Re: [expert] The default Web browser in Evolution
Tried that, and it didn't change Evolution.. Cheers Mark On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 16:08, Woody Green wrote: It should use the Gnome defaults as listed in the Gnome Control Center. Woody Mark Williamson said: Hi Everyone, On the setup of Evolution it gives you a chance to set up the default web browser, but after Evolution is running, is there any where that one can change it's default Web browser? Cheers Mark -- Woody --- Gatewood GreenNetwork/System Administrator Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linif.org/ Linux in Idaho Falls Linux User Group --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] The default Web browser in Evolution
Evolution is a GNOME 1 application, so you need to change the setting in the GNOME 1 Control Centre. Unfortunately, I don't think that comes with Mandrake 9 (I can't check now), since it is based on GNOME 2. On 24 Nov 2002 22:07:17 +1100, Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried that, and it didn't change Evolution.. Cheers Mark On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 16:08, Woody Green wrote: It should use the Gnome defaults as listed in the Gnome Control Center. Woody Mark Williamson said: Hi Everyone, On the setup of Evolution it gives you a chance to set up the default web browser, but after Evolution is running, is there any where that one can change it's default Web browser? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] ... if you're a basic PC user thinking about buying XP, don't. It's basically malware. It harangues you with nagging, fake-friendly reminders to obtain a Passport and submit to product activation, and treats you like a child when you try to do anything heretical, like install a device driver of which it disapproves. -- Thomas C. Greene, Win-XP vs Red Hat 7.2, The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), 2001-10-30 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] The default Web browser in Evolution
The change of Evolution's default web browser is via editing a file called ~/,gnome/Gnome Looks like this has been mailed to the expert mailing list before... http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/expert/2002-09/msg01415.php It looks like that Evolution is still using the Gnome 1.2 configs Cheers Mark On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 22:07, Mark Williamson wrote: Tried that, and it didn't change Evolution.. Cheers Mark On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 16:08, Woody Green wrote: It should use the Gnome defaults as listed in the Gnome Control Center. Woody Mark Williamson said: Hi Everyone, On the setup of Evolution it gives you a chance to set up the default web browser, but after Evolution is running, is there any where that one can change it's default Web browser? Cheers Mark -- Woody --- Gatewood GreenNetwork/System Administrator Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linif.org/ Linux in Idaho Falls Linux User Group --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables help?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:06 am, Woody Green wrote: On the sharing machine, run iptables-save and post the output here. Hello, After some fiddling I managed to get things working again, though I only barely understand what I did. Below is the output of iptables-save. There are a few duplicate entries resulting from my fiddling but so far it is working. Day before last I had it working too via an ad-hoc wireless connection but after several hours of connectivity, it just quit and I could not regain an adhoc connection even after repeated attempts. I finally got a new adhoc regoing but without being able to share the internet connection until after my long bought of reading and fiddling with iptables (results below). Any suggestions or improvements would be greatly appreciated. At this point, and as a result of my fiddling, I _think_ all I need to do next time is do: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -i eth0 Am I missing something? [root@Stonekeep praedor]# iptables-save # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.5 on Sun Nov 24 07:26:34 2002 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [29568:5444758] :FORWARD ACCEPT [6207:1830932] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [29589:2467901] COMMIT # Completed on Sun Nov 24 07:26:34 2002 # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.5 on Sun Nov 24 07:26:34 2002 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [610:39174] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [3504:360904] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [3898:387546] - -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.0.2 -i eth0 - -A PREROUTING -i eth0 - -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -i eth0 - -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 - -A PREROUTING -i eth0 - -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j MASQUERADE - -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE - -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 - -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 - -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT # Completed on Sun Nov 24 07:26:34 2002 Woody Praedor Atrebates said: I am having problems with a internet connection share. Oddly, I had it working for a while last evening but then, suddenly, it died and I was unable to communication computer to computer via wlan (sharing a modem connection on one of them). Running Mandrake 8.2, I have a usb wlan device on my desktop set as eth0 and IP 192.168.0.1 as well as a modem (ppp0) through which the internet connection is to be shared. My laptop has a wlan card set as wlan0 and IP 192.168.0.2. The wireless connection is ad-hoc and they are communicating just fine but I am unable to get the laptop to communicate with the internet via the desktop's modem connection. In other words, the connection is being shared. This appears to be a problem with iptables setup. Can someone help me out with getting iptables setup (to run NAT) so that my laptop can communicate with the internet via the desktop modem? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE94Mg+1i/6R1B/Yh0RAuJuAJ9hCxgAebwUGRIoH9uvZDpV0P2TEACeINyA kS4sBnDEOsjSSQsO8Wng6e0= =Jchs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
Hi Miark, here we go. The XF86Config-4 file has the Following Section-Module Entry: Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Loaddbe # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. Loadextmod SubSection extmod #Option omit xfree86-dga EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Loadv4l Loadtype1 Loadfreetype Loadglx #Load dri EndSection Then - in the ut2003 start-script I added the following: #4x Gaussian Anti-Alias sampling export __GL_FSAA_MODE=0 #Maximum Anisotpic Texture Filtering export __GL_DEFAULT_LOG_ANISO=0 #Force VBlank Syncing On export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 That's what makes it fastest from my tests. Of course - all kernel drivers etc. you can compile for the NVidia stuff - compile them yourself. Cheers Joerg Miark wrote: Yes, that would be cool. Thanks. Miark -- | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Work)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : Mobile Diax: +41(0)76 / 490 52 54 | | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | Home-Page: http://www.solsys.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?
