I just set up dsl for my bro-in law and he used pppoe to connect.
I used the "roaring-penguin (no URL handy), which is what it sounds
like you are using. We were able to get it working, but the one
"gotcha" was that during the install program, they ask you to provide
a username, and the example they give is "username@accessprovider",
however, at that stage, only give the username. After that everything
(including the firewall scripts) worked like an absolute charm.
You can email me if you have more problems.
Chris
Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, David M. Kufta wrote:
>
> > I have a client who would like to install an external dsl modem on his
> > Linux system and seem to be having one devil of a time getting this
> > thing to work. I s anyone on the list currently using adsl with an
> > external modem under Linux-Mandrake, and might anyone have some
> > information as to how to set this up? pppoe calls a script
> > /usr/sbin/adsl-start which doesnot seemed to be installed and for the
> > life of me I can seem to find it. Ideas anyone ?
>
> What kind of external DSL modem? I'm using a 3COM Home Connect ADSL
> Ethernet modem... plugs into my ethernet card and I don't use pppoe or
> anything funky like that. My ISP gave me a gateway IP address and I use
> that, just as one would with a cable modem. Maybe you're making it more
> difficult than it needs to be and he doesn't need to use pppoe?
>
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