Linux-Setup Digest #524, Volume #20 Sun, 28 Jan 01 20:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: rh7 bootdisk ? ("The Brain")
RH7.0 and SMC Nic card. ("James M. Wadkins")
Re: Where to look (3Com 3C905c works sometimes) (John Jensen)
Re: Suspend in ASUS A7V? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems to compile a new kernel (Bob Martin)
Re: HELP!!Only the L appears in LILO ("John Powe")
Re: RH7.0 and SMC Nic card. (Michael Mueller)
Re: ftape - zftape help ? someone ? (Bob Martin)
Re: Where to look (3Com 3C905c works sometimes) (Linux-Addict)
Re: RPM 4.0 foxhole (Ian Clarke)
kpackage unable to find rpm ("Robert Morelli")
Konqueror says it doesn't support HTML!!! And some other KDE2 problems... (Het
Studentje)
Re: Netscape slow (mark gaschermann)
Re: rpm 4 under Caldera? ("L. Friedman")
Re: rpm 4 under Caldera? ("L. Friedman")
Re: rpm 4 under Caldera? ("L. Friedman")
Newbie Kppp problems (Brad)
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From: "The Brain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: rh7 bootdisk ?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:09:57 +1100
I just installed Linux on a new machine yesterday with this error, I fixed
it by doing the following:
use partition magic to make a 16M boot sector BEFORE cylinder 1024, this can
be found in the info drop down menu under info...
I placed mine first (aka cylinder 0-1) then your other partitions ( / and
/boot) can go either before as primary partitions or later as logical
ones...
it makes no difference in the long run except that you will have /dev/->
hda1, hda2, hda5, and hda6 with I think is a little messy better to make
them primary...
Then install lilo or reinstall Linux (depending on wether you removed or
copied the partitions)
HTH
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From: "James M. Wadkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,redhat.config,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: RH7.0 and SMC Nic card.
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:15:37 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a SMC 83C795QF 10Mbs nic ( ISA ) that I would like to use in my
server for my cable modem sise. What driver should i use for this card
and RH7.0 does not detect it.
--
James Wadkins
VTAT, Inc.
5429 Valley Wells Way
Las Vegas, NV 89113
702-873-0480
702-873-0049 Fax
http://www.vtat.com
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Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Where to look (3Com 3C905c works sometimes)
Date: 28 Jan 2001 22:35:35 GMT
John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: I've got a new computer going. It is based upon a SuperMicro P6DBE
: motherboard and has two PIII 800E's. My network card is a 3Com 3C905c.
: The proc/pci info is:
OK, sorry to waste your bandwidth and then answer my own question (maybe
someone else will find the info useful). I had forgotten that I'd been
through this a year ago. I found that my systems (talking to the linksys
hub for DHCP) are happier running dhcpd rather than pumpd. It looks like
the red hat 7 scripts try to use dhcpd as a backup to pumpd, but in my
case pumpd dies a delayed death, so those backups don't help. I've tied
the scripts to use dhcpd alone, and think I have it solved (time will
tell).
John
--
33� 38' 50N 117� 56' 32W
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Suspend in ASUS A7V?
Date: 28 Jan 2001 22:25:57 GMT
In <LyBc6.1227$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fl@L1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Silly question, but - Do you have the BIOS setup to suspend?
Yes I have.
I included my BIOS configuration in the original message, look:
>> Power Management: Min. Saving
>> Video Off OPtion: Suspend -> Off
>> Video Off Method: DPMS OFF
>> HDD Power Down: 15 min.
>> Suspend-to-RAM Capabyility: DISABLED
>>
>> Suspend Mode: 40 min.
>> PWR Button < 4 secs: Suspend
�Could you tell me your kernel configuration (only the APM section)?
Good Bye
--
Jesus Angel del Pozo Dominguez
Valladolid
^_^
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <O,O>
http://www.tel.uva.es/~jpozdom (GPS) ( . )
http://www.castillayleon.com/ciclismo/castilla (Castilla C.C.) _"_"_
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems to compile a new kernel
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:37:40 -0600
Rolf Huebscher wrote:
>
> I tried to compile a new kernel on red hat 7.0
> But i receive the follwing Error.
> Does somebody know what is wrong?
> Thx for any help.
>
If you are using the gcc shipped with RH 7, it won't compile the
kernel. They shipped kgcc to compile there kernel. See their web
site for details.
--
Bob Martin
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From: "John Powe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HELP!!Only the L appears in LILO
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:02:30 +1000
I've had a similar problem with lilo. I found that this happened because I
had a big disk and lilo can't find '/boot' if it isn't in the fist gig or so
of disk.
To get around this problem, I used partition magic to free up the first 15M
of my disk so I could use it as my /boot filesystem.
Hope this helps.
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From: Michael Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,redhat.config,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: RH7.0 and SMC Nic card.
