Hi, I'll soon have an ADSL in my flat and I'm playing with d-i on a Windoze machine running VMware just to get confident with the installation process in order to get Debian up and running ASAP. I saw a few threads discussed lately on this list about PPPoe and from what I got it should be possible to use the businesscard image. Here's a sort of diary of my tests; in the netinst installation I found a bug so read on if you're interested. Sorry if I haven't reported a bugreport but I'm a newbie and at the present I have limited access to the internet.
------------------------------------------- I tried using the businesscard (tc1) image; ------------------------------------------- 1) I booted with "expert" parameter 2) choose languae 3) choose country or region 4) Select kb layout 5) detect and mount cdrom 6) load installer components from CD: ppp-modules-2.4.26-1-386-di 7) detect network hardware now I'm offered to configure the network (pppoe has not been even mentioned yet). If I choose to go on with network configuration I can choose between DHCP or static IP addr so I try to go back and see if I can do anything about pppoe using a shell... 8) befor running the shell I set up my disk partition 9) i finally run the shell and press p<tab><tab> but nothing about pppoe comes up. /cdrom/pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-i386/ppp-modules-2.4.26-1-386-di_0.62 _i386.udeb /cdrom/pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6/ppp-modules-2.6.5-1-386-di_0 .59_i386.udeb /cdrom/pool/main/p/ppp /cdrom/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp-udeb_2.4.2+20040202-3_i386.udeb /cdrom/pool/main/p/ppp/TRANS.TBL /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/pppox.o /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/pppoe.o /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.o /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_async.o so I "modprobe pppoe" but now I don't know what to do to set up a connection with the provider.... 10) I try to install the base system hoping to get installed the necessary to set it up but it (obiouvsy) fails getting the Release file from the network. I give up because as a newbie there's nothing more I can do.... so maybe there's a way to set up the pppoe connection but I haven't found it. ---------------------------------- now I try with the netinst tc1 iso ---------------------------------- point 1-8 are the same of the previous installation 9) instead of running the shell this time I install the base system ( I choose kernel 2.4) 10) I install GRUB (probably out of the scope of the test but...) 11) I finish the installation and reboot the machine 12) setup users and pwds as to have at least a root account 13) configure and enable ppp even if i don't think that this has to do with pppoe I give it a try... "Create Create a connection named provider" "Quit Exit this utility" to me it doesn't look very good... I think "Create a connection named provider" "Exit this utility" would be much better and intuitive, anyway... ********* here' the bug ********** I opt for "Create a connection named provider" and when I have to configure dns I decide to go back with "cancel" then i try again to select "Create a connection named provider" and nothing happens. Instead of having the chance to configure dns as I did before nothing happens. As for the pppoe connection I open a new terminal and there are commands like pppoeconf so it should be possible to set up the connection. I hope this message hasn't been too long and boring! Could anyone please formulate which steps should be followed in order to perform a pppoe installation (maybe a link or just a list of files to be modified would be more than enough) thanx a lot in advance, Davide