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Re: How to go online with DSL?
You've pretty well covered it with your post. I saved the original
instructions as maybe in the near future sympatico will set up the adsl
hardware in my location. Although I am not holding my breath. It was
supposed to be available two years ago but we're still waiting. Besides
it looks like he's in good hands.
Rod
Sarah Hay wrote:
>
> 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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