[Bug 232172] Re: no wlan option for pppoe configuration

[Gisli Ottarsson]

I also second.

I am a visitor in a home in Italy (Telecom Italia) where the name of the
service is Alice ADSL.

I have a laptop and I was immediately connected to the household's WLAN
but I would not get routed anywhere.  As I have never experienced PPPoE,
this was very mysterious to me.  Information on the Telecome Italia
website suggested that the connection was PPP related caused me to look
at the Point to Point section of Network Manager, but only eth0 (the
wired network) was offered as an option, which got me nowhere.

Only when I stumbled on this Ubuntu Bug, (thanks, original poster) did I
try pppoeconf, after which everything was easy.

Small note for those having same problem:

1.  Start the wlan connection.
2.  Open a terminal and start pppoeconf.  The tool will proceed to try all network interfaces and will likely be successful in making a connection over the wireless interface.  I simply accepted all defaults (except in my case I did not want to make this a permanent connection at boot).

Please try to enhance Network Manager such that this becomes more
discoverable.

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no wlan option for pppoe configuration
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