I posted this as a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556284 On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I also see this issue in Fedora 12. Anybody got PPPoE working in > Fedora 12 over WIFI? > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Andreas Waldenburger > <wildemar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> the network at my university requires me to first connect to the WLAN >> and then use PPPoE to actually use the intertubes. Connecting to the >> WLAN itself works flawlessly (*hem*), the PPPoE though is a bit >> troublesome. >> >> I first tried setting this up via the DSL tab in Gnome's NetworkManager, >> but that didn't work. The connection is listed (not very surprisingly) >> under the wired networks, not under the wireless ones. I tried to be >> sneaky and entered my wlan-adapter's MAC address in the "wired" tab, >> but that only made the entry disappear from the network listing >> entirely (in the menu that you see when you left-click the >> notification icon). >> >> I did manage to set up the connection by running pppoe-setup as root. >> And although I did configure it to start at system boot, this doesn't >> happen. So now I have to run ifup as root every time I want to connect >> to the internet. To make things more annoying the WLAN connection >> disconnects somewhat frequently (lousy administration), prompting me do >> do ifdown and ifup each time that happens. >> >> Any way to have this PPPoE connection up automatically, preferably via >> NetworkManager? Any help is much appreciated. >> >> /W >> >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >> > > > > -- > pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt > http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ > linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless > registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. > ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, msn: valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxxxx > -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, msn: valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
