[Scottish] (is there anyone who can) HELP ? ! !

[Paxton, Darren]

Forgive the indentation everyone - difficult to try to work with the text as
displayed.


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From: scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of babaguy
Sent: 11 January 2005 16:13
To: scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Scottish] (is there anyone who can) HELP ? ! ! 


> Hello All !       I bought & installed Suse 
>9.1 Personal - I've had a few difficulties which 
>I've inquired of one of our number about, and 
>more or less resolved, but honestly, I'm not 
>running the machine now because it is simply too 
>much hassle to sort out - so far, that is !       
>
>Problems: I can't get the machine to recognise 
>or link up to the external modem I 
>bought.........so I can't get online. 


Have you tried running wvdial or minicom and connect to the port to ensure
that it can see it? Or tried using Yast2 to configure?


> The first disk from the Suse WILL not boot (seems to be corrupted) 

I would have sent it back at this point or asked for a replacement

>, so I've used the second one - which seems 
>to be all right.....but, as I say, there is 
>essential stuff that isn't occurring.      

Like what? You havent really clarified what you're saying with any evidence
of stuff that's not happening.


>And one odd thing - there is a quite a lovely 
>initial wallpaper that comes up as standard 
>once the machine is booted. I experimented 
>and stuck on another one, then when I wanted 
>to change back to the original, it had 
>disappeared from the available options.....!  

Cant help here - never really bothered that much about the wallpapers as I
do most of my work on the command line.    

>When I have typed in the "mount/dev" commands 
>I don't seem to get a clickable or command-able 
>list of devices the machine recognises - I have 
>gotten different messages each time I've 
>tried - (but I haven't done anything with it 
>for over a week, as much other work beckoned, 
>which I've done on my old windows 3.1 system.....) 

Mount either shows you the list of mounted devices currently on the system,
or, with some command line options, allows you to add other devices that the
system may not know about into the filesystem (such as removeable media).

Try lspci for a listing of the cards detected by the system.



>ANYway, I don't want to be a moany, gripy sort 
>of person, but I also would really like to be 
>able to use Linux, and it ain't easy - at all !
> - as far as I can see......I realise that Suse
> have deleted 9.1 Personal - maybe there were 
>problems with it........

I absolutely hate having to say this, but in the case that you have a manual
- did you try working through it? One of Suse's great advantages is the
reading material included with the package. I've been using Suse since 5.3
and I always read through it again due to the advice it gives on installing
and configuring the system.

I'm not sure where you've gotten the idea that Suse have "deleted" 9.1 - a
quick check on the Suse mirror at mirror.ac.uk shows that there's still
plenty of data there relating to that particular release. I think you'll
realise that 9.2 has been released and Suse are no longer pushing 9.1 as the
main product anymore - this doesn't mean that 9.1 has been totally
abandoned.

Can't really help further on the assistance side of things, but I hope I've
pointed you in a general direction.

Also, can I ask what mail client you're using as its completely messed
formatting here.

Cheers

Darren

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