[newbie-it] scanner
Innazitutto ringrazio chi mi ha aiutato con Netscape e Grub, poi avrei un'altro quesito da porvi. Premetto che ho installato una Mandrake 7.1 (1 solo cd)in omaggio con una rivista, quindi penso manchino diversi pacchetti. Come si configura uno scanner? Quello che possiedo è uno Storm (genius?), modello ultraeconomico con interfaccia parallela, usato fin'ora con adobe photodelux. Grazie a tutti. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
R: [newbie-it] Configurazione scheda audio
prova con sndconfig - Original Message - From: Luca Frabboni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 7:09 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Configurazione scheda audio Ciao a tutti sono nuovo di Linux, ma devo dire che mi è piaciuto subito per la stabilità, la sicurezza e la velocità. Ne avevo le scatole piene dei continui blocchi su windoz 98se. Arriviamo al problema: Ho installato con successo su una partizione dell'HD secondario la distribuzione Mandrake7 di Linux. Però non funziona la mia vecchia scheda audio ISA ess1868. Essa viene riconosciuta ed è presente nell'elenco delle schede audio ma dopo aver messo i vari parametri irq, dma, ecc. quando faccio il test viene fuori che è già in uso la periferica non può essere utilizzata. Penso che potrebbe essere un proble di interrupt ma non so proprio che fare, c'è forse qualche modo x risolvere il problema. La scheda sotto win 98 non ha mai dato problemi. Dimenticavo, il mio pc è così composto: amd k6II 300 su m.b. VIA 128mb ram hd primario western digital da 13Gb (usato x win) hd secondario fujitsu da 3Gb con una partizione x linux di 2Gb cd 24x scheda video matrox G200 AGP scheda audio ess1868 ISA modem interno PCI 56k lucent Ringrazio anticipatamente chiunque mi possa aiutare. Ciao, Frabbo
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione scheda audio
Grazie!!! Ora funziona e sono riuscito a godermi un pò di MP3. Frabbo - Original Message - From: msapien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione scheda audio On Wednesday, November 01, 2000 at 07:09:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apri una console e esegui soundconfig, e fai i tests in modalita' non grafica. Ciao a tutti sono nuovo di Linux, ma devo dire che mi è piaciuto subito per la stabilità, la sicurezza e la velocità. Ne avevo le scatole piene dei continui blocchi su windoz 98se. Arriviamo al problema: Ho installato con successo su una partizione dell'HD secondario la distribuzione Mandrake7 di Linux. Però non funziona la mia vecchia scheda audio ISA ess1868. Essa viene riconosciuta ed è presente nell'elenco delle schede audio ma dopo aver messo i vari parametri irq, dma, ecc. quando faccio il test viene fuori che è già in uso la periferica non può essere utilizzata. Penso che potrebbe essere un proble di interrupt ma non so proprio che fare, c'è forse qualche modo x risolvere il problema. La scheda sotto win 98 non ha mai dato problemi. Dimenticavo, il mio pc è così composto: amd k6II 300 su m.b. VIA 128mb ram hd primario western digital da 13Gb (usato x win) hd secondario fujitsu da 3Gb con una partizione x linux di 2Gb cd 24x scheda video matrox G200 AGP scheda audio ess1868 ISA modem interno PCI 56k lucent Ringrazio anticipatamente chiunque mi possa aiutare. Ciao, Frabbo -- TiscaliNet, libero accesso ad Internet. http://www.tiscalinet.it
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione scheda audio
On Wednesday, November 01, 2000 at 07:09:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apri una console e esegui soundconfig, e fai i tests in modalita' non grafica. Ciao a tutti sono nuovo di Linux, ma devo dire che mi è piaciuto subito per la stabilità, la sicurezza e la velocità. Ne avevo le scatole piene dei continui blocchi su windoz 98se. Arriviamo al problema: Ho installato con successo su una partizione dell'HD secondario la distribuzione Mandrake7 di Linux. Però non funziona la mia vecchia scheda audio ISA ess1868. Essa viene riconosciuta ed è presente nell'elenco delle schede audio ma dopo aver messo i vari parametri irq, dma, ecc. quando faccio il test viene fuori che è già in uso la periferica non può essere utilizzata. Penso che potrebbe essere un proble di interrupt ma non so proprio che fare, c'è forse qualche modo x risolvere il problema. La scheda sotto win 98 non ha mai dato problemi. Dimenticavo, il mio pc è così composto: amd k6II 300 su m.b. VIA 128mb ram hd primario western digital da 13Gb (usato x win) hd secondario fujitsu da 3Gb con una partizione x linux di 2Gb cd 24x scheda video matrox G200 AGP scheda audio ess1868 ISA modem interno PCI 56k lucent Ringrazio anticipatamente chiunque mi possa aiutare. Ciao, Frabbo -- TiscaliNet, libero accesso ad Internet. http://www.tiscalinet.it
[newbie] MSN and NetZero
Hi there, I know so many people have asked questions about Internet connection but I do need little help here. I tried to connect to MSN from my linux, after I saw the message says: Connection established, I got that connection disconnected. I can use Dialup Network to connect to MSN under Win98 and I think I have the same config for linux, so what did I do wrong? Do I have to conifg the pap-secrets/chap-secrets files? Also, I've read one post regarding to connect to NetZero without using their software, I tried, but failed. So I'm just thinking, can I use WINE to run NetZero's software from Linux? Thanks for any response! Yue
Re: [newbie] External CD-RW Drive?
Use the Freecom Traveller with the parallel cable or another parallel Freecom drive. I have the traveller and it works perfectly under Linux Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2. To set it up enter the following commands modprobe paride modprobe friq modprobe pcd modprobe pg modprobe ide-scsi or better (For the I/O address, which is 0x378 in the example, run the commands shown above and look at the messages in the end of the output of the "dmesg" command): modprobe paride modprobe friq modprobe pcd drive0=0x378,0,0,-1,-1,0 modprobe pg drive0=0x378,0,0,-1,-1,0 modprobe ide-scsi The second version makes the access faster. Both versions allow 2x speed, the second 4x speed when you do not need your machine during the CD recording (CPU load gets 80% when burning in 4x speed). Or add the following lines in /etc/modules paride friq pcd drive0=0x378,0,0,-1,-1,0 pg drive0=0x378,0,0,-1,-1,0 ide-scsi to get the drive active automatically at boot time. These modules are only loaded at boot time when the drive is connected. To get the drive's address for writing CDs (both data and audio), enter cdrecord --scanbus the device to mount for reading CDs is /dev/pcd0 Till "C.K.Gardner" wrote: I'm looking to do some hardware upgrading in the next couple of months, and I would like some advice about an external cd-rw for a laptop. I've been following discussions on burning cds both in this group and in Linux mags, and rarely does anyone mention externals. Can it even be done with Linux (Mandrake 7.1 being touted as able to recognize more peripherals than most distros)? Speed is not really a priority, and I may never get around to burning music. Just files, programs, and photos. So, in a nutshell: Can it be done? By a newbie? Any recommendations on connections (USB, PCMCIA, etc) or brands? Thanks in advance! Christopher
Re: [newbie] Printer Question
Jay wrote: -- I know this has been done before. I just got a HP Deskjet 648C. 1. Can I use USB connection for this printer with the 2.2.14 kernel? I don't know, depends on the distro, because the distro companies add a lot of stuff to the kernel. If you use Mandrake 7.2 USB printing is fully supported. 2. I tried using it via parallel, it detects it etc. on lp which is LPT1, but no print. If it does not print, you have probably done something wrong in the setup. Use printerdrake or printtool in Mandrake 7.1 and use printerdrake or kups in Mandrake 7.2. Mandrake 7.2 has many more drivers which give a better output quality. 3. Which is easier set-up USB or parallel? In Mandrake 7.2 it does not matter, in older distros parallel is easier to set up. Till
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
