[wplug] Serious ADSL help?

harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu
Thu Mar 29 14:48:36 EST 2001


On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Doug Green wrote:

> Hey-
> I'm stuck emailing from my work machine, because my home confuzer crashed and 
> burned. If anyone <ANYONE> can help I would really appreciate it! 
> 
> Although I'm on the email list, please respond to me directly at 
> green at np.awing.upmc.edu.This is what's happening:
> 
> Starting a few months ago, my computer progressively became more and more 
> unresponsive for unknown reasons. I backed up all my important information 
> and wiped the system clean (both partitions of a dual boot Win98/Mandrake 7.2 
> setup). 
> 
> Upon reinstall, my pppoe will NOT work under linux. I have tried both the 
> pppoe configuration from within Mandrake 7.2 AND the roaring penguin solution 
> (configured by hand). Neither will work. Issuing "/usr/sbin/adsl-connect" 
> will attempt to connect for about 2 minutes before it times out. The command 
> "find / eth0" reports NO files with eth0, but I have configured and 
> re-configured this over and over again. 

when you run adsl-connect, does anything show up in /var/log/messages? you
can run tail -f /var/log/messages in one terminal while running the
connect in another. also i believe there is a way to connect with a
verbose switch to show you what it is doing. 

when i first got dsl i tried to start it and it was doing alot of disk
access. it turned out that i forgot to install the module for my nic and i
saw the errors in /var/log/messages where it was trying to load a
nonexsistant module.

i can help you out with it this weekend if you need.

--
john




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