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LibraMark n00b
Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Pullman, Washington; USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2002 7:16 pm Post subject: How can I setup emerge/portage to use ppp? |
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Hi!
I have installed Gentoo 1.1a using the stage3 iso. All went well. Then I emerged ppp, pppconfig, and wvdial by bringing packages in on a floppy.
Now I would like to set up emerge/portage to use dialup ppp. So far, I can use wvdial to connect to my isp, but emerge does not see it. It is still trying to go through my network card (just installed for the beginnings of a home network.)
Can anyone tell me how to set this up? I searched this list and read through the portage manual and man pages to no avail.
Thank you!
Mark.
P.S. I will try soon to emerge lynx or some ftp program from a floppy and see if I can at least start downloading packages locally. Any recommendations? |
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LibraMark n00b
Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Pullman, Washington; USA
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 7:36 pm Post subject: Answer... |
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Ok, I'll answer my own question !
I looked into my Linux Complete book and saw that for ppp you can't have a default route set in your routing table (which was done during installation.) I looked in /etc/init.d/net.eth0 (I think that's the locale) and saw that this is setting it up every boot. I looked in net.ppp0 and saw there is a line there to del the default route. So if you just run it on your own: "route del default", then wvdial will be able to set it to your isp. Now emerge works perfect (but slow!) Anyway, I can do it overnight.
I will probably try to modify the /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 script with my isp info and see if I can somehow run that script to start my connection, but there is no documentation that I can find so I'm not sure how to run it.
Maybe this will help someone!
Mark. |
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