DSL Problem

Alastair Preston aprestn5 at telus.net
Fri Jan 6 01:00:55 UTC 2006


On Thursday January 5 2006 05:03 pm, Art Alexion wrote:
> Richard Reyes wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Good Day.
> >
> >Newbie Question.
> >
> >I have a DSL working in windows. Its using DHCP or something but there
> >was an error getting IP from the network. The customer support had to
> >give me the ip address so i can connect from inside windows.
> >
> >Now I have succesfully setup the latest Kubuntu ( Breezy ) in my
> >laptop. I have set the same IP address I am using in windows for the
> >DSL connection. But I still have no connection.
> >
> >Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Richard
>
> A lot of DSL problems can be solved by installing rp-pppoe.  That is,
> Roaring Penguin Point-to-point Protocol over Ethernet.  It's in the
> repositories.  When it installs, go through the setup script which
> should automatically run.  If it doesn't, type 'sudo adsl-setup' to
> configure.  Then, to bring it up, type 'sudo adsl-start' and to bring it
> down, type 'sudo adsl-stop'.  'sudo adsl-status' gives you essentially
> the same info as ifconfig.
>
> PPPoE is not quite the same as DHCP.  The default tools Ubuntu installs
> -- at least in the days of Warty when I last tried them -- don't work
> with most US DSL providers.

If the original poster's ISP, like mine,  is using DHCP, he needs to install 
and/or enable a DHCP client such as dhcpcd.  PPPoE won't work with a DHCP 
connection.





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