pppoe question

thequietone · 12-13-2002, 11:37 PM

Hi, I'm totally new to Linux (<1 week) and am running Red Hat 7.3. In order to establish my pppoe connection my ISP tell's me to buy EnterNet 100 for Linux for $29.99. They offer no refunds or tech support of any kind for this, so I'm thinkin there's hopefully another way to get online in linux, like by doing a pppoe script or something, I just don't really know how to do that

Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated.....

dave408 · 12-14-2002, 12:45 AM

You can get away without giving them any more money. And besides, linux should be free!

here are two great places to start looking for info:
http://www.google.com/search?q=pppoe...utf-8&oe=utf-8

and

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/

try these out and let me know if you run into any snags.

-dave

thequietone · 12-14-2002, 10:00 AM

well, it looked like I did everything right. RP said there was nothing wrong with my pppoe interface and I entered all the appropriate configurations, but when I type adsl-start the cursor skips to the next line, prints a period and then my PC hangs.(I let it sit for a long while to be sure). So I rebooted and did adsl-status. It says it cannot read the PID file in /var/run/pppoe.conf-adsl.pid, so I go to look at that file, and it's not even there.

I can however ping my eth0 address if that means anything