[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed the pppoe 2.8 debian package and configured it with adsl-setup. > I can connect to my ISP with adsl-start. > Now I want to have the connection starting at boot time. There are two ways: > > 1. I put the following script in /etc/init.d > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/sbin/adsl-start > > and made a symlink to it in /etc/rc2.d. The script is executable. But the > connection isn't startet at boot time. Is the script wrong? Or is it the wrong > runlevel? Did I miss something else?
I guess the first thing to do would be to make pppd print some debug information by using the 'debug' option in the appropriate /etc/ppp/options file. Then look at /var/log/ppp.log. At least that should give you a clue of whether it's really running. > > 2. I could rename /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot and edit. > But I can't even connect with pon. I did everything I'm supposed to do to > make it work (what /usr/doc/pppoe/README.Debian says). pon does not complain > about anything, it just quietly returns, but there's no connection. Maybe > adsl-setup changed something I don't know. > My best recollection is that pon does nothing useful after adsl-setup; that you have to run adsl-start to make good things actually happen.