Is anybody out there connected to Ameritech.net via dsl. I am having problems. I was sent an external modem, which I understand is a speedstream6290 though I haven't had anybody to read me the actual printing on the modem or the materials that came with it. I was told that the isp setup was pppoe. I am runnig a 2.4.9 kernel but chose to use the pppoe package from debian (roaring penguin) without kernel enabling since this is till experimental. I made the changes in pap-secrets and dsl-provider according to the pppoe documentation. I symlinked ppp_on_boot.dsl with ppp_on_boot, after I had moved the actual file that then existed in ppp_on_boot (these were the debian instructions for setup). I ran the tests of the nic card plugged into the modem as sugested in the dsl howto, and got all packets received. However, when I tried to connect, I was unsuccessful as shown by the syslog and plog examples below. If I run pppoe by itself, it does go through both discovery and session phases. This is all new to me and I am probably leaving out something glaringly obvious, but any help would be appreciated. Ameritech, of course, is of no help; they assured me that their service was linux-compatible though not supported when I signed up, but now techsupport is saying they don't support and have no intention of supporting in the future anything but win95,98, etc. and my account is marked as win2000--because that's how tey originally told me they mark all linux accounts so they get the external modem. Sorry about the extra gripe! Here are the excerpts from plog and syslog. plog Sep 5 17:50:24 maranatha pppd[157]: Serial connection established. Sep 5 17:50:24 maranatha pppd[157]: Using interface ppp0 Sep 5 17:50:24 maranatha pppd[157]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0 Sep 5 17:50:24 maranatha pppd[157]: LCP terminated by peer Sep 5 17:50:27 maranatha pppd[157]: Connection terminated. syslog Sep 5 17:49:17 maranatha pppd[157]: Serial connection established. Sep 5 17:49:17 maranatha pppd[157]: Using interface ppp0 Sep 5 17:49:17 maranatha pppd[157]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0 Sep 5 17:49:17 maranatha pppoe[313]: PADS: Service-Name: '' Sep 5 17:49:17 maranatha pppoe[313]: PPP session is 1209 Sep 5 17:49:17 maranatha pppd[157]: LCP terminated by peer Sep 5 17:49:20 maranatha pppd[157]: Connection terminated. Sep 5 17:49:20 maranatha pppoe[313]: read (asyncReadFromPPP): Input/output error Sep 5 17:49:20 maranatha pppoe[313]: Sent PADT Sep 5 17:49:50 maranatha pppd[157]: Serial connection established. Sep 5 17:49:50 maranatha pppd[157]: Using interface ppp0 Sep 5 17:49:50 maranatha pppd[157]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0 Sep 5 17:49:50 maranatha pppoe[322]: PADS: Service-Name: '' Sep 5 17:49:50 maranatha pppoe[322]: PPP session is 1210 Sep 5 17:49:51 maranatha pppd[157]: LCP terminated by peer Sep 5 17:49:54 maranatha pppd[157]: Connection terminated. Sep 5 17:49:54 maranatha pppoe[322]: read (asyncReadFromPPP): Input/output error Cheryl