Hi, all, I am still struggling to identify the root cause of my wireless problems (for those of you having read my recent Netgear MA401 email, you know what I am talking about) - to recap: I am at the point of having to use two different DHCP servers (at home and at work), with two different scopes ... after having patched all sorts of scripts (network-functions), and forced non-default drivers (orinoco_cs, vs. wvlan_cs), I am still struggling with the fact that upon moving the laptop from one place (i.e. DHCP server) to the other, the system remembers the IP address from the other location, and it does not consider the new scope, neither getting the proper mask or default gateway. NOTE: of course booting my system into M$'s W2K gets everything up just fine ... how the H* are they doing that?!? I am sorry - but after having shot my whole weekend, I am tired - mainly - of the non-standard way of handling wireless networking in Mandrake (inherited from RedHat, I assume), and also frustrated of having to read each script, one line at a time, to determine what is being done when, and how, in order to trace all the problems ... so here is my kind request to you: is there any kind soul out there able to point me to a document describing in detail the networking boot-up process for Mandrake 9.0, at least for the new scripts for wireless? I know Linux is all about learning one's self, but I was hoping I can move on to new stuff, doing so, with a working system, rather than having to fix problems of things which should have worked to begin with ... I would think ... sorry if I am wrong here ... Thx, Stef Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problems with wireless...unknown source (long)
I am having problems with wireless connectivity between an IBM Thinkpad with prism2-based wireless card using hostap_cs and my desktop with a wusb11 v2.6 wireless device using the atmel driver. Both systems are running Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18-6mdk. I am posting this to three lists because I cannot identify the source of my problems. It could be a systemic problem with Mandrake/kernel-2.4.18 or a problem with the atmel or hostap drivers. I am hoping someone else may be running into/has run into the same problem I am. I am running my wireless connection as ad-hoc and connection sharing a dialup connection on my desktop. My wlan0 card (on the laptop) has IP 192.168.0.2 and my usb device on the desktop is eth0 and has IP 192.168.0.1. On two occassions now I have been able to obtain a working wireless connection between them and been able to share my modem connection via iptables/NAT - but only for segments of hours. After a few hours (first time around 3, second time ~8 hours - overnight), with no change obvious in the state of either system, the wireless connection just stops working. The syslogs of each system still indicates they are connected but any attempt to ping either direction produces destination unreachable messages. The pings are sent to the correct IPs, however. This has happened to me twice now, over 2 days. I am wirelessly connected to my desktop from my laptop. The desktop is connected to the net via modem and I am browsing/emailing without problems on the laptop. Suddenly, after several hours, the ability to use the web just stops and I also lose the ability to communicate between either system. I look at the logs and there are no error messages anywhere to be found. When this has happened, I have tried to restart pcmcia on my laptop and setting up the card again for adhoc as before but there is no communication (though my /var/log/syslog contains corresponding: wlan0: Linkstatus=1 (Connected) wlan0: Linkstatus: BSSID=02:23:cb:28:93:37 over and over (with the BSSID changing periodically at the 3rd octet). There are NO other wireless networks anywhere near where I live (rural) plus my house is aluminum-sided. It is unlikely, given the distance between homes here (~.5 mile) that even if a neighbor had a wireless setup (they don't) that it could interfer. No microwave or other possible interferring device has been operated/operating when this happens either. My /etc/hosts on my deskop: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain locahost 192.168.0.2 lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog My /etc/hosts on my laptop: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 Stonekeep.ravenhome.net Stonekeep My routing tables do not change from the time that the connection is fully functional and when it goes down. On my desktop with the wusb11 I do have to manually add a route to my laptop (so far) each time I've started up the wireless connection anew in order to get it working inspite of the syslogs having Connected messages in them: route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 Nothing changes in my iptables either between the time the shared connection is working and when it craps out. I have found that when the adhoc wireless connection dies, I cannot do anything to bring it back. I have had to reboot to get it up again (this is likely an atmel problem). I restart pcmcia services on my laptop and do: iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc essid keep channel 1 and on the desktop I have tried using both iwconfig and/or xvnet to reset the adhoc connection, and though the changes seem to take, no successful connection ensues (but I do get those wlan0: Linkstatus (connected) messages or on the desktop: vnetusba.c/usb_vnet_ioctl: cmd x8b01 StationState 5, etc, etc. I have tried changing over to infrastructure mode on both occassions when the adhoc connection died. I had begun to wonder if my usb device was bad and not transmitting (I know the prism2 is OK because the usb device is detecting its management signals). The first time I tried this the desktop connected to the laptop AP without problems indicating that the usb device was fully functional. The second time this failed (perhaps it is intermittent). I ultimately rebooted both systems, resetup the adhoc and it worked. I anticipate it will fail again after some unknown number of hours. Upon trying to setup the connection anew (prior to rebooting) the atmel driver gives me problems. Nothing I do will bring back the usb device. Restarting usb, unloading and reloading the modules, unplugging and plugging in the device. If I try to run ifup eth0 it tells me there is no such device but if I do ifconfig it shows up. If I do iwconfig, it usually shows it up as well (though sometimes it doesn't show up, only lo shows) and setup properly. If I then try to run xvnet or lvnet, it tells me that no atmel device was found. I do a depmod -a and I get
[expert] rebooting and modifying ppp0
Title: rebooting and modifying ppp0 Hi All, I have setup a custom ppp0 configuration file so I can connect to the internet with an uncommon modem. Everytime I have to reboot the machine, take down ppp0 or modify the network, ppp0 gets either modifyed or deleted. In Mandrake 8.0 and Redhat 7.1, the ppp0 stayed the same when ever I did something, but since Mandrake 8.1, it has been deleting itself everytime I have to do a reboot. Is there anyway to make ppp0 read-only to the system, so that it soesn't delete itself. It is an important feature that I need to have so if anyone has any ideas, let me know. Cheers, and thanks in advance. Craig
