Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Robert Shade wrote: I am having trouble making the pppoe connection at install time. it goes into hard lock as soon as i press ok... i have tried with both ethernet and adsl enabled as well as just adsl. Yeah I had this happen with my PowerBook. (Stew: Could this possibly turn out to be a laptop specific problem? All: Anyone else using a pppoe connection with a laptop?) What I did is just skipped it and set it up when I booted. I suspect it's an issue with the usb probing. Hopefully RC1 will behave better, if you were able to do it in the running system. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
Thanks for the reply... I have another problem... the bootloader, won't load. i put setenv boot-device hd:11,\\:tbxi into the openfirmware. on reboot, it shows a question mark while looking for a bootdrive then loads os x... the bootstrap partition is there. thanks for the help. On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Robert Shade wrote: I am having trouble making the pppoe connection at install time. it goes into hard lock as soon as i press ok... i have tried with both ethernet and adsl enabled as well as just adsl. Yeah I had this happen with my PowerBook. (Stew: Could this possibly turn out to be a laptop specific problem? All: Anyone else using a pppoe connection with a laptop?) What I did is just skipped it and set it up when I booted. i am also unsure which usb driver to choose. i am on a ibook 2001 Quoting Stew from an earlier email: Shouldn't need to select anything - usb is built in. If the installer forces you to, pick keybdev rob
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
answering my own question... i think the problem was i had 8MB of free space between the bootstrap and root mount loaded and it works but, the adsl is not my modem connects through the ethernet port of the ibook via PPPoE. going through drakconnect, i use the wizard, and select only adsl (is this right?) and put in my details... the same one's that work fine in OS X. it tries to connect, after 15seconds or so fails. it sends some data upstream and i can see it on the net monitor as well as the data led on the modem. (which had remained silent until then) any idea's? what should i be checking? and what about the question does the network need to be restarted? can this make a difference? thanks for your patience, not exactly a guru here. On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 08:19 PM, entropy wrote: Thanks for the reply... I have another problem... the bootloader, won't load. i put setenv boot-device hd:11,\\:tbxi into the openfirmware. on reboot, it shows a question mark while looking for a bootdrive then loads os x... the bootstrap partition is there. thanks for the help. On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Robert Shade wrote: I am having trouble making the pppoe connection at install time. it goes into hard lock as soon as i press ok... i have tried with both ethernet and adsl enabled as well as just adsl. Yeah I had this happen with my PowerBook. (Stew: Could this possibly turn out to be a laptop specific problem? All: Anyone else using a pppoe connection with a laptop?) What I did is just skipped it and set it up when I booted. i am also unsure which usb driver to choose. i am on a ibook 2001 Quoting Stew from an earlier email: Shouldn't need to select anything - usb is built in. If the installer forces you to, pick keybdev rob
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
going through drakconnect, i use the wizard, and select only adsl (is this right?) and put in my details... the same one's that work fine in OS X. it tries to connect, after 15seconds or so fails. it sends some data upstream and i can see it on the net monitor as well as the data led on the modem. (which had remained silent until then) any idea's? what should i be checking? and what about the question does the network need to be restarted? can this make a difference? Sorry, forgot one problem I had when I set it up the first time. The PPPD value in /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf was set to NOTFOUND. Edit that file as root and change it to /usr/sbin/pppd. The problem is that rpppoe is dialing your connection (thus the lights), but the thing that actually makes it a network interface (pppd) is not starting. rob
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
does the network need to be restarted? can this make a difference? Yes it does. If it ever asks you to do this (unless you actually have a good connection and are downloading something) do it. There are some network configuration changes that can only be applied by restarting the network. rob
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, entropy wrote: answering my own question... i think the problem was i had 8MB of free space between the bootstrap and root mount loaded and it works but, the adsl is not Shouldn't have mattered as long as all the partition numbers were referenced correctly. Glad you got it going though. my modem connects through the ethernet port of the ibook via PPPoE. going through drakconnect, i use the wizard, and select only adsl (is this right?) and put in my details... the same one's that work fine in Depends on your provider. Mine is ADSL, but I use a router to the modem, not direct via USB (don't even think there's a USB port on my new one) OS X. it tries to connect, after 15seconds or so fails. it sends some data upstream and i can see it on the net monitor as well as the data led on the modem. (which had remained silent until then) any idea's? what should i be checking? and what about the question does the network need to be restarted? can this make a difference? thanks for your patience, not exactly a guru here. Any ideas anyone? I'm not setup to be able to try and duplicate this. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
Citeren entropy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the reply... I have another problem... the bootloader, won't load. i put setenv boot-device hd:11,\\:tbxi into the openfirmware. on reboot, it shows a question mark while looking for a bootdrive then loads os x... the bootstrap partition is there. thanks for the help. Same problem for me. In the bootloader dialog in the installer I selected 'Done' and the dialog went away, should I have selected 'OK' instead? I also tried setenv boot-devive /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:10,\\:txbi which resulted in the same. Did you try boot hd:11,\\:txbi in open firmware? When I did it it said can't OPEN hd:11,\\:txbi So is this the result of selecting 'Done' in stead of 'OK'? Thanks, Sander -- _ Zon Breedband Family, 2 keer zo snel als alle andere ADSL aanbieders. Voor maar 34 euro per maand. Bestel nu op www.zonnet.nl/breedband Tijdelijk gratis modem en geen aansluitkosten!
