RE: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware
I have never had any problems with Fijitsu drives. As a matter of fact I have two 6.4's in my linux box. -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 7:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware I think the archives of one of the overclocking newsgroups might have something on Fujitsu drives. I have experience with ONE Fujitsu IDE drive, an old 2G with no cache (that's right, none). It did creditable service, but every time there was a power failure and I was not there to shut down before the UPS ran down, it was a full rebuild job with significant lost data. Naturally I swapped it out for something that could take a beating at first opportunity. Also, as soon as I have the financial commitment (December, I hope), I will be trashing the "server which is built from scraps" and put in a decent UPS that I can link to for auto shutdowns. By then I will have it linked to the phone system to notify a few people intervention is required to get running again (we use it for incoming mail as the POP server). Anyway, other than the tendency to collapse with every little power outage, I know nothing negative about Fujitsu drives. Of course that is enough to keep it off my server. Civileme Aaron deRozario wrote: This information would be very handy. IF someone had the time and effort and web space some kind of database that keeps track of parts and parts combinations that are successful, or unsuccessful might also be good. I know when I built my machine I was only interested in getting parts that would definately work with Linux. OF course although all the parts might be Limux compatible some pieces of hardware don't seem to work together. That kind of information - known hardware incompatibilities (Soundcard X won't work with Motherboard Y), in a searchable database would be useful. Just $0.02 - actually I'm Australian so guess I have to round that up to $0.05. Somewhere earlier in this thread someone said they didn't like Fujitsu hard drives. Any particular reason - it's just that I use them (without problems so far) - so if they spontaneously combust or something like that, I'd like to know before it actually happens;-) Aaron -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
Re: [newbie] EIDE Controler
As I also run a Maxtor drive, with this 'Maxblast' utility, can I suggest that you ignore it, and just use it as a normal drive? Maxblast didn't do anything for my setup, so subsequent builds I have just ignored it. I think the only time you would need it is to low level format the drive, but how often is that likely to happen??!! Maxblast didn't offer any speed or performance increases, so try and do the work without it. - Original Message - From: Thomas Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] EIDE Controler I have a FIC 503 + MB that is less than a year old. It is a socket 7 that has two built in IDE ports. I have already flashed my Bios to the newest version. but that did not help. My hard drive is a 5.7 GB Maxtor 2880 with UDMA . I built it from scratch myself. In the BIOS setup I use LBA and it does see the drive . Its the Maxblast software that says my board dosnt support it and makes me install the EZBios. Civileme wrote: U' That's a BIOS issue, more than likely If your Motherboard is that old, sheesh. Get an upgrade to the BIOS. It is cheaper than a Promise Card if you can find one. In fact, an upgraded motherboard which will work with your processor is likely within reach at a price equal to the EIDE card. I have to think you are using something on Socket 5 or Socket 3. MediaGX 166 Boards are going at surplus distributors for about $45 complete with processor. I have also seen things like PPro 200 with ATX board for $99. The MediaGX is Pentium compatible but some Mandrake upgrades do not like it. There are also Socket 7 boards which all recognize big EIDE drives without EZ-Bios for costs from $25 to $49. Any processor fitting Socket 5 will also work on Socket 7. If you have a 486 on Socket3, Mandrake is not likely to be for you. If you have something on Socket 5 which is not for MMX processors, the Evergreen upgrade (to a 180) has a new BIOS and a Flash Program with it and runs MMX anyway. So you could 1. Change the Motherboard and keep your processor and gain EIDE recognition Cost $28-$50 2. Find a Promise EIDE adapter and put it in (do you at least have PCI? because EIDE through an ISA port is . interesting) Cost $49-$69 3. Put in the low-end MediaGX for about $45 and be compatible to most linux distributions. 4. Put in a new MB and processor in Pentium Class and be compatible to almost all distributions including Mandrake. Cost $70-180 depending on the speed you want and the memory you have and want to re-use. Celeron 300, 333, and 400 combos are common here. 5. Drop in an upgrade processor (an old one if you have socket 5 or 7 and a Pentium-type processor, even if it is a 75) for about $120-150 and gain the new BIOS and MMX compatibility that comes with it. Now if your computer is a COMPAQ or a Packard Bell, forget any motherboard swap solutions--the boards have a non-standard footprint. Not all, but all of the vintage that wouldn't recognize EIDE. And there are still many reasons various upgrades might not work. I would need to know some names and model numbers off the computer or off of its components if it is a home-built or locally-built machine. Civileme Thomas Peter wrote: My Motherboard does not recognise my EIDE hard drive with out using EZ Bios. I am looking for a EIDE Controller card that Linux will work with. I have seen lists of compatable equipment but nothing about EIDE Controller Cards. Thomas
RE: [[newbie] Setting up a modem]
Get a PS/2 mouse and free up com one.. :) There are also serial device sharing gadgets out there as well. This is why USB was thought up. The present seral port system became more and more inferior as more and more external devices came out and needed their own little resource. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ripcrd6 Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Setting up a modem] Not to complain, but, what are you supposed to do if you have something plugged into the only serial port? An internal ISA is the only option. Where I work there are a lot of pieces of equipment (gas chromatographs, HPLCs, FTIRs, Colorimeter doohickies) reporting data through the serial port. The new stuff uses SCSI or special cards. but say at home I have a docking station for a Palm V (I wish), I don't want to unplug it every time I use the modem. -Original Message- From: Jones On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote: should support such junk. But there is a linmodem project. I think they should support them since most new computers come with one. I for one would not have one. This is a good point. . .also with new PC specs calling for the death of ISA, the options for modems will pretty soon be divided among HSP HCF Win modems and externals. . . Seth Gibson http://www.mp3.com/PsMX http://members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder/welcome.html "The only way left is to hack your own brain. . .then loop it through Jones."
