Re: [newbie] alternative browser?

1999-11-10 Thread Jeanette Russo
I really don't think anyone is going to be happy with Hot Java. It is slow, not too stable and has problems with login's or SSL sites. Maybe Opera will be better than Netscape but right now I am happy to have Netscape because the alternatives are much worse. Jeanette jeremy wrote: I was

[newbie] Re: Real G2 and kde

1999-11-10 Thread Maurizio Bonavita
Hello everybody, Does anybody know how to associate Real G2 to rm or ra files under KDE? I created a new mime type in the audio section (i.e. audio/x-pn-realaudio that already exists under GNOME) but I don't know how to set reaplay as the default application to open real movie or real audio

Re: [newbie] Build a small home LAN

1999-11-10 Thread BryanMoorehead
I have a Linksys hub and the same at-home network. I would recommend Linksys. Good Luck, Bryan Luca Braglia [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/10/99 07:19:32 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject:

[newbie] OT Quantum Fireball Plus KA shows only 371KB cache (vs 512KB)

1999-11-10 Thread M Thompson
Here is a question I sent to Quantum (disk drives) along with the response I received from them. Does anyone know if their response is bogus? Matt = Original Message From DiskSupport [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Matt The drive is fine. What happens is during bootup 140k of diskware

Re: [newbie] IDE - Mixing HD CD-RW On Same Cable Running Linux - Possible?

1999-11-10 Thread Singer XJ Wang
Its more of a hardware/performance rule then OS rule. The THING iwth E-IDE/U-DMA is that only one DEVICE is accessed at the same time on each CHANNEL. So, use that logic and you know that you have 2 IDE Channels. I mean if you have two IDE hard drives, logic says put one on each IDE channel.

Re: [newbie] IDE - Mixing HD CD-RW On Same Cable Running Linux - Possible?

1999-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have a dilemma in that I have 3 ATAPI devices (CD-R, CD-RW, TR-4i tape drive) and 1 IDE HD that I would like put in my Linux Box. I know that in Windows you're not supposed to put ATAPI with IDE HardDrives on the same ribbon cable. Does the same rule

[newbie] Reverse Windoze Internet sharing

1999-11-10 Thread G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have two network cards and both are working fine . I am able to ping the other system, and the linux box shows up fine in network neighborhood on the windoze machine. I have internet connection sharing working fine from the win only box. I dual

[newbie] No boot filename received - UPDATE

1999-11-10 Thread BryanMoorehead
I have disabled DHCP for eth0 using linuxconf, but still am forced to boot from a floppy. Where can I copy the floppy's contents to on the hard drive to make the computer NOT require the floppy? Thanks, Bryan On the fresh, new 6.1 box, I am using DHCP to get assigned an IP address.

Re: [newbie] Build a small home LAN

1999-11-10 Thread Singer XJ Wang
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Luca Braglia wrote: Hi all, I use Linux Mandrake 6.0 and I would like to build a small home network, connecting two PC and maybe later a laptop. I plan to start first with thin ethernet ( BNC-10Base2 ) and than switch to a 10Base-T ( Unshielded Twisted-pair-Rj45 )

Re: [newbie] Dos partition

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have a Dos partition on a 2nd hard drive that I would like to access from Linux or Win98. However, I can't write to it as a user, and I can't change the file permissions or group as root. Any idea what's up? By default, Linux (or at least RedHat and

Re: [newbie] Lilo won't boot off HD!

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote: Would really appreciate someone's help. I can't figure this out. The boot sequence using my boot diskette is perfect: everything is normal and everything got an OK. So, why won't Linux boot up from the HD. Never had this problem before. Thank you all so

Re: [newbie] Build a small home LAN

1999-11-10 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta I use two linksys nic's in my home network with the supplied 3com card from my cable company. I did not buy a started kit tho, just picked up two extra cat5 cables and a 5 port hub. put a linksys in my winblows box (for my son/wife) connected it to a port on the hub

