Re: [Sheflug] BT Voyager 200 routers

[Matthew Collins <matthew [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:08:51PM +0100, John Brooke wrote:
> <> Dear all,
> 
>   I am new to this group but I would like to know if anyone could help 
> me with getting an ethernet card under Linux to connect to the Internet 
> via a BT Voyager 200 router. I have broadband working on MacOSXand 
> Windows XP but that all came with the CD. BT support wont give any help 
> on linux. I have checked out that on the home network side of the router 
> it assigns fixed addresses on a 192.168.xx private network and I can 
> configure the linux ethernet card with an address of this form and login 
> to MacOSX on a laptop that is connected to the router via USBshe and 
> vice versa and ping the router. But I dont know where to go from there 
> despite looking at FAQs and HowTos on ADSL. If anyone else has had and 
> solved this problem I would be grateful for help.

All you should have to do is set your ethernet card to use DHCP, and it
should Just Work (TM).

You don't say what Distibution you're using, so I can't help with that.

So, your set up should be.

Computer -> Ethernet to Router -> Router to telephone line.

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