Verizon DSL
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Fri Sep 3 16:04:21 UTC 2004
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.
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