Subject: Re: close to giving up on YDL 2
From: Daniel Gimpelevich (Daniel_Gimpelevich@compuserve.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 10:54:41 MDT
The other replies to this post seem to focus on ppp and eth0, which would be
useless to you if ttyS0 does not exist. I know because I am having an
identical problem with the stock 2.4.4-1asmp kernel. Perhaps TerraSoft did
not compile support for /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/usb/lp0 into the 2.4 kernels???
-- "No gnu's is good gnu's." --Gary Gnu, "The Great Space Coaster"> From: Merrill Aldrich <maldrich@netwalk.com> > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com > Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 22:51:33 -0400 > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com > Subject: close to giving up on YDL 2 > > > 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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