[ale] BellSouth/ATT DSL

[aaron]

I just set up 14 B$hATT DSL lines with the little Westell modems
last Thursday.

Despite the repeated incompetent and innexcusable insistence of
B$hATT that you must use Mafia$oft broken windows and intersnot
exploiter to set up your DSL, everything they are saying is a totally
fraudulent lie and you need nothing of the sort. All you need is the
account ID and password.

We set up and tested all of our 14 lines using Ubuntu and Firefox
via the web interface on the modem itself -- we just plugged an
Ubuntu laptop directly into the modem, opened Firefox, and the
modem's entry window for account and password info popped up
automagically.

We also had no problem getting the DSL active using a gateway
router by providing the the user ID and password for the account
in its PPOE config.

BTW, the default password for B$hATT accounts is the 7digits of
the phone number that the account is assigned to.

HTH!
peace
aaron

On Sunday 24 June 2007 14:39, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> My girlfriend decided that she wanted internet access at home,  
> and chose the $10/month dsl now offered from BellSouth/ATT. Of  
> course, I get to set it up, and of course I'm working on getting  
> things set up for Linux (Ubuntu specifically, as I think a  
> Fedora setup would be a little heavier maintenence and I'm  
> having challenges with F7 at the moment). BellSouth has provided  
> a lovely little Westell modem/router which I get setup with my  
> ancient laptop with Windows2000. Attempting to convert to her  
> machine seems associated with loss of the dsl link, but I'm not  
> ready to claim that strongly in public. My suspicion is that the  
> link loss is further up the chain, but again I cann't prove  
> that. I can find the modem/router with a web browser at  
> http://192.168.1.1:80, although I of course do not have a  
> password for the interface. The interface does show things setup  
> correctly tho. I have quickly searched the web for documentation  
> on the modem/router and come up quite dry. (I left my notes over  
> at her place, or I'd note the model number here - sorry, but my  
> bad)
> 
> I should note that my initial installation of Ubuntu7.04 has a  
> glitch in it also, further complicating things.
> 
> General questions: Does anybody here have experience with this  
> setup? Anybody have a possible lead to documentation for the  
> modem/router? (I really don't want to find somebody to reverse  
> engineer the setup code provided) Since I could probably use a  
> severe beating with a cluebat - any general (hopefully useful)  
> commentary.
> 
> I've got to take her out to dinner with her siblings shortly,  
> and won't be back until late, but any clues/ideas/leads would be  
> appreciate for tomorrow's effort.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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