[newbie] Can't run MODEMTOOL
Hello I am a newbie under Linux and have a big difficulty with the modem setup procedure. I run Mandrake 6.1 (which is redhat in fact) and read that the first step is to declare the modem (quite obvious). the tool is MODEMTOOL but I get a weird error message when I try to launch it : Traceback(innermost last): File "stdin", line1, in ? File "/usr/lib/rhs/control-panel/python/modem.py , line 2, in ? from letbox import * syntax Error : non-default argument follows default argument (line 152) What does it mean ? I would be VERY pleased if someone could give me here a piece of advise ! Thanks a lot Cyril
[newbie] ADSL and DHCP and Linux, oh my...
I have been trying to get Linux to see the internet. I have ADSL that was working fine for Windows, and now, when I try to get Linux to see the internet, I get this error: Determining IP information for eth0...Operation failed. The 'pump' command is the one failing. I have tried all the suggestions that I can in the mini-howto for DHCP. It still doesn't work. My ISP isn't much help, they tell me that they don't support Linux yet, but here is what has worked for others: IP Address: Obtain from server automatically WINS configuration: DHCP IP Gateway or default router: Leave blank or (0.0.0.0) Host: (YOUR userID) IP Network Class: C IP Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Domain: swbell.net DNS Server: If you cannot select Server Assigned Name Server, then select the following: Primary DNS: 151.164.1.8 Secondary DNS: 151.164.1.7 I tried that too, I wasn't using my userID as my hostname. However, that also didn't work. I am just hoping that others here that have set up their Linux with ADSL will know what needs to be done. Everything else with the setup/install of Linux went VERY smoothly! I use Linux at work now and compared to Windows, it's billions of times more stable. However, so far I am finding connecting to the internet is still much easier in Windows. Sorry guys. *PLEASE* prove me wrong! :) Dave - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Problem with Lynx
Can anyone help me? I have installed Mandrake 6.0. When I invoke Lynx it fails with the error message: metamail: Can't open temporary file! I have read the man pages and documentation for both programmes, and can't seem to find the answer. Thanks in advance, Ephrem
Re: [newbie] Removing my windows hard drive
A second query out of interest: In my current setup Windows is installed on a standard hard drive, while Linux uses a DMA33 capable drive. The bios has DMA/33 enabled however my understanding is that if the master device on an ide port is not DMA/33 capable then the slave cannot operate DMA/33. What I would like to know is - after I change my system around and remove Windows, will Linux take advantage of the DMA/33. During boot up I see that the kernel makes certain optimisations for the various hard drives so does the kernel do some sort of probe during boot to determine if DMA/33 is present, or is there some other initialisation script that contains that information? Actually it would seem this info has been answered in another thread (i think). I would still like to know if you can optimise a slave drive for DMA/33 while having the master at standard. I can't answer this one. Sorry. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I believe the 'another thread' is prob'ly Steve and my exchange about optimizing HDD's using 'hdparm'. I have Windows on ide0 master, and Linux on ide0 slave. I was able to optimize ide0 slave and enable DMA without doing the same for ide0 master. Both my WD's are UDMA capable, but I'd bet you'll have no problem with enabling DMA on one drive whether it's master or slave, or even putting them both as master on ide0 and ide1. To avoid any confusion, I believe DMA, UDMA, DMA33, and UDMA2 are all one in the same, just different terms for the same direct memory access. .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [newbie] ADSL and DHCP and Linux, oh my...
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, David E. Metzener wrote: Please turn off the HTML mail "feature" in your mailer... I have been trying to get Linux to see the internet.nbsp; I have ADSL that was working fine for Windows, and now, when I try to get Linux to see the internet, I get this error:br br Determining IP information for eth0...Operation failed.br Your ISP is running a stupid (NT based, that is) dhcp server. Pump has problems with those. Install dhcpcd and make the init scripts run that instead of pump, and it'll work. LLaP bero
Re: [newbie] Problem with Lynx
Ephrem, Download the latest Lynx file from Linux Mandrake. It will fix this specific problem. Frank Hilliard Ephrem Hugh Bensusan wrote: Can anyone help me? I have installed Mandrake 6.0. When I invoke Lynx it fails with the error message: metamail: Can't open temporary file! I have read the man pages and documentation for both programmes, and can't seem to find the answer. Thanks in advance, Ephrem
Re: [newbie] ethernet blocks modem device? or what? - Again!
