Hi Ron,
Bard & Spectral Malevolence wrote:
>
> I have two questions:
> 1)CDRom: I am having difficulty accessing my CD ROM. It should have
> been installed automatically, since I installed the Redhat software from
>
> there. My FSTAB file is configured correctly and I have the drive
> mounted on /mnt/cdrom. The problem, when I ls on that directory, I get
> nothing. Any ideas?
>
Are you sure the CD-ROM is mounted? Try "umount /mnt/cdrom". It should
not complain with "/mnt/cdrom is not mounted". Then: how do you mount a
backpack CD-ROM? Don't you need any special driver?
> 2)modem: I created a softlink between /dev/modem and /dev/cua1 (yet,
> it's going the right way) But when I access minicom and type AT, I get
> no response. I am imagining I have to configure the PCMCIA slot to act
> as cua1, but I have no clue how to do that.
Better do it the other way round: link /dev/modem to whichever /dev/cua?
the pcmcia package configures your card. Doing "cat /var/run/stab" you
will see something like
Socket 0: Psion Gold Card Global V.34+Fax
0 serial serial_cs 0 ttyS2 4 66
Socket 1: empty
>From this you can infer which ttyS? has been assigned to your card. In
the above example it is ttyS2. You should set the link to be to
/dev/cua?, where ? ist the same number as in ttyS?. So, for the above
example, /dev/modem should be a symbolic link to /dev/cua2:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 2 11:01 /dev/modem ->
/dev/cua2
>
> I find it ironic that I now make a living (and a good one) doing the very
> thing I used to do INSTEAD of my school work.
> -Nancy Garcia-Vidal
During the school years, I wanted to do ONLY mathematics. In fact, I
kept on solving math exercises very demonstratively during, say, old
greek, or history courses. They wouldn't let me to. I had to waste time
learning all the other stuff I have by now forgotten. But, having
studied mathematics and devoted so much energy to it did not save me
from the humiliating fate of having to earn my living (albeit a good
one) doing things that - as you very pointedly mention - do not need any
schoolwork to be learned...
Regards
Chris
