[NTLUG:Discuss] swbell dsl

[Kyle_Davenport@compusa.com]

I hate to bring this up yet again, but a friend jumped at SWBell DSL offer for
his windows, and now finds he can't connect with linux.  I used to think these
were all just DHCP connections, but after looking at the windows connection, I
see it installs a dummy ip on the ethernet card and then a "PPPoE" connection on
top of that with its own routing information.  I'm guessing it is "ppp over
ethernet".  Of course they do not support anything but windoze and mac.   I
suspect there might be additional authentication too, since the software takes
you to a website to sign on the first time.

Has anyone got this working thru linux?  Was a solution brought up before?  Is
there a searchable archive of NTLUG's mailing lists?