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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: "sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org" <sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] Dialup (was: (no subject))
  • Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:29:20 -0700

Quoting Ken McLennan <ruadh AT tpg.com.au>:

> G'day sm-users,
>
> I've discovered (or re-discovered) a problem that I thought I'd solved
> awhile ago. I previously had SM installed with XFree86, and working fine on
> the WindowMaker manager. It was installed from:
>
> SM-ISO-beta2.iso
> Linux kernel 2.4.19
>
> I then upgraded my motherboard & processor, and installed WinXP (I
> can't get
> rid of Win just yet) as my new processor spat the dummy at '98. Various
> reshuffles of partitions took place during this exercise, and SM was removed
> for reinstallation.
>
> I downloaded the SMGL-Release-0.6-beta.iso, Linux kernel 2.4.20-xfs,
> and
> installed. I had difficulty locating & compiling source for the newer
> kernel.
> I don't know what the reason was, but couldn't be bothered chasing it up as
> it was much simpler to reinstall the older one. This was done successfully
> and I now have the first ISO reinstalled and running fine.
>
> The problem I now have again is with my dialup connection. I've set
> it up
> again via the 'quickppp' utility and all the setting seem to be OK. However
> when I run 'pon' I get a connection but it drops offline immediately. It did
> this the first time I installed, but was able to fix it then. I can't now
> recall what I did, nor can I figure it out.
>
> My 'connect-errors' file in /etc/ppp shows the following:

I believe there are similar problems on our forums[0], and looking at the
Linux
Documentation Project[1] may have more information as well. I'm not sure many
here use dialup (that's usually how it seems the few times questions about
dialup are brought up).

Hope those help, and possibly others on the list.

-sandalle

[0] http://forums.sourcemage.org/
http://forums.sourcemage.org/viewtopic.php?t=10

[1] http://www.tldp.org/docs.html

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