Re: WiFi and PPPoe

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:08 +0100, Yann Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> to connect to my DSL provider with wireless network, I have to:
> - set up a static IP
> - use PPPoe (with pon dsl-provider)

NM doesn't support PPPoE over wireless yet, but that was mostly an
oversight.  NM 0.7 won't ship with that support but it could most likely
be added as an update thereafter.

Dan

> I do not use NetworkManager now. I have instead parametered everything
> with command line tools (iwconfig, ifconfig and pppoeconf).
> It works quite well. But the connection is sometimes down, and I have
> to use the command line to repair it.
> While I'm ok with that, the other peoples that use the computer do not
> have the skills to do that.
> 
> I though that I could use NetworkManager to configure the network and
> display information through the nm-applet.
> I tried with the live CD of Ubuntu 8.10 (which use NetworkManager v 0.7)
> 
> I could:
> - set up a static IP in wireless mode.
> - set up a PPPoe connection in wired mode.
> 
> But I could not set up a PPPoe connection in wireless mode.
> 
> Is it an actual limitation of NetworkManager? Or am I missing something?
> Is there a workaround for this?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your answers.
> 
> Yann
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