PPPoE config problem, more info

[Julian M Catchen]

Vaughn,

I don't know if this will help:

I have Qwest DSL and I use an external Cisco 675 modem/router that they
gave me and an Intel PCI ethernet card using the eepro100 driver.  All that
I need to connect to the Cisco router is a DHCP client.  There is no need
for PPPoE at all.  The only reason (and I may be wrong) that you would need
PPPoE is if you had one of the internal modems and were speaking PPP
directly from you box.  However, you should be speaking ethernet to the
router and the router should be speaking PPP to the Qwest network.

Anyway, not sure if this helps, but I use dhclient to connect several boxes
through a HUB to my Cisco router and have had no problems connecting to the
network.

----julian 


On Sat, 19 May 2001 22:43:37 Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>     A couple of days ago, I posted a message requesting help getting my
> Qwest DSL connection working on a Linux box.  Since I didn't receive any
> replies, I kept trying other approaches.  It's still not working, but I
> have a lot more info I can share.  Maybe this time my message will make
> a bit more sense and somebody will be able to  point me in the right
> direction.
>     When I signed up for Qwest, they sent me a Cisco 678 modem and an
> Intel Pro100+ PCI ethernet card.  I was able to get the Cisco modem to
> talk to two of my Windows boxes (with existing LAN cards) so I know it
> works.  I installed the Intel ethernet card in my Mandrake box, and it
> recognized it right away and installed the eepro100 driver.  I
> configured it as eth1 because I had an existing eth0 ethernet connection
> to my LAN.
>     Since I'm running Mandrake 7.0, I don't have any kernel-based PPPoE
> support.  I downloaded the source for the Roaring Penguin PPPoE client
> and compiled and installed it without a hitch.  I also followed their
> setup instructions to enter the info for my new ISP (Qwest.)  The PPPoE
> daemon would start and run, but when I started Netscape, I wasn't able
> to browse the web or check my email.   So I ran the Roaring Penguin
> client in its debug mode.  I fixed a few minor problems, but the same
> thing would always happen-- it would time out trying to get PADO
> packets, and also send just three PADI packets and quit.
>     Following RP's suggestions, I made sure the Intel card was
> configured to run at 10Mbps half-duplex.  (I used the mii-diag
> utility.)  It still didn't work.  Then, on searching Google for relevant
> postings, I found a message that suggested using Intel's e100 driver
> instead of eepro100.  I tried this also; it appeared to work, but still
> wouldn't connect.
>     I'm going to insert part of the Roaring Penguin debug log, in case
> some kind soul would like to glance for it for any obvious problems.
> I'll add some comments here and there.  I also notices a strange error
> in /var/log/messages that happened when I run the adsl start script:
> 
> May 19 22:09:43 basil modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
> 
> I believe this means that I'm missing some sort of driver but how do I
> figure out which?
> 
> Anyway, the following stuff is the debug dump.  I've deleted some of the
> repetitive and extraneous stuff.   Thanks very much in advance for any
> help you can give me.
> 
> Vaughn Treude
>