Subject: Re: close to giving up on YDL 2
From: cdowns (cdowns@skillsoft.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 12:49:11 MDT
That in itself may be entirely possible and i would suggest compiling from
source at: http://www.kernel.org i myself have never found OS pre-compiled
kernels a good thing as they are bloated with more things then one could even
use. out of curiousity does ttyS0 even exist on these machines ? just curious.
-D
Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 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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Network Security Administrator
Christopher M Downs
Skillsoft Corporation
http://www.skillsoft.com
"you can't point and click your
way to super cracker status -"
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