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote: Should i direct this question to expert list at linux-mandrake or what do you recommend trying? please help! thanks baris Most internal 56k modems (at least the PCI ones) are "WinModmes" and are thus unuseable in Linux. If you have an ISA modem, you *may* be in luck. John
RE: [newbie] Problem with Lynx
Hi Ephrem - you need to have a tmp directory in you home directory. Do a mkdir tmp from you home directory. Bill -Original Message- From: Ephrem Hugh Bensusan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Problem with Lynx Can anyone help me? I have installed Mandrake 6.0. When I invoke Lynx it fails with the error message: metamail: Can't open temporary file! I have read the man pages and documentation for both programmes, and can't seem to find the answer. Thanks in advance, Ephrem
Re: [[newbie] Setting up a modem]
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote: Not to complain, but, what are you supposed to do if you have something plugged into the only serial port? An internal ISA is the only option. Where I work there are a lot of pieces of equipment (gas chromatographs, HPLCs, FTIRs, Colorimeter doohickies) reporting data through the serial port. The new stuff uses SCSI or special cards. but say at home I have a docking station for a Palm V (I wish), I don't want to unplug it every time I use the modem. Go out and buy an ISA "High-speed I/O" card. :-) $20-25 and you've got two more comm ports. :-) John
RE: [newbie] Can't run MODEMTOOL
Sounds as though you are trying to run it in console... I believe it is supposta be used in under X. I've never used it so I dunno if I'm right though.. :) Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of cyril.thibout Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't run MODEMTOOL Hello I am a newbie under Linux and have a big difficulty with the modem setup procedure. I run Mandrake 6.1 (which is redhat in fact) and read that the first step is to declare the modem (quite obvious). the tool is MODEMTOOL but I get a weird error message when I try to launch it : Traceback(innermost last): File "stdin", line1, in ? File "/usr/lib/rhs/control-panel/python/modem.py , line 2, in ? from letbox import * syntax Error : non-default argument follows default argument (line 152) What does it mean ? I would be VERY pleased if someone could give me here a piece of advise ! Thanks a lot Cyril
RE: [newbie] Problem with Lynx
This is lame, but you need to define the metamail temp directory. Check the man page for the exact environment name, but I just created a tmp directory in my home directory then put "export METAMAILTMP=/home/username/tmp" and it worked for me. on my second install I just bypassed the metamail installation. :) Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ephrem Hugh Bensusan Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Problem with Lynx Can anyone help me? I have installed Mandrake 6.0. When I invoke Lynx it fails with the error message: metamail: Can't open temporary file! I have read the man pages and documentation for both programmes, and can't seem to find the answer. Thanks in advance, Ephrem
Re: [newbie] Problem with Lynx
create a tmp directory in your home directory On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:48:27AM -0400, Ephrem Hugh Bensusan wrote: Can anyone help me? I have installed Mandrake 6.0. When I invoke Lynx it fails with the error message: metamail: Can't open temporary file! I have read the man pages and documentation for both programmes, and can't seem to find the answer. Thanks in advance, Ephrem == E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ No.: 38756924 Haste makes waste. -- John Heywood ==
Re: [newbie] My printer doesn't work...
Bill Munden wrote: This is what I thought the original problem could be also, but it wasn't. Here is what my /etc/conf.modules file looks like: alias eth0 3c59x alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias sound sb pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 options opl3 io=0x388 alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 Thanks again for any replies -Bill Munden - Original Message - snip I've had a similar problem after upgrading my Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1, posted a question some time ago but got no response. What fixed it for me was to add the following lines at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local /sbin/modprobe parport /sbin/modprobe parport_pc /sbin/modprobe lp --now my printer works again, maybe that helps you as well! bye, Willy
[newbie] What to do when Kmenu lists applications beyond the screen?
Subject: [newbie] What to do when Kmenu lists applications beyond the screen? While in KDE... When I go into the menu: K - Utilities, the resulting long menu goes beyond the boundary of the screen. How do you get it to "split-up" automatically so that I can see the rest of the applications on the menu? Seve
Re: [newbie] Mouse problem
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi, I used a serial mouse on my Linux box previously. But for some reason, I have to switch to PS/2 mouse through a converter. After that, my mouse no longer works anymore. Any hint for that? Thanks. Re-run your Mouse config. Get to a console prompt, and, as root, type "setup" and select "mouse configuration." You may have to re-select your mouse as a "p/s2 serial" mouse or something like that. Also, do you have a switch on the bottom of your mouse to switch between "mouse-systems" mode and "p/s2 mode." John
Re: [newbie] X problems
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote: I have successfully installed linux-mandrake 6.0 on my system, a 200 mHz pentium with a S3 ViRGE/ VX video card (4MB memory) and a Mag Innovision DX1795 monitor. Autoprobing successfully identifies the video card, and i then select the DX1795 monitor. the Xconfig test states that i can use 32-bit, 1024 x 768 resolution; HOWEVER, this setting and the numerous other resolutions and custom monitor settings I have tried do not work completely: I can get a KDE desktop with icons, but no mouse other than a 1-inch long vertical line that disappears and then reappears (occasionally). I have a Logitec 2-button mouse, configured for 3-button emulation. Which mouse type did you select on X setup John
Re: [newbie] Mouse problem
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used a serial mouse on my Linux box previously. But for some reason, I have to switch to PS/2 mouse through a converter. After that, my mouse no longer works anymore. Any hint for that? I just got done fiddling 'round with a Win98 laptop that had the exact same problem. I ended up swapping the PS/2 mouse for a serial one and things popped right back to normal. Can't say I've ever seen that happen before, but I spent around 4 hours (and 3 reinstalls) trying to get that PS/2 mouse working. I'd suggest trying to move back to a real serial mouse. Agreed. Many of those PS/2 to serial adapters don't work. You either need a PS/2 port or a serial mouse in all liklihood. John
Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote: Because it seems abnormal which leads me to believe there may be hidden problems that I haven't found yet. Hopefully this info is somewhat helpful it trying to figure it out. Ok...here's something to think about my system is a dual-ppro 200. Only one processor is working right now, due to a problem with the SMP kernel which I haven't had the time or inclination to track down just yet. :-) However, that being said, my system, from a cold boot, is VERY slow to boot. I have 192 megs of ram, and it takes about 2 minutes for it to count up to that, and it takes about 5 - 7 minutes (guesstimate) for it to completely boot to a login prompt. Now my K6-2 300 here at work boots all the way from bios/memory count to login prompt in (approximately) under 2 minutes. I don't know why the difference, but that's the way it works *shrug* Both machines work just fine once booted, but the machine at home is MUCH slower to boot. John
Re: [newbie] Setting up X...
