[newbie] HP Deskjet 950C

2000-05-30 Thread philomena
Hi, I figured I may as well ask again - I'm using a HP Deskjet 950C - just about every other Deskjet model number is available in LM7.1 beta3, but not this one, I searched for a driver thru Freshmeat, the HP site, and a few other places, but don't see any mention of this model. I tried a few of

Re: [newbie] Memory isn't being used/found

2000-05-30 Thread Bill Gerber
I found that on my computer (AMD K6/2-450, VIA chipset) I had to use linuxconf; changes made with an editor to lilo.conf were just ignored. However, using an editor didn't stop it booting. Linux is more critical of ram, etc than windows. You stated that you changed from onboard video to an

[newbie] Can't download files from mandrake ftp

2000-05-30 Thread Vic
Hi, I am just wondering why I can't get into the iMandrake dir, is that some private dir? I don't know where to download the files from.

Re: [newbie] Linux Installation (need advice)

2000-05-30 Thread TRBishop
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: I have 2 hard disk, one dedicated to Windows and the other one, new. Have not been partitioned nor formatted by either Windows or Linux. And, I plan to install Linux on my new disk. I have two queries regarding installation. 1) I plan to

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Mime entry glitch and kde error messages when logging on as user

2000-05-30 Thread Jim
I had the same problem, but I was logged in as a user. I installed it as root and it works fine - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 7:37 AM Subject: [newbie] Realplayer

Re: [newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-30 Thread Jim
The reward comes when you get it working! I love the sense of accomplishment...the when you are using the programs and they don't crash, I sit here and smile all the time I am at the 'puterI am almost ready to completely un-install windoze and run a linux only box here! Jim I downloaded

[newbie] Problems with XMMS

2000-05-30 Thread Neil R Porter
Dear all Not a life threatening problem I admit, however when playing mp3s in the background things seem to go a little smoother somehow. When playing a list of mp3s using XMMS (nice winamp clone!) everytime (between tracks) I get the error 'Couldn't open audio' please check that: 1) You have

[newbie] linking CDrom

2000-05-30 Thread KompuKit
How do I link to my CDrom drive from within my /ftp/pub directory? so that I can allow downloads from them -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] dls ip chains

2000-05-30 Thread freeman
I finally got my ip chains working on my linux mandrake 70.2 box:) I am also using a third DSL dialer call Babylon but I am having a little problem! I seem to have a lack of speed. The fastest connection I have is 17k sec. I have recieved upto 100+++ k sec in a win98enviroment. I just want

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-30 Thread Dave Lers
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanator wrote: Sorry. I think I should rephrase my question. Iomegaware software allows you to pick and choose what you want to and when to back up your files. How can you control the folders you require for backup?

[newbie] nist

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
hi Is it right that the program nist can read DVD files along with syncronised sound? If this is so can it read them straight from disk our should they be saved to a file? Andrew

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-30 Thread Fran Parker
Thanks Alan, I did it that way, I will try to make changes to colors that way and let you know. Bambi Alan Shoemaker wrote: BambiI suppose, I've not tried it that way because when you create a new user it assigns the ownership to .kderc as user.user. The root.root ownership of .kderc

[newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install

2000-05-30 Thread Denis HAVLIK
Hi, folks Here is one question concerning "Authomated" mode. Currently (7.1), in this mode you get "everything" except for "dangerous" server-packages installed, if there is enough place on your HD. From your recent posts, I got the impression that having a following screen pop-up during

[newbie] Imation 120mb

2000-05-30 Thread Marc simard
I have just switch to Mandrake 7.0 but after many tryies i could not get to work my 120Mb Imation SuperDisk IDE ! Can someone tell me how can i make it work ? thanx Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-30 Thread Eunice Thompson
Anthony Huereca wrote: P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of Linux instead of buying a documented package is truly nuts, and is asking for big problems, but this has nothing to do with the particular disto or version as it applies to them all. Heh, then I

Re: [newbie] Linux Installation (need advice)

