Re: Linux progress(?)
What a day... it took a good five hours for SUSE 10.2 to install on the spare box. I sure hope that's because it's an older system (socket 7 MB with a K6-2) and doesn't indicate how long it will take on my main system. And even when I got it installed I had to putter around to figure out why it couldn't recognize the modem (forgot to disable the integrated com ports when putting the card in the machine) and then had to install kinternet manually because it wasn't installed initially.
In other news, there is apparently a bug in this kernel that prevents dialup from working. Connects fine, but then when I start to download something it always disconnects. I've Googled the log messages, and it seems there is a kernel bug that makes it barf on PPP compression. I need to figure out how to disable 'deflate' compression in the ppp daemon. Until I can figure out how and where to set the 'nodeflate' command for the ppp daemon, the box can't connect and get the updated kernel.
P.S. "APT" is not present in the SUSE 10.2 install. Guess I'll have to get it from the repository when I figure out the connection bug.
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