adsl-start problem

[Thad Nielsen]

Rob Brown-Bayliss [uncertain.genius at gmail.com] wrote:
> Hi, I have a problem with my adsl modem connection that is really 
> frustrating.
> 
> For the best part of a year all has been fine,  then I installed FC5,
> still all was ok (fresh install, not upgrade).  After about a week or
> two I did an update via yum to updata all packages etc etc..
> 
> Now, my modem won't connect, I get time out errors and something about PADO.
> 
> The fix is to do from a term the following:
> 
> /etc/init.d/network stop
> adsl-setup
> shutdown -r now
> 
> Then upon reboot a conection will establish. But if I turn my machine
> off, the next reboot will not conect. So basically every time I use
> the PC I have to boot, re-do the adsl-setup and reboot.
> 
> Any ideas as to what the problem is?
> 
Rob, you might check dmesg and messages in /var/log/ to see if there
is anything relevant.  If you haven't very recently updated
everything, then you could especially look for avc messages in case
there may be a permissions issue.

	T.