RE: [newbie] Mandrake vs. Macmillan
A full Mandrake release will cost you between $40 and $60 more dollars but you will also get the Power Pack CD's which don't come with McMillan's release. And I will agree heartily with you, the Mandrake Manual, as you call it, is just a very basic setup guide. To get anything of value to help you grow with the McMillan release you have to access the three on-line books on the third CD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toby Sheets Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 2:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake vs. Macmillan About a week back I mentioned that I was dissatisfied with the Mandrake manual. Well, it turns out I have a Macmillan Mandrake release. Does this mean I don't have the real Mandrake manuals? Also, oddly enough (and disappointing) I can't register my Mandrake Linux with Mandrake - I have to reg with Macmillan. Should I return this package and go with a true Mandrake release for the setup support? Toby
Re: [newbie] Mandrake vs. Macmillan
Well, no one has hired me to write a manual yetg MacMillan is a Mandrake release... Mandrake Power Pack, which is what I have, contains 5 CDs and two manuals, one brochure sized and one softback. StarOffice Personal version 5.1 is included, also without manual. Many manuals are on the CDs. For example, Linux Network Administration is there in electronic form. None of the manuals I have read are really satisfactory to take a beginner and educate him or her to competence in Linux. For one thing, there are too many specialties and too much background to know which would be way beyond the scope of the manuals, because this is no small op system... There are usually 7-10 ways to do "things" to "stuff" for any given situation, all valid and a matter of style. In reality, the documentation is there to educate oneself. I think I have learned more about computers, compilers, op systems, socket programming, and such by working with linux than ever I did as a mathematics major and grad student. So, keep the linux you have or get the Mandrake Power Pack. Their support has recently been enhanced in North America, and who knows when the next release will be out? That one is likely to be a real killer system because they have set up "Cooker" as you will find on their web page at www.linux-mandrake.com Civileme Toby Sheets wrote: About a week back I mentioned that I was dissatisfied with the Mandrake manual. Well, it turns out I have a Macmillan Mandrake release. Does this mean I don't have the real Mandrake manuals? Also, oddly enough (and disappointing) I can't register my Mandrake Linux with Mandrake - I have to reg with Macmillan. Should I return this package and go with a true Mandrake release for the setup support? Toby -- Civileme Say: "Would you buy a car that stalled out every time you did a 37 degree left turn on a freeway on ramp and refused to start until you reinstalled the engine? "
Re: [[newbie] REAL Linux Question!!]
hevnsnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My girlfriend has been b*tching at me to put windows back on my machine because she cant figure out how to connect to the internet (no matter how many times I show her) I am wondering if there is a way to make an icon in KDE to: 1) Start the Kppp Dialer == If you go to the K menu - panel - add you can add the icon for kppp dialer to the panel. One click and it lauches. click connect and "voila". HTH, Mike 2) telnet to another specified machine Or Make Kppp start whenever outside traffic is requested. Now, I cant even figure out how to make an Icon to open a terminal window and pass the command "telnet other.machine.com" Can anyone help me? P.S. I am not willing to get another girlfriend, I like the one I got. =) -Bill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, hevnsnt wrote: My girlfriend has been b*tching at me to put windows back on my machine because she cant figure out how to connect to the internet (no matter how many times I show her) I am wondering if there is a way to make an icon in KDE to: 1) Start the Kppp Dialer 2) telnet to another specified machine Bill, Click on the big K button, panel, add application, Internet, kppp. This will add the kppp dialup to your tool bar at the bottom of the screen. To move it to your desktop simply drag it to you desk top. Use the copy option when asked. Rick "muleridr" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
Re: [newbie] Not getting anywhere!!
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Rick Fry wrote: Original Message Follows Rick Fry wrote: Give it up Dude, go back from whence you came. Rick "Mulerider" -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
[newbie] Re:Real Answer to REAL Linux Question!!! (Humor)
Ok - So you say your girlfriend is real bitchy about Linux. She wants to have MS Windoz installed just to make it easy? Right. I say get another girlfriend, keep Linux! Find a woman who has the same common interests as you. Show her this message. She can be replaced. I know its a bit painfull @ first. Sort of like getting off Windoz was ...butafter the dust clears...was it worth it? Sure. So why go back. Remember - take action now. You still have time. She is ONLY your girlfriend. Better that than an X-wife.
Re: [Re: [Re: [[newbie] In Search of an Email Client capable of Multiple Accounts]]]
I never got mahogany to work properly on Mandrake. Perhaps it would be something to include in cooker...? Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net 7 (Member of the Advalvas Group) www.net7.be - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 5:06 AM Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [[newbie] In Search of an Email Client capable of Multiple Accounts]]] Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mahogany is an x based e-mail program that supports multiple e-mail accounts within the same user account. It makes life so much simpler than all the logging out and logging in all the time. Traci == Does it read html?? Is it a free download? Why are all of these mail programs named after types of wood?? (OK, that one's silly ;o)) Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] OT:Trolls - Past, Present and Future]
Anyone catch this story?? Could have been Rick Fry's problemo, no?? about:http://cnnfn.com/1999/08/20/technology/wires/microsoft_wg/ Mike ;o) Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Printers
I have a HP officejet 500 hooked to my computer. I can get it to print by opening klpq and dragging the text icon of the text I want printed to the open klpq program. This is rather cumbersome. The new mandrake 6.0 has a printer icon on the desktop that I should be able to drag/drop the text icon to. However, it doesn't work for me. I checked out the properties and see the executable for this icon is lpr. The lpr command does not seem to work on my computer. Is there a way to correct this or a way around this ? Thanx, SA ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
RE: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!
Title: RE: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!! How can you make the os auto dial when it hears an ftp, http - request? Stephan Schutter Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/ -Original Message- From: Rick Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; hevnsnt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!! On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, hevnsnt wrote: My girlfriend has been b*tching at me to put windows back on my machine because she cant figure out how to connect to the internet (no matter how many times I show her) I am wondering if there is a way to make an icon in KDE to: 1) Start the Kppp Dialer 2) telnet to another specified machine Bill, Click on the big K button, panel, add application, Internet, kppp. This will add the kppp dialup to your tool bar at the bottom of the screen. To move it to your desktop simply drag it to you desk top. Use the copy option when asked. Rick muleridr Murphy -- I don't want to swim in a roped off sea. JB
RE: [Re: [newbie] OT:Trolls - Past, Present and Future]
I guess it is possible. Another reason to add to my arsenal of excuses to continue migrating all my work at home from Windows to Linux. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Scottaline Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] OT:Trolls - Past, Present and Future] Anyone catch this story?? Could have been Rick Fry's problemo, no?? about:http://cnnfn.com/1999/08/20/technology/wires/microsoft_wg/ Mike ;o) Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] pppd problem]
My ISP [and former employer] uses DHCP and all addresses are server assigned. Will it accept a quad 0 address? Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With Mandrake 6.0, I'm trying to connect to the Internet using this new 56K modem. It dials... it connects... and then it disconnects. It says something about pppd timing out. I've attached my PPP-logfile. Maybe it'll help. === Have you appropriately edited your /etc/reolve.conf? add search your isp nameserver dns# provided by your isp nameserver dns# provided by your isp That should do it 8^) Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] 10/100 Ethernet?
Err. DELL. OptiPlex? Eeek, they use a very Small [2" by 2"] NIC that looks like it fints into a striped down PCI slot or is it a new custom slot? On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Sean McMains wrote: I've got two machines running at 100, three running at 10. The hub is a 10/100 switch. The card is whatever came in this used Dell I got. Lemme see...it's a 3Com of some sort. Is that any help? Is there some place to look for Ethernet card settings? Sean Well, what is the rest of the network running at? Is the hub capable of 100? What about the other machines? Which card is it? Many have autoswitching capability but not all. Civileme Sean McMains wrote: Hi Folks, When I first fired up the machine, Linux detected the Ethernet card and used it fine. The card was sold to me as a 10/100BT, but Linux is only using it as a 10. Is there some setting I should fiddle with, or was I misled? Thanks in advance for any info! Sean -- Rejoice, the wait for Windows 2000 is over! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] failing to unmount
Goto www.linux-mandrake.com and download the new initscripts and kernel. Install them. Open up lilo.conf in a text editor of some sort and change the kernel version ( i.e. 2.2.2.9 to 2.2.2.27 or something like that.) Save the file and close the editor. From a terminal window run lilo. Reboot the system and all should be well. HELP!!! my linux system is failing to unmount the file system. How can I have the system unmount correctly??? Help!!! Thanks
[newbie] How to mount tape-drive?
