Subject: Re: close to giving up on YDL 2
From: Merrill Aldrich (maldrich@netwalk.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 20:28:46 MDT
Thanks everyone for your responses. I will work my way down through them
until something works ;-)
I really appreciate the help.
- Merrill Aldrich
cdowns wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> >
>>
> --
> --------------------------------
> 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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>
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