On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 19:01, Dave Conroy wrote: > Hi Derek, and others > > Well, at the final hour just as I was about to kick Mandrake into the > 'can't be bothered trash can' I tried the 'hid' thing that Derek > pointed me to and it worked ... this was the third time I'd tried mind > you! > > So, spent a bit of time in the company of Mandrake and got to like it > ... not up to the standard of Mac OSX, but as certainly could use it > over Win2000. Now I just need to get my Alcatel ADSL modem working ... > think I need to download and save to floppy or CD in Windows and then > open Linux and install. I will shout if I get stuck. > > Meanwhile, thanks a bunch. Brilliant support! > > With best wishes, > > Dave > Hi Dave,
Welcome! Sounds like you had a "baptism of fire", but it all builds character ;-) To get your ADSL going, all you should need is to install ppp-2.4.1-3mdk rp-pppoe-gui-3.3-2mdk rp-pppoe-3.3-2mdk all of which are on your distro disks. Then just type: adsl-setup as root in a console and answer some questions. Finally, enter the domain info of your provider in /etc/resolv.conf like: search my.providers.domain nameserver ip-of-primary-dns nameserver ip-of-secondary-dns and you are done. the command start-adsl should then bring it up. HTH Brian
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