speedstream 5100 dsl, sbc yahoo and slackware 10

A) i started this post before i went down there the first time ...to gather information so i wouldn't be going down there blind. i then went down there with what i had learned... struck out... so now i'm back... gathering info before round 2.

B) my mom has one computer... at her house... 40 miles away from here. (i.e. here being my apartment & my computer..) there is no windows 98... only slackware now. i know the dsl works (it worked before) ... just trying to configure it...

so.... while i'm not 100% sure if i turned on the mod for her pci ... IF i did... and the modem is not working... what would be the next thing to try? or is that it? asking now... so i can try and prepare for the worse...lol.

alright here's what's up... trying to get my mom's speedstream 5100 dsl modem working with sbc yahoo. i've been told that the modem does ppp by itself... in otherwords it's got all the stuff it needs to con nect inside the modem.... just changed the file
rc.inet1.conf
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"

...type pppoe and it should go. but when i type pppoe the 'active' light blinks and i get....

root@dog:~# pppoe
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then it stops... and ...nada....

tried typing...

quote:ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.64 broadcast 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
and
route add default gw 192.168.1.1

to get it to go... this is what got me the jibberish... not sure if i got the num bers right though.....(think it's right..lol)

here's my ifconfig and other fun things.. very lost here and new to this dsl stuff...i'm lost here...lol (p.s. computer only has slack 10 on it...start-adsl is not needed for my modem... ) any help would be welcome!!!!

root@dog:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
inet addr:192.168.1.64 Bcast:192.168.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:129 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7740 (7.5 Kb) TX bytes:4880 (4.7 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xaf00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11440 (11.1 Kb) TX bytes:11440 (11.1 Kb)


root@dog:~# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.26 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.4) #6 Mon Jun 14 19:07:27 PDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bbf0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000bbf0000 - 000000000bbf8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000bbf8000 - 000000000bc00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
187MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 48112
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 44016 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 450.016 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 897.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 187124k/192448k available (1844k kernel code, 4936k reserved, 618k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: After generic, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002
CPU: Common caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: AMD K6
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS5595 [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 00:02.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:00.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS530 ATA 66 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: Maxtor 91531U3, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03b3360, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdd: FX4820T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
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: 30015216 sectors (15368 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 554.800 MB/sec
32regs : 381.200 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 767.600 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 708.800 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pII_mmx (767.600 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 145M
agpgart: Detected SiS 530 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc83af00, 00:40:05:09:c9:11, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xcc898000, IRQ 10
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:01.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x43d/0x6d) is not claimed by any active driver.
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:55:05 Jun 13 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x006D
printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
UMSDOS 0.86k (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos)
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 49
UMSDOS 0.86k (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos)
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
root@dog:~#


root@dog:~# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530 Host (rev 2).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000 [0xefffffff].
Bus 0, device 0, function 1:
IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 208).
Master Capable. Latency=16.
I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffaf].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 177).
Bus 0, device 1, function 1:
Class ff00: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] ACPI (rev 0).
Bus 0, device 1, function 2:
USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 17).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Max Lat=80.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xebfff000 [0xebffffff].
Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (rev 0).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 16).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xde00 [0xdeff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xebffef00 [0xebffefff].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 1).
IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc3f].
I/O at 0xda00 [0xda0f].
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd80f].
I/O at 0xd600 [0xd603].
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd403].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS530 3D PCI/AGP (rev 162).
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff000000 [0xff7fffff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7ef0000 [0xe7efffff].
I/O at 0xbc00 [0xbc7f].
root@dog:~#

pinging linuxforum.org doesn't work

did you try running adsl-setup. i didn't go back and read the whole thread. i am responding to you post in the other thread. i would also run lsmod to make sure you are loading the proper module

Ok, looking at your 'dmesg' output it looks like its sucessfully finding your NIC

eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc83af00, 00:40:05:09:c9:11, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1

Now look in your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file and make sure the part for configuring eth0 looks like this:

# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

Next run this command so that eth0 will now try to use DHCP to get its IP

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 eth0_restart

After running that look and see what ipaddress it was assigned by running:

ifconfig eth0

If it doesnt have some routable IP address then go into your modem's config page by browsing to http://192.168.0.1
Next Click on the blue Advanced button, then in the drop down buttons click on PPP Location. Make sure that PPP is on the modem is the one that is selected. If not change it, and click on Save Changes.

Next click on the the Connection Configuration button and scroll all the way down to the bottom and make sure that Yes, use public IP address is the one that is selected. If not change it then click on Save Changes.

