[newbie-it] Modem Conexant SoftK56
Ritorno al discorso modem con chipset Conexant [che grazie a Demis siamo riusciti a far funzionare!] per comunicare agli interessati (se già non avevano risolto) che dai 5 tentativi con NO DIALTONE prima di ottenere la connessione ... sono passato a UNO!!! Uso la stringa di chiamata: AT3fxDT Ciao Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Dosemu
Qualcuno usa o ha mai usato dosemu? E' facile da configurare o faccio prima a cercare un programma simile che giri sotto Linux? Ciao a tutti e grazie Germano
[newbie-it] Modem Conexant
Allora provo a ripetere il tutto a beneficio di chi non ha seguito il dibattito di qualche tempo fa ... (non me ne vogliate se sbaglio qualche passaggio ma sono in ufficio e qui purtroppo non ho Linux). Cercherò di essere molto chiaro nei passaggi sapendo di annoiare chi (e sono molti) ne sa molto + di me (chi ne sa come me però sarà contento;) ): 1) Scaricare il driver per il modem dal sito http://www.olitec.com 1.a cliccare su tux - il pinguino di linux - in basso a sinistra 1.b nella nuova finestra cliccare sulla scritta: "Utilisez votre carte PCI 56K V2 sous Linux". 1.c Scaricare il driver per il vostro kernel (ad esempio se avete La Mandrake 7.2 dovrete scaricare il driver: PCI_56K_V2_K2.2.17.tar.gz 1.e Controllare da Windows (con Microsoft System Information da Modem - informazioni avanzate) la stringa di inizializzazione del proprio modem e trascriverla (è un qualcosa che dovrebbe assomigliare a PCI\VEN_14F1DEV_2013SUBSYS_207514A1 2) In linux copiare il file .tar.gz appena scaricato nella directory in cui vorrete scompattarlo 3) scompattare il file con il comando: tar -xzvf PCI_56K_V2_K2.2.17.tar.gz che creerà una nuova directory chiamata: PCI_56K_V2_K2.2.17 4) Entrare nella nuova directory ed editare (come root!) il file lin_hsf.inf inserendo dopo la scritta [Generic]e prima di quelle già presenti e con la stessa sintassi la vostra stringa di inizializzazione. Salvare il file modificato. 5) lanciare il comando ./ins_all (sempre come root) [questo dovrete farlo ogni volta che rientrate in linux ... o meglio dovrete automatizzarlo in modo che si esegua ogni volta che entrate in linux] 6) a questo punto lanciare kppp (se usate kde) o il corrispettivo per gnome e scegliete impostazioni del modem c'è una stringa di chiamata tipo ATDT ... io l'ho cambiata in AT3fxDT (prima per 5 o 6 volte mi dava l'errore NO DIALTONE poi si connetteva ... ora si connette al secondo tentativo). Provate a connettervi (ovviamente sottintendo che ognuno deve avere già settato tutti i dati per la connessione al proprio provider internet) ... e in bocca al lupo Ciao Marco mforti(at)iol(dot)it
R: [newbie-it] Dosemu
Qualcuno usa o ha mai usato dosemu? E' facile da configurare o faccio prima a cercare un programma simile che giri sotto Linux? Bench veramente inesperto l'ho installato e configurato correttamente. Se hai bisogno di una mano penso di poterti dare qualche dritta. Luca
[newbie-it] rete!
ciao a tutti! intanto grazie a tutti per l'aiuto datomi fino ad ora...e comunque ho deciso di rifarmi vivo per un nuovo quesito. ho installato sul mio pc in ufficio mdrk 7.2 e sono riuscito con enorme soddisfazione a configurare la scheda di rete, la connessione ad internet tramite LAN, la posta e tutto il resto...questo mi ha dato enorme gioia! peròc'è ancora qualcosa che non quadra... nel nostro ufficio abbiamo una decina di PC (uindos 95 o 98) e cinque MAC (una bella rete mista) ed un server locale (uindos NT) in cui ognuno di noi deposita i propri dati nella propria cartella. se apro la directory home (KDE), sotto la voce "rete" io vedo tutti i PC accesi e riesco ad accedere alle loro cartelle condivise, a leggere i documenti condivisi etc etcma se provo ad entrare nel server non riesco a trovarci niente! non vedo le cartelle dei singoli utenti, come invece succede se uso uindos... ...qualche suggerimento? grazie mille, osva
Re: [newbie] Do I need to worry about these worms?
You really should start using portSentry as well. a single layered security scheme is almost as bad as having none at all. especially if you're new to ipchains and configuring them. Mark Jon Doe wrote: Do I need to worry about these worms that are going around? I don't run any services, I don't even have inetd running and I use PMfirewall for my dialup connection, no networks either.
Re: [newbie] ports 1024 and 1025 are killing me
I don't think anything commonly "runs" on these ports. I am also using pmfirewall and found 1024 to be left open by it, so I just put an entry in its conffig file to close it. The test I ran only goes up to 1024, maybe I'll add one for 1025 too. :) vi /usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall.rules.local and copy one of the rules and change the port number like so: $IPCHAINS -A input -p tcp -s $REMOTENET -d $OUTERNET 1024 -j DENY -l It seems to work for me. -s On Wednesday 04 April 2001 11:12 pm, you wrote: Does anyone know what could possibly be running on ports 1024 and 1025? the port tester page says it can connect to both ports and I can't figure out why, I don't run any services and I have PM firewall installed, everything else is stealthed, why oh why is 1024 and 1025 open?
Re: [newbie] Do I need to worry about these worms?
Not too much. But there are test scripts available from sans.org to test your machine. -s On Wednesday 04 April 2001 10:08 pm, you wrote: Do I need to worry about these worms that are going around? I don't run any services, I don't even have inetd running and I use PMfirewall for my dialup connection, no networks either.
