your help

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Is there not a pre-compiled version on your install CD's ?

What distro are you using ? i know there are pre-compiled RPM's avaiable for RPM based distro's.

to compile software, rread the README and INSTALL files.

they will probably give the usual instuctions,

./confgure && make && make install.

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If it works on a windows install on the same Ethernet cable, it's very simple : look how it works under Windows and configure the same thing for Linux.
Look at your Windows Network settings. Your network is probably "DHCP client", and "Namesever from DHCP". Enter the Suze setup and that's all.
And probably you use "no proxy" for your Linux browser, so enter the same thing under your Linux browser settings.

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Its not that simple.

Linux by default will configure network cards to be interfaces to an Ethernet.

however ADSL modems to not provide ethernet acees to the network card.

they provide a PPP (Point to Point Protocol) interface.

so you need to configure the card to use PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet)

its not as simple as copying default gateways, and DNS IPs.

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Thanks for your help, iīm getting to it tomorow. Hope this will work out

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