Setting Up Broadband in LINUX - FEDORA CORE

BSNL DataOne provides software for connecting to Linux. However you can setup much easier and without using their custom software.

Run adsl-setup. Most likely it is already installed on your system. Otherwise you can also install it on yum enabled distributions like Fedora Core simply by:

yum install rp-pppoe

It asks questions like your login name and password (provided by BSNL), your ethernet interface (choose the default provided - eth0; works for most cases) etc. After the setup you should preferably reboot (or restart the network - service network restart) and you will find your DSL connection up and running.

You can also manually bring up DSL connection by:

ifup ppp0

You can bring it down by:

ifdown ppp0

Note: Unless you have multiple DSL connections, ppp0 is a safe bet.