Hi,
I was going to ask the same question,since I live in an area where I
can't get cable.
Thanks,
Dan
"Jason E.J. Manaigre" wrote:
Hello everyone...
I know this is probably a long shot, but has anyone here configured
their Mandrake boxes to work with a DirecPC Satellite Dish?
I have two of these cards in one box both working fine using the tulip
driver - originally under LM 7.0 and now LM 7.1. This sounds like a card
configuration problem. Check your BIOS settings and make sure PNPOS is set
to No. This will make the BIOS configure the cards IRQ and I/O address.
Report on the topic.
First, thanks to those of you responding, especially those that
responded off-list.
I am summarizing early because it is abundantly clear that,
1) people did not carefully read my original post that said "respond to
me directly (off-list) and I will summarize
2) the volume
I am a newbie who is delighted as to how easily Mandrake 7.1 installed and
configured itself. The one subsystem than did not configure itself
automatically was sound. I noticed on this list that I was not alone in
this. By reading and trying I stumbled on the way to make this happen and
am
For those of you who read my post to Walt yesterday
It is always hard for those who can not grasp something unless it is
carried between their legs that there is life and wonder beyond their
narrow
minded vision.
Good luck with "unsubdcribing".
Charles
P.S. don't forget to use
hi Mark
I did nothing. And I just discovered that sound is working in my system, I played a
few WAVs. The thing that is not working is sound systems. I tell Gnome to enable sound
systems and does nothing, not even an error message.
The settings of my soundcard were detected at installation,
Andrew,
To answer you first question, I have the exact same card on my Gateway SOLO
2500 laptop, and it was doing the exact same problem. I was able to fix
mine by using the 3c575_cb driver (comes with kernel) and not using dhcpcd.
You can change these settings in LinuxConf... Hope this
I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this.
Linux supports the use of a cable modem, correct? I am running Mandrake 7.1.
Thanks in advance!!
I did, Dennis. I have tried several times without results (the check box is checked).
Not even error messages. And I discover that sounds can be played only if opened with
another app (like media player). System sounds are the only ones that cannot be
enabled.
When I go see the config sound
Hello again all,
Thanks for the suggestions on the Linksys card. I unfortunatelly was
unable to get it working at all, and have switched to my old trusty ne2k
card... I was delighted after 8 hours of frustration to see Linux
automatically detect it at bootup :)
ANYWAYS... I have now
Hi Philomena
I am using Mandrake 7.1. My soundcard is a Sounblaster Infra PCI 128. And just
realized that I can't enable system sounds (I checked the box "Enable system sounds",
but it didn't work). I just discovered last weekend I can play WAVs!!
Thanks Philomena
Hugo
-Original
have you tried the drivers from here? http://www.scyld.com/
This site is the home of Donald eEcker. He is the orignal author of
the Tulip driver and is still maintining a copy. The Linksys card has
many different revs and can cause lots of headaches. I also suggest
getting on the mailing list
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:18:42PM -0400, walt wrote:
So far I have not found anything useful on this list I wil be
unsubdcribing..the right way. So far Linux can't even be compared to
win2000..I don't know what all the hype is about linux..it really sucks as
far as I can see...
Oh, we will
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:42:15PM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote:
After my troubles with 7.1 I have about the same feeling. I am doing this as
a learning experience and something to play with. It is obvious that for
serious work for the home user, LINUX is NOT there yet. Maybe some day.
Yeah,
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:10:36AM -0400, Tsweny wrote:
"unsubscribe"
Yeah, that's really hard, isn't it?
Alexander Skwar
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Thanks Mark,
I was able to figure out that it wasnt installed yet. So then I installed it
and its now working. Thanks again,
brad
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "bradc C" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 5:00 PM
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:30:41PM -0400, Fran Parker wrote:
Thanks Alan,
This makes sense to me. I thought it was
such a nuisance to have to scroll to the
bottom of a message (most of which I had
read earlier) just to get to the new post.
See, and that's why you only quote the relevant
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:04:42AM -0400, John Catral wrote:
I just used Partition Magic and it worked with no problems with the PM
disk. What a great tool to have! =) Thanks for everyones help! =)
What do you mean by PM disk? Did it work with the partition type
still set to 85?
Alexander
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:15:23PM -0500, John Glasscock wrote:
Most common misconception: that using HTML means filling up a message
with backgrounds, attachements, in-line jpegs or gifs or other high
bandwidth paraphernalia rather than simply the judicious use of bold and
italics (which
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:46:21PM -0700, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
that you can optionally install for Linux. Partition Magic identifies that
type as '85' which I was wondering myself - hexadecimal??
