At 19:35 16/05/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>After I got everything installed, I
>immediately downloaded, installed and ran apt-get, and promptly upgraded to
>Slink, just as I had done when Slink first went stable. And now I can't use
>any of the >2.0.x kernels AND have ppp work. I've tried everything that has
>been mentioned in this thread, recompiling, moving back to the 2.2.7 kernel,
>which had just been working fine on my previous Slink installation, etc all
>to no avail. This is really driving me batty, but I thought you might like
>to know (Kris) that it isn't just your machine. I've just about decided to
>try a complete reformat/reinstall, as I've run out of just about all other
>options.
Nice to know I'm not alone :-)
>I also thought about just using the 2.0.36 kernel, but as I have a
>dual PPro system...
Git ;-) I'm on a lowly Cyrix 166 :-(
>Oh yes, something else I forgot to mention. I also put the proposed-updates
>link in my sources.list file, and upgraded to the packages present at that
>location. As I had not done this previously, I suspect this is where the
>problem is, so I'm thinking about reinstalling, upgrading, and then NOT
>upgrading again with the proposed-updates.
I've tried it with a virgin Slink install, proposed-updates, and then did
an apt-get update; apt-get install with libc6, netbase & so on using
proposed-updates and the potato unstable directories. Nothing changed
(tried at all stages).
My next guess: incorrect serial port settings (mouse ttyS1 & modem ttyS2)
them manually for my modem IRQ). I'll see what letting it set them
automatically does. 95% chance it'll do nothing (it works in 2.0.36 as I
said), but I can try. Otherwise, it's to the newsgroups/linux-ppp.
But I can't try it now. 02.24am. C++ assigments suck.
I'll get back to everyone tomorrow on what the serial port autodetect does.
Thanks,
Kris