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Article #1535Re: PPPoE with SWBELL or PACBELL
From: raw_socket
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:00
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 $USERID not recognized by pppd. I cannot > call anyone for tech support at Bell because as mentioned, they don't have a > clue, and NTS, the PPPoE software provider, doesn't give tech support > period. I surely would appreciate any advice as I am a newbie at Linux. > > Thanks, > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11033e,9b269dd01270f3b X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public From: raw_socket <raw_socket@my-deja.com> Subject: Re: PPPoE with SWBELL or PACBELL Date: 2000/08/16 Message-ID: <8nel9j$b0r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Deja-AN: 659012129 References: <Ehpl5.52$9J.120753@nnrp1.sbc.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x72.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 206.10.153.114 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Aug 16 18:08:06 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDraw_socket Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)