[Wylug-help] Linux broadband woes!

[Jim Jackson]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Jim Jackson wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, tom smith wrote:
> > > I'm having a bizarre (to me!) problem with my broadband connection.
> > > I'm currently dual booting WinXP/SuSE 8.2 Pro and connect the internet via a
> > > Netgear ADSL Modem/Router (DM602).
> > >
> > > The internet connection is set up as DHCP over ethernet to the above router.
> > >
> > > My problem is the internet connection works fine in both OS's, so long as i
> > > boot up in windows first! If i boot to Linux first i get no internet
> > > although the device's IP address is set up by the DHCP, i can ping the
> > > router and use the web interface on the router.
> >
> > has your linux setup got a defualt route? Use the /sbin/route command.
> > Should have an entry with a destination of "default".
> >
> > If it hasn't then set one up - not sure how you do in in Suse, but to test
> > do this as root
> >
> >  # route add default gw ip_address_adsl_router
> >
> > then try and connect out.
> >
> > If the default route was there and correct then can you connect using just
> > numeric IP addresses? If so then check that the /etc/resolv.conf file is
> > set up correctly.
>
> But how would either of those explain why it would work in Linux if he went
> into windows first?

Got me there - I obviously didn't read it properly - whoops.

It's not some wierdo pnp thing is it? Can't remember what they call it?
UPnP???  http://www.upnp.org

nah other than that I'm stuck.