Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update on 7.1
Harry Flaxman wrote: Just ran the update program for the first time in 7.1 and noticed that about half the packages wouldn't install. There were error messages saying that the packages conflict with other packages. I'm just wondering if it's better to do this manually? Where would the packages that Update downloaded be located? So that I can manually try to install these things. Thanks for any help. Harry -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Reg Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Reg Linux System 80769 I had the same problem. I updated each package one at a time and it worked. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Network Success
OK, now that you're ready for DSL, check with your local DSL office to see if they use ppp-over-ethernet. If so, you will nee to download a copy of pppoe and possibly pppoed (see freshmeat.net). Many (not all) providers of DSL utilise pppoe and your current configuration (even if you change you external IF from ppp0 to eth0) will not work. It' a different protcol. It shouldn't be too difficult to install (I don't use it), but you may have to run it as a daemon from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or some other script upon boot. If you DON'T need pppoe, then all you need do is re-install pmfirewall, and tell it to use the external IF (better to configure eth0 as external and eth1 as internal). You may also want to make sure you download the latest pump tarball unless you shutdown frequently. --Greg Not just exactly sure how I did it, but, All Three Computers talk to each other and the two Window boxes are using the Linux Box modem to connect to the internet so I'm ready for the DSL. I hope I don't have to change much to get that going. An earlier post asked about the Pmfirewall working for the network and all of my system is showing Stealth. I love it when a plan comes together. -- Dennis Registered Linux user # 180842 * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Brian King wrote: Thanks, very interesting! The guy who thought up the concept of GUI - Vannevar Bush - also wrote an article called "As we may think" (or sth similar) in which he set out the idea of "hypertext". Really ahead of his time... Brian Nickolas Koehne wrote: If you guys wanna know how PARC Engineers built the Xerox Alto, how Steve Jobs "acquired" the design, and how microsoft stole it... http://www.applemuseum.seastar.net/sections/gui.html There's everything you want to know about how the GUI was born. Including it's conception in 1945. -Darkeyes - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux resources online Adrian Smith wrote: actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox that was going to sue apple, they came up with the GUI first. i also think that Apple did actually get it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not something they could claim as their own. Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they're not suing each other, the are either merging or buying off small bits of their offshoot companies. Hmhh... Makes you think. (he-he) -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Just think of what is still in the making. Very interesting. Don't you just love it? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Windoze
"Roderick F.Lazaro" wrote: On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. Have you heard of the latest security issue with Outlook. Anybody sending you mail can run their code on your machine when you open the email. It has something to do with Outlook's ActiveX engine. Just a note, just in case somebody formats your hard drive. Yup. It's amazing what you can do to Outlook. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Paul wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: Yes, apple sued microsoft in the early 80's for stealing the GUI from them but microsoft argued successfully that GUI is the future of computing and as such copyrighting it is akin to trying to copyright "book" or "magazine". This ruling is atleast partially responsible for Linux being able to be distributed with macOS and winOS style GUI's without fear of legal reprisals. Cool huh? Yes, really cool. It is a funny thing to realize that with GUI's, Xerox for the first time came up with something "original" *grin* Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 I wonder what happened with Xerox? So many original ideas. They must be concentrating more on business solutions. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Using 3c575_cb driver
Are you sure it's the driver and not just a bum NIC. I've a lot, no wait, A SHITLOAD if NICs fail (3Com, Intel, Kensington, you name it...)where it looks like the OS or the driver... Does the thing work fine under WindBlows, or are you willing/have had the opportunity to try it? Also, I was working for a while with a REALLY slow network connection and couldn't find out what it was until I changed my cable. Go figure! Only things to try...You never know. --greg Looks like I need to use 3c575_cb for my 3com PC card and it is on neither the 7.0 or 7.1 Mandrake install. I have located the source for it, but have no idea what to do to make use of it. Symptom is network connections that fail after a few minutes, sometimes even seconds. The card is a 3Com 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card 3CCFE575BT and the notebook is a Thinkpad 760XL, 48 megs, 2 gig drive. I even tried loading Redhat 6.2, but I'm still left without the choice of the above driver. Any help is appreciated. * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Nickolas Koehne wrote: If you guys wanna know how PARC Engineers built the Xerox Alto, how Steve Jobs "acquired" the design, and how microsoft stole it... http://www.applemuseum.seastar.net/sections/gui.html There's everything you want to know about how the GUI was born. Including it's conception in 1945. -Darkeyes - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux resources online Adrian Smith wrote: actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox that was going to sue apple, they came up with the GUI first. i also think that Apple did actually get it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not something they could claim as their own. Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they're not suing each other, the are either merging or buying off small bits of their offshoot companies. Hmhh... Makes you think. (he-he) -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Very interesting article. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] How do I increase Video Card memory?
