SN12.41 described the qualities of someone who has already achieved stream entry, rather than the path to stream entry. You can find that here. Into the Stream: A Study Guide on the First Stage of Awakening.
The Dependent Origination (DO) can be ‘practiced’ in several ways, AFAIK.
- Carefully and properly attend refers to contemplating the DO and understand the meanings, implications, consequences, etc.
- Seeing the process of perception, which shows the middle portion of the DO, in this life, using vipassana methods (along with the rest of the Noble Eightfold Path). To see how to do this practically see this post, in this thread: Does phassa include sanna?
with metta