> I don't know if this is your problem, but I recently > helped a friend troubleshoot his mandrake laptop, > and found that to get ppp to work we had to bring > down eth0 for some reason. It seems like you > shouldn't have to, but you could try that, if you still > have your eth0 up.
I'll certainly try this and report how/if it works, but that leads to other issues (these aren't directed at you, David). What if I was using this box as an internet gateway for other machines ?? Why disable my ethernet network for file transers, etc because I'm connecting to the internet ?? Hall
