On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:45:32AM -0600, Dave Bacon wrote: > I have referenced all of my Linux books on this one and still can't find > a solution. So I am hoping you can help me. I need to find a way to > prevent Linux from bringing serial line 0 up after a reboot. The > ifconfig utility shows serial line 0 (sl0) as a PPP port set to an IP > Address of 192.168.0.1. For some reason, I can't use eth0 to connect to > the Internet until I run "ifconfig sl0 down". Thanks in advance for any > ideas or suggestions you can send my way.
I saw that you already found that you could remove the kernel module. But was sl0 not brought up in /etc/network/interfaces? Removing the sl0 auto stanza should have worked as well. (man interfaces)
