Phil Fraering wrote: > Anyway, I got through the initial base install easily enough, except > for the minor problem that I now have the ethernet set up. I am not > sure I wanted the ethernet set up... does anyone have any tips on > how I should uninstall the ethernet drivers, and host information? > I removed the line from /etc/hosts; where else do I have to do some > work? Since I don't really have a network set up at work, the interface > is useless to me. > > (This may change in the future. I'm thinking of setting up a used PC > as a server). > > I think this was part of the cause of my later problems...
I don't think so. > I began to think that upgrading the kernel would help a little, (also > because X wasn't working out of the box, and I knew that I had to upgrade > the kernel and get the XFree 4.0 debs from somewhere (where?)) http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody/ > so I tried to configure ppp so I could get a fresh kernel and > X. > > That was when things got wierd: ppp would connect, but I couldn't > _get_ anywhere. It couldn't find any addresses, or anything like that. > > I then tried "ifconfig eth0 down", and it didn't help; neither did > setting ppp to promiscuous; neither did specifying the nameserver > in resolv.conf. Maybe you didn't have the default route set to ppp0? Do you use the defaultroute option with pppd? Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