Bryce, Might I suggest that you not go to all that trouble with making a huge DOS partition before starting theLinux partitioning and just boot from the CD with a raw disk and use diskdrake when it comes up in the intall. Another thing you may want to do is make the first partition something other than the Swap partition. Make it anything but Swap, and also make that first one a primary. All the others can be extended partitions. Make the Swap the last thing on the drive. Do an expert install and you should probably, if you're not already, do the developer install as well. I think you will find that this will work out quite nicely. I've been doing it this way for quite a long time and each and every install is flawless and error free. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182469 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Wed, 1 Nov 2000 Brice Ruth had this to say! In order: 1) I've tried the 'automatic' option - I get the error. 2) I create the swap, then root, then usr (I like having swap first on the disk) 3) They are defined properly as swap and ext2 - I actually wanted the usr partition to be ReiserFS, so I was trying that at first, but eventually went with all ext2 4) It isn't a dual boot system - just plain jane all for Linux ... it'll be a test bed. It has an ATAPI cdrom drive, an Award BIOS, and the motherboard is Biostar's M7MKE. 5) I've used RedHat primarily in the past couple years ... started out with Slackware 3.0 (painful). I used Debian for a bit ... though I almost gave up during the install process on that one ... and I've used SuSE a bit, but never installed it. That's on x86 platforms ... I've also installed/used RedHat on SPARC/Alpha and mklinux and linuxppc on Mac platforms. Good enough? :) Side note 1: I've gone in with a win98 bootdisk fdisk /mbr to clear the boot record from any previous junk that might have been in it, I've removed all the partition info from within fdisk created one huge win98 partition (non-formatted) ... when the installer hit that, it asked if I wanted to remove windows proceed, I said yes, and it did some stuff on the drive then popped up that same exact error message ... Side note 2: RedHat 7.0 has finished installing successfully and it seems to be running fine (I'm in X now ...) however, I don't want RedHat 7.0 ... this was just a test, so please keep helping me :) Regards TIA! Brice Larry Marshall wrote: Everything goes along fine until we're in the stage where the hard drive gets partitioned. I have a 6G drive and I wanted to partition it manually ... so I do. 128M swap, 512M root, the rest goes to usr. Don't comment on how intelligent or stupid my partitioning scheme is, please - that shouldn't be at issue here :) You suggest we shouldn't comment on the very subject that seems to be causing the problem. I will however, though briefly. Is this the order in which you're setting up these partitions? Are they defined properly as ext2 and swap? Obviously something is wrong in your setup or you wouldn't be getting errors and having problems. If you could provide a bit more detail of what you're doing (partition order, type, are you dual-booting?, etc) might help. Since you say you're an experienced Linux user, what Linuxes have you used? Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Which hard drive is the most reliable andinstallation of Linux?
Hi Roman. i can only offer an opinion on your first question -- assuming i understand you correctly. do you mean most perferable as in manufactuer? i have used maxtor, sea gate and western digital drives over the time i have been working in electronics and can't honestly say i have seen much difference. i have only seen 2 hard drives actually crash burn in my life. but, for my computer at home, i only buy maxtor. i have been thru 6 maxtor hard drives. one of them, a 540M (yes M) from the old days finally crashed burned. it started to lose data randomly. i saw the writing on the wall replaced it. i have -- maxtor flavor -- two 170M and one 250M -- all older than the 540M and all still work just fine. currently i'm using a 16G and 30G maxtor in my system. i also recomend maxtor to all my friends. and i don't recomend many products. but as i say, just my opinion. i have no science or statistics to back any of this up. =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:24:02 PM 11/1/00 Hi everybody, I have three questions for every one: Q1. What would be the most preferable hard drive to install in your computer or does it matter? Q2. I tried to install mdk7.1 and the IDE configuration froze. However, when I tried to install Redhat 6.1, it started to install but it did indicated that the partition table on hdd may be corrupt. I have Windows 98SE installed on the Fujitsu drive on the first partition. I used Partition Magic to create a separate partition yet it still freezes. I am also using an Iomega zip drive 100MB. Should I disconnect it? Q3. Should I only format the Fujitsu drive using MSDOS and install Linux only? Some of my applications will not run on Linux. I'm out of ideas. Any thoughts? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] installing on 2nd hd
Alex, Gary, At 03:20 PM 01-11-2000 -0500, you wrote: installed them. They work very well. Two points: don't lose the key; Sorry, this 63-year-old man forgot to suggest : not to buy the type that use key to switch on/off, instead buy the "latch" type. No worry of lost key. You only need to slide to off, slide to on. For more info go to http://www.vipower.com, this is the type I am using. Bought one in August @SGD$16.00 Regards.
Re: [newbie] OT 6th question - SCSI vs IDE OT
In certain situation and with certain applications this is indeed true. However, just as important, if not more so in some instances, is the actual access speed of the HDD in question. If you have a SCSI HDD that spins at 10,000 rpms but only has an access time of 40ms and I have an IDE HDD that spins at 7200 rpms but has an access time of 120ms, I'll take the second HDD every time. Both numbers are important, but to my mind and wallet I tend to look at the access time more than how fast the disk spins. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182469 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Tue, 31 Oct 2000 Adrian Smith had this to say! this came up the other day. someone told me that a SCSI hard drive is faster than an IDE hard drive. i have never used a SCSI drive in my life, so i don't know from experience. is this true?? thanks much no more questions for now Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Logging off a user ?
the answer to your question is yes, and you may want to search the archives on this one because I think something like this was covered about a month ago, but I can't recall enough of the details to relate the adventure for you. Ordinarily I would simply search my message database and forward the appropriate message(s) to you covering this subject since I keep almost all of them from the list. However, after this weekend's tragic implosion of my partition tables I've lost better than 3GB worth of data. My list archive was one of the casualties. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182469 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Wed, 1 Nov 2000 Renaud OLGIATI had this to say! Is there a way fior the sysadmin to log a user off ? My son liked Kboard so much he spent the whole night playing, and I was thinking of finding a way to keep him off the computer during the hours he's supposed to sleep. Now, If there was a way for root to terminate the session of a user, I thought I coul put in crontab a job to run every minute between the hours of 20 00 and 08 00, that would grep the output of who, and log him off if he's logged in. But can it be done ? TIA, Cheers, A worried father, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] space requirements
How much space is required for the 7.2 install? also, is their anyway to save all the work I've done in installing this and that...already in 7.02? -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] 7th question - word processing - you only thought iwas finished
I for one prefer Star Office. What exactly is it about SO that is too much for you? Abiword is a nice enough app, but unfortunately it's still a beta app and has a few...um...bugs in it. I would agree. If I didn't have somewhat specialized problems I'd certainly be using SO as it's by far the most stable and with the most potential to remain that way in future releases. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Windows
That's not exactly something I'd announce on a public mailing list. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182469 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Wed, 1 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] had this to say! hmm well i managed to install windows without killing linux! but im also using a pirated copy of win2k
Re: [newbie] choice of computer - fix contacts
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron, Treat unreliable connections with Stabilant22. Given that I had the problem on two motherboards, and they went away when I removed the cache RAM stick, I have been tempted to blame the RAM itself ;-) But I'll see if I can find Stabilan here in Darkest Paraguay. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] 7.2 + Gnome
Hi Just ordered 7.2 online. I see it comes with Gnome 1.2. Is this version of Gnome the same as Helix Gnome 1.2? -- ODave Naylor [ Y@C 07092-033913 ] | [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] |---| ICQ 16742766 [ SMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: [newbie] amazing...
