RE: [newbie] /** How to install and compile apache and php in Linux Mandrake */

Here is what I did. I installed the development version of Mandrake. I couldn't ever get it to compile until some kind soul recommended installing the development version *always* since most things that you would want to use need to be compiled and without the appropriate support tools that are

Re: [newbie] 3com 3c905c-TX

Thanks for the input. This is pretty much what I did to make it work: (for others having the same problem) In my modules.conf file I added:an: alias eth0 3c90x -Nick - Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 3:54

Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...

hey joe, the easiest, and cheapest firewall for windows ive found can be downloaded from www.grc.comits called zone alarm ive had it running on my windows partition of this 'puter for as long as its been out and has worked great! (before i installed i never knew how many

Re: [newbie] Network setup

Dennis, I had this problem too when I first set up my network... My solution was I had incorrectly typed the IP address in under my TCP/IP properties for my network card. After I fixed this, I was able to ping perfectly. Hope this helps. - Joe :)

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster awe32 not found

Can't get Mandrake 7.1 to find AWE32. Corel 1.1 (2.2.14) does find awe32 and also ATI All-in-Wonder 128 and 3com 3c905TX. Mandrake 7.1 finds 3com and ATI. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Platform is an Abit BP6, Dual Celerons 366MHz, 128 MEG. Corel drive on ide1, DMA 33. Mandrake on ide3

[newbie] 3com 3c905c-TX

I have had a disappearing NIC in DrakConfig before...specifically the 3COM 3C509, the other NIC was a 3COM 3C503, but it was listed. Funny thing is...they BOTH worked correctly, well with the exception of the internal network card NOT broadcasting to my hub (I was trying to setup a cable modem

[newbie] cd install dilemma

I have been having trouble installing 7.1 from CD. Dell P166MMX Toshiba XM-6502B ATAPI cd-rom The bios won't let me boot from CD, so I had to boot from floppy. Everything goes well until it's time to change CDs. The drawer won't open on the drive. If I choose Cancel, the install finishes

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade MBR of HDA (Torrey)

Torrey My reference to installing Lilo on hdc was if you were using SC to boot your OSes not if you were going to use Lilo to do so and even then you have to manually add it to SC. I also have a triple boot system. My main boot loader is Grub. It gives me the boot options of linux, safe,

[newbie] Using 3c575_cb driver

Looks like I need to use 3c575_cb for my 3com PC card and it is on neither the 7.0 or 7.1 Mandrake install. I have located the source for it, but have no idea what to do to make use of it. Symptom is network connections that fail after a few minutes, sometimes even seconds. The card is a

[newbie] How do I increase Video Card memory?

Hello all Tux devotees, I have a NVidia TNT2 card that is setup on Mandrake 7.1. It is a 32 MB card. Yet, upon looking at the memory (in DrakConf I think), mandrake shows, it to say 4096. Is there a file in X.config that I can edit to increase the size to what it should be, so that I can get

[newbie] XFCE

Hi everyone, I have decided to give XFCE a go as window manager. LOVE IT! It is fast, easy, runs exactly the way I want it already, and I have not even done a lot of customizing. I had to change my ICQ program from KxICQ to Licq (kxicq keeps complaining that it can't find it's pid-file), but

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: Yes, apple sued microsoft in the early 80's for stealing the GUI from them but microsoft argued successfully that GUI is the future of computing and as such copyrighting it is akin to trying to copyright "book" or "magazine". This ruling is

Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Joe Brault wrote: Thanks everyone for the previous advice, PMFirewall sounds like the way to go! I do have one more question... Since I will be using both Winbloze and Linux, should I put the PMFirewall on a separate Linux Box and run my Ethernet connection thru that,

Re: [newbie] Linux Digital Cameras

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, mrc wrote: Are Linux drivers available for using Fuji Digital Camera picture development or must one stay with Windoze? Michael Coady There's a package callled Gphoto, which should work for you. www.gphoto.org, and it is on the mdk7x cd's also. Paul -- Promise, large

Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with in the body text just the word unsubscribe If that still seems to hard. :-) go to the Mandrake List page, enter your e-mail address, select Newbie and check unsubscribe and in 30 sec we will be history. I

