Re: Alive?
I signed up for Mandrake Club Silver membership and my credit card was charged (almost immediately) on December 22nd. It's been well over a week and I've heard nothing from Mandrake about a nickname or password. Has anybody else had this experience? Are Mandrake so short of cash that they can't even process new memberships? Rick
Alive?
The last entry on this mailing list I have received is dated Dec 27. Is there anybody there? Rick
Re: stupid printing problem w/KDE CUPS
Yup, I get it all the time. Let the list know if you get a fix. Rick From: Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:48:09 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: stupid printing problem w/KDE CUPS hello, anybody heard of this one? when printing from KDE apps, the document prints all the way to the very bottom of the page. then on the next page, it starts at the very top, with a bit of overlap from the bottom of the previous page (nothing is missing, but it's annoying to have to decipher where the overlap is). this is consistently a problem in kmail, konqueror, korganizer, kword, etc., and consistent across at least the two different printers I've tried (an epson inkjet via USB and an HP laser running with lprng on a separate box on the LAN). problem is the same with KDE 2.x and 3.0 thanks for any tips... i don't even know where to start looking for this one. --i
Re: webmin: used to configure all server types ?
Thanks Ben, for pointing out the -- often forgotten -- fact that Nothing can protect you from your own stupidity. When configuring a server, we should always know and follow current best practices in all matters, including security. That goes regardless of the hardware base. It's an unfortunate fact (for those of us who just want to get it running) that best practices are a moving target, and it takes a lot of study/work/experience to learn what they are and keep up with them as they change. For example: What I said is true about PPC's being immune to a certain specific kind of attack (script kiddies with x86-machine-code based hacks) and that kind of attack is common enough to make PPC an attractive hardware base for a server. But that is only true today. As you say, if everybody took that advice, PPC would become the dominant hardware platform, and the one all the script writers would be attacking. (8- I think it would be wonderful to have my favorite hardware suddenly become very popular, but I'm not going to hold my breath! -8) Clearly, there's no free lunch, and you're much better off in the long run making sure (by hard work and study of the relevant books and documentation) that the hackers, regardless of type, can't get to your machine in the first place! That's why experienced system administrators get paid well for what they do. If you want an excellent book on the subject of sys-admin best practices, take a look at the Linux Administration Handbook by Nemath, Snyder, and Hein, published by Prentice-Hall. Over 800 pages of good advice from experts in the field. All of that said, good automated tools that embody current bast practices are a boon to the community. I don't know anything about webmin or any of the other gui administration tools -- I've been in the business for 25 years and I'm comfortable with command-line interfaces -- but I can see the need. Maybe, after I retire, I'll write one. Rick
Re: Appletalk- Laserwriter printers and utility inupcomingMandrake
Postscript Printer Description files (PPD) are typically written by the manufacturer of the printer. They describe the unique features of that printer and are (sorta) necessary for the printer to be used effectively. The manufacturers aren't likely to put restrictive copyrights on them. Apple includes the vendor's PPD files in their OS-X distribution without changing the rights. Copyright remains with the printer manufacturer. If they are willing to let Apple use them, they should be willing to let Mandrake use them too. (Of course, in matters of law, it always pays to check.) Rick From: Jeroen Diederen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 00:22:14 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Appletalk- Laserwriter printers and utility in upcomingMandrake On 7/6/02 00:03, Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote: Hi all there ! I succeeded in embedding my Apple Laserwriter 320 into the CUPS netatalk daemon. This is what I did: I downloaded a newly developed pap backend script, written by Rainer Ruprechtsberger, located at http://www.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at/~rupi/pap . I moved the file to /usr/lib/cups/backend and made it executable. Then I copied the Laserwriter 320 ppd file from my OSX system (/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/LaserWriter 320) to /usr/share/cups/model and named it aplw3201.ppd. I restarted cups and added a new printer with the web utility. The Laserprinter is recognised now automatically. The rest is easy.. So Stew, it would be fantastic to include this in the following Mandrake, don't you think ? You could add all Apple printer models from the OSX library and copy them into the /usr/share/cups/model directory. You can then also add the pap backend script in the netatalk package, which automatically detects the connected Appletalk printer. I can add that script, barring any licensing issues, but I can't be taking OS/X stuff and adding it to Mandrake. (don't have OS/X anyway) I maintian netatalk, so I'll check out the script. Stew Benedict I think you can add this ppd file, look here: *PPD-Adobe: 4.2 *% Adobe Systems PostScript(R) Printer Description File *% Copyright 1987-1996 Adobe Systems Incorporated and *% Apple Computer Incorporated. *% All Rights Reserved. *% Permission is granted for redistribution of this file as *% long as this copyright notice is intact and the contents *% of the file is not altered in any way from its original form. *% End of Copyright statement It is the beginning of the laserwriter 320 file...interested ? -- Best regards, Jeroen Diederen http://diederen.demon.nl
Re: OT: (but I do not know who ask for): buildin an RPM fromscratch
When the script is run by rpm, it probably has input redirected from /dev/null. As the docs say, it should be non-interactive. Anything else will break scripted installations. If you want the user to answer questions, you will have to do as Microsoft does (I don't believe I just said that! 8-/) The first time the program is run, it asks questions of the user and does a bunch of setup stuff. In Microsoft's case, they use this to get your product registration number. Rick From: Miguel Beccari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 15:45:14 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: (but I do not know who ask for): buildin an RPM from scratch OK. In the docs I read: There are certain caveats about these scripts which you should take into account. Number one, each must fit inside a 8192 buffer, and number two, they should be non-interactive. Anything which requires manual input from the user is wrong, as this will break non-interactive RPM installation procedures.
