new & lost

[pasific]

i've just started in linux with the Red hat 5.1 (planning for 6.0 soon)
but i've lots of prolem.
1 i can't get to my cdrom &floppy drive in linux.can't read or use them.i've tried mounting them but still not working & when i umount it's says them are not mounted
2 i've got a hp deskjet400 & config while setting up.but now seems like it can't even get any respond
3 i've got a soundblaster AWE64 which is in the support list but when i try to use 'sndconfig'to config it, it can't play the sample sound & says error
4 i can't get my modem working.if tried using minicom but still no good

anyone out there can pls help me???

thank you

daniel

[kball]

Here's some. I hope it helps. Keep in mind that all the commands must be as root.

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

I have a SB64AWE. I used this:

pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf

Your printer and modem may have to be setup specific to the types. I'm not too familiar with them. You might check the printer and modem howto's for that. Take a look here http://MetaLab.unc.edu/LDP/

[pasific]

well thanks
i get to mount my drives now
but seems like i can umount it
it always says that it's still busy even if i closed every thing.how can i acyually see what's open?
pls help

[Eccentric]

You can't umount it if you're in the mount directory. For ex if your pwd is /mnt/cdrom and you're trying to umount /dev/cdrom then it will say the device is busy. Make sure you're not in the mounted directory when you try to umount it and type:

umount /dev/cdrom
umount /dev/fd0

Depending on which one you want to umount.