ISDN configuration with SuSE Linux 6.4
Support knowledgebase (sm_isdn_y2)
Applies to
SuSE Linux: Version 6.4
This article refers to an older version of SuSE Linux.
Therefore some of the informations given in this article may
be outdated or the article may contain stale links.
Request:
You want to configure your internet access with SuSE Linux 6.4 with
YaST2.
Procedure:
- ISAPNP or PCI cards
- Start YaST2 as root and then start the module
Network/Modem+ISDN
- If you use a PCI or ISAPNP ISDN-card, the card
will be detected automatically.
- Go on with step 3
- ISA card or any other not automatically detected card
- If your card wasn't detected, configure your
hardware with YaST1:
- Close YaST2 and start YaST1 -> System
administration -> Configure ISDN hardware
-
- Activate Start I4L
- For protocol you usually need Euro-ISDN
(except your computer is connected to a
station which uses 1TR6)
- Select your card
- Verify with the command cat
/proc/interrupts, which interrupts in
your system are free. With some ISA-cards you
must try out some interrupts.
- Put in the IO port, which you have
selected per jumper on card.
You can find out which are free with the
command cat /proc/ioports.
- Go on with the tabulator key until you are
at Start and then try out if the
driver is loaded. If you were successfull, you
can save your configuration.
- Now you can go on configurating the rest
with YaST2. Click on "Configure ISDN-card
manually" and then on "Continue".
- Configuration of the access data
- If you want to use a call-by-call access activate
the button "Country" and select one of the shown
providers. If you want to use another provider, select
"New" and put in the needed telephone number and your
access data. If you want to edit an existing
configuration, select "Edit".
- As your own telephone number (MSN) you put in your
telephone number (without code !), if your computer
is connected directly to the NTBA. If it is connected
to an ISDN-station, put in the phone extension.
- In most cases the protocol is Euro-ISDN (1TR6 is
only seldomly used).
- The standard access uses ISDN SyncPPP as network
type.
- If you select "Manually" in the dial mode, you can
build and reset a connection to the tool "kimon" or
with the command:
isdnctrl dial ippp0
isdnctrl hangup ippp0
You will find informations about how to control the
access to the internet entrance under the article:
Permissions for dial-up connections via ISDN
- If you have no fixated IP-adress, you should keep the
pre-selected examples 192.168.0.99 and 192.168.0.1
and select "dynamic IP-allocation".
Please check, that the IP-adresses are not in
the same net like the local ethernet.
- Today almost all providers use "Dynamic DNS-
allocation". If you want to get the DNS-server of your
provider at the automatic dial-in dynamically, then
proceed as following:
Delete the data /etc/resolv.conf as root, if you
haven't put in a nameserver:
rm /etc/resolv.conf
Then make the first connection per hand -> from
now on the nameserver will be selected dynamically.
- Then deactivate the dummy0 device in the /etc/re.config
data:
SETUPDUMMYDEV=no
and run SuSEconfig.
- Now you can start the ISDN-system:
rci4l_hardware start
rci4l start
rcroute start
If you activate "Start ISDN-system when booting" it
will start from now on automatically.
- You can certainly do further configuration with YaST1.
See also:
Permissions for dial-up connections via ISDN
Seting up ISDN with YaST1
Keywords: ISDN, YAST2, INTERNET, EINRICHTEN, 64, 6.4
Categories:
Configuration
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