Connecting to the Internet ; editing LIO; setting up the sound card

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Hello again, I had an update today, I found out the manufacturor of my
modem, e-tech.  I bought it from a German company and although they sent me
manuals with it they neglected to send me any drivers.  There are no drivers
for Linux as far as I can tell on the e-tech.nu web site but there is a PDF
manual.  I'll have to spend a while getting around the security protection
before JAWS will read it for me but hopefully it will give me some ideas.

DArragh
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. C. Robinson" <lcr@onewest.net>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Internet ; editing LIO; setting up the sound
card


> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Darragh wrote:
>
> > Again nothing, I used the command setserial -a <cr> and
>
> You probably don't need setserial, unless you need to set up a
> serial port other than the the standard first 2 (ttyS0 and ttyS1,
> linux equivalent of com1 and com2).
>
> > I've being trying to decompress the rpm's for linuxconf but
> > I've had no luck,
>
> Good: linuxconf is poorly maintained junk, with security
> problems, and hard to follow menus, and is only included for
> backward compatibility in later RedHat versions.  I have deleted
> it from my systems.
>
> > speakup method of reading the man pages is taking some getting
> > use to.  Its pronouncing some words as broken words example
> > house is hou se.  Its very distracting.  To make things worse,
> > I cant use the up and down arrows to read the man pages as
> > speakup reads SS in front of every line, I've found from
> > experimentation that the E key will do the same thing without
>
> The man command uses the "less" pager by default, and the
> lowercase e key moves down a line at a time in that utility.
> Use the the h key from within "less" (better than "more") for
> help on other ways to move around (use "y" to move up a line):
> "less" uses vi editor conventions for movement where possible.
>
> > calling out the SS string.  Also, I cant read in pico with the
> > arrow keys, I have to use the speakup navigation keys.  that
>
> pico -- ugh.  Many other choices: vi is widely used, and of
> course emacspeak uses -- emacs.
>
> > makes it nearly impossible to edit text and incert  text into
> > certain parts of configuration files.  I'll probably get use to
> > it but for the moment its frustrating.  Back to the modem
> > though, this is getting on my nerves, I specifically asked for
> > a hardware modem when buying this computer to make it as easy
>
> Did I miss a message?  I saw nothing to indicate you have a
> winmodem (which is not the same as having an internal modem).
> Have you tried minicom (a terminal emulator program) to see if
> you can talk directly to the modem with "AT" commands, and get an
> "OK" response?
>
> Now, concerning the previous messages concerning wvdial, and the
> RedHat ppp setup help page:
>
> There were a great many ways invented to set up ppp, probably
> still in some aging directory in the linux archives on ibiblio
> (formerly metalab), and it's many mirrors around the world (see
> /pub/Linux/system/network/serial/ppp/*): wvdial obsoleted many of
> these by making things easy for the average user in the most
> common situations.  But as it's man page says, it doesn't cover
> every situation.  If it doesn't work for you, you are probably
> better off using one of the old dated text based scripts, which
> may still work, even though not well maintained.  Failing that,
> it may be easiest to configure by hand editing config files: the
> pppd documentation may help, though terse, but the PPP-HOWTO is
> probably your friend here (skip the first sections on the newer
> GUI config programs, and the sections on kernel compiling and the
> like -- RedHat has already done that stuff for you).  You
> probably have installed the HOWTO package on your system, and can
> find it by doing something like:
>
> locate PPP-HOWTO
>
> Resulting in a path something like:
> /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO
> for the ascii version.
>
> or
> locate PPP-HOWTO.html
> returning something like:
> /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/other-formats/html/PPP-HOWTO.html
>
> The most recent HOWTOs are always on www.linuxdoc.org
>
> If you want to configure things with the Red Hat style network
> config files, see the initscripts package, (do:
> rpm -qd initscripts
> )
> which should lead you to a terse file giving info on the
> textmode config files used in their GUI utilities:
> /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.67/sysconfig.txt
> for RH7.3,
> and you can edit them by hand, as I do (easier and more flexible
> than the GUI -- which I can use, but dislike -- too limited).
> They are:
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
> (see attached examples)
> You may have to create the ifcfg file by copying and changing
> one of the other ifcfg files in that directory.
>
> Then you could use the Redhat utils to bring up and take
> down your ppp connection:
> /sbin/ifup ppp0
> /sbin/ifdown ppp0
>
> LCR
>
> --
> L. C. Robinson
> reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid
>
> People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and
> instability instead.  This is award winning "innovation".  Find
> out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see
> "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html
>





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