Re: SBC DSL with SuSE - How does it work?
From: Gerald Pine (gdpine_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 01/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 04:44:19 GMT
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:23:04 +0000, Richard Steven Hack wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:06:10 -0800, David Spence
> <spencede@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm thinking about subscribing to SBC/Yahoo DSL and was wondering if anyone has
>>gotten it to work with SuSE (since SBC do not officially support linux?)
>>
>>What is a good modem for SuSE? It looks like the choices are: Westell 516,
>>Efficient 5260 and 4060USB (and Alcatel, but these appear to be either USB
>>only or internal, and I would prefer to have an external modem with an RJ-45.)
>
> I run Red Hat 7.3 but SUSE should be close enough. I got the
> Efficient modem and they sent me a D-Link NIC as well even though I
> already had a Broadcom onboard NIC - nice of them to send me another
> NIC so I can now network my two machines...:-) The Efficient modem
> works okay, but it gets HOT and can lock up until you remove all three
> cables (NIC, DSL and power) and let it sit for fifteen or twenty
> seconds - and sometimes much longer if it's overheated).
>
> Definitely go for an external with RJ45 to NIC interface. USB and
> internals not well supported on Linux, AFAIK.
>
> I configured the NIC interfaces under Red Hat using ifconfig and
> out-of-date instructions, not realizing that Red Hat had scripts set
> up to do the configuring and starting and stopping.
>
> One thing I had to watch for is that my Windows 98 said the D-Link was
> one version and Linux thought it was another - which mattered because
> the two different versions used two different kernel modules. I
> browsed the kernel modules and found the right one.
>
> The one thing I had to fix was to tell the config scripts that I was
> getting my IP address from SBC's servers. The config GUI had an
> option called "Dial Out To ISP" which confused me because I'm not
> "dialing" out, I'm using DHCP to get an IP from the ISP. Once I set
> it to "Dial Out", everything worked. You don't tell it to use DHCP
> because that means use the DHCP server on YOUR machine, which is not
> what you want - you're getting your IP from SBC's DHCP servers.
>
> Current SUSE has a much better configuration setup for DSL - at least
> I assume so, since I just tried the SUSE Live Eval CD and the ADSL GUI
> didn't want to run for some reason, even though the Live CD installer
> did scan for both my NICS and a DSL modem.
>
> I was blown away by how fast the Knoppix live CD configured my DSL
> when I tried it out - it took like 30 seconds. It scanned for my
> NICs, scanned for a "PPPoE Access Concentrator" (i.e., DSL modem) on
> both NICs, found the one on the D-Link, asked me some questions about
> standard settings that I didn't even know the answer to (it said if
> you're not sure, click yes, so I did - worked), asked for my user ID
> and password, and Wallah! On the Net! Beautiful example of how Linux
> can if it wants to be trivially easy to use. It was much easier to
> configure SBC DSL on Knoppix than it was using the Enternet 300 client
> on Windows - not to mention the Yahoo crap installer that bombed my
> entire Windows 98 and forced a Registry restore.
>
> I'm near a Central Office, so I get nearly full 1.5Mbps download
> speed. One night I must have been the only person hitting the DSLAM
> as I was getting bursts up to 600KBps.
>
> I had trouble getting my version of Evolution working with SBC's email
> account (seems not to want to send my user ID and password correctly),
> but KMail seems to work okay.
>
> Go for it, it will work. Just don't expect support from SBC. When I
> was installing and the Yahoo crap bombed my Windows 98, I called
> support and told them I didn't want the Yahoo crap, I just wanted to
> install the DSL client. The rep said that by contract he couldn't
> walk me though it, but he could tell where it was and how to install
> it, which he did. No support was needed on the Linux side once I
> figured out how to configure the eth0 and eth1 and ppp0 interfaces.
>
> I do notice that every few reboots, the interface won't come up. I
> think the modem gets locked into a state or maybe SBC's servers simply
> don't respond fast enough for Linux to wait on them. After booting, I
> can start the interface manually if I have to - works okay then.
I'm using the Speedstream external modem that SBC provided connected to a
Netgear Router and then to an internal Realtek ethernet adapter. I have
had no problems at all, including with Evolution. I've used Evolution
1.02, 1.08 and now 1.4 all without any problems in connecting to the SBC
email service. I wonder why you're having troubles with Evolution?
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