Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's being worked on in 2.3, so won't come out till 2.4 or something like that? I mean, the kernel is probably detecting the EIDE controller that's on the motherboard which does not have any HD plugged into it. There's only one drive plugged into a Promise Tech ATA66 controller which is a PCI card. Any comments, suggestions? - Yifan On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote: Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option. Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You can find information about the controller in /proc/pci. If not, you _might_ be able to find the info in the Windows device manager under the resources tab. Mine also said that "ide2..." was an invalid option, but continued with the install (and did see the drive) despite the warning. [snip] Load your install disk, change to tty2 then 'cat /proc/pci' You will need the first i/o address for both ide2 and ide3.
[newbie] Mandrake Updates -- How often?
Dear friends: This question is addressed to anyone on the Mandrake staff: I understand that the MandrakeCooker directory is your development directory (sort of like Rawhide is to Red Hat). I notice that there are over 250 rpms in it. Does Mandrake automatically update any rpms (that is, make it available to its users via the MandrakeUpdate icon on the desktop) when it feels that they are ready? What's the policy on this? I just downloaded the MandrakeCooker netscape 4.7 files (all three) and tried to install them (rpm -Uvh netscape-*.rpm). I got a "segmantation fault." So, I promptly deleted them. Is that because the MandrakeCooker Netscape 4.7 files are not ready yet for official release? When they are, will they automatically show up on MandrakeUpdate? Thank you. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
RE: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD?
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,mshirley wrote: | -Original Message- | From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 12:23 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD? | | | On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,Thomas J. Hamman wrote: | | On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, mshirley wrote: | | | | With all the problems with 6.1, is there a way to | | make an updated 6.0 CD so that all the updates are | | installed automagically? IE, I put the CD in, and | | run install, etc, and get the new kernal, initscripts, | | and heck even the new 2.2.13 kernal and XFree86 even. | | Is there a file used for installation that says what files | | are on the CD? | | | | Technically you could, yes. You'd just remove the packages you're | replacing | | from Mandrake/RPMS, put the newer packages you want to use in | Mandrake/RPMS, | | and then from the base of the distribution tree run: | | | | ./misc/genhdlist . | | | | To update the hdlist with the new packages. | | | | That's what I did when I made an updated M6.0 CD (with the updates | specifically | | for 6.0). I can foresee you possibly having dependency problems when | trying to | | mix 6.1 packages in, though; it's quite likely that there are slightly | newer | | versions for some libraries (like gtk, qt, etc.) in 6.1 that some | packages in | | 6.1 depend on, so you would need to add them too (and might as well toss | in the | | newer development packages while you're at it). But THEN you MIGHT (or | might | | not, your guess is as good as mine) break some of the 6.0 packages that | are | | linked with slightly older libraries from 6.0. | | | | If you haven't actually tried 6.1 yet, I'd suggest giving it a try. It | works | | great for me, and my impression of it is that it's less buggy than 6.0. | There | | were some updates for 6.0 that ya just HAD to get, but I didn't even | bother | | getting the 6.1 updates until I was burning a CD for a friend and | figured I | | might as well put the existing updates on it. | | | | Secondly, once I get this ready, can it be burnt in *GAK* | | Windows, or do I actually need to figure out XCDroast? | | | | As far as I know, burning in Windows should be fine. Though I don't | know if | | Windows burning programs allow you to use Rock Ridge extensions? I'd | think you | | would want a Linux CD burned with Rock Ridge extensions (it's like the | Linux | | version of Windows' Joliet). | | | | -Tom | | Mandrake 6.1 works great here. The only problem I have found is that there | apears to be a conflict between the kcmclock package and the kdelibs | package. | If you have this problem, remove the kcmclock package, and install the | kdelibs | package in kpackage. Problem solved! | | Ernie | | | I have been following the banter from Steve Philps and Axalon about how | broken 6.1 is, | and don't even want to touch it until the SECOND bug fix is out. 6.0 works | well for me, | but have been unable to get the fix packages to install correctly, and | thought that since | I am still learning, and hence, screwing up my installs bad enough that I | need to reinstall | every now and then, that I would make an updated 6.0 CD, that way I have one | less step every | time I reinstall. | | On that note, when updating the kernal and initscripts for instance, how do | I get the package | to install? De-install the kernal and then reinstall the new one, then | update lilo? or the other | way around? Secondly, how do you update lilo that is on a floppy? I don't | have lilo on the MBR. | | Know-nothing, | Mark Hi Mark, If you are having trouble with rpm installs and updates in general, the one thing that has given me problems is that I have a 486-style system. Due to the way rpm is configured, it would tell me that most all the packages I tried to install were for a diferent architecture. I mentioned this in a reply to a post a few days ago, and Axalom Blodstone replied to me with a solution: You have to hack (edit) the rpmrc file, which is located on my system in the /usr/lib/rpm folder. Open the file in your favorite text editor, and work your way through it and make the corresponding lines look like the folowing: arch_compat: i486: i386 i586 arch_compat: osfmach3_i486: i386 osfmach3_i586 buildarch_compat: i486: i386 i586 When I did this, rpm, Kpackage, and the Mandrake Update tools all were able to install any package on my system. Now, I made these changes in Mandrake 6.1, but I bet they will work for 6.0 as well. Give it a day or two, in the event this is not the case. I am sure AX will jump in with the correct information if needed. If this (package for another ardhitecture) is
Re: [newbie] My PnP problem
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | From: Ronald A. Yacketta | Hello all! | | i fixed my PnP problem *blush* | somehow the card was dislodge from the ISA slot *snicker* | I went into my box earler and reeated all my cards, booted up and all works | wel now | | sometimes its not a newbie problem, but a dunce problem *snicker* Don't feel too bad, that's one that would be easy to miss. Ernie
RE: [newbie] Re: Home network - Check With Your ISP
"Singer XJ Wang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/25/99 03:13:16 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: RE: [newbie] Re: Home network Do NOT setup Firewall or PROXY, most Cable Provider forbid those servers. What you need is a IP Masquerdaging [damnit, I hate spelling] I am running my web page from my Linux box via a cable modem. I also use squid ( http://squid.nlanr.net/ ) to facilitate the other computers in my house using my cable modem. I read over the fine print in my customer service agreement, and the only type of sites expressly forbidden are "commercial" sites. I called MediaOne to verify. They tell me that they are trying to discourage stuff like "quake servers" and/or e-commerce sites. A non-bandwidth hogging site _SHOULD NOT_ be a problem. Check with _your_ ISP to be sure. Good Luck, Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jaguar Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: Home network I am running Mandrake 6.0, and I can connect the box to the 'Net using my cable modem. What I would like to do is make the Linux Box a firewall/server for other computer's downstream. I have Samba installed ( but not used yet ). What other hardware besides NIC's ie: 5 Port Hub, or ??, would be needed to do this. Also what kinda of anti-hacking security is available for a setup like this. TIA Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work
Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it will not download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when I re-installed mandrake? Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
[newbie] compact/extract
I am really new to Linux and would like to know if KDE has a program to compact/extract archives? Does anyone know? Thanks in advance, Oder.
RE: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD?
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,mshirley wrote: | -Original Message- | From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 12:23 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD? | | | On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,Thomas J. Hamman wrote: | | On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, mshirley wrote: | | | | With all the problems with 6.1, is there a way to | | make an updated 6.0 CD so that all the updates are | | installed automagically? IE, I put the CD in, and | | run install, etc, and get the new kernal, initscripts, | | and heck even the new 2.2.13 kernal and XFree86 even. | | Is there a file used for installation that says what files | | are on the CD? | | | | Technically you could, yes. You'd just remove the packages you're | replacing | | from Mandrake/RPMS, put the newer packages you want to use in | Mandrake/RPMS, | | and then from the base of the distribution tree run: | | | | ./misc/genhdlist . | | | | To update the hdlist with the new packages. | | | | That's what I did when I made an updated M6.0 CD (with the updates | specifically | | for 6.0). I can foresee you possibly having dependency problems when | trying to | | mix 6.1 packages in, though; it's quite likely that there are slightly | newer | | versions for some libraries (like gtk, qt, etc.) in 6.1 that some | packages in | | 6.1 depend on, so you would need to add them too (and might as well toss | in the | | newer development packages while you're at it). But THEN you MIGHT (or | might | | not, your guess is as good as mine) break some of the 6.0 packages that | are | | linked with slightly older libraries from 6.0. | | | | If you haven't actually tried 6.1 yet, I'd suggest giving it a try. It | works | | great for me, and my impression of it is that it's less buggy than 6.0. | There | | were some updates for 6.0 that ya just HAD to get, but I didn't even | bother | | getting the 6.1 updates until I was burning a CD for a friend and | figured I | | might as well put the existing updates on it. | | | | Secondly, once I get this ready, can it be burnt in *GAK* | | Windows, or do I actually need to figure out XCDroast? | | | | As far as I know, burning in Windows should be fine. Though I don't | know if | | Windows burning programs allow you to use Rock Ridge extensions? I'd | think you | | would want a Linux CD burned with Rock Ridge extensions (it's like the | Linux | | version of Windows' Joliet). | | | | -Tom | | Mandrake 6.1 works great here. The only problem I have found is that there | apears to be a conflict between the kcmclock package and the kdelibs | package. | If you have this problem, remove the kcmclock package, and install the | kdelibs | package in kpackage. Problem solved! | | Ernie | | | I have been following the banter from Steve Philps and Axalon about how | broken 6.1 is, | and don't even want to touch it until the SECOND bug fix is out. 6.0 works | well for me, | but have been unable to get the fix packages to install correctly, and | thought that since | I am still learning, and hence, screwing up my installs bad enough that I | need to reinstall | every now and then, that I would make an updated 6.0 CD, that way I have one | less step every | time I reinstall. | | On that note, when updating the kernal and initscripts for instance, how do | I get the package | to install? De-install the kernal and then reinstall the new one, then | update lilo? or the other | way around? Secondly, how do you update lilo that is on a floppy? I don't | have lilo on the MBR. | | Know-nothing, | Mark Oops! Almost forgot! After you install the new kernel, you need to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file to use the new kernel. I recommend you add a new section for the new kernel (temporarily), and keep the old setup available for a while, just in case grin. I have put a copy of my lilo.conf in as an example. The part you need to duplicate starts with the "image = " line, and includes any indented lines below it until the next unindented line. Simply insert a new section under the existing one, but refering to the new kernel, and with a new label (lilo must have a unique key sequence for each entry). For example, my previous image = line was "image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-4mdk", and for the temp section I used "image = vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk", "append = "mem=80""and "label = k". Save the file, and run lilo from a console. This will add the new settings to the lilo boot loader. I think the lilo.conf file will have a boot = line something like "boot = /dev/fd0". If this is the case, you will need the boot floppy in the floppy drive when you run lilo. I think the boot = line tells lilo where to put
