internet connection problem
 

ok, so, dsl around here is a little strange
my friend lives like 2 min away and has dsl from the same company but is on a different server (that actually makes sense) where it just works when plugged in
myself, however, am on a server that required you to type in account information in order to get the dsl to work even if it is plugged in
this is all fine and dandy for windows users because it has software for it, however, i do not know how to set up my account to work on linux
before at first i thought the problem was my network card, however, i ended up taking my computer to my friends house, and it worked like it was supposed to easily
i was thinking about setting up a ppp account, however, those ask for a number to dial
so then i was thinking of changing the modem to eth0 or something in the ppp config but i dont know what i would try typing in

so basically i just need to know how i can set up account information for a dsl line when everything else seems to work fine

as a side note, i actually got it to work under redhat 7.2 before but i have no idea what i did and i am currently running mandrake 8.2, so it does work (somehow)

If it's ppp account, edit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. The format is:
login * password
(eventually your remote ip address, not a must).
Then run pppd. If you're connected, add pppd to start scripts (for example /etc/rc.d/rc.local)

i ended up finding a program from roaring penguin that fixed the problem
thank you