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: It's just that every time I want to use the Zip drive I have to go into terminal and type "modprobe ppa", and then mount it. I guess I would be happy if I could just get "modprobe ppa" to run automatically at boot up. I guess your right, automounting a

[newbie] Reverse Internet Sharing

1999-11-10 Thread G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have two network cards and both are working fine . I am able to ping the other system, and the linux box shows up fine in network neighborhood on the windoze machine. I have internet connection sharing working fine from the win only box. I dual

[newbie] BLAS.a or BLAS-OPT.a

1999-11-10 Thread Singer XJ Wang
One of the programs I'm trying to TGZ.Compile [hehe :)] is asking for someothing called BLAS.o or BLAS-OPT.a and it says its in RedHat, but I use Mandrake, any chance its ther also? I can't find it. SInger Thanks all

Re: [newbie] alternative browser?

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: I was doing some searching and found that Opera is moving to port their browser to Linux in a couple of weeks(www.opera.com i think thats where i was). also Sun has HotJava. but I do not know what that is. it seems like a browser. i have not downloaded it

Re: [newbie] Lexmark 3200

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Well, I know there aren't any drivers for my Lexmark printer yet, but someone told me that as long as I had it set up as a plain text printer, it would print. Is this true? I set it as a plain text printer during install, but it won't print anything. Just

Re: [newbie] IDE - Mixing HD CD-RW On Same Cable Running Linux - Possible?

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have a dilemma in that I have 3 ATAPI devices (CD-R, CD-RW, TR-4i tape drive) and 1 IDE HD that I would like put in my Linux Box. I know that in Windows you're not supposed to put ATAPI with IDE HardDrives on the same ribbon cable. Does the same rule

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1999-11-10 Thread Michel Rene de Cotret
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Re: [newbie] Build a small home LAN

1999-11-10 Thread Chip Wiegand
I am using the Linksys network kit plus several other nics on my home network of 5 pc's. I have 3 lynksys nics and 2 3com, and they all work great. One pc has one of each in it and I had no problem with Linux recognizing both on boot-up. They both use the native drivers in Linux also. Chip On

[newbie] Changing monitor settings

1999-11-10 Thread Christian Charles Opp
When I installed linux-mandrake 6.1 it asked me what the settings were for the monitor. At the time I didn't know. However, now I do know and would like to change it. How do I do this? Do I go into XConfigurator and if so how do I do it? Second, do I install my video card driver? I am very new

Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations

1999-11-10 Thread Damien Mc Kenna
Hi pete moss ! On 11/9/99 3:33:33 PM, you wrote: if you want an optical pointing device, check out the logitech trackman marble+. it is ps/2 and it has a scroll wheel that works under imwheel perfectly in linux. the best mousy thing i have ever used! How does it compare to the FirstMousePlus,

Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations

1999-11-10 Thread Damien Mc Kenna
Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/9/99 2:46:53 PM, you wrote: Much as I hate microsoft software, if I had the money, I'd probably get their new optical PS/2 scroll mouse. It does seem interesting, and it'll fit a large hand too.. As for a modem, almost any ISA modem will work, but I would recommend you

Re: [newbie] Apache PHP

1999-11-10 Thread Damien Mc Kenna
Hi "David M. Kufta" ! On 11/9/99 8:15:25 PM, you wrote: I find the below statement rather curious Midgard works just fine I have it installed and use it to administer my web pages with no problem, it does require one to read the documentation and understand how Midgard work's. The INSTALL file

Re: [newbie] Lexmark 3200

1999-11-10 Thread pete moss
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Well, I know there aren't any drivers for my Lexmark printer yet, but someone told me that as long as I had it set up as a plain text printer, it would print. Is this true? I set it as a plain text printer during install, but it

Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations

1999-11-10 Thread pete moss
Damien Mc Kenna wrote: Hi pete moss ! On 11/9/99 3:33:33 PM, you wrote: if you want an optical pointing device, check out the logitech trackman marble+. it is ps/2 and it has a scroll wheel that works under imwheel perfectly in linux. the best mousy thing i have ever used! How does

Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations

1999-11-10 Thread pete moss
Yeah...but try using a trackball for Quake. ;-) actually i prefer using the keyboard for quake. or a joystick! :P

Re: [newbie] Reverse Windoze Internet sharing

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have two network cards and both are working fine . I am able to ping the other system, and the linux box shows up fine in network neighborhood on the windoze machine. I have internet connection sharing working fine from the win only box. I dual boot

Re: [newbie] Netscape error

1999-11-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote: I keep getting a Netscape popup in the middle of my email/browsing (it doesn't matter which) that "Bookmarks have changed on disk and are being reloaded". I have to stop everything and tell it "OK". This is the first day I have had this problem.

[newbie] Message of The Day

1999-11-10 Thread Lionel Barrow
Hi guys, I have what I hope is an easy question to answer. My first experience with Linux was an old Slackware distribution from 1995. I knew nothing of it then and paid little or no attention until early this year. That old distribution hada random message of the day that would come up

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1999-11-10 Thread Daryl Walsh
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Re: [newbie] Zip drive

1999-11-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: JerryI'm curious as to why you'd want any removable media device to automount at bootup? The media needs to be inserted for the mount to occur and that is a bad practice with any removable read/write device. Alan Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: snip

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

1999-11-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, pete moss wrote: Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: It's just that every time I want to use the Zip drive I have to go into terminal and type "modprobe ppa", and then mount it. I guess I would be happy if I could just get "modprobe ppa" to run automatically at boot up. I

Re: [newbie] IDE - Mixing HD CD-RW On Same Cable Running Linux - Possible?

1999-11-10 Thread Anderson A. eMiranda
I have a IDE HD as master on Primary IDE and a ATAPI CDROM as slave on it. On the Secoundary IDE I have a HP 7200 CDRW as slave in both windows and linux and all its OK. I have not tested write cds on linux yet, but I think evertyhing its ok. Anderson A. eMiranda Virtualcase Brazil [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] alternative browser?

1999-11-10 Thread Kaplan, Paul
Try Amaya for a graphical browser. www.w3.org http://www.w3.org -Original Message- From: Karen M. Heiby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 5:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] alternative

[newbie] TNT 2 Ultra

1999-11-10 Thread Tofoli, Fabricio Alves
Hi all, I´m not sure this subject has already been discussed, but here it goes. Does the mandrake 6.0 include support for the TNT untra? I tryed using the RIVA TNT in the Xconfigurator setup, but whatever I do, the X-windows doesn´t show corretly. The screen appears completely messy and I have

Re: [newbie] Message of The Day

1999-11-10 Thread Brian K. Garel
Lionel Barrow wrote: Hi guys, I have what I hope is an easy question to answer. My first experience with Linux was an old Slackware distribution from 1995. I knew nothing of it then and paid little or no attention until early this year. That old distribution had a random message of the

Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/9/99 2:46:53 PM, you wrote: Much as I hate microsoft software, if I had the money, I'd probably get their new optical PS/2 scroll mouse. It does seem interesting, and it'll fit a large hand too.. Yeah...nice thing is you don't

[newbie] mysql socket

1999-11-10 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm trying to install MySQL on my Mandrake 5.3 machine. I'm installing from source. When I try running mysqladmin, I get an error saying that /tmp/mysql.sock doesn't exist. It doesn't. What is this file, and how do I create it? Thanks, Hidong

[newbie] Unable to telnet into Mandrake box

1999-11-10 Thread Jason L Bowne/BOWNJL/LMITCO/INEEL/US
Hello, I just installed Mandrake 6.1 on HP NetServer LH Pro, and love it so far.. I am in the process of decommisioning an HP9000 UNIX server that is serving our web page and just can't see how paying the $3000/year maintenance fee on HP-UX is a benefit, when a better, faster, stable OS is

Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Yeah...but try using a trackball for Quake. ;-) actually i prefer using the keyboard for quake. or a joystick! I've seen too many people kick butt with a mouse. There's just so much more maneuverability and better aiming! John

[newbie] Quake

1999-11-10 Thread Jason L Bowne/BOWNJL/LMITCO/INEEL/US
How/where does one get Quake for linux??

