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17-Oct-2002, 04:19 AM #1
Thumbs up {Resolved}RedHat Mouse & Modem Help
I've installed ReadHat 7.3 (now upgraded to 8.0) on my IBM A31 Thinkpad. I had no installation problems whatsoever. However, I was wondering if there was a way to get my track point and usb mouse working at the same time? I can have one or the other, jsut not both. The real kick in the *** is that during the upgrade to 8.0, while in the installer, both mice were enabled!!!! Also, i can't get my modem to work. Any suggestions?

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17-Oct-2002, 06:47 AM #2
On the mouse and trackpoint-I think you can only use one at a time as I dont think X is capable of running two in a single configuration.I may be wrong,but I've never heard of anyone doing that.
You probably have a winmodem.Contact IBM about solutions to that.They're on a HUGE Linux push right now so they may be able to help.
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21-Oct-2002, 07:05 PM #3
Is your modem PCMCIA? if so check to make sure you have that enabled,
You might also consider doing a fresh install rather than an upgrade, I just tried upgrading from Red Hat 7.0 to 7.3 and wound up with a hole lotta wasted space, Red Hat apperantly doesn't believe in deleting unused files from the previous install

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22-Oct-2002, 03:05 AM #4
Thanx guys, I figured out (thanx to lynch) that i have a winmodem and as far as i can tell it's not supported under linux. I never got the two mice working together, i don't think it's possible. Just really annoying cause it worked so well in the installer. just one more question. I'm mounting a fat32 partition in my fstab file but i can't get it to allow anyone but the root to write to it. Chmod 'ing it doesn't work, says "operation not permitted" even from root. Any suggestions?
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22-Oct-2002, 03:23 AM #5
You can try this site for your modem linmodems.org
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22-Oct-2002, 06:43 AM #6
At the end of the entry for the fat32 partition,but before the last part,ie."0 0 "
add this:
umask=0
It should look somthing like this:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/fat32 auto,noauto,user,umask=0, 0 0
The umask=0 allow others than root to read fat or ntfs partitions.
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22-Oct-2002, 04:25 PM #7
Thanx, That worked Great! I really appreciate it.

p.s. These forums are supper helpful. Great job guys!
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