Bulletproof web design - CHAPTER 8 GETTING EVERYTHING UP AND RUNNING
CHAPTER 8 GETTING EVERYTHING UP AND RUNNING 95 9. Put a check alongside Update Provider DNS and select your ISP from the list. 10. In most cases, the Select a PPP Mode, Chipset, and Change Synch .bin File settings can be left unchanged. However, if you use a Voyager 105 modem, put a check in the box alongside Change Synch .bin File, and then select gs7470_synch03.bin from the list. 11. Click the Create Config button. 12. Back in the GNOME Terminal window, type the following: sudo eciadsl-start 13. This will connect you to your ISP via the modem. Attempt to browse a web site to see if the connection works. 14. In order for your connection to start automatically every time you boot, you will need to create a startup script. In the GNOME Terminal window, type the following: sudo gedit /etc/init.d/voyager_start 15. This will open a Gedit window in which you should type the following, and then press Enter: eciadsl-start 16. Save the file. 17. In the GNOME Terminal window, type the following: sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/voyager_start sudo ln s /etc/init.d/voyager_start /etc/rc2.d/S20voyager_start 18. Finally, delete the package directory you created earlier, as well as the eciadsl-synch_ bin.tar.bz2 file. Don t forget that logging on via DSL can take some time, depending on the quality of your connection. On my test system, I found that it could take up to a minute after the desktop appeared to establish a connection. I also found the modem wouldn t work unless other network interfaces, such as Ethernet, were deactivated via the Network Settings applet (it was necessary to double-click the network card s entry in the list and remove the check from Enable This Connection). I also found that I had to unplug and reattach the modem before undertaking step 12 in order to reset the modem. Setting Up an Alcatel SpeedTouch Series USB DSL Modem Before commencing configuration of an Acatel SpeedTouch modem, you ll need to find out if your ISP uses the PPPoE or PPPoA technical standard. You can discover this by browsing to http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/faq/index.html#q12 and searching for your country s entry in the table. If your country is listed as using both standards, you should follow the instructions for PPPoA in the following steps. You ll need to download several files to complete this configuration, so you will either need to get your computer online by some other method, such as dial-up, or grab the files mentioned on a different computer and transfer them across to Ubuntu via floppy disk or