[newbie] mcopy corrupts floppies

1999-11-10 Thread Smith, Bill
When I perform an mcopy operation to a floppy, where a duplicate file is encounterred and then overwritten, the floppy becomes unreadable and unwriteble on my Win/NT system. I can't even reformat the floppy. Has anyone else seen this? Bill Smith Intel ASC Santa Clara Phone: 408-765-4570 / Fax:

RE: [[newbie] IDE - Mixing HD CD-RW On Same Cable Running Linux - Possible?]

1999-11-10 Thread Steven Smith
It's really a question of performance. Will the slowest device on the chain dictate the maximum speed of the data access? With Windows, I think the answer is YES. With linux, you can tune the ide access parameters... S. Douglas Smith Sr.

Re: [newbie] Reverse Windoze Internet sharing

1999-11-10 Thread Anderson A. eMiranda
Hi, I using 2 stations at home: 1 - NT 4.0 2 - Linux As I use thw windowz NT for develope PHP and Cold Fusion, this is (yet) main machine and my connection to the internet is made by NT. I use Winroute (www.winroute.com) on NT to share the internet connection (it works as a router). Setups:

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-10 Thread Tate A. Yancey
I believe you have to buy the other platform version. There are how-tos to make it work for linux. At 01:51 PM 11/10/1999 -0700, you wrote: How/where does one get Quake for linux??

Re: [newbie] Where's the Sound?

1999-11-10 Thread Niraj Bajpai
Does anybody know whether HP-Pavailion 8550C has problems with Linux-Mandrake 6.5 installation. On the Video side it doesn't say about intel chipset -810 support. Thanks in advance, Niraj

Re: [newbie] Monitor Trouble

1999-11-10 Thread David van Balen
run Xconfigurator or xf86config On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Christian Charles Opp wrote: When I first installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 I didn't know what the resolutions were. I know now and would like to change it. How do I do this? Thanks, chris

Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations

1999-11-10 Thread Seth Gibson
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote: Yeah...but try using a trackball for Quake. ;-) John Haha. . .oh but i do! and i gotta say i love it. . .havent gotten the panther xl to work under linux very well yet tho): -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder

Re: [newbie] alternative browser?

1999-11-10 Thread Alex V Flinsch
"Karen M. Heiby" wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative browser for Linux? I don't like Netscape's, KFM, or Star Office's very much. I won't dare go into all the problems, though ;-) if you want lightweight and fairly simple, try grail. Entirely written in python, you

Re: [newbie] Monitor Trouble

1999-11-10 Thread clyde
Cris , To solve your problem on the monitor side select Viewsonic ES 14 using 600x800 or the default setting detected by Linux. Clyde At 02:05 PM 11/10/99 -0600, you wrote: When I first installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 I didn't know what the resolutions were. I know now and would like to

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-10 Thread Seth Gibson
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: How/where does one get Quake for linux?? 1() Buy it 2() if you have the dos/win version go to www.linuxquake.com to get the client, then check out /usr/doc/HOWTO/Quake-HOWTO (or you can just look at it while at linuxquake.com) -- Seth Gibson

Re: [newbie] Message of The Day

1999-11-10 Thread David M. Kufta
Hi Lionel, You can get the same result by adding a line to /etcbashrc or /home/lionel/.bashrc this would consist of: /usr/games/fortune On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi guys, I have what I hope is an easy question to answer. My first experience with Linux was an old Slackware

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: How/where does one get Quake for linux?? http://www.linuxgames.com/quake/ ... good place to start? -- .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [newbie] Changing monitor settings

1999-11-10 Thread Tate A. Yancey
Just type XConfigurator in a terminal window. It will take you through the steps. If your card is on the compat list, it should already be there. At 10:50 AM 11/10/1999 -0600, you wrote: When I installed linux-mandrake 6.1 it asked me what the settings were for the monitor. At the time I

