I am bummed!! I spent a week trying to get my hard drive DMA and other settings to work right in Slack. I was getting 3mb/s disk reads. Tons of playing with hdparm to no avail, I thought I would compile 2.4.22 since I had no drive troubles in Mandrake 9.1 with 2.4.22 as the default. BANG! No drive troubles. Getting 50mb/s reads now. BUT, now I can't get a connection to the net.

I did a fresh install of slack before compiling the new kernel for other reasons. I loaded the config from the Slack installation and basically just changed my CPU and audio settings to match, added the 3com modules, and compiled NTFS support right in. For audio, I only did the i810 support (which has worked for me in the past).

Then, I did the same as I always do for internet with Slack. First I installed the nvidia drivers for nvnet and nvaudio. Then, adsl-setup (the usual crap), modprobe nvnet (loaded as usual with the tainted warning) and typed adsl-start. Timed out every time. I tried both the 3com and the nvidia ports multiple times and got no results.

How do I go about solving this? I also have no audio anymore if anyone happens to know the solution to that problem, but the main thing is the internet. I can search out the audio thing once I'm back online!

<bump>Still stuck </bump>

Here's what cat /proc/pci shows:

root@darkstar:/home/scruff# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: PCI device 10de:01e0 (nVidia Corporation) (rev 193).
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd7ffffff].
Bus 0, device 0, function 1:
RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01eb (nVidia Corporation) (rev 193).
Bus 0, device 0, function 2:
RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ee (nVidia Corporation) (rev 193).
Bus 0, device 0, function 3:
RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ed (nVidia Corporation) (rev 193).
Bus 0, device 0, function 4:
RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ec (nVidia Corporation) (rev 193).
Bus 0, device 0, function 5:
RAM memory: PCI device 10de:01ef (nVidia Corporation) (rev 193).
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev 164).
Bus 0, device 1, function 1:
SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev 162).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc1f].
Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev 164).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee087000 [0xee087fff].
Bus 0, device 2, function 1:
USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (#2) (rev 164).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee082000 [0xee082fff].
Bus 0, device 2, function 2:
USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev 164).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee083000 [0xee0830ff].
Bus 0, device 4, function 0:
Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev 161).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=20.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee086000 [0xee086fff].
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007].
Bus 0, device 5, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev 162).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=12.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee000000 [0xee07ffff].
Bus 0, device 6, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev 161).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=5.
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd07f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee080000 [0xee080fff].
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
PCI bridge: PCI device 10de:006c (nVidia Corporation) (rev 163).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=2.
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev 162).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
PCI bridge: PCI device 10de:006d (nVidia Corporation) (rev 163).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2.
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev 163).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee084000 [0xee0847ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee085000 [0xee08503f].
Bus 0, device 30, function 0:
PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev 193).
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.
Bus 1, device 11, function 0:
RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller (rev 2).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0x9000 [0x9007].
I/O at 0x9400 [0x9403].
I/O at 0x9800 [0x9807].
I/O at 0x9c00 [0x9c03].
I/O at 0xa000 [0xa00f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed000000 [0xed0001ff].
Bus 2, device 1, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 64).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
I/O at 0xb000 [0xb07f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9000000 [0xe900007f].
Bus 3, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 1).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xdfffffff].
I/O at 0xc000 [0xc0ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xeb000000 [0xeb00ffff].
Bus 3, device 0, function 1:
Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Radeon 9000] (Secondary) (rev 1).
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe7ffffff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xeb010000 [0xeb01ffff].

As you can see, the 3com is recognized and lsmod shows the 3c59x module loaded. What the hell?

Anyone? Anyone?

Let's make this simple. I installed Slack again an hour ago.
Then I compiled 2.4.22. All is good so far.
lsmod shows the 3c59x as loaded.
cat /proc/pci shows the card recognized: 3Com Corp 3C920b IRQ 12 bus 3
I tried adding: alias eth0 3c59x into the modules.conf file.
After adsl-setup (using eth0) I still cant get it to work.

