Re: [newbie] My Mandrake Is Loopy... No More!

Help. I'm trying to fix my screensaver, it does not come on. I was told to look for the Virtual Terminal. But, I looked for the Virtual Terminal, and could not find it...will the Terminal Emulator work? I tried typing in 'kppp' and nothing happened... 'A Slave To The Drive To

[newbie] (PLZ READ AND ANSWER!)...Problems with sound and apache

_-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: root wrote: Ive been sending this sevral times but plz answer me, I need to configre apache someway, any kind of advise would help Ok, lets get to my point...Ive installed mandrake linux like a month ago but after I got used to it I started using its server,

Re: [newbie] numbers lock in kde

Yeah, me too. That really sucks!, or rather is a minor but irritating annoyance. I have that same problem On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Michael Holt mewed: Hello all! I've got another question for ya! I've got 'numlock at boot' enabled on Mandrake 7, but when I start kde, I lose my

Re: [newbie] Video card S3 Trio 3D

Sad to say, but I have had the exact same problem for a month on a IBM Netfinity 3000 server (PII450, 128 meg, S3 Trio 3D) and still can't get it to work. X just doesn't like this card. Let me know if you find a solution. Victor Softec - Javier Matos wrote: Hi everyone: I got a video card

[newbie] Motherboard Monitor for Linux?

Hi! Is there a CPU monitoring tool for my Abit BP6 for Linux? Thanks in advance! John

[newbie] FTP andf Telnet

This has to be a case of missing the obvious!! I have installed Manfrake 6.1 (2.2.13-22mdk). I can FTP and TELNET OUT of the box, but I can't telnet in, no connection is ever established I can't even "telnet 127.0.0.1", all I get is : Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Escape character is '^]'

[newbie] communicator upgrade which linux

i am interested in upgrading communicator and notice on the netscape site it lists 3 different kinds of linux 1.2 2.0 2.0 glibc which one do i choose ?

Re: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X

Thank you very much, Eunice. That worked perfectly! Everything runs like a dream! Roger PS. Mandrake rocks! Eunice Thompson wrote: Roger, When you install in expert mode, you have to make sure that you install all the Window Managers (I think that's the term),when it gives you that

Re: Fw: [newbie] I messed up

Jon, Thanks for the info, it is an external Parallel with SCSI built into the drive. It is one of the cheapy ones only 100 meg capacity. Will check out the 'dmesg|more' the first chance I have maybe in the morn'. Many thanks, don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know

Re: Fw: [newbie] I messed up

Hey, THANK YOU BIG TIME. Now I have a place to go to find what is needed, maybe. Any way that is a place to start. I have been experimenting with the DOSEmu-lators, xdos, xtermdos, dos, etcetera. Have been into the DOS thingy with 'dos' but not on the drive where the files are that I would

Re: [newbie] Modem not detected

Here are the locations you may try for what you may need for the LinModems/WinModems or whatever they are called. http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html http://lwn.net/1999/1209/a/lucent.html don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what

Re: [newbie] newbie books

Running Linux by Matt Welsh/et al from O'Reilly. If you did a poll I believe that this book would be the most recommended. It's available at most book stores, such as Barnes Noble, and of course from on line purveyors like amazon. Russell Philomena wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a

[newbie] newbie books

"Philomena" == Philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philomena Hi all, Can anyone recommend a few good startup Linux Philomena books ? There are too many out there now to start Philomena sampling. Any help would be appreciated. _Running Linux_ by Matt Welsh (and another?) from

[newbie] Root does not exist

"hsantos78" == hsantos78 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hsantos78 I installed Mandrake 7 and used for several hours hsantos78 without a problem. The problem comes know that i used hsantos78 root to adduser and my machine got stuck. i rebooted hsantos78 the machine manually (reset).

[newbie] Problem

hi i decided to install mandrake like a month ago, so i used partition magic. in a few words, i had no trouble installing everything, so windows and linux worked just fine. but some days ago my installation of staroffice took all of my linux disk space, so i used to partition magic again to

[newbie] CDRW drive

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has had problems getting Mandrake 7 to recognize and use a HP CD Writer Plus. I am not sure which model it is, only that it is 4x/4x/24x. It is the same drive I installed Mandrake from, but now linux won't recognize it. Does anyone know anything about this?

