virgin broadband set up suse 10.0

[azt]

Hi

I've just subscribed to virgin broadband option 3, and since reading all the bad things about speed touch modems I also aquired a us robotics usr019106 adsl wireless gateway. In order to get things going. I'm connecting to the router through wires at the moment (keeping it simple). I believe I have set up the router correctly, it's given me a default gateway, ip address. The problem is that I can't connect to my ip provider, again I think I've set the modem up correctly, i.e. ppp over ethernet, I've set up the name servers, enabled ip forwarding. When I try to connect with kinternet I get the following (see below). it doesn't appear to connect to smpppd, and I don't really know what this means. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

allan

SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.59 on linux.
Status is: disconnected
trying to connect to smpppd
connect to smpppd
Status is: disconnected
Interface is eth0.
Status is: connecting
pppd[0]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
pppd[0]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3
pppd[0]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded.
pppd[0]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Timeout Waiting for PADO packets. Check your setup and cables and try again.
pppd[0]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Status is: disconnected
pppd[0] died: Connection terminated at peer's request (exit code 0)

[bigtomrodney]

You generally need to add your VPI and VCI settings to the modem, along with your own account details. Virgin should be able to provide these to you, or alternatively if you can access your original router you might be able to extract them from there.

[azt]

thanks for your reply

yes these settings are already in place vpi/vci has been set to 0.38 and my user name is in place. can you suggest anything else, I don't know what this smpppd is and I don't think it's connected. Is there any way of checking that?

thanks

allan

[dth1]

The only bits you should need to do is the router bit (in a browser window) - the virgin stuff. For the suse bit it should just pick up the network card and you shouldn't need to do anything.

It might be worth going into yast and deleting any stuff to do with network or adsl. Then re-start your p/c and see if it detects and correctly sets up the internet connection.

Once correctly set up you don't need to do anything when you want to go onto the internet - you just click on a web address and there is the page.

[azt]

thanks dth1

I'll try that, I'm getting tired though

allan

[dth1]

allan - any luck?

[azt]

dth1

Tried that but it did not work. I'm assuming that I need to know their (virgin) IP address, as I need to know what to connect to before I log in. They're not very forthcoming.

I take it that what I'm saying is correct?

thanks again

allan

[dth1]

No - unless you have opted for a fixed ip address package (which I don't think Virgin do anyway) there is no need to do anything like that. The actual ip address will change whenever you re-start your router.

I am with BT internet and it was just a case of opening up a browser window (any one - I think I did mine with Windows but it doesn't matter which) typing in a router config ip address. Then picking the 'ppp over ATM (PPPoA) option, then adding my log-on address and password for BT internet.

Then when you start your p/c - the network card should pick up the ip address from the router automatically. Just had a look at my network card (ethernet) card settings in yast and there isn't anything fancy - just a tick in the box 'automatic address set up (via DHCP).

Do you have a dual-boot system with Windows? If so try running that and see if that works. This will confirm that it is just a matter of finding the right settings in suse.

[azt]

Thanks for the info. I'll try this out, but surely the connection type will be PPPoE for myself as I'm coonecting through the ethernet, via a router.

Thanks

allan

[bigtomrodney]

You won't need PPPoE on your PC - Your router does all of the work, as it is a server in its own right. It will however need to run PPPoE, PPPoA,DHCP or some other protocol to set itself up. You mentioned you got your VCI and VPI settings; the protocol should be set on the router in the same setup page.