Re: caught flatfooted with a 2wire gateway model 4011G
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: caught flatfooted with a 2wire gateway model 4011G
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 10:42 AM
> 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.
>
Thanks Andrei, the ´manual´ is a sheet with hookup pictures, but I will see if I can look into the accompanying CD. And I will run dhclient to find out what to point the browser to.
Hugo
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