I think you may be suffering from what I've come across lately: the modem gets stuffed up if the serial port baud rate is too high. Try setting the port speed (use pppconfig) down to 56700 instead of 115200, and I think you may find things start to work better for you. (worked here...)
As for configuring your sources file, use apt-setup to set things up as you need. Matthew On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:26:31PM -0800, D. Hoyem wrote: > I hate to ask this cause it is really a DUHHH ... How > do I select the mirror that I want to go to? This is > part of the address in the sources file > htpp://security.debian.org/dists/potato/ binaryi386... > that is not the complete address, but how do I specify > the mirror that I want to use? > Don > --- Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > apt-get install hdparm > > > > but, i kinda doubt that it is a latency problem on > > the hard drives. i'm > > guessing your connection to the mirror you have > > selected in your > > sources.list is just poor. try another mirror > > closer to you. > > > > just a suggestion, but the slowest drive i've ever > > seen was .89 megs a > > second. which is still more than enough to not time > > out waiting for data > > for a dsl line, much less a modem. > > > > -- > > Forrest English > > http://truffula.net > > > > "When we have nothing left to give > > There will be no reason for us to live > > But when we have nothing left to lose > > You will have nothing left to use" > > -Fugazi > > > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: > > > > > I have been trying to use the apt-get update ; > > apt-get > > > install communicator to get Netscape downloaded > > from > > > the Debian non-free site that is in the sources. I > > can > > > connect and download but then I get timed out... I > > was > > > told on #Debian irc.debian.org that it might be a > > > latency problem...So I did a search on the wed and > > > found quite a bit of info and it all is saying to > > use > > > hdparm to check your hard drive. I have 2 hard > > drives > > > and Debian is on hdb2(swap) 156M, hdb3(/) 5.6G. I > > have > > > tried as root and the response is, command not > > found. > > > What am I doing wrong, and will this help resolve > > the > > > latency problem, do I have to be in the /sbin or > > > /usr/sbin to run this comand? After I find the > > best > > > settings when do I need to place them so they will > > be > > > picked up on start up? > > > TIA > > > Don > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