Re: [newbie] Partition setup help
The solution, then is to create the partitions using the DOS fdisk utility, including the ones you want for Linux. Then restart the 'puter, and run fdisk again, but this time remove the partitions you want for Linux. Install Win9x, then install Linux, recreating the partitions with disk druid. I think this will work. A more expensive solution, but much easier is to get PartitionMagic, and do the job with it. You can resize, move, and reformat partitions at will. Anything but formatting will not destroy the information on the partitions. It's a great tool, and I recomend it highly. The bad news is the cost - about $70.00 here in Toledo, Ohio USA. I use it, because as my needs change, I don't have to do a rebuild to rearange my partitions. I started out with 2 Gig for Linux, and 6 Gig for Win95. Now it's about half and half (4 Gigs each). Ernie On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,Collin J. Davidson wrote: | This sounds good, but I jhave been told and, from experience, learned that | there must be some sort of /boot linux partition within the first 8GB of | Hard Drive space. Since I want the combined Win98 partitions to be 10GB, | your suggestion does not seem like it will work. I could be wrong, please | advise. | | - Original Message - | From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 11:58 AM | Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition setup help | | | J, | | You will need to install Win95/98 first, since it will overwright the MBR | (Master Boot Record) of your hard disk. | | Run fdisk from the Win95/98 floppy, and create one primary partition, and | one | extended partition. These must occupy the entire Hard Disk. Then in the | extended | partition, create one or more logical partitions as desired for Win95/98. | Do | not create any partitions for Linux at this point. Leave the amount of | space | you want for Linux unpartitioned in the extended partition. | | Next, restart and format the DOS partittions for Win95/98 with the DOS | format | command, then install the Win9x operating system. | | Once you have Win9x installed and operational, restart the computer and | run the | Linux installation program (I used the Linux boot disk in my floppy | drive). | Follow the on screen prompts, and I suggest you use disk druid to set up | the | Linux partitions, as it is easier, and will not destroy your Win9x | instalation. | This should result in a machine which will do a good dual-boot between | Win9x | and Linux. It worked for me. | | Note, I installed LILO in the MBR so I could boot from the HD, and LILO | did | not mess up my Win9x. | | Ernie | | | On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,Collin J. Davidson wrote: || I am so close to setting this up, I can almost taste it. I guess you | get || delusional after looking at the computer screen for 12 hours straight. || Anyway, I can't quite get my hard drive partitioned correctly. I have | 12.9 || GB hard drive, and want to use approximately 10 GB for win98, and 2.9 | for || Mandrake Linux 6.1. These are the two setups that seem to be the | closest to || correct. || || 1. hde1, 4 GB, Win95 FAT32 || hde5, 2 GB, Linux Native - first part of an extended partition (hde2) || hde6, 128MB, Linux Swap - second part of an extended partition (hde2) || hde7, 6 GB, FAT16 = 32MB or some sort of DOS partition - third part | of an || extended partition (hde2) || || This one worked well. LILO booted both Win98, and Linux. The only | problem || was, after I formatted hde7 as a FAT32 in Win98, Win98 took FOREVER to | boot, || and after it did, it couldn't see hde7. The only thing I can think | of, is || that Linux does not support FAT32 as a logical partition in an | extended || partition, wrote something to the disk and then Win98 couldn't figure | out || what was going on. Of course, I could be completely wrong, and have | no idea || what I am talking about. || || 2. hde1, 4 GB, Win95 FAT32 || hde2, 16MB, Linux Native - I did this and mounted it as /boot because | it's || my understanding that LILO must have /boot within the first 8GB of a | hard || drive. || hde5, 2 GB, Linux Native - first part of an extended partition (hde3) || hde6, 128MB, Linux Swap - second part of an extended partitiion (hde3) || hde4, 6 GB, some sort of DOS extended partition || || This setup allowed me to boot both Win 98 and Linux. The problem with | this || one was that it seems like Win98 only supports ONE primary partition | and ONE || extended partition per disk. I have 2 primary and 2 extended. Again, | I || could be completely wrong. No matter what I did with hde4, Win 98 | couldn't || see it.
RE: [newbie] eth0 transmit timed out error
I tried v0.91g last night and it seems to work :) I can ping my other Windows boxes and vice versa. I haven't done any other testing with other services yet. Thanks to everyone for the help. Hmm... now what do I do with this neat new OS? Maybe a gateway/firewall... -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 6:11 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] eth0 transmit timed out error On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Morrell, Mike wrote: I have two other Win98 machines and a 10/100 hub all connected together with CAT5 cable. I know the the connections are good because this box was running Win98 prior to converting it to Linux and I had no problems with networking under Windows. Some have suggested that I try to compile and use the latest tulip driver v0.91g. Does anyone know what driver version comes on the Mandrake 6.0 CD? How do I check the version? Actualy i said v0.91 Beckers, current stable release. 0.91g is the development driver (which i haven't tested) The linux kernel version, is v0.89(h, i think) which has been shipping sense god knows when. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] eth0 transmit timed out error On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi All, I just installed Mandrake 6.0 to try out this Linux OS. I am having trouble getting networking to work. It detected my NIC as a tulip card and I setup the necessary network configs. When I rebooted I get this message: eth0: transmit timed out, status e426, CSR12 40a1d0cc, resetting... Any ideas on what is going on with this? Here is my system specs. Pentium166 32MB RAM Biostar MB with Award Bios ATI mach32 video MX98715 (Macronix) based generic NIC. What is your ethernet connected to? It sounds like the error I get when my machine isn't connected to something at boot-up. John -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] RPM
The problem is that you are trying to use the RedHat version of ipchains. You need to use a Mandrake version. It is not a good idea to mix distributions, as there may be conflicts. Try getting the package you want from a Mandrake mirror, then do the install with that. Also, you may want to get the package from the RPMS folder, not the SRPMS folder. The packages in the RPMS folders are binaries, while the ones in the SRPMS folders are sources - or did you want to compile them yourself? HTH, Ernie On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,tmwhite wrote: | I am trying to add ipchains package to my mandrake 6.1 system .. but | when i d/l the file (from the srpm dir of redhat) it wont install it .. | and when i click on the individual files in rpm .. its says file | malformed .. any ideas?? | | Thanks | Todd White
[newbie] PCI Ethernet Card
I have got some problems regarding the network installation, because I am not able to recognize my PCI ethernet card, type Davicom 9102 Fast Ethernet. It is not on the list supplied by the linuxconf. What should I do in this case? Regards! Gilmar.
Re: [newbie] A lot of questions
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,Jeff Sawatzky wrote: | I am new to linux and have no clue as to what I am doing, so lets just | get to the questions: | | 1) How do I get linux to mount /dev/hda1 to /mnt/win ecery time I start | it up? | 2) How do I get my Zip drive to work, and how do I mount it? | 3) I one CD-ROM (which works) and a Sony CD-RW, how do I get my CD-RW to | work? | 4) I have a D-Link DFE-530TX dual speed ethernet PCI card, how do I get | it to work? | 5) How do I upgrade linux? | | well that is it for now I think. | By the way, I am using Mandrake 6.0, so if there are any bug fixes that | I should have, please let me know of them and how to install them. I | have absolutly no clue what I am doing. | | Jeff Sawatzky In the /etc/mtab file, add a line that looks something like this, only use the folder path of your choice instead of the /mnt/DOS_hda1 shown here. This should do the job for question number 1, I think. For 2, 3, and 4, I do not know, as I have none of these devices on my system. As for item number 5, if you can get online in Mandrake, then use the Mandrake Update tool in KDE (it may be available in Gnome, but I don't use that desktop). You must first connect to the Internet, then click the program icon, and follow the prompts. Mandrake Update makes it easy to update the version on your system ( with fixes etc.). It will download the packages you select, and install them as well. I recomend doing the updates one at a time, I've heard people having problems doing multiples. If you can not get online in Mandrake, then do the download from your other OS, and put the packages in a known folder (like c:\downloade\linux or something), then restart the 'puter and boot Linux. Mount the partition containing the files you downloaded, and run rpm something like this in a console window or session: rpm -Uvh path to file where the path to the file will be (assuming you used /Win as the mount point for DOS drive C:, and the files are located in C:\downloads\linux): /Win/downloads/linux/packagename You can go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com and folow the links to an ftp mirror site near you for the downloads. When you log onto the mirror, select the folder for your version, then the updates folder to get fix packages. HTH, Ernie /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=auto 0 0
Re: [newbie] InetliMouse
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Yes it will IF and only IF you add the proper information into your xinitrc (I think that is it) file. it is the one that defines the key strokes, thier is also a www page that I have booked marked at home. I will get the bookmark and post it . Ron John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/26/99 03:53:46 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] InetliMouse On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote: 2) set the number of buttons to 5 things seem to work as normal in X. b4 doing this my mouse pointer would jump all over the screen and be totaly uncontrolable. Hmm...does that let you do things like use the wheel to scroll??? If so, I'm going to have to reconfigure my mouse as soon as I get home. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Set time via an Atomic Clock - How?
From: Ronald A. Yacketta try xntp or you could script rdate "Eric L. Damron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/26/99 08:30:32 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] Set time via an Atomic Clock - How? Is there a script that will allow my server to check in with an atomic clock once per day and set the time? Thanks
Re: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card
From: Ronald A. Yacketta look at the card, what chip does it use? with this info we can more than likley give you more insight/help "Gilmar Caiado" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/27/99 08:56:02 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card I have got some problems regarding the network installation, because I am not able to recognize my PCI ethernet card, type Davicom 9102 Fast Ethernet. It is not on the list supplied by the linuxconf. What should I do in this case? Regards! Gilmar.
