Accessing Internet over PPPoA with FC5

[c_bruce]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Accessing Internet over PPPoA with FC5


> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, c_bruce wrote:
>
>>> On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 13:42 -0700, c_bruce wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have an FC5 WinXP dual boot system. Using Mozilla on FC5, I can't 
>>>> access
>>>> the Internet
>>>> except for RedHat sites. When using FC4 and SUSE 9.1, I could get 
>>>> online as
>>>> root only. WinXP goes online fine. Knoppix 3.2 goes online also. The 
>>>> PPPoA
>>>> software is in the Qwest DSL modem (Actiontec GT701-wg DSL Modem with
>>>> Wireless Gateway)
>>>> Not sure what to do next.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> cb
>>>>
>>> Hey...I just went through this non-sense as well.  Basically the modem
>>> has to be setup with PPPoA(username/password stuff).  Then you setup
>>> your box to either DHCP from the router or with a static IP(I'm NAT'd
>>> behind the router to 192.168.0.X).
>>>
>>> I hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Sean
>>
>> OK my router is set up for DHCP...how do I set up my system to DHCP?
>
> system-config-network, then select the interface you are using.  There's a 
> checkbox for DHCP.
>
<snip>
eth0 is set to
-Activate on boot
-Automatically obtain IP address settings with DHCP
-Automatically obtain DNS information from provider

I still can't get online. If I set up a static IP configuration (not 
precisely sure how), then I need to reconfigure WinXP also I imagine.

newbie still trying,

cb