[SOLVED] 56k, pppd (what worked for me w/ HOWTOs via links).

I took note to print out the 40+ page Wiki manual in regards to installing Arch, and while the majority of it looks like the same old, same old, sadly there's no real mention of going about handling a PPP connection. Yes, it's very doable on this particular system - I've a base phone line dedicated to data transmission as I'm living in an area without cable or DSL. The amount of time it takes to download X and it's children doesn't mean much to me.
On looking through the forums, I've found several posts in which possibly -could- help, but none of which have actually followed through. There's been a post in regards to installing PPP with an already existing connection (cable connection), and as a result that knocks me out of said water. There's also a posting a few people mention with a dialup walkthrough available on the Wiki, however said document no longer exists anytime anyone offers a link to it.
I've tried grabbing wvdial and wvstreams, and have successfully copied them to disc per extracting the data first (see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44287 ), but on trying to install these through what I expect to be the usual methods (GCC: /configure, make, make install), naturally there is no compiler component available in the install and ./configure just laughs.
I can't utilize any pacman resources, as I have no connection to download anything in Arch currently. I want to learn Arch, but I feel a bit left out in the cold here on 56k island.
Any resources I could use to help me with setup of a 56k on Arch? I feel I'd have it comfortably with the Wiki article from that point forward, I'm just stuck at the after-install with this.
Last edited by Caliburn (2008-03-09 01:54:19)

Pudge:
I've three modems on this particular box, all for various reasons and one of those reasons being testing purposes while under various Linux distros.
The modem I'm currently using is a serial Zoom modem, hardware-based.
I also have a Zoom USB modem which is a software-based modem, but, as it said on the box, the modem does come with Linux drivers. I have successfully used the Zoom USB modem in Ubuntu and Sabayon, but I have not tried the modem under Arch.
I also have an Intel 536EP Winmodem, which does have drivers available for it under Linux. I know this driver functioned with the preloaded driver under Mepis and my manually loaded driver under Sabayon Linux, however I have not tested this modem with Arch.
I believe there is a 536 (and if my memory serves me correctly, a 537) compressed driver package available somewhere online. While I'd try to install the modems and give them a shot, and I may sooner or later if the interest hits me, right now I can't say I'm too interested in messing with a good thing. I haven't heard of the modems not working with the newer kernels, though.. that's interesting.
In regards to the tutorial, I really can't say much more than the two links provided above by others already give. As a default, pppd is installed from the Arch CD with an editable file regarding it's configuration (/etc/ppp/options):
lock
modem
/dev/ttyS1
57600
debug
noauth
defaultroute
noipdefault
user username
password password
connect "chat -v \'\' ATZ OK ATDTnumberofisp CONNECT"
.. /dev/ttyS1 being the modem's port (COM2), the user listing the username, the password listing the password, and the numberofisp being the number of the ISP you're dialing..
As well as adding the following in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets:
\"username\" * \"password\"
.. essentially allowed me to connect with no errors. No idea whether or not chap-secrets was necessary considering the username and password are already stated in /etc/ppp/options, but it's suitable for my connection currently until I find out differently.
Again, I may try to install the modems, but I won't guarantee it. I hope I've helped somehow though.

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Here's what worked for me...

Here's what worked for me:
1) I opened iTunes and in Options, I selected iTunes as the default music player for my computer (it wasn't). (I even uninstalled RealPlayer and WinAmp.)
2) I uninstalled iTunes and iPod, and reinstalled using the newer versions on the Apple site.
3) I basically followed this advice:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=291183&tstart=0
Which was basically to leave my iPod connected to the computer while rebooting. The first 2 times it didn't work, I forgot to put iTunes in the start menu, so that it opens when I reboot. I put iTunes and iTunes Helper (whatever that is) in the start menu (I used WinPatrol to do so, available for free here: http://www.winpatrol.com/), and then rebooted, and after a couple of tries, like magic iTunes opened, recognized my iPod, and updated it, and then, for the first time, without freezing my system, told me it was okay to disconnect.
It even worked while still running my regular systray apps, like McAfee VirusScan, Ewido Anti-Malware, Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta, and SpywareBlaster, so those were not the issue. I get the impression you need to boot it once so it recognizes the iPod and does that handshake thing, and hopefully after that it'll always do the same. We'll see...
I hope this helps someone, b/c its been a frustrating day working through all this, and I know a lot of others are still trying to get it solved. And thanks to jcog for posting his solution, that helped me, and hopefully this will help someone else...
c.
iPod Video, 60GB Windows XP

