Comment # 5 on bug 903553 from Mustafa Muhammad

(In reply to Marguerite Su from comment #4)
> Hi, allow me to share some of my findings.
> 
> 0. rp-pppoe is always not installed by default in the past (I searched
> "patterns-openSUSE" packages since 12.3, and all those package-lists-*
> packages in openSUSE:1x.x:Live repositories), and not in Live CDs.

You are right.

> 1. DSL connection under NetworkManager GUI is actually processed by ppp
> package, through a plugin call rp-pppoe.so. And there's no significant
> difference between ppp 2.4.5 in 13.1 and ppp 2.4.7 in 13.2 through specfiles.
> 
> What is mysterious is that many users claim that the DSL connection set up
> in 13.1 can't work in 13.2 anymore. That means, at least in 13.1, DSL works.
> But
> so far I still didn't find where the regression locates.
> 
> I'll download the packages to see if that plugin is actually there in the
> package.
> 
> And I still didn't get the connection between ppp and rp-pppoe. Are they
> mutual exclusive? or ppp needs rp-pppoe to provide functions? That is, is
> rp-pppoe.so a full functional plugin that can replace rp-pppoe itself (it
> explains why wroking connection in 13.1 can't work in 13.2, because we may
> miss the plugin in ppp package. then it starts to require rp-pppoe itself),
> or it's a wrapper that calls the later in (ldd the so between different
> versions of openSUSE may help).
> 
> That's my unproved theory, Thanks

This is probably the case, thank you.

> 
> Marguerite