Re: caught flatfooted with a 2wire gateway model 4011G
On Qua, 30 Jun 2010, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I had to dismantle the Debian Sid system and move to a new location
(Mexico). There I subscribed to Telmex´s ADSL package. They gave me
a 2wire ´wireless´ gateway model 4011G and said they only support
the unmentionable OS. So support is, as usual, non-existent.
2 questions:
1. I don´t understand what the ´wireless´ part of this gateway is.
You connect 3 things, the phoneline via a microfilter, the power
cord and the ethernet cable to the eth0 port. What is wireless?
It could be a wireless router/access point. Does it have an antenna?
If not, then I don't know what it means.
2. 2wire says that this gateway has a builtin pppoe client. So to
configure it I only run pppoeconf and specify the userid and the
password and then run pppd?
No. Since the device has a pppoe client, it can do authentication
itself. You only plug your computer and it receives an IP via dhcp and
connects to the internet. The computer is unaware how the connection
is established, your device takes care of the details.
--
All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars.
-- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3259.2
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br
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