Yesterday I installed Slackware 10.2 and I'm having problem with my internet connection. I tried to configure my network connection but it isn't working.
My ISP uses an MS-CHAP authentication and the service name is "something\something". Under Windows I tried to use CHAP for authentication and it was working, so I think there should be no problem with the autentication protocol. I don't know if there is some problem with the servicename because of that "\" in the name. I configured properly (i think) the DNS, ethernet adapter name, username and the password and when I type pppoe-start it tries to connect but it gives me the answer "timed out" and the following:

@CONNECT "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 line 194: 2141 Terminated

I checked if my ethernet card is up and running and it was, so I think this is not the problem (it's Realtek RTL8139)

Any ideas where is the problem?

Hmm well that \ in the name might be a problem, but not necessarily (it depends). You can try \\ instead, if you like, for then the first \ tells that the next letter shouldn't be considered anything special, so \\ would produce a letter \. But if it's not a problem, then this is wrong it's worth a try, of course.

I've got a weird problem with my adsl connection (using pppoe-start) too. At first install of Zenwalk it worked like a charm, then I managed to fix this system into garbage (heh, too much tries) and next time I installed (with the very same configs) adsl refused to work again; timeout. After some probing I found out that I couldn't use DHCP to get my ethernet card's ip address, or if I did, pppoe refused to work. After a few tries I also found out that I had to run pppoe-setup (called pppoeconf on some systems? or did I misremember?) again every time I altered my eth0 ip-config (dhcp<->static), and give the same answers every time, since if I did not, it just didn't work (no idea why).

So, my solution to the timeout was this:
1) disable dhcp from eth0's ip address (not the internet address)
2) add dns server ip address (at least one) to /etc/resolv.conf manually
3) run pppoe-setup, set it to get ip using dhcp
4) re-run pppoe-start

After that the timeout problem disappeared and everything worked. It's odd, though, that I have had dhcp for my eth0 ip address set on too, and this pppoe-stuff has worked before, so I'm still wondering what's up with it. But without better answers right now, this works..

No idea, though, if your timeout problem is because of this or something totally different.

Well, I finally found the solution - Slackware 11.0 After install and a simple pppoe-setup configure, everything worked fine. I guess that 10.2 distribution was the problem, and more precisely - the pppoe package in it.

my 10.2 pppoe package works smoothly!!!

same with mine did a pppoe-setup in sw 12.0 but the website cannot be loaded.. although it states that im connected