I just installed 7.2 from the current ISO images - did an expert install and installed everything- I'm curious. How much hard drive space does it take to install everything? Dana
RE: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
It is not a still-born follow this url for more info http://www.helixcode.com/tech/gb.php3 Ingo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes Hm...lets pray that it's still-born. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182469 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Tue, 31 Oct 2000 Larry Marshall had this to say! 2. VB has been developed for the express purpose of writing programs to run under Windows. 3. Microsoft is not a proponent of open source software (in spite of what that Russian guy thinks). 4. Linux has strong roots in the C language. 5. C (and its descendants) and Basic are totally different worlds (think cats and dogs). My guess would be that Visual Basic for Linux will occur on the day that hell freezes over and the sun rises in the west -- provided that they both happen on the same day. On the other hand, strange things do happen -- remember President Dewey. Carrol, while there's some debate over whether it's a good idea, I believe there is an active project to develop a VB-compatible interpreter for Linux. I don't know any of the details of that project however. As for MS and Linux, you might find them involved a bit sooner than that :-) Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Samba
At 03:11 PM 11/1/00 -0600, you wrote: Ok, I have been through two different configure setups, one from Linuxnewbie and the other from a book called "Mastering Linux". Neither of which reflects the current Samba 2.0.7 that I am using and I have also looked at the mandrake site. Anyone know of a good source to guide me through setting up Samba? I'm close but can't quite get there with the available info. Swat won't make the changes for me. I get a error message that says My computer is not authorized access. Should I have been in root and not gone to a browser as a plain ole user? Advise is, as usual, always welcome. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842 Yes if you have not figured that out you have to be root to write to things in the /etc dir. So you would have to run swat as root. As for another good source for info. Have you hit the ORiely book website yet. Their using Samba book is also available for download in HTML or PDF format. Good luck.. I have done the same. James Schofield Linux user and loving it! Mandrake 7.1/Storm(Hail)/SusE 7.0 "Trouble is where you find it, sooo stop looking for me!"
RE: [newbie] PCMCIA modems
I've managed to answer my own question trawled the expert archive and found out how to identify itLT WINMODEM (GLOBAL).think that sorts that out, I'm on my way back to the shop now On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, you wrote: Unless something changed somewhere along the line and I don't know about it, a PCMCIA modem is hardware controlled and will also use hardware flow control. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] PCMCIA modems I am trying to get a PCMCIA modems to work under Kppp (MD7.1, Sony Vaio PCG F250) I have tried all the /dev options from /dev/modem to whatever the last one is and either get modem busy, can't open modem etc. If I set flow control to "none" and then try to query modem, it will say modem ready and check the ATI commands but the resulting table of ATI commands is blank. The shop told me that all PCMCIA modems are "hardware" modems, were they wrong, have they sold me a Winmodem ?
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
Check your 'man swap' and you will find they say 128 MB. You can have up to 8 swap partitions (16 according to the LPI study guide). Uhm...under what conditions? Swap isn't a single number, it's dependent upon OS use of swap space, the size and number of apps being run, etc. If you auto-allocate a 128m memory machine using Mandrake installer it will give you 250m of swap. Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
Yes, this looks like another eruption of off-topic posts... IMHO, VB should be ported because that is the only way to achieve portability for MS Office documents. StarOffice is really cool but ultimately not feasible if you are exchanging documents with a group of MS Office folks. Unfortunately, VB would bring office products closer to managing that feasiblity. Unfortunately, VB is not an elegant language but it suits it's purpose. Too bad tcl, perl, python, java, or javascript wasn't used for building these dynamic docs. But those languages present quite a learning curve, this was VB strength. Also, it enabled MS to lock in a lot of folks to it's proprietary ways of doing things.
Re: [newbie] 1st question -- CD burner crash burn
On Wednesday 01 November 2000 03:01 pm, Larry Marshall wrote: I had some occaisional problems burning with Linux and W98 till I swapped the CD-RW and CDrom on the second ide, making the burner the slave. Only thing I can think of to rationalize this 'fix' is that as slave, the CD-RW is on the ide cable at a shorter length from the motherboard. I always thought this was given as "standard practice" and the explanations I've heard had more to do with throughput - i.e. reading from one channel and out the other rather than reading and writing on the same channel. I've certainly found the same thing you have even though my cables are both the same length. Cheers --- Larry By 'shorter on the cable' I meant: motherboard ide2-slavemaster .. cd-rwcdrom My ide1 and ide2 cables are also the same length. Windoze is master, Mandrake is the slave on ide1. It's my standard practice to put CD devices on the second ide and harddrives together on the first ide. 'Course you'll find all kinds of opinions, even from the gurus on the hardware sites that vary widely, and are often contradicting. Most posts to the cdr newsgroup advocate making the cd-rw master, the cdrom slave. I found the opposite works better for me after tryin both ways. With the cd-rw as slave, I have yet to find a CD player that won't play audio CD's I burn from mp3's :) -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Just a question of how---
So I'm considering upgrading, that is if it is necessary. How does all who have tried out 7.2 like it and what would be the major benefits of upgrading from 7.0-2 to 7.2? Thanx
[newbie] Sound under 7.2
Cannot get any sound to work under 7.2. I cannot even find the sound file to run to configure the card. I do not see any sound config or sounddrake or anything like that. Anyone can point me in the right direction? TIA -- Keith Oxford (IT Manager - Reach Technologies) Tel: (011) 620 0323 Fax: (011) 620 0320 Cell: 083 651 4031
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
On Thu, 02 November 2000, Larry Marshall wrote: Check your 'man swap' and you will find they say 128 MB. You can have up to 8 swap partitions (16 according to the LPI study guide). Uhm...under what conditions? Swap isn't a single number, it's dependent upon OS use of swap space, the size and number of apps being run, etc. If you auto-allocate a 128m memory machine using Mandrake installer it will give you 250m of swap. Cheers --- Larry Here is what I have been reading. Running Linux, Pg 52 - A single swap file or partition may be up to 128MB (more with the latest kernels).* If you wish to use more then 128MB of swap (hardly ever necessary), you can create multiple swap partitions or files - up to 16 in all. For example, if you need 256MB of swap, you can create two 128MB swap partitions. *This value applies to machines with Intel processors. On other architectures like Alpha, it can be higher. LPI Prep Kit General Linux I, Pg 48 - Your swap partition should be twice the amount of physical RAM installed on your system. The maximum size of a swap partition is 128MB, but you can have up to 16 separate swap partitions. The recommended minimum size is 16MB for the operating system to function at its best. man mkswap - With S=4096 (as on i386), the useful area is at most 133890048 bytes (almost 128MiB), and the rest is wasted. What I get from all this Larry is that for the i386 based machines, the general rule of thumb is double the RAM up to 128MB of swap. If your resource monitoring shows a high useage level for the swap, add another. Barry :-) Surfree.com - nationwide internet access http://www.surfree.com
[newbie] How to set up PATHs once and for all?
I have been consistently plagues with having different paths depending on if I am logged in directly into the machine, or come in over telnet, or come in over xhost. How/where do I set my PATH to be the same no matter how I come in?
Re: [newbie] OT 6th question - SCSI vs IDE OT
it depends on which kind of SCSI and which kind of IDE. An ATA-100 IDE drive is really fast. Probably quite a bit faster then a narrow SCSI 1 device. Especially if you have a fast CPU. If you have a slower CPU then the SCSI device might be as fast or faster. SCSI works on its own bus that is independent of the CPU while IDE requires that the CPU handle its transactions. This is the primary reason for the speed difference. In many cases the only physical difference between a given IDE and SCSI drive from the same manufacturer is the presence of a SCSI BIOS on one of the otherwise identical drives. ATA-100 devices are very fast. A few days ago at work I was ghosting a hard drive from another hard drive. Both were ATA-100 drives on the asus A7V's promise 100 controller. It was a 900 or so meg transfer and it was completed in under 4 seconds. Fast enough? SCSI is more extensible then IDE though. The only device on a SCSI chain that gets an IRQ is the controller card. Hope that gives you some food for thought! I hate it when I ask a question about hardware and I get "this is better" "no, This is better" with no reasons why ;-) Abe gcobb wrote: SCSI is definitely faster. It's also more costly, but has many benefits. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adrian Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT 6th question - SCSI vs IDE OT this came up the other day. someone told me that a SCSI hard drive is faster than an IDE hard drive. i have never used a SCSI drive in my life, so i don't know from experience. is this true?? thanks much no more questions for now Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The frammisgoshes should be distimmed because a frammisgosh is like a farble and distimming is like gosketing and our ancestors always gosketed the farbles. --R.A. Wilson
Re: [newbie] amazing...
