I am a newbie to Linux, SuSE in particular. I have installed, in the past,
& used FreeBSD (2.2.6).
I recently was impressed enough with what I heard about Linux, SuSE in
particular, that I bought it.
My machine is MSNT based, as follows:
AMD K6-2/350
64MB SDRAM
Canopus Total 3D PCI video card, with Rendition, and Verite 1000 chip
Creative Labs Sound BLaster PCI 128 sound card
Symbios Logic 53C416 SCSI card (came w/ my HP Scanjet 4P.)
ATAPI CD ROM (Warhens? generic from Best Buy)
Motorola Bitsurfer 288 internal modem (Legacy)
3 internal hard drives. c:\ is NT 4.0 with NTFS. SuSE is on its own,
dedicated hdd, and I boot from a floppy, TO Lilo, until I get brave enough
to strip the MBR from the floppy and move it over to c:\. Okay? Here're my
questions.
Printer is an HP LaserJet 1100
I have no sound, either in X-term, or KDE. I typed "sndconfig" as root, but
the response is that there is no such command. I can put a music CD in,
press play, & see the activity in the player, and it's reading the CD's
properties correctly, but no sound. My first question is, how can I
configure my sound card, or better yet, will I be able to?
Second question: I can't find my modem & successfully querry it from KPPP.
In NT it's com 2; in SuSE, it's ttyS1, but the response when that device is
selected in KPPP is always "modem busy." *IF* however, I select device as
3, as in ttyS3, cua3, etc., it will querry the modem, and I hear it *START*
to dial, then KPPP tells me "modem querry timed out." I've checked my conf
file & fs tab, etc., and the modem is there, and I've used YAST over & again
to install the modem. I tried going to an X-Term and typing "ln -s
/dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem" When I do, the response is that it already exists.
The modem is PNP, but I have PNP disabled via jumper. I have configured
networking as PPP & the PPP device as modem. I have no NIC, and my sole
connection to the 'net is my ISP, which uses dynamic IP. Should I edit a
file's properties & make this device cua1? TtyS1 surprised me, as I expected
it to be cua1. I had this problem with FreeBSD, where it tried to make my
mouse a tty, as opposed to a cua; when I edited the properties, all was
fine. I just don't know what file(s) to edit, for sure.
Third question: has anyone been able to use the Symbios SCSI card I
mentioned? I hate to have to go out & buy another SCSI card just to use
Linux, but from what I've seen, I'd be willing. It sure looks good to me.
Thank you so much, in advance, for the help. :)
Jeff Rogers
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