Guys/gals, I'm taking the plunge, if time allows, I'm going to install Kubuntu on a spare drive I have...

Now that should be straight forward, I hope... what I need suggestions on is PPPOE install as I have wireless service to my house, but the NIC is hardwired via cat5 to the wireless transceiver...

Later

MD

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The first step is to see if your card is detected by default. If not, you'll have to tinker a bit and either hunt down a linux driver or use something like ndiswrapper. The chances are pretty good the card will be up and running from the get-go, unless you've got one from broadcom or somebody else who doesn't have great linux support for their stuff. After that you can take a peek at two packages, pppoe and pppoeconf. The first of those is the driver for pppoe connections, the second is the initial config tool used to set your connection up. I haven't used either of those so I don't know how good they are, but that looks like the way this sort of thing is usually done.

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Biostar 6100-939 mainboard... has onboard NIC.

I've heard about a package from roaring penguin for PPPOE, have you heard of it?

Thanks

MD

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You're probably good to go then. If it's one of those from realtek or somebody else that you find everywhere, then you could probably make those work with a toaster if you wanted to. I haven't heard of the roaring penguin app, but it looks kind of nifty... might as well try it out.

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Well I may have to hold off on this for a while, my wife has started labor, yep, we have another baby on the way !!

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All the best to hopefully all three of you

Where is url of the page that stated it has onboard NIC? Could you give me please.

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Edited: 03/21/2008 at 06:39 AM by komrad

I'm looking on BIOSTAR's site at the moment and I can't find a motherboard named "6100-939"...what exactly is the model number of the board, MD?