From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZalD-00069H-C8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:30:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4F3BE02F0; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E0CE02F0 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F3B64141 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:30:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.527 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.527 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.072, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yjBafyBmLsjH for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:30:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C09666B3 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MZakw-0000SF-I7 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:29:58 +0000 Received: from athedsl-381473.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.42.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:29:58 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-381473.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:29:58 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time. Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:29:48 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4A7CBC95.9030008@gmail.com> <4A7CD047.2040004@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-381473.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090730 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: <4A7CD047.2040004@gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 78bd158a-2371-41e9-8a8e-1066350dc3e8 X-Archives-Hash: 7b1798aec1b6804f8046f7930cdd9183 On 08/08/2009 04:09 AM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 08/08/2009 02:45 AM, Dale wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Anyone here have AT&T DSL? Is there anything special software wise that >>> I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and >>> set it up that way? >> >> If your "modem" is connect by Ethernet, then it's probably a >> router/modem/switch combo device. Those don't even need drivers. You >> just go to its IP and configure it there and Linux will get internet >> access through Ethernet. >> >> If it's a USB-only device, then it's a simple modem and you will have >> to pray there are Linux drivers for it. >> >> > > I was told it would be a ethernet modem so sounds like I will be good to > go without to much trouble. I messed with one of these things a long > time ago but I couldn't remember what I had to do to set it up. I also > figured things may have changed since then too. It was several years ago. > > Thanks for the info. I guess I don't need rp-pppoe for this to work. Nothing is needed. Only Ethernet support. The configuration of the router itself mainly consists of entering your DSL account's username and password. The device will then connect on its own (it has its own OS) and offer Internet access to any device connected to it through Ethernet. You will need to configure your network in Linux though. The easiest solution is to install net-misc/dhcpcd and set it up to automatically talk to the router using DHCP. This happens in /etc/conf.d/net: modules="dhcpcd" config_eth0="dhcp" Or you could install "wicd" instead if you prefer a GUI for the local network setup.