On Mi, 30 iun 10, 09:27:52, 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 probably has a built-in wireless AP. If you don't have wireless clients you can shut it off. > 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. Somewhere in the docs it's default (internal) IP should be mentioned (usually 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1). Connect a computer to the Ethernet port and run 'dhclient'. Based on the response you will know which it is. After that browse to that IP with some GUI browser (the web interface usually requires JavaScript). Through the web interface you will be able to configure a lot of stuff: PPPoE, DHCP (on or off and if you are lucky fixed IPs), the wireless, port forwarding, ... you'll figure it out. > I had this thing researched but the system is down and won´t be up > very soon and I´d like to know what I´d be faced with. It's easier than you think, once you get to the web interface. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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