Panic! cant' log on to linux

[Edward]

Shelagh wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:28:11 +0200, Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net>  
> wrote:
> 
>> Shelagh kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 23.
>> maaliskuuta 2005 04:32):
>>
>>> But what does OP mean? Old Phool?
>>> I'l dies of curiosity unless you tell me!
>>
>>
>> Original Poster = the starter of the current message thread.
>>
> Ah yes, it begins to make sense.
> 
> I gotta tell you that this may be amore thorny problem than I was 
> hoping  for.
> I did the redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig and it just spat out "error,  
> xserver cannot start".
> I didn't want to but maybe I'll have to reinstall the kernel or 
> something.  This may be due to the
> trying to get a usb adsl modem going. One of the things they suggested 
> was  to recompile the kernel with
> extra ppp modules. Maybe (actually most likely) I did something wrong 
> and  need to start again.
> 
> Has anyone on this list got one of these adsl beasts going on their  
> computers? Apparently the whole mess is made worse by my ISP's use of  
> pppoe encapsulation.
> 
> SOM

I thought roaring penguin took care of this kind of stuff?

I still don't have ADSL where I am, so have not experimented with Linux 
as far as that goes, but I do vaguely remember people mentioning roaring 
penguin for pppoe stuff.

Regards,
Ed.