[plug] eth0 and ppp

[Len Bird]

Check your Interupts first up. Many ethernet cards use IRQ3 by default
which is also the default for COM2.

Cheers  Len Bird

russ wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying for a while now to get my ethernet card and my ppp
> connection running at the same time. I can connect to the net using
> ppp and modem or I can connect to my ethernet network, but not at the
> same time. Generally I have to disconnect one of the devices and
> reboot. I have this same problem on two machines, one a desktop with a
> netgear pci card and external Banksia modem, the other with a 3com
> pcmcia network card and tdk pcmcia modem.
>
> I've been reading through the ppp and net howtos and the routed man.
> I'm only guessing it might have something to do with the default
> route.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> russ