no pppoe connection after installing arch [SOLVED]

scar · 2011-06-15 06:04:03

Hello

I'm trying to install arch on one of my friends machine. His ISP is working with PPPOE-connections.

I've made my installation as described in the wiki, with pppoe-setup. Everything worked as it should.
I've installed the system ( with the rp-pppoe package selected for install ).

After the installation, with my new system I've used pppoe-setup again to have a correct configuration.
But "pppoe start" doesn't launch anything, I just get a TIMEOUT message and that's all.

The network service is stopped in my rc.conf. Everything else is working.

How can I get this to work again?

JokerBoy · 2011-06-15 07:17:21

it needs net-tools.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24639

scar · 2011-06-16 13:06:14

I'll check it this evening, thank you for the link.

Gusar · 2011-06-16 18:13:13

You don't need to use the rp-pppoe package for pppoe, in fact using it is more cpu intensive than using the kernel pppoe implementation. For the kernel implementation just plain ppp will do. Then you either start pppd manually, or you use netcfg. For netcfg, first create a profile in /etc/network.d/

CONNECTION="ppp"
INTERFACE="ignore"
PRE_UP="ip link set dev eth0 up"
PEER="pppoe"

Then you need a peers file, named whatever you put in the profile, "pppoe" in our case, so create a /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe with this:

plugin rp-pppoe.so
eth0
noauth
defaultroute
usepeerdns
user username_here
password password_here

Now just start the profile.

scar · 2011-06-17 04:59:15

Thank you for the first post, It works. So, it is solved. However, I'll give a try to Gusar's post too.

SOLVED

ewaller · 2011-06-17 05:07:18

Scar,

You can edit the subject to add [SOLVED]. The mods don't always know when you think it is solved, so we don't usually do it for you. Because of your last post, I'll do it this time.

Thanks

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#1 2011-06-15 06:04:03

no pppoe connection after installing arch [SOLVED]

#2 2011-06-15 07:17:21

Re: no pppoe connection after installing arch [SOLVED]

#3 2011-06-16 13:06:14

Re: no pppoe connection after installing arch [SOLVED]

#4 2011-06-16 18:13:13

Re: no pppoe connection after installing arch [SOLVED]

#5 2011-06-17 04:59:15

Re: no pppoe connection after installing arch [SOLVED]

#6 2011-06-17 05:07:18

Re: no pppoe connection after installing arch [SOLVED]

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