On 9/9/2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Here are my notes on ADSL installation:"
I had no trouble installing BellSouth's ADSL myself last May with the internal modem,
which
of course was under Windows (NT 4). But that was with 17 years of DOS experience, and
this
is with a month of Linux.
When I was trying to work with Johan Verrept's HOWTO, I called BellSouth to ask
whether they
use PPPoA or PPPoE. They told me PPPoA, but if PPPoE is working for you, maybe that's
what
they should have told me. However, I have no ethernet card, never having networked my
two
computers, and that seems to be a problem at configuration time.
If I'm to use PPPoA, it means I have to patch the kernel. The only one I can find is
kernel-2.4.2-2.src.rpm. I thought I had found linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2 at one time, but
have not
been able to find it again.
But going on the assumption that PPPoE will work for me, I got to the point in the
patching
procedure where it says "Test the pppoatm-1 patch: patch -p1 -s -E --dry-run <
/path/to/pppoatm-1
"If this command produces any output then something is wrong with your 2.4.2 kernel
source
tree. Please fix it before continuing.
The output I got was:
|diff -urN linux-2.4.1-pre7/Documentation/configuration.help
linux-2.4.1-pre7/pppoatm-1/Documentation/configuration.help
--- linux-2.4.1-pre7/Documentation/configure.help
+++ linux-2.4.1-pre7-pppoatm-1/Documentation/configuration.help
The 2.4.1-pre7 stuff worries me; with 7.1, I should have 2.4.2-2.
No ETH, of course, comes up on chkconfig. Also I can't find pppoe.conf-adsl.pid.name
or
tkpppoe.
If I weren't so new to Linux, perhaps I wouldn't have so many questions. I was tempted
to
buy W2k at one point (my NT4 won't install anymore) but I really hate to give any more
money
to that arrogant, untruthful company!
Incidentally, BellSouth told me $115 was the price of the Alcatel modem and didn't
mention
mandatory installation. I know they don't support Linux, but at least they support NT4
and
W2K--most of the dial-up people there won't even talk to me if I say NT.
I appreciate the long narrative from you, and am sorry I couldn't complete the job
with
that.
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