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
Hi , If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to set up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create the file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on the brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and they refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers. Question, I tried to manually configure the proxy settings in Netscape and it tells me the proxy is not recognized so it refuses to accept the entries. Do I have to enter the proxy somewhere else first? I wouldn't think so, The win version accepted the entries with no problem. Aaron deRozario wrote: Advice from a newbie - treat with caution ;-) If you don't have /etc/resolv.conf you can create it by firing up your favourite text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite) and simply saving an empty file as /etc/resolve.conf. Of course since you need to edit the file with the appropriate information you may as well do that at the same time. resolve.conf I think follows the format (see if there's a man page for resolve.conf it will have the exact format) nameserver (eg ozemail.com.au) DNS IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) DNS2 IP address (if there is two nameservers) If you use kppp then it will take care of editing /etc/resolve.conf for you. I think if you use kppp resolve.conf needs to be writeable by those users that will have ppp access. chmod 666 should do it Read the ppp how-to's if what I said doesn't work, or check the archives - DNS problems come up very regularly on the list. I think the Kppp help files also have useful information. Aaron -Original Message- From: Mark Nina Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build this file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info on how to do this? Thanks!! -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I get a server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the name server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". Have I missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, ditch the HTML. It's not appreciated in this list. Second, open up a root console window and go to /etc/ and edit your /etc/resolv.conf so that it has your ISP's DNS servers. It should look something like this: search chattanooga.net nameserver 209.54.120.2 nameserver 209.54.120.3 The "chattanooga.net" would be replaced with your ISP, "leading.net" Second, you'd replace the above numbers with the IP addresses of your ISP, leading.net. To find out that information, call your ISP and ask what their DNS numbers are and plug 'em in above in place of MY dns numbers. I won't put something together for you to just copy and paste, because I firmly believe that you learn by doing. I gave you the example from my system, so you know the way it should look. John
Re: [newbie] Linux maintenance programs?
Yup, fsck is a command line tool that does what scandisk does for dos. The only thing is that you must be mounted in read-only mode to use it. The ext2 filesystem is not as prone to fragmentation as the fat filesystem, so you will not need to use a defragmenter much, but there is one in Mandrake 6.1. It is called defrag, fancy that. To use it, you must boot from a floppy disk, with a rescue disk running. The bottom line is that Linux takes pretty good care of the filesystem, and maintenance is low. Perriodically, when you boot your system, you will get a message that the maximal mount count has been reached, and that a check is being forced (I think about each 20 mounts). If fsck finds any problems which require your intervention, the system will offer you the chance to "dump to a prompt" to fix the trouble. Do so! Then you can run fsck again, with the partition to be fixed as in: fsck /dev/hdax (where x is the partition number) This will run fsck in interactive mode, and will repair any problems, with your permission. The utility is quite complete, and I have had an occasion to profit from it. I experienced a power failure recently, and the next time I started Linux, it was time for a forced check. The check found a lot of duplicate inodes (or nodes? - can't remember), and droped me to a prompt. I ran fsck (that is when I looked in the man page using "man fsck" to learn how to use it), and got everything working again. There was no data loss, or any other problems to my knowlege. Linux continues to impress me more each day. Ernie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Richard Salts wrote: | Like in Windows, are there any Linux maintenance programs where the user | and/or root can use for system cleanups, optimization, etc.? | | | Richard
Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work
Rick, I had a variety of seemingly unrelated problems when I did the update from Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. Most if not all of them were fixed when I removed the kcmclock package, and reinstalled the kdelibs package. I also did some changes to my rpmrc file, to let rpm install the Mandrake packages on my old 486-style system. Maybe you should do the kdelibs fix and see if it has anything to do with the update tool (unless you already have)? If you have a 486-style system, rpm (which is used by both Mandrake Update and Kpackage) will by default refuse to install 586 packages on a 486 machine. Axilon was gracious enough to give me the hack for the rpmrc file - BTW Thanks AX! - located on my system at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc. Edit the file with your favorite text editor, and modify the three related lines to match as below: arch_compat: i486: i386 i586 arch_compat: osfmach3_i486: i386 osfmach3_i586 buildarch_compat: i486: i386 i586 I cannot remember what information was in these lines prior to the hack, but I added (I think the i486) stuff to each line. I also modified my kdelinks for Kpackage and Mandrake Update in my normal user desktop so I could run them as if I was a superuser. I added "kdesu -c " (without the quotes) to the front of the command lines in the Execute tab of the properties box for each link. Now Mandrake Update, RPM, and Kpackage all work as intended for me. Before the rpmrc hack, Mandrake Update would download the RPM's, then tell me that the packages were for a diferent architecture in an error box, and not install anything. After hacking rpmrc, I was able to remove the kcmclock package, which permitted me to fix kdelibs by installing the package (Kpackage reported that kdelibs was not installed) from the CD, and get all available updates installed with Mandrake Update. Since these changes, I have not found anything which will not work on my system. I hope there is something in here which will be of help for you, Ernie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Rick Murphy wrote: | Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update | program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it will not | download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when I | re-installed mandrake? | | Rick | | | -- | "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie] compact/extract
Yes. It is called Archiver in the Utilities menu. You can also extract *.tar.gz files by navigating to the file in KFM, then other-clicking (right-click for a right-handed person) the file, and selecting Archiver from the context menu which pops up. HTH, Ernie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Oder Santos wrote: | I am really new to Linux and would like to know if KDE has a program to | compact/extract archives? Does anyone know? Thanks in advance, Oder.
Re: [newbie] DSL with a static IP
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote: I just recently switched to a dsl static ip line. But I don't seem to be able to tell my eth0 connection that it's not supposed to use dhcp any longer. Hmm...turn off dhcpd in the setup menu? I'd also suggest going into "netcfg" and putting your static IP in there for etho. I just checked and there doesn't seem to be anything in netcfg to tell Linux to use or not to use DHCP, so I would guess that just not running it would work. John
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build this
file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info on
how to do this? Thanks!!
YES! Although you SHOULD learn how to do this yourself, I'm
going to create one you can cut out of this message and
paste into the "resolv.conf" on your system.
--[cut here]-
search leading.net
nameserver 216.199.0.101
nameserver 216.199.0.102
--[cut here]-
Now, let me explain what this stuff is:
Search -- your ISP's domain name. In this case,
"leading.net" is your ISP's domain name.
Nameserver -- it wants an IP address so it can go search
and convert an internet site name to a numeric address,
which is how it knows to load www.cnn.com for instance. In
the example of www.cnn.com, your ISP's dns server knows
that one numeric alias for www.cnn.com is 207.25.71.7. Now
there are quite a few others, but that's the first one.
Ownership of resolv.conf needs to be user "root" and
group "root." It's best to create this file as the root
user (you can just "su" to root and create a blank file
using your favorite text editor. I use joe, others prefer
pico, etc.) No matter which editor you choose you'll
need to invoke it and tell it to open
"/etc/resolv.conf". I'll use joe in this example. Type joe
/etc/resolv.conf and it'll give you a new file, into which
you'd cut and paste the above info, or just retype it.
Then, when you're done, just tell your editor to save and
exit. In joe that command is control-k+x to save and exit
all at once. In pico, I think it's just control-x.
The permissions need to be 644 ("chmod 644
/etc/resolv.conf")
John
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote: Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's being worked on in 2.3, so won't come out till 2.4 or something like that? I mean, the kernel is probably detecting the EIDE controller that's on the motherboard which does not have any HD plugged into it. There's only one drive plugged into a Promise Tech ATA66 controller which is a PCI card. Any comments, suggestions? - Yifan Yeah same as the first time i said it ;) just tell linux there are 3rd, and 4th ide chains and off ya go. Ata66 is supposed tobe fully backward compliant, so it will pick them up as normal ide. On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote: Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option. Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You can find information about the controller in /proc/pci. If not, you _might_ be able to find the info in the Windows device manager under the resources tab. Mine also said that "ide2..." was an invalid option, but continued with the install (and did see the drive) despite the warning. [snip] Load your install disk, change to tty2 then 'cat /proc/pci' You will need the first i/o address for both ide2 and ide3. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Updates -- How often?
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: This question is addressed to anyone on the Mandrake staff: I understand that the MandrakeCooker directory is your development directory (sort of like Rawhide is to Red Hat). I notice that there are over 250 rpms in it. over 600 actualy Does Mandrake automatically update any rpms (that is, make it available to its users via the MandrakeUpdate icon on the desktop) when it feels that they are ready? What's the policy on this? No. None. I just downloaded the MandrakeCooker netscape 4.7 files (all three) and tried to install them (rpm -Uvh netscape-*.rpm). I got a "segmantation fault." So, I promptly deleted them. rpm -K foo.rpm # make sure it's not a bad download next time Is that because the MandrakeCooker Netscape 4.7 files are not ready yet for official release? When they are, will they automatically show up on MandrakeUpdate? Don't know their status, i use lynx couldn't even tell ya what netscape isinstalled on this machine if any. Yes if they are released as an update... Thank you. Benjamin -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Partition setup help
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: The solution, then is to create the partitions using the DOS fdisk utility, including the ones you want for Linux. Then restart the 'puter, and run fdisk again, but this time remove the partitions you want for Linux. Install Win9x, then install Linux, recreating the partitions with disk druid. I think this will work. The problem with this, is that it makes the Linux partitions visible to Windows, which, I've heard, can cause corruption, as Windows tries to "fix" the "grunged" file system and can't. A more expensive solution, but much easier is to get PartitionMagic, and do the job with it. You can resize, move, and reformat partitions at will. Anything but formatting will not destroy the information on the partitions. It's a great tool, and I recomend it highly. The bad news is the cost - about $70.00 here in Toledo, Ohio USA. The good news is, a version is included on most packaged versions of Linux these days (at least RedHat and Mandrake versions. G) I use it, because as my needs change, I don't have to do a rebuild to rearange my partitions. I started out with 2 Gig for Linux, and 6 Gig for Win95. Now it's about half and half (4 Gigs each). Yeah...it's pretty useful! :-) John
Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work
Are you signing in as root from within a user account that you created? I did and was having the same problem. I exited my user account and logged back in as "strictly root." I was then able to install the updates. -Bill - Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 3:51 AM Subject: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it will not download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when I re-installed mandrake? Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie] compact/extract
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am really new to Linux and would like to know if KDE has a program to compact/extract archives? Does anyone know? Thanks in advance, Oder. Well, I've heard of KArchiver, but since my Mandrake box is at home, and I've got a RedHat box at work, I don't know. I *do* know that KFM will extract archives, or at least let you browse 'em. John
Re: [Re: [newbie] DSL with a static IP]
I also have a STATIC IP with my cable modem. Is DHCP needed or required for proper function of the IP lease/connectivity? TIA Jaguar John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote: I just recently switched to a dsl static ip line. But I don't seem to be able to tell my eth0 connection that it's not supposed to use dhcp any longer. Hmm...turn off dhcpd in the setup menu? I'd also suggest going into "netcfg" and putting your static IP in there for etho. I just checked and there doesn't seem to be anything in netcfg to tell Linux to use or not to use DHCP, so I would guess that just not running it would work. John Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's being worked on in 2.3, so won't come out till 2.4 or something like that? I mean, the kernel is probably detecting the EIDE controller that's on the motherboard which does not have any HD plugged into it. There's only one drive plugged into a Promise Tech ATA66 controller which is a PCI card. Any comments, suggestions? I'd suggest going to the archives and searching for ide3. Good luck! John
Re: [newbie] Linux maintenance programs?