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 November 2002 4:05 pm, Miark wrote: :-) Yes, I got the splash screen. I know when the nVidia drivers aren't working becuase TuxRacer is simply unplayable. But it's a-rockin' right now. By the way, here's my relevant system info: 1.1GHz Athlon, 1.0 GB RAM, and GeForce 4MX 460. How close, in actuality, should the performance be between playing in Winsux and Linux? Is it possible that my XFree needs a tweak? Might UT need to be called up with special parameters? Is it possible that UT2003 is not using the nVidia drivers despite the fact they're there? I doubt this last one because the play is smooth until it's in the middle of really heated play. Miark On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:56:29 -0500 I recommend recompiling your kernel. For me (I have a P4 1.3 GHz with 384MB RDRAM using Geforce4 Ti 4200 128MB DDR RAM) I noticed a considerable change in performance when I recompiled my kernel. I selected only nvidia drivers for the video, creative drivers only for my sb audigy sound card, and realtek 8139 drivers for my NIC card. This produced gaming on a level that has me almost wearing Depends! I wil post my XFree86-4 config file if that might help any: Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Load dbe # This loads the Video for Linux module. Load v4l # This loads the NV for OpenGL Linux module. Load glx # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load type1 Load freetype # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. Subsection extmod #Option omit xfree86-dga EndSubsection EndSection - -- - Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based and Operated http://pgp.mit.edu - Getting into trouble is easy. -- D. Winkel and F. Prosser - 2.4.19-19nds Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE94TQsxjybQmhmUgYRAseiAKCiJAB4ijz9+9xaCcoZO+P3l2KuzwCff9vU /to8sFrQxY1FrYFteRHeycY= =taio -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] gnome 1.4 proxy settings
Hi guys, I'm running mandrake 9.0 - any ideas how I change the above settings? I've been using gnome-network-preferences but it does not seem to be working. Does anyone have any suggestions? Angus -- -- | Angus Beath | Support Coordinator | +61 2 42215600 | | Fax +61 2 42214163 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- If you hear someone yell, Empower THIS!! try to put some distance between you and whatever happens next. - words from the wise DNRC. from the wise DNRC.
[expert] wierd FS situation
This message is just information only. I was re-doing the VFAT32 hard drives for a server. I did the usual mke2fs -j device (ext3) and the formatting went fine. I was able to store files and read them just fine. Due to an act of stupidity (it was early o'clock), I was forced to reload LM. After getting the server going again, I went looking for the hard drives which I had previously re-formatted. They were unreadable. I knew the formats had been ok, however, no combination of fstab parameters would restore the drives to usability. Hummm. After careful troubleshooting, I found that the fdisk partition for the drives had remained VFAT32. However, the FS was EXT3 (verified by fsck.ext3). Gee, I did not know that Linux could force a VFAT drive into becoming an EXT3 drive. Interesting, no?! Anyhow, I fixed the situation by fdisking the drives properly and re-doing the format fstab entries. Just wanted to share that tidbit with everyone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Konsole segfaults and core-dumps
(FYI--mdk 9.0 on an i686) I have had problems with Konsole after upgrading to the full Qt (Qt3, in my case). Someone on the mandrake newbie list said he also had the same problem with Konsole and Kmail after building and installing Qt2. His problem went away with a reboot. [I don't use kmail, so that one isn't an issue for me. (It is a hassle shutting down and restarting artsd after booting to have system sounds, though.) Right now, I can do everything I need to do in Konsole with a virtual console, so I can get along while figuring this out and fixing it.] When I try to open Konsole, I get a segfault and core dump from libc.so.6 Tracking down the problem, I've found that in /lib/i686/ and /lib/, libc.so.6 it is symlinked to libc-2.2.5.so , but in /lib/lsb/ it is symlinked to libc-2.2.90.so This looks like a good setup for a conflict. If I try to list the contents of /lib/lsb/ from _inside_ the directory,I get a core dump...but from _outside_ the directory, with a full path, I get the contents list. My first inclination is to change the symlink in /lib/lsb/ for lib.so.6 to point to the libc-2.2.5.so to match the other two and allow libc-2.2.90.so to live there, too, in case something needs it. Before I start changing symlinks, does anyone have an educated guess if this is the correct change...or if there is something else I need to fix instead? Also--(because of the core dump issue) can changes be made while running kde/virtual console, do I need to use a window manager other than kde or will I need to boot the install CD1/rescue to make the changes without the filesystem mounted? TIA! Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wierd FS situation
Also - just for information: I saw something similar over the weekend. Due to problems with an install (another story!), I rebooted in rescue mode, and the root fs couldn't be found. I did fsck.ext2 on the actual partition (it is an ext3 partition), fixed some problems, and then mounted it. ls showed an empty partition, but df saw plenty there. df -T, however, listed it as fat32! I tried fsck.ext3 (which I assume should be exactly the same as fsck.ext2), and mount -t ext3, and everything was OK. Brian From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] wierd FS situation Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:20:23 -0500 This message is just information only. I was re-doing the VFAT32 hard drives for a server. I did the usual mke2fs -j device (ext3) and the formatting went fine. I was able to store files and read them just fine. Due to an act of stupidity (it was early o'clock), I was forced to reload LM. After getting the server going again, I went looking for the hard drives which I had previously re-formatted. They were unreadable. I knew the formats had been ok, however, no combination of fstab parameters would restore the drives to usability. Hummm. After careful troubleshooting, I found that the fdisk partition for the drives had remained VFAT32. However, the FS was EXT3 (verified by fsck.ext3). Gee, I did not know that Linux could force a VFAT drive into becoming an EXT3 drive. Interesting, no?! Anyhow, I fixed the situation by fdisking the drives properly and re-doing the format fstab entries. Just wanted to share that tidbit with everyone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] man madness
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:23:18PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote:
MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man
Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX system I have used,
MANPATH is not additive - it REPLACES all other heuristics for
locating manpages.