it worked until the next time I synced the iPod, and then back to the freeze up. Next thing I tried was this Microsoft help page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
which advises on several things, all of which seem helpful, but the thing still freezes up. I can sync the iPod, then the system freezes and I have to reboot. So, I now believe Apple will have to issue a patch for these bugs when using the new 5G iPods with WinXP.
c.
iPod Video, 60GB Windows XP

Snow Leopard Printing Woes - what worked for me

I found many print problems posted EVERYWHERE from every printer manufacturer and model and many solutions and some worked for some people. None worked for me.
I have a HP Laserjet 2100M, which is old, but is listed as compatible with SL. I cannot part with it, as it is a true laser printer, not a monochrome, which means when I need to colour separate say a blue and red document, it prints as solid, not grayscale. It has printed 44,820 pages for me over the years, with only laser cartridge replacement as an expense. As well, I cannot find anything but monochrome for a replacement.
It worked on my old iMac G5 running Leopard, however, when I got my new iMac running Snow Leopard, I got "Printer Offline" message and it would not go online and while some solution ideas got it to print, sometimes, it was only good for one or two jobs and then would stop again, or it would say printing and nothing would print.
Here is what worked for me:
I disconnected my printer's usb and power supply, reset printer system.
Went to Macintosh HD-Library-printers-PPDs-contents-resources and deleted all of the HP Drivers.
I got my HP 2100 series driver from my old iMac and put that back in the resources folder and emptied trash.
I shut down my computer.
Replugged in power to printer.
Started up computer.
After fully launched, I connected my USB cable for the printer. I went to add printer and it came up right away and said new software update was available for my printer AND I SAID NO to updating. In selected my driver, and...
My printer and I have reached a compromise!
It still says offline, however, everything is printing anyway... this I can live with.
I also found this link, which I will only try if I encounter any other disruptions
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&task Id=110&prodSeriesId=385457&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=385457&objectID=c018677 22
At some point I printed a Self Test/Configuration page which has I/O Port Status as
USB STATUS - not ready
and Appletalk Status - Ready
which is probably a good clue, however, I have been printing successfully for 15 hours and my hair is starting to grow back.

The HP document appears to solve your issue. When your hair starts falling out again, use it.

QT7 installing(what worked for me)

There have been numerous post's about having problems installing QT7. I had the same problem and got the same errors that other's are posting. There doesn't seem to be a accurate solution to this problem of wether it is the Microsoft OS or the Apple installer. So I will post what worked for me in finally getting QT7 standalone to install.
I downloaded SP2 for XP pro to get Windows Installer 3.1, I previously had version 2.0
I then removed QT from the computer using the add/remove control panel. And then went to the Folder Options control panel and selected, show hidden files and folders. Then went to Start>search all files and folders, QuickTime, and removed all that was left behind.
I then went into the registry, Start>run>type in regedit>OK
In the registry, I first went to HKEYLOCALMACHINE+SOFTWARE and deleted Apple Computer, Inc. And then hit the F3 key on the keyboard to get the next QT registry key to appear delete it and hit the F3 again for the next one to appear, and keep repeating this until they are all removed.
I then went to each registry listing-HKEYCLASSESROOT, HKEYCURRENTUSER, HKEY_USERS, HKEYCURRENTCONFIG
And would click on one to highlight and then go to the Edit menu, click find, type in QuickTime, hit the enter key on the keyboard. Delete the QT registry entry, and hit the F3 keyboard key for the next one to appear. I went thru this procedure until everything QT was removed from the computer.
Note: the registry is very risky to go into deleting keys. It would be wise to go to the microsoft website to get further info before attempting anything in it!
This worked for me. QT7 standalone then installed. I also downloaded Windows Installer Clean up Utility. Ran it and found QT 7.02 in there and removed it.
goodluck

