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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Tue, 9 May 2006 03:29:49 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Ron Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> >     Just to say that I have, for the first time, got on-line with BL3.4 
> > HD installation.
> >
> 
> >     It has taken a while:  I had to copy some of the cxxnnnn libs into a 
> > different x/lib directory so that wvdial worked.
> 
> Welcome, but why are you using wvdial and cxx libs instead of Steven's 
> little setup with ppp-on and eznet/pppd for dialing?

   Because my ISP has an unusual dial-up/log-in setup that eznet doesn't cope 
with.  :(
This ISP requires ppp to run BEFORE the user/pass dialogue, a system that the 
wvdial documentation describes as "stupid mode" and has a configuration 
switch to deal with it.

   I had some correspondance on the BL list some time ago when the ISP 
introduced this and I suddenly found myself unable to log-on with BL, 
although Arachne (bless her !) took it in her stride. And David Moberg 
pointed me in the direction of wvdial. And the rest, as they say, is hysteria 
!    :)

   On another matter (BL3.4), I tried to install a flash-player to the shiny 
new Opera in BL3.4, but it comlained that my glibc is too old.  
   The SW9.0 glibc is 14 MB !   but that is not really a problem on this 
machine.  My question is more about compatability.  On one previous occasion 
I tried to upgrade libraries on BL2 and it made a complete mess of that 
installation that took over a week to recover from, and I have been a bit 
gun-shy since.

    Is there ANY possibility that installing the SW9.0 glibc libraries (not 
the glibc-solibs which are running well) could farkle BL3.4 ?

Regards,
        Ron


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Ron Clarke 
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