I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a connection I don't even understand how the browsers, etc. know how to use it. And this is after reading the docs, searching Google and the Debian list, etc. Is there a good step by step guide somewhere?
When I run pppoeconf I get: "the Access Concentrator of your provider did not respond." I have also tried pppoe-setup. At this point, I really wonder if the modem is even connected to the computer. Is there a way to check it? I have no idea what to do next, so any help would be greatly appreciated. The following is what I have so far and I know I'm not even close because Apache, FTP, and Dict no longer work. Westell 6100 modem DSL2+Router I have added my password information to chap-secrets and pap-secrets. Syslog ----- eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 11, 00:d0:09:c9:6d:94 lsmod ----- pppoe 14528 0 pppox 3720 1 pppoe sis900 20612 0 /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp auto dsl-provider iface dsl-provider inet ppp provider dsl-provider pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf lotek:~# ifup eth0 Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 ppp0: unknown hardware address type 512 ppp1: unknown hardware address type 512 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 ppp0: unknown hardware address type 512 ppp1: unknown hardware address type 512 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:18:3a:f7:c4:14 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:18:3a:f7:c4:14 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 bound to 192.168.1.47 -- renewal in 43200 seconds. lotek:~# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:3A:F7:C4:14 inet addr:192.168.1.47 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::218:3aff:fef7:c414/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:725852 (708.8 KiB) TX bytes:8530 (8.3 KiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:123662 (120.7 KiB) TX bytes:123662 (120.7 KiB) ppp1 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]