Re: Installing on iBook DV, having trouble...
Phil Fraering wrote:
> Anyway, I got through the initial base install easily enough, except
> for the minor problem that I now have the ethernet set up. I am not
> sure I wanted the ethernet set up... does anyone have any tips on
> how I should uninstall the ethernet drivers, and host information?
> I removed the line from /etc/hosts; where else do I have to do some
> work? Since I don't really have a network set up at work, the interface
> is useless to me.
>
> (This may change in the future. I'm thinking of setting up a used PC
> as a server).
>
> I think this was part of the cause of my later problems...
I don't think so.
> I began to think that upgrading the kernel would help a little, (also
> because X wasn't working out of the box, and I knew that I had to upgrade
> the kernel and get the XFree 4.0 debs from somewhere (where?))
http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody/
> so I tried to configure ppp so I could get a fresh kernel and
> X.
>
> That was when things got wierd: ppp would connect, but I couldn't
> _get_ anywhere. It couldn't find any addresses, or anything like that.
>
> I then tried "ifconfig eth0 down", and it didn't help; neither did
> setting ppp to promiscuous; neither did specifying the nameserver
> in resolv.conf.
Maybe you didn't have the default route set to ppp0? Do you use the
defaultroute option with pppd?
Michel
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
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