Bug 156773

Summary: Can't connect to ADSL
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Matej Repinc <mrepinc>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Christian Zoz <zoz>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jlp, max, mvidner, suse-beta
Version: Beta 6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.1   
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Attachments: Folders /var/log/YaST2/ and /etc/sysconfig/network.

Description Matej Repinc 2006-03-09 22:11:17 UTC
After i installed SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta 6 i tried to connect to the internet via ADSL(PPPoE). I properly installed the network card, and added ISP to the list of ISP's. I only entered the username i use to connect to the internet, and i used the option that you have to enter password for that account everytime you connect to the internet. But it has never asked me for the password. Is it something you have to do to connect or it does it automaticly at boot time (I have set that it connects to the internet at boot time).
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-03-13 15:57:25 UTC
Please attach the directory /var/log/YaST/ as well as /etc/sysconfig/network.
Comment 2 Matej Repinc 2006-03-14 17:18:21 UTC
Created attachment 72832 [details]
Folders /var/log/YaST2/ and /etc/sysconfig/network.

I could only find the YaST2 directory and not YaST.
Comment 3 Michael Gross 2006-03-15 16:32:01 UTC
Asking Martin for help.
Comment 4 Matej Repinc 2006-04-01 21:00:05 UTC
I installed SuSE Linux 10.1 beta 9 today, and i still can't connect to ADSL. Do you need the folders /var/log/YaST/ and /etc/sysconfig/network ?
Comment 5 Matej Repinc 2006-04-17 12:41:41 UTC
Have you checked the bug? Will the bug be still present in 10.1 final release?
Comment 7 Martin Vidner 2006-04-21 12:30:51 UTC
Too much other work, sorry :-(

The config files look ok (except the colons are replaced by underscores in the ifcfg filenames, but I suppose that's just a side effect of using zip instead of tar. see also http://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST )

So I think it is a sysconfig problem
Comment 8 Matej Repinc 2006-04-22 11:33:14 UTC
I tried to connect to adsl via console, but the commands pppoe-start, adsl-start and pppoe-conf were not found. May this be the problem?
Comment 9 Christian Zoz 2006-04-24 09:29:43 UTC
Disable NetworkManager and switch to 'traditional network setup'.
Does dsl work then?
Comment 10 Matej Repinc 2006-04-26 14:21:32 UTC
I switched from Network Manager to "Traditional network setup with ifup" and it dosen't work either.
Comment 11 Christian Zoz 2006-04-27 10:59:53 UTC
Reinhard, afaik you inherited our dsl equipment and the dsl line from Arvin. Did you test dsl functionality on code10 products?
Comment 12 Reinhard Max 2006-04-27 12:43:38 UTC
I just re-checked it, and it works fine. Kinternet allows me to create and destroy the PPPoE connection, and if the password wasn't saved in the network configuration, it asks me for it. So this bug report looks much like a user error tom me.

Matej, SUSE Linux doesn't contain commands that are named pppoe-start, adsl-start and pppoe-conf. PPP(oE) connections are opened either via dial-on-demand (which I think requires you to save the password in the network configuration), or via one of the client programs that connect to smpppd (i.e. kinternet or cinternet), which ask you for the password if needed when you tell them to establish the connection.

The only peculiarity I noticed in my test was that the YaST DSL module didn't auto-detect the DSL modem (a regular ethernet-based one from Deutsche Telekom connected to eth1), although tcpdump showed that during the detection phase of the YaST module the right PPPoE discovery packages got sent and answered.
Comment 13 Reinhard Max 2006-04-27 12:50:27 UTC
Whoops, I have to correct myself. There is a command called pppoe-start in the rp-pppoe package that is contained in SUSE Linux, but that package is not needed for normal PPPoE internet access.

Matej, does your DSL line work with other versions of (SUSE) Linux, or with other operating systems?
Comment 14 Matej Repinc 2006-04-28 11:43:06 UTC
My DSL line worked okay with Mandriva Linux 2005 and 2006, Knoppix and M$ win xp. Modem is ISKRATEL Calisto821(got it from my ISP SiOL). I'll try connecting with Kinternet and Cinternet.
Comment 15 Matej Repinc 2006-04-28 12:30:07 UTC
Yup, it works with Kinternet, thanks for all your help!
Comment 16 Christian Zoz 2006-04-28 12:49:48 UTC
Fine.

NM cannot handle DSL connections currently. That's not a bug but a missing feature. NetControl (traditional method) works. --> INVALID