>Best advice to you kid, is sell the damn thing and buy an external
uhhh!!!!!????
>modem of some kind. You might be able to get it to work by visiting
>the http://www.linmodems.org/ site. Good luck getting the thing to
>work with w2k as well.
okay, i'll just check out the site... thanks for the tip!
>It's a rare ethernet card that requires an external driver CD to work.
>Most of them will work out of the box with a driver that is bundled
>with the Linux kernel. What kind of ethernet do you have?
mine is CNet 100/10 Mbps Fast Ethernet Card. it does support linux. and the driver CD
has a driver for linux.
>I think there is an Epson ESC printer driver included in the driver
>packages for Ghostscript. I once printed stuff using an old Epson
>LX-300 printer years ago on the old Aladdin GhostScript (this was
>before my Linux days, back in 1995) on Windows 3.1, using the direct
>printing for GhostScript, so I guess the GNU GhostScript that all
>Linux distros install should be able to do it (unless they've redacted
>the driver for some reason, which I doubt).
o goodie!!!! thanks a lot!!! i'll just try it then.
>Once again, you live too much in the Windows world. Stop thinking
>like that. I have NEVER, EVER seen any hardware device which had
>bundled Linux drivers that you could set up off a CD or some other
>removable media! I'm not kidding. Never, as in NEVER. If it's a
>low-level hardware device like an ethernet card, you have to have a
>driver at the kernel level and so you need to build your kernel to
>support it. You must unlearn!
okay... ;-)
>It will do you no good. You need to choose a good root password. If
>you want nobody to guess which account is the super-user, go use some
>other non-Unix OS which has real mandatory access control and better
>security. In the meantime, learn to read your system logs, which
>ought to alert you if someone is trying to brute force your passwords.
>Visit http://203.176.75.250/linux10/security/foil14.html for some more
>ideas on how to choose good passwords.
okay... thanks again for the tip.... i'll just visit the site.
>You can change the root account name, but that won't change the fact
>that anyone with a clue can look at /etc/passwd and see that some
>account has uid 0, and hence has super-user privilege, and they'll
>direct their efforts to cracking that account instead. It affords you
>no better security.
o i see... =)
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