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

If you guys wanna know how PARC Engineers built the Xerox Alto, how Steve Jobs "acquired" the design, and how microsoft stole it... http://www.applemuseum.seastar.net/sections/gui.html There's everything you want to know about how the GUI was born. Including it's conception in 1945. -Darkeyes

RE: [newbie] boot to console

I'm not sure which file gets changed but Xconfigurator will allow you to change it as will linuxconf or webmin. It's one of the files in /etc/rc.d and you need to change the runlevel. Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: linus nuby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: [newbie] boot to console

Have you tried other terminals eg by pressing ctrl-alt-F1, ctrl-alt-F2, etc? Original Message On 7/24/00, 7:38:51 AM, linus nuby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] boot to console: I just loaded 7.1 and chose for it to boot into GUI. How can I boot to and/or power down to

Re: [newbie] boot to console

Have you tried other terminals eg by pressing ctrl-alt-F1, ctrl-alt-F2, etc? Original Message On 7/24/00, 7:38:51 AM, linus nuby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] boot to console: I just loaded 7.1 and chose for it to boot into GUI. How can I boot to and/or power down to

Re: [newbie] boot to console

I temporary solution is when LILO comes up, type in "linux 3" w/o quotes. A more permenant solution would be to change the "id:5:initdefault:" line in /etc/inittab to "id:3:initdefault:" I just loaded 7.1 and chose for it to boot into GUI. How can I boot to and/or power down to console mode?

Re: [newbie] Linux security in Internet

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: I have been visiting www.grc.com for quite some time under Windoze98 checking it out. Steve's site is wonderful -- if you use Windoze98 or such, you should check it out explore some of the software Steve recomends. I have not been there under Linux

[newbie] Sorceror's Apprentice?

Hello, I am new to the list, and looking forward to reading everyone's comments. I have a problem with Mandrake 7.0. I have two harddrives, one with Windows and the other Linux. When I am retrieving email in Netscape (Windows), everything is great, and mail downloads as it should. However,

Re: [newbie] Windoze

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. Have you heard of the latest security issue with Outlook. Anybody sending you mail can run their code on your machine when you open the email. It has something to do with Outlook's ActiveX

Re: [newbie] boot to console

Hi Goto to DrakConf in you Configuration - Menu and run the X-Server Configuration(Should be the first option. When it asks if you want to boot to GUI say no and reboot. It worked for me. Kim - Original Message - From: linus nuby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [newbie] /home question

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi! When I install linux over an old installation (no upgrade), will the partition with /home also be affected? Is your Linux installation all in one partition? If it is then it is affected. But if /home is in another partition you can opt not to format that

[newbie] Webmin in 7.1

Hi,can anybody tell me how to run Webmin on Mandrake 7.1.Thanks in advanceThorsten

Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma

I have a similar problem. Also have 7.1 CD package and can't boot from CD - the bios setting doesn't work. I have uninstalled PnP. As far as I can get is "detecting CD ROM" and the "loading second image" message. The computer then reboots into Windows or goes through the same thing again if i use

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

Thanks, very interesting! The guy who thought up the concept of GUI - Vannevar Bush - also wrote an article called "As we may think" (or sth similar) in which he set out the idea of "hypertext". Really ahead of his time... Brian Nickolas Koehne wrote: If you guys wanna know how PARC

Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma

On 23 Jul 00, at 19:25, linus nuby wrote: I have been having trouble installing 7.1 from CD. Dell P166MMX Toshiba XM-6502B ATAPI cd-rom The bios won't let me boot from CD, so I had to boot from floppy. Everything goes well until it's time to change CDs. The drawer won't open on the

[newbie] Re Sound Card CFG

As root type /usr/sbin/sndconfig and ignore the warning PS if this doesn't work check the directory. I don't have 7.1 Good luck, Adriaan Barel - Original Message - From: "Bill Wright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 10:59 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound

Re: [newbie] boot to console

Edit the file /etc/inittab. Find the line: id:5:initdefault: Change the 5 (which specifies starting in X) to 3 (which specifies console). The number is actually the runlevel which Linux boots into. Runlevel 3 is console, multi-user; runlevel 5 is X. Chris Slater-Walker - Original

Re: [newbie] Sound Card CFG

As root type /usr/sbin/sndconfig and ignore the warning Good luck, Adriaan Barel - Original Message - From: "Bill Wright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 10:59 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Card CFG I running mandrake 7.1 .. how to I enter the

Re: [newbie] Sound Card CFG

I had the exact same situation. It detected all my hardware except sound. Open a console and type sndconfig (enter). Solved my problem. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Bill Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...

