[gentoo-user] No connection to the internet after update of today

[Hartmut Figge <h.figge@gmx.de>]

Greetings,

after 'emerge --sync' followed by 'emerge -uDN world' i have no longer a
connection to the internet. At the moment i am using an older Gentoo on
another partition of the same machine. The real Gentoo is mounted and i
can access it to answer questions.

I have now udev-197 which told me

----- elog -----
>>> Messages generated by process 26926 on 2013-01-20 14:55:23 CET for
package sys-fs/udev-197-r3:

ERROR: setup
  DEVTMPFS is not set in this kernel. Udev will not run.
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So i have build a new kernel. The only difference is CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y.
No problem so far with the horrible udev-197 *g*.

Here is what happens when i try to manually start ppp.

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hafi@i5_64 ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 restart
 * Caching service dependencies ...             [ ok ]
 * Bringing down interface ppp0
 *   Stopping pppd on ppp0                      [ ok ]
 * Bringing up interface ppp0
 *   Starting pppd in ppp0 ...                  [ ok ]
 *   Backgrounding ...
 * WARNING: net.ppp0 has started, but is inactive
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hafi@i5_64 ~ $ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination  Gateway    Genmask       Flags Metric Ref  Use Iface
loopback     localhost  255.0.0.0     UG    0      0      0 lo
lan.triffids.de *       255.255.255.0 U     0      0      0 eth1
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----- /etc/conf.d/net -----
modules="ifconfig"
config_eth0="null"
config_eth1="192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0"
config_ppp0="ppp"
link_ppp0="eth0"
plugins_ppp0="pppoe"
username_ppp0='that_one_is secret'
password_ppp0='also_secret'
pppd_ppp0="defaultroute
           usepeerdns"
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What to do?

Hartmut
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