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ADSL @ home

benjamin — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:28:04 +0000

HURRAY!

My ADSL connection has finally been moved!

Six and a half weeks after I emailed IPact about my new address (on May 10), and two weeks after the connection has been terminated at my old address, I now have a working ADSL connection at my new home.

DHCP in Debian

benjamin — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:14:24 +0000

Why doesn’t my DHCP client work in Debian?
I’ve got my ADSL connection working alright in Windows, but of course I want to get it to work with Debian also (dual boot on the same machine).
In Windows I’ve checked the “Obtain IP address automatically” checkbox, and it all works fine. My modem / router hands out the IP address 192.168.1.3. Great! But when I boot Debian, I get no response from the DHCP server whatsoever.

I’ve installed the dhcp3-client and dhcp3-common packages (yes, I’ve also tried pump), but when I run dhclient3 eth0, all I get is something like

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3

repeated a couple of times and finally:

No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database – sleeping.

When I manually assign an IP address and add my modem as the default gateway, it all works, but I simply cannot get DHCP to work.

Does anybody have a solution?

BTW, I do have

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

in my /etc/network/interfaces.

I’ve been connected

benjamin — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:53:42 +0000

Starting today I’ve finally got ADSL at home.
Thanks to the TU Delft and Infopact, who provided me with a free 1024 / 512 kbps connection!

I’ve got it all set up, connected the wires and splitter and stuff. It’s a bit tricky at our place, because we have a home switchboard (for 1 external and 4 internal phone lines) and separate lines for the modems (because the “ancient” switchboard cannot handle the modem signals). So I have placed the splitter before the switchboard, and used the separate modem line for the ADSL signal. The one cable going to the second floor has two wires for one of the internal phone lines and two wires for the ADSL line.

I configured my pc and the SMC 7204BRA 4-port Router / ADSL Modem (see here, on page 2) and it all works great in Windows 98.
I still have to install the Realtek network card under Debian, but that shouldn’t be any problem.

I wanted to connect another pc to the Router, and therefore had to lay 15 meters of UTP cable, through the ceiling, through a wall. I fixed the connectors to the cable… and found out it didn’t work. I checked the connectors, removed one of them and attached a new one, but it still doesn’t work! Does anyone know a (cheap and simple) way to check a UTP cable?