From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.0.2 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20011226 Description of problem: Support is missing for PPPoA ADSL users. Also missing pppoatm.so plugin for ppp (see another open bug for this one) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to use neat to setup a PPPoA ADSL connexion! Not listed. 2. 3. Actual Results: No way to setup my ADSL cnx. Expected Results: Support for my ADSL cnx. Additional info: I own an Alcatel Speed Touch USB ADSL modem, provided by France Telecom for use with its ADSL service (Wanadoo). - Alactel Speed Touch support is not included in RH7.2 (Mandrake does include support, but you've to add a closed source binary by yourself) - pppoatm.so plugin for ppp is missing in RH7.2 - as of kernel-2.4.9-13, PPP over ATM is correctly included wrt the kernel To make my modem work under RH7.2, I had to: - get sarlib-0.2.4 (ATM support lib), speedtouch-1.5.tar (kernel module), speedmgmt.tar.gz (this last one is closed source IIRC) - compile sarlib and speedtouch - install speedmgmt.tar.gz and speedtouch kernel module - include the correct line in /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap - add a modprobe -k pppoatm in /etc/hotplug/usb/speedtouch, plus a sleep 3 before starting speedmgmt Then for the ADSL cnx: - downgrade ppp to a one including pppoatm.so plugin - create /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 with: lock defaultroute noipdefault noauth passive asyncmap 0 lcp-echo-interval 2 lcp-echo-failure 7 name <username> user <username> usepeerdns plugin /usr/lib/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so 8.35 - create a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 with DEVICE=ppp0 NAME=ADSL USERCTL=true ONBOOT=no PERSIST=no DEFROUTE=yes DEMAND=no DEVNAME=ppp0 - change /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-post to remove the following line: rm -f /etc/ppp/peers/$DEVICE Conclusion: PPPoA ADSL could be better supported! Thanks, Cedric Maion
Which version of redhat-config-network are you using?
redhat-config-network-0.9.10-2 (stock RH7.2 I think)
we only have pppoe ... not pppoA (over ATM)! so it is a RFE..
Dupe of bug 56467 ?
yep
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56467 ***
I have an internal ADSL PCI board from Traverse (http://www.traverse.com.au/). I'm not required to use the PPPOA plugin with PPP, since I can connect with "pppd call adsl". But my problem is: how can I have a valid ifcfg-ppp0 startup script so that my system can be brought on-line after a reboot? RH8.0 is definitely missing PPPOA support... what's the best way to have it working? I don't think this is a duplicate of 56467, since in my case pppoatm.so is not needed in my case.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.