On 21 August 2011 19:51, Camaleón
<noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:11:19 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> On 20 August 2011 05:56, Camaleón <
noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wait... what are those "pppx" connections? Where are they coming from?
>> Are you using another device to get connected on Internet?
>>
>>
> The only other device I've used is the borrowed XP laptop I used to set
> up the modem in the first place. That was a wireless connection, even
> though I plugged the cable in. I was just so glad to get a connection, I
> let it go. Perhaps it's a hangover from that?
router but that does not explain what are pppd connections doing in your
linux box :-)
(ppp are a different method to get a connection over Internet, nowadays
mostly used for dial-up modems or USB DSL modems but I'm afraid that's
not your case...)
Will check out /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-providers. Sounds like I might have screwed something up in there.
>> Can you explain how did you connect your windows computer to Internet?
>> What steps did you follow? Maybe this way we can understand what is
>> going on...
>>
>>
> That's all there was.
> Just the one machine, with a wireless config to set up the WAN, but with
> the ethernet cable plugged in.
> Possibly, with windows typical interference, it's configured the modem
> with his account details and I'm getting free access? The pressure
> builds. I've got to sort this out!
It is still not clear what steps did you follow to get your XP laptop
connected to the router :-?
Just the ethernet cable, that's all. The pop-up for the quick connect just appeared on the screen. I didn't have to go looking for anything. Different laptop, mainboard.
> I took a look at dmesg to see what that could tell me about what was
> going on.
> First in the sequence I got this:
>
> [ 2.129507] tg3 0000:02:0e.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95705A50) rev
> 3003] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) MAC address 00:15:60:c2:63:46
> [ 2.142802] tg3 0000:02:0e.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5705
> (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[0])
That's the normal log for a network card.
> Which seems to suggest that the non-free Tygon firmware is involved. I
> thought that was just for hard drives. Further down in the sequence I
> get this:
>
> [ 252.853480] tg3 0000:02:0e.0: eth0: Failed to load firmware
> "tigon/tg3_tso5.bin"
(...)
The network card requires a firmware, you should download from non-free
repos. Additional information here:
http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware
Further along in the sequence, eth0 and the firmware seem to connect up, so I don't think there's a problem there.
> And at last we arrive at this - and if it applies, I would have no idea.
> I just wish they'd write this stuff in English.
(...)
That looks like the firewall log, nothing wrong nor nothing you should
worry about :-)
O.K., thanks. So good to have constructive mentalities to talk to. Maybe I'll be able to help you one day.
As you were saying, with eth0 and a cable, there's nothing much that can go wrong, so with the disconnects, it looks like the problem is before that.
Regards,
Weaver.