[ubuntu-in] [Fwd: Hello from sagar]

[Onkar Shinde]

On 5/6/06, gora at sarai.net <gora at sarai.net> wrote:
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> On 10:47:56 am 05/05/06 Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> > Can anybody help this guy?
> [...]
> > Hello baishampayan,
> > I've just registered to Ubuntu Site. I have installed Ubuntu at home
> > recently (Though I've been using RH Linux for past 7 years).
> > I'm trying to configure ADSL network connection on Ubuntu. It uses
> > PPPOE. I tried following command:
> > % sudo pppoeconfig
> > It says:
> > "Sorry, pppoe access concentrator of your provider did not respond"
> > (sudo ifconfig eth0 runs fine. ethernet card shows it is configured)
> [...]
>
> This sounds like an access problem at your provider's end. You will
> need to give us more details. Are you sure that the username/password
> are correctly supplied to pppoe? Are you currently running the ADSL
> from Microsoft Windows? Were you able to run it earlier from a
> different Linux distribution? Are you able to connect with the ADSL
> router *not* in bridge mode, i.e., where it is itself running pppoe?
>
> Regards,
> Gora
>
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Please try this quick fix. From System->Administration->Networking
deactivate ethernet card to which teh router is connected. (I guess it will
be eth0)

Then try 'sudo pppoeconf'

Long term fix (if it is BSNL Dataone connection)
http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Broadband_Howto



Onkar
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