hi again, i am using the mdk 8.1 power pack edition. all software versions are according to whats on the CD. (no internet to get any updates...yet)
the ADSL-howto mentions that now most ISP's have changed to the pppoe
protocol in favour of Dhcp. the howto also mentiones that after the link
comes up, ifconfig should also show me the ppp0 interface.
after I configured the ADSL with dhcp and could ping *only* the DNS
servers, ifconfig still only show eth0 and lo, no ppp0
is it possible that the link uses pppoe and I'm forcing dhcp....?
is it because dhcp is used the ppp i-f does not come up?
maybe i'm using the wrong protocol to connect .... ?
anyway, with dhcp configured, my routing table looks like:
---
10.23.64.0 * 255.255.192.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 10.23.64.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
---
ifconfig shows a configured ip of 10.23.125.218
later today I will try to confure th PC again, maybe this time I'll try
using another pppoe client.
pinging the DNS servers works, but no luck with any other ip on the
internet, should i also be thinking of reverse lookups or something on
the same lines. (maybe theres no route back to the PC)
excuse the ignorance (like i mentioned.... my first attempt)
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 23:21, Ashley Moore wrote:
> hi,
>
> i've been trying to get Mdk 8.1 to connect to the internet via ADSL for
> the last 2 days on a friends computer with no luck.
>
> i installed Mdk 8.1 from the Powerpack boxed set on an old AMD-233 with
> 64 MB RAM and 2Gb Hdd. the telco (TELUS in BC,canada) installed the line
> and modem before he had the computer up. (this is happening at an office
> in a garment store!!. he plans to host his own web site in a while, this
> PC will eventually function as a firewall).
>
> The ADSL modem is a D-Link DSL300i. the only ethernet device is a
> "DECchip 21041 {Tulip pass 3]"
> I finally managed to get X working on the "SiS 63xx PCI VGA" with just 2
> Mb (640x480 limit) on the card KDE is a real drag. with icewm I could
> get to the mandrake control center and to launch the wizard to configure
> the ADSL link. but the wizard failed to bring up the link.
> I used rp-pppoe as the protocol. I went thru the ADSL-HOWTO and also
> check out the rp-pppoe docs. (and followed them to the letter)
> /var/log/messages show the foll:
>
> ....Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/5
> ....Timecout waiting for PADO packets
> ....LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
>
> the value /dev/pts/5 changes to 6 and the same errors repeat will pppd
> dies and eventually pppoe.
>
> i also tried with 'dhcpcd' protocol. this time the link seems to come up
> with an valid ip assigned to it. 'ifconfig' shows a valid
> ip/broadcast/sunet mask, even Linuxconf shows automatically obtained
> DNS1 & 2 ip addresses. but I cannot ping any address except my own and
> the DNS servers.
>
> this is my first attempt at ADSL. what / where did i miss something ?
> any pointers ? ideas ?
>
> I need to get this done ASAP so I can convince him to go in for a linux
> solution (he is currently biased towards a mac, of which i have'nt a
> clue)
> --
> Ashley Moore.
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