[H-GEN] Linux Problems

Doug Young dougy at gargoyle.apana.org.au
Wed Sep 6 20:55:01 EDT 2000


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Brand" <fbrand at uq.net.au>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Linux Problems


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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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