Solved my problem... sort of.

My linux pc is now sitting right beside the pc that sits beside my router.

Got tired of attempting usb wireless, and gave it a wired ethernet connection.

Linux is great! But I doubt I'll be trying it on another pc, considering my problems with pppoe.

 

If you have a router, why do you need the computers to connect via PPPoE? Doesn't the router take care of your login info?

And if you tell us what chipset your USB wireless uses, we could help you out.

 

I have dsl... even with a router you have to connect certain ways.

With dsl you connect via pppoe usually , and bridge the dsl modem.

With cable you go the other routes.

I already looked up my usb wireless chipset, linux drivers, I installed them, still didn't help much.

 

Do you have a PPPoE application on Windows that you use? Most of the time the PPPoE setup is done on the router, between the router and the modem, and then your router provides an internal, private network that you don't need to bridge through. Can you do that?

 

I think that Zellio is confusing "PPPoE" with "WEP" (or "WPA"). If he needed PPPoE then he would be using it with his wired connection as well. Yet his wired connection is working despite the fact that he never got PPPoE working. Thus we can deduce that he actually means something specific to wireless networking like "WEP".

 

My router config page has a PPPoE field for my username and whatnot. I use DSL too .

That doesn't help us much...

 

I'm configured for pppoe...

I dunno, it just refuses to connect.

Doesn't matter now, as I got it working.

One question, if it doesn't allow 3d, it isn't going to, right?

This is an old geforce 4 which I'm surprised is working in the first place :-X

 

Now that you have internet, use the latest version of Envy, which I linked to in the other thread, to get the official nVidia drivers to enable 3D. Then you'll be able to run Beryl and the like.

 

First I'm gonna download tons of crap and fill up my sad little 30 gig hdd ^_^

 

So when u install Nvidia drivers... it doesnt automatically have 3D support? or is 3D a program...?

What is Envy and Beryl?

 

When you install the nVidia drivers (which was actually done for my in Feisty... I don't know why anyone would need the Envy scripts to be honest), you'll have to run a few terminal commands to get them configured correctly. I believe the Envy scripts do this automatically however, so that is one good aspect. After that, though, you will have 3D hardware acceleration.

I know this stuff is a lot for new people to take in, but give it some time and you'll get used to it. To be honest, this is the same general way that Mac OS X and Windows work; those operating systems simply hide all that stuff from you. With Linux, you have a lot more control over what gets done to your system. This is great for power users, but hard for new people. Most all of us went through it at one time (including myself). Unless you started out on Linux, it's a transition thing. It'll take time, but if you stick with it, you'll usually find it to be quite appealing. Of course, things are much easier now than they were even just a few years ago when I was starting out.

 

Yeah, you're right, sorry. I'm just not well versed in Edgy, seeing as the X server is broken on my laptop model. I'll have to do an alternate install and build the system up from that. Too much hassle at the moment.