Re: [newbie] Konqueror: files in reverse alphabetical order
Right above the listings, there are these, like, title bar things naming the listing in that column. Column headers/headings you might call them. Click on the one you want the folder displayed in primarily and click it again if it's in the wrong order (change from descending to ascending vise vera). -s On Tuesday 22 May 2001 02:12 am, you wrote: Hello! One morning I woke up, logged in, and found that Konqueror was displaying my files in reverse alphabetical order. Before that, it had been displaying them in the correct order. Can somebody please tell me how to reverse the reversal and get A,B,C ... instead of Z, Y, X ... ? If so, thanks in advance! (I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on an AMD K-6/450, 64 MB RAM, 6.5 GB HD system.) David McClamrock
Re: [newbie] Funky fonts on most web pages with mdk 8.0
I haven't seen an update for drakefont. What should I be looking for, what version is the updated one so I can manually search for it? TIA, -s On Monday 21 May 2001 11:25 am, you wrote: I mostly use Konqueror now, but this is what I would try with Netscape: Menu bar - Edit - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts There change your Fixed font with and variable font width. Write down what you have now and start experimenting until you are happy with what you see. BTW, did you install any TrueType fonts? Very easy to do with Mandrake, just make sure you update the font installer because the one you get from the install has a bug. Once you update it using Software Management it works great. Ciao, Eric Indiogine On Monday 21 May 2001 09:24, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, I am at a loss where to changes my fonts. I am using Netscape 4.77. When I access a web page, may of the bold letters appear a little funky. Where should I start in Netscape or Look N Feel? This kinda came on with my last 2 installations. I am using Mandrake 8.0. Any thoughts? Roman Registered Linux User #170293
Re: [newbie] Can I purchase Mandrake 8.0 from Canada
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 22:28, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, I was wondering if I can purchase the Powerpack from the Montreal office? I live in Ontario, Canada. Roman There is now a means to order direct the PowerPack from anywhere in the world, through the Mandrake Website. Strangely enough, the fellow who runs the Montreal Office is the one who set it up. Civileme
[newbie] USB Question
I had an Athlon800 and motherboard to suit. Everything went well under 7.2 but when I installed lm8.0 it would not recognise my USB mouse. After installing with a PS/2 mouse I had a look at hte log file, the following message appeared, what does it mean - is it totally unsupported. I've since gone back to my PIII 500 and all is fine. sb-ohci.c: 00:07.4 (Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] USB): blacklisted, erratum #4 Nev
[newbie] Voodoo on amd kapm idled
Hi all, I just installed 8.0 on a die-hard windows user's machine, and it didn't make a very good show. This machine has the same voodoo card as in one of mine (voodoo3 2000), and tho mine's 3d performance is lacking, his is non-existant. The installer installed XFree86-3.3.6 by default without asking (tho in expert mode), so after boot I found out why. I went into display to set it up, I was finally given the choice of 4.0.3, but not 'with acceration'. I chose 4.0.3 anyway, and then it wouldn't boot into X. Without gaming support, we're gonna lose him. Also, I finally know what some people are saying about poor performance. 8.0 runs good my three intel machines, but his amd k-2 450 is sad - most of the time. I did the hdparm thing and raised that performance a little, however this kapm-idle thing in top is showing over 50% of the cpu being used up by something, when nothing extraneous is open or running. Made sure no servers or unnecessary processes were running (as I always do). Sometimes it goes back down to 0% like mine always show, but most of the time something is going on. Any advise/info would as always be appreciated. -s As said, its has an amdk-2 450 with 192Mb100m ram, 256 swap, seagate 5200rpm 17gig hdd with 4 given to LM, voodoo3 2000, onboard sound (that comes and goes, sis on-board video (that's supposed to be disabled, yet shows up - but is not configured). Phillips something cdburner. Nothing special about install - not recompiled.
Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 12:56, Todd Flinders wrote: Yes, I'm especially interested in Civileme's tool he's working on to install a Maxtor controller card. I wonder if I should get that for RAID 0 instead of the 3ware. 3ware has good support, but only goes up to ATA 66. How important is ATA 100 anyway for RAID 0??? Should I even be concerned about that. I'm think that because I have 2 ATA 100 HDs (IBMs), that it would be a waste to get the 66 controller. Am I just being foolish? Is the 66 fine? My tests on ATA/66 and ATA/100 don't give you much to choose. the hdparm 64M read test seems to peak at slightly under 32 Mb/s for 66 and might go as high as 35Mb/s for ATA100. Both basically transfer data faster than it can spin onto or off the disk itself. My disk optimizer, which is based on a database, searches for a saddle-point where speed retuns diminish and noise immunity drops. The big surprise is that over half the ATA/100 setups I have tested end up with an ATA/66 setting from the optimizer, and most of those actually run faster at 66 (no repeats for channel noise problems). You actually do not need my tool to install using the cheap Maxtor card--it just eliminates a complicated series of steps that are a pain in the ass for experts and probably smoke and mirrors for newbies. Civileme --- Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not getting the performance I should from it yet. TC --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv wrote: From: Pelle Poluha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 Hello! I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability but at the same time I want speed and a practical UI (read GUI). I need a smooth file manager, easy access to OS, an editor, browser, email client (the usual I guess) and a C++ Java IDE. That you'll have - but not with KDE 2, I'm afraid. Even people with 1ghz / 256 mb machines have reported slowness. My 300mhz / 128 meg pc is too slow to be usable, but not quite as slow as you report - usually KDE takes 30-40 seconds, and new apps or windows 10 - 20 seconds. The good news is that KDE 1.x works just fine. Try an older version of Mandrake or SuSE or RedHat. They're all plenty fast. Regards, Irv I opted for Mandrake because I've heard a lot of good things about it. So I downloaded 8.0 last week and eagerly installed it on my AMD K333 machine (96 mb, Riva TNT) on a 2 gig partition. As I've followed the development of KDE with great interest, I chose KDE as default windows manager (and it has KDevelop). But it's really slow. Just loading Mandrake takes like 3-4 minutes. Some of it, I can understand. In the installation process, I included lots of apps and some of them gets loaded when Mandrake starts (like MySql and postgres, probably some more servers). But that surely doesn't account for the immensly slow loading of the OS. And then I start KDE... It takes another 2-3 minutes. And using it is awful. Loading a simple app might take 10-20 secs and everything just crawls. I just can't use it. I tried Window Maker instead and it worked better. But I don't want to drop KDE just yet. There must be something wrong with the configuration. I also tried Gnome but it started to look for a trash folder which it didn't find. Although I canceled that search, it seemed like it continued to search for the folder because the hd were working really hard all the time and everything worked even slower than in KDE. There are also some more strange things happening: - when I leave the windows manager and come to the 'console', I get a line typed on the screen all the time: Sending ICMP signal...failed (or something like that). It effectively stops me from working in console mode. - it seems like I've lost my internet connection. During installation, I selected 'DHCP-server' when asked for IP address. And I managed to do some surfing using Konqueror. But after installing Gnome and Window Maker, something must have happened to the configuration. - shutting down or
[newbie] Strange Soundcard (VIA VT82C686) Behavior
I have the above soundcard as part of the motherboard. All is configured and works - sort of. Running Mandrake 8.0. First off, KMix thinks that the card is a Cirrus Logic CS4299 Rev D ? More importantly though, a CD will play fine for a while, but then after some random time (30sec-2 hours) there will be a pop and the sound stops. A ctl-G or some system beep, e.g. when I get mail, will start it up again. I don't understand. There is no similar problem when I run W2K on this machine. Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin
RE: [newbie] Boxed Set
