April 2001 - SUSE Blinux - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Rettungs-System!
by Daniel Poell 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

Hi Liste! Ich hab ein Problem: Aus irgendeinem Grund kann ich mein Linux nicht mehr booten. Ich hab eine Kernel-Panik und muss meien Lilo neu schreiben. Da liegt mein Problem: Wie komme ich auf eine Rettungs-Bash. Wenn ich Susi-7.1 mit CD1+Yast2 boote, komm ich irgendwie nicht dazu, eine rettungsbash zu starten. Ein Freund hat mir gesagt, dass man das normalerweise mit Yast1 (2. CD booten) macht! Stimmt dass? Wenn nicht: Wie krieg ich bei Yast2 eine Rettungs-Shell. Wenn ja: Wie krieg ich unter Yast1 die Braille-Zeile zum laufen! Um hilfe wäre ich sehr dankbar, muss mich die ganze Zeit mit Windows herumschlagen. Das macht mich bald tot. MfG.: Daniel!

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progress
by Dave Csercsics 10 Apr '01

10 Apr '01

Well I have made some progress. I found the driver that my network card needed. I just had it set under another name which didn't help too much. So I have my network card working so I can access the net. Still have no sound though. I tried to configure the sound card but it keeps saying that an error has occurred and I should check to see if Alsa is properly installed. So I installed a whole swack of soudn stuff including alsa but it didn't seem to help the problem. What can I do to fix this. Another question I have is I figured out how to send email but how the heck do I receive messages. And how do I subscribe to and read newsgroups? I was also wondering if there is a good icq port for linux. I love this OS a lot and am really glad that I spent the ccash to buy it. I am trying to rig it so all the stuff I do under windows is available under linux. This way I don't have to use windows except in rare cases where things don't work under linux yet. I like linux because I can work more quickly and the system never crashes so I don't have to reboot all the time which I find very annoying with windows. I figure once I get everything set up it will be very good. Oh, and another thing I just thought of. How do I make blinux show the braille cursor as just dots 7 and 8 blinking instead of a full braille cell? Thanks a lot for your support and patience and understanding and thanks for taking the time to help a poor newbie out. I have learned quite a bit in the short time that I have been using linux and I will keep finding things to read and play with it a bit more. At least my internet access works under linux now so I can look up info a little easier. A very happy linux newbie, Dave Csercsics

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my cable modem again and my sound
by Dave Csercsics 05 Apr '01

05 Apr '01

I have just looked through the suse drivers and it appears that my NIC is not listed. I haven/t checked the module disk so it may be there but I am not sure. I can download the driver from 3com's website. My question is how the heck do I get the driver onto my system after I download the driver to my hard disk. Another question I have is how do I check to see if my sound works or not, and if it does not work how do I get linux to use my sound card. I have a soundblaster live which is deffinitely supported by linux since this computer is like a month old or maybe less.

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some questions
by Dave Csercsics 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

I have suse installed and it is working great. How do I get it to work with my cable connection? I have a 3com etherlink xl 3c 900b 10mb ehternet card and my cable provider is @home. Also, is it po0ssible to get suse-blinux to use the US braille translation tables? I am kind of a linux newbieas I just started using the OS a couple days ago but it is nice to program in and it is very very quick. In some hways a lot easier to handle than windows. Also how does suse handle things like floppies and cdroms. I tried to mount a floppy the other day and it said that vfat and fat were both invalid file systems. I find this odd since my windows partition is a vfat filesystem and linux will let me access that with no problems. Thanks for any help with this. I know it's probably stupid of me not to know how this works, but then I have only used linux for like 2 days and I have never used unix at all before that. The only OS's I have used before linux are dos and windows. Windows crashes too much and is a pain to reinstall when you are blind because the install screens won't talk. I picked linux because I need to program in c++ for school and I can't have my machine go down in the m,iddle of trying to get a computer science degree. That is one reason and another is that I find windows a little slower to access and generally not all that reliable. So I will learn linuxz and use that mostly now I think.

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Zwischenstand Brailletreiber?
by Christian_Gerhardt＠t-online.de 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

Hi! Da meldet sich die Nervensäge wieder zu Wort :-). Wie sieht es aus? Bekomme ich zu Ostern meinen Treiber? Ich hätte gerne einen Zwischenstand. Ist ja nicht so, daß ich sonderlich darauf aus wäre Euch zu nerven, aber ich brauche de nTreiber. Wäre nett, wenn ich mal kurz hören könnte, wie der Stand der Dinge ist. Vielen Dank schon einmal und tschüß! Christian

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