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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > I took along the BL3 floppy disk set to use at someone's house and
> > discovered they have a DSL line, meaning I cannot use pppd to dial.
> >   After booting to BL3, is there some way to access the internet
> > via telnet?
>
> How is their DSL modem connected? If it's by USB you need to get a
> USB-enabled kernel. If it's ethernet, you need to insmod the modules
> for their network card and get that going, then you need to run
> netsetup probably and also dhcp.

I don't know, they are in another city and we are going visiting there 
again end of this month.  I doubt they know how things are plugged in.

I don't think the Slackware 8.1 USB kernel would fit on a BL3 or BL2 
floppy disk.

Netsetup - I know how to do this if I have two computers and an ethernet 
cable but how do I assign numbers if there is just one computer?  Does the 
'DSL modem' have its own number and if so, what is it?  192.168.1.0?

ifconfig eth0 ...... ?

What does dhcp do and does BL3 or BL2 have it?

Do you know of some other small distribution that would work better in 
this situation?  I suppose I could just take an external modem along and 
hope they have a serial port.  Or use Windows telnet.  Or even lug along a 
laptop computer - we have one with PCMCIA modem to which I just 
transferred files via plip.  We need something known to have a serial 
port anyway in order to download photos.

> > I ended up using their Win98 telnet.  If a DSL
> > connection is always on, could I just boot BL3 then type telnet?
>
> It has to be set up first.
>
> David
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