[ale] BellSouth/ATT DSL

[Thompson Freeman]

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.