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:21 am, entropy wrote: i'm not sure i have the line you're talking about in my conf file i defintetly don't have anything that says NOTFOUND there are a couple of lines near the end that are for pppd extra arguments and pppoe extra arguments, but i don't think that was what you were referring to. should i add it myself? is it something like pppd=/usr/sbin/pppd ? Hmm.. looking at my config it's not there anymore either. I switch network configurations alot, so it must have been taken out by the config tools (and not really needed). Try this as root: adsl-stop adsl-connect Post the output of adsl-connect. It shows a fairly verbose log of what it is trying to do. It might not release the terminal when it's done (I know it doesn't when it actually connects) so you might have to do a ctl-c to get out of it. rob
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
i didn't even get to see that menu when installing (the install that worked, that is) though stew just said it shouldn't matter, i'll pass along, what i changed, and what worked. i had a space of about 8mb between the bootstrap and my root. removing that space, so it was sequential made everything automatic, and flawless. it probably doesn't make a difference, but worth a shot, i guess entropy On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 12:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Citeren entropy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the reply... I have another problem... the bootloader, won't load. i put setenv boot-device hd:11,\\:tbxi into the openfirmware. on reboot, it shows a question mark while looking for a bootdrive then loads os x... the bootstrap partition is there. thanks for the help. Same problem for me. In the bootloader dialog in the installer I selected 'Done' and the dialog went away, should I have selected 'OK' instead? I also tried setenv boot-devive /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:10,\\:txbi which resulted in the same. Did you try boot hd:11,\\:txbi in open firmware? When I did it it said can't OPEN hd:11,\\:txbi So is this the result of selecting 'Done' in stead of 'OK'? Thanks, Sander -- _ Zon Breedband Family, 2 keer zo snel als alle andere ADSL aanbieders. Voor maar 34 euro per maand. Bestel nu op www.zonnet.nl/breedband Tijdelijk gratis modem en geen aansluitkosten!
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
i get a repeating execvp: no such file or directory tried to find out more, but the log only seemed to say the adsl connection timed out... so much for being verbose. On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 11:33 PM, Robert Shade wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:21 am, entropy wrote: i'm not sure i have the line you're talking about in my conf file i defintetly don't have anything that says NOTFOUND there are a couple of lines near the end that are for pppd extra arguments and pppoe extra arguments, but i don't think that was what you were referring to. should i add it myself? is it something like pppd=/usr/sbin/pppd ? Hmm.. looking at my config it's not there anymore either. I switch network configurations alot, so it must have been taken out by the config tools (and not really needed). Try this as root: adsl-stop adsl-connect Post the output of adsl-connect. It shows a fairly verbose log of what it is trying to do. It might not release the terminal when it's done (I know it doesn't when it actually connects) so you might have to do a ctl-c to get out of it. rob
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:58 am, entropy wrote: i get a repeating execvp: no such file or directory Yeah that's what I got when the PPPD entry was wrong. Are you sure that there is no PPPD= line in /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf? If there isn't then you could try putting one in there, or wait for RC1. I had a lot of problems with the drak* tools that came with beta 2. rob
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
i just dumred pppd=/usr/sbin/pppd into the pppoe.conf and everything is sweet! i was wondering, should i be doing to the kernal? i want hfsplus support, and i'm a little confused about what exactly is going on there. all the references i checked in google are really old. the binary of hfs+ util is 9 months old. is the cvs reasonably stable? the real question how do other people deal with hfs-plus? oh, and which kernal do you reconmend? On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 12:09 AM, Robert Shade wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:58 am, entropy wrote: i get a repeating execvp: no such file or directory Yeah that's what I got when the PPPD entry was wrong. Are you sure that there is no PPPD= line in /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf? If there isn't then you could try putting one in there, or wait for RC1. I had a lot of problems with the drak* tools that came with beta 2. rob
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
i just dumred pppd=/usr/sbin/pppd into the pppoe.conf and everything is sweet! Great! i was wondering, should i be doing to the kernal? i want hfsplus support, and i'm a little confused about what exactly is going on there. all the references i checked in google are really old. the binary of hfs+ util is 9 months old. is the cvs reasonably stable? the real question how do other people deal with hfs-plus? HFS+ support is still in the early stages. The hfsplusutils package will give you basic read-only access to copy files from HFS+ to a mounted filesystem. The downside to them is you can't actually mount the HFS+ partition. You have to deal with some strage command line utilities. The only way I know of actually mounting a HFS+ partition is a project on sourceforge (i forget the link). It's an actual kernel module that allows you to mount HFS+ partitions read only. Coincidentally, last night I made a build (rpm) of the benh kernel with the patch (they don't have binaries) from the project. I was using it briefly this morning and it seemed to work ok, except for a few problems playing mp3s. oh, and which kernal do you reconmend? I personally use the benh because I have hardware that is only supported with that kernel. rob
Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2
I am having trouble making the pppoe connection at install time. it goes into hard lock as soon as i press ok... i have tried with both ethernet and adsl enabled as well as just adsl. Yeah I had this happen with my PowerBook. (Stew: Could this possibly turn out to be a laptop specific problem? All: Anyone else using a pppoe connection with a laptop?) What I did is just skipped it and set it up when I booted. i am also unsure which usb driver to choose. i am on a ibook 2001 Quoting Stew from an earlier email: Shouldn't need to select anything - usb is built in. If the installer forces you to, pick keybdev rob