Re: [newbie] numbers lock in kde

I've seen a few 'me too's', so it doesn't look like there will be an answer very soon. Here's a workaround that I found on a Usenet site - not as clean as I'd like, but here it is: edit '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/types/basic' at the end of the file you should see something like the following:

Re: [newbie]Curious

can anyone tell me how many bit operating system is the mandrake? 64? or 32. thanks

Re: [newbie] Motherboard Monitor for Linux?

Sure. lm_sensors, their homepage is: http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/. It's not abit BP6 specific; should work on most PII's and higher. Don't ask me to give you any help installing it however; I never got around to installing it myself. ps: I use the same mobo. It rocks, doesn't it? :-) On

Re: [newbie] Video card S3 Trio 3D

Have you guys tried the frame buffer Xserver? Victor Richardson wrote: Sad to say, but I have had the exact same problem for a month on a IBM Netfinity 3000 server (PII450, 128 meg, S3 Trio 3D) and still can't get it to work. X just doesn't like this card. Let me know if you find a

Re: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X

my pleasure - Original Message - From: "Roger Bird" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X Thank you very much, Eunice. That worked perfectly! Everything runs like a dream! Roger

RE: [newbie] net problem

HI: I think that you had forgotten to configure a valid DNS or your DNS is not working OK. I had the same problem at the first time but then I would decide to change to another DNS and then everything went right. I hope it works for you too. -Mensaje original- De: stathis gotsis

Re: [Re: [newbie] Video card S3 Trio 3D]

Victor Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sad to say, but I have had the exact same problem for a month on a IBM Netfinity 3000 server (PII450, 128 meg, S3 Trio 3D) and still can't get it to work. X just doesn't like this card. Let me know if you find a solution. Victor

[newbie] Mandrake 7 - Ram is read incorrectly - Kernel Panic

I have two slight problems, maybe other people are getting the same problem or know of a way around it? o When I first install Mandrake 7, one of the screens says that it only sees 64 megs of ram, but I have 192. My bios confirms this and so does windows, and previous distributions on mandrake.

[newbie] USB Scanner

Hi all, Could anyone please give me some info or links about installing and configuring an USB scanner? Thanks in advance, Jacob The Netherlands __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

AW: [newbie] Mandrake instalation doubt

Hello there, yes, there are drivers for the Trident CyberBlade i7 (I have one inside my machine), but the performance is not that good. If you can, use an other graphics board. DJ. Switzerland, Europe -Ursprngliche Nachricht-Von: Zattar [mailto:[EMAIL

AW: AW: [newbie] newbie books

uhhmmm, well - certain things in those "... for Dummies" books are just plain humour and not necessarily meant to be taken serious. :-) DJ. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jon Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Dienstag, 21. März 2000 20:34 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] DPMS

I want to use KDE's DPMS stuff, but it doesn't work, although my monitor does support DPMS. May it be that my BIOS is not configurated right? Here are the BIOS entries: IPCA Functino: Disabled Power Management: User Define PM Control by APM: yes Vidoe Off Option: Supend - Off Video Off

Re: [[newbie] Problem]

"Diego González" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i decided to install mandrake like a month ago, so i used partition magic. in a few words, i had no trouble installing everything, so windows and linux worked just fine. but some days ago my installation of staroffice took all of my linux disk

Re: [[newbie] Mandrake 7 - Ram is read incorrectly - Kernel Panic]

"David J. Siu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two slight problems, maybe other people are getting the same problem or know of a way around it? o When I first install Mandrake 7, one of the screens says that it only sees 64 megs of ram, but I have 192. My bios confirms this and so does

Re: [newbie] communicator upgrade which linux

2.0 glibc is what you want. However, I would suggest you not bother with compiliing and installing it from a .tar.gz. Instead use a RPM from here: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA207-02.6.0.html to update it. And yes, it will work on Mandrake even though it's from redhat. i am

Re: [newbie] CDRW drive

I have a HP CD Writer plus (9200 series, 8x/4x/32x) and I've had no problems with it with Linux. I didn't install with it, but I can still access it just fine. So I don't think you're problem is with the CD writer itself. Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has had problems getting Mandrake 7

Re: [newbie] For all those who hate Netscrape

While Mozilla is gettign nicer and nicer, it is a bit too buggy yet. Some websites look like crap in it (zdnet.com ign64.com) and there is still just random bugs that pop-up from time to time. But with teh beta release coming up soon, they'll hopefully have more of them ironed out, where it will

