Re: [expert] Mounting a floppy

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 9:57 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is it possible to set up a floppy to be mounted as ext2 or DOS without the use of supermount? I see in the default installation, that /dev/fd0 is using the term auto instead of specifying which file system. It doesn't seem to be covered

[expert] Packet writing to CDRW

2003-10-29 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which can be written to on the fly. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] KDE 'copy to' context option?

2003-10-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:46, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: This is just about the only thing I miss from redhat (ok, there's freshrpms nice, easy to find reliable servers, but plf and texstar are a fair trade for that :) ). I could right click a file and there was a 'copy to' option that poped

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 21:28, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:32 am, Ray Warren wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13.

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Fernandez
Fred Albrecht wrote: Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I don't know

[expert] apcups Monitoring

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I don't understand. These are the error messages: Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 Cannot create /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd/LCK..ttyS0 serial port lock file: ERR=No such

Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring

2003-10-29 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I don't understand. These are the error messages: Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 Cannot create

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
Ok, I just attempted to join anthill, and start writing up some of my own bugs. Now that I have joined the system, I can't seem to get a password out of it. Any thoughts? I just tried to create a new account and I got the mail in about 2 seconds. Have you tried the send new password

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:13 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dell HP/Compaq and others seem to be assisting MDK with solving the problem with LG CDROMS. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3 For the latest... James James: I'm wondering how long it will be until some piece of

[expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line post-install pwc /sbin/insmod -f

Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I don't understand. These are the error messages: Wed

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 16:27 schrieb Anne Wilson: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line

[expert] A big OOoops!

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
Sopmehow I have list my klipper, kmix etc from the taskbar. I guess I've moved or resized something by accident. Any tips on getting them back? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:15, Rob Blomquist wrote: Ok, I just attempted to join anthill, and start writing up some of my own bugs. Now that I have joined the system, I can't seem to get a password out of it. Any thoughts? I just tried to create a new account and I got the mail in

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:12, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:13 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dell HP/Compaq and others seem to be assisting MDK with solving the problem with LG CDROMS. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3 For the latest... James

Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring

2003-10-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I

Re: [expert] A big OOoops!

2003-10-29 Thread Schwartz Avi
On Oct 29, 2003, at 11:26, Anne Wilson wrote: Sopmehow I have list my klipper, kmix etc from the taskbar. I guess I've moved or resized something by accident. Any tips on getting them back? Right click on an empty space on the bar and select add Applet and you will see the lost ones there.

Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW

2003-10-29 Thread Michael Adams
On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100 Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59 -0800: Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* Wasn't there a guy like this in the early 80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his friend? He later became leader of a large company selling crap

Re: [expert] A big OOoops!

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:51 pm, Schwartz Avi wrote: On Oct 29, 2003, at 11:26, Anne Wilson wrote: Sopmehow I have list my klipper, kmix etc from the taskbar. I guess I've moved or resized something by accident. Any tips on getting them back? Right click on an empty space on the bar

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line

RE: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread Lawson, Jim
Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem. James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59

Re: [expert] KDE 'copy to' context option?

2003-10-29 Thread AAW
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 02:31 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:46, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: This is just about the only thing I miss from redhat (ok, there's freshrpms nice, easy to find reliable servers, but plf and texstar are a fair trade for that :) ). I

RE: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread JM5379
there was also little billy --- Original Message --- From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Update on the LG problem. Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 6:32 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
Really? I thought it was William Doors. Anne On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 6:35 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, Dark Lord. I haven't forgotten that you are wrestling with the same thing. Within the next 24 hours, all being well, I'll send you a summary of the steps I took and why. Anne Thanks Anne - much appreciated! --

Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:46 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software.

Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed

2003-10-29 Thread lduvall
The url below does not work. LeRoy On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100 Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:15, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59 -0800: Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* Wasn't there a guy like this in the early 80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:04 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 16:27 schrieb Anne Wilson: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I

Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring

2003-10-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:20, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:46 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well,

Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 7:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I would pay attention here. Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Fatal error: insufficient power configured! Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Sum of power values: 0 Oct 29 19:05:58

[expert] Kmail problem (mdk 9.2)

2003-10-29 Thread Robert Goshko
Greetings all, I am having a weird problem with Kmail, when I compose a message, all is well, the header look correct from within Kmail, but when I look at the sendmail queue, the sender address has changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient---

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 20:28 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:04 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 16:27 schrieb Anne Wilson: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now

[expert] Interesting wireless driver tool

2003-10-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just came across a message posted to the wlan-ng list. There is a company out there called Linuxant and they have released Driveloader, a windoze driver compatibility layer and installer. Here is the info from their page: DriverLoader is a

