6100 and YDl 2.2 ... again ...

[Jon Holman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "l.biagiotti" <l.biagiotti@tiscali.it>
To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:11 PM
Subject: 6100 and YDl 2.2 ... again ...


> Yup! Me again ...
>
> Hi all, I'm back after a while having had "fun" in the attempt to setup a
> working pppoe connection on my ooold 6100/60.
>
> Well, as it seems I finally succeeded in getting Roaring Penguin's PPPoe
to
> work on my machine. Adsl-setup enables me to configure the whole thing
but,
> now what happens is that I apparently am not able to convince pppoe and
> Linux to recognise and use my Ericsson Adsl modem.
>
> i have been trying to configure eth0 by means of the
/usr/lib/yi/network.py
> command but in spite of the fact that at boot time I can see the modem's
> ethernet-connection light flash, while Linux brings up the eth0 interface,
> adsl-start tells me the following:
>
> "Error starting connection: Timed out. /usr/sbin/adsl-start: line 189:
1292
> Terminated $connect "$@"> /dev/null 2>&1"
>
> What does this mean according to you? That pppoe can't use the modem? That
> the modem is not properly configured? That the ethernet card is not
properly
> configured? For what is about pppoe's configuration I'm pretty sure
> everything is all right there, so I'm trying to locate the problem
somewhere
> else.
>
> I've been doing a lot of reading lately but, as it happened while I wasn't
> able to get pppoe to work, I just can't seem to find a definite answer, a
> solution or whatever ...
>
> Any comment or suggestion?
>
> TIA
>
> Lorenzo
>
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