RE: Help Linux Woes Help!!!

Glad you have finally gotten some Linux success!!!

I access the web from Linux using a connection to my proxy server through
the network. While this does allow me to download files, I mostly use it to
look up documentation on the web. For files I tend to download them at work
where I have a T-1 line to use and put them on a zip drive than at home I
copy them from the zip on my NT machine and with Samba enabled on the Linux
machines I can just drag and drop the files using Windows NT Explorer. Don't
know if it is possible for you to run some cabling between the machines, but
setting up a network is pretty inexpensive and easy. Use some NE2000
compatible generic PCI NICs and get a basic 5 port hub and you can probably
do it for about $100 - $125.

I have a sound car in one of my Linux machines, but nave not taken any
effort to get it to work.


Tim
[Denver, CO]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian W. Wright [mailto:Ian@...]
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 11:18 AM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Help Linux Woes Help!!!
>
>
> From: "Ian W. Wright" <Ian@...>
>
> Wow! Thanks to the help of Tim, Matt and Jon I now seem to have a
> computer running EMC. I say seem to because I haven't actually managed
> to start it going in any recognisable form yet but it all appeared to
> compile OK and I didn't get any error messages at the end.
> Tim was very perceptive in realising that I had done a 'custom install'
> of Linux - it was the option recommended on the install screen and I
> hadn't noticed any instruction to the contrary in the docs I had read.
> Obviously, trying to install all the missing modules was getting me
> nowhere fast and so I bit the bullet and re-installed as a workstation
> with the odd bits Tim recommended tagged on. It worked first time! Oh,
> and the wife insisted I put the games back on, so, when I can prise her
> off it, I am going to download the emc test files from Matt's site and
> see what happens. It will all be a bit theoretical at the moment as I am
> in the middle of rebuilding motor controllers and so I've nothing
> physical to hang on the port but I expect the screen will do something
> to give me encouragement - I'll probably need it, the emc setup
> description looks very daunting.
> A couple of other questions - is anyone using a linux machine to access
> the web via a modem and normal ISP? I'd like to be able to hook mine up
> to simplify getting relevant files instead of having to download them
> onto this machine, transfer them to CD and then hike up two floors to
> load them onto the linux machine, but I can't seem to find any
> instructions on how to set up a DUN.
> Second, I've been trying to get a soundcard working but, despite trying
> 3 different 'soundblaster compatibles', I can't get a peep out of it.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks again chaps, I'll keep you updated.
>
> Ian
>
> Tim Goldstein wrote:
> >
> > From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
> >
> > hummmm,
> > Sounds like you are still missing some RPM packages. If you have the
> > "Official" Redhat 5.2 installation guide I would suggest going through
> > appendix C (page227) and verifying using Package Manager that
> you have every
> > package listed for Workstation or Base installed along with the
> following:
> > Base/Kernel/ everything
> > Development/Building/Libtools
> > X11/gnome/gnome-libx-devel
> >
> > Just to confirm my suspicion, did you do a custom install?
> >
> > Hope it helps,
>
> Best wishes
>
> Ian
>
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