I am running Slackware 9.0 and I have SBC Yahoo DSL. I installed RP-PPPoE and put in my username, password, etc. I also tried disabled synchronous mode because I heard that it caused a problem. Nothing that I have tried will connect me to the internet. I've also read the tldp.org howto on dsl and still nothing. I am very new with linux, any suggestions?

i assume you installed rp-pppoe with gui ; did you specify the network interface which would probably be eth0 ? you also have to specify the dns service of your isp

yeah it is the eth0 and i specified that and i tried entering the dns ip manually as well as telling it to attain them from the server...neither one worked i tried using rp-pppoe w/out the gui also via /usr/sbin/adsl-setup and i set it up the same with the same results.... i know that my computer is connecting through the hub but i don't think that it is connecting to sbc yahoo through my 2wire router. DSL works just fine on the Windows 2000 partition on the same computer so i know that it has nothing to do with my DSL service. I also did the ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 down before i setup the rp-pppoe. is there anything else i can try, or am i just screwed

Try "adsl-setup", fill in your stuff, then type "adsl-start" and see what happens. If you see the word "Connected" you're good.

(all this as root of course)

I know this is a simple-ass solution, but I struggled for about two days before I ran across it, and when I tried it it worked right away. So, to save you some headaches, I thought I'd give it to as well (well, in case you haven't tried it yet anyway).



-zsejk

I tried that, all I get is "..........Timed Out"

Ugh. That's no good. But for now at least you have your stuff filled in, so as soon as you get an actual connection going, you can type "adsl-start" to start it.

Anyway... could you post your "ifconfig" output and your "dmesg" output (at least the part that relates to your internet connection.. i.e. anything that mentions your card or eth0)?

-zsejk

edit: and my apologies for not reading your second post througoughly enough... I see now that you had already tried that whole adsl-setup bit... sorry

here are the outputs:
Ifconfig:
root@seth:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 000:09:B6:E4:00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2340 (2.2 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


dmesg (i deleted all the stuff i thought irrelevant because it didn't have anything to do with my internet connection):
root@seth:~# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.20 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 Mon Mar 17
22:02:15 PST 2003
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:01.1
eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xc000, IRQ 11, 00:d0:09:b6:e4:00.
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:38:38 Mar 11 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex

let me know if there is anything else i need to show you and thanks for all of your help...i'm completely lost as to what to do

~Seth

edit:
these might help too, sorry i didn't post them before

my adsl-setup
root@seth:~# /usr/sbin/adsl-setup
USER NAME

>>> Enter your PPPoE user name (default parker4701@sbcglobal.net):
parker4701@sbcglobal.net

INTERFACE

>>> Enter the Ethernet interface connected to the ADSL modem
For Solaris, this is likely to be something like /dev/hme0.
For Linux, it will be ethn, where 'n' is a number.
(default eth0): eth0

Do you want the link to come up on demand, or stay up continuously?
>>> Enter the demand value (default no): no

DNS
>>> Enter the DNS information here: server

PASSWORD
>>> Please enter your PPPoE password:
>>> Please re-enter your PPPoE password:

FIREWALLING

>>> Choose a type of firewall (0-2): 1

** Summary of what you entered **

Ethernet Interface: eth0
User name: @sbcglobal.net
Activate-on-demand: No
DNS addresses: Supplied by ISP's server
Firewalling: STANDALONE

>>> Accept these settings and adjust configuration files (y/n)? y
Adjusting /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf
Adjusting /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
(But first backing it up to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets-bak)
(But first backing it up to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets-bak)
Congratulations, it should be all set up!

Type 'adsl-start' to bring up your ADSL link and 'adsl-stop' to bring
it down. Type 'adsl-status' to see the link status.
root@seth:~# adsl-start
................TIMED OUT
/usr/sbin/adsl-start: line 194: 700 Terminated $CONNECT
"$@" >/dev/null 2>&1


the adsl-status:
root@seth:~# adsl-status
adsl-status: Link is down (can't read pppoe PID file
/var/run/pppoe.conf-adsl.pid.pppoe)

God.. I have no idea. Everything about your eth0 seems fine... it looks *exactly* like mine does, which was connected to Earthlink DSL without any issues. When you ran "netconfig" (or when you were in that section during install), did you select Static IP or DHCP? For that matter: does SBC Yahoo DSL work with DHCP? What kind of error message do you get when you type "pppoe" at the prompt, if any? Since I'm asking silly questions: what happens when you ping a random site? Any interesting error messages?

Ok, lastly then: can you post the uncommented sections of your /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf file? With all personal info hidden of course...



Here's what I have in mine:

I'm sure that was completely useless, but oh well.



Just out of curiosity: did you try "adsl-setup" and "adsl-start" *before* you installed Roaring Penguin, or only after?

-zsejk


edit: gah! your edit beat my post ah well.... can you post the remaining pppoe.conf bits you didn't post before?

adsl-start is a frontend to adsl-connect, I'd suggest u try running adsl-connect and copy the output here. Hopefully, we'll have more info to help you with.

adsl-connect:
root@seth:~# adsl-connect
ipchains: Protocol not available
ipchains: Protocol not available
ipchains: Protocol not available
ipchains: Protocol not available
ipchains: Protocol not available
ipchains: Protocol not available
ipchains: Protocol not available
ipchains: Protocol not available
ipchains: Protocol not available
ipchains: Protocol not available
Using interface ppp1
Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/pts/2
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Connection terminated.
pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADS packets
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Connection terminated.
pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADS packets
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Connection terminated.
pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADS packets
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Connection terminated.
pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADS packets
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Connection terminated.
pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADS packets
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Connection terminated.
pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADS packets

pppoe:
ETH='eth0'

USER='username@myprovider.net'

DEMAND=no
#DEMAND=300

DNSTYPE=SERVER

PEERDNS=no

DNS1=
DNS2=

DEFAULTROUTE=yes

CONNECT_TIMEOUT=30

CONNECT_POLL=2

ACNAME=

SERVICENAME=

PING="."

CF_BASE=`basename $CONFIG`
PIDFILE="/var/run/$CF_BASE-adsl.pid"

SYNCHRONOUS=no

CLAMPMSS=1412
#CLAMPMSS=no

LCP_INTERVAL=20
LCP_FAILURE=3

PPPOE_TIMEOUT=80

FIREWALL=STANDALONE

LINUX_PLUGIN=

PPPOE_EXTRA=""

PPPD_EXTRA=""

~Seth

I really have no real help to offer you other than checking if your cables are still intact, that maybe you missed some package during install, or that maybe installing Roaring Penguin as a seperate program after your Slackware install interfered with your connection and blablabla, so I'll just shut up.



Anyway... people are discussing SBC Yahoo in this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=2

as well, and SDSkyle according to his post set it up in Slackware without any problems (using the same 2Wire hardware as you). So maybe you can post in that thread after you maybe re-install so that perhaps SDSkyle can explain to you how he got things to work.

-zsejk

From your error, it seems that the connection couldn't even be initialized in the first place. Is the hardware that you're using to connect (network card), detected in Linux?

Can you paste your ifconfig output here?

It's already up there...



-zsejk

Bargh... blind me

I know u mentioned u did eth0 down/up bit when u setup rp-ppoe... but did you do it before running adsl-connect?

You might want to try that...

ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up; adsl-start

Hope this works for you

I was just doing the same thing today. Check your /etc/ppp/options file, it has to be empty.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere