Re: [newbie] Lilo Failure
It means you haven't set up lilo correctly. /dev/hdb1 is the 1st partition on the slave hard drive of your primary controler. The message means its not there. If you want to set the system to boot from the hard disk rather than the floppy, look in the bios. - Original Message - From: Michael Hatzakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 8:57 PM Subject: [newbie] Lilo Failure Trying to get my system to boot from the hard drive not the floppy. When I run lilo and klilo, I get the error message: "Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk" That does this mean exactly? Thanks, Michael
Re: [newbie] Anyone tried [successfully] to get email support?
Sorry to say that, but if you have windoooz installed, take a look how windoooz did it ! Under System-devices. If this can help. Eric MC Dan O'Rourke wrote: Tech support is evil! It took 5 days for them to respond to my repeated emails and requests for help. Then they were abrupt and didn't give me a working solution. I mailed them back asking for another solution. That was 6 months ago. I'm sure I'll get my solution any day now :-p I'm NEVER gonna drop cash for a delux pack again! -- From: "Bill Fry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Anyone tried [successfully] to get email support? Date: Mon, Aug 21, 2000, 5:24 PM I've been trying to get help on a Mandrake 7.1 install. After buying the Deluxe pack and registering it for support, I still can't get a response to my emails. Anyone had any luck here? My main problem is that the USB module usb-uhci.o fails to load. The dmesg shows that it is seen, doesn't have an IRQ and then is shut down. There's no place that I can find to assign it an IRQ, either in software or in BIOS. I've looked on the 'net for answers, but none so far, and it's extremely frustrating to have paid for a package that supposedly includes support, but you can't even get a response out of them. And just try to find a customer service email address or phone number for Mandrake... -- Bill Fry IT Director, Young Roehr Group 503.222.0626
[newbie] How do you install a video driver?
My video card wasnt listed for xwindows in the drake setup utility. I found the driver online, and now I have no idea how to install it. I have mandrake 7.0. Thanks a lot! --Ken __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Lime Green Text in windows
I have a couple of problems with Mandrake 7.1. The first is when in kde the file window text is always lime green and it's nearly impossible to see. I've tried to change it in the display properties with no luck. Any ideas would be helpful. The other is my Canon BJC250 will not run in Mandrake I tried the bj200 driver but it won't see the printer as online ? I don't know !! Thanks for any help. R. Long
Re: [Re: [newbie] laptops]
"Marcia Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Hello all, Thank you for all of your laptop info and suggestions. I finally purchased a "built for you" Compaq Presario 1700T P600 laptop with 14.1" TFT XGA display, 64 megs of memory, 12 gigs of harddrive, CD rom 56K PCI Modem and 10/100 NIC card. Lilon Batteries and Windows 98 SE. I hope to get it in a week or less. Is there any advice for putting on Linux? Would I better off with Mandrake 7.0 or 7.1? Thank you for your help. Marcia Marcia, Be certain to check the laptop page for advice. I'm concerned about two things in your setup: the PCI modem and Compaq's proprietary bios. Typically (though not 100% of the time) PCI modems are winmodems and not too likely to work w/Linux. And from what I've read, Compaq is know for its proprietary bios that can occasionally be problematic. The laptop page you've been referred to earlier by someone else on our list might be helpful. Good Luck, Mike ~~~ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." --Tom Waits ~~~ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [Re: [newbie] laptops]
"Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Marcia! I don't know what font you're trying to use, but it continues to come out in Chinese at this end! Well, that ,and dots, and big and little empty boxes, intermingled with a word or three here and there, maybe an upside down "A", an "L" or possibly a few math symbols, a puppy dog, fire engine, a big hotel kitchen, and a picture of some round guy with a blade of grass between his thumbs like he's gonna try to blow through the gap and make a buzzy reed noise that always breaks the blade of grass and makes a funny b-shlurpy sound instead! Have I gone off course? --Greg Funny thing Greg is I had the same problem with the original message, but when I hit reply to make a comments such as yours, there was the message in quite readable fashion. I thought the error might have been my web based mail program that I use for this list shrug Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
