I'm still screwed...

I can't seem to do much at the moment with Linux. I have installed the full version of the OS, and logged into it using the root. I have already asked for help on this forum but as I really don't have a clue about Linux, I can't use the help I'm being given. I have a few queries:
I get "an eth0: unknown interface" error (plus others) when trying to start the network. I've been told it might be because my network card is not installed. I have a Realtek card. What do I need to do to configure it properly?
When I mount a CD, I can access it, but I can't seem to eject it once it has been mounted. Any ideas?
How do I mount a floppy drive?
Thank you in advance,
Kirk

kirkl_uk wrote:I get "an eth0: unknown interface" error (plus others) when trying to start the network. I've been told it might be because my network card is not installed. I have a Realtek card. What do I need to do to configure it properly?
eth0 is the first ethernet device.
But, you first need to either load the module for it (in Windows terminology, that would be the driver), or associate the module with the interface. I prefer the latter. You do this by editing
/etc/modules.conf
and insert a line
alias eth0 8139too
See also Section 3.1.6 of http://www.archlinux.org/docs/archdoc_us.html
After you have modified /etc/modules.conf do a depmod -a to tell the system about the change (this also happens during boot), or, to load the module instantly, do a modprobe 8139too. After that, you can start your network with /etc/rc.d/network start
To learn more about how ethernet works on Linux, check out http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html
The Howtos are great documents to learn about Linux. Especially in AL since AL does not do a lot of own configuration and own tools, so most of the generic explanations in the Howtos hold true.
kirkl_uk wrote:When I mount a CD, I can access it, but I can't seem to eject it once it has been mounted. Any ideas?
That is correct behaviour. You first have to umount a CD before you can eject it. A proper OS does not allow the user to rip out the media of a filesystem that the OS wants to access.
kirkl_uk wrote:How do I mount a floppy drive?
The easiest would be to install mtools. Then you have commands like mdir mcopy etc. which allow you to access DOS formated floppies.
If you need to mount floppies explicitly, this works just like CD's and simply try
mount /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl
Warning : don't forget to umount the floppy before ejecting it. Otherwise your filesystem on the floppy will be corrupt ! Unfortunately, the OS has no means to lock the flopy drive like it can with the CD-Rom drive.
Lastly, not trying to be offensive, but still check out :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=1815
and do browse http://www.tldp.org/ You will enjoy Linux much more if you are going through the documentation yourself - that's how we all learned it. The (in)famous RTFM is really not as rude as it may seem, it really is helpful - I speak from experience and am glad I heard RTFM in my early years more than I would have liked.

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Now to find a cold shower and calm myself down again...
grrrrr
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Barry Cohen

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I updated my system yesterday and it broke something. My PS1 used to look like: http://imgur.com/a/GboiZ#0 , with a special - character.
When I logged in today, my PS1 looked like this: http://imgur.com/a/GboiZ#2, and the line in my .bashrc with the filler looked like this: http://imgur.com/a/GboiZ#1.
I already downgraded bash and xterm, what could have caused this? I also tried zsh for the first time yesterday, but that doesn't seem to be related, since when I download an old copy of the file, the character is still screwed up.
Thanks in advance

Stebalien wrote:
What is the output of 'env'? Make sure that the LANG and the LC_* variables end in ".utf8".
edit -- While you are at it, post your /etc/rc.conf, /etc/profile.d/locale.sh, and /etc/locale.gen.
LANG is set to C, running locale outputs everything as C too. However, LOCALE in rc.conf is set to en_US.UTF-8
locale.sh has:
if [ -s /etc/rc.conf ]; then
export LANG=$(. /etc/rc.conf 2> /dev/null ; echo "$LOCALE")
else
export LANG="C"
fi
which I guess is correct since LOCALE is set in rc.conf
locale.gen has everything but en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and en_US ISO-8859-1 commented.
listdata wrote:Excuse my sillyness, but you did change your .bashrc function back to actually use the correct special character, right?
Yes

Audigy 4 Pro on Vista Prob

hey guys, I'm new to this message board but have been a supporter of creative for quite a few years now, but anyways I have a problem hopefully a few of you can figure out for me as I'm currently stumped.
I have the Soundblaster Audigy 4 Pro sound card and have had Vista installed since it came out, I had the latest Creative driver's installed and it worked great, about a month ago when Microsoft released the SP beta for the public I installed it and that's where my problems started, the driver's are apparently incompatible with SP and I could only get 2. sound out of my speakers and the audio console looked a little screwed up, for instance the speaker configuration drop down box had nothing in it and the cmss looked screwed up, anyway I left it alone up until yesterday when I wanted my 7. surround back, I decided to uninstall SP and revert back to normal Windows, the drivers' were still screwed up so I reinstalled them but no luck, I found Daniel K's latest driver's here and uninstalled everything Creative and installed the driver's fresh but it still didn't work.
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nobody knows?

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I'm still screwed...

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