PPPoE in Linux

[cad896]

Hi all,
I FINALLY got Linux installed! Whew!

Well, I've new challenges. I use a cable modem to connect to internet. My ISP uses PPPoE. I got through the getting started guide, the configuration guide in the Red hat website but couldn't find anything that can guide me on how I can use my connection to connect to internet from Linux.

I installed Red Hat Linux 9 and I'm using GNOME as Desktop. I've already created the interface using the network configuration utility. And the network is active. I searched in the Google for PPPoE in Linux and got to the Roaring Penguin website and dowloaded the RPM files there. Then when I tried to install the RPM files, it told me that newere version of that RPM file is already installed. How can I configure the PPPoE protocol so that I can connect to internet? Anyone?

For reference, I already saw the manual for PPPoE and couldn't understand anything. If more specific information regarding my connection or my system or type of installation or anything is needed to answer my question, please let me know and I'll give those as I don't know at this moment what informations might be needed.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[cad896]

Well I figured out everything on my own. In fact I'm writing this from my Linux. . If any other newbies like me falls in this problem, please let me know and I would be more then happy to help out.

Another thing, does anyone know how to block popups in Linux??? There are several websites that I visit regularly which have popups. A popup blocker type thing would be really VERY helpful. Does anyone know?

[kjbunete]

Actully, depending on what Browser you are using. There might be built in popup blocker. I know that theree is one in Netscape, I think that there is one in Mozilla Firebird.

As for you getting you proplem fixed, Great Job! I found out that this is the best way to figure things out in linux. Do it yourself, of course you need some help sooner or later. But to save some hassel, could you Please go ahead and post what you did. Some one might need the answer right away and see that you want them to write to might give a bad impression. Plus, I'm curious myself!

[cad896]

Well its preety easy. But first thing first, you need to make sure that the ethernet card that you are going to use to connect is installed and configured properly. To find out about it, from the menu go to "System Tools" and then "Hardware Browser". It'll open a window that'll show you by catagory what hardwares are installed in your machine. Click the Network devices from the left hand panel and you should see the network cards installed in your machine with their full name, model, and the driver installed. If you dont' see your network card here, then you need to configure it. I don't know the details how you can do this, maybe someone else can help you out if you need the help.

Now, open a new terminal window and type "adsl-setup" and press enter. The setup program will launch and will ask you for specific informations. The first thing it'll ask is what network card you want to use, if you have only one network card installed, you'll see it says the default is "eth0". If you have multiple cards, then the cards should be identified as eth1, eth2 and so on. Enter the card name (i.e. eth0, eth1) and press enter. Next you'll be asked your username, password and some other stuffs. The onscreen instructions are very clear and you shouldn't have any problems understanding them. Once you're done, it'll create the connection automatically. You can see the connection in the "Network Configuration". You're all done.

Please note that I'm talking about Red Hat 9. So if you're using something different, I don't know what to do. The package that installs this PPPoE configuration utility is from Roaring Penguine website. And they say it works on Red Hat only.

[kjbunete]

Thank you!