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 00:15:56 +0100
Hi James,
you wrote:
> I have a SMC 83C795QF 10Mbs nic ( ISA ) that I would like to use in my
There is no card with this name from SMC. It is only the name of the
chip.
> server for my cable modem sise. What driver should i use for this card
> and RH7.0 does not detect it.
>From the Ethernet-HOWTO:
>
> SMC 8416 (EtherEZ)
>
> Status -- Supported
>
> This card uses SMC's 83c795 chip and supports the Plug 'n Play specification. It
>also has an SMC Ultra compatible mode, which allows it to be used with the Linux
>Ultra driver. In this
> compatibility mode, it uses shared memory instead of programmed i/o. Be sure to set
>your card for this compatibility mode. See the above information for notes on the
>Ultra driver.
>
> Note that the EtherEZ specific checks were added to the SMC Ultra driver in 1.1.84,
>and hence earlier kernel versions will not detect or handle these cards correctly.
Since current kernels (2.0.38, 2.2.18 and 2.4.0) use version 2.02 of the
driver it should work for you. You however should not wait for ISA cards
being auto-detected.
Malware
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftape - zftape help ? someone ?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:39:58 -0600
imbsysop wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get a Ditto 800 paralel tape drive operational. so far with no
> success !
>
> 1) under RH 6.2 everything seems to compile ok but I get stuck with messages
> like "/dev/qft0 : device not configured". how does on configure such device ?
> I thought the install prog should take care of that ? what am I missing ?
> AFAIK there is nothing in the howto nor in the manual unless proven wrong.
>
> 2) Under RH 7.0 the thing (ftape-4.04a) does not even want to compile properly
> ?? was something changed in gcc in between ?
>
> Would be thankfull for any advice offered. I scanned the net in all directions
> but was not able to log any useful hints :-(
>
> TIA
The parallel needs to have interrupt enabled. You can try
'echo 7 >/proc/parport/0/irq'
That should enbale irq 7 for lp0
It may not compile on stock RH 7. they shipped a broken gcc that
doesn't compile the kernel, so it not compile something like ftape
--
Bob Martin
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From: Linux-Addict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Where to look (3Com 3C905c works sometimes)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:32:29 GMT
John, did you get you 3c905c working in linux 2.4?
if so , is there a 3c90x.o driver in /lib/modules/2.4.0/net ?
I want upgrade to 2.4 but my network will be down without that driver.
Thanks very much
James Tate
In article <9526rn$m1b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> : I've got a new computer going. It is based upon a SuperMicro P6DBE
> : motherboard and has two PIII 800E's. My network card is a 3Com
3C905c.
> : The proc/pci info is:
>
> OK, sorry to waste your bandwidth and then answer my own question
(maybe
> someone else will find the info useful). I had forgotten that I'd
been
> through this a year ago. I found that my systems (talking to the
linksys
> hub for DHCP) are happier running dhcpd rather than pumpd. It looks
like
> the red hat 7 scripts try to use dhcpd as a backup to pumpd, but in my
> case pumpd dies a delayed death, so those backups don't help. I've
tied
> the scripts to use dhcpd alone, and think I have it solved (time will
> tell).
>
> John
> --
> 33� 38' 50N 117� 56' 32W
>
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From: Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM 4.0 foxhole
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:41:07 GMT
> I wanted to upgrade RPM to RPM 4.0 because i was getting the now
> infamous "only packages with major nos <= 3 are supported by this
> version of RPM" error.
I tried to do this a few weeks ago (I had RH6.2). Someone suggested
that I create a RPM4.0 binary, and use it (ie. ./rpm) to upgrade to the
rpm of the 4.0 rpm. This was a mess. Eventually I just upgraded my
entire machine to RH7.0. Unfortunately this broke X on my box, however
generally speaking X 4.0 is pretty darn easy to get working, and I
quickly fixed it.
I really hope they are smarter about this when they do RPM v5.
Ian.
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From: "Robert Morelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kpackage unable to find rpm
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:34:48 -0600
After upgrading from rpm version 3.03 to version 3.06, kpackage
can no longer find rpm. On start up, it gives an error message
"Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm-3.0.3/rpmrc for reading: No such file or
directory." This directory is of course the directory in which
the old version of rpm was installed. The new directory is
simply /usr/lib/rpm. I suppose I could just add a link to the
new directory, but I don't really want to introduce unnecessary
kludges in my system.
I've sought documentation for kpackage, but the only thing I
can locate is the online help file, which doesn't mention this.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Thanks.
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From: Het Studentje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Konqueror says it doesn't support HTML!!! And some other KDE2 problems...
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 00:27:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
I've just installed KDE2. If I typ and internet page in the Konqueror browser,
I
get:
"Sorry Konqueror
Could not create view for text/html
Check you installation"
What can I do about this? File browsing goes correctly. Netscape works
correctly too.
