slackware 8.0 and ppp

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Randy -

The tar program knows how to uncompress bz2 files. It will automatically
call on the bzip2 program if you use the letter 'y' in place of the 'z'
when you use the tar program, like so:

tar xyvf archive.tar.bz2

HTH -
Chuck


On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, randy turner wrote:

>
>
> hi,
> how do i uncompress a bz2 file?
> thanks in advance
> randy
>
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
>
> > randy, try
> > using alsa-driver-0.9.0beta7
> > that's the version I'm using now.
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 rturner2 at texasisp.com
> > wrote:
> >
> > > hi adam,
> > > i got that working fine,
> > > i would like to ask you and the group
> > > i tried to compile the alsa drivers 0.5.2
> > > with slackware 8.0,
> > > i am getting an error with the sound.o module,
> > > i have installed soundcore,
> > > i compiled the kernal with sound
> > > but still get errors compiling the alsa-driver.
> > > thanks in advance
> > > randy
> > >
> > > On 2001-11-28 speakup at braille.uwo.ca said:
> > >  sp>It depends.  If you use the Speakup boot disk that comes with
> > >  sp>Slackware 8.0, and install its kernel, PPP probably won't work out
> > >  sp>of the box.  This is because whoever compiled it compiled it for
> > >  sp>SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) when all the modules are for
> > >  sp>single-processor machines. This causes a lot of trouble.  There are
> > >  sp>a number of solutions.
> > >  sp>1: Build a new kernel.  The advantage here is you can clean out the
> > >  sp>default modules and install just the ones you need.  You can also
> > >  sp>get rid of other junk and possibly add support for that odd card or
> > >  sp>two. 2: replace the modules with those for 2.2.19 kernels with SMP
> > >  sp>support. They are provided on the Contrib CD.  You would copy the
> > >  sp>modules from the CD over the existing ones for 2.2.19.  The
> > >  sp>advantage of this method is you don't have to rebuild a kernel or
> > >  sp>replace it.
> > >  sp>3: get the modified Speakup boot disk from ftp.linux-speakup.org.
> > >  sp>You would then copy its vmlinuz over your existing one and if you
> > >  sp>use Lilo, rerun it by simply typing "lilo."  The advantage of this
> > >  sp>is that you don't have to replace a whole bunch of files.  I
> > >  sp>suspect that they will have this little issue fixed in the next
> > >  sp>Slackware release.
> > >  sp>I chose initially to install the SMP modules, then I downloaded the
> > >  sp>latest kernel source once I was online and rebuilt.  I think
> > >  sp>rebuilding is a good thing in the long run as you can really cut
> > >  sp>your boot time since the kernel isn't looking for non-existent
> > >  sp>hardware plus, it makes your existing hardware work more reliably.
> > >  sp>Hope this information helps.
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