Ameritech Yahoo SBC bleh, help!

[kj289]

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I just got SBC Ameritech's Yahoo DSL service.

Yes, it really is called that. Every time someone could say or write "dsl" to refer to the service, they don't. They use the whole frickin' name instead.

Anyway, it connects just fine to my win2k box directly. But I don't want to do that. I want to connect it to my redhat 7.2 box directly, and run some simple firewall/masquerading stuff through a switch so that I have a nice home network, just like I did with my cable modem before I moved.

Help Help Help.

Any hints?

I have my firewall set up to do normal DHCP stuff, but that doesn't seem to do the right thing.

[jumpedintothefire]

http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55963

[kj289]

I'll look there.


My current status is that I don't seem to have a ppp module installed for my kernel. I think I built my own kernel a while back, and ppp was probably not included.

I'm trying to figure out how to rectify this problem without rebuilding a new kernel now. If you happen to have a brilliant flash of insight, please let me know.

I'll keep plugging away at it for now.

Thanks!

[kj289]

Okay, after having read through that thread, it appears that my problems similar, but the details are different.

I'm not to the point of having an unstable connection, yet. I'm at the point of having no connection.

Still working...

[jumpedintothefire]

What does rpm -qa | grep ppp give you??
Do you have any ppp stuff in /lib/modules/<kernelver>/kernel/drivers/net ??
Do you know which file to edit??