i have been investigating linux, as i am sick of windows - for reasons that range from the technical to the philosophical - and have looked at a few distributions:


fedora core 2 & 3
ubuntu 5 & 5.1
mandrake 10.1
libranet
slackware 10.1
red hat 3
turbo
vector

i use a pppoe (alternately called adsl or xdsl) connection for the internet and was impressed immediately at how much faster and easier linux connects than windows 2000, where i am required to install an access manager in order to generate the pppoe drivers (i have an older model of modem). this was true of everything except slackware and vector linux. i can't figure out how to create a pppoe connection in either of these os's.

can anybody tell me what i'm missing?

a point in the right direction would be most gratefully appreciated. thanks.

digitalmojo17

I can speak from Slackware 10.1 or 10.2

First do you have the necessary packages installed? Namely rp-pppoe.

It comes standard with Slackware 10.1 and 10,2

If you are using Slackware 10.1,

the commands are
Answer all the questions post to you with the correct information

then to start and stop the adsl connection use the following command respectively
For Slackware 10.2, the command is pppoe instead of adsl, ie. pppoe-setup, pppoe-start, pppoe-stop

You don't have to configure the NIC network properties.

very cool - that was simple enough. thanks so much.

adsl-setup
adsl-start
adsl-stop

are also the corresponding commands for vector linux 5, as well.

digitalmojo17

I don't know about vector linux,
if rp-pppoe package is installed, it should be the same
rp stand for rolling penguin

In addition to what you are doing:

You might want to read this post : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...98#post1880598

It tackles starting and stopping adsl connection as normal user instead of root.