If you get completely stuck, bring it over and I'll take a look at it.
How that...God I'm feeling nice today.....;-)
Cheers
Lee
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 21:38, John Gavin wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Right.
>
> I'm using Debian SID with a 2.4.17-r5 (Gentoo low latency patch) on an old
> Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 (2xPentium Pro 250kb, 128 MB EDO PARITY
> RAM, 2x 2.2 SCSI drives). For everyday stuff I have a celeron 333 system
> with a GeForce and shed loads of SDRAM running Windows98 [tweaked to fook].
>
> Just lately I've been seperated from my broadband connection (graduated uni
> now alas) and have all but given up on debian using 56k dialup. Bah! Without
> access to ISO's and/or net-installation and facing the prospect of waiting
> 2hrs to download 10 meg from US mirrors (European SID mirrors being a waste
> of time entirely in my experience) Debian and the likes of KDE 3 are fast
> becommming distant memories.
>
> Anyway .. I recently discovered an old Toshiba T2130CT laptop (80486 75mhz,
> 8mb ram, 500meg HD)with a smashed screen. Using an old 17" monitor I have
> been able to get output and its fast become an obsession - can I get LINUX
> on this old thing, will X run, will it even do PPP using a PCMCIA device
> etc.
>
> Only 7 months since I first started the LINUX adventure I'm just not
> technically skilled enough to resolve the problems I'm having on my own ...
>
> On one hand I have managed to succesfully install Debian potato from 17
> floppies .. on the other .. I'm having terrible problems with PPP trying to
> get a connection to my Freeserve dial-up account.
>
> I'm posting in the hope that someone on this list can help me get up and
> running.
>
> As things stand I have entered all the correct into pppconfig, loaded all
> PCMCIA modules and PPP modules .. and run
>
> # PON.
>
> The box then blasts out a dial-tone .. and does absolutely no dialing before
> the tone goes into replace reciever whine.
>
> I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong - having never tried PPP in LINUX before.
> Nobody on IRC gives a shit and I'm consistently ignored or patronized on the
> #debian channel. All those Americans to whom dialup is an ancient memory. :)
>
> I thought after reading a post that I was entering the wrong command .. that
> I needed to specify the 'provider' as I had titled it during pppconfig:
>
> #pon Freeserve
>
> That didnt even pick up the phone (so to speak) but bombed with the
> following PLOG error:
>
> 'Connect script failed'
> 'Exit'
>
> I'm guessing thats something to do with my config/setup. Perhaps I'm
> inadvertedly pointing the connect script at my serial mouse or something.
> Anyway there is no modem activity at all with the provider specified ...
>
> Which leads me back to the defaults. Which at least pick up the phone.
>
> I appreciate the need for more detailed technical info if I'm to get this
> solved so please if you can help me just ask and I'll supply!
>
> Anyway, new to the list. Look forward to meeting some of you at the next
> meet.
>
> Lorc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:owner-nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Andy Davidson
> Sent: 15 June 2002 21:17
> To: nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [nottingham] Xinit Boxes
>
>
> Replying to a mail sent almost a month ago...
>
> On Wednesday 22 May 2002 13:19, Paul Sladen wrote:
> > > I have been reviewing a Mako cluster from Xinit Systems. Overall I was
> > > pretty inpressed with the unit but would be interested to hear from
> > > others using them in a commercial setting, environment, what-have-you.
> > I've never brought a cluster off them, but I did a rather natty and quite
> > neat T-Shirt-in-a-soapbar that you chuck into water in a emergency and it
> > springs out into a full (it not rather wet) item of clothing.
>
> It's Xinit which have donated the hardware for the new lug.org.uk box, so if
> you do buy anything from them, make sure you give the LUGs a mention. ;-)
>
>
> --
> Andy Davidson <andyd@lug.org.uk>
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