Nope, that's not true. At least not according to the file system type
listing that fdisk puts
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:55:52PM -0400, John Catral wrote:
How can Is tart Linux fdisk? Or do you mean Diskdrake? Well, how do I
start both or access both? Sorry for this very newbie question. =)
No, I meant fdisk, not DiskDrake. Never used DiskDrake to be honest.
Login as root, type
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:02:18AM +0100, Paul wrote:
And then start a new e-mail war on the length of signature files? I don't
Hey, *I* never wrote anything about the length of signatures *grin*.
Anyway, it could be a three liner, couldn't it? Like so:
--
To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:38:34PM -0400, John Catral wrote:
So Diskdrake can do a non destructive partitioning?
I suppose so, yes. That is along as you don't delete any partitions,
DiskDrake wont destroy the other partitions on that disk.
PS: Please only quote as much as needed, and not
well isn't this a nice way to help each other ...
helping people to mess up their system because you don't like their attiude
...
nice having people like that on your newbe list ...
- Original Message -
From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
Sound mods and hardware specifications for different makes of sound card
*can* fall under different names. It all depends on the actual DSP on the
card itself. As long as the chip is the same, the rest of the config should
just be a matter of specifying the irq and any other relevant
can anyone help me
i only can access win98 machine but the win95 machin i can't vizualisized or
access. can you help me
I have 2 simple and unrelated questions
1. Where can I go to download the 128 bit version of Netscape
4.73, and ssh?
2. Purely for nostalgia, and simple curiosity, is there a place
that one can go to download packages for CDE??? I know that
Gnome and KDE are probably way better, but my
No worries Charles. I think he got under a lot of folks' skin yesterday.
Charles A Edwards wrote:
For those of you who read my post to Walt yesterday
It is always hard for those who can not grasp something unless it is
carried between their legs that there is life and wonder beyond
Hugo,
I don't think the problem is with your sound card. I have the same
trouble with Gnome in my installation. Some things work and others
don't. Gnome sounds is one of them. I know that the sound works because
I configured the sound easily enough over the weekend using sndconfig.
When Netscape
Dear All, Thank you for your help. A different technician came to fix my
ethernet problem. A different card was necessary. I now have cable service
with Windows 95 and will sooner or later set it up in Linux. The technician
said he knows nothing about Linux and wants to learn about it. He said
Hugo
I use KDE so I am not exactly sure how you work it in GNOME but after you
enable system sound you still need to associate a sound file with each event
that you want sound. Start-up, logout, max, min, and so on.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Hugo GONZALEZ" [EMAIL
Hello Everyone,
I have a HP DeskJet 712c, and I cant get it to
work. I have tried all the install techniques and it recognizes its there, but
when I try to print a test page nothing happens. Any Ideas?
Thanks
bradc
I am running windows 2000 and have run into a problem with 7.1. I ran a
triple boot with 2000, 98, and 7.0 for quite a while and had no problems.
With 7.1 though something has changed... it would seem that something with
the way they format their drives has changed. Before the linux partitions
Hello everyone.
Reading a magazine I found a place where security in internet is tested for your
computer. This place is www.grc.com. I gave it a visit twice. Once under Linux and
once under W98. I found the following info regarding open ports suceptible of being
used by intruders.
Port
Thank you. I will try the tar command. Does the command as you wrote it
(thank you !) include the subdirectories? That is if I wrote
tar -cvf /dev/ht0 \
will it backup everything (from root down)?
Thank you.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
- Original Message
The problem is indeed that the partition does fill up. I discovered that
because I have Partition Magic on the same PC running under NT4. I then
discovered that it was the / partition that fills up. Enlarging that
partition with Partition Magic solved the problem.
During the install of
I have used NC for years and therefore love Linux's MC. But, I cannot
figure out what the "M" key stands for, like M-? to search for a file. What
keys does that correspond to in a normal keyboard?
Thank you.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
I have the Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack and the 2 install CDs of Mandrake 7.1 but
cannot seem to find Partition Magic on it.
Is this the DOS PM utility (that I can get from my PM 5 for NT4) or is this
a version specific to Linux?
Thanks.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
Does changing it to type 5 create a problem to the Linux data?
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
- Original Message -
From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Can Increase a
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote:
I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this.
Linux supports the use of a cable modem, correct? I am running Mandrake 7.1.