Re: [newbie] Re: LI boot prompt
cyberclay wrote: Hey, Yes, I have a rescue disk. By rescue disk, what I mean is: I have the bootdisk I used to start the initial installation, and if the bootdisk and cd-rom are both in my computer when it boots, I can type rescue at the mandrake prompt and it will eventually drop me to a root prompt. However, the problem here is that lilo is nowhere to be found on this filesystem. Also, within the /boot/grub directory there is no install.sh script. I believe my root partition is /dev/sda1 (I have a scsi hard drive). Please help! Regards, cyberclay What I really meant was the diskette that you have the option to create at the end of the installation. What you have boots you into a ram disk with minimal functionality. The emergency boot disk created at the end of the installation knows all about your scsi controller/drive and boots you into your actual installation on the hard disk. What kind of scsi controller do you have? Do you know which driver it needs? -Steve
Re: [newbie] networking question
first step...turn off Plug and pray in bios... - Original Message - From: "Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] networking question How did you get Linux to see your network card? I've Mandrake 7.2 Deluxe, and have yet to get it to see my LinkSys 10/100 card. I'm lost. Any help there? Thanks, Christopher. - Original Message - From: "BJS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:32 PM Subject: [newbie] networking question Ok Box #1 runs windows 2000 Box #2 runs mandrake 7.2 and windows 2000 they are networked together with a lynksys 4 port router. I have a cable modem for internet access. I know how to get them networked for file sharing when they are both windows 2000... but what about when Linux is running? (which is what I want to do full time on the second box) I can see all my files on my windows partition in linux. I would love be be able to share out that directory so I can still access them on the win2k box. Is this easily done? I realize this question might not be suited for this list.. so if anyone could point me to a good website on this or maybe reccomend a good book? = Brian J Susol Raynham MA http://people.ne.mediaone.net/negative ICQ# 9088592 Yahoo: bsusol __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Error message ????
Yes, I have seen this error before, I believe it is caused my the fact that when you enter one of your designated runlevels, you might well have an automatic mount system on your floppy drive. If there is a disk in at the time, then this may well produce the error. HTH, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 2:02 PM Subject: [newbie] Error message Any one ever seen this??? I shut down my server last night and moved it to another room. When I booted it back up I got this during the boot up process. These are the last four lines before the error... /dev/hda1; clean... /dev/hda3; clean... end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 Floppy, sector 0 /sbin/e2fsck: Device not configured while trying to open /dev/fd0 ***An error occurred during the file system check*** ***You will now be given a chance to log into the*** ***system in single user mode to fix the problem *** ***Running 'e2fsck -v -y partition might help *** Regards, Jason G Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
Re: [newbie] networking question
Ed Tharp wrote: first step...turn off Plug and pray in bios... - Original Message - From: "Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] networking question How did you get Linux to see your network card? I've Mandrake 7.2 Deluxe, and have yet to get it to see my LinkSys 10/100 card. I'm lost. Any help there? Hi, The first thing you should know is that linksys changes chip suppliers like most of us change clothes. Over the last few years, the same model cards have used 4 or 5 different chips. The tulip family and it's clones have given the developers fits. You might try using the old_tulip driver. #/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop # modprobe old_tulip #/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start If this works you can edit /etc/conf.modules and change tulip to old_tulip. There was a post earlier by acar (subj: LINKSYS ETHERFAST) that you might want to look at first. If that doesn't work try the above. -Steve
Re: [newbie] Vmware
Thanks Nima. Can You tell me how to configure the VMware to access more then one CDRom Drive ? In my Computer, I have 3 CDROM Drives, CDRW(scsi); CDROM(scsi); CDROM(atapi). Can I use this 3 Drives in only one configuration ? TKS! Lúcio At 15:05 04/04/2001 -0500, you wrote: Hi, Well, you have to be more specific about accessing a cdrw-drive. Do you want to be able to burn cd's? If that is the case, then you are out of luck as far as I know, because VMware does not support that yet. If not, then in you vmware configuration, you point your CDROM to /dev/scd0 or/dev/scd1 or what ever your CDROM is setup as. I hope that helps. On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lúcio Costa wrote:
Re: [newbie] Re: LI boot prompt
What I really meant was the diskette that you have the option to create at the end of the installation. What you have boots you into a ram disk with minimal functionality. The emergency boot disk created at the end of the installation knows all about your scsi controller/drive and boots you into your actual installation on the hard disk. What kind of scsi controller do you have? Do you know which driver it needs? -Steve Hey, Believe it or not, I got it working. I re-ran the installation program, and switched to virtual terminal #2 (a shell) after it was done "Finding Available Packages" (or something like that) because at that point my scsi disks were mounted. Then I made some symbolic links from /mnt/etc/lilo.conf to /etc/lilo.conf and /mnt/boot to /boot and re-ran lilo, which re-did my MBR, and now it works. The only problem was that I had to boot with an old kernel because I couldn't run mkinitrd (it wasn't installed) which caused some errors at bootup. But anyway, my computer boots up now. . . But there are a few more problems. Please see Re: X upgrade problem Thanks for your help! Regards, cyberclay
Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta 3 and Toshiba Laptop 1715X
Try www.linmodems.org/ You may have some fortune finding some information and/or drivers there to config and use your internal, or external (Most USB modems are actually WinModems) to work inside of Linux. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Oder Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010404 14:25]: | david wrote: | | What a pleasent surprise, installed beta 3, started it up and the sound | drivers were already there, no need to download them from OSS. | | It is the same with me. And your modem? I don't know how to solve the | problem of this winmodem. Any help would be really appreciate. Oder.
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 ISDN
nslookup is your friend. Fire up nslookup. Do you get a prompt back from nslookup? No, then you haven't set up your resolver... Yes, give it a few entries to try. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gez Keenan Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 ISDN Configured with conf-isdn-account. Get a connection but browser wont go anywhere. Think its something to do with DNS and routing but blowed if I can figure it out. Anybody help? Gez
Re: [newbie] connecting to PC Anywhere
Per Michael's suggestion, I downloaded and install VNC. I connected once to the server on my Windows machine and it was slow, the screen was HUGE, but it worked. I could navigate and do what I needed. However, as soon as I disconnected I lost something. Each time I try to connect it tells me it doesn't like my passwd. I've reset that passwd like 15 times now! Still can't reconnect. I've then set up a server on my Linux box, and have then connected to it via Windows. But it gives me a TWM X connection. Why doesn't it display my current X connection which lately has been KDE? I don't much see a point in using it from Windows to Linux if I can't see what I would see if I were sitting at that machine. Does anybody have any insight on those two problems? At the end of the day it doesn't matter honestly. I have KVM switch on my desk (Which I highly recommend for people with multiple machines in one office.) so I can just switch over to the other machine with only two key strokes. But it would be pretty kewl to just look to another desktop and find out what Windoze did wrong that time to create that sound an error message makes. Thanks for the suggestion and any further help. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Adrian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010402 17:14]: | awesomeness. thanks much, i'll go hunting=) | | | | | Adrian Smith | 'de telepone dude | Telecom Dept. | x 7042 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | "Michael O'Henly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:50:39 PM 4/2/01 | What you want is VNC. I don't have the URL at hand but searching on "VNC" | will give you their site. VNC is a free, cross-platform remote desktop and | works beautifully to give *nix users access to Windows (or vice versa). | | M. | | On Monday 02 April 2001 13:21, Adrian Smith wrote: | is there a program out there that i can use to dial in connect with a | windows box running pc anywhere? | | thanks | | | | Adrian Smith | 'de telepone dude | Telecom Dept. | x 7042 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | -- | Michael O'Henly | TENZO Design |
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
Michael Leone wrote: Hello all. I'm using KDE 2.1, on XFree86 4.0.1. I want to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1, from sunsite.uio.no/pub/kde/stable/2.1.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/RPMS. I realize I need all the k*.rpms (well, not all the other languages), and all the qt*.rpms. BUT .. are the XFree86 updates actually required to run KDE 2.1.1? I'd rather not update X just yet. I think you need the XFree86 updates. When I tried to install 2.1.1 without them, rpm complained that it needed some libraries that were provided by the newer version of XFree. So I upgraded XFree and that went smoothly, then installed KDE 2.1.1 and all is well for now. Good Luck, Mickey Soltys
Re: [newbie] User permissions
The impression I get from your message is that you don't have root access to the machine. And if you're using telnet sounds like you don't have any other sort of authentication option kerberos or even the use of SSH. But the skinny of it is that only the root(superuser) can restart the machine. If you have root access you can then su - or however you preferr and then issue the shutdown -r now command that was mentioned by another user. If you don't have access to do so you will have to contact that system's administrator. If you're running ssh and you have root access you can simply use the command of: ssh -l root host.name.of.machine shutdown -r now It will prompt you for the passwd and then issue the command. I then suggest you use a ping command of some sort, to see that the machine went down and then came back up. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010403 19:54]: | I want to be able to to telnet to a machine running mandrake-linux. | | How do I set a normal user to have "superviser" rights, so that I can | restart the machine remotely. | | Thanks guys.
[newbie] Linksys 10/100 and LInux-Mandrake 7.2
Hello all, Here's my setup: Aptiva 233 Linksys 10/100 Ethernet card -- Connected to a 5 port Hub -- Hub is connected to an external cable box. I went to the main page for sending in tech questions for the Mandrake folks to answer. The replied "sorry, since your matter doesn't concern installation, I can't help you." So, my world is now in your good folks' hands. How do I get Linux to 1) see my card, and then 2) get the card to see the internet? Feel free to send help in "dummy" style if you wish. My other machines have Windows 98 on them, using the same card. I'm used to just opening up Internet Explorer, and bam, there's the net (no log in procedures) (and none behind the scenes). Thanks, Christopher.
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
I have been having sooo many problems upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 from KDE 2.0.1 running under LM 7.2 .. I have tried every single installation instruction that someone has posted, and none of them work (even KDE's instructions!) .. i even uninstalled KDE 2.0.1 and then tried to install 2.1.1, and still get dependency errors. And when I install the RPM's, I have to use the --nodeps option, regardless. Everything seems to work fine, but when I reboot, the graphical logon screen for KDE starts to appear, then disappears, and I'm stuck at the console. Can anyone help? This is getting to be VERY frustrating!! Terry Sheltra --- msoltys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Leone wrote: Hello all. I'm using KDE 2.1, on XFree86 4.0.1. I want to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1, from sunsite.uio.no/pub/kde/stable/2.1.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/RPMS. I realize I need all the k*.rpms (well, not all the other languages), and all the qt*.rpms. BUT .. are the XFree86 updates actually required to run KDE 2.1.1? I'd rather not update X just yet. I think you need the XFree86 updates. When I tried to install 2.1.1 without them, rpm complained that it needed some libraries that were provided by the newer version of XFree. So I upgraded XFree and that went smoothly, then installed KDE 2.1.1 and all is well for now. Good Luck, Mickey Soltys __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] so, I broke my mouse
You can boot into single user mode, or just boot in and using the TAB key log in as root into failsafe. Run the command: mouseconfig It will pop up a util that will allow you to config your mouse. Once it's done, save your changes, exit the program, exit failsafe and restart X Server. That should now allow your newly configured mouse to work. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Adam Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010403 20:26]: | Hehe, accidently set my mouse to usb when it is in fact ps/2... HEHE. Anyone know |a common file where linux stores all this stuff so I can edit it with vi? :) BTW, |how do I get my mouse wheel working?
Re: [newbie] Dual boot problems...
I guess I'll take a crack at this one! :0) So here goes. Having had one of my machines set up as a Dual boot at one point, I've encountered several different things. I've also installed different distros, but I'll try and stick with the Mandrake info here. First of all let's start with the hard drives and how they are set up. Linux and Windows set up the HDD differently. for example, two hard drives, each with two partitions. You would think that in Windows that it would go as follows: X-zibit A HDD 1 Partition 1 -- C: Partition 2 -- D: HDD 2 Partition 1 -- E: Partition 2 -- F: But that's not *always* the case! At one point that Dual boot was only Windows with drives C through G. Well C, E, and F were on HDD 1 and D G were on HDD 2. I simply gave up using tools to rename them. But it ended up looking like this. X-zibit B HDD 1 Partition 1 -- C: Partition 2 -- E: Partition 3 -- F: HDD 2 Partition 1 -- D: Partition 2 -- G: Linux, I think, handles how it sets that up a bit better. For example in the case of the example I used above about HDD1 and HDD2, it will give those HDDs the name of /dev/hd and then the a,b,c, so on for which HDD it is. So in Linux, X-zibit A would then translated to: X-zibit C HDD 1 Partition 1 -- /dev/hda1 Partition 2 -- /dev/hda2 (possibly to /dev/hda5) HDD 2 Partition 1 -- /dev/hdb1 Partition 2 -- /dev/hdb5 Now I'm not entirely sure why it gives the second partition to HDD2 as /dev/hdb5, but I've noticed that a lot on different Linux distros. So I can't explain that. Having explained that, Linux is kind of picky about where it's boot information is. That's the MBR which would be on HDD 1 in your instance as well as /boot which should be on the first 1024 sectors of HDD 2. I've tried putting that /boot and install Linux on what would be /dev/hda2 from X-zibit C, drive D: from X-zibit A, it won't boot at all. LiLO gives you nothing because it doesn't recognize how it's set up. So it forces you to use the first partition on the second drive. You could, in making your dual boot systems, install Windows on the HDD1, then install Linux on HDD2. Making that drive bootable and go into the BIOS each time you boot and tell it to boot from HDD1 or HDD2. Which is possible and I know people that do that. But you lose the chance of accessing data on that Windows partition which is automatically supermounted when Mandrake boots. (Caldera will do this as well.) It's always best to set your swap as the last part of your HDD. Normally the swap is twice the size of what your RAM is. (128 MB RAM, 256 MG Linux Swap) If you put the /swap at the end of the HDD it doesn't cause any problems with where is /boot, or things of that nature. So, from what I can gather, you want to have a dual boot system, with out the use of a floppy. So you will install Windows on HDD1, make sure you fdisk /mbr just to be sure before you start the Linux install. The install Linux on HDD2. Installing / on /dev/hdb1 and then /home on /dev/hdb5. You may also want to partition it differently, and DiskDrake can do all of that for you if you would like. I normally go through and set that up myself. After you run the install, install everything on the second HDD, install the boot information on /dev/hda1, which it will default to in the install. Remove all bootable media, reboot, and you should see the stage1, stage2 then offer you a menu which will give you windows, floppy, linux and some other options. I normally go and in an edit the boot information in the install and remove the floppy option. Since if you boot from the floppy, you wouldn't see that menu anyway! I don't see the point in leaving it in there, but others could agrue reasons to keep it. Well, I think that's a start at least. And hopefully this didn't add to the confusion of it all, but hopefully this will be found as helpful tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Dave Linsalata [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010401 21:47]: | Hello, | | Well it's been two hours since I got Mandrake up, and, despite hundreds of | "how do I's" and "why doesn't this work" floating around in my head, I'm | loving it! But I have a problem. And I need help (please:)) | | *skip down for meat of question...keep reading if you know win98...the below | data /could/ apply to my main question* | | My old setup was thus: | Hard Drive 1 - partitioned into 2 HDs, of which one was pseudo-partitioned | using partition magic into swap and ext2 space. | Hard Drive 2 - 500 megs compressed into 800 megs. | The letter was C and D for 1, and E (with the compressed host on H) | (F and G are CD and CD-RW drives) | | Now, after installing Mandrake, my setup is thus: | Hard drive 1 - same partitions, but for some reason letters are now C and E) | Hard drive 2 - now letter D, and has 1.97 gigs free (apparently) with my | data sitting in a "drivespace.000" hidden file | | I understand that this is a mandrake list, but I wanted to throw this out
[newbie] Internal modem installation (and is Rockwell conexant softk56 supported?)
Hi, I have an friend that just got 7.2 installed on his machine. It has a Rockwell Conexant (softk56) modem. I have suggested that he get something else. His hardware config is unknown and he is not (yet ;-) a techie. He doesn't see and com ports on the machine so I'm recommending an internel. Perhaps a USR sportster. (Note: It shows up in harddrake with all the info about what kind of modem it is. Does anyone know if perhaps it *IS* support. The install linked /dev/ttyS2 to /dev/modem) I always do all my configuration from the command line and turn of all that stuff that autodetects things and never set anything up through the graphical interface. So it is due to my extreme ignorance of things "user friendly" that I must ask this question. Once the modem is plugged in, what happens. Should the modem be set for plug and play or be at a fixed com port. What would he need to do to get it going. I would do this myself but I don't have easy access to the machine. Thanks for any enlightenment. Oh, BTW. He is very impressed with Mandrake, modem problems aside. He's migrating over from WinME. During the install, he chose to nuke his Windows partition so he's obviously cut off from the net right now but perservering. :-) -Thanks, -Steve Bergman
Re: [newbie] SiS on-board graphics
On Saturday 31 March 2001 22:15, you wrote: Hello Folks! I've installed Mandrake 7.20 on a machine which has a Jetway 531CF m/board. Although the installation appeared to work just fine, I'm having problems with video. The m/board has SiS 620 on-board graphics and no matter what I do with the video settings, I'm getting thin, randomly spaced, broken vertical lines on screen. Ideas anyone? Regards, Martin Install in expert mode and select 3.3.6 with accel, then try that. Your noise should disappear. XFree-4.0.x does not seem to have good support for the SiS 530/620 Civileme (who has a 530 running 3D accel in 7.2) --- CrossPoint v3.30.021 R
[newbie] Where to place tarballs
Seems like a very basic question, but it is also one I've never seen addressed anywhere. Where do you guys put tarballs and rpm's for new applications and patches before you open them? Is this entirely arbitrary or is there a customary location to put them before using them? Thanks in advance Andy
Re: [newbie] Linksys 10/100 and LInux-Mandrake 7.2
On Thursday 05 April 2001 07:37 am, you wrote: There's an description on how to get your linksys card to work. Go to http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/linksys_LNE100TX.html Hopes that heips. Hello all, Here's my setup: Aptiva 233 Linksys 10/100 Ethernet card -- Connected to a 5 port Hub -- Hub is connected to an external cable box. I went to the main page for sending in tech questions for the Mandrake folks to answer. The replied "sorry, since your matter doesn't concern installation, I can't help you." So, my world is now in your good folks' hands. How do I get Linux to 1) see my card, and then 2) get the card to see the internet? Feel free to send help in "dummy" style if you wish. My other machines have Windows 98 on them, using the same card. I'm used to just opening up Internet Explorer, and bam, there's the net (no log in procedures) (and none behind the scenes). Thanks, Christopher. Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
[newbie] script help
Hi to all, If I have a file with the following data: listen 010:atm1.7530 listen 010:atm120.7080 listen 010:nac1.7506 listen 010:ist1.7508 listen 010:tar.7501 listen 010:nacpos.7510 How I can extract of the second column since ':' to '.' example: 010:atm1.7530 atm1 010:atm120.7080 atm120 I think with the command awk I can do that.. but right now I don't have any idea Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance winmail.dat
Re: [newbie] script help
On Thursday 05 April 2001 15:52, you wrote:
Hi to all,
If I have a file with the following data:
listen 010:atm1.7530
listen 010:atm120.7080
listen 010:nac1.7506
listen 010:ist1.7508
listen 010:tar.7501
listen 010:nacpos.7510
How I can extract of the second column since ':' to '.'
example:
010:atm1.7530 atm1
010:atm120.7080 atm120
I think with the command awk I can do that.. but right now I don't have any
idea
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance
cat datafilename | gawk -F: '{ print $2 }' | gawk -F. '{ print $1 }' outfile
then it will have the contents in outfile that you desire.
Civileme
Yeh, one-line filters are common for something that would be a hairy VB job.
Re: [newbie] Where to place tarballs
On Thursday 05 April 2001 11:38, you wrote: Seems like a very basic question, but it is also one I've never seen addressed anywhere. Where do you guys put tarballs and rpm's for new applications and patches before you open them? Is this entirely arbitrary or is there a customary location to put them before using them? Thanks in advance Andy I usually put tarballs in my home directory and double-check that the install will not destroy or overwrite anything I want. rpms, I put in /home/username/tmp so I don't have to login as root to DL them. Civileme
RE: [newbie] Where to place tarballs
I put mine in /usr/src ??? Jason -Original Message- From: asmiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:38 PM To: newbie Cc: asmiller Subject: [newbie] Where to place tarballs Seems like a very basic question, but it is also one I've never seen addressed anywhere. Where do you guys put tarballs and rpm's for new applications and patches before you open them? Is this entirely arbitrary or is there a customary location to put them before using them? Thanks in advance Andy
Re: [newbie] Problems with Sound Blaster ISA Card
Simon Zarate escribi: I have a Sound Blaster SB16 ISA CARD, but linux don't see the card. I have a Pentium II 233 MHZ with 64 MB of RAM. What i can do? Run: # sndconfig Maybe it isn't installed. Download and install the rpm. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] script help
listen 010:atm1.7530
listen 010:atm120.7080
[...]
