GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 140408
pppoe (DSL/ADSL) connections not supported
Last modified: 2007-12-26 01:37:54 UTC
I am connected to the internet via DSL. On debian, I made this connection by running the pppoeconf tool. This creates a connection that I think is called ppp0 - for instance, the Network Monitor control panel lists "ppp0" and "lo". But the network-admin tool only shows a eth0 connection, which it says is inactive. In case it's useful, when I run /sbin/ifconfig, I see this: root@murrayc_debian:/home/murrayc# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:01:70:45 inet6 addr: fe80::210:a4ff:fe01:7045/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:15152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12038 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:17595586 (16.7 MiB) TX bytes:1746496 (1.6 MiB) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x310 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:278 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:278 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:17510 (17.0 KiB) TX bytes:17510 (17.0 KiB) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:217.232.164.137 P-t-P:217.5.98.173 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:14917 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:17192533 (16.3 MiB) TX bytes:1420803 (1.3 MiB)
Sorry Murray, my experience with pppoe interfaces is null, and network-admin will most surely ignore them (at least currently). I'd like to add support for more interface types in a short/med term, but before this I'm focusing on the current features, as I'd want to make a 1.0 release before adding more focusing on new tools/features
Yeah, I don't know how to do it either. I just wanted to point it out.
I think main problem with ppp connections is, that gnome-system-tools doesn't detect existing connections from /etc/ppp/peers If user creates ppp connection with some other configuration tool (e.g. pppconfig) or he creates configuration file in /etc/ppp/peers and /etc/chatscripts manually, then network-admin doesn't detect these configuration and doesn't allow to activate (command pon on Debian/Ubuntu systems) these connections :( I'm attaching example of one manually configured connection (I use this ppp conection with EDGE/GPRS PCMCIA card (modems) and it works fine if I activate this connection with command "pon bite-biz", but network-admin doesn't see this connection and doesn't allow me to activate this connection :( Maybe subject of this bug should be changed ?
Created attachment 62445 [details] example of one manually configured connection for EDGE/GPRS PCMCIA card (modems), works with "pon bite-biz", but network-admin doesn't see this connection and doesn't allow me to activate it :(
>more interface types in a short/med term, but before this I'm focusing on the >current features, as I'd want to make a 1.0 release before adding more focusing >on new tools/features The version is already 2.x, and it would be very good to have DSL connection wizard now. I'm using Ubuntu, which depends entirely on GST and don't have its own wizards. If there's no chance to add this, we'll probably be forced to use something inconsistent with Gnome interface, but I'd like to avoid it. If you still lack of expertise with DSL, you can check how it's done in: - Aurox ADSL Manager (RPM, consists of KDE's adsl-manager-client and adsl-manager-daemon, which I think works with HAL, allowing modem hotplug - http://aurox.org/adsl-manager/ ) - Guadalinex ADSL assistant (DEB, http://ws314.juntadeandalucia.es/plugins/scmsvn/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/hardware_detection/adsl_assistant/?root=guadalinex2005) Our wiki page for resolvving the issue is located at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EasyUsbAdsl Please tell what you think now abut the issue to help us make the right decision.
Any plans to actually add DSL support to g-s-t? As a distro maintainer, it has become very apparent to me this is a major need not satisfied. It is a natural fit for network-admin.
Latest release supports PPPoE, I think it's time to close this bug :)