my neighbor has recently purchased a dsl service from SBC Yahoo. The connection is stable because I'm on it right now on a windows XP system laptop. He is running Fedora Core 1 and the IP and DNS information is allegedly dynamic (according to sbc). For some reason when I try to activate device eth0 the activity light flashes on the router, stops, and might flash once in a millenia later. Then I receive and error message that it could not obtain the DNS information. I've tried bootp as well and it simply does not work. Any advice or solution woould be greatly appreciated.

I can assure you that the connection is stable, just Fedora I'm worried about.

lol does <i>anyone</i> use fedora?

okay, I figured it out, I just need to get PPPOE working


I have no idea how to do this on a linux system because usually I have an auto-connection (if that makes any sense)

anyone willing to share over my lack of newbie knowledge?

Roaring Penguin (roaringpenguin.com) PPPoE solved the problem. If anyone using SBC DSL or alcatel DSL and you are having problems, it'll work: given you've done it right I suppose.



tetraposting

I'm such a newbie.

Just in case anyone else is having problems like this:
yes the nic is a [DLINK] DFE-530TX+ [also detected as Realtek by XP] and the Linux Driver can be found at:

D:\Drivers\DFE-530TX+\LINUX

on the cd provided by SBC.

Instruction are included in that directory.


Also pppoe software can be found at:

download.pacbell.net
login: dslreguser
pwd: reguser

Doenload the Linu version of Enternet 300 and the instruction manual.