My experience was similar. Two machines, completely different as far as hardware and it installed on both without error. Everything was detected and works great. If this a indication of things to come from Mandrake, I look forward to their future offerings! I hope others have the same experience. Riker philomena wrote: I hate to say this, but I am in shock.. I just installed 7.2 from the current ISO images - did an expert install and installed everything- and for the very first time, of any Mandrake or SuSE install, ALL of my devices (except my USB HP scanner - not supported yet as far as I know ) worked out of the "box" - my SBLive! card, DSL, floppy, ZIP, CDRW (although I haven't tested if the writing part works), printer (HP Deskjet 950C) all work !!! Printouts look incredible. I can't believe I don't have to coerce my sound card into an operational state. KDE2 installed fine - XFree 4.01 looks great - my flatscreen monitor looks excellent This is GREAT Konqueror looks fine - no more ugly fonts - Kmail set up as easy as pie One thing - amyone know where in KDE2 you can install new themes ? I don't see the Theme Manager that used to be in the Control center. This is a pure standalone, at home, machine - nothing too fancy, but that may change now. Way to go Mandrake ! cheers, philomena
RE: [newbie] Logging off a user ?
kill -9 PID is the command you want to wipe out any task running. User ROOT can kill tasks not associated with this, so it woul d have to be a ROOT owned crontab entry. Also you may want to look at the grep piping into cut to get the acual PID's of the the output generated from the grep. Do a man on cut for the specifics. Lastly I wouldn't put cron entry to run every minute. Better yet is to have a shell script that runs the grep|cut as mentioned, sleeps for 1 minute, the loops back to the top. Use Cron to kickstart it for the first time, at 8:00pm or whatever once a day. The script can check to see if the script is already running, and if so, just exists gracefully so that you don't have a bunch of the same script running. Essentially use Cron as watchdog, but the script actually performs the work and goes to sleep and then works again. Cheers! Mark Wignall -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:17 PM To: Renaud OLGIATI Cc: *List Linux-Newbie-MK Subject: Re: [newbie] Logging off a user ? the answer to your question is yes, and you may want to search the archives on this one because I think something like this was covered about a month ago, but I can't recall enough of the details to relate the adventure for you. Ordinarily I would simply search my message database and forward the appropriate message(s) to you covering this subject since I keep almost all of them from the list. However, after this weekend's tragic implosion of my partition tables I've lost better than 3GB worth of data. My list archive was one of the casualties. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182469 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Wed, 1 Nov 2000 Renaud OLGIATI had this to say! Is there a way fior the sysadmin to log a user off ? My son liked Kboard so much he spent the whole night playing, and I was thinking of finding a way to keep him off the computer during the hours he's supposed to sleep. Now, If there was a way for root to terminate the session of a user, I thought I coul put in crontab a job to run every minute between the hours of 20 00 and 08 00, that would grep the output of who, and log him off if he's logged in. But can it be done ? TIA, Cheers, A worried father, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user
I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a standalone PC and can connect to my ISP. When I open Netscape, I receive the following messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Can someone tell me what DNS and PPP settings I need to add ? Minhaz - Original Message - From: Clayton Hoskinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Graham Watkins wrote: I don't know if this is a common problem, but I seem unable to connect to one of my ISPs (ntlworld)as a user with KPP. Although the connection seems to work OK, when I open Netscape I get the following message. "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Graham, I had the same problem, my answer was found in DrakConf-- Linuxconf. Once there I had to set the DNS and PPP connection information. My story is long, but not atypical on the newbie list. I could connect to my ISP, but from there to the net was a mystery. I kept playing with the previously mentioned areas and one day, it worked right. So. I say good luck Clayton
Re: [newbie] Windows
I do pirate copies of everything. So what? Take visual basic which can cost hundreds of pound. I do it for £1 + disk. Microsoft probably cound trace me, but why would they want to? I do copies of software in school and im not big enough to bother them. I am running a project to make manuals and books available for free over the internet. www.carjam.ic24.net/james/index.html (or was it index.htm? Must check). Currently there is very little. Just one good book, 3 junk books to fill space and a few manuals. It would be easeier if my scanner hadn't broke. Please donate any soft-copy manuals you have. Sorry, no win2k manual. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows In a message dated 02-Nov-00 04:47:33 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not exactly something I'd announce on a public mailing list. who in here supports microshaft making money??? with crapy software!! besides they would have to do some serious searching to find me. and although ms has lots of money everyone i know pirates that stuff, if it is worth pirating, no ones making money, i dont have a tech manual that comes with the software, so last i checked it was still legal. it all depends on how you do things
Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user
Hello Robert , don't know if this is the answer - but it worked for me. Firstly , I attempted KPPP via KDE desktop. Secondly , you need to make sure you have 1st and 2nd DNS numbers set up correctly in resolv.conf in /etc directory. If this isn't clear enough - e-mail back and I'll go through it with you stage by stage. Good Luck -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Robert Valska [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user I do not feel all alone in the world now as am having the same problem you are on this. Have been checking all documentation I have. Many bucks spent on books and so far no solution. I see the same messages and also unable to do mail as user. Let me know if you do get a solution. I too am the "system expert", but have no answers for me. Bob Valska - Original Message - From: "Graham Watkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:30 AM Subject: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user I don't know if this is a common problem, but I seem unable to connect to one of my ISPs (ntlworld)as a user with KPP. Although the connection seems to work OK, when I open Netscape I get the following message. "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable. Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? If your site must use a non-root name server, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server. It may (or may not) be necessary to set this variable, or the SOCKS host preference to the IP address of the host in question rather than its name. Consult your system administrator." Hang on a minute! I'm the system administrator and I haven't got a clue. I don't even know what the $SOCKS variable is, never mind how to point it anywhere. As root, I seem to be able to connect well enough to this or my other ISP (Demon). Does the fact that Demon have given me a static IP address and ntlworld haven't make a difference? If anyone out there has had this problem and solved it, I would be grateful if they would share this info with me.
[newbie] way to get system to stay live.
I am having a problem with my system staying on line with a cable service. is there a way to keep the connection live. Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user
Hello Minhaz , If you are able you simply need to contact ISP for this info. The info can also be found from Windows - but with only a little experience on PC's I am unable to tell you how. Someone on this list will probably e-mail and tell you how very shortly. If not e-mail the list again asking if anyone can tell you where the info is in windows. Good Luck -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Minhaz at LineOne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a standalone PC and can connect to my ISP. When I open Netscape, I receive the following messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Can someone tell me what DNS and PPP settings I need to add ? Minhaz - Original Message - From: Clayton Hoskinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Graham Watkins wrote: I don't know if this is a common problem, but I seem unable to connect to one of my ISPs (ntlworld)as a user with KPP. Although the connection seems to work OK, when I open Netscape I get the following message. "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Graham, I had the same problem, my answer was found in DrakConf-- Linuxconf. Once there I had to set the DNS and PPP connection information. My story is long, but not atypical on the newbie list. I could connect to my ISP, but from there to the net was a mystery. I kept playing with the previously mentioned areas and one day, it worked right. So. I say good luck Clayton
[newbie] Viewing and writing with cyrillic fonts
Hi All I'm working with Mandrake 7.1 and KDE and I would like to be able to display Cyrillic (Russian) web pages in my browser (Netscape or the KDE browser) as well as install the keyboard drivers so that I can search the web in Russian. I tried installing the X1186-cyrillic-fonts (4.0.1 I believe) and the fonts show up in the directory, but when I try to select them (in Edit-Preferences-Fonts-Character Set) there is no cyrillic option, and the fonts do not display in the fonts list. (I tried just selecting view character set-Cyrillic but nothing happens) Also, when I tried selecting Russian as a second default, then the next time I logged into KDE my fonts were all scrambled, as if it was trying to display something other then English but could not. The only way I could find to fix this was to go back to the default settings. Note that I still want English as the base language on my desktop, mainly I just need the Cyrillic fonts for surfing the web. Thanks in advance. Cheryl
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[newbie] how 2 change 2 command line
OK, I want to do some administrative things that I need to do on command line, without X running (like sndconfig, etc.) In the installation (Custom), I selected to boot to X. Is there an easy way to exit X, either during boot, or afterwards (preferable). I haven't found anything in the application launcher ... TIA creaktop
Re: [newbie] Sound under 7.2
Hi keith, There isn't a sounddrake anymore - it was incorporated into HardDrake, which you can run from DrakConf. Or, you can try running sndconfig from command line. What type of sound card do you have ? cheers, philomena At 05:33 PM 11/2/2000 +0200, you wrote: Cannot get any sound to work under 7.2. I cannot even find the sound file to run to configure the card. I do not see any sound config or sounddrake or anything like that. Anyone can point me in the right direction? TIA -- Keith Oxford (IT Manager - Reach Technologies) Tel: (011) 620 0323 Fax: (011) 620 0320 Cell: 083 651 4031
Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user
Steve Thanks for replying back. I am able to find my ISP's DNS settings and have entered them into my Linux's DNS setup. However, even though I am able to connect to my ISP with its DNS settings, every time I open Netscape (after connecting to my ISP), I receive the same error messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Is there anyone on this email mailing list that has been able to both connect to his/her ISP and access websites via Netscape ? I would be very grateful if you could email me how you did this. Minhaz - Original Message - From: Steve Maytum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Hello Minhaz , If you are able you simply need to contact ISP for this info. The info can also be found from Windows - but with only a little experience on PC's I am unable to tell you how. Someone on this list will probably e-mail and tell you how very shortly. If not e-mail the list again asking if anyone can tell you where the info is in windows. Good Luck -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Minhaz at LineOne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a standalone PC and can connect to my ISP. When I open Netscape, I receive the following messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Can someone tell me what DNS and PPP settings I need to add ? Minhaz - Original Message - From: Clayton Hoskinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Graham Watkins wrote: I don't know if this is a common problem, but I seem unable to connect to one of my ISPs (ntlworld)as a user with KPP. Although the connection seems to work OK, when I open Netscape I get the following message. "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Graham, I had the same problem, my answer was found in DrakConf-- Linuxconf. Once there I had to set the DNS and PPP connection information. My story is long, but not atypical on the newbie list. I could connect to my ISP, but from there to the net was a mystery. I kept playing with the previously mentioned areas and one day, it worked right. So. I say good luck Clayton
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RE: [newbie] Samba
www.samba.org =-Original Message- =From: rharvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:17 AM =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba = = =Do you have the url =will you please post it. = =thanks =- Original Message - =From: "James Schofield" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:10 AM =Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba = = = At 03:11 PM 11/1/00 -0600, you wrote: = Ok, I have been through two different configure setups, one from = Linuxnewbie and = = the other from a book called "Mastering Linux". Neither of which =reflects = the current = = Samba 2.0.7 that I am using and I have also looked at the =mandrake site. = Anyone know of = = a good source to guide me through setting up Samba? I'm =close but can't = quite get = = there with the available info. Swat won't make the changes =for me. I get =a = error = = message that says My computer is not authorized access. =Should I have =been = in root and = = not gone to a browser as a plain ole user? Advise is, as =usual, always = welcome. = = -- = Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842 = = = Yes if you have not figured that out you have to be root to write to =things = in the /etc dir. So you would have to run swat as root. = = As for another good source for info. Have you hit the =ORiely book website = yet. Their using Samba book is also available for download =in HTML or PDF = format. = = Good luck.. I have done the same. = = = James Schofield = Linux user and loving it! Mandrake 7.1/Storm(Hail)/SusE 7.0 = "Trouble is where you find it, sooo stop looking for me!" = = = =
Re: [newbie] way to get system to stay live.
On Thursday 02 November 2000 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a problem with my system staying on line with a cable service. is there a way to keep the connection live. Mike Freeman if the situation is as simple as your provider drops you after so many minutes of 'idleness', then create an alias in bashrc that does a 'ping -i 540 ISP' where the ISP is your provider and the 540 is an example for 9 minutes (ie, 540/60). Start your alias from a console after you've made connection. EG, I use 'alias eln="ping -i 540 www.earthlink.net" which when I type 'eln' pings EarthLink every 9 minutes with 56 bytes. see man ping -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Mandrake install on an unformatted disk
If I start the mandrake 7.1 install on a system with one ATA66 10.2Gb Unformatted HD, will it format the disk when I get to diskdrake? Also, I'm using the 10.2Gb ATA66 disk on a UDMA33 Controller. Will I encounter any probs in the running of linux if I use this config? Thanx in advance "Admiral" Ian Bridgeman 8)
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
NO At 06:14 PM 11/01/2000 -0800, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: hey, I am really a newbie , but should not your swap be twice the size of the ram? - Original Message - From: "Brice Ruth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:19 PM Subject: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem Greetings! Veteran Linux user here, tryin' out Mandrake Linux for the first time ... First off, I can't get through the install. Here's what happens: Everything goes along fine until we're in the stage where the hard drive gets partitioned. I have a 6G drive and I wanted to partition it manually ... so I do. 128M swap, 512M root, the rest goes to usr. Don't comment on how intelligent or stupid my partitioning scheme is, please - that shouldn't be at issue here :) The installer partitioning interface works fine, I click "done", it pops up a message about writing the partition table to disk "ok" and then I get the error ... some kind of incomplete sentence about swap. Here it is verbatim: An error occurred swap area needs to be. WTF? so I hit "OK" ... try again ... I've tried a million different things ... I've tried using ALT+F2 to get to the command line, used the fdisk on the CD to manually partition the drive, write out the partition, reboot the system ... no go. This isn't some crazy system ... fairly new, actually. AMD Athlon 700 w/ 6G Seagate medalist pro drive, 128M ram, 66MHz UDMA capable, but I think the drive is actually a 33MHz ... Any help at all would be most sincerely appreciated! Regards, Brice Ruth Check your 'man swap' and you will find they say 128 MB. You can have up to 8 swap partitions (16 according to the LPI study guide). -- Barry :-) Registered Linux User #183879/pre font size=3 /blockquotebr /font Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] OK, what's the URL to get off of this list?
