At 10:50 PM 5/29/00 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>That's all right. I know nothing about ISDN modems :-). Do they
>respond to some variant of the old Hayes AT command set? Do they have
>to dial, or are they just connected?
Yep, they work on the hayes at set and are dialup with a terminal adapter.
>OOPS. Is this RedHat? cu is in the uucp rpm if so.
Mandrake....close enough :)
>I like it because
>it is a crude simple terminal emulator that doesn't get in my way, but
>you could try the same sort of thing with minicom. Probably best do a
>minicom -s first to set it to the right device,
Did that...
> or make sure /dev/modem
>is a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS2.
You mean the ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem command? If so, I've done that.
>the Documantation directory is a standard part of the linux kernel
>source, not distro specific or anything. Maybe you didn't install the
>kernel source?
Maybe...
> It is in the kernel-source rpm, also the kernel srpm in
>the SRPMS dir at the top of the distro.
Will install the rpm as I know where to find those on the CD :)
>You don't have to go through an install again to add pieces you missed
>the first time, you can add software at any time with rpm
Was goofing around the other night looking in the rpm directory and saw an
rpm for some extra screensavers....figuring I couldn't screw anything up by
trying to add those, I gave it a shot and think it worked out ok. Used krpm
I think it was called.
>there is no hardware ^^^^^^ here that setserial can detect, but by
>default ttyS3 uses porx 0x2e8 and IRQ 3, so setserial reports it this
>way.
Ok, so that doesn't neccessarily mean there's any device there then....no
problem.
>I thought you set it to irq 5 with isapnp. If so, it is not going to
>work if you let it default to irq3.
I did, but then I went back and started over, using the setserial
/dev/ttyS2 autoconfig command to see what it would come up with on its own.
>You probably need to do the isapnp at
>each boot too.
I see this in the startup each time and it always says "failed" with a
message saying it couldn't allocate the memory range at 0x03e8.
Couple other questions though if you don't mind....
1) Like I said, I downloaded the latest version of setserial in tar.gz
format along with a couple files for the Riva TNT....driver and something
for the kernel I think. They both end in tar.gz as well. I know that's a
compressed format but how do I uncompress them and then install?
2) I kind of feel like an idiot asking what are probably very basic
questions so is there any book(s) that's considered a "must have" for
someone trying to learn Linux..especially at the command prompt? I feel
very lost when people suggest doing things if it's not exactly spelled out.
Don't know if certain files need to be installed in certain directories, etc...
3) Concerning LILO....Considering that I have Linux on my 2nd hard drive,
does this mean I have to use a boot floppy? Have booted without hte floppy
but naturally it goes right to my C: prompt for starting Win98. Not clear
on whether or not this is something I can change with a setting....In my
head I'm thinking it's boot floppy or nothing as LILO boots from one of my
Linux partitions. I don't have LILO in the MBR cause I wanted to keep it
completely separate from Windows.
Sorta confused on MBR as well. Each hard disk should have an MBR, right? So
technically I could have LILO boot from the MBR of the disk Linux is
installed on but as that's the 2nd disk, I'd still need the floppy. So, I'm
thinking if I want to avoid the floppy (which I'd love to do, it's so damn
slow), I'd have to have LILO boot from the 1st hard disk (C: drive for
Win), which I think is /dev/sda
Whew, I'm getting confused and frustrated. Should have stuck to my plan of
putting Linux in it's own box. But the only thing lying around that I have
is a 486DX4-100 and I can't run a GUI on it....which is why I came up with
my present plan.
Thanks,
Jim
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Field Service
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