Eh? You get exactly the same behaviour under Solaris. man defaults to
looking in somewhere (see your documentation for the exact
location). Setting MANPATH overrides this.
Hence, I gained manpages for Perl and lost every
other manpage in the system.
So, I unset MANPATH and did man man and it said to check out
/usr/etc/man.config and man man.conf(5). Well, neither the file nor
the manpage exist on my system.
Mine (Mandrake 9.0) actually says /usr//etc/man.config. Which by
convention tends to me /etc/man.config (stuff// being interpreted as /)
How does one ADD man paths to the lookup heuristics?
MANPATH = $MANPATH:/new/dir/goes/here:/another/new/dir
This does not work. A default Mandrake install does not initialize
MANPATH at all. By setting MANPATH, I override all the settings in
/etc/man.config. Yes, it's weird. No, I've not seen this in any *NIX
system I've ever worked on. But there it is.
You're using a different version of Solaris from me then (and I've got
2.5, 7 and 8). I've always known it to work like this.
Now, I could, someplace in /etc/profile.d/foobar.sh do this:
MANPATH=$(manpath)
From the parameter expansion section of the bash manpage:
MANPATH=${MANPATH:-default}:/new/dir/goes/here:/another/new/dir
will do what you want (using default if MANPATH isn't set).
So the only problem is how to determine the default. Our Solaris setup
consists of
MANPATH=${MANPATH:-/usr/man}:/usr/local/man
However, the Mandrake 8.2 man comes with the manpath command:
manpath - determine user's search path for man pages
So you can simplify all this to:
MANPATH=`manpath`:/new/dir/goes/here
--
Tommy
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Re: [expert] html front end to pine?
Michael Holt wrote: Sunday, David Guntner mused: Michael Holt grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [...] I would like to make an html front-end to access the mail program (or pine) something similar to yahoo or hotmail but without all the crappy ads and weird email you get on those. I know I can come up with something, but I was wondering if someone had already designed something similar to what I'm talking about? Have you looked into Squirrelmail? As web-based mail interfaces go, it's pretty nice, and allows you to set up POP3 access to your other mailboxes out there on the net, so it could do what you want. http://www.squirrelmail.org --Dave Cool, I think I'm going to use this package. I wasn't aware there are so many packages out there that do this type of work. And thanks to everyone else who answered this post - very helpful! Mike Hi Mike, Just my two cents here. After reading this thread yesterday I grabbed the SquirrleMail package from the site and got things installed. Installing SM wasn't difficult at all and amounted to nothing more then installing the RPM. The challenge came when it was time to configure apache to execute PHP pages when called. Normally I'd suspect that if you've got the PHP packages installed on the machine when apache is installed things are pretty set to go. However, i've also found that sometimes the modules aren't getting loaded and start time as they should. My big challenge was to attempt to remember which file it was to edit so apache loaded the modules to turn on php support. Apache on Mandrake uses three files, commonhttpd.conf, httpd.conf, and httpd-perl.conf to load and configure everything. I had to add a few lines to the httpd.conf file before PHP started working correctly. From there it was a breeze to configure SM. Since I was already using IMAP implementation was seemless. Just needed to run the conf.pl script to define the server and all. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] It won't power off
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:07:50 -0700, Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:24 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for power off options, as well as seeing what the current power save options are at. Check your ACPI options in your BIOS as well. You will find that XP can shutdown a great many systems that would not normally shutdown on their own, however linux can sometimes get hung up little bios glitches. Damn. You mean Billware is better at something than Torvaldsware is? Sigh. Well not better, just different. :) NT, 2000 and XP all do direct hardware access, ignoring CMOS. Or at least it has that ability. I don't think Linux does that. So that could explain the problem. Change your cmos settings just may solve it. I'd LOVE to change my CMOS settings. I have an Intel D845HV motherboard. If anyone is interested, the CMOS settings can be found here: ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/hv/A6513601.pdf If anyone can tell me what to change, then you are much smarter than I am - I do not see anything that would help... I'm going to muck with some of the halt settings as mentioned a few messages back in this thread. If anyone has had any experience with this board and this problem, I'd love to hear it. Thanks, -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] man madness
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:36:42 +, Tommy Wareing wrote:
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:23:18PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote:
MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man
Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX system I have used,
MANPATH is not additive - it REPLACES all other heuristics for
locating manpages.
Eh? You get exactly the same behaviour under Solaris. man defaults
to looking in somewhere (see your documentation for the exact
location). Setting MANPATH overrides this.
Not in Solaris 2.6 or 2.7. Unless our admins did some very strong
magic and changed the defaults upon installation, which I doubt.
{wait.. think...light bulb!} Then again, come to think of it, I think
MANPATH is initialized someplace (like /etc/profile?) during the
login sequence. Yes, I think that's it. So the masking behaviour is
itself masked due to initialization. Ok, I'll buy that.
[snip]
So, I unset MANPATH and did man man and it said to check out
/usr/etc/man.config and man man.conf(5). Well, neither the file
nor the manpage exist on my system.
Mine (Mandrake 9.0) actually says /usr//etc/man.config. Which by
convention tends to me /etc/man.config (stuff// being interpreted as
/)
Huh? I type
ls -lart /usr//etc
and I get zero files, because /usr/etc is empty on my machine. Where did you pick up
that convention?
How does one ADD man paths to the lookup heuristics?
MANPATH = $MANPATH:/new/dir/goes/here:/another/new/dir
This does not work. A default Mandrake install does not initialize
MANPATH at all. By setting MANPATH, I override all the settings in
/etc/man.config. Yes, it's weird. No, I've not seen this in any *
NIX system I've ever worked on. But there it is.
