[ale] I cant get my modem im running linux for the first time

[Jim Philips]

Well, who hasn't had a lover's quarrel with the kernel? I just had a
knock-down, drag-out fight with my Red Hat distro. I knew there was a
reason I didn't rush out and upgrade to 7.2. But when PAM went crazy,
there was no way I could log in to any mode other than single user. So,
a nuke and pave was the only way out. Along the way, I had to deal with
Red Hat's asinine setup for xfs. Then there were the network setup
tools, which did more harm than good. And the upgrade somehow just
deleted two directories under my home directory: rhdocs and mp3.
Apparently, those are reserved names. So, it just destroyed them. In the
process, I lost 123 mp3 files and about 40 valuable word processing
docs. The most traumatic upgrade I've had in six years of using Linux.


On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 12:51, Matt Shade wrote:
> I have to apologize for that remark. I was up half the night dealing with a
> screwed up kernel and modules regen, and the whole time, I was working fine
> on my Win2k box. I was a little peeved with Linux at the time, and my
> fingers got the better of me.
> 
> There's something to be said about walking away for a little while, then
> coming back. Both for my dumb post, and for working with kernel source.
> 
> 
> matt




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