Have had this happen on two different systems now and am at a loss as to why or how to fix.
I install the base system and everything goes fine. Have a PPP script saved on disk to enable PPP for Dselect FTP. After I restart the PC and get the "press enter to start dselect" message I switch to tty2, load the ppp script stuff and "ppp-up" to dial and connect. (On tty3 I use "tail -f /var/log/messages" and wait for the IP address to be assigned from my ISP, then back to dselect.) Start dselect, select method, select generic install (no adds or deletes at all to start), download... All goes fine. Usually is overnight, so by morning the PPP link has timed out and hung up (per tty3 messages). Unpack, install, configure - get an error on smail, mailx, cron and at that it can't resolve my host and mail names. Try to bring up PPP in tty2 again and get the message that the kernel lacks PPP support. Can restart the PC to no effect, can reinstall PPP scripts to no effect, can switch directories amongst the /etc family to no effect. Kernel is 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 (two different systems, total of 4 or 5 installs). The PC's are both Compaqs - a Prolinea MT 4/33 (AMD 486/133, 24MB RAM, two 500MB IDE) and a Presario 4840 (PII/266, 6GB IDE, 32MB RAM). The Prolinea has been formatted and reinstalled 4x, the Presario is a fresh install on a single clean partition (didn't even fdisk it in DOS before the install!). WHY, HOW, and (now that the shouting is over and I feel better) how do we fix this? Also, can I use drivers for UNIX SVR3.2, SCO UNIX and/or SCO XENIX under Debian? (Have a dialup board that comes with those. Company's response to "Do you have Linux drivers?" is "Nope, but if you buy ___ board for lotsa $$$ we have them"...) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
