ChrisM Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 I'm sure I've read somewhere on this BB but can't find anything through a search. A colleague is going to try Mandrake 10.1CE his home system uses a speedtouch330 - I've pointed him in the right direction in this BB for installing. However, he uses AOl - now I've read somewhere that he'll face problems. Is it just to access the AOL site he'll have problems with? Surely he should still be able to get a connection and surf - after all, it's the modem collecting the signal and sending it to his box. Can anyone shed any light on this - don't need stacks of detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Apparently the people over at Linspire have created software to allow Linux users to connect to AOL. It appears to be pre-built, just extract and run. You can get it here: http://www.linspire.com/dialersource Although it may be possible to use a regular ppp dialer to connect, but I'm not positive of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted November 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Thanks for tyme - I'll pass this on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimx Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 (edited) i tried installing los-aol-0.0.2-orig ( ./losaol ) and it says i'm missing python2.3. i only have version 2.4. so what do i do?? when i read the losaol using a text viewer i get this: #!/bin/sh cd /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/los-aol;python2.3 losaol cd - and like i said i don't have python2.3, only 2.4. Edited June 24, 2007 by grimx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 when i read the losaol using a text viewer i get this:#!/bin/sh cd /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/los-aol;python2.3 losaol cd - I can't promise you that this will work, but you could try editing the script for python2.4 and see if that works? #!/bin/sh cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/los-aol;python2.4 losaol cd - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimx Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 opening losaol using a text viewer, and reaplacing 2.3 with 2.4 and adding the "losaol folder in the following dir, did not work. #!/bin/sh cd /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/los-aol;python2.3 losaol cd - "2.4"<<-------------------------->>"2.4" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 (edited) Since your last post was only 2 minutes after mine, I'm not sure you've tried the modification? It doesn't matter, it wouldn't work for you anyway. :P I've never used AOL, but in theory this should work... I've d/l the file and took a peek inside. It's GPL code that was written in 2004 with python 2.3. You could open the losaol python script in the los-aol directory and change the first line to #!/usr/bin/python2.4 -O and then open all binary files with a hex editor and change 2.3 to 2.4 You must still make the change to the shell script listed in my other post. You have to move the entire los-aol directory to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages and make sure all permissions are for the user. It's not as hard as it sounds. Edited June 24, 2007 by Greg2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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