Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare!

2004-08-28 Thread Hugo Silva
Hi, Today I went to a friend's house to install FreeBSD on his workstation, trying to make him change to open source software. I am a cable user and he has ADSL. I had never configured ADSL on FreeBSD, nor USB connections to the net. So I did some pre-reading on the handbook and some tutorials..

Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare!

2004-08-28 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >So I enabled pap&chap, and expecting an established connection to the >net.. this is what I get: >Aug 28 19:54:51 kittenizer ppp[627]: tun0: Phase: deflink: Too many LCP >REQs sent - abandoning negotiation Hello, Because you didn't include configs, logs, etc., I'm going to guess t

Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare!

2004-08-29 Thread David Gerard
Hugo Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040829 08:53]: > Today I went to a friend's house to install FreeBSD on his workstation, > trying to make him change to open source software. I am a cable user and > he has ADSL. I had never configured ADSL on FreeBSD, nor USB connections > to the net. So I did some

Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare!

2004-08-29 Thread Hugo Silva
Yes, tell me about the instructions that don't work. I could only get a response from the PPPoE server 7 hours later.. just to get stuck on: Too many LCP requests sent - abandoning negotiation. It would be nice if some PPP guru could explain what that error means (apart from too many LCP requests

Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare!

2004-08-29 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >It would be nice if some PPP guru could explain what that error means >(apart from too many LCP requests have been sent, and the driver is >abandoning the negotiation) Hello, I must correct my earlier post. Your having both pap and chap enabled may not be why your connection atte