[wellylug] Linux on Antique Boxen

[David McNab]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 07:32, Ilia Pavlenko wrote:
> You don't necessarily need 2.4 kernel. 2.2 will do just fine of
> workstation.

Except that the winmodem driver (for Conexant modem) is troublesome or
impossible to get working properly with 2.2 kernels.

> did you kill the junk that starts up automatically ? all these daemons
> that noone needs on w/station ?

Yeah.

> did you measure bootup time of win98 in networked enviroment with
> everyone's favourite McAfee antivirus and micros~1 office toolbar/findfast

Not applicable really. Machine is meant to run as standalone, dialup
workstation.

> > KPPP totally loses the plot - keeps terminating the dialup connection
> > and starting again - so I wrote a couple of suid progs which launch and
> > terminate pppd directly.
> 
> dial-on-demand mode ON ?

I should have explained. The instant KPPP logs in, it immediately
disconnects. I've got a perfectly good working setup in
/etc/ppp/peers/Paradise, but KPPP doesn't want to just use it and leave
it alone.

> Have a lot of fun :)

Well, it's been 'educational' :)

Cheers
David



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