[juneau-lug] Re: networking help, please?

Don't know about Knoppix, but wvdial would only run as root when I was
setting it up at home on SuSE.  Going through YaST I finally got it to work
when logged in as a regular user but it was an odd trick that fixed it.  I
had to have a DNS entry in the config file.  Not sure which one - like I
say, I was using YaST and it's been a few months.  Anyway, it doesn't have
to be a local DNS server.  I think I put in ACS's, even though they're not
visible until I actually dial in.  I could probably have stuffed any IP
address in there.  After there was a placeholder address in the mix, it
would dial out when I opened a browser as a normal user.  I presume that
wvdial is running suid as root, but I'm not fully sure.

This probably doesn't answer your question, but maybe it'll give you a
couple different avenues to explore...

...Kevin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nels Tomlinson [mailto:nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:42 AM
>To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [juneau-lug] networking help, please?
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I finally got my computer running again (yes, it was a bad fan on the 
>CPU; it spun, but too slowly), and I decided to install 
>Knoppix instead 
>of the redhat 7.x which was on there.  That's when the troubles began.
>
>I can get wvdial to dial gci, but once I'm connected, I can't seem to 
>get anywhere.  Can't resolve urls, can't ping anything I know the 
>address for (slashdot is 65.35.250.150, I think).  Somehow, it 
>wants to 
>use eth0 instead of ppp0.  When I do ``ifconfig eth0 up'', it tries to 
>resolve urls, and times out.  When I do ``ifconfig eth0 
>down'', it tells 
>me it can't reach the network.  All the while, I'm dialed into GCI and 
>ppp0 is ``up'', according to ifconfig.
>
>Does anyone have a clue about how I tell the box to ignore the 
>ethernet 
>card when pppd is active?
>
>Thanks,
>Nels
>
>
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