Re: Help on PNP cards, network config & FAT 32 mounting.
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:11:09 PDT, "Gustavo Ribeiro Alves" wrote:
> It's the first time I'm trying to install Linux and I'm in need of some help
> :). I have a PENTIUM II 300 Mhz whit a AGP video card (Appolo 65, uses the Ci
> rrus Logic 5465 chip), a USR Spotster 56 K Voice Faxmodem and a PCI NE2000 cl
> one network card. I have another computer in my house, a P100 whit the FPU an
> d whit the microsoft (WIN 9x) bugs :).
ok
> I can't configure the X-windows to understand high resolution modes (+ than 8
> 00x600) whit my card.
Although I don't really know, it sounds like you're trying to configure
a fairly new graphics card which may not be supported in the version of
x-windows your'e using. If that's the case, then I suggest you check
out the XFree86 FAQ at the XFree86 website, see what version of
X-windows supports your chipset, and then see if there's a Debian
package of that version. If your card is supported with your x-windows
version, and you still can't configure higher resolutions, you might
find the XFree86-HOWTO (in /usr/doc/HOWTO/ or at your favorite Linux
Documentation Project ftp mirror site) helpful. XFree86 used to have a
really good FAQ that helped me out when I was configuring my Matrox
Millenium before that was supported in a release x-windows version. I
ended up compiling x-windows myself and it was fairly easy.
http://www.xfree86.org/
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/
> My network consist of the PII and the P100. I'd like to use the IPX protocol
> and access whit the PII a CDROM drive on the P100 and a printer (HP DESKJET
> 820 Cxi - not Linux compatible). The problem is that I'd like to use the PII
> to access the internet via an ISP (I didn't configure it yet).
There are too many different ways to configure dialup networking. Do
you want dial-on-demand, a graphical utility, or just a script file?
There are a number of useful HOWTO's which I suggest you look into if
you plan on setting up the traditional pon/poff scripts. The NET-3 and
ISP HOWTO's come to mind, and I'm sure there are others. If you'd
rather use a graphical user interface, there are some debian packages
you can try out. I hear wvdial mentioned from time to time here, so I
presume that's popular. Personally, I like xisp because it shows you
what's happening in real-time, but last time I checked there wasn't a
debian package although I do recall seeing a mention that a debian
developer would be packaging that in the future. After you make up
your mind how you want to connect and try some stuff out and get stuck,
post what your results are and what your isp expects, and there's
probably someone here who can help you out.
> The modem is refusing to work (it's PNP) and when I tried to use the BIOS to
> config it, it changed my mouse configuration and I can't find the file that c
> ontains the mouse configuration in linux to change it.
First off, do you have a "win-modem"? If so, you need a new modem. If
not, then see if there are jumpers on your modem you can manually
configure the interrupt with. I have a USR Sportster Voice/Fax 33.6
and that's what I did. I believe you can get jumper information from
the USR website (or whoever bought USR, I believe http://www.usr.com
still works) if you don't have the owner's manual. Manually setting
the interrupts on your modem is probably the most desirable way to
setup your modem, but there are other ways. I've heard of problems
using the bios to config pnp devices (it never worked for me), and
another option is to initialize your pnp devices in win9x and soft-boot
into Linux (this worked for me, but I don't consider it a solution).
The direct answer to your question is that the mouse is controlled by
many means including the devices /dev/ttyS[0-3] (for COM[1-4]), and
/dev/psaux for a ps/2 mouse, with a symlink from /dev/mouse to the
appropriate device, as well as gpm (man gpm) for the mouse when not in
x-windows, and XF86Config (man XF86Config) when in x-windows.
Additionaly, you should be able to adjust some mouse settings using
xset in xwindows (man xset).
> Next I'd like to mount a FAT32 drive and choose to boot from the linux or the
> win95. (I have a 800Mb partition on my HD unformated just waiting to have my
> old win95 installed, which I ziped and copied to another drive).
I hope you know win95 will only boot from the first logical partition
on the first hard drive. (or it used to, I haven't run it in years)
There's also the issue of writing the master boot record. Anyways,
lilo should have no problem doing this. There are so many multi-boot
HOWTO's that I think I'll just refer you to those so you can try some
examples. There is also a bunch of good info in /usr/doc/lilo/ as well
as man lilo. You also might want to have another way of booting linux
before you try doing this, i.e.: a working linux bootdisk, another
bootable Linux partion, or whatever. There's also a lilo configuration
utility named liloconfig, if I recall correctly. (man liloconfig)
Something else you might find useful is the Debian-user FAQ:
http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html
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