How do I make sure it will use the 3com?
Please... Make this my last (40th?) boot to windows today

Still working on it... Here's more info:

root@darkstar:/home/scruff# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:54:0B:F7:22
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:5637 (5.5 Kb) TX bytes:7293 (7.1 Kb)
Interrupt:12 Base address:0xb000



root@darkstar:/home/scruff# ifconfig dhcpcd
dhcpcd: error fetching interface information: Device not found
root@darkstar:/home/scruff# ifconfig up
up: error fetching interface information: Device not found
root@darkstar:/home/scruff# ifconfig down
down: error fetching interface information: Device not found


root@darkstar:/home/scruff# cat /proc/pci
Bus 2, device 1, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 64).
IRQ 12.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
I/O at 0xb000 [0xb07f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9000000 [0xe900007f].


root@darkstar:/home/scruff# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22 (root@darkstar) (gcc version 3.2.2) #3 Sun Sep 21 23:26:21 EDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
512MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126976 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Slackware ro root=306
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2090.164 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4168.08 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515636k/524288k available (1620k kernel code, 8268k reserved, 575k data, 144k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 2090.2237 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 380.0406 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 3800406, slice: 1900203
CPU0<T0:3800400,T1:1900192,D:5,S:1900203,C:3800406>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030813
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb490, last bus=3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: System description tables not found
ACPI-0084: *** Error: acpi_load_tables: Could not get RSDP, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI-0134: *** Error: acpi_load_tables: Could not load tables: AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at 00:00.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
radeonfb: ref_clk=2700, ref_div=12, xclk=27500 from BIOS
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
radeonfb: ATI Radeon 9000 If DDR SGRAM 128 MB
radeonfb: DVI port no monitor connected
radeonfb: CRT port CRT monitor connected
vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0xd8000000
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xe8806000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=84
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:566e
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:5:5, shift=0:10:5:0
fb1: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
AMD_IDE: Bios didn't set cable bits corectly. Enabling workaround.
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
AMD_IDE: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) UDMA100 controller on pci00:09.0
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0
SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio
hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0379ac0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: Memorex 52MAXX 2452AJ, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CD-Writer+ 9100c, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: no response (status = 0xfe)
hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=4866/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
ide: late registration of driver.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,6)) ...
for (ide0(3,6))
ide0(3,6):Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
Adding Swap: 522072k swap-space (priority -1)
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,7)) ...
for (ide0(3,7))
ide0(3,7):Using r5 hash to sort names
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
02:01.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado 2 at 0xb000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
00:26:54:0b:f7:22, IRQ 12
product code ffff rev 00.0 date 15-31-127
Internal config register is 1600000, transceivers 0x40.
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 2, status 786d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
02:01.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 23:34:21 Sep 21 2003
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:06.0 to 64
i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO 0xd000 and 0xe400, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG32 (ALC650)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, new EID value = 0x05c7
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, DAC map configured, total channels = 6
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.2 to 64
ehci_hcd 00:02.2: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
ehci_hcd 00:02.2: irq 9, pci mem e8cf1000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: 00:02.2 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW.
PCI: 00:02.2 PCI cache line size corrected to 64.
ehci_hcd 00:02.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe8cf9000, IRQ 12
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.1 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe8cfb000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.1, nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 23:35:29 Sep 21 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc025) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
input0: B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse on usb3:2.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice\


Also, I usually load the original Slack config when I compile 2.4.22. I just change CPU, some IDE and filesystem settings, and add the nforce stuff. The old config worked fine when I just re-compiled 2.4.20, but IDE didn't improve so on to .22. I compiled it 5 times today. I even installed Mandrake 9.1, copied the config file from it (since I had no troubles back with Mandrake 2.4.21) and compiled 2.4.22 in Slack again with the bulky ass Mandrake config. NO LUCK!!!! damnit...

I've tried with the nforce drivers, w/out the nforce drivers... I can't even remember what all I tried anymore I couldnt care less about the nvidia eth and their BS drivers if I could get the 3com to work.

Wow, this is horrible. You aren't getting an IP because the device isn't getting setup. The device isn't getting setup because module, well no, the module is loading, so then what? Ok... Let's break this down a bit:
How do you obtain an IP and from what source ( a router, your ISP?)?

From the looks of it, you obtain one via DHCP. Good, it's easier that way (sometimes), now let's look at:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
Make sure that everything is commented with the exception of:
use dhcp = YES
And then after verifying the module is loaded for your primary device, and that modules.conf is showing the correct alias:
alias eth0 3c59x
type (as root):
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
And see what it spits out. Be sure the module loaded correctly before doing this.

Which version of slackware is this anyway, 9 is the one in your profile, my instructions are from Slack 8.1, but it should work nonetheless as this really isn't slackware specific beyond the rc bit

Cool

Thanks MasterC. I am late as hell for work already (thats what I get for staying up too late) but will give this a shot as soon as I get home.

I do get my IP through my ISP dchp style. No router, just a dsl modem.
Oh yeah, it is Slack 9. I preordered 9.1 last week or so, can't wait to check it out!! My newer hardware will prob play nicer with the new release.