Hi Greg, Thanks for answering. I checked the specified files and found this entry in ip-up.local [ -x /usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall ] /usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall start I'm a little confused as to why, since this command is clearly in there, why it's not following it. -- Mark

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade MBR of HDA

First of all, fdisk /mbr wouldn't fix the damage that the installer had done. I got an invalid media type on drive c:. The directories wouldn't list. Norton 2000 wouldn't fix it either. How do you figure it is user error, when GRUB wiped my mbr and it wasn't repairable. I tried all to get

[newbie] Virus: better safe than sorry

subject: Email Security through Procmail 1.113 added by: John Hardin on Jul 23rd 2000, 13:09 license: GPL category: Console/Firewall and Security homepage: http://freshmeat.net/redir/homepage/909922332/ download: http://freshmeat.net/redir/download/909922332/ description: Email

Re: [newbie] Windoze

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Roderick F.Lazaro wrote: On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. Have you heard of the latest security issue with Outlook. Anybody sending you mail can run their code on your machine when you open the email. It

[newbie] About virusses etc (was firewalls)

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: /. on a regular basis Just a week ago there was a story 'bout not even needing to open an email with Winblows any more to get infected, just d/l'ing it to a windoze connection an' you're toast. Sometimes they're stupid also. This morning someone

[newbie] Mount permissions

I have got an internal LS120 (in place of my floppy) it works fine under kde when I access ext2 "formatted" floppies, but if I try to mount vfat or msdos I get a kfm error message that says "only root can do this" I can access vfat or msdos as root or su as a user and mount -t . from a

Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...

Hi Tom, First I would check to make sure that the firewall was indeed operating checking to see if I could get traffic up and downstream. So I would just do a ping. That's what tipped me off in the first place that something wasn't right. I couldn't get any traffic going either direction. Then,

[newbie] ATI Rage Fury Maxx and bfris,quake

I've attempted to install a couple of games (Quake bfris) and both tell me they need libglide2x.so. Is this related to my video card? (ATI Rage Fury Maxx) and if so where can I get this file? I'm very new to Linux so if more info is needed please let me know. Thanks in advance Steve --

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 Installation Disk Question

I just installed 7.1 and was disappointed that all my important apps were missing. This leads me to wonder why the installation process was asking me for an "applications" CD. Are these the extra discs that you can only get from the package? May I also confirm that you only get two discs if

[newbie] Sorceror's Apprentice

Thanks everyone for your help with my mail retrieval problem. I made the suggested changes, and I think that everything is working fine now! Melinda Shoop

Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop

Yes, it works. I used it about 2 weeks ago when I went on vacation. If that still seems to hard. :-) go to the Mandrake List page, enter your e-mail address, select Newbie and check unsubscribe and in 30 sec we will be history. I heard that this does not always work well. Unless someone

Re: [newbie] Mdk 7.1 installation

I am installing from hard drive, i downloaded the /Mandrake and /image trees. Here's my System i have win 95 and redhat 6.2 installed.. Amd K6 200MHZ 32MB RAM 8.4GB HD Creative AWE64 3Com EtherLink III ISA 24X USDrives (cdrom) here is the error msg i got.. in secound stage install install

[newbie] modem connection

Hi... I am trying to make my connection work... I have a ISA modem, it is configured however it does not accomplish to stablish a connection with my provider... It gets the lines, dials, talk with the provider and then exits... It says it cannot open the secret file. I am using PAP for

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[newbie] LAN + FTP: Troubles with Netscape and FTP

Hi! I have a lan with: 192.168.0.1 (PC with Windows 98 SE with a modem, with internet connection sharing) 192.168.0.2 (PC with Linux Mandrake 7.02, that have internet access through the Windows PC). Problems: When Win PC is disconnected from internet (dial-up modem), there are two problems: