Just got back from gentoo land. Arrrgh, gmail won't let me attach files, just sits there spinning.
So I'll have to make do with pastebin. http://paste.ubuntu.com/890854/ Is a chronicle of the commands entered. First having booted and not changing anything, I do #ifconifg, then I do #route -n, then #pon <isp> to connect. Then there is the running tail of the messages log, ifconfig, route -n Next, rmmod the drivers. I do #poff <isp> to bring down ppp0, tail the messages, And so on... NB: the crash of the time daemon doesn't matter. Like everything else I need to work around the problem; in this case via a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /ip-down.d. The problem persists if I don't start the daemon at all. At the bottom of the file I've included the /etc/ppp/ip-up script. The scripts it refers to are here: 30-wins.sh http://paste.ubuntu.com/890854/ 40-dns.sh http://paste.ubuntu.com/890857/ 50-initd.sh http://paste.ubuntu.com/890857/ 90-ntpd.sh http://paste.ubuntu.com/890857/ The first two don't apply. 50-initd.sh, I don't quite grok. Hope somebody has the patience to go through this ;) MW
