Comment 6 for bug 54383

>I had a look at the script /usr/sbin/pppoeconf and the reason why it >doesn't work is that the zenity support is broken (zenity is an app to show >GUI dialogs).

>Commenting out lines 22,23,24 makes pppoeconf work again here. I >suspect everyone here for whom this script fails has zenity installed. If >zenity is not installed pppoeconf will use whiptail or Xdialog for it's >dialogs.

Thanks Andreas, that got pppoeconf to come up with a basic dialog on my system. But no joy after that...

It sees my eth0 connection, I accept that, but then after flashing a couple of brief "Timeout waiting for PADO packets" or something like that, I get:
"Sorry, I scanned 1 interface, but the Access Concentrator of your provider did not respond. Please check your network and modem cables. [which are OK, since when I'm on OSX I'm properly connected]
Another reason for the scan failure may also be another running pppoe process which controls the modem [I very much doubt this is the problem]

I don't know much about networking, so I have no idea what this message means. When I run the Network Administration tool the connections pane is empty, and there's no "add" button. The help says to use the "add" button...

So basically I'm still stuck.

-- Mike.