2000-05-30 Thread poogle
Seems that you ar going about this a hard way, why not leave the Windows hd alone, add the new one as primary slave or secondary master - whatever your needs (i.e. other hardware, cd, dvd, zip etc), fdisk the new hard disc creating whatever partitions you need as Linux partitions and then when

[newbie] About blackbox window manager

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
Hi all, I am toying about a bit with Blackbox. Some things puzzle me, though. Is there someone here that is a bit more proficient with blackbox? Thought I'd ask first, before throwing around a bunch of questions... Paul )0(---)0( What you are when you are not

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hey all. Got a question. Why, when I log on/into KDE as user 'glenn' as opposed to 'root'. do the changes to the desktop not work? Example, I tried to change the colors using KDE Control Center, Desktop, Colors, and they did not change. -- Glenn

Re: [newbie] Linux security

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Marc wrote: What would people experiaced in linux security recommend for a home user that will be using linux for normal connections? I will not be hosting anything. I will only be going on irc using telnet once in a while. Among the usual surfing,downloading uploading. If

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: Thanks Paul. I didn't know about the description there. that helps. I wholeheartedly agree with you on reading the manual...It is just a superlarge project for someone without the proper background...everything seems to be double coded

Re: [newbie] How to install StarOffice?

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 28 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a successful (whew) install of the Linux Mandrake 7.0 OS, with SOUND even I find I'm having trouble installing StarOffice. Following the directions on the ReadMe file from the StarOffice CD, I'm putting the CD in the CD-ROM drive,

Re: [newbie] Linux Installation (need advice)

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: 1) I plan to disconnect my Windows disk and setup the new disk as 'Master' and install Linux. I will use a 'boot disk' to load Linux and will not install LILO. -TOOT-. LILO will be on the bootdisk. So technically you will install LILO, just not on the

RE: [newbie] Memory isn't being used/found

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Aaron wrote: If that is the same as adding the append="mem=192mb" line to the lilo.conf file then it wont work. My system will not boot at all if I do that. Different Kernel panic errors each time I change the file. As for the mismatched dimms; I have been using the same

Re: [newbie] Text to image

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter wrote: A friend sent me some pictures, but when I'm not ableto see them; they appear all as text file; what I have to do in order to convert them to the original .jpg? Ask your friend what encoding scheme he used (binhex, uuencode, mime) and

Re: [newbie] Trying to open

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Bob wrote: Can anyone shed light on the phrase: "Trying to open file:/usr/bin/caitoo"? Bob Root If you don't understand the problem, you can't ask the questions. You're tagline suits your post really well! You should have added that this message comes from (correct

Re: [newbie] What happend to Print Screen?

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Romanator wrote: At times, it is easier to email(privately) a print screen of what you are seeing. Is there another way of adding an attachment? I used the Print Screen button but it no longer works with Paint. Was this for Windows only? How do I go about it? Any thoughts?

Re: [newbie] upgrading questions

2000-05-30 Thread Michael
Paul, Does this mean I can go ahead and install the 3 cd's I got with the cheapo version of "7.0 complete" without worrying that I will "degrade" my current 7.02 install. And does it mean that I can just throw any distro over mandrake and pick and choose as to what I feel are the best of each,

[newbie] PROOFREADING

2000-05-30 Thread Michael
6years of math, 2 of Linguistics (f+ck chomsky) and an anally retentive attitude about spelling and such and I will volunteer to proofread any documentation you send my way. =michael=

[newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-05-30 Thread Michael
Alan- Without a second thought I went to the linuxland site to preorder my 7.1 powerpack and I even ordered a 6" tux but after I entered 2 different credit cards and their salient info just to be told that my address was wrong on both (hey I input it from the bank statement) I gave up with

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Panasonic CW7585B

2000-05-30 Thread Michael
Dale Kosan wrote : "No,it is a Panasonic,sort off.They are made by a company called Plasmon.The drive he has is a Panasonic,I know,I work for a mass storage distributor and we do sell that model." It comes up in the post as a matshita i think - it all goes by so fast! I can hear it, I just

