[expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening
Okay, my turn to ask questions: I am setting up a machine for someone else who will only have dialup access to the internet. I have managed to configure the modem without any trouble; kppp can dial in, connect, and authenticate, and I can even surf and ping and all that good stuff. Here's the *strange* part: Once connected, I can't *open* anything. Nix. Nada. I can't open anything on the Kpanel, I can't open apps from the Kmenu... the system is paralyzed. All I can do, it seems, is disconnect kppp. No error messages of any kind. If I have Netscape open when I connect, I can surf normally. If I don't have Netscape open, I'm SOL -- because it won't open. After I disconnect -- bingo, I can open apps again. Peculiar, no? -Stephen-
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
It sounds like a problem with X, more than anything else. It _might_ help to know more about your hardware, and maybe what X-server you're using - SVGA vs. S3V vs. MACH64, etc. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Trevor Farrell wrote: If I log into KDE as usual, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console all goes well, until I Alt-F7 to get back to KDE. All I get is a black screen. The only keyboard combo that does anything that I can find is Ctrl-Alt-Del, which does a proper shutdown (although I can't see anything on the monitor) and reboot. Num lock, Caps lock scroll lock lights don't toggle, Alt-F1 (or Ctrl-Alt-F1) or any other F key does nothing, nor does Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. The monitor doesn't come back until the machine restarts. I've looked in all the /var/log files for something that might explain it - but all looks fine to me (but I don't really know what I'm looking for!)
[expert] Cirrus Logic 5464
I am having trouble with X freezing after I maximize the konsole. There are a few other times that it freezes, usually having to do with maximizing a window or something, but without fail if I maximize the konsole window...dead. I can telnet in to it fine and restart that way, and it works fine. I am using a Graphics Blaster 3D with the Cirrus Logic 5464 chipset on it. If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate the help.. TIA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
Where is Manhattan, Ks. I'm not to fer from ya.. Pj
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. How do I know if I have this problem...? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified
ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: No no no, I miss spoke, I meant to say How to I earn Mandrake Linux Certification. Don't waste your time with a distribution-specific certification -- go and get a Unix administration certificate and diploma, this will leave you flexible but still very marketable. -Stephen-
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Hello, I belive that Star Office is better than any alternatives. It id free and compatible with MsOffice but better.
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
The crash came at re-boot time (after adjusting /etc/lilo.conf and running Lilo). The BIOS reports a full 32M. Having removed the "append" line in lilo.conf I'm back where I was with 23M of RAM reported at the log-in screen. The diagnosis that the on-board video card is grabbing 8MB sounds right. I append my lilo.conf file - any one see anything sinister about it? Many thanks for all the help. Glyn M. - boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 append="" read-only On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 08:16:29AM -0800, thus spake Civileme: Glyn Millington wrote: Wow! I tried this and it threw The kernel footprint is about 500K. This is not windows where it runs about 4Mb (at least for NT) A kernel panic when? When you ran LILO? When you rebooted as well or just when you rebooted? What does your BIOS say when it tests memory at the opening screen? This sounds suspiciously like a memory problem. The kernel normally accepts the amount of memory reported by the BIOS, and the append is to workaround BIOSes that fail to report all of it, but almost always this is upwards of 64M or 15 or 14M depending on whether the "hole" from 15-16M is activated in the BIOS. Civileme -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[expert] Re: Old chestnut
Thanks for all the help on my "missing memory" Seems the onboard video is grabbing a handful! TVM Glyn -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
[expert] Barely Related But Funny
Bill Gates version of Doom. See the video clip. http://www.atella.com/seveman/bill.avi Seve
Re: [expert] IP Masq.
Hi ! Firewall - quick and easy for Mandrake or Redhat linux: Start netcfg and go to the routing tab and turn on network packet forwarding by highlighting the box. Then add the following lines to the /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall file: /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.1/24 -j MASQ /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.2/24 -j MASQ And you've opened the gates to crackers, if you have staticIP. It's a long story to tell but read the TrinityOS docs (http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/TrinityOS.wri) and you'll be well informed how to setup a simple firewall and masq machine (See section 10). A must have reading even if you are not interested in security. Bye, Ago "If you love somebody set them free..." Sting is GPL fan :-)) A hivatalos magyar KDE oldal : www.kde.hu
Re: [expert] IP Masq.
At 10:53 07/04/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi ! Firewall - quick and easy for Mandrake or Redhat linux: Start netcfg and go to the routing tab and turn on network packet forwarding by highlighting the box. Then add the following lines to the /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall file: /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.1/24 -j MASQ /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.2/24 -j MASQ And you've opened the gates to crackers, if you have staticIP. It's a long story to tell but read the TrinityOS docs (http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/TrinityOS.wri) and you'll be well informed how to setup a simple firewall and masq machine (See section 10). A must have reading even if you are not interested in security. Bye, Ago Try http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/ for taking the legwork out of firewall design. ttfn nick
Re: [expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)
Hi,. I just reinstalled Mandrake 7.0-2 to clean up the GNOME desktop and some other things I messed up. Now GNOME is horrendously slow! Everything takes about 10x as long as it used to and I don't think I did anything differently between now and when I installed it before... any ideas? Check the permissions on the .gnome directory and the .gtkrc in your home directory (and while you're at it, .kderc as well.. ) whether they're owned by root, and if yes chown them to you. The same problem slowed down GNOME significantly for me when I had Mandrake 7 freshly installed. cya, Volker
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
I don't know why but on some systems you have to go one less than the number. Since below your total is (23 at boot plus 8 meg for video) 31 then try append="mem=31M" and rerun lilo. Then reboot. Regards Dan - Original Message - The crash came at re-boot time (after adjusting /etc/lilo.conf and running Lilo). The BIOS reports a full 32M. Having removed the "append" line in lilo.conf I'm back where I was with 23M of RAM reported at the log-in screen. The diagnosis that the on-board video card is grabbing 8MB sounds right. I append my lilo.conf file - any one see anything sinister about it?
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
I went to the same show but in Chicago, the Suite does look good but it runs on WINE. I am already seeing a lot of posts in their newsgroups about the problems stemming from their decision to do their Linux office suite running on WINE. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Michael Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:15 AM Subject: [expert] Office Suite for Linux Hello all! I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle and while I'm not really impressed with their OS version of linux, I was VERY impressed with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY recommend Corels WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just blew them out of the water!!! -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
I am running Corel office now and really like the fact that they are running it using wine. Now Linux has a full office suite that has office 97-2000 filters. The fonts look great and the speed is very good. Give it a try. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: I went to the same show but in Chicago, the Suite does look good but it runs on WINE. I am already seeing a lot of posts in their newsgroups about the problems stemming from their decision to do their Linux office suite running on WINE. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Michael Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:15 AM Subject: [expert] Office Suite for Linux Hello all! I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle and while I'm not really impressed with their OS version of linux, I was VERY impressed with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY recommend Corels WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just blew them out of the water!!! -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
You can use the word free all you want and I hope someday that all software is free but staroffice is a slow bloated software package. I like the speed with my smp machine only. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello, I belive that Star Office is better than any alternatives. It id free and compatible with MsOffice but better.
[expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]
Mandrake 7.0.2 just refuses to be installed on my system (booting from a CD-ROM). I tried several times (including the "most default" installation), but it keeps crashing in the middle of installing the packages. Here's the post-mortem: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0105 current-tss.cr3 = 07f11000, %cr3 = 07f11000 *pde = Oops : 0002 CPU : 0 EIP : 0010 : [c011b0a4] EFLAGS : 00010217 snip ... Process runinstall2 (pid:9, process nr: 9, stackpage = c7f15000) My PC is nothing special: Athlon 650 MHz on Biostar M7MKA motherboard 128MB PC100 SDRAM 1 IDE harddrive (20Gb with the first 2Gb left for Windoze) Well, after 2 days of hair-pulling, I finally have a Linux system. The problem was in UDMA/33 CD-ROM. I knew that I had to disable UDMA/66 on the hard drive, but thought UDMA/33 is supported (my CD is on the secondary IDE controller). Now they're both DMA-disabled, in some purgatory that BIOS calls "Mode 4." Now, what is the safe way to get myself up from "Mode 4" to UDMA/33 on both controllers? Award BIOS MKA1223B doesn't seem to have an intermediate option... --ET. Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [expert] MTU length on dialup ISP's
I think that it's far from obvious that reducing the MTU really does improve performance. I have a 56K modem over a PPP connection (avg connection speed ~ 45K), and I didn't notice any performance change with an MTU of 576. I kept the change to 576 because I ran across a few buggy websites (www.adobe.com for example) that simply wouldn't load in Linux with an MTU of 1500, but would load with the lower MTU. Andrew vern wrote: I have wondered about the MTU value on dialups, in windoze there is a big to do over shorting your MTU from 1500 (default) to 576 for dialup networking. This is to reduce the fragmenting of packets, errors, and retrys. I have read no such concerns since being on Linux it would seem that the same TCP/IP constraints are there, can anyone enlighten this newbie?? Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
Re: [expert] IP Masq.
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:24:01PM -0600, Richard Bonebrake wrote: - I am trying to get my home network working with ip - masq. I have this - working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I - normally connect with - OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my - ISP. I do my Palm pilot - through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my - isp. I am totally lost - with Linux to do this. I have printed out the IP - Masq. HOWTO and now - know even less then before I read it. Is there a - simple program or setup - I can use so these 3 machines can connect to my ISp - again. I have tried several questions in newbie and gotten no answers. I - am by no means an expert and need simple suggestions or directions. - Thanks for any help you can give. Try the IP Masquerading web site, at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:15:33PM -0700, Michael Holt wrote: Michael, would you please turn off HTML mode, at least for this list. Thanks. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Agreed. And since this is release 1.0, I would wait until 1.1 or 1.2 before using. The VERY GOOD THING about this is the amount of fixing that will occur on WINE due to this. I expect WINE will firm up very rapidly now. Much faster than before. Linux will assuredly benefit from this. Soon, m$ win will not be required to run the thousands of apps out there. Three cheers for Corel! On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Jeanette Russo wrote: I went to the same show but in Chicago, the Suite does look good but it runs on WINE. I am already seeing a lot of posts in their newsgroups about the problems stemming from their decision to do their Linux office suite running on WINE. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Michael Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:15 AM Subject: [expert] Office Suite for Linux Hello all! I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle and while I'm not really impressed with their OS version of linux, I was VERY impressed with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY recommend Corels WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just blew them out of the water!!! --
Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: Help ! I'm unable to make Mandrake recognize the modem on this laptop. It is an integrated modem (windows98 says it is V90, irq4, ioports 1880-1887 and 1400-14ff) Lothar takes a long time to look for one, but finally doesn't find it. I can't see nothing regarding it in the kernel messages. Do you think it is a winmodem ? Do you know if it there's a chance/mean to make it work on Linux? (it works correctly under win98) 99.9% sure it's likely to be a winmodem. Depending on the chipset, you MAY have luck with the "linmodem" drivers. John
Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]
Mode 4 is UDMA 66
Mode 2 is UDMA 33
What UDMA 66 controller is in your box?
Tom
E T wrote:
Mandrake 7.0.2 just refuses to be installed on my system (booting
from a CD-ROM).
I tried several times (including the "most default" installation),
but it keeps crashing in the middle of installing the packages.
Here's the post-mortem:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0105
current-tss.cr3 = 07f11000, %cr3 = 07f11000
*pde =
Oops : 0002
CPU : 0
EIP : 0010 : [c011b0a4]
EFLAGS : 00010217
snip ...
Process runinstall2 (pid:9, process nr: 9, stackpage = c7f15000)
My PC is nothing special:
Athlon 650 MHz on Biostar M7MKA motherboard
128MB PC100 SDRAM
1 IDE harddrive (20Gb with the first 2Gb left for Windoze)
Well, after 2 days of hair-pulling, I finally have a Linux system.
The problem was in UDMA/33 CD-ROM. I knew that I had to disable
UDMA/66 on the hard drive, but thought UDMA/33 is supported (my
CD is on the secondary IDE controller). Now they're both DMA-disabled,
in some purgatory that BIOS calls "Mode 4."
Now, what is the safe way to get myself up from "Mode 4" to UDMA/33
on both controllers? Award BIOS MKA1223B doesn't seem to have an
intermediate option...
--ET.
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[expert] Setting up Mandrake 7 as a PPP Server
Hello, I need to setup a ppp server on Mandrake 7. The goal is to provide internet access to a single dialup user (myself). My mandrake box is already setup as a gateway with ipmasquerading for the local lan. I often need to access the net from my laptop, when visiting clients and such. The laptop is runnin Win98SE. A step by step guide/instruction list will be greatly appreciated. (with information as to what each step does if possible). Thanks in advance. Karl Olivier Gaetjens.
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: Have you tried typing lilo to effect your changes? The problem the person had turned out to be shared memory for VGA. John
Re: [expert] gnucash
Steve Fox wrote: tboldt wrote: libguile.so.4 Just create a symlink 'ln -s /usr/lib/libguile.so.5 /usr/lib/libguile.so.4' and then 'rpm --nodeps gnucash*rpm' It worked fine for me. -- Steve Fox http://k-lug.com Did as you suggested - works fine. Thanks also to the person who sent me the '.4' file - I'm keeping just in case I do have problems with the symbolic link. Also in looking at the /usr/lib directory I noticed that /usr/lib/libguile.so.5 is also a symbolic link to .. yep /usr/lib/libguile.so.6. Which is itself a symbolic link to yet another file. So now gnucash is 'using' .4 which is symbollically linked to '.5' which is symbolically linked to '.6' which is symbolically linked to another file which is I think the end of the chain. Maybe someday I'll change the '.4' link the end of the chain - probably won't change anything, but will assuage my aesthetic sensability. Also, is there any documentation anywhere that the '.x' notation is actually just newer versions. I couldn't figure out why gnucash was insistent upon the '.4' library. I just figured that the '.1', '.5' and '.6' files listed under ls were different portions of the guile library and provided totally different functionality. Anyway, gnucash is now running. Looks good although a new mind set from the old software I have been running for 10 years. I am beginning to compare the change to the difference between C and C++. Ahhh - a chance to learn something new - I actually enjoy the experience, but then I'm also one of the few people who read the manual before turning on the power switch. Have you noticed how many electronic device manuals are still in fractured English translated from fratured Japanese???
