Hi, I'm new to LinuxQuestions, and I am having a problem getting the PPPoE program that came built into Dreamlinux 3.5 (Debian GNU/Linux 5.0) to work correctly. So far, I have discovered 2 missing files, that reinstalling PPPoE and associated programs did not fix.

I had to copy and paste a pppoe.conf (sample) file to add to /etc/ppp/ and now I have discovered that /var/run/pppoe.conf-pppoe.pid.pppoe is also MIA. I, apparently, need this file to run 'pppoe-start' or even 'pppoe-status'.

Is there a copy of that file out there too, or am I working hard to fix a situation that can't be fixed? Also, is there another pppoe program out there? And if so, why isn't it in the Debian repository. I'm using stable software only, btw, and Apt-get has shown me nothing! You'd think there would be way more than one pppoe program out there.

I'm grateful for any assistance you can offer.

According to this page
http://wiki.debian.org/PPPoE
you have to run pppoeconf.

Thank you for responding, but that did not work. I tried it several times, but nothing happened. I kept getting the same error message.

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