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| Newer page: | version 17 | Last edited on Friday, September 15, 2006 3:54:22 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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-I figured the Wiki would be better for getting a useful response to these for "!
DrWho?"
+I figured the Wiki would be better for getting a useful response to these for "~
DrWho?"
I've attempted to reformulate the questions to get at what I thought was actually being asked.
NOTE: I'm far too lazy to be actually answer them, and I don't use a "normal" setup, so my answers would be less than useful :) (plus, I'm on FreeBSD ;)
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A: Serial ports are called /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1 etc under Linux. The reason for this is that anything that can be used like a terminal is called a "tty", and therefore serial tty's are called "/dev/ttySx". Linux also numbers from 0 not from 1, so COM1: under Windows is usually /dev/ttyS0 under Linux.
Many distros will automatically detect a modem and make a symlink from the appropriate serial device to /dev/modem. If you have a serial mouse, /dev/mouse will point to the serial device the mouse is using.
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The program setserial(8) can be used to configure serial port properties under Linux. (like mode under windows; but do you know anyone who uses that?!! Stuff like that is normally handled by the application) There may be a [GUI] tool, [YMMV].
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-Q: Where is the control pannel
to find what com port my modem is connected too?
+Q: Where is the control panel
to find what com port my modem is connected too?
Reformulation: How do I find out what serial port my modem is connected to?
A: Some distros provide [GUI] tools to do system configuration, eg [Mandriva Control Center|Mandriva]. Many distros (eg RedHat's KudZu) will auto detect a modem on bootup and create a /dev/modem symlink for you.
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Q: Where is the dial-up networking icon?
Reformulation: How do I configure and use some sort of dial up network?
-A: This varies from distro to distro. Probably the biggest problem in this area is that there are SO MANY GUI tools to choose from. RedHat has an "Internet Configuration Wizzard
", and will also let you set up a dialout connection under "Network configuration". This is very similar to how XP handles things.
+A: This varies from distro to distro. Probably the biggest problem in this area is that there are SO MANY GUI tools to choose from. RedHat has an "Internet Configuration Wizard
", and will also let you set up a dialout connection under "Network configuration". This is very similar to how XP handles things.
kppp is the only other GUI tool I've used and it's also very easy. I've also heard ModemLights mentioned favorably.
Worst possible case, you might need to get help setting up pppd(8) 'the hard way', but if you get it set up for DialOnDemand you'll never need to worry about it again because your computer will just dial out by itself when any application tries to use the internet.
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-Q: I click on an mp3
file and it does not play?
+Q: I click on an [MP3]
file and it does not play?
Reformulation: How do I play mp3's? Can I make them play from some sort of file manager?
A: Ensure that a mp3 player is installed, such as mplayer, xmms, etc.
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A: [Evolution] offers most, if not all of Outlooks functionality.
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-Q: Where is !
ScanDisk and Defrag?
+Q: Where is ~
ScanDisk and Defrag?
Reformulation: Do I need to defragment my filesystems? How about checking for and correcting errors?
A: The Linux filesystems (such as [Ext2], [Ext3], [ReiserFS]) don't normally require defragmentation the same way windows FileSystem~s do.
