Bringing up interface ppp0

I configured my ppp-56k modem network connection to start at boot time
instead of activating it independently upon demand. Now it seems that
I made some mistake when configuring my modem and the boot process
halts at the line :Bringing up interface ppp0.

Can anybody give me the proper procedure and code-script to disable
the ppp0 interface ?

I am able to get a shell by switching to single user mode but then I
still have much to learn..

Thank you

antalb
Sweden

(E-Mail Removed) (antalb) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> I configured my ppp-56k modem network connection to start at boot time
> instead of activating it independently upon demand. Now it seems that
> I made some mistake when configuring my modem and the boot process
> halts at the line :Bringing up interface ppp0.
>
> Can anybody give me the proper procedure and code-script to disable
> the ppp0 interface ?
>
> I am able to get a shell by switching to single user mode but then I
> still have much to learn..
>
> Thank you
>
> antalb
> Sweden

It was thanx to browsing through some related posts that I found a
solution to the problem. Here's what I did:

1. Changed the login to single using Grub. This is pretty
straightforward.
2. typed rm /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 <Enter> att the
shell prompt. Not in a million years!

Thanx Google !

In article <(E-Mail Removed) >, antalb wrote:
>I configured my ppp-56k modem network connection to start at boot time
>instead of activating it independently upon demand. Now it seems that
>I made some mistake when configuring my modem and the boot process
>halts at the line :Bringing up interface ppp0.
>
>Can anybody give me the proper procedure and code-script to disable
>the ppp0 interface ?

It would REALLY help if you mentioned what distribution and release this is.

>I am able to get a shell by switching to single user mode but then I
>still have much to learn..

For Red Hat, Fedora, and clones like Mandrake, edit the file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 and change the line

ONBOOT=yes

to

ONBOOT=no

Old guy