[newbie] Mandrake update

There is an update for nmh. I've tried to get it via Mandrake Update programm, but I failed: Everytime (no matter what ftp server) I got the error message (translated to English): "An error occured by downloading nmh-1.0.3.-1mdk.i586.rmp" Where is the problem? Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data

[newbie] FTP andf Telnet

This has to be a case of missing the obvious!! I have installed Manfrake 6.1 (2.2.13-22mdk). I can FTP and TELNET OUT of the box, but I can't telnet in, no connection is ever established I can't even "telnet 127.0.0.1", all I get is : Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Escape character is '^]'

Re: [newbie] FTP andf Telnet

Hi, I had this problem just two days ago with Mandrake 7.0: Solution was to install the "telnet-server" RPM, it worked immediately after doing this. Unlike other distributions, Mandrake (or RH) split up the telnet package in two RPM´s: telnet-server and telnet-client. Only the telnet-client is

[newbie] Upgrades

Hi Folks! Having used Mandrake6.1 for a couple of months I decided to did deep and buy through Cheapbytes version 7.0, the $1.99 single CD one :-) After a huge amount of hassles because the installation took offence to my hardware (Pentium200mmx, noname Mobo, 64mb ram, and S3Virge PCI) I finally

Re: [newbie] Adding a Partition

Lane Lester wrote: I'm running out of space on which I put everything except /boot. I've got another partition to which I'd like to move /usr, but I don't have a clue about how to do that. If there's a man page that explains it, just point me toward it. Or if you're feeling generous, just

Re: [newbie] Adding a Partition

Lane Lester wrote: I'm running out of space on which I put everything except /boot. I've got another partition to which I'd like to move /usr, but I don't have a clue about how to do that. If there's a man page that explains it, just point me toward it. Or if you're feeling generous, just

AW: [newbie] linux ref book

use winrar *rofl* you can't mean this -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 22. März 2000 14:28 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: RE: [newbie] linux ref book I guess it would help if I told you where to get it, sorry :)

RE: [newbie] linux ref book

I tried to use winrar but got an error message, I'm using winrar 2.60 is anybody else having trouble? use winrar *rofl* you can't mean this -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 22. März 2000 14:28 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: [newbie] FTP andf Telnet

Barry Winch wrote: This has to be a case of missing the obvious!! I have installed Manfrake 6.1 (2.2.13-22mdk). I can FTP and TELNET OUT of the box, but I can't telnet in, no connection is ever established I can't even "telnet 127.0.0.1", all I get is : Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

RE: [newbie] linux ref book

You have to use winzip first and then winrar. I am sorry about this, but they will only accept certain file extensions for upload. -Original Message- From: Scala, Lino [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE:

RE: [newbie] linux ref book

You first must use winzip. Then you must rename the files and set all the files with the same name but increasing the extensión. linuxref-book1.rar linuxref-bool2.r00 - linuxref-book1.r00 linuxref-bool3.r00 - linuxref-book1.r00 and so on. It works for me . -Mensaje

Re: [newbie] linux ref book

Merle, I have the files downloaded and even uzipped, each are linuxref-book1.rar, r00, r01, r02, r03, and r04 but when I click on the first file (...rar) my WinZip opens and I get the message there is nothing for it to do. Where is the "winrar" file referenced on that

Re: [newbie] For all those who hate Netscrape

Anthony Huereca said: While Mozilla is gettign nicer and nicer, it is a bit too buggy yet. Regretfully, I agree. This was my first exposure to Mozilla, and I was hoping for something less bloated. I was disappointed to see that it includes mail and news code, but maybe that doesn't get loaded

Re: [newbie] linux ref book

Pittman, Merle said: I have posted a linux book in pdf format. Great! The book is "linux complete command reference", its not quite newbie material, but an excellent reference book. The book is in pdf format (when it is uncompressed and reassembled) and is over 1500 pages. Let me

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 - Ram is read incorrectly - Kernel Panic

There are some pitfalls with SMP kernels. I suggest if you're new to this, that you read the SMP-Howto, and the Kernel-Howto. All HOWTO's are accessible online trough http://www.linuxdoc.org and many other sites. I have a similar setup, except for the network card which is a D-Link DFE528TX O

