RE: HELP!!!

["Brett Singer" <brett@brettsinger.com>]

thanks for the quick response!

> I have some user space hacks to get PPPoE to work (this is what most
> ISP around the US use), if you need this email me directly and I will
> forward it off the list so as not to suck up everyone's band width.

not sure i follow you - tell me if this helps to clarify the situation:

on the windows machines i'm using, it was pretty much plug and go - once the
cards were installed, i plugged in the ethernet cable, got an 'automatic' IP
address, and that was it.  the router does the rest.  which, of course, is
what's going to make the linux install more difficult ;-)

if you want to forward something to me directly, send it to this address:

brett@brettsinger.com

tried this:

> bash$ /sbin/ifconfig -a

which got me:

lo	Link encap:Local loopback
	  <bunch of stuff>

any thoughts?

thanks!

-b



-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:jon@ai.mit.edu]
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 6:15 PM
To: urbanyon
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; brett@brettsinger.com
Subject: Re: HELP!!!


Hi,

you're in a world of hurt with DSL and I feel your pain :)

I have some user space hacks to get PPPoE to work (this is what most
ISP around the US use), if you need this email me directly and I will
forward it off the list so as not to suck up everyone's band width.

Note if your ISP is using PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) encapsulation you
cannot just configure your ethernet card and go, infact your ethernet
card needs *not* to have any IP info configured, but that comes later.

First things second:

bash$ /sbin/ifconfig -a

if you see something like:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:C9:06:30:9B
	  <bunch of stuff>

You're in buisiness with the card, if not `man modconf`, modconf is a
utility for dealing with kernel modules like the ethernet drivers.

good luck,
-Jon