Thread: BSNL broadband not working on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

Hi guys,

Y'day only I installed Ubuntu 8.10 in my computer. Installation was a breeze as only Ubuntu can have it . But when i rebooted after installation and tried to configure my ADSL connection (BSNL broadband) Ubuntu failed to detect it . I also tried 'pppoeconf', but to no avail.
I manually created a DSL connection in network manager providing username and pwd. On 2nd tab, the mac address field is empty. do i need to give my NIC's mac id or the router interfaces' one? Does it not probe, like in Fedora?

What else needs to be configured? Can i set it up manually instead of DHCP?

Thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by just4kix

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you really need not to provide MAC address to config just check your ip address in terminal and check if it is the correct one or not and is it possible for you to config your modem in bridge mode.

what happens when you try to config your connection with pppoeconf

(thread moved to correct section from Broadband How to section to Linux)

Thanks for replying smoothvibes.

Another problem is that, when I set IP address manually thru' Network Config utility and try to save, Ubuntu tells me that that its read only config and I wont be able to update it. I even can't delete the n/w config. Having used Fedora for quite some time my knowledge of Ubuntu user credentials is quite limited. I found it strange that root user password is not asked during installation. You append sudo to every command and i guess it should work the way it should work for root.

Well, that's another thing I will have to learn but first I need to set my Ubuntu to detect my NIC and net connection.

Bingo guys!!! I got internet on Ubuntu intrepid working.
Here's what i did:
1. to get around the readonly error while changing config in network manager i commented the iface eth0 line in /etc/network/interfaces (put a # at the beginning of line). Actually this is a bug and is tracked at launchpad (Ubuntu's bug tracking tool. Bug no. 279262)

2. configure eth0 by manually assigning IP. You can do thi thru' n/w mgr or thru' interfaces file. Here's a sample interfaces file:
*******file contents start here ******
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
*******file contents end here ******
192.168.1.1 is my router ip.
run '/etc/init.d/networking restart'. This should ideally work, but i had to reboot my machine to get eth0 working. Check by pinging to router 'ping -c5 192.168.1.1'

3. run 'sudo pppoeconf'

4. Follow instructions from howtoforge.com to have ubuntu intrepid with many more apps.

P.S. - I'd love to paste URLs but i can't as the system tells me that I am not 15 posts old yet on Indiabroadband.net....

nice post zatka2001 :clap:

once again i request you to please check what just4kix said in Post #2

Originally Posted by just4kix

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