[nflug] Getting DSL to work, etc.

[Joe]

The whole point of this exercise is to get Verizon DSL working and stop 
using Buffnet dialup.  They're a good ISP, but dialup isn't DSL.
In the mean time, I have to keep my dialup connection open so I can get 
to the Internet and email questions like this.  The modem/router is 
connected to eth0.

In a nutshell (see prior posts for much more detail), I went into 
Mandrake control center and got eth0 to be active - E1 lights up on my 
modem/router, but I still can't get to 192.168.1.1 (where the 
modem/router lives) in Firefox.  Until that works, nothing else will.  
Linux needs something(s) configured (and possibly installed), but I 
don't know what.

I tried using Mandrake Control Center to configure access, but it wants 
to install something (and it won't tell me what) from the installation 
disks that I don't have at this location.  Also I have the choice to 
install "lan" or "adsl" and I'm not sure which is the right choice.  I 
was trying the "lan" option.

Again, if I know what to install, I have a Mandrake 9.1 install disk 
from a magazine, and of course, the Internet, from which to get the 
right thing and install it.  It's just that MCC won't recognize the disk 
because it's not the one it was installed from.

I'm 90% of the way there and just don't know how to proceed.  (I've been 
here more times than I can count.  It's just a basic feature of my 
love/hate relationship with Linux - and my need to get new hardware and 
a modern distro that makes all of this easier.)

Joe

Cyber Source wrote:
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>        inet addr:208.28.189.13  P-t-P:208.28.189.3  Mask:255.255.255.255
>        UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1524  Metric:1
>        RX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>        TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>        collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
>        RX bytes:3598 (3.5 Kb)  TX bytes:7004 (6.8 Kb)
>
> Your already getting your public IP. You want to use the interface 
> ppp0 not eth0.
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