I have had this issue before with a SiS5513 based mobo with a built-in rtl8139 NIC. The kernel module loads, ifconfig initially seems fine, but you get a bunch of syslog messages about the device timing out when you actually do network stuff. In my case I disabled acpi in /etc/lilo.conf because I suspected it was causing problems with the irq lines. (Try append="pci=noacpi" first, then append="acpi=off" if that doesn't work, you could also combine this with append="noapic").
As fas as the nforce drivers go, the agp patch is not necessary with 2.4.22 and the i810 audio driver supplied by the >2.4.20 kernel seems to work O.K. You basically only need the nforce drivers for the NIC. I have gotten this going on an MSI nforce2 mobo.

Ok, here we go. I did what you said for /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1. It was commented out.

Module is loaded.

Checked modules.conf:
root@dabasement:/home/scruff# gedit /etc/modules.conf
Looks good.

root@dabasement:/home/scruff# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
SIOCADDRT: File exists
Attempting to configure eth0 by contacting a DHCP server...
dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:26:54:0b:f7:22

BEFORE acpi off
root@dabasement:/home/scruff# adsl-start
................TIMED OUT

AFTER acpi off
root@dabasement:/home/scruff# adsl-start
................TIMED OUT
/usr/sbin/adsl-start: line 194: 977 Terminated $CONNECT "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1
#! /bin/sh

I have no idea.
I am going to recompile 2.4.22 again with the old slack config cause MDK's has way too much crap in it.

Hopefully this makes sense to one of you

Can you post up the contents of the adsl-start script (I don't have it on Slack 8.1).

Cool

Wow. That was quick!

Sure I can. Where is it located?

Duh.. nevermind. Forgot I learned a few commands for finding stuff

Here it is:

#!/bin/sh
# Generated automatically from adsl-start.in by configure.
#***********************************************************************
#
# adsl-start
#
# Shell script to bring up an ADSL connection
#
# Copyright (C) 2000 Roaring Penguin Software Inc.
#
# $Id: adsl-start.in,v 1.8 2002/04/09 17:28:39 dfs Exp $
#
# This file may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
# Public License.
#
# LIC: GPL
#
# Usage: adsl-start [config_file]
# adsl-start interface user [config_file]
# Second form overrides USER and ETH from config file.
# If config_file is omitted, defaults to /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf
#
#***********************************************************************

# From AUTOCONF
prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}

# Paths to programs
CONNECT=${exec_prefix}/sbin/adsl-connect
ECHO=/usr/bin/echo
IFCONFIG=/sbin/ifconfig

# Set to "C" locale so we can parse messages from commands
LANG=C
export LANG

# Defaults
CONFIG=/etc/ppp/pppoe.conf
USER=""
ETH=""
ME=`basename $0`
# Must be root
if [ "`/usr/bin/id -u`" != 0 ] ; then
$ECHO "$ME: You must be root to run this script" >& 2
exit 1
fi

# Debugging
if [ "$DEBUG" = "1" ] ; then
$ECHO "*** Running in debug mode... please be patient..."
DEBUG=/tmp/pppoe-debug-$$
export DEBUG
mkdir $DEBUG
if [ "$?" != 0 ] ; then
$ECHO "Could not create directory $DEBUG... exiting"
exit 1
fi
DEBUG=$DEBUG/pppoe-debug.txt

# Initial debug output
$ECHO "---------------------------------------------" > $DEBUG
$ECHO "* The following section contains information about your system" >> $DEBUG
date >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "Output of uname -a" >> $DEBUG
uname -a >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "---------------------------------------------" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* The following section contains information about your network" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* interfaces. The one you chose for PPPoE should contain the words:" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* 'UP' and 'RUNNING'. If it does not, you probably have an Ethernet" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* driver problem." >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "Output of ifconfig -a" >> $DEBUG
$IFCONFIG -a >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "---------------------------------------------" >> $DEBUG
if [ "`uname -s`" = "Linux" ] ; then
$ECHO "* The following section contains information about kernel modules" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* If the module for your Ethernet card is 'tulip', you might" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* want to look for an updated version at http://www.scyld.com" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "Output of lsmod" >> $DEBUG
lsmod >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "---------------------------------------------" >> $DEBUG
fi
$ECHO "* The following section lists your routing table." >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* If you have an entry which starts with '0.0.0.0', you probably" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* have defined a default route and gateway, and pppd will" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* not create a default route using your ISP. Try getting" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* rid of this route." >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "Output of netstat -n -r" >> $DEBUG
netstat -n -r >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "---------------------------------------------" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "Contents of /etc/resolv.conf" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* The following section lists DNS setup." >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* If you can browse by IP address, but not name, suspect" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* a DNS problem." >> $DEBUG
cat /etc/resolv.conf >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "---------------------------------------------" >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* The following section lists /etc/ppp/options." >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "* You should have NOTHING in that file." >> $DEBUG
$ECHO "Contents of /etc/ppp/options" >> $DEBUG
cat /etc/ppp/options >> $DEBUG 2>/dev/null
$ECHO "---------------------------------------------" >> $DEBUG
else
DEBUG=""
fi

