[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu Beginner

[Morgan Collett]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 18:41, Gareth McNaughton <mcnaugg at lantic.net> wrote:
>
> Matthew French wrote:
> > On 20 Jun 2009, at 6:26 PM, Gareth McNaughton wrote:
> >
> >> I have also tried to enter the command you show as no 1a.  This
> >> gives me
> >> a new screen in what appears to be a text editor (GNU Nano 2.0.9) and
> >> that's it.  There is no file opened ready for editing at all.  I am
> >> getting the distinct impression that there are some files missing or I
> >> have not loaded them at the time of installation.
> >>
> >
> > Hmmm - you are correct, nano is just a text editor. And if it displays
> > nothing then the config file is not there.
> >
> > Ah - drat. It looks like pppoe is not installed by default. I was
> > assuming it would be.
> >
> > You need to go into Synaptic and install the package called pppoe. The
> > file should exist then. I will be very surprised if it is not on the
> > install CD.
> >
> > - Matthew
> >
> >
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> Hi Matthew
>
> Not having much luck so far.  I think I will clean the PC, reformat etc
> and reload.  I will come back to you in a few days if that is alright
> with you.

pppoe (PPP over Ethernet) should be installed by default.

In a terminal, you can run "sudo pppoeconf" which will (attempt to)
detect your modem on a network interface, and ask you for the username
and password.

Regards
Morgan