Removing pppoeconf settings in Ubuntu 9.10

Context:

At first my internet connection required me to go through a user name and password… and hence my connection was taken care of by….

sudo pppoeconf

… but now since my internet provider has changed, and given me access to a direct connection (without username & password)…. I no longer require pppoeconf to handle my connection for me. In fact, it has become a hinderance… as I am not able to connect and if I run pppoeconf again, it tells me that….

“Sorry, I scanned 1 interface, but the access concentrator of your provider did not respond. Another reason for the scan failure may also be another running pppoe process which controls the modem. “

Having tried things like “poff dsl-provider” and “poff -a”, I decided, it was probably best to remove the settings altogether !

Solution:

Step 1 – Remove the ‘dsl-provider’ file (or what ever else your connection was called) within the peers folder, as follows…

sudo rm /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider

Step 2 – Modify the interfaces file within the network folder, and remove the section that has ‘dsl-provider’ defined, as follows…

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

… and you should be left with something similar to the following….

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

Step 3 – Change the last part from being manual to dhcp, and you should end up with something like…

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

… that’s all there is to it.

Wa’Allahu A’lam !

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