I've just replaced Red Hat 7.0 with SuSE PRO 7.3 and ... I regret having done that !!! Why ??? 1. The installation procedure could not recognize the Modem (a simple 3Com DELL modem) 2. I tried to mount both the zip drive and the floppy drive and neither one was mounted.... No way !! I just cannot find them in the /dev directory Actually the installation procedure did not prompt for any of these peripherals 3. I tried to print (lp, lpr, print ...) to an EPSON C60 ... just forget it !!! 4. By switching from Red Hat to SuSE I lost the "cut & paste" mouse capability as well ... I followed the web posted instructions to get some help at installing the Modem and generated the "/tmp/info.txt" file. But how can I send them the file given that my SuSE system is cut off the rest of the word ??? (no output ... see above) I can just ship them the hard disk containing the requested info file .... I apologize for giving vent to my frustration ... Maura E.M.
On Sunday 23 December 2001 11:42 pm, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I've just replaced Red Hat 7.0 with SuSE PRO 7.3 and ... I regret having done that !!! Why ??? 1. The installation procedure could not recognize the Modem (a simple 3Com DELL modem) 2. I tried to mount both the zip drive and the floppy drive and neither one was mounted.... No way !! I just cannot find them in the /dev directory Actually the installation procedure did not prompt for any of these peripherals 3. I tried to print (lp, lpr, print ...) to an EPSON C60 ... just forget it !!! 4. By switching from Red Hat to SuSE I lost the "cut & paste" mouse capability as well ...
I followed the web posted instructions to get some help at installing the Modem and generated the "/tmp/info.txt" file. But how can I send them the file given that my SuSE system is cut off the rest of the word ??? (no output ... see above) I can just ship them the hard disk containing the requested info file ....
I apologize for giving vent to my frustration ...
Maura E.M.
This might be a stupid question, but how did you upgrade to SuSE 7.3? Fresh installation? For the zip and floppy, this should have been taken care of automatically, check /media/zip and /media/floppy and check to see how they are set. Try running yast2 for the modem and going through setting it up, so, yast2 and then Network/basic setup. Almost the same for the Epson, just under hardware and then automatic detection. If none of these are what you want to use, try standard yast and go to standard installation. The main differences between SuSE and Redhat will be layout, although it goes a little deeper than that. SuSE is far more LSB compliant than Redhat. Matt
On Monday 24 December 2001 02:42 am, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I've just replaced Red Hat 7.0 with SuSE PRO 7.3 and ... I regret having done that !!! Why ??? 1. The installation procedure could not recognize the Modem (a simple 3Com DELL modem)
It should be easy to configure manually though. What problems are you having configuring it manually? I remember I had a problem configuring mine because it was on the equivalent of COM5 (!). I told it manually that it's on /dev/ttys4 and it didn't work. Then I realized it was case-sensitive and put in /dev/ttyS4. That worked fine, even though the display for both were in lowers. (Don't try this unless you know you have this sort of modem.)
2. I tried to mount both the zip drive and the floppy drive and neither one was mounted.... No way !! I just cannot find them in the /dev directory
There's no /dev/fd0? I find that hard to believe. I have no problems with floppies here. ("mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy")
Actually the installation procedure did not prompt for any of these peripherals 3. I tried to print (lp, lpr, print ...) to an EPSON C60 ... just forget it !!!
Printing works here too - you might try configuring that with YAST2 as well. You have a choice between lpr and cups.
4. By switching from Red Hat to SuSE I lost the "cut & paste" mouse capability as well ...
KDE and GNOME applications will not cut and paste between each other. This is true in any distribution. Since Red Hat has a default of GNOME and SuSE has a preference (less of a strict one than Red Hat's towards GNOME) towards KDE, you may be experiencing problems with the GNOME programs you find familiar cutting and pasting to your new KDE apps. Red Hat 7.0, unlike SuSE, did not give you a choice between KDE and GNOME; KDE didn't work under Red Hat; so really SuSE is better about cutting and pasting than Red Hat is. :-)
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 02:37, Joshua Lee wrote: Joshua! Good words! A little clarification is in order, though...
KDE and GNOME applications will not cut and paste between each other.
That's not entirely true. Firstly, she's talking about the X cut buffer, not a DE cut buffer, through which plain text copies fine. I believe her problem is that emulate3buttons is not enabled for her (plain, 2-button) PS/2 mouse. -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | < '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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