On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, JF Martinez wrote:
> >
>
> About printing I think the problem is realeted to the fact that
> parport_lowlevel is not aliased to parport_pc in /etc/conf.modules
>
> I cannot test it dierectly becsue I have no priner but that is the way
> I managed to have my printer working.
>
> By the way am I the only one who resents that Dial-up users are
> treated like second class users not only by RedHat but by about every
> Linux distribution? We are in 1999, Linux distributions have been
> available since 1993 and from the start there was one distinguishing
> point between Linux and Unix: Linux was affordable by private
> individuals and that meant a significant amount of its users would be
> home users connected through dial up networking. However after six
> years we still have the red carpet being unrolled before the ethernet
> user and to hell with the private user: only the LAN user gets network
> configuration at install time, no effort is made for coping with
> situations inherent to non-permenent acces to the net, PPP is not
> tested and RedHat issues a network config tool who doesn't allow the
> user to autoconfigure DNS. The PPPd daemon is able to ask the ISP's
> daemon what is the DNS to use if only it is strted with the right
> parms. The only thing lacking is a nice little button in the config
> tool telling to configure PPP for using this feature.
>
Yes I fully agree, sometimes I think "what if I were a newbie user which wants
to connect to the internet using RH 6.1 ? " ... no way !
not to mention the crashes of netscape, which now crashes almost every 5min.
kppp is broken too ( ppp permissions / root rights etc.) , that means the newbie
is unable to set up a ppp connection by using this nice GUI tool.
Linux definitively needs DNS autodetection during ppp dialup, because for much
users it is too hard to DNS manually, and if you use multiple ISPs it becomes
really annoying.
Benno.
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