Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Monday 28 August 2006 17:10, Alan wrote: > I have verified that the correct name and password are in both > pap-secrest and chap-secrets. > also retyped the password in when trying with kppp. > The lcp intrerval is currently set at 60 and failure set at 6 > I have changed it to chap/pap in the o

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
I hope that's pap-secrets, not pap_secrets! The correct format is... username* password ie zl3kr * password 1 line, no dots - unless they're part of the name - these should be exactly ( case sensitive ) what you use in the username and password fields in windows, with t

Re: Portable mp3 player

2006-08-27 Thread Phill Coxon
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 16:37 +1200, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: > Courtesy of the recent WGA I've managed to pimp out Linux to a few > nontechnical friends. However one of them is looking at buying a > portable mp3 player and I have no working knowledge of them so I'm going > to assume at least one person

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Rik Tindall
This looks to be simply a permissions shortage for ppp. Root has to give Alan read-write access to.. "pap-secrets and chap-secrets"? - Can't recall what it was I had to change thus, back in RedHat days.. Can root dial out ok w/wvdial? Alan wrote: I have verified that the correct name and passw

Re: Portable mp3 player

2006-08-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> If you want to keep everything in OGG format (which is the default > format for most Linux distributions) then the iAudio line support OGG, > apparently. Yes, keeping everything ogg will save you a lot of trouble. That means stay clear of Apple - well so you perhaps can reflash new software onto

re:Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Alan
Just tested with +chap/pap and no difference. now both pap_secrest and chap_secrets have the following entries, "zl3kr". *. "password" zl3kr. *. password the password is correct and all in lower case so not a problem. should there be both those lines in those files?? Alan

Re: Portable mp3 player

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:55:42 +1200 Craig FALCONER wrote: > Almost all of them work fine, because they represent as a generic USB drive. > > The ipod is weird of course, ask Nick Rout on them. Oh and this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/27/1338238&from=rss > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL P

Re: Portable mp3 player

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:55:42 +1200 Craig FALCONER wrote: > Almost all of them work fine, because they represent as a generic USB drive. > > The ipod is weird of course, ask Nick Rout on them. I don't have one but I know it works with linux. There are several programs like amaroK and gtkpod that

Re: Portable mp3 player

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:55:42 +1200 Craig FALCONER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Almost all of them work fine, because they represent as a generic USB drive. > > The ipod is weird of course, ask Nick Rout on them. > You can set up your own iTunes server under linux... IIRC I posted some notes on

RE: Connect to Internet - where's the dial-up button?

2006-08-27 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi, I'm not getting much time to work on this, but I have some more queries please ... > -Original Message- > From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:36 AM > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz > Subject: Re: Connect to Internet - where's the di

RE: Portable mp3 player

2006-08-27 Thread Craig FALCONER
Almost all of them work fine, because they represent as a generic USB drive. The ipod is weird of course, ask Nick Rout on them. -Original Message- From: HappyEvilSlosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 28 August 2006 4:37 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Portable

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:31:55 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2006 12:27, Nick Rout wrote: > > It is very unclear to me whether it is dying because of failed > > authentication, or because it fails to start ppp after successfully > > authenticating > I think it only manages

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Monday 28 August 2006 12:27, Nick Rout wrote: > It is very unclear to me whether it is dying because of failed > authentication, or because it fails to start ppp after successfully > authenticating I think it only manages to dial the number, and make an attempt to create a data connection, but

Re: Modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Warwick Hay
On Friday 25 August 2006 18:18, Alan wrote: > Oooops just noticed you sed you had already sent me that info.I > dont remember it but will have a look back and try to find if I still > have it in the inbox Nick. > > Alan Alan, Sorry this is a bit late, but there is a bit of a trap in k

Re: Domain names and hosting (again)

2006-08-27 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:39, you wrote: > What you're asking is basically "should I do it cheap and nasty, or spend > more money for a more professional way" Basically yes, but I need to know of the pitfalls, and whether spending more money is "a bit more money" or "a lot more money" I can't spend

Re: OT: Domain names and hosting (again)

2006-08-27 Thread Ross Drummond
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:40, Roger Searle wrote: > i'd like to see the replies as i've had a similar thing on my "to do" > list for some time myself. > Cheers, > Roger > > Andrew Errington wrote: > > Hi, I recommend that you have a chat with Simon Knight who is a poster on this list. He operates a

Re: OT: Domain names and hosting (again)

2006-08-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Onlist, since it's of general use. Can't comment on iserve, but they're probably ok for the job. Question is whether the job is ok for you, specifically the redirecting. Email redirection should be fine; iserve would receive the email and forward it to whereever you say. You might want to ask wha

RE: Domain names and hosting (again)

2006-08-27 Thread Davidson, Brett (Managed Services)
I have about 10Gb sitting on my webserver so I host my own website. I use discountdomains.co.nz for the domain registration - by far and away the cheapest. It was a trivial process to direct web and email traffic to my home servers. Changing domain providers is trivial - you just grab your curren

Re: OT: Domain names and hosting (again)

2006-08-27 Thread Hadley Rich
Hi Andrew, This has been discussed a number of times on the PHPUG[1], you will probably find some useful information in the archives over there. On Monday 28 August 2006 12:16, Andrew Errington wrote: > Anyway, I want to set up a domain for a small company belonging to a friend > of mine. He ha

