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On 12 January 2006 13:39, Charles Trois wrote: |
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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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Maybe that PEER line in /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 has to contain the full path. |
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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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If there is already a default route pppd cannot change it. There should be a |
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message about it in your log files. Do you really need a default route when |
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not connected? Probably not. In that case just don't define it |
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in /etc/conf.d/net. Pppd should then be able to create a default route. If |
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you do need it when not connected add two lines to /etc/ppp/ip-up that delete |
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the old default route and create a new one. Of course, you then also need two |
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new lines in /etc/ppp/ip-down that change it back. |
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Uwe |
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-- |
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Unix is sexy: |
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who | grep -i blonde | date |
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cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger |
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mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount |
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sleep |
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