Re: [newbie] TNT 2 Ultra

1999-11-10 Thread Richard Yevchak
You either have to download the new version of x (3.3.5) from LM 6.1 or go to www.nvidia.com and download their x-server updates. Richard On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, I´m not sure this subject has already been discussed, but here it goes. Does the mandrake 6.0 include support

Re: [newbie] Message of The Day

1999-11-10 Thread Tate A. Yancey
I believe all distro have this. Don't quote me but I think there is a MOTD file somewhere. At 02:15 PM 11/10/1999 -0500, you wrote: Hi guys, I have what I hope is an easy question to answer. My first experience with Linux was an old Slackware distribution from 1995. I knew nothing of it then

Re: [newbie] Reverse Windoze Internet sharing

1999-11-10 Thread Marty
Try this web site : http://qnat.csb.com/masquera.htm This should help .

[newbie] hi

1999-11-10 Thread Dimitris Houstoulakis
Hi, I wonder if there is any documentation in *.doc format about Linux generally. Thanks tvp

Re: [newbie] Message of The Day

1999-11-10 Thread Mark Ramsey
I'm having troubleI just installed latest Mandrake and I can't get Xwindows to run. I have both a PCI and a AGP sis 6326 video cards and have tried both of them in itany suggestions? ps, I live in a small town and would you believe all the computer stores in town only carry the

Re: [newbie] Motorola PCI modem

1999-11-10 Thread Singer XJ Wang
Motorola PCI SM56 is a WinModem. Cannot work under LINUX. On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Tony Bao wrote: Hi, I have a Motorola PCI modem SM56, how to configure it? I can see that it takes the "COM4" in Window98. Thanks in advance. Tony =

Re: [newbie] Changing monitor settings

1999-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: When I installed linux-mandrake 6.1 it asked me what the settings were for the monitor. At the time I didn't know. However, now I do know and would like to change it. How do I do this? Do I go into XConfigurator and if so how do I do it? Second, do I install my

Re: [newbie] TNT 2 Ultra

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, I´m not sure this subject has already been discussed, but here it goes. Does the mandrake 6.0 include support for the TNT untra? I tryed using the RIVA TNT in the Xconfigurator setup, but whatever I do, the X-windows doesn´t show corretly. The

[newbie] Creative Labs 3D Blaster S4

1999-11-10 Thread RICHARD FRIEDMAN
Does anyone know if XFree86 3.3.5 supports the Creative Labs 3D Blaster with the Savage 4 chipset? Rick Friedman Salant Corp. - MIS 800-472-8013 x75105 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Heaven on earth is... Yankee Stadium!

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: How/where does one get Quake for linux?? Presumeably in the software store. :-) John

Re: [newbie] Unable to telnet into Mandrake box

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello, I just installed Mandrake 6.1 on HP NetServer LH Pro, and love it so far.. I am in the process of decommisioning an HP9000 UNIX server that is serving our web page and just can't see how paying the $3000/year maintenance fee on HP-UX is a benefit,

[newbie] Zip Drive parallel help

1999-11-10 Thread Jeff Filapose
I'm new to the list ( about a week or so) I bought a 100mb parallel zip but just can't seem to get it to work. When I type ( mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip) it reads can't find device (maybe insmod driver) Any help would be great. I need as much detail as possible. (I'm real new.) P.S. Should

Re: [newbie] Monitor Trouble

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: When I first installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 I didn't know what the resolutions were. I know now and would like to change it. How do I do this? As root, rerun "setup" and choose "video" or run /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config or /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup John

Re: [newbie] Motorola PCI modem

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi, I have a Motorola PCI modem SM56, how to configure it? I can see that it takes the "COM4" in Window98. Thanks in advance. Can you say "WinModem"??? At this point I almost guarantee it won't work under Linux. 99.9% of all PCI modems are WinModems/HSP

[newbie] OT: Novel recommendation

1999-11-10 Thread RICHARD FRIEDMAN
Completely off-topic but I thought it might be of interest to many, if not most, of you. I just finished reading a novel titled: "format c:" by Edwin Black. It is published by Brookline Books. It is a thriller (although there is quite a bit of humor) concerning the Y2K bug and Armageddon. It

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1999-11-10 Thread Joseph G. Getty
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RE: [newbie] remove

1999-11-10 Thread Kenny Barrett
remove -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel Rene de Cotret Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] remove remove

Re: [newbie] OT Quantum Fireball Plus KA shows only 371KB cache (vs 512KB)

1999-11-10 Thread Steve Philp
M Thompson wrote: Here is a question I sent to Quantum (disk drives) along with the response I received from them. Does anyone know if their response is bogus? Their answer is legitimate. It's unfortunate, but true.

