On Friday 03 September 2004 11:14 am, Joseph Gumbosky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last night, I installed Fedora CORE 2 over my Xandros2 partition. (I was
> dual booting Xandros and XP.) The installation went flawlessly. It
> recognized the Xandros partition as Linux and gave me the option of
> overwriting only that part of the disk. I can now boot into Fedora or XP.
> No problems. Nice job!
>
> Now, I'm a bit spoiled with Xandros. But, Fedora seems quite usable to
> me...with just one issue.
>
> I cannot access the internet. I use Verizon's DSL service connected through
> the Ethernet port. When I use the connection wizard, it detects
> "eth0(RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+)." Then I get a message, "Cannot activate
> network device VerizonDSL!"
>
> However, when I log out and shut down, part of the dialog on the screen is
> as follows:
>
> Shutting down VerizonDSL........OK
>
> Shutting down VerizonDSL........FAILED
>
> I know that Verizon does not support Linux. Is there some way of getting
> access to the net with Fedora?
>
Joe,
Enclosed are notes I wrote for myself when I used Verizon ADSL.
They are pretty sparse but you may find them useful.
+ Become root user
+ Make sure to delete the eth0 device, use redhat-config-network-druid
+ Then run /sbin/adsl-setup
[Answer the Easy Questions... Here is the Summary]
Ethernet Interface: eth0
User name: <your user name here>
Activate-on-demand: No
DNS addresses: Supplied by ISP's server
Firewalling: STANDALONE
User Control: yes
Accept these settings and adjust configuration files (y/n)? y
Adjusting /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
Adjusting /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
(But first backing it up to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.bak)
(But first backing it up to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.bak)
Congratulations, it should be all set up!
Type '/sbin/ifup ppp0' to bring up your xDSL link and
'/sbin/ifdown ppp0'to bring it down.
Type '/sbin/adsl-status /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0'
to see the link status.
+ Then you may need to stop the firewall (/etc/init.d/iptables stop)
+ Then you can use lokkit to put back the firewall after you know
things work.
