Still can't get Slackware online with new modem

[blackbelt_jones]

A couple of months ago, I replaced a broken down modem for my DSL connection. I've learned time and again that Verizon is completely of no help to Linux customers, and so any problems I ever experience, I''m pretty much on my own. These days, I am running no windows whatsoever. Previously, when I got a new modem I would run verizon's windows software to set up the modem for DHCP, and then any distro I chose to run wo0uld connect automatically.

Well, without the ability to run windows, it's a lot more problematic. I have only managed to get some debian-based distros online by running an application called pppoeconf or pppoe-config. No slackware, and since a few months ago I released my own live CD that's based on Slax, this is embarassing and frustrating to say the least. DNS, pppoe, TCP/IP... this is not my thing.

Now I've got Slackware 13 installed, and I've been running netconfig and pppoe-setup, and according to the results I get when I run pppoe-status, I should be online :


SIGH. And here is where I was supposed to have posted the results of my non-error messsage, but I don't seem to have saved it from the last time I was loggen into slackware. Looks like I'll have to do it again. I'll get back to you guys...

[leonpmu]

Which modem do you have? Is it an ethernet based one? Or one of those ****ty USB things?

[JohnT]

Check your nic card in "lspci" then check your "lsmod" for that card. Post results. I'm going to assume this is Slack 13.

[infiniphunk]

ummm, why don't you bridge the modem and use a router? That's what I always did when I had dsl.

[JohnT]

That's my setup now (wireles router and I will say its easier, but if no router then ther are other ways to do this....believe me I had the same problems with the same setup as blackbelt....it's doable.

[blackbelt_jones]

That's my setup now (wireles router and I will say its easier, but if no router then ther are other ways to do this....believe me I had the same problems with the same setup as blackbelt....it's doable.

It's always doable, isn't it? That's the beauty part.

Well, the modem is ethernet based, a Westell 327W. I do have a router, so lets see if that works...

[blackbelt_jones]

Interestingly, pppoe-setup works just fine with the slackware derived Vector Linux Light, which I am running right now, and THAT makes me wonder why i never even tried it with Kiara, my slax-based live CD. Guess that's next. Still want to get Slackware running, though.

Thanks for the help. I've got a whole pack of issues that I've been putting off dealing with, and that's just one. Another is that I'm getting a mess of crashes with the more recent releases. (opensuse, kubuntu, sidux, *buntu) I'll start that thread pretty soon.