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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:35:17PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Lee Forrest wrote:
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> >>http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31
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> >I booted up BL3 with it, no modules, and X works fine! Mouse
> >and keyboard.
> >Not only _that_, but my serial card/port was also configured!
> >(Thanks not only to your kernel, but to Steven's new
> >setserial.)
> >Now, all I have to do is get the chat script for eznet
> >composed and I'm on the internet with BL3, which for _me_ will
> >mean that it's a functional OS.
>
> I forget why the regular pppsetup and pppd did not work for
> you.

Couldn't configure the low-profile, multi-port serial card.

> >Thanks a bunch,
>
> Thank David Moberg.

I will thank him too. And check out his site more closely.

> He also compiled a bunch of modules for
> this kernel, and I think posted the kernel config, so if you
> get hold of a Slackware 10.2 (10.2?) CD with source code, you
> can refine the kernel. Or use his kernel config to make a
> better 2.4.19.

When I can get my gcc on debian to work. It still won't, and
I haven't been able to get any help on the internet.

> It could be your serial card requires a 2.4 kernel.

It does.

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> Good thing your Gateway Essentials did not skimp on the floppy
> drive!

Yeh. I _like_ floppies.

A while back I bought a bunch of floppies at a computer store and
they let me know in no uncertain terms that they thought I was
a loser for using floppies.

So I told them I wasn't interested in turning my computer into
a new kind of Boob Tube. Now they won't do business with me
at all. 

Lee