I’ve just spent the afternoon trying to come up with some way to get us back on the net.
I couldn’t find info on setting up Mandrivalinux with my Alcatel SpeedTouch Home adsl modem. I’m sure the info is there but I don’t have all day to stuff around.
In the end, I set up my computer to connect to the internet. I already had a network card in my PC along with the built-in network card from nVidia. I plugged the nVidia network card into the old modem to use it for just a switch/router and plugged the network card into the modem. I shared out the internet via the XP Internet Connection Sharing software and stuffed around until I got it going.
Now the three computers can access the internet so long as my computer is turned on. It’s a small price to pay, but it gets us going again which is the main thing. Since it’s Christmas holidays I don’t know if any computer shops are open. We are probably going to have to purchase a new modem at some stage. If I can find out how to configure my linux server to share out the network connection then we can put it off for a much longer time.
So Rebecca’s computer connects like this:
Bec’s PC -> Billion 5100 modem switch/router -> My PC -> SpeedTouch modem -> Internet
I had hoped I could somehow get the Billion to dial the internet through the Alcatel but I don’t think that’s even a physical possibility. Oh well, so long as we’re going again taht’s the main thing.
