If you think you have the card recognized you have to now look at the entry for your ISP. I have sorted the information according to a provider because setups are mostly ISP specific.
This section is for people who are using so-called "hybrid" cable modems. Hybrid modems are those that need two kinds of connections, one to the (TV) cable and one to the phone line.
Check out the following URL for directions on how to set up Linux with Powerlink http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html
This information is provided by Rodrigo Severo (rodrigo@who.net):
First of all, let me tell you that here we have the MMD Cable Modem from General Instrument. We use SurfBoard 1000 ISA board for download and a regular telephone modem for upload. I would prefer to use an external board like the SurfBoard 1200 which is available only to corporate users, i.e., willing to pay US$ 200,00 instead of the regular US$ 30,00 so I found out this driver for the internal ISA board.
I started from the files I downloaded from http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/.
Here is the relevant data:
ISP: LinkExpress <http://www.linkexpress.com.br> DNS: 200.252.88.20 Frequency: 351 MHz Phone number: 321 3300
During a download from a local tucows mirror I got 70KB 300KB per second. From distant sites I managed to get 30KB/s a few times.
More information about LinkExpress can be found at http://www.linkexpress.com.br
I recently accuired an expressnet cable modem for the maryland area. it is a com21 one way modem and I had a hell a time making it work so id like to share my knowledge in your faq maybe? well heres what I learned inorder for the PPP connection to authenticate the user must be running PAP which consists of editing the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file accordingly
#/etc/ppp/pap-secrets #this is the PAP secrets file for PPP #the quotes are required on both "username" * "password"
after that they must create a PPP-on script what ever name it must execute this command
exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug persist /dev/ttyS1 38400 0.0.0.0:0.0.0.0 connect "chat -v TIMEOUT 3 ABORT 'BUSY' ABORT 'NOANSWER' '' ATH TIMEOUT 30 'OK' ATDTTELEPHONE CONNECT ''"
this must be done with no carrage returns either
next step is to modify the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local file if it does not exist it should be created it should read the following
#!/bin/bash #/etc/ppp/ip-up.local #this will set up the route to the ppp device as default everytime the modem #authenticates dont include it if you do not want this option route add default ppp0
then the user must configure their ethernet card on box I have a 3c905
I configured it the following way
ifconfig eth0 up ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 broadcast 10.0.0.15 netmask 255.255.255.240
then I added some more routes to the kernel routing table as follows
route add -host 10.0.0.1 eth0 route add -net 10.0.0.0 eth0
all of these commands can be added into a script file as follows
#!/bin/bash #This is a script file for establishing the cable modem IF device properties as #well as the route properties ifconfig eth0 up ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 broadcast 10.0.0.15 netmask 255.255.255.240 route add -host 10.0.0.1 eth0 route add -net 10.0.0.0 eth0
thats all and the cable modem connection is setup fast as hell I might add.
Contributers: Chris (chris@wrm.grdn.net) & Mike Milbert (mike@milbert.com)