speedtouch & bridged ethernet

Tuinslak · Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject: speedtouch & bridged ethernet

Hi,

Since a week i've got an ADSL modem (speedtouch 510) and adsl connection.

Now, i'd like my gentoo server to "route" my lan (dns, proxy, ...).

So I've set my modem to Bridged Ethernet, but from there on, I have no idea what to actually do.

I installed ppp0 (edited /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 -- but have no idea what to fill in in MODEMPORT="/dev/ttyS1"; as it is ethernet (on eth1)).

Are there any howto's around for pppoe? I haven't found any useful (or haven't searched long enough

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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

It would be great if you could test my new speedtouch ebuild.

Tuinslak · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:08 am Post subject:

# ebuild speedtouch-3.0.12.ebuild digest
!!! aux_get(): ebuild path for '/speedtouch-3.0.12' not specified: None
!!! aux_get(): ebuild path for '/speedtouch-3.0.12' not specified: None
aux_get() error reading /speedtouch-3.0.12; aborting.

And mainwhile, what can I do? I'd like to have it fixed asap

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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

You should have: /usr/local/portage/net-dialup/speedtouch/speedtouch-3.0.12.ebuild

Then the rest of the files go into /usr/local/portage/net-dialup/speedtouch/files/

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Here's a simple installation script:

Tuinslak · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:45 am Post subject:

I use a speedtouch 510 with NO usb, but only ethernet... Will it work too? (because I see all kind of USB things rolling down my screen)
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

It should. It's pulling in the "br2684ctl" ebuild to support PPP Over Ethernet, as mentioned in the other docs. The problem is, my modem is USB, so I haven't been able to physically test PPPoE - but it's set up as best as I can, from reading the docs by other people.

You will need to set up /etc/init.d/net.nas0 - the docs in /usr/share/doc/br2684ctl... should give some hints on that, I think.

Tuinslak · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:19 am Post subject:

All right, all seems up; just need to create/add nas0.

br2684ctl -b -c 0 -a 8.35
interface "nas0" could not be created, reason: No such device
Communicating over atm 0.8.35, encapsulation: LLC
fatal: failed to connect on socket
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Does "emerge --config speedtouch" show any warnings? Especially ones saying "Recompile the kernel with ...".

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Also, beware of kernel modules having to be explicitly loaded if not compiled into the kernel. i.e.:

Tuinslak · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject:

Tuinslak · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject:

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

So br2684ctl worked? Cool, now run:

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

You can temporarily remove "net.nas0" from depend() in /etc/init.d/speedtouch, seeing as you have not yet created that script.

Edit: After changing the dependencies like so, I think you need to run /etc/init.d/depscan.sh for the dependencies to be recalculated.

Tuinslak · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject:

$ /etc/init.d/depscan.sh
* caching service dependencies ...
/var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 1737: .linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/gentoo/index.html: no such files or directory
/var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 1738: from: command not found
* can't find service "net.nas0' needed by 'speedtouch'; continuing... [ok]
$ /etc/init.d/speedtouch start
net.nas0
* error: some services needed are missing. Run './speedtouch broken' for a list of those services. "speedtouch" was not started.
$ cat /etc/init.d/net.nas0
br2684ctl -b -c 0 -a 8.35

editing /etc/init.d/speedtouch, like this:
depend() {
# need localmount modules net.nas0
before ntp-client ntpd

and removing wrapped lines (.linux-usb.org/Speedblabla and from cmd not found problem)
removes all problems from ./etc/init.d/depscan.sh

now starting speedtouch:
gives: "twice," command not found, edited it in /etc/init.d/speedtouch (also wrapped)

starting it again:
Starting SpeedTouch ADSL modem ...
*long time nothing*
Timeout waiting for firmware loading
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

OK, the script has some bugs for me to fix. Try this:

Tuinslak · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject:

I receive no errors (pppd started by root) but I can't ping anything. Even ifconfig doesn't show any devices..? What did I do wrong? :oops:

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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

There must be some error messages in /var/log/messages?

Un-comment the "debug" line in /etc/ppp/peers/adsl

If "ifconfig" doesn't show nas0, then the br2684ctl command can't have succeeded.

Tuinslak · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 3:04 pm Post subject:

ifconfig nas0 works, but doesn't show any ip.

debug uncommented;

log:
pppd: plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
pppd: rp-pppoe plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.2
pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
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Tuinslak · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject:

I use adsl-start now, works fine. But is there a way to auto start it at boot?
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Ah, I see you've got it working with adsl-start. Apologies for my non-working ebuild, I'll make it USB-only.

Tuinslak · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:01 pm Post subject:

No problem.
Meanwhile the pc doesn't want to boot anymore... all kind of swap/hotplug/random errors... Believe one of my disks is corrupted...

I'll check the with a maxtor tool... seems like i will be able to reinstall everything anyway
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