Subject: Re: close to giving up on YDL 2
From: V Mabus (vgm2@chaffee.net)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 21:50:12 MDT
Try the tutorial at:
<http://www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html>
It worked for me (default route was set to eth0).
As for your printer, my experience has been the same as yours.
HTH
VMabus
Merrill Aldrich wrote:
> I hope that some generous soul out there will help me out. I am an
> experienced computer user but I am just attempting to learn Linux. I
> have been working every evening for over a week trying to get ppp and
> my printer working. I have looked at a great many web sites and
> newsgroups for many hours, to no avail. None of the FAQs and HOWTOs I
> have found actually document the problems I have encountered, and my
> posts on the newsgroups and this list have not yielded any response.
> My wife practically does not recognise me anymore, I've spent so much
> time locked up in the office =^). I know that no-one is obligated to
> reply, but there are so few other sources of information that I am
> hoping someone will take pity.
>
> If there is a person out there who has a few minutes, here are some
> questions I have not been able to find answers to:
>
> With both the modem and the printer, I get error messages that say
> "device does not exist," in spite of the fact that there are files for
> both in /dev. For example, the modem is in the computer, and I know it
> works from the Mac side (this message went through it.) There is a
> file /dev/ttyS0, and the dialup configuration is set to use that --
> but when I attempt to dial the modem, I get the error "device does not
> exist."
>
> The same is true for the printer: the file /dev/usb/lp0 exists, and I
> made a printer in /etc/printcap using printtool that is set to
> /dev/usb/lp0 -- but when I attempt to print, I get a message that the
> device doesn't exist. There must be a step I am missing -- is there
> something required to "hook up" the files in /dev so that they
> actually connect to the hardware device they are intended to
> communicate with?
>
> If you can help me out, I would really appreciate it.
>
> I am running YDL 2.0 on a cube with kernel 2.4.4-1a and KDE 2.1.2
>
> - Merrill Aldrich
>
>
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