PPPoE over WLAN

[Valent Turkovic]

I posted this as a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556284

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also see this issue in Fedora 12. Anybody got PPPoE working in
> Fedora 12 over WIFI?
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Andreas Waldenburger
> <wildemar at freakmail.de> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> the network at my university requires me to first connect to the WLAN
>> and then use PPPoE to actually use the intertubes. Connecting to the
>> WLAN itself works flawlessly (*hem*), the PPPoE though is a bit
>> troublesome.
>>
>> I first tried setting this up via the DSL tab in Gnome's NetworkManager,
>> but that didn't work. The connection is listed (not very surprisingly)
>> under the wired networks, not under the wireless ones. I tried to be
>> sneaky and entered my wlan-adapter's MAC address in the "wired" tab,
>> but that only made the entry disappear from the network listing
>> entirely (in the menu that you see when you left-click the
>> notification icon).
>>
>> I did manage to set up the connection by running pppoe-setup as root.
>> And although I did configure it to start at system boot, this doesn't
>> happen. So now I have to run ifup as root every time I want to connect
>> to the internet. To make things more annoying the WLAN connection
>> disconnects somewhat frequently (lousy administration), prompting me do
>> do ifdown and ifup each time that happens.
>>
>> Any way to have this PPPoE connection up automatically, preferably via
>> NetworkManager? Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>> /W
>>
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