rp-pppoe with usb modem

[William John Murray]

> >>
> >> Hello people,
> >>
> >> I have been having some difficulties getting my usb modem to work in
> >> linux. Of course my first is stupidity in not insisting that my ISP send
> >> me an ethernet one. But now I've got it I want to try and get it going.
> >>
> >> I've got it to the stage where the usb drivers are working but I.m  
> >> having
> >> difficulty getting the pppoe side of things to work. Has anyone on the
> >> list done this before? Would you be able to guide me though the process  
> >> of
> >> getting the adsl connection up and running.
> >>
> >> Shelagh
> >>
> >>
> >   Hi Shelagh,
> >            I have this running reliably over AOL server. There there was
> > an issue which needed the 'penggy' code to establish the connection.
> > Perhaps you should give a little more info about your connection, and
> > current problem. E.g.: How do you know the driver is working?
> >   USB DSL modems get a bad press, but mine  seems stable now it is
> > working
> >           Bill
> >
> I worked through the eciadsl driver routine and sent all my details eg  
> output from route -n and the various logs, etc that they asked for and  
> they said that once the driver had synchronysed and was waiting for tap0  
> then tap0 was up then it was over to the pppoe stuff. I have the latest  
> pppd and rp-pppoe as they suggested. Of course I do, this is fedora we're  
> talking about right! But I feel that I'm missing some really basic step.  
> This networking caper is about the hardest thing I've found to understand  
> ever.
> I've looked though the troubleshooting section of rp-pppoe documentation  
> and can't really see where I'm going wrong.
> 
> The message I get after starting adsl-start is
> 
> /sbin/adsl-start: line 218: 2996 terminated $CONNECT "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> I looked at line 218 in the script hoping it might give me a clue, but  
> scripting is stiil an archane art as far as I'm concerned.
> I tried DEBUG=1 adsl-start to see if I might be able to trace a problem  
> but it tells me to use adsl-start not adsl-connect. So something seems  
> wrong there.
> 
> Hope this helps you.
> 
> I'm quite prepared to recompile what I have to, if you think its necessary.
> 
> Shelagh
> 
> 
  Hi Shelagh,
    I found your conversation with FlashTux via google. Looks a lot like
mine.
       I think you got to 'timed-out connection' in the adsl-start
script.  I had this too. But /var/log/messages had lines like:
  Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Do you have anything there?
    Bill