Thanks in advance!!
yes, without a doubt
Eunice Thompson
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Hugo GONZALEZ wrote:
I did nothing. And I just discovered that sound is working in my system,
I played a few WAVs. The thing that is not working is sound systems. I
tell Gnome to enable sound systems and does nothing, not even an error
message.
The settings of my soundcard
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote:
Hello! I just tried "cdplay" and it worked! WOW! What a weird
thing. After typing"cdplay" on the command prompt, I was able to hear the
cd. I opened up KSCD from KDE and now it reads the audio cd. I can even
move forward or back. Anyone know what was
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote:
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:42:15PM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote:
After my troubles with 7.1 I have about the same feeling. I am doing this as
a learning experience and something to play with. It is obvious that for
serious work for the home user,
John Glasscock wrote:
Report on the topic.
Thanks for the summary, to which I have to say I agree with your
opinion. I did not respond to your request on the basis I am mainly a
reader and being a GNOME user tend to use a email client capable of
reading text and html and was therefore not
Alexander Skwar wrote:
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 09:41:12PM +0100, Paul wrote:
For all the unsubscribees.
I may turn this into a weekly lecture, plenty of students, as obvious...
What about putting that into the signature of each and every outgoing
message? That way nobdoy can say
Without any more details it is difficult to troubleshooting your problem...
Check the subnetmask value (normally is 255.255.255.0). It should be the
same for all machines in the network.
See
http://mandrakeuser.org/connect/cmlan.html
and check all the steps
Bye
James Bond
non-registered linux
Hi everybody
I have sent this mail before but I haven-t seen it posted, so I'll try
again.
How can I configure a PCMCIA ethernet card Surecom EtherPerfect EP427x ?
Basically it is a 10/100 ethernet adapter.
I have a Toshiba 2520cdt (k6-2 300MHz, 64MB, 4.3G) and I have installed
Mandrake 7.1
The
I am running windows 2000 and have run into a problem with 7.1. I ran a
triple boot with 2000, 98, and 7.0 for quite a while and had no problems.
With 7.1 though something has changed... it would seem that something with
the way they format their drives has changed. Before the linux
What driver are you using? This thing should work with the DeskJet 550c driver. have you tried that?
--Original Message Text---
From: bradc C
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:11:08 -0700
Hello Everyone,
I have a HP DeskJet 712c, and I cant get it to work. I have tried all the install techniques
Mark, I had this problem once with CD's. See if you have a
program on your system called "xmixer" -- it is a volume
control app. It will show you whether or not the CD sound
is muted. When I first got sound in Linux I had that
problem.
Phil
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
Hugo,
I
I'm with you Alex. Crystal clear. :)
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 182496
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Well, but he's actually right. If that "walt" person really
Hi Kelly,
Please check out the link below. It helped me get my cable modem
working.
http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html
Roman
RLU #179293
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote:
I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this.
Linux supports
I am wondering if I upgraded my BIOS, would this get the installation
working for me.
Roman
Daniel Anderson wrote:
Hi,
I had no problem installing on a pentium 100 with Intel chipset.I
remember reading somewhere about problems with the via chipset,which
this board has,I don't remember
That's bizarre
Roman
M Thompson wrote:
Mark,
I run it from a 1.5 GB spare FAT hard drive. Norton Ghost can ghost a Linux
partition, but it doesn't like to save the image to a Linux partition.
Matt
From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
heh heh... I have had about the exact opposite luck as you. 7.0 died all
the time on me where as 2000 has never crashed once... for me and I've had
it running for as much as 2 months at a time before rebooting it to go into
another OS. I don't understand and perhaps you can enlighten me ( I
I was wondering. Is there another way of adding my 'Registered Linux
User number below my name without enabling the signature? It sounds like
this bothers some people.
I am using Netscape.
Roman
Paul wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote:
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 09:41:12PM
Gil Baron W0MN wrote:
After my troubles with 7.1 I have about the same feeling. I am doing this as
a learning experience and something to play with. It is obvious that for
serious work for the home user, LINUX is NOT there yet. Maybe some day.
Install trouble and lack of applications are
I just used the Mediaplayer that comes in Multimedia/Sound section of the Gnome menu
(the button with the Gnome logo on it).