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote:
%_ I'm trying to get X configured for Mandrake 6.1. I downloaded the Riva tnt2
drivers for my card, but how
do I get that file onto the hard drive that has all my linux partitions?
(ethernet card - intel etherexpress 16, isn't
working yet =( ) Will I be able to view the fat32 windows partitions w/ in
linux, and be able to copy the file to my
linux partition? If so, how do I go about mounting these devices...if that won't
work, what do i do??
Another newbie *sigh*
Steve
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First, you NEED to lose the HTML!!!
Second, assuming you have the Linux box dual-booting
Windows/Linux, you can edit your FSTAB (AS ROOT) thusly:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dosvfatdefaults0 0
This is, of course, assuming that your Windows is the first
partition. You can call the mount point (in this case
/mnt/dos) whatever you want...just be sure to create a
directory for that mount point ("mkdir /mnt/dos" as root
for this example.)
Now, assuming that the file you downloaded is an RPM file,
you would install it with rpm -i filename. If it's a tar,
tar.gz, or tgz file, you'll have to unpack it first and
then install it. How you do that depends on each individual
file. I suggest creating a temporary "junk" directory.
Then, from that directory, if it's a tar.gz or tgz file,
type "tar xzvf /path/to/file.tar.gz" replacing
"path/to/file.tar.gz" with the actual path and filename
(i.e. /home/steve/ would be the path, and the filename
would be the "tar.gz" or whatever.)
If it's just a tar, leave off the "z" in the above example.
John
Re: [newbie] EIDE Controler
WHOA! Just install Linux and forget what Maxblast saysg Civileme Thomas Peter wrote: I have a FIC 503 + MB that is less than a year old. It is a socket 7 that has two built in IDE ports. I have already flashed my Bios to the newest version. but that did not help. My hard drive is a 5.7 GB Maxtor 2880 with UDMA . I built it from scratch myself. In the BIOS setup I use LBA and it does see the drive . Its the Maxblast software that says my board dosnt support it and makes me install the EZBios.
[newbie] MS Intellimouse Explorer
Ok, flames aside, does anyone know anything as far as support for the new MS Intellimouse Explorer in Linux? If it does support it, has anyone tried it (or any intellimouse) and got it to work? Thanks .bill "You can fight technology and die, support it and survive, or lead it and prosper." Ray Noorda, former Novell CEO
Re: [newbie] BeroFTPD
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello, I've been trying to set up ftp access. I can ftp into the server but I can not upload files to it. If I log in as a specific user I can upload to my home directory only. I created a directory called /pub/upload with root as owner and ftp as group but I can't put anything into it. I also can't copy anything into the pub directory when I log onto the machine as a user. I know it must be a permissions issue but I cant figure out how to correct it. Any help would be appreciated I don't know this to be the case, but I suspect, you need to either make "nobody" the owner or "ftp" the owner just guessing here... John
[newbie] Dail up problem..
Running the Latest version of Madrake. Using a: Boca pro 16. with KDE I have set up everything according to the manual. And the modem reponds with flashing lights but then it does not dail.. Modem Ready... Dailing 586 Nothing.. It does run on the computer at the store (also running Mandrake) and dails up connects ect.. But not on mine. So I does work. I have tryed everything. Its running on com 2 and dails under windows. So I set it to ttsy1 and nothing.. even cau and nothing.. Any Ideas?? Please help! This is the 3rd modem I have used. First two where winmodems (Doh!) ... Im out of money and ideas..
Re: [newbie] Clarifying EIDE
Civileme wrote: Adds FIC VA503+ and big drives to his list of things to avoid DO NOT add this motherboard, nor big drives to your "avoid" list. As I've already posted, I previously used a FIC-503+ board along with a 7G and a 6.4G drive. Neither drive had ANY problems. Setting the BIOS to LBA (or possibly LARGE, though it's been awhile since I played with that BIOS) will allow all operating systems to see all parts of the drive. Windows included. I'm not sure why the original poster seems to think that the MaxBlast software is required. From what I recall of the dirty little utility, it was intended for extremely old BIOSes which didn't recognize drives larger than 528M. It's been a LONG time since those BIOSes have shipped on retail boards. We're talking early 486 days, folks. My advice stands. Toss the MaxBlast disk into the trash. Forget you ever owned it. Modify your BIOS settings to reflect that you're using a large drive and need Logical Block Addressing (LBA). All will be fine. Try www.compgeeks.com. They may have a few Promise EIDE controllers left. DON'T, not even in an air raid, consider an ISA EIDE controller. I think that sort of bottleneck could break a lot of assumptions made by the programmers. If you cannot get the board there for a substantial discount, then try www.dcdrives.com for full factory price. Civileme Thomas Peter wrote: I have a FIC VA503+ with a Maxtor Hard drive. I am running Win 98 and Mandrake. My MB recognizes my Maxtor HD but not its size. I have upgraded my bios to the newest version. So I have to install EZ Bios to get it to see its full size. Everything is running fine except that EZ Bios makes Linux see My HD as a temporary drive. instead of the main. So it will not run executible programs. I wrote FIC 4 times inquirering about this problem before upgrading my Bios and have not gotten an answer. Maxtor E d me the next day and told me to get an EIDE controller card. Does any one know of a card that Linux will see. I have a space for PCI and ISA. Thank you Thomas -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] Setting up a modem]
