Hamm post-install blues - wvdial vs pon/wmppp

When I installed Debian 2.0 I chose 'Dial-Up' and got the large number of useful packages included in that selection. The first time (let's not count the retries) I installed it I postponed the configuration of wvdial, not knowing what it was for, and followed the instructions in the Installation

Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure

I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or wmppp as evidenced by the console messages: Sep 16 08:38:26 pinky pppd[577]: pppd 2.3.5 started by krw, uid 1000 Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (BUSY) Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Sep 16

Re: How to installation linux on win 98

Having had Win98 and Linux installed on the same disk drive and Win95 and Linux before that, I feel pretty confident that it works the same in either case. Once you have isolated Win9x on its own partition, Linux can pretty much ignore it - except to filch its files if needed. Ken On Sat,

2.0 SCSI_HOSTADATER, st0, Zip, vs depmod ?

When I originally installed Debian 2.0 from CD I could swear that my SCSI tape drive on my ncr53c8xx SCSI host adapter was seen and reported at boot up time. I eventually compiled up a custom kernel and since I never use the tape drive (I mean, what could happen to my files on disk anyway?) I

Re: Asking for recomendations of AGP-motherboards

You might try http://www.tomshardware.com. This site specializes in various hardware reviews, including motherboards. They currently have several articles about AGP. They even have recommendations - but do not in my experience mention Linux so be carefull! Ken Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi,

Quick/Easy 2.0 Question: Installed permissions for /dev/dsp, /dev/audio are ...?

Late at night after a hard day fiddling with getting my Debian 2.0 installation working I was working on RealAudio and got so frustrated with problems accessing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio that I changed their permissions with chmod 622 /dev/dsp chmod 622 /dev/audio thus allowing everyone (my

Re: X Windows

1. ... don't know (I'm still using dselect, haven't tried apt) 2. Make sure you have fat/vfat msdos support compiled in your kernel and then mount (manually or via some entry in fstab) your Win9x partition with the command 'mount -t msdos /dev/hdxx /mnt' where hdxx is replaced by you partition

Re: Installing and configuring Emacs20

Ruud de Bruin wrote: If the errors you are getting are during the compile of the .el files then you might be encountering the problem I and other have had that can be solved by de-installing the 'tm' package. Once I removed this package then emacs installed without any problems. Ken