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Hmm...to install xfstt you need...uh...xfstt and...uh,...an X server ;)


First: Get xfstt here: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pu b/Linux/X11/fonts/Xfstt-0.9.10.tgz

Second: 'gzip -dc | tar -xvf - Xfstt-0.9.10.tgz'

Third: "cd xfstt0910"

Fourth: 'make'

Fifth: 'make install'

Sixth: (install TT fonts), 'xfstt --sync ; xfstt &'

Seventh: add 'unix/:7100' to your XFontPath

Eighth: Have 'xfstt' called from /etc/rc.d/rc.local so it will start when you boot up

Ninth: You're done, go use you're TT fonts

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Well, folks, this may come as somewhat of a surprise, but there's a HOWTO at http://metalab.unc.edu/LD P/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html on Plug-and-Play.

Woah. That was hard.

And, yes, surprisingly, the FCC allows you to look up FCC ID's at http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/.

Also, RPTI's support webpage is here.

To help those newbies:

www.linux.org

sunsite.unc.edu/mdw

www.stardivision.com

www.redhat.com

www.kde.org

www.gnome.org

www.cheapbytes.com

www.freshmeat.net

www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml

OK So I'm somewhat biased... :)

"Linux sucks. But Linux sucks less." - JWZ

Look at metalab.unc.edu (nee' sunsite) for a list of vendors who will set you up with a system w/out any MS products (it is all the way at bottom of page).

get the new release at MetaLab i can't believe sengan didn't include that in this article ':P it's on freshmeat.net btw.

I don't have one of these cards (thank God) so I may be grossly misinformed here.

You say it's a plug-and-pray card. It doesn't matter that your machine does not have a plug-and-play bios. That's okay. What you need to remember is that (unless the card has some FLASH ROM for the settings, which I doubt) the card DOES NOT RETAIN SETTINGS between reboots, may they be warm or cold. Essentially, it has no idea what IRQ, IO, DMA?, etc it's supposed to be using.

First of all, install isapnptools. Read the docs provided on how to set up your card.

Next, recompile your kernel with the card modular. Install and reboot. Ignore evil messages about the netcard.

Then, try running isapnp, then insmod'ing the netcard. The best way to see if it worked is to kill syslogd and klogd, then run a tail -f /proc/kmesg and watch for error messages.

The only GPL'd GPS software that I have found available so far is gpsd and gpsclient by Remco Treffkorn. The gpsd will forward NMEA data via tcp/ip to a client which can then approbately present the information to the user. The advantage to the gpsd is that if the GPS reciever doesn't directly support NMEA then all a programmer has to do is modify gpsd to convert the data and then all gpsd clients would be able to use the non-NMEA reciever. Unforantly, there only appears to be two client for gpsd. The first being Mr. Treffkorn's gpsclient which only displays the locations of the GPS satilites. The other is mXmap which does display positions on a map but is a commerical/non-open source package.

The person that seems to have done the most GPL GPS development for Linux seems to be Geofrrey D. Bennett. However, it appears that his busy schedule hasn't provided him time to provide an initial release of his software yet. Also, the availablity of the TIGER data does not help his own purposes much since he is interested in detailed *Australia* data and TIGER appears only cover the US.

The most advanced GPS freeware seems to be Robin Lovelock's GPSS. However, it is neither open source or for Linux. Considering the advancements that have occured with WINElib, it make be possible that porting it would be easy if the source code was made available. I would be interested to see if Bruce Perens could convince Lovelock to release his work or parts of his work under GPL.

The only GPL'd GPS software that I have found available so far is gpsd and gpsclient by Remco Treffkorn. The gpsd will forward NMEA data via tcp/ip to a client which can then approbately present the information to the user. The advantage to the gpsd is that if the GPS reciever doesn't directly support NMEA then all a programmer has to do is modify gpsd to convert the data and then all gpsd clients would be able to use the non-NMEA reciever. Unforantly, there only appears to be two client for gpsd. The first being Mr. Treffkorn's gpsclient which only displays the locations of the GPS satilites. The other is mXmap which does display positions on a map but is a commerical/non-open source package.

The person that seems to have done the most GPL GPS development for Linux seems to be Geofrrey D. Bennett. However, it appears that his busy schedule hasn't provided him time to provide an initial release of his software yet. Also, the availablity of the TIGER data does not help his own purposes much since he is interested in detailed *Australia* data and TIGER appears only cover the US.

The most advanced GPS freeware seems to be Robin Lovelock's GPSS. However, it is neither open source or for Linux. Considering the advancements that have occured with WINElib, it make be possible that porting it would be easy if the source code was made available. I would be interested to see if Bruce Perens could convince Lovelock to release his work or parts of his work under GPL.

If you don't have it in your distribution, you can always get it from the Linux Documentation Project

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