Re: lost interrupts - need a non-dma kernel for Sonnet G3/L2upgraded ...
This is with Toast 4.1, not Titanium, so it may not apply to your situation, but if you tell Toast to use Disk Image instead of 9660 or Hybrid format, it doesn't try to mount the image. Look under the Format menu in the tool bar at the top of the screen for the various source formats. Then use the Data button to browse to the ISO image you want to burn. That worked for me. Rick Reminds me of my nightmare when installing 8.2 last week : I first burned the iso's with Toast Titanium on an Imac. BUT : Toast mounted two versions of the first iso on the desktop of the mac : one with Dos names for files (which was clearly bad), one second with names that seemed to be almost correct for files. I burned the second and tried to install with it. The first install steps were right but when installing packages, there was a lot of refused packages (and some very important ones : setup, filesystem, initscripts...). The iso's were good. But the burned CD was in a wrong format : some names of rpms, because longer than 32 chars, were truncated ! The burned CD was announced by Toast to be in a Mac/PC hybrid format, which I thought was good. It wasn't : file names were HFS names. I didn't find any way to burn the iso directly with the good format in Toast (is there any ?) The solution I found was to burn the iso with Linux using directly cdrecord (cdrecord -v speed=something dev=something x.iso). And I got a correct CD. I did the same with the second one. And it worked like a charm.
Re: 7600 almost there
Stew, To whom should we write if we want to point out that there are PPC customers out there who need install help as much as the x86 customers? Rick From: Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 08:32:16 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 7600 almost there I previously had a note in the install help warning to always choose a USB mouse, but all my PPC help was stripped out. =(
Re: PPC install help files [Was: 7600 almost there]
I guess it's really up to the installer team, though, what they'll allow. Stew Benedict So... How do we write to the installer team to let them know (in a friendly way) that PPC users are paying customers and need architecture specific help files, just like the x86 users? Thanks, Stew, for all your good work! Mandrake for PPC is a great product. Let's work together to make it even greater. (Wow, I sound just like Steve Jobs... Scary. ;-) Enjoy! Rick
Re: TiBook 667 install hangs on Bootloader
I had a similar problem. It turned out that I had more than 16 partitions on my hard disk (the Apple driver partitions, OS-9, ML, OS-X, it all adds up after a while...) When I got everything crammed down under 16 partitions, the problems went away. Does that ring a bell? Rick -- A billion here, a billion there, after a while you start to get into real money! -- Some congresscritter (anybody remember who?) From: Simeon Wiehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:14:38 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TiBook 667 install hangs on Bootloader I've tried five times today to install Mandrake 8.2 PPC on my TiBook 667 (dual boot with OSX). Every time it hangs on the bootloader interface near the end of the install, immediately on selecting done from the boot options menu. The cursor can move but the entire screen is frozen. Can't access install messages either. I have tried several partition permutations, including resizing the bootstrap partition, but no joy. The bootstrap partition appears to be identified correctly in the bootloader install interface. My downloaded ISOs md5summed fine. I burned two CD sets, thinking the first might have been the problem. I've run out of ideas. --Simeon
Re: Ti Powerbook G4 optional airport card?
Thanks, Ben! That should get me started. I do try to pick good subject lines. As I said, the built-in ethernet jack works like a champ. The problem (as stated in the subject line, and then again in the text of the message) is that the optional wireless airport card is not being configured. I'll read up on the modules you mentioned, and see if I can figure out what's going on from there... Enjoy! Rick Ben Reser wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:48:48PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: I have a Titanium PowerBook (G4) with the optional built-in wireless Ethernet card. I've installed Mandrake Linux / PPC v 8.2 on it. The built-in wired Ethernet works like a champ, but I can't get it to recognize the wireless Ethernet. Presumably there is a module I need to load? This is what my /etc/modules.conf looks like: alias usb-interface usb-ohci alias serial macserial alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_pmac alias eth1 gmac alias eth0 airport eth1 is my built in ethernet jack eth0 is my airport. The installer should have at least found the built in ethernet jack. Tip: Pick a good subject. Don't ask a question about your built in ethernet and title the email about the airport card. A lot of us don't read every email. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
Re: How to apply updates in 8.2 ISOs and CDs -- Which TFM to R?