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Like in Windows, are there any Linux maintenance programs where the user and/or root can use for system cleanups, optimization, etc.? Generally speaking, unless you shut down the system improperly, you don't need any. Linux does it by itself. That's one of the beauties of the ext2 file system -- it doesn't get fragmented nearly as badly as a Fat16/32 file system. :-) And, if you do shut it down improperly, just follow the instructions on the screen to go into repair mode and type "fsck /dev/grunged partition" (replaceing grunged partition with the partition letter/number combo specified at boot when it says, for example, hda6 contains a file system with errors, check forced.) If it can't clean itself, linux will prompt you for the root password at which time you'll do the above. Just hit "enter" on all the questions, taking the default. Then, once it's done, just reboot and everything should be back to normal. :-) John
Re: [newbie] DSL with a static IP
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote: I just recently switched to a dsl static ip line. But I don't seem to be able to tell my eth0 connection that it's not supposed to use dhcp any longer. Hmm...turn off dhcpd in the setup menu? I'd also suggest going into "netcfg" and putting your static IP in there for etho. I just checked and there doesn't seem to be anything in netcfg to tell Linux to use or not to use DHCP, so I would guess that just not running it would work. John it would be in the "bootproto" or field or something similar under netcfg. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Web sites
Evening all I'd like to try and edit one of my web sites using Linux. I've been using PageMill and Dreamweaver under Windoze together with CuteFTP. Has anyone any recommendations as to which programs I could use under Linux. Many thanks John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity - finding DNS servers
I have BellAtlantic as our home ISP and they refused to give out their DNS servers, so I fired up an xterm session after conencting to the ISP and then simply typed "whois bellatlantic.net." It listed the IP addresses of BellAtlantic's DNS servers. HTH, Matt From: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:55:59 + Hi , If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to set up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create the file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on the brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and they refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers. Question, I tried to manually configure the proxy settings in Netscape and it tells me the proxy is not recognized so it refuses to accept the entries. Do I have to enter the proxy somewhere else first? I wouldn't think so, The win version accepted the entries with no problem. Aaron deRozario wrote: Advice from a newbie - treat with caution ;-) If you don't have /etc/resolv.conf you can create it by firing up your favourite text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite) and simply saving an empty file as /etc/resolve.conf. Of course since you need to edit the file with the appropriate information you may as well do that at the same time. resolve.conf I think follows the format (see if there's a man page for resolve.conf it will have the exact format) nameserver (eg ozemail.com.au) DNS IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) DNS2 IP address (if there is two nameservers) If you use kppp then it will take care of editing /etc/resolve.conf for you. I think if you use kppp resolve.conf needs to be writeable by those users that will have ppp access. chmod 666 should do it Read the ppp how-to's if what I said doesn't work, or check the archives - DNS problems come up very regularly on the list. I think the Kppp help files also have useful information. Aaron -Original Message- From: Mark Nina Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build this file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info on how to do this? Thanks!! -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I get a server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the name server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". Have I missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, ditch the HTML. It's not appreciated in this list. Second, open up a root console window and go to /etc/ and edit your /etc/resolv.conf so that it has your ISP's DNS servers. It should look something like this: search chattanooga.net nameserver 209.54.120.2 nameserver 209.54.120.3 The "chattanooga.net" would be replaced with your ISP, "leading.net" Second, you'd replace the above numbers with the IP addresses of your ISP, leading.net. To find out that information, call your ISP and ask what their DNS numbers are and plug 'em in above in place of MY dns numbers. I won't put something together for you to just copy and paste, because I firmly believe that you learn by doing. I gave you the example from my system, so you know the way it should look. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: I have got some problems regarding the network installation, because I am not able to recognize my PCI ethernet card, type Davicom 9102 Fast Ethernet. It is not on the list supplied by the linuxconf. What should I do in this case? Regards! Gilmar. Any idea which chipset it uses? John
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi , If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to set up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create the file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on the brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and they refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers. Well, that's taken care of easily enough G: Domain servers in listed order: NS1.EVESTA.COM 209.140.129.133 NS2.EVESTA.COM 209.140.129.134
Re: [newbie] InetliMouse
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta check out http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel/ http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ If you want to actually use the wheel for something, you can insert this line in the pointer section: ZAxisMapping 4 5 This will map the wheel-up and wheel-down events to X button 4 and button 5. At this point, you can play around with .Xdefaults to let these buttons actually do something. Unfortunately, this will be on a per-application basis. Thanks. I'll check it out. I mainly want scrolling in my Netscape and such... :-) John
RE: [newbie] Re: Home network - Check With Your ISP
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Singer XJ Wang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/25/99 03:13:16 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: RE: [newbie] Re: Home network Do NOT setup Firewall or PROXY, most Cable Provider forbid those servers. What you need is a IP Masquerdaging [damnit, I hate spelling] I am running my web page from my Linux box via a cable modem. I also use squid ( http://squid.nlanr.net/ ) to facilitate the other computers in my house using my cable modem. I read over the fine print in my customer service agreement, and the only type of sites expressly forbidden are "commercial" sites. I called MediaOne to verify. They tell me that they are trying to discourage stuff like "quake servers" and/or e-commerce sites. A non-bandwidth hogging site _SHOULD NOT_ be a problem. Check with _your_ ISP to be sure. Good Luck, Bryan Okay, wierd and wierd. NP ;) sorry about that then, here with EastLink Cable Modem. We are allowed to RUN Game servers but no other servers like PROXY [expressly stated in our agreement]. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jaguar Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: Home network I am running Mandrake 6.0, and I can connect the box to the 'Net using my cable modem. What I would like to do is make the Linux Box a firewall/server for other computer's downstream. I have Samba installed ( but not used yet ). What other hardware besides NIC's ie: 5 Port Hub, or ??, would be needed to do this. Also what kinda of anti-hacking security is available for a setup like this. TIA Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] DSL with a static IP]
Most Cable or DSL seems to be long duration DHCP, stil DHCP. Mine got changed finally after 1 1/2 years. I was on Static mode and started noticing that it cutt off every 15 minutes, damnit, I should've realized why but it took me like a couple of weeks to figure it out [acutally, by accident when I rebooted into Windows to play damed CC2 Tiberium Sun] On 27 Oct 1999, Jaguar wrote: I also have a STATIC IP with my cable modem. Is DHCP needed or required for proper function of the IP lease/connectivity? TIA Jaguar John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote: I just recently switched to a dsl static ip line. But I don't seem to be able to tell my eth0 connection that it's not supposed to use dhcp any longer. Hmm...turn off dhcpd in the setup menu? I'd also suggest going into "netcfg" and putting your static IP in there for etho. I just checked and there doesn't seem to be anything in netcfg to tell Linux to use or not to use DHCP, so I would guess that just not running it would work. John Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card
I don't know what chip the card uses, but I have found the driver, written in C. I think the only way is trying to compile this driver and see what happens... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card From: Ronald A. Yacketta look at the card, what chip does it use? with this info we can more than likley give you more insight/help "Gilmar Caiado" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/27/99 08:56:02 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card I have got some problems regarding the network installation, because I am not able to recognize my PCI ethernet card, type Davicom 9102 Fast Ethernet. It is not on the list supplied by the linuxconf. What should I do in this case? Regards! Gilmar.
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
How? On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: just tell linux there are 3rd, and 4th ide chains and off ya go. Ata66 is supposed tobe fully backward compliant, so it will pick them up as normal ide. -- Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail
Re: [Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads wont work]
Does Mandrake actually work with an 486/ On 27 Oct 1999, Jaguar wrote: FYI When I first got L-M 6.0 home, and installed it...it was to an AST 486 - 66, with 16 MB Ram. It installed perfectly ie: no conflicts with CPU, but was extremely S L O W...:( I have since put L-M on a Cyrix GM 233 Pentium system with 32 MB Ram, same install...but much faster. Jaguar "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, I had a variety of seemingly unrelated problems when I did the update from Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. Most if not all of them were fixed when I removed the kcmclock package, and reinstalled the kdelibs package. I also did some changes to my rpmrc file, to let rpm install the Mandrake packages on my old 486-style system. Maybe you should do the kdelibs fix and see if it has anything to do with the update tool (unless you already have)? If you have a 486-style system, rpm (which is used by both Mandrake Update and Kpackage) will by default refuse to install 586 packages on a 486 machine. Axilon was gracious enough to give me the hack for the rpmrc file - BTW Thanks AX! - located on my system at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc. Edit the file with your favorite text editor, and modify the three related lines to match as below: arch_compat: i486: i386 i586 arch_compat: osfmach3_i486: i386 osfmach3_i586 buildarch_compat: i486: i386 i586 I cannot remember what information was in these lines prior to the hack, but I added (I think the i486) stuff to each line. I also modified my kdelinks for Kpackage and Mandrake Update in my normal user desktop so I could run them as if I was a superuser. I added "kdesu -c " (without the quotes) to the front of the command lines in the Execute tab of the properties box for each link. Now Mandrake Update, RPM, and Kpackage all work as intended for me. Before the rpmrc hack, Mandrake Update would download the RPM's, then tell me that the packages were for a diferent architecture in an error box, and not install anything. After hacking rpmrc, I was able to remove the kcmclock package, which permitted me to fix kdelibs by installing the package (Kpackage reported that kdelibs was not installed) from the CD, and get all available updates installed with Mandrake Update. Since these changes, I have not found anything which will not work on my system. I hope there is something in here which will be of help for you, Ernie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Rick Murphy wrote: | Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update | program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it will not | download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when I | re-installed mandrake? | | Rick | | | -- | "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] compact/extract
Thanks John, Ernest and Ron Marriage. My problem is solved. Regards, Oder. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Quarta-feira, 27 de Outubro de 1999 13:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] compact/extract On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am really new to Linux and would like to know if KDE has a program to compact/extract archives? Does anyone know? Thanks in advance, Oder. Well, I've heard of KArchiver, but since my Mandrake box is at home, and I've got a RedHat box at work, I don't know. I *do* know that KFM will extract archives, or at least let you browse 'em. John
Re: [newbie] Partition setup help
I have a Cheapbytes Mandrake 6.1 CD, is a version of partition magic on that or can you only get it with the officail CDs? - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition setup help On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: The solution, then is to create the partitions using the DOS fdisk utility, including the ones you want for Linux. Then restart the 'puter, and run fdisk again, but this time remove the partitions you want for Linux. Install Win9x, then install Linux, recreating the partitions with disk druid. I think this will work. The problem with this, is that it makes the Linux partitions visible to Windows, which, I've heard, can cause corruption, as Windows tries to "fix" the "grunged" file system and can't. A more expensive solution, but much easier is to get PartitionMagic, and do the job with it. You can resize, move, and reformat partitions at will. Anything but formatting will not destroy the information on the partitions. It's a great tool, and I recomend it highly. The bad news is the cost - about $70.00 here in Toledo, Ohio USA. The good news is, a version is included on most packaged versions of Linux these days (at least RedHat and Mandrake versions. G) I use it, because as my needs change, I don't have to do a rebuild to rearange my partitions. I started out with 2 Gig for Linux, and 6 Gig for Win95. Now it's about half and half (4 Gigs each). Yeah...it's pretty useful! :-) John
Re: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card
The name of the chip used is DM9102, Davicom Chip Lan Controller, for 10/100 Mb. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card From: Ronald A. Yacketta look at the card, what chip does it use? with this info we can more than likley give you more insight/help "Gilmar Caiado" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/27/99 08:56:02 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card I have got some problems regarding the network installation, because I am not able to recognize my PCI ethernet card, type Davicom 9102 Fast Ethernet. It is not on the list supplied by the linuxconf. What should I do in this case? Regards! Gilmar.
