On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, 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? You'll need a PPPoE client. Check out Roaring Penguin. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
