Please Help - ADSL/eth0 problems

[antonio montagnani]

2007/7/19, Pepper&Joe <pepper.joe at msa.hinet.net>:
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> I am running a Gigagbyte GA8S661FXMP-RZ Motherboard with 1 GB memory
> installed. It is a dual processor motherboard but I am only running one 1xP4
> 2.4 GHz CPU. I have 2 IDE drives (first in line) and one SATA drive where I
> have both XP and Fedora 7 installed. There are 3 partitions on the SATA
> drive: the first one for XP, the second for storage and the third for Linux.
> I have a Radeon 9800 pro Video card and a Viewsonic VG2021m LCD monitor. I
> am having no problems whatsoever with sound or video.......I just can't get
> the internet working. My adaptor is a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adaptor -
> Packet Scheduler Miniport, type, ethernet-csmacd, 100 Mbps. I have tried
> everything to get Linux hooked up to the internet.....I tried setting the
> eth0 to DHCP, BootP and Dialup, I tried changing the IP, Gateway and subnet
> masks from the values provided to me by my ISP (even though they are only
> needed for static IP's (and mine is dynamic) to "server"......and on and on
> and on...I cannot get eth0 to activate and so I am not even yet here
> mentioning whether my ADSL connection will activate or is setup right as it
> is my assumption that if eth0 doesn't activate, neither will ADSL. I would
> sure appreciate any and all help. I am admittedly a newbie to Linux although
> I have tried installing it on several occasions alongside windows in the
> past, I have never really reached out for help with failed installs and just
> abandoned them. This is as far as I have ever got and I am anxious to make
> it work. Sound, video and everything are working just can't get hooked up to
> the internet which is my primary reason for wanting to run Linux.
> Cheeers
> Joseph
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is your connection a PPoE or a PPoA?? I assume that is PPoE.
If so, you have to configure ppp separately by the Ethernet card and
activate pppd...
Hope it can help...
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Antonio Montagnani
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