On Sunday 07 May 2006 08:10, PenguinPuPPy wrote: > Well first of all I must tell you something about pacent if your > friend has just gone for a new connection.Pacenet is one of the > worst Companies (forget that its an ISP) i have ever seen in terms of > Customer Service and can u believe that the situation was so > frustrating that I actually had to meet the managing Director to > solve my regular disconnection problems, even then the problem still > persists.Well the list is actually very long and trust me the day > MTNL starts giving an unlimited download for 24 hours ill rush to > the nearest exchange.Now coming to your question well > 1.) First of all you will need to call up pacenet and ask them for a > Linux account(which initially they will not agree, and if they deny > then please post it )well after that you should also ask for the > DNS addresses cause they are required > 2.) Now you will need to install Rpppoe RPM i.e (Roaring penguin > point to point over ethernet) that's the protocol that ISP's use to > give you a account. > 3.) Now on the konsole type "adsl-setup" to setup your account > 4.) Now to connect type "adsl-connect" and bingo open up firefox and > enjoy !!!!!!
All this is known to the OP. He doesn't want to ask for a new account... -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
