Re: CD drive disappears upgrading to 3.0

["Rod... Whitworth" <listener@witworx.com>]

On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:21:07 +1100, Rod... Whitworth wrote:

>On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 23:06:27 -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
>
>>Try a snapshot boot floppy.  I think I have seen complaints of this
>>some time ago, it might have got fixed (and I am almost certain it was
>>a Sony CDROM -- like yours).  If the snapshot results in the same
>>problem, PLEASE make a formal bug report, 3.1 is coming soon...get it
>>fixed now! 
>>
>
>If it is to do with the Sony it isn't the Sony alone. I have my "lab"
>machine here with exactly the same CD drive model and I have installed
>3.0 on it countless times. Hack, fiddle, crash and burn, flush
>reinstall and go again machine would be a better name but it does get
>reinstalled about once every 3 or 4 weeks.
>
>Anyway I grabbed a snapshot floppy30.fs and I'll take it onsite
>tomorrow along with a Mitsubishi CD drive just in case.
>
>I could just change the drive but I think you are right about a bug
>report if I can narrow it down a bit and it will help the next release
>be a just a little bit better.
>
>I'll report back.

I'm ba-ack!
 I'm not sure the snapshot floppy image has changed. It certainly gave
the same result and I'm sure it is the same rev as the CD one but I'll
verify that shortly.

Customer pressure does not always allow scientific process. ~ | ^

I changed the CD drive to a Mitsubishi Diamond and then 3.0 installed
just fine.

I then had another problem. PPPoE.

Using the same files in /etc/ppp that i had before (except the ipf and
ipnat lines) I ended up with tun0 with an mtu of 1500 even though the
ppp.conf called for mtu and mru to be 1492.

If I did:
 ifconfig tun0 mtu 1492 
the client (winboxen) could send email but not get it from the remote
pop server.

Under pressure from a busy client at days end I replaced 3.0 with 2.9
and copied the /etc and /etc/ppp back and it worked as before.

I have more to discover........... I have no idea why a ppp.conf with
mtu and mru of 1492 doesn't get those settings to work on 3.0 as it
does on 2.9

Maybe I need to restart my coffee habit...   ~ | ^