Wish There was somewhere around here that I could by it from (Perth Western Australia) I want to buy it only to support Mandrake,,, Sooner or later the APC linux pocketbook update will be released with a copy attached for 20 bucks.. (thats where I get 7.2 from and what got me away from Redhat and into Mandrake.) But apart from buying it over the net from a company 5000 km away (at least) I don't have alot of options... regards Frank (I think Mandrake should ship worldwide and offer discounts from buy off their site. I am in the computer industry now, so I would certainly not wish to pay retail.,... they must have a wholesaler price as well, for dealers...) They would make alot more money like this if they had the structure to support it... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of walt Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2001 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Boxed Set Best Buy has the powerpack on sale this week..I am going to go buy it on payday walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Riker Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boxed Set I have never seen the PowerPack there, only the desktop version. I usually have go to Staples for that. Riker On Monday 21 May 2001 09:58 pm, you wrote: Do they offer the PowerPack at Walmart? --- Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Quincy, IL in the Midwest of the US. It was there as of Saturday and was sold out today. They had five copies on the shelf when I purchased my copy. Riker On Sunday 20 May 2001 12:25 pm, you wrote: what wal-mart...where? what countrys? etc Riker wrote: I just bought the boxed set from Wal-Mart of 8.0 for $25.00 and the only thing that has really disappointed me are the lack of CDs. There are only three this time instead of four. I can't complain too much, though, you still get a lot more with Mandrake than you do with $indwos. Riker __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 13:31, Irv Mullins wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2001, you wrote: Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not getting the performance I should from it yet. TC I wonder if the new kernel is slowing down disk operations? Or something else? How can we benchmark our disk performance with Mandrake 7.1 and again with 8.0 to see if there is a difference? Regards, Irv Well, we had to take out the tuning parameters or else some rigs would have simply sat there--frozen on install. Too many trashy drives and buggy interfaces around. This is to replace what we removed with a huge database of drives and a lot more intelligence than could be built into the kernel. Civileme
[newbie] attn: mandrake menu system designers
hello whoever you are, i think you need to know that on my system at least, things do not work correctly, if you look at the file i have copied below you will see that when i added a menu item for a program i installed called DAP the refernece was added properly to the end of ~/.menu/adding_by_menudrake but it also reinserted the original version of a line i had to edit by hand because the two progs kmenuedit and menudrake refused to do it for me: namely the reference to kpackage which i like to run as root since it's pretty useless otherwise to me. snip: ?package(menu): needs=gnome icon=default_section.xpm section=Configuration/ title=Gnome charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=gnome icon=default_section.xpm section=Configuration/Gnome/ title=Desktop charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=gnome icon=default_section.xpm section=Configuration/Gnome/ title=Multimedia charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=gnome icon=default_section.xpm section=Configuration/Gnome/ title=Peripherals charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=gnome icon=default_section.xpm section=Configuration/Gnome/ title=User Interface charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(kdeadmin): needs=x11 icon=kpackage.png section=Configuration/Packaging/ title=Package Manager longtitle=kpackage RPM and DEB manager command=kdesu kpackage %u charset=ISO-8859-1 kde_filename=kpackage kde_mimetype=application/x-rpm;application/x-debian-package; kde_opt=\\nDocPath=kpackage/index.html \\nTerminal=0\\nTerminalOptions=\\nPath=\\nMapNotify=true\\nInitialPreference=5 kde_command=kpackage -caption \%c\ %i %m %u ?package(kdeadmin): needs=x11 icon=kpackage.png section=Configuration/Packaging/ title=Package Manager longtitle=kpackage RPM and DEB manager command=kdesu kpackage %u charset=ISO-8859-1 kde_filename=kpackage kde_mimetype=application/x-rpm;application/x-debian-package; kde_opt=\\nDocPath=kpackage/index.html \\nTerminal=0\\nTerminalOptions=\\nPath=\\nMapNotify=true\\nInitialPreference=5 kde_command=kdesu kpackage -caption \%c\ %i %m %u ?package(menu): needs=x11 icon=kcmsound.png section=Multimedia/Sound/ title=DAP longtitle=DAP - Digital Audio Processor command=DAP charset=ISO-8859-1 :snip this reinserted line undoes my own changes, leading me to create my own file 'adding_by_bascule' to keep track of changes i make that i have to reapply everytime i change the menu in any way ! :-) it occurs to me that this may be because it was not envisaged that folk would want to edit the menu items provided by mandrake but even so, why make it difficult to do if that's what is desired? now i know how to deal with this so this is just so you can look forward to lm8.1 :-) bascule
[newbie] Webmin
I have just installed LM8 and webmin, but I can't connect to the server http://localhost:1 Does anyone have any ideas ? BTW. I do have Webmin up and running on SuSE 7, but I am new to Mandrake and don't know the ins and outs yet. Phil.
