On 12 January 2006 13:39, Charles Trois wrote: > 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
Maybe that PEER line in /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 has to contain the full path. > > (4) I must change the default route from eth0 to ppp0 to make the > name resolution work. If there is already a default route pppd cannot change it. There should be a message about it in your log files. Do you really need a default route when not connected? Probably not. In that case just don't define it in /etc/conf.d/net. Pppd should then be able to create a default route. If you do need it when not connected add two lines to /etc/ppp/ip-up that delete the old default route and create a new one. Of course, you then also need two new lines in /etc/ppp/ip-down that change it back. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
