[luau] REd hat 7.3 updated but still issues

Edward Haddock erhaddock at bizwind.com
Sun Jun 9 20:02:01 PDT 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Strode" <halfline at hawaii.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] REd hat 7.3 updated but still issues


> >     I have succesfully loaded RH 7.3 to my computer and doing "dd
> > if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/dosc bs=512 count=1" then editing the boot.ini on
> > the wonblows side, I now have a good multiboot.
> That's good.  Make sure that you redo those steps anytime you upgrade
> kernels (That's one reason I don't like doing it that way).
Will keep tabs on it.
> > 1. ) Printer and scanner. Printer is a Compaq IJ600 I can't seem to find
> > if it works or not and if there is a driver.
> Hmm.  Well, I use CUPS with GIMP-Print for my printing, but that won't
> work for you because you don't have a supported printer for that. In
> fact, I just tried to look up your printer at
> http://www.linuxprinting.org and it appears there is no driver for it.
> Red Hat comes with LPRng by default, so you may be able to configure it
> to use one of the foomatic drivers for the IJ750 or IJ300 and it /may/
> work /somewhat/, but no guarantees. Your best bet is to just try it and
> see what happens.  Sorry, I know that's not very good news.
No biggie for now.
> > Scanner is an UMAX Astra 610P on the parallel port.
> Scanning is normally done on linux by a program called SANE
> (http://www.mostang.com/sane).  More bad news though.  They don't have
> full support for the Astra 610P.  Apparently UMAX won't give them any of
> the design documents for the ASIC. There is a patch here:
> http://umax1220p.sourceforge.net.  It doesn't work with your scanner,
> but will in the future so periodically check in there.
No biggie here either.
> > 2. ) ISP sharing. I have gotten it to the point where my computer can
> > access the net fine. However, the computers on my internal network are
> > having no luck at all.
> Again, MonMotha is probably more qualified to answer than me, but if you
> type this (as root, all one line, with 192.168.0.0/24 replaced with your
> network):
>
> /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j
> MASQUERADE
>
> and then type (as root):
>
> /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
>
> then all your internal computers should get internet until you reboot.
>
> If they do, then type (as root):
>
> /sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables
>
> and this (as root, all one one line):
>
> cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep -v net.ipv4.ip_forward >
> /etc/sysctl.conf.tmp
>
> and then:
>
> echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf.tmp
> mv /etc/sysctl.conf.tmp /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> then your computers should get internet permanently.
Finnaly got this working. Was internal network at fault.
> > 3. ) Programming c++. I do a simple program in gedit then save. I go to
> > bash and do the typical g++ - name file
> well actually, you should type g++ -o name file (did you just forget the
> o in your explanation?).
>
> > and then try to do the program by typing it's name.  bash says
> > "command not found"
> try ./name instead of just name.  Basically, by default Linux doesn't
> include the current directory in the PATH.  . means current directory,
> so by prepending ./ to the name you are telling bash where to find the
> program.  Another thing you could do is add the current directory to the
> path.
>
> export PATH=$PATH:.
>
> That's temporary, but if you add that to a file called ~/.bash_profile
> in your home directory it should become permanent.
That's it. I wasn't doing ./name. :) I will add the path and all should be
good. Thanks Ray.

> >    I still have a few ideas that I am going to try. Thank you all in
> > advnce for all of youir help.
>
> np.
>
> --Ray
What a great list.
Thanks,
Edward




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