Re: [expert] Can't login?

2001-11-28 Thread Andrew George
I am not running Bastille firewall, so I didn't lock myself out of the computer with that. Only thing I have implemented is IPChains on the computer, but nothing major. Only thing I can think of is that I maybe am denying packets from 127.0.0.1, although I'm not sure if this makes

Re: [expert] Digital Camera: Nikon Coolpix 775

2001-11-28 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Armin, I don't have the Nikon Coolpix, but the Pentax axio 330. I thought that everything linked to a USB Storage device should work out fine, but it isn't the case (unfortunatly) with this device. Don't know yet what I'll do. I'll probably have to hack it a bit myself. Anyway, If you get

[expert] Dumb Question

2001-11-28 Thread jtannenba
Ok- Mandrake 8.1- changed the mouse, now what util do I run to tell X it's been changed. I don't have a cursor in X right now. Thanks, Joe = JT and NE Tannenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site

Re: [expert] Dumb Question

2001-11-28 Thread Andrew George
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:49, jtannenba wrote: Ok- Mandrake 8.1- changed the mouse, now what util do I run to tell X it's been changed. I don't have a cursor in X right now. Thanks, Joe mousedrake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dumb Question

2001-11-28 Thread Marco Barbieri
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 09:49, you wrote: Ok- Mandrake 8.1- changed the mouse, now what util do I run to tell X it's been changed. I don't have a cursor in X right now. switch to console mode (init 3) mousedrake is your pal. cya Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] Digital Camera: Nikon Coolpix 775

2001-11-28 Thread Nick Thompson
Armin, I have a Nikon 990, and it is not detected as a mass storage USB device. I think the id it returns has not been registered as a user of usb-storage, though my guess is that if it were registered it would work, but I have no idea who to pass the id to. Anyway, I still get along okay

[expert] Mozilla Java

2001-11-28 Thread Phil
Hello All, This probably seems like a dumb question but I can't see how I can get Mozilla to use the Netscape Java plugin. I can't do any Internet Banking with konqueror and only some transactions with Netscape. I don't expect that Mozilla will be any better but I thought it might be worth a

Re: [expert] GCC 3.0

2001-11-28 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:36, you wrote: On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 19:28, Darwin Gottfried wrote: yep it's in the download version of 8.1 for sure. gcc 3.0.1. [Copy posted to the list instead of an individual] G. May I suggest to the listop that reply-to be changed to [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Server

2001-11-28 Thread Jerry Sternesky
I am not sure how far along this project is, I haven't followed it to closely, but this site: http://www.enabling.org/linux.html Has some linux links to various speech output projects, one of them is BLINUX which is dedicated to supporting Linux for the blind. I know this doesn't answer the

Re: [expert] Dumb Question

2001-11-28 Thread jtannenba
thx Joe --- Marco Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 09:49, you wrote: Ok- Mandrake 8.1- changed the mouse, now what util do I run to tell X it's been changed. I don't have a cursor in X right now. switch to console mode (init 3) mousedrake is your pal.

RE: [expert] Mozilla Java

2001-11-28 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
Here is some collected wisdom that was given to me to get Java working in Mozilla by Isaac, so I'll pass it along to you. I haven't organized it well, but all the info should be there. HTH Edmund 1st, install the jdk/jre, then: youre gonna want the fully qualified file name for the symlink

Re: [expert] traffic !!

2001-11-28 Thread Dave
I like this one. http://cebu.mozcom.com/riker/iptraf/ - Original Message - From: rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:42 PM Subject: [expert] traffic !! Hi experts ... Does anyone knows a good network traffic analyzer, on linux/unix ?

Re: [expert] palm m505 and linux

2001-11-28 Thread Mike Rambo
Roger Munoz wrote: Hi Has anybody managed to get the palm m505 usb cradle to work with jpilot in MDK8.1? Roger FWIW - our experience with the visor usb cradle and jpilot since I haven't seen a response, to the list anyway, regarding your query about the palm m505. Some, all, or none

Re: [expert] palm m505 and linux

2001-11-28 Thread Mike Rambo
Opps, a couple of errors below *** Mike Rambo wrote: Roger Munoz wrote: Hi Has anybody managed to get the palm m505 usb cradle to work with jpilot in MDK8.1? Roger FWIW - our experience with the visor usb cradle and jpilot since I haven't seen a response, to the list

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Richard Bown (QMW) wrote: Hi all, It would help Wolfgang if you could send the routing table on both machines ! From Wolfgang's *first* post: Desktop: 217.5.98.14 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

