Re: [Sheflug] BT Voyager 200 routers

[Graham Hamblin <graham [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Collins wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
Hmm! my advice would have been to disable DHCP and set it up manually.

--
Graham

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