Hi all,



I am trying to connect a computer running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to the internet via PPPoE over WLAN and having trouble connecting.

The device that connects to WAN is a D-Link DSL-G604T. WAN connection in this device is configured for bridged mode.

This is what I have done:


'ifconfig wlan0'

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:3d:af:19:de
inet addr:10.1.1.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:3dff:feaf:19de/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:6309 (6.3 KB)
'sudo pppoeconf wlan0'

pppoeconf found 1 ethernet device: wlan0

pppoeconf will configure /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider: Yes

pppoeconf will change configuration 'noauth' + 'defaultroute' and remove 'nodetach' where neccessary: Yes

Input username for PPP login: Done

Input password for PPP login: Done

pppoeconf will add nameservers provided by ISP to /etc/resolv.conf: Yes

pppoeconf will clamp MSS at 1452 bytes: Yes

PPPD will start at boot time? No

pppoeconf will now start connection: Yes

pppoeconf states the DSL connection has been triggered and that I can use 'plog' command to see the status or 'ifconfig ppp0' for general interface info.
'plog'

Dec 5 19:17:53 mum-desktop pppd[1702]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Dec 5 19:17:53 mum-desktop pppd[1702]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5
Dec 5 19:17:53 mum-desktop pppd[1704]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Dec 5 19:18:28 mum-desktop pppd[1704]: Timeout waiting for PADS packets
Dec 5 19:18:28 mum-desktop pppd[1704]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
"ifconfig ppp0"

ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
I now restart and find NetworkManager-applet not registering any connections because they have been manually configured. This is now the contents of "/etc/network/interfaces":

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
"sudo pon dsl-provider"

Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5
"plog"

Dec 5 19:24:20 mum-desktop pppd[1295]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Dec 5 19:24:20 mum-desktop pppd[1295]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Dec 5 19:24:50 mum-desktop pppd[1295]: error sending pppoe packet: Network is down
Dec 5 19:24:50 mum-desktop pppd[1295]: error receiving pppoe packet: Network is down
Dec 5 19:24:55 mum-desktop pppd[1295]: error sending pppoe packet: Network is down
"ipconfig ppp0"

ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
"ipconfig wlan0"

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:3d:af:19:de
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

It now seems that the wireless connection is not being made to the DSL-G604T, which would explain why PPPoE cannot connect.

Does anyone know what I could do to get the computer connected to the internet?