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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3.4 on-line for the first time
  • Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 08:06:42 +1000

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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