I don't know why this is not installing on some computers and not others. It took me 2 or 3 days to get it to.
The only things I did was update to SP2 to get Windows Installer 3.1 Remove everything QT from the computer as I previously mentioned.
In Install Shield I downloaded driver 7. I had read a article about having the same number driver in Install Shield as the first number of the version of the progarm you are trying to install. In this case it is 7.0.2, so I downloaded 7. I did not bookmark the link to this. So I don't know now where it is on the web. But after doing this it still did not install.
It didn't install to after I removed QT from the computer and ran Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. And removed QT which was in there. Here is the link to download the installer cleanup utility.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301
Also this link my be of interest.
http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108393
I don't know what it was exactly that got it to install. But this is all I did. If you have any other questions or compare what I have on this computer your welcome to ask.
I realize it is fustrating and wish I could have been of more help.

IPhone-Outlook 2007 Calendar Sync (What worked for me)

Hi;
Today after 3 weeks of day after day trial my iPhone-Outlook 2007 Calenar synch problems seems to be fully fixed. Once again this is what worked for me - I am sharing it and hope that can help you as well:
Overview
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I now fully believe that the root cause of the issue starts from a corrupted appoinment entry in your local calendar file. This appointment entry in turn breaks your outlook sync file known as the .OST file. I will tell you how to fix this later. This file is what iTune uses to synch the iPHONE calendar with your Outlook 2007 (same should work for outlook 2003).
In short when the outlooksync.DLL file called by iTUNE, request to sync with outlook - it is the outlook that cannot resolve a corrupt .OST file and all goes to **** after that.
I say this as "This is up to you find this bad calendar entry, get rid of it, get rid of the .OST file, and finally tell Outlook to do a repair job on your outlook installation. I will tell you all how to do this as well.
Steps to fix this issue:
===========================================
1- Go to your outlook calendar and delete any old appointment that still is in there. I got rid of anything older that 2 weeks. To do this just go to your calendar in outlook ... swith to a List view ... sort based on date and highlight anything older than that date and delete. This took me about 30-45 miutes of work... so be paitent with this step. Also, get rid of any holiday notification BS that Outlook puts in your calendar ... you can do this later.
2- Go to outlook-tools-trust center-click on Add-In and then at the bottom of the screen click on Go and validate that your two outlook sync dlls are marked and enabled.
3- Shut down outook and go to the following directory.
C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local Settings\
Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
and rename your .OST file ... (there should be only one out there).
3- Go to your control panel and do start/stop applications. Select Outlook and click on change ... outlook will come up with a few options. Select "Repair" this should force outlook to replace the .OST file which you just renamed.
4- Now starts your outlook and let it do its initial sync. Make sure iTune is off at this point. After the Outlooks initialization is done ... now comes the moment of truth...
5- Start iTune (I recommend that you select manual sync) and sycn with your calendar.
At this point I learned that all my calendar items have come in ....
Good luck and let me know if this works with you. Please Please remember the first step ... getting rid of your old appointments is the most important step ... don't rush it ... get rid of anything that you don't need.
Cheers;
Darab.

You can try resetting sync history by clicking on edit at the top of itunes and choosing preferences. Then click on the iphone icon at the right top of the window that opens. There is a button at the bottom of the window to reset sync history.
Also, you can try creating a new login on the computer.
Open outlook and put in a few trial events.
Then sync the iphone to this outlook calendar replacing all calendar data on the iphone.
This is to see if you end up with dots on every day.
If you do not end up with dots on every day, then you might want to take a look at any reoccurring events in the other outlook calendar.
Hope this helps.

