Disconnecting from the phone line

[the wolf]

Peter Martin wrote:
> 
> LOL !!  I just re-booted for now. Now quite as drastic, but I had to go
> back into MS to use the company's outlook for my mail. Such is life.
> 
> sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> >
> > \_ Well, I finally managed to get Mandrake 7.1 loaded and executing on
> > \_ my laptop!  I'm thrilled!!  However, how do I disconnect from the
> > \_ net?  I'm not sure how I connected even!
> >
> > There's a wire...remove it.  :-)
> >
> > /me ducks
> >
> > David
> >
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to disconnect a modem connection:

1. check if ppp0 is your connection
	ifconfig should tell you that then:
2. kill -TERM `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`




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