[expert] wolf

2001-11-28 Thread Mark D'voo
No mandrake related, but linux binaries for wolfenstein are out on id's ftp (ftp.idsoftware.com) Only multiplayer as of now mark -- 3:57pm up 1 day, 12:53, 2 users, load average: 0.45, 0.67, 0.70 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-28 Thread George Jones (IT)
Title: RE: [expert] problem with linux Ok... Now we resort to taking shots at folks. 1. I use my pc for far more than making pop music. In fact, I don't make pop music. It's true Detroit Techno, Drum and Bass, and Deep House (FYI). I also use my pc for graphic design, 3D animation, web

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Richard Bown (QMW) wrote: [snip] I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to verify... Until a ping -br broadcast which bypasses the routing table actually makes it to the other machine (basic connectivity), routing tables changes are not going to help (unless the network

Re: [expert] Please I need help

2001-11-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
Ok - how do I uninstall Mozilla? I'm pretty much a newbie at this. /Søren On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 23:33, George Abdo wrote: Søren, I too have found that upgrading Mozilla breaks Galeon, also upgrading Galeon fails with the older version of Moz. I have consoled myself to stick to the

RE: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Bown (QMW)
Not so sure on that Pierre, it will get a reply from what it can see, bypassing the routing table will only get a ping back from the first device. if 100 machines are connected to the port and the port has the same address as the host then all hell breaks loose, but if the host address is

[expert] PCMCIA support in 2.4.13

2001-11-28 Thread Derek Jennings
Apologies if this has been asked before, but can someone advise me on pcmcia support in the 2.4.13-10 cooker kernel I have a Ricoh PCI-PCMCIA adapter in my desktop which was autodetected fine by 2.4.8 and worked fine after configuring the PCIC options for i82365 I have installed the 2.4.13

Re: [expert] Please I need help

2001-11-28 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 11:30, you wrote: Ok - how do I uninstall Mozilla? I'm pretty much a newbie at this. Fisrt, get a large hammer . . . No, that's not right. # urpme mozilla should do it Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-28 Thread Franki
yeah, I know I could probably get this winmodem working in linux,, and I plan to try one of these days.. but like I said, there are reasons, and applications that I use now, and I don't presently have time to look for linux alternatives or to learn how to use those alternatives productively.

Re: [expert] Mozilla Java

2001-11-28 Thread skidley
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Phil wrote: Hello All, This probably seems like a dumb question but I can't see how I can get Mozilla to use the Netscape Java plugin. I can't do any Internet Banking with konqueror and only some transactions with Netscape. I don't expect that Mozilla will be any

Re: [expert] Mozilla Java

2001-11-28 Thread Nick Thompson
And it *has* to be a sim-link as well. I initially copied it and then spent a whole day working out why it didn't work :-( I don't think it actuall matters where you install java, the link is used to work out the path. Nick. skidley wrote: One thing I had to do was make a symlink:

RE: [expert] palm m505 and linux

2001-11-28 Thread Roger Munoz
Thanx mike i'll give this stuff a go !! Roger -Original Message- From: Mike Rambo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 November 2001 15:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] palm m505 and linux Opps, a couple of errors below *** Mike Rambo wrote: Roger Munoz wrote:

Re: [expert] Myserious kernel panic

2001-11-28 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Tarragon Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... Try running the security.sh script by itself to determine if that is what causes the crash. I tried that - maybe just after my original mail. It's definitely the culprit. As a temporary fix (until I install 8.1?) I've simply replaced

Re: [expert] Please I need help

2001-11-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
Should have tried the hammer first, now nothing works :) urpme mozilla went fine, it also removed galeon (dependencies). I then used Mandrake Software Manager to install galeon which depended on mozilla so it tried to install mozilla first - it failed and now I have nothing but Lynx :( Where to

[expert] mandrakeupdate

2001-11-28 Thread Chris Ashmore
I installed Mandrake 8.1 from downloaded iso everything works perfect sound, video, NIC. So I run Mandrakeupdate define ftp source and everything is going well. Get the message that everything is done so I reboot the machine. Now the NIC will not work? What did I do? The NIC is a

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 17:22 schrieben Sie: Richard Bown (QMW) wrote: [snip] I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to verify... Until a ping -br broadcast which bypasses the routing table actually makes it to the other machine (basic connectivity), routing

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
OK, I'm answering to my own mail b/c there's an update: Right now I got a cheap NIC called Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card. Problem is, it comes with Linux drivers (!) but only for Red Hat 6.x and the given files will not compile b/c the makefile is counting on kgcc. Duh... So I cannot

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Correct... that was already covered in a previous post... the problem right now is to get *any* packet over the wire between the desktop/laptop... so far, nothing... And replacing a cable with a new one is no guarantee... if it was, I'd never have chased many problems where the cables were

Re: [expert] SNF

2001-11-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Nov 27, 2001 at 08:27:24PM -0500, Ed Tharp wrote: I would like to ask, what servers DO you recommend be installed, if you want your box to do the most it can, with say an average white box (400 to 500 MHz CPU, 124 to 256 ram, 4 to 10 gigs for OS space, etc. And even more

[expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Ken Hawkins
Just to vent: Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug play. Then I decided to try 8.1 for all the updates and extras...what a piece of SH!T! I know a lot of people worked long and hard on this, and I have been a

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I think you can use that netgear card via the tulip driver. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 17:22 schrieben Sie: Richard Bown (QMW) wrote: [snip] I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to verify...

RE: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread chris . haidinyak
Really? I installed 8.1 on an old IBM Thinkpad 760XL w/o incident. Perhaps a little more detail might be more constructive... -- Chris Haidinyak -Original Message- From: Ken Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:49 AM To: expert Subject: [expert] 8.1

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 15:52 -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I think you can use that netgear card via the tulip driver. -- Asheesh. No, actually it's the natsemi.o (National Semiconductor). I use it and everything works and I'm a happy camper after all :) wobo -- ... and anyway, an html

RE: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap! Hi There, It seems funny, because I have a system that isn't fully supported by Linux and it works fine. I know I haven't done a lot of power using yet but for everyday Joe Bloggs using I find it rock solid. I must say the original Download version is

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Dan Sandberg
Mandrake 8.1 was the easiest Linux installation I've done yet. I was amazed at how many things 'just worked'. Mandrake 8.0 was a disaster for me though, because I was installing on a Thinkpad 600E and they had all sorts of problems with it. I think installations are hit-or-miss because they

Re: [expert] Digital Camera: Nikon Coolpix 775

2001-11-28 Thread Armin Roehrl
Hi Joerg, I have not yet received the Nikon coolpix 775, but I ordered it. But I was told by others that it works just fine. http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevices.php3?id=11 I looked for Pentax axio 330 and did not get one single hit in groups.google.com; Sorry. thanks,

Re: [expert] Digital Camera: Nikon Coolpix 775

2001-11-28 Thread Armin Roehrl
hi Nick, thanks a lot for the reply. I know by now that the Nikon 775 works. I'm sorry I do not know anything about usb-storage to help you about the id problem. If I find out, I get back to you. thanks also for the printing tip. Armin On Wednesday 28 November 2001 11:28, you

[expert] gnome and fvwm95

2001-11-28 Thread lonnie
Hello All, Could someone please tell me how to get Gnome and fvwm95 running together on my Mandrake 8.1? I have installed fvwm95 for a particular project, but I have found out that I need to have Gnome running to be able to place application icons on the desktop. Any help would be greatly

Re: [expert] Digital Camera: Nikon Coolpix 775

2001-11-28 Thread Jason Van Patten
At Wed Nov 28 17:09:17 2001, Armin Roehrl wrote: I know by now that the Nikon 775 works. I'm sorry I do not know anything about usb-storage to help you about the id problem. If I find out, I get back to you. Has anyone considered spending a few extra bucks and grabbing a USB-enabled

Re: [expert] Mozilla Java

2001-11-28 Thread Guy McArthur
If you have like Blackdown.org or Sun java for linux, there is a jre/plugins/i386/mozilla/oji_plugin.so (can't remember the exact name now, but it's all in the blackdown README). You just symlink that into mozilla's plugins directory. That's it. Hello All, This probably seems like a dumb

Re: Re: [expert] Please I need help

2001-11-28 Thread George Abdo
Check man rpm alternatively use the rpmdrake to uninstall. Sorry, i am not sitting at my linux machine to be more specific. If you are still having trouble, email me again, and I'll try to be more specific hen I reply from my linux machine. George Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Nautilus

2001-11-28 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, any time I mount a drive, cdrom etc, the machine grinds to a halt whilst a copy of nautilus is spawned. Is there: 1) a way to turn this off or specify a better file manager (lighter on resources for one) 2) Even better, a way to spawn another program depending on mount point - i.e.symlink

