No floppy? Timeout on ppp?

[Dan Burcaw]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:57, rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:
> I just bought YDL last week, and installed it on a Power Mac 7200.  Programs 
> (like KWord) cannot seem to "find" the floppy drive.  I get an error message 
> something like "mdir not found....mtools not installed" or something like that.  
> Any hints on how to correct the problem?


This is really strange.  When does kword talk about the floppy drive?
I've never seen any behavior like this.

> I cannot get KPPP to work with either of two pretty much "plain vanilla" ISPs 
> (no special protocols needed for logon).  It can find the modem, can dial the 
> ISP, and connect at a good speed (52K), but then KPPP just sits there and some 
> sort of "Timeout" error message comes up.  I have increased the PPP timeout to 
> the maximum allowed (60 seconds), but still no connections.  Any hints here, 
> too?

You might give 'wvdial' a try.
Take a look at the wvdial section of:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/modem_dialup.shtml