[newbie] OT: Novel recommendation

1999-11-10 Thread RICHARD FRIEDMAN
Completely off-topic but I thought it might be of interest to many, if not most, of you. I just finished reading a novel titled: "format c:" by Edwin Black. It is published by Brookline Books. It is a thriller (although there is quite a bit of humor) concerning the Y2K bug and Armageddon. It

Re: [newbie] Reverse Windoze Internet sharing

1999-11-10 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have two network cards and both are working fine . I am able to ping the other system, and the linux box shows up fine in network neighborhood on the windoze machine. I have internet connection sharing working fine from the win

[newbie] Re:

1999-11-10 Thread Michel Thadeu
Hello , send this msg to true adress , see in mandrake hp ! Bye. -- Michel Thadeu Sabchuk A brasilian user of Linux .

[newbie] FW: Creative Labs 3D Blaster S4

1999-11-10 Thread RICHARD FRIEDMAN
Does anyone know if XFree86 3.3.5 supports the Creative Labs 3D Blaster with the Savage 4 chipset? I am sorry if this message was received twice. I'm having some problems I'm trying to iron out. Rick Friedman Salant Corp. - MIS 800-472-8013 x75105 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

[newbie] It's a (SB)Live !!!

1999-11-10 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Hello all, Well I finally figured this @#$%! thing out. In my extrem newbieness I was trying to save myself some time when I was editing and moving files around (ie the makefile and the conf.modules file) and would open them in separate windows, make my changes but I would not close them or the

Re: [[newbie] FW: Creative Labs 3D Blaster S4]

1999-11-10 Thread Jaguar
Twice? Try three times...:( RICHARD FRIEDMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if XFree86 3.3.5 supports the Creative Labs 3D Blaster with the Savage 4 chipset? I am sorry if this message was received twice. I'm having some problems I'm trying to iron out. Rick Friedman Salant

Re: [newbie] Message of The Day

1999-11-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Lionel and Brianon my Mandrake 6.1 CD there is no fortune, but there is a kfortune that runs in KDE. Alan "Brian K. Garel" wrote: Lionel Barrow wrote: Hi guys, I have what I hope is an easy question to answer. My first experience with Linux was an old Slackware distribution

[newbie] multiple cards

1999-11-10 Thread Pat Mc
Having some trouble setting up multiple nics on my 486. I'm using ne clones with Mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.0.36. The cards work fine individually, but with both configured I can only get one to work at a time. I have tried netconf but that is not doing the trick. At this point I have done the

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: I believe you have to buy the other platform version. There are how-tos to make it work for linux. Oh...yeah. Original Quake you have to have the Dos/Windows version, plus download some stuff for Linux. Quake II is the same way. Quake3 has a version that is

Re: [newbie] Message of The Day

1999-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm having troubleI just installed latest Mandrake and I can't get Xwindows to run. I have both a PCI and a AGP sis 6326 video cards and have tried both of them in itany suggestions? ps, I live in a small town and would you believe all the computer

[newbie] video settings?

1999-11-10 Thread Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia
How can i change the video setting under kde (i.e. 16-bit to 24-bit and/or resolution)? Thanks, Jas

[newbie] network cards

1999-11-10 Thread Pat Mc
Having some trouble setting up multiple nics on my 486. I'm using ne clones with Mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.0.36. The cards work fine individually, but with both configured I can only get one to work at a time. I have tried netconf but that is not doing the trick. At this point I have done the

[newbie] XMAGIC ELF (COFF)?

