Re: Does anyone care about dialup?
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:12 AM, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
> Paul Zimmerman wrote:
>>
>> Why is it so difficult to get dialup to work in Linux?...
>
> make sure your modem is supported by linux,
> install packages ppp and pppconfig, read a few
> man pages, adjust a few scripts/config files,
> make sure in the right groups, done.
>
> works well for me, and is certainly not a hog.
>
> if you have specific questions perhaps we can
> help better...
>
> for errors with phone line, ISP, compression,
> etc, then you can turn off/on compression with
> the modem, or adjust to suit what the ISP says they
> have running and see what changes. if it is noise
> on the phone line itself then that is taken care
> of by the phone company or you rerouting/fixing
> your wires.
>
> as to specifics why gnome-ppp doesn't work and
> bugs that's the usual "volunteers do what interests
> them." if you want it fixed, get the code and fix
> it. if you want someone else to fix it, pay them.
This is the kind of silly answer (that someone else gave earlier in
this thread) where the assumption is that all Linux users can code...
:(
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