Re: Books and Printers and PPP

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Craig Andrews wrote:

> Is Linux complete a good reference book for a semi-newbie? By that I
> mean not alien at all to PC's and such, but not too hot on some of the
> Linux specifics. How technical does it get, for instance? (the more the
> better).

Not sure. To be honest, if you're after something that will work for you
at all levels, it has to be Running Linux...

> Also, anyone know how to make an Epson stylus 640 do higher than 360x360
> in 'hatch-o-vision'. Something more akin to Windoze style output would
> be nice. Managed it once with the 600 driver, but then it died and
> needed replacing.

What died? The printer? or Driver?

> Finally, I recently re-compiled my kernel (2.2.13) to include modules
> for the soundcard. Now, PPP connections seem a little flakey, and liable
> to drop off suddenly. Also, I get a message in the console log:
>
> insmod: cannot locate module char-major-108
>
> Anyone know what this is? char-major-107 is the 3dfx, and char-major-109
> is the LVM, but no mention of what char-major-108 is, so I don't know
> what it wants!!! I'm using kPPP by the way. sorry :-(

Heh, you've almost solved the problem yourself. char-major-108 is ppp
related. What have you got in your conf.modules? (or modules.conf,
depending on your version of modutils ;) You should see something like
'alias char-major-108 ppp-generic'...

Cheers,

Alex.

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