[Nelug] RE: Alcatel USB ADSL

Wed Jul 16 00:38:00 UTC 2003

Or.. you could just get an adsl router/modem in one?
I use a Zoom X4 router and simply connect to it using a browser to alter the
settings using an ethernet connection to it.
Doesn't need any drivers at all which also has the added advantage of using
no system resources.
Not expensive either really...about £70 I think?

PCI ADSL is nigh on impossible, there are drivers for the alcatel usb "frog
thing" though :)

Regards,

Andy Hoult
AKA Gonkster
Jolt Administrator
www.jolt.co.uk 

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   1. Alcatel USB on BT (Alex McClement)
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   4. Re: Alcatel USB on BT (Martin Ward)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:37:35 +0100
To: nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk
From: Alex McClement <alexmacew at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [Nelug] Alcatel USB on BT
Reply-To: nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk

Dear Peter Wolfendale,

	I am attempting to set up the same thing you have, a server PC that
routes 
my Internet connection to my home network. I have tried both Redhat 8 and 
Mandrake 9.0 and cannot get Red Hat to recognise the modem and Mandrake to 
dial up. I would appreciate any help you can give me in this area as i have 
been trying for the past three days to get this to work. I would also like 
to set up the computer to share the Internet connection, would this be easy 
to do after using a script to dial the connection? I am a complete Linux 
beginner, incase it wasn't obvious.

Yours Sincerely,

Alex McClement 

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:20:23 +0100
From: Eddy Younger <eddy at shofar.uklinux.net>
To: nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Nelug] Alcatel USB on BT
Reply-To: nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk

Alex McClement writes:
 > Dear Peter Wolfendale,
 > 
 > 	I am attempting to set up the same thing you have, a server PC that
routes 
 > my Internet connection to my home network. I have tried both Redhat 8 and

 > Mandrake 9.0 and cannot get Red Hat to recognise the modem and Mandrake
to 

It would help if you told us what kind of modem you have. 
Also what happens or doesn't happen when "Mandrake" doesn't dial up
(aside: switching distros just because one thing "doesn't work" is
usually not profitable. Better to find out *why* it doesn't work and
fix it).

 > dial up. I would appreciate any help you can give me in this area as i
have 
 > been trying for the past three days to get this to work. I would also
like 
 > to set up the computer to share the Internet connection, would this be
easy 
 > to do after using a script to dial the connection? I am a complete Linux 
 > beginner, incase it wasn't obvious.

This is bread-and-butter Unix stuff, IOW it is straightforward to make
it work once you understand how. You need to enable ip-forwarding on
on the "server" machine, set up ip-masquerading (AKA NAT or Network
Address Translation), and then set a default route on your client
machines which points to the server machine. Sorry but I don't know
how to do these things via the various GUI's but you can check out the
Dialup Networking tutorial on the NELUG web pages (under the Resources
link on the front page) which explains how to do all this (you do have
to type a few things though :) ).

Eddy.
-- 
"One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. 
 Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear
 before they could speak to a human counselor" - Practice of Programming 

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:00:01 +0100 (BST)
From: Edward Younger - Sun  - Network Service Providers Division - Software
Engineer <ey86798 at erwin.uk.sun.com>
To: nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Nelug] Reminder- NELUG meeting: 8.00pm, Durham Rowing club
Reply-To: nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk

	** Calendar Appointment **

	Date:	7/16/2003
	Start:	 8:00 pm
	End:	 9:59 pm
	What:	NELUG meeting: 8.00pm, Durham Rowing club

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Message: 4
From: Martin Ward <Martin.Ward at durham.ac.uk>
To: nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Nelug] Alcatel USB on BT
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:08:41 +0100
Reply-To: nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk

On Sunday 13 Jul 2003 9:37 pm, Alex McClement wrote:
> =09I am attempting to set up the same thing you have, a server PC that =
routes
> my Internet connection to my home network. I have tried both Redhat 8 a=
nd
> Mandrake 9.0 and cannot get Red Hat to recognise the modem and Mandrake=
 to
> dial up. I would appreciate any help you can give me in this area as i =
have
> been trying for the past three days to get this to work. I would also l=
ike
> to set up the computer to share the Internet connection, would this be =
easy
> to do after using a script to dial the connection? I am a complete Linu=
x
> beginner, incase it wasn't obvious.

If you have an Alcatel Speed Touch modem, then I can tell you=20
how I got mine working with Mandrake 9.0

--=20
=09=09=09Martin

Martin.Ward at durham.ac.uk http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/ Erdos number: 4
G.K.Chesterton web site: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/

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