[newbie] OT CPU heat clocking
there was some talk of over clocking how hot your CPU gets. thus, you might find the following interesting. a short excerpt followed by the link to the whole artical. On June 1, 1999, a twenty-seven-year-old department-store night manager named Eric Caward made technological history. First he carefully removed the innards from his Intel Celeron 333-megahertz computer. Then he placed the motherboard, still wired to its hard drive, monitor, and power supply, at the bottom of a small homemade container. Into this rough-hewn tank he then started emptying one bottle after another of mineral oil, the edible kind used in food processing and enemas. He didn't stop pouring until the motherboard was immersed nine inches deep. Then he laid a rack of coolant coils (wrenched from the guts of a $230 window air conditioner) across the top of the tank and, using a small electric garden-fountain pump, circulated the mineral oil up and over the coils until the liquid chilled to approximately minus ten degrees centigrade. And then he turned on his PC, which, lo, booted up just fine. And thus it was that Eric Caward entered history that day: the first person on record to immerse a functioning computer in a vat of supercooled laxative. -- From Julian Dibbell's Column, "Faster, Processor! Chill! Chill!" IDEE FIXE | 06.19.00 "Faster, Processor! Chill! Chill!" In an obsessive quest for ever-faster microprocessors, a rare breed of hi-tech tweakers known as "overclockers" risks fire, ice, and electric shock to test the limits of digital velocity. Julian Dibbell reports. http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr349_master.html?alert Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: [newbie] OT BSOD (fwd, fun)
Hey Jim, Oh, I don't know. I have two machines here - one Windows and one Linux. The Windows machine has to be rebooted every three to four days because of memory leaks (as in poor memory management on the part of Windows). The Linux box runs just fine from one power failure to the next (no UPS here). If you prefer Windows, fine. I like both of them for different reasons, but overall, I like Linux better (and it's gaining all the time). You are probably right at that, I haven't tried to run windows for more than a day, neither Linux. I guess Linux would make it, not sure about windows, but I do not need such kind of performance at the moment. Roman
[newbie] Cablemodems in General
Maxtor ; As I've been discovering in the last day or two, it seems that different cablemodem providers,apparently use different technologies. If you'd take a minute to check my follow-up post you'd find that I had corrected myself. I'm not trying to start a fuss (although, I'm sure that this email willgenerate numerous threads), but as much as I was mistaken about there being only one type of ID technology being used by ISP's,you would do well not to make thesame mistake. Having had my eyes opened about the different ways that cablemodem providersidentify their customers (it seems that there are several ways in which this is done), we can probably agree, however, that it most likely has something to do with MAC addresses. How the ISP's get the job done is irrelevant with the sole exception of whether or not it has an impact on how someone ID's their computer(s) to their ISP. I made the same mistake by assuming that all ISP's use the exact method that Videotron (located in Quebec, Canada), accomplishes this task. To make a blanket statement that I'm wrong seems foolhardy at best. You're obviously making the same mistake, using your ISP's ID method as a reference, and assuming that their system is the only way the job gets done. So, I say to you,...WRONG. But it doesn't matter how they do it, just that it smokes, and let us not forget those blistering download speeds! KEWL !
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[newbie] Disk icons.
I have been messing with drives, adding more hd's and a seconds floppy drive. I created the link from /mnt/some_drive to a file on my desktop, but had to log in as root to set the icon. Then I found the icon in /mnt had changed as well. An hour of investigating revealed that the icons on the desktop arn't links, so what are they and how do I create them.