1999-11-10 Thread Christopher Cox
With previous versions of Slackware I could run some of my Unixware ELF executables (even some COFF's), but with Mandrakes distribution, I cannot even get Linux's old ZMAGIC binarys to run, whats the deal? bsd_comp is loaded. Thanks in advance. Christopher Cox

Re: [newbie] Changing monitor settings

1999-11-10 Thread Larry Coolidge
XConfigurator may very well work for you. If, like I do, you have a video card or monitor that isn't supported with the current version of XFree86, then it is a bit more involved. I use xf86config which allows you to manually input your vertical and horizontal sync ranges. It is done in

Re: [[newbie] downloading]

1999-11-10 Thread Jaguar
Probably...just hit the BACK button on the browser and then RIGHT click and choose SAVE AS... HTH Jaguar jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering about downloading from netscape. I click on a thing to download and the next page is a grey page with goobly-guk writing on it . is that the

RE: [newbie] downloading

1999-11-10 Thread James Shepherd
Hold the shift key down in Netscape then click to download. That should take care of it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jeremy Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 10:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] downloading I am

Re: [newbie] downloading

1999-11-10 Thread Jesse Royall
Try right clicking on the link and 'SAVE AS' command. On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:08:50 -0700 jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am wondering about downloading from netscape. I click on a thing to download and the next page is a grey page with goobly-guk writing on it . is that the code?

Re: [newbie] Changing monitor settings

1999-11-10 Thread Chris Herrnberger
IN mandrake/redhat as follows: login: users name passwrd: xxx #su #pswd: enter root password #enter setup # enter xconfig follow the auto prompts and you should be fine until it asks you to accept the setting, say no or manual or whatever and use the tab key to set the default bpps you

[newbie] ZMAGIC ; ELF (COFF)

1999-11-10 Thread Christopher Cox
With previous versions of Slackware I could run some of my Unixware ELF executables (even some COFF's), but with Mandrakes distribution, I cannot even get Linux's old ZMAGIC binarys to run, whats the deal? bsd_comp is loaded. Thanks in advance. Christopher Cox

Re: [newbie] Motorola PCI modem

1999-11-10 Thread Larry Coolidge
Most PCI modems are Winmodems. If your motorola is a Winmodem, you can't use it in Linux From: Tony Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Motorola PCI modem Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:01:56 -0800 (PST) Hi, I have a Motorola PCI modem SM56,

Re: [newbie] downloading

1999-11-10 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, jeremy wrote: I am wondering about downloading from netscape. I click on a thing to download and the next page is a grey page with goobly-guk writing on it . is that the code? j It's opening the binary file in your browser. Netscape doesn't seem to be able to

Re: [newbie] Monitor Trouble

1999-11-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
login as root, and run "setup" X will be at the bottom. On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Christian Charles Opp wrote: When I first installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 I didn't know what the resolutions were. I know now and would like to change it. How do I do this? Thanks, chris

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

1999-11-10 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: JerryI'm curious as to why you'd want any removable media device to automount at bootup? The media needs to be inserted for the mount to occur and that is a bad practice with any removable read/write device. Alan Jerry

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

1999-11-10 Thread pete moss
Thanks for the tips Alan John. I put "modprobe ppa" at the end of my rc.local file and guess what? It works! Just like you guys said it would. Now, does anyone know how to get "imwheel" to invoke during bootup? I tried putting that in the rc.local file and it didn't work. I use an MS

Re: [newbie] Data Collision - How to improve transfer?

1999-11-10 Thread Chris Herrnberger
sorry can really help you but I remember reading something about mtu's on samba which I presume your using...if not it may be something to investigate. ch Sevatio Octavio wrote: I know this is not really a Linux issue but... I'm transferring data between my linbox and winbox. Both are

Re: [newbie] Unable to telnet into Mandrake box

1999-11-10 Thread clyde
First is that r u using DHCP or Static IP the edit the etc/hosts be sure that the entry is like this etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 server save then reboot the system Lapu_Lapu #mindanao At 08:33 PM 11/10/99 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello,