I just emerged rp-pppoe, but i can't get it running. After adsl-setup, running 'adsl-start' just hangs (tries to connect but tons of dots appear).
When i run 'adsl-setup' and 'adsl-start' from the gentoo LiveCD, everything works fine, but not if i boot from my installed gentoo system, so my best guess is that my kernel config is wrong somewhere.
I was even clever enough to emerge rp-pppoe (and ppp as a dependency) using the --fetchonly option, because i saw some configure script checking kernel stuff like 'ppp-over-ethernet kernel support'. Installing rp-pppoe while running the gentoo LiveCD kernel is probably not a good idea, so i compiled both packages after rebooting with my installed gentoo-kernel. Of course i've enabled 'packet sockets' and 'ppp over ethernet' in my kernel configuration.
Any ideas ?
Some further words:
After browsing thru' several online & offline docs, i still have no idea what I exactly need to do. Some documents are real crap. Let me introduce an example:
/usr/share/doc/ppp-2.4.1-r14/html/pppoe.html
It says:
Make sure to enable PPP over Ethernet in the kernel configuration, as
well as as the "Packet Socket" option. You must also enable support
for experimental drivers.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*LOL*, good one. The kernel configuration contains a ZILLION 'experimental' drivers and/or options. How shall i know what these guys mean ?
And further:
Include the following line in your ppp options file:
plugin pppoe
Let's assume that they mean the file named /etc/ppp/options. That file doesn't contain the mentioned option; I thought that after emerging the packages, all that should be configured well, so i decided not to screw up my whole system configuration only due to several poorly written docs - like that one.
Another unanswered question: adsl-setup asks for something like a 'firewall mode' (0-2). If i want to install a firewall later, shall i enter '0' (no firewall) at adsl-setup and later install a firewall manually, e.g. shorewall ? Would my custom firewall (whatever I finally use) conflict with the so-called 'firewall' that adsl-setup wants to setup ?
So many riddles.
Meanwhile, I'll better keep my SuSE router alive, until I find a comprehensive pppoe guide that eventually ends with a successful pppoe setup for a gentoo box. The SuSE pppoe guide is so good that even my grandmother couldn't ever fail to install pppoe on a SuSE box. I'm a gentoo user since about 4 weeks, i've already installed a full-blown gnome box with tons of stuff, and a second box with server stuff like apache, php etc etc, but this time I'm really getting frustrated... such a simple thing like 'connecting to the internet' appears to be a science..
Please - sorry for the unbelievably long mail and the hard words, just frustration. Currently I'd swap a kingdom for a good guide..
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