You're using a different version of Solaris from me then (and I've
got 2.5, 7 and 8). I've always known it to work like this.
Yes, I agree. See above.
Now, I could, someplace in /etc/profile.d/foobar.sh do this:
MANPATH=$(manpath)
From the parameter expansion section of the bash manpage:
MANPATH=${MANPATH:-default}:/new/dir/goes/here:/another/new/dir
will do what you want (using default if MANPATH isn't set).
So the only problem is how to determine the default. Our Solaris
setup consists of MANPATH=${MANPATH:-/usr/man}:/usr/local/man
However, the Mandrake 8.2 man comes with the manpath command:
manpath - determine user's search path for man pages
So you can simplify all this to:
MANPATH=`manpath`:/new/dir/goes/here
Yes, I could do that. However, the only reason I am playing with
MANPATH at all is that I have developed some bash functions to swap
versions of Perl. I modify PATH to get at the one I want. I was also
modifying MANPATH. I may just decide to just use perldoc instead. Or
maybe not. Depends on how much I want to muck around. I have real
work to do to.
Thanks.
--
Matthew O. Persico
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Re: [expert] It won't power off
On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for power off options, as well as seeing what the current power save options are at. Check your ACPI options in your BIOS as well. You will find that XP can shutdown a great many systems that would not normally shutdown on their own, however linux can sometimes get hung up little bios glitches. As an aside, try updating your bios as well. Might fix the issue. Since everything else works and since the errata that I can see for updates does not address any powerdown issues, I am loathe to do this. But it is an option of last resort and I did download the update just in case. Gizmo On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 20:53, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:42:54 +, Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: What about: shutdown -h now ? Paul Nope. It still stops at Power down and does not shutoff. That's why I thought /sbin/poweroff was the answer. It ain't. On Sunday 24 November 2002 01:27 am, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I have a Pentium4 box that used to hold XP. When XP shut down, it turned the box off. I moved XP to another box and installed Mandrake. When I execute poweroff as root, the os is stopped and the last thing the console says is Power down but the power does not go off. Since it worked under XP, I am assuming it's not hardware. Does anyone have an idea as to what rpms am I missing or what config file is mis-configed :-) Thanks -- Matthew O. Persico __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Broken Java support in Mozilla
scribbled wildly after reading Charles A Edwards On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:14:10 -0800 Walter Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reviewing Mozilla Bug #116444, it appears that java support in Mozilla with Mandrake 9.0 is broken. Has to do with Mozilla compiled with GCC 3.0 being incompatible with java 1.3 and 1.4.0. T Both mozilla and galeon in 9.0 Are compiled with gcc-2.9.6 This was done specifically for java support. If you are having problems with java then it is probably due to a path error or to the java installation itself. Charles Walter, I would have to agree with Charles here because I'm running Mozilla 1.0.1 on 9.0 and Java support works just fine. -- Mark Stupidity has no moral high ground. It can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Screen Blanker
Hi, Could someone please tell me how to disable the screen blanker (not KDE). I have tried the following without success: setterm -blank 0 echo -e \33[9;0] I'm using mandrake linux version 9. I was unable to read replies from my previous message, so appologies if you have already replied. Thanks in advance, Greg _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] It won't power off
A co-worker of mine experienced a similar problem w/ a Compaq laptop. I believe that the solution turned out to be re-building the kernel w/ the latest ACPI driver. I'll ask him if he has any additional insight... -Jason On Sunday 24 November 2002 08:58 pm, Donna and Matthew Persico wrote: Since everything else works and since the errata that I can see for updates does not address any powerdown issues, I am loathe to do this. But it is an option of last resort and I did download the update just in case. = Right, you bastards, you're... you're geography (Guards! Guards!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Process of bringing up wireless networking -pointers?!?
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 09:50, stefmit wrote: Hi, all, I am still struggling to identify the root cause of my wireless problems (for those of you having read my recent Netgear MA401 email, you know what I am talking about) - to recap: I am at the point of having to use two different DHCP servers (at home and at work), with two different scopes ... after having patched all sorts of scripts (network-functions), and forced non-default drivers (orinoco_cs, vs. wvlan_cs), I am still struggling with the fact that upon moving the laptop from one place (i.e. DHCP server) to the other, the system remembers the IP address from the other location, and it does not consider the new scope, neither getting the proper mask or default gateway. Sorry for what might be a silly question, but are you doing a service network reload or restart after moving into the new network, or just suspending at point A and resuming at point B? I think that If you are reinitializing the dhcpcd and it isn't working, you need to work your way up the OSI stack to troubleshoot. In gkrellm there's a wireless plugin, load that and it will show you the layer 1 signal strength. Then do a service network reload at point B and tail -f /var/log/syslog to see what happens. My guess is that you're going to see a whole