Behaviour of eth0 not understood

[Charles Trois]

Thanks to those who answered me!

John, I can't believe that I have a hardware problem: my setup is simply an
iMac connected to Internet via an ADSL modem (USB Speedtouch). It works
perfectly under MacOS; and the Internet connection used to work under Linux
in the pre-adsl days.

It is the combination Linux-cum-adsl that gives me trouble. As a matter of
fact, I have been unable to make it work, whether I try rp-pppoe or
speedtouchconf. According to some error messages, it would seem that "ppp0
does not connect". Perhaps the strange lines on the log are related to this.

I have just made a little Google search on "pppoe and eth0". There were lots
of answers, which I found not very informative and rather confusing. They
often talk of "configuring the Ethernet card", but I don't see what the
Ethernet card of an iMac is (there seems to be some sort of built-in
circuit) and still less how to configure it.

I should be grateful for any further suggestions.

Regards.

Charles


Original message:

Message: 2
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:50:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: John M Phillips <phillipsjohnm@earthlink.net>
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: Behaviour of eth0 not understood
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com

This is a hardware problem, not all hub/switches work with all network
cards!

What hub or either net switch are you using? I tried several 100/10bt
hubs with my Powerbook.  I have had success with the Linksys BEFSR41
four port switch. 

John M Phillips