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Re: 2 problems with installation regarding network config and boot loaders



On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:57:35PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> 
> The pppoe package is already part of the base install,
> 
>     166 jeff ~ $ debootstrap --print-debs woody . | tr -s ' ' '\n' | grep ppp
>     ppp
>     pppconfig
>     pppoe
> 
> You just have to do some manual configuration, obviously, this
> needs some improvement, but if you just look at the config file,
> ie, /etc/ppp/peers/dsk-provider, is seems pretty easy to figure
> out.  Also, the documentation provided in /usr/share/doc/pppoe
> seem to be quite complete.
> 
> This is kind of similar to setserial, I have to manually do,
> 
>     setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 10
> 
> from a shell immediately after rebooting.

	Please, don't blame me but it would be nice if we could use pppoeconf
as a frontend to the PPPoE configuration step :-) I know, it's just an
idiotic idea as we're in a point where only bugs should be fixed and no
more new features should be added.
 

-- 
André Luís Lopes
andrelop at ig dot com dot br
Debian-BR Project
http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br



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