[CentOS] hard disk install failure

[b.j. mcclure]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 11:22 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> <snip>
> >>> Now I have to work out how to install Windows on the machine,
> >>> but I daren't ask about that here ...
> >>> I need it because my ISP claims to have tripled the speed
> >>> of my supply, but says I have to run a Windows CD
> >>> to setup the modem he has given me.
> >>
> >> ?? What kind of modem? Linux handles almost everything. Certainly, I
> >> didn't need to install WinDoze to work with the DSL modem I got from
> >> Verizon.
> >
> > The modem is a ZyXEL P-660HW-T1 WiFi modem/router (made in China).
> > It works fine, but my speed is not 3 times what it was before!
> > My ISP (Eircom) claims I have to run the configuration utility
> > on the Windows CD to get "up to speed".
> > I doubt if this is true, but I guess I ought to try it.
> 
> It is *not* true. The only thing that I can imagine that software doing is
> setting it up for Windows, and Windows only.
> 
> Right, I just looked it up, and I see it's an ADSL modem. Look at your IP
> address, and I'll bet you're 192.168.0.x, or 192.168.1.x. Whatever it is,
> try pinging 192.168.[0 or 1].1. Whichever it is, pull up your browser, and
> point it to that IP, and you should be at the modem's web interface, and
> you can go from there.
> 
>          mark
Or 192.168.1.254
B.J.

CentOS 5.6, Linux 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5