[Fedora-xen] No adsl in dom0 - Fedora 7

[Ronald Warsow]

Arik Raffael Funke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having problems establishing an adsl connection in dom0 (but ONLY 
> in dom0, without xen everything is ok). Following is my setup/situation:
> 
> 1. Installed clean Fedora 7 (with virtualization option selected)
> 2. Booted with the non-xen kernel & setup adsl. Adsl connection works 
> without any problems.
> 3. Rebooted with xen kernel into dom0.
> 4. adsl connection can no longer be activated
> 
> These are literally ALL the steps I took with the system. Thus, it is as 
> "out of the box" as it can get.
> 
> 
> When trying to activate the adsl-connection in the (fedora?) gnome 
> network configuration utility with the "activate" button I get (after 
> about 1-2 minutes):
> 
> Cannot activate network device dslModem!
> 
> and in the textbox in the error message window it says:
> 
> /usr/sbin/adsl-start: line 215:  3470 Terminated              $CONNECT 
> "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> 
> In /var/messages it says:
> 
> Jul 17 00:08:21 gaia pppd[3494]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
> Jul 17 00:08:21 gaia pppd[3494]: Using interface ppp0
> Jul 17 00:08:21 gaia pppd[3494]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
> Jul 17 00:08:52 gaia pppd[3494]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> Jul 17 00:08:52 gaia pppd[3494]: Connection terminated.
> Jul 17 00:08:52 gaia pppd[3494]: Modem hangup
> Jul 17 00:08:56 gaia pppoe[3495]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
> Jul 17 00:08:56 gaia pppd[3494]: Exit.
> Jul 17 00:08:56 gaia pppoe-connect: PPPoE connection lost; attempting 
> re-connection.
> Jul 17 00:09:01 gaia pppd[3569]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
> Jul 17 00:09:01 gaia pppd[3569]: Using interface ppp0
> Jul 17 00:09:01 gaia pppd[3569]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
> Jul 17 00:09:32 gaia pppd[3569]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> Jul 17 00:09:32 gaia pppd[3569]: Connection terminated.
> Jul 17 00:09:32 gaia pppd[3569]: Modem hangup
> Jul 17 00:09:36 gaia pppoe[3570]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
> Jul 17 00:09:36 gaia pppd[3569]: Exit.
> 
> 
> Can anybody tell me why adsl does not work in the fedora 7 dom0? It used 
> to work just fine with fedora 6. How do I get it to work?

did you try on the command line:

pppoe -I eth0 -A

to test, if you can see your Access Concentrator ?

(assuming your network device is eth0 *and* up)


there are some more options for pppoe (currently not installed on my 
box) to investigate more.

> 
> 
> I have however remarked another detail that I believe might be linked to 
> (or the cause of?) my problem.
> 
> In dom0 when trying to bring up my adsl connection I get the following 
> line before the first error occurs:
> 
> Jul 17 00:08:21 gaia pppd[3494]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
> 
> This line puzzles me because in four years I have never seen 
> "/dev/pts/1" used to connect to my adsl modem. It was ALWAYS 
> "/dev/pts/0"! Of course this might a perfectly appropriate renaming of 
> devices as happens a lot with xen but...
> 
> Can anybody shed any light on this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Arik
> 
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      Ronald