Hello and thanks for reading this mail. I'm a newbie and have problems finding my Colorado 250MB tape drive. It's a floppy connected drive. I don't know what to do to get Mandrake 6.0 find it. I've used insmod zftape and ftape, but then I'm stuck. Kdat says there is no tape in the drive? What should i do??? thanks in advance for your help! regards Ole Lundsgaard __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] moving /home
"David M. Kufta" wrote: I have currently my /home directory under / partition on /dev/hda3. I have added another disk drive to my system and would like to move all the current /home to that new disc and mount it under /home at boot mount /dev/newdrive /mnt/home cp -a /home/* /mnt/home cd /home rm -r * pico /etc/fstab --add a line to mount /dev/newdrive on /home umount /dev/newdrive mount /dev/newdrive -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [Re: [newbie] OT:Trolls - Past, Present and Future]
As you mentioned, it is OT. There are even worse problems on the box, though. Remember, those of us who migrated, how you were asked if you wanted the dialer to remember your password? Those of you already canny about security said "No" and Windows stored it (unencrypted) anyway, but simply didn't link to it. But we're on Linux here and it takes quite something to get through the security even when passwords are known. The "You crack it, you keep it." contest LinuxPPC ran included as starting information the root password for their machine. No one broke it, and the prize is unclaimed. Civileme Michael Scottaline wrote: Anyone catch this story?? Could have been Rick Fry's problemo, no?? about:http://cnnfn.com/1999/08/20/technology/wires/microsoft_wg/ Mike ;o) Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Civileme Say: "He who buys Pentium III had lots of bucks"
Re: [Re: [[newbie] pppd problem]]
"Rick Fry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ISP [and former employer] uses DHCP and all addresses are server assigned. Will it accept a quad 0 address? == This is different Rick. Yes your ISP will dynamically assing YOU an IP address. But you still need their DNS#'s in your /etc/resolv.conf Contact your former employer for the right info. It will NOT be 0.0.0.0. That's YOUR IP address until they dynamically assign one to you. Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Mandrake 6
Hi eveyone. I just picked up a copy of Mandrake 6 on CD Rom on front of magazine whilst I was on holiday in France ( I live in England). Managed, eventually, to install it on my back-up computer - the only instructions I had were in French. I'm 64 and have only been computing for about 7 years so my learning curve has to be steep. Had some fun setting up KDE but it's now functioning. It has Netscape 4.6 installed but everytime I try to run it the HD grinds away and nothing much else happens. I've seen a suggestion that I need 64 meg ram to run effectively. Can anyone confirm this and also suggest any good literature. John the Nadger A nadger a day keeps the gaunties away http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] 10/100 Ethernet?
Thinking of building a Beowulf are we?g OK your 100 machines are likely to talk to each other at 100, but only at 10 to the 10s. If all your equipment were 100, then it would be indicative of a problem to see 100s running at 10. 3Com are usually solid cards. My main problem with them has been "short fingers." Apparently they have discovered how to use less gold on the contacts, by making them just slightly shorter, or so my calipers say. This leads to non-recognition and/or intermittents unless your case is NOT warped and the tech assembling the machine took a little extra care seating the cards. The 3Com Drivers are very mature and unlikely to be the source of problems. The Dell case is to others what a tank is to automobiles, so case warpage is unlikely to be a problem. Ummm, might try reseating the card. You may see it on autodetect as a 3C590 or 3C905 ... those are both 10/100 types. Both those are PCI types If it is an ISA card, well You have an issue with the salesman. Civileme Sean McMains wrote: I've got two machines running at 100, three running at 10. The hub is a 10/100 switch. The card is whatever came in this used Dell I got. Lemme see...it's a 3Com of some sort. Is that any help? Is there some place to look for Ethernet card settings? Sean Well, what is the rest of the network running at? Is the hub capable of 100? What about the other machines? Which card is it? Many have autoswitching capability but not all. Civileme Sean McMains wrote: Hi Folks, When I first fired up the machine, Linux detected the Ethernet card and used it fine. The card was sold to me as a 10/100BT, but Linux is only using it as a 10. Is there some setting I should fiddle with, or was I misled? Thanks in advance for any info! Sean -- Rejoice, the wait for Windows 2000 is over! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/ -- Civileme Say: "He who buys Pentium III had lots of bucks"
Re: [Re: [newbie] OT:Trolls - Past, Present and Future]
TeamWave Workplace is as good or better, without the security problems. Check about NetMeeting at www.insecure.org. Get someone to click on your Info, take over his computer! Also, Teaser/Firecat works and may someday replace ICQ and other messengers because it is a protocol negotiator, eventually choosing the best protocol to connect computers for the demands(text, phone, video feed, etc.). You can find it at www.freshmeat.net There are very few Teaser servers running as yet, though. Civileme Stephan Schutter wrote: How do you do Net meeting or equivalent in LINUX? Is there such a thing? Stephan Schutter Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/ -Original Message- From: Caymen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 9:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] OT:Trolls - Past, Present and Future] All I want to know is why doesnt Microsoft keep thier hands out of stuff that doesnt belong to them? That makes me mad! Hello?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?, Bill Gates, KEEP YOUR GRUBBY HANDS OUT OF EVERYTHING THAT DOESNT SAY MICROSOFT!! Another reason why when I get my ISP working through LINUX I will be doing most everything in LINUX and forgetting about MS. Remember, Microsoft software is good as long as you dont have to pay money for it, and sometimes that is even debatable. Tom As soon as I learn more about LINUX, it is going to go on my computer. Michael Scottaline wrote: Anyone catch this story?? Could have been Rick Fry's problemo, no?? about:http://cnnfn.com/1999/08/20/technology/wires/microsoft_wg/ Mike ;o) Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Civileme Say: "He who buys Pentium III had lots of bucks"
[newbie] kernal modules - video4linux - FM tuner - dev/radio
OK I have looked under every rock I can think off, I can't get my Cadet FM tuner card to work. Russel Kroll has a web page at: http://linux.blackhawke.net/cadet.html He says that he has done a v4l driver. So how do I get it to go? I looked at the official v4l homepage at: http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml That site has the same API document that is in the docs that Mandrake installed on my hard drive from the CD-ROM (file:/usr/doc/ kernel-doc-2.2.9/video4linux/API.html). It will be need if I ever get the card going and I want to do some programming but it has little to do with setting up the card. I found the videodev.o and radio-cadet.o in the /lib/modules/... branch of my hard drive. So the good people at Linux-Mandrake have compiled it for me. I ran: /sbin/modprobe videodev.o /sbin/modprobe radio-cadet.o when I /sbin/lsmod they seem to be loaded and working. The problem is I still don't have a /dev/radio so I can't get Ktuner to work. --- The question at last! --- How do I create a char device with a minor range between 64-127 (major range unknown) as /dev/radio that is associated with the v4l driver radio-cadet? --- Why does all of the v4l web sites leave this step out? I guess they all assume that you are rolling your own with bttv, a makefile, and a TV tuner card.I am almost there I just need a /dev/radio entry. How do you do that? PBen P.S. Would this have worked better if I had the card back when I installed Mandrake or would it still failed? Two more good sites are: http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ Bookmark this site if you ever want to do anything with Linux sound: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Manny Styles wrote: - Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems Definitely try sndconfig again. Your sound card has not been properly recognized/installed/drivered, unless you have a cracked speakerg. Civileme Manny Styles wrote: I have recently installed RealPlayer G2, but when I play a RealMedia file (on my harddrive), garbled sound. I also get the same audio with MP2 and 3 files Also, RealMedia files don't automatically open in G2. Any assistance would be helpful in both areas. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- My sound configuration is fine as far as I can tell. Audio CD's and wav files play clearly, it's just the .rm, .ram, .mp2, and .mp3 formats that are garbled to the point of incomprehension. What card? check if /dev/dsp2 exists I forget the cards but some have one and give much better sound for mp3 Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [Re: [[newbie] pppd problem]]
Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you appropriately edited your /etc/reolve.conf? I assume you mean /etc/resolve.conf === Yes, of course, but with out the "e" /etc/resolv.conf = Nope. I don't recall touching it. add search your isp By your isp what do you mean? vetec.com? == Yes, precisely that!! = nameserver dns# provided by your isp nameserver dns# provided by your isp I have two DNS IP addresses handy. == Great!! Put them both in exactly as prescribed. Should do the trick ;o) Mike == Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ: 35256413 ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] kxicq
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, alann wrote: DJ wrote: Hello Anyone have a url/ftp for a kxicq rpm? Try http://rufus.w3.org Alan I'd use this one, it tracks several distributions, their contrib areas, and the freshmeat rpms. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Proxy setup under Linux-Mandrake. How?