How I can extract of the second column since ':' to '.'
example:
010:atm1.7530 atm1
010:atm120.7080 atm120
cat datafilename | gawk -F: '{ print $2 }' | gawk -F. '{ print $1 }'
outfile
or
$ cut -f 2 -d : datafile|cut -f 1 -d . outfile
Probably uses fewer cpu cycles if the datafile is big.
MB
Re: [newbie] Internal modem installation (and is Rockwell conexant softk56 supported?)
Steve Bergman wrote: Hi, I have an friend that just got 7.2 installed on his machine. It has a Rockwell Conexant (softk56) modem. I have suggested that he get something else. His hardware config is unknown and he is not (yet ;-) a techie. He doesn't see and com ports on the machine so I'm recommending an internel. Perhaps a USR sportster. (Note: It shows up in harddrake with all the info about what kind of modem it is. Does anyone know if perhaps it *IS* support. The install linked /dev/ttyS2 to /dev/modem) I always do all my configuration from the command line and turn of all that stuff that autodetects things and never set anything up through the graphical interface. So it is due to my extreme ignorance of things "user friendly" that I must ask this question. Once the modem is plugged in, what happens. Should the modem be set for plug and play or be at a fixed com port. What would he need to do to get it going. I would do this myself but I don't have easy access to the machine. Thanks for any enlightenment. Oh, BTW. He is very impressed with Mandrake, modem problems aside. He's migrating over from WinME. During the install, he chose to nuke his Windows partition so he's obviously cut off from the net right now but perservering. :-) -Thanks, -Steve Bergman Stevego here for help, as that's a winmodem he's got. http://www.linmodems.org/ -- Alan
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
Terry wrote: I have been having sooo many problems upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 from KDE 2.0.1 running under LM 7.2 .. I have tried every single installation instruction that someone has posted, and none of them work (even KDE's instructions!) .. i even uninstalled KDE 2.0.1 and then tried to install 2.1.1, and still get dependency errors. And when I install the RPM's, I have to use the --nodeps option, regardless. Everything seems to work fine, but when I reboot, the graphical logon screen for KDE starts to appear, then disappears, and I'm stuck at the console. Can anyone help? This is getting to be VERY frustrating!! Terry Sheltra Terrywhen you have a dependancy error then you need to make sure that the file specified in the error gets installed on your system. To do that you need to locate the .rpm file that the file specified in the error is part of and install it. This needs to be done for every file that is specified in the dependency error messages that are displayed by the rpm program. If you use --nodeps to force rpm to install a package that is giving you a dependancy error then that package will be broken and not work untill the dependency is resolved. The --nodeps switch can be used to make reluctant .rpm files install, but the package will only work properly if the dependency you forced rpm to ignore is bogus. But, how do you know if a dependency is bogus? On my system the last remaining dependency that was not allowing 2.1.1 to install was kdesu. A search of my rpm database showed that kdesu was installed (and I use kdesu all the time so I already knew it was on the system). I figured that this was a bogus dependency. So with all other dependencies already resolved I went ahead and installed the 2.1.1 .rpms with the --nodeps switch. Then after doing a 'rpm --rebuilddb', running the update-menus program and rebooting the system, version 2.1.1 of KDE worked. -- Alan
RE: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
Title: RE: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86? Sorry to jump in here, but be careful in what you start. I tried installing KDE 2.1.1 and first had to go and find 14 dependencies in two stages. First test said I need 7 additional files, second try after I got those said I needed 7 more, I got those and then test said I needed 3 more and that there was a conflict with 22 files from a previous install. It is a snowball that never stops rolling down hill and gathers mass as it goes. Something is missing in the Package of Mandrake RPMs for KDE 2.1.1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86? Terry wrote: I have been having sooo many problems upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 from KDE 2.0.1 running under LM 7.2 .. I have tried every single installation instruction that someone has posted, and none of them work (even KDE's instructions!) .. i even uninstalled KDE 2.0.1 and then tried to install 2.1.1, and still get dependency errors. And when I install the RPM's, I have to use the --nodeps option, regardless. Everything seems to work fine, but when I reboot, the graphical logon screen for KDE starts to appear, then disappears, and I'm stuck at the console. Can anyone help? This is getting to be VERY frustrating!! Terry Sheltra Terrywhen you have a dependancy error then you need to make sure that the file specified in the error gets installed on your system. To do that you need to locate the .rpm file that the file specified in the error is part of and install it. This needs to be done for every file that is specified in the dependency error messages that are displayed by the rpm program. If you use --nodeps to force rpm to install a package that is giving you a dependancy error then that package will be broken and not work untill the dependency is resolved. The --nodeps switch can be used to make reluctant .rpm files install, but the package will only work properly if the dependency you forced rpm to ignore is bogus. But, how do you know if a dependency is bogus? On my system the last remaining dependency that was not allowing 2.1.1 to install was kdesu. A search of my rpm database showed that kdesu was installed (and I use kdesu all the time so I already knew it was on the system). I figured that this was a bogus dependency. So with all other dependencies already resolved I went ahead and installed the 2.1.1 .rpms with the --nodeps switch. Then after doing a 'rpm --rebuilddb', running the update-menus program and rebooting the system, version 2.1.1 of KDE worked. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Problems with Sound Blaster ISA Card
log in as root and run sndconfig - Original Message - From: "Simon Zarate" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:35 PM Subject: [newbie] Problems with Sound Blaster ISA Card I have a Sound Blaster SB16 ISA CARD, but linux don't see the card. I have a Pentium II 233 MHZ with 64 MB of RAM. What i can do? Simon _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
On Thursday 05 April 2001 01:01 pm, you wrote: opps I forgot to mention that you need the libmng files. you can get it in kde2.1 directory in the unsupported directory at the Mandrake's ftp site. Terry wrote: I have been having sooo many problems upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 from KDE 2.0.1 running under LM 7.2 .. I have tried every single installation instruction that someone has posted, and none of them work (even KDE's instructions!) .. i even uninstalled KDE 2.0.1 and then tried to install 2.1.1, and still get dependency errors. And when I install the RPM's, I have to use the --nodeps option, regardless. Everything seems to work fine, but when I reboot, the graphical logon screen for KDE starts to appear, then disappears, and I'm stuck at the console. Can anyone help? This is getting to be VERY frustrating!! Terry Sheltra Terrywhen you have a dependancy error then you need to make sure that the file specified in the error gets installed on your system. To do that you need to locate the .rpm file that the file specified in the error is part of and install it. This needs to be done for every file that is specified in the dependency error messages that are displayed by the rpm program. If you use --nodeps to force rpm to install a package that is giving you a dependancy error then that package will be broken and not work untill the dependency is resolved. The --nodeps switch can be used to make reluctant .rpm files install, but the package will only work properly if the dependency you forced rpm to ignore is bogus. But, how do you know if a dependency is bogus? On my system the last remaining dependency that was not allowing 2.1.1 to install was kdesu. A search of my rpm database showed that kdesu was installed (and I use kdesu all the time so I already knew it was on the system). I figured that this was a bogus dependency. So with all other dependencies already resolved I went ahead and installed the 2.1.1 .rpms with the --nodeps switch. Then after doing a 'rpm --rebuilddb', running the update-menus program and rebooting the system, version 2.1.1 of KDE worked.
