On Friday 24 November 2000 08:24 am, you wrote:
> having lost my entire home directory i did a brand new
> install and decided to try out lm7.2 and kde2, since the
> offer to test my internet connection failed during setup
> the first thing i did when installion was finished was to
> fire up konqueror and browse to the /dev/modem file to
> check where it was linked to, when i right clicked, chose
> properties i got the message 'this is a file, a directory
> was expected' this happens to every file in /dev/i tried
> and hangs konqueror each time, what does this message mean,
> i did ls -l modem from a console in /dev and got (from
> memory) 'lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root' which is roughly what i
> expected, i think the 'l' means it's a link? i don't know
> if this is a konqueror problem or some lm7.2 installation
> problem
>
> any help would be appreciated
>
> bascule
bascule....I dunno, I just got the same error when right
clicking files in the /dev directory. After clearing the
error applet there didn't seem to be any problem??? Odd!?
--
Alan
