Re: [newbie] Help me out [OT]

2003-07-24 Thread Wade Waldron
If we are not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat??? I eat Vegetarians for breakfast!!! Wade - Original Message - From: Harv Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help me out [OT] Michael

[newbie] Compiling Drivers from CVS(was installing new hardware)

2003-07-14 Thread Wade Waldron
d if so which is better form for how wrong i am with this advice wait for others to comment! :) bascule On Friday 11 Jul 2003 3:24 am, Wade Waldron wrote: Microsoft MN-110 USB ethernet adapter. Wade - Original Message - From: "Carroll Grigsby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware

2003-07-10 Thread Wade Waldron
(presumably because it is an unknown device) besides, that won't help with my other devices like my CD-RW. There must be a way to manually assign a driver to a device, but for the life of me, I can not seem to find it. Thanks, Wade - Original Message - From: Wade Waldron

Re: [newbie] Need Drivers!

2003-07-09 Thread Wade Waldron
, or is this the wrong driver or what? Wade - Original Message - From: Wade Waldron To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 5:28 PM Subject: [newbie] Need Drivers! I am trying to find a driver for a Microsoft MN-110 USB Ethernet Adapter. I am not really sure

[newbie] Installing new hardware

2003-07-09 Thread Wade Waldron
I would like to install hardware while bypassing the Mandrake configuration utility. Can someone give me an idea where to start. Basically the hardware is installed, I just need to make the system aware of it and set up the drivers. Wade

Re: [newbie] Another Try

2003-07-08 Thread Wade Waldron
Thanks for the advice, I checked xfree.org and found out that my card is supported on xfree 3 and 4. This led me to make some different choices on installing. I can not honestly say what made the difference, but it works. I guess the morale of the story is that if you are stuck on a problem and

[newbie] Need Drivers!

2003-07-08 Thread Wade Waldron
I am trying to find a driver for a Microsoft MN-110 USB Ethernet Adapter. I am not really sure where to look. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Do drivers exist for this product (since it is Microsoft after all). Is there a suitable substitute for a driver? Wade

Re: [newbie] Need Drivers!

2003-07-08 Thread Wade Waldron
that people find is generally useful? Wade - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Need Drivers! On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 09:28, Wade Waldron wrote: I am trying to find

[newbie] Thanks,

2003-06-26 Thread Wade Waldron
Well, thanks to everyones help in trying to solve my installation problems with Mandrake. Unfortunately, I have installed it 5-6 times now with all sorts of different settings and have come up empty. So at this point, I am either going to seek another distribution of Linux, or give up on it

Re: [newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome

2003-06-25 Thread Wade Waldron
. And finally. Did you create a swap partition? How big, and how much memory do you have? derek On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 2:33 am, Wade Waldron wrote: I have selected Higher Security, since I am considering using my system as a web server at some point (after I have a much more indepth knowledge

Re: [newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome

2003-06-24 Thread Wade Waldron
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 1:20 am, Wade Waldron wrote: I have tried to run both KDE and Gnome and get hung up on either. They start to load and then just stop and the system hangs. I have pressed Alt Ctrl F1 to get to a prompt. From here I pressed the windows key on my keyboard. This brings up

Re: [newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome

2003-06-24 Thread Wade Waldron
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:43, Wade Waldron wrote: Okay, some progress. I managed to login as root. I think I was just logging in at the wrong place. Checked /var/log/messages. From

[newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome

2003-06-23 Thread Wade Waldron
I have tried to run both KDE and Gnome and get hung up on either. They start to load and then just stop and the system hangs. I have pressed Alt Ctrl F1 to get to a prompt. From here I pressed the windows key on my keyboard. This brings up a list of errors which are scrolling by so fast I

Re: [newbie] Error when trying to load KDE and Gnome

2003-06-23 Thread Wade Waldron
Okay, some progress. I managed to login as root. I think I was just logging in at the wrong place. Checked /var/log/messages. From there I found out that the sequence of messages leading up to the error was: 1. Jun 23 18:09:07 localhost kde3 (pam_unix)[12697]: session opened for user root by

[newbie] System Still Hangs

2003-06-22 Thread Wade Waldron
I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 in order to try to solve my login problems. I am booting from a floppy. When I boot, it gives me options of whether to load linux-secure, linux, failsafe, or windows. I have tried selecting both secure and just linux. The system loads and takes me to a text based

Re: [newbie] System Still Hangs

2003-06-22 Thread Wade Waldron
ut I don't see any process running which would account for that. Wade - Original Message - From: Wade Waldron To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: [newbie] System Still Hangs I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 in order to try to solv

Re: [newbie] System Hangs on Login

2003-06-19 Thread Wade Waldron
:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] System Hangs on Login On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:36:46 -0600 Wade Waldron [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have just installed Mandrake 9.1. Everything worked fine until I tried to login. I have tried loging in as a user and as root. In either case, the cursor