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
On Thursday 05 April 2001 01:01 pm, you wrote: what I did to upgrade 2.1.1 from 2.0.1 was first thing first. put XFree in its own directory and cd to that directory and type: rpm -Fvh *.rpm and put qt2 in its directory and cd to that directory and type: rpm -Uvh --replacefiles *.rpm and finally with all your kde rpm in the directory all by itself and type. rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm you may have a conflict with kdeaddutil rpm you can either use rpm -e kdeaddutil*.i586 and that should remove the package or just simply use rpm -Uvh --nodeps --replacefiles *.rpm to install all your 2.1.1 with no dependency and to replace the files that conflicts with kdeaddutil files. Hope that helps. Rob Terry wrote: I have been having sooo many problems upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 from KDE 2.0.1 running under LM 7.2 .. I have tried every single installation instruction that someone has posted, and none of them work (even KDE's instructions!) .. i even uninstalled KDE 2.0.1 and then tried to install 2.1.1, and still get dependency errors. And when I install the RPM's, I have to use the --nodeps option, regardless. Everything seems to work fine, but when I reboot, the graphical logon screen for KDE starts to appear, then disappears, and I'm stuck at the console. Can anyone help? This is getting to be VERY frustrating!! Terry Sheltra Terrywhen you have a dependancy error then you need to make sure that the file specified in the error gets installed on your system. To do that you need to locate the .rpm file that the file specified in the error is part of and install it. This needs to be done for every file that is specified in the dependency error messages that are displayed by the rpm program. If you use --nodeps to force rpm to install a package that is giving you a dependancy error then that package will be broken and not work untill the dependency is resolved. The --nodeps switch can be used to make reluctant .rpm files install, but the package will only work properly if the dependency you forced rpm to ignore is bogus. But, how do you know if a dependency is bogus? On my system the last remaining dependency that was not allowing 2.1.1 to install was kdesu. A search of my rpm database showed that kdesu was installed (and I use kdesu all the time so I already knew it was on the system). I figured that this was a bogus dependency. So with all other dependencies already resolved I went ahead and installed the 2.1.1 .rpms with the --nodeps switch. Then after doing a 'rpm --rebuilddb', running the update-menus program and rebooting the system, version 2.1.1 of KDE worked.
[newbie] Freedom Annonymous Software on L-M 7.2
Hi guys! Has anyone got Freedom software (http://www.freedom.net) to work under L-M. 7.2 and how?..TIA
[newbie] Word attachments in emails
I sometimes get attachments of documents in MS Word format. What do I have to do to make such attachments open up in Linux in a form I can see them? I am using Mandrake 7.2 and also have WP for Linux free edition installed. Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
[newbie] Problem playing MP3
I'm running LM 7.1 on a CTX 770 notebook. It has an internal SB 16 compatible. I have set it up with HardDrake. I can get the .WAVs to play with no problem. MP3s are giving me a problem. I've used kmp3 and a couple other media players (the ones that come in 7.1). The player seems to load the file. The timer seems to progress at something like quarter speed. And no sound is outputed. The MP3 plays in Winamp and Windows Media Player without a problem. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Lon Lentz Applications Developer CyberEntomologist - Alvion Technologies DataWarehousing and List Sales - Market Your Lists on the Net! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 941-574-8600 Ext. 210
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
On Thursday 05 April 2001 15:01, you wrote: Terry wrote: I have been having sooo many problems upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 from KDE 2.0.1 running under LM 7.2 .. I have tried every single installation instruction that someone has posted, and none of them work (even KDE's instructions!) .. i even uninstalled KDE 2.0.1 and then tried to install 2.1.1, and still get dependency errors. And when I install the RPM's, I have to use the --nodeps option, regardless. Everything seems to work fine, but when I reboot, the graphical logon screen for KDE starts to appear, then disappears, and I'm stuck at the console. Can anyone help? This is getting to be VERY frustrating!! Terry Sheltra Terrywhen you have a dependancy error then you need to make sure that the file specified in the error gets installed on your system. To do that you need to locate the .rpm file that the file specified in the error is part of and install it. This needs to be done for every file that is specified in the dependency error messages that are displayed by the rpm program. If you use --nodeps to force rpm to install a package that is giving you a dependancy error then that package will be broken and not work untill the dependency is resolved. The --nodeps switch can be used to make reluctant .rpm files install, but the package will only work properly if the dependency you forced rpm to ignore is bogus. But, how do you know if a dependency is bogus? On my system the last remaining dependency that was not allowing 2.1.1 to install was kdesu. A search of my rpm database showed that kdesu was installed (and I use kdesu all the time so I already knew it was on the system). I figured that this was a bogus dependency. So with all other dependencies already resolved I went ahead and installed the 2.1.1 .rpms with the --nodeps switch. Then after doing a 'rpm --rebuilddb', running the update-menus program and rebooting the system, version 2.1.1 of KDE worked. This is all well and good except that for me the dependencies list keeps growing with every file that I add to satisfy the previous dependencies list. I can not find the missing link, but something is seriously wrong with the install. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Word attachments in emails
On Thursday 05 April 2001 14:55, you wrote: I sometimes get attachments of documents in MS Word format. What do I have to do to make such attachments open up in Linux in a form I can see them? I am using Mandrake 7.2 and also have WP for Linux free edition installed. Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 The best filters are probably on StarOffice bloatware. AbiWord will also open Word97 files pretty well, but gets confused on Word2000 (probably cause of the animated, talking paper clip;-) Civileme
[newbie] Freedom Anonymous Software
