Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd.FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no problems emerged either.Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my experience to be a non-issue. HTH Anne
I went to install linux, everything went fine & I chose "DHCP connection" as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server after all, giving out addy's for our comps here. Fine... Install went OK, it couldn't update packages but I expected that. Rebooted into linux, it was fine. No internet. That was my first clue something was amiss.
Fiddling with things with both the expert & novice controls I found out that I had to disable "DHCP/Bootp" & enable a static IP addy. WTH? Makes no sense, and I had to put in gateway & DNS numbers (the routers IP sufficed here). Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!? OK something is amiss... but what?
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