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--- Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:43:05AM -0700, maxim |
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> wexler wrote |
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> > And one more question: Why does emerge wvdial |
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> insist on installing all |
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> > this X stuff? More than 90 Megs! What does my |
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> serial port hardware |
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> > care if I can look at an xterm or not? |
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> > I tried USE="-X" but it just ignored me :^( |
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> Sigh, a bunch of ex-Windows, X Window developers, |
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> who can't go to the |
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> bathroom without a |
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> pointey-clickey-touchie-feelie-oowey-gui. I suggest |
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> that you "emerge pppconfig" instead. That's what I |
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> use along with pon |
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> and poff. |
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perl-cleaner did the trick as far as emerge wvdial is |
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concerned, thanks for the link folks. |
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yes, I always used pppconfig to setup my dialup until |
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I ran into troubles with the 2.6.16 kernel setup. |
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Seems dialup is now configured in /etc/conf.d/net, |
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although this seems to conflict with the provider |
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file. I mean, do you edit net.example to reflect the |
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provider file provided by pppconfig, or do you try to |
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avoid redundancy? Neither file seems aware of the |
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other's existence. Strange. |
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Another thing: even though the docs and mans mention |
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/dev/ttyS0 no such device is on my 2.6.16 box! In the |
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net file it says: link_ppp0="/dev/ttyS0". But when the |
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computer boots the console starts ppp0 then gives the |
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error: link_ppp0 does not exist. So I made one with |
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mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 |
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but it didn't help. The same error appeared on the |
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next boot. |
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Yes, /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 is a sym-link to net.lo. |
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Yes, I have compiled every conceivable serial port |
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option into the kernel. Do I really need support for |
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some fancy joy-stick(CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710) to get my |
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modem to work? |
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I know my serial port works because I can dialout |
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using the installCD provided I first copy over |
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/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/chatscripts/*, /etc/ppp/*, |
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/etc/ppp/peers/*. Even after chrooting I can dial out. |
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-MW |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux |
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> /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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> My musings on technology and security at |
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> http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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