Jim Howarth wrote: Get a PS/2 mouse and free up com one.. :) There are also serial device sharing gadgets out there as well. This is why USB was thought up. The present seral port system became more and more inferior as more and more external devices came out and needed their own little resource. Or you could consider one of those 8/16 port serial cards I see in Linux Journal adverts. Single internal card then a bunch of cables out the back side of the card. Look pretty snazzy if you've got a lot of devices to hook up. Not to complain, but, what are you supposed to do if you have something plugged into the only serial port? An internal ISA is the only option. Where I work there are a lot of pieces of equipment (gas chromatographs, HPLCs, FTIRs, Colorimeter doohickies) reporting data through the serial port. The new stuff uses SCSI or special cards. but say at home I have a docking station for a Palm V (I wish), I don't want to unplug it every time I use the modem. On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote: should support such junk. But there is a linmodem project. I think they should support them since most new computers come with one. I for one would not have one. This is a good point. . .also with new PC specs calling for the death of ISA, the options for modems will pretty soon be divided among HSP HCF Win modems and externals. . . -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Can't run MODEMTOOL
"cyril.thibout" wrote: Hello I am a newbie under Linux and have a big difficulty with the modem setup procedure. I run Mandrake 6.1 (which is redhat in fact) and read that the first step is Let's stop this dirty little rumor right here. While Mandrake, at some point, may have been Red Hat-based, it is no longer true. It may use RPM packaging, but so does Caldera and noone claims they're a Red Hat clone. They may use the same installer, but isn't sharing the POINT of GPL software? I don't recall seeing Pentium optimized packages in my RH6.0 discs. to declare the modem (quite obvious). the tool is MODEMTOOL but I get a weird error message when I try to launch it : Traceback(innermost last): File "stdin", line1, in ? File "/usr/lib/rhs/control-panel/python/modem.py , line 2, in ? from letbox import * syntax Error : non-default argument follows default argument (line 152) What does it mean ? It means you're either (a) not root, or (b) not in X. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Dail up problem..
"Lord Jester(/|)" wrote: Running the Latest version of Madrake. Using a: Boca pro 16. with KDE I have set up everything according to the manual. And the modem reponds with flashing lights but then it does not dail.. Modem Ready... Dailing 586 Nothing.. It does run on the computer at the store (also running Mandrake) and dails up connects ect.. But not on mine. So I does work. I have tryed everything. Its running on com 2 and dails under windows. So I set it to ttsy1 and nothing.. even cau and nothing.. Any Ideas?? Please help! This is the 3rd modem I have used. First two where winmodems (Doh!) ... Im out of money and ideas.. Is it possible that it's just the volume turned down/off? It's a KPPP option. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mouse problem
I am curious if the mouse was a PS/2 run through an adaptor to the serial port or the serial mouse attached through a PS/2 adapter. In the first case, get a real serial mouse. In the second, run XF86Setup or XF86config and reconfigure the mouse driver. Steve's advice is good, however. Stick with the serial mouse if you can. Motherboards move in mysterious ways. Civileme Steve Philp wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used a serial mouse on my Linux box previously. But for some reason, I have to switch to PS/2 mouse through a converter. After that, my mouse no longer works anymore. Any hint for that? Thanks. I just got done fiddling 'round with a Win98 laptop that had the exact same problem. I ended up swapping the PS/2 mouse for a serial one and things popped right back to normal. Can't say I've ever seen that happen before, but I spent around 4 hours (and 3 reinstalls) trying to get that PS/2 mouse working. I'd suggest trying to move back to a real serial mouse. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
RE: [newbie] Clarifying EIDE
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Philp Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Clarifying EIDE Civileme wrote: Adds FIC VA503+ and big drives to his list of things to avoid DO NOT add this motherboard, nor big drives to your "avoid" list. As I've already posted, I previously used a FIC-503+ board along with a 7G and a 6.4G drive. Neither drive had ANY problems. Setting the BIOS to LBA (or possibly LARGE, though it's been awhile since I played with that BIOS) will allow all operating systems to see all parts of the drive. Windows included. Hmmm Maxblast is for Motherboards with over the 8.4 G Hard drives not the old 528 mb limit. It has no use in a Linux environment, For use in Windows or Dos computers only. I have used a FIC 503+ with No problems in Mandrake or Windows computers with hard drives up to 10 G. with my bios set to LBA in Mandrake and used Maxblast for Windows only with hard drives over 8.4 G. Brian W.
Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse Explorer
I have the Intellimouse Explorer and it does work in Linux...just not all the fancy features you get running it under windows. Using imwheel allows you to use the scroll wheel. R.C. At 03:39 PM 10/6/99 -0500, you wrote: Ok, flames aside, does anyone know anything as far as support for the new MS Intellimouse Explorer in Linux? If it does support it, has anyone tried it (or any intellimouse) and got it to work?
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[newbie] Ethernet problems...