A friend of mine just bought an ATI Rage Fury 64MB AGP card and to go to the SuSE website to download a driver that would handle the full mem quota. Of course, if you do this, you'll have to edit the makefile to be sure it puts all the files in the right places. Unfortunately, i don't know all the places to edit the file, or if a SuSE drivers exists for the board you have. If you find a tarball at SuSE (or some other site) you might compare the makefile to a Mandrake/Red Hat video driver makefile and check to see that everything is going where it should. Sorry, it's all I got for this one... --Greg Hello all Tux devotees, I have a NVidia TNT2 card that is setup on Mandrake 7.1. It is a 32 MB card. Yet, upon looking at the memory (in DrakConf I think), mandrake shows, it to say 4096. Is there a file in X.config that I can edit to increase the size to what it should be, so that I can get full use of the memory built in? Thanks for your thoughts, Regards, Gary * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] XFCE
Enjoy it. It's great. You can run most KDE programs and all (I think) Gnome programs in XFCE. A free tip: if you want to have some things autostart when you startx and the window manager, then do this. There is a dotfile called .xfwm-session that records everything that's running when you log out, and starts them up next time. As a one-time deal, have everything running you want to autostart, then select "Quit" on the XFCE panel. On a console command line type "cp .xfwm-session .xfwm-session.d" -- the second filename can be anything you want with a dot in front. Then in your .xinitrc the line to start the window manager would be: exec xfwm -restore .xfwm-session.d Of course, YMMV if you use kdm to log on. I always start X from the console, because it's easier to have things the way you want that way (IMO). A couple of screenshots of my xfce setup: http://home.att.net/~p.b.burton/grab.jpg http://home.att.net/~p.b.burton/grab2.jpg Have fun. Phil On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Paul wrote: Hi everyone, I have decided to give XFCE a go as window manager. LOVE IT! It is fast, easy, runs exactly the way I want it already, and I have not even done a lot of customizing. I had to change my ICQ program from KxICQ to Licq (kxicq keeps complaining that it can't find it's pid-file), but that was all. I have some more things to figure out, but this is very good already :) Thanks to the people who brought it up. Paul
Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:00:06PM +0200, Jacques Le Marois wrote: You need to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUB newbie in the subject. Isn't it that you rather have to place the command in the body? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma
I had the same problem. I "solved" it by telling the install that I didn't have the disks, then when the install was complete, I used the rpm manager to install the packages I wanted from the CDs. Michael
Re: [newbie] Sorceror\'s Apprentice?
1. Check to see if you are leaving the messages on the server--in NS you'll find it under Edit|Preferences|MailNewsgroups|MailServers|IncomingMailServers|(select you server)|Edit|POP I don't know about the other. 2. You may not have the "remember password" option checked in NS. Windows clients configure this by default. (Instead of the POP tab, see the General tab from above) I couldn't find any option to toggle mail-client authentication, maybe NS tries this regardless? Aside from this I couldn't tell you, but I really don't think it's "Mandrake" that ill-configured. i don't use either of the mail-client for personal use--I got stuck with Outlook "long" ago, and have just too large an archive to transfer to my Linux box. Sorry in advance if this wasn't good enough. --Greg Hello, I am new to the list, and looking forward to reading everyone's comments. I have a problem with Mandrake 7.0. I have two harddrives, one with Windows and the other Linux. When I am retrieving email in Netscape (Windows), everything is great, and mail downloads as it should. However, when I use Linux NS or Eclient, I get multiple downloads of the same messages. For example, if I download email messages at 10 am, I get mail arriving up to that time. If I check email again and retrieve it at 2 pm, I get the 10 am messages again, as well as the 2 pm. If I check mail at 6pm, I will get 10 am, 2 pm, and 6 pm messages. As you can see, this will take up alot of space. I'd like to make Mandrake quit doing this. Also, after I log in to my isp and give my password, eclient will ask me for my password (for the isp) again, before it downloads my mail. This doesn't happen in windows. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Melinda Shoop * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...
I've only been using Mandrake for about a week now, and find that depending on the level of security selected during install, things like su-ing to root don't exactly work as planned. I wonder if: had you installed pmfirewall after su-ing to root from your normal user account, if the ip-up.local file was restricted/ignored. Knowing what fixed the problem, you can always go back and re-install pmfirewall logged in directly as root, (having removed/commented out the line you entered) and see what happens. You can always return it to how you've got it now. --Greg Hi Greg, Thanks for answering. I checked the specified files and found this entry in ip-up.local [ -x /usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall ] /usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall start I'm a little confused as to why, since this command is clearly in there, why it's not following it. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On 23 Jul 2000, Greg Stewart wrote: This might help...let me know if it doesn't. In answer to: What does one do if PMfirewall won't start on it's own when a connection to the internet is made? I've been asking this question on the PMfirewall list, but it's falling on deaf ears. This is a message from Rick at pointman.org. Check to see if you are configured correctly: Forwarded Message: If pmfirewall is installed in /usr/local/opt/pmfirewall/ Just add: /usr/local/opt/pmfirewall/pmfirewall start to the /etc/ppp/ip-up or ip-up.local file. Note, this only works if you are using pppd or some variant of a frontend for it. You don't need to add anything to the ip-down file. Rick On Sat, 6 May 2000, Ken Wahl wrote: Hello all, I've only been running Linux for about 2 weeks so I hope you'll excuse my newbie naivete. I've installed pmfirewall on Linux Mandrake 7.0 and it works very well but I'd like it to restart with new ppp connections. I've read the man pages and checked in the pmfirewall archive for tips and read about inserting something into ip-up.local and ip-down.local that would make this work. The problem is I don't know *exactly* what to put in these scripts to make it work. I've tried a few different things but to no avail. Specifically, I'm confused as do I: 1) Include the original contents of ip-up in ip-up.local and just add the command line "/usr/local/opt/pmfirewall/pmfirewall restart" or 2) Just the command line or 3) Something entirely different since my knowledge of C is null? Thanks for your time and patience. -- Ken Wahl * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com ! * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Actually the best protection is to have a sorry a$$ 33,6 connection, an' the vandals won't even bother with ya ;) Huh! I was wondering why nobody ever bothered me! Phil
Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...
