On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Heddle Weaver <weaver2wo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On 27 August 2011 11:41, D G Teed <donald.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I started another reply, and it had lots of steps to try to repair >> this situation, but then I rethought. >> >> If this is a fresh install, and you have no data to keep on the Debian >> system, >> here is a bulletproof solution: >> >> Reinstall. >> > > This is the latest fashion. > It's not a new install, but I have my /home partition on an external 1TB > expansion drive, so inconvenience is minimal and the revision factor won't > hurt. > I suggested reinstall as it would be the quickest way to get rid of ppp daemon if you didn't know how to disable the service. But now that that mystery is resolved, no need to reinstall. Once ppp is gone, then set up DHCP to get your IP from the router on Debian system. This would be the entry in /etc/network/interfaces I mentioned before: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Then reboot. You are really not that far off from getting this up.
