I use an old ADSL modem that does not connect itself to my ISP nor does lend IP address. So I need to use RP-PPPoE to connect and deconnect from Internet.
Using nixos-env -iA nixos.pkgs.rp-pppoe is not an option as it try to connect to Internet to download the sources. I have been able to test RP-PPPoE under VMWARE (3.10). First, pppose-setup seems to auto-diagnose a good installation by checking for /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf file. And on NixOS it does not exist as it is in the store. pppoe-status seems to do about the same. pppoe-setup have made a pppoe.conf file, with user option in lowercase, but it seems to need to be uppercase to work. There does not seems to have NixOS options for RP-PPPOE but wvdial options seems to be there. Less than one year ago I was still using an external 56k modem... so installing wvdial on the CD(DVD) would seems like a good idea to me, even if I would not be surprised some would disagree. I think it is important to have the packages that allows to connect to Internet on the CD/DVD. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev