Suggestion one: use the Subject: line when you send e-mail. It's courteous to do so, and sometimes even helpful. Suggestion two: for the NIC, you need to install the appropriate module, then either have it probe for the card or instruct it as to where the card is. All the details are NIC specific, so either look up your card in the Ethernet HowTo or tell us its make, model, IRQ, and IO port, so someone here can give you some meaningful advice. Suggestion three: for the printer, check in the boot messages (use "dmesg" or check your log file, probably /var/log/messages) to see if the kernel is finding your parallel port. If not, you need to add the "lp" module. If it is, see if it is located at lp0 or lp1 (distributions vary on this, and I don't know Caldera well enough to know this). If it is there, see if you can simply dump a text file to it with a command like "cat somefile >/dev/lp0" (or lp1, as appropriate). Don't worry if the file prints *well*; you want to see if you get *any* response from the printer. If you do, consult the man pages for lpd and printcap to see how to set up the line-printer daemon system to find your printer. If this doesn't all work, let us know what you did and how it failed (including *exect* error messages, not approximate wordings), and maybe someone here will be able to spot the problem. Suggestion four: don't bother tellng us you can't install "etc". No one here can help you with such a vague request for help. If there are other things you can't install, do tell us about them, but be specific - including telling us what you tried and what the results were, not just that you failed. Suggestion five: After all of this, I do want to encourage you to write again, but this time with questions specific enough that they can be answered, by me or by someone who knows more about the specific areas you need help in. You will need to allow for the fact that there isn't (as far as I've seen) much Caldera-specific expertise on this list - most of us seem to use Red Hat or Slackware. So you'll get general Linux advice mostly, not help specific to the special configuration tools that Caldera has. Oh yes, HowTos - they are probably on your CD somewhere, probably installed on your system somewhere (look in /usr/doc), and definitely available at URL http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ (the Web versions often are more current than the CD ones). At 09:15 PM 6/9/99 -0400, Chris White wrote: >I have just installed Caldera Open Linux2.2, and I have like zero >experience on a linux box (i know i know) and I have been trying to feel my >way around but thus far I've had no luck installing my printer, nic, etc. i >go through the COAS and enter the pertinent information and for some reason >it doesn't work. i checked the cmos to ensure that my ports were enabled >but am having difficulty deciding where to go from there and the book that >came with the software wasn't much help. Any suggestions would be greatly >appreciated. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo 762 Garland Drive Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 650.328.4219 voice [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
