Re: Internet with 2.4.2.

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Ricketts
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Ken Moffat wrote: > Thanks, Mike, for this quick reply. > > I'll give these aliases a try in a day or so. I have to say, though, that > I'm not that hopeful - I usually try to configure ppp support in to the > kernel, rather than using modules. When the connection has been

Re: Internet with 2.4.2.

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Ricketts
.config looks fine What version of modutils? What version of pppd? Do you have /dev/ppp? Does it work if you insert the relevant ppp modules by hand first (ppp_generic, ppp_async)? On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Ken Moffat wrote: > Hi, Mike, > I've finally admitted defeat with ppp. I guess it's somethin

Re: where Linus is posting latest kernel anounces?

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Ricketts
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Richard Adams wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > > You are wrong. > > 2.4.* is quite stable on many boxes. > > Huum, ok, i am certainly not going to argue, however "development kernels" are > NOT disscussed here. > 2.4.* are not development kernels. 2.4.*

Re: where Linus is posting latest kernel anounces?

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Ricketts
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Philips wrote: > > then i suggest one uses a 2.4.xx-pre > > kernel or whatever. > > > > You are wrong. > 2.4.* is quite stable on many boxes. Er. Nobody said it wasn't. The comments related purely to the 2.4.*-pre* kernels. Which are development kernels an

Re: ltmodem crashing

2001-04-03 Thread Richard Adams
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001, Barrett, Peter G wrote: > This problem is related to the lucent PCI modem driver (I think) > > When connecting to my ISP everything runs OK until "verifying user name and > password" then it says pppd died unexpectedly. > > There are LOTS of error messages/stack traces/ cor