Re: [expert] realtek rtl8180 wlan card -- drivers/modules.

2003-09-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 01:05, James Sparenberg wrote: Seems that there is a known bug in the sourcecode (why it doesn't want to build.) Someone clued me into a howto that might get you going and get the modules to build.

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:15 am, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first page

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:15, Mark wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, Mark. I've been following this, and it doesn't look promising, so I wonder if it's time for a dirty solution. Could you not pdf2ps all the files, open them in SOWriter, then cut and paste into one file, save that

Re: [expert] realtek rtl8180 wlan card -- drivers/modules.

2003-09-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 00:14, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 01:05, James Sparenberg wrote: Seems that there is a known bug in the sourcecode (why it doesn't want to build.) Someone clued me into a howto that might get you going and get the modules to build.

Re: [expert] Mouse locks in KDE Gnome

2003-09-03 Thread Jess Arocho
On Monday 01 September 2003 20:55, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:01:23 -0700 lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 01:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:47, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi all! I am co-using mouse and monitor with

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-03 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 03:18 am, many eyes noted that Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:51, Mark wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-03 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:58 am, many eyes noted that David E. Fox wrote: Define successful? Doing it without running out of disk space would be successful. Of course, if it actually boots the right partition it would be even better. Does both these. I've been able to do this in 9.0. LX and I

[expert] Mouse problems.

2003-09-03 Thread Alex Fisher
In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: The machine had been idle for a while, went to logout from KDE, no mouse Machine is an older board, AMD K6-2 500, only 64 MB SDRAM. Still functioned OK. Attempted to re0install from the CD. Mouse seemed to work OK until

[expert] Network printing

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net

Re: [expert] Mouse problems.

2003-09-03 Thread Patricia Fraser
Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. I have gdm set not to start on boot using 8.2, as I've found it conflicts with the mouse driver used by X.

[expert] Re: Mouse problems.

2003-09-03 Thread Alex Fisher
Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. Mandrake 9.1, with the default kernel (haven't got round to rebuilding yet). I

Re: [expert] Network printing

2003-09-03 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 03:52, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-03 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 21:34, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 08:09 pm, David Rankin wrote: Well, you're right about there being something suspicious about the way XP does business. Browsing win98 clients is just slow

Re: [expert] connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:14 pm, elPunishar wrote: hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to

Re: [expert] Network printing

2003-09-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up

Re: [expert] Re: Mouse problems.

2003-09-03 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:17 am, Alex Fisher wrote: Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. Mandrake 9.1,

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 3 2003 05:39 am, Charlie wrote: I have done this with a winblows program and still have some disks like this, up to 1.72mb which was very handy at times. I don't know how to achieve this with Mandrake, though have to admit that I have never looked into it either I seem

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-03 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:13 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS. http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents Just an update for you all...

[expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Mark
Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?

[expert] 9.2rc1 still no pppatm support?

2003-09-03 Thread Evaristo Ferrari
Just install 9.2rc1 on my gaN400pro2 and it looks well. No boot problems or mbr errors like 9.1, but still have no support for my usb adsl modem. This is the end for having standard pppAtm support inside mandrake? Any madrakeusers will have to compile kernels or manual install drivers for using

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Are you sure you never delete a mail until the whole

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Belanger
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Without having a definition of REALLY

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Mark
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark Belanger wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Mark
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Are you

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-03 Thread Charlie M.
September 2, 2003 02:44 pm, Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:58 pm, Mark Belanger wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 6:06 pm, Mark wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could

Re: [expert] Mouse locks in KDE Gnome

2003-09-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 02:04, Jesús Arocho wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 20:55, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:01:23 -0700 lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 01:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:47, Niclas Jacobsson wrote:

Re: [expert] Re: Mouse problems.

2003-09-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 05:17, Alex Fisher wrote: Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. Mandrake 9.1, with the

Re: [expert] Network printing

2003-09-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 03:52, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an

Re: [expert] Network printing

2003-09-03 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Anne, James is rihgt. If you don't have a decent DNS running within your LAN, you need to keep the canonical-Name - IP-Address translations in the /etc/hosts files on both systems (Printer-Server and Client). Also - make sure that Cups allows printing from this IP-Address. Default it denies

Re: [expert] Network printing

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 6:59 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, James is rihgt. If you don't have a decent DNS running within your LAN, you need to keep the canonical-Name - IP-Address translations in the /etc/hosts files on both systems (Printer-Server and Client). Hi, Joerg. My reply

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-03 Thread Mark
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Charlie M. wrote: September 2, 2003 02:44 pm, Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3,

[expert] Help using a IBM microdrive on a laptop with Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-03 Thread Bruno Silva
Hi there, I am having some problems using my IBM microdrive on my laptop, wich has Mandrake 9.1 installed. The microdrive is working fine, I can use it without problems on my Ipaq (running linux as well) the card services seem to detect it ok, but it starts creating processes in a loop as

[expert] Re: connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-03 Thread Björn Lundin
elPunishar wrote: hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to allow this ? tnx greetings, stu

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Nigel Wilkinson
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one

Re: [expert] Changing Mouse

2003-09-03 Thread James Conner
I did install the mouse and it booted up without any problems. Just shutdown, unplug old one, plug in new one, power up, notice keyboard isn't working, shutdown, jiggle keyboard plug, power back up, keyboard works, mouse works. Mouse works great! It just has two side buttons(not configured)

Re: [expert] Changing Mouse

2003-09-03 Thread James Conner
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:50 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:40 am, James Conner wrote: I'm using a MS Intellimouse(with ball) on MDK 9.0. It's currently identified as the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread lists
Use redirection. creates file appends to file. cat blah newblah This will cause blah to be appended to newblah However I really don't think this will work with a pdf. pdf's aren't plain text... but hey worth a try. Nigel Wilkinson wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:18:20 -0400 (EDT)

[expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?