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:36:27 -0500: there was also little billy Now as you mention the name: That's the one I meant! Couldn't remember the name, though ;-) Time for retirement. Couple of weeks to go. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Interesting wireless driver tool

2003-10-29 Thread J.C. Woods
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just came across a message posted to the wlan-ng list. There is a company out there called Linuxant and they have released Driveloader, a windoze driver compatibility layer and installer. Here is the info from their

Re: [expert] Interesting wireless driver tool

2003-10-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 October 2003 04:18 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just came across a message posted to the wlan-ng list. There is a company out there called Linuxant and they

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 8:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 20:28 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:04 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 16:27 schrieb Anne Wilson: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally

Re: [expert] NFS Install - How?

2003-10-29 Thread Alfredo C. López
Hi! Copy the 3 cds into the same directory.. Then try to install with nfs. (after exporting the directory for nfs access) I install 9.1 this way in 10 machines.. El Vie 24 Oct 2003 07:12, T. Ribbrock escribió: With 9.1, I had the first CDROM mounted on the server and exported as NFS share.

Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed

2003-10-29 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/001207.html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can see with decent packet writing setup, the old floppy drive will no longer used, I hate

Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed

2003-10-29 Thread djbeirne
Is this it?? http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-December/001409.html Dj. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The url below does not work. LeRoy On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100 Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet

Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed

2003-10-29 Thread Thomas Backlund
Mark Williamson kirjoitti viestissn (lhetysaika Torstai 30 Lokakuu 2003 00:22): Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/001207 .html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can

Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes

2003-10-29 Thread Dick Gevers
Hi Haywire, others, Thanks for your answer: On Tuesday, 28 October 2003 at 16:56 h, HaywireMac wrote about Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:47:44 - Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Restoring all fonts from tarballs I had put on cdrw in preparation

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Now all I have to do is find out how to keep the right perms on /dev/video* You can try editing /etc/security/console.perms, looking for the line near the bottom of that file that reads: console 0600 v4l 0600 root.sys And then changing it to: console

[expert] Mount: error 19 / Kernel panic booting 2.4.22

2003-10-29 Thread Paul
I get a kernel panic when I boot kernel-2.4.22. When I boot from kernel-2.4.19, everything is fine. I've just upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2. The messages I get on the console are: Loading sd_mode.o module Mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device Mountint root filesystem mount: error 19 mounting

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread John Wilson
On October 29, 2003 10:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Really? I thought it was William Doors. Anne On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 6:35 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[expert] updates to 9.2

2003-10-29 Thread Michael Noble
I just reloaded my 9.2 and installed updates. Now I not only do not have any screen savers but the menus are almost completely empty. Some of the Start option menus are completely gone. I can not even get a terminal started. I have been fond of Mandrake but this is really a disappointment when

Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed

2003-10-29 Thread Mark Williamson
Wow, I will keep the original kernel that has the packet drivers.. unless I get a LG-Cdrom, that's unlikely. Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 10:03, Thomas Backlund wrote: Mark Williamson kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 30 Lokakuu 2003 00:22): Hi, I have found the correct

[expert] 9.2 Kernel Source

2003-10-29 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, The 9.2 CDs doesn't seem to include kernel-source. Is it being renamed to something else now? I also did a urmpi kernel-source, and system told me everything is installed. May I ask where is kernel-source? I guess I could always download the kernel errata source. Regards, Norman Want to

[expert] Re: does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?

2003-10-29 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Looks like this was a known problem. I hope it's been fixed - but I'm not inclined to experiment further: Re: data loss From: Eric Sandeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glenn Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: I'm using XFS with Mandrake

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Grello
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:12, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:13 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dell HP/Compaq and others seem to be assisting MDK with solving the problem with LG CDROMS. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3 For the latest...

Re: [expert] updates to 9.2

2003-10-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 09:53 pm, Michael Noble wrote: I just reloaded my 9.2 and installed updates. Now I not only do not have any screen savers but the menus are almost completely empty. Some of the Start option menus are completely gone. I can not even get a terminal started. I

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 1:15 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Now all I have to do is find out how to keep the right perms on /dev/video* You can try editing /etc/security/console.perms, looking for the line near the bottom of that file that reads: console

Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 3:54 am, Mark Williamson wrote: Now I wonder if they can be read on a M$ box, with some sort of packaet drivers enabled, Hmm it will be real nice if they compatible. It would be nice, but I'm not hopeful. A udf disk written by Nero can not be read by a machine with

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 2:24 am, John Wilson wrote: On October 29, 2003 10:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Really? I thought it was William Doors. Anne On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 6:35 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original