problem with ppp0
I have kernel 2.4.18 installed on powerbook g3 and am having some
difficulty with remote access.
I use my laptop both at home (ppp) and work (ethernet), and I have the
/etc/network/interfaces file configured as:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface ppp0 inet dhcp
At work, I plug in ethernet and do 'ifup eth0', and I am fine.
At home, I use kppp to dialup. I am able to make a connection (according
to kpp log and /var/log/messages) but I get an error message displayed on
my root console:
Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
I get this message regardless of whether or not I have done 'ifup ppp0'
before making the connection. And I can't do anything on the internet.
Command 'route' gives me nothing...
Command 'ifconfig' tells me that I have ppp0 up though:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4020 (3.9 KiB) TX bytes:4020 (3.9 KiB)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:128.112.71.154 P-t-P:128.112.64.131
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:125 (125.0 b) TX bytes:87 (87.0 b)
tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FD:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:258 (258.0 b)
Interrupt:5
I'm new at this and am quite in the dark (what's tap0 anyway?). I would
appreciate any advise.
Thanks in advance,
-Katsumi
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