First: PMFirewall doesn't "run" There is no daemon for it. It simply sets the ipchains rules as a script. In terminal, type (su to root) ipchains -L to see a list of the current rules set by pmfirewall. These will change over time as the firewall DENIES things. But will NOT be maintain after a disconnet, or shutdown. The standard rules will be re-established upon successful connection, and be added dynamically from there. Check the man page for ipchains for more information on how to see/set the rules. --Greg On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi again Greg, I added the line to start the firewall in the ip-up file and it's starting fine now. I don't know why it wouldn't start with the line in ip-up.local. the only thing I could come up with was that it wasn't getting read by the shell script. maybe it wasn't being referenced correctly...don't know for sure. thanks again for the help. -- Mark Heck I didn't even think of all this before, but in reading this thread I tried as 'ps ax' while connected and pmfirewall didn't show up. So I added the '/usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall start' to ip-up (same as you there was already a sinilar statement in ip-up.local) and reconnected, ran 'ps ax' and it still doesn't show. What are you using to determine if pmfirewall's runnin Mark? -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
It just goes to show, the only stupid question is the question that is not asked. He asked himself a question, he wrote himself an answer, Xerox then made it a reality. -Darkeyes - Original Message - From: "Brian King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux resources online Thanks, very interesting! The guy who thought up the concept of GUI - Vannevar Bush - also wrote an article called "As we may think" (or sth similar) in which he set out the idea of "hypertext". Really ahead of his time... Brian Nickolas Koehne wrote: If you guys wanna know how PARC Engineers built the Xerox Alto, how Steve Jobs "acquired" the design, and how microsoft stole it... http://www.applemuseum.seastar.net/sections/gui.html There's everything you want to know about how the GUI was born. Including it's conception in 1945. -Darkeyes - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux resources online Adrian Smith wrote: actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox that was going to sue apple, they came up with the GUI first. i also think that Apple did actually get it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not something they could claim as their own. Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they're not suing each other, the are either merging or buying off small bits of their offshoot companies. Hmhh... Makes you think. (he-he) -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
[newbie] Fatal Server error?
Hi! I was wondering what I should do to fix my problem. Everything was fine when I last used Mandrake 7.1 but when I rebooted this afternoon, it goes to the normal text login instead of KDM. When I log in and startx I get an error stating that... Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' umm.. what does that mean? When I installed Mandrake 7.1 I chose to install the XFree 100dpi fonts and I didnt install the normal 75dpi fonts. It worked well for awhile then this happens. Is this related to the server crash in anyway? How can I solve this? Thanks in advance! John
Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma
Charles A Edwards wrote: - Original Message - From: "Brian King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma I have a similar problem. Also have 7.1 CD package and can't boot from CD - the bios setting doesn't work. I have uninstalled PnP. As far as I can get is "detecting CD ROM" and the "loading second image" message. The computer then reboots into Windows or goes through the same thing again if i use a floppy. One I managed to get it to go through CD probing manually. Matshita was not on the list - although it's on Mandrake's official hardware list. I went through all the other CDs that were found, but nothing else worked either. Strange thing is, installation was successful on my other machine with almost identical configuration. Any similar experiences, suggestions etc? Brian Use a Win Start Disk to boot to your CD-Rom. This will load the drivers and you should be able to run the Mandrake CD. Charles Hello I have been through something like it. I have just upgraded my machine, and the new BIOS turned out to be the problem. Both the old and new ones were from AWARD, but in the new, I have to set my CDROM and LS120 drives to AUTO in the 'BIOS features setup menu'to be able to boot from them! Hopes this can be of help to you. Sincerely Mogens Jæger
[newbie] *happy sigh*
Just got home from my first day at a new (tech writing) job! But while I think the job will be great, I must say that it was a huge relief, after wrestling with Windows and thrice-cursed Outlook all day, to come home to wonderful Linux and X and KDE and Mozilla and XChat and Applixware Office Suite and all. *happy appreciative sigh* I'm a happy lil penguinhead...don't mind me... -- Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139
Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade MBR of HDA (Torrey)
