Newbie comments & queries

["Ian Balchin" <fables@imaginet.co.za>]

Hello, all,

I am, after all, still alive.

I plonked an old internal 14400 modem in and had it working in no time 
flat. wvdialconf went fine. My wvdial.conf is now like the one that 
Brenda showed me, and I added in the line about the new PPPD having found 
from man wvdial that the version was such that this was needed.

Could it be that the ttyS1 wa s defective like the PS2 port? I got some 
light on the modem to change, but not an OK back in sight.  Funnily, I 
installed an old card with a serial port on, and could not get that to go 
either.

Could it be that this a winmodem. The site listed in the Modem HOWTO

http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html

is unavailable (?) so cannot check this out.

Add to that my phone line is so noisy that cannot connect at any 
reasonable speed and have been waiting for the telkom man to have a look 
some time this week. Pick the phone up and the hiss and crackles are very 
prominent. Maybe this is why I cannot get the site above as we get down 
to 250 b/s speeds (3 to 4 K is hoped for )

TYhe GNU/Linux Bible arrived today.  Gives a good outline & am studying 
it closely, all 10lb of it.

I am not sure even now of how to get an eamil out.  I am on a dial up to 
my isp and we use SMPT to send the mail and pop to download it.

wvdial connects and then you are left at the end of the process with a 
blinking cursor, the programme does not exit having established contact.

I wrote an email to Brenda in mutt, but this would not send it.  Then I 
ran eximconfig but this did not improve matters.

Do I have to have sendmail as well?

I guess I will have to get into that  Bible just now.

The cat has progressed to the top of the refrigerator.  It is eating well 
and has eschewed the boxed catnuts supplied with it in favour of tinned 
sardines in tomato sauce which has enabled it to hiss more strongly. 

I found some backups of some of the lost files and have dried my tears.

I hope to get an email out just now, so keep your fingers crossed.

Regards
Ian

    Ian Balchin
    Grahamstown, South Africa.