[newbie] ~/.profile prodlems

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi Today I've downloaded qt-2.0.2 as it is needed by the latest version of licq. To install I have needed to create a file ~/.profile in my home directory according to the instructions in the INSTALL file (just a case of cut and paste really). I have logged out and back in again as instructed

[newbie] SSTV Pgm Install

2000-05-30 Thread Troy Warren
I have downloaded the following program from a HAM radio site and would like to install and run it: qsstv_3_0_m.tgz It is a program that allows you to receive and transmit slow scan television (SSTV) using the sound card in the computer interfaced with a HF (high frequency) radio. I think I

[newbie] ATTN mandrakesoft -question and wish(es)

2000-05-30 Thread bascule
dear mandrake, i read in pc plus magazine (#165-july 2000) here in the uk that; 'analysts at wall street's JP Morgan have said that it's inevitable that linux will break up into a series of totally incompatible versions'. i wonder if mandrake see this as a possibility, if so do you see this as

Re: [newbie] passwd

2000-05-30 Thread Anthony Huereca
It's put in there twice to make sure you typed in your password right. It would be really bad if you accidently mistyped your password when you created it, and had no way of knowing it till you found out you couldn't log in. On the command line when you type PASSWD username it request for the

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-30 Thread Romanator
Alan...Okay Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: RomanI see. If you ever get it downloaded and are able to test it let me know what happens. Alan Romanator wrote: Alan... They are now offering a Linux version but their server will not download it. I tried several times. And, it's

[newbie] Newbie Question

2000-05-30 Thread Rammage
Hey there, my apologies for not lurking a while before posting a question, but I have an easy newbie question concerning distributed computing. I recently installed Madrake 7.0 on a P166 w/ 32 M running KDE with a "normal" configuration. Until I get a web-server up and running, I downloaded

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
AnthonyI'll bet you weren't really a total newbie 5 months ago. I was using the term newbie to refer to folks who have only used a Windows machine or a Mac previously. :-) Alan Anthony Huereca wrote: P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of Linux instead of buying

RE: [Re: [newbie] Memory isnt being used/found]

2000-05-30 Thread Aaron
Well the bios updates fixed the problem. All of the memory is being seen now. Thanks, Aaron -Original Message- From: Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 12:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Re: [newbie] Memory isnt being used/found] This is a solution

RE: [newbie] Memory Question

2000-05-30 Thread Aaron
I had a similar problem and here are a instructions on how TWO DIFFERENT ways to do the same thing from people who helped me: Edit the file "lilo.conf" in the /etc drawer and look for a line containing "append", and change it to append="mem=192M". After that you have to execute "lilo -v" in a

[newbie] IOMEGA ZIP drive

2000-05-30 Thread Edison Gica
Hi all. I followed the instructions in my LM 7 install guide for the ZIP drive but it does not work. I used /dev/sdb4 I checked my SCSI and the following were found. Attached devices HOST: SCSI 0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IDE-CD Model : R/RW 4x4x24 Type: CD-ROM HOST: SCSI 1 Channle:

[newbie] Resizing Panels

2000-05-30 Thread Edison Gica
How can you resize the panels. The panels on my screen are large that I can view the buttons at the bottom even if I move it up I just can't see it. thanks all. edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

[newbie]disregard HELP and HELP2

2000-05-30 Thread Edison Gica
Guys kindly disregard HELP and HELP2 postings. I reinstalled LM 7 and rebooted and rebooted and it started to unmount things and LO! it started working. Well if u have responded to it I will of course read your comments at least I can have some idea on what could have happened. Thanks in

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Re[2]: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-30 Thread tymanthius
Just out of curiosity - IDE or SCSI? I don't remember seeing you specifing anywhere (but I missed the begining of this thread). charles, it's an oemmer for sure and when i called panasonic they said it was too new for the drivers to be on their website. My source(computer123) promised

