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It's not easy to install things in Gentoo without Internet access, |
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especially when it's about installing the Internet connexion itself. |
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My ISP uses PPPoA, and I have a Speedtouch USB modem, the installation |
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of which requires ppp-2.4.3. This is not provided by the distfiles, so I |
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used a tarball downloaded under MacOS, which I installed in the ordinary |
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way (which is not the Gentoo way). The Speedtouch pages say that one should |
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(1) write PEER="speedtch" in /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 (speedtch is the |
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name of the modem config file) |
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(2) run "rc-update add net.ppp0 default" in order that ppp0 start at |
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boot. |
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Thus installed, the thing works, but only up to a point, in that |
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(3) I have to run "pppd call speedtch" to start ppp, and |
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(4) I must change the default route from eth0 to ppp0 to make the |
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name resolution work. |
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Supposing that these difficulties might result from a bad installation |
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of ppp-2.4.3, and Internet now being available, I looked for a proper |
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emerge, and found ppp-2.4.3-r10.ebuild, which I installed, unmasking it |
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for ~ppc (this is an iMac). That was ok, but the note at the end says |
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that /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 is no longer used and that everything goes |
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through pppd. Then (2) above does no longer make sense, and I am not |
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sure about (1). |
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I tried to run pppd just to see, but there was no result (although no |
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error). From the script, it seems that it might give some messages, but |
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there was nothing. |
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How does it work? What should I do instead of (1) and (2), and shall I |
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be rid of (3) and (4)? |
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I'll be grateful for all hints. |
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Charles |
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