DSL connection setup in Ubuntu 16.04

Question

How can I set up my DSL connection on Ubuntu 16.04? The way I set up a DSL connection in Ubuntu 14.04 is not working in Ubuntu 16.04.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 30 '16 at 21:20

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I solved my problem through following steps:

go to terminal
type sudo pppoeconf
it will ask some question, press yes
when you want to start internet just type sudo pon dsl-provider to connect to internet
type this to turn it off sudo poff

edited Apr 30 '16 at 21:20

guntbert

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answered Apr 28 '16 at 08:43

sgc

79

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 05 '19 at 09:09

This tutorial is going to show you how to setup a PPPoE connection in Ubuntu from the terminal.

Open up your terminal and type the following command to set your PPPoE connection.
```
nmcli con edit type pppoe con-name “YOUR_CONNECTION_NAME”
```

Enter your DSL account and password provided by your ISP and save your settings in the following commands.

set pppoe.username YOUR_DSL_ACCOUNT_USERNAME
set pppoe.password YOUR_DSL_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD
save

Then it will prompt asking:

Saving the connection with ‘autoconnect=yes’. That might result in immediate activation of the connection.    
Do you still want to save? (yes/no).

Type yes and quit.

Finally, select DSL connection from the network settings menu to establish the connection.

^{(Click image to enlarge)}

References: https://medium.com/@dineshsonachalam/creating-a-dsl-connection-on-ubuntu-18-04-1-lts-c5b7845beea0

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 25 '16 at 20:58

0

Just run sudo pppoeconf in terminal. Then give your username and password in popup windows.

answered Apr 25 '16 at 20:58

Krishna

303

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 05 '19 at 08:17

I was having the same problem yesterday, and I tried all the above options but this did not work. However, today, after comparing the dsl-provider file on my Ubuntu 16.04 computer with the file that has the same name on my Debian 8.8 computer, I noticed that there was an error in the Ubuntu file. So I fixed the file this way:

# Minimalistic default options file for DSL/PPPoE connections

noipdefault
defaultroute
replacedefaultroute
hide-password
#lcp-echo-interval 30
#lcp-echo-failure 4
noauth
persist
#mtu 1492
#persist
#maxfail 0
#holdoff 20
plugin rp-pppoe.so
nic-enp3s0f1
usepeerdns
user "XXXXXXX"

where XXXXXXX is my mailbox provider.

DSL connection setup in Ubuntu 16.04

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