On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 21:13, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mo, den 15.03.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 17:32: > > On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 18:24, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > Am So, den 14.03.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 06:10: > > > > > Yes still no luck! > > Is there no administrator for the firewall and proxy? I suspect you are > building the PC systems for customers, so the network admin should > assist you to be able to go through the walls to have up2date systems. > Look Alex I appreciate the help but I have checked with our administrator he has given me all the settings I need and intruth it is the proxy adress and port and the username and password, thats it The only thing that the firwall blocks is ftp and I have treid all the http mirrors listed on http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html and I get the same results on all http based ones. I have also tried exporting the proxy setting from the cammand line. I run up2date -l and up2date -u it still habgs with errors which are listed on bugzilla. I have tried the options listed there. but no luck. This has left me puzzled and very irratible. So I decided to download everything needed in rpm format and got hammered with 1001 depenencies. So as you can see I am really stuck. Good news is I managed to install alsa and some plugins from http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/soundapps.htm this is great but I cant find a media library for xmms. The ones on xmms.org all have dependancies to qt which I still cant resolve. but seems I will slowly slowly get there. > > > > 2. My kernel needs upgrading to install a USB printer. > > > > > > Why does an USB printer need a different kernel? Can you be specific: > > > which model, which driver required, for what reason kernel exchange? > > > > > The driver provided by lexmark is for kernel 2.6.xx > > You know linuxprinting.org? Unfortunately you did not post the model > name. If it is no Windows[tm]-only GDI printer it should work with > kernel 2.4 too. I do not see what the kernel has to do with the printer > job as this is user space. > I will get back to you on this one as soon as the disco software is sorted out! > > > > 3. I have a USB modem that is provided with a Linux driver but I also snipped > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl > Sirendipity 20:02:37 up 6 days, 20:21, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.02 > [ Î?νÏ?θι Ï?'αÏ?Ï?ον - gnothi seauton ] > my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars > > Chad
