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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, msn: valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