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO-3.html If you want to be REALLY fancy, try this But first try the above to test whether you are connected properly. http://www.vu.union.edu/~pants/ Now proxy server is a nice buzzword, but most people don't realize there are alternatives to SQUID. One is the ancient IP masquerade, which allows better connectivity in some cases. That is what IPCHAINS is about. I make the following assumptions: 1. Your Windows boxes and your linux box have ethernet interfaces. 2. All your boxes are either connected by properly terminated daisy-chain of Coax cable and BNC T-connectors or by 8 wire twisted pair cable through RJ-45 connectors plugged into a hub. 3. You have an addressing scheme that uses one of the sets of IP numbers reserved for LANs for your TCP/IP connections. For Class A, it's 10.x.y.z with a netmask of 255.0.0.0, for class C it is 256 networks back to back (192.168.n.x) with netmasks of 255.255.255.0 (or use it all as one with 192.168.x.y and a netmaskof 255.255.0.0) Someone else on the list is sure to remember what the numbers are for a B network reserved for LANs. OK, pick addresses on the SAME network )this is an interplay of netmask and addressing scheme, each bit in the netmask, looked at as a 32-bit binary number, which is a 1, says that if the addresses are different at that position, then the addresses are on DIFFERENT networks. an address of 10.0.0.1 and 10.1.0.1 are on the same network if the netmask is the "standard" 255.0.0.0 for class A networks, which contain up to 16777214 interfaces/hosts, but they are on Different networks if the netmask is 255.255.anything.anything( Lets assume, to avoid a course in IP addressing schemes, 4. Addresses are 10.0.0.1 for the ethernet interface on the linux box, and are assigned to the windows boxes on their startup. (Yeeks, that means you make sure you load dhcpd and use the System V init to call it in for runlevels 3 and 5) 5. On the windows boxes, the users have right-clicked Network Neighborhood, selected TCP/IP, and set automatic address assignment for IP addresses. ALSO, Gateway tab has been set to 10.0.0.1 WINS resolution has been disabled NETBEUI and such have been trashed. DNS has been Enabled and host name set to the host/domain of the Linux box Your ISP's DNS Server numbers have been entered The user has run the Internet Connection Wizard and has answered that he will connect using his LAN [Optional but important] The network administrator has searched the internet and downloaded ie-off.exe to all win98 boxes, and some other form of browser has been loaded. MSIE is REALLY asking to be cracked and smashed. On the 95 boxes, the users have agreed to not click any icons that look like planet Earth. [Also optional but definitely a goal for better operation] The windows users have floppies that boot DOS and contain FDISK, and they have Venus installation CDs and their machines are set to boot from CD and VBG 6. On the linux box, you have a connection to the internet which may be any of the standard methods of connection. The only difference in them is that they have different names and some might have the same IP address all the time. For example ISDN and DSL could have Static IPs for the internet or they may have dynamically assigned ones. A dial-up is almost always dynamically assigned. DSL would be an eth type connection, usually, ISDN you have a K desktop setup for, which will work. Your network settings on the linux box are very important. Interfaces--lo127.0.0.1 eth010.0.0.1 ppp0 #if you use ISDN or DSL this will be #different Their ATBOOTs should be "Yes" for the first two, and optionally yes for the third, especially if the third is to be a steady internet connection. Routing tick the Network Packet Forwarding Gateway MUST be blank unless you have a static IP supplied by your ISP Default Gateway Device: ppp0 if you are using a modem, or whatever if you are using the ethernet or ISDN 7. Now, finally raise an xterm and type those three lines from the first URL I showed you. This will suffice for testing purposes. 8. You can close some ports with IPCHAINS, and deny output to some known annoyances like doubleclick.net by writing IPCHAINS rules It can do some packet filtering, but isn't quite the firewall some of the commercial firewalls are. It was confusing to me until recently, since I was used to ipfwadm and there were enough changes that IPCHAINS won an award at Linuxworld Expo this year. 9. If you want a proxy, you can load Squid and make sure your winboxes connect to www at its input port, or you can go to the second site and download their stuff. The mandrake Squid
Re: [newbie] In search of email client capable of filtering...
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, The Postman wrote: I am VERY used to Eudora Pro 4.0 for Windows. It is very smooth at configuring filters for incoming stuff. I can set up a filter to have various functions occur based on the content of a particular section on the headers or the body of the email. I have email being sent to various folders based on header and body content. Is there a native Linux email program that can match or beat this? Postman Migrating to Linux-Mandrake pine + procmail, or anything + procmail emacs + Gnus and i thought Kmail did also -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] UNABLE TO CONFIG CD-ROM
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Sebastian L C Goh wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to learn about Linux and got myself a copy of Mandrake Linux 6.0. Unfortunately, I don't have the right CD-ROM for it. I have a ACER ATAPI 40X CD-ROM and when installing, it is not in the list. It should be detected as an IDE drive, all those others are for non ide non scsi drives requireing a custom driver. Does the bios identtify the drive at boot up? no? find out what ide chain it's on my guess would be it's connected to an isa/pnp type sound card with onboard controller. Can anyone advise how to configure the CD-ROM. I have been in Windows all the time and feel crippled and naked without its ease of setup. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [[newbie] pppd problem]
These addresses are for DNS )Domain Name Servers(. For your ISP, Rick, they are 209.165.6.251shang-ti.lightspeed.net 209.165.57.12tlaloc.lightspeed.net And AFAIK, he does need real numbers there, not even a *.*.*.* And it is part of Kppp's setup dialog box to do the edit on /etc/resolve.conf transparent to the user. Civileme Rick Fry wrote: My ISP [and former employer] uses DHCP and all addresses are server assigned. Will it accept a quad 0 address? Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With Mandrake 6.0, I'm trying to connect to the Internet using this new 56K modem. It dials... it connects... and then it disconnects. It says something about pppd timing out. I've attached my PPP-logfile. Maybe it'll help. === Have you appropriately edited your /etc/reolve.conf? add search your isp nameserver dns# provided by your isp nameserver dns# provided by your isp That should do it 8^) Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Civileme Say: "He who buys Pentium III had lots of bucks"
Re: [newbie] Proxy setup under Linux-Mandrake. How?
