On Monday 28 August 2006 12:27, Nick Rout wrote: > It is very unclear to me whether it is dying because of failed > authentication, or because it fails to start ppp after successfully > authenticating I think it only manages to dial the number, and make an attempt to create a data connection, but fails completely. Would not the fact that Andrew had it going with an external modem, and no other changes, mean that the authentication setup is working correctly?
My own opinion is that there is probably a kernel / modem / gcc versions inconsistency. At this point I'd be very tempted to build a recent stable kernel and then the open source module and interface shim for the closed modem module using a gcc from the 3.4 series. Whether or not this is feasible under the version of Mepis I know not, but I do know that doing it would be a 'somewhat time-consuming exercise' to put it very mildly. If this whole schemozzel fails to prove that binary kernels, modules, and distributions of Linux are totally undesirable, I don't know what does. btw, Do we have another Gentoo installfest on the horizon? -- CS