[newbie] Modelines

I am having trouble setting up the modelines for my monitor for X. It is a Likom Futura 17" monitor, and I have a Trident 975 AGP vid card. Here are the specs. If anybody can write the modelines from this, I'd really appreciate it. Vert. Refresh Rates: 50-100 Horiz Sync Rates: 30-70

Re: [newbie] linux ref book

me too. do I need a How-To on how to use this 'winrar' ?! - Original Message - From: "Scala, Lino" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:51 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] linux ref book I tried to use winrar but got an error message, I'm using winrar 2.60

RE: [newbie] linux ref book

I have posted these instructions on the same page. Sorry for all the confusion, if I had somewhere better to upload the files it would take care of all this fooling around. -Original Message- From: David J. Siu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 4:27 PM To:

[newbie] cannot use other kernel

I'm currently using kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdklinus, which came with Mandrake 7.0. I was compiling a new kernel. On booting with the new kernel, my SCSI CD-ROM writer was not recognized anymore. This happens also when I use kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk, which also is part of Mandrake 7.0. Using

[newbie] qt and kde and mesa

when trying toinstall qt-2.02 it wants specific commands put in .usr and .lib i believe how do i enter the commands in thoses files as well when trying to install kde support i keep getting conflicts with other files and finally when trying to install mesa i get dependency errors saying that

Re: [newbie] FTP andf Telnet

wu-ftp Ove Peter wrote: Hi, I had this problem just two days ago with Mandrake 7.0: Solution was to install the "telnet-server" RPM, it worked immediately after doing this. Unlike other distributions, Mandrake (or RH) split up the telnet package in two RPM´s: telnet-server and

[newbie] How to use Sane

Does anyone know anything about the setup and use of Sane I have a scanner coming soon and the site leaves much to be desired. I had hoped to learn all I needed to know from reading But I must admit I am lost. Any help would be welcome Thanks

Re: [newbie] linux ref book

Merle, Thanks - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:30 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] linux ref book I have posted these instructions on the same page. Sorry for all the confusion, if I had somewhere better

RE: [newbie] linux ref book

David J. Siu said: try renaming them to: I discovered that I had the DOS freeware unrar.exe on my system, and unrar x *.* did the job with no renaming. There were a few error messages, and I had to say No about overwriting the PDF, but I ended up with the 10 meg book. Thanks, Merle! -- Lane

Re: [newbie] CDRW drive

Anthony Huereca wrote: I have a HP CD Writer plus (9200 series, 8x/4x/32x) and I've had no problems with it with Linux. I didn't install with it, but I can still access it just fine. So I don't think you're problem is with the CD writer itself. Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has had

Re: [newbie] FTP andf Telnet

Thanks for the response folks, I stupidly assumed that the telnet server had been installed we all know what assumed means right? In answer to Oves question, I telnet in using both linux and w98 machines, w98 works ok for the limited work I do through telnet. Secondly, I uninstalled

Re: Fw: [newbie] I messed up

modprobe ppa ---older drives No Joy? do modprobe imm --- newer drives Using modprobe instead of insmod insures that the port driver is also loaded. If you have no other SCSI disk then to test do mkdir /mnt/ZIP mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/ZIP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon, Thanks

Re: RV: [newbie] 3Com 3CXe589E PCMCIA ETHERNET CARD

You are running the wrong kernel. Change to kernel-2.2.14-15mdk.i596.rpm located in /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS jero wrote: If I were you, I'd look into /var/log/messages (that's the message log when booting up). it'll give reasons if there are any problems. And I understand how you feel,

Re: [newbie] CDRW drive

try mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom if it works, edit your /etc/fstab. Anthony Huereca wrote: I have a HP CD Writer plus (9200 series, 8x/4x/32x) and I've had no problems with it with Linux. I didn't install with it, but I can still access it just fine. So I don't think you're problem is with

Re: [[newbie] Can someone please explain..]

