[ILUG] IOL Broadband on Mandrake 10

[Rory McCann]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Kieran Murphy wrote:
> 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

I'm on the IOL broadband trial too. I think the password it asking for
might be "1234", with username "admin". Try that.

<rory>