Configuring the DPMS (where you can configure the desktop), it suddenly
crashes. Since then, I can't run DPMS anymore. Rebooting didn't fix it.
Clicking the icon just has no result at all! How can I repair this?
After installing KDE2, some old KDE1(?) programs like Snapshot,DVI-viewer and
KMail don't work anymore. Clicking on 'Snapshot' in the K-Menu just does
nothing. Is this normal? Are all these programs removed from KDE because there
are better ones in KDE2? If so, how am I supposed to make Snapshots? Why are
they still in my K-Menu?
Thank you,
HS
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From: mark gaschermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape slow
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:06:42 -0600
I had the same problem, but it went away when i deleted the .newsrc
files from my home directory.
I assume that Netscape looks to connect with any configured news servers
before it loads the first web page, and the timeout is about 5 mins if
you're not connected to the net.
Now I can only use Netscape to read news from my leafnode news spool,
but that's not a major problem for me.
Let me know if this solves your problem too.....
Mark G
> Sadly, still netscape takes 5 minutes to show
> the first page.
>
> "Kurt R. Rahlfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I give up.
> > > Netscape takes forever (5 minutes) to show the
> > > first web page after I boot the machine,
> > > even if it it has an ip address on my local
> > > network for the webpage to display.
> > > This makes me think it is not a DNS problem and
> > > its on the same network (actually apache
> > > server on the same machine). After the first
> > > web page, all web pages are fast.
> > > Any clues??
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From: "L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: rpm 4 under Caldera?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:01:51 -0500
Black Eagle wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 03:16:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew) wrote:
> >
> >I've had to dig recently into rpm 4x and found some info on the redhat
> >site; and asof today, saturday jan 27 2001, the info on the site says
> >rpm 4x is still "in development" and not a production release.
> >
> >"rpm" is redhat's "property" and not a "normal" linux package even if
> >other distributions use it; a potential problem exist in that when using
> >a rpm to install, one could install into a place that redhat uses and not
> >the distr one is acutally using and thereby possibly creating duplicates.
>
> It was my understanding that Caldera was a major developer of rpm in
> conjunction with Red Hat. Am I wrong?
Actually, Caldera provided the majority of the development for what is
now known as RPM. It was all just marketing hype from the RedHat crew.
--
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L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: rpm 4 under Caldera?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:03:43 -0500
Paul Lew wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:55:53 -0500, L. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Robert Morelli wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Robert Morelli wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> >> "Michael West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > What are you hoping the documentation will tell you?
> >> >>
> >> >> For one thing, I would hope it would tell me exactly the sort of
> >> >> things that you and the other posters are telling me. In particular,
> >> >> some of the problems you say some people have had sound serious to me.
> >> >
> >> > Which is exactly why you don't play with experimental versions of
> >> > software unless you know what you're doing.
> >>
> >> The reason I posted here was to find out if in fact rpm 4 is
> >> experimental or prone to problems. If you read my original post, you'll
> >> see that I was unable to find any documentation for rpm 4 at all on the
> >> www.rpm.org site -- not a word. All of the documentation there
> >> is years old. Nevertheless, the link to rpm 4.0 is placed prominently
> >> on the home page, labeled as the ``current latest release.'' At the
> >> same time, the site claims, ``This site aims to bring you the latest and
> >> most up to date information on the RPM software packaging tool
> >> which is taking the world by storm.'' I consider this a little
> >> irresponsible.
> >>
> >> I'd really like to encourage the Linux community to take this sort of
> >> thing more seriously. In my opinion, documentation is as important
> >> as code. If you release a new version of something, you have to say,
> >> at the very least, ``This release fixes this and that ...'' or ``This release
> >> is experimental,'' or ``This release introduces such and such feature ...''
> >> I think it's pretty dangerous and misleading that www.rpm.org has an
> >> experimental version of rpm listed as the ``current latest release''.
> >>
> >> Anyway, it's good at least to have helpful folks the newsgroups.
> >
> >Oh, i agree with you 100%.
> >The problem with RPM project is its history. ALthough RedHat loves to
> >have its name in the spotlight, and RPM certainly does that for it, its
> >not until very recently (in the past year or so) that Redhat made *any*
> >significant development contributions to rpm. Up until then rpm was
> >nothing more than marketing for Redhat, while others who had no
> >relationship to RedHat the company, did the bulk of the development
> >work. Then all of a sudden, Redhat to get actively involved in the
> >development of rpm again, and started to play little games with the
> >other developers. In addition, they started to add 'features' to rpm
> >which in effect broke alot of backwards compatibility, and then used
> >their customer base as the guinea pigs via their distro releases.
