[juneau-lug] Re: networking help, please?
- From: Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:09:37 -0800
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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