lot of shorewall packet-dropping because shorewall is still using the point A address for its wireless zone. NOTE: of course booting my system into M$'s W2K gets everything up just fine ... how the H* are they doing that?!? Depends what they're doing... getting a DHCP address on boot isn't that big a deal, but autosensing that you've moved into a new network, getting a new address, and reconfiguring the built-in firewall to work with the new address is a little trickier. Not impossible or even very difficult, but you'll notice that W2K doesn't have a built-in firewall. I am sorry - but after having shot my whole weekend, I am tired - mainly - of the non-standard way of handling wireless networking in Mandrake (inherited from RedHat, I assume), and also frustrated of having to read each script, one line at a time, to determine what is being done when, and how, in order to trace all the problems ... so here is my kind request to you: is there any kind soul out there able to point me to a document describing in detail the networking boot-up process for Mandrake 9.0, at least for the new scripts for wireless? I know Linux is all about learning one's self, but I was hoping I can move on to new stuff, doing so, with a working system, rather than having to fix problems of things which should have worked to begin with ... I would think ... sorry if I am wrong here ... Nothing wrong with being frustrated -- sometimes you just have to drop the problem for a while and come back when you can face it again. I find that I've usually been staring at the answer in the documentation that I was reading, it just wasn't sinking in because I was annoyed. Thx, Stef -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ext3 format problem
dropped a new 40GB IDE drive into one of my MDK9 boxes and used diskdrake to do one big partition and format it as ext3fs. This went successfully and it reported 38GB usable, so I proceeded to copy my mp3s over -- which halted at 1.3GB with disk full. df -h verified that the volume was in fact 1.3G in size. I repeated the process a few times with reboots and what not, no soap. What finally worked was doing an ext2 partition and then converting it to ext3. the end, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] DVD sharing using samba
Hi Im using a MDK 8.2 updated with cookers an I try to share my DVD via samba to look movies with PowerDVD on my PC. My Pc can acces file on the DVD with explorer but when I ask PowerDVD to lauch DVD from Harddisk pointing the the share, the kernel general errors like this : Nov 25 01:03:11 xoServBox kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1259480 Nov 25 01:03:11 xoServBox kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1259504 Nov 25 01:03:11 xoServBox kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1259480 Nov 25 01:03:11 xoServBox kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1259484 Nov 25 01:03:11 xoServBox kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1259480 Nov 25 01:03:11 xoServBox kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1259484 Nov 25 01:03:11 xoServBox kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1259480 Nov 25 01:03:11 xoServBox kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1259484 The DVD is a scsi drive, my IDE DVD also generate errors. Can anyone help me please ? regards Stephane My kernels are 2.4.20 and 2.4.18, both made sames error. There is my smb.conf eport section for DVD : [DVD] comment = Lecteur de DVD path = /mnt/cdrom browseable = yes public = yes writable = no printable = no There is all the packages Ive installed : [root@xoServBox boot]# rpm -qa libtermcap2-2.0.8-30mdk locales-fr-2.3.1.2-8mdk shadow-utils-2902-5mdk zlib1-1.1.3-19mdk libslang1-1.4.4-3mdk e2fsprogs-1.26-1mdk modutils-2.4.13-3mdk cracklib-dicts-2.7-15mdk which-2.13-4mdk libutempter0-0.5.2-5mdk less-358-14mdk net-tools-1.60-2mdk syslinux-1.67-4mdk logrotate-3.6-1mdk lilo-22.2-2mdk stat-2.5-3mdk vixie-cron-3.0.1-52mdk libgdbm2-1.8.0-18mdk libtiff3-3.5.5-9mdk esound-0.2.23-1mdk libnewt0.50-0.50.34-2mdk curl-7.9.4-4mdk liblcms1-1.08-3mdk libalsa1-0.5.10b-1mdk libcdda0-IIIa9.8-3mdk ORBit-0.5.13-1mdk libogg0-1.0-0.rc3.1mdk libvorbis0-1.0-0.rc3.1mdk libnss3-0.9.8-10mdk libbinutils2-2.11.92.0.12-6mdk libmm1-1.1.3-9mdk pspell-0.12.2-4mdk libsnmp0-4.2.3-2mdk tcl-8.3.3-12mdk libptal0-0.8-7mdk glibc-devel-2.2.4-25mdk sane-backends-1.0.7-4mdk libgcc3.0-3.0.4-2mdk librsvg1-1.0.3-1mdk howto-utils-0.2.4-1mdk libbmpeg1-1.3.1-4mdk gnupg-1.0.6-5mdk words-2-18mdk libstdc++3.0-3.0.4-2mdk gcc-2.96-0.76mdk apm-scripts-0.1-3mdk texinfo-4.0-22mdk cpio-2.4.2-20mdk mailx-8.1.1-20mdk patch-2.5.4-10mdk spec-helper-0.6-4mdk libhermes1-1.3.2-7mdk anacron-2.3-11mdk automake-1.4-20.p5.mdk devfsd-1.3.24-17mdk giftrans-1.12.2-10mdk hotplug-2002_01_14-4mdk lilo-doc-22.2-2mdk mandrake-mime-0.1-5mdk mirrordir-0.10.49-4mdk pciutils-2.1.9-2mdk rcs-5.7-5mdk routed-0.17-4mdk slocate-2.6-2mdk libxml2-utils-2.4.16-2mdk ctags-5.2.0-1mdk vorbis-tools-1.0-0.rc3.4mdk libxine0.9.8-0.9.8-4mdk sgml-tools-1.0.9-22mdk ispell-fr-1.0-10mdk rp-pppoe-3.3-2mdk apache-manual-1.3.26-6mdk chkconfig-1.3.4-11mdk libopenssl0-0.9.6g-1mdk mod_perl-common-1.3.26_1.27-7mdk mod_ssl-2.8.10-5mdk perl-DB_File-1.804-3mdk perl-FCGI-0.65-2mdk perl-MailTools-1.47-1mdk perl-URI-1.20-1mdk perl-XML-Grove-0.46alpha-3mdk perl-libxml-enno-1.02-6mdk vim-enhanced-6.1-21mdk pidentd-3.0.14-3mdk checkpassword-0.90-3rph rpm-4.0.4-19mdk gettext-base-0.11.2-8mdk iptraf-2.7.0-1mdk iptables-1.2.6a-1mdk iproute2-2.4.7-4mdk openssh-clients-3.4p1-4mdk palmos-sdk-4.0-1 libacl1-2.0.11-1mdk samba-common-2.2.6-1.0.rc2.2mdk samba-swat-2.2.6-1.0.rc2.2mdk prelude-report-0.4.2-7mdk perl-Authen-PAM-0.13-3mdk wondershaper-1.1a-1mdk freetype2-2.0.2-0.20001211.1mdk freetype-1.3.1-8mdk ypserv-2.4-1mdk setup-2.2.0-33mdk ncurses-5.2-27mdk ldconfig-2.2.4-25mdk sash-3.4-10mdk bash-2.05-16mdk filesystem-2.1.3-4mdk locales-de-2.3.1.2-8mdk libbzip2_1-1.0.2-4mdk info-install-4.0-22mdk gawk-3.1.0-3mdk