<div>I'm assuming that I would need to redo my current iBurst USB modem (when is RSA again), set up seeing as it uses the pppoe as well?</div> <div> </div> <div><br><br> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">On 8 March 2010 16:55, David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ethnopunk@telkomsa.net">ethnopunk@telkomsa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div></div> <div class="h5"><br><br>David Nel wrote:<br>> Hey guys,<br>><br>> I'm currently sitting in Namibia and am trying to plug in to a ADSL<br>> modem with my 8.10 setup but can't seem to get things going just yet.<br> > Am I overlooking something? I can't seem to see any speficic details<br>> on the XP system that is currently using the adsl line (ie. username,<br>> password etc). Not sure if I'm being a total noob on this task. Any<br> > help will be appreciated... I promise.<br>><br>> Dave<br>><br>><br><br></div></div>Easiest method is to open terminal.<br><br>sudo pppoeconf<br><br>yes to all the questions<br><br>fill in username and password<br> <br>then:<br><br>pon dsl-provider<br><br>ping <yourserviceprovider><br><br>try again if fail<br><font color="#888888"><br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-za mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a><br></font></blockquote></div><br>