Josef Wolf wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> Josef Wolf wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> Did you try a regular image without any preseeding? Maybe there's >> something that breaks ppp-udeb (I am just braindumping, I am not >> thinking of a specific cause). > > I tried the original gutsy alternate cd, but it don't start up ppp-udeb at > all. I got it running with manually "pppoeconf eth1". Don't remember the > details, will need to reinstall to see how I got it running. As the debian installer guide indicates, you need to pass the right parameters on boot: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/apds05.html.en Please try a pure debian installer image to avoid possible issues originating in Ubuntu (although I know Colin doesn't want to diverge too much from the Debian code base). >> Becasue of this possible interference with preseeding I asked you to try a >> vanilla image and see if you can configure PPPoE with such an image. > > With the original install cd, ppp-udeb is not started up at all. It > immediately goes to configure the network interface via dhcp. Please read the manual. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/apds05.html.en > Thanks for having so much patience with me :) Taking into account that I am no longer actively maintaining ppp-udeb I am myself amazed how patient I've been :-) -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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