From: Stee Renwick (stephenrenwick at domain eircom.net)
Date: Tue 29 Feb 2000 - 12:02:54 GMT
Thanks John,
what you said was very true.
Theres a lot of people out there ( in the linux world ) who knock gobshites
like me which can be be-littling, Still though I'm as happy as a pig in poo
with my progress ! !
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> How incredibly arrogant.
>
> For a first-time linux user, there are numerous reasons why they might not
> be able to get ppp set up. First of all, they could be (unknowingly)
> using a winmodem. Second, it could be an ISA modem with certain IRQ/io
> conflicts (I've had experience of Linux being completely unwilling to
> believe me when I told it there was an ISA modem on a certain port with
> certain IRQ/io values, when O/FBSD would). Third, and most important of
> all, is the psychological factor. A lot of people don't believe they CAN
> get stuff like this set up, so they go into the situation believing they
> are going to fail.. and because of this, they usually do.
>
> Mocking people because they can't do something that's become routine for
> you isn't big, and it's certainly not clever.
>
> For shame.
>
> - John
>
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, John P. Looney wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 02:13:45AM +0000, Lars Hecking mentioned:
> > > Tsk-tsk. I just can't get ppp to work from Linux, which is why I'm dialed
> > > in from OpenBSD right now. No problem with NetBSD either ...
> > > uhh, off-top
> >
> > This I cannot believe. The guide to "How Kate setup PPP on his home box".
> >
> > 1) Click on gnome menu/Internet/Dialup configuration tool
> > 2) Enter root password
> > 3) Accepted found modem
> > 4) Typed in phone number, username and password
> > 5) Clicked "start"
> >
> > That's it people. If you can't get PPP working on RedHat 6.1, you should
> > blame the lobotomy that your parents got you for your fifth birthday, not
> > the OS.
> >
> > Kate
>
>
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