THIS IS WHAT WORKED FOR ME

For hours I tried clicking back and forth from something else in iTunes back to the "iPhone" hoping to reconnect; that didn't work it! After five hours of clicking back and forth (as other users suggested) I decided to browse the iTunes store and after I looked at everything "AS SOON" as I clicked "iPhone" it began to restore the back-up. So I guess Apple wants to see if you are interested in spending all your money with their enticing iPhone enhancement apps that should have came with the original iPhones in the first place before they let you finish your upgrade. Hope this works.
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This is what worked for me:
I called 1-877-419-4500. I got a guy named Don.
I asked him to make sure the 'business' thing wasn't on my account. It wasn't.
We reset the phone. (Hold home button and sleep/wake button) nothing.
He said he was going to get a hold of someone in the 'technical activation dept'. He did.
They found a 'glitch' on my account. Seems the activation was placed on hold. they took that off.
turned off my phone, plugged it into usb cable, itunes got it, viola! activated.
call that number. talk directly to a human, no wait, no menus.

My Apple TV and IPad drop after x mintues from "Home Sharing". To restart it, I need to close iTunes on my Windows 7 PC, open it , then I can listen again X minutes (15-90 minutes) to my music via "Home Sharing". Any idea why? What worked for you?

My Apple TV and IPad drop after x mintues from "Home Sharing". To restart it, I need to close iTunes on my Windows 7 PC, open it , then I can listen again X minutes (15-90 minutes) to my music via "Home Sharing". Any idea why? What worked for you?

I believe if you updated your Apple TV, you need iTunes 11 to make it work.

This is what worked for me, Read!!!! Now I am activated

So like many of you I was stuck waiting for 24 hours. To make this short, do this. If you have been emailed and Activation ID call...877-800-3701. Ask them to cancel the current attempt to activate. Once you do, then connect and iTunes will prompt you to activate as if nothing ever happened. Once I did I was done in five minutes. My hunch is that "We", that are waiting for countless hours, we are stuck in some sort of loop. Break it and good luck.
Vlonjati

This is what worked for me:
I called 1-877-419-4500. I got a guy named Don.
I asked him to make sure the 'business' thing wasn't on my account. It wasn't.
We reset the phone. (Hold home button and sleep/wake button) nothing.
He said he was going to get a hold of someone in the 'technical activation dept'. He did.
They found a 'glitch' on my account. Seems the activation was placed on hold. they took that off.
turned off my phone, plugged it into usb cable, itunes got it, viola! activated.
call that number. talk directly to a human, no wait, no menus.

Express not showing up..What worked for me...

After my 1st generation Express died last week, I got the new 802.11n-enabled unit. I was able to use Airport Utility to set the device up initially, but after rebooting the unit, it disappeared from my network, a WPA protected WDS-type with one Extreme b/g unit acting as the main unit, never to reappear. Numerous resets appeared to be fruitless, even the hardware reset where you hold the reset button down as you plug in the unit did not work.
After reading a bunch of posts on here, I finally got my unit to work. Here's what I did.
First, I did a "hard"-reset on the Express by holding down the reset button till the light started to flash amber, then releasing it. After about 30 seconds of solid amber, the express showed up in Airport utility. I copied its Airport ID number shown. Next I got the same information for the Extreme base station, which by the way, always showed up in AU.
I opened up the config window for the Extreme base station, by double clicking on its icon in Airport Utility. I then verified that it was set to be part of a WDS, confirmed passwords, etc and then manually added the Express's Airport ID # in the box for remotes. Clicked the update button and let it do its thing...
Now here's the trick... Power down your airport card, and plug the Express into your computer with an ethernet cable. At this time the Express is probably blinking amber slowly. Wait a few seconds, and then look for the Express in Airport Utility, (you may have to restart Utility, or at least hit the rescan button). My Express was now available for configuration. I followed the procedure as outlined above for the Extreme base station, although this time when prompted I entered in the Airport ID# for the Extreme base station, and set the Express to act as a remote in the WDS window. Enter security options and passwords to match the network you have entered, and hit the update button.
After a seemingly long restart, the Express showed up in the Utility, with a green light no less! I disconnected the ethernet cable, turned on my wireless card, selected the network and voila! it works. Checking AU showed both units as expected, with each one now fully updatable from their respective configuration windows.
So in summary, it appears that the newer Express units that are running 7.3.1 firmware, or those that have been updated to this firmware, have a bug that doesn't allow wireless configuration from an initial state. The 1st configuration needs a direct ethernet connection to "take". In addition, it seems Apple's instructions on doing a hardware reset (the one that resets unit to factory defaults by plugging in the unit while holding the reset button) does not work with the n-enabled boxes. This method did work for the b/g units however. There is a "soft"-reset (hold the reset button in for a second or two which pretty much is the same as un-plugging and re-plugging the unit) and the "hard"-reset, which I outlined above.
I apologize if this is a long winded post, but I hope that I may have been able to help some people out who appear to have been having the same problem that I had.
Good luck!!

