Description of problem: Activating ADSL no longer appears to work in Fedora 7 after using the same hardware in FC 3 to FC 6. There are continual timeouts and the resulting connection is subsequently terminated. Example errors from /var/log/messages: pppd[3395]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0 pppd[3395]: Using interface ppp0 pppd[3395]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3 pppd[3395]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests pppd[3395]: LCP: Connection terminated pppd[3395]: LCP: Modem hangup pppd[3395]: LCP: Timeout waiting for PADO packets ...etc ADSL setup was done using /usr/sbin/pppoe-setup providing the same data as in earlier versions of Fedora. Full details of 2 people having the same problem (with debugging output in 2nd report) are available at: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=803017 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rp-pppoe-3.8-1.fc7 ppp-2.4.4-2 To reproduce: run /usr/sbin/adsl-start are configuring ADSL connection with /usr/sbin/pppoe-setup
For some reason, this problem has now been solved by just re-installing PPP from the Fedora 7 install DVD. I.e.: rpm -i --replacepkgs [path to ppp-2.4.4-2 RPM on Fedora 7 installation DVD] Once that was done, adsl worked (i.e. no connection timeouts). This solution was quite by accident. I originally slotted in the FC6 binaries of pppoe and pppd in the hope they'd work, but accidentally deleted the original F7 version of pppd requiring me to re-install it from DVD. So I guess this can be closed