[newbie] Xwindow
HI! I just lately installed linux mandrake as my os and today a strange thing happaned. It loaded up itself, but when it should start the graphics display, it could not. and the login window did not appear, just a blank scree? What do u think about it? FG
[newbie] who does a guy have to screw...
...to get a message posted to this thing?
[newbie] window managers
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Hello ALL!! here is my little problem. I run exceed from a winblows pc at work. I would like to xport the KDE window and all its fun stuff to the winblows box. I tried using DMCP but I never get a login prompt after I select the server to manage. any ideas?
Re: [newbie] PCI Ethernet Card
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Gilmar Caiado wrote: I don't know what chip the card uses, but I have found the driver, written in C. I think the only way is trying to compile this driver and see what happens... what is the name of the .c file, maybe it's already compiled.. try modprobe "name of .c file, without .c or none of this :)" No quotes either :)
RE: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux?
Title: RE: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux? Ultra66 won't come until Kernel 2.2.13 -Original Message- From: M Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux? I would like to purchase a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller and a Quantum Ultra ATA/66 harddisk. Is anyone currently running an Ultra66 IDE controller with Linux? Does Linux support this card well? How do you like the Ultra66 IDE controller? Where do you go to get support on running this controller under the Linux OS? Thanks for comments and suggestions, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Xwindow
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: HI! I just lately installed linux mandrake as my os and today a strange thing happaned. It loaded up itself, but when it should start the graphics display, it could not. and the login window did not appear, just a blank scree? What do u think about it? Tell us some information about your hardwaredid Mandrake find your video card when you installed it, or were there problems John
Re: [newbie] Web sites
Many thanks Bryan Will download it at the weekend. John the Nadger On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: I heard about BlueFish on this site. I tried it. I liked it. Maybe you will too. http://bluefish.linuxbox.com/ Bryan bluebottle [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/27/99 01:16:00 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] Web sites Evening all I'd like to try and edit one of my web sites using Linux. I've been using PageMill and Dreamweaver under Windoze together with CuteFTP. Has anyone any recommendations as to which programs I could use under Linux. Many thanks John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux?
The Promise Ultra66 IDE controller is nice. I can definately tell a difference when I'm running Win98. As for running it under Linux, that is a different question. I would definately recommend reading the Ultra-DMA How To before you buy the card. Here is a link. http://www.linux-howto.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html I'm still fairly new to Linux, so I still don't have things setup quite right. I've also seen references to a beta driver provided by Promise on thier web page. Supposedly, it only works with certain kernal versions. I can't really say how well it performs. Good luck. - Original Message - From: M Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux? I would like to purchase a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller and a Quantum Ultra ATA/66 harddisk. Is anyone currently running an Ultra66 IDE controller with Linux? Does Linux support this card well? How do you like the Ultra66 IDE controller? Where do you go to get support on running this controller under the Linux OS? Thanks for comments and suggestions, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] window managers
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta Hello ALL!! here is my little problem. I run exceed from a winblows pc at work. I would like to xport the KDE window and all its fun stuff to the winblows box. I tried using DMCP but I never get a login prompt after I select the server to manage. any ideas? Ask 'em at www.hummingbird.com. :-) That's their software you're talking about, I think... :-) John
Re: [newbie] Playing Mp3's...
This impressed me as well, at first. I wanted to know if the CPU recieved a heavy load while playing MP3s the song would skip, so I listened to some MP3s while compiling the kernel at the same time. and you guessed it! No skipping, the playback was uninterrupted. This is what I call a REAL multitasking OS. Uhmm, please write in plain text, no HTML El mié, 27 oct 1999, escribiste: I just had to make a post about this because Linux impressed me when it comes to playing Mp3's on my computer. I used to listen to them in Win98 when I was surfing the Internet and everytime I changed to a new web page, there seemed to be a loss of 'processing power' taken away from the Mp3 player I was using (Winamp). This was causing the music to skip or come to a halt momentarily and then start playing again. I remember that someone else was having the same problem and had enquired about it. They had recieved a reply that explained how Win9x wasn't able to deal with the two tasks (web browsing and Mp3 song being played) very well and that was the reason for the poor playback of. Anyhow, I have been listening to Mp3's inside of Mandrake 6.1 and browsing the web without the music being interrupted at all. I like that.:) -Bill Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Guillermo Belli Registered Linux User #131340 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
[newbie] How do you post to this list??
Does anyone see this message? I am having a hell of a time posting to this list and would normally not run a test posting. Sorry if this is the one that actually makes it out there. Of course, if it is, here's my very annoying installation problem: Here is my basic situation. I have a Pentium 2 266. Fresh new 20G hard drive that I want to install Linux to. In order to ascertain that the drive works, I created two DOS partitions on it and then removed them. Disk seems to work just fine. I went throught the basic installation for Mandrake. I set 3 partitions. First swap of 120meg. / of 4gig. /home of 500meg. I accepted the default packages to install and selected to format all of my new Linux partitions. The next screen says the system is creating the filesystem on hdb5. A cursor sits there and flashes, but after some initial activity, there is no noise from the hard drive. This goes on as long as I allow it to, just sitting there. Eventually, I ctrl-alt-deleted out, as there was no response to other keyboard input. Does this sound familiar to anyone? What could possibly cause such a hang? I'm feeling pretty helpless, and the only thing the mandrake support guy said was wait longer...uh I've waited up to 30 minutes and nothing is happening in there... Hope the readers here know more than the support guys. Thanks in advance for any ideas. Gregg
Re: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux?
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: The Promise Ultra66 IDE controller is nice. I can definately tell a difference when I'm running Win98. As for running it under Linux, that is a different question. I would definately recommend reading the Ultra-DMA How To before you buy the card. Here is a link. http://www.linux-howto.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html I'm still fairly new to Linux, so I still don't have things setup quite right. I've also seen references to a beta driver provided by Promise on thier web page. Supposedly, it only works with certain kernal versions. I can't really say how well it performs. Good luck. Well, I took a look at the Promise Technologies website (www.promise.com) and found the link to the drivers. They say it's for RedHat 6.0, although if they were smart, they'd provide it in source form so that anyone can compile it... :-) John
RE: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux?
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, THOMAS ALLISON wrote: Ultra66 won't come until Kernel 2.2.13 2.2.13 is already here, and it's not in it. The ide patches of hedrick apply but they don't seem SMP safe (for me) -Original Message- From: M Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux? I would like to purchase a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller and a Quantum Ultra ATA/66 harddisk. Is anyone currently running an Ultra66 IDE controller with Linux? Does Linux support this card well? How do you like the Ultra66 IDE controller? Where do you go to get support on running this controller under the Linux OS? Thanks for comments and suggestions, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] compact/extract
Mandrake comes with a utility called ARK. It handles most compressed file formats. Look for it in the KDE menu under Utilities, or type ark in a terminal to open it. Also look for KArchiveur in the KDE website. This has sopport for filetypes ARK doesn't handle. On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am really new to Linux and would like to know if KDE has a program to compact/extract archives? Does anyone know? Thanks in advance, Oder. Well, I've heard of KArchiver, but since my Mandrake box is at home, and I've got a RedHat box at work, I don't know. I *do* know that KFM will extract archives, or at least let you browse 'em. John -- Guillermo Belli Registered Linux User #131340 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
RE: [newbie] who does a guy have to screw...
well tell us who you did and then will all know... :o) and while at it, ask your buddy to post in Text not HTML. (sorry... just in my smart-assed phase today) In politeness, you shouldn't have to screw anyone, if someone told you, that you do have to, I would bet that someone really likes you. -Trebor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregg Carrier Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] who does a guy have to screw... ...to get a message posted to this thing?
Re: [newbie] How do you post to this list??
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Does anyone see this message? I am having a hell of a time posting to this list and would normally not run a test posting. Sorry if this is the one that actually makes it out there. Of course, if it is, here's my very annoying installation problem: Here is my basic situation. I have a Pentium 2 266. Fresh new 20G hard drive that I want to install Linux to. In order to ascertain that the drive works, I created two DOS partitions on it and then removed them. Disk seems to work just fine. I went throught the basic installation for Mandrake. I set 3 partitions. First swap of 120meg. / of 4gig. /home of 500meg. I accepted the default packages to install and selected to format all of my new Linux partitions. The next screen says the system is creating the filesystem on hdb5. A cursor sits there and flashes, but after some initial activity, there is no noise from the hard drive. This goes on as long as I allow it to, just sitting there. Eventually, I ctrl-alt-deleted out, as there was no response to other keyboard input. Does this sound familiar to anyone? What could possibly cause such a hang? I'm feeling pretty helpless, and the only thing the mandrake support guy said was "wait longer"...uh I've waited up to 30 minutes and nothing is happening in there... Hope the readers here know more than the support guys. Thanks in advance for any ideas. Gregg Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Apart from posting in HTML, your message is getting out. As for your problem in installing, what kind of install did you do? Another thing, your partitioning is a bit screwy. I'd make a "/boot" directory of 10-15 megs first, as Linux needs to have the kernel within the first 1024 cylinders or it'll barf, but it sounds like you didn't get that far. How much RAM do you have? How are you starting up the system? Are you booting off the CDROM or off the boot floppy? For that matter, do you have any SCSI devices in your system? What other hardware do you have installed in your system??? There are any number of things which could be causing the problem.
