PPPoE with Wireless card

kule · 10-06-2004, 12:12 PM

I have a D-Link DWL 520+ wireless card and I'm using acx100 driver on Slack 10, custom kernel 2.6.7. Everything was working great untill my ISP change the way to activate my wireless connection and now I have to make a PPPoE connection, but I don't know how. I tried the Roaring Penguin, but when I tried to connect it returned: "TIMED OUT".

Does anybody know how to setup this connection.

gbonvehi · 10-06-2004, 12:14 PM

I don't know the way you did it, but this steps always worked for me (not a wireless card but it should be the same).
netconfig
adsl-setup
adsl-start
adsl-stop

Just be sure you point the correct card name.

kule · 10-06-2004, 04:25 PM

Well my wireless card is wlan0, and I think netconfig only configures eth0.

To be more precise I didn't get an IP adress, so I think in netconfig I have to select DHCP; I didn't get any DNS servers so do I have to delete resolve.conf, I don't undertand these things; and do I have to load any kernel modules for PPPoE?

gbonvehi · 10-06-2004, 09:05 PM

If you have to use pppoe, then you have to run adsl-setup there you can choose which card you want to use for it, in your case wlan0. There no extra module needed to be loaded, if all goes right then typing adsl-start should connect to the isp and get the needed ip.

kule · 10-07-2004, 04:03 AM

Here is how I configured it:

Code:

root@kustudic:~# adsl-setup
Welcome to the Roaring Penguin ADSL client setup.  First, I will run
some checks on your system to make sure the PPPoE client is installed
properly...

Looks good!  Now, please enter some information:

USER NAME

>>> Enter your PPPoE user name (default kustudic): kustudic

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 wlan0): wlan0

Do you want the link to come up on demand, or stay up continuously?
If you want it to come up on demand, enter the idle time in seconds
after which the link should be dropped.  If you want the link to
stay up permanently, enter 'no' (two letters, lower-case.)
NOTE: Demand-activated links do not interact well with dynamic IP
addresses.  You may have some problems with demand-activated links.
>>> Enter the demand value (default no):

DNS

Please enter the IP address of your ISP's primary DNS server.
If your ISP claims that 'the server will provide DNS addresses',
enter 'server' (all lower-case) here.
If you just press enter, I will assume you know what you are
doing and not modify your DNS setup.
>>> Enter the DNS information here: server

PASSWORD

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

FIREWALLING

Please choose the firewall rules to use.  Note that these rules are
very basic.  You are strongly encouraged to use a more sophisticated
firewall setup; however, these will provide basic security.  If you
are running any servers on your machine, you must choose 'NONE' and
set up firewalling yourself.  Otherwise, the firewall rules will deny
access to all standard servers like Web, e-mail, ftp, etc.  If you
are using SSH, the rules will block outgoing SSH connections which
allocate a privileged source port.

The firewall choices are:
0 - NONE: This script will not set any firewall rules.  You are responsible
          for ensuring the security of your machine.  You are STRONGLY
          recommended to use some kind of firewall rules.
1 - STANDALONE: Appropriate for a basic stand-alone web-surfing workstation
2 - MASQUERADE: Appropriate for a machine acting as an Internet gateway
                for a LAN
>>> Choose a type of firewall (0-2): 0

** Summary of what you entered **

Ethernet Interface: wlan0
User name:          kustudic
Activate-on-demand: No
DNS addresses:      Supplied by ISP's server
Firewalling:        NONE

>>> 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@kustudic:~# adsl-start
................TIMED OUT

And this is what my ifconfig displays:

Code:

root@kustudic:~# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:88:82:E8:D8
          inet addr:62.108.112.88  Bcast:62.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:576  Metric:1
          RX packets:11320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2084 errors:273 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1902182 (1.8 Mb)  TX bytes:267778 (261.5 Kb)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xd800

What am I doing wrong??

kule · 10-08-2004, 11:45 AM

Everithing is working great now, thx for the help guys.

gbonvehi · 10-08-2004, 11:59 AM

Glad to hear that kule, btw, how did you fix it? (maybe other wireless users can learn from this)

kule · 10-09-2004, 05:40 PM

So this is how I did it.

You don't have to do anything with netconfig.

I insert acx_pci module:

Code:

modprobe acx_pci firmaware_dir=/path/toyour/firmware

then:

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 up

and then with iwconfig you setup your AP, Chanell and the rest.

Start

Code:

adsl-setup

answer simple questions and after that

Code:

adsl-start

to connect.

To disconnect use adsl-stop.

That's that. The most important thing is not to do anything with ifconfig except

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 up