I'm currently using an Intel EtherExpress 16, and I selected Intel EtherExpress from the installation options. I set my domain, host, IP, and everything else up correctly... but as soon as linux has finished loading it starts to echo: i82586 reset timed out, kicking... i82586 reset timed out, kicking... i82586 reset timed out, kicking... i82586 reset timed out, kicking... i82586 reset timed out, not responding, giving up. I get those lines every few seconds, which makes it hard to accomplish anything else while linux is running. Is there some way I can turn this off or disable it? Any suggestions on how to get my ethernet card working(i'm pretty sure it's compatible)? Thx, Steve
[newbie] Keyboard and mouse freezing on loading
My keyboard and mouse freeze when Linux loads... During the installation everything works fine, but as soon as it does the test for the video card, I can't use my keyboard anymore... Anybody have a solution? Thanks, Tim
Re: [newbie] Ethernet problems...
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_I'm currently using an Intel EtherExpress 16, and I selected Intel EtherExpress from the installation options. I set my domain, host, IP, and everything else up correctly... but as soon as linux has finished loading it starts to echo: i82586 reset timed out, kicking... i82586 reset timed out, kicking... i82586 reset timed out, kicking... i82586 reset timed out, kicking... i82586 reset timed out, not responding, giving up. I get those lines every few seconds, which makes it hard to accomplish anything else while linux is running. Is there some way I can turn this off or disable it? Any suggestions on how to get my ethernet card working(i'm pretty sure it's compatible)? Thx, Steve Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Please lose the HTML. Second, was your ethernet plugged into a "live" network at the time? That's the only time (or mis-configured network card) that I've seen anything resembling that. John
[newbie] Ipchains
Hi I have a question, How do I check to make sure my firewall is loaded and running when I start my box up? I know this a dumb question, But I cant think of the answer TIA Hugh -- The objective of all dedicated employees should be to thoroughly analyze all situations, anticipate all problems prior to their occurrence, have answers for these problems, and move swiftly to solve these problems when called upon. However, When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remind yourself your initial objective was to drain the swamp.
Re: [newbie] X problems
I have a Logitec 2 button FirstMouse set up to emulate 3 buttons. I have also tried the mouse without 3 button emulation with no luck. I am going to try upgrading to XFree86-3.3.5 since mandrake 6.0 uses 3.3.3.1; hopefully, this may help resolve my problem. scott
Re: [newbie] Dail up problem..
H, Well, I would like to see how you set up Kppp. You put in a number to dial, but how are you connecting? CHAP? PAP? Script? Windows will automatically switch between Script and PAP, but not so Kppp. You need to specify. If you put the name and password in the front panel and left the Kppp default, then you are using PAP. If your server happens to want to use a Chat script instead, the behavior you describe is exactly what would happen. And you wouldn't see anything more. Try going back to Setup and editing the account. Ask for SCRIPT based On the script (a separate panel in the setup) do this: Select "expect" from the menubar and enter "ogin:" without the quotes in the panel next to it, then click Add Select "send" and enter yourloginname and Add Select "expect" and enter "sword:" Select "send" and enter yourpassword Then OK and close and try connect again. Civileme Steve Philp wrote: "Lord Jester(/|)" wrote: Running the Latest version of Madrake. Using a: Boca pro 16. with KDE I have set up everything according to the manual. And the modem reponds with flashing lights but then it does not dail.. Modem Ready... Dailing 586 Nothing.. It does run on the computer at the store (also running Mandrake) and dails up connects ect.. But not on mine. So I does work. I have tryed everything. Its running on com 2 and dails under windows. So I set it to ttsy1 and nothing.. even cau and nothing.. Any Ideas?? Please help! This is the 3rd modem I have used. First two where winmodems (Doh!) ... Im out of money and ideas.. Is it possible that it's just the volume turned down/off? It's a KPPP option. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] How do I make it so DHCP gets info automatically?
I've figured out how to get information from my web server with DHCPCD. Problem is, I have to open up a console every time I reboot and type "dhcpcd -DH" so I can get my internet connection. I would like for Linux to do this automatically on bootup. It isn't anything major, but it would be helpful. Thanks in advance... __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Setting Up X with a UTNT2
I'm having trouble getting X to boot up, as in - it won't. My video card is a Creative Labs Ultra TNT2. I've visited the nvidia website, and installed the "RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386-dyn.tar.gz" file. The page also mentions that I have to have "XFree86 3.3.3.1 dated after January 7, 1999" for it to work. I'm running Mandrake 6.1...how can i check to see if my x server is 3.3.3.1 and dated after jan7, 1999? I've tried setting my card up with xf86config several times, selecting the regular SVGA server options...but each time i attempt to run X I get the error message: "No GLINT/PERMEDIA based card found." Are there any urls someone could point me to that explain the installation and setup of X with a TNT2 card? Do I need to setup XFree86 3.3.3.1? Looking for any input on this... Thx, Steve
Re: [newbie] Ipchains
Hugh Semmler wrote: Well, it depends on your firewall... If you are using ipchains, try ipchains -L in a console or an xterm or even as part of an initscript also, test the file /proc/net/sys/ipv4/ip_forward which should contain a "1" unless you are using an interface-specific activation file instead, then test that one. If you were really ambitious, you might even write a short Perl or Python or tcl script to do that for you and call it from an initscript. Civileme Hi I have a question, How do I check to make sure my firewall is loaded and running when I start my box up? I know this a dumb question, But I cant think of the answer TIA Hugh -- The objective of all dedicated employees should be to thoroughly analyze all situations, anticipate all problems prior to their occurrence, have answers for these problems, and move swiftly to solve these problems when called upon. However, When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remind yourself your initial objective was to drain the swamp.