Re: [newbie] Partition setup help
A more cost effective way would be to buy Mandrake 6.5 Deluxe. I just got it Monday and it comes with Partition Magic and Boot Magic. I paid $40 at CompUSA in Novi Michigan. I'm a brand new newbie and I'll be posting another message with my current problems. I think I'm gonna have to break down and admit that I'm a dummy by purchasing a "dummies" or "idiots" book... Randy - Original Message - From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition setup help A more expensive solution, but much easier is to get PartitionMagic, and do the job with it. You can resize, move, and reformat partitions at will. Anything but formatting will not destroy the information on the partitions. It's a great tool, and I recomend it highly. The bad news is the cost - about $70.00 here in Toledo, Ohio USA. I use it, because as my needs change, I don't have to do a rebuild to rearange my partitions. I started out with 2 Gig for Linux, and 6 Gig for Win95. Now it's about half and half (4 Gigs each).
Re: [newbie] who does a guy have to screw...
Gregg Carrier wrote: ...to get a message posted to this thing? To subscribe, send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body of message "subscribe newbie", or "subscribe newbie-digest" (for the digested version) without the quotes. stan
[newbie] Square one beginner questions (modem and CDR for now...)
Ok, I got Delux Mandrake 6.5, ran partition magic and found 1.5 gig for a Linux drive on my C drive, shared with Winblows 98. I installed Linux, rebooted, installed Boot Magic. Upon rebooting again, all works well and I can get into either os. Next I started trying things out in Linux. I was able to mount my CD ROM, haven't tried my CDR drive yet, though according to a page I looked at last night it is supported (CRW1622 Memorex) I have a Zoom 56k Dual Mode modem and haven't been able to get it going yet. This is my target problem right now. In the device window in kppp, I have 13 choices, ttySx, ttylx, cuax, and dev/modem. x is 0-3. Winblows says my modem is on Com 3 (it is internal and unfortunately I don't know exactly what model it is.) Based on this and the supplied manual, I thought ttyS2 would be the monster, but it didn't work. I've gotten 3 or 4 different error messages when testing the modem, but nothing that makes it work yet. I think I've got all the other settings in kppp worked out, but I won't know until I get the modem going. If there is an archive for messages on this list, please point me to it and I'll try to find the answer to this and future questions there. Any help is appreciated. I'll get to my CDR later, unless someone wants to give me some pointers now... Randy
Re: [newbie] A lot of questions
I did this and updated a lot of things, but I didn't see a way to update the kernel. I have mandrake 6.0 which I don't think comes with the latest kernel version and none of the mirrors on the list had anything that looked like a kernel update package. so how do you update the kernel? As for item number 5, if you can get online in Mandrake, then use the Mandrake Update tool in KDE (it may be available in Gnome, but I don't use that desktop). You must first connect to the Internet, then click the program icon, and follow the prompts. Mandrake Update makes it easy to update the version on your system ( with fixes etc.). It will download the packages you select, and install them as well. I recomend doing the updates one at a time, I've heard people having problems doing multiples. If you can not get online in Mandrake, then do the download from your other OS, and put the packages in a known folder (like c:\downloade\linux or something), then restart the 'puter and boot Linux. Mount the partition containing the files you downloaded, and run rpm something like this in a console window or session: rpm -Uvh path to file where the path to the file will be (assuming you used /Win as the mount point for DOS drive C:, and the files are located in C:\downloads\linux): /Win/downloads/linux/packagename You can go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com and folow the links to an ftp mirror site near you for the downloads. When you log onto the mirror, select the folder for your version, then the updates folder to get fix packages. HTH, Ernie /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=auto 0 0
Re: [newbie] SMP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta FYI: that little article on mandrakes site regarding SMP (with dual celeron's) is awsome! I followed it to the "T" and it worked.. kick butt ;) Welcome to the BP6 club! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Problem compiling kernel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´m running Linux Mdk 6.1 on a Pentium 166 MMX with 128 Mb of RAM and a IDE HD of 3,2 Gb for linux (another 2Gb IDE disk contains a DOS partition). I´ve recompiled Linux kernel several times with other distributions. After recompiling it with modules support in my Mandrake system (I´ve tried both "make zImage" and "make bzImage"), I get a kernel a bit smaller than the one installed by default (480k more or less) which is normal, but when I try to update the MBR with lilo (at the prompt or via Klilo), it "usually" gives me the following message: "kernel is too big" and I cannot update the boot list (which by now contains two options: old linux kernel and dos). I said "usually" becuase once lilo could update the boot list, but when i choosed the new kernel to boot (at the beginnig of the boot sequence, i.e. lilo prompt), the system rebooted again (and again if i had choosed the same option). Does anybody has had the same problem? Any idea about the reason why lilo doesn´t work? Just to be safe, always use bzImage or bzlilo (or I suppose, bzdisk?). There's no enduser difference, and you can be sure that at the end of the compile, it will actually install. Without more information about the things you included in the kernels that you compiled, it's difficult to say what caused the reboot problem. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fwd: KPalm with Handspring Visor?
John Aldrich wrote: Has anyone tried using KPalm with the Handspring Visor? That's the new Palm-OS PDA. It's got a hot-synch cradle just like the Palm Pilot series and everything. My understanding is that the cradle is serial-based. Is that different than 3Com's products? thanks... Shouldn't be any different. My Palm IIIx cradle is also serial-based. Haven't tried kPalm, but the pilot-link tools work very well for getting things into and out of the Palm. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Square one beginner questions (modem and CDR for now...)
Randy Smith wrote: Ok, I got Delux Mandrake 6.5, ran partition magic and found 1.5 gig for a Linux drive on my C drive, shared with Winblows 98. I installed Linux, rebooted, installed Boot Magic. Upon rebooting again, all works well and I can get into either os. Next I started trying things out in Linux. I was able to mount my CD ROM, haven't tried my CDR drive yet, though according to a page I looked at last night it is supported (CRW1622 Memorex) I have a Zoom 56k Dual Mode modem and haven't been able to get it going yet. This is my target problem right now. In the device window in kppp, I have 13 choices, ttySx, ttylx, cuax, and dev/modem. x is 0-3. Winblows says my modem is on Com 3 (it is internal and unfortunately I don't know exactly what model it is.) Based on this and the supplied manual, I thought ttyS2 would be the monster, but it didn't work. I've gotten 3 or 4 different /dev/ttyS2 is indeed what you're looking for. It's likely that the modem is on a non-standard IRQ (since it would share it with COM1), so you'll need to look in Windows' Device Manager to find out what IRQ it's using. Once you know that, boot Linux and issue the command: setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq number Give the modem a try and see if it works. If it does, add that command to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. error messages when testing the modem, but nothing that makes it work yet. I think I've got all the other settings in kppp worked out, but I won't know until I get the modem going. If there is an archive for messages on this list, please point me to it and I'll try to find the answer to this and future questions there. Any help is appreciated. I'll get to my CDR later, unless someone wants to give me some pointers now... Revisit the Mandrake website and follow the mailing list link. About half way down the page are links to the mailing list archives. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fwd: KPalm with Handspring Visor?
well, finally, other palm people on this list! something i know about! all of the palm devices are use serial connections to connect to the host computer. (except mac people have to get special stuff to connect) the new handspring units come with USB cradles by default, although you can purchase a separate serial -based cradle. since i dont have any USB devices, except for two ports on my mboard, i havent quite figured out if linux is USB friendly yet. is it? do you own a visor yet? if so let me know how it is. i have developed a few apps for palm os, but one thing i havent got running in linux is the special version of gcc for compiling my apps. anyone done this? is it difficult? :P Steve Philp wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Has anyone tried using KPalm with the Handspring Visor? That's the new Palm-OS PDA. It's got a hot-synch cradle just like the Palm Pilot series and everything. My understanding is that the cradle is serial-based. Is that different than 3Com's products? thanks... Shouldn't be any different. My Palm IIIx cradle is also serial-based. Haven't tried kPalm, but the pilot-link tools work very well for getting things into and out of the Palm. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] What's the best way to autostart programs upon bootup/logon?
In Windows you would put a program link into the "startup" folder so that it would automatically start when you logon. What is the equivalent of that autostart for Mandrake? If there are several ways, what's recommended? Seve
Re: [newbie] Web sites
I have been using asWedit, Gnome Notepad+, August, and CoffeeCup. All of them work pretty well. CoffeeCup is shareware. Jeanette - Original Message - From: bluebottle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 10:16 AM Subject: [newbie] Web sites Evening all I'd like to try and edit one of my web sites using Linux. I've been using PageMill and Dreamweaver under Windoze together with CuteFTP. Has anyone any recommendations as to which programs I could use under Linux. Many thanks John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
[newbie] I'm probably missing something blingdingly obvious with KDM....
Hi, I'm probably missing something blindingly obvious but how do you add another window manager to KDM's list I know KDM's config tool gets it on the list, but it dosn't seem to run. After a bit of poking around I found Xsession seems to control where it looks for a window manager, but after editing that file (and KDMConfig) I'm still not getting anywhere. Any help would be appreciated Andrew
[newbie] Reinstalling Win98
Greetings all! Im about to wipe my Win32 partition and reinstall everything. . .is there anything i should be aware of, ie lilo issues or anything of that nature? Thanks all! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll.