Re: OT: Domain names and hosting (again)

2006-08-27 Thread Roger Searle
i'd like to see the replies as i've had a similar thing on my "to do" list for some time myself. Cheers, Roger Andrew Errington wrote: > Hi, > > Well, I've been away for the weekend, and I see that Alan is still > soldiering on with his modem. As I caught up with the thread I was hoping > to r

RE: Domain names and hosting (again)

2006-08-27 Thread Craig FALCONER
What you're asking is basically "should I do it cheap and nasty, or spend more money for a more professional way" www.company.co.nz --> homepages.isp.co.nz/~friend is the cheap and nasty way to do it, but looks more professional than having "homepages.isp.co.nz/~friend" on business stationery. I

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Rout
It is very unclear to me whether it is dying because of failed authentication, or because it fails to start ppp after successfully authenticating I know this sounds trite, but could you please check that your username (zl3kr) and password are set properly. The dialog box in kppp will only reveal *

OT: Domain names and hosting (again)

2006-08-27 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi, Well, I've been away for the weekend, and I see that Alan is still soldiering on with his modem. As I caught up with the thread I was hoping to read "...so I tried it and it worked!", but no such luck. Anyway, I want to set up a domain for a small company belonging to a friend of mine. H

Horse downtime

2006-08-27 Thread Craig FALCONER
Title: Message Horse will be going down sometime next weekend. That's either 2 or 3 September.   It sounds like either a hard drive is accessing continuously (which it isn't) That suggests a fan has gone clattery.   Depending on fit and PSUs I may recase it in a loverly new 2U rack case I h

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Monday 28 August 2006 10:03, Alan wrote: > ok removed the + sign and just as it connected it said pppd Daemon died > suddenly. According to the manual page neither '+pap' nor 'pap' are legal options. the manual page documents these extended pap options:- papcrypt pap-max-authreq n

re:Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Alan
ok removed the + sign and just as it connected it said pppd Daemon died suddenly. I changed it then to chap+pap and tried again and got the same message. When comparing with windows log on after the squeeling stops the connect is very quick. When in Linux there is a long delay between the end of

re:Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Alan
Hi Christopher tried the setting AT&F it still dials out fine connects and still gets to the stage where it says "Logging onto Network" and "starting pppd" and thats where it stops as far as I can see ppp options has all those commands set that Nick said he had. The one thing I am not sure abo

Re: Vmware Player & PC-BSD

2006-08-27 Thread Roger Searle
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: i believe this is because the DVD i have is only 32bit, looking at the folders within I don't see anything that obviously points to it being both 32 and 64 bit - how can i tell with this? For the 9GB dual-layer 32/64bit DVD from the retail box: ls -l suse/

Re: Modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sunday 27 August 2006 22:29, Steve Holdoway wrote: > aah, but now you *are* making a connection, at an acceptable speed. The > problem is now authentication, which is what this file is all about. I fear that there is more to the problem than just that, because when an external modem - with no o

Re: Modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:35:53 +1200 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tried that Steve, it tried several times but couldnt establish the > connectionI did run wvdial this time instead of kppp. > when running wvdial, how do you stop it from trying or is automatically > set to stop after so man

re:Modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Alan
tried that Steve, it tried several times but couldnt establish the connectionI did run wvdial this time instead of kppp. when running wvdial, how do you stop it from trying or is automatically set to stop after so many tries?? I knocked it off by restarting the computer back into Windows but

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sunday 27 August 2006 19:03, Alan wrote: > Right Christopher here are the two that you wanted by the 3way I > think cp stands for copy Indeed it does! > but what does the grep command mean please(sometime). Global Regular Expression Print. The command:- man grep or putting #grep into the L

Re: modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sunday 27 August 2006 19:22, Alan wrote: > Christopher, just a question. in the messages I see a line: > pppd 2.4.4b1 started by Alan, uid 1000 > > Just wondering if the Alan might clash with my log in name of > zl3kr probably nothing to do with it, but thought I would ask. I don't

Re: Modem Strings - some testing with mepis and ltmodem

2006-08-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Well done Nick! Do I understand you correctly that it didn't work until you added the debug to pppd? That points to a bug in pppd. > The kppp log shows that the only initialisation sent to the modem is > > ATZ > ATM1L1 > ATDT (then ihug's number) This may be the only initialisation which is sen

re:modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Alan
Christopher, just a question. in the messages I see a line: pppd 2.4.4b1 started by Alan, uid 1000 Just wondering if the Alan might clash with my log in name of zl3kr probably nothing to do with it, but thought I would ask. cheers Alan

Re: Modem Strings - some testing with mepis and ltmodem

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:55:11 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have just done some tests. My son's IBM T20 laptop has a modem which uses the ltmodem driver (but he has windows installed). I have an account at ihug. I have a mepis 6.0 live cd. So I booted it in the T20 and ga

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:03:44 +1200 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right Christopher here are the two that you wanted by the 3way I > think cp stands for copy > but what does the grep command mean please(sometime). > > Alan > There's a load of weird sh*t in there! How about cd /etc

re:Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Alan
Right Christopher here are the two that you wanted by the 3way I think cp stands for copy but what does the grep command mean please(sometime). Alan # /etc/ppp/options # # Originally created by Jim Knoble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Modified for Debian by alvar Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Modifie