> I would just use pppconfig on potato is pretty easy to use and makes it
> nice and easy to just type 'pon' and it connects for you.
> Then when you are happy with pon, in /etc/network/interfeces
> put
>
> iface ppp0 inet ppp
>
> allows you to do ifup ppp0 instead of pon.
>
> If you have left the provider name the default name of provider then the
> above will work.
>
> yeah so remove wvdial and just use pppconfig - its pretty straight forward.
>
> btw I think there is a detach option in ppp and wvdial to get it our of
> learning sort of mode...
Dear David,
I have removed wvdial and configured pppconfig.
Again I dial-in and get an IP but I still can not ping.
Here is my ifconfig ppp0 output
ppp0 Link encap: Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr: 210.50.72.21 P-t-P 192.168.34.5 Mask 255.255.255.255
UP POINTTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors: 0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelan:10
/etc/network/interface
auto
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.32
netmask 255.255.255.0
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