I'm having all the same problems myself maybe someone out there will help
later,
Ralph
-----Original Message-----
From: Idris S Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, December 25, 1998 12:57 PM
Subject: [newbie] PPP, sound, and CD drive
>Dear folks:
>Based on what I saw in the archives, the following message appears to
>not have made it through so I am sending it again. Happy Holidays!
>
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>Dear folks:
>I wish everyone the best of holidays.
>
>I am new at Linux/KDE. I just installed Mandrake and everything works
>fine except
>for the following:
>1) I can't even begin to configure PPP because pppd is not compiled in
>the kernel
>(I ran dmesg). I have no experience recompiling kernels (why on Earth
>isn't PPP
>compiled in the kernel anyway?!?), but tried to follow the directions in
>the
>official installation instructions for RedHat 5.0. All of the following
>commands
>fail:
> make xconfig;
> make config;
> make menuconfig;
> make mrproper.
>When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not
>being
>found;
>
>2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into
>the kernel
>too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card;
>I should mention the following:
>i) I have an ESS AudioDrive 1869 soundblaster 16 compatible card;
>ii) upon running sndconfig I get the message ``error accessing
>dev/audio''.
>
>3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install,
>but during a
>Linux session I cannot
> i) manually open and close the CD tray;
> ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. Actually I sometimes can mount the CD-ROM
>drive; but I still cannot manually open and close the CD tray. But it
>works fine in that other operating system we have all grown to
>dislike...
>
>I am sure the answers to these questions are stupidly simple, but I have
>been
>racking my brain all evening and cannot seem to get anywhere.
>
>Thanks in advance for all of your help
>Happy Holidays and best wishes
>Idris
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