Re: caught flatfooted with a 2wire gateway model 4011G
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> wrote:
> From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>
> Subject: Re: caught flatfooted with a 2wire gateway model 4011G
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 10:37 AM
> 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.
>
Thanks Eduardo, but why does the ´manual´ tell me to have my userid and password ready? When and where are those entered? Of course the package came with a windows CD that you are supposed to run.
Hugo
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