I have now set the line length to 80, because the output of some routines would be too difficult to read with a length of 72 without editing.
Stroller: >On 20 January 2013, at 16:01, Hartmut Figge wrote: >> ... >> No problem so far with the horrible udev-197 *g*. > >Really? I'm thinking this is udev not assigning eth0 to your network card. Hm. My persistent-net.rules still exists, has not changed and the new method of naming network interfaces should be disabled by default. >> Here is what happens when i try to manually start ppp. >> ... >> ----- /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? > >What to do? Yes. :-D >Tell us more about how you connect to the internet. I do not use a router. I need pppoe for the ADSL-Modem required by my ISP. On my old Gentoo, which i am now using and which has the same configuration, i get hafi@i5 ~ $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default rdsl-dsdf-de02. 0.0.0.0 UG 4005 0 0 ppp0 loopback localhost 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo lan.triffids.de * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 rdsl-dsdf-de02. * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 > Most people here will be using an ethernet network in which eth0 is wired to > a router. I have not used ppp since I disposed of my 56k pew-pew-eep-eep > dial-up modem. If you're using PPPoE then you need to tell us about it, not > assume we can read your mind. The configuration is done in /etc/conf.d/net, which i have posted above. In syslog of the defunct Gentoo i find regarding ppp: Jan 20 15:40:11 i5_64 klogd: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Jan 20 15:40:11 i5_64 klogd: PPP BSD Compression module registered Jan 20 15:40:11 i5_64 klogd: PPP Deflate Compression module registered Jan 20 15:40:11 i5_64 klogd: PPP MPPE Compression module registered Jan 20 15:40:11 i5_64 klogd: NET: Registered protocol family 24 ... Jan 20 15:40:45 i5_64 pppd[2230]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets Jan 20 15:40:45 i5_64 pppd[2230]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery Jan 20 15:40:53 i5_64 pppd[2230]: Terminating on signal 15 Jan 20 15:40:53 i5_64 pppd[2230]: Exit. Jan 20 15:40:53 i5_64 pppd[2706]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. Jan 20 15:40:53 i5_64 pppd[2706]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5 Jan 20 15:40:53 i5_64 pppd[2706]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. Jan 20 15:40:53 i5_64 pppd[2707]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Jan 20 15:40:53 i5_64 /etc/init.d/net.ppp0[2465]: WARNING: net.ppp0 has started, but is inactive Jan 20 15:41:28 i5_64 pppd[2707]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets Jan 20 15:41:28 i5_64 pppd[2707]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery On the currently used old Gentoo syslog says: Jan 20 17:14:26 i5 klogd: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Jan 20 17:14:26 i5 klogd: PPP Deflate Compression module registered Jan 20 17:14:26 i5 klogd: PPP BSD Compression module registered Jan 20 17:14:26 i5 klogd: PPP MPPE Compression module registered Jan 20 17:14:26 i5 klogd: NET: Registered protocol family 24 ... Jan 20 17:14:30 i5 pppd[2564]: PPP session is 6601 Jan 20 17:14:30 i5 pppd[2564]: Connected to 00:1f:3f:48:4e:b8 via interface eth0 I will give more information once i know waht will be needed. ;) Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)
