Panic! cant' log on to linux
Edward
edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Wed Mar 23 09:32:56 UTC 2005
Shelagh wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:28:11 +0200, Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Shelagh kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 23.
>> maaliskuuta 2005 04:32):
>>
>>> But what does OP mean? Old Phool?
>>> I'l dies of curiosity unless you tell me!
>>
>>
>> Original Poster = the starter of the current message thread.
>>
> Ah yes, it begins to make sense.
>
> I gotta tell you that this may be amore thorny problem than I was
> hoping for.
> I did the redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig and it just spat out "error,
> xserver cannot start".
> I didn't want to but maybe I'll have to reinstall the kernel or
> something. This may be due to the
> trying to get a usb adsl modem going. One of the things they suggested
> was to recompile the kernel with
> extra ppp modules. Maybe (actually most likely) I did something wrong
> and need to start again.
>
> Has anyone on this list got one of these adsl beasts going on their
> computers? Apparently the whole mess is made worse by my ISP's use of
> pppoe encapsulation.
>
> SOM
I thought roaring penguin took care of this kind of stuff?
I still don't have ADSL where I am, so have not experimented with Linux
as far as that goes, but I do vaguely remember people mentioning roaring
penguin for pppoe stuff.
Regards,
Ed.
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