ADSL connection with Woody

[Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique)]

Le 20 Septembre 2003 15:00, gilles fourchet a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I am struggling with my ADSL connection for a couple a
> weeks now and I have reach the limit of my imagination.
>  So I would need your help.
>
> I had Rogers before and switched to an ADSL provider
> (EOL).  I red a bunch of docs and HOWTOs:  bottom line,
> as per what I red, it should be straightforward.  Based
> on that, I just installed the PPPoE package (Roaring
> Penguin) as well as the PPPoEconf one (I am using
> Debian Woody and PPPoEconf is the equivalent of
> ADSL-Setup for the other distros).  I plug the ADSL
> modem and start PPPoEconf: pppoe, Timeout Waiting for
> PADO packets.  Well.  I call my provider which confirms
> that everything is okay for them (I even brought the
> modem them to be tested.  Of course, it was fine).
> They open a ticket with Bell, which says that
> everything is okay from their network to my house.
> Perfect.  So the problem is in my house.  I ask Bell to
> come and, everything is okay in the house as well.

I just had the same problem. My ADSL connection was done most part of the week 
and I couldn't figure out why. The sunday before, my ISP had a hardware 
problem and I attributed all the guilt to them. The same, they opened a 
ticket, they called Bell, I talked to them etc.
But, then I remember I BOUGHT A NEW PHONE! A nice phone btw, it's a general 
electric you can carry at the belt and you talk thru the headset and 
microphone. Very handy! (26977GE2)
And you know what? I unplugged the phone from the wall switch and everythings 
gets back to normal. (no more PADO complaints, and no more timeout 
Config-Requests!...)

I cannot understand the reason why the phone seems to disrupt the normal 
working of the line.  I just have my ADSL back.

I would be happy to understand what happened here.



> Hum.  So the problem is with the kernel (so far, I was
> using the standard 2.8.18 kernel provided with Woody).
> I download the version 2.4.22, I use a recent machine
> (my firewall is an old 486 with NE2000 NIC) to be sure
> that the hardware is okay and I ensure that I select in
> the kernel all the PPP options as a module.  Once
> again, timeout, no PADO packets.  From there, I tried
> to load manually the module ppp_synctty but it did not
> change anything.
>
> As it seems that the configuration of ADSL is simple,
> the documentation missed an important information: it
> is simple as long as the system is correctly
> configured.  Obviously, mine is not and I have not
> found any documentation which explains what to do.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gilles
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