/usr/sbin/pppoeconf

[Bruno Dusausoy]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 19:36, Jochen Skulj wrote:
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> Today I've installed Ubuntu and configured my ADSL-connection 
> with /usr/sbin/pppoeconf. At first sight everything seemed to be ok and I 
> could access the internet. But after rebooting my machine the connection to 
> the internet wasn't restarted (as I configured). 
> 
> Obviously the file /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot.dsl is missing; /etc/init.d/ppp tries 
> to call /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot which is supposed to be a symbolic link 
> to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot.dsl
> 
> Unfortunately I even establish the internet connection manually since pon 
> gives an error message that the loading of some plugin isn't supported by the 
> kernel (sorry, I don't remember the exact error message).
> 
> Does anyone uses Ubuntu with an ADSL-connection and is there a solution for 
> this problem?

I had the same problem : my pppoe configuration was lost at boot time.
I installed the package "pppoe", reconfigured my connection with
"pppoeconf" and rebooted ... Everything works fine now.

See https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153
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