September 2001 - SUSE Blinux - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Help please, PCI modem for Suse in the UK?
by djden 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hello Apologies but I am very new to this and have spent the last week reading and re-reading, being pointed to one doc file or another internet site, all appearing to give me confilicting info. I am therefore, for the moment, giving up on trying to ascertain if my present internal WinModem will work on com4 on my machine, and am asking for a quick solution. Once online I can play with my old modem's possibilities or otherwise to my heart's content, but my priority is getting online in Linux. I would very much appreciate any advice on a PCI modem that will allow me to use my two physical comm ports for Braille and speech, and where I might obtain one in the UK. (I was advised by the Suse support staff to go down this road rather than looking for a USB modem, but again, if anyone has clear advice I would appreciate it). Thank you, very desperately hoping someone can help.

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USB modem with Linux?
by djden 22 Sep '01

22 Sep '01

Hello I am using SuseBlinux with hardware speech synth and Braille display on com1 and 2. I only have a winmodem which uses virtual comport 4 and will therefore not work with Linux. I only have two physical comm ports on my machine. Is there any way around this? I wonder if any USB modems are supported in Linux - specifics would be helpful? I do not think software speech is fully developed yet and the Apollo2 is very responsive. Any help welcomed please. Thanks.

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E-Mail and browsers
by Gordon Smith 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

Hi. Can anybody suggest which would be the best e-mail utility to use in Suse, in a text-only system. I can probably second-guess the answer to this next question, but what about an Internet web browser? Finally, is their an FTP server with Suse that is installed in the default system, or one which I can find in the packages? Next, is there a way I can mount a FAT32 Windows partition, to make it visible to Linux? and finally, I need to map the drives on my Linux box from my Window-based machine. What's the easiest way of doing all this? Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Gordon Smith. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk" "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539(a)one2one.net" http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk ICQ: 23973878 MSN Messenger: gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 Fax.: +44 1642 357 754

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Just a test, please ignore ;-)
by Christian Schoepplein 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

-- SuSE-Blinux Support Christian Schöpplein <schoeppi(a)suse.de> Tel.: Di. und Do. 15.00 - 20.00 Uhr 0421/526-2480 www: http://www.blinux.suse.de

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Mail Configuration
by Gordon Smith 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

Hi. Can someone point me in the right direction for configuration of mail servers? If I try typing fetchmail from the console prompt, I just get the message that no servers are defined. Presumably this is done in Yast2 is it, although I can't see where. Kind regards, Gordon Smith. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk" "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539(a)one2one.net" http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk ICQ: 23973878 MSN Messenger: gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 Fax.: +44 1642 357 754

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Suse With Speech.
by Gordon Smith 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

Hello. I have been told that SuSE supports speech synthesizers as well as Braille terminals, is this true? If so, could someone tell me how one initialises the synthesizer? I would also appreciate any documentation on the subject. Kind regards, Gordon Smith. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk" "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539(a)one2one.net" http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk ICQ: 23973878 MSN Messenger: gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 Fax.: +44 1642 357 754

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Editing Text files.
by Gordon Smith 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

Hi. As Suse defaults, which is the best way to edit text files? I used the Edit program, but could not work out how to save a modified file. Any info appreciated. Kind regards, Gordon Smith. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk" "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539(a)one2one.net" http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk ICQ: 23973878 MSN Messenger: gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 Fax.: +44 1642 357 754

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Installing SuSE
by Gordon Smith 02 Sep '01

02 Sep '01

Hello. I have a question regarding the installation of SuSE. Is it possible to install SuSE with the following configuration: Drive 1 contains Windows, 9x in a FAT32 partition which occupies the entire drive. Drives 2, 3 and 4 are FAT32 drives, used for data storage. Drive 5 is set aside for SuSE. I have managed to get it installed with this configuration, but I then can't find a way to boot to Linux. I followed the recommended Lilo installation, I.E., wrote the Lilo to floppy. However, when it comes to boot time, the computer refuses to boot from the floppy SuSE created. I would prefer to use a boot manager on my first drive to boot Linux, but this doesn't want to work either. The manager finds the Linux configuration ok, but says it is non-bootable. Any suggestions please, bearing in mind that I'm still new to Linux. Thanks. Kind regards, Gordon Smith. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk" "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539(a)one2one.net" http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk ICQ: 23973878 MSN Messenger: gordon(a)tft-bbs.co.uk Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 Fax.: +44 1642 357 754

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