Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?
Hello Brian,
Brian P. Flaherty wrote:
Stefan Ruecker <s.ruecker@gmx.de> writes:
Hi,
I've an ADSL(PPPoE) connection but unfortunatly I am not able to setup
woody in a manner that this connection works. Here is a small extract
from my syslog maybe a more expirienced one can help me out:
Hello,
By checking on www.google.com, and then checking in my
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt, I found this:
108 char Device independent PPP interface
0 = /dev/ppp Device independent PPP interface
so it is the module for ppp. But, do you have ppp built into the
kernel? If so, I think you can disregard this error. I get the same
message and my DSL works fine. I built the kernel with ppp, so I know
the module is unnecessary.
I think the module Problem is resolved. There was a fault in my
/etc/modutils/ppp and /etc/modutils/aliases. There was the module
ppp_generic registered as char-major-108 but I've only a module called
ppp after changing the name into ppp the message didn't appear anymore.
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108
pppd[2429]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
pppd[2429]: Serial connection established.
pppd[2429]: Using interface ppp0
pppd[2429]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
pppoe[2430]: PADS: Service-Name: ''
pppoe[2430]: PPP session is 65108
pppoe[2430]: Session terminated -- received PADT from peer
I get all the same lines, except the last, when I boot. Have you been
able to successfully connect on other machines and/or other OS's? For
example, before I started just using ppp with Debian, I was using the
roaring penguin pppoe package and that has a pppoe config script that
writes the conf file for you (/etc/ppp/pppoe.conf on my machine).
Once I ran it and gave it the right answers, it worked like a charm.
Then working from that file and other ppp example files, I was able to
get ppp to start the connection at boot time.
I tried my DSL connection with w2k (I hope when debian works fine I can
get rid of w2k). It just
worked fine. I used on w2k a driver called raspppoe 0.96 by Christian
Schlabbach. Therefore I assume
that a connection to my provider should work with debian (if I would
have to use a proprietary driver I'd
have expected that it would'nt work under any linux.) I also used the
pppoeconfig script but with the result
you've seen above.
The next messages I get with respect to ppp are a message about
invalid pass-filter and then my session's IP addresses. You aren't
getting to the IP assignment, so could your authentication be failing?
I also reentered my account informations to exclude any misswriting I
could've done before.
The rest of the setup process is a black-box to me, but there are
several things in my pppoe.conf that could be changed. Perhaps you
could examine yours and play with some of the options?
The PADT packet simply means that the session has been terminated. I
found this in RFC2516 [A Method for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet
(PPPoE)] at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2516.html.
Good luck.
Brian
As I type in pppoe -A pppoe finds an access concentrator. Finally I
don't know what to do anymore.
Maybe there is an option to set verbose mode on for those network stuff
to get the reason why the PADT
is sent by peer.
by,
Stefan
P.S. sorry for replying to your e-mail adress and not to the list.
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