Ubuntu 6.06.1 problems

[Dazed_75]

I don't know if this would help since I have cable, not DSL, but a man -k
DSL on ubuntu 6.06 pointed me at:
PPPOECONF(8)
PPPOECONF(8)

NAME
       pppoeconf — configures a PPPoE (ADSL) connection

SYNOPSIS
       pppoeconf

DESCRIPTION
       The pppoeconf program is userfriendly dialog based setup tool for
pppoe
       and pppd. It will look for existing ethernet cards and  look  for
ADSL
       hardware connected to one of them. Then it will get some login info
and
       do some minor modification to make working settings.

SEE ALSO
       pppoe (8), pppd (8).

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch  blad at debian.org  for
the
       Debian  GNU/Linux  system  (but  may be used by others).  Permission
is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
terms
       of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later
version
       published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
Sections,
       no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.


PPPOECONF(8)


On 11/6/06, JT Moree <moreejt at pcxperience.com> wrote:
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> Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> > My system is a Pentium 4 with dual processors at 3 Ghz, 1 Gb of RAM, 2
> 80GB hard drives. One for WindowsXP, and the other for Linux. The monitor is
> a 19 inch LCD by eMachine. On the hda is Windows XP, on hdb is 4 partition
> for Linux. SuSE Linux 10.1 was on partition hdb6. After wrestling with
> SuSE to get it recognized by the 19 in. monitor it worked fine.
> >
> > Then tried the Live CD for Ubuntu 6.06.1 as supplied by OSDisc.com.
> Liked the looks of it and it even recognized the SB Audigy 2 sound card. So
> went back to SuSE and tried the other Live CD's I got at the same time.
> Liked Ubuntu 6.06.1 so decided to install it. After the install tried to
> setup my DSL but could fine only info on setting up a dialup connection. So
> closed down Ubuntu and restarted in SuSE and all I got on the screen was
> "Frequency out of range" and could not see anything of SuSE on the screen
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas getting the DSL to work with Ubuntu and
> Getting SuSE to be recognized by the LCD.
>
> Are you sure it does not already work?   Did you try to browse the
> internet?
>
> If sure then what type of network card do you have?
>   lspci
> will show all the devices in the system.  The NiC can be seen in that
> list.  then you can check for a driver based on the nic.
>
> does suse have a rescue mode?  try looking for multiple xorg.conf files
> in /etc/X11/.  An upgrade may have made changes to the system.
>
> does yast have an ncurses mode?  you might try running yast at the
> command line to re-configure X.
>
> - --
> JT Morée
> PC Xperience, Inc.
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