How to avoid pppoe connection automatically startup at boot time in UBUNTU?

kevin_chn · 12-30-2006, 11:36 PM

Dear friends,
I just installed a copy of ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop.
And I normally use ADSL connection at home but not always. And I have set pppoeconf to start the connection at boot time automatically by mistake.

My question is HOW TO turn it off?

Wim Sturkenboom · 12-31-2006, 12:06 AM

Run pppoeconf again ?

kevin_chn · 12-31-2006, 01:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom

Run pppoeconf again ?

I have tried, but pppoeconf could not even detect my eth0 as candidate for ADSL connection. I guess that was because my ADSL connection was still active.
When I run 'poff', it said "/bin/etc/poff failed: /sbin/kill failed"

Wim Sturkenboom · 12-31-2006, 05:29 AM

Code:

wim@internet-desktop:~$ ps -ef |grep ppp
root     17801     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/pppd call dsl-provider
wim      17987  5136  0 13:27 pts/0    00:00:00 grep ppp
wim@internet-desktop:~$ kill 17801

Run the given ps command and kill the highlighted value; this will be a different number in your case.

Next you should be able to run pppoeconf again.

kevin_chn · 12-31-2006, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom

Code:

wim@internet-desktop:~$ ps -ef |grep ppp
root     17801     1  0 13:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/pppd call dsl-provider
wim      17987  5136  0 13:27 pts/0    00:00:00 grep ppp
wim@internet-desktop:~$ kill 17801

Run the given ps command and kill the highlighted value; this will be a different number in your case.

Next you should be able to run pppoeconf again.

Thank you very much indeed. I have successfully fixed it.