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, The Postman wrote: How can I set up my Linux box to be a proxy server for my Windows machines? Is there third party software for this or does Linux-Mandrake 6.0 already come with the tools under the hood? Please point me to a FAQ on this or answer what you can. Postman Migrating from Windows If you want full network support read the Masqurade howto, available on your CD, on your HD in /usr/doc/HOWTO/, or on any LDP mirror. If you just want http/ftp support look into squid. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Re:Real Answer to REAL Linux Question!!! (Humor)
Rick Murphy wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Fred wrote: Ok - So you say your girlfriend is real bitchy about Linux. She wants to have MS Windoz installed just to make it easy? Right. I say get another girlfriend, keep Linux! Find a woman who has the same common interests as you. Show her this message. She can be replaced. I know its a bit painfull @ first. Sort of like getting off Windoz was ...butafter the dust clears...was it worth it? Sure. So why go back. Remember - take action now. You still have time. She is ONLY your girlfriend. Better that than an X-wife. Hey this it great advise, listen to what the man is telling you. I wish someone had given me this advise earlier. It would have saved me so much pain. Or at least find a girlfriend who will nod her head politely and leave the room whenever you start talking about Linux. I turned mine into a wife! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!
Stephan Schutter wrote: How can you make the os auto dial when it hears an ftp, http - request? Stephan Schutter On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, hevnsnt wrote: My girlfriend has been b*tching at me to put windows back on my machine because she cant figure out how to connect to the internet (no matter how many times I show her) I am wondering if there is a way to make an icon in KDE to: 1) Start the Kppp Dialer 2) telnet to another specified machine Click on the big K button, panel, add application, Internet, kppp. This will add the kppp dialup to your tool bar at the bottom of the screen. To move it to your desktop simply drag it to you desk top. Use the copy option when asked. Diald will do the dialup when there's traffic. And turn off HTML posting. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Getting rid of PAM
Why would you want to uninstall PAM? As I understand it PAM is necessary for password authentication on a Linux system. I may be wrong on this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Justin Fisher Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Getting rid of PAM is there any good way to uninstall PAM from mandrake 6.0? Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] pppd problem
Andy Goth wrote: Oops. I forgot to mention something. Aug 20 20:06:02 localhost pppd[670]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0 Aug 20 20:06:02 localhost pppd[670]: Using interface ppp0 Aug 20 20:06:02 localhost pppd[670]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Aug 20 20:06:32 localhost pppd[670]: Terminating on signal 15. Aug 20 20:06:38 localhost pppd[670]: Connection terminated. Aug 20 20:06:38 localhost pppd[670]: Connect time 0.6 minutes. Aug 20 20:06:38 localhost pppd[670]: Exit. Notice the 30-second lag between the third and fourth line. After the connection (ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0), it tries to start pppd (or something like that). After 30 seconds, it gives up (Terminating on signal 15.). Sounds like maybe the password or username are incorrect? Looks like a legitimate timeout to me. Try adding "kdebug 4" to /etc/ppp/options and retrying the connection. That should spit a bunch of messages to the system logs that we can use to troubleshoot this. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Re: [newbie] OT:Trolls - Past, Present and Future]
Stephan Schutter wrote: How do you do Net meeting or equivalent in LINUX? Is there such a thing? Stephan Schutter Turn off the HTML. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Not getting anywhere
Good Bye.. someone will miss YOU - Original Message - From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:50 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! It's totally FUCKING USELESS Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad losers are just wasting your lives. -- -- Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [Re: [newbie] OT:Trolls - Past, Present and Future]
Civileme wrote: As you mentioned, it is OT. There are even worse problems on the box, though. Remember, those of us who migrated, how you were asked if you wanted the dialer to remember your password? Those of you already canny about security said "No" and Windows stored it (unencrypted) anyway, but simply didn't link to it. But we're on Linux here and it takes quite something to get through the security even when passwords are known. The "You crack it, you keep it." contest LinuxPPC ran included as starting information the root password for their machine. No one broke it, and the prize is unclaimed. That machine was also run by an extremely security conscious system administrator. Anyone want to proffer up their machine for the beating that one took? You have to be damn sure of your skills in securing a machine (and the attached network) to taunt the world like that. Thanks but no thanks... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Can I connect Linux to the internet Using????
Yes. This question is somewhat like, "Is water wet?" If you count the percentage of servers running various forms of software, you will discover that linux owns the internet, apache owns the web, and opensource software exists on more than one server at msn.com. DSL, ISDN, modems, cables, dishes, satellite earth stations with full uplink, frame relays, DS3, OC3, if it is offered, linux does it. Now the anal retentives with vitamin B deficiencies who manage ISPs may say they "don't support" it, but that means that the case is what it usually is for linux; commercial support is zero or by a dial-up to one of the few 800linux places with credit card in hand or by an email list with friendly people. and, of course, by you, yourself, as you gain literacy. Civileme -- Civileme Say: "Buy a HOBGOBLIN Computer. No one promises to be faster or have more bells, whistles, and flashing lights!"
Re: [newbie] Proxy setup under Linux-Mandrake. How?
Civileme wrote: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO-3.html If you want to be REALLY fancy, try this But first try the above to test whether you are connected properly. http://www.vu.union.edu/~pants/ Now proxy server is a nice buzzword, but most people don't realize there are alternatives to SQUID. One is the ancient IP masquerade, which allows better connectivity in some cases. That is what IPCHAINS is about. The advantage to Squid is that a relatively small Internet connection looks much bigger to the clients. Caching of incoming content, Squid's main purpose, allows me to easily server around 30 machines over an 128k ISDN connection to the 'net. Put Junkbuster in front of it to block inappropriate sites and you've got yourself a nice easy corporate solution for controlled web browsing. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RE: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!]
Michael Scottaline wrote: Stephan Schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you make the os auto dial when it hears an ftp, http - request? Stephan Schutter == Good question. Hope you (we) get an answer. I know in "that other os" IE and Outlook Express can be configured easily to autodial. My guess is that experienced linux gurus write their own script for such a function. Mike Check Freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net) for an application called diald. It'll do what you want. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] pppd problem
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Andy Goth wrote:
With Mandrake 6.0, I'm trying to connect to the Internet using this new
56K modem. It dials... it connects... and then it disconnects.
It says something about pppd timing out.
I've attached my PPP-logfile. Maybe it'll help.
Aug 20 20:06:02 localhost pppd[670]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
Aug 20 20:06:02 localhost pppd[670]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 20 20:06:02 localhost pppd[670]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0
Aug 20 20:06:32 localhost pppd[670]: Terminating on signal 15.
Aug 20 20:06:38 localhost pppd[670]: Connection terminated.
Aug 20 20:06:38 localhost pppd[670]: Connect time 0.6 minutes.
Aug 20 20:06:38 localhost pppd[670]: Exit.
Add 'debug' to your kppp options and it'll give us more information...
:)
I didn't get ANYTHING until kppp added debug to pppd's options.
Maybe you're talking about something else... Where do I add kppp
options? I'm in Windows (shudder) now since that's the only way I can
read my email. For now. I hope that gets remedied soon!
edit /etc/ppp/options, add a new line with debug on it.
By the way, someone posted a link to Partition Magic 4 recently. I
downloaded it and sent it to a friend (Brent). He says that it must be
the full version (on the grounds that it's much more full-featured than
what he used to have). Maybe it is... maybe it isn't. Anyway, it
supports resizing. That's nice and everything, but I don't have the
help file ("PMHELP.DAT"). Does anyone feel like emailing me a copy?
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Re: [RE: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!]
