Hi all, Today i got my brand new ADSL-Toy :-) It works fast and without problems so far, but only root can start the connection via pon dsl (renamend dsl-provider to dsl).
Kernel 2.2.18; Debian unstable; pppoe user space I get the following in var/log/ppp.log as root: Jan 26 17:37:39 nathan pppd[9713]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0 Jan 26 17:37:39 nathan pppd[9713]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:37:39 nathan pppd[9713]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 snip Jan 26 17:41:43 nathan pppd[9713]: Terminating on signal 15. Jan 26 17:41:43 nathan pppd[9713]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:43 nathan pppd[9713]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:43 nathan pppd[9713]: Child process pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 (pid 9714) terminated with signal 15 Jan 26 17:41:43 nathan pppd[9713]: Connect time 4.1 minutes. Jan 26 17:41:43 nathan pppd[9713]: Sent 2885 bytes, received 3311 bytes. Jan 26 17:41:43 nathan pppd[9713]: Exit. this is ok and this as debianuser: Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: pppd 2.4.0 started by debianuser, uid 1003 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: write: warning: Input/output error (5) Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: write: warning: Input/output error (5) Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: write: warning: Input/output error (5) Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: write: warning: Input/output error (5) Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: write: warning: Input/output error (5) Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: write: warning: Input/output error (5) Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Modem hangup Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 17:41:51 nathan pppd[9751]: Exit. and with debug: snip Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3 Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 2400> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x616b5262> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: write: warning: Input/output error (5) Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Modem hangup Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Script pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 finished (pid 10028), status = 0x7f00 Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3 Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 2400> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xcf630c71> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Modem hangup Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Connection terminated. Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Script pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 finished (pid 10029), status = 0x7f00 Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3 Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <mru 2400> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x7704a0b> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Modem hangup Jan 26 18:56:12 nathan pppd[10027]: Connection terminated. snip What is wrong? Bad permissions? I have played with the permissions for /dev/pts also i have set the suid-bit for pppoe because i can't start it as user. Now i can start pppoe as user but with no effect to my problem I have looked in the manual but no info found. Any hints? Reiner Stallknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]