if you need to kill your net connection, do a "ps aux" and find pppd -xxxx (its gonna have some options behind it, but there is only one starting with pppd) and kill xxx where xxx is the pid of pppd... the problem with getting your user to dial up is probably bc he isnt in group ppp. also what might work is giving that user permission to use pppd . if you want, send me a copy of your fstab so i can check it for you... to mount devices by user, i think they ahve to be part of the mount group... what works is to put your user in most of teh groups, especially wheel... as far as your tape drive goes, i have no idea, never worked with one of those. if you need someone to check it out for you, im always free after 5pm and im in the baton rouge area... i dont charge
-mat On Wed, 15 May 2002 23:32:24 -0500 Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mat, > > Will checkout the fstab entries. Did ls on the vfat root directories to > make sure > I could see what was there. Edited fstab by guess in pico. Wanted the > floppy drives and CD to be mountable by users, of which there is really only > one. > > On boot, one of the last messages is Can't locate block-major-30 > Wonder what this means. > > However I've made a few mistakes setting up modem connection. > > Here are a couple of problems: > > hostname comes up the ISP server name, msy.bellsouth. Can change it > to what I want, but then when I bring up Netscape it has a host problem. > > Haven't figured out how to tell modem to hang up when I'm finished on the > net. > > Have been getting frequent lockups starting KDE as ordinary user. Had > a very few with Gnome as root. Suspect I need to set something to let > ordinary user dial ISP; probably thinks the modem belongs to root. > > Another project is to get my DittoMax parallel port tape drive working, > since my printer won't work in Linux for the time being. Insmod doesn't > find bpck-fdc.o which is needed. Have surfed a bit without finding where > to download it. Wonder if it is on one of the install CDs? > > Plan to download the new Opera 6 for Linux. > > Thanks for the ideas. > > Choppy > > > > At 11:36 PM 5/15/02 -0500, you wrote: > >there you go (my fstab right below, which has the settings for a fat32 > >partition on my first hdd that works immaculately), just go ahead and vi > >/etc/fstab and copy over whatever you think you need... its not hard. if > >you want to learn linux as opposed to just using it because you think bill > >gates might have supported hitler if the timeline would fit right, then i > >would suggest like all hell that you stay away from using things like > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