Re: [newbie] laptops
I prefer McDonalds. They have a tasty ice cream with milk choclete chunks in it. - Original Message - From: Steve Weltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 2:43 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] laptops KFC?? I hope that it isn't a bucket of Fried Chicken you're trying to install Mandrake 7.1 into!! I don't think that we have software for that yet. But it might taste better!! Have a good day! (sorry for the odd humor, I saw KFC and went into left field with that!) Steve W. - Original Message - From: "Marcia Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] laptops Dear All, Has anyone heard of Linux on the new Emachine notebook called Eslate or on a KFC notebook? Are these good notebooks? Marcia
Re: [newbie] Kmail / Sendmail question
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: I have not been able to find wether KMail uses Sendmail to process the incoming and outgoing mail; does anyone know ? Only if you set it up. File - settings, NETWORK tab. Sending Mail: click the "sendmail" button and it uses sendmail. Never was life easier ;-) I would like to know if putting the domain names of persistent spammers in /etc/hosts.deny will help when using KMail. I don't think so. You'd have to go for something like JunkBuster or so, and that (afaik) only works with a sendmail/fetchmail/qmail kind of setup. Paul -- Dear God, What does it mean you are a Jealous God? I thought you had everything. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] Anyone tried [successfully] to get email support?
I've been trying to get help on a Mandrake 7.1 install. After buying the Deluxe pack and registering it for support, I still can't get a response to my emails. Anyone had any luck here? My main problem is that the USB module usb-uhci.o fails to load. The dmesg shows that it is seen, doesn't have an IRQ and then is shut down. There's no place that I can find to assign it an IRQ, either in software or in BIOS. I've looked on the 'net for answers, but none so far, and it's extremely frustrating to have paid for a package that supposedly includes support, but you can't even get a response out of them. And just try to find a customer service email address or phone number for Mandrake... -- Bill Fry IT Director, Young Roehr Group 503.222.0626
Re: [newbie] Loading the on-board NIC tulip driver
I've found the stock mandrake tulip driver doesnt like my linksys or kingston nics. I've always had to upgrade the driver to v.89h or v.91g before i could get my connect working. At 11:03 AM 8/21/00 -0700, you wrote: Hello all, I installed 7.1 yesterday but during configuration, it did not list my 10/100 Linksys Ethernet card for my cable modem ( not a PMCIA card - just a regular card). Overall though,the install went generally well. Linux seems to know it's a PCI ethernet card, just not what kind. I skipped this portion and now I have no internet connection. I went to the linksys website and they explained that the on-board (already in linux) 'tulip.o' driver is compatible and should work. How does one exactly 'load' this tulip.o driver? I found this file buried under a bunch of subdirs. Some YES/No Questions: 1- Must I be at Admin level to do this step? 2- Will any command line 'screen' allow me to do this ? 3- Must I be in the subdir where the tulip.o file/driver is located. 4- Are there straight forward command to load it? If anyone can detail what I need to do I would be greatly appreciated. FYI-I have been using the KDE interface. Thanks in advance, Doug Conrad PII-350 96 megs ram ATI 8 meg video card Lynksys 10/100 PCI ethernet card (cable modem) IRQ9 Has Dual Boot with boot magic/master? I forget name On board Crystal sound (doesn't work yet on linux) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Lilo Failure
I don't think that you have to reformate the drive. Has the disk been the primary one before? It should also be enough to boot from floppy and edit the /etc/lilo.conf manually to boot from /dev/hdbx. Much luck! well, so Linux allocates the drive designation /dev/hdbx based on it's read of the IDE channel. So, Ineed to change the placement of the drive on the cable? So, if I correct this, then do I need to re-format/re-write the partition table to get the drive re-asigned to /dev/hdax? Thanks, Michael On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Hellmut wrote: Hi! It means that /dev/hda1 would be on the first disk. /dev/hda is the primary channel of the first ide string (Or whatever it is called in English). /dev/hdb is the secondary channel of the first ide string. I don't use klilo anymore, it destroyed my lilo too... Trying to get my system to boot from the hard drive not the floppy. When I run lilo and klilo, I get the error message: "Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk" That does this mean exactly? Thanks, Michael -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
[newbie] cracks
Hey does anyone know where I can find a crack for mtv mpeg player?
