Package Question

[Ed Warner]

> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:57:54 -0500
> From: Rick Sewill <rsewill gmail com>
> Subject: RE: Package Question
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement,   
> and advice for using
>     Fedora." <fedora-list redhat com>
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> > No, I cannot use yum if I don't have an internet
> connection.
> 
> You must be using a friend's email account to send email.
> 
> Can your friend download RPMs for you and burn CDs for
> you?
> 
> I could be wrong...but am guessing the Fedora download
> directory
> can be found at:
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/
> 
> Assuming you have Fedora 11, the following *may* or *may
> not* work:
> For x86_64:
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/rp-pppoe-3.10-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm
> 
> For i386:
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/rp-pppoe-3.10-2.fc11.i586.rpm
> 
> I say this *may not* work because these RPMs may be later
> than your
> installed Fedora and may require other packages to be
> upgraded.
> You may need other packages installed for these RPMs to
> work.
> 
> In theory, once you have one of these packages, based on
> whether you are
> 32 bit or 64 bit, you should be able to do rpm -ivh
> packagename
> 
> Do people think this is a bug because the release DVD
> should contain
> everything you need to get to the Internet?  Should he
> visit
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
> and write a bug on this?

I'm not sure this is a bug, otherwise there would be a lot of complaining. The docs say that network manager is disabled by default. Mine is enabled. I have eth0 (internet) and eth1 (lan). 

Where do I configure eth0?
Is there no way to insure rp-pppoe, bind, dhcp are installed?

I will try another posters suggestion to make a local repo if all else fails.