From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: - adsl-setup doesn't generate configuration file /etc/.../network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp. (or /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf) - The ADSL connection won't come up on boot even if adsl-setup was told to do so. - I can connect by executing .../network-scripts/ifup-ppp, but basename complains about no argument when executing the script. - /sbin/ifup ppp can't be used (missing ifcfg-ppp) - .../network-scripts/ifdown-ppp doesn't work Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use adsl-setup. 2. 3. Additional info:
I've been able to solve the problem by doing the following: - Renaming ifcfg- to ifcfg-ppp0 and changing DEVICE= to DEVICE=ppp0 - Renaming ifup-ppp to ifup-ppp0 - Renaming ifdown-ppp to ifdown-ppp0 Now both /sbin/ifup ppp0 and /sbin/ifdown ppp0 work.
Sorry, the only neccessary thing is to rename ifcfg- to ifcfg-ppp0 and change DEVICE= to DEVICE=ppp0. So it seems that some variable in the adsl-setup is being set to "" instead of "ppp0".
It seem that the Rawhide version of rp-pppoe fix this problem... rp-pppoe.3.3.5 Personnaly i use the original version from roaming penguin website and it works
Sorry i've made a mistake, it should be corrected as mentionned in bugzilla 59236 but it is not.
Uh yeah, this is annoying. In 7.2 this worked quite well. Too stupid when you get stuck at this point. There's this strange dsl_device variable which is never defined if the previous 'if' isn't true... In fact I don't really know what's wrong but the script *is* buggy.
it's fixed in 3.4-4. You will find it in next rawhide release
This is an FAQ in Linux message boards. Dial-up servers without X Windows are a common thing and people are failing to set up ifcfg-ppp0 due to this bug. I wonder why Red Hat has not released an errata package for this?