Honestly, I was really pissed off at the web. It had solutions for all sorta issues, ya all sort ! Be it having trouble peeing, or making out or piercing your tongue or whatever you can conjure up ! But configuring just a simple pppoe connection on Linux was such a pain in the ass…

Finally, after raking through hundreds of sites, faqs,forums, I finally managed to figure one really simple solution. Ok, that many are comfortable in Linux and love to beam with the tag ” Software is like sex. It’s better when it’s free” ! But everyone has been a noob at some point of time. Nobody was born with an open source code ! Anyways, I am not ranting about all that here, m just providing with a lucid way of configuring an ADSL connection.

[Note:It isn’t my find nor do I want it to sound like. I couldn’t find the original author but credit goes to that being, whoever it is!]

Connect your Ethernet wire to the port at the back of your computer.
Fire up the terminal and type in sudo pppoeconf
It should detect your modem.
Keep on pressing enter. Fill in your user name and password when indicated.
It should be easy to stick on to defaults.
You should be prompted back to your terminal when it would say pppoe loaded. Simple. That’s the end of terminal.
Now go to System>Administration>Networking. Click on it. You would be asked for your password to carry out the administrative job as root. You should be prompted to enter the following details.

Activate the Wired connection.
Highlight the wired connection and click on properties.
Check the box “enable the connection”
Configuration as Static IP.
IP Address : 192.168.1.2
Subnet mask fills on it’s own as 255.255.255.0
Gateway address :192.168.1.1