Thanks again Stew, for being so helpful! Alas... I have more questions! (see below) 2) When I try to install security patches from one of the mirror sites, using the Mandrake Updater, it locates them just fine, but refuses to do the updates because the two packages (sudo and imlib) that need updating are already installed. Indeed they are already installed, but the installed version is the buggy/insecure one. How do I get it to do what I want? Am I missing a check-box or pull-down menu somewhere? Ahh, we just had an internal discussion on this, again. As things stand now, the updater will not work for PPC, for a couple of reasons: 1) rpmdrake needs a patch to look in the right path for PPC updates 2) the web page that lists the update source doesn't even have entries for PPC I'm trying to get the appropriate folks the act on these, but until then you'll have to manually download the updates. Stew Benedict It's good to know that the problem wasn't *entirely* with me! (8-) So, to do that (download the updates and install them) (I'm guessing now:) I ftp to the mirror site, locate the PPC rpm's that I need, retrieve them into a previously empty directory somewhere, and do : rpm -i *.rpm in that directory. Or is there some more urpmi or rpmdrake magic that I'm missing? Thanks again for your patience! Rick
Ti Powerbook G4 optional airport card?
I have a Titanium PowerBook (G4) with the optional built-in wireless Ethernet card. I've installed Mandrake Linux / PPC v 8.2 on it. The built-in wired Ethernet works like a champ, but I can't get it to recognize the wireless Ethernet. Presumably there is a module I need to load? Thanks for any help you can give. Rick
How to apply updates in 8.2 ISOs and CDs -- Which TFM to R?
I hope this is an RTFM question. Trouble is, I can't figure out which FM to Read? A while back I installed the PPC 8.2beta2 release on my Mac. As of yesterday, I downloaded the 8.2 production ISO's and burned them to CDs. S How do I apply the updates on the new CDs to my existing installation? can it be done without doing a complete re-install? can it be done without examining each rpm individually for updates? Thanks, Rick
Re: How to apply updates in 8.2 ISOs and CDs -- Which TFM to R?
First of all: Thanks! Stew, for the pointers. That was (most of) what I needed. Now, the Hmmm...' part: Well... After some puzzling over the urpmi.addmedia(8) man page (some examples would be really helpful on that manpage.) I decided to do urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://dev/cdrom with the bluebird CD1 in the drive. That seems to have gotten package list info for both CD1 and CD2 and integrated it into the database. (I was totally unable to figure out how to accomplish this using the gui in rpmdrake -- even after perusing the tutorial from the CD1. Am I just dumb, or is there a section missing from the tutorial on adding new CD media?) Then I did, as Stew suggested, urpmi --autoselect and it updated/installed a bunch of packages. So I guess everything's cool. (Once again, I was totally unable to figure out how to accomplish this with the rpmdrake gui. Thank goodness for command language interfaces! says I.) I still have some questions: 1) Did it install any new kernel parts? If so, what do I have to do to take advantage of them? (Even if there were no kernel changes between PPC/8.2beta2 (cooker) and PPC/8.2 (bluebird), the question still stands. How do I take advantage of new kernel stuff, when it becomes available?) Do I need to rerun ybin? I'm not a total newby -- I've read the ybin and yaboot ( so on) man pages (and understood them! -- compared to urpmi(8) and cousins, they managed to make the normally murky subject [of booting a kernel] crystal clear.). 2) When I try to install security patches from one of the mirror sites, using the Mandrake Updater, it locates them just fine, but refuses to do the updates because the two packages (sudo and imlib) that need updating are already installed. Indeed they are already installed, but the installed version is the buggy/insecure one. How do I get it to do what I want? Am I missing a check-box or pull-down menu somewhere? Thanks! Rick From: Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:20:23 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to apply updates in 8.2 ISOs and CDs -- Which TFM to R? On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Rick Thomas wrote: I hope this is an RTFM question. Trouble is, I can't figure out which FM to Read? A while back I installed the PPC 8.2beta2 release on my Mac. As of yesterday, I downloaded the 8.2 production ISO's and burned them to CDs. S How do I apply the updates on the new CDs to my existing installation? can it be done without doing a complete re-install? can it be done without examining each rpm individually for updates? Sure, urpmi or rpmdrake. You just need to add your new media to the database. (see urpmi.addmedia, or the gui in rpmdrake). Once your media is added, you can do: urpmi --auto-select to update things. urpmi --help will give you some clues, as well as urpmi.addmedia --help (both in /usr/sbin - off the beaten path) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
