hi, i've been trying to get Mdk 8.1 to connect to the internet via ADSL for the last 2 days on a friends computer with no luck.
i installed Mdk 8.1 from the Powerpack boxed set on an old AMD-233 with
64 MB RAM and 2Gb Hdd. the telco (TELUS in BC,canada) installed the line
and modem before he had the computer up. (this is happening at an office
in a garment store!!. he plans to host his own web site in a while, this
PC will eventually function as a firewall).
The ADSL modem is a D-Link DSL300i. the only ethernet device is a
"DECchip 21041 {Tulip pass 3]"
I finally managed to get X working on the "SiS 63xx PCI VGA" with just 2
Mb (640x480 limit) on the card KDE is a real drag. with icewm I could
get to the mandrake control center and to launch the wizard to configure
the ADSL link. but the wizard failed to bring up the link.
I used rp-pppoe as the protocol. I went thru the ADSL-HOWTO and also
check out the rp-pppoe docs. (and followed them to the letter)
/var/log/messages show the foll:
....Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/5
....Timecout waiting for PADO packets
....LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
the value /dev/pts/5 changes to 6 and the same errors repeat will pppd
dies and eventually pppoe.
i also tried with 'dhcpcd' protocol. this time the link seems to come up
with an valid ip assigned to it. 'ifconfig' shows a valid
ip/broadcast/sunet mask, even Linuxconf shows automatically obtained
DNS1 & 2 ip addresses. but I cannot ping any address except my own and
the DNS servers.
this is my first attempt at ADSL. what / where did i miss something ?
any pointers ? ideas ?
I need to get this done ASAP so I can convince him to go in for a linux
solution (he is currently biased towards a mac, of which i have'nt a
clue)
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Ashley Moore.
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