On 27 August 2011 11:41, D G Teed
<donald.teed@gmail.com> wrote:
I started another reply, and it had lots of steps to try to repair
this situation, but then I rethought.
If this is a fresh install, and you have no data to keep on the Debian system,
here is a bulletproof solution:
Reinstall.
This is the latest fashion.
It's not a new install, but I have my /home partition on an external 1TB expansion drive, so inconvenience is minimal and the revision factor won't hurt.
When you reinstall, don't do anything fancy with network. Just let
it do the default with DHCP. Plug it into the router LAN jack as you
do the install.
I'm pretty sure the netinstall will pick up the modem/router and install it anyway, for apt.
All that's required for that is the username and password.
Once Debian is installed, run a web browser and go to the webpage
on your router as documented in the router manual. In the router's
web site (something like 192.168.1.1), set up the Internet connection
to login via PPPoE. If you have already set up the router from
your Mac or Windows system and a web browser, you don't need to do
it again from Linux, it will just work.
If the Debian system can see the router website, but not the Internet after
setting up the router with the ISP info, try one reboot of Debian to give
it a chance to load the networking since the router had its configuration done.
This is the shortest and simplest path to fixing up the botched Linux
networking setup you have.
I'm getting a new, secondhand PC tomorrow, which has a Windows install on it.
I'll be putting a Debian partition on the end of the drive with the same password and username/rootpswd, etc as the current laptop install., which will allocate the external drive to the PC.
I will then do a fresh install of Debian on the laptop, with new username/password, etc, which has a 160GB harddrive, which will be plenty for a notebook install if I off-load onto the main system occasionally.
Remember, the idea is to allow the router to be your path to the Internet. It
will handle everything, and the Linux system only needs to get on the LAN,
behind the firewall on the router.
That's been the main problem, I think.
I didn't appreciate the difference in thinking between a modem and a modem/router.
Debian <----> Billion Router <----> ISP Modem <--> Internet
Cheers!
Thanks for the time and trouble.
Once it's sorted, I'll write it up and post it to give this thread validity and supply a resource for others.
Regards,
Weaver.
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