Greetings,

I'm having trouble getting a USB ethernet adapter to work. It's made by Davicom, and requires the driver, dm9601. It is recognized by the system, the lights on it blink, it is using the driver, and it gets assigned "eth2," but I can't connect yet. I use pppoe, which I believe is set up right. What seems strange to me is that /proc/net/dev shows some activity, despite no connection.

I'm running Slackware 12.0, kernel 2.6.18 (was using a newer version but couldn't get the driver to work there) on an old Acer laptop.

Here's the output of some relevant commands:

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices (relevant section)
T: Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0a46 ProdID=9601 Rev= 1.01
S: Product=DM9601
S: SerialNumber=0001
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=120mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=dm9601
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=1ms

ifconfig eth2
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:6E:96:00:79
inet6 addr: fe80::260:6eff:fe96:79/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12040 (11.7 KiB) TX bytes:2026 (1.9 KiB)

cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
sit0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth2: 11400 92 0 0 0 0 0 0 2026 40 0 0 0 0 0 0

tail /var/log/messages
Jun 26 16:10:54 tl2008 pppd[3238]: Exit.
Jun 26 16:10:54 tl2008 pppoe-connect: PPPoE connection lost; attempting re-connection.
Jun 26 16:10:59 tl2008 pppd[3266]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Jun 26 16:10:59 tl2008 pppoe[3267]: PPP session is 7288 (0x1c78)
Jun 26 16:10:59 tl2008 pppoe[3267]: Sent PADT
Jun 26 16:10:59 tl2008 pppd[3266]: Exit.
Jun 26 16:10:59 tl2008 pppoe-connect: PPPoE connection lost; attempting re-connection.

tail /var/log/syslog
Jun 26 16:10:59 tl2008 pppd[3266]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument
Jun 26 16:10:59 tl2008 pppoe[3267]: read (asyncReadFromPPP): Session 7288: Input/output error

pppoe-status
pppoe-status: Link is down (can't read pppoe PID file /var/run/pppoe.conf-pppoe.pid.pppoe)

Hope that's enough information to illustrate the problem. Thanks for any thoughts/help.

U r using IPv6 on eth2 ?
Did u assigned IPv4 address properly?

Try latest version of Fedora --- Fedora 9 !!!

Hmm... yes, it does say ipv6, but I did not consciously choose that. How do I configure it to use ipv4?

By the way, eth0 is the card inside the laptop, which was fried in an electrical storm. I don't know what "lo" or "sit0" are, and I don't know why it assigned the usb nic "eth2" instead of "eth1."

Thanks!