rp-pppoe with usb modem

[Shelagh]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:37:50 +0100, William John Murray  
<w.murray at rl.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:08:03 +1000
>> From: Shelagh <oneida at tpg.com.au>
>> Subject: rp-pppoe with usb modems.
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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>> 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



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