Re: [expert] Mozilla Java

2001-11-28 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Phil wrote: Hello All, This probably seems like a dumb question but I can't see how I can get Mozilla to use the Netscape Java plugin. I can't do any Internet Banking with konqueror and only some transactions with Netscape. I don't expect that Mozilla will be any better but I thought

Re: [expert] Mozilla Java

2001-11-28 Thread Salane
this has to be done as su root or sudo On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:14 pm, you wrote: Phil wrote: Hello All, This probably seems like a dumb question but I can't see how I can get Mozilla to use the Netscape Java plugin. I can't do any Internet Banking with konqueror and only

[expert] clean install mdk8.1 login screen error [ OK ]

2001-11-28 Thread J Grant
Hi I get this when on bootup Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise on a Dual-processor i686 / tty1 linux3d login: [ OK ] --- the OK is in green when i push return it goes away, but this should not be

[expert] Mail/Web server configuration

2001-11-28 Thread Theo Brinkman
I'm having some issues with getting Apache and Postfix configured under Mandrake 8.1. I believe I have Postfix configured correctly, but I can't be sure, because I can't seem to figure out how to open port 25. Also, I believe I have Apache configured correctly to NOT use SSL, but I can't

[expert] Floppy On Mdk 8.1

2001-11-28 Thread isetia
From: Irwan Setia HI I am new comer, I have a problem with Mdk 8.1. My Mdk 8.1 can not access the floppy, I have checked fstab and mtab configuration, everything is OK. I thought my floppy driver was broken and I reinstall with RH 7.1 and Mdk 8.0, with this version I can access the Floppy. it is

Re: [expert] KDE Locations in MDK

2001-11-28 Thread pesarif
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:37, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi again, I'm still getting use to the idea of KDE not being in /opt/kde, so I'm a bit stumped here. I'm trying to compile Mosfet Liquid, however it seems to be installing in /usr/local/kde rather than /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc. Is this

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Lee Roberts
I went back to 7.2 after an upgrade to 8.1 also. I'll try 8.2 if it comes out. For now I'm staying with 7.2. At 04:48 AM 11/28/2001 -0800, Ken Hawkins wrote: Just to vent: Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug

[expert] Running Abiword without being root

2001-11-28 Thread pesarif
Hello, I'm running a full install of Mandrake 8.0. If I run abiword without being root, I get the message that I've attached. I have never seen this problem before. How do I fix it? Thanks, pesarif abiword-fail.png Description: PNG image Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

RE: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Lee Roberts
In regard to my problems, my internet connection sharing quit working after an upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1. And I had to do a fresh install of 8.1 in order to get the CDRW to work. 8.1 seems to break stuff. These problems probably can be fixed but an upgrade should never break stuff that's already

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread João Henrique da Silva Nunes Jales Ribeiro
If you've seen a neat icon on your desktop refering to something called mandrake control center you should have already clicked on it. It has a strange feature that allows to QUICKLY share your internet connection. Maybe you've made your share on 7.2 the hard way, i've also done it on 7.1, but

Re: [expert] Nautilus

2001-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 November 2001 07:07 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, any time I mount a drive, cdrom etc, the machine grinds to a halt whilst a copy of nautilus is spawned. Is there: 1) a way to turn this off or specify a better file manager

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 November 2001 09:09 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I went back to 7.2 after an upgrade to 8.1 also. I'll try 8.2 if it comes out. For now I'm staying with 7.2. A lot of things were changed from 7.2 to 8.0. Off my head, I can think of: -

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Ken Hawkins wrote: Hello Ken, Just to vent: ok. i'm all ears. Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug play. MDK 7.2 was the first version of mandrake that i had too, before it was RedHat 6.x series. Mandrake

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 November 2001 09:14 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: [snip] 8.1 in order to get the CDRW to work. 8.1 seems to break stuff. These problems probably can be fixed but an upgrade should never break stuff that's already working on an earlier

Re: [expert] clean install mdk8.1 login screen error [ OK ]

2001-11-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Nov 29, 2001 at 11:25:34AM +0900, J Grant wrote: I get this when on bootup Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise on a Dual-processor i686 / tty1 linux3d login: [ OK ] the OK is in green when i

RE: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Bown (QMW)
Ok Pierre if I remember right he said it was working with a previous version of mdk, so thats a config prob, and as he wont ack the fact that if the port has a different address to the host you have to route to everything the other sidewell just wasting my time. luckily I never moved away