pppoed

[knavely]

this is really padestrian i know but im really a rank newbie.

wanting to get my dsl working with linuk...i downloaded the pppoed from the roaringpenguin
and i click intsall...i guess i doess, now at this point im supposed to run adsl-setup command as root. The problem is that it says unrecignized command. any help would get me going and would be appriciated.
o and my ethernet card is conigured correctly, and im using mandrake 7.1

[Mazaev]

Are you trying to run it as root? The adsl-start script is in /usr/sbin so a regular user wouldn't have it in his path by default.

[knavely]

Originally posted by Mazaev:
Are you trying to run it as root? The adsl-start script is in /usr/sbin so a regular user wouldn't have it in his path by default.

no i change directorys to /usr/sbin then type adsl-start
maybe i havent installed the thing correctly?
i just open the icon and click install...is this correct?

[SCuSI]

Lets try installing rp-pppoe from the command line. In a console cd to the directory with the rpm. [cd /directory/with/file] Become root. [su then enter roots password] Re-install the program. [rpm -Uvh rp-pppoe-2.3-1.i386.rpm] (make sure the version numbers match the ones you downloaded) You should get an output that resembles this: rp-pppoe #################. Now try typing adsl-setup. I hope this works. Don't give up, your persistance will pay off.

[knavely]

Thanks for your incouragement and help.
I allready have it working and am infact writting you this from my linux conection!
i had tried installing from the command line but it wouldnt work...so i finaly gave the tar download file a try and to my amazment it worked! Thanks again for everyones help
;-)

[vhg119]

even tho you are in the /usr/sbin directory, you still have to enter the path along with the command. "/usr/sbin/adsl-start".
you probably installed it correctly.
su to root and then enter
/usr/sbin/adsl-setup
set it up and then run it
/usr/sbin/adsl-start
tar packages and rpm packages seem to install files in different locations. i've found that tar packages tend to install to /bin or /sbin while rpms install to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin

[This message has been edited by vhg119 (edited 11 November 2000).]