Thread: Help to set up BSNL in Fedora 10

Hello everybody

I recently installed fedora 10 along side vista in my laptop. I would like to set up a bsnl connection. Before that here are some information about current status.

I have BSNL broadband, which does not require a username and password for connection. It is always connected and I can connect to any computer with windows by changing the LAN TCP/IP settings. NO USERNAME, NO PASSWORD (as my bsnl lady tells me). So in the same laptop while in vista mode I can get connection, but when I change to Fedora there is no connection!.

Is there a way to do the same in fedora 10. My programming skills is very limited. So I will appreciate if anybody can tell me in very simple terms how to do it.

Thank you in advance

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I think your network is disabled in Fedora

You have to enter your network info like IP address , Subnet mask , DNS etc in your Fedora thats should solve your problem

-->Find your Network info in your windows

-->Copy that in a paper or a pen drive

-->Boot into Linux

-->Enter the info there

Your n/w should get connected

Run adsl-setup. Most likely it is already installed on your system.

Otherwise you can also install it on yum enabled distributions like Fedora Core simply by:
yum install rp-pppoe
It asks questions like your login name and password (provided by BSNL),

your ethernet interface (choose the default provided - eth0; works for most cases) etc.

After the setup you should preferably reboot
(or restart the network - service network restart) and you will find

your DSL connection up and running.

You can also manually bring up DSL connection by:
ifup ppp0

You can bring it down by:
ifdown ppp0

No idea about LINUX programming!

Originally Posted by ShAdOwCoN

I think your network is disabled in Fedora

You have to enter your network info like IP address , Subnet mask , DNS etc in your Fedora thats should solve your problem

-->Find your Network info in your windows

-->Copy that in a paper or a pen drive

-->Boot into Linux

-->Enter the info there

Your n/w should get connected

Thank you for this suggestion, I was able to get connected. However no internet data was obtained (websites dont open). But if I switched of the modem, the network manager immediately says disconnected. When connected it shows the 100mbps speed as well. Something is blocking the data. I am not sure if I should change the last digit of the IP or Default gateway numbers.

I will keep trying, However if you come by any idea please let me know.

Thanks again

Hello essbebe

Thanks for the suggestion, as I mentioned in my post that no user name or password is required for a certain type of connection from BSNL. All we have to do is change the IP, Default gateway and subnetmask numbers. This is for accounts that continously connected. However for those using the dataone icon on the desktop may require the username password method. I have done it successfully for windows systems but not for the linux system.

Thanks anyway

Mention model/make of your wifi modem/router.

With Fedora OS selected
Post/compare Ipconfig/all data as in Windows OS.

Test with LAN port connection.(with Fedora OS )


Thanks for the information about
"Dialup" "Bridged" "Wanminiport"mode and ( enter ID and PW externally)
"Always On" PPP/PPPoE mode options ( no need to enter ID and PW)
available in the modem WAN settings.

go to the terminal and type ifconfig and post output here.. it maybe because you arent getting an ip.. also post output of cat /etc/resolv.conf

Fedora 10 OR any linux falvour the connecting is same. I assume yr router is set in always on mode. If so, check 1. whether ur NIC is up while booting to fedora 2. check the ip of ur NIC is properly set including the gateway. I am using Mandriva 2008 currently and am able to connect in always on as well as dial on demand successfully.

Originally Posted by interubun

Thank you for this suggestion, I was able to get connected. However no internet data was obtained (websites dont open). But if I switched of the modem, the network manager immediately says disconnected. When connected it shows the 100mbps speed as well. Something is blocking the data. I am not sure if I should change the last digit of the IP or Default gateway numbers.

I will keep trying, However if you come by any idea please let me know.

Thanks again

As far as in know The Ip and Default Gateway numbers should be the exact same as they are in Windows .
In fact most of the time when you give your IP address it detects the rest of the settings itself .

Originally Posted by matrix

Fedora 10 OR any linux falvour the connecting is same. I assume yr router is set in always on mode. If so, check 1. whether ur NIC is up while booting to fedora 2. check the ip of ur NIC is properly set including the gateway. I am using Mandriva 2008 currently and am able to connect in always on as well as dial on demand successfully.

1. He said he is able to connect to the n/w , so i am assuming his NIC is ok

2. There may be a problem in the gateway/sub net mask settings

Originally Posted by interubun

That no user name or password is required for a certain type of connection from BSNL. All we have to do is change the IP, Default gateway and subnetmask numbers. This is for accounts that continously connected. However for those using the dataone icon on the desktop may require the username password method. I have done it successfully for windows systems but not for the linux system.

You have come to the correct conclusion

-->As u have an always ON connection u do not need a Broadband client

-->All u have to do is enter the ip , subnetmask etc settings correctly

Originally Posted by superprash2003

go to the terminal and type ifconfig and post output here.. it maybe because you arent getting an ip.. also post output of cat /etc/resolv.conf

Thanks guys for your help and interest. The following is what I did step by step

After connecting the wire, I opened System-Administration-Network.
After entering password I got the Network Configuration screen. It has four tabs i.e. Devices, Hardware, DNS and Hosts

In the devices tab there are three things
inactive-ethO-ethernet
inactive-panO-ethernet
inactive-wlanO-ethernet

I double clicked on the ethO and it opens the Ethernet Device window. which has three tabs: General, Route and Hardware Device

In General you have two options

1. Automatically obtain IP address settings with.....
2. Statically set IP Addresses

I chose the second option and entered the following
Address 192.168.1.2
Subnetmask 255.255.255.0
Default gateway address 192.168.1.1


Then I clicked on the second tab i.e Route and entered

Destination Network: 192.168.1.2
Prefix(Netmask) and Gateway: 255.255.255.0
Gateway:192.168.1.1

Finally I clicked OK and restarted. Then the following things happen

1.Whether or not I add the values for the Route, there is always connection
2. On restart the subnet mask number always shows 192.168.1 instead of the 255.255....
3. If I switch of modem it says disconnected
4. And In the On position, I get connection information as 100mbps etc.
5. However websites don't open

I also did the IFCONFIG and Cat /etc/resolv.conf and this is what I got

[sprasad@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:24:06:2B:AE
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:192.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:24ff:fe06:2bae/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:3619 (3.5 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1528 (1.4 KiB) TX bytes:1528 (1.4 KiB)


[sprasad@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
# No nameservers found; try putting DNS servers into your
# ifcfg files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts like so:
#
# DNS1=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# DNS2=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# DOMAIN=lab.foo.com bar.foo.com

After reading this , I included the DNS numbers in the Third Tab (i.e.DNS) of the Network configuration window. Still doesn't work.

Thanks again for your help

Have you setup the WAN pppoe properly? with ISP usename and password along with the VPI to 0 and VCI to 35 in my case the default VCI was 32 I have changed to 35 then I was able to connect (bridge mode)

In /etc/resolv.conf add the following to use the openDNS:

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

and restart your network. Note that I am using dial-up (bridge mode). The advantage is being good control of the connection as well as some speed improvement in connection. my ifconfig gives the following:

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:7D:F8:4C:AF
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7dff:fef8:4caf/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:109334 (106.7 KiB) TX bytes:56278 (54.9 KiB)
Interrupt:20

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:30751 (30.0 KiB) TX bytes:30751 (30.0 KiB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:117.195.7.79 P-t-P:117.195.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1460 Metric:1
RX packets:237 errors:258 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:275 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:100697 (98.3 KiB) TX bytes:47090 (45.9 KiB)

and cat /etc/resolv.conf gives the following:

cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 218.248.255.212 # ppp temp entry
nameserver 218.248.255.139 # ppp temp entry