Ok, it is not the card. Second to the last line is your card loading. Looks like you may need to setup an address for it. On your kde desktop is DrakConf Network Configuration Basic host information Adapter 1 Below is example, you can use numbers if you want. These numbers are not on

Re: [newbie] Modelines

have you tried xf86config? If you can get it close you can use xvidtune to clean it up. bryan pryor wrote: I am having trouble setting up the modelines for my monitor for X. It is a Likom Futura 17" monitor, and I have a Trident 975 AGP vid card. Here are the specs. If anybody can write

[newbie] Compiling Programs

I unzipped a tar-ball and attempted to compile it, but when I ran "./configure" it said it could not create executables. Now , I realize that I'm obviously missing some development rpm's but I do have make, automake, autoconf, pgcc, pgcc (C++ support), and perl installed. What my question is,

[newbie] cannot use linuxconf

Hi I need a help. I installed mandrake 7.0 twice, one with high level security and another one with medium security level. However i got a same problem with linuxconf. When i tried to make changes with linuxconf, there will be errors come out when activated the changes and the changes never

[newbie] need confirmation,quickly

I just bought a Viking 56k External Modem / windows version model#RFM5SKEXT V.90 k56 flexit says it's 100% compatible with win98/95/NT/3.11/DOS. will this modem work under linux? -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL

[newbie] Install

To anyone who can help: I just ordered the GPL version of Mandrake 7.0 on CD. I have no idea how to install the program, and I don't understand the installation procedures. CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME INSTALL LINUX ON WINDOWS 98??? __ Get Your

Re: [newbie] Install

A M wrote: To anyone who can help: I just ordered the GPL version of Mandrake 7.0 on CD. I have no idea how to install the program, and I don't understand the installation procedures. CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME INSTALL LINUX ON WINDOWS 98??? __

Re: [newbie] Install

Michael, I would strongly recommend against using lnx4win to install on a windows 98 partition if thius is what you have in mind. The install and operation of linux are slow and very painful. YOu are much better off installing and running on a separare partition. If you aren't familiar with this,

[newbie] LiNuX kPPP Help!

OK, This is the same problem a lot of people have! I CAN'T CONNECT TO MY ISPL Whenever I connect, it IMMEDIATlEY says that the ppp daemon has unexpectedly died. When I run debug, it says that there was no password supplied, or some sort of similar error. I have a 56k Rockwell KFLEX. it

Re: [newbie] Modelines

bryan pryor wrote: I am having trouble setting up the modelines for my monitor for X. It is a Likom Futura 17" monitor, and I have a Trident 975 AGP vid card. Here are the specs. If anybody can write the modelines from this, I'd really appreciate it. Vert. Refresh Rates: 50-100

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake Is Loopy... No More!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help. I'm trying to fix my screensaver, it does not come on. I was told to look for the Virtual Terminal. But, I looked for the Virtual Terminal, and could not find it...will the Terminal Emulator work? I tried typing in 'kppp' and nothing happened... 'A

Re: [newbie] Problem

"Diego González" wrote: hi i decided to install mandrake like a month ago, so i used partition magic. in a few words, i had no trouble installing everything, so windows and linux worked just fine. but some days ago my installation of staroffice took all of my linux disk space, so i used to

Re: [newbie] network half way there

Chadley Wilson wrote: I've already sent this to Eugene Grimsdell to look at. The problem is that when I remove my eth0 config completely then kppp connection works it has some thing to do with routing but when I try to add "route add default ppp0" it spits out the error no route to host

Re: [newbie] need confirmation,quickly

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, you wrote: I just bought a Viking 56k External Modem / windows version model#RFM5SKEXT V.90 k56 flexit says it's 100% compatible with win98/95/NT/3.11/DOS. will this modem work under linux? Most likely it will. it is external and mentioned 3.11 Dos. Sometimes

Re: [newbie] cannot use other kernel

What kind of SCSI CDROM on what kind of adapter? Maybe you can load a module for it? Claus Atzenbeck wrote: I'm currently using kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdklinus, which came with Mandrake 7.0. I was compiling a new kernel. On booting with the new kernel, my SCSI CD-ROM writer was not

Re: [newbie] FTP andf Telnet

IF anyone is interested in a better telnet client than comes with Win9x: Telnet client with personal FTP server. Version 1.5.6.0 This FREEWARE program NOT REGISTERED for commercial usage. Check http://www.magnitka.ru/~anatol/telnet for latest version. Comments by E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] need confirmation,quickly

okay, next question...the modem only has ONE 9 pin plug cable... the other end is internally attached inside the modem housing. I only have one free 25 pin plugin...on the back of my computer which goes to com 2 plug on the motherboardwhich is right this second hooked up to a US Robotics

