ADSL can't connect

opiu · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 56

Hi, I've followed the gentoo docs to have the network working, but I cannot access the internet. With rc-status I have the eth0 service always in starting. and if I ping an host, I get "unknown host". With ifconfig, no ipaddress is assigned to my eth0. I connect to the internet using a dial-up adsl connection. I have only ppp installed. Here my config,as in docs:

config_eth0=( null )
config_ppp0=( "ppp" )
link_ppp0="eth0"
plugins_ppp0=( "pppoe" )
username_ppp0='user'
password_ppp0='password'
pppd_ppp0=(
"noauth"
"defaultroute"
"usepeerdns"
"holdoff 3"
"child-timeout 60"
"lcp-echo-interval 15"
"lcp-echo-failure 3"
noaccomp noccp nobsdcomp nodeflate nopcomp novj novjccomp
)

depend_ppp0() {
need net.eth0
}

thansk, Alessandro

TemplarKnight · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

Please be more specific whether you can get connected or not, i.e.
what does /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 restart say?

opiu · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 56

Thanks for reply... It just says that eth0 must be started in order to start too. And if I give rc-status I can see that eth0 in in "starting" status

TemplarKnight · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:20 am Post subject:

What modem do you have? Is the module loaded?
Try lsmod and post any messages from dmesg or /var/log/messages if there are any

Also: this line config_eth0=(null) should be like: config_eth0=("null").

You followed this howto, right?

opiu · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 56

Hi, as soon as I get my laptop, I will post the messages from lsmod and dmesg.
I'm not following the how-to you advised, because rp-pppoe is deprecated. Btw I'll start from there and links...

Thanks so far... I will get back in some days :-)

Alessandro