[H-GEN] Linux Dialup Configuration

[Doug Young]

Yes well :<)  .... its taken me weeks of aggro just get this far ..... it
was
quite an achievement to figure out about copying something from one folder
to another let alone install MORE funny applications ....and then there is
all
that weird "mount" stuff and *.tar.gz and all the other other arcane
commands
to worry about, and it still won't let me copy/paste like in more civilized
o/s's,
make nice :<) WAV / MIDI sounds like in Win whatever,  ..... seems
pleasantly
stable compared with NT4 though. If I feel brave enough on the weekend I
might just "avagoyamug" and try to get that x-isp installed though ....
I guess RedHat has gone a fair way toward making what must be the
most user hostile o/s on the planet kicked into something vaguely resembling

what regular (read Microsoft operators) can handle and at least there seems
to be some sort of assistance around the traps for newbies ..... which is
more
than can be said of products produced by Comrade Gates and his merry band

Frank Brand wrote:

> Doug Young wrote:
>
> > Looks like my RedHat 5.2 is FINALLY able to dial out
> > and establish a PPP session. Thanks to all who contributed
> > gems of wisdom  Can anyone suggest how to get the O/S
> > to show how long the connection has been up and give an
> > indication of data flow rate ... or maybe suggest some basic
> > online timer along the lines of NetMedic .... I have a fulltime
> > connection so I don't need to keep track of hours but it would
> > still be nice to compare how long this thing can stay
> > connected in comparison with what I have been getting with
> > Win9x (up to 2 weeks) and WinNT4 boxes (a few days at best).
>
> X-ISP would do that for you. It is on the APC CD in the APC directory or
> from the web page:-
>
> http://users.hol.gr/~dbouras/
>
> It would have saved all the drama in setting up ppp too!!
>
> --
> Frank Brand
> E-mail: fbrand at uq.net.au
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