[newbie] Ethernet problems with 3COM card
I am having a problem with my 3COM EtherLink III ISA 3C509b-TPO card. From what I have been reading, I am supposed to see some kind of 'eth0' text in the boot up text (dmesg). However, I am not seeing anything about eth0 at all. When I try to run dhcpcd I get the following message in the dhcpcd.log file... Oct 6 22:26:02 davidem dhcpcd[1468]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable I then tried tcpdump -evvn -i eth0 and recieved the following text... tcpdump: WARNING: SIOCGIFADDR: eth0: Cannot assign requested address tcpdump: listening on eth0 tcpdump: pcap_loop: read: Network is down I am guessing that all that means that my ethernet card is not getting seen by Linux. Has anyone else seen this problem? Do I just need to set an irq? If so, is there a way to see what irq's are currently being used and pick one that is safe? How do I set the irq for the ethernet card in Linux? I haven't found any HOWTO's for this problem. Pointing me to one that would help me get the ethernet card up and running would also be helpful. Thanks for all your patients... (I hope I have the HTML stuff turned off now, sorry about that guys! :) Dave --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Can't run MODEMTOOL
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote: I don't recall seeing Pentium optimized packages in my RH6.0 discs. haha yah. . .lets also point out Mandrake's FUNCTIONAL hardware probe and other morking scripts that have been absent from RH. . . -- Seth Gibson http://www.mp3.com/PsMX http://members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder/welcome.html "The only way left is to hack your own brain. . .then loop it through Jones."
Re: [newbie] Email system
Steve, But it seems qmail only supports pop, and still with imap. Am I right? Are there any add-on modules? Thanks. Ken - Sorry sending to both newbie and expert mailing lists, but it is a bit urgent for me. Does anyone have experience in using qmail, sendmail, fetchmail, twig, postmail etc? Would you please share your experience, good or bad, whether it is reliable and easy to manage? I have to implement an email system, preferably with web-based frontend, in the company. Thanks a lot. We're currently using Qmail for our corporate Internet email and we're extremely happy with it. Configuration is extremely easy and maintenance is simple as well. If you're looking into web-based front-ends for administration, check out qmailadmin, we're looking at it right now. As for a web-based user interface, sqlwebmail looks pretty nice as well. Qmail information is available at www.qmail.org, qmailadmin info is at www.inter7.com/qmailadmin, sqlwebmail is at www.inter7.com/sqwebmail. ___ Get your hongkong.com freemail at http://www.hongkong.com Free newsletters center at http://post4u.hongkong.com
Re: [newbie] Email system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry sending to both newbie and expert mailing lists, but it is a bit urgent for me. Does anyone have experience in using qmail, sendmail, fetchmail, twig, postmail etc? Would you please share your experience, good or bad, whether it is reliable and easy to manage? I have to implement an email system, preferably with web-based frontend, in the company. Thanks a lot. We're currently using Qmail for our corporate Internet email and we're extremely happy with it. Configuration is extremely easy and maintenance is simple as well. If you're looking into web-based front-ends for administration, check out qmailadmin, we're looking at it right now. As for a web-based user interface, sqlwebmail looks pretty nice as well. Qmail information is available at www.qmail.org, qmailadmin info is at www.inter7.com/qmailadmin, sqlwebmail is at www.inter7.com/sqwebmail. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mouse problem
Mine is a PS/2 one... better buy a serial mouse, right? Thanks++ to all of you. Ken I am curious if the mouse was a PS/2 run through an adaptor to the serial port or the serial mouse attached through a PS/2 adapter. In the first case, get a real serial mouse. In the second, run XF86Setup or XF86config and reconfigure the mouse driver. Steve's advice is good, however. Stick with the serial mouse if you can. Motherboards move in mysterious ways. Civileme Steve Philp wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used a serial mouse on my Linux box previously. But for some reason, I have to switch to PS/2 mouse through a converter. After that, my mouse no longer works anymore. Any hint for that? Thanks. I just got done fiddling 'round with a Win98 laptop that had the exact same problem. I ended up swapping the PS/2 mouse for a serial one and things popped right back to normal. Can't say I've ever seen that happen before, but I spent around 4 hours (and 3 reinstalls) trying to get that PS/2 mouse working. I'd suggest trying to move back to a real serial mouse. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me ___ Get your hongkong.com freemail at http://www.hongkong.com Free newsletters center at http://post4u.hongkong.com
[newbie] MX300 drivers from OSS doesn't work...