Re: [newbie]

2000-05-30 Thread Jim
Well guy, Linux can be made basically into any environment you want it to bedid you learn microshaft in a day? Since linux is about 10 times more powerful than microshaft how can you expect to un-pack the box and be an expertthere are literally hundreds of books out there and a ton of

[newbie] some problems after new install

2000-05-30 Thread Fireman71
I reinstalled Mandrake 7.0 after (ashamed to admit this) i missed up and accidentally erased a lot of my binaries and some config files. Now with the new installation i am having some problems. 1 - when trying to send an email with the mail command i got the message :: "/etc/sendmail.cf: line

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-30 Thread Fran Parker
Hi Denis, If this is an installer bug...how can it be fixed? Thanks, Bambi Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~BambiI suppose, I've not tried it that way because when :~you create a new user it assigns the ownership to .kderc as :~user.user. The root.root ownership of .kderc only :~occurred when

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION: hardware support

2000-05-30 Thread Fran Parker
Hi Denis, Thanks for the comments. I am glad that this is such a priority, because hardware problems would be the number one reason, I believe that people might give up on such an excellent distro. (Sorry if I offended by my comments, I should have known that was the case, but I think I needed

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION RPMDrake

2000-05-30 Thread Denis HAVLIK
Hi Maybe i should have elaborated on this: During the install, urpmi database is filled with data from all the CD-s you use on install. If you get a future 7.1 PP, at the end of the install, all the CD-s will be in the database (used by urpmi and rpmdrake. cu Denis On Mon, 29 May 2000,

[newbie] TIPS TRICKS: procmail

2000-05-30 Thread Denis HAVLIK
Morning, folks In case you receive a lot of mail, you must have wondered: "How the hell can Denis cope with all these mailing lists?" (The reall question is "How can Chmouel do it?" since he gets much more mail than I do - his answer is "use gnews". ) Well, I do not use gnews, I use pine,

Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 950C

2000-05-30 Thread Denis HAVLIK
The best documentation on printers linux is available here: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi :~Hi, :~ :~I figured I may as well ask again - I'm using a HP Deskjet 950C - just :~about every other Deskjet model number is available in LM7.1 beta3, but :~not this one, I

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install

2000-05-30 Thread Ed Tharp
Looks Good and to me seems to make good sense, especially from a veiwpoint of not having much familiarity with Linux Denis HAVLIK wrote: Hi, folks Here is one question concerning "Authomated" mode. Currently (7.1), in this mode you get "everything" except for "dangerous" server-packages

[newbie] Order 7.1 in Germany

2000-05-30 Thread Thorsten Brenner
Hi, can anybody tell me where to Buy or to pre-order the Linux Mandrake PowerPack 7.1 in germany? Thanks Thorsten

Re: [newbie] upgrading questions

2000-05-30 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Paul, :~Does this mean I can go ahead and install the 3 cd's I got with the cheapo :~version of "7.0 complete" without worrying that I will "degrade" my current :~7.02 Should work OK. :~install. And does it mean that I can just throw any distro over mandrake :~and pick and choose as to what

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-05-30 Thread Denis HAVLIK
Pre-ordering does not mean much, does it? Soon you will be able to buy 7.1 all over the place. BTW, McMillan now has exclusive rights on all english-speaking countries, so there will be no separate "Mandrake" and McMillan" products to confuse you anymore AFAIK. cu Denis :~What do the

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Security

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Anthony Huereca wrote: I don't have M7.0 yet, but I like the idea of the different security zones. One of the main complaints I've heard on this mailing list is lack of desciption of what the different zones actually do. So tell the user what exactly is happening when you select a certain

[newbie] Re: [Cooker] RE:Problem with Beta 3 ISO FYI

2000-05-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
The following was posted to the [Cooker] list this morning in regards to the 7.1 Beta3 ISO image files. It seems to have a problem on the extension CD images, a new one is going to be uploaded. -- Warly If you have not downloaded or installed the Beta yet you should wait until the replacement

[newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-05-30 Thread dickon1
Hi guys Apart from some troubles when ML would not recognize my Realtek card (thanks for your help, Paul), installing ML went very smoothly indeed and everything works and behaves just fine. So much so, that i decided to expand the disk space allotted to ML so that i could install some more

[newbie] Reborn newbie II

2000-05-30 Thread Edwin Chua
Hi guys, It me again.I understand that my current copy of linux doesn't support my graphic cards. I use a mandrake linux 6.0 ver. So where do I go to find if the patches for my graphic card is available. Becourse right now, my linux is still cranky! Can't seem to get anything running. Or do you

[newbie] Floppy problem

2000-05-30 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I'm on a laptop that has a removable floppy. It's never install and that causes commands like df and find to "hang" while they are trying to locate the floppy. How do I make Mandrake 7.0 know when the CDROM is in place and when the floppy is in place? They both use the same slot and only one

[newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - New Tool

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Denis, I'd like to see a tool to assist in the compiling of a new kernel and then INSTALL it! -- Joseph S. Gardner Handi Krafts www.handi-krafts.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Install

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Denis, How about a "Dear Santa, I want it all" selection? I know I can get that through the expert install but even this is confusing as there is a server / workstation selection (and something else if memory serves me) and this fails to make much sense. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer

Re: [newbie] Help!!

2000-05-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
Edison I am sorry you encountered the problems you did. The advise I gave you worked on my system with no problems. I am also sorry that this response dosn't seem timely but if you check the time on the list your message did not get posted until 9:45 PM. Here are 2 ways you can remove

Re: [newbie] Text to image

2000-05-30 Thread Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter
Thanks, never had to do with such a matter, before! Can you tell me where can I find those decoders, please? Corrado Paul wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2000, Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter wrote: A friend sent me some pictures, but when I'm not ableto see them; they appear all as text file;

[newbie] Question and suggestion

2000-05-30 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I have a question and a sugggestion stemming from that question: I use my laptop as adhcp client and a Samba client, not a server. When I did my install, non of the client-side tools for Samba or DHCP were installed but all the server-side stuff was. Did I do something wrong in my

Re: [newbie] ~/.profile prodlems

2000-05-30 Thread Philip Gabbert
If you are using the Bash shell, then .profile will work, unless you already have a file called .bash_profile. Bash, if I remember correctly, looks for the following files in this order: ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, /etc/profile. When it finds one, it doesn't look any further. Put

[newbie] unsubcribe

2000-05-30 Thread Ross, Erick
Please take me off the list to recieve these emails. -Original Message- From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] icq I use KXIcq also, its good too. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, jero mewed: I tried Licqdidn't

Re: [newbie] Help!!

2000-05-30 Thread Eunice Thompson
Edison Gica wrote: I need help guys! I installed LM 7.0 in my 2nd HD under the 'Recommended' The first thing that came up in setup filesystems was: "I can't read your partition table, it's too corrupted for me. I'll try to go on blanking bad partitions bad magic numbers" Note that I

Re: [newbie] dls ip chains

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got my ip chains working on my linux mandrake 70.2 box:) I am also using a third DSL dialer call Babylon but I am having a little problem! I seem to have a lack of speed. The fastest connection I have is 17k sec. I have recieved upto 100+++ k sec in a

Re: [newbie] ~/.profile prodlems

2000-05-30 Thread Nickolay Belostotsky
Hello! Have just installed QT2 (it's needed for KDE2, which doesn't seem to work for me, anyway), so it's still fresh in my mind. :-) You don't have to recompile anything. They just have a typo (?) in the installation instructions. The file should be /etc/profile: at least, that worked for me.

Re: [newbie] Help!!

2000-05-30 Thread Neil R Porter
to get rid of lilo off your master boot record you can boot up with your win98 floppy and type fdisk /mbr that will make it win98 only hope this helps (¯`·._.·'¯`·- poo -·'¯`·._.·'¯) - Original Message - From: Edison Gica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] BUG REPORT?

