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Advice on hotplug problem

DISCUSSION Darren Paxton 2 participants 5 messages Apr 5, 2001 – Apr 9, 2001

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Hello,

I'm trying to use an Alcatel USB ADSL modem to connect to my Internet Provider here in the UK. I've recompiled the kernel, added the modules and am using the correct pppd daemon to support transport. The whole thing is ALMOST working, but not quite. Whenever I try to bring up the ppp0 interface, hotplug seems to fail with an /etc/hotplug/net.<something> error, "Register Event not handled"

I was wondering if anyone could possibly shed any light on what could be causing this?

If oyu need any more information pls just give me a shout

Thanks in advance

Darren
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Darren Paxton
IT & Network Support
Leonardo & Company
+44 141 400 9032

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Probably you just have an old verion of the hotplug scripts, or don't have "/sbin/ifup" in your distro. Don't worry; there's nothing the hotplug code can do for ppp anyway, since those interfaces are initialized curiously. (Nobody does an "ifconfig ppp0 up".)

- Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Paxton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:52 AM
Subject: Advice on hotplug problem

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Hello,

I'm trying to use an Alcatel USB ADSL modem to connect to my Internet Provider here in the UK. I've recompiled the kernel, added the modules and am using the correct pppd daemon to support transport. The whole thing is ALMOST working, but not quite. Whenever I try to bring up the ppp0 interface, hotplug seems to fail with an /etc/hotplug/net.<something> error, "Register Event not handled"

I was wondering if anyone could possibly shed any light on what could be causing this?

If oyu need any more information pls just give me a shout

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Thanks in advance

Darren
--
Darren Paxton
IT & Network Support
Leonardo & Company
+44 141 400 9032

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#2 lore raw
In reply to Darren Paxton

Thanks, I'll check my versions of what I'm running. The problem with my net connection is that alcatel have only released drivers for the modem, and someone has written a HOWTO on getting them running. This involves editing the /etc/ppp/options file with all the required parameters and then basically typing pppd to launch. This is when it fails :-(

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Darren Paxton
IT & Network Support
Leonardo & Company
+44 141 400 9032

-----Original Message-----
From: David Brownell [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 05 April 2001 16:12
To: Darren Paxton; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Advice on hotplug problem

Probably you just have an old verion of the hotplug scripts, or don't have "/sbin/ifup" in your distro. Don't worry; there's nothing the hotplug code can do for ppp anyway, since those interfaces are initialized curiously. (Nobody does an "ifconfig ppp0 up".)

- Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Paxton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:52 AM
Subject: Advice on hotplug problem

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Hello,

I'm trying to use an Alcatel USB ADSL modem to connect to my Internet Provider here in the UK. I've recompiled the kernel, added the modules and am using the correct pppd daemon to support transport. The whole thing is ALMOST working, but not quite. Whenever I try to bring up the ppp0 interface, hotplug seems to fail with an /etc/hotplug/net.<something>

error,

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"Register Event not handled"

I was wondering if anyone could possibly shed any light on what could be causing this?

If oyu need any more information pls just give me a shout

Quoted 10 lines

Thanks in advance

Darren
--
Darren Paxton
IT & Network Support
Leonardo & Company
+44 141 400 9032

_______________________________________________
Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
[email protected]
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel

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In reply to Darren Paxton

Dave,

I've checked my version of the hotplug script and I'm using the latest version from sourceforge. I definitely do NOT have ifup installed with my distro, but without it, I am unable to bring up my ADSL connection. Can you offer any advice on this?

Thanks

Darren
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brownell" <[email protected]>
To: "Darren Paxton" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: Advice on hotplug problem

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Probably you just have an old verion of the hotplug scripts, or don't have "/sbin/ifup" in your distro. Don't worry; there's nothing the hotplug code can do for ppp anyway, since those interfaces are initialized curiously. (Nobody does an "ifconfig ppp0 up".)

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- Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Paxton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:52 AM
Subject: Advice on hotplug problem

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Hello,

I'm trying to use an Alcatel USB ADSL modem to connect to my Internet Provider here in the UK. I've recompiled the kernel, added the modules

and

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am using the correct pppd daemon to support transport. The whole thing

is

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ALMOST working, but not quite. Whenever I try to bring up the ppp0 interface, hotplug seems to fail with an /etc/hotplug/net.<something>

error,

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"Register Event not handled"

I was wondering if anyone could possibly shed any light on what could be causing this?

If oyu need any more information pls just give me a shout

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Thanks in advance

Darren
--
Darren Paxton
IT & Network Support
Leonardo & Company
+44 141 400 9032

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In reply to Darren Paxton

Only to suggest one of the ADSL howtos or faqs; the problem you have doesn't really relate to hotplug.

- Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Paxton" <[email protected]>
To: "David Brownell" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Advice on hotplug problem

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Dave,

I've checked my version of the hotplug script and I'm using the latest version from sourceforge. I definitely do NOT have ifup installed with my distro, but without it, I am unable to bring up my ADSL connection. Can you offer any advice on this?

Thanks

Darren
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brownell" <[email protected]>
To: "Darren Paxton" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: Advice on hotplug problem

Quoted 18 lines

Probably you just have an old verion of the hotplug scripts, or don't have "/sbin/ifup" in your distro. Don't worry; there's nothing the hotplug code can do for ppp anyway, since those interfaces are initialized curiously. (Nobody does an "ifconfig ppp0 up".)

- Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Paxton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:52 AM
Subject: Advice on hotplug problem

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Hello,

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I'm trying to use an Alcatel USB ADSL modem to connect to my Internet Provider here in the UK. I've recompiled the kernel, added the modules

and

Quoted 1 line
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am using the correct pppd daemon to support transport. The whole thing

is

Quoted 2 lines
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ALMOST working, but not quite. Whenever I try to bring up the ppp0 interface, hotplug seems to fail with an /etc/hotplug/net.<something>

error,

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"Register Event not handled"

I was wondering if anyone could possibly shed any light on what could be causing this?

If oyu need any more information pls just give me a shout

Quoted 10 lines

Thanks in advance

Darren
--
Darren Paxton
IT & Network Support
Leonardo & Company
+44 141 400 9032

_______________________________________________
Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
[email protected]
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel

_______________________________________________
Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
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