Scott Miller wrote:
>
> Jeanette Russo wrote:
> >
> > After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made
> > the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake
> > 5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does
> > not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake updates does
> > not work. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this keeping in
> > mind I am a newbie who is trying but is becoming very discouraged. If
> > someone could guide me through the steps to fix this I think I can do it.
> > PLEASE.
> > TIA,
> > Jeanette
>
> Jeanette,
>
> I had many of the same problems you are experiencing with file systems and
> PPP connections dying until I installed all of the Mandrake 6.0 updates. The
> problem was that I could not get my PPP connection working until the updates
> were installed, so I could not download the updates from Linux using the
> Mandrake Update utility, a catch 22. What I ended up doing was downloading
> the updates from Windows, then mounting the Windows partition from Linux and
> copying the update RPMs across to Linux and then installing them. After that
> I was able to configure everything and it all worked!
>
> Hope this helps. I'm a Linux newbie too ( been running Mandrake 6.0 for
> about 3 weeks ) so maybe some others have more specific solutions for you. I
> was frustrated getting 6.0 installed too, but it's really great once you get
> everything working, so don't give up!
> --
> Scott Miller
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Running Linux Mandrake 6.0
Jeanette....not long ago a contributer to one of these mdk support lists
wrote that the KPPP supplied with 6.0 initializes the config file with a
null for speed (even though the window in the GUI setup says 57600) and
that this causes the connection to time out without anything happening.
He said that to fix this just change the speed setting, save it, then if
57600 was what you wanted, go back and change it back to 57600. This
made sense to me because I experienced the same symptoms and changed my
setting to 115200 and that fixed my PPP connect problem (I've never
changed mine back). I'll bet that it will fix yours too.
Alan
