Wim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Which version do you use?
> I had some problems on RH7.1... I downloaded the latest version of
> rp-pppoe from roaring penguin and atfer the installation, everything
> woked fine!
> Do you have a default gateway towards ppp0?
>
> Success!
>
> Wim
>
> 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)
>>
>
>
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The problem is the card. I have 6 of those requiring the de4x5 driver
and five of them don't work correctly in 8.1. There were about 80 field
engineering mods on this chipset/card and the driver simply doesn't
cover them all. So invest 9.95 to get a cheap implementation of an
rtl8139 and you will work fine.
Civileme
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