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
RE: [newbie] how 2 change 2 command line
CTRL-ALT-F2 will switch you out of X and into console CTRL-ALT-F7 takes you back to X ... otherwise. Most of what you want to do can be done inside a terminal window ie. eterm or xterm or whatever your prefered *term is. Ingo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of nomad creaktop Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 4:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] how 2 change 2 command line OK, I want to do some administrative things that I need to do on command line, without X running (like sndconfig, etc.) In the installation (Custom), I selected to boot to X. Is there an easy way to exit X, either during boot, or afterwards (preferable). I haven't found anything in the application launcher ... TIA creaktop
Re: [newbie] 7.2 + Gnome
It's not exactly the same, but overall yes. There are a couple of things missing in Mandrakes version, but nothing earth shattering. I wouldn't worry about it. Hi Just ordered 7.2 online. I see it comes with Gnome 1.2. Is this version of Gnome the same as Helix Gnome 1.2? -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] how 2 change 2 command line
You could do a core dump. Control ALT Backspace. Or you could just set your Inittab file to boot to run level three and then when you want to run X just type StartX from the command line. At 10:38 PM 11/02/2000 +0200, you wrote: OK, I want to do some administrative things that I need to do on command line, without X running (like sndconfig, etc.) In the installation (Custom), I selected to boot to X. Is there an easy way to exit X, either during boot, or afterwards (preferable). I haven't found anything in the application launcher ... TIA creaktop Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake install on an unformatted disk
If I start the mandrake 7.1 install on a system with one ATA66 10.2Gb Unformatted HD, will it format the disk when I get to diskdrake? Personally I don't trust diskdrake but yes, it should partition and format your drive. It's said, however, that you need an existing partition table before Mandrake install will work. I can't say whether that's true or not. cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user
Minhaz , have you tried checking /etc directory to make sure DNS Nos. are correct in reolv.conf file? Let me know if not and I'll rethink and go through with you -- Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Minhaz at LineOne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Steve Thanks for replying back. I am able to find my ISP's DNS settings and have entered them into my Linux's DNS setup. However, even though I am able to connect to my ISP with its DNS settings, every time I open Netscape (after connecting to my ISP), I receive the same error messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Is there anyone on this email mailing list that has been able to both connect to his/her ISP and access websites via Netscape ? I would be very grateful if you could email me how you did this. Minhaz - Original Message - From: Steve Maytum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Hello Minhaz , If you are able you simply need to contact ISP for this info. The info can also be found from Windows - but with only a little experience on PC's I am unable to tell you how. Someone on this list will probably e-mail and tell you how very shortly. If not e-mail the list again asking if anyone can tell you where the info is in windows. Good Luck -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Minhaz at LineOne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a standalone PC and can connect to my ISP. When I open Netscape, I receive the following messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Can someone tell me what DNS and PPP settings I need to add ? Minhaz - Original Message - From: Clayton Hoskinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Graham Watkins wrote: I don't know if this is a common problem, but I seem unable to connect to one of my ISPs (ntlworld)as a user with KPP. Although the connection seems to work OK, when I open Netscape I get the following message. "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Graham, I had the same problem, my answer was found in DrakConf-- Linuxconf. Once there I had to set the DNS and PPP connection information. My story is long, but not atypical on the newbie list. I could connect to my ISP, but from there to the net was a mystery. I kept playing with the previously mentioned areas and one day, it worked right. So. I say good luck Clayton
[newbie] 7.2 and KDE2 System Sound Config
Hi, Does anyone know where the configuration tool is for the system sound assignment in KDE2 ? Can't find anything in the KDE control center for it. Thanks, philomena
[newbie] X Freezes My Mandrake 7.2 Comp
WheneverMandrake7.2 loads X is completely freezes, I can't switch between desktops or restart. My video cards are an ATI Rage II anda Voodoo2. Anyone have any idea on why this might be happening and how I can fix it?
Re: [newbie] Windows
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 02-Nov-00 04:47:33 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not exactly something I'd announce on a public mailing list. who in here supports microshaft making money??? with crapy software!! besides they would have to do some serious searching to find me. and although ms has lots of money everyone i know pirates that stuff, if it is worth pirating, no ones making money, i dont have a tech manual that comes with the software, so last i checked it was still legal. it all depends on how you do things You think you're cheating MS, but yu're robbing every Win programmer, too. -Charles
Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user
Steve, I have made sure that my DNS numbers are correct. I will try using another ISP and DNS settings, but would appreciate any help you could offer me. Minhaz - Original Message - From: Steve Maytum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Minhaz , have you tried checking /etc directory to make sure DNS Nos. are correct in reolv.conf file? Let me know if not and I'll rethink and go through with you -- Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Minhaz at LineOne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Steve Thanks for replying back. I am able to find my ISP's DNS settings and have entered them into my Linux's DNS setup. However, even though I am able to connect to my ISP with its DNS settings, every time I open Netscape (after connecting to my ISP), I receive the same error messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Is there anyone on this email mailing list that has been able to both connect to his/her ISP and access websites via Netscape ? I would be very grateful if you could email me how you did this. Minhaz - Original Message - From: Steve Maytum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Hello Minhaz , If you are able you simply need to contact ISP for this info. The info can also be found from Windows - but with only a little experience on PC's I am unable to tell you how. Someone on this list will probably e-mail and tell you how very shortly. If not e-mail the list again asking if anyone can tell you where the info is in windows. Good Luck -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Minhaz at LineOne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a standalone PC and can connect to my ISP. When I open Netscape, I receive the following messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Can someone tell me what DNS and PPP settings I need to add ? Minhaz - Original Message - From: Clayton Hoskinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Graham Watkins wrote: I don't know if this is a common problem, but I seem unable to connect to one of my ISPs (ntlworld)as a user with KPP. Although the connection seems to work OK, when I open Netscape I get the following message. "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Graham, I had the same problem, my answer was found in DrakConf-- Linuxconf. Once there I had to set the DNS and PPP connection information. My story is long, but not atypical on the newbie list. I could connect to my ISP, but from there to the net was a mystery. I kept playing with the previously mentioned areas and one day, it worked right. So. I say good luck Clayton
Re: [newbie] Mandrake install on an unformatted disk
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:58:28 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I start the mandrake 7.1 install on a system with one ATA66 10.2Gb Unformatted HD, will it format the disk when I get to diskdrake? Mandrake's GUI Install has an auto partition button. Good for beginers. Further windows will prompt you to format partitions - defaults are OK in the case of a new disk. Also, I'm using the 10.2Gb ATA66 disk on a UDMA33 Controller. Will I encounter any probs in the running of linux if I use this config? Mandrake will query the controller which only understands ATA33 and run at that mode. The only strange thing you might run into is if your LBA mode on the disk controller does not show Linux there is more than 8GB on the disk. If that is the case you might look for a BIOS update for your montherboard / disk controller if it is a plug in card. Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] amazing...
Dana, It takes roughly 1.7GB to install everthing. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182469 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Thu, 2 Nov 2000 Dana had this to say! I just installed 7.2 from the current ISO images - did an expert install and installed everything- I'm curious. How much hard drive space does it take to install everything? Dana
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
I've got 128MB of RAM and the Swap is only 96MB. When I was running Caldera Open Linux 2.2, I never saw any of it being used. When I installed Mandrake 7.1, swap utilization came up to 2-3%. I suppose if were doing some heavy development work and creating huge programs, I would see it go up. For me personally, I don't see the need to use up more disk space for an area that is seeing little usage. Barry :-) On Thu, 02 November 2000, Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff wrote: NO At 06:14 PM 11/01/2000 -0800, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: hey, I am really a newbie , but should not your swap be twice the size of the ram? Surfree.com - nationwide internet access http://www.surfree.com
RE: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem
I also have a modemblaster (don't remember if it's PCI). It's NOT a winmodem, but it is PnP. I had to disable the PnP (thru a jumper on the modem board) to get it working with plain old IRQ and DMA. Andy -- From: Charles A Edwards[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem The ModemBlaster PCI is a winmodem. Check Linmodem.org. There is a chance that there may be a driver available for your modems chipset. Otherwise, if you want to connect to the internet in Linux you will need to get a hardware based modem. There are PCI models that run under $50. Charles - Original Message - From: "Darin Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 7:27 PM Subject: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem I've got a creative Modem Blaster PCI modem, and don't know how to configure it in Linux, if it's even possible.
Re: [newbie] Which hard drive is the most reliable andinstallation of Linux?
