I have Red Hat Linux 6.2 I was using PPPoEd By Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>, however it compiles with a bunch of warnings and doesn't work when I updated my kernel & other packages recently. As a result I am unable to use my cablemodem anymore. > I've now tried the latest RP-PPPoE and I'm still unable to get on-line. I've tried everything I can think of. With RP-PPPoE, I get TIME OUT from adsl-start, a further look into the logs shows an LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests from the pppd & Timeout waiting for PADO packets from pppoe.

I'm at a loss... I've tried everything I can think of. A http://www.google.com/linux search for my error finds a lot, but most of it is in other languages. A forum search here produces stuff, but I've tried everything in those and I'm still unable to get on.

Some-one please help!!! I'm really frustrated and really tired of fighting this problem (going on 4 days of this)

Thanks,

Are you sure you need PPPoE? My experience with cable modems is that you will only need dhcpcd. But, obviously, I'm not in Kansas, so your setup may be completely different.

-Bob

I had it working with PPPoE for over a year now. I updated the RH kernel and now it isn't working. I've now tried 2 different PPPoEs and still can't work get it working.

No, I'm not 100% sure that I need PPPoE, but when they come and set this up they loaded a program on Windows and I had to login & connect through that software before I could use the cablemodem, if all I needed was DHCP then they wouldn't have loaded a program.

Also, they call this a cablemodem (my TV's cable is what goes into the back of the modem) but they refere to this service as DSL Service & DSL Modem.

Thanks.

Yep, it sounds like PPPoE is what you need. I have used the rp_pppoe and had no trouble with it ( on ADSL from the phone company). It may be that your config files (pap-secrets, pppoe.conf) were wiped during the upgrade and need to be re-adjusted. If I recall correctly, the rp_pppoe has a couple of scripts (go, go_gui) which should help you reset the config files. Did you do that?

-Bob

I've toyed with these config files till I'm blue in the face. I even manually deleted these config files, un-installed rp_pppoe, re-installed rp_pppoed and re-ran the adsl-setup (i'm console only on this machine - no gui) and I still cant' get rp_pppoe to work. hmm... haven't seen mention of a go script... only the adsl-* (setup, start, stop, status, connect) scripts.

I stumbled upon an new version of the pppoed that I had working under other kernels. Going to try and get it on the problem machine and try it. Not many improvments/changes from what I had before (according to the change log), but maybe, just maybe it'll work with this kernel.

Still... I think I'd like to try to get rp_pppoe going so I don't have to worry about this should I do another kernel update and to compare performance, etc.

Well, I checked my source directory and there they are, right in the top level of the directory rp-pppoe-3.3. If you've done the ./configure; make; make install routine in the src/ directory, then cd back up to the parent directory and do a ./go
Might do the trick. If you are doing the rpm thing, I don't know if you get those scripts. If you're up to compiling it yourself, it looks like 3.5 is the current version.

-Bob

I was doing the RPM thing... I had rp-pppoe-3.5-1.i386.rpm ( i think i got it directly from Roaring Penguin home page). I think I figured out at least part of the problem....

I was able to go from not connecting to connecting by manually running 'insmod ppp_deflate' before attempting to connect. This is with the PPPOEd v0.48b2 (the new one I found yesterday and said I would try). I wonder if the reason rp-pppoe didn't work was for the same reason. Something to try.