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Mark Kirkwood wrote: |
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> I'm looking at setting up a Gentoo box for my mother to use. One thing |
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> I'd like some input on is the business of dialing up. |
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> The constraints are that she must be able to dial up as an unprivileged |
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> user, and it must be easy (She will be migrating from an old imac |
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> running osx, so I want to make it as painless as possible!) |
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> I'm currently favoring the method outlined in: |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_Dialup_Connection#The_best_way:_Gentoo.27s_Network_Configuration |
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> specifically using Gentoo's /etc/conf.d/net with pppd configured for |
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> *on-demand* dialing, so it 'just happens' when needed. |
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> Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I |
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> find myself doing stuff like: |
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> $ ping <ip of ISP nameserver> |
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> or similar, because hostname access will just return "host not found" |
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> immediately without trying to bring the link up. So while this |
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> workaround is ok for me, I would like to get it so that the ppp |
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> interface comes up more intuitively (or am I missing something |
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> obvious?... that would be nice!). |
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For the archives... this was happening because I had an empty |
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/etc/resolv.conf. I needed to add some (initial) nameservers to make |
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everything work as expected (i.e ping some-internet-hostname brings up |
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the network). Of course once the dialup has happened, ppp can overwrite |
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these nameservers with the ISP's ones... |
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My mother is using the machine now, and she likes the way the connect to |
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internet "just happens" when she starts Firefox or Thunderbird... and |
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Gnome's look and feel are not too vastly different from OSX... so the |
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level of confusion is not too high :-). Probably the biggest thing to |
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adjust to is the 3 button mouse - after the single button apple one! |
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Cheers |
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Mark |
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