Well, I have a script to turn ppp0 OFF 50 minutes of every hour when I am not using itg. Yes, the "other" system lets application programs hook into the operating system core to make demands like that. I can well imagine it is possible for a daemon to be created to initiate ppp0 at need, but it is something I never saw a need for, so I don't know if one exists. The principle of applications starting/stopping services belongs to a very insecure one-person-per-computer model. Obviously, if ICQ can initiate an internet connection, then someone with an overflow program can reach through ICQ to shut down your connection (this exploit actually exists and you can guess which op systems it works for). Civileme Michael Scottaline wrote: Stephan Schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you make the os auto dial when it hears an ftp, http - request? Stephan Schutter == Good question. Hope you (we) get an answer. I know in "that other os" IE and Outlook Express can be configured easily to autodial. My guess is that experienced linux gurus write their own script for such a function. Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Civileme Say: "He who buys Pentium III had lots of bucks"
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of PAM
Justin Fisher wrote: is there any good way to uninstall PAM from mandrake 6.0? Not without recompiling every application that requires authentication. PAM is a pretty integral part of the system. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL
DSL is just a digital subscriber line. It uses a modem on ONE pair of wires to the telephone office and a digital signal. The modem normally operates in one of two ways, bridging between your LAN and the ISP's connection, or routing. What you need to know is that it connects to ethernet. Your gateway can be one computer and masquerade everyone to the internet through it or it can be the DSL modem connected to a hub (and every one of your computers plugged to the hub will need a REAL internet number) You also need to live within 2-3 miles of the nearest telephone substation or it won't work at all, Even within that distance, the loop has to be tested for attenuation and noise. Oddly enough, within that distance, DSL/ADSL "loop certifies" more often than ISDN service. DSL/ADSL is usually sold by the telco as a service. You still need an ISP who will connect you to the internet. MAXIMUM available speeds are 1Megabit/s Up and 7 Megabit/s Down. Usually the speeds sold are quite a lot slower, The reason for speeds different in two directions? Most subscribers DL far more than they upload. The "A" in ADSL is for "Asymmetric". DSL is young technology. It is usually low-priority for telco service, so your line is likely to remain broken longer than if you were subscribing to ISDN, if ever it breaks. As far as setup. that is VERY dependent on your choice of ISP. Some support only bridging mode, others support only routing. Some hardware will also do only one or the other, and hardware usually has tro match on both ends. My Cisco 675 will NOT work with what OTZ Telephone Cooperative has here even though they are only one Beta connection at present, they are already committee to equipment that does only routing mode. Even though the Cisco will do both, they say it will not work with their equipment. I haven't seen any RFCs on DSL, so I don't know if standards exists or if it's a series of proprietary wars. After a cursory search of the web, looks like it is a technology originally intended for video transmission, and I am uncertain whether one or several standards for the signal modulation exist. Anyway, from your software's point of view, DSL is an ethernet connection to the internet )or to an intranet, depending on application( , and the setup of the modem you do over the phone with your network support people (from the ISP or the intranet you are connecting to). There's your primer | Hope it helps. Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a hell of a time to get a DSL tut that is understandable. Can someone please direct me to a good place to show how to set up DSL in Linux? thanks jerrud -- Civileme Say: "Buy a HOBGOBLIN computer! No one promises to be faster or to have more bells, whistles and lights than we do. Included at NO extra charge: Sledge for reshaping case after shipping, spare Leds, 3 oz commercial grade silicon for repairs to ICs (with easy-to-follow instructions) and our OWN OS!"
Re: [newbie] PIII performance
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote: Any idea where to get that card? AMD's are sooo much cheaper (usually). Nope...my SMP machine is using dual P-Pro 200's... :-) (with 192 mb RAM! G) John
Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL
Works Great... simpler to set up then a modem - Original Message - Is this an existing marriage yet? I was planning on getting a DSL line in before I dove into this Linux thing. TS
Re: [newbie] Networking
hi Civilme, Being a newbie I don't understand fully what you have said here. Where do I define the gateway device as ppp0 and my NIC already has a IP of 192.168.10.10 do I change this to 10.0.0.1 Thanks Stephan - Original Message - From: Civileme To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Networking If I understand you correctly, you have a P90 linux box and it has a modem to an ISP while you have Ethernet connections between the computers. Well, define your gateway device as ppp0, and leave gateway address blank No real reason to set up dhcp with so few machines. Make your Linux box look at eth0 as 10.0.0.1 On your windows box Right Click Network Neighborhood Click TCP/IP and select "properties" Give it the IP address 10.0.0.2 Tell it the gateway is 10.0.0.1 Disable WINS reolution Type in the IPs of the DNS servers your ISP gave you after you ENABLE DNS and put in the hostname of your linux box. If your ISP didn't give you any, run a traceroute to, say, 195.186.30.244 and pick stuff six or seven hops from you, likely to be near the internet backbone and put THOSEIP numbers in your DNS list. Then take a browse to http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 And those instructions should make everything work, provided you have set up Kppp properly for your modem If you want to get fancy... Make this file, or one similar to it #!/bin/sh ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and Save it in the appropriate /etc/rc.d/ directory or Save it to your home directory, chmod to make it executable and drag it to the Autostart folder on the K desktop. After all of that, your windows machine should be able to access the internet with little to no protection from all the exploits out there. Since you have the URL to look at ipchains, read on and discover how to protect it better and maybe eliminate some of the annoyances from imgis.com and doubleclick.net from that important resource. Good luck Civileme Paul Hendrick wrote: Hello, Does anyone know how I culd solve this problem, or provide the URL with a guide, or a better solution? "I've just picked up a New Machine and a Ethernet Hub (100Mb/sec) Netgear FE-104 as well as two PCI Network cards with it (Both Netgear 100 Mb/sec) and wanted to turn my P90 into pure Linux box to use as a Dialup machine and a Host for my MUD's Development site so I code offline.. The other machine is Win(ahem)dows as It's more or less a game's machiine.. What I'm having trouble with is the actual networking to get TCP/IP connection outside from the Windows machine.. I've been told to use Squid but other then that nothing.. And Squid being a bitch to work with.. Was wondering if you knew of a better way or a Guide for SQUID" Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]-- Rejoice, the wait for Windows 2000 is over! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL
They guy is coming this wendsday, and I would like to know the big secret: Do you just set the ethernet card up and whala?, or is it more technical? (Civilme, I just asked for a web page, not a book. Thanks anyways :) - Original Message - Works Great... simpler to set up then a modem
[newbie] Error setting up Ensoniq sound card.
Hello, I am running Mandrake 6.0. Trying to set up an Ensoniq soundcard mdl ES1371. Using sndconfig to set up. After choosing sound card it chokes trying to play sample and I get error message below: Sox: Sun/NeXt/Dec Header does'nt start with magic word. Try the '.ul' file type with '-t ul -r 8000 filename' Below is copy of etc/conf.modules: options adlib_card io=0x388 options trix io=0x530 irq=11 dma=0,1 mpu_io=0x300 mpu_irq=7 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5 synthirq=-1 synthio=-1 options msnd_classic io=0x220 irq=11 mem=0xb alias sound es1371 Any advice appreciated. Thanks dale
Re: [newbie] problem using sound with gnome
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Rick Murphy wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, you wrote: Yea, it was me. GMIX seems to be EVIL.. Don't use it. Use KMIX. Seems as soon as you move a fader on GMIX, it pops and the sound dissapears. I wrote Gmone a bug report about it. Alan H, I can't seem to get sound out on the gnome side at all. Everything is great with KDE and not a peep with gnome. I can turn the Kmix (or the Gmix for that matter) sound up and the speakers come up. Just no sound. make sure esd starts Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL
Thats pretty much how I did it. Or for the matter Linux did it. Just choose DHCP and it flies.. BTW The trueput is better on my Linux system then Win98 or OS/2 ...daryl They guy is coming this wendsday, and I would like to know the big secret: Do you just set the ethernet card up and whala?, or is it more technical? (Civilme, I just asked for a web page, not a book. Thanks anyways :) - Original Message - Works Great... simpler to set up then a modem
Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL
all it is is a nic card setup.. ok ok i lied.. you have to put the card in your machine too.. i saved 150$ doing it myself... it is only a nic card.. same as cable. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL They guy is coming this wendsday, and I would like to know the big secret: Do you just set the ethernet card up and whala?, or is it more technical? (Civilme, I just asked for a web page, not a book. Thanks anyways :) - Original Message - Works Great... simpler to set up then a modem
Re: [Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems]
Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where exactly dose one get a copy of Realplayer that actually works? I have failed to find one. I downloaded version 5.0 made for RedHat 5.2 in RPM format (only option I had to pick from). The program doesn't even take off running. I can't get it to run. I am seeing a lot of hype out there about a version 6.0 copy in it's beta stages. I'd take that if I could find it. Postman. I've d/l the G2 player, but when I try to install it I get a message that says "can't execute". Any suggestions? It seemed to d/l w/o any problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Error setting up Ensoniq sound card.
