Re: [newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem
Hi there,
I've read your message, and all I can say is ..."Dear Friend Drop this LINUX
Shit" and switch to FreeBSDdon't waste your time???
Khalid
Idris S Hamid wrote:
Dear folks:
I originally sent this message on Christmas Day so I guess nobody had
the time to pay any attention to it. Another Mandrake user ("ndk
{Ralph}" [EMAIL PROTECTED]) indicated that he was having similar
problems to my own. I hope that someone can take a look at these
questions now (I have added a fourth). Thanks in advance and Happy
Holidays!
--
Dear folks:
I wish everyone the best of holidays.
I am new at Linux/KDE. I just installed Mandrake 5.2 and everything
works
fine except
for the following:
1) I can't even begin to configure PPP because pppd is not compiled in
the kernel
(I ran dmesg). I have no experience recompiling kernels (why on Earth
isn't PPP
compiled in the kernel anyway?!?), but tried to follow the directions in
the
official installation instructions for RedHat 5.0. All of the following
commands
fail:
make xconfig;
make config;
make menuconfig;
make mrproper.
When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not
being
found;
2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into
the kernel
too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card;
I should mention the following:
i) I have an ESS AudioDrive 1869 soundblaster 16 compatible card;
ii) upon running sndconfig I get the message ``error accessing
dev/audio''.
3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install,
but during a
Linux session I cannot
i) manually open and close the CD tray;
ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. Actually I sometimes can mount the CD-ROM
drive; but I still cannot manually open and close the CD tray. But it
works fine in that other operating system we have all grown to
dislike...
4) I tried minicom and echo but cannot get any response from my modem
under Linux. I correctly configured the modem using the RedHat
``control-panel'' dialog, but I still cannot get a response.
I am sure the answers to these questions are stupidly simple, but I have
been
racking my brain all evening and cannot seem to get anywhere.
Thanks in advance for all of your help
Happy Holidays and best wishes
Idris
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Re: [newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem
make xconfig; make config; make menuconfig; make mrproper. When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not being found; Can you tell us whitch targets? Always give the full error message. 2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into the kernel too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card; I should mention the following: i) I have an ESS AudioDrive 1869 soundblaster 16 compatible card; ii) upon running sndconfig I get the message ``error accessing dev/audio''. I know that some SB16 compatible cards are not so compatible. Have you read the docs comming with the source tree? Anyway the sound support must be configured in the kernel or in a module. Do you have any message at bootup? 3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install, but during a Linux session I cannot i) manually open and close the CD tray; What do you mean by *manually* ? Can you open or close it by another way? ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. Actually I sometimes can mount the CD-ROM drive; but I still cannot manually open and close the CD tray. But it works fine in that other operating system we have all grown to dislike... What do you mean by *sometimes* ? Give us more hints (under which account, under X ? ,...) By the way, it's not possible to umount the cdrom if one of your processes is accessing it, including your shell. So you must be out of the cdrom to umount it. And you must umount it to be able to open it. 4) I tried minicom and echo but cannot get any response from my modem under Linux. I correctly configured the modem using the RedHat ``control-panel'' dialog, but I still cannot get a response. Can't help on that one, I have no modem :-) Hope I was of any help, and give us more info about your problems. Please forgive my English, I'm French speaking :-) - Rémi -
[newbie] pppd again!
Hi there! Iam presently trying to configure my internet connection under Mandrake. I successfully installed pppd but I still get an error. "pppd died". I check readme file but it doesn't help me. Here is the message i get in the /var/log message file: Dec 28 15:28:26 yck kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully unregistered Dec 28 15:29:07 yck kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) Dec 28 15:29:07 yck kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. Dec 28 15:29:07 yck kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Dec 28 15:29:07 yck kernel: registered device ppp0 Dec 28 15:29:07 yck pppd[1758]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0 Dec 28 15:29:07 yck pppd[1758]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 28 15:29:07 yck pppd[1758]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/cua3 Dec 28 15:29:37 yck pppd[1758]: Terminating on signal 15. Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Connection terminated. Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Dec 28 15:29:58 yck pppd[1758]: Exit. Dec 28 15:31:07 yck kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully unregistered Someone can help me? [ ] HaM
[newbie] iso CD image
Amidst all the problems you guys are handling, I thought I would just let you know that I downloaded the Mandrake distribution CD-ROM image from ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr, wrote it to a CD, and successfully installed Mandrake on the first try. This is a great idea, and I hope you continue it as versions go on... Thank you, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677
Re: [newbie] pppd again!