Yes, the same thing has happened to me. My internet connection was working fine, but I couldn't see my Airport Express in the Admin Utility nor could I see my remote AirTunes speakers in iTunes. After a restart, everything came back to normal. So if anyone else is facing something similar, try that before panicking.
iMac G5, iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

[SOLVED] Kernel bug fix, works for me!

Having been hit by the kernel bug that interferes with internet access & having to downgrade the kernel to escape the bug. I am happy to say that after reading a bug report on the subject here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11721
Courtesy of a link posted by Misfit138, I found deep down in the report dialogue that the following command as root, worked for the poster of the bug:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps
So I did a yaourt -Syu & found amongst other packages a minor kernel update, which did not solve my internet problems, but after su, & then entering the above command in the Terminal my internet works as it should!
If this solution works for you, then add the following to your /etc/sysctl.conf:
#Temporary workaround for tcp issue with 2.6.27
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0
Thanks again Misfit138
I hope this solution works for all of the other bug bitten members of the Arch (& Linux) community!
Last edited by handy (2008-10-21 05:19:03)

THANX !!! Works like normal again
I saw that bug report too, just didnt know how to try it out, thanx so much for the helpful explanation.
Regards,
rabid0
Last edited by RabidWolf (2008-10-21 20:26:23)

[SOLVED]Xorg won't work for my non root user

I installed Arch Linux 2009.08 x86_64 Core inside Sun VirtualBox 3.0.8 and got up to the part of the Beginners' Guide that tells me to test X and it can never work for my non root user. Funny thing is, I tried running it as root and it worked even though my root user has no ~/.xinitrc file. Running startx or xinitrc as my non root user I get a small (maybe 400x600) white terminal but can't use my mouse or keyboard.
After looking over the guide and doing a step I forgot and adding in all of the extra stuff the guide says might help I can use my mouse and keyboard in my non root users' small white terminal but X still won't start properly with xterm even though I put 'exec exterm' in my non root users' ~/.xinitrc file. Please help. Thanks for any help guys.
Last edited by keiichi (2009-10-23 12:34:50)

schuay wrote:
keiichi wrote:After looking over the guide and doing a step I forgot and adding in all of the extra stuff the guide says might help I can use my mouse and keyboard in my non root users' small white terminal....
I don't get it .. this sounds like xterm is starting up successfully (xterm is a small white terminal). Easiest way to get X up and running (imo) is
sudo pacman -S gnome gdm xorg xf86-input-evdev
sudo /etc/rc.d/hal start
sudo /etc/rc.d/gdm start
I didn't know that's what xterm was, thanks for telling me. Noob mistake.

The fix for loading web pages-What works for me.

Ever since I went to Tiger I have had problems with Safari and any other browser while at work on my dsl connection. I knew it was not the connection because my G4 with 9.2.2 would work. At home on cable Tiger worked fine. What I found out is that the router/server combination my ip used were Sisco and for some reason Tiger does not work well with them. I asked a programmer familiar with linux to help me and he gave me some code to type into terminal and guess what it works great!... almost! Every time I start Safari I have to enter the code and all is fine. Here is the code
sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0
See if it works for you and let me know. You will find terminal in Applications/Utilities just copy the code and paste if you want. I had problems before just getting web sites like ups.com to load or even google search pages to load.

