Installing PPPOE in Ubuntu

I now have DSL connection at home via Bayan DSL... Yipeee! The tech who came over my place had a little hard time installing the DSL connection though. Having an old Mac G3 and my new MSI laptop running with Ubuntu, I can tell he was clueless. I guess he doesn't get that much installation requests on computers running Mac OS X and Ubuntu. The problem started when he asked me where the settings for PPPOE connection is. How the hell should I know? He's the expert right? Well after a few clicks here and there I was able to find the PPPOE connection settings on my Mac but can't find it on my Ubuntu.

I felt sorry for the tech since he really said he doesn't know anything about Ubuntu so I just said i'll try to figure it out myself. Anyway my internet is up on the Mac. So I went online and saw the command and I was surprised how easy it was. Apparently PPPOE is not automatically setup in Ubuntu. The steps are very easy... see for yourself.

Open up a terminal and type:

sudo pppoeconf

This will open a window that will guide you in setting up the connection. Make sure the cable is connected so it would be detected by your system.

One more thing...

If you want the connection to start at boot you will need to select that option when it is presented by "pppoeconf". If that doesn't work you will also need to

sudo gedit /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

before the final

: exit 0

Add the line

pon dsl-provider

Now, I ask you, what could possibly be more newb-friendly than that?