[nflug] Getting DSL to work, etc.

Wed May 3 19:14:48 EDT 2006

Just got my Verizon DSL line activated.
I went into Windoze 98se and got everything to work (with only one 
support call!)  The modem manual rocks!  It does everything except teach 
me networking!  There are a ton of options I don't understand, but I 
probably won't need any of them.

However, on the Linux side:
Mandrake Linux 9.1 RC2 dual boot with Windoze 98se
PII 266MHz 128MB ram, 30GB hda and 120GB hdb

Removed my second ethernet card and my WinTV card (neither was in use).  
Just cleaning things up.

When I boot, in the Mandrake window that scrolls by, I get something 
about insmod errors, but it goes by too fast to read.  It may have 
something to do with stuff I was trying to do to get the TV card to work 
a very long time ago.  dmesg shows that TV stuff is still getting loaded 
that I should no longer need.

Long ago I remember reconfiguring and recompiling my kernel for TV 
support, but I'm almost sure I never installed a new kernel.  Just had 
to go through the motions so Linux could find some settings, etc. for it.

I also get a few USB errors (when I look at dmesg), but they're probably 
not important.  All that's plugged in to the USB 1.1 hub are my scanner 
(only works in Win 98se)  and my webcam (which works under win 98 se and 
has never worked under Linux).  Occasionally, I plug in flash drives 
that work fine in both OS's , but none are plugged in now.

Plugged in DSL filters to all the phones (including the computer's modem 
line).
Attached the DSL (Westell 327W Wireless modem/router) to the line and to 
my ethernet port.
When it first comes on E1 - E4 led's (for ethernet port activity) light 
(to prove they work).
After a very short time, the DSL light on the modem flashes and then 
goes solid.  Same for the Internet light, so the modem and line are 
working fine.

The main problem I'm having is that the E1 light on the modem is not 
lighting up and I can't access the modem at 192.168.1.1 from my browser.
I tried plugging into E2 and that doesn't light either.  I even tried a 
new ethernet cable.

This leads me to believe that the ethernet connection to the modem is 
nonfunctional.

Since it' works in Windoze (and Linux seems to be at least somewhat 
happy - see dmesg snip below), I think something in Linux is not 
properly activating the ethernet port hardware.

I have not done any firewall, iptables, etc. stuff on this box.  I don't 
even know how to.

1) How do I debug the ethernet connection to the modem?

2) Once I get the ethernet connection working, what else do I have to do 
in Linux to access the Internet and email?  I have the modem manual 
(pdf) and have it all set up for normal usage (from the windoze side).  
I just set up a modem-only DSL connection (in Windoze) for my partner at 
another location, so I know my way around the modem a bit.  The modem 
portion of this modem/router looks identical from what I can see in the 
manual.

3) Where do I look to fix the insmod problem?

4) My connection speed is roughly 800k/168k (to save money).  Can I 
assume that my 10baseT ethernet card is more than fast enough to support 
maximum throughput?   At what speed connection would this nic be too slow?

Thanks.

Joe

P.S. I'm sending this using dialup because I do everything possible on 
Linux (and because I don't want to reboot).

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Part of dmesg output:

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 14:28:15 Feb 28 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfca0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,7), internal journal
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 7 ports detected
Adding Swap: 811240k swap-space (priority -1)
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2.1, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x4a7/0x201) is not claimed by any active 
driver.
hub.c: Cannot enable port 2 of hub 2, disabling port.
hub.c: Maybe the USB cable is bad?
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.7.0 (20021208)
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module version 2.7.0 (20021208)
bttv: driver version 0.7.106 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge
bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.7.0 (20021208)
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module version 2.7.0 (20021208)
bttv: driver version 0.7.100 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge
bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.

...

Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0e.0
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 10baseT at 0xfc40. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
 00:60:08:aa:0a:94, IRQ 9
  product code 4b46 rev 00.0 date 10-26-97
  Internal config register is 302d8, transceivers 0xe108.
  8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, 10baseT interface.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
00:0e.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums disabled

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bigbird ~/tmp: $sudo /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
sd_mod                 13100   0  (autoclean) (unused)
binfmt_misc             7020   1
lp                      8096   0
parport_pc             25096   1
parport                34176   1  [lp parport_pc]
es1371                 29000   0
soundcore               6276   0  [es1371]
ac97_codec             12488   0  [es1371]
gameport                3316   0  [es1371]
nfsd                   74256   0  (autoclean)
af_packet              14952   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 16920   0  (autoclean)
floppy                 55132   0
3c59x                  29584   0  (autoclean) (unused)
nls_iso8859-1           3516   2  (autoclean)
nls_cp850               4316   2  (autoclean)
vfat                   11820   2  (autoclean)
fat                    37944   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount             15296   2  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 33856   0
cdrom                  31648   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi               11280   0
scsi_mod              103284   3  [sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi]
usb-uhci               24652   0  (unused)
usbcore                72992   1  [usb-uhci]
rtc                     8060   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   59916   2
jbd                    38972   2  [ext3]
bigbird ~/tmp: $

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bigbird ~/tmp: $sudo /usr/sbin/lsusb
Invalid product/subclass spec at line 2650
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0451:1446 Texas Instruments TUSB2040/2070 Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04a7:0201 Visioneer
bigbird ~/tmp: $

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