Randy McMurchy wrote: > I'm not sure that anyone can help you here. I can't imagine > anyone that contributes to BLFS-Support having dial-up capability > any longer. I know I don't even have an analog line capable of > doing dial-up, much less a modem.
GPRS is very much like dialup, and I still use it as a backup Internet connection when ADSL fails. However, I don't use wv* programs. Please see http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/PPP or inspect the (very similar) LiveCD setup. Maybe it is time to integrate this information (and the updated pppoe service) into BLFS, if the "removal" proposal doesn't pass? Note, however, that the whole "Dealing with Passwords" section in the Wiki has been created only to deal with Randy's objection to storing password in cleartext even in a file with 0600 permissions. There was at least one report that the "pcall" method doesn't work. I store my ADSL password in /etc/ppp/pap-secets and don't use pcall. > I don't know what to do here, so I suppose this is a call for > advice. If there is nobody who uses, or can support dial-up, > dial-up support probably should be removed from the book. Well, I am always for removing unsupportable parts of the book. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
