Subject: Re: Newbie in need of serious help
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Sat Oct 28 2000 - 12:21:30 MDT
on 2/1/04 10:49 am, Dr S Douglass at dr_s_douglass@mac.com wrote:
>
> Internet. Linux refuses to see that I have a modem in my iMac. It just says
> something like, device not found or supported, or something like that.
> However, I have do desire to use my 56k connection and grow old quickly. I
> have a 2 meg DSL line I want to get working. I have no idea how to do this.
> The service is with Bellsouth.net fast acess. The DSL modem is connected
> directly to my iMacs ethernet port. I have to use to a dial out software
> when ever I boot the machine to initialize the modem. There are linux
> drivers on the CD rom that came with it, but I can not seem to get them to
> do anything but give me errors.
>
For dial on demand (maybe DSL) you could check out the diald package on
sourceforge
> Sound. There is no sound at all. How do I change this?
>
Maybe a kernel issue I'll defer to wiser heads.
> Date and time. There is no way to set the day and time that I have found. It
> says Jan 1 1900 every time I start linux. (Y2K bug?)
>
The date command should do this but you need to get the syntax spot on.
Copy the format returned by date.
> Final question for now. How do I shut linux down? i mean I know how to shut
> down, but, it fails to do anything. It just goes to a promt and hangs there,
> doing nothing, and I am unable to type anything in. I have to hit the main
> power switch to kill the machine.
>
What sort of prompt? If you're root then a shutdown -h now should work.
Iain
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