# Sort out command-line arguments
case "$#" in
1)
CONFIG="$1"
;;
3)
CONFIG="$3"
;;
esac

if [ ! -f "$CONFIG" -o ! -r "$CONFIG" ] ; then
$ECHO "$ME: Cannot read configuration file '$CONFIG'" >& 2
exit 1
fi

. $CONFIG

# Check for command-line overriding of ETH and USER
case "$#" in
2|3)
ETH="$1"
USER="$2"
;;
esac

# Check for pidfile
if [ -r "$PIDFILE" ] ; then
PID=`cat "$PIDFILE"`
# Check if still running
kill -0 $PID > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
$ECHO "$ME: There already seems to be an ADSL connection up (PID $PID)" >& 2
exit 1
fi
# Delete bogus PIDFILE
rm -f "$PIDFILE" "$PIDFILE.pppd" "$PIDFILE.pppoe" "$PIDFILE.start"
fi

echo $$ > $PIDFILE.start

# Start the connection in the background unless we're debugging
if [ "$DEBUG" != "" ] ; then
$CONNECT "$@"
exit 0
fi

$CONNECT "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
CONNECT_PID=$!

if [ "$CONNECT_TIMEOUT" = "" -o "$CONNECT_TIMEOUT" = 0 ] ; then
exit 0
fi

# Don't monitor connection if dial-on-demand
if [ "$DEMAND" != "" -a "$DEMAND" != "no" ] ; then
exit 0
fi

# Monitor connection
TIME=0
while [ true ] ; do
${exec_prefix}/sbin/adsl-status $CONFIG > /dev/null 2>&1

# Looks like the interface came up
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
# Print newline if standard input is a TTY
tty -s && $ECHO " Connected!"
exit 0
fi

if test -n "$FORCEPING" ; then
$ECHO -n "$FORCEPING"
else
tty -s && $ECHO -n "$PING"
fi
sleep $CONNECT_POLL
TIME=`expr $TIME + $CONNECT_POLL`
if [ $TIME -gt $CONNECT_TIMEOUT ] ; then
break
fi
done

$ECHO "TIMED OUT" >& 2
# Timed out! Kill the adsl-connect process and quit
kill $CONNECT_PID > /dev/null 2>&1

# Clean up PIDFILE(s)
rm -f "$PIDFILE" "$PIDFILE.pppd" "$PIDFILE.pppoe" "$PIDFILE.start"

exit 1

So do you actually have a pppOe connection? How do you connect normally to your ISP (say with other OS's or even other versions of Linux)?

If you DON'T have an PPP connection, then there is no need to run the adsl-start script above, simply dhcpcd should suffice (or /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1) to bring up the info. At each step post the results:
Boot up, login as root, and type:
ifconfig
Run:
ifconfig eth0 down
killall dhcpcd
And then post up:
ifconfig
THEN type:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
And post up the results of:
ifconfig eth0

Be sure that initially (after you first login as root) that your module is loaded for your ethernet device (either one at this point).

Cool

Verizon told me I would have to use pppOe. I used their install cd for windows. In Mandrake 9.1, I let it configure my internet account during install. It basically just asked me for my username, password, and IP which I left blank for dhcp and it worked. To get it to work in Slack before the new kernel, I simply installed the nvidia nvnet driver, and went through adsl-setup/adsl-connect process. The nvidia driver, while it compiles and loads just fine in 2.4.22, the usual adsl-setup/adsl-start doesn't do anything but timeout after that. I gave up on nvidia's stuff, since the 3com is supported natively in 2.4.22 (I compile the module though). If I were to install Slack right now with the old kernel, I could connect to the net after installing the nvidia drivers, but 2.4.20 was horribly slow with my setup even after recompiling and using other system tweaks. The newer kernel is blazing fast right now with almost no extra work. Can't wait to see it after I play with it a few weeks.

I'll see if I can post that stuff before work in the morn, I'm not at my comp right now.

Thanks