On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:48, Richard Tindall wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:41, Robert Fisher wrote: > >>On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:53, Richard Tindall wrote: > >>>100% success rate for the day > >> > >>Well it seems that all but one punter went away with a working Gentoo box > >>with KDE (except Isaac who seems to know what he is doing anyway) > > > >Everybody got working modems? > >If not we could probably do something on Tuesday evening. > >Please make mention in this thread. > > I'm hoping that will be ok - pcmcia & 'socket-watching' seem compiled > in ok. Of course wvdial on Debian hasn't successfully connected since > Thursday :-/ .., but there is always Ubuntu to fall back on :-). Ubu's > Network Settings gui seems to work better on its older Gnome (2.8.?), > than it does on Sarg's 2.8.3. It was this gui that borked the network/ > interfaces entries on which it runs, rather than wvdial that the gui app > calls upon on Debian.. The onboard 'smartlink' modem is the longer-term > challenge.
SmartLink modems can be made to work. For use with the 2.6.x kernels the sources need patching and compiling by hand. I have the patch. Which kernel are you using? > This page looks quite helpful: > http://packages.debian.org/testing/misc/sl-modem-daemon > > There is other Gentoo assistance I might ask though please. I have an > error or two starting xdm, with the ATI driver, so all I get is the > black X. Shouldn't be too serious, as we had KDE running yesterday. But > this was the first reboot. Looking forward to some more tips. the #gentoo channel on irc.freenode.net See you on Tuesday. -- C. S.
