> >>
> >> Hello people,
> >>
> >> I have been having some difficulties getting my usb modem to work in
> >> linux. Of course my first is stupidity in not insisting that my ISP send
> >> me an ethernet one. But now I've got it I want to try and get it going.
> >>
> >> I've got it to the stage where the usb drivers are working but I.m
> >> having
> >> difficulty getting the pppoe side of things to work. Has anyone on the
> >> list done this before? Would you be able to guide me though the process
> >> of
> >> getting the adsl connection up and running.
> >>
> >> Shelagh
> >>
> >>
> > Hi Shelagh,
> > I have this running reliably over AOL server. There there was
> > an issue which needed the 'penggy' code to establish the connection.
> > Perhaps you should give a little more info about your connection, and
> > current problem. E.g.: How do you know the driver is working?
> > USB DSL modems get a bad press, but mine seems stable now it is
> > working
> > Bill
> >
> I worked through the eciadsl driver routine and sent all my details eg
> output from route -n and the various logs, etc that they asked for and
> they said that once the driver had synchronysed and was waiting for tap0
> then tap0 was up then it was over to the pppoe stuff. I have the latest
> pppd and rp-pppoe as they suggested. Of course I do, this is fedora we're
> talking about right! But I feel that I'm missing some really basic step.
> This networking caper is about the hardest thing I've found to understand
> ever.
> I've looked though the troubleshooting section of rp-pppoe documentation
> and can't really see where I'm going wrong.
>
> The message I get after starting adsl-start is
>
> /sbin/adsl-start: line 218: 2996 terminated $CONNECT "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> I looked at line 218 in the script hoping it might give me a clue, but
> scripting is stiil an archane art as far as I'm concerned.
> I tried DEBUG=1 adsl-start to see if I might be able to trace a problem
> but it tells me to use adsl-start not adsl-connect. So something seems
> wrong there.
>
> Hope this helps you.
>
> I'm quite prepared to recompile what I have to, if you think its necessary.
>
> Shelagh
>
>
Hi Shelagh,
I found your conversation with FlashTux via google. Looks a lot like
mine.
I think you got to 'timed-out connection' in the adsl-start
script. I had this too. But /var/log/messages had lines like:
Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Do you have anything there?
Bill
