DSL failure in FC5

[corona79]

My setup:
dual-boot emachines T6532 PC
Windows XP Media Center Edition
AMD Athlon 64
nVidia GeForce 6100
SpeedStream DSL modem
2.615-1.2054_FC5 x86_64

I've finally gotten DSL on my PC. It's working fine in Windows, but not at all in Linux

Boot up messages proceed as usual until:

Bringing up interface eth0:

(After about two minutes, the following completes)
Determining IP information for etho: FAILED

:confused:

[LocutusOfBorg]

You seems to have configured your NIC with DHCP, but if you use a modem (instead of a router) I don't think this will work.
Did you install some program that your ISP gave to you for Windows?

[b_martinez]

Sometimes, you need only unplug the router from the Computer. If that doesn't work, reboot the windows section. Start>Control Panel > Networking and under one of the tabs for your connection [properties] look for the way your connection is set up. It will show you the address, gateway, DNS servers, your mac address and a few other things. Write all this down and when you boot back into the FC OS, you can enter all this info under System>Administration>Network. That is if you do not get assigned a new addy when you re-boot, but it should work.
hth
Bill

[nick.stumpos]

is the modem conected through usb or ethernet?

[multescugeorge@]

perhaps you want to try the command as root:
adsl-setup
may help a bit

[multescugeorge@]

i had cases on my pppoe connection when i could connect to the network even if eth0 coudn't get a internet address

[corona79]

No consensus, obviously ... On bootup, the delay seems to be gone, but the IP address still can't be determined. First ? : I haven't done any network-related installation or configuration in Linux yet. To answer another ?, the modem is connected to the PC with an etnernet cable. I tried System-Configure-Network, but couldn't even get started because of the problem described above. I'll give System-Administration_Network a try, but am not confident. I've never been able to get FC5 to work with the nVidia board flawlessly ...

[corona79]

It's been more than a year now, and I hardly ever boot into Linux. I've been thinking of trying Ubuntu, because I've read that setting up DSL may be automatic.

I can get an IP address (which changes when my computer is powered on), a subnet mask, and a default gateway. In Fedora, I've gone into System-Administration-Network, but can't find a place to enter this information. The eth0 error is mentioned, but I also see that the ethernet card is OK>

[b_martinez]

If you're still on FC5 , perhaps you should get a copy of Fedora 8 and install it. Or maybe just download the "Live" version, and see if it works for you.
Lots of good changes since a year ago.
hth
Bill