On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:49:09PM -0300, Dada wrote:
> Still I have not been able to get the modem or sound card to work
> under Linux on my Sony Vaio 505 TX.
>
> I have tried xisp as somebody suggested here, and I get a message
> ' pppd returned 1!' when I try to dial.
>
> I have tried kppp and I got the message
> 'pppd is not properly installed!'
Did you try wvdial? I found that that worked for me while pppd was
misconfigured.
> > I do a 'dselect
> >update; apt-get -fudy dselect-upgrade' every morning and generally
> >upgrade.
>
>
> How do you do that ..? I am new Linux user.
>
Have you set up apt? You have to enter the address of the ftp server you
want to connect to with the path to the Debian distribution into the file
/etc/apt/source.conf
Then you type
apt-get update
to update your list of available packages,
then
apt-get upgrade
will upgrade all your packages to the latest versions.
By the way
apt-get dist-upgrade
will upgrade from slink to potato.
Like they already said, you can also keep your packages up-to-date using
dselect.
Drew