[newbie] Removal
Please remove my Email address from your future messages and emailings. [EMAIL PROTECTED] you, Bill Crowell
Re: [newbie] Virus infection
Almost, I had been sent an email which had a virus file attached to my hotmail account. I didn't open the attachment, for many reasons including the fact that the message had no headers what so ever, i suspect because hotmails virus scanner detected the virus (reason number 2). So i haven;t been infected, i was just wondering if anyone here had been infected and was the person who had (inadvertantly) sent me the message Jamie From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus infection Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:00:50 -0400 (EDT) UmDan? there wasn't any attachment to that message. at least none that I received. fortunately windows does not live at this address either, but I think you grossly misunderstood this poor soul. I think all he wanted to do was warn everyone that he'd been infected in case anyone received something they didn't want. -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :) On Mon, 21 May 2001, Lanman wrote: Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus infection Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:36:24 -0400 From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 21 May 2001 7:53, you wrote: Sorry for the mass email, i received an email today with the file NNKGBENN.EXE attached. This contains the virus W32/Hybris.gen@MM however. I am unable to tell who propagated the virus as there is no sender information for the email. because of this i am sending this email out to anyone i think may have this email address just incase _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Perhaps I've misunderstood, but you're attempting to send a virus back from whence it came, by sending it to everyone that you think may have sent it?? If that's the case, you've just managed to send it to thousands of people on the Mandrake list you idiot ! Many of these people still use some version of Windows, and may inadvertantly infect their computers ! What will you be doing tomorrow? Taking a loaded gun to school ? Of course, if I'm wrong about this, I apologise, but I received the virus file my self. Fortunately, Windows doesn't live here. Perhaps a conventional email WARNING everyone would have sufficed ?? -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd. Registered Linux User # 190712 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] Adventure--Linux version
Does anyone know where to find a Linux version (preferably binaries) of the classic text-based game Adventure? I've found sites with DOS binaries and C or Fortran code but no Linux binaries. Thanks. Jeff
Re: [newbie] Voodoo on amd kapm idled
s, Thanks for posting this information -- could you clarify a few things just for my edification: 1. Do you know what motherboard he is using? 2. Is performance really significantly worse than your Intel machines or are you basing performance just on the CPU usage (with kapm)? 3. It sounds like you are not using Mandrake 8.0, based on my inference that you have not seen the kapm idle thing on your machines? 4. If you are using Mandrake 8.0, would you post the relevant specs on one of your machines so we have a basis for comparison (CPU, clock speed, RAM (amount, type, speed), HD (size, RPM, MB/sec (if available). Thanks very much for any clarification you can offer. Randy Kramer s wrote: Hi all, I just installed 8.0 on a die-hard windows user's machine, and it didn't make a very good show. This machine has the same voodoo card as in one of mine (voodoo3 2000), and tho mine's 3d performance is lacking, his is non-existant. The installer installed XFree86-3.3.6 by default without asking (tho in expert mode), so after boot I found out why. I went into display to set it up, I was finally given the choice of 4.0.3, but not 'with acceration'. I chose 4.0.3 anyway, and then it wouldn't boot into X. Without gaming support, we're gonna lose him. Also, I finally know what some people are saying about poor performance. 8.0 runs good my three intel machines, but his amd k-2 450 is sad - most of the time. I did the hdparm thing and raised that performance a little, however this kapm-idle thing in top is showing over 50% of the cpu being used up by something, when nothing extraneous is open or running. Made sure no servers or unnecessary processes were running (as I always do). Sometimes it goes back down to 0% like mine always show, but most of the time something is going on. Any advise/info would as always be appreciated. -s As said, its has an amdk-2 450 with 192Mb100m ram, 256 swap, seagate 5200rpm 17gig hdd with 4 given to LM, voodoo3 2000, onboard sound (that comes and goes, sis on-board video (that's supposed to be disabled, yet shows up - but is not configured). Phillips something cdburner. Nothing special about install - not recompiled.
Re: [newbie] Problem Starting Mandrake 8.0, bad unregister
On Wed, 23 May 2001 09:56, Hans N. wrote: To wrap things up, usb devices aren't too welcome around these here Linux parts. Hope this helps someone. I have a question but I'll post it in a different e-mail and after some reading. Hans, I have just got my USB Logitech Quickcam Express to work on Mandrake 8. I didn't have any of those horrible problems, just a lot of incompetence and not knowing what the right drivers and apps were. I use mod_quickcam.o and gqcam. John
[newbie] System startup
How can I disable the graphical startup system in the configuration files. Sometimes I need to see what is happening. thanks Phil.
[newbie] Disable X at start
How can I stop the automatic startup for X at startup. Regards Phil.
Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8
Civileme: If you ever felt the need to post the results of these tests on a webpage somewhere, that would be really cool. I'd really enjoy being able to browse the database of hard drives/controllers and see their performance. That's probably a hefty project, though. :( --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 12:56, Todd Flinders wrote: Yes, I'm especially interested in Civileme's tool he's working on to install a Maxtor controller card. I wonder if I should get that for RAID 0 instead of the 3ware. 3ware has good support, but only goes up to ATA 66. How important is ATA 100 anyway for RAID 0??? Should I even be concerned about that. I'm think that because I have 2 ATA 100 HDs (IBMs), that it would be a waste to get the 66 controller. Am I just being foolish? Is the 66 fine? My tests on ATA/66 and ATA/100 don't give you much to choose. the hdparm 64M read test seems to peak at slightly under 32 Mb/s for 66 and might go as high as 35Mb/s for ATA100. Both basically transfer data faster than it can spin onto or off the disk itself. My disk optimizer, which is based on a database, searches for a saddle-point where speed retuns diminish and noise immunity drops. The big surprise is that over half the ATA/100 setups I have tested end up with an ATA/66 setting from the optimizer, and most of those actually run faster at 66 (no repeats for channel noise problems). You actually do not need my tool to install using the cheap Maxtor card--it just eliminates a complicated series of steps that are a pain in the ass for experts and probably smoke and mirrors for newbies. Civileme --- Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let us know as soon as you have the disk optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard drive and I'm not getting the performance I should from it yet. TC --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 08:01, Irv wrote: From: Pelle Poluha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 Hello! I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability but at the same time I want speed and a practical UI (read GUI). I need a smooth file manager, easy access to OS, an editor, browser, email client (the usual I guess) and a C++ Java IDE. That you'll have - but not with KDE 2, I'm afraid. Even people with 1ghz / 256 mb machines have reported slowness. My 300mhz / 128 meg pc is too slow to be usable, but not quite as slow as you report - usually KDE takes 30-40 seconds, and new apps or windows 10 - 20 seconds. The good news is that KDE 1.x works just fine. Try an older version of Mandrake or SuSE or RedHat. They're all plenty fast. Regards, Irv I opted for Mandrake because I've heard a lot of good things about it. So I downloaded 8.0 last week and eagerly installed it on my AMD K333 machine (96 mb, Riva TNT) on a 2 gig partition. As I've followed the development of KDE with great interest, I chose KDE as default windows manager (and it has KDevelop). But it's really slow. Just loading Mandrake takes like 3-4 minutes. Some of it, I can understand. In the installation process, I included lots of apps and some of them gets loaded when Mandrake starts (like MySql and postgres, probably some more servers). But that surely doesn't account for the immensly slow loading of the OS. And then I start KDE... It takes another 2-3 minutes. And using it is awful. Loading a simple app might take 10-20 secs and everything just crawls. I === message truncated === __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Page cannot be displayed
Hi, I am a dial up user, pages in the web browser could not be displayed. DNS error. I have no problem connecting to my isp. I change the proxy to ip address. I can surf the net, but cannot do a domain ping. Error unknown host I added the dns in the setup for the account in Kppp, is there any other ways to resolve this? How can i make use of the DNS on my isp? Cheers __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Problems with RPM
Thanks for the help Mike, but that didn't help me either. Sure wish I knew what the problem was. Would really hate to reinstall LM yet again on this machine to fix it. Terry On Tuesday 22 May 2001 18:56, you wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 09:07, you wrote: I had the same problem with Software Manager telling me things were already installed and I tried the rpm --rebuilddb with no luck then I tried rpm --rebuilddb then ran updatedb right after and went back to Software Manager and it worked again. Dont know why but it worked for me try it and see if it helps. I ran them in console not from KDE or Gnome. Good luck. Thanks for the answers, but I have tried those, and they still don't have any effect on Software Manager. Things work just fine at the command line, just not in Software Manager. If I try to use rpm -e packagename from the command line, it just tells me that the package is not installed on this system. Software Manager is being very peculiar. Anyone else come across this sort of problem? Terry On Tuesday 22 May 2001 16:38, you wrote: first use rpm --rebuilddb then if you still have a report that packages are installed, try rpm -e packagename for each one and then use the software manager. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Free86 key sequences
