Small issues with Suse 8.1

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

Well i installed suse today and it works fine with my laptop and i have experienced no troubles or errors during or after installation.

It is installed without windows being on the HDD incidentally.

The OS found the video card (SIS 630 chipset), the sound card, the mouse and my USB mass storage driver.

What it hasn't found and these being the reasons why i am posting here is my printer and my modem and my lack of knowledge with installing tar files or bin files.  I need to install the java sdk for college.

Anybody willing to help me on this?

I'm still testing my printer and so far it works in root. My modem is a Creative Modem Blaster Flash56 DE5720 but its telling me it is a Microcom Deskporte 56k, Suse doesn't detect the internal modem.

I am in root when configuring.

[ October 26, 2002: Message edited by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter ]

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:

What it hasn't found and these being the reasons why i am posting here is my printer and my modem and my lack of knowledge with installing tar files or bin files.  I need to install the java sdk for college.

Anybody willing to help me on this?

I'm still testing my printer and so far it works in root. My modem is a Creative Modem Blaster Flash56 DE5720 but its telling me it is a Microcom Deskporte 56k, Suse doesn't detect the internal modem.

Tarballs are like zip files. Extract the contents and look for the readme files

tar -zxvf tarball.tgz

where z means it's a compressed tarball (most all of them are), x means eXtract the file, v means "verbosely tell me what you are doing while you extract the file," and f means "I"m telling you to extract this certain file."


Is that an external modem?  If so, then it doesn't matter what it thinks it has.

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

Okay i will play with these files.

Another wierd issue is the printer, it test prints in root but when i log in as user it won't print, the printer plays dead on me.

Another issue that has cropped up si the DVD drive, it grew an extra icon after a reboot and now both icons won't play a simple music cd.

I am thinking of wiping it and starting again incidentally just to get the fonts and the windows partition for use of wine.

Yes the modem is external, with me never going online before in linux i don't know how the modem behaves or what the procedure is.

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
Okay i will play with these files.

Another wierd issue is the printer, it test prints in root but when i log in as user it won't print, the printer plays dead on me.

Another issue that has cropped up si the DVD drive, it grew an extra icon after a reboot and now both icons won't play a simple music cd.

I am thinking of wiping it and starting again incidentally just to get the fonts and the windows partition for use of wine.

Yes the modem is external, with me never going online before in linux i don't know how the modem behaves or what the procedure is.

Im assuming that you are using KDE, as that was the default GUI for the last few SUSE installs I used.  

As root, run kppp.  It has a wizard for setting up your modem.  You need to know which serial port your modem is plugged into.  IF it is the first serial port, the corresponding device is /dev/ttyS0.  The second serial port is /dev/ttyS1.

I'm not sure why the icons fail to play a music CD.  Can you play music CD's with the KCD CD player (kscd) ?

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

Yes i am using KDE.

This is a laptop btw it only has one serial port.
I try playing the music with that program "kscd", it won't read it.

When the extra icon grew, one was a disc icon with "DVD" written on it while the other had "cd" written on it.
The laptop only has one DVD drive.

Thankyou LORD OF YOU / b0b 2.1 for the link.

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

I've reinstalled Suse btw without the printer or the modem attached.
The printer now works properly and i will test the modem tonight.

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

Okay i think the issue with Suse is that if you connect devices to the system during an installation it, for some reason fucks up.

Anyway i did reinstall and DIDN'T connect anything, the printer now works and so does the modem and here i am posting on these boards in Konqueror!!!

But i want mozilla since i used it on winblows.

[LorKorub]

Did you install Mozilla?

Just go to a command prompt and type mozilla.

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

No i still havn't installed it but i will open a terminal and just type "mozilla".

[kinky]

mozilla came default for me as i instaled everything.. with an icon already on the desktop...

but.. not sure what kinda modem and printer driver problems you were really having... might never fid the cause now.  i dont use dial up modems, but ive installed 8.1 on a few boxes now with different printers already attached and never had a problem.  Yast takes care of printers pretty good