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Re: How to go online with DSL?
If you're using a DSL account that uses PPPoE (like Verizon), then go to roaring penguin.com and download their pppoe client. It works great.
On 13 Jan 2002 13:12:00 +0100
[email protected] (Alex Schuster) wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Being a satisfied Mandrake 7.1 user, I became more and more
> unsatisfied after I had upgraded to 7.2, and I was just unable to
> install 8.1 at all. So when I heard about LibraNet (hi Sarah!), I gave
> LibraNet 1.9.1 it a try.
>
> Problem #1 was that my promise IDE controller is not detected, so I
> had to install onto another drive. I guess with a newer kernel this
> will go fine? And I will be replacing my mainboard soon, with a VIA
> KT266A chipset and an additional HPT372 IDE controller onboard, I hope
> this will work.
>
> But my main problem now is that I d not know how to go online. I can
> configure my two network cards, but only to set a static IP for one,
> and activate DHCP for the other. How do I enable DSL? Why is there no
> option for it, despite the fact that the network config program says
> it allows configuration of cable or dsl connections.
> There is a pppoe, but no adsl-connect etc. scripts. Do I have to set
> it up myself, getting some packages from freshmeat or debian.org or
> such, or can I use stuff already installed or on the LibraNet CD?
>
> Apart from that, LibraNet looks promising. Less features than
> mandrake, but also less things broken, as far as I can tell by now. I
> want a clean new Linux system, and maybe that's it.
>
> Alex
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