diffutils-2.7-30mdk libpython2.2-2.2-9mdk msec-0.19-8mdk libglib1.2-1.2.10-4mdk libncurses5-5.2-23mdk libpcre0-3.9-3mdk libdb3.3-3.3.11-7mdk mktemp-1.5-10mdk libext2fs2-1.26-1mdk libintl1-0.10.40-4mdk psmisc-20.2-2mdk cracklib-2.7-15mdk procps-2.0.7-10mdk pwdb-0.61-6mdk SysVinit-2.83-3mdk initscripts-6.40.2-41mdk utempter-0.5.2-5mdk findutils-4.1.7-3mdk gzip-1.2.4a-9mdk mkinitrd-3.1.6-28mdk kernel-2.4.18.6mdk-1-1mdk dosfstools-2.8-2mdk mandrake-release-8.2-1mdk tmpwatch-2.8-1mdk console-tools-0.2.3-29mdk sysklogd-1.4.1-2mdk bdflush-1.5-19mdk etcskel-1.63-13mdk losetup-2.11n-4mdk rootfiles-8.2-1mdk time-1.7-18mdk vim-minimal-6.0-7mdk basesystem-8.2-1mdk libjpeg62-6b-21mdk db2-2.4.14-5mdk libaudiofile0-0.2.3-2mdk gcc-cpp-2.96-0.76mdk libORBit0-0.5.13-1mdk libesound0-0.2.23-1mdk eject-2.0.12-3mdk wget-1.8.1-2mdk libgmp3-3.1.1-6mdk oaf-0.6.8-3mdk libgimpprint1-4.2.0-22mdk groff-for-man-1.17.2-9mdk groff-1.17.2-9mdk detect-lst-0.9.72-3mdk libsasl7-1.5.27-3mdk libxml2-2.4.16-2mdk font-tools-0.1-3mdk libexpat1_95-1.95.2-2mdk lynx-2.8.5-0.7mdk libscrollkeeper0-0.2-1mdk isapnptools-1.26-4mdk libltdl3-1.4.2-3mdk libxslt1-1.0.12-1mdk playmidi-2.4-21mdk sox-12.17.1-3mdk
[expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?
Thank you very much for the speedy answer and help. Comments inline: On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:00 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 09:50, stefmit wrote: Hi, all, I am still struggling to identify the root cause of my wireless problems (for those of you having read my recent Netgear MA401 email, you know what I am talking about) - to recap: I am at the point of having to use two different DHCP servers (at home and at work), with two different scopes ... after having patched all sorts of scripts (network-functions), and forced non-default drivers (orinoco_cs, vs. wvlan_cs), I am still struggling with the fact that upon moving the laptop from one place (i.e. DHCP server) to the other, the system remembers the IP address from the other location, and it does not consider the new scope, neither getting the proper mask or default gateway. Sorry for what might be a silly question, but are you doing a service network reload or restart after moving into the new network, or just suspending at point A and resuming at point B? It is actually after shuttiing down and transportation of equipment from office -- home. Even after setting up a static address in the 192.168.w.v range, a proper netmask, broadcast and gateway (at home - which is how I am able to write this message), then - if I choose to change the settings of my card (via mcc) to dhcp, then reboot, I get back the 172.x.y.z that I had in the office days ago !!! Here is what I found - pretty disturbing (as I cannot get an understanding on why this happens): a directory /etc/dhcpc, where I found two files: dhcpcd-eth0.info, and dhcpcd-eth0.info.old, both containing my office address (172.x.y.z), the network it belongs to (172.x.y.0), but with the netmask of the home network (255.255.255.0) and the broadcast of the home network (192.168.w.255)!!! Now how is that possible?!? Thanks again for the help ... after sending this message I will start deleting the dhcpcd info files, and see what I get next ... and I will try to learn how those get created ... Stef Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?
On Monday 25 November 2002 05:18 am, stefmit wrote: snip Here is what I found - pretty disturbing (as I cannot get an understanding on why this happens): a directory /etc/dhcpc, where I found two files: dhcpcd-eth0.info, and dhcpcd-eth0.info.old, both containing my office address (172.x.y.z), the network it belongs to (172.x.y.0), but with the netmask of the home network (255.255.255.0) and the broadcast of the home network (192.168.w.255)!!! Now how is that possible?!? Thanks again for the help ... after sending this message I will start deleting the dhcpcd info files, and see what I get next ... and I will try to learn how those get created ... Stef And an immediate follow-up: I deleted the two dhcpcd-eth0.info(.old) files, while having a 192.168.w.t address, then did a service network reload, and the d*** 172.x.y.z address came back!!! And a new dhcpcd-eth0.info got created, again with the 172.x.y.z. address, its network, but the broadcast and gateway from the proper network at home (192.168.) ... can't believe this!!! Where the h*** is this 172. coming from!?! Stef Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] It won't power off
Have you ensured that you have apmd program installed? man apm man apmd Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:07:50 -0700, Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:24 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for power off options, as well as seeing what the current power save options are at. Check your ACPI options in your BIOS as well. You will find that XP can shutdown a great many systems that would not normally shutdown on their own, however linux can sometimes get hung up little bios glitches. Damn. You mean Billware is better at something than Torvaldsware is? Sigh. Well not better, just different. :) NT, 2000 and XP all do direct hardware access, ignoring CMOS. Or at least it has that ability. I don't think Linux does that. So that could explain the problem. Change your cmos settings just may solve it. I'd LOVE to change my CMOS settings. I have an Intel D845HV motherboard. If anyone is interested, the CMOS settings can be found here: ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/hv/A6513601.pdf If anyone can tell me what to change, then you are much smarter than I am - I do not see anything that would help... I'm going to muck with some of the halt settings as mentioned a few messages back in this thread. If anyone has had any experience with this board and this problem, I'd love to hear it. Thanks, -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mdk 9.0: Gnome Control Center and URL Handler; where, what RPM?
