Hi!
I have an aztech ethernet modem 305E and RH linux 8. My present hardware connections are 1 LAN card (realtek) connected to the modem. In windows xp, the ethernet modem works at last.

However in linux,the modem still cannot surf the net. I have tried a few methods. Here goes:

1) I set up my LAN card to use DHCP and auto get DNS.
2) I set up my LAN card to static IP addresses (10.0.0.1) and subnet mask 255.0.0.0 .
3) For the connection itself, I use 'adsl-setup' to setup ppp0. The settings for adsl-setup are - root:name@singnet / auto get DNS from ISP / connection to be on continuously / no firewall / do not activate ppp0 on bootup
4) I used the graphical program to setup ppp0, which basically ask the same settings with adsl-setup

I used different combinations with the above 4 methods but none worked. In mozilla, if I type the modem's ip address,there's a message saying 'unable to connect to 10.0.0.2'. For adsl-start, there will be a message saying 'link is down' or 'terminated' after a while. Then lastly, if I activate ppp0 using the graphical program, ppp0 will be activated for several seconds b4 it becomes deactivated again.

Do you know of any solutions ? Please reply quickly if you can....thanks!!

Assuming the IP address of your modem is 10.0.0.2/255.0.0.0 and your machine is 10.0.0.1, from your machine try:

# ping 10.0.0.2

I assume this will fail. If so, it means either 10.0.0.2 is not the address of your modem, or your host's networking isn't configured properly. Assuming the latter, issue:

# ifconfig

(Post the output to this forum).

See my previous post regarding Red Hat network setup:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...867#post338867

Change the 192.x references to your 10.x network.

This may help you. When you say 'ethernet modem' I assume you mean the device that connects to the phone (DSL) or cable line on one side and your computer on the other. This actually is a risky configuration, as unless you carefully configure a firewall like iptables, you are wide open to attacks from the internet. Much preferred is a setup where you place a DSL aware (knows about pppoe) router in line between your computer and the 'modem'. Linksys BEFSR41 is the model I use, but there are several, and they're reasonably priced. And they have multiple ports (they are routers after all), so you can access the internet with multiple computers simultaneously.

The router can perform packet filtering of incoming connection attempts and block intruders.

This is the configuration in mind with the settings from my previous post.

Hope this helps.

Well, I've had serious problems with Red Hat's version of PPPOE. Apparently they made some 'changes' and that made the resulting connection very unreliable. Try downloading the newest version of pppoe and start over. I'd also use that command line version of the tools, as you can be sure that they're doing the right thing, since they were developed by the same people who developed the client itself.