On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:14, dac692 wrote: > Hello, James Gregory, > > Thankyou for the information that you have provided me so far, much appreciated. > > I have attached the output file from the command "lspcidrake". Your feedback would >be appreciated.
I had a quick look over it. Couldn't see anything obvious. I'd suggest googling for other people who have got such a laptop's modem to work. If you find something and can't understand that then perhaps ask the list to help you with that. > > I tried using the command "cd/mnt/cdrom/setup" without success. ok. First of all, were you root when you ran that? You need to either login as root or run "su -" to make yourself root. Next thing is that there is a space between "cd" and "/mnt..." and that "./setup" was a completely separate command. So, where I have newlines in the following, press enter and see if you get any further su - cd /mnt/cdrom ./setup HTH James. > > ======= At 2002-11-25, 05:17:00 you wrote: ======= > > >On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:47:19PM +1100, David wrote: > >> I have 3 questions which I hope someone can assist me with?: > >> > >> 1. How do I install a program from a download or CD? > > > >Ok, the short answer is that it depends what you're installing. > > > >Third party software (like staroffice, at least the last time I played with > >it) tend to have their own installer or rpm files. In the former case you > >need to run the installer. So, something like: > > > >cd /mnt/cdrom > >../setup > > > >(assuming you're using supermount... which may cause other problems, but let > >us know if there are issues with mounted disks). doing "cd /mnt/cdrom" and then > >running ls will show you what programs you can run on the disk. Mandrake > >will colour the files which are flagged as executables (programs - things you > >can run) green. The installer (if there is one) will be one of these files. > > > >Alternatively if they have an rpm file, then you use the rpm command to install > >it. Basic process is this: > > > >cd /mnt/cdrom > >rpm -ivh rpmfile.rpm > > > >and of course substitute the name of the rpm file. RPM files are also coloured > >IIRC. Red perhaps. Anyway, they'll have an rpm extension so they're easy enough > >to find. > > > >There is another path, which I always forget about because I never use it. > >If you use KDE (I don't know about GNOME. It probably does this too. Jeff?), > >you can click around until you find the rpm on your cd-rom drive (there will > >be an icon for it on your desktop), then right click on it - one of the options > >there will let you install the rpm. I kinda didn't believe it when I saw that > >but I tried it and it does indeed work. It will prompt for the superuser > >password. > > > >Now, the more general question - how do you install stuff. If it's source code > >you follow the instructions in the tarball. They will probably say to untar the > >source somewhere and run these commands: > > > >../configure > >make > >make install > > > >If you want to install something from Mandrake's RPMs, the PLF RPMs, or a > >number of other places which support "urpmi", you can run "urpmi programname" > >as root and it will download and install it for you, or you can run mandrake > >control center, which should be in menus everywhere (or mcc from console - > >I discovered the other day that you can also use if from a console), go to > >software management, and there is a thing there for searching stuff it knows > >how to install and installing it. > > > >I can't remember the link for info on cooker (which is experimental mandrake > >stuff). The default install will set it up so it knows about all of your > >installation CDs and will prompt for them if it needs them to install > >something. Also check out > > > >http://plf.zarb.org > > > >(which I remember only because it has "zarb" as its domain name. I think that's > >cool) > > > >they have 1337 l1nuz w4r3z. > > > >And, attend the slug meeting this month where I intend to elucidate upon all > >of this in about 5 minutes. It will be EXTREME. > > > >> > >> I know this seems soooo simple, but I am very confused atm. For > >> example: > >> I am attempting to install SatOffice 5.? from CD. But don't know how to > >> get it going so it installs. Another example: trying to download a file > >> and install it? How do I? > > > >Have you figured out downloading? See above for installation, post if you want > >help downloading stuff. > > > >> 2. My second question is: I have a USB flash drive. How do I get it to > >> be > >> read in Linux? Do I mount it, and how? > > > >this seems to have been answered already, but I thought I'd just say that > >the last time I played with usb storage devices on mandrake I just plugged it > >in and mounted it and it worked straight off. I couldn't get it to play nice > >with supermount and mount itself automatically though. > > > >> > >> 3. I installed Linux onto a Toshiba Satellite 1400. It went well (dual > >> partition and all that stuff) but I cant seem to get the modem to go. > >> Have tried various laptop-u > >> linux websites but are very confused. Is there someone that can guide > >> me > >> through the process (if there is one? ) that is non Linux speak. All > >> the > >> information I got was baffling! > > > >hmmm. Depends on the modem. I don't know about toshiba notebooks because I > >only have a compaq one. Run "lspcidrake" as root and send us the output - we > >can probably help more then. Alternatively I think mandrake control center > >has a clicky hardware installing thing. Harddrake or something. It used to > >ship with a thing called "kudzu" as well which wasn't too bad (in moderation). > >If it's simple, harddrake will probably know how to do it. > > > >HTH, > > > >James. > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > Best regards. > dac692 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2002-11-25 > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