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: In the ongoing tradition of "weird wacky" Ver 7.0-2 problems: If I log into KDE as usual, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console all goes well, until I Alt-F7 to get back to KDE. All I get is a black screen. The only keyboard combo that does anything that I can find is Ctrl-Alt-Del, which does a proper shutdown (although I can't see anything on the monitor) and reboot. Num lock, Caps lock scroll lock lights don't toggle, Alt-F1 (or Ctrl-Alt-F1) or any other F key does nothing, nor does Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. The monitor doesn't come back until the machine restarts. What video card do you have? I suspect it may be related to the video driver. Did you try to upgrade to Xfree864 by any chance? If so, that could be a problem John
Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: Okay, my turn to ask questions: I am setting up a machine for someone else who will only have dialup access to the internet. I have managed to configure the modem without any trouble; kppp can dial in, connect, and authenticate, and I can even surf and ping and all that good stuff. Here's the *strange* part: Once connected, I can't *open* anything. Nix. Nada. I can't open anything on the Kpanel, I can't open apps from the Kmenu... the system is paralyzed. All I can do, it seems, is disconnect kppp. Known bug. In the KPPP setup, under the "IP address" section, UNCHECK the box that says "Autoconfigure hostname from this address." THEN try it again and it'll work fine! John
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. How do I know if I have this problem...? Will you be booting off an IDE drive? If so, chances are you have this problem. Of course, SCSI drives have their own problems -- you have to build support for your SCSI card into the kernel. John
Re: [expert] HereticII QuakeIII
Thanks! Now H2 runs at a playable speed. :) But it doesn't seem to be using the nicer features of my Voodoo2. (anti-aliasing such) Is this a 'state-of-the-driver' problem, or do I need to reconfigure/recompile something. (Or am I missing some settings in the game?) - Theo Magnus Bohman wrote: Download the "Voodoo2 Linux Reference Drivers" from www.3dfx.com, and you should be ok. Magnus Bohman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.techschool.se --- -Original Message- From: Theo Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: den 4 april 2000 12:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] HereticII QuakeIII Ok, I realize this probably isn't the right place to ask this, but I figure some of you guys MUST have gotten one of these working at some point. (I wouldn't even be asking, except that I'm getting a bounce somewhere between me and Loki's mail-server (never gets there from what I could see in the headers. I got Heretic2 and Quake3 for Linux a couple weeks ago, just had the chance to try installing playing them last night. Heretic 2 works in software mode slowly, but I've got a Matrox G200 Voodoo2 in my box, so I figure ONE of those is bound to give me better performance. What do I need to do to get my Voodoo2 set up properly under Mandrake 7? - Theo
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Glyn Millington wrote: Having removed the "append" line in lilo.conf I'm back where I was with 23M of RAM reported at the log-in screen. The diagnosis that the on-board video card is grabbing 8MB sounds right. I append my lilo.conf file - any one see anything sinister about it? This looks okay -- you can remove the "append" line completely if you don't need it, though. -Stephen-
Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]
Tom Berkley wrote: Mode 4 is UDMA 66 Mode 2 is UDMA 33 What UDMA 66 controller is in your box? Not necessarily: UDMA 66 is _UDMA_ mode 4, but you also had _PIO_ modes 0,1,2,3 and 4 (before any UDMA was available). Is it absolutely sure in this case, that the CDROM supports _UDMA_ ??? (It may only support _DMA_ which is not the same thing). As for myself I can choose in the BIOS (AWARD 4.51PG) either PIO or UDMA (or AUTO) for each _device_, not each _controller_. So I disabled UDMA for the CDROM on hdd, but it is still active for both disks on hda and hdc. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
[expert] TEXT-ONLY, please!!
I've noticed several people (mostly new to this list, I think) posting in Netscape HTML email and Outlook Express 5 HTML email. While the OE5 email is easier to read because it doesn't have all the HTML code showing, it's damned small here! Please, people... Nettiquette demands PLAIN, ASCII TEXT! Please feel free to ask for help in configuring your OE5 or Netscape mail client to send ONLY plain text email to the list! John
Re: [expert] syslog stopped working?
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Yes, I have seen this before. Every now and then the logging in /var/log/messages stops completely after the daily cron at 04:02 in the morning. This happens in irregular intervals and I observed this with MDK 5.3, 6.1 and 7.0 uh... log-rotate? I don't know how it works... -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] Setting up Mandrake 7 as a PPP Server
quick way is to use kppp to setup your isp login. if you want a demand dialer for ppp to maintain the network, look in the expert archive (this list archive). there was a previously described solution. tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to setup a ppp server on Mandrake 7. The goal is to provide internet access to a single dialup user (myself). My mandrake box is already setup as a gateway with ipmasquerading for the local lan. I often need to access the net from my laptop, when visiting clients and such. The laptop is runnin Win98SE. A step by step guide/instruction list will be greatly appreciated. (with information as to what each step does if possible). Thanks in advance. Karl Olivier Gaetjens.
Re: [expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: I just reinstalled Mandrake 7.0-2 to clean up the GNOME desktop and some other things I messed up. Now GNOME is horrendously slow! Everything takes about 10x as long as it used to and I don't think I did anything differently between now and when I installed it before... any ideas? Sorry... it was incorrect permissions on esd. Users's couldn't run it out of the box. Should there be a fix for this? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
[expert] RE: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT
Thnak you for all your answers, but it doesn't work... Fortunately (thanks to the other thread on this mailing list on LT winmodem and limodems.org/), I've seen the http://home.snafu.de/wehe/modem_linux.html page and my modem seems to be workable... I had absolutely no time today for testing it, I've just downloaded it. I'll give it a try next week. Cheers, Mathieu -Original Message- From: Tom Berkley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vendredi 7 avril 2000 04:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT B Try this as root: /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig (also try ttyS0) start kppp, go to setup and modem, then use the modem query function to see if it will find the modem if it does not find the modem, disable the modem in the bios and get yourself a 3Com 3CCM156 pcmcia modem. Its one of the best that I have tried. Works great in windows and linux. With the standard pcmcia linux package you can be braindead and the modem will still work for you.(Trevor notwithstanding). Tom PS if you get a modem busy when you query the modem, do not worry. use setserial to change the irq to another unused interrupt and then set it back to 3 which is standard issue for ttyS1 or 4 for ttyS0 ^_^ "Bois, Mathieu" wrote: Help ! I'm unable to make Mandrake recognize the modem on this laptop. It is an integrated modem (windows98 says it is V90, irq4, ioports 1880-1887 and 1400-14ff) Lothar takes a long time to look for one, but finally doesn't find it. I can't see nothing regarding it in the kernel messages. Do you think it is a winmodem ? Do you know if it there's a chance/mean to make it work on Linux? (it works correctly under win98) Regards Mathieu
[expert] vid card
I am having trouble with X freezing after I maximize the konsole. There are a few other times that it freezes, usually having to do with maximizing a window or something, but without fail if I maximize the konsole window...dead. I can telnet in to it fine and restart that way, and it works fine. I am using a Graphics Blaster 3D with the Cirrus Logic 5464 chipset on it. If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate the help.. TIA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] IP Masq.
Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my isp. I am totally lost with Linux to do this. I have printed out the IP Masq. HOWTO and now know even less then before I read it. Is there a simple program or setup I can use so these 3 machines can connect to my ISp again. I have tried several questions in newbie and gotten no answers. I am by no means an expert and need simple suggestions or directions. Thanks for any help you can give. 1. Plug your machines into a hub with their ethernet interfaces 2. On the linux box set up the link to your ISP--and don't do it through a hub--it is possible but it is lousy security. If you are connecting by DSL or something that needs an ethernet interface, you may need to add one to the linux box, and this can be done with linuxconf / basic host information/ adapter 2, etc. 3. Now give each of your boxes LOCAL ONLY IP addresses at their ethernet connections. I recommend 192.168.100.2 Windows 192.168.100.3 OS/2 192.168.100.254 Linux Set the Default gateway on your win and OS/2 machines to 192.168.100.254. Set the DNS servers on both the same as if you are connecting directly to your ISP On the linux box, configure your networking for the DNS servers of your ISP. If you do not know the DNS servers and your ISP is clueless in the tech support dept, then connect and # host -a www.yourispname.com, net, etc. (note the trailing dot) Will tell you where to get authoritative answers (and those IPs for the authoritative answers are the DNS servers). 4. Om the linux box, put these lines (in order) at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Now internet connections will work from your other boxes EXCEPT active ftp. You must use passive mode for ftp on your other machines. You can, if you wish, use KPilot from the linux box for the same services to your Palm Pilot. Civileme
Re: [expert] MTU length on dialup ISP's
The last time I used windows over a 56K modem (software type), I found an even smaller MRU to be useful. MTU doesn't have as much effect on performance as MRU. BAscially the scenario is this line error(rare) -- dropped frame -- discarded packet to be retransmitted Software tied up(frequent)--dropped frame--discarded packet to be retransmitted So with 576 you lose less than with 1500 for retransmission. I use 296 on Windoze for winmodems, 576 for hardware 56K modems. On linux, with a slow modem, I use 296, 576 with a faster modem, and 1500 with a higher speed connection such as DSL. I do note a few sites that freeze on MTU 1500 with modems and do not with 1500 on DSL. I puzzle at that behavior. Packets do not carry brand names or transmitting device types in them. Perhaps the timing of sending the longer packewt with a modem causes a problem on the transmit end. Civileme Andrew Post wrote: I think that it's far from obvious that reducing the MTU really does improve performance. I have a 56K modem over a PPP connection (avg connection speed ~ 45K), and I didn't notice any performance change with an MTU of 576. I kept the change to 576 because I ran across a few buggy websites (www.adobe.com for example) that simply wouldn't load in Linux with an MTU of 1500, but would load with the lower MTU. Andrew vern wrote: I have wondered about the MTU value on dialups, in windoze there is a big to do over shorting your MTU from 1500 (default) to 576 for dialup networking. This is to reduce the fragmenting of packets, errors, and retrys. I have read no such concerns since being on Linux it would seem that the same TCP/IP constraints are there, can anyone enlighten this newbie?? Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
I used to live in Manhattan KS now I live in Wichita On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Pj mewed: Where is Manhattan, Ks. I'm not to fer from ya.. Pj -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
[expert] Mandrake 7.0 as a ppp Server
Hello all, Can anyone point me to the steps required to setup Mandrake 7.0 as a ppp server? My box is already setup as a gateway with ipmasq for local lan. I only need to set it up for 1 modem/line. The dial in machine is a laptop running Win98SE It must me assigned a private ip address and use ipmasq also, since I do not have any real ip's I can assign. Thanks for any help. Karl Olivier Gaetjens. --- This message has been posted from Mail2Web http://www.mail2web.com/ Web Hosting for $9.95 per month! Visit: http://www.yourhosting.com/ ---
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Ray wrote: You can use the word free all you want and I hope someday that all software is free but staroffice is a slow bloated software package. I like the speed with my smp machine only. StarOffice runs fine on my AMD K6/2 400 =) No SMP here... It's no more bloated than MS Office, and it works very well -- the printed output looks great. -Stephen- Sun has released a preview of 5.2 (~80-100 MB and available for Windoze and Linux). http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/preview/faqs.html Thanks... Dan.
RE: [expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)
now GNOME is back up to snuff. I miss the helix-GNOME tho.. any word on proper Mandrake RPMs for it yet? check helixcode ftp mirrors - there are native Mandrake 586 RPM's dated April 7th ... p.f. - RNDr. Peter FREIMANN, ICQ# 1181033 tel: 0602-464-800, 0331-362375 ESNET s.r.o.(Internet provider) http://www.esnet.cz nam. Miru 138, 377 01 Jindrichuv Hradec e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified
ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.tcu-inc.com was working with some folks for a more general linux certification. You might want to check their site. Civileme
RE: [expert] MTU length on dialup ISP's
Just my $0.02 worth... Coming from the WAN / telecommunications world, perhaps I can shed some light here. The rule of thumb is that the MTU should be as large as possible (NOTE1), with possible defined as no larger than the smallest MTU to be encountered on any link (NOTE2), end to end. The MTU should NOT be larger than the largest packet to be encountered, or "space" will be wasted (NOTE3). There are a few NOTES and caveats here.. (NOTE1) - Using the largest MTU possible prevents fragmentation and re-assembly, a process that introduces processor overhead for every device between each end and introduces latency. This assumes you have *stable links* with *moderate contention*. Less stable / too busy links dictate a smaller MTU, because a dropped packet is quicker to re-assemble and re-transmit if it is small. On frame relay, smaller packets are less likely to be dropped at all. (NOTE2) - Most TDM links are comfortable with MTU's of 1500, but frame relay really enjoys a smaller MTU, usually set to around 1024. When talking about the Internet, you have no control over the links, so assume frame relay (or worse, ATM) will be used (dictating a smaller MTU) (NOTE3) - Many of us originate traffic from an Ethernet LAN, with Ethernet's default MTU of 1500. This defines the largest packet to be encountered as 1500. If you are using Token Ring, or are using a serial protocol, this changes things. The prevalence of Ethernet prompts software developers to default the MTU to 1500. An MTU smaller than the originating device is truly painful to throughput. Because of the confluence of many issues stated above you won't see any/much difference between 576 and 1500 when talking to the Internet. If you were talking about a TDM circuit between two offices of a company, the difference would be much too noticeable. -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] MTU length on dialup ISP's The last time I used windows over a 56K modem (software type), I found an even smaller MRU to be useful. MTU doesn't have as much effect on performance as MRU. BAscially the scenario is this line error(rare) -- dropped frame -- discarded packet to be retransmitted Software tied up(frequent)--dropped frame--discarded packet to be retransmitted So with 576 you lose less than with 1500 for retransmission. I use 296 on Windoze for winmodems, 576 for hardware 56K modems. On linux, with a slow modem, I use 296, 576 with a faster modem, and 1500 with a higher speed connection such as DSL. I do note a few sites that freeze on MTU 1500 with modems and do not with 1500 on DSL. I puzzle at that behavior. Packets do not carry brand names or transmitting device types in them. Perhaps the timing of sending the longer packewt with a modem causes a problem on the transmit end. Civileme Andrew Post wrote: I think that it's far from obvious that reducing the MTU really does improve performance. I have a 56K modem over a PPP connection (avg connection speed ~ 45K), and I didn't notice any performance change with an MTU of 576. I kept the change to 576 because I ran across a few buggy websites (www.adobe.com for example) that simply wouldn't load in Linux with an MTU of 1500, but would load with the lower MTU. Andrew vern wrote: I have wondered about the MTU value on dialups, in windoze there is a big to do over shorting your MTU from 1500 (default) to 576 for dialup networking. This is to reduce the fragmenting of packets, errors, and retrys. I have read no such concerns since being on Linux it would seem that the same TCP/IP constraints are there, can anyone enlighten this newbie?? Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
