[Ma-linux] Re: [Dclug] Last Steps in DSL - Verizon installation

[Alan McConnell]

Dear Colleagues,  I am still stuck.  After various modifications, including
changing /etc/network/interfaces as Zach suggested, here is the result
of my call to ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:F4:48:21:C4  
          inet addr:192.168.1.47  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:907 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:326 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:63880 (62.3 KiB)  TX bytes:32935 (32.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800 

And firefox still gets turned away . . "The connection was refused when
attempting to contact  192.168.1.47 ."

Nick says that 192.168.1.1 is the address of my computer.  Is that true
also of   192.168.1.47  ?  Why is my computer so schiz?<G>   [  BTW, I
can ping  192.168.1.47  and it responds nicely; but it also does so
when the Ethernet cable is pulled from the modem . . . ]

If I run  " dhclient eth0 " as Nick suggested, my call to ifconfig returns:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:F4:48:21:C4  
          inet addr:192.168.1.46  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:536 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:99207 (96.8 KiB)  TX bytes:54567 (53.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800 

If I read rightly, the inet addr has been decreased by 1.

HOWEVER: it seems that I _can_ get "outside".  My Firefox talks
to   activatemydsl.verizon.net  (any other call reverts to that).
And  here I get a screen saying  
	We're sorry, but we detected you are using an unsupported
     	operating system.

	DSL web-activation currently supports
		Windows     etc
		Mac OS X    etc

	To proceed with the installation, please upgrade your operating
	system or use an alternate computer that meets the minimum
	system requirements.

But I seem to be able to ping various things.

Can I infer that as soon as I go to activatemydsl.verizon.net, from
an outside computer(read: the Wheaton Library), that I can activate the
DSL?

Again, many thanks for the help and interest.  If/when I get this,
I'll write it all up and post it.

Best wishes,

Alan

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