Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Steven J. Yellin
<[email protected]> wrote:
You may already understand what I'm about to write, but it's possible
that you're enough of a newbie that you've misunderstood the role of rpms,
so I'll explain anyway:
Downloading a rpm, like rp-pppoe, is not a method of connection; it's
part of a proceedure for getting the rp-pppoe software into your computer if
it isn't already there. If the command
rpm -q rp-pppoe
shows that the package is already there (compare with what you get for a
non-existent rpm as in 'rpm -q Tanmoy') then there's no point in again
putting it into your computer via a USB stick. The rpm should be installed
once, and then never needs to be installed again. In the case of a
distribution such as RHEL, standard practice is to have necessary rpms
installed initially as part of the original system. It would be somewhat
surprising if that didn't happen with rp-pppoe.
I think I have failed to clearly point out my problem. I know how to
set-up pppoe connection via "Roaring Penguin" software "rp-pppoe" as I
have already done so with my Fedora 13 and Ubuntu partitions.
As I am currently installing SL from Livecd which does not come with
that rp-pppoe package. So that I have to download it somehow and then
install it to set up a pppoe connection. That's why I am asking
whether there are any other software/method to set up pppoe connection
in SL?
My confusion increases with googling and after going through RHEL
documents - I have found some suggestions there as how to configure it
with pppd. Just want to know how is it different than the software we
are dicussing rp-pppoe and is there some easy steps to do so.
Steven Yellin
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote:
...
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Urs Beyerle <[email protected]>
wrote:
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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.
...
I'm still not sure what you are trying to accomplish. If you have other
linux distributions on other partitions, can't you simply wget the RPM
from there, reboot to SL, mount the other OS's partition and
copy/install it from there?
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/i386/os/Packages/rp-pppoe-3.10-8.el6.i686.rpm
Change release/arch as needed...
Why go through all of the trouble of cobbling your connection via other
means? Sounds like you are trying to make it harder than it actually is.
-Mark
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National Electrostatics Corp.
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