> From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 07:23:31 -0500
>
> 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.
SuSE is my first Linux*, I installed it a few weeks ago, and it was far easier
to install on my used system than Windows (I have given up on Windows, their
CD-ROM is gathering dust.)
> 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
Drool, drool. Do you use NT Workstation or Server?
Does loadlin run on NT? That might make you a little less nervous than
putting Lilo on your MBR. I don't have a utility for backing up and
restoring MBRs - anyone any suggestions? I only have one hard disk and no
tape drive yet, so I spend all my time being nervous!
I am not sure what you mean by stripping the MBR from your floppy and moving
that to C: If it is what it sounds like, it won't work, as the MBR is
specific to the disk geometry.
Don't worry too much though, in YaST under the "Kernel and boot configuration"
menu there is a utility that will build you a Lilo on the MBR of a hard disk -
if you are really confident that it won't harm your NT ! YaST takes no brains
to work - I should know. (It will also help you build spare boot
floppies, though IMHO it is just as easy to do manually.)
I have S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3
> 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?
>
Dig out the chapter on compiling kernels in your SuSE manual. The
binary kernels on the CD-ROM do not include sound for reliability. I
have not got around to compiling a kernel with sound support anyway.
I probably won't as I want to use my speakers and mic to use the modem
as a hands-free telephone.
> 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.
It sounds like you need to configure the correct address and irq for
ttyS1. In S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 the file to edit is
/sbin/init.d/serial
You need the appropriate setserial command for your modem, for example
${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS1 uart 16550A port 0x2F8 irq 3
I am sure you know where to find the correct values - either match
your jumper settings with the modem manual, or find out what Windows*
is using. (For fast troubleshooting, you can also enter setserial
commands interactively.) Don't let tty worry you - according to the
more recent docs it is preferred and cua deprecated, at least as I
understood it.
Another suggestion - rather than use a PPP package as your first
attempt to contact the modem, login as root and use minicom or kermit
(C-kermit isn't on the CD but is nice to have and easy to install.)
Type typical modem commands (see the modem manual) and see if you get
a sensible response. Then type the commands to dial your ISP and see
if the modem makes a good connection. When you have that working,
start to test your PPP software. You could also try the suseppp
package. Somewhere in the HOWTO there is also a suggestion for
connecting pppd directly to a dial-up connection you made manually at the
console - it is quite simple and reassuring to get that to happen as I recall.
Good luck and let us know how it works.
dproc
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