On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 09:47, Roz and Steve Gugenberger wrote: > To list, > > Hoping that someone can assist. I would love to stop > using Windows and start using Mandrake. I just love it but cannot get > my ADSL to work and as my wife uses the Internet a lot (and I do also) > I have to keep booting into Windows to use it and check emails. > Surely Mandrake can work with ADSL. I have gone through all the help > files and done exactly what they say, searched for PPPOE on the > Mandrake site (no hits found). It appears that I do not have PPPOE > installed. > How can I find whether I do and if I don�t where can I get it from. > After 10 hours of trying to get my ADSL working with Mandrake I am > starting to think that it is harder than it should be and if we want > to convince other Window users of the benefits of Linux setting up an > ADSL connection should be a little easier. > > > > Any assistence to get my Australian ADSL to work would be much > appreciated and if I need PPPoe installed a location where I can > download it from. > Thanks for your help > From a very tired and fustrated Steve >
Being that you're on BigPond ADSL, you should be able to find out what your DNS servers are - because your system is configured for DHCP on the ethernet card installed. PPPOE is already installed on your system - it's a protocol that's part of this distro. (it stands for PPP over Ethernet). What more can you describe about your current setup? -- Mon Dec 30 10:00:00 EST 2002 10:00am up 16:04, 5 users, load average: 0.21, 0.13, 0.15 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ "When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
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