On Mon, 07 May 2007 02:31:45 -0800 gary garys@mtaonline.net took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:

I just bought a new cheap compaq presario sr5010nx and so far have been unable to get my dsl up and running on Centos5. pppoeconf on Ubuntu works just fine -- same machine -- same harddrive.

I've run adsl-setup and system-config-network? (separately) numerous times without success.

So far I suspect a missing driver but suppose it could also be a detection issue.

Suggestions or workarounds appreciated. ----gary

What kind of dsl modem do you have? Is it a speedstream of some sort or is it a 2wire variant?

What is the contents of /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf

The newer speedstream modems (if you can call them that) can retain credentials. Have you tried connecting to it and seeing what settings are in there?

Do you have /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 ? What is the contents of that file? Have you tried a simple 'ifconfig ppp0 up'? Try seeing the settings of your config via the main menu System > Administration > Network.

Try this as well 'system-config-network' What does it mention (if anything) about ppp0?

HTH

Alex White