Re: [Sheflug] Re: bounce

["wulfie" <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

Will wrote >

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, wulfie wrote:
>
> > > of a pain unless you do a lot of BIG downloads.
> >
> > Like KDE2.1 & kernel 2.4.0 ?
>
> No. I said big downloads. Like checking out the XFree CVS tree.
> A kernel only takes an hour and a bit to d/l. KDE is broken down into
> packages. I've downloaded both with a 2 hour cut off. (Also if you use the
> connection over midnight the cut off seems to fail :)

3 or 4 hour sessions at 43500 bps (the most I get out of my phone line -
yes, I got the gain cranked up) is long to me. Or at least it seems so!

> >The Winmodem on this box precludes Linux access for the time being
anyway.
>
> Not necessarily, there are a few Winmodem drivers around
> (www.linmodems.org?).
>
been there, got the driver, locked the kernel :( The Ambient chipset is
unfortunately not the one supported by the current very early Alpha Ambient
driver, & won't even respond to the very limited set control commands. I'm
no programmer (even REM frightens me!) so I can't do anything about it
except email the developer.


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