I spent a good chunk of this past weekend on the same problem. Following the
instructions detailed here:
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/how-to-connect.txt
And using their software of course I was able to make it work. I had to
remove eth0 from the boot sequence - the instructions above ask
When you pinged, did you ping the IP address or the host name?
try to ping 64.58.76.224 (www.yahoo.com) If you can get to it with the IP
address, then there is probably no nameservers set up in your
/etc/resolv.conf You would get those IP address from your ISP.
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:59:24
Crazy problem here... I installed Redhat 8.0 and everything went
beautifully, including setting up my DSL connection. I was able to
browse and everything was just fine, then one day I could no longer
browse at all. I'm using Mozilla - but I don't think the problem is
there. Tried a ping
The other unusual thing going on (I'm not certain that it's related) is
that when I am booting into Redhat, the following line comes up:
bringing up interface eth0 - FAILED
The reason I don't think it's related is because it has always said this
(I just installed 8.0 last week) and my DSL was
