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

Thanks, James, et al.

Yes, uncommenting those two ipcp lines in the options file did the job. 
 The defaultroute option wasn't listed in there, and I guess it wasn't 
needed.  

The problem wasn't with wvdial or pppd not working: it was with the 
default route to the network.  I could be pretty sure of that because 
the box would start returning ``network unavailable'' as soon as I put 
eth0 down.  Before I straightened things out, it was going to find the 
network on ethernet, or not at all.

By the way, Knoppix is more than a live-on-Cd filesystem.  It is also a 
very nicely tweaked version of Debian unstable with an amazing 
installer.  This is the ONLY linux distribution which has automatically 
gotten my sound card working.  I think I'll try it on my laptop next: 
I've never been able to get sound running here with Debian (though it 
worked fine with Redhat!).

So, now that things are working, thanks to you all (that problem with 
networking was the only booboo so far!),  I'm going to go type ``apt-get 
update;apt-get -u upgrade'' on the desktop and go to bed.

Thanks again!
Nels


James Zuelow wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:42:14 -0800
>"Nels Tomlinson" <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Does anyone have a clue about how I tell the box to ignore the ethernet 
>>card when pppd is active?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Nels
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Nels - 
>
>I didn't use wvdial, just plain 'ole pppd.  However it should be
>similar.  In your /etc/ppp/options file try
>
>ipcp-accept-remote
>ipcp-accept-local
>defaultroute
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
>
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