Re: How to go online with DSL?

[Sarah Hay <sarahhay@mb.sympatico.ca>]

Hiya Alex!

I'm sorry to read about your problems (in tht other email)
to get adsl working download from the Roaoring Penguin site. The source 
file(that's the tar.gz file) for roaring penguin 3.3 and the kernel patch.
install as you would any tarball.

tar -zxvf <file>.tar.gz

cd  <newfile>

./configure

make

(change to root via su)

make install

then, as root, type

adsl-setup
and PPPoE can be set up. I would reboot after setting up. then once rebooted, 
from terminal, su , password and then type "adsl-start" and you should 
connect. Took me a looong time to get this figured out but after a day or so 
I got it working. The PPPoE in the LibraNet kernel just doesn't work the way 
it should.

As for your RAID controller there was just a huge discussion on this here 
yesterday.I think that if you do a search on RAID controllers that will get 
you caught up and give you even more info. The Promise controller you have 
could be trouble but there are ways getting working. Since I got you into the 
troubles here I will do some searching for you later today ( I have to go 
out).

Rod if you want to post the details of that email they are probably much 
better than I have explained here.

Sarah

On Sunday 13 January 2002 06:12, 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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