Access Concentrator Did Not Respond

[Arnold Pietersen]

email.listen at googlemail.com wrote:
> Am Do, 23. August 2007 14:01:44 schrieb Arnold Pietersen:
>> I am trying to setup PPPoE.  I get the message: Access Concentrator did
>> not respond.  There is also a "Timeout waiting for PADO packets" message.
>>
>> How do I solve this?
> [...]
> 
> You may trace the connection / dial-in from a terminal.
> First open a terminal and type:
>  sudo tail -f /var/log/messages
> 
> So you will see all messages during a connect.
> 
> Then open another terminal and type:
>  sudo pon dsl-provider
> 
> Now you can see the communication between your provider and the pppoe process 
> running on your machine.
> 
> Please post the output in your next answer.
> 
> 
> Background:
> A message "Timeout waiting for PADO packets" is often the result of a 
> missing "return-ping" from your ISPs hardware during a connection.
> The Problem is windows machines don't expect such a "return-ping" and so the 
> connection works for them. But Linux machines wait for this return-ping. By 
> this it often needs to ask your ISP fo a manual port-reset of your line. 
> This is a common problem here in germany for those who use Telekom Germany as 
> ISP.
> 
> regards,
> thomas
> 
Thomas

The following is the output:

arnold at arnold-laptop:~$ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages
Aug 23 21:42:39 arnold-laptop kernel: [ 2454.668000] IN= OUT=eth0
SRC=169.254.6.164 DST=169.254.255.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64
ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58
Aug 23 21:42:39 arnold-laptop kernel: [ 2454.668000] IN= OUT=eth0
SRC=169.254.6.164 DST=192.168.177.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64
ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58
Aug 23 21:42:53 arnold-laptop gconfd (arnold-7955): starting (version
2.18.0.1), pid 7955 user 'arnold'
Aug 23 21:42:53 arnold-laptop gconfd (arnold-7955): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only
configuration source at position 0
Aug 23 21:42:53 arnold-laptop gconfd (arnold-7955): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/home/arnold/.gconf" to a writable configuration source
at position 1
Aug 23 21:42:53 arnold-laptop gconfd (arnold-7955): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only
configuration source at position 2
Aug 23 21:42:53 arnold-laptop gconfd (arnold-7955): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only
configuration source at position 3
Aug 23 21:42:53 arnold-laptop gconfd (arnold-7955): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration
source at position 4
Aug 23 21:42:54 arnold-laptop gconfd (arnold-7955): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/home/arnold/.gconf" to a writable configuration source
at position 0
Aug 23 21:42:59 arnold-laptop kernel: [ 2473.608000] NETDEV WATCHDOG:
ib0: transmit timed out
Aug 23 21:43:18 arnold-laptop kernel: [ 2493.608000] NETDEV WATCHDOG:
ib0: transmit timed out
Aug 23 21:43:38 arnold-laptop kernel: [ 2513.608000] NETDEV WATCHDOG:
ib0: transmit timed out
Aug 23 21:43:45 arnold-laptop pppd[8143]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Aug 23 21:43:45 arnold-laptop pppd[8146]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Aug 23 21:43:58 arnold-laptop kernel: [ 2533.608000] NETDEV WATCHDOG:
ib0: transmit timed out
Aug 23 21:44:18 arnold-laptop kernel: [ 2553.608000] NETDEV WATCHDOG:
ib0: transmit timed out
Aug 23 21:44:20 arnold-laptop pppd[8146]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Aug 23 21:44:38 arnold-laptop kernel: [ 2573.608000] NETDEV WATCHDOG:
ib0: transmit timed out
Aug 23 21:44:58 arnold-laptop kernel: [ 2593.608000] NETDEV WATCHDOG:
ib0: transmit timed out

Can you make any sense of it.

By the way, I have a USB wireless modem.

Thanks

Arnold