Verizon DSL

[Austin Isler]

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Mike Burger wrote:

|On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Joseph Gumbosky wrote:
|
|> Hi,
|>
|>Last night, I installed Fedora CORE 2 over my Xandros2 partition.
(I was
|>dual booting Xandros and XP.)  The installation went flawlessly.  It
|>recognized the Xandros partition as Linux and gave me the option of
|>overwriting only that part of the disk.  I can now boot into Fedora
or XP.
|>No problems.  Nice job!
|>
|>Now, I'm a bit spoiled with Xandros.  But, Fedora seems quite usable to
|>me...with just one issue.
|>
|>I cannot access the internet.  I use Verizon's DSL service connected
through
|>the Ethernet port.  When I use the connection wizard, it detects
|>"eth0(RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+)."  Then I get a message, "Cannot activate
|>network device VerizonDSL!"  
|>
|>However, when I log out and shut down, part of the dialog on the
screen is
|>as follows:
|>
|>Shutting down VerizonDSL........OK
|>
|>Shutting down VerizonDSL........FAILED
|>
|>I know that Verizon does not support Linux.  Is there some way of
getting
|>access to the net with Fedora?
|
|
|You'll need a PPPoE client.  Check out Roaring Penguin.

Verizon DSL does not require a login. So the roaring penguin software
is useless.
If you have a router, make sure your pc points to the routers IP as
the Primary DNS and then enter into the DNS search path: dsl-verizon.net

Austin
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