Re: [chat] dlink dsl-300 config with linux

[benjl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Benjamin James Leslie)]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:20:48PM +1100, Alexander Else wrote:
> Hi chat,
> 
> Posting this to chat as it's not directly linux related.  I am experiencing 
> a few challenges with getting D-Link's DSL-300 working with 
> linux.  Hopefully someone can provide some suggestions to make this easier.
> 
> I've got ADSL through iinet (bridged DSL connection), who supply D-Link's 
> DSL-300 ADSL modem to new users.  This is pretty low end, aimed to 
> direct-connect to ethernet port of one computer with no NAT of its own but 
> an inbuilt PPPoE client.  It is meant to be configured through its web 
> server (http://192.168.0.1/) and when you go through the config to enter 
> account details it also saves the MAC address of the configuring host.  To 
> get on the net, enable DHCP on the client and it (hopefully) picks up a 
> real-world IP address courtesy of the dsl-300, with any other clients on 
> the LAN using DHCP getting an address within 192.168.0.0/24.  Unhelpfully, 
> there is no way to manually set a MAC address through the web server 
> configuration and the console port to the device requires a connector that 
> i do not possess.
> 
> This works fine from windows when configuring with IE (have not tested 
> another browser), but under linux I have thus far been unable to 
> successfully complete the configuration.  The web pages require javascript, 
> and so lynx doesn't like it.  While the pages display correctly with 
> Netscape (don't have version at hand, 4.62?  installed from debian potato 
> packages, IIRC), there appears to be some problem saving the account 
> information on the DSL-300.  When submitting it returns to the config 
> screen rather quickly, rather than the 10 second or so delay under windows 
> whilst the configuration is written to flash.
> 
> So.  The only option I can think of at this point is to move the NIC to the 
> windows machine, configure the modem (thus saving the "correct" MAC 
> address) and return the NIC to the linux box.  This ought to do it.  Before 
> tearing hardware out of two perfectly servicable machines I am wondering if 
> anyone can magic me up a better (less effort-driven) solution.
> 
> Regards,
> Alexander.

Strange, I use the same modem on connexus, and it didn't require any setup
at all. I just turned on modem, plugged adsl into the adsl port, my linux
box into the ethernet port and everything just worked. I assume connexus
preconfigured it in some way, but the definately didn't have my MAC address.

I'm not sure why the DSL-300 needs the MAC address, ime it isn't required.

I have used galeon to correctly configure DSL-500 boxes so i assume galeon
would probably work for the DSL-300 as well.

B