My system is setup the same way, with Win98 and Win2000 on hda, and Linux on hdc. With Mandrake 7.0, I was using LILO to boot either Linux or "Windows" - the NT boot loader - from which I could select either version of Windows. I tried installing 7.1 both as an upgrade (once) and as a New Installation (three times). Prior to doing that, I had installed System Commander, and made sure I could boot into Windows with it. Then I disabled Sys Commander, and proceeded to install 7.1 - and that's when my wonderful adventures with GRUB first began. I still need to use a boot floppy to access Linux. I am thinking of trying another distribution, which hopefully will handle these matters more gracefully. Torrey At 09:47 PM 7/23/00 -0400, Charles wrote: Torrey My reference to installing Lilo on hdc was if you were using SC to boot your OSes not if you were going to use Lilo to do so and even then you have to manually add it to SC. I also have a triple boot system. My main boot loader is Grub. It gives me the boot options of linux, safe, windows, or floppy. If I choose to boot Windows it gives me the Win 2000 bootloader where I can choose to boot either Win2000 or Win98.I installed in this order 1)Win98 then 2)Win2000 on one hd and then 3)7.1 on a second hd. There will be those who say they use it all the time, but Please if you are running Win2000 and definitly if you are using the Win2000 bootloader Do Not use fdisk/MBR it will wipe the 2000 boot loader. But that puts us between a rock and a hard place because you can not remove(uninstall) Grub from within Linux as you can Lilo you have to use fdisk/Mbr. I have a couple more questions if you don't mind. 1) When you were running 7.0 which were you using as your main bootloader SC or Lilo? 2) Did you install 7.1 as an upgrade or as a New Installation? 2a) If you did as a New install did you remove Lilo prior to the installation and verify that Win would still boot. Or if using SC disable it and see if Win would boot. Even though you had disabled SC I still think that your miss-adventure was caused by the fact that Grub needed to install in the drive space already occupied by SC.
Re: [newbie] NT4 domain joining
Hey man i don`t .. does that help From: "J Michael Graham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] NT4 domain joining Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:04:21 -0500 Anyone know of an app or the procedure to get a linux (mandrake 7.0) box to join and login to an NT4 domain? Thanks sh0gun Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] NT4 domain joining
First of all you need SAMBA installed and configured. The relevant entries in /etc/smb.conf should look something like this (my version SAMBA is 2.0.6): workgroup = mydomain NetBIOS name = mylinuxmachine ;(this will be the netbios name that windows sees) security = domain password server = * encrypt passwords = yes then on your NT PDC or BDC go to server manager. Add a new NT workstation to the domain with a name the same as the NetBIOS name you entered in smb.conf. Next go back to the linux machine as root. Enter: smbpasswd -j mydomain -r pdc-netbiosname -U administrator-on-NT Substitute your domain name, linux machine name and netbios name of your PDC as required. NOTE: "security = domain" should not be changed - it's exactly that. To get Samba to recognise the new config do: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart Chris Slater-Walker - Original Message - From: "J Michael Graham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 6:04 PM Subject: [newbie] NT4 domain joining Anyone know of an app or the procedure to get a linux (mandrake 7.0) box to join and login to an NT4 domain? Thanks sh0gun
Re: [newbie] isa modem again
Martin B wrote: well folks after adding the line loginname ppp0 password into the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file and checking if there was a line auth in the /etc/ppp/options (all there was in this file was lock) Just lock!? That's definitely a problem. You need more in there than that. I've attached a copy of my options file. You'll notice that the first line contains my login info. This is not my user login and password, but the one generated by Worldnet, that was stored in my old dialer program, and was negotiated before my old browser came up on the screen. Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm) RLU # 182668 This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE name [EMAIL PROTECTED] x lock noipdefault crtscts modem nodetach passive asyncmap 0x0 noipx #nobsdcomp #novj #require-pap #refuse-chap #auth
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[expert] Alert about how domain names are changing
Brian Livingston's column in InfoWorld has a rather frightening revelation about ICANN, the body which ultimately controls many internet domain names, is making changes to how they do business. For the details see http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/07/24/000724oplivingston.xml He gives the address http://members.icann.org/join_now.htm to join as a member at large so we have a voice in the process, but you must do so by July 31, 2000 to be included. Please check this out, and if you're likely to have an interest in the outcome please register. Thanks, Michael
