Hi, thanks for your answer and your attention, but that's not what i'm really looking for. I'll try to clarify my question. I already have all the physical stuff set up, as i already use my adsl connection on windows xp. I have recently started Fedora and beyond the fact i'm a linux beginner, i've never used fedora or red hat before. However, i've worked a bit with a brazilian distro (called conectiva). In conectiva distro there was a tool to install rpm packages. So i did install the rp-pppoe package and then run a fill scripts to configure the connection. That's exactly what i want to do with Fedora! BUT.... - I'm a complete beginer. - Where should i get the rp-pppoe package? - What's the fedora way of installing rpms? - After that, should i run the "adsl-setup" script, or there's someother thing? Well, sorry for my stupidness!! Any help is appreciated! > I recently installed DSL service at home. When I ordered it I was given > 2 OS choices - Mac or Win. I choose Mac as I actually have one (an old > G3 with OS X 10.2 but no windows box) but mostly use Linux. I also chose > the self-install option. They (SBC-yahoo) sent me a box with the DSL > modem and several line filters and a couple of cables. Plug one filter > into each phone jack and plug phone into the phone port on the filter. > Plug the cat 5 cable supplied in the box into the DSL port on the DSL > modem and the other end into the DSL port on the filter by the DSL > modem. The DSL modem also has an Ethernet port. Another cat 5 cable > connects that to the NIC in my Linux box. The DSL modem I was sent is a > SpeedStream 5100, an external device. It does NAT and DHCP. It also > has an embedded web server. Configure the Linux box NIC for DHCP and > activate the interface (ifup eth0 or service network restart). Point > a web browser at the DSL modem at the ip address in the docs > (192.168.0.1 in my case.) Follow the instructions on the web page. > > I also received a CD with software to run on the Mac that was used to > set up some service preferences and an email account. I do not know if > I could have gotten along without doing this step. I initially > connected the DSL modem to the G3 to do that setup. After the setup was > done then I moved the cable to the Linux box. > > I have added a 5 port D-Link wired router to my network with the WAN > port on that connected to the DSL modem and the Linux workstations also > connect to the router. The default gateway address on the Linux boxes > is the router (192.168.0.1) The ip address for the name server is also > 192.168.0.1. (I'm not sure just how that works but it does. One thing > that I learned after 40 years in computing is that I do not have to > understand how all of it works to use it. It's nice to know but not > essential. Anyway, about the time I start to feel that I understand > something well it changes or is replaced. But Linux is still fun!) > > I suspect that other issues may be involved with other types of DSL > hardware. > > paul > > paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Eau Claire, WI UA
