[svlug] ATT DSL from Linux problems

[Robert Citek]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Richard Sharpe
<rsharpe at richardsharpe.com> wrote:
> > I seems to have Roaring Penguin configured correctly and indeed I had the
>  > DSL link up for a while, but now all I see on the ethernet link to the DSL
>  > modem is lots of:
>  >
>  >    PPPoE PADI [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq 0xsome-hex-digits]
>
>  Well, since it is a Netopia DSL gateway, turns out I didn't need to use
>  PPPoE, just DHCP to get an address from the modem, and then a browser to
>  configure it.

At ByteWorks[1] we've helped a number of our students setup DSL using
AT&T.  The trick for us was to use Konqueror instead of FireFox and
follow the instructions in the ManualSetup.html page on the CD[2].

[1] http://byteworks.bworks.org/
[2] http://wiki.bworks.org/doku.php/dsl

Regards,
- Robert