KompuKit wrote: I like and use aMaxtor 8.4 gig HD...and I like it... no problems...on installing/useing it under 7.02 mandrake by the way, anyone interested in buying off me Netscapes Enterprise Server v 3.51 it costs about 3000.00...I got it where I work: www.cmgi.com one of the altavista software developement people gave it to me...it's not registered...yet? I'll sell it for 200.00 Adrian Smith wrote: Hi Roman. i can only offer an opinion on your first question -- assuming i understand you correctly. do you mean most perferable as in manufactuer? i have used maxtor, sea gate and western digital drives over the time i have been working in electronics and can't honestly say i have seen much difference. i have only seen 2 hard drives actually crash burn in my life. but, for my computer at home, i only buy maxtor. i have been thru 6 maxtor hard drives. one of them, a 540M (yes M) from the old days finally crashed burned. it started to lose data randomly. i saw the writing on the wall replaced it. i have -- maxtor flavor -- two 170M and one 250M -- all older than the 540M and all still work just fine. currently i'm using a 16G and 30G maxtor in my system. i also recomend maxtor to all my friends. and i don't recomend many products. but as i say, just my opinion. i have no science or statistics to back any of this up. =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:24:02 PM 11/1/00 Hi everybody, I have three questions for every one: Q1. What would be the most preferable hard drive to install in your computer or does it matter? Q2. I tried to install mdk7.1 and the IDE configuration froze. However, when I tried to install Redhat 6.1, it started to install but it did indicated that the partition table on hdd may be corrupt. I have Windows 98SE installed on the Fujitsu drive on the first partition. I used Partition Magic to create a separate partition yet it still freezes. I am also using an Iomega zip drive 100MB. Should I disconnect it? Q3. Should I only format the Fujitsu drive using MSDOS and install Linux only? Some of my applications will not run on Linux. I'm out of ideas. Any thoughts? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit= Hi Kit, I think I'll stick with Maxtor but under 8 Gig. This appears to be limitation of the Dell Dimension XPS 1996 -1997. The largest drive tested by their team was 8 Gig. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
I've got 128MB of RAM and the Swap is only 96MB. When I was running Caldera Open Linux 2.2, I never saw any of it being used. When I installed Mandrake 7.1, swap utilization came up to 2-3%. I suppose if were doing some heavy development work and creating huge programs, I would see it go up. For me personally, I don't see the need to use up more disk space for an area that is seeing little usage. Running large programs is probably more likely to place demands on swap than developing them. If you've got, say Word Perfect/Wine, a spreadsheet program, email tool, and Netscape open (I often have this situation) you'll probably see more swap usage :-) But I think that's the point. The notion that swap "should be" 128m or "twice your RAM" is pure folly. Swap demands, as you well know, is dependent upon memory usage. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] amazing...
On Friday 03 November 2000 17:49, you wrote: it took me about a roughly 2.2 GB to installed as Development. Dana, It takes roughly 1.7GB to install everthing.
Re: [Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - cant connect to Net as user]
"Minhaz at LineOne" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a standalone PC and can connect to my ISP. When I open Netscape, I receive the following messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Can someone tell me what DNS and PPP settings I need to add ? Minhaz My guess is that your ppp settings are just fine. You are connecting to your isp. but have you edited your /etc/resolv.conf ? add the lines: search your isp nameserver dns# nameserver dns# Your isp should provide you with at least two dns#'s HTH, Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
It must be a percentage or something. I didn't get 128MB, not even 256; I got 384MB (if I recall correctly). Couldn't size it down. I wonder if it's whatever one cylinder is. -Gary- In a message dated 11/2/2000 9:46:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Check your 'man swap' and you will find they say 128 MB. You can have up to 8 swap partitions (16 according to the LPI study guide). Uhm...under what conditions? Swap isn't a single number, it's dependent upon OS use of swap space, the size and number of apps being run, etc. If you auto-allocate a 128m memory machine using Mandrake installer it will give you 250m of swap. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Samba
I was able to get there from the other url Thanks! - Original Message - From: "Yacketta,Ronald J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Samba Ops! wrong one *blush* http://www.oreilly.com/ =-Original Message- =From: rharvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:17 AM =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba = = =Do you have the url =will you please post it. = =thanks =- Original Message - =From: "James Schofield" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:10 AM =Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba = = = At 03:11 PM 11/1/00 -0600, you wrote: = Ok, I have been through two different configure setups, one from = Linuxnewbie and = = the other from a book called "Mastering Linux". Neither of which =reflects = the current = = Samba 2.0.7 that I am using and I have also looked at the =mandrake site. = Anyone know of = = a good source to guide me through setting up Samba? I'm =close but can't = quite get = = there with the available info. Swat won't make the changes =for me. I get =a = error = = message that says My computer is not authorized access. =Should I have =been = in root and = = not gone to a browser as a plain ole user? Advise is, as =usual, always = welcome. = = -- = Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842 = = = Yes if you have not figured that out you have to be root to write to =things = in the /etc dir. So you would have to run swat as root. = = As for another good source for info. Have you hit the =ORiely book website = yet. Their using Samba book is also available for download =in HTML or PDF = format. = = Good luck.. I have done the same. = = = James Schofield = Linux user and loving it! Mandrake 7.1/Storm(Hail)/SusE 7.0 = "Trouble is where you find it, sooo stop looking for me!" = = = =
Re: [newbie] choice of computer - fix contacts
Ron, Cards are easier to deal with than sockets. If the problem moved from board to board with the moving of the cache stick, yes, it is likely that the problem is with that RAM stick itself. So try this before the Stabilant22. Assuming that the motherboards are fine with other cache. It could also be both. Or just an unhappy combination, which Stabilant22 will work on. RAM is especially sensitive to static, as I'm sure you already know. So use care when trying what I describe. SIMMs, DIMMs, etc. are all basically small circuit boards with memory chips mounted on them. Using a strong magnifier (12x jewelers loop equivalent as a minimum) look for hair-line cracks in the circuit traces on the circuit board, especially where the (socket contact) pads narrow to normal trace size and go up to the RAM chips, and around where each chip is soldered to the traces on the board. Both sides. If you don't find anything, as I suspect that you won't, proceed to the contact cleaning. If the contact pads themselves don't look clean and shiny, being especially careful to use static control procedures, literally rub the pads with a paper towel. A horizontal scrubbing across all of the pads is fine as long as you are using your fingers to press the paper towel to the contact pads. Just pinch the folded (double thick) paper towel on the contacts (pinching front to back) and slide the board back and forth sideways. [I usually hold the stick and run my fingers and the paper towel back and forth. Just don't get too vigorous.] If a particular pad does not clean up well in this way, carefully use a pencil eraser (not an ink eraser!), stroking the pad itself from the card down toward the bottom edge of the contact pad. Wipe the eraser leftovers off with a paper towel -- again downward only, NOT side to side as you had done before. Try it and see if it works. -Gary- In a message dated 11/2/2000 6:23:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron, Treat unreliable connections with Stabilant22. Given that I had the problem on two motherboards, and they went away when I removed the cache RAM stick, I have been tempted to blame the RAM itself ;-) But I'll see if I can find Stabilan here in Darkest Paraguay. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. --
Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user
Minhaz at LineOne wrote: Steve, I have made sure that my DNS numbers are correct. I will try using another ISP and DNS settings, but would appreciate any help you could offer me. Minhaz - Original Message - From: Steve Maytum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Hi, I have had that problem in the past and have found that (at least it appears this way) you have to start Netscape and even though not online click on "edit" then "preferences" and then "Mail and Newsgroups" Put in your Identity, email address and then go to mail and put in the pop server name for incoming mail and the smtp server name for outgoing mail as well as user name and anything else it asks for. Once that stuff is entered click ok and then exit Netscape. Try KPPP and see if Netscape will come up correctly. If not try reboot and do the KPPP again. If this all doesn't work I am at a loss, and hope someone else has a better solution. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] How to burn iso under windows
On Wednesday 01 November 2000 01:37 pm, Goldenpi wrote: NOONONONO Dont do this. I tried it once and it ended up createing a cd with the image file on it. You have to look under file-create from disk image. Do it from there. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/iso/howtoisoen.html has instructions (with pictures ;) for making bootable CD's from iso's using WinOnCD or EZ CD Creator. If like me, you use Nero, instructions can be found on the mailing list archives. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to burn iso under windows On Tuesday 31 October 2000 04:22, you wrote: I just use Adaptec Easy CD Creator. Just make sure the filesystem under File is ISO9660. then go to your iso image file and just double click on it and it will automatically detect it as an ISO image, it will then ask you a couple of question, and finally, burn the image on the CD for you. Very simple and straightforward if you have the Adaptec Easy CD Creator. What program will you be using to burn the cd. Charles - Original Message - From: Julio C. Gutierrez To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:32 AM Subject: [newbie] How to burn iso under windows Does anyone of you know how I can burn an ISO image in windows and make the cd bootable? Yuor help will be really appreciated Thank you!! Julio Gutierrez
Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user
I do not feel all alone in the world now as am having the same problem you are on this. Have been checking all documentation I have. Many bucks spent on books and so far no solution. I see the same messages and also unable to do mail as user. Let me know if you do get a solution. I too am the "system expert", but have no answers for me. Bob Valska - Original Message - From: "Graham Watkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:30 AM Subject: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user I don't know if this is a common problem, but I seem unable to connect to one of my ISPs (ntlworld)as a user with KPP. Although the connection seems to work OK, when I open Netscape I get the following message. "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable. Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? If your site must use a non-root name server, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server. It may (or may not) be necessary to set this variable, or the SOCKS host preference to the IP address of the host in question rather than its name. Consult your system administrator." Hang on a minute! I'm the system administrator and I haven't got a clue. I don't even know what the $SOCKS variable is, never mind how to point it anywhere. As root, I seem to be able to connect well enough to this or my other ISP (Demon). Does the fact that Demon have given me a static IP address and ntlworld haven't make a difference? If anyone out there has had this problem and solved it, I would be grateful if they would share this info with me.