The console terminals are: Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6] The X sessions are: Ctrl+Alt+F[7-12] The default session (the one most everyone sees is Ctrl+Alt+F7 Yes, you can run more than one X session at a time. Ric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When breaking out of X to go to another virtual terminal (using Ctrl+Alt+Fxx), how do you bring X back up? I noticed that doing this doesn't kill X like doing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, so I would think that there would be a way to get back in. When looking at the man page, I didn't see a key sequence for this. -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __
[newbie] firewall setup
Hi, everybody. I would like to set up a heterogenous home LAN using a Mandrake 8 desktop computer (with 2 NICs) as a firewall/router/connection to the internet(and normal workstation when needed), with one win98/mandrake8 laptop and one MacOS9/Suse7.1ppc desktop as peers to each other, connecting to the internet through the Mandrake 8 desktop and able to communicate to each other freely. Can anyone help me on how to begin this project? I am very new to networking, and am not sure how to setup a firewall/router, (or even the presice terms to describe what I'm doing). I would appreciate any help you can give me both in terms of pointing me towards available material and helping explain to me in simple terms what's involved. I figure the process should go in 4 simple? steps. -Setting up the router/workstation to work with 2 NICs and properly connect to the internet. -Set up the abovecomputer as a gateway/firewall to the other two computers -set up the other two systems to connect to the internet through the gateway, then to each other (in Linux) -set up the other two systems to connect to the internet through the gateway, then to each other (in their respective dual-boot environments) I can't stress how much of a newbie I am with this, and I very much appreciate your help. Thank you. -Paul R
Re: [newbie] CD Writer
Um...what? Unless Yamaha has a brand spanking new burner, it is NOT an OEM of a plextor. Yamaha does not have burn proof technology like the Plextor does. And it's latest model is reported to be unstable. Also most of the Yamaha drivers are not supported by the CloneCD software while Plextor is. I strongly believe they are two very different drives. Incidentally, I own a Yamaha and I do not recommend it. It's certainly not the worst drive on the market, but you can get much better for about the same price. Plextor or TDK is the way to go. Plextor is probably the safest for Linux. I haven't heard anything from anyone using a TDK in Linux. --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Tue, 22 May 2001 15:21:23 -0700 (PDT) when Todd Flinders wrote: Plextor and TDK's are rated as the best in the Windows' world. I haven't personally tested them in Linux, but when this was discussed before, someone said they were successfully using a Plextor. In a linux hardware newsgroup I heard good things about Plextor. You can also try a Yamaha, which is OEM of the Plextor, but I was told to better go for the Plextor since it is most reliable. Also a bit more expensive though. Paul -- Bowie's Theorem: If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] CD Writer
I have the Yamaha (internal SCSI version), and am very happy with it. It's been solid, and reliable since I installed it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Matshita CDRW 7585, works good, no problems so far. I have a Creative Labs 4224E. Old and slow but it works. I would recomend you to check the supported hardware list on LM web page. TezcatlipocA On Monday 21 May 2001 12:34, you wrote: Hi, I am going to buy a cd writer soonand I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions or good experiences to share? Thanks, Jord -- __ Ric Tibbetts Boeing Shared Services Group UNIX System Administration Seattle Server Operations __
[newbie] mandrake security question
Hi all! I've got my mandrake security box up and running... All is well, except for the few services that I want to make available to the outside world. I have the firewall configured to pass http traffic through to the internal ip address of our web server. 192.168.1.26 So, when I try and load this page from outside the firewall, do I need to try and connect to the ip address of the firewall machine's external interface? I've been trying this with no luck... I can see the web pages from the internal side, but not from the outside. Any tips would be greatly appreciated! BTW... mandrake security rocks! -e-
Re: [newbie] lame -mp3encoder
[kheb@dors doc]$ lame -v LAME version 3.87 (beta 1, Feb 14 2001)(http://www.mp3dev.org) On Sat, 19 May 2001 06:15:48 +, bascule said: anyone managed to install this? what version are people using? i grabbed the latest version lame-3.88-1 but dependencies require a file from a version of ncurses that conflicts with the ncurses installed by lm8 which would be okay as i could upgrade but also conflicts with libcurses at which point it's all getting too complicated, all for one file in the ncurses-5.2-3,i586.rpm, a version of which doesn't appear anywhere on my system, i'm sure there must be a way to extract just one file from an rpm? but more importantly how would i know where to put it? bascule _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] CD Writer