Ham wrote: Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 here is the problem. Anyways, you mentionned it worked properly with the root id. Is it true? Can you give the same log when running pppd as root? Greets, Gael. -- Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://linuxmandrake.com QPL : "With the release of this license, KDE and the Qt Free Edition are truly Open Source(tm)". Bruce Perens, Opensource.org.
Re: [newbie] iso CD image
I enthusiastically agree! At 04:33 PM 12/28/98 -05:0, you wrote: Amidst all the problems you guys are handling, I thought I would just let you know that I downloaded the Mandrake distribution CD-ROM image from ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr, wrote it to a CD, and successfully installed Mandrake on the first try. This is a great idea, and I hope you continue it as versions go on... Thank you, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677 |= |~~ William Oswald (and family) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] |=
Re: [newbie] iso CD image
Bruce Endries wrote: Amidst all the problems you guys are handling, I thought I would just let you know that I downloaded the Mandrake distribution CD-ROM image from ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr, wrote it to a CD, and successfully installed Mandrake on the first try. This is a great idea, and I hope you continue it as versions go on... It's very popular and we will continue to do that, although we know it's not accessible for people with a modem :-( Greets, Gael. -- Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://linuxmandrake.com QPL : "With the release of this license, KDE and the Qt Free Edition are truly Open Source(tm)". Bruce Perens, Opensource.org.
Re[2]: [newbie] iso CD image
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 17:35:53 -0500 William Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry I kinda barged in before with that Diamond Stealth question, Mandrake does seem quite nice, keep up the good work people... I should have kept my old video card around tho..G I enthusiastically agree! At 04:33 PM 12/28/98 -05:0, you wrote: Amidst all the problems you guys are handling, I thought I would just let you know that I downloaded the Mandrake distribution CD-ROM image from ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr, wrote it to a CD, and successfully installed Mandrake on the first try. This is a great idea, and I hope you continue it as versions go on... Thank you, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677 |= |~~ William Oswald (and family) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] |=
Re: [newbie] iso CD image
It's very popular and we will continue to do that, although we know it's not accessible for people with a modem :-( Greets, Gael. In fact, I used a 56K bps modem. It took about 48 hours. Under Win95, I used CuteFTP, which is capable of resuming interrupted downloads. I had to resume once. |= |~~ William Oswald (and family) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] |=
Re: [newbie] pppd again!
At 23:16 98-12-28 +0100, you wrote: Ham wrote: Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 What can be the cause of this error? here is the problem. Anyways, you mentionned it worked properly with the root id. Is it true? No, the connexion died after a timeout under all login, including the root. I check each points in the readme file and no one helped me. Can you give the same log when running pppd as root? The log i sent you was made under a root login. [ ] HaM
Re: [newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem
Thanks for the response. I just got Fabio's message (my ISP's mail delivery service has been down) as I was sending this off and I will try his ideas as well. RXmi LETOT wrote: make xconfig; make config; make menuconfig; make mrproper. When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not being found; Can you tell us whitch targets? Always give the full error message. /usr/src/linux] make xconfig /usr/src/linux] make: No rule to make target `xconfig'. Stop. Similarly for commands `make config' and `make menuconfig'. What is wrong? 2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into the kernel too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card; I should mention the following: i) I have an ESS AudioDrive 1869 soundblaster 16 compatible card; ii) upon running sndconfig I get the message ``error accessing dev/audio''. I know that some SB16 compatible cards are not so compatible. Have you read the docs comming with the source tree? Anyway the sound support must be configured in the kernel or in a module. Do you have any message at bootup? I used sndconfig, which supposedly does away with having to compile sound directly into the kernel. But you may be right that the problem may be an incompatible sound card. Sigh.. 3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install, but during a Linux session I cannot i) manually open and close the CD tray; What do you mean by *manually* ? Can you open or close it by another way? I just mean opening it by pressing the button on the CD player itself. ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. Actually I sometimes can mount the CD-ROM drive; but I still cannot manually open and close the CD tray. But it works fine in that other operating system we have all grown to dislike... What do you mean by *sometimes* ? Give us more hints (under which account, under X ? ,...) I am logged in as root. More testing tells me that mounting is not the problem. The problem is removing the CD after the drive is umounted, even when the tray is empty. When I press the button, nothing happens under KDE. 4) I tried minicom and echo but cannot get any response from my modem under Linux. I correctly configured the modem using the RedHat ``control-panel'' dialog, but I still cannot get a response. Can't help on that one, I have no modem :-) I hope someone can, but thanks for at least responding :-) Hope I was of any help, and give us more info about your problems. Please forgive my English, I'm French speaking :-) Your English is fine: Comme ton Anglais est beau! Thank you and best wishes Idris
