ive had this problem too to get around it i just 'ifconfig eth0 down'
before logging on then restart networking after logging off in potato it shoulld be /etc/init.d/network restart nate On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote: e.van. >Dear group. I am installing Potato in a laptop which has both an pcmcia e.van. >lan connection but should be able to dial up to a provider occasionally. e.van. >The lan card works fine. I can dial into the provider also, but am e.van. >unable to get ethernet connectivity until I do: route add default ppp0 e.van. >In the ppp-howto I find: e.van. > e.van. > If pppd refuses to set up a default route, it is because (quite e.van. > correctly) it refuses to remove/replace an existing default route. e.van. > e.van. > The usual reason that this error occurs is that some distributions set e.van. > up a default route via your Ethernet card as opposed to setting up a e.van. > specific network route. e.van. > e.van. > Fixing up this last situation can require a fair bit of IP networking e.van. > knowledge and is beyond the scope of this HOWTO. It is suggested you e.van. > obtain some expert advice e.van. > (via the news groups of from someone locally you can ask). e.van. > e.van. >This leaves me here ;-) e.van. >I hope someone can give me a bit of this 'expert advice', or pointers to e.van. >where I can obtain it. e.van. > e.van. >Thanks a lot! e.van. > e.van. >-- e.van. > Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> e.van. > e.van. > e.van. >-- e.van. >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null e.van. > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:27pm up 11 days, 54 min, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.17, 0.08
