Perhaps somebody else will find this useful. The relevant part of my /etc/conf.d/net:
(assuming Bluetooth works)
### GPRS ###
config_ppp0=( “ppp” )
link_ppp0=”/dev/rfcomm0″
pppd_ppp0=(
“noauth” # Do not require the peer to authenticate itself
“nomagic”
[...]
A good example for why using closed source software (and thus depend on it) is a bad thing, can be seen in the newest development around X.org:
There is a new version of the X server, which contains ABI changes, and now all users of the closed source ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers can’t upgrade to [...]
Apache 2.2.4 aka www-servers/apache-2.2.4-r12 in Gentoo has been stabilised, so I went through the upgrade. A lot of things changed in the configuration files, I hope I got everything right… we’ll see The vhosts and webapps I tested all work flawlessly.