Re: [newbie] BSOD (fwd, fun)
Steve Weltman wrote: Mandrake does not install well on livestock or domestic pets. Please do not write for support on these installs to this mailing list! But the 'boot' command seems to have a decent affect if used correctly. (Just kidding! It's Monday morning and I'm not at work yet!) Steve Weltman Rats! and I was going to attempt to put RedHat on my sons cat, Spot! No support, huh*mumbling to himself...*
Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking
OK, it sounds to me as thought you do not have you modem set up correctly. Maybe an IRQ conflict with eth0 (if you have to take one down to bring the other up), try switching slots if you can and see what happens...do you have Plug-nPlay enabled in your bios? You may want to tun it off (or on, as the case may be). Then go into netconf, or linuxconf and check all your setting for PPP/PLIP/SLIP...if you don't have your modem configured here (ppp0), that could be the problem also--I remember back about a year or so ago, when I actually used kppp for a month, that it has its own configuration, apart from the system networking configuration. If you decide to continue using kppp, you'll also have to add a script line to execute pmfirewall start after a connection is made I don't think it uses /sbin/ifup to call the ppp scrits in /etc/ppp. And that is where pmfirewall puts itself for ppp dial-up (in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local). Since you modem and NIC are conflicting, we need to figure out why they "just can't all get along" before we can get packets to pass through the firewall. --Greg Hi Greg, I did as you advised except"portsentry". Haven't tried that yet. I installed pmfirewall, and checked /etc/hosts.allow and /et/hosts.deny After installing pmfirewall I did ./pmfirewall restart and it showed my dns numbers allright but it said about ppp0 "device not found" also under ipchains an "invalid mask message" at the end it showed External ppp0 / Anyway Kppp still fails. The only time I can get Kppp to connect and :reach out" is when I disable eth0 and my DNS number. Under Kppp Statistics It will say Local Addr 6x.xx.xx.x Remote Addr. 208.223.199.240 What do I try next? Thanks Bob __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT
Larry, I think you missed the point of the original message. Sometimes people need to just be honest that yes, Linux has made a lot of improvements but still does have some of it's own problems. That's all it was - not a slam to Linux or Mandrake or anyone else. Of course, everybody has their own take on that depending on their experience, and how they got where they're at. The problem is that sometimes people try to deny that Linux has any problems at all, which just isn't true and that's what led to the long string of replies in this thread. That's the jist of the thread and yes, win2k does support usb (and I believe that one of the service packs also brought it to NT 4 - not sure on that however). Mike I can hardly believe this thread. There is no way in hell that any os company (even ms) can have enough time and resources to write drivers for all the hardware out there. I repeat ... not even MS. Off the top of my head, x86 Linux has better hardware support then any other os except ms win95/98. Does win2k/nt do usb? what about ce? Also, if more hardware companies would write unified drivers then that would solve a number of problems. Think Nvidia and not 3dfx in the future. Incidentally, 3dfx is a dinosaur and will be extinct very soon. -- Larry Hignight
Re: [newbie] Support?
Not that it helps now, but in the future you guys can vote with you dollars and dl mandrake then buy support somewhere else. DougC wrote: Hmmm, Is this the level of support we get? I have a similar problem with a PCI network driver. Though I just submitted the question I'm wondering that same question. You're right though, where are some direct email support numbers? I certainly appreciate the help of individuals but the company should provide SOME direct support. --- Bill Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to get help on a Mandrake 7.1 install. After buying the Deluxe pack and registering it for support, I still can't get a response to my emails. Anyone had any luck here? My main problem is that the USB module usb-uhci.o fails to load. The dmesg shows that it is seen, doesn't have an IRQ and then is shut down. There's no place that I can find to assign it an IRQ, either in software or in BIOS. I've looked on the 'net for answers, but none so far, and it's extremely frustrating to have paid for a package that supposedly includes support, but you can't even get a response out of them. And just try to find a customer service email address or phone number for Mandrake... -- Bill Fry IT Director, Young Roehr Group 503.222.0626 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 - 8:20pm up 18 days, 4:28, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.02 -
Re: [newbie] Anyone tried [successfully] to get email support?
