On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, pa3gcu wrote: > On Saturday 21 June 2003 02:40, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Well, looks like I've finally got a kernel in my iBook which is going to > > allow all the things I want but haven't had (principally, accessing the > > rtc and ppp), so now I need to figure out how to manage the > > connectivity. > > I've seen no reply to this mail here as yet so here goes. > > You would have been well advised to have mentioned which distro you are using, > that way more system spesific information could have been given, anyway here > goes. >
Sorry, in this case it's Yellow Dog Linux (2.0, I think) > > The ethernet device does not need to be downed to allow you to start ppp, all > you need to do is delete your 'default route' via eth0 then start ppp. > > > > > (b) connection to my home network via eth0 > > Using the above does what you want. Thanks, that's what I was looking for. > > > > > (c) modem connection via /dev/ppp0. > > There is a HOWTO for PPP its called PPP-HOWTO and is found on most systems in > /usr/doc/*HOWTO* or /usr/share/doc/*HOWTO* > Thanks for this pointer, I'd mislaid it. > > > > I can live with having to reboot to change from network to ppp or vice > > versa, but I'm not at all familiar with any of this. I'm not even sure > > what I should search for on google to get pointers on how to do this. > > Anybody got any advice, please ? > > There is abosolutly no need to reboot at anytime to do what you want. > Agreed, but I thought it might be simpler, the box is never booter for more than two or three hours at a time. Thanks again. Ken -- You'll always find me out to lunch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
