--- On Tue, 11/3/09, stephen...@yahoo.com <stephen...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Sat, 10/31/09, Kevin Ross <ke...@familyross.net> wrote: > > > If you want to have your connection > > be established on bootup, the "Debian > > way" is to add your PPP connection to your > > /etc/network/interfaces file, > > like: > > > > auto ppp0 > > iface ppp0 inet ppp > > provider dsl-provider > > This worked perfectly - I now fire up iceweasel as soon as > I log in, and I see the internet straight away. > Thanks! Just to update this old thread a bit: actually this didn't work perfectly, it only worked when I started up Linux when the PC was already switched on beforehand. When switching the PC on from cold and booting into Linux, it did not work, I think because it was trying to talk to the ADSL modem before the modem was ready. So following a suggestion on another web page I found, instead of doing the above, I put the following line in my /etc/inittab: s1:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd call <provider> This seems to have solved the problem, but there is one minor niggle left: when this line in inittab is being processed, pppd seems to crash out the first few times it is started - I assume for the same reason mentioned above, i.e. the ADSL modem is not yet ready - and this causes an error that it is "respawning too fast" and will be put on hold for 5 minutes (I don't have the exact text of the message). Somehow though it is managing to get pppd running because when I log in, iceweasel can connect to the internet straight away. I can probably work out a way to put in a delay between each respawn to stop this message, but if anyone has a good idea or knows the 'right' way to do this I'd be grateful. Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
