Re: problems connecting to ameritech.net dsl: debugging trtried

[Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>]

Cheryl:

DSL is often, though not always in my experience, separate from ppp. So, 
let's back up a bit. Where and how are you connected? The DSL provider 
gave you a router box, right? Part of that is a wire from the phone jack 
to the box. Another part is a wire from the box to your computer. What on 
your computer is it connecting to? In my case, it's an ethernet card, so 
its ifconfig that configures my connection, and route add default that 
identifies my gateway.

I do understand that some DSL providers are actually packaging all of this 
into a card, so that the wire from the wall goes into an rj11 on the card 
that goes into a pci slot in your computer. I am still not copnvinced, 
however, that you'r doing ppp--though that's certainly possible. So, what 
devices does dmesg show?



 On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Cheryl Homiak 
wrote:

> Ok, first I tried going into the ppp/options file and setting a debug
> level but that didn't put any more information into syslog.  When I tried
> typing pppd debug  I was told "the remote system is required to
> authenticate itself but I couldn't find a suitable secret password for it
> to do so.  None of the available passwords would let it use an ip
> address."  If this is talking about my password with ameritech.net, I
> checked what I have in pap-secrets and it's the one ameritech claims is my
> password, though it's not the one I tried to put it in the system so it
> must be a default one.  Any more ideas?  I do try to research things and
> read info and man pages, but if you tell me to do something it might be
> wise to tell me how to do it.  Thanks.
> One thought:  is the dsl system completely separate from the ppp/dialup
> system?  If not, I was wondering if I could try accessing it through the
> access number by ppp to see if my user id and password really work.  The
> interesting thing is that when I try sending email to my supposed new
> email address, I get it back as undeliverable.  Maybe they don't activate
> your email until you actually log in for the first time?  I don't know.
> 
> Cheryl
> 
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