I posted this as a bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556284
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I also see this issue in Fedora 12. Anybody got PPPoE working in
Fedora 12 over WIFI?
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Andreas Waldenburger
<wildemar(a)freakmail.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> the network at my university requires me to first connect to the WLAN
> and then use PPPoE to actually use the intertubes. Connecting to the
> WLAN itself works flawlessly (*hem*), the PPPoE though is a bit
> troublesome.
>
> I first tried setting this up via the DSL tab in Gnome's NetworkManager,
> but that didn't work. The connection is listed (not very surprisingly)
> under the wired networks, not under the wireless ones. I tried to be
> sneaky and entered my wlan-adapter's MAC address in the "wired" tab,
> but that only made the entry disappear from the network listing
> entirely (in the menu that you see when you left-click the
> notification icon).
>
> I did manage to set up the connection by running pppoe-setup as root.
> And although I did configure it to start at system boot, this doesn't
> happen. So now I have to run ifup as root every time I want to connect
> to the internet. To make things more annoying the WLAN connection
> disconnects somewhat frequently (lousy administration), prompting me do
> do ifdown and ifup each time that happens.
>
> Any way to have this PPPoE connection up automatically, preferably via
> NetworkManager? Any help is much appreciated.
>
> /W
>
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