Fallen Tech Blog

I found a bastardized ADSL modem yesterday (see post Multiple IP addresses, single network adapter for more information).

It was supplied with Optus ADSL Internet access here in Australia. The owner was looking at going to a different service provider for their ADSL, so I wanted to reconfigure it.

The product itself is manufactured by D-Link, and has the model name DSL-302G (Generation II). Going to the web administration page however quickly reveals something really nasty.

The modem is branded with Optus, and only allows you to set username/password and activate/deactivate NAT. If that wasn't bad enough, the NAT is specifically for 10.1.1.3 to 10.1.1.32 only. No where does it allow you to configure the specifics for connecting to another ISP.

I was naturally disgusted by this, and decided to flash it with the latest D-Link firmware.

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I recently installed Slackware 10.2 on my Acer Extensa 368T laptop. The installation went fairly smoothly except that I noticed the HOME key produced a ~ while in a shell.

I had an idea that this was just a miss-mapped key so I started looking around. While many people had posted solutions, for MY situation, they didn't work.

Most of the solutions stated that you should ensure that the line:

"\e[1~": beginning-of-line

Appeared in my /etc/inputrc or .inputrc. This was already the case so I was somewhat confused.

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