[Gllug] Linux 2.4.12 & ADSL

[Richard Cohen]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Jon Masters wrote:

> [ Please excuse formatting and lack of threading...this mail sent using
>   telnet to port 25 due to internal mail server not up until tonight ]
>
> Hi,
>
> So aside from the above bit about my lack of organisation in my house
> in Nottingham, the reason you can't get 2.4.12 working is because the
> PPPoverATM breaks when combined with the more recent PPP stuff in
> kernels greater than 2.4.9 - or so it seems, I've not had much chance
> to be in Reading to look in to it.
>
> Can I suggest that you apply the ATM patches to 2.4.9 and use that
> because it does work. Then *install a journalised filesystem*
> and *turn off swap* and set *panic=5* in your boot program's
> kernel command line paramter option. The *s are to somehow denote
> that these things are very very important :)

Why the hell are you using the crappy Alcatel drivers?  Why aren't you using
the free drivers, which are of *significantly* higher quality?

[snip]
> --jcm

Cheers
Richard


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