Re: ADSL/pppoe configuration problem

From: easf cdscvs (trailoflight_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/31/04

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    Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:33:42 -0700 (PDT)
    To: "Jeremy T. Bouse" <jbouse@debian.org>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
    
    

    The weird part about it that using
    my knoppix cd, and running the same tool,
    it *does* find the access concentrator,
    asks me for a name and password and connects okay.
    Any ideas?

    --- "Jeremy T. Bouse" <jbouse@debian.org> wrote:

    > I'm not sure exactly who your ADSL provider is but
    > having gone
    > through a similar error situation with SBC Yahoo DSL
    > service I'd suggest
    > checking with your providers tier 2 tech support
    > that the line is
    > actually properly configured for PPPOE. In my case
    > they had the line
    > configured to ignore the LCP connection request
    > packets so my system was
    > failing to see their access concentrator. Once the
    > tech corrected this
    > problem I could see the AC using pppoe-discover or
    > pppoeconf without a
    > problem.
    >
    > Now for me actually authenticating became the issue
    > after I
    > could see their AC as it seems their RedBack
    > configuration was denying
    > my /28 subnet configuration being handed to it via
    > RADIUS. As of this
    > writing I'm still not authenticated and it's been
    > since the 20th that
    > they said this order was completed.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Jeremy
    >
    > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:14:38AM -0700, easf
    > cdscvs wrote:
    > > Hello, I just recently installed debian, and I
    > can't
    > > configure my ADSL connection.
    > > When I run the configuration in the menu, it says
    > it
    > > found the ethernet device,
    > > but the next step fails, something about "access
    > > concentrator not found" and hinting that another
    > > proccess may be using it.
    > >
    > > Any idea what I might do? Right now I'm using
    > knoppix
    > > and
    > > The adsl
    > > configuration tool works fine,
    > > just promting me for a name and password, and I
    > can
    > > connect
    > > to my ADSL connection. And yes,
    > > I did load the kernel modules for my network
    > adapter.
    > > I also loaded the "pppoe" module, and it still
    > refuses
    > > to work.
    > >
    > > Any ideas what I can do?
    > >
    > >
    > >
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