[wplug] ADSL (Verizon) newbie cannot connect

[Henry Umansky]

I'm not sure about setting up Verizon, but changing the speed and duplex of 
a card can be done with mii-tool or if you don't have an mii-aware NIC 
card, you can use ethtool.

-Henry

--On Monday, November 17, 2003 11:32 AM -0500 Hagbard Celine 
<hceline at softhome.net> wrote:r

> Hi folks,
>
> I was notified this morning that my brand-new Verizon ADSL was ready to
> go.
>
> Yay!
>
> I even spoke with a tech who nicely provided me with a username and
> password.
>
> Yay!
>
> I built and configured rp-pppoe-3.5, ppp-2.4.1, and iptables-1.2.7a.
>
> Yay?
>
> Typed 'adsl-start', it polled the device a few times, then timed out.
>
> Boooooooooooooooooooo!
>
> So here it is:
>
> The Verizon-supplied Westell WireSpeed ADSL modem is talking to a
> Linksys LNE100TX NIC (tulip driver) on eth2.  At boot, the card is
> brought UP, but given no IP address, etc.  eth0 and eth1 have Linksys
> LNE100TX cards, used for internal routing.  All three cards are
> autodetected.
>
> Kernel 2.4.22
> Glibc-2.3.2
> rp-pppoe-3.5, configured through the supplied 'adsl-setup'. (I supply my
> own firewalling and DNS) ppp-2.4.1
> iptables-1.2.7a
>
> The 'Ethernet' light on the modem is steadily on, so I take it that it
> knows that the NIC is there?
>
> I have seen mention that I might have to force the NIC to 10Mb,
> half-duplex, but I'm not sure how to do that, and especially how to do
> that ONLY on eth2.
>
> Oh, yes...  I don't run ANY distribution; I homebrew.
>
> Any assistance from you long-suffering Verizon
> victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Many much thanks,
> Hagbard
>
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Henry Umansky
University of Pittsburgh
Computing Services and Systems Development
hmust2 [at] pitt [dot] edu
(412) 624 -4357