Study Notes

Lynx is a type of browser in text mode running in terminal.Download the install package named as “.tar,gz” from internet, and then issue the following commands:

# tar zxvf  lynx-2.8.4dev.19.tar.gz
# cd /lynx-2.8.4
# ./configure
# make  

After executed the final command, the Lynx was installed in the system successfully.Opening a new terminal or hit “ctrl + alt + F2”, issues the “lynx”,and then ,we will get in a text mode browser.Its default homepage is “www.lynxbrowser.org”,we can just modify the startpage in the file which is located on “/usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg” or “$home/lynx-2.8.4/lynx.cfg”.Both of above two files are linked to one file in fact.
I tried to change the language setting to display simplify Chinese and traditional Chinese,but failed.As result,it seems only English would have been supported.In the Lynx browser,it does not show the pictures and flash movies,so it speeds up the opening rate greatly.I think it would be more useful in those machines which run very slowly,for example,486 or higher computers.

This afternoon,Cao Sheng and I went to UP Co. in order to resolve the fiber ether devices installing problem.The customer said he did what I’ve told him to do by email of yesterday.He selected the packages and installed the operating system as Red Hat Linux 9.0, but had found no ethernet device afer rebooting when completed installing processing. In the UP lab, I installed the operating system again by myself,and issued the following command:

# insmod e1000

which I thought the customer did not do this job after issuing “make install”.Before I executed the insmod command, I found no ethernet device by issuing “ifconfig” which is used to checking the net device.After issuing this command,and then check the ethernet devices again :

# ifconfig
# service network restart   

or

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network reload

the ethernet devices were listed in the terminal or Network interface in GNOME.
Using ping command to identify these device,they runs OK.