I have a HP usb burner which definatly works in IDE mode, (ie if you take it out of the usb case and put it in your linux box) and apparently it works via usb as well, (found a site on linux and usb and it said it was a working Burner.) I have found the HP to be an exceptional burner.. good quality and don't think I have ever made a coaster with this one... regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Flinders Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2001 1:21 AM To: Paul; newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] CD Writer Um...what? Unless Yamaha has a brand spanking new burner, it is NOT an OEM of a plextor. Yamaha does not have burn proof technology like the Plextor does. And it's latest model is reported to be unstable. Also most of the Yamaha drivers are not supported by the CloneCD software while Plextor is. I strongly believe they are two very different drives. Incidentally, I own a Yamaha and I do not recommend it. It's certainly not the worst drive on the market, but you can get much better for about the same price. Plextor or TDK is the way to go. Plextor is probably the safest for Linux. I haven't heard anything from anyone using a TDK in Linux. --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Tue, 22 May 2001 15:21:23 -0700 (PDT) when Todd Flinders wrote: Plextor and TDK's are rated as the best in the Windows' world. I haven't personally tested them in Linux, but when this was discussed before, someone said they were successfully using a Plextor. In a linux hardware newsgroup I heard good things about Plextor. You can also try a Yamaha, which is OEM of the Plextor, but I was told to better go for the Plextor since it is most reliable. Also a bit more expensive though. Paul -- Bowie's Theorem: If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] XFREE86 and CL 5446
I installed Mandrake 8 without any problems except that my video is funny under KDE and GNOME. I went to the xfree86.org site and found that my video card, a Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI, is supported. Whenever I start up KDE I have problems with Mouse Tracks. If I click on the screen it will become corrupted/duplicated. I've tried at various resolutions and numbers of colours but the problem persists. I have the same problem at 640x480 with 16 colours as I do with 800x600 and 24 bit colour. I've been reading this list for several weeks now and haven't noticed anyone else with a similar problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. ...Dave
[newbie] Why bootup shows L 02 02 02....?
Hi Linux users, I finally took the plunge into v8.0 yesterday evening (upgraded from v7.2). However, after the smooth installation, I almost got a heart attack when LILO showed L 02 02 02 02 02 02 02. to infinity. Has anyone else got this problem? I assume not, since I didn't find any L 02 problem in the archive. Can someone tell me how to solve this problem? Any ideas will be appreciated. Thank you. -- Cheers, Viboon
[newbie] Marketing Suggestions for Mandrake Soft
Does any one have an email address for marketing or sales at Mandrake Soft? Roman
[newbie] orinoco wireless cards
does anyone have any tips or tricks to get this card to work. its in a pentium class machine with 64mb of ram running mandrake 8. it is a pcmcia card with a isa adapter. any help would be good thanks James Massardo
Re: [newbie] Page cannot be displayed
Goh I am a dial up user, pages in the web browser could not be Goh displayed. DNS error. Goh I have no problem connecting to my isp. Goh I change the proxy to ip address. I can surf the net, but cannot do Goh a domain ping. Error unknown host I would check two things: 1. See what /etc/resolv.conf looks like. It should either have valid IP addresses in the nameserver line, eg: nameserver 199.249.165.175 or an all-zeroes line: nameserver 0.0.0.0 The all-zeroes line tells the resolver library to contact the name server running on the local machine. You can have multiple (up to three I think) nameserver lines. If your ISP uses DHCP, your machine will probably generate a new /etc/resolv.conf file each time you connect. 2. If /etc/resolv.conf contains an all-zeroes line, check that named is running and properly configured. For a dialup machine, you should be running a caching only name server. It will get all information from remote servers, then cache it to avoid further lookups over the slow dialup connection. The configuration file is in /etc/named.conf. I am not running named, but I have fast connections to the net. It may be that named isn't started by default in Mandrake. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
Re: [newbie] Problems with RPM
I've had exactly the same problems (LM 8.0 GPL distro from Cheap Bytes), except I can't even do a successful direct 'rpm' from the console unless I've just rebuilt the database. What I ended up doing last night is use the disks to do an 'update' installation, selecting, at the 'individual package' level, a few things that hadn't been installed on my initial complete installation. Seemed to work fine. Terry Smith (the other Terry:-) Woods Hole, MA Terry wrote: Thