[Sussex] Questions for this Moot's Q&A

[Steven Dobson]

Peter

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 14:01 +0100, PETER HUMPHREYS wrote:
> I have a couple of questions (maybe more... - and do I wonder if this
> set of questions is the sort of thing you're after, anyway.
>  
> I recognise I ought to know how to do this stuff. My trouble is I work
> with, rather than on, computers.
>  
> Relating to my installation - SuSE 9.2 - which I seem to have messed
> up (can't mount cd-rom, cd writer, 2nd hard disk - which I 'achieved'
> a while ago, but was living with) Now to crown it all, I cannot since
> last weekend achieve a connection to my dial-up ISP. My modem (which a
> long while ago I set to 'silent running' when I started with a
> Mandrake distro) doesn't seem to register the carrier from the ISP
> before the Isp connection says 'I'm out of here' & hangs up. The
> modem waits around 15 seconds before starting to react to the incoming
> noise. The ISP responds almost immediately (This I managed to grasp by
> listening to the electronic conversation the ISP was trying to have
> with my modem, rather than analysis of any log) Then the log
> within kInternet states 'No Carrier', panics, and tries to connect
> (rather too late - if it got itself in gear a bit quicker, no problem)
> to an ISP that's hung up the line. connection then dying with a loop
> back it says.
> 
> I have tried to find info on this to no avail, and have not
> the knowledge to fix either of these which now make my system
> rather less than I would like. 
> 
> Is this something anyone can help me with, either at the moot or not,
> please?
> 
> I am writing this email remotely from home having logged in at work, &
> picked up emails from there.  I'll login again soon....

If you can bring the machine along I am sure we can help.  I can bring a
monitor (LCD screen) and network but to fix this kind of thing really
needs some poking around.

Steve
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