Re: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem
Andy They are two different modems You have the ModemBlaster Flash 56II which is ISA and Is Not a winmodem. The PCI modem which Creative has, the ModemBlaster V90, IS a winmodem Charles - Original Message - From: "Liaw, Andy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:04 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem I also have a modemblaster (don't remember if it's PCI). It's NOT a winmodem, but it is PnP. I had to disable the PnP (thru a jumper on the modem board) to get it working with plain old IRQ and DMA. Andy -- From: Charles A Edwards[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem The ModemBlaster PCI is a winmodem. Check Linmodem.org. There is a chance that there may be a driver available for your modems chipset. Otherwise, if you want to connect to the internet in Linux you will need to get a hardware based modem. There are PCI models that run under $50. Charles - Original Message - From: "Darin Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 7:27 PM Subject: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem I've got a creative Modem Blaster PCI modem, and don't know how to configure it in Linux, if it's even possible.
[newbie] Networking
I can not for the life of me figure out what I am doing wrong. I am trying to set up a network with two wincomputers and a linux computer. When i activate the network in DrakeConfig I am then unable to connect via my modem to the internet. I get the old modem died unexpectedly message. Should the or could the gateway address be the same as the machine utilizing the modem? or does that confuse it into trying to authenticate itself? My linux box address is set as 192.168.0.1 within the network and that is the address I use on the other computers for gateway. I am not getting it. Once a while back it all worked. I must have done something right by accident. Any advice will be appreciated. TIA -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842
[newbie] rh to mandrake
hello I am a longtime redhat user and I have a few questions... When installing can I browse through every package and install whatever I want? Can I use linuxconf to configure my system? Can I use XF86Setup to configure my X? Can i disable the crap displayed in the console when at the login prompt? If i can not or if there is a better method of any of these please let me know. If there is any other things that would surprize me please add them in. thanx for your time. I am thinking about converting (: Rick S.
[newbie] IP Masquerading
I'm a linux newbie. I've set up a machine with Mandrake 7.1 that I'm about to convert to 7.2. I want to use it as a firewall between my internal network and my outside T1. I've got a firewall script set up using IPChains that seems to work pretty well. I created and used internal network IP addresses. I've got several machines where I would like certain ports to get through the firewall. I have assigned internet IP addresses for these machines that I would like to translate to my internal IP's, and reverse it going out. But only on certain ports. What is the best approach for this? Thanks, Jon Greisz *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/2/00 at 8:45 AM Mark Johnson wrote: Yes, this looks like another eruption of off-topic posts... IMHO, VB should be ported because that is the only way to achieve portability for MS Office documents. StarOffice is really cool but ultimately not feasible if you are exchanging documents with a group of MS Office folks. Unfortunately, VB would bring office products closer to managing that feasiblity. Unfortunately, VB is not an elegant language but it suits it's purpose. Too bad tcl, perl, python, java, or javascript wasn't used for building these dynamic docs. But those languages present quite a learning curve, this was VB strength. Also, it enabled MS to lock in a lot of folks to it's proprietary ways of doing things.
Re: [Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - cant connect to Net as user]
Mike, thanks for the advice. I will add these lines. Are these mentioned in the Linux Mandrake instruction notes because I could not find them ? Minhaz - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 1:54 AM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - cant connect to Net as user] "Minhaz at LineOne" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a standalone PC and can connect to my ISP. When I open Netscape, I receive the following messages "Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Can someone tell me what DNS and PPP settings I need to add ? Minhaz My guess is that your ppp settings are just fine. You are connecting to your isp. but have you edited your /etc/resolv.conf ? add the lines: search your isp nameserver dns# nameserver dns# Your isp should provide you with at least two dns#'s HTH, Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user
Dennis, thanks for the advice. I will try this. I wish there was some instruction in the Linux Mandrake notes that would explain this. What about Linux's DNS and PPP settings ? Do these also need to be added ? I know PPP stands for Point-to-Point Protocol - just what is/are the setting/s ? Minhaz - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Minhaz at LineOne wrote: Steve, I have made sure that my DNS numbers are correct. I will try using another ISP and DNS settings, but would appreciate any help you could offer me. Minhaz - Original Message - From: Steve Maytum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user Hi, I have had that problem in the past and have found that (at least it appears this way) you have to start Netscape and even though not online click on "edit" then "preferences" and then "Mail and Newsgroups" Put in your Identity, email address and then go to mail and put in the pop server name for incoming mail and the smtp server name for outgoing mail as well as user name and anything else it asks for. Once that stuff is entered click ok and then exit Netscape. Try KPPP and see if Netscape will come up correctly. If not try reboot and do the KPPP again. If this all doesn't work I am at a loss, and hope someone else has a better solution. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] partitioning lockup
Michael, You may want to try the expert install and do the partitioning manually instead of letting the software do it. It sounds like there's something about your hardware that the program doesn't like. doing the partitioning isn't really difficult. It just looks a little scarey at first. O..and one more tip. What ever you do DON'T put your linux partitions behind a DOS partition. That is if you want to keep your Linux system any length of time. Linux belongs on it's own partitions. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182469 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Tue, 31 Oct 2000 Michael H. Bracey had this to say! I'm booting from the CD-ROM to make a first install of 7.2 on a 27.9G IDE HD with only the existing windows partition. Everything seems to go fine until I hit the confirming screen which requires an OK to go ahead with the partitioning process. But as soon as this dialog box pops up, everything freezes up. I can't even scroll down, cancel, or go back to a previous install step. My only recourse is to reboot. Nothing seems to be harmed, as I can reboot to the CD to try again or reboot to the HD and get W98 back just fine. Why can't I partition? (I did scandisk and defrag as recommended.) Thanks for the help, Michael
Re: [newbie] MSN and NetZero
I tried to connect to MSN from my linux, after I saw the message says: Connection established, I got that connection disconnected. I can use Dialup Network to connect to MSN under Win98 and I think I have the same config for linux, so what did I do wrong? Do I have to conifg the pap-secrets/chap-secrets files? What Mandrake version are you using? 7.2, 7.1, . and what dialer, eg, Kppp? Does MSN use PAP, CHAP, or M$CHAP ? you're problem sounds like a chap, or worse yet, a M$chap problem. If you're using Kppp. try chap. MSN runs on Microsoft-IIS servers, enough said ? I'd press M$ for the right and pertinent login info needed. But considering it's M$, if they were less than completely helpful, I'd get a real ISP. This is another instance when sayin it works with Windoze 98... is a derogatory statement ;) -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
