Re: [newbie] SNF packet forwarding problem.

2001-08-29 Thread John Turnbull
to some HP proprietary hardware weirdness. How would I turn on forwarding, manually, in SNF? Thank you again. John T John Turnbull wrote: I have installed Mandrake SNF on an elderly HP Ventra with a 200MHz Pentium Pro in a test-bed configuration. I have it set up with eth0 (ne2k-pci card

[newbie] SNF packet forwarding problem.

2001-08-25 Thread John Turnbull
I have installed Mandrake SNF on an elderly HP Ventra with a 200MHz Pentium Pro in a test-bed configuration. I have it set up with eth0 (ne2k-pci card - 192.168.3.34) connected to the LAN side of my network and eth1 (3c59x - 192.168.4.34) running through a crossover cable to a laptop acting as a

Re: [newbie] About to take the plunge with a Asus av133 - any issues? - jrt

2001-05-14 Thread John Turnbull
Lanman wrote: John; That's exactly what I have. Install went A.O.K., and system is rock-solid stable. What video card and hard drive do you have? On Sunday 13 May 2001 9:48, you wrote: Are there any known issues with installing Mandrake 8.0 on the mew (Mid April?) Asus A7V133

[newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt

2001-04-25 Thread John Turnbull
I realize that Mandrake 8.0 is very new and as a result, not all the surprises are known. A quick peruse with various search engines indicates that there may be some issues between Linux and AMD CPUs or chip sets. None-the-less, if one were considering building an AMD based machine, specifically

Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt

2001-03-08 Thread John Turnbull
Gerry wrote: Seems you need to make a symlink to the 2.2.18-dir.. cd to the parent dir of "linux-2.2.18", and type: ln -s linux-2.2.18 linux That will create a symlink named linux that point to linux-2.2.18. (btw, did you copy the source to /usr/src/linux-2.2.18 ? the path

[newbie] Need help installing Perfect Office 2000 - jrt

2001-03-07 Thread John Turnbull
It would seem that I have managed to install most of Corel Perfect Office 2000 under Mandrake 7.2. When I execute wordperfect, as a user, I get the following error messages: No running font server was detected. I will try to start a font server on this host and then wait for 30 seconds

Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt

2001-03-06 Thread John Turnbull
John Turnbull wrote: I now have unpacked the kernel 2.2.18 sources. They wound up in /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/linux, but the structure looks much like a normal kernel source directory. Now I can do dome real damage (clearly I am on the edge of my competence level. John T Er. . . well I

Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt

2001-03-05 Thread John Turnbull
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 05 March 2001 01:20 pm, John Turnbull wrote: I need to compile a new 2.2.18 kernel snip vanilla source from kernel.org is not the best way to compile a Mandrake kernel. I have no idea about your ntp-pps requirement, but Mandrake source for 2.2.18

Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt

2001-03-05 Thread John Turnbull
Gerry wrote: Thank you, I had grabbed something called kernel22-2.2.18-14mdk.src.rpm, (snip) That's a source rpm, so it put its stuff under /usr/src/RPM/. As root, cd to that dir and type 'rpm -ba SPECS/kernel22-2.2.18-(etc.)' to configure compile it. Then it puts the installation rpm

Re: [newbie] Need to compile a 2.2.18 kernal - jrt

2001-03-05 Thread John Turnbull
John Turnbull wrote: snip Gerry: Thank you. I would not have discovered that by myself, in a hurry. . . It had a dependency problem. It requires libbinutils2-devel. I cannot find this animal in the SRPMS subdirectory or in cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ but I did find a binutils-2.10.0.24-4mdk

[newbie] How do I set up by COM ports? - jrt

2001-02-22 Thread John Turnbull
I an setting up a stratum 1 ntp server using a GPS as a reference clock. To do this, the GPS talks to the computer through one serial port for the time information and a second serial port for a pps (pulse per second) signal to condition the computer's clock. The default serial port

[newbie] Requesting info about ntp-4.0 audio clock drivers - jrt

2001-02-04 Thread John Turnbull
Hi: I am attempting to set up a stratum 1 ntp server using the CHU Canada time signal as a reference clock. Is anybody successfully using or tested the ntp audio reference clock drivers either on a i386 or the sparc? Background: The newest version of NTP has some neat drivers that should

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2000-06-07 Thread John Turnbull
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