2003-09-03 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Folks, tried to configure the smtp-auth stuff on my Mdk-9.1 box. However I'm still having problems with the authentication through sasl. Anyone has some documentation links laying around ? Note - my Mail-System is based on: Sasl (Standard installed thru cyrus-sasl-2.1.12) Postfix 2.0.6

Re: [expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?

2003-09-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 04:40 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: ..snip Note - my Mail-System is based on: Sasl (Standard installed thru cyrus-sasl-2.1.12) Postfix 2.0.6 cyrus-imapd: 2.1.13 for delivery. In SMTP Auth mode - I'm not able to authenticate using some of the doc. pages as

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3654 days Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:07, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3654 days Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try

Re: [expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?

2003-09-03 Thread Luca Olivetti
Joerg Mertin wrote: In SMTP Auth mode - I'm not able to authenticate using some of the doc. pages as http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/index.html [...] Also - does anyone knows why there are 2 library sets installed ? for sasl: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -qa | grep sasl

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 11:19 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:07, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3654 days Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end

[expert] Filter mail: bcc case

2003-09-03 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I want to filter mail from different mailboxes differently, but I don't know how to determine where the mail has been sent to when my address is included in the bcc: field. Normal mails have my address in the to: or cc: field (and I use them for my filters), but what about a mail with my

[expert] Wacom tablets and linux

2003-09-03 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I just installed in my Palm IIIc the opensource utility palmwac that turns the Palm into a Wacom (UD series) tablet. Is there a way to have MDK 9.1 automatically recognize it and set the XF86Config-4 file? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Adobe Acrobat Reader not working

2003-09-03 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I downloaded the Reader from adobe.com and installed it but it doesn't work, it doesn't even start. Has anyone had the same problem? If so, how to cope with it? [I prefer the Reader from Adobe because it's able to follow links inside the pdf file, while KGhostview and xpdf are not able to do

Re: [expert] Adobe Acrobat Reader not working

2003-09-03 Thread Miark
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:57:29 +0200, Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the Reader from adobe.com and installed it but it doesn't work, it doesn't even start. You can download it from MandrakeClub. Works like a charm. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Re: Mouse problems.

2003-09-03 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:39:07 -0700 lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:17 am, Alex Fisher wrote: Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-03 Thread Joeb
Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Joeb wrote: Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in

[expert] DNS server

2003-09-03 Thread Albert Charron
I don't know if this is a question for the newbie or expert list, but I'll try on this one. Currently, I have problems with my ISP DNS servers (they are unreachable more than half the time). I'd like to build a DNS server on my computer so I'll be able to use my Internet connection

Re: [expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?

2003-09-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:04 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Joerg Mertin wrote: In SMTP Auth mode - I'm not able to authenticate using some of the doc. pages as http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/index.html [...] Also - does anyone knows why there are 2 library

Re: [expert] Filter mail: bcc case

2003-09-03 Thread Eric Huff
for my filters), but what about a mail with my address in the bcc: field? it's always empty. My headers come in like this, but i imagine this is isp specific: Delivered-To: ehuffy-ehuffy:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-03 Thread David Rankin
Joeb penned: Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. I whole-heartedly agree and encourage a slip to foster stability and a polished release if required. I

Re: [expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?

2003-09-03 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:04, Luca Olivetti wrote: Joerg Mertin wrote: In SMTP Auth mode - I'm not able to authenticate using some of the doc. pages as http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/index.html [...] Also - does anyone knows why there are 2 library sets

Re: [expert] DNS server

2003-09-03 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 17:59, Albert Charron wrote: I don't know if this is a question for the newbie or expert list, but I'll try on this one. Currently, I have problems with my ISP DNS servers (they are unreachable more than half the time). I'd like to build a DNS server on my computer

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:07 pm, Vox wrote: I've actually used cat to concatenate binary files (.mpg) together...strict standards compliant viewers choke on them, but mplayer plays files created this way without much of a problem. The real problem isn't that the file is a

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-03 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:07 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: Yep. it adds native cifs vfs support... some features mentioned by one of the developers: - more stable than smb protocol - faster - large file support 2GB - works with windows 2003 - ... You can read about it at:

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-03 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:01 pm, David Rankin wrote: Joeb penned: Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. I whole-heartedly agree and encourage

Re: [expert] DNS server

2003-09-03 Thread Mark
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Albert Charron wrote: I don't know if this is a question for the newbie or expert list, but I'll try on this one. Currently, I have problems with my ISP DNS servers (they are unreachable more than half the time). I'd like to build a DNS server on my computer so I'll