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster CDROM
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I can mount the CD-ROM, but the system has to autoprobe it, and this takes a couple of minutes. I want to configure support for my SoundBlaster CD-ROM. Having read the CD-ROM HOWTO and the Kernel HOWTO, I'm ready to recompile my kernel with the sbpcd driver. I cd to /usr/src/linux, but there is no /linux. There is a link that points to /usr/src/linux-2.2.13. Inside /usr/src/linux-2.2.13 there is one directory.../include, with *.h files in it. When I do a make config (from "linux") I get a message that says: make: *** No rule to target 'config'. Stop. Any idea what's wrong? On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: To the best of my knowlege, the documentation is under the /usr/doc folder. Look in the HOWTO folder for what you need, or in the sub-folder "mini". I do not know if this is the right location, but most of the documentation I have found is there. Ernie On Sun, 24 Oct 1999,Earl Karch wrote: | Hello! I bought and installed Linux-Mandrake 6.5. When I mount the CD-ROM | from the console, I get messages that say read "linux/Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd" | and "configure sbpcd.h for your hardware". | | Where is this documentation located? I can't find a /linux directory anywhere.
Re: [newbie] Square one beginner questions (modem and CDR for now...)
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Randy Smith wrote: Ok, I got Delux Mandrake 6.5, ran partition magic and found 1.5 gig for a Linux drive on my C drive, shared with Winblows 98. I installed Linux, rebooted, installed Boot Magic. Upon rebooting again, all works well and I can get into either os. Next I started trying things out in Linux. I was able to mount my CD ROM, haven't tried my CDR drive yet, though according to a page I looked at last night it is supported (CRW1622 Memorex) I have a Zoom 56k Dual Mode modem and haven't been able to get it going yet. This is my target problem right now. In the device window in kppp, I have 13 choices, ttySx, ttylx, cuax, and dev/modem. x is 0-3. Winblows says my modem is on Com 3 (it is internal and unfortunately I don't know exactly what model it is.) Based on this and the supplied manual, I thought ttyS2 would be the monster, but it didn't work. I've gotten 3 or 4 different /dev/ttyS2 is indeed what you're looking for. It's likely that the modem is on a non-standard IRQ (since it would share it with COM1), so you'll need to look in Windows' Device Manager to find out what IRQ it's using. Once you know that, boot Linux and issue the command: Are you sure about that Steve? Com3 is ttyS4...
Re: [newbie] How do you post to this list??
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: "I still have my mailer configured to send HTML even though I'll probably be beaten for it when I send mail to people who don't read HTML mail?" :) Turn it off, please. I think I beat him up about it enough. ;-) Well, "wait longer" is a valid answer for a large partition. However, if there's something wrong, the debugging information provided by the alternate screens will make it pretty obvious (at least to us!). Post information if you're still having problems. Good luck! Good thinking, Steve! I forgot all about that 'cause I've never had to use it! :-) John
Re: [newbie] Fwd: KPalm with Handspring Visor?
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: well, finally, other palm people on this list! something i know about! all of the palm devices are use serial connections to connect to the host computer. (except mac people have to get special stuff to connect) the new handspring units come with USB cradles by default, although you can purchase a separate serial -based cradle. since i dont have any USB devices, except for two ports on my mboard, i havent quite figured out if linux is USB friendly yet. is it? Not yet, unfortunately. :-( do you own a visor yet? if so let me know how it is. Nope. I'm trying to find somewhere OTHER than directly from the manufacturer to get one! :-) i have developed a few apps for palm os, but one thing i havent got running in linux is the special version of gcc for compiling my apps. anyone done this? is it difficult? Heh. U running your Palm on Linux??? Kewl! ;-) John
Re: [newbie] Fwd: KPalm with Handspring Visor?
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Shouldn't be any different. My Palm IIIx cradle is also serial-based. Haven't tried kPalm, but the pilot-link tools work very well for getting things into and out of the Palm. Thanks...I think that's what the person who mentioned that util to me meant... KPilot, instead of KPalm. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Square one beginner questions (modem and CDR for now...)
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Ok, I got Delux Mandrake 6.5, ran partition magic and found 1.5 gig for a Linux drive on my C drive, shared with Winblows 98. I installed Linux, rebooted, installed Boot Magic. Upon rebooting again, all works well and I can get into either os. Next I started trying things out in Linux. I was able to mount my CD ROM, haven't tried my CDR drive yet, though according to a page I looked at last night it is supported (CRW1622 Memorex) I have a Zoom 56k Dual Mode modem and haven't been able to get it going yet. This is my target problem right now. In the device window in kppp, I have 13 choices, ttySx, ttylx, cuax, and dev/modem. x is 0-3. Winblows says my modem is on Com 3 (it is internal and unfortunately I don't know exactly what model it is.) Based on this and the supplied manual, I thought ttyS2 would be the monster, but it didn't work. I've gotten 3 or 4 different error messages when testing the modem, but nothing that makes it work yet. I think I've got all the other settings in kppp worked out, but I won't know until I get the modem going. If there is an archive for messages on this list, please point me to it and I'll try to find the answer to this and future questions there. Any help is appreciated. I'll get to my CDR later, unless someone wants to give me some pointers now... Com3=ttyS4. CDRW will need ide-scsi emulation in order to burn, but it should be useable as a cdrom without that. Don't ask me how to enable the ide-scsi emulation, as I don't have a CDR/CDRW and have never messed with it. I think it's just a matter of loading a module and then loading it at boot each time thereafter. Your modem may be a "Software" modem, especially if it's PCI. Chances are about 95% that it's a paperweight if it's PCI. In that case, you have three options -- take it out and replace it with a 100% hardware modem (usually ISA;) two, you can get a "Lin-Modem" which MAY work with Windows as well; third, you can get an external modem, which is guaranteed to work with Windows AND Linux, as it doesn't use proprietary software to emulate missing hardware. The easy way to tell if it's a "Windows Modem" is to boot to dos mode, and type "atdt5551212 com3" and see what happens (minus quotes of course.) If it comes back and gives you an error, you can almost bet it's a windows modem!
[newbie] 6.1 from Macmillan
I ask about this a couple of days ago and I am still perplexed about the problems I am having with 6.1 . I have made 3 clean installs now and still have the same exact problems. Are there any known problems with 6.1 from macmillan? My KDE help is not loaded in the directory that the help icon leads to. When I bring up a window the various navigation buttons are just colored squares with no graphical indication as to what they are. Some programs seem to only partially load or not load at all. When I attempt to open KMail initially it tells me it is creating a directory for mail and then nothing else happens. Some programs seem to work perfectly OK such as NETSCAPE and KPPP. I would really appreciate any suggestions anyone has. m. l. cates
[newbie] Modem Setup, Help!
I have a USRobotics pnp ISA int modem. My objective is to be able to dial into an ISP. Now, I've gone over a pile of word-gravel (a.k.a. HOWTOs) and I don't want to know what a modem is or what a com port is or the history of so and so... Where can I go to get the straight answer on how to get my modem to dial up my ISP? How do you get it to recognize the modem? How do you assign the com port to the modem? Thanks, Seve
Re: [newbie] 6.1 from Macmillan
"M. L. Cates" wrote: I ask about this a couple of days ago and I am still perplexed about the problems I am having with 6.1 . I have made 3 clean installs now and still have the same exact problems. Are there any known problems with 6.1 from macmillan? My KDE help is not loaded in the directory that the help icon leads to. When I bring up a window the various navigation buttons are just colored squares with no graphical indication as to what they are. Some programs seem to only partially load or not load at all. When I attempt to open KMail initially it tells me it is creating a directory for mail and then nothing else happens. Some programs seem to work perfectly OK such as NETSCAPE and KPPP. I would really appreciate any suggestions anyone has. m. l. cates Since I posted this letter I uninstalled kcmclock and installed kdelibs as someone on this list suggested and it solved all of my known problems except for the apparent problem I am having with ghostview reading pdf files. I have tried to unistall and reinstall ghostview but it won't allow me to. M L Cates
Re: [Re: [newbie] Square one beginner questions (modem and CDR for now...)]
John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure about that Steve? Com3 is ttyS4... COM3 should be ttyS2. ttyS0 is COM1; ttyS1 is COM2, etc. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Playing Mp3's...
How fast of a machine do you have? On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_I just had to make a post about this because Linux impressed me when it comes to playing Mp3's on my computer. I used to listen to them in Win98 when I was surfing the Internet and everytime I changed to a new web page, there seemed to be a loss of 'processing power' taken away from the Mp3 player I was using (Winamp). This was causing the music to skip or come to a halt momentarily and then start playing again. I remember that someone else was having the same problem and had enquired about it. They had recieved a reply that explained how Win9x wasn't able to deal with the two tasks (web browsing and Mp3 song being played) very well and that was the reason for the poor playback of. Anyhow, I have been listening to Mp3's inside of Mandrake 6.1 and browsing the web without the music being interrupted at all. I like that.:) -Bill Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Vic Student Of Linux
Re: [newbie] Square one beginner questions (modem and CDR for now...)
Randy Smith wrote: No dice. I find IRQ 5 when I ask Windows, so I go make that statement in Linux and it tells me the modem is busy. Some other setting will tell me the modem doesn't respond, still others say the modem isn't there. I scrolled through the archive but didn't find anything that helped. A friend of mine was reading the book that came with the discs and found something that we missed in the installation that would have gotten all of our hardware settings from Windows automatically. Is there any way I can still perform this, or doesn't it work very well? Thanks for the input, I'll continue trying! Check /var/lock to see if there's a LCK..modem or LCK..ttyS3 file there. If there is, delete it and retry the connection. - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Square one beginner questions (modem and CDR for now...) /dev/ttyS2 is indeed what you're looking for. It's likely that the modem is on a non-standard IRQ (since it would share it with COM1), so you'll need to look in Windows' Device Manager to find out what IRQ it's using. Once you know that, boot Linux and issue the command: setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq number Give the modem a try and see if it works. If it does, add that command to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fwd: KPalm with Handspring Visor?
pete moss wrote: well, finally, other palm people on this list! something i know about! all of the palm devices are use serial connections to connect to the host computer. (except mac people have to get special stuff to connect) the new handspring units come with USB cradles by default, although you can purchase a separate serial -based cradle. since i dont have any USB devices, except for two ports on my mboard, i havent quite figured out if linux is USB friendly yet. is it? Well, 2.3.x has the beginnings of support for USB. Don't know whether the Visor cradle is supported. do you own a visor yet? if so let me know how it is. I wish! I'm considering handing down my IIIx to my wife so I can get the Visor Deluxe. evil grin i have developed a few apps for palm os, but one thing i havent got running in linux is the special version of gcc for compiling my apps. anyone done this? is it difficult? Check rpmfind for the cross-development kits. I know there was one on the RH6 Powertools CD, I've still got it here somewhere. Steve Philp wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Has anyone tried using KPalm with the Handspring Visor? That's the new Palm-OS PDA. It's got a hot-synch cradle just like the Palm Pilot series and everything. My understanding is that the cradle is serial-based. Is that different than 3Com's products? thanks... Shouldn't be any different. My Palm IIIx cradle is also serial-based. Haven't tried kPalm, but the pilot-link tools work very well for getting things into and out of the Palm. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fwd: KPalm with Handspring Visor?
