It's not easy to install things in Gentoo without Internet access,
especially when it's about installing the Internet connexion itself.
My ISP uses PPPoA, and I have a Speedtouch USB modem, the installation
of which requires ppp-2.4.3. This is not provided by the distfiles, so I
used a tarball downloaded under MacOS, which I installed in the ordinary
way (which is not the Gentoo way). The Speedtouch pages say that one should
(1) write PEER="speedtch" in /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 (speedtch is the
name of the modem config file)
(2) run "rc-update add net.ppp0 default" in order that ppp0 start at
boot.
Thus installed, the thing works, but only up to a point, in that
(3) I have to run "pppd call speedtch" to start ppp, and
(4) I must change the default route from eth0 to ppp0 to make the
name resolution work.
Supposing that these difficulties might result from a bad installation
of ppp-2.4.3, and Internet now being available, I looked for a proper
emerge, and found ppp-2.4.3-r10.ebuild, which I installed, unmasking it
for ~ppc (this is an iMac). That was ok, but the note at the end says
that /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 is no longer used and that everything goes
through pppd. Then (2) above does no longer make sense, and I am not
sure about (1).
I tried to run pppd just to see, but there was no result (although no
error). From the script, it seems that it might give some messages, but
there was nothing.
How does it work? What should I do instead of (1) and (2), and shall I
be rid of (3) and (4)?
I'll be grateful for all hints.
Charles
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