Trevor Farrell wrote: In the ongoing tradition of "weird wacky" Ver 7.0-2 problems: If I log into KDE as usual, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console all goes well, until I Alt-F7 to get back to KDE. All I get is a black screen. The only keyboard combo that does anything that I can find is Ctrl-Alt-Del, which does a proper shutdown (although I can't see anything on the monitor) and reboot. Num lock, Caps lock scroll lock lights don't toggle, Alt-F1 (or Ctrl-Alt-F1) or any other F key does nothing, nor does Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. The monitor doesn't come back until the machine restarts. I've looked in all the /var/log files for something that might explain it - but all looks fine to me (but I don't really know what I'm looking for!) Anybody have any solutions/hints/comments/guesses??? Thanks, Trevor use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Civileme
Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening
Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Okay, my turn to ask questions: I am setting up a machine for someone else who will only have dialup access to the internet. I have managed to configure the modem without any trouble; kppp can dial in, connect, and authenticate, and I can even surf and ping and all that good stuff. Here's the *strange* part: Once connected, I can't *open* anything. Nix. Nada. I can't open anything on the Kpanel, I can't open apps from the Kmenu... the system is paralyzed. All I can do, it seems, is disconnect kppp. No error messages of any kind. If I have Netscape open when I connect, I can surf normally. If I don't have Netscape open, I'm SOL -- because it won't open. After I disconnect -- bingo, I can open apps again. Peculiar, no? -Stephen- Your .kde might be corrupt--does this occur for ALL users or one user? There are workarounds such as configuring ppp from DrakConf-Networking and deleting the kppp and its icons if it is specific to kppp. More likely though, is a problem with ~/.kde. Depending on security level, there might be something in some of the configuration or options files. The fast test, if it is a ~/.kde problem is to rename ~/.kde to something else and let it be regenerated by ctrl-alt-backspace and logging in as the same user. If kppp then works, you know where the problem lies and you can retest as you put in every customized setting. If the same behavior evinces, then that is not the problem and you can delete the newly formed ~/.kde and rename the old one back to restore customizations. Other places to look? /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/ifup-ppp Civileme
[expert] Ack, HTML! --Apologies
Egad, tis embarassing to read HTML in one's own message. I have set this fuzzy Netscape_6 mailer to all plain text, not "Ask me what to do if message contains HTML" and restored my filter to trash HTML mail. It seems it is sending in HTML if I just compose a message--let's see if this one is in plain text--sure hope so. Civileme
[expert] Tulip NIC problem
When using Mandrake 7.0 after install, it fails to access the network. ifconfig reads that my mask, IP and broadcast addresses are correct and my default route is set correctly through route. The light on my hub fails to light up though. My card works in RedHat 6-6.2 and just for some reason doesn't want to work in Mandrake. DrakX successfully found my card and in bootup it says it is starting up eth0. Any ideas on how to remedy this problem? Jay Jayson Baird - Kansas State University CNS UNIX Administrator "My only skill as a programmer is twisted cleverness..'Click mouse to continue *click* release to detonate.'"
Re: [expert] Cirrus Logic 5464
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am having trouble with X freezing after I maximize the konsole. There are a few other times that it freezes, usually having to do with maximizing a window or something, but without fail if I maximize the konsole window...dead. I can telnet in to it fine and restart that way, and it works fine. I am using a Graphics Blaster 3D with the Cirrus Logic 5464 chipset on it. If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate the help.. TIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. Now I don't have to buy a graphics blaster to discover a Cirrus Logic Chipset. I have had more trouble with that brand than any other, INCLUDING SiS and PCChips. Try the following things in the "devices" section of your XFree86 configuration file /etc/XF86Config option "noaccel" This will decrease performance when sending the screen to another computer over a network significantly but is rarely noticable for local use even though the performance is decreased according to benchmark tests. Civileme P. S. If you see muddy characters on the screen or muddy lines in a word processor or an occasional row of multicolored dots on an otherwise blank area of a screen, trash the card and get another, otherwise the unthinkable linux system crash is what comes NEXT.
Re: [expert] IP Masq.
"Alan N." wrote: Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my isp. I am totally lost with Linux to do this. I have printed out the IP Masq. HOWTO and now know even less then before I read it. Is there a simple program or setup I can use so these 3 machines can connect to my ISp again. I have tried several questions in newbie and gotten no answers. I am by no means an expert and need simple suggestions or directions. Thanks for any help you can give. Try PMfirewall.. ( find it on freshmeat ). Run it, install it.. When it asks for machines with unrestricted use put the ip in of the machines you wish to masq. It will also later ask you if you want ipmasq ( or forwarding enabled. ) answer yes. This is easy. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 === I will second that. PMFirewall will get you going quickly. Although I never could get mail forwarded to the rest of my home network. Try this for a quick howto http://www.talug.org/HOWTO/ipmasq/portfw-tutorial.html TrinityOS is a good place to look for setting up a secure server and much more. Pat
Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified
Thanx Much dave On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= www.tcu-inc.com was working with some folks for a more general linux certification. You might want to check their site. Civileme -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
RE: [expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, RNDr. Peter FREIMANN wrote: now GNOME is back up to snuff. I miss the helix-GNOME tho.. any word on proper Mandrake RPMs for it yet? check helixcode ftp mirrors - there are native Mandrake 586 RPM's dated April 7th ... wOOhOO! Thanks for the info! =) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Civileme said: Deleting the line changes the X behavior--basically breaking it. Evidently not irreparably, since startx starts X. I finally reproduced the problem. High security user login su'ed in a Konsole Set /etc/inittab line to id:3:initdefault: logged out and rebooted--finding myself in X cat /var/run/runlevel.dir /etc/rc.d/rc5.d kudzu looks at /etc/inittab and boots to RL5 if it sees 5 linuxconf is called by a symlink called /sbin/askrunlevel and looks in /var/run/runlevel.dir Apparently su-ing in High security level enables the permission to edit a file but not to make linuxconf do its thing. So they are out of sync and runlevel 5 is a logical OR of their individual directives. It appears the remedy is to use linuxconf to set your runlevel--under Misc Servives on the opening screen. Wow, what a combination of factors to duplicate the problem. I did my original install with medium security and automatic X start. I haven't changed the security. During my attempts to stop X autostart, I have been logging on as root... but of course, X was starting before the system knew that. I had either used linuxconf to switch to 3 or when I ran linuxconf it was already set to 3... and X was still autostarting. My impression is that the auto X continued whether or not kudzu was executed. I turned kudzu off because it slows the boot, and I know I don't have any new hardware. I have it on right now, because I was recently trying to get my IDE cd-writer to work (another long story). -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
RE: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening
In Kppp setup, uncheck Autoconfigure Hostname check box Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Okay, my turn to ask questions: I am setting up a machine for someone else who will only have dialup access to the internet. I have managed to configure the modem without any trouble; kppp can dial in, connect, and authenticate, and I can even surf and ping and all that good stuff. Here's the *strange* part: Once connected, I can't *open* anything. Nix. Nada. I can't open anything on the Kpanel, I can't open apps from the Kmenu... the system is paralyzed. All I can do, it seems, is disconnect kppp. No error messages of any kind. If I have Netscape open when I connect, I can surf normally. If I don't have Netscape open, I'm SOL -- because it won't open. After I disconnect -- bingo, I can open apps again. Peculiar, no? -Stephen- Your .kde might be corrupt--does this occur for ALL users or one user? There are workarounds such as configuring ppp from DrakConf-Networking and deleting the kppp and its icons if it is specific to kppp. More likely though, is a problem with ~/.kde. Depending on security level, there might be something in some of the configuration or options files. The fast test, if it is a ~/.kde problem is to rename ~/.kde to something else and let it be regenerated by ctrl-alt-backspace and logging in as the same user. If kppp then works, you know where the problem lies and you can retest as you put in every customized setting. If the same behavior evinces, then that is not the problem and you can delete the newly formed ~/.kde and rename the old one back to restore customizations. Other places to look? /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/ifup-ppp Civileme
Re: [expert] syslog stopped working?
