[ale] Maybe was discussed before

JK jknapka at kneuro.net
Tue Feb 24 21:22:53 EST 2009


Here's how I did it. with a Motorola DSL modem supplied
by AT&T -- this is just a modem, not a modem/router,
but the general principles ought to be the same.  In
fact I did this exact same procedure with a friend's
DSL router a couple weeks ago, also on AT&T; but I don't
remember what kind of router it was.


I plugged the Ethernet from my laptop directly into the modem.

Turned on the modem, got a green Ethernet link.

Set the laptop to use DHCP on the Ethernet port.

Brought up the port, looked at the address it got from
the modem -- 192.168.1.100, with a 3-byte netmask.

OK, so the modem is probably either 192.168.1.1 or
192.168.1.254 (extreme ends of the subnet).

Pointed Firefox at http://192.168.1.1, and bingo, got
the modem's status page.

Clicked on "Connection Configuration", had to log in.
The login password is the modem serial number, printed
on a tag on the modem. I'm in.

On the "Connection Setup" page, entered my AT&T DSL uid
and password.

Clicked "Save", the modem reset itself. When it came
back up, I was on-line, could hit Google etc.

Then I went back and set up my Linux firewall to get
its address from the modem, and set the modem to allow
the client device to directly use the public IP it
gets from AT&T -- "PPP on the LAN" I think is the
name of the setting you need for that.

-- JK


Brian Pitts wrote:
> bugy at bellsouth.net wrote:
>> Hello everybody !
>>
>> How I can setup new AT&T (ex. Bellsouth)  DSL account without running any Windows/OSX machine.
>>
>>
>> copy from AT&T site:
>>
>> Supported browsers include:
>>
>> Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and above.
>> Internet Explorer 7.0 Apple Safari 1.2.4 and above.
>>
>> Supported operating systems include:
>>  
>> Windows 2000 SP4 and above.
>> Windows XP Home (Original, SP1, SP2 and SP3) 
>> Windows XP Pro (Original, SP1, SP2 and SP3) 
>> Windows Vista [32-bit] (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate)
> 
> If anyone can answer this question in detail I'd really appreciate it.
> At Free IT Athens we're interested in putting together documentation on
> how to set up internet service with A&T and Charter.
> 


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