pppoeconf failure after upgrade to Hoary

[Peter Lieverdink]

On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 00:08 +0000, Arnold Maestre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I finished upgrading an old desktop to Hoary (yes, I know, it was
> about time). Before that, it was running a plain old Warty, with
> nvidia drivers, connecting to the Internet through an ethernet ADSL
> modem (Bewan 100, namely). After the upgrade, everything works fine
> except the net. The ppp magic does not work, and pppoeconf doesn't
> even see the modem.
> 
> I booted from Hoary Live CD, and from there I can pppoeconf without
> any problem, hence this message. Do you have any idea about what has
> gone wrong ? I know I can still surf from the Live CD, but I'd rather
> fix this pppoe thing.
> 
> -- 
> Arnold

Any chance you have a realtek 8139 network card that pppoe runs on? Is
the 8139too driver loaded? (You may have previously used the rtl8139
driver, which wouldn't exist anymore).

Check that the network card the dsl modem is plugged into is in fact
detected.

- P.