sympatico DSL & Mandrake

[David J Patrick]

John McGregor wrote:

> 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).

does the wizard launch another daemon ?
something I have to kill before the Roaring Penguin daemon can take over ?
(sounds like we're playing D&D)

>
> 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).

How would one tell eth0 that ?

>
> 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.

edit /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf, save reboot, surf ?

>
> HTH
>
> John
>
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