gary wrote
Alex - The Alcatel Speed Touch Home modem worked just fine with Centos5 on a different machine.
Trying to activate sytem-config-network gives the following:
/sbin/adsl-start: line 214: 3132 Terminated $CONNECT"$@" >/dev/null 2>&1
I have no /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf - not installed - having run adsl-setup after a fresh reinstall.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0:
USERCTL=yes BOOTPROTO=dialup NAME=DSLppp0 DEVICE=ppp0 TYPE=xDSL ONBOOT=yes PIDFILE=/var/run/pppoe-adsl.pid FIREWALL=STANDALONE PING=. PPPOE_TIMEOUT=80 LCP_FAILURE=3 LCP_INTERVAL=20 CLAMPMSS=1412 CONNECT_POLL=6 CONNECT_TIMEOUT=60 DEFROUTE=yes SYNCHRONOUS=no ETH=eth0 PROVIDER=DSLppp0 USER=garys@mtaonline.net PEERDNS=no DEMAND=no
I'll tinker with some these values and hope for success. ----gary
Alex wrote Comparing your output with my own ifcfg-ppp0 reveals nothing different. That's interesting that it fails how it does though. Is there more than one NIC in this PC? If there is you must make sure you have defined the correct card.
/etc/ppp/pppoe.conf being missing is okay, I had a brain dead moment. pppoe.conf no longer exists as that information has been incorporated into ifcfg-ppp0 for a little while now.
Does running 'adsl-start' from a terminal reveal any information to you? 'adsl-connect' which is called by 'adsl-start' sends errors to syslog, have a gander and see if adsl-connect is leaving behind any useful information about why it's not connecting or if it's just timing out.
You may also try invoking 'adsl-start' in the following manner: 'sudo adsl-start eth0 username@domain.tld' see what happens. Please mind line wrapping.
Alex Only eth0 - onboard - no cards.
I think i saw the following error message breeze by during one startup:................missing (or failed to load) /lib/modules/????????????generic/kernel/drivers/net/pppoe.ko
I continue to suspect a missing driver or avahi issue.
Now I've overwritten the partition with Ubuntu - need to get this machine up and running.
Thanks for the suggestions --------gary