Greetings, after 'emerge --sync' followed by 'emerge -uDN world' i have no longer a connection to the internet. At the moment i am using an older Gentoo on another partition of the same machine. The real Gentoo is mounted and i can access it to answer questions.
I have now udev-197 which told me ----- elog ----- >>> Messages generated by process 26926 on 2013-01-20 14:55:23 CET for package sys-fs/udev-197-r3: ERROR: setup DEVTMPFS is not set in this kernel. Udev will not run. --------------- So i have build a new kernel. The only difference is CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y. No problem so far with the horrible udev-197 *g*. Here is what happens when i try to manually start ppp. --------------- hafi@i5_64 ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 restart * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Bringing down interface ppp0 * Stopping pppd on ppp0 [ ok ] * Bringing up interface ppp0 * Starting pppd in ppp0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... * WARNING: net.ppp0 has started, but is inactive --------------- --------------- hafi@i5_64 ~ $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface loopback localhost 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo lan.triffids.de * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 --------------- ----- /etc/conf.d/net ----- modules="ifconfig" config_eth0="null" config_eth1="192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" config_ppp0="ppp" link_ppp0="eth0" plugins_ppp0="pppoe" username_ppp0='that_one_is secret' password_ppp0='also_secret' pppd_ppp0="defaultroute usepeerdns" --------------- What to do? Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)