Personal Firewall--In 8.0 you can use Bastille in interactive mode, or you can download PM Firewall for free Cookie Manager--Squid can be set up to handle this and also to compress ads broadcaast to you to one pixel on your screen Ad Manager--see remarks concerning Squid--also Mandrake Internet Security Pack has this feature Keyword Alert--Portsentry or IPlog properly configured will do this Untraceable Encrypted email--Hmmm it is not the point usually to make email untraceable, and it is getting harder and harder to do with relaying servers requiring additional info all the time. But the encryption is well done by GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) Anonymous browsing and chat--Being undetected online is pretty easy with any of a number of Chat and Instant Messenger tools. So you have these capabilities built into your Mandrake installation under a number of names, and they are compatible with AOL Instant Messenger and o9ther software that Freedom claims to be incompatible with. Plus, with the Mandrake software, you have the freedom to make changes and redistribute. It is a nice idea to put all of these features in one package. Maybe we can add something like that to future releases. Civileme
Re: [newbie] ports 1024 and 1025 are killing me
On Thursday 05 April 2001 01:08 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2001 03:11 am, you wrote: I don't think anything commonly "runs" on these ports. I am also using pmfirewall and found 1024 to be left open by it, so I just put an entry in its conffig file to close it. The test I ran only goes up to 1024, maybe I'll add one for 1025 too. :) vi /usr/local/pmfirewall/pmfirewall.rules.local and copy one of the rules and change the port number like so: $IPCHAINS -A input -p tcp -s $REMOTENET -d $OUTERNET 1024 -j DENY -l It seems to work for me. -s Yes it works, but I found out that ICQ was opening those ports. So now I can't connect to ICQ with those ports blocked. Is having those ports open for ICQ a problem? The port tester page I use is: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~kalish/ Having even one port open is a problem in that it tells anyone who is scanning the net looking for open machines that there is a responding machine there. So, to me, having 100 open ports is no worse than one. Even if you're on a dial up, your ip address will stay within a range easily scanned by these port scanners. But you must be able to use your software of choice or why bother with the internet at all. So, you may have to look into ip chains. There is documentation on your machine installed by mandrake on the subject and it's all over the internet. Do a google search. Now you shouldn't have to build an entire ipchain script. PMFirewall uses ipchains, so if you could find enough info to word a rule to allow icq to connect, probably much the same way realplayer or napster needs to be set up, you could add it into your pmfirewall rules. That's what'd I'd do. -s
Re: [newbie] Word attachments in emails
Dear Jeff: Best way to see Word documents in Linux is to download StarOffice, which is not only a great office suite in its own right, but is known for its superlative conversion of MSWord documents. To get StarOffice, go to www.sun.com, more specifically http://www.sun.com/staroffice/ and download for free the latest StarOffice 5.2 version Warning: It's a huge download (97 megs compressed, 250 megs uncompressed). However, you can also order it on CD for $10 from Sun (just the CD, no manual included). Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Freedom Anonymous Software
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Civileme Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Freedom Anonymous Software Personal Firewall--In 8.0 you can use Bastille in interactive mode, or you can download PM Firewall for free Cookie Manager--Squid can be set up to handle this and also to compress ads broadcaast to you to one pixel on your screen Ad Manager--see remarks concerning Squid--also Mandrake Internet Security Pack has this feature Keyword Alert--Portsentry or IPlog properly configured will do this Untraceable Encrypted email--Hmmm it is not the point usually to make email untraceable, and it is getting harder and harder to do with relaying servers requiring additional info all the time. But the encryption is well done by GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) Anonymous browsing and chat--Being undetected online is pretty easy with any of a number of Chat and Instant Messenger tools. So you have these capabilities built into your Mandrake installation under a number of names, and they are compatible with AOL Instant Messenger and o9ther software that Freedom claims to be incompatible with. Plus, with the Mandrake software, you have the freedom to make changes and redistribute. It is a nice idea to put all of these features in one package. Maybe we can add something like that to future releases. Civileme As an added note Freedom has to connect to it's web server each time it is launched and it is almost never able to do so. The bottom line being that you can not use it to handle any of the task for which it was installed. Charles
[newbie] xinetd failed on shutdown
Does mandrake's (7.2) "update" take days to complete or is it broken? I am running Mandrake 7.2 and because my cups was not working (no printing), I decided as a last resort to try Update from the original CDs. That upgraded some thing and since then cups is working fine. But, after asking for language and keyboard option, the "upgrade" runs forever and seems frozen. Is that normal? In fact I left it running for 6-8 hours while it was "searching for items to upgrade" and finally had to shutoff the PC because I had no other way to stop it and I thought it was frozen (even though the cursor moved with the mouse). When I rebooted into Linux, it checked the files and all seems fine and works fine, but now when I shutdown correctly, xinetd shows "Failed" in the scrolling lists of things it does on shutdown. What is xinetd and how do I correct this? What rpm from the original CDs should I re-install to restore things so xinetd would not fail on shutdown? Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Problems with Sound Blaster ISA Card
Thanks the problem was resolved!!! Simon From: Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with Sound Blaster ISA Card Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 21:59:42 -0400 Simon Zarate escribió: I have a Sound Blaster SB16 ISA CARD, but linux don't see the card. I have a Pentium II 233 MHZ with 64 MB of RAM. What i can do? Run: # sndconfig Maybe it isn't installed. Download and install the rpm. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] SiS on-board graphics
Open DrakConf, and try changing: Type or monitor and resolution. I have the same onboard card use Sis620. Try using 1024 x 768 with 16 bits. Only use 4 MB for graphic card this is enough for this resolution, remember test each change before you finish or you need reinstall Linux how happend to me. Simon From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS on-board graphics Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:03:17 -0700 On Saturday 31 March 2001 22:15, you wrote: Hello Folks! I've installed Mandrake 7.20 on a machine which has a Jetway 531CF m/board. Although the installation appeared to work just fine, I'm having problems with video. The m/board has SiS 620 on-board graphics and no matter what I do with the video settings, I'm getting thin, randomly spaced, broken vertical lines on screen. Ideas anyone? Regards, Martin Install in expert mode and select 3.3.6 with accel, then try that. Your noise should disappear. XFree-4.0.x does not seem to have good support for the SiS 530/620 Civileme (who has a 530 running 3D accel in 7.2) --- CrossPoint v3.30.021 R _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] CD Rom .... not liking it.!
