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Re: PPPoE with SWBELL or PACBELL

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From: raw_socket
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:00
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Did you enter your username and password in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets ? It seems to not recognize your username.
Can you ping Bells server?
In article <Ehpl5.52$9J.120753@nnrp1.sbc.net>,
  "Trey E." <treybob@swbell.net> wrote:
> Its is a shame to I pay good money for a DSL connection and nobody
at "MA
> BELL" can tell me how to configure PPPoE for Linux, much less have
any clue
> about Linux.  I hope that someone here can help me find the
appropriate NIC
> driver and PPPoE software.  I have a Kingston 10/100 KNE110TX NIC and
an
> Alcatel 5260 modem, standard issues from Bell.  I am running Mandrake
7.0,
> and was told buy Kingston to use the "tulip" driver supplied with
Mandrake.
> I downloaded PPPoE software (enternet100src.zip) from the
63.196.151.75
> site.  I followed the directions for installation as stated.  I ran
ifconfig
> and got a response, but when I tried to execute then command start-
pppoe, I
> got a usage error message saying $USERID not recognized by pppd.  I
cannot
> call anyone for tech support at Bell because as mentioned, they don't
have a
> clue, and NTS, the PPPoE software provider, doesn't give tech support
> period.  I surely would appreciate any advice as I am a newbie at
Linux.
>
> Thanks,
>
>


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