Hello, I am running Mandrake 6.0. Trying to set up an Ensoniq soundcard mdl ES1371. Using sndconfig to set up. After choosing sound card it chokes trying to play sample and I get error message below: Sox: Sun/NeXt/Dec Header does'nt start with magic word. Try the '.ul' file type with '-t ul -r 8000 filename' Try going to Mandrake Upgrades and dload the SOX RPM... Alan
Re: [newbie] Getting rid of PAM
Civileme wrote: LILO: linux 2 send me the smoking remains of your machine after you use this on the internet a while. Did you actually read and understand the question being asked below? Your answer has NOTHING to do with PAM. Runlevel 2 will NOT cause all of your programs which require authentication information to suddenly forgo the checks specified in /etc/pam.d, nor will it get you any closer to a PAM-free machine. Please, there's enough disinformation being spread around this list about Linux problem solving. Don't add to it with useless and incorrect advice. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Justin Fisher Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Getting rid of PAM is there any good way to uninstall PAM from mandrake 6.0? Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Civileme Say: "Buy a HOBGOBLIN computer! No one promises to be faster or to have more bells, whistles and lights than we do. Included at NO extra charge: Sledge for reshaping case after shipping, spare Leds, 3 oz commercial grade silicon for repairs to ICs (with easy-to-follow instructions) and our OWN OS!" -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Re:Real Answer to REAL Linux Question!!! (Humor)
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Rick Murphy wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Fred wrote: Ok - So you say your girlfriend is real bitchy about Linux. She wants to have MS Windoz installed just to make it easy? Right. I say get another girlfriend, keep Linux! Find a woman who has the same common interests as you. Show her this message. She can be replaced. I know its a bit painfull @ first. Sort of like getting off Windoz was ...butafter the dust clears...was it worth it? Sure. So why go back. Remember - take action now. You still have time. She is ONLY your girlfriend. Better that than an X-wife. Hey this it great advise, listen to what the man is telling you. I wish someone had given me this advise earlier. It would have saved me so much pain. Or at least find a girlfriend who will nod her head politely and leave the room whenever you start talking about Linux. I turned mine into a wife! Umm, ;) the PC or the girlfiend? Hahahaha! I should have been a bit more specific, shouldn't I?! The girlfriend, actually. She's getting pretty good and being a Linux end user. And she's been well trained to tell me EXACTLY what the error messages said when whining "Fix this, it doesn't work!" -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL
Civileme wrote: DSL is just a digital subscriber line. It uses a modem on ONE pair of wires to the telephone office and a digital signal. The modem normally operates in one of two ways, bridging between your LAN and the ISP's connection, or routing. What you need to know is that it connects to ethernet. Your gateway can be one computer and masquerade everyone to the internet through it or it can be the DSL modem connected to a hub (and every one of your computers plugged to the hub will need a REAL internet number) You also need to live within 2-3 miles of the nearest telephone substation or it won't work at all, Even within that distance, the loop has to be tested for attenuation and noise. Oddly enough, within that distance, DSL/ADSL "loop certifies" more often than ISDN service. DSL/ADSL is usually sold by the telco as a service. You still need an ISP who will connect you to the internet. MAXIMUM available speeds are 1Megabit/s Up and 7 Megabit/s Down. Usually the speeds sold are quite a lot slower, The reason for speeds different in two directions? Most subscribers DL far more than they upload. The "A" in ADSL is for "Asymmetric". DSL is young technology. It is usually low-priority for telco service, so your line is likely to remain broken longer than if you were subscribing to ISDN, if ever it breaks. As far as setup. that is VERY dependent on your choice of ISP. Some support only bridging mode, others support only routing. Some hardware will also do only one or the other, and hardware usually has tro match on both ends. My Cisco 675 will NOT work with what OTZ Telephone Cooperative has here even though they are only one Beta connection at present, they are already committee to equipment that does only routing mode. Even though the Cisco will do both, they say it will not work with their equipment. I haven't seen any RFCs on DSL, so I don't know if standards exists or if it's a series of proprietary wars. After a cursory search of the web, looks like it is a technology originally intended for video transmission, and I am uncertain whether one or several standards for the signal modulation exist. Anyway, from your software's point of view, DSL is an ethernet connection to the internet )or to an intranet, depending on application( , and the setup of the modem you do over the phone with your network support people (from the ISP or the intranet you are connecting to). There's your primer | Hope it helps. Indeed it does! I think I learned more in those few paragraphs than I've been able to glean in months from the telco web pages. Thank you. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] VMare
Tom Bishop wrote: Hello, Anyone using vmware? I need to install the tools for a guest os and cannot for the life of me, figure out how to download to a floppy (within the Linux host os) and load the files into the guest vm. (I've right clicked, etckeep looking for a "save as" ) My host os is Mandrake and the guest os is Caldera 2.2. Everything is up and running including the host accelerated server from vmware, but the guest os is unusable until I can install the server from vmware for it. I feel pretty dumb asking this, but this whole floppy thing escapes me. I did download the tools to a floppy from Win98, but the extension changed to tar.tar instead of tar.gz and of course it didn't work. Also have had no luck installing Win98 in a vmclose, but no cigar. Thought it would be really cool running Windows on top of Linux. Think this one might be a vmware problem or a cpu problem, however. Thanks for any help! Tom (this is actually a veiled Linux question 8-) ) You'll need to mount your floppy disk before you can write to it, so type: mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Download your file either into your home directory and then: cp file /mnt/floppy/. or just save your file to /mnt/floppy/whatever. You'll probably have to be root to write to the floppy, so the copying might actually leave more hair when you're done. What sort of problems do you have trying to install Win98 as the guest OS? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Error setting up Ensoniq sound card.
