No way to connect Wireless/PPPOE

[Alket Rexhepi]

As tittle says, no way to connect. THIS IS A MAJOR BUG since many people have PPPOE connection, I live in Kosovo and the biggest provider offers internet with PPPOE therefor for lap tops Ubuntu isn't an option.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Tue Dec 7 23:11:05 2010
Gconf:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
IpRoute:
 10.40.64.1 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 10.40.81.74
 169.254.0.0/16 dev ppp0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 10.40.64.1 dev ppp0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet

[Eshwar Andhavarapu (eshwar.andhavarapu)]

could you perhaps elaborate on how you normally connect? Like in windows is it a dial up connection? I'd imagine it is. And the devices that are involved on the way e.g. router, adsl modem, etc? that'll help people help you on this.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

This is a known issue, it's not currently possible to connect to a PPPoE connection over wireless.

There are workarounds though: you can use wired to connect, say, for a first connection, than install and use pppoeconf, pon and poff to control PPPoE connections manually. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ADSLPPPoE for all the details on how to do this.

[Hamed Abdy (hamed-abdy)]

Also in Ubuntu 11.04.
It is very annoying.