Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare!
Hugo Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040829 08:53]: Today I went to a friend's house to install FreeBSD on his workstation, trying to make him change to open source software. I am a cable user and he has ADSL. I had never configured ADSL on FreeBSD, nor USB connections to the net. So I did some pre-reading on the handbook and some tutorials.. I tried configuring one of these things for FreeBSD. The web page directions were extremely simple, with the minor problem that they, ahh, didn't work. (Even had a bit on UK connections - I'm in the UK.) I never did get it to work right. I am now using a Speedtouch 510, which does the connection itself, and can be confitured using a web interface (it was *easier* to configure using the web interface via FreeBSD than using its custom application on Windows!) or even by telneting directly to the device - ah, bliss ;-) - d. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare!
Yes, tell me about the instructions that don't work. I could only get a response from the PPPoE server 7 hours later.. just to get stuck on: Too many LCP requests sent - abandoning negotiation. It would be nice if some PPP guru could explain what that error means (apart from too many LCP requests have been sent, and the driver is abandoning the negotiation) Any feedback is VERY MUCH welcome :-) Regards, Hugo Hugo Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040829 08:53]: Today I went to a friend's house to install FreeBSD on his workstation, trying to make him change to open source software. I am a cable user and he has ADSL. I had never configured ADSL on FreeBSD, nor USB connections to the net. So I did some pre-reading on the handbook and some tutorials.. I tried configuring one of these things for FreeBSD. The web page directions were extremely simple, with the minor problem that they, ahh, didn't work. (Even had a bit on UK connections - I'm in the UK.) I never did get it to work right. I am now using a Speedtouch 510, which does the connection itself, and can be confitured using a web interface (it was *easier* to configure using the web interface via FreeBSD than using its custom application on Windows!) or even by telneting directly to the device - ah, bliss ;-) - d. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.6s-gaming.com -- www.6s-gaming.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare!
Hi, Today I went to a friend's house to install FreeBSD on his workstation, trying to make him change to open source software. I am a cable user and he has ADSL. I had never configured ADSL on FreeBSD, nor USB connections to the net. So I did some pre-reading on the handbook and some tutorials.. I took an old 3GB hdd I had with me. Since he only has one computer, I had to constantly change the hard disks to boot windows FreeBSD (just installed on the 3G disk). I downloaded alcatel's firmware, the pppoa port, compiled bridging support on the kernel, tap device.. I had never touched ppp even, my times on dialup were on windows 95. After 6 hours lost (I though the connection was PPPoA.. wrong), I called the ISP techy support and they told me the protocol used is PPPoE. Right. So I did a quick reconfigure on the ppp.conf file. Without pap or chap (which, from what I understood, is the authentication scheme) it will say my friend's login is already in use. I was really happy to see that, finally after almost 7.30 hours a response from the server! (up until then I was being promptly disconnected). So I enabled papchap, and expecting an established connection to the net.. this is what I get: Too many LCP REQs sent - abandoning negotiation Aug 28 19:54:51 kittenizer ppp[627]: tun0: Phase: deflink: Too many LCP REQs sent - abandoning negotiation Ok.. There I unplugged the freebsd disk, plugged his winxp disk, did a bit googling for the 20th time or so.. Few results came up. I tried lowering MTU MRU to 1492, disabling extra options, set cd 5 , among others. I don't have the ppp.conf file here, but it only had the authkey, authname, login, dial, PPPoE:tag0, all the essentials from a working config I found on the net from a guy who could get the connection working on this ISP, although I digged most of the options by the time I found that thread. All I know is LCP stands for line control protocol. The only idea I had (after leaving his house) was trying to disable LQR, which, from what I understood, is somehow related to LCP. Another possibility is the service tag missing? I understand the format is PPPoE:tag0:service_tag_here , but I have no idea of what the service tag is. Would a missing stag cause the LCP error ? Finally, there was someone saying the old user-land ppp version would work whilst the new one caused this same problem to him. I will be going to his home next week again, hopefully with some answers. Shame I don't have a test connection, as I stated on the beginning of this mail I run on cable (dhclient rl0 is WAY EASIER :D). Please excuse me if I missed something obvious on the configuration, but as I said I'm completely new to both PPP ADSL. Many thanks in advance! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare!
it was said: So I enabled papchap, and expecting an established connection to the net.. this is what I get: Aug 28 19:54:51 kittenizer ppp[627]: tun0: Phase: deflink: Too many LCP REQs sent - abandoning negotiation Hello, Because you didn't include configs, logs, etc., I'm going to guess that the error is caused by, ...I enabled papchap Generally, one uses a single authentication protocol; but as I said, under the circumstances I can only guess. HTH, Stheg ___ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