Re: [newbie] Video card S3 Trio 3D

I have a Diamond S540 3d graphics accelerator that is gorgeous in windoze but a nightmare in linux. 32 meg of ram onboard 1600x1200x32bit etc. Everything Linux used to hate it. Can't run corel-linux 1.0 because of endless loop (they PUT you into init 5 and if it won't go you are just out of

Re: [newbie] CDRW drive

This is one way, but supposedly more things work if it can fake it into being a scsi device. Try the /dev/sd0 approach first. If you decide to not have it be an emulated scsi you will have to fix /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. WILLIAM wrote: Anthony Huereca wrote: I have a HP CD Writer

Re: [[newbie] update utility?]

MandrakeUpdate RPM on your install CD...:) Jaguar James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, when I installed 7.02 I didn't get the update utility on my desktop. I had in when I used 6.1. How can I get this utility back? I'm certain it isn't installed on my system because when I open

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 06:09:56 Claus Atzenbeck wrote: "An error occured by downloading nmh-1.0.3.-1mdk.i586.rmp" Where is the problem? Hey, It would appear to be because your program is attempting to download a file with a "rmp" extension, as opposed to an "rpm" extension. Regards,

Re: [newbie] LiNuX kPPP Help!

in setup screen for kppp under options try noauth it is often the ISP's fault. This fixed mine. "ChOPpY C. Chipper" wrote: OK, This is the same problem a lot of people have!I CAN'T CONNECT TO MY ISPLWhenever I connect, it IMMEDIATlEY says that the ppp daemon has unexpectedly died.

Re: [newbie] Modelines

Audrey Beck wrote: bryan pryor wrote: I am having trouble setting up the modelines for my monitor for X. It is a Likom Futura 17" monitor, and I have a Trident 975 AGP vid card. Here are the specs. If anybody can write the modelines from this, I'd really appreciate it. Vert.

[newbie] mail problems

Greetings! I am new to the list, but not as new to Linux. I just installed Mandrake 7.0, which I am liking extremely well. I have been working with getting the console based mail system to operate so I can conserve resources, etc., but I am experiencing some sort of disconnect that I haven't

[newbie] mail problems

Greetings! I am new to the list, but not as new to Linux. I just installed Mandrake 7.0, which I am liking extremely well. I have been working with getting the console based mail system to operate so I can conserve resources, etc., but I am experiencing some sort of disconnect that I haven't

Re: [newbie] communicator upgrade which linux

Lets see if I can remeber now. First try "rpm -Uvh netcape72blahblah.rpm" for both files. If that doesn't work, try "rpm -Uvh --force netscape72blahblah.rpm" for both files. And if it still says it's having conflicts, then do "rpm -e netscape-communicator" and "rpm -e netscape-common"

[newbie] Here we go again.

I've sent out an email before about running programs and resizing my screen. Thanks for all the help. However, I'm still having problems. 1)Star Office is installed, now how can I get KDE to call it up? I've followed the instructions on the text prompt, and all I get is "". What am I supposed

Re: [newbie] FTP andf Telnet

Hello, I have installed both the telnet server daemon and ftpd daemon and i still can't ftp or telnet to my own linux box. I was wondering if there is anything i should have running to make it work. Are there any services in particular which must be running? Jero Jon writes: IF anyone is

Re: Fw: [newbie] I messed up

Jon, Again, I thank you, have not had the time to do anything today. It is now 2140 and I am tired of chasing a Opossum under my house. This system has been giving me H today so I think I will put it to bed for the night. I will do something tomorrow for sure. Again Thanks, don I thought

Re: [newbie] Here we go again.

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Easier to just buy a $3 9 to 25pin converter, switch cables on MB and put mouse on converter. Don't put modem on converter, they are usually pinned for just a mouse and modems won't work. Or don't switch cables, just fix mouse in all places that require it... KompuKit wrote: okay, next

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Did you turn them on? ps auxshould show them running. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have installed both the telnet server daemon and ftpd daemon and i still can't ftp or telnet to my own linux box. I was wondering if there is anything i should have running to make it work. Are

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"Christoph M. Thompson" wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 7 on my Celeron 400 system. I have 128MB of RAM, 25GB of HD space, and a 33.6k ext modem. My internet connectiion consists of a one way cable modem (high speed download/ upload thru dialup connection). I started Kppp, setup my

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