On Monday 23 January 2006 18:50, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2006-01-22 at 20:53 -0500, Joe G wrote:
Thank you Carlos.
I'm glad that you are having better luck than me with this. I made a good faith attempt to get this going and devoted almost my whole weekend to it. And I know you folks did, too. But, there comes a point of diminishing returns.
I got a SuSE 10 DVD with a magazine, so I installed it in a new partition. Then, without running any update or configuring anything, I created a mount point for the iomega zip 250 I had connected yesterday to the parallel port, created a corresponding entry in fstab, loaded module imm, and mounted the Zip: absolutely no problem, worked as a charm first time.
It took about one hour to install the system, and two minutes to get the zip mounted and running.
So... it is not impossible.
Version 10 is not broken in this respect - at least, not with "imm", I can't test "ppa". I was afraid that iomega zip support could be broken, but it is not.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Ah, But that's because you're a Linux guru. I use a ProStar 2794 laptop at home mostly as desktop. (I usually carry a different one with me on the road.) There are other issues... Konqueror doesn't show my built- in floppy as mounted, even though I can browse the files and write to it. If i start with my usb flash drive in the usb port, I cannot mount it, even though I click on mount. But, if I connect it after booting, it'll be recognized and let me mount it (and show it mounted). Because this is a laptop, maybe there's a hardware issue here that no amount of tinkering will solve.. I really do like SuSE. It's a really good value for the money, it lets me do the things I need to do, and I like that I can really lock the system down tight. These two issues, the zip drive and the scanner really aren't serious enough to sour me on it. And, I really respect the open source philosophy. -Joe