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Re: How to go online with DSL?
Here is what you will need to do for DSL connection.
First, you will need a version of pppoe. I'm pretty sure that this is
not part of libranet 1.9.1. You will have to download the most recent
version from www.roaringpenguin.com.
Next you will have to install the module for your ethernet card, but do
not give it any further settings. If you have already configured the
card, edit its setting for a static IP (even though it won't be) and
leave every field blank.
Now you can untar the pppoe package and read the info on installing it
(its very simple...just follow the instuctions).
Now for the setup. First, forget all the Mandrake adsl script names
because if I remember correctly, they change the names (don't ask me why
because they use the pppoe software from roaringpenguin). The script to
configure is "adsl-setup". After you configure adsl (set it up on eth0
if you have only one card), the scripts you need to know are
"adsl-start" "adsl-stop" and "adsl-restart". I think those are self
explanitory.
Let me know if you get stuck.
jason
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, 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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