[H-GEN] Linux Problems

[Frank Brand]

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"Adil, Kim - Brisbane (Maintenance)" wrote:Thanks for your reply Kim

>
> > For example I dial in and try to connect to uq but the connection is not
> > established and a message in my ppp log file indicates that the request
> > by the modem for configuration was never returned. In addition, I drop a
> > lot of connections after 30 mins, 1 hour or some such. I noticed a lot
> > of these problem when I went to a Web-Excel 56 Kb modem which behaves
> > impecably under Windows 9X. If I use Linux for a month my phone bill is
> > $10 more than if I use Windows for a month.
>         [Adil, Kim - Brisbane (Maintenance)]  I use kppp, and set up
> multiple phone numbers as separate connection names. When one is playing up I
> generally switch
> to another. I may be fooling myself but it seems to work.

No this is not a phone problem the dial-in works and the modem begins the
hand-shake but after a couple of minutes the whole connection lapses and the
message is that  a configuration request was ignored. UQ engineers tell me the
connection is good and signal strength strong.


>
> > Further, I am getting absolutely woeful performance using Netscape in
> > Linux over Netscape in Win. The settings for both are the same.
>         [Adil, Kim - Brisbane (Maintenance)]  Netscape is a dog over a
> modem. I keep switching back to
>         kfm, but there is no java or plugins so its a bit clunky. Lately I
> have tried installing mozilla then installing
>         galeon. Galeon uses part of mozilla and they work very well
> together.   In netscape, I tried to mail out a large file while downloading
> from an ftp site and the two tasks battled for access to the modem line. FTP
> downloads are extremely unreliable but some sites where downloads are
> registered, like ibm and inprise jbuilder require you to get through a
> series of web screens before you can download from the ftp site. It is
> difficult to use other applications in these situations. Netscape 4.X is a
> dog on linux, but it has been the most stable, full featured dog I have had
> available for browsing commercial sites.

Yes a lot of my speed problems are enlarged using multiple tasks. It is
difficult to move away from Netscape as it is really the only complete browser
for Linux.


>
>
>         looking forward to kde2 which promises the world (full featured
> browser and good kppp app) that should solve all our problems but the
> hardwareones.

I'll believe it when I see it. I  have been waiting since early Slackware for a
lot of things to be done. Its a bit Windowish really...each new version fixes a
few old problems and introduces new problems

Thanks for your input....seems I am not Robinson Crusoe.

Frank Brand


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