I appreciate the help that I got on this, my modem is just singing right along... changet it to 56700. Thanks --- Matthew Sackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you may be suffering from what I've come > across > lately: the modem gets stuffed up if the serial port > baud > rate is too high. Try setting the port speed (use > pppconfig) > down to 56700 instead of 115200, and I think you may > find > things start to work better for you. (worked > here...) > > As for configuring your sources file, use apt-setup > to > set things up as you need. > > Matthew > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:26:31PM -0800, D. Hoyem > wrote: > > I hate to ask this cause it is really a DUHHH ... > How > > do I select the mirror that I want to go to? This > is > > part of the address in the sources file > > htpp://security.debian.org/dists/potato/ > binaryi386... > > that is not the complete address, but how do I > specify > > the mirror that I want to use? > > Don > > --- Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > apt-get install hdparm > > > > > > but, i kinda doubt that it is a latency problem > on > > > the hard drives. i'm > > > guessing your connection to the mirror you have > > > selected in your > > > sources.list is just poor. try another mirror > > > closer to you. > > > > > > just a suggestion, but the slowest drive i've > ever > > > seen was .89 megs a > > > second. which is still more than enough to not > time > > > out waiting for data > > > for a dsl line, much less a modem. > > > > > > -- > > > Forrest English > > > http://truffula.net > > > > > > "When we have nothing left to give > > > There will be no reason for us to live > > > But when we have nothing left to lose > > > You will have nothing left to use" > > > -Fugazi > > > > > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: > > > > > > > I have been trying to use the apt-get update ; > > > apt-get > > > > install communicator to get Netscape > downloaded > > > from > > > > the Debian non-free site that is in the > sources. I > > > can > > > > connect and download but then I get timed > out... I > > > was > > > > told on #Debian irc.debian.org that it might > be a > > > > latency problem...So I did a search on the wed > and > > > > found quite a bit of info and it all is saying > to > > > use > > > > hdparm to check your hard drive. I have 2 > hard > > > drives > > > > and Debian is on hdb2(swap) 156M, hdb3(/) > 5.6G. I > > > have > > > > tried as root and the response is, command not > > > found. > > > > What am I doing wrong, and will this help > resolve > > > the > > > > latency problem, do I have to be in the /sbin > or > > > > /usr/sbin to run this comand? After I find the > > > best > > > > settings when do I need to place them so they > will > > > be > > > > picked up on start up? > > > > TIA > > > > Don > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > > > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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