On Thursday 18 January 2001 23:22, you wrote:
> Dear friends
>
> Would very much appreciate your help with figuring out why my new
> Earthlink/Covad/ADSL works in Win98 but not in Linux.
I don't see why it wouldn't work in Linux. I don't have Windows, I will
probably never have windows here.
What features does your ADSL have? Does it, for instance, require PPP over
Ethernet, or does it not give you a static IP, you have to do DHCP, etc?
Those 'extras' (i.e., garbage to make the DSL provider's life easier or
whatever) will make life far more difficult for you. My DSL provider doesn't
do that, which is nice - so over here, it is a static IP connection; all I do
is ifconfig and route and I'm online :).
You might want to peek into your Windows configuration files and see if there
is anything that would make it seem as if you were using dhcp or ppp over
ethernet etc. Did Earthlink give you 'connection' software, for instance?
What does your ifconfig, route, etc. say in Linux? Can it see the network
card?
> When I booted up to Linux, Linux could not detect my ADSL. The eth0
> refuses to recognize my ADSL. After two minutes I get a big fat red X
> and it moves on.
That could mean that it guessed dhcp (which is more common) and it's sitting
trying to authenticate that way, and it'll just sit there if your DSL
provider doesn't use that method. When I first installed Mandrake two weeks
ago (prior to that I was using an older Red Hat) the net configuration tool
incorrectly did that and it was just sitting there in the bootup. After
fixing that problem, bootups are fine.
> (By the way, Earthlink's ADSL modem is made by a different company than
> the one used by Bellsouth or by Juno/Covad)
That shouldn't be an issue. I have a Westell DSL modem.
> ago, I selected the "non-" option and Linux immediately installed the
> dhcpd file. When I rebooted, Juno ADSL was immediately recognized. No
PPPoE and DHCP are two different things. PPPoE requires an extra piece of
software on Linux in order to work. You need to find out whether or not your
provider uses PPPoE. I forget what's required exactly, since I don't use it.
> Benjamin
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