---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tanmoy Chatterjee <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:02 AM Subject: Re: ADSL/pppoe configuration To: Urs Beyerle <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Urs Beyerle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/28/2011 11:21 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: >> >> Hello friends >> I am a novice linux user and I have just installed SL6.1 from liveCD. >> Now I want to connect to internet and my ISP use ADSL/pppoe type of >> connection. I use rp-pppoe to connect to the internet when in Fedora >> 13. But the problem is that I have to download that package here first >> which I can't do without a net connection. In RHEL 6 Deployment guide >> I have found some work around with pppd but have not been able to >> figure it out. Googling about it also comes with the solution of >> RP-pppoe. >> >> 1) Can anybody direct me to a HOW-TO about the method ( pppd or >> something for which I don't have to download a package) ? >> >> 2) Why I can't use the NM applet and the DSL tab there to configure >> pppoe connection ? >> >> Thanks in advance. > > Since you could write this email I assume that you are somehow connected to > the internet. If you know how to do it with rp-pppoe, I would simply Yes I am connected to internet via System > Preferences > Network Connections > DSL tab. But connecting through this way have some problems. > download the rp-pppoe rpm and put it on an USB stick. 3) I can do that. But after checking the RHEL Deployment guide - they have not mentioned this method for pppoe connection - as not being a computer student I want to know what the standard practice in this case for distribution such as RHEL. 4) Also why the "Sys > Pref > Net Con > DSL tab" can not give a pppoe connection like rp-pppoe does. > > for 32bit: > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/i386/os/Packages/rp-pppoe-3.10-8.el6.i686.rpm > > for 64 bit: > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/os/Packages/rp-pppoe-3.10-8.el6.x86_64.rpm > > Insert the USB stick into the SL61 system and install rp-pppoeas root: > > su - > cd "to_your_usb_stick" > yum localinstall rp-pppoe-3.10-8.el6.i686.rpm > > Cheers, Thanks for your reply. > > Urs > >
