[H-GEN] modem/ppp problems

[Sarah Hollings]

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Thanks guys, am working thru this now.

David Starkoff wrote:
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> At 2000-05-13T05:44+1000, Marc D wrote:
> 
> > If there is any possible way, try grabbing an updated package of ppp.
[snip]
> Of course, this is probably of minimal help to Sarah, since Corel Linux
> either did not exhibit this problem to any significant degree, or they
> would have subsequently released an update through their own channels
> (possibly by incorporating it into the distribution).

After your emails I actually reinstalled the ppp packages that were on
the corel distro cd, and this seems to have fixed problems #1 and #2.  I
guess this is somewhat retrograde, and maybe I should download the
latest versions from th' net.  I'll have to download the .deb files
using windoze (as that's where I have my only dialup access right now)
and save them into a win partition, then try to dpkg them from there. 
Should work OK.

Still have to puzzle thru this thing with problem #3 - which I guess is
to do with pppd.  I think it might be the way kppp and pppd are talking
to each other, so I might try to download a new version of each before I
do anything else!  Given that that doesn't fix it I'll start in with the
stuff about routing that Joel mentions.

Will let you know how I go.

> 
> Still, something to investigate.
> 
> David.
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