On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:57:03AM +0800, Jaypee B Molina wrote:
> good day, guys!!! gusto ko lang sanang magpatulong sa pag configure ng modem ko at
>lan card.
>
> first, yung modem... my modem is motorola 56K internal
^^^^^^^^
Oh boy, yet another winmodem.
Best advice to you kid, is sell the damn thing and buy an external
modem of some kind. You might be able to get it to work by visiting
the http://www.linmodems.org/ site. Good luck getting the thing to
work with w2k as well.
>
> second, sa lan card naman, di ko pa na-try i-configure pero meron
> kasi akong driver cd ng lan card ko... gusto ko lang magpatulong
> kung paano ko idi-direct ang linux na doon nya kunin ang driver ng
> lan card ko? at bakit kaya yung dati kasi, sa red hat 7.1, sa
> startup services nya, nagha-hang sa "eth0" kailangan ko pang mag
> press ng enter para mag continue sya...??? isang factor tuloy ito
> kung bakit naisipan kong i-uninstall ang redhat 7.1 at bumalik ako
> ngayon sa mandrake 7.1.
>
It's a rare ethernet card that requires an external driver CD to work.
Most of them will work out of the box with a driver that is bundled
with the Linux kernel. What kind of ethernet do you have?
> third, yung dati ko pang problema... baka naman meron kayo dyang
> driver ng epson lx-300 printer for linux... or any compatible
> driver.... at kung paano ko ulit idi-direct ang linux na doon nya
> kunin ang driver ng printer ko.
>
I think there is an Epson ESC printer driver included in the driver
packages for Ghostscript. I once printed stuff using an old Epson
LX-300 printer years ago on the old Aladdin GhostScript (this was
before my Linux days, back in 1995) on Windows 3.1, using the direct
printing for GhostScript, so I guess the GNU GhostScript that all
Linux distros install should be able to do it (unless they've redacted
the driver for some reason, which I doubt).
Once again, you live too much in the Windows world. Stop thinking
like that. I have NEVER, EVER seen any hardware device which had
bundled Linux drivers that you could set up off a CD or some other
removable media! I'm not kidding. Never, as in NEVER. If it's a
low-level hardware device like an ethernet card, you have to have a
driver at the kernel level and so you need to build your kernel to
support it. You must unlearn!
>
> lastly, medyo kinalikot ko kasi yung user manager at napansin kong
> marami palang user groups at users... so pinagbubura kasi at tinira
> ko lang ang user account ko, sa erpats ko, at sa pamangkin ko... at
> sa isang iglap.... nasira!!!!! hehehehe :) kaya nire-install ko ang
> mandrake 7.1... kaya ko lang naman ginawa yung dati, is because
> katulad ng root... kasi, ako ang pinaka-kumakalikot ng computer dito
> sa bahay. so obviously, ako ang may hawak din ng root account... e
> paano kung nag-visit dito pinsan ko na marunong din sa computer... e
> di alam nyang merong existing na root account... tapos, alam din nya
>na ako ang may hawak nung account na yon... so pwede na nyang
> simulang manghula ng root password.... okay lang tutal ang chance
> naman nya to know the root password is 1Billion:1. kaya lang, gusto
> ko sana, wala ng 1 chance... i mean syempre mas mahirap kung pati
> user name di nya alam, diba??? lalo na ang root account.... diba???
>
It will do you no good. You need to choose a good root password. If
you want nobody to guess which account is the super-user, go use some
other non-Unix OS which has real mandatory access control and better
security. In the meantime, learn to read your system logs, which
ought to alert you if someone is trying to brute force your passwords.
Visit http://203.176.75.250/linux10/security/foil14.html for some more
ideas on how to choose good passwords.
> ang gusto ko lang sanang itanong is baka there is a way to change
> the user names and groups, tapos edit ko na lang din sa ibang
> program, or startup services, or basta yung iba pa na nagco-coincide
> dito sa mga accounts na ito.... para maiiba na ang user name ng root
> account at pati iba pang accounts....
You can change the root account name, but that won't change the fact
that anyone with a clue can look at /etc/passwd and see that some
account has uid 0, and hence has super-user privilege, and they'll
direct their efforts to cracking that account instead. It affords you
no better security.
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