ifconfig lo down AND [kapmd] how to kill??

[vid2vid]

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[1] When I boot Knoppix 3.6, ifconfig wrongly assumes my NIC / and dsl interface is "lo" so I have to
$ su
# ifconfig lo down
(since my 3COM NIC card is eth0 not lo)

then I run in the GUI....... Start > KNOPPIX > Network > Network card configuration
then later on
$ killall pppd
then run the GUI ADSL wizard.

This info may be helpful to some of you!! It is a workaround


[2] When I Ctrl-Alt-F1 and change to that vtty and run

$ ps auxww

I see a process called
[kapmd]

Why is it in brackets? Is it possible to kill this process? why is there no manpage for kapmd????????

Help please I'll pay or Paypal you $3US immediately. Thanks for listening.
-Peter

[vid2vid]

Oops, I forgot, in part [1] of my post, after running ADSL wizard, run

$ ifconfig

note your IP address from the section on ppp0

for example, if it is 1.2.3.4

$ su

# ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4

# killall pppd

run ADSL wizard
done

[OErjan]

what do you see whan you do a ifconfig (without your workaround)?

lo should always be present. without it several aplications may become erratic in their behaivior, one is the printing setup.

as to apmd it is advanced powermanagment daemon iirc, that is the thing that turns fans on and of and turns of your computer without you having to hit the powerbutton, if you remove that these functions might get lost (acpid has same function but some computers do not support it)