"Eric MC.D" wrote: Sorry to say that, but if you have windoooz installed, take a look how windoooz did it ! Under System-devices. If this can help. Eric MC Dan O'Rourke wrote: Tech support is evil! It took 5 days for them to respond to my repeated emails and requests for help. Then they were abrupt and didn't give me a working solution. I mailed them back asking for another solution. That was 6 months ago. I'm sure I'll get my solution any day now :-p I'm NEVER gonna drop cash for a delux pack again! -- From: "Bill Fry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Anyone tried [successfully] to get email support? Date: Mon, Aug 21, 2000, 5:24 PM I've been trying to get help on a Mandrake 7.1 install. After buying the Deluxe pack and registering it for support, I still can't get a response to my emails. Anyone had any luck here? My main problem is that the USB module usb-uhci.o fails to load. The dmesg shows that it is seen, doesn't have an IRQ and then is shut down. There's no place that I can find to assign it an IRQ, either in software or in BIOS. I've looked on the 'net for answers, but none so far, and it's extremely frustrating to have paid for a package that supposedly includes support, but you can't even get a response out of them. And just try to find a customer service email address or phone number for Mandrake... -- Bill Fry IT Director, Young Roehr Group 503.222.0626 Bill, This may be a little late in the thread, but have you tried reinstalling the USB package from the CD. From your description it sounds a lot like the USB package didn't load correctly when you installed Mandrake. Also, sometimes at best USB can be real tricky and a BIG pain in the butt to get working right. That, of course depends a lot on the machine. -- Mark
Re: [newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux
Oh, now I see. I have used numerous isps, but the closest I have come to that is bt internet. They insist on giveing out an exe which is used to connect, so people cant copy there dun setting onto another system. It doesn't work. I connect on linux fine with it. - Original Message - From: Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 12:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux The key word in this discussion is "Free". Regular ISP's work just fine, but free one's usually require you to run a .exe that displays ads while your connected. And since they don't make a Linux version of those ad programs, you can't connect to the free ISP. I dont know what all this fuss is about, unless us isps work differently than uk. All I had to do was enter the phone number, username, password, dns and a few other things to get both my isps going on linux. apart from aol, compuserve and msn, most isps should work with linux. The isp doesn't know what os is connecting to it. What is this about? -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
[newbie] Loading the on-board NIC tulip driver
Hello all, I installed 7.1 yesterday but during configuration, it did not list my 10/100 Linksys Ethernet card for my cable modem ( not a PMCIA card - just a regular card). Overall though,the install went generally well. Linux seems to know it's a PCI ethernet card, just not what kind. I skipped this portion and now I have no internet connection. I went to the linksys website and they explained that the on-board (already in linux) 'tulip.o' driver is compatible and should work. How does one exactly 'load' this tulip.o driver? I found this file buried under a bunch of subdirs. Some YES/No Questions: 1- Must I be at Admin level to do this step? 2- Will any command line 'screen' allow me to do this ? 3- Must I be in the subdir where the tulip.o file/driver is located. 4- Are there straight forward command to load it? If anyone can detail what I need to do I would be greatly appreciated. FYI-I have been using the KDE interface. Thanks in advance, Doug Conrad PII-350 96 megs ram ATI 8 meg video card Lynksys 10/100 PCI ethernet card (cable modem) IRQ9 Has Dual Boot with boot magic/master? I forget name On board Crystal sound (doesn't work yet on linux) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] How do i go about doing a MD7.1 install on 2nd drive
Before you start, I had trouble with installing windows. It want to go on c: drive, and c: drive must be hda1. So windows must go on hda1. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 5:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] How do i go about doing a MD7.1 install on 2nd drive On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: I just got the 7.1 Inst and Ext CD in mail, I built a new computer was was going to get a second hardrive to put linux on and keep the other for windows (for games of course). How would I got about making it so when i turn on computer I get a option to go into Linux or windows? The way I understood it was LILO and Grub were just for Partions on 1 drive..is this correct or would i still use them with the seond drive? Thanks, markOpoleO Not sure what you're asking ? Lilo and grub will definitely work with 2 or more drives. You should look at the installation section http://mandrakeuser.org/install/index.html Particularly, "Booting GNU/Linux Everything you need to know about bootloaders". -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Internet configuration for Mandrake 7.0
