[ILUG] IOL Broadband on Mandrake 10

[Kieran Murphy]

> In Mandrake 10 you with the ZyXEL ethernet connection in place:
> Assuming KDE from the menu choose:
> ->System
> 	-> Configuration 
> 			-> Configure your computer
> 
> In the "Run As" dialog box insert the root password and click the OKAY
> button.
> >From the selection offered Choose 
> "Network And The Internet"
> >From the selection offered Choose 
> "New Connection"
> Click the radio button
> "Lan Connection"
>  -Assumption your ethernet card has been identified by Mandrake-
> >From the selection offered Choose a Net Device 
> In this case click the radio button beside:
> eth0
> Then click the Next button
> >From the selection offered choose
> Automatic IP
> 
> Tick the boxes opposite the following words:
> Assign
> Network
> Start
> Then click the Next button
> Then click the Next button
> Then click the Next button
> >From the choices offered Choose:
> Yes
> Then click the Next button
> Now click Finish
> 
> Now Click back twice - "main menu"
> 
> Choose Security
> Choose Firewall
> Until you know more make sure _nothing_ here is checked.
> Click Ok.
> Choose eth0 for the the interface name.
> 
> Click File and Quit.
> 
> Now for the fun part the Zyxel.
> 
> Start a web browser:
> ->Internet 
> 	->Web Browser
> 		->Konqueror
> Type 192.168.1.1 into the Location dialog entry box.
> Login as Admin using the password you choose for the router.
> Choose Wizard.
> Make sure the Mode is set to Routing.
> Click next until you get to the test screen, all other settings should
> be okay.
> Logout.

Thanks for the reply Paul.  I followed your advice exactly as it's described above.  All went to plan apart from my computer asking for disk 1 from Mandrake which seemed to install whatever it needed ok.  So far so good.  

Things only went wrong when I tried to connect to 192.168.1.1 through Konqueror.  I got the following error message:

 An error occurred while loading http://192.168.1.1
 Could not connect to host 192.168.1.1

Am I correct in thinking that IOL use NAT and that all their ADSL routers use 192.168.1.1 as the gateway address?  I could successfully ping 192.168.1.1 from the command line and when I tried to telnet onto that address it asked for a password.  My IOL Broadband password didn't work so I'm not sure exactly what I was telnetting onto.  It never asked for a username.

Actually, I'm just after checking and I can telnet onto 192.168.1.1 from Windows but again it doesn't accept my IOL password so I'm not sure what machine I'm telnetting onto.  I can only assume that it's my ZyXEL ADSL router.


KM.
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