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if you can't use the dsl, even after dialed as root, it's seem you might have permission problem on your ppp or eth device. Just a suggestion. I don't have PPPoE and I have hardware firewall, so I never use the adsl-start.
On my slackware 9.1 the eth devices don't appear in /dev
ppp does though and its only usable by root
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 108, 0 Mar 25 2001 ppp
Worth a try but it dosn't make sense to me that that could be the problem,
application talk ask the kernel to send packets for them, I don't think they
use ppp directly.
Is there anything relervant in dmesg or /var/log/ ?
What error messages go you get when you try to use ping/ftp etc?
Like I said, I don't have pppoe so I don't know, but to my understanding when u have pppoe, you have to dial-in(or login) whatever you want to called it. so having a ppp device to do that make sense. that's why there is ppp in pppoe.
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Originally posted by zaphodiv On my slackware 9.1 the eth devices don't appear in /dev
ppp does though and its only usable by root
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 108, 0 Mar 25 2001 ppp
Worth a try but it dosn't make sense to me that that could be the problem,
application talk ask the kernel to send packets for them, I don't think they
use ppp directly.
Is there anything relervant in dmesg or /var/log/ ?
What error messages go you get when you try to use ping/ftp etc?
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