--- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:43:05AM -0700, maxim > wexler wrote > > > And one more question: Why does emerge wvdial > insist on installing all > > this X stuff? More than 90 Megs! What does my > serial port hardware > > care if I can look at an xterm or not? > > > > I tried USE="-X" but it just ignored me :^( > > Sigh, a bunch of ex-Windows, X Window developers, > who can't go to the > bathroom without a > pointey-clickey-touchie-feelie-oowey-gui. I suggest > that you "emerge pppconfig" instead. That's what I > use along with pon > and poff. perl-cleaner did the trick as far as emerge wvdial is concerned, thanks for the link folks. yes, I always used pppconfig to setup my dialup until I ran into troubles with the 2.6.16 kernel setup. Seems dialup is now configured in /etc/conf.d/net, although this seems to conflict with the provider file. I mean, do you edit net.example to reflect the provider file provided by pppconfig, or do you try to avoid redundancy? Neither file seems aware of the other's existence. Strange. Another thing: even though the docs and mans mention /dev/ttyS0 no such device is on my 2.6.16 box! In the net file it says: link_ppp0="/dev/ttyS0". But when the computer boots the console starts ppp0 then gives the error: link_ppp0 does not exist. So I made one with mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 but it didn't help. The same error appeared on the next boot. Yes, /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 is a sym-link to net.lo. Yes, I have compiled every conceivable serial port option into the kernel. Do I really need support for some fancy joy-stick(CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710) to get my modem to work? I know my serial port works because I can dialout using the installCD provided I first copy over /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/chatscripts/*, /etc/ppp/*, /etc/ppp/peers/*. Even after chrooting I can dial out. -MW > -- > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux > /sbin/init is Job #1 > My musings on technology and security at > http://tech_sec.blog.ca > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
