Gentoo 1.4 and modems?
"Z. Thompson" <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:25:11 +0900
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01C27F4E.9B609550 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm guessing this subject has been brought up before, but I am having = trouble with the install when it comes to setting up my network = connection. I use a modem to connect to the internet, and I know wvdial = and wvdialconf are both located on the 1.4 livecd. When I try to run = wvdialconf or wvdial, it gives me an error about not finding some shared = wvdial lib. (I believe it was libwvutils.so.?.?, don't know what the = right version number is, so I just put ? where the numbers were.) I = looked for it in /lib, but it's not there. Has anyone else ran into = this problem, and are there any ways to get around it? I'm sure there = are since people using linux connected with modems before wvdial, but I = haven't the slightest on how to do that, since the Gentoo Install doc = has nothing on using a modem. Can anyone help? Regards,=20 Z. Thompson [email protected] ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01C27F4E.9B609550 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2719.2200" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I'm guessing this subject has been = brought up=20 before, but I am having trouble with the install when it comes to = setting up my=20 network connection. I use a modem to connect to the internet, and I know = wvdial=20 and wvdialconf are both located on the 1.4 livecd. When I try to run = wvdialconf=20 or wvdial, it gives me an error about not finding some shared wvdial = lib. (I=20 believe it was <FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" = size=3D3>libwvutils.so.?.?, don't=20 know what the right version number is, so I just put ? where = the=20 numbers were.)</FONT> I looked for it in /lib, but it's not=20 there. Has anyone else ran into this problem, and are there = any ways=20 to get around it? I'm sure there are since people using linux connected = with=20 modems before wvdial, but I haven't the slightest on how to do that, = since the=20 Gentoo Install doc has nothing on using a modem. Can anyone=20 help?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Regards, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Z. Thompson</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20 href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A></= FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01C27F4E.9B609550--