[SATLUG] Newbe help Wanted for Help

[Herb]

Hi vern, thanks.
I suspected those two problems were related as far as the browser is 
concerned but ya know the confusing thing is that help works for firefox 
for some things but when it needs the net it ask to connect. Help simply 
does not work from inside Gnome nor a terminal and I always get that 
specific message so it is surely interface problem.

I really think that you are right in that connecting the win-modem 
failed and i am trying to decipher the results of a Diagonistics proggy 
I DLed and ran, whew it tells you how the universe began I think. .  It 
produced 14 text files and informed me that Fedora does not yet support 
installation of the win-mod.

I have been trying to solve the off line help first to try to learn how 
this all hooks together, just thinking about it heats up the circuit 
breakers, it has to be the most complicated do-widget ever assembled ... 
all to ship virtual 1s and 0s to who knows where. But I am into it man, 
i am 76 and saw where I could buy my own Island in virtual land and sell 
imaginary pictures for those imaginary houses I leapt right into the 
spirit of it all. I mean cut me in.

So since I retired to my dream of few acres woods with a stream I do not 
have dsl or cable available and Sat will not work  with the time delay.  
I intend to place a server at a frins house who has dsl and get a dsl 
line there with extension line out to me, tie the Apache server in DSL 
there and shuffle the stuff back and forth to my work studio.

LOL does anyone know if this will even work, never mind I gonna try it 
anyway just cause i can... but now ya see why I finally yelled NO FEAR 
and got on line sending my imaginary money that materializes in my bank 
every now and then off to this company with a web addy and damned if 
those cds did not materialize right there at the USPS in town. I have 
vowed that I am going to get Linux working this winter every yr for 10 
now. This is the year.

Anyway I intend to have fun and i will share it with yawl as I muddle 
along. I am trying to follow this Lin-modem thang and it does say that I 
can get the Lucent one to work. I have read it over several times and 
this weekend hope to get the modem going but i do have an older 3com PCI 
unit that is not a win-Mod so I may just stick that in and see if 
rebooting will install it and if that solves the Help within Fedora 
offline, I think it just might.

Thanks for this trip guys, real cool
herb c

Vern Davis wrote:
> On 2/7/07, Herb <herbc at txcyber.com> wrote:
>> Hello all, I joined this list when I was waiting for a FC-6 disto. Got
>> it and I am thrilled. I tried 3 times in the past 10 yrs to learn how to
>> use Linux in the casual manner I have become accustomed to going from
>> DOS 6.2 to Win 3.1.... I am still using Win-ME as I learn to use
>> Fedora-Linux. I bought a new 82Gig HD used my older P-III 1.1mz, 256mem
>> for the box. I have already noodled around in the Gnone GUI.
>>
>> I now have the network Hub running between the Lin-box and Win-box. I
>> have some sort of problem with the brand new Lucent 56K dialup PCI
>> modem. I am reading about the Win-Lin-modem issue so I will learn about
>> that. I have what i think is a non-Win-modem,-3-com/US Robo Modem, so I
>> may try it after i understand the issue. I went to the archives and am
>> reading back mail. it is helpful and I am glad to be here.
>>
>> The bothersome and only other issue that I am aware of is when I try to
>> run help from where I am it reports error: ... "launching the default
>> command application associated with this location".  So I need to know
>> how to fix this in order to use Help specific to a problem I hope.
>>
>> I am ok with command line but do not yet understand the structure used
>> in the Linux string. I do build my own boxes but do not consider myself
>> a tech, nor am i a programmer, I am a retired artist. I intend to desigh
>> art objects for the Virtual world (2L) and hope to use Gimp and Open
>> Office to replace Corel Office and PhotoShop.  I have already set up a
>> user account and transferred all my working document /graphic files over
>> to the Lin-box. I know how to open other terminal windows to switch to
>> root and back to user so I really on the way to 'happy camper'. In spite
>> of the baying of the blood hounds I believe I have made my escape from
>> Vista.
>>
>> Thanks Herb
>>
>
> Hey Herb - welcome to the ranks of Linux Newbies!
>
> I'm probably not going to be much help with may be your biggest config
> problem - which I think may be your winmodem. The only modems I've
> ever had any luck with on Linux were isa-slot modems, and that was
> long ago. I know there has been some sort of progress made with
> winmodems as pertains to Linux since then, but I have no smarts on
> that.
>
> But I think some of the problem you are having which is causing the
> "launching the default command application associated with this
> location" error is that many of the "fancier" applications, such as
> Mozilla/Firefox/Open Office/etc/yada/yada are linked to help files on
> the internet. So in effect, if you have no internet connection, you
> have no help file.
>
> Much help for the more "mundane" applications in Linux are still
> available from the command line in the manual pages ("man xyz"), and
> there may also be some system documentation on your machine, depending
> on what packages you installed. You might try putting
> file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html into your browser and see if the
> Fedora documentation is there.
>
> Another thing to try from the command line is "locate xyz" to point
> you towards the right file to peruse. There's a good chance it will be
> in that /usr/share/doc/ directory.
>
> I'm no artist, but I routinely use OO, The Gimp and GQView for simple
> text and graphics work, and IM(not so)HO they work as well as MS
> Office and Photo Shop, except for the fact that they use less system
> resources and run faster under Linux. Your mileage will vary.
>
> Good luck, and post often on here with results/rants/teeth gnashing.
>