On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:33:04AM -0800, Ray Olszewski
wrote:
> The most likely cause is that you omitted some kernel
> driver needed to access the device when you recompiled
> your kernel.
Ray, that was it exactly. I did indeed somehow manage to
leave out support for my CD-ROM drive during the
Richard - how do you make Kppp work in an exclusively Gnome environment ?
(Gnome-ppp is not at all the same thing re functionalities.)
Note that for other reasons, I cannot install any of the Qt/KDE (GUI-
providing) libraries; it's all Gtk.
Another problem is that I cannot find a "kppp" package by
At 06:35 PM 4/3/2003 +0600, Amin wrote:
Hi all,
Shortly after recompiling my kernel (ignoring numerous
warnings and errors therein), I tried to mount my CD drive
in the normal way:
It is normal to get manay, many **warnings** while compiling a kernel. But
if you got **errors**, you better go back
Greetings: You were right - I needed two modules.. I found the
easiest was to use the isp16.i boot disk to take care of the sound
card/interface and then during the installation run 'insmod' with
'sjcd.o' on a floppy transferring both to the ramdisk.. Setup didn't
like it, at first, but on the 2nd
On Thursday 03 April 2003 12:35, Amin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Shortly after recompiling my kernel (ignoring numerous
> warnings and errors therein),
If you saw an "error" then your compile woul;d have stopped period, warnings
on the otherhand do NOT stop a compile, i expect you think a warning is th
On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:52, Peter wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > As Ray has explained quite well i have no futher comments more as to
> > say use KPPP, it will do what you want.
>
> Unfortunately it is not the case.
Unless i8 am missing some very spesific machine problems you may or ma
Hi all,
Shortly after recompiling my kernel (ignoring numerous
warnings and errors therein), I tried to mount my CD drive
in the normal way:
mount /mnt/cdrom
But I'm getting a ``mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block
device''. Does anyone have any idea why this is appearing?
Thanks,
Yawar Amin
Hi Robin:
Thanks very much indeed for your advice. In the end, I did recompile
the whole kernel, and it took me about 40 minutes. I'm actually quite
pleased with myself; this may be the first time I've been able to get
``fealnx'' to work in a single day (I've gone through this process
thrice bef
> Hi, I've installed a new RH8.0 system after
> losing the old one.
> Problem is,
> the fresh installation doesn't support my
> (Myson) Ethernet card,
> and I have
> to load the ``fealnx'' module to get it to do
> so. And that module
> isn't
> already compiled and insertable. So: is it
> possibl
