Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:36 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> I like gentoo; there's a steep learning curve but after you pass that
> it just clicks. As difficult as it ever became there was always an
> answer to be found, on a blog, irc, documentaiton...
> 
> But I might have to give up on gentoo if I can't find a way to fix
> this latest difficulty. I live in the hinterland where there is no
> broadband. I have to make do with a dialup modem over ~10mi of copper
> wire. Now I find I can no longer dialup the internet using ppp command
> #pon <isp>. The modem lights come on and the log says the DNS have
> been all been assigned. status=0x0. But I can't ping out. 'Host
> unreachable'.
> 
> As slow as my connection is, I've always been able to sync portage and
> use bash to write a link file which I can download at the free wifi in
> town. Now I can't even do that.
> 
> I suspect this has something to do with the openrc which seems to be
> steadily "improving".. There  are no error msgs other than the ping
> error above. I'm sure this is gentoo specific because it doesn't
> affect the Ubuntu side of my pc(yet ;().where I'm typing this.  In
> ubuntu I have to rmmod my wifi and ethn drivers or the same thing
> happens: modem lights up, log says everything fine, but no internet.
> Once every other bit of net hardware comes down, the web is reachable.
> This USED to be the case for gentoo as well, but now, even that
> doesn't help.
> 
> The landline gets no respect. Now gmail is making angry noises cause I
> won't give them my mobile number. But I don't have one. There isn't
> even coverage out here.
> 
> Broadband and dialup used to get along but those days seem to be gone.
> 
> Hope somebody can see a way out.
> 
> MW
> 

Hi Maxim, what changed when the modem stopped working?

Also can you supply the output of the "route -n" and ifconfig commands
to give us a chance of seeing if anything has gone adrift there.  Also
if you are using (and have tested that its not the problem) any firewall
running.

When I was on dialup, routing (issues) was always a problem and if your
modem comes up and ppp is working (i.e., dns has been assigned) this is
a possibility.

BillK