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 13:34 -0300, Marcos Dione wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Yes, I have seen this before. Every now and then the logging in /var/log/messages stops completely after the daily cron at 04:02 in the morning. This happens in irregular intervals and I observed this with MDK 5.3, 6.1 and 7.0 uh... log-rotate? I don't know how it works... Yeah, should be that. logrotate moves everything from 'messages' to 'messages.1' then it does a '/sbin/killall -HUP syslogd'. If you have 'tail -f /var/log/messages' running then this output will stop. wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. How do I know if I have this problem...? Kirk On my PC Linux sees the same number of cylinders as the BIOS (which is different from the label on the drive). Is this always the case? If so you only need to look at the BIOS settings. Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Cirrus Logic 5464
any ideas on how to tell linux that the card has 4mb of memory on it?
[expert] i810 chipset
is there X support for vga integrated into i810 chipset? thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.wirewalk.com
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Geez, man! Read the post. I answered that question in the VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH of the same posting!! Here is my original post: -- Sure. Whatever. You can create 'em ahead of time, create 'em on the first install, or create 'em as you go (just leave the end of the disk un-paritioned on the first install). IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. I'd probably FIRST do a test install on the disk where I had a dummy empty partition 1050 cylindars large, and install into / for the rest of the disk, with default options. If this one boots, then you know you don't have to worry about the 1024 limit; if it fails, then you do. THEN proceed with either the simple approach or the complex one, depending on whether you have the 1024 problem or not. -- On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: | On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is | reported to have said: | | IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create | all the /boot paritions on the first install. | | How do I know if I have this problem...? | | Kirk | | | |vice versa | Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing | Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com | Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Any linux user on PPPoE
** Reply to message from Orlando Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:44:55 -0400 For PPPoE information, you can check out information at the following site: http://www.suse.de/~bk/PPPoE-project.html There are apparently several PPPoE clients available... George
Re: [expert] Any linux user on PPPoE
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Orlando Lewis wrote: support for linux. I have contacted Mindspring and have been told that they also use PPPOe connections but that they provide external modems with rj45 outputs. However I have been told that you have to authenticate the connection with some sort of software. There is a PPPoE driver in Cooker, it's the rp-pppoe driver, and there's also a pppoe-linuxconf module to configure it. -What ISP are you using? If your ISP supports PPPoE, and have an external ADSL modem with RJ45 network port, it should work. PPPoE is pretty much standardized, since almost ISPs use a RedBack BAS. -What type of hardware do you have As long as it's an External ADSL modem, and is has a RJ45 jack, any device is compatible. It is similar to a hub/bridge. -What linux version are you using The rp-pppoe driver works with Mandrake 7 (heavily tested, and supported by me), RedHat 6.1 (heavily tested), Debian (heard from a few users), and SuSe (tested and supported). -What kind of connection software are you using? rp-pppoe is the best one. For a list of others, go to http://www.suse.de/~bk/PPPoE-project.html -How successful is the software at obtaining and maintaining a constant connection. Very stable with rp-pppoe. Got some random disconnections every few days, but my telco sucks, so it's normal ;-) -I run a web and ftp server will I be disconnected if there is 4-12 hours of inactivity. You should check with your provider. Most likely you'll get a dynamic IP address, but you can use dyndns or yi dns service so your hostname will remain the same even if your IP changes. Check the AUP (Acceptable Usage Policy) from your ISP before doing that. Some prohibit any servers, while some don't care and some accept it. -Does the software make the connection before loading the eth0 because I'm running a firewall and eth0 needs to have obtained it's IP address before executing the rc.local script in order for it to be successful. rp-pppoe contains a firewall script that uses ipchains, and is very well built. Usually you need two network cards to get a good firewall with IP Masquerading to use multiple machines on an internal network, but one of the (few) advantages of pppoe is that it can't be sniffed. What I did on one setup is use eth0 (you must not assign an IP address for pppoe to work and the interface must not come on boot), then use an ip alias eth0:0 as 192.168.0.1. You can also get the new dhcpxd to have a dhcp server on that ip alias! Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] i810 chipset
Get the new kernel from cooker, and the new XFree from cooker as well. It works great. You must assign the amount of memory used for the graphic card, since it uses your main RAM. You must also edit your lilo.conf. For example, if you have 64 megs and want to assign 2 megs to video, add: append="mem=62M" Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, mdk wrote: Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 06:48:17 -0400 From: mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] i810 chipset is there X support for vga integrated into i810 chipset? thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wirewalk.com
Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem
Jayson S Baird wrote: When using Mandrake 7.0 after install, it fails to access the network. ifconfig reads that my mask, IP and broadcast addresses are correct and my default route is set correctly through route. The light on my hub fails to light up though. My card works in RedHat 6-6.2 and just for some reason doesn't want to work in Mandrake. DrakX successfully found my card and in bootup it says it is starting up eth0. Any ideas on how to remedy this problem? Jay Jayson Baird - Kansas State University CNS UNIX Administrator "My only skill as a programmer is twisted cleverness..'Click mouse to continue *click* release to detonate.'" The question is Old or new tulip driver The mail archives for this list have a discussion around 2/5/2000 Civileme -- BETA-testing Netscape 6 and its mailer
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
how much does corel office cost? regards - Original Message - From: Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux I am running Corel office now and really like the fact that they are running it using wine. Now Linux has a full office suite that has office 97-2000 filters. The fonts look great and the speed is very good. Give it a try. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: I went to the same show but in Chicago, the Suite does look good but it runs on WINE. I am already seeing a lot of posts in their newsgroups about the problems stemming from their decision to do their Linux office suite running on WINE. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Michael Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:15 AM Subject: [expert] Office Suite for Linux Hello all! I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle and while I'm not really impressed with their OS version of linux, I was VERY impressed with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY recommend Corels WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just blew them out of the water!!! -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified
Your thinking of the LPI (www.lpi.org). They just started their certification program. The tests are built and ready to go. --Dave Michael Holt typethed the following... There is a group working on a cross-platform certification at this time. I can't remember the name, and I don't know when it's going to be available, but I know it's in the works. When I say 'cross-platform', I mean that it will include things from different distributions. As far as I know, the only other certification for Linux at this time, would be Red Hat (Red Hat Certified Engineer) - and since Mandrake IS based on the Red Hat distribution, it wouldn't be bad to take the Red Hat courses. Mike ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: But RedHat's not the Best. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: Redhat now offers a certification program (!!!) for redhat linux similar to MCSE from M$. Never heard of anything from Mandrake. Tom Marcos Dione wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified le what? uh... are... do you... mmm... answering more than 5000 problems presented in this list a year? ok, stop the joke... thas something like that exist? Now I'm curious... -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
