Hi,

On 08/28/2011 11:21 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote:
> Hello friends
> I am a novice linux user and I have just installed SL6.1 from liveCD.
> Now I want to connect to internet and my ISP use ADSL/pppoe type of
> connection. I use rp-pppoe to connect to the internet when in Fedora
> 13. But the problem is that I have to download that package here first
> which I can't do without a net connection. In RHEL 6 Deployment guide
> I have found some work around with pppd but have not been able to
> figure it out. Googling about it also comes with the solution of
> RP-pppoe.
>
> 1) Can anybody direct me to a HOW-TO about the method ( pppd or
> something for which I don't have to download a package) ?
>
> 2) Why I can't use the NM applet and the DSL tab there to configure
> pppoe connection ?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Since you could write this email I assume that you are somehow connected to the internet. If you know how to do it with rp-pppoe, I would simply download the 
rp-pppoe rpm and put it on an USB stick.

for 32bit:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/i386/os/Packages/rp-pppoe-3.10-8.el6.i686.rpm

for 64 bit:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/os/Packages/rp-pppoe-3.10-8.el6.x86_64.rpm

Insert the USB stick into the SL61 system and install rp-pppoeas root:

su -
cd "to_your_usb_stick"
yum localinstall rp-pppoe-3.10-8.el6.i686.rpm

Cheers,

     Urs