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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > I booted with the SW71 (BL2) kernel (2.2.16) and have the 
> > matching SW71 slhc.o and ppp.o installed.  I ran pppsetup 
> > to load the modules.
> > The library is glibc5 (BL1, SW3.5).
> > ldd pppd-2.2 or 2.3 - libc.so.5.
> > 
> > I typed ppp-on and again got a dialing failure.
> 
> Are you dialing with eznet?  The eznet in BL1 doesn't work 
> with pppd 2.3

Yes, eznet.  What else would I be using?  I have BL1 on hard drive and am 
trying to add just enough to get lynx to work with it.  Lynx won't work 
with BL1 and just a change to new kernel and modules.  


> 
> > I rebooted with the older kernel and modules, and I renamed 
> > pppd-2.2 to pppd, and it dialed.  
> 
> The eznet in BL1 works with pppd 2.2.  The eznet in BL2 works
> with ppp 2.3 (but it doesn't work with libc5).  Isn't this
> fun?
> 
> When I execute eznet (without parameters) I see an option called 
> pppversion.  It may be possible to use this to get the eznet in 
> BL1 to work with pppd 2.3.  But I don't know the syntax for
> that one.

There must be a man page about this.  I don't understand man pages.  I 
hope you can figure it out.  

Let me know when BL3 is available with an eznet that works with a pppd
that works with the later kernel/modules.  


In the meantime I will probably post lynx with instructions to use it with
SW7.1 or later. I can't spend much time on linux after today because
someone is sending me a huge translation tomorrow.  I got back good PET
scan results a week ago and am officially no longer on vacation.

Are you planning to use something other than eznet for dialing with BL3?
Or use BL3 only offline?

I forget why you needed to use a later kernel for BL3.  I am surprised you 
have not run into a lot of other problems before this, with other BL1 
programs that won't work with the later kernel.

Good luck with getting this all together in early March.

Sindi