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I ran through the install process of 7.2 Had no troubles, but when I've gone to use the CD rom from in the OS is says it's "mounted" by I can't access it from RPMDrake. It asks me to insert CD2, which I do and it says it can't find the file. What I notice is that it's not even access the CD-Rom. What else can I do from here? Thanks again guys. Regards, Brett - Original Message - From: "Simon Zarate" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with Sound Blaster ISA Card Thanks the problem was resolved!!! Simon From: Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with Sound Blaster ISA Card Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 21:59:42 -0400 Simon Zarate escribi: I have a Sound Blaster SB16 ISA CARD, but linux don't see the card. I have a Pentium II 233 MHZ with 64 MB of RAM. What i can do? Run: # sndconfig Maybe it isn't installed. Download and install the rpm. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] configuring sound card
You are using the right driver? Look for HArdware compatible list. Simon From: Hipólito López [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux-Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] configuring sound card Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:40:13 -0800 Hi to all, Anybody can tell me where can I find a document for configuring my sound card CMI8330 on LM 7.2? harddrake detect the sound card but when I configuring the I/O port and IRQ and DMA I got an error mpu40 - timeout . and when I try to run the artsd I got another error 'Error while initialing the sound driver device /dev/dsp can't opened(no surch device) I supose that this error is because my sound card isn't good configurated. winmail.dat _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Word attachments in emails
Jeff: StarOffice is included in the store-bought versions of Mandrake, too. -- cmg Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Jeff: Best way to see Word documents in Linux is to download StarOffice, which is not only a great office suite in its own right, but is known for its superlative conversion of MSWord documents. To get StarOffice, go to www.sun.com, more specifically http://www.sun.com/staroffice/ and download for free the latest StarOffice 5.2 version Warning: It's a huge download (97 megs compressed, 250 megs uncompressed). However, you can also order it on CD for $10 from Sun (just the CD, no manual included). Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Internal modem installation (and is Rockwell conexant softk56 supported?)
On Thursday 05 April 2001 15:13, you wrote: Steve Bergman wrote: Hi, I have an friend that just got 7.2 installed on his machine. It has a Rockwell Conexant (softk56) modem. I have suggested that he get something else. His hardware config is unknown and he is not (yet ;-) a techie. He doesn't see and com ports on the machine so I'm recommending an internel. Perhaps a USR sportster. (Note: It shows up in harddrake with all the info about what kind of modem it is. Does anyone know if perhaps it *IS* support. The install linked /dev/ttyS2 to /dev/modem) I always do all my configuration from the command line and turn of all that stuff that autodetects things and never set anything up through the graphical interface. So it is due to my extreme ignorance of things "user friendly" that I must ask this question. Once the modem is plugged in, what happens. Should the modem be set for plug and play or be at a fixed com port. What would he need to do to get it going. I would do this myself but I don't have easy access to the machine. Thanks for any enlightenment. Oh, BTW. He is very impressed with Mandrake, modem problems aside. He's migrating over from WinME. During the install, he chose to nuke his Windows partition so he's obviously cut off from the net right now but perservering. :-) -Thanks, -Steve Bergman Stevego here for help, as that's a winmodem he's got. http://www.linmodems.org/
[newbie] strange modem lockup.
Hi everyone, I have a permanent dialup connection, and every now and then the modem will just lock up and nothing short of turning it off will fix it... its a 56 K KTX external modem, and the problem has only been since it was put on the linux machine.. It will work for a month sometimes, and then it will just freeze for no apparent reason. Does anyone know of a init script that would reset a ktx ext? or something that might solve the problem? Both the phone line and the power run through a surge arrestor , so surges can't be the problem, so I am at a bit of a loss as to what it might be. regards Frank Hauptle / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ Gshop Network Payment Solutions.
[newbie] What is the difference between PM firewall and Firestarter firewall?
The author for firestarter ( http://firestarter.sourceforge.net) clearly stated that pointman(author of PMfirewall) help him with the script. However, the firewall has a very nice GUI (4 us Newbie) to work with, and it does work, blocking all the ports including 1024 and 1025 that so many people are having trouble with pm firewall filtering. I find it easy to configure and work very effectively..IMHO So, What to the expert have to say about firestater? Am I complete loss or on the right track here? ;))
[newbie] LM 7.1 and StarOffice
I got LM 7.1 from CheapBytes.com (2 CDs for 3.95), and it came with StarOffice. However, it says it's "staroffice-es". Does that mean it's in Spanish? If so, anyone have any idea why that was the version that was included? I don't want to install it if it's going to be in Spanish... Thanks, Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde
Re: A twist on the OpenSource paradigm: (was RE: [newbie] Linux Tax S oftware?)
acar wrote: Of course, there is no need to write this software in a low-level language. Some of the very high level languages would be nearly ideal for this From one of my home LUGs: "Thomas G. Moore" wrote: What applications for computing income tax are available for Linux? Tom Here's my work in progress: http://www.gtx.seul.org Chris. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Problems FreeS/WAN compiling the kernel
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: You'll need to copy the appropriate files to the right place and edit /etc/lilo.conf accordingly. A potential time saver, do this before you make your kernel image. First do your make *config. Edit the Makefile and uncomment the line which says "export INSTALL_PATH /boot". Edit lilo.conf for the new image which gets installed creating a new entry with a new label (or change one of the older labels..up to you how you do it). The image installed will be /boot/vmlinuz. make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install will do it all. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Zoom ISA Modem = WinModem ?
Carroll Grigsby wrote: the box: If it's a Winmodem, some manufacturers will say "For Windows only". Not all do. If you don't like guessing games, there is a listing Additionally, if it says "for DOS", you can bet good money that it will be usable. If it says it has an onboard 16550, it will undoubtedly work as long as you can get the io and irq set to what you need. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] Freedom Anonymous Software
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Freedom Anonymous Software Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 22:57:59 -0400 From: Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 05 April 2001 20:11, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Civileme Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Freedom Anonymous Software Personal Firewall--In 8.0 you can use Bastille in interactive mode, or you can download PM Firewall for free Cookie Manager--Squid can be set up to handle this and also to compress ads broadcaast to you to one pixel on your screen Ad Manager--see remarks concerning Squid--also Mandrake Internet Security Pack has this feature Keyword Alert--Portsentry or IPlog properly configured will do this Untraceable Encrypted email--Hmmm it is not the point usually to make email untraceable, and it is getting harder and harder to do with relaying servers requiring additional info all the time. But the encryption is well done by GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) Anonymous browsing and chat--Being undetected online is pretty easy with any of a number of Chat and Instant Messenger tools. So you have these capabilities built into your Mandrake installation under a number of names, and they are compatible with AOL Instant Messenger and o9ther software that Freedom claims to be incompatible with. Plus, with the Mandrake software, you have the freedom to make changes and redistribute. It is a nice idea to put all of these features in one package. Maybe we can add something like that to future releases. Civileme As an added note Freedom has to connect to it's web server each time it is launched and it is almost never able to do so. The bottom line being that you can not use it to handle any of the task for which it was installed. Charles Thanks charles and Civilme I was inquriring for someone else who insist in using freedom software who insist in using Freedom software. I personally use junkbuster and it works very good. However, I did purchase my mandrake dist..therefore I will make use of all its features :)) Thanks again for the help and suggestions ---
