At 11:10 PM 2/25/03 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:21:16PM +0000, Charles Angelich wrote: > >> >> (won't work for me, of course) :-\ >> >> >It seems to work for everyone else. >> >> I don't think you or others that like this phrase mean it as the >> flippant remark it really is but truth be told it _is_ a flippant >> remark. At work in a meeting to resolve issues this remark could >> cost you your job. >> >> Truth is there may be a 'silent minority' out there who have no >> previous experience and just assume they are too stupid to get >> BL online and give up. They don't join an elist or post at FIDO >> or usenet. They just go back to what works for them and maybe >> never try Linux again thinking it won't work for them. > >So what? It's no skin off my nose. Go ahead and fire me. I'm >ready to retire anyway. :-)
I did already retired and now am facing returning to work. :-\ >> There may just be a _reason_ why the standard PPP setup uses the >> 'chatscr' and not a precompiled one as EZNET does? Hmmm ...??? > >You may have a point there. This evening I tried the BL200 >ramdrive version again to check out eznet (for you!). I appreciate your assist in this and the other times you have been willing to test these for me. >All the Freenet lines were busy, so I had to use my commercial >ISP account (where I pay by the minute). I had thought those pay by the hour ISPs were long dead? >Lo and behold, >ezynet didn't seem to work. I futzed around with it for a >while without success, and then switched to chat with my >own config files, which worked right away. I also got >logs using syslogd from busybox [1]. > >If you continue to have problems with eznet, and want to >try chat, I can put chat.gz (8k) and ppp-isp.tgz (620 bytes) >in <http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/computer/dos/baslinux/>. Too much time has passed and I can't remember all that I did to replace EZNET. Using what you suggest might relieve the stress of trying to remember filenames and directories here. >There's no "pppsetup" or scripts for this, so all you have >to do is edit the config files (with pico) in an appropriate >place and run pppd from the command line. I won't bother saying >any more until I know someone is actually going to use this. If you put the files there I will try them. >[1] On my HD version I installed the Slack 7.1 sysklogd.tgz >package, but I guess I didn't really have to. I had to add something to BL to be able to monitor the process of authentication etc. but I don't recall what it was anymore. I used a second client to watch the logs as the dialup progressed. Charles.Angelich "DOS Ghost" Tech Website : http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Music,Photos,Stories,etc. Website : http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ Default Browser HomePage : http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/homepage.asp To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
