please help with pppoe

[lee Leahu]

hello,

by now i am very frusterated because i'm not sure whats going on and i don't have any clue on whats required to fix this.

i'm trying to get pppoe to work from linux.  i already have it working from windows nt and windows xp.

i am running suse 7.3 professional.
my kernel is 2.4.16-4gb (k_deflt made by suse)

i have these packages installed
smpppd-0.49-7 (and yes, smpppd is running)
ppp-2.4.1-170
rp-pppoe-3.4-1

my /etc/ppp/options file goes like this:

hide-password
lock
local
nocrtscts
sync
noauth
noaccomp
mtu 1484
mru 1484
noipdefault
noipx
novj
novjccomp
debug
username "(username)@covad.net"

my /etc/ppp/pap-secret is like this

"(username)@covad.net"     *      "(password)"

i have been trying to get this pppoe to work by running:
pppoe -I eth1
pppoe -D -d 9 -I eth1
adsl-start

please help

lee leahu
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