pppoa problem

Eihab E. Ibrahim eihab at qatar.net.qa
Sat Oct 23 12:55:36 PDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Long Story" <dead_line at hotmail.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:08 PM
Subject: pppoa problem


> Hello everyone here,
>
>   Im on FreeBSD 5.2-1 R
>   I want to make my bsd box dial the internet thro Speedtouch 330 USB 
> device.
>   From /ports/pppoa I have done make, make install , and everything 
> went fine.
>   I have done also whats instructed to do, which is :
>
>   cp /usr/local/etc/rc.d/adsl.sh.sample to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/adsl.sh
>   and
>   cp /usr/local/share/doc/speedtouch/ppp.conf.sample to 
> /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
>
>   and changed the adsl profile in ppp.conf to the correct 
> usrname,password,vpi, vci
>   also i have included the following in my /etc/rc.conf
>
> usbd_enable="YES"
> ppp_enable="YES"
> ppp_mode="ddial"
> ppp_profile="adsl"
>
[...]

You only need usbd_enable="YES" in your rc.conf.
Try removing the ppp_enable,ppp_mode,ppp_profile from
your rc.conf, and let the adsl.sh take over.

Hopefully it'll work this way.

Eihab E. Ibrahim 




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