I have notebook with default installation of Fedora 4 and braodband via
USB Thomson Speedtouch 330 modem. I did everything as I was told by
this site <a href="http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/fedora/">www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/fedora/</a>. I downloaded firmware, put this line into /etc/ppp/chap-secrets<br><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
'username@isp' * 'password'</span><br><br>and created file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0<br><br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">PEERDNS=yes </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">TYPE=xDSL </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">DEVICE=ppp0 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">BOOTPROTO=dialup </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">PIDFILE=/var/run/pppoa-adsl.pid </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">LCP_FAILURE=86400 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">LCP_INTERVAL=1 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">CONNECT_POLL=6 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">CONNECT_TIMEOUT=604800 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">SYNCHRONOUS=no </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">DEFROUTE=yes </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">USER='username@isp' </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">VPI=0 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">VCI=38 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">LINUX_PLUGIN=pppoatm.so </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">DEMAND=yes</span><br><br><br><br>I JUST REBOOTED AND EVERYTHING WORKED JUST FINE!<br><br>But
now I have two more computers at home and they need internet as well. I
bought cheap P2 350 for router, installed the same FC4 from the same
CDs. Did all the same steps as I did with my notebook. But I have not
the same results.<br><br>On boot time during ppp0 initialization I get message<br><br>
<span style="font-style: italic;">does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> [<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">FAILED</span>]</span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">
<br><br><br>And there is all relevant output in /var/log/messages I have<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 16:43:33 octopus kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 16:43:33 octopus kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 16:43:33 octopus kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 16:43:34 octopus kernel: usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 16:43:34 octopus kernel: usbcore: registered new driver speedtch </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 16:43:34 octopus kernel: speedtch 1-1:1.0: found stage 1 firmware speedtch-1.bin </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 16:43:34 octopus kernel: speedtch 1-1:1.0: found stage 2 firmware speedtch-2.bin </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 16:43:34 octopus kernel: ATM dev 0: ADSL line is synchronising </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 16:43:35 octopus kernel: ATM dev 0: ADSL line is up (2272 kb/s down | 288 kb/s up)</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br><br><br>While on my notebook, which works just fine, I get much more output on /var/log/messages:
<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:09 pasaka pppd[2006]: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded. </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:09 pasaka pppd[2006]: PPPoATM plugin_init </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:09 pasaka pppd[2006]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:0.38 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:09 pasaka pppd[2006]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:09 pasaka pppd[2006]: Using interface ppp0 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:09 pasaka pppd[2006]: local IP address <a href="http://10.112.112.112">10.112.112.112</a> </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:09 pasaka pppd[2006]: remote IP address <a href="http://10.112.112.113">10.112.112.113</a> </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:10 pasaka pppd[2006]: Starting link </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:10 pasaka pppd[2006]: Connect: ppp0 <--> 0.38 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:10 pasaka pppd[2006]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500. Using 1492 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:10 pasaka pppd[2006]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500. Using 1492 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:10 pasaka kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:10 pasaka kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:13 pasaka pppd[2006]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500. Using 1492 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:13 pasaka pppd[2006]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500. Using 1492 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:14 pasaka pppd[2006]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500. Using 1492 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:14 pasaka pppd[2006]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1600. Using 1492 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:14 pasaka pppd[2006]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500. Using 1492 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:14 pasaka pppd[2006]: CHAP authentication succeeded </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:14 pasaka kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:14 pasaka pppd[2006]: Local IP address changed to <a href="http://84.43.100.94">84.43.100.94</a> </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:14 pasaka kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbhid </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:15 pasaka pppd[2006]: Remote IP address changed to <a href="http://212.67.121.45">212.67.121.45</a> </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:18 pasaka kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:18 pasaka kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:18 pasaka kernel: usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:18 pasaka kernel: usb 2-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:18 pasaka kernel: usbcore: registered new driver speedtch </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:18 pasaka kernel: speedtch 2-2:1.0: found stage 1 firmware speedtch-1.bin </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:18 pasaka kernel: speedtch 2-2:1.0: found stage 2 firmware speedtch-2.bin </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:18 pasaka kernel: ATM dev 0: ADSL line is synchronising </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Oct 12 10:49:20 pasaka kernel: ATM dev 0: ADSL line is up (2272 kb/s down | 288 kb/s up)</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><br>
Can anyone give me a clue what is wrong with my FC4 router?<br>
<br>-- <br><br>Dovydas Sankauskas<br>