sympatico DSL & Mandrake

[John McGregor]

This is just a guess, but when I first set up Mandrake to use DSL, I 
used the wizard to set up the connection and of course it failed and 
then I used rp-pppoe and I found out that you first have to remove the 
interface that the wizard has tried to set up on eth0, otherwise 
rp-pppoe will set up the connection on the next available interface 
which is eth1 ( which means that you won't be able to connect because 
the browser will be looking at the wrong interface).

Here's the relevant bit from the 'read me file' at the Roaring Penguin site.

"

4. Edit /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf
-----------------------------

The file /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf contains configuration information for the
ADSL connection.  You need to edit the following items:

- Change ETH=eth1 to the correct Ethernet device for your modem.
- Change USER=bxxxnxnx-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org to your proper ADSL user-ID."

Its also a good idea to tell eth0 beforehand to accept DHCP (it may be 
redundant, but it seemed to make a difference on my system).

When you configure rp-pppoe to be always on, you must reboot for it to 
take effect because the boot sequence is where the script writes the 
service call. Trying to call it after the fact has no effect, in your 
case because Mandrake is directing the command to wards the interface 
that it borked up earlier.

HTH

John

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