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Hy I've been busy trying to connect my linux box to my DSL connection through pppoe for the past couple of VERY frustrating days hrer the details:
I've started by trying /sbin/adsl-setup under the console after that failed I tryed to use the gui network connections... which also failed so i got roaring penguin I downloaded a few more howtos but I still can't get it up and running if I say /sbin/adsl-start it just sit there and does no thing but the /sbin/adsl-connect says PAP authentication failed once it said connected but right after it sayed *pads packets timed out I'm realy at a los here and thoroughly stumped (even kicking everything in sight didn't help )
help would be GREATLY apreciated.

* I'm not sure if its pads packets but !something! timed out

encouraged by the overwelming response to my first question I've decided to hazard a second question I've finally gotten a connection up but I can't view any website I've checked the resolv.conf and every thing seems to b in order now i know that u all have busy lives and u cant reply to every script idiots question but maybe sonthing like google for this or rtfm or google is your friend or something that might help find out were my coffie mug is can b ur good deed for the day atleast that way u dont have to donate ur brand new porche to charity <-:

Are you getting any replys from the websites themselves?. Try ping google.com or some other site. If you get a response, please elaborate the problem you have. If not you can try and traceroute where your connection to the website fails (using the tracert command on Windows, I guess its the same on linux, I can't check it now but there should be something like tracert installed).

Let us know what happend!

hy i took ur advise and it sayed something about unable to resolve host so i figured theres something wrong with my dns server (duh) but i got it up and running now i just have to log out of root but anyway thanx a mil rootland

P.S sory about the previose post i was just getting a little frustrated

Good to hear that you got it up and running (via resolv.conf I suppose?). Anyway, you should never login as root! Always login with your user account. Then if you need to do some administration which requires root access use either the sudo command or simply do an su in your terminal and switch to the root account for aslong as you need it. This saves you the login/logout time and is much safer/better practice!

Yes, getting out of root is a good idea indeed. However, if you want to have some fun while logged into your root account, you could always do "rm -rf /" just kidding, don't do it unless you want to get your internet connection back up after a reinstall of linux

yeah i know about rm -rf / (luckily I'm past that stage ) and i know its not good/safe practiseto to work in root but somethings just don't seem to work with sudo or su (I couldn't set my connection up with su however wen i switched to root every thing went fine (although i dont plan to go back there very soon)

(via resolv.conf I suppose?)

yeah something like that now that i'm connected i'm gonna check out my new found freedom and jump of a kliff

google.it