On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:17, Graham Watkins wrote: > Hi Y'all, > > This weekend I finally convinced friends of mine that a Linux > installation on their computer was a good idea and installed 9.1 for > them. (First time I'd done this as I'm still using 9.) The actual > installation went well but connecting to the internet doesn't work as > this particular computer has 2 modems: an internal one possibly a > winmodem, possibly just broken, and an external Hayes V90 voicemodem > which usually works well with Linux (I know because it used to be mine). > > When I tried to set up the internet connection in Mandrake Control > Centre, there was no response from either modem but harddrake appears > only to have detected the internal card (hp56 I think). Would I be > right in thinking that creating a symbolic link from /dev/ttyS0 (to > which the external Hayes is connected) to /dev/modem would enable the > system to find the correct modem and hopefully solve the problem?
harddrake doesn't detect my external modem but it works fine. I think the problem is the network setup in MCC is broken in 9.1. Edit the files by hand: /etc/sysconfig/network add the following line: GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 if the following line exists, you can delete that line: GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.x.x Restart the network with: # service network restart > The other problem was that Open Office Writer wouldn't start - the > splash screen came up and the hourglass on the toolbar turned for a bit, > but then ..... nothing. Anybody know what the command would be to start > it from the command line so error messages can be seen , or which log > might contain info about this? You can start openoffice from console with: $ /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice I recall having this problem at some stage (long ago) so it will pay to kill any soffice.bin processes that may be running before trying to start openoffice. > Your views and any suggestions would be appreciated. It's the first > time I've managed to convince someone else to run a Linux box and I'd > hate to see them turned off the idea because of these basic problems. Agreed. And good one!, another convert... Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today
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