Hugo
-Original Message-
From: Steve Howes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 2:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot
if your dsl modem is feeding into an ethernet card (some feed usb instead)
the set-up ought be very similar...
the primary name (as in item 9 below) is the complete name of your computer,
as assigned to you by your ISP...the portion before the first dot (reading
from the left) is unique to
i have installed mandrake 7.1 on the install i clicked on the ipchains. how do i
check to see
if they are actually running.
thanks pat the newbie:)
-Original Message-
From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 3:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Windoze
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote:
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:42:15PM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote:
After my troubles with 7.1 I have
Kim White wrote:
HiHow
do I register as a Linux User?Kind
Regards
Kim White
Pinnacle Micro Secunda
Tel: (017) 631 2668
FAX: (017) 631 3139
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
good questtion. i emailed mandrake and they couldnt help me either.
i could not
find a registration number and i purchased 7.0
JeffPM was not part of the 7.0 Powerpack. It was included
in 'Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete' (Complete, not Deluxe)
published by Macmillan.
Alan
Jeff Malka wrote:
I have the Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack and the 2 install CDs of Mandrake 7.1 but
cannot seem to find Partition Magic on it.
Is
go to: http://counter.li.org
Kim White wrote:
Hi
How do I register as a Linux User?
Kind Regards
Kim White
Pinnacle Micro Secunda
Tel: (017) 631 2668
FAX: (017) 631 3139
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Registered Linux User:167369
=KompuKit
Hi Kim,
Click on the link below.
http://counter.li.org/
Roman
Kim White wrote:
Hi
How do I register as a Linux User?
Kind Regards
Kim White
Pinnacle Micro Secunda
Tel: (017) 631 2668
FAX: (017) 631 3139
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
begin:vcard
n:;Roman
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
I am running windows 2000 and have run into a problem with 7.1. I ran a
triple boot with 2000, 98, and 7.0 for quite a while and had no
problems.
With 7.1 though something has changed... it would seem that something
with
the way they format their drives has changed. Before the linux
DanCDE in probably already installed on your system, if
not it's on your installation CD.
For the 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73, and ssh go here and
pick a mirror site:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fcrypto.php3
Alan
Dan Ferris wrote:
I have 2 simple and unrelated questions
Hmm, this does not fit. Have you ever even looked at the size of a
HTML mail vs. a text only mail? Right now I remember of one of those
unsubscribe emails. It was 26 lines big, compared to a text only
unsubscribe email of only 3 lines.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that
Hugoyep a firewall is the answer, I use PMFirewall and on
GRC my results are that it can't detect that there's even a
computer there.
http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/
Alan
Hugo GONZALEZ wrote:
Hello everyone.
Reading a magazine I found a place where security in internet is tested
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:46:21PM -0700, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
that you can optionally install for Linux. Partition Magic identifies
that
type as '85' which I was wondering myself - hexadecimal??
Nope, that's not true. At least not according to the file system type
listing that
Kimhttp://counter.li.org/
Alan
Kim White wrote:
Hi
How do I register as a Linux User?
Kind Regards
Kim White
Pinnacle Micro Secunda
Tel: (017) 631 2668
FAX: (017) 631 3139
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I opened netscape and got it from
their update site..not on the first
page...need to go further...I believe
it was on the ftp server section.
However, there is a crypto site for
Mandrake where you can get it too...
too late for me..but you could get it.
Can someone give the URL for it, please.
Hello,
I'm using a Voodoo2 based card and am having problems getting the glide
tests to run as a user in Mandrake 7.1. I have downloaded the latest files
from the 3dfx website. testGlide2x,3x work fine as root, but when I try to
run them as a user, I get the following output:
[jon@localhost
I agree...XMMS is great.
Use it all the time.
There is a newer version out
there that I got and I like it
even better.
Bambi
Paul wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote:
Hello! I just tried "cdplay" and it worked! WOW! What a weird
thing. After typing"cdplay" on the command
It's a problem with your CD-ROM drive.
You may have it on the same cable as a hard drive, it may have DMA enabled
or another mode enabled, etc.
While it will probably complete, you should look into this.
-JMS
|-Original Message-
|From: Gilbert Baron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent:
I haven't figured out all the stuff
in MC yet...just found it recently.
But I use the mouse and to go to the
options menu and choose find. Sorry
no help here.
However, I fell in love with MC because
it is so much like Stereo Shell was
in DOS before they changed the water...
and it wouldn't run
Jeff Malka wrote:
I have used NC for years and therefore love Linux's MC. But, I cannot
figure out what the "M" key stands for, like M-? to search for a file. What
keys does that correspond to in a normal keyboard?
Thank you.
The left Alt (_M_eta) key
--
Steve - Cheltenham, UK
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