What am I doing wrong??? I downloaded the "beta" A3d drivers from http://www.opensound.com, followed the instructions on unpacking and installing the software, and rebooted my machine, but Sound and Midi fail at boot and I don't have any sound coming outa my speakers :( I'm REALLY a newbie so any help would be appreciated... Should I try removing all existing sound files, and if so, which are they and where are they located... Thanks in advance. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] re Scar Orifice
And thank you, David, for not giving up right away. I have 15 computers to move to Linux (4 done so far), and all of their users are accustomed to a suite, usually MS Office or ClarisWorks. So far, the most unfortunate comments I have gotten are: "Where is the equivalent of Microsoft Publisher?" "Why can't I print to more than one printer?" The first is due to MS Marketing who seem to feel that they can sell you Word once and crippled Word again with a little Clipart and a new wig and not have you notice. Well, apparently they are right. The second was due to my inexperience installing StarOffice. I made some full-user installs when I should have done Workstation installs, so that the printers defined on the machine would all be accessible. Now I have a passel of fonts to convert to type1 so S.O. can use them, and a few other items to accomplish. One might ask why I chose S.O. rather than something else. Easy, with 13 windows users and 2 MAC users (Not PowerMAC or G3 mind you, MAC 68K types) I had to choose something that at least LOOKED familiar. I personally reach for Applix when I have a job needing a Suite, but the filters in and out of that one don't seem to quite keep pace with the ever-changing (let's sell another useless upgrade) MS formats. S.O., despite its bloat, does so. Of course, I don't know if 5.1 will read MS Office 2000 files, so I may be playing catch-up again. And when I have a light job, I tend to click on the Siag/PW icons. Pathetic Writer is enough for 90% of what I do, and the only reason I ever use a spellchecker is to find typos. Anyway, take care, and don't give up on StarOffice. It has its uses, even if it has now become Sun's tool for trying to poison MS Office sales. Without it, I would not have been able to convince management to allow the OS switch at the workers' desktops. Civileme
Re: [newbie] calling all bash gurus re Scar Orifice
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, Civileme wrote: --Hi Civileme, Thanks for taking the time to reply. Infact I d like to thank John, Ax, Jeanette and everyone else who tried to help. As I ve said before, this list is great! However, I broke down and went to Micro-Center and got Corel WP8. It installed in a matter of seconds and works flawlessly. While I was there, spending my hard earned cake on 1's 0's I saw Applix. So I decided to give that a go as well. Not quite as easy an install, but it went in and seems to work OK, albeit a bit less Word-like than Corel. You have to understand that I ve been struggling with Star Office since my early Linux days. The first version I ever had was 4.0, and I ve NEVER had anything but the worst of luck with it. I ve even seen it crash my system while trying to install. I did manage to get 5.0 for Win95 to work, but didn t see much point to a shell on top of a shell, so I ended up uninstalling it. (Try and get _that_ mess out of your windows registry!) Oh well, thanks again, and we can all get back to things like Kcharset: wrong charset and How do I get a parallel port zip+ 100 autodect to work? . David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
[newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
- Original Message - From: David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Brian J. Babiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Brian J. Babiuk wrote: snip Packard Bell computers of any vintage. snip I have never experienced anything more likely to drop its MBR or a few clusters off the disk than these babies. --I agree! Packard Bell, the Star Office of Computers g ROTFLMAO!!! David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics Maybe I have one of those 1 in 3 Packard Bells, so I needed to interject. I believe that it is the newer Packard Bell pc's that are really crap. I have a Packard Bell Legend 100CD that has built-in Cirrus Logic 1 MB video, and a 480 MB Seagate harddrive (bought in mid '95). By your standards, I should have been dead in the water. It is true that I have made some hardware changes in that time (ie: upgraded the 14.4 kbps faxmodem to a x2 56kbps faxmodem [now v.90], and a 50x CD-ROM drive since the original Panasonic-Matsushita died, plus more RAM). I also added a Maxtor 4.3 GB harddrive as a slave device (but it is now the master), with my swap and /home partitions on the original Seagate. I also dual boot. It is true indeed that I have had some problems with linux, but nothing hardware related. I understand that the original e-mail was just a start, but all of these things can't just be automatically scratched out. Now if you say there may be hardware that conflict with each other, that may be a bit more acurate. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Setting Up X with a UTNT2
1. You have XFree86 3.3.5 in 6.1 2. You may need to set up the link Where did the X server from the tarball go? And the -dyn. in the package seems to imply it will be looking for some libraries on your machine, which may be a later source of error. See if you can get the staticly linked binary To set up the link, you need to discover where it got inflated and placed when you ran tar xvzf RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386-dyn.tar.gz to do that you need to FIND it Probably searching on RIVA will do it. For demo purposes, let's say it is /usr/X11R6/bin/RIVA (this probably won't be the filename or directory. You'll have to find that) You need to try ln -fs /usr/X11R6/bin/X /usr/X11R6/bin/RIVA ln -fs /etc/X11/X /usr/X11R6/bin/RIVA After that, the program to use is XF86Setup and maybe xvidtune once you have it going. The last parts of those instruction lines need to be changed to point to the file where the Xserver actually installed. If you have more questions after trying this, then ask. Civileme Steven Thomas Madara wrote: I'm having trouble getting X to boot up, as in - it won't. My video card is a Creative Labs Ultra TNT2. I've visited the nvidia website, and installed the "RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386-dyn.tar.gz" file. The page also mentions that I have to have "XFree86 3.3.3.1 dated after January 7, 1999" for it to work. I'm running Mandrake 6.1...how can i check to see if my x server is 3.3.3.1 and dated after jan7, 1999? I've tried setting my card up with xf86config several times, selecting the regular SVGA server options...but each time i attempt to run X I get the error message: "No GLINT/PERMEDIA based card found." Are there any urls someone could point me to that explain the installation and setup of X with a TNT2 card? Do I need to setup XFree86 3.3.3.1? Looking for any input on this... Thx, Steve
[newbie] SVGAlib Quake or Squake
Has any one installed SVGAlib Quake or Squake with Mandrake 6.0 ? Is there a RPM version to support glibc-based linux(as per linuxquake how-to site) i.e. Mandrake? I have installed quake.x11 but it is to slow compared to a windows box. Brian W.
[newbie] Email system
Sorry sending to both newbie and expert mailing lists, but it is a bit urgent for me. Does anyone have experience in using qmail, sendmail, fetchmail, twig, postmail etc? Would you please share your experience, good or bad, whether it is reliable and easy to manage? I have to implement an email system, preferably with web-based frontend, in the company. Thanks a lot. Ken ___ Get your hongkong.com freemail at http://www.hongkong.com Free newsletters center at http://post4u.hongkong.com
