Re: Slip Slidin' Away: Take 2

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de>]

In article <9502100826.AA17135@dares.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> you write:
>> If there is anyone who recognizes a problem, or you need more information to
>> help me, then let me know.  The success using this connection will determine
>> if I get a faster modem and/or if I take the plunge and get commercial net 
>> access from home (to avoid all the firewalls here at work).
>
>Someone told me about problems with slattach in MintNet 0.7. He (the one
>who told me) runs Mint 1.12h2, MintNet 0.7, SLIP over modem2.
>
>When he ping'd the other end he saw the modem send lights flash, but nothing
>came back -- exactly your symptoms. But when he used the slattach shipped with
>MintNet 0.6 everything worked fine.
>
>However, I have send him diffs which might fix the problem, but got no answer
>yet.

 do those diffs just fix slattach or is there still something wrong
in MiNTs ttys?  except for the fact that they still depend on (often
buggy) BIOS...

> A assume the problems arise out of the VMIN/VTIME stuff I implemented
>into der SLIP Deamon, but at home over modem1 (TOS 1.4 and HSmodem before Mint)
>everything works fine.

 and have you people with the problems tried loading BIOS fixes
before MiNT? such as HSmodem...

 curious :)
	Juergen