ADSL - Please help!!

[MotelKamzoil]

Okay, I am probably the biggest newbie around. I just downloaded Phat Linux and somehow managed to get it installed. Now, I have an ADSL connection (that works fine). Please tell me what I need to find out/do to set it up in Linux! I would REALLY appreciate any help you can give.

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Jon :)

thebigfatnewbiemeister

[mikeylikesitz]

I used Mandrake 7 and now Suse 7 and both were rather easy. I set up my DSL in both of them for DHCP(automatic IP assignment). Thats how my ISP works. Depnding on what network card you have in may need support for linux. I use 3com and have had no problems so for. Good Luck http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[holljac]

Does your ADSL provider require you to use pppoe? If so, go out to Roaring Penguin and get their software. It's very easy to set up.

Curt

[Yippee38]

If you do use PPPoE, set up you NIC card with a static address and PPPoE will grab the dynamic address for your connection. At least that's the way SuSE 7.0 worked for me. I couldn't get it set up until I turned DHCP off as described above.

Definately grab rp-pppoe.

Yippee38