hello, why don't you turn that option off in the bios? It will make life a whole lot simpler. just a suggestion. don't let windows dictate what you do with your computer. Paul
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > <snip> > > Continuing on would have > > gotten me the man reader, but alas, my modem wouldn't work, so I couldn't > > download any further packages. I can zcat the doc files, but because > > there's garbage in the output of that (ctrl characters, etc), it's not easy > > to read. As a result I've been rebooting into Win95, connecting to the web, > > doing research, rebooting into Linux, making config changes, failing, > > rebooting into Win95, etc etc. > > I don't know why you're having trouble with your modem on linux, but I > would recommend you connect to the internet with W95, ftp the man-db > package from a Debian site (remember to set binary) and install it > with dpkg -i filename in linux. Problem solved. > > Grab what you can at the same time: if you get dependency problems, just > go back to ftp. (Or one can just pick over the packages file by eye. > That's the wonderful thing about having it all driven by simple text > files, not complicated databases.) > > Cheers, > > -- > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 > Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA > Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify > official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. Thanks, but I got the modem going. Win95/PnP Bios set the modem to COM3, IRQ5 (how's that for a non-standard IRQ setting?). So I used setserial to set /dev/ttyS2 to irq 5 and the modem fired right up. Now all I have to do is figure out what file to edit to do this on boot-up.
