DSL

I think I have the same setup at ACS with a little
paradyne box. The technician first set it up for me
with my Windows laptop.

We tried to use one of my own cat 5e ethernet cables
(because it was longer), but this didn't work; we had to use
the ACS's cable. Never figured out why.

Then later I put my Debian box on this cable,
and all I had to do is follow the instructions in
/usr/share/doc/pppoe/README-Debian.gz

i.e. I did the following:

in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets

add the line

<my-user-name>@acsalaska.net acsalaska.net <my-password>

in /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider

edit the user line to read

user <my-user-name>@acsalaska.net

Then I have to make the symlink

cd /etc/ppp

ln -s ppp-on-boot.dsl ppp-on-boot

Then bring up the connection by

/etc/init.d/ppp start

and it will also automatically start when booting.

Perhaps this is helpful.

Hans.
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Received on Tue Oct 4 10:02:55 2005