2000-05-30 Thread Jaguar
Dr. Dewnis Havlik It seems that a few people have reported to this LIST(myself included) that thier 3COM (3C509B in my case)NIC is missing from the DrakConfg module. My card works correctly but is not listed in "Identified cards". Both NIC's do show up in "netcfg" but one remains absent from

Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 950C

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
philomena wrote: Hi, I figured I may as well ask again - I'm using a HP Deskjet 950C - just about every other Deskjet model number is available in LM7.1 beta3, but not this one, I searched for a driver thru Freshmeat, the HP site, and a few other places, but don't see any mention of this

Re: [newbie] please help

2000-05-30 Thread Neil R Porter
yes yes yes yes .. i think it's happening to all of us! (ps I wrote this approx 7hours ago lol) (¯`·._.·'¯`·- poo -·'¯`·._.·'¯) - Original Message - From: KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] please help it still

[newbie] cannot telnet or ftp into linux box

2000-05-30 Thread Fireman71
I just reinstalled Mandrake 7.0 and now i cannot telnet or ftp into my linux box. It is acting like it is refusing all inbound connections but it still does ip masquerading for the rest of my home network. Just no telnet, ftp or web proxy. telnet localhost responds with --- Trying 127.0.0.1...

Re: [newbie] KPP dials and connects but nothing works??

2000-05-30 Thread Anders Linden
Den tis, 30 maj 2000 skrev du: I set kpp up to dial up to my ISP and it does and it connects but nothing works. No netscape, email, ping, etc. What did I do wrong and how can I fix this? Any ideas? Thanks, Aaron Have you entered your ISPs DNS-numbers? /Anders

Re: [newbie] KPP dials and connects but nothing works??

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: I set kpp up to dial up to my ISP and it does and it connects but nothing works. No netscape, email, ping, etc. What did I do wrong and how can I fix this? Any ideas? Thanks, Aaron Hi, Well I had this exact problem only a couple of weeks back and thanks

Re: [newbie] SSTV Pgm Install

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote: I have downloaded the following program from a HAM radio site and would like to install and run it: qsstv_3_0_m.tgz It is a program that allows you to receive and transmit slow scan television (SSTV) using the sound card in the computer interfaced with a HF

Re: [newbie]KDE doesn't come up

2000-05-30 Thread ditty999
Hi, Thanks very much. That helped me realise what went wrong.It gave a command not found error... Basically the kde packages hadn't got installed completely.. Now it is working fine after I did a full reinstall. Thanks On Mon, 29 May 2000, Paul wrote: On 29 May 2000 [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] upgrading questions

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michaelthe only differences between the 7.0 and 7.0-2 iso images (the GPL CD or 'disc one' in a boxed set) is in the installation routines, that means the programs whose only job is to actually run the installation process. The end product of that installation, that means the software that

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2000, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hey all. Got a question. Why, when I log on/into KDE as user 'glenn' as opposed to 'root'. do the changes to the desktop not work? Example, I tried to change the colors using KDE Control Center, Desktop, Colors, and they did not

Re: [newbie] ATTN mandrakesoft -question and wish(es)

2000-05-30 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~dear mandrake, :~ :~i read in pc plus magazine (#165-july 2000) here in the uk that; :~'analysts at wall street's JP Morgan have said that it's inevitable that :~linux will break up into a series of totally incompatible versions'. :~ :~i wonder if mandrake see this as a possibility, if so do

Re: [newbie] UDMA/66

2000-05-30 Thread Jay Latham
On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote: I want to support what I have! I don't want to buy anything else just for an operation system. I bought the 2nd hdd especially for Linux! Go to the Mandrake Users Group site and look through the hardware section. There is a link to a mini howto on installing a

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Re: [newbie] kppp wierdness]