I don't know if someone has suggested this, if so, please skip it. Can you dump the relevant lines for the startup of your system from /var/log/messages? Usually these lines show (in order) what processes get started when you boot your machine. We may be able to find some useful info from the lines before and after the telinit 5 line. Make sure you reproduce the case to show the telinit 5 line. Chunnuan Lane Lester wrote: Civileme said: Deleting the line changes the X behavior--basically breaking it. Evidently not irreparably, since startx starts X. I finally reproduced the problem. High security user login su'ed in a Konsole Set /etc/inittab line to id:3:initdefault: logged out and rebooted--finding myself in X cat /var/run/runlevel.dir /etc/rc.d/rc5.d kudzu looks at /etc/inittab and boots to RL5 if it sees 5 linuxconf is called by a symlink called /sbin/askrunlevel and looks in /var/run/runlevel.dir Apparently su-ing in High security level enables the permission to edit a file but not to make linuxconf do its thing. So they are out of sync and runlevel 5 is a logical OR of their individual directives. It appears the remedy is to use linuxconf to set your runlevel--under Misc Servives on the opening screen. Wow, what a combination of factors to duplicate the problem. I did my original install with medium security and automatic X start. I haven't changed the security. During my attempts to stop X autostart, I have been logging on as root... but of course, X was starting before the system knew that. I had either used linuxconf to switch to 3 or when I ran linuxconf it was already set to 3... and X was still autostarting. My impression is that the auto X continued whether or not kudzu was executed. I turned kudzu off because it slows the boot, and I know I don't have any new hardware. I have it on right now, because I was recently trying to get my IDE cd-writer to work (another long story). -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Sun has released a preview of 5.2 (~80-100 MB and available for Windoze and Linux). Yes and it chokes on large complex msword docs. I wonder how good CorelOffice2000 is? Last time I used corel wp to import a word doc it choked too, but that was a much older version. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening
I had the same problem with an isp that assigned me an invalid hostname on connection. If I opened an xterm before I dialed and then once connected used the xterm to set my hostname back to what it was then everything "unfroze." Wierd I know. Civileme wrote: Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Okay, my turn to ask questions: I am setting up a machine for someone else who will only have dialup access to the internet. I have managed to configure the modem without any trouble; kppp can dial in, connect, and authenticate, and I can even surf and ping and all that good stuff. Here's the *strange* part: Once connected, I can't *open* anything. Nix. Nada. I can't open anything on the Kpanel, I can't open apps from the Kmenu... the system is paralyzed. All I can do, it seems, is disconnect kppp. No error messages of any kind. If I have Netscape open when I connect, I can surf normally. If I don't have Netscape open, I'm SOL -- because it won't open. After I disconnect -- bingo, I can open apps again. Peculiar, no? -Stephen- Your .kde might be corrupt--does this occur for ALL users or one user? There are workarounds such as configuring ppp from DrakConf-Networking and deleting the kppp and its icons if it is specific to kppp. More likely though, is a problem with ~/.kde. Depending on security level, there might be something in some of the configuration or options files. The fast test, if it is a ~/.kde problem is to rename ~/.kde to something else and let it be regenerated by ctrl-alt-backspace and logging in as the same user. If kppp then works, you know where the problem lies and you can retest as you put in every customized setting. If the same behavior evinces, then that is not the problem and you can delete the newly formed ~/.kde and rename the old one back to restore customizations. Other places to look? /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/ifup-ppp Civileme -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]
Tom, A "cat" as you know, shows me what we both know: "pab.na2" is indeed the file Netscape uses to store our address info. This file allows us to address our mail when using the Netscape email client. I have this file, and I believe I have it saved to the right directory, "/root/.netscape" Now my question is why can I not use my address book when sending emai from within Netscape. Selecting the address book kills my entire Netscape session, browser and all. I have checked the treads (ps -aux), and all Netscape daemons are a goner. At this point, I must re-initiate a new session. I know this seems a small issue but it is driving me nuts because I can not solve it. I have been looking in such remote places as "/usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults" and "/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults". It all looks in order. After re-compiling my kernal to accommadate for my ATI P-Mobilty video chip, I am getting my butt kicked with Netscape. Since you are the only one responding, please do me a large favor: You are using v4.72 right? Tell me, does your address functionality work, and would you be so kind as to pipe, while in "/ " directory, the output of a "find . -names *netscape* to a file, and send it to me. If you would do this, you can use my personal email address. If you do or don't, still a big thanks to you.. Craig Woods Tom Berkley wrote: I do not know. Save them both and try cat AddressBook.na2 pab.na2 and see if all the addresses show up in netscape. I do that with the mail files and it works. Don't see why it wouldn't with the .na2 files too. Tom Craig Woods wrote: Tom, I have both files, AddressBook.na2" and "pab.na2", and both are in my "root/.netscape" directory. Should one or both go somewhere else too? Or should I dump one? I have never seen Netscape crash so fast when all I do is open my address book. At any rate thanks for the response. Craig begin:vcard n:Woods;J. Craig x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Celtic Pride, Inc.;Networking adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:IT Consultant x-mozilla-cpt:;11744 fn:J. Craig Woods end:vcard
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
Civileme wrote: [snip] use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Civileme wrote: use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Not true. ESPECIALLY if you login through xdm, kdm, or gdm. Yes, X is running on top of virtual terminal 1. That means the output is going there. X gets all it's input from terminal 7, though, not 1. About all you can do is ^C or ^Z (kill it or suspend it). A ^Z doesn't even suspend X, just the startx script. And that's only valid if you logged in via getty on terminal 1. If you login via xdm co., then ^C kills getty, not X! Ctrl-Alt-F-ing through consoles should have no effect on X at all. If one has logged in via xdm, etc., then getty is still running on terminal 1! You can log in and have a shell! This is not necessarily a good idea, because output from X is still going here, and it will likely confuse you, but the point is, X doesn't get input from terminal 1, it just sends it output there. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote: Civileme wrote: [snip] use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ? Most likely ctrl-alt-f7. -- Henrik Edlund http://www.edlund.org/ "One is truly wise who has travelled far and knows the ways of the world."
Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem
I recently installed a linksys fast ehternet 10/100 card on my system. I had to use compile the driver(tulip.c) from the diskette to make my card work. I configured as a module. Sridhar - Original Message - From: "Jayson S Baird" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: [expert] Tulip NIC problem When using Mandrake 7.0 after install, it fails to access the network. ifconfig reads that my mask, IP and broadcast addresses are correct and my default route is set correctly through route. The light on my hub fails to light up though. My card works in RedHat 6-6.2 and just for some reason doesn't want to work in Mandrake. DrakX successfully found my card and in bootup it says it is starting up eth0. Any ideas on how to remedy this problem? Jay Jayson Baird - Kansas State University CNS UNIX Administrator "My only skill as a programmer is twisted cleverness..'Click mouse to continue *click* release to detonate.'"
Re: [expert] IP Masq.
