[Ilugc] BSNL's Dataone connecting problem

[ashwin kesavan iyengar]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:33:17 +0530, Varun Soundararajan
<s.varun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did u run the wizard? i guess this may not work if u havent done that.
> -Varun
 There is nothing wrong with the hardware b'cos i am posting this from
windows partition of the same machine.Yes i did run the wizard & it
gave me two failure notice.

with regards,
ashwin
 
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:05:32 +0530, ashwin kesavan iyengar
> <ashwin.chn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:33:20 +0530, Varun Soundararajan
> > <s.varun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Since you have said u have fc3, try this.
> > > In system settings find network config (or network), and deactivate
> > > and activate the networks once after boot  and dont use bsnl
> > > connection at boot (my sys always says bsnl connection failed during
> > > boot). Every time after i boot, i deactivate and activate the network
> > > and everything is fine. This may not be a good solution but works ;-).
> > > (but for me during boot, eth0 says [ok] but bsnl says [failed] )
> > > even better way is to create a new account using those internet
> > > connection wizards (see in one of those system config menus). I had
> > > problems using pppoe rpms. I used the wizard to create a new pppoe
> > > connection and filled the details and activated/deactivated using the
> > > settings>network (or network connections). If you have to install the
> > > pppoe rpms it will say, insert the cd and thats all (you dont need to
> > > trouble ur self with the latest rpms. The old ones with fc3 still work
> > > ).
> > > -Varun
> > >
> >
> > If i try that i get the following error message:
> > "Bringing up interface ppp0
> > /sbin/adsl-start:line 215:1838 Terminated $connect "$@">/dev/null 2>/&1
> > [Failed]"
> >
>