After doing all of this, rerun the commands

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 eth0_restart
ifconfig eth0

Look and see if you now have a routable IP. If you do try to ping google.com or yahoo.com

If you follow all these steps and it still doenst work, paste me exactly what you typed and the output you get from each and ill try to debug it.

Note that after you go into your modem's web config and you dont see anything about "PPP is on the modem" then NONE of this will work.

Also DO NOT run the pppoe command, again there is no need for this as all of this should be done on the modem, not your linux box. Also DO NOT try to manually set up your ip using ifconfig, again you are trying to use DHCP so this is not necessary.

no go... here's what i get.......

root@dog:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 eth0_restart
**** /sbin/dhcpcd: not running
dhcpcd: MAC address = xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
root@dog:~# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:3540 (3.4 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xaf00


open mozilla typed http://192.168.0.1
got...
the connection was refused when attempting to contact http://192.168.0.1
tried konquerer... no go

any ideas?

also i got....

Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

in my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file....

Did u try this?

Originally posted by ringwraith did you try running adsl-setup. i didn't go back and read the whole thread. i am responding to you post in the other thread. i would also run lsmod to make sure you are loading the proper module

After adsl-setup run adsl-start.

yes...andwith my modem it doesn't work. it doesn't use it.

Is the modem plugged directly into your mom's computer using an ethernet cat5 cable with an rj45 jack? Or are you plugging the modem into a router? Also run the command mii-tool to make sure that the link between the network card and the modem is working.

If your NIC is directly connected to the modem, and assuming linux detects your NIC (which it seems to do) and the link is working (which mii-tool will tell you) there should be no reason why you cannot browse to your modem's web config page, regardless if the internet is working or not. I too have the speedstream 5100 and I know for sure its http://192.168.0.1 for me, however perhaps you have a differnt revision and maybe the ip address is differnt. You might want to try http://192.168.0.100 which was my cable modem's page.

root@dog:~# mii-tool
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Invalid argument
no MII interfaces found
root@dog:~#
http://192.168.0.100 no go... same error as other address
um.... there's a phone line running into the modem... then a yellow phone chord=ish looking thing running in back to the computer into the realtek pci card thingie lol... the green light on the back of the computer for the card is on.

Ok it looks like something isnt right with dhcpcd which is the client that grabs an IP from your modem so we are going to have to add a few lines to get some detailed logs. First thing I want you to do is to edit your /etc/syslog.conf. Somewhere on its own line I want you to put the following code

local0.*     /var/log/dhcpcd.log

After that restart syslog by running

/etc/rc.d/rc.syslog restart

Now lets kill dhcpcd in case its still running:

killall dhcpcd

Finally lets manually run dhcpcd with the following command:

/sbin/dhcpcd -t 10 -d eth0

If you get any output after this command, copy and paste it here. However most of the debugging info should now be in /var/log/dhcpcd.log so go ahead and paste what's in there as well.

root@dog:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog restart
Starting sysklogd daemons: /usr/sbin/syslogd /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x
root@dog:~# /sbin/dhcpcd -t 10 -d eth0
dhcpcd: MAC address = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
root@dog:~#

tried it twice.....

Aug 12 04:58:22 dog dhcpcd[1307]: broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER
Aug 12 04:58:32 dog dhcpcd[1307]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response
Aug 12 05:02:34 dog dhcpcd[1324]: broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER
Aug 12 05:02:44 dog dhcpcd[1324]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response

Hmm, this is definitly a DHCP problem, you should be getting a response from the modem. Im pretty sure we already checked to make sure this isnt a firewall problem, if not make sure that iptables -L -n reports back no rules and the POLICYies are set to ACCEPT. Other than that im pretty much out of ideas. Is your speedstream modem black and has 5 lights, and is the Power and Ethernet light solid green?

the modem is black with 4 lights....
power ethernet dsl activity
the first 3 are on... the forth only goes on when it's reading data...


root@dog:~# iptables -L -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
root@dog:~#

ahh, you have the older version of the Speedstream 5100. The newer version which does PPP on the modem has a 5th light called "Internet". So i guess you have two choices 1) Learn how to set up pppoe cause I don't know how. Or 2) call up SBC and ask them to trade it in for the newer version with the 5th Internet light and follow the steps I gave you.

well...first of.. thanks for the help... 2nd... after several thousand tries with all sorts of things (including adsl-setup) i managed to actually get online! lol... i did adsl-setup (again) but this time caught a simple mistake i put in..lol it's sbcglobal not sbcyahoo... i feel silly.. turned out to be such a minor mistake. anyways thanks again.. sorry for all the troubles