Using Bell Sympatico "High Speed Edition" ADSL in Toronto I connected
with PPPoE. Didn't use DHCP at all. All I had to do was:
apt-get install pppoe (it's on the third CD)
Then followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/pppoe/README.Debian
Jason Dawe wrote:
>
> Hi. When I installed Debian I said yes to the
> configure network with DHCP question. It said it
> worked. I also installed via-rhine for my network
> card, which I found was the right module after some
> research.
>
> I rebooted, and expected to be online. I can't ping
> anywhere, except myself. Ifconfig looks like things
> are working. Can someone help me? I'm sure I got the
> working easily before, I just don't remember how? I
> want to connect to the Internet to install the rest of
> the packages.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Jason
