On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, c rogers wrote about, Re: seibweN....seibweN:
> Hey Richard,
> thanks for the swift reply, I had the boot disks, I did make them, in fact I
> made three sets in case there were bad copies, I got in and have the boot
> problem conquored, it was a misconfiguration of the LILO in the MBR due to a
> previous installation of the R.H. 5.2 2.0.38, removal and installation of
> That Turbo Linux, and reinstallation of R.H. 5.2 2.0.38. Now in an attempt
> to configure the sound card, I am once again up that creek, sans paddle.
> Running on a Cyrix M II 333 MMX processor ATI 3D Rage II c AGP graphics
> card, and Crystal CS 423X Sound chip MDU IRQ. I try auto probe and it fails
> to configure the card. Trying the manual set up, it asks for the DIP switch
> settings. I suppose this means that I must take the computer apart and see
> what these settings are. Is that what I must do in order to configure the
> card ?
Well i dont have any experiance with that type of sound card however i
think having to take it out of the box is going a little to far at this
stage.
Quite possably what you need is PnP tools, i suggest you read some of the
documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound, i did
grep 432 *
in that directory and it returns a lot of text, i dont mean to be rude by
saying read the docs but i think in this situation it would be best.
Possably one of the others will have more direct advice, however at a quick
glance i think you will be able to see what to do by read the small files
in that directory.
> Do you think that I am also going to have to take my printer apart
> when I come to that part of it ? My modem is a 3 COM U.S. Robotics 56K PNP
> fax modem. Do you think that I will have to do some arcane things to it,
> like change the jumpers to get it to work ?
If you know on which ira all your hardware resides you are more than half
way to getting it all working.
As to the modem, i seem to recall a lot of mails about that here, so i
suggest you take a look at the archives.
For more information check out the archives at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
Use the search engine there to find a "Keyword"
Another good place for info;
http://www.linuxtopia.com
> Thankx for the guidance, I was able to get an acceptable GUI mess
> running at one time from the directions on this list, still trying to
> print and get online. CR
Once again other may contribute to the modem problem, i do not have much
experiance in modems and ppp, i have a cable modem using DHCP.
>
> >
> >---------------------- Forwarded by Thomas C. Rogers/DSC on 12/19/99 07:03
> AM
> >---------------------------
> >
> >
> >Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/19/99 05:40:03 AM
> >
> >Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >To: Thomas C. Rogers/DSC
> >cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Subject: Re: seibweN....seibweN
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Re:
> >seibweN....seibweN:
> >> Hey All,
> >>
> >> This is no joke, perhaps I am revealing my ignorance, but I bet I am not
> the
> >> only one who has this question.... so here goes:
> >> If Harry Newbie can't get his shiny new Linux box to even boot up, how is
> he
> >> going to capture a script and transfer it to an E mail to forward to this
> list
> >?
> >> No doubt it is done, but I for one am at a loss as to the method... let
> the
> >> games begin....
> >
> >If the box wont start properly, then the cahnces are the mouse is not yet
> >available, meaning you cant cut and paste, so your up the creak without a
> >paddle.
> >
> >However a few tips.
> >
> >The box wont boot.!
> >
> >If lilo is presant and shows the LILO prompt, you can always try;
> >
> >linux 1
> >Where linux is the image it could be called anything, the 1 is boot into
> >level 1 (admin mode) if you like.
> >
> >If that fails;
> >
> >Then use the diskettes that you made during the install, you did make them
> >didnt you, like the text said make a boot disk yes or no.
> >
> >Different distro's have different methods, so i wont go into howto do it.
> >
> >When and if your in, you can then look around the system logs, /var/log
> >files are messages, syslog, debug, and others, once again different
> >distro's have different files, most are in /var/log.
> >
> >type dmesg that might reveal some information on drivers that cant be found
> >and will show what drivers were found.
> >
> >
> >If you have a spesific question then ask it, dont talk in riddels.
> >Please include you type of install, distro, machine, and a description of
> >the problem, what you did to get into that situation, etc etc.
> >
> >--
> >Regards Richard
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> >Merry Xmas.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Regards Richard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
Merry Xmas.
