[hdcdubee]

Hola,
I've finally re-installed RedHat 9 after having Fedora 3 installation fail on me horribly.
I've purchased a linksys wireless - B notebook adapter and before I open up the package I want to know if it'll be compatible with RH? I didn't ask them when I bought it because at the time I was still thinking about buying windows again just to avoid the F3 problem I was having. I just wanted to know if it'll work and should I just plug it in? Or should I return it and look for something else?
Thanks ahead of time.
-dubee

[hdcdubee]

I've found ndiswrapper and I've downloaded the file through my other pc and I've burned it onto a cd. I inserted the cd and I put in /dev/cdrom and a prompt comes up. <Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying "/dev/cdrom"> Is there any way to retrieve that file from the cd?
Can I please have a reference to a good tutorial?
Thanks
-dubee

[horndude]

dont know what apps you have or setup so here's the guaranteed way

as root in a terminal type:
mount /dev/cdrom; cd /mnt/cdrom; ls
file should be listed
cp <filename> <directory where you want it>
it will be set as owned by root, so then cd to the directory where you put it and type:
chown <yourusername>:users <filename>
chmod +rwx <filename>

make sure your not in the cdrom directory and:
umount /dev/cdrom

[hdcdubee]

I went into terminal and typed in mount. A whole lot of information came up. When I typed in </dev/cdrom> I got "bash: /dev/cdrom: Permission denied"
I'm not sure what to do from here.

[hdcdubee]

Sorry but i typed in cd /mnt/cdrom and it changed to root@localhost cdrom. I typed in ls but it didn't return anything? I put the cd back into the pc that burned it. Which was a Windows PC and it came up. I'm not sure as of why it's not finding the file on the cd....?

[horndude]

you didnt do something right, you have to be root to do this, what user are you?
what did it do when you mounted the drive?

in linux a drive has to be mounted first, then you can read and write to it

most window managers like KDE and GNOME has apps that you just click and it open your cdrom for you without having to go thru this

type those commands in EXACTLY like I put them, then what does it say?
if you get to root@localhost cdrom:type pwd and make sure your in /mnt/cdrom

also make sure the line in a file called /etc/fstab has your cdrom being mounted to /mnt/cdrom or the commands will have to changed to reflect this, should be a line in there that looks like this:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 auto,user,ro 0 0------->something like that, the part where it says /mnt/cdrom is important, if its somethig else then you need to change to whatever directory that is to list the file and then copy the file elsewhere

[hdcdubee]

Thanks for the help. I checked and searched for some tutorials and I used the one that came with the system. I also learned how to access my usbdrive too.
I'll make sure next time that I research more on the inquiry that I have. Thanks for the help!
-dubee