The MAC comes from a set of numbers/letters that each manufacturer gets for their hardware. This gives each card (ethernet for example) a unique address that is programmed into the firmware of the card and is traceable to the manufacturer. It is the fundamental address used in routing. Unless the manufacturer is kind enough to post the MAC address on the device, the only way I know to find it is with a sniffer. Barry :) On Mon, 21 August 2000, "markOpoleO" wrote: I went through 2 cable modems and 3 nic for my service. The MAC is located outside box i was told...*shrug* I got a new cable modem cause they used a no name brand i never heard of, got a us robotics and like it better. hehe markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Dan LaBine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet configuration for Mandrake 7.0 | Nope, I'm not using your provider. But this is the first I hear of a | cablemodem having a MAC address, too, so you could be right. It's either an | extra EEPROM chip in the cablemodem or some such piece of equipment if thats | the case. With mine, you need to contact them if you change your NIC. Then | they scan your system, get the MAC, and your back up. Here, it's actually | the MAC address that ID's you to them, and then they can connect you. It's | probably the same 4 U, but as you say, the address comes from your | cablemodem. Hmmm,..you just never know, do ya? | | Dan | - Original Message - | From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 10:36 PM | Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet configuration for Mandrake 7.0 | | | The first thing to remember is that you MUST use that network card ! | Each | network card ( No matter who built it ), has a distinct MAC ( Machine | Access | Code )and it is how your ISP identifies your computer when you're | connecting. | | Are you sure this is necessary? I've changed NICs three times since I've | gotten my cable modem (configuration screwey-ness), and nothing | detrimental | has happened to me... Actually, the MAC address that was recorded on the | optonline website was that of the *cable modem* not a NIC! Are you | positive | it's not just a quirk of your particular cable provider? (unless you're | with | optonline also.) | | --Greg | | - Original Message - | | The first thing to remember is that you MUST use that network card ! Each | network card ( No matter who built it ), has a distinct MAC ( Machine | Access | Code ). That code is only used on your card. It is not transferrable to | another card and it is how your ISP identifies your computer when you're | connecting. I just learned this the hard way 2 days ago. There is almost | nothing to configure in Mandrake. Go to Drakconf, Network Configuration, | find your NIC (Network Interface Card). You don't need to put anything in | for Host Name + Domain, or Alias. Make sure that the "Enabled" button is | turned on (Pushed in), and make sure that you've selected DHCP as well. | That | should do it. You can also enter your DNS numbers which you will find on | your ISP's web-site. If you have all of that configured, everything should | be fine. Make sure that you have not enabled ADSL, PPPOE, or ISDN anywhere | is Drakconf. At the worst, you may want to reboot, just to make sure | everything is O.K. | | That's all. | - Original Message - | From: Mifune | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 4:59 PM | Subject: [newbie] Internet configuration for Mandrake 7.0 | | | Hi, | I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my computer. | I would like to configure my internetconnection using a cable modem. | The only information to do so that I found concerns Mandrake 6.0 | This tells me to go to control panel, select network configuration (of | course), | and then select interfaces. | But the network configuration panel of Mandrake 7.0 gives me no such | option. | I get the options: Basic host information, Name server specifications, | Routings and gateways, Host name search path, NIS, IPX interface and | PPP/SLP/PIP. | Can somebody help me? | | | | | __ | message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com | emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris | (bookmarks)-forums | Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) | | | | | _ The freedom to choose your own Internet access price. Surfree.com - got to be free http://www.surfree.com
[newbie] Linux book
Dear Paul, Awhile back you recommended a good linux book to study and unfortunately I accidentally erased that message. Would you please give me the name of that book again? Also, I noticed that you seem very familiar with commands, how to edit, and just about anything else with linux. Are there places on the web to get that know how? Is it in your recommended book? Thank you. Marcia
[newbie] Transparent proxying
Itried to set up transparent proxy, but didn't make it. I think that the problem is, that I don't have my kernel compiled with Transparent proxy support, is there a way to check that out?? Wellrecompiledmy kernel(using kernel-2.3.9), but I was unable to boot it so I restored the oldone back. I noticed that that the is no source of the kernel I am using (kernel-2.2.13-7mdk)on CD of mandrake linux so I used that one. Where can I get src file of that or some newer kernel?? Gregor([EMAIL PROTECTED])
