Re: [newbie] establishing a ppp connection

1999-06-05 Thread Donald J. Taylor
"Birchall, Richard" wrote: s3x [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: i seemed to have my modem (isdn bri t/a external) configured properly under kppp and the account info is correct but it never finishes logging in. when i watch the log window all i get is garbage characters. i've tried every setting

[newbie] sometimes it works...L-M 6.0 upgrade

1999-06-05 Thread Donald J. Taylor
This will be a long post, so be warned. Reason? Because it feels so good to have something work the way it should, and I have to tell you about what happened. I sampled linux about a month ago. Bought a new hard drive w/8gig's and decided to dedicate the old one (3.9) to a trial of linux.

[newbie] kernel update configure

1999-05-17 Thread Donald J. Taylor
OK, here goes...I'm jumping into Linux. Looks like an interesting operating system and besides, I think MS is at least arrogant and perhaps monopolistic, so we need to find something better. I am not an administrator and never will be, but I would like to use and learn the system as I believe