Dale Kunz wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 6.0. Trying to set up an Ensoniq soundcard mdl ES1371. Using sndconfig to set up. After choosing sound card it chokes trying to play sample and I get error message below: Sox: Sun/NeXt/Dec Header does'nt start with magic word. Try the '.ul' file type with '-t ul -r 8000 filename' Below is copy of etc/conf.modules: options adlib_card io=0x388 options trix io=0x530 irq=11 dma=0,1 mpu_io=0x300 mpu_irq=7 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5 synthirq=-1 synthio=-1 options msnd_classic io=0x220 irq=11 mem=0xb alias sound es1371 If I'm reading other list messages correctly, there's a sox update package that will fix that error. Do you have 5 sound cards in that machine?? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Networking
Since someone decided to post in HTML, the previous discussion is blank when I try to reply. Please, turn off HTML posting. It's annoying and doubles the size of messages. Use netcfg to modify the NIX and gateway settings. It's an X program. Just select the eth0 line by clicking on it, then make your modifications and save them. You'll probably have to "deactivate" then "activate" the interface to make the change take effect. Actually, this is one of the things that completely baffled the NT guy that I work with. Under Windows, changing the IP address of an interface requires a reboot. Not so under Linux. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] QT Files
Paul Hendrick wrote: I'm using Mandrake 6 and I've used the update feature to get the latest files. Should all of the most important lib files be installed on my system by default? I've downloaded the free version of the QT software, but the instalation is too tricky...I have to make a .profile file and edit all kinds of things in it. Is there an easier way of getting it installed? The install file that was in the tarball(?) is not easy for a newbie like me to follow :(( Maybe someone has been kind enough to package up the latest QT into RedHat/Mandrake .rpms? Check http://w3.rufus.org to see. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Re:Real Answer to REAL Linux Question!!! (Humor)
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Rick Murphy wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Fred wrote: Ok - So you say your girlfriend is real bitchy about Linux. She wants to have MS Windoz installed just to make it easy? Right. I say get another girlfriend, keep Linux! Find a woman who has the same common interests as you. Show her this message. She can be replaced. I know its a bit painfull @ first. Sort of like getting off Windoz was ...butafter the dust clears...was it worth it? Sure. So why go back. Remember - take action now. You still have time. She is ONLY your girlfriend. Better that than an X-wife. Hey this it great advise, listen to what the man is telling you. I wish someone had given me this advise earlier. It would have saved me so much pain. Or at least find a girlfriend who will nod her head politely and leave the room whenever you start talking about Linux. I turned mine into a wife! Umm, ;) the PC or the girlfiend? Hahahaha! I should have been a bit more specific, shouldn't I?! The girlfriend, actually. She's getting pretty good and being a Linux end user. And she's been well trained to tell me EXACTLY what the error messages said when whining "Fix this, it doesn't work!" Mine just nod's and trys her best to look like shes paying attention Sounds like a keeper. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] /home partition/mount troubles
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, a whole swack of helpful people wrote: At 04:28 PM 8/20/99 -0400, I wrote: Do you have any free space on the drive? Yes I do...995mb left on the Linux partition.. Why could I not set it to something other than 7mb for the /home partion?? If so, you could use Disk Druid to set the /home partition to be growable, therefore filling whatever free space you have left I tried that last night...actually tried setting it to 500mb and it would not let me...all the way down to 10mb and still no luckit would only accept 7mb. As well I did as you suggested and toggled the "grow to fill disk"...but that did not seem to work either...as of today the /home partition is 100% full...can't even check my mail :-/ Well after a bit of noodling I figured it out ...sorta :-) The version I'm using is the "Complete Linux" from Macmillian Publishing, which comes complete with a "limited" version of Partition Magic to do the "dual-boot" thing. When creating the partitions with this limited version you are given three choices for size..600mb, 1.5gig and remaining space. I chose the 1.5 gig...in its creation process it automatically creates a Swap partition of approx. double that of your RAM. Now when reading along in the installation manual (as all good newbies should) it says to create the next important mount point of /home. I chose Disk Druid...which is a lot friendlier looking than "fdisk" :-) So I set the three mount points...but strangley enough...theres only 7mb left to use for the /home partition and you can not adjust the size in Disk Druid using the "edit" function. I think this is ...a bug ...or maybe its me :-) So being a "newbie" I assumed this was kosher...and continued on with the installwell a few email later my /home directory is full. I tried deleting partitions on Disk Druid to re-size them...but it kept incrementing the number of the partitions etcand after I had completely destroyed the Linux partitons ..it would not boot up and gave a "kernel panic" error. So...I deleted the Linux partition...got brave and when re-installing I used "fdisk" to setup the partitions...which worked ...sorta :-) I managed during my mucking about to create the dos/Linux partitions, but in the course of doing that I think I have left some unused disk space sitting in the ozone...as the two partitions sizes I have don't add up to 6.4 gig. Not a biggie tho...as Win works...Linux seems to work better after I did all the updates...kernel and all. Why is the updated kernel not able to be seen when you use the "updates" icon from the desktop?? ..all the other upgrades are there...but not the kernel ok..I'm on a roll...one more before I go...I have been using gFTP but when I log onto my server...the "htdocs" directory is a symbolic link of "WWW" and gFTP does not seem to be able to deal with this sym link...any ideas??? clicking on it brings up an empty file.. ..ok I lied.. What are the other alternatives for an FTP client?? Thanks for all the help and please excuse my rather verbose email, but it may save another newbie some hair down the road. - thanks folks and have a nice weekend - -- best regards -michael Michael Chopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Down to Earth Development Ltd - http://www.d2earth.com/ Website Web Applications Development Extropia Developers Network - http://www.extropia.com/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6
John Aldrich wrote: No Linux will run just fine in 32 megs. I've got 32 mb on my machine at work. It's a bit sluggish sometimes, but it works pretty well. Having played around with my new (new to me...used parts machine G) dual-PPro 200 with 198 MB RAM, I can tell THAT machine is going to SCREAM! :-) RAM *does* help, but you can run an X-client is 32 mb or less of ram, it'll just be SLOOW!!! Alot of that has to do with KDE grabbing such a huge chunk of memory. Using something like fvwm or WindowMaker or AfterStep will do alot in speeding up your work in X with a smaller memory system. There's not alot that's changed in X over the years, and my first Linux experiences were on a 8M system. Hi eveyone. I just picked up a copy of Mandrake 6 on CD Rom on front of magazine whilst I was on holiday in France ( I live in England). Managed, eventually, to install it on my back-up computer - the only instructions I had were in French. I'm 64 and have only been computing for about 7 years so my learning curve has to be steep. Had some fun setting up KDE but it's now functioning. It has Netscape 4.6 installed but everytime I try to run it the HD grinds away and nothing much else happens. I've seen a suggestion that I need 64 meg ram to run effectively. Can anyone confirm this and also suggest any good literature. John the Nadger A nadger a day keeps the gaunties away http://www.goon.freeuk.com -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] The joy(pain) of 4 EIDE channels
I just bought the Abit BE6 motherboard, and it comes with two 33 EIDE, and two 66 EIDE channels, and when I go through the install it doesn't detect any drives - my HD is on the 3rd channel 66 Eide. Now, I believe that if I temporarly put the hardrive down to the 33 channel and install it from there, I can then boot up from the 3rd channel and it will find the MBR and run lilo and everything will be fine, but I just wanted to see if anyone has any other ideas. Thanks, Tim Wojtaszek
Re: [newbie] VMare
Tom Bishop wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, you wrote: Tom Bishop wrote: Hello, Anyone using vmware? I need to install the tools for a guest os and cannot for the life of me, figure out how to download to a floppy (within the Linux host os) and load the files into the guest vm. (I've right clicked, etckeep looking for a "save as" ) My host os is Mandrake and the guest os is Caldera 2.2. Everything is up and running including the host accelerated server from vmware, but the guest os is unusable until I can install the server from vmware for it. I feel pretty dumb asking this, but this whole floppy thing escapes me. I did download the tools to a floppy from Win98, but the extension changed to tar.tar instead of tar.gz and of course it didn't work. Also have had no luck installing Win98 in a vmclose, but no cigar. Thought it would be really cool running Windows on top of Linux. Think this one might be a vmware problem or a cpu problem, however. Thanks for any help! Tom (this is actually a veiled Linux question 8-) ) You'll need to mount your floppy disk before you can write to it, so type: mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Download your file either into your home directory and then: cp file /mnt/floppy/. or just save your file to /mnt/floppy/whatever. You'll probably have to be root to write to the floppy, so the copying might actually leave more hair when you're done. What sort of problems do you have trying to install Win98 as the guest OS? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thankyou, Steve, It looks like I was on the right track, just not enough confidence. Also think I had a bad floppy. I'm assuming I can mount with my desktop link instead of : mount -tmsdos /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy? And why the -tmsdos part? I am copying from linux to linux . As you can see, I don't know Jack ...or linux either, for that matter. As far as Win98 as a guest OS, I get error messages The reason for the -tmsdos is because I had a brain fart when I wrote that message. For some reason, I got the Win98 problems mixed in with the VMWare problems. I'd convinced myself that you were installing the Guest OS utilities into Win98. :) Go ahead and just click on the desktop icon and copy the file onto the floppy. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Error setting up Ensoniq sound card.
