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Re: How to go online with DSL?

There an ongoing discussion regarding an ide controller problems. As for
your dsl Sarah could be called the resident expert. She sent me a very
functional set of instructions which worked like a dream. If she doesn't
have a copy or doesn't mind I can post the details of her post.

Rod

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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