Wan Miniport Service Name?

odin123 · 04-17-2007, 11:53 AM

Hi,

I'm trying to run my broadband wan miniport pppoe on simplymepis 6.5 but I'm not able to do it properly, probably because I need to identify the connection's "service name." In Windows, it's easily put in the connection's general properties.

Where do I put this in a simplymepis environment? I've run pppoeconf and followed the prompts but I have no connection.

Thanks for your help!

b0uncer · 04-17-2007, 12:31 PM

pppoeconf (some distributions call it adsl-setup or adsl-config or something) should be enough, if you have an ethernet card that is working properly, it's light is on and there's a wire connected. All you need to know, afaik, is the username and password for the connection; the rest should be obtained using dhcp, and the other pppoeconf options usually work if you select defaults. So what's wrong with your connection -- do you get an ip address, does pinging ips work, is it DNS problems or what?

odin123 · 04-17-2007, 02:57 PM

Thanks, bOuncer.

The card is working properly in windows; in linux it worked properly as well before I changed to a new ISP with a service name (the one before had none); there is a light and the wire is connected.

I redid pppoeconf just to make sure, but nothing happened. Plog gave the message:

CHAP authentication failed
Connection terminated

So there's something missing somewhere, and I'm pretty sure it's the "service name" thing; I just don't know where to add it.

Cheers!

odin123 · 04-19-2007, 06:46 AM

Solved!

I installed the new rp-pppoe and used the gui tkpppoe which has indeed a field for "service name."

Thanks!