Erin! > 1) When I plug into the internet, I have to restart to get it to work, > then, if I unplug without rebooting, my computer goes into a hang. I > heard once that ifconfig up and ifconfig down are the ways to prevent > this problem, but when I use that, I just get the following:
a) for many things like this (fiddling with ethernet cards, etc) you have to be root. So what you need to do is $ su - b) instead of typing "ifconfig up" there are other scripts on most systems, "ifup" and "ifdown". These are found in /sbin/ (at least on my computer) which doesn't show up in your path below. This is not necessarily a bad thing, since /sbin/ is basically just for things root needs to do. If you do "su -" then /sbin/ should become part of your path. If not, or if you just do a regular "su", then you can still just type out the whole path: /sbin/ifup and then /sbin/ifdown Alternatively, as root you can do # /etc/init.d/network restart Which will do the same thing. There's also a way to do this with the "service" command, I think it's # /sbin/service network reload AFAIK all three do the same thing. > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: > /tmp/mysqlcc-0.8.10-linux-glibc23/:/tmp/todo-manager-0.70.2: > /home/ErinS/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/: > /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/:/usr/games/:/usr/bin:.:/home/ErinS/bin:. > :/tmp/mysqlcc-0.8.10-linux-glibc23/:/tmp/todo-manager-0.70.2: > /home/ErinS/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/: > /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/:/usr/games/:/usr/bin:. You've got a lot of things in here multiple times. It doesn't, I suppose, really matter--but you may want to look at your .bashrc and/or .bash_profile to see why it's doing this. > 2) This one's rather similar to 1. If I want to use my printer, I have > to have it plugged into the computer and turned on when I boot the > computer, or it doesn't recognize it as existing. Is there any way to > make the driver start up whether or not the printer is attached? I > also have the problem that when I turn on the computer after detaching > the printer, it asks me during startup whether it should delete the > printer configuration. The printer is an Epson Stylus C40-UX. For this one, I would think it would be: (as root) # /etc/init.d/lpd restart But I'm not sure if that will fix both problems. > Oh, also (last thing), I have been curious as to how one goes about > creating an ISO disk. Last year, I tried to make a boot disk for a > friend, but when I tried to burn it, it didn't work, making a waste of > a lot of downloading time. Perhaps somebody could write a tutorial for > the website on this or something, because I know that other newbies > have had similar problems. Do you mean burning an ISO image to a CD? If so, it's pretty simple. Look here: http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/cdrecord.shtml Down near the bottom is the command to burn an ISO. First # cdrecord --scanbus followed by # cdrecord -v --dev=0,0,0 imagefilename.iso (again, all as root) hope that helps, ~ ross _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