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Shouldn't be any different. My Palm IIIx cradle is also serial-based. Haven't tried kPalm, but the pilot-link tools work very well for getting things into and out of the Palm. Thanks...I think that's what the person who mentioned that util to me meant... KPilot, instead of KPalm. :-) Oh yeah, KPilot. Haven't used it. I just use the command-line tools. I typically have an aversion to GUI tools for things I don't understand. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Reinstalling Win98
Sam wrote: DO this when youstick the windows boot floppy in the machine (if you made one from your previous install) format \mbr ( try /mbr if this doesn't work, I can nver remember for sure which way the slash goes) that will build a "default" boot profile and wipe lilo out of the master boot record Seth Gibson wrote: Greetings all! Im about to wipe my Win32 partition and reinstall everything. . .is there anything i should be aware of, ie lilo issues or anything of that nature? Thanks all! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll. I have a feeling that the idea was to try and KEEP lilo. If that's the case, it's just not gonna happen. Windows has a nasty inferiority complex in that it destroys everything around it while installing. Keep a working boot floppy on hand so that you can reboot into Linux and reinstall LILO (after adding the ability to boot either operating system). Make sure and TEST that floppy before doing the deed, they never seem to work when you REALLY need them to! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] What's the best way to autostart programs upon bootup/logon?
"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: In Windows you would put a program link into the "startup" folder so that it would automatically start when you logon. What is the equivalent of that autostart for Mandrake? If there are several ways, what's recommended? It depends on whether you want the program to start when you boot up, or when you logon. They're different. If it's something which should run regardless of whether a user is logged in or not, then start looking at the scripts in /etc/rc.d and see if there isn't something already appropriate. If it's a user program you want to start when you logon, then you'll put it in you HOME/.bash_profile script. (Assuming you use bash.) If you use ksh or csh, very unlikely, it will be different. If you want it to be on the desktop someone who uses the X interface will have to tell you. MB Or if you want it to start when you login/start KDE, put it in the Autostart folder on your desktop. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How do you post to this list??
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: "I still have my mailer configured to send HTML even though I'll probably be beaten for it when I send mail to people who don't read HTML mail?" :) Turn it off, please. I think I beat him up about it enough. ;-) Well, "wait longer" is a valid answer for a large partition. However, if there's something wrong, the debugging information provided by the alternate screens will make it pretty obvious (at least to us!). Post information if you're still having problems. Good luck! Good thinking, Steve! I forgot all about that 'cause I've never had to use it! :-) The "good luck" part? Hell, my system administration skills DEPEND upon it! Or did you mean the debug screens? :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] A lot of questions
O.K., I did what you said, and it seems to work, however I still have some questions: Why do I install the new kernel without removing the old one? What do I need to have the old one for? Can I remove it after the new one is installed? If I can, does that mean I need to take the reference of to it out of my lilo.conf and rerun /sbin/lilo?
Re: [newbie] Reinstalling Win98
make sure that you put a 10-15 Mb partition at the beginning of your disk and mount it as /boot under linux to avoid problems when installing lilo (i'm assuming that you're installing linux... :) Other than that it mostly depends on what you want to do. On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: Greetings all! Im about to wipe my Win32 partition and reinstall everything. . .is there anything i should be aware of, ie lilo issues or anything of that nature? Thanks all! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll. David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 5054[EMAIL PROTECTED] Clinton, MS 39058 http://www.mc.edu/~vanbalen
Re: [newbie] Modem Setup, Help!
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I have a USRobotics pnp ISA int modem. My objective is to be able to dial into an ISP. Now, I've gone over a pile of word-gravel (a.k.a. HOWTOs) and I don't want to know what a modem is or what a com port is or the history of so and so... Where can I go to get the straight answer on how to get my modem to dial up my ISP? How do you get it to recognize the modem? How do you assign the com port to the modem? Thanks, Seve 1) Disable PNP on the modem, if possible. 2) ln -s /dev/ttySX /dev/modem 3) netcfg 4) /sbin/ifup ppp0 Them's the straight answers, I'm sure after all the reading you can fill in the missing blanks. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] install to primary slave hanging
Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me definitively whether I can install Linux to a primary slave with the /boot partition at the beginning of said slave drive? Yes, it will be just fine there. I've did that for years prior to giving up Windows. distribution: Linux-Mandrake 6.1 Power Pack CPU: Pentium 2 266mhz RAM: 128 meg Master HD: 4gig Windows partition Primary Slave: 20gig (this is where I want Linux) no scsi stuff, although in Windows 'My Computer' shows Iomega Zip drive as a scsi device (?). It's plugged into my printer port, though. general generic hardware, 2 meg video card, normal soundcard Nice normal hardware. What happens: I boot from the L-M 6.1 install disk. I accept the default packages to install. Under Disk Druid, I partition the primary slave hard drive into (listed in order I make them in Disk Druid): /boot 10meg swap 120meg / 4gig It tells me a log of my install will be at .. and then a screen comes up saying it's making my filesystem. Then, nothing. It seems to just hang up. I can switch to the debugging screens with alt F5, alt F4, and alt F3. F4 shows a big list of numbers separated by commas. It is unchanging for as long as I've waited, which is at least 20 minutes. The last few lines of Alt F3 are as follows: Detected non SMP capable motherboard running /usr/bin/mke2fs mke2fs /tmp/hdb6 -c The last line of the Alt F4 screen is : Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1) So, if anyone has any ideas as to why this install would hang, I'd really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance. Gregg What is the absolute LAST line on Alt-F5? It should be something about "accounting information". If it is, wait it out. It will write "done" when it's done writing the final information to the partition. I take it hdb6 is the 4G partition? What are you doing with the rest of the 20G? I agree that 20 minutes is an awful long time. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Web sites
I use Netscape Composer for web page editing, I use IglooFtp or Xftp for my ftp client On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Evening all I'd like to try and edit one of my web sites using Linux. I've been using PageMill and Dreamweaver under Windoze together with CuteFTP. Has anyone any recommendations as to which programs I could use under Linux. Many thanks John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com -- Vic Student Of Linux
Re: [newbie] Problem compiling software and problems with Kpackage
Aaron deRozario wrote: Although I have compiled software before using RedHat 5.2 I have just attempted compiling on Mandrake 6.0 for the first time. I made sure all the packages with pgcc in the title were installed and that 'make' was installed (I didn't include them when installing). I attempted to compile WINE, which was included on a CDROM from APC mag. I attempted to run ./configure (directories and path were all correct). The script that followed searched for gcc, found it, then came up with the error (along the lines of) Compiler cannot make executables. The script then aborted. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be the problem? Are there any essential libraries that I need to ensure are installed on my system? Any further information I need to provide? I have also had some problems with Kpackage reporting script errors and failing to install packages properly. I have also had packages that indicate htey are installed, however when attempting to uninstall them it reports that the package is not installed. Further attempts at installing the 'uninstalled' programme brings up the message "package already installed". Anyone else had this problem? Aaron Install glibc-devel. Should fix it up. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 6.1 from Macmillan
"M. L. Cates" wrote: "M. L. Cates" wrote: I ask about this a couple of days ago and I am still perplexed about the problems I am having with 6.1 . I have made 3 clean installs now and still have the same exact problems. Are there any known problems with 6.1 from macmillan? My KDE help is not loaded in the directory that the help icon leads to. When I bring up a window the various navigation buttons are just colored squares with no graphical indication as to what they are. Some programs seem to only partially load or not load at all. When I attempt to open KMail initially it tells me it is creating a directory for mail and then nothing else happens. Some programs seem to work perfectly OK such as NETSCAPE and KPPP. I would really appreciate any suggestions anyone has. m. l. cates Since I posted this letter I uninstalled kcmclock and installed kdelibs as someone on this list suggested and it solved all of my known problems except for the apparent problem I am having with ghostview reading pdf files. I have tried to unistall and reinstall ghostview but it won't allow me to. M L Cates Check the debug window for ghostview when you try opening the pdf file. I just tried it here and got a message in there about applying a patch if I wanted "encrypted PDF" support in ghostview. I don't know if xpdf supports what you want to do. I _do_ know that Adobe makes Acrobat Reader for Linux! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux?
I do know for a fact that the Mandrake 6.1 will not be able to detect your Promise Ultra66 controller(PCI card). That is what I have, and Linux thinks that I have no hard drives. On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Collin J. Davidson wrote: The Promise Ultra66 IDE controller is nice. I can definately tell a difference when I'm running Win98. As for running it under Linux, that is a different question. I would definately recommend reading the Ultra-DMA How To before you buy the card. Here is a link. http://www.linux-howto.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html I'm still fairly new to Linux, so I still don't have things setup quite right. I've also seen references to a beta driver provided by Promise on thier web page. Supposedly, it only works with certain kernal versions. I can't really say how well it performs. Good luck. - Original Message - From: M Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Ultra66 IDE Controller card for Linux? I would like to purchase a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller and a Quantum Ultra ATA/66 harddisk. Is anyone currently running an Ultra66 IDE controller with Linux? Does Linux support this card well? How do you like the Ultra66 IDE controller? Where do you go to get support on running this controller under the Linux OS? Thanks for comments and suggestions, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Reinstalling Win98
On 27 Oct 99, at 20:18, Sam wrotf: that will build a "default" boot profile and wipe lilo out of the master boot record umm. . .actually i want to keep lilo around still. . .just wondering if reinstalling Win is going to mess with linux any Seth Gibson wrote: Greetings all! Im about to wipe my Win32 partition and reinstall everything. . .is there anything i should be aware of, ie lilo issues or anything of that nature? Thanks all! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll.
[newbie] Why does setup say my partitions are too big?
What are all the linux partitions I should setup for Mandrake ( min/max size)? Also, everytime I setup the partitions, it'll say that one or more of them are "too big", even if it's only set to be 1MB! I can't figure that out. The way I got past it the last time was to add additional partitions beyond what I planned to use, and then only these additional, unallocated partitions would be "too big"! Thanks in advance