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Dale Kunz wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 6.0. Trying to set up an Ensoniq soundcard mdl ES1371. Using sndconfig to set up. After choosing sound card it chokes trying to play sample and I get error message below: Sox: Sun/NeXt/Dec Header does'nt start with magic word. Try the '.ul' file type with '-t ul -r 8000 filename' Nope this is a new one, the old error was a "ossdsp unknown" because there was an improper define. This could be related but unlikely. Below is copy of etc/conf.modules: options adlib_card io=0x388 options trix io=0x530 irq=11 dma=0,1 mpu_io=0x300 mpu_irq=7 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5 synthirq=-1 synthio=-1 options msnd_classic io=0x220 irq=11 mem=0xb alias sound es1371 If I'm reading other list messages correctly, there's a sox update package that will fix that error. Do you have 5 sound cards in that machine?? the cs4232, and msnd_classic go together the adlib_card goes with the es1371 and posibly others he trix i'm not sure about at all (Check the docs...) Thats why i mentioned Checking the docs ;) Hmmm... what would I gain loading the adlib_card module with my ess 1371 card? The only sound-related module I'm loading for it is just the 1371 module. from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/README.modules adlib_card.o # This is the generic OPLx driver It was the ES1868 that specificly mentioned it - opl3 is the FM synthesizer--I have not tried the SoftOSS wavetable synthesizer yet, but I assume it would work as well. Also, doing: /sbin/insmod opl3 /sbin/insmod adlib_card io=0x388 works, but I believe the sound quality is a bit distorted when playing MIDI files. - aswell as the MAD16 - modules.conf has: alias char-major-14 mad16 options sb mad16=1 options mad16 io=0x530 irq=7 dma=0 dma16=1 /usr/local/bin/aumix -w 15 -p 20 -m 0 -1 0 -2 0 -3 0 -i 0 To get the built in mixer to work this needs to be: options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM synthesizer options sb mad16=1 options mad16 io=0x530 irq=7 dma=0 dma16=1 mpu_io=816 mpu_irq=5 /usr/local/bin/aumix -w 15 -p 20 -m 0 -1 0 -2 0 -3 0 -i 0 - -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] no such device!
Heres my problem: I have filled out all the information about connecting to the internet via an ethernet card for the @home network. I have a 16 bit Ethernet Card. When I finished filling out all the information the konsole displayed the message" unknown interface: no such device delaying eth0 intilization" If anyone has any ideas of how I can correct this and/or if you know what type of 16 bit ethernet cards were handed out by Rogers about 2 years ago that would be great. Struggling newbie Jerome [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Upgrade Problems - HELP!
Hi! I am attempting to use the upgrade icon to bring my Mandrake 6.0 Powertools CD distribution up to speed in security and other areas. Everything seemed to be working the first time I tried but there was a problem downloading the first RPM. I attempted to abort and try again but every since that attempt I have a problem. My error message tells me that it can't set the share lock on the RPM database and it core dumps on me immediately after establishing contact with the mirror and attempting to download the update list. Obviously my first attempt left a lock in the wrong state or something similar. Does anyone know how to clear whatever this error is and restore my state to what it was before my first update attempt so that I can run the update routine again? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] /home partition/mount troubles
- Original Message - What are the other alternatives for an FTP client?? Thanks for all the help and please excuse my rather verbose email, but it may save another newbie some hair down the road. NCFTP should be installed by default. Try typing "ncftp" and see what happens. This is a VERY nice console-based FTP client. It will assume anonymous FTP unless you specify "open -u sitename" from the ftp command line. Also, it will do auto-complete of filenames with a tab, just like most of the rest of the Linux commands! :-) Give it a shot and see how you like it! John
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6
Well, he DID say he was running KDE. :-) Besides which, he said he'd had some "fun" setting up KDE, so to my way of thinking, he's not going to take a suggestion to switch window managers very well. ;-) John - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 12:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6 John Aldrich wrote: No Linux will run just fine in 32 megs. I've got 32 mb on my machine at work. It's a bit sluggish sometimes, but it works pretty well. Having played around with my new (new to me...used parts machine G) dual-PPro 200 with 198 MB RAM, I can tell THAT machine is going to SCREAM! :-) RAM *does* help, but you can run an X-client is 32 mb or less of ram, it'll just be SLOOW!!! Alot of that has to do with KDE grabbing such a huge chunk of memory. Using something like fvwm or WindowMaker or AfterStep will do alot in speeding up your work in X with a smaller memory system. There's not alot that's changed in X over the years, and my first Linux experiences were on a 8M system. Hi eveyone. I just picked up a copy of Mandrake 6 on CD Rom on front of magazine whilst I was on holiday in France ( I live in England). Managed, eventually, to install it on my back-up computer - the only instructions I had were in French. I'm 64 and have only been computing for about 7 years so my learning curve has to be steep. Had some fun setting up KDE but it's now functioning. It has Netscape 4.6 installed but everytime I try to run it the HD grinds away and nothing much else happens. I've seen a suggestion that I need 64 meg ram to run effectively. Can anyone confirm this and also suggest any good literature. John the Nadger A nadger a day keeps the gaunties away http://www.goon.freeuk.com -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] no such device!
I'm not with Rogers but on home through Shaw. We got 3Com cards when we were set up. I can't remember the exact model at the moment. Anyway, to make a long story short. If you're not afraid to open your computer up take a good look at the nic and get the brand name, any model names, and any model numbers on the major chips on it. This should help you to identify the card. I'd help you with configuring it but I haven't had to so I don't know enough to point you in the right direction there. When I installed Mandrake the detection of the card went flawlessly and all I had to tell it to do was use dhcp to obtain this system's ip address. I think you will have to use 'netcfg' from root to set things up. There may be a man page on it you can refer to. It may also be in one of the many how-to documents. Take a look through /usr/doc to see what you can find. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 10:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] no such device! Heres my problem: I have filled out all the information about connecting to the internet via an ethernet card for the @home network. I have a 16 bit Ethernet Card. When I finished filling out all the information the konsole displayed the message" unknown interface: no such device delaying eth0 intilization" If anyone has any ideas of how I can correct this and/or if you know what type of 16 bit ethernet cards were handed out by Rogers about 2 years ago that would be great. Struggling newbie Jerome [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6
I've got a 266mmx 32 meg mem laptop that runs Madrake 6 with KDE just fine. It does swap a fair amount when I have Netscape going, but it's a great machine as is. On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, you wrote: No Linux will run just fine in 32 megs. I've got 32 mb on my machine at work. It's a bit sluggish sometimes, but it works pretty well. Having played around with my new (new to me...used parts machine G) dual-PPro 200 with 198 MB RAM, I can tell THAT machine is going to SCREAM! :-) RAM *does* help, but you can run an X-client is 32 mb or less of ram, it'll just be SLOOW!!! John -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6
John Aldrich wrote: Well, he DID say he was running KDE. :-) Besides which, he said he'd had some "fun" setting up KDE, so to my way of thinking, he's not going to take a suggestion to switch window managers very well. ;-) Probably true. It just struck me that Linux is always mentioned as needing little memory in comparison to the Windows variants. KDE and GNOME have done little to reinforce that concept. John Aldrich wrote: No Linux will run just fine in 32 megs. I've got 32 mb on my machine at work. It's a bit sluggish sometimes, but it works pretty well. Having played around with my new (new to me...used parts machine G) dual-PPro 200 with 198 MB RAM, I can tell THAT machine is going to SCREAM! :-) RAM *does* help, but you can run an X-client is 32 mb or less of ram, it'll just be SLOOW!!! Alot of that has to do with KDE grabbing such a huge chunk of memory. Using something like fvwm or WindowMaker or AfterStep will do alot in speeding up your work in X with a smaller memory system. There's not alot that's changed in X over the years, and my first Linux experiences were on a 8M system. Hi eveyone. I just picked up a copy of Mandrake 6 on CD Rom on front of magazine whilst I was on holiday in France ( I live in England). Managed, eventually, to install it on my back-up computer - the only instructions I had were in French. I'm 64 and have only been computing for about 7 years so my learning curve has to be steep. Had some fun setting up KDE but it's now functioning. It has Netscape 4.6 installed but everytime I try to run it the HD grinds away and nothing much else happens. I've seen a suggestion that I need 64 meg ram to run effectively. Can anyone confirm this and also suggest any good literature. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] no such device!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heres my problem: I have filled out all the information about connecting to the internet via an ethernet card for the @home network. I have a 16 bit Ethernet Card. When I finished filling out all the information the konsole displayed the message" unknown interface: no such device delaying eth0 intilization" If anyone has any ideas of how I can correct this and/or if you know what type of 16 bit ethernet cards were handed out by Rogers about 2 years ago that would be great. Looks like the module isn't installed for the ethernet card. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