2000-05-30 Thread Willem H. Buiter
Andrew Scotchmer wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 2036, you wrote: Yo Andrew, Your problem may not be a "kppp" problem at all. If you can use other networking protocols, the problem can be one of or both of two things. DNS IP configuration incorrect and something is wrong with your browser. In

Re: [newbie]

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Since linux is about 10 times more powerful than microshaft how can you expect to un-pack the box and be an expertthere are literally hundreds of books out there and a ton of helpful people here, now all you have to do is become a learned user, read, learn,

Re: [newbie] Order 7.1 in Germany

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
ThorstenTry this web address: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/europe.php3 Alan Thorsten Brenner wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me where to Buy or to pre-order the Linux Mandrake PowerPack 7.1 in germany? Thanks Thorsten

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Denissure it means something! It means that as soon as the iso is available then you're on a list of customers with a vendor that will get a copy out to you asap. That means something to me! It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market

Re: [newbie] Order 7.1 in Germany

2000-05-30 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~can anybody tell me where to Buy or to pre-order the Linux Mandrake :~PowerPack 7.1 in germany? I am currently proof-reading the german manual. Does this tell you something .-) cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlik

[newbie] ph0-tone / Music programs

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Mon, 29 May 2000, pH0-tone wrote: I can't install Linux Mandrake 7.0 on an Ultra66 (www.promise.com) drive. Linux becomes unable to find any hard drives. I can install it on my IDE onboard controller hard drive, but then it won't recognize my U66 drive. But I want to get it well! I want Linux

Re: [newbie] usubscribe

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Robert Mieszaniec wrote: usubscribe Almost correct... Send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208

Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: How can you resize the panels. The panels on my screen are large that I can view the buttons at the bottom even if I move it up I just can't see it. thanks all. edison 'scuse my ignorance, but what "panels" do you mean? Paul

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Hi Denis, If this is an installer bug...how can it be fixed? Thanks, Bambi Hi, this is Denis2 *grin* as root do a chown user.user for .kderc e.g. chown fran.fran .kderc or chown bambi.bambi .kderc Paul )0(---)0(

Re: [newbie] some problems after new install

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Fireman71 wrote: 1 - when trying to send an email with the mail command i got the message :: "/etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory" so i went and checked, sure enough, there is no file there. I then went back to the mandrake cd and tried :: "rpm

Re: [newbie] offline news reader

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Claus Atzenbeck wrote: Hi all, is there any good offline news reader for Linux which can handle different news server at once? KRN is for offline reading, but I only can use 1 news server. Try PAN. Pimp Ass Newsreader. It is for offline reading, and also handles more

Re: [newbie] KPP dials and connects but nothing works??

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Aaron wrote: I set kpp up to dial up to my ISP and it does and it connects but nothing works. No netscape, email, ping, etc. What did I do wrong and how can I fix this? Any ideas? Thanks, Aaron Check your /etc/resolv.conf Paul who is thinking about collecting all the

Re: [newbie]disregard HELP and HELP2

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: Hi Edison, Glad you got things right. I had almost started writing!! Paul Guys kindly disregard HELP and HELP2 postings. I reinstalled LM 7 and rebooted and rebooted and it started to unmount things and LO! it started working. Well if u have

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: Hi, folks Here is one question concerning "Authomated" mode. Currently (7.1), in this mode you get "everything" except for "dangerous" server-packages installed, if there is enough place on your HD. From your recent posts, I got the impression that

Re: [newbie] upgrading questions

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Michael wrote: Paul, Does this mean I can go ahead and install the 3 cd's I got with the cheapo version of "7.0 complete" without worrying that I will "degrade" my current 7.02 install. And does it mean that I can just throw any distro over mandrake and pick and choose as to

Re: [newbie] Newbie Question/SETI

2000-05-30 Thread Paul
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Rammage wrote: Hey there, my apologies for not lurking a while before posting a question, but I have an easy newbie question concerning distributed computing. I recently installed Madrake 7.0 on a P166 w/ 32 M running KDE with a "normal" configuration. Until I get a

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