KDE startup slow

[CARTER Anthony]

ok...

Do you have an internal network on your machine, or do you just plug your ADSL 
into your network card?

If you just plug straight into your network card, then you can disable dhcp if 
you want, it is not necessary. What you need to do is configure 
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf and /etc/rc.conf (using /etc/defaults/rc.conf as reference, 
but don't change the defaults file).

you have to add:

ppp_enable = "yes"
ppp_mode = "dial"
(and another one about the connection name in you ppp.conf file but I forget.)

Anyway, I don't have my ppp.conf file here, but I can get it for tomorrow...If 
you have done all this, then make sure you have

enable dns

as the last entry in ppp.conf.


Anthony Carter




On Monday 31 March 2003 15:33, Paul Everlund wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> > How do you start your ppp connection over ADSL? Is your modem
> > internal, USB or Ethernet?
> >
> > Anthony
>
> Thank you for your answer!
>
> The modem is external with an Ethernet connection to the computer. I
> use DHCP to configure the network as PPPoE didn't seem to work. After
> dhclient is started, and the interface has got an IP, one has to surf
> to the internal 10.0.0.0-network address to login.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul
>
> > On Monday 31 March 2003 14:20, Paul Everlund wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > After I got ADSL for my FreeBSD box the startup of KDE takes
> > > very long time. It "stops" at Initializing System Services,
> > > then after a while the splash screen disappears, and after
> > > some more waiting (about two minutes) the Desktop appears.
> > >
> > > It almost looks like a DNS query timeout, but I'm not sure,
> > > as I really do not know what Initializing System Services
> > > actually do. Do anyone know?
> > >
> > > Anyone who have had the same problem and solved it, or who
> > > can help me out in some way?
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance!
> > >
> > > Below are info about the system and configuration files.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > **********************************
> > > FreeBSD version is 4.8-RC2.
> > > X version is XFree86 4.3.
> > > KDE version is 3.1.
> > >
> > >
> > > rc.conf
> > > -------
> > > Firewall is set to allow everything...
> > >
> > > # --- Internet
> > > hostname="comp.primavera.homeip.net"
> > >
> > > network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0"
> > > ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"
> > >
> > > firewall_enable="YES"
> > > firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules"
> > >
> > > tcp_keepalive="YES"
> > >
> > >
> > > dhclient.conf
> > > -------------
> > > interface "fxp0" {
> > >         request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers;
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > resolv.conf
> > > -----------
> > > domain     primavera.homeip.net
> > > nameserver 10.0.0.1
> > > nameserver 10.0.0.2
> > >
> > >
> > > More configuration files are available upon request! I just don't
> > > know which other files could be of interest.
> > >
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