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Re: networking trouble



On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 13:06:42 -0400
Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@mindspring.com> wrote:

> I am still trying to migrate to Debian from RedHat but having little
> success. After many tries I finally got X and GNOME working, now I am
> trying to get the networking going, in particular ppp. I tried various
> things already but without success, and right now I am about all out of
> ideas wht to try next, thus any help is appreciated.
> 
> I want to set up ppp such that it dials on demand. I have this working
> on my RedHat system and figured I should be able to do the same on
> Debian. Thus I copied

Undo what you did and then run pppconfig to configure.  AFAIK, pppconfig 
won't touch /etc/hosts<*>, but will handle the rest.  PPP on Debian uses
the idea of multiple dial-up accounts, so the layout and workings are
slightly different.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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