Syd:
insmod hisax failing during boot. I looked at dmesg but did not see these messages - should I be looking in /var somewhere?
/var/log/syslog or messages, at a guess.
modprobe hisax type=35 protocol=2 id=hisax Presumably I should be able to use this information to edit a config file somewhere to have it happen during boot? No idea where
It needs to end up in /etc/modules.conf, but some distributions build this from elsewhere (eg /etc/modutils/* in Debian). I think the line should be
options hisax type=35 protocol=2 id=hisax
Also, MCC requires root password so I am not sure if I am dialing out with root privs or with my user privs. I know its a mandrake thing but any informed guesses?
Dialouts are normally effectively root, as they have to add a network device and routes to the system. Can't help with ippp0, as I've never had an isdn system. There's an ipppd package in Debian, though.
Mark,
Thanks for the help. I was definitely stuck for a while.
Earlier this evening I got off my arse and searched a little harder and found what I needed on one of the mandrake support sites. All working now.
Essentially, there is a file /etc/rc.d/rc.local which is the last init file to be loaded - therefore various useful bits and bobs can be stuck on the end and they will over-ride what has gone before.
Not elegant but it works. Not the debian way I assume :)
I did ned to edit some of the other files as well and I was particularly pleased to see that according to the hardware database on the mandrake web site, my card should not work. So one up!
Syd
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