Arnie --
It's a bit hard knowing where to begin. Generally speaking, when asking for
help, try to describe in detail what you did, and quote (don't summarize,
paraphrase, or tell us "something like ...") the actual input lines and
error messages involved. You can try telling us you followed the
instructions in some book ... but you're not likely to get much help then
unless one of us has read the same book [I don't spend my time or money on
introductory Linux books, an Idoubt any of the regulars here do either] ...
the rest of us still won't know what you actually tried.
Here are some specifics ...
1. "RH6.x CD"? There are important differences between 6.0 and 6.1. You need
to know (and tell us) which you are using.
2. To find an app named "appname", your choices are
"which appname" -- will find it if it is in your PATH
"locate appname" -- will find it if you are running the
locate database
"find / -name appname" -- will find it if is anywhere on
the system
Consult the man pages for which, locate, and find for the details.
Adding things to menus is somewhat distribution, version, and X window
manager specific. I don't use either RH or Enlightenment so will need to
leave those parts of your questions to someone else.
3. Printers ... I set mine up manually, by editing the /etc/printcap file to
provide the needed information to the printer daemon lpd. The man page for
printcap is pretty good; also see the ones for lpd and lpr. Depending on
your printer, you may need to consult the database at
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
fotr the setup details. (You probably will for an HP 550C, which I think is
a ppa printer, consequently hard to set up in Linux.)
4. Modems ... I doubt linuxconf found it on COM2, since COM# designators are
part of DOS/Windows, not Linux. The equivalents are:
COM1 = /dev/ttyS0
COM2 = /dev/ttyS1
COM3 = /dev/ttyS2
COM4 = /dev/ttyS3
The easiest way to use a modem with minicom is to create a symlink from the
actual modem device to /dev/modem. For example, if your modem were on S1,
you would enter
ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem
minicom will default to using /dev/modem when it starts.
Beyond that ... what do you mean "the keyboard is locked out"? Nothing
worked? Not ^C? Not AT<RETURN>? What did you try? Obviously not literally
nothing, since at least CTRL-ALT-DEL worked. When you tried it, what was
/dev/modem symlinked to ("ls -l /dev/modem")?
It sounds like you set up a ppp connection but not a minicom configuration.
Trying minicom before ppp is dmart, but you do still have to do the minicom
part of the setup.
5. I think part of your message got garbled. The line
>install the few items I selected GnoRPM told me I needed a lot more to
^^^^^^
seems to be missing some words in the middle, arojnd where I put the ^^^^.
At 12:57 AM 2/6/00 -0600, Arnie Metz wrote:
>Well I broke down and bought a RH6 manual. Visual QUICKPRO guide by
>Harold Davis.
>It has a RH6.x CD with it to help justify the 30.00 bucks.
>I was getting the impression that my machine vendor only installed the
>kernal and a few bare necessities since nearly nothing was configured
>nor could be configured for lack of many things.
>
>At any rate I plugged it in and queried the whole disk. In order to
>install the few items I selected GnoRPM told me I needed a lot more to
>make them work, so I let it. Nine hundred and forty something rpms later
>I had oodles and gobs of games, applications, editors and I don't know
>what all. Nor do I know how to find them.
>How does one find an app AND add it to a menu?
>I don't believe it did a full install (changed the kernal). I did most
>of this in X. (Enlightenment)
>One problem the book doesn't explain is the printer. It has a step by
>step on how to install one provided nothing goes wrong. I got as far as
>control-panel > add a printer > RH print sys manager. It detected one
>lp. When I tried it to print a test page it said
>"ncpfs is not installed" nothing else.
>Where do I find it and how do I install it?
>
>I also followed the book to configure a modem through control-panel. I
>set it at com2 since that's where I saw it linuxconf, I put the dns
>numbers in and I selected ppp as the connection. I never received any
>errors ,but when I try to use mincom (through an X term) it displays
>"initializing modem" then it puts me in the minicom terminal window but
>the keyboard is locked out. I can use the mouse the kill the terminal
>then everything is OK. I tried minicom from the prompt and it did the
>same thing had to crtl-alt-del to get out. I'm don't know what you guys
>might need to know. So I'm just telling it like I saw it.
>The modem is in com 2, the mouse is in com 1, the printer is an HP 550C.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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