Calling all Linux Gurus!!!!

amp

Hi,
Just installed Corel Linux after a 26 hour or so d/l. I have two questions for thee:

1. I'm using the nifty Dial-up program and have put all the settings but no matter what I do, I connect and then get:
The pppd daemon died unexpectedly!

2. How does one set up a soundcard? Mines a SB Live! Value.

Any help greatly appreciated. Also if anyone wants to avoid a hefty 250 mb d/l then send a nice grovelling e-mail and I'll burn you a copy. Maybe.

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Koopa

im not sure, but i think that happens when your kernel doesnt support ppp ..you will have to recompile it with ppp support if im right

Creeper

There's only a beta sound driver for the SB Live (do a search "sblive driver +linux"). I can't get mine to work for the life of me.
Linux. Deadly. L33t etc.

Hecate

dunno bout the modem problem (I'm still figuring out how to set it up myself)

but you could try running sndconfig from a terminal, it usually detects most soundcards.

amp

Excellent! Cheers lads

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Canaboid

You could have saved the download and bought this months PC Live as its on the cover cd.

sutty

what kind of modem is it that your useing, Linux will work best with a H/W, you'll need to down load a file to get a S/W working. gerry found it on the net the other night at my house so you'll need to ask him where he found it.

amp

gah no it's an Motorola Voicesurfr (sic) 56k external h/w modem. I have it mounted (or whatever the term is) on tty0/com1 and it sees it fine.
It dials and connects and if use terminal I can even log in. Then the characters start comming up and I click continue like I use to do in win95 and then I get the error.

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[This message has been edited by amp (edited 22-02-2000).]

sutty

amp are you useing kde? if so it has a ppp setup program that allows you to have every thing setup like dial up networking in win 9x and win2k, this little program is a very good thing to have. it also lets you setup ip address with no fuss.

Baz_

Is Linux really good never used it before and I won't be until I get a new hard disk (hopefully during the summer) Is it's game support good. If not how much disk space is adequate by that I mean that I think you would need more diskspace if its support for games was good because I would have more than one game installed at a time.

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bye for now
Baz

dollar

I sugest you get a program called WVdial do a search for if on www.freshmeat.net or on www.linuxapps.com There is also a script called ppp-setup, again do a search.

If your still having trouble mail me the last 20 lines of your /var/log/messages file.

D.

amp

Will do, once again - cheers!

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