Trevor Farrell wrote: "Alan N." wrote: Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my isp. I am totally lost with Linux to do this. I have printed out the IP Masq. HOWTO and now know even less then before I read it. Is there a simple program or setup I can use so these 3 machines can connect to my ISp again. I have tried several questions in newbie and gotten no answers. I am by no means an expert and need simple suggestions or directions. Thanks for any help you can give. Try PMfirewall.. ( find it on freshmeat ). Run it, install it.. When it asks for machines with unrestricted use put the ip in of the machines you wish to masq. It will also later ask you if you want ipmasq ( or forwarding enabled. ) answer yes. This is easy. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 === If all you want is masquerading, Linux does it with no added exras. Just: Sure it does. And I've run it that way until I came across PMFirewall. Let's you masq and firewall with an easy to answer y/n install. No editing files, no rc.local editing.. I think this is the *easiest* thing I've every installed in linux except rpm's.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 ===
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
ctrl-alt-F7 gets you back On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson mewed: Civileme wrote: [snip] use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Please excuse my faux pas, I was using the Netscape 6 release and hadn't quite got the feel for the settings. oops! Mike Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:15:33PM -0700, Michael Holt wrote: Michael, would you please turn off HTML mode, at least for this list. Thanks. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
It's about $149 at CompUSA here in Kirkland, WA. I'm waiting for Sunday when the ads come out though, to see if they run a sale. Mike MandrakeBSD wrote: how much does corel office cost? regards - Original Message - From: Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux I am running Corel office now and really like the fact that they are running it using wine. Now Linux has a full office suite that has office 97-2000 filters. The fonts look great and the speed is very good. Give it a try. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: I went to the same show but in Chicago, the Suite does look good but it runs on WINE. I am already seeing a lot of posts in their newsgroups about the problems stemming from their decision to do their Linux office suite running on WINE. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Michael Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:15 AM Subject: [expert] Office Suite for Linux Hello all! I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle and while I'm not really impressed with their OS version of linux, I was VERY impressed with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY recommend Corels WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just blew them out of the water!!! -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
What kind of problems? I've heard their OS version of linux wasn't doing to hot, but I was hearing that WINE is working out pretty good. I had doubts at first because anything that's emulated *should* be slower than the real thing, but again, I've been hearing the opposite. Mike Jeanette Russo wrote: I went to the same show but in Chicago, the Suite does look good but it runs on WINE. I am already seeing a lot of posts in their newsgroups about the problems stemming from their decision to do their Linux office suite running on WINE.Jeanette - Original Message - From:Michael Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:15 AM Subject: [expert] Office Suite for Linux Hello all! I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle and while I'm not really impressed with their OS version of linux, I was VERY impressed with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY recommend Corels WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just blew them out of the water!!! -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]
Yes, mine works fine. Dell I7K and dual celeron both work ok. Do you have a symlink from a user pointing to root's address book. If you do, get rid of it and make a copy. Netscape (not certain here, suspect strongly this) does not like it when several users try to use the same files and will crash with all windows closing abruptly. Check the permissions on the files too. Tom Craig Woods wrote: Tom, A "cat" as you know, shows me what we both know: "pab.na2" is indeed the file Netscape uses to store our address info. This file allows us to address our mail when using the Netscape email client. I have this file, and I believe I have it saved to the right directory, "/root/.netscape" Now my question is why can I not use my address book when sending emai from within Netscape. Selecting the address book kills my entire Netscape session, browser and all. I have checked the treads (ps -aux), and all Netscape daemons are a goner. At this point, I must re-initiate a new session. I know this seems a small issue but it is driving me nuts because I can not solve it. I have been looking in such remote places as "/usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults" and "/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults". It all looks in order. After re-compiling my kernal to accommadate for my ATI P-Mobilty video chip, I am getting my butt kicked with Netscape. Since you are the only one responding, please do me a large favor: You are using v4.72 right? Tell me, does your address functionality work, and would you be so kind as to pipe, while in "/ " directory, the output of a "find . -names *netscape* to a file, and send it to me. If you would do this, you can use my personal email address. If you do or don't, still a big thanks to you.. Craig Woods Tom Berkley wrote: I do not know. Save them both and try cat AddressBook.na2 pab.na2 and see if all the addresses show up in netscape. I do that with the mail files and it works. Don't see why it wouldn't with the .na2 files too. Tom Craig Woods wrote: Tom, I have both files, AddressBook.na2" and "pab.na2", and both are in my "root/.netscape" directory. Should one or both go somewhere else too? Or should I dump one? I have never seen Netscape crash so fast when all I do is open my address book. At any rate thanks for the response. Craig
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
Ctrl-Alt-F7 (works here on two different boxes) Tom Ron Johnson wrote: Civileme wrote: [snip] use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] How much superuser percentage to reserve??
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: Hi got a off the wall question here, I am wondering if when formatting a ext2 zip disk, if it is ok to reserve only 1% of it for the "superuser" instead of the default 5%? I would do 0%... cause you always get out of space in something smaller than 75gb... :) -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
Ctrl-Alt-F7 returns me to X, but none of the buttons or icons work. I can move windows around, but I can't do anything in them. --- Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F7 (works here on two different boxes) Tom Ron Johnson wrote: Civileme wrote: [snip] use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!
However, if I use Ctrl-Alt-F2 instead of F1, when I return everything works right. --- Mage Grimau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F7 returns me to X, but none of the buttons or icons work. I can move windows around, but I can't do anything in them. --- Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F7 (works here on two different boxes) Tom Ron Johnson wrote: Civileme wrote: [snip] use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [expert] Tulip NIC problem
Hi Jay: I posted this very same question about 3 weeks ago (no answer at all) and, as well, to Linuxcare a week ago as an installation incident requiring support. No help so far. Yesterday I installed SuSE 6.2 with the same results, posted a query and got good answers back in about 3 hours. Yes, there was a discussion on 2/5/00. It alluded to 3 different drivers for tulip based cards. Unfortunately, the discussion didn't include any help on how to substitute one of these drivers. They were named tulip-old.o, tulip.o, DE4x5.o. What follows is the discussion I had on the SuSE list and maybe we can get something from that. Found the tulip-new.o and tulip.o in /lib/modules/2.2.10/net. = Original Message From Tim Duggan [EMAIL PROTECTED] . IIRC in 6.2 there is a tulip.o and a tulip-new.o where 6.3 has tulip-old.o and tulip.o. I know that some cards, like the Linksys etherfast version 2 need the newer module where the older version 1 cards can use the older one. Then Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] furnished the rest of the solution by pointing to configuration file '/etc/conf.modules' that names the driver to be used. I simply edited /etc/conf.modules 'alias eth0 tulip' to 'alias eth0 tulip-new'. Now, /lib/modules/2.2.10/net is a SuSE directory. Here we need a little help from Mandrake. Mandrake 6.1 (look at 7.0) uses /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdkxx and there are several of these, each with a sub-directory 'net'. So there are multiple lists of NIC drivers but I couldn't find any entry for 'tulip-old' or whatever the alternative driver is in any of these lists. So, we need two things. 1. Which of the /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdkxx/net directories is referenced in /etc/conf.modules? 2. Where can we get a copy of tulip-whatever.o? Then copy that tulip driver to the appropriate .../net directory and edit the /etc/conf.modules file to 'alias eth0 tulip-whatever'. Hope this puts both of us in business. Sure worked on my SuSE machine. Will be interested in your results. Bill Barnes = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = When using Mandrake 7.0 after install, it fails to access the network. ifconfig reads that my mask, IP and broadcast addresses are correct and my default route is set correctly through route. The light on my hub fails to light up though. My card works in RedHat 6-6.2 and just for some reason doesn't want to work in Mandrake. DrakX successfully found my card and in bootup it says it is starting up eth0. Any ideas on how to remedy this problem? Jay Jayson Baird - Kansas State University CNS UNIX Administrator "My only skill as a programmer is twisted cleverness..'Click mouse to continue *click* release to detonate.'" This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, a free web-based service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser - http://www.operasoftware.com
