RedHat Mouse & Modem Help

TristanSDM · 03:26 PM

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?

lynch · 17-Oct-2002, 05:47 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.
lynch

LLTroll · 06:12 PM

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

TristanSDM · 22-Oct-2002, 02:05 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?

LLTroll · 22-Oct-2002, 02:23 AM #5

You can try this site for your modem linmodems.org

lynch · 22-Oct-2002, 05:43 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.
HTH
lynch

TristanSDM · 22-Oct-2002, 03:25 PM #7

Thanx, That worked Great! I really appreciate it.

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

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