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curious

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Posted: Nov. 12 2003,01:13

Ok, got DSL installed on hardrive of old 75mhz pentium. It connected and surfed and I was happy. Neat finding links now is a gui browser. Always liked links as a text browser. Unfortunately my isp started going goofy again three weeks after it flaked out before. I signed up with new isp. No problem connecting and surfing with DUN connection (no isp software) on old win95 laptop. However after I entered new data into wvdial configuration with DSL, it would dial the number, connect and then disconnect maybe 10 seconds later. There was a paragraph error message, but the wvdial box disappeared almost immediately so I couldnt read it. And yes I went over data several times. Ok, on a lark I booted Knoppix cd on 75mhz pentium (used a boot floppy) and using cheat code to for fluxbox window manager I got it to work. Slow, but got kppp to load and connect and once I got Konqueror loaded it surfs. I am using it now. Actually Konqueror doesnt do too bad even on such an old machine. I found out on another computer that Konqueror is less resource heavy than Mozilla so will surf better on low memory machine.

So does anybody have any ideas on why wvdial wont stay connected to my new isp when win95-DUN and KPPP can?

curious

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Posted: Nov. 12 2003,11:55

Well thanks for all help :;):

but I kept playing with the settings and finally got wvdialer to connect and stay connected.

By way I downloaded Firebird. Its slow on this machine under DSL. I have to say when I got this old machine to boot Knoppix cd, it may have been super slow to load software, but once loaded Konqueror surfed faster on Knoppix than Firebird does on DSL. Somebody here mentioned Opera surfs well on DSL. May try that or just stick to using links.

As a comparison, if anybody is interested, I have a very early version of win95 (didnt come with any version of IE and only needs about 45mb disk space to install it) on old laptop comparible to this 75mhz machine. K-meleon (another mini browser for windows based on mozilla) on that win95 is way faster than Firebird on DSL. Heck I got free Netscape cd and have Netscrape 7.0 installed on laptop also. It loads slow, but is almost as fast as K-meleon to surf with. Links on DSL is comparible.

Oh, whatever happened to Galeon. When I was using Mandrake8.x on a pII computer, it was fastest linux browser. It was Gnome related so suppose it has bunch Gnome dependencies.

davide

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Posted: Nov. 12 2003,12:28

hum, your report is very interesting and usefull.
did you try dillo on DSL? how did it work? I mean, that browser is very light and fast.
how much ram do you have on your P75Mhz pc? has it got a double boot? if, so, how does winblows behave compared to dsl? are you enabling swap partition when you surf the net?

and finally: what were the changes you had to make on config file to get your dial up working? (just to let everybody know in case someone else has got this problem)

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cbagger01

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Posted: Nov. 12 2003,19:34

I have yet to use Opera on DSL (I haven't done a hard disk install yet), but I have used Opera on the following system:

60Mhz Pentium
40MB RAM
Peanut Linux OS, stripped down to save memory and CPU

My experience was as follows:
Dillo, graphical Links and Mozilla (original Mozilla, NOT the Mozilla Firebird) ran unacceptably slow on my system.

Opera, even though it is a full-featured browser that is slow to load up, runs suprisingly well once it is up and running.

I have not compared it head-to-head with Firebird yet, but it beats the pants off of Dillo, Links and Mozilla when used on an old computer system.

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Posted: Nov. 12 2003,21:30

Please post a copy of your wvdial.conf file. I have not been able to get wvdial to work on dsl, using pppconfig and pon/poff instead. I use opera 5,6,7 with mixed success. 5 is light and fast but buggy, 7.22 is heavy and slower but includes an e-mail client and(finally) history. 6.12 seems to be nice compromise for older hardware. Galeon needs Mozilla installed as it uses its' gecko rendering engine. It may also require gnome-libs and libxml2. Dillo is great for viewing local pages btu lacks functionality still for serious browsing. There is another alternative called BrowseX. It is a single binary file so you just unzip and drop it anywhere in your path. It does a better job of rendering than Dillo, but isn't very configurable. Again, Please post your wvdial.conf, I can't seem to find the right syntax.

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