> >RedHat-7.0 is a perfect example, where they dumped rpm-4.0 out to the
> >world, effectively changing the rules and forcing people to either jump
> >through hoops to allow them to use the newest rpm packages, or to simply
> >'use RedHat-7.0'. I don't think i need to spell out which company's
> >tactics this mirrors.
> >
> >The bottom line here is that RPMs are a nice idea, however you should
> >make an effort to be profficient with other means of getting new
> >software on your linux system, that way you aren't dependent on what
> >RedHat does.
> >
> However, the install Changes for the 2.4.0 kernel say that a new mkinitrd
> "may be required" and provides a site to obtain the "latest" mkinitrd;
> but, the mkinitrd is in rpm 4 format and no tarball is to be seen as the
> site is redhat's rawhide area.
>
> It is such instances like that that make people scrambling for rpm 4 when
> tarballs are not available for the required upgrade. Of course, this means
> that the software authors should also make the tarballs available..:-).
Are you sure about this? I find it quite hard to believe that something
critical to building a kernel came only in one format. What are people
using Debian supposed to do?
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://netllama.ipfox.com/COL_FAQ.html
Step-by-step help for COL problems:
http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htm
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From: "L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: rpm 4 under Caldera?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:04:56 -0500
Black Eagle wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:55:53 -0500, "L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Robert Morelli wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Robert Morelli wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> >> "Michael West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > What are you hoping the documentation will tell you?
> >> >>
> >> >> For one thing, I would hope it would tell me exactly the sort of
> >> >> things that you and the other posters are telling me. In particular,
> >> >> some of the problems you say some people have had sound serious to me.
> >> >
> >> > Which is exactly why you don't play with experimental versions of
> >> > software unless you know what you're doing.
> >>
> >> The reason I posted here was to find out if in fact rpm 4 is
> >> experimental or prone to problems. If you read my original post, you'll
> >> see that I was unable to find any documentation for rpm 4 at all on the
> >> www.rpm.org site -- not a word. All of the documentation there
> >> is years old. Nevertheless, the link to rpm 4.0 is placed prominently
> >> on the home page, labeled as the ``current latest release.'' At the
> >> same time, the site claims, ``This site aims to bring you the latest and
> >> most up to date information on the RPM software packaging tool
> >> which is taking the world by storm.'' I consider this a little
> >> irresponsible.
> >>
> >> I'd really like to encourage the Linux community to take this sort of
> >> thing more seriously. In my opinion, documentation is as important
> >> as code. If you release a new version of something, you have to say,
> >> at the very least, ``This release fixes this and that ...'' or ``This release
> >> is experimental,'' or ``This release introduces such and such feature ...''
> >> I think it's pretty dangerous and misleading that www.rpm.org has an
> >> experimental version of rpm listed as the ``current latest release''.
> >>
> >> Anyway, it's good at least to have helpful folks the newsgroups.
> >
> >Oh, i agree with you 100%.
> >The problem with RPM project is its history. ALthough RedHat loves to
> >have its name in the spotlight, and RPM certainly does that for it, its
> >not until very recently (in the past year or so) that Redhat made *any*
> >significant development contributions to rpm. Up until then rpm was
> >nothing more than marketing for Redhat, while others who had no
> >relationship to RedHat the company, did the bulk of the development
> >work. Then all of a sudden, Redhat to get actively involved in the
> >development of rpm again, and started to play little games with the
> >other developers. In addition, they started to add 'features' to rpm
> >which in effect broke alot of backwards compatibility, and then used
> >their customer base as the guinea pigs via their distro releases.
> >RedHat-7.0 is a perfect example, where they dumped rpm-4.0 out to the
> >world, effectively changing the rules and forcing people to either jump
> >through hoops to allow them to use the newest rpm packages, or to simply
> >'use RedHat-7.0'. I don't think i need to spell out which company's
> >tactics this mirrors.
> >
> >The bottom line here is that RPMs are a nice idea, however you should
> >make an effort to be profficient with other means of getting new
> >software on your linux system, that way you aren't dependent on what
> >RedHat does.
>
> It would be helpful if an "uninstall" package were included with
> tarred and zipped files. That way (except for those helpful programs
> that put everything in one or two subdirectories), it would be easier
> to remove ALL references to a program.
>
> I recently had to remove a broken application to replace it with an
> upgraded version. It took me nearly a day to find all references to
> it in all the various subdirectories. It had files scattered all over
> my machine.
Actually the automake packge (what most developers use to create
make-files) has the ability to allow for a 'make uninstall' option. Its
just that few impliment it in their code.
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://netllama.ipfox.com/COL_FAQ.html
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http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htm
8:00pm up 22:49, 2 users, load average: 0.32, 0.33, 0.16
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie Kppp problems
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:54:56 -0500
Having constant problems using kppp, constantly stalling, am using Creative
Modem Blaster Flash 56.
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