I know this a FAQ: I am using Evolution under KDE and what to change the default browser, i.e., the browser used to open an URL. I've found a number of answers to this on the net, and they all suggest that I change the ``Default URL handler'' using Gnome Control Center. However, when I run gnome-control-center, I cannot find any setting for Default URL handler. I thought that I might be missing a package so I installed all packages containing gnome and gtk. Still I do not have the URL handler option. So where is the setting, or what is the package that I need to be able to change the browser used by Evolution. Thanks in advance Peter -- http://www.linearity.org/turtle/contact.html ``When you have had all the experiences, met all the famous people, made some money, toured the world and got all the acclaim you still think--is that it? Some might be satisfied--but I wasn't'' -- G. Harrison Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking -pointers?!?
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 03:28, stefmit wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 05:18 am, stefmit wrote: snip Here is what I found - pretty disturbing (as I cannot get an understanding on why this happens): a directory /etc/dhcpc, where I found two files: dhcpcd-eth0.info, and dhcpcd-eth0.info.old, both containing my office address (172.x.y.z), the network it belongs to (172.x.y.0), but with the netmask of the home network (255.255.255.0) and the broadcast of the home network (192.168.w.255)!!! Now how is that possible?!? Thanks again for the help ... after sending this message I will start deleting the dhcpcd info files, and see what I get next ... and I will try to learn how those get created ... Stef And an immediate follow-up: I deleted the two dhcpcd-eth0.info(.old) files, while having a 192.168.w.t address, then did a service network reload, and the d*** 172.x.y.z address came back!!! And a new dhcpcd-eth0.info got created, again with the 172.x.y.z. address, its network, but the broadcast and gateway from the proper network at home (192.168.) ... can't believe this!!! Where the h*** is this 172. coming from!?! Stef Okay, now that's freaky. Faced with this, I'd go delete all interfaces from MCC, remove any .old or whatever, then make new config files by hand and write a quick script or two to swap them around. One last thing to try before all that is watching the dhcp session with ethereal or tcpdump, I still think it isn't communicating with the DHCP server. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?
On Monday 25 November 2002 12:14 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 03:28, stefmit wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 05:18 am, stefmit wrote: snip Here is what I found - pretty disturbing (as I cannot get an understanding on why this happens): a directory /etc/dhcpc, where I found two files: dhcpcd-eth0.info, and dhcpcd-eth0.info.old, both containing my office address (172.x.y.z), the network it belongs to (172.x.y.0), but with the netmask of the home network (255.255.255.0) and the broadcast of the home network (192.168.w.255)!!! Now how is that possible?!? Thanks again for the help ... after sending this message I will start deleting the dhcpcd info files, and see what I get next ... and I will try to learn how those get created ... Stef And an immediate follow-up: I deleted the two dhcpcd-eth0.info(.old) files, while having a 192.168.w.t address, then did a service network reload, and the d*** 172.x.y.z address came back!!! And a new dhcpcd-eth0.info got created, again with the 172.x.y.z. address, its network, but the broadcast and gateway from the proper network at home (192.168.) ... can't believe this!!! Where the h*** is this 172. coming from!?! Stef Okay, now that's freaky. Faced with this, I'd go delete all interfaces from MCC, remove any .old or whatever, then make new config files by hand and write a quick script or two to swap them around. One last thing to try before all that is watching the dhcp session with ethereal or tcpdump, I still think it isn't communicating with the DHCP server. I did exactly that, before writing the first email - I ran ethereal directly on the DHCP server at home - and the result was that the client was suggesting the 172.x.y.z address, and the server had nothing against it (it wasn't in use ... 'cause it was on another 'net, but this is something the DHCP server wouldn't have had anything against) ... I will probably go ahead and blow up all interfaces and even the networking stuff ... but I would still like to dig up some more into the whole mechanism ... I still have a couple of hours left of this Monday morning, until having to go back to work :). Thx again for help, Stef Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] gcc that can't build executables?
I've just hit an error for the first time ever with my 8.2 box. I've compiled a number of applications on this box and now all the sudden while trying to compile ajunta it tells me that it find gcc but that gcc can't compile executables and configure errors out. Running MDK 8.2 with all updates current. and at the moment at an extreme loss as to what the heck just happened. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0: Gnome Control Center and URL Handler; where,what RPM?
Under Advanced Prefered applications seems to have worked for me. (In gnome-control-center) James On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 11:52, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: I know this a FAQ: I am using Evolution under KDE and what to change the default browser, i.e., the browser used to open an URL. I've found a number of answers to this on the net, and they all suggest that I change the ``Default URL handler'' using Gnome Control Center. However, when I run gnome-control-center, I cannot find any setting for Default URL handler. I thought that I might be missing a package so I installed all packages containing gnome and gtk. Still I do not have the URL handler option. So where is the setting, or what is the package that I need to be able to change the browser used by Evolution. Thanks in advance Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