Thanks for the tip... I don't have the problem, but others must!

AE n - What worked for me

I am an experienced AE user and owner of four of the 1st gen "g" type which I use with an AX "n" base station to stream music wirelessly around my house. I have previously gone through the setup procedure a dozen or more times and if you want to add an AE to an existing wireless network, the easiest way is to hook it up to your LAN by ethernet and configure it that way. I decided to try a new AE "n" to see if I could improve reception distance and performance and have been suffering the same struggles that others have posted here. After hours of experimentation, everything seems to be working. I tried so many different things it's hard to tell exactly what worked, but here is what I think did the trick.
1. Disconnect all wireless clients from the base station.
2. Change the network security of the base station to WPA/WPA2 and restart.
3. Configure the AE "n" first, connecting by ethernet. You may have to do a reset using a paperclip. Configure it using WPA/WPA2, making sure it is acting as a bridge and using DHCP to acquire an IP address. Restart, leaving it connected by ethernet. Check configuration and restart again, disconnecting the cable. IT WORKS !!!
4. Reconfigure the other wireless devices the same way: connect by ethernet; plug in; reset with paperclip; configure using WPA/WPA2, bridge, DHCP; restart with ethernet; restart again unplugged.
So far all five AEs have been working fine for 24 hours.

it worked until the next time I synced the iPod, and then back to the freeze up. Next thing I tried was this Microsoft help page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
which advises on several things, all of which seem helpful, but the thing still freezes up. I can sync the iPod, then the system freezes and I have to reboot. So, I now believe Apple will have to issue a patch for these bugs when using the new 5G iPods with WinXP.
c.
iPod Video, 60GB Windows XP

What works for you?

ok so i hear alot of people use brasso to get rid of scratches and others say it doesnt. i talked to people at best buy and they said it wouldent but then again.....it's best buy. that being said. what has worked for you or worked best? cus my screen is scratched and when i watch videos i can just barely see where they are and it bugs me . thank you.

a pole? i believe i was asking what works to get rid of scratches lol i wasent asking what everyones fave was i was asking what works so i dont putt brasso on my ipod not knowing what it will do and it turns the screen into a murky lake.

THE ANSWER: iChat fails to start, Error -7 & -8 etc - what worked for me!

Like many of you, I have been struggling to get iChat to work reliably. I initiate a chat, my daughter responds, it tells me the iChat is connecting, but then the dreaded error message appears. I tried all the tips given here, checked that I had opened the appropriate ports in my Router's firewall, set the QT streaming speed, ploughed through Ralph's website, all to little avail, except for the really useful find of the test "buddies" appleu3test01/02/03 (AIM). What was frustrating was that it would sometimes work, but when it wasn't working, it wouldn't work at all (ie multiple tries all failed). I eventually found a post by an unsung hero (for me!) called Steven C Ross, posted 11th Nov, suggesting I turn off Internet Sharing. Bingo! iChat works again!! I usually have sharing on to allow my Powerbook to connect wirelessly; but not always, hence the frustration that iChat sometimes worked ok for an unknown reason!!
I think this tip of Steven's deserves a lot more publicity, hence this post.
Thanks, Steven.
NB I am using Leopard on a new Intel iMac; don't know whether it applies to 10.4 but worth a try!

This process worked for me on a new Mac Pro (early 2014) to get Windows 8.1 (not 8.0) installed, although I did make one slight change to the process: instead of following your advice at the point: "Restart and follow instructions as before", I instead restarted and used the windows partitioner dialog to 1) delete the bootcamp partition, and 2) create a new partition that was slightly smaller than the remaining available space (by about 1GB). The installer said it might need to create an additional small partition (which it did). I continued with the rest of the install process as you describe above. (Yes, it did take a long time to get past the "almost ready" part.)
Thank you very much for your post!

[SOLVED] 56k, pppd (what worked for me w/ HOWTOs via links).

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