If you downloaded the RPM file, type:

# If you don't want the GUI:
rpm -Uvh rp-pppoe-3.0-1.i386.rpm
/usr/sbin/adsl-setup

# If you do want the GUI
rpm -Uvh rp-pppoe-3.0-1.i386.rpm rp-pppoe-gui-3.0-1.i386.rpm
/usr/bin/tkpppoe

Note: The RPM file is built on Red Hat Linux 6.2. It will probably work on Mandrake and SuSE. (For SuSE, you should use YaST to install the RPM.) For other Linux distributions, you should download the source tar file and install from source.

Installing from Source (Linux and Solaris)
If you downloaded the compressed tar file, type:

tar xvfz rp-pppoe-3.0.tar.gz
cd rp-pppoe-3.0

# If you don't want the GUI
./go

# If you do want the GUI
./go-gui

Make sure that you have your network card working, that is load the appropriate drivers/modules using modprobe or insmod. Then type ifconfig -a and it will list all the ethernet devices you have on your system.

Now run adsl-setup to set up Roaring Penguin. Remember that this all must be done as root. Now to bring it up, type adsl-start and to stop use adsl-stop.

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