I've been tryingto get my ADSL connection to work on gentoo for a long
while now (a few weeks). I got it to work on about every other
distribution I tryed but it seems that I am missing a part somewhere.

I compiled the kernel with:

ppp_generic
ppp_async
ppp_synctty
slhc
8139too (which is the driver for my network card)

I added all those to /etc/modules.autoload

This is my current modules.conf file:

### This file is automatically generated by modules-update
#
# Please do not edit this file directly. If you want to change or add
# anything please take a look at the files in /etc/modules.d and read
# the manpage for modules-update.
#
### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/aliases
# Aliases to tell insmod/modprobe which modules to use

# Uncomment the network protocols you don't want loaded:
# alias net-pf-1 off # Unix
# alias net-pf-2 off # IPv4
# alias net-pf-3 off # Amateur Radio AX.25
# alias net-pf-4 off # IPX
# alias net-pf-5 off # DDP / appletalk
# alias net-pf-6 off # Amateur Radio NET/ROM
# alias net-pf-9 off # X.25
# alias net-pf-10 off # IPv6
# alias net-pf-11 off # ROSE / Amateur Radio X.25 PLP
# alias net-pf-19 off # Acorn Econet

alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
alias char-major-10-200 tun
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate

# Crypto modules (see http://www.kerneli.org/)
alias loop-xfer-gen-0 loop_gen
alias loop-xfer-3 loop_fish2
alias loop-xfer-gen-10 loop_gen
alias cipher-2 des
alias cipher-3 fish2
alias cipher-4 blowfish
alias cipher-6 idea
alias cipher-7 serp6f
alias cipher-8 mars6
alias cipher-11 rc62
alias cipher-15 dfc2
alias cipher-16 rijndael
alias cipher-17 rc5

# Support for i2c and lm_sensors
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev

alias eth0 8139too

### modules-update: end processing /etc/modules.d/aliases

### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/i386
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias char-major-10-144 nvram
alias binfmt-0064 binfmt_aout
alias char-major-10-135 rtc

### modules-update: end processing /etc/modules.d/i386

### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/ppp
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-13 n_hdlc
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
alias net-pf-24 pppoe


I've never been good with networks, am I missing anything?

Note: I can bring up eth0 but it's connected to no network, adsl-start
just timeouts.

--
Louis-Philippe

Louis-Philippe Huberdeau wrote:

> ppp_generic
> ppp_async
> ppp_synctty
> slhc
> 8139too (which is the driver for my network card)

> I've never been good with networks, am I missing anything?

Errm, how 'bout adding pppoe support to the kernel.
Network Device -> PPP -> PPPoE support (EXPERIMENTAL)

If you enabled this, then you didn't write it above. Sorry :-)

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Didn't work either.

Andreas Klauer wrote:
> Louis-Philippe Huberdeau wrote:
>
>
>>ppp_generic
>>ppp_async
>>ppp_synctty
>>slhc
>>8139too (which is the driver for my network card)
>
>
>>I've never been good with networks, am I missing anything?
>
>
> Errm, how 'bout adding pppoe support to the kernel.
> Network Device -> PPP -> PPPoE support (EXPERIMENTAL)
>
> If you enabled this, then you didn't write it above. Sorry :-)
>