----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Strode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 7:28 PM Subject: Re: [luau] REd hat 7.3 updated but still issues
> > I have succesfully loaded RH 7.3 to my computer and doing "dd > > if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/dosc bs=512 count=1" then editing the boot.ini on > > the wonblows side, I now have a good multiboot. > That's good. Make sure that you redo those steps anytime you upgrade > kernels (That's one reason I don't like doing it that way). Will keep tabs on it. > > 1. ) Printer and scanner. Printer is a Compaq IJ600 I can't seem to find > > if it works or not and if there is a driver. > Hmm. Well, I use CUPS with GIMP-Print for my printing, but that won't > work for you because you don't have a supported printer for that. In > fact, I just tried to look up your printer at > http://www.linuxprinting.org and it appears there is no driver for it. > Red Hat comes with LPRng by default, so you may be able to configure it > to use one of the foomatic drivers for the IJ750 or IJ300 and it /may/ > work /somewhat/, but no guarantees. Your best bet is to just try it and > see what happens. Sorry, I know that's not very good news. No biggie for now. > > Scanner is an UMAX Astra 610P on the parallel port. > Scanning is normally done on linux by a program called SANE > (http://www.mostang.com/sane). More bad news though. They don't have > full support for the Astra 610P. Apparently UMAX won't give them any of > the design documents for the ASIC. There is a patch here: > http://umax1220p.sourceforge.net. It doesn't work with your scanner, > but will in the future so periodically check in there. No biggie here either. > > 2. ) ISP sharing. I have gotten it to the point where my computer can > > access the net fine. However, the computers on my internal network are > > having no luck at all. > Again, MonMotha is probably more qualified to answer than me, but if you > type this (as root, all one line, with 192.168.0.0/24 replaced with your > network): > > /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j > MASQUERADE > > and then type (as root): > > /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 > > then all your internal computers should get internet until you reboot. > > If they do, then type (as root): > > /sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables > > and this (as root, all one one line): > > cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep -v net.ipv4.ip_forward > > /etc/sysctl.conf.tmp > > and then: > > echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf.tmp > mv /etc/sysctl.conf.tmp /etc/sysctl.conf > > then your computers should get internet permanently. Finnaly got this working. Was internal network at fault. > > 3. ) Programming c++. I do a simple program in gedit then save. I go to > > bash and do the typical g++ - name file > well actually, you should type g++ -o name file (did you just forget the > o in your explanation?). > > > and then try to do the program by typing it's name. bash says > > "command not found" > try ./name instead of just name. Basically, by default Linux doesn't > include the current directory in the PATH. . means current directory, > so by prepending ./ to the name you are telling bash where to find the > program. Another thing you could do is add the current directory to the > path. > > export PATH=$PATH:. > > That's temporary, but if you add that to a file called ~/.bash_profile > in your home directory it should become permanent. That's it. I wasn't doing ./name. :) I will add the path and all should be good. Thanks Ray. > > I still have a few ideas that I am going to try. Thank you all in > > advnce for all of youir help. > > np. > > --Ray What a great list. Thanks, Edward
