Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-24 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/24/06, Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/19/06, Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/16/06, Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/16/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 16, Eddy Petri??or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The case of "et

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-24 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/19/06, Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/16/06, Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/16/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 16, Eddy Petri??or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The case of "ethernet interface needs to be up without an IP address" > > mu

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-19 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/16/06, Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/16/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 16, Eddy Petri??or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The case of "ethernet interface needs to be up without an IP address" > must be handled by the code which currently configures ethernet

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-16 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/16/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 14:33, Eddy Petrişor wrote: > In order to have that ran at some point after the syetm is configured, > some postinst from the menu, directly or indirectly will have to do > the copying. Having another entry in the d-i menu me

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 14:33, Eddy Petrişor wrote: > In order to have that ran at some point after the syetm is configured, > some postinst from the menu, directly or indirectly will have to do > the copying. Having another entry in the d-i menu means having another > udeb (only one postinst/udeb i

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-16 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/16/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 16, Eddy Petri??or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>If I am going to do that on the connection from my provider, I will > >>have my contract termitated in a second because I am not allowed to > >>use other IPs in their network than the one

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 16, Eddy Petri??or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>If I am going to do that on the connection from my provider, I will > >>have my contract termitated in a second because I am not allowed to > >>use other IPs in their network than the ones given by thier servers, > >>and believe me, there is

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-16 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/16/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Yes. I already explained this multiple times. An IP address is not >> *needed* on the ethernet interface, but always configuring one is >> simpler and may prevent problems later. > >If I am going to do that on the co

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Yes. I already explained this multiple times. An IP address is not >> *needed* on the ethernet interface, but always configuring one is >> simpler and may prevent problems later. > >If I am going to do that on the connection from my provider, I will >have my contract te

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-15 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/16/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> No. DHCP and PPPoE support are not related. >Err, this is a problem in the d-i intergration. D-I should prompt as No, it's not. You use DHCP to configure the ethernet interface and then use PPPoE for the ppp0 interfa

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> No. DHCP and PPPoE support are not related. >Err, this is a problem in the d-i intergration. D-I should prompt as No, it's not. You use DHCP to configure the ethernet interface and then use PPPoE for the ppp0 interface. >few times as possible. The most usual/convenient

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-15 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/15/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >c) what should be done for systems with multiple network cards? Probe all of them. This question was related to the later part of the mail. The aftermath of a pppoe configuration is a little bit more complicated in

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>How can the configuration information be copied to the target system >>after the system is installed? >The udev script already does this. s/udev/udeb/ -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: [LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >c) what should be done for systems with multiple network cards? Probe all of them. >The way I am thinking the PPPoE configuration should be done/integrated in d-i: > - if dhcp fails, try the detection of concentrators (implies running >ifconfig ethX up) No. DHCP and PPPo

[LONG] ppp-udeb: A succesful installation using it, some ideas and some requests for advices

2006-05-14 Thread Eddy Petrişor
Hello all, I have some good news regarding ppp-udeb and PPPoE. As the subject says, I have managed to conduct an installation over PPPoE using the patched ppp-udeb I have created and a customized image[1]. The good news: - the pppoe connection was configured and packages were downloaded from the