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.
Hi Dave! On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Dave Csercsics wrote:
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.
I'm sorry, I don't know how to setup this. But take a look at the SuSE support database, perhaps there is a helptext for your problem. the support database is on http:/7www.suse.com
Also, is it po0ssible to get suse-blinux to use the US braille translation tables?
You can select the brailletable by editing the file /etc/suse-blinux.conf There you'll find an entry for brailletable wich is called brltbl. Just set it to us and it works ;-) : brltbl=us [...]
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.
You can mount a floppy into the directroy /floppy The filesystem will be detected automaticly. If you want to mount a vfat formated floppy into another directory, use this syntax: mount /dev/fd0 <directory> -t vfat -o defaults In the file /etc/mtab you can setup the filesystems or partitions, wich shuld be mounted during bootup. Also there is the right place to tell the system how to handle floppies or cdroms etc. See also the manpages about mount for more informations. Best regards, Schoeppi ---------- SuSE-Blinux Support Christian Schöpplein <schoeppi@suse.de> Tel.: Di. und Do. 15.00 - 20.00 Uhr 0421/526-2480 www: http://www.blinux.suse.de/en/
Thanks a lot for that info...that is very helpful. I am sure that I will have more questions as I learn more about linux. Thank goodness suse includes heaps of docs and howtos. On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:50:39 +0200 (CEST), Christian Schoepplein wrote:
Hi Dave!
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Dave Csercsics wrote:
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.
I'm sorry, I don't know how to setup this. But take a look at the SuSE support database, perhaps there is a helptext for your problem. the support database is on
http:/7www.suse.com
Also, is it po0ssible to get suse-blinux to use the US braille translation tables?
You can select the brailletable by editing the file
/etc/suse-blinux.conf
There you'll find an entry for brailletable wich is called brltbl. Just set it to us and it works ;-) :
brltbl=us
[...]
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.
You can mount a floppy into the directroy
/floppy
The filesystem will be detected automaticly. If you want to mount a vfat formated floppy into another directory, use this syntax:
mount /dev/fd0 <directory> -t vfat -o defaults
In the file
/etc/mtab
you can setup the filesystems or partitions, wich shuld be mounted during bootup. Also there is the right place to tell the system how to handle floppies or cdroms etc. See also the manpages about mount for more informations.
Best regards, Schoeppi
---------- SuSE-Blinux Support Christian Sch�pplein <schoeppi@suse.de> Tel.: Di. und Do. 15.00 - 20.00 Uhr 0421/526-2480 www: http://www.blinux.suse.de/en/
Hi Dave! I made a little mistake in my last mail ;-).... I wrote:
In the file
/etc/mtab
you can setup the filesystems or partitions, wich shuld be mounted during bootup. Also there is the right place to tell the system how to handle floppies or cdroms etc. See also the manpages about mount for more informations.
The file isn't called mtab, but fstab. You can find mor infos with man fstab Best regards, Schoeppi ---------- SuSE-Blinux Support Christian Schöpplein <schoeppi@suse.de> Tel.: Di. und Do. 15.00 - 20.00 Uhr 0421/526-2480 www: http://www.blinux.suse.de
hi dave, the answer from chrsitian was the right way to configure suse-blinux (sbl) with a US table maybe that the US-brailletable is a little differnet to the standard US-brailletable if you want to modify the table you can get a small program from me to edit brailletable-files best regards marco ** Life is hard and then you die ** ----------------------------------- SuSE GmbH - Deutschherrenstrasse 15-19 - 90429 Nuernberg Projekt: suse-blinux http://www.blinux.suse.de E-Mail: Marco Skambraks <marco@suse.de> blinux-support: Di. und Do. 15.00 - 20.00 Uhr 0421/526-2480
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