Br2684 & Mdk (fails)
 

Hi to all!

Uhmm.. I have a serious problem. I need to install a server with MDK (8.2), I have a Speedtouch USB (and my ISP uses PPPoE). When I install the MDK I look to the kernel if the br2684 modules its compiled and correct.. appears wit a BIG [ M ]... But when I try to run: br2684ctl -b -c 0 -a 0.8.35.. fails :(.. It tells me that nas0 doesnt exists :(.

What can I do?.. the BR2684.. its COMPILED.. but not working :( (its a default instalation of MDK).

Also I have another MDK computer.. and with that.. works! (with the br2684 compiled).

Solutions?
Thanks.

i got it working. maybe i can help
 

I was at this same point. I did so many things that I am not sure what the magic was. I was trying to connect to ameritech.net over PPPoE.

My most recent problem was that I would get a "failed to connect on socket" from br2684ctl.

I think the fix for this was that I recompiled my kernel with
CONFIG_LLC=y

In default MDK 8.1 the kernel was compiled with
# CONFIG_LLC is not set

If this doesn't work then the long story of what I did is download the source for kernel 2.4.17 and then applied the br2684 patch that was meant for the 2.4.17 kernel. It was while I was configuring this kernel that I spotted that CONFIG_LLC was not enabled in the Mandrake kernel.

After I compiled the 2.4.17 kernel I just followed the steps in Johann Verrept's SpeedTouch HOWTO. Even though I bought Mandrake 8.1because of its supposed support for Alcatel SpeedTouch I did not end up using any of the Mandrake utilities to get this working.