Re: [aclug-L] New Linux - !!!Status Update!!!

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 03:30:27PM -0600, Carl B. Davis wrote:
> I'm the guy with the Pentium 133 and Redhat 5.1.  BTW, I'm kind of
> ticked that I bought 5.1 about a week and a half before 5.2 was
> available, but whatever.

You may want to check out some of the "discount" CD-ROM brokers; CheapBytes,
LinuxCentrel, etc.

> XWindows, it will work, but it won't let me change disks during
> sessions, and a couple times it seemed to just sort of forgot where it
> was, then I got a message that it couldn't mount it.

The easiest way, IMHO, is to do something like this:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom

and then issue rpm commands manually from /cdrom/RedHat/RPMS or so if I
remember correctly, then umount /cdrom when done.

> So far I don't much care for the editors that are available.  I tried
> Vi-m, but I never could figure out how to actually input any text, and
> save my work.  I did use the X-windows edit application, but after I
> changed the virtual desktop size, I can't get to the top to make any
> changes or load a file.  It has scrolled off the screen.  I was
> expecting to find Joe, but despite what the documents say, I don't think
> it was loaded from the disk.  I never found Jed either. I have for years
> used the old Dos Sidekick editor.  I wish there was something like that.

Joe is exactly like that.  You may have to install it manually, but I'm
*sure* there's an RPM for it someplace.  It's rather popular.

However, joe is rather limited.  A lot of people like XEmacs -- it's VERY
powerful, but has a steep learning curve.  The book _Learning GNU Emacs_ is
a good read.

> The big problem I face now is what to do with my network card.  This
> system has to be on the network, but the auto probe during install
> didn't find the installed PCI adapter.  I cancelled network
> configuration at that point.  The adapter is an PCI SN3200 that I bought
> at Prologic.  It's supposed to be, I think, NE 2000 compatible.  I use
> these cards in my other machines without any problems, but of course
> they are all running windows.  I have scrolled through some FAQ's about
> configuring NE2000 clones, and they seem fairly optimistic, but I
> remember seeing one post here that advised that it is just better to
> pony out the old credit card and buy one of the specifically supported
> adapters.

If you have a recent kernel, say 2.0.35 or so, the driver is ne2k-pci. 
Otherwise, the driver is ne.

This may be compiled in at boot; if so, it should be automatically
recognized.  Otherwise, try:

modprobe ne2k-pci

or

modprobe ne

> I'm leaning toward the new adapter.  If I do that , is there a
> configuration utility that I can run short of reinstalling the system
> from scratch.

Yes, in RedHat, there is a netcfg tool and a LinuxConf tool.  Best of luck
to you with them.  They didn't quite work for me, but editing the files by
hand is pretty easy.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Carl
> 
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