To: Slave Copy

Please explain everything over again. There is no way i could get the driver in /tmp because i have no internet in Linux and i'm using Windows for internet.

[trickster]

[quote author=dsantamassino link=board=21;threadid=7910;start=30#msg72480 date=1065992547]
Please explain everything over again. [/quote]
I'm sorry. I refuse to. If there is something you don't understand, please copy and paste the parts that you don't understand, and I will gladly explain them.

There is no way i could get the driver in /tmp because i have no internet in Linux and i'm using Windows for internet.

[dsanta@localhost dsanta]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost dsanta]# mount -t umsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /mnt/floppy
[root@localhost dsanta]# cd /mnt/floppy
[root@localhost floppy]# tar -zxvf pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz

As far as I know, this is the output of a linux terminal. And as far as I know, the file pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz is the driver. So to my understanding, if you have this output from a linux terminal, and, it seems, you have the file pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz on a floppy, then, to my understanding, you do have the driver available under linux.

[trickster]

[quote author=dsantamassino link=board=21;threadid=7910;start=30#msg72480 date=1065992547]
Please explain everything over again.
[/quote]
This is one thing that frustrates me. I told you already to tell me what part you don't understand, and I would explain it again. However, you just say "I don't understand anything."
Do you understand the first sentence? The second one? Third? A specific word? ???

Now i give up. Maybe i will be in the mood next time Schotty comes on or the next time you want to try to help me again.

[trickster]

[quote author=dsantamassino link=board=21;threadid=7910;start=30#msg72484 date=1065994270]
Now i give up. Maybe i will be in the mood next time Schotty comes on or the next time you want to try to help me again.
[/quote]

See my private message.

This is everything i don't understand i will post below. It was basically everything expect the first and second sentences.

2. The reason you are getting IO errors is because you have a compressed file on a floppy, and you are trying to decompress it inisde the floppy. where it won't fit.

So, you need to copy the file out of the floppy and into a directory of your hard drive. /tmp is a good place

So that means you need to change into the floppy directory, and issue something like

cp pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz /tmp

That will copy it to the /tmp folder.

Then, change to the /tmp directory and decompress it there, and follow the instructions.

Ok trickster now it's your turn please check your PM. Thanks.

[trickster]

Hi Derek,

This is the output you provided last:

[dsanta@localhost dsanta]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost dsanta]# mount -t umsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /mnt/floppy
[root@localhost dsanta]# cd /mnt/floppy
[root@localhost floppy]# tar -zxvf  pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz

This is what that means:

This part:

 [root@localhost dsanta]# cd /mnt/floppy

means that you changed directories to the floppy disk.

This part:

[root@localhost floppy]# tar -zxvf  pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz

means you are trying to decompress the file tar -zxvf pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz.

Now, as you can notice, the file pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz is not an rpm file. It is what is called a tarball, or just the uncompiled code for your driver. This code is compressed so that it won't occupy much space.

According to what you posted, you have the file pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz on a floppy. Since this is the source code for creating a driver for your modem, you can use it. However, you have to move it from your floppy to your hard drive. This is because the size on a floppy is limited, and uncompressed file won't fit on the floppy.

What you do is:

a: Boot into linux.
b: Put the floppy disk in
c: cd /mnt/floppy (you should know this by now)
d: cp pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz /tmp
e: cd /tmp (this will change you to the /tmp folder, where you copied the file)
f: tar -zxvf pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz
g: follow the instructions previously posted at the beggining of the modem thread.

The cp command did not work. I got an error.

[dsanta@localhost dsanta]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost dsanta]# cd /mnt/floppy
[root@localhost floppy]# cp tar -zxvf pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz /tmp
cp: invalid option -- z
Try `cp --help' for more information.
[root@localhost floppy]#

[trickster]

It was a mistake on my part.

Try

cp pctel-0.9.6.tar.gz /tmp