Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-31 Thread Erik Troan
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Benno Senoner wrote: > But strange that Redhat doesn't test this properly before releasing the distro. > At least doing some printing tests (lpd is faulty too in RH 6.1) and some > dialup tests wouldn't take too much effort. The PPP problem actually affects only a small perc

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-30 Thread JF Martinez
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, JF Martinez wrote: > > > > > First time the PPP daemon is started it fails. I found this is > > realated to the fact it tries using /dev/ppp who is a pseudo device > > availble in 2.3 only. Could someone fix that please: it makes the > > user spending two phone fees i

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-30 Thread kifox
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, JF Martinez wrote: > > First time the PPP daemon is started it fails. I found this is > realated to the fact it tries using /dev/ppp who is a pseudo device > availble in 2.3 only. Could someone fix that please: it makes the > user spending two phone fees instead of one. >

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 08:56:28AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi > > > [root@possum summer]# > > > > > > Is that a useful change? > > > > According to http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?faq #1, your > > before and afters are identical to the exam

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Alan Cox
> The sceptic started netscape. It's default home page is min, here, no java. > > Clicekd Edit/Preferences > Searched for and clicked "enable java" > Goodbye netscape. Works for me. Ah well > Next trick? www.mozilla.org 8) And yes right now I'm finding it more stable, tho its certainly incompl

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread John Summerfield
> > 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi > > [root@possum summer]# > > > > Is that a useful change? > > According to http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?faq #1, your > before and afters are identical to the example given for solving (at > least some) java problems. The sceptic started netsca

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Alan Cox
> > not to mention the crashes of netscape, which now crashes almost every 5min. > > Try turning java off; I went through three versions of netscape (to 4.7) > trying to access www.sanford.com.au before thinking of that. It worked for > that site. Try this one. It works around some problems wi

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Rod May
On 29-Oct-99 Alan Cox wrote: >> > not to mention the crashes of netscape, which now crashes almost every >> > 5min. >> >> Try turning java off; I went through three versions of netscape (to 4.7) >> trying to access www.sanford.com.au before thinking of that. It worked >> for >> that site. > >

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 08:10:38AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > not to mention the crashes of netscape, which now crashes almost every 5m > > in. > > > > > > Try turning java off; I went through three versions of netscape (to 4.7) > > > trying to access www.sanford.com.au before thinki

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread John Summerfield
> > > not to mention the crashes of netscape, which now crashes almost every 5m > in. > > > > Try turning java off; I went through three versions of netscape (to 4.7) > > trying to access www.sanford.com.au before thinking of that. It worked for > > that site. > > Try this one. It works around

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread John Summerfield
> not to mention the crashes of netscape, which now crashes almost every 5min. Try turning java off; I went through three versions of netscape (to 4.7) trying to access www.sanford.com.au before thinking of that. It worked for that site. -- Cheers John Summerfield http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Alex Withers
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Benno Senoner wrote: > > 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 star

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Benno Senoner
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

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Benno Senoner
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, JF Martinez wrote: > First time the PPP daemon is started it fails. I found this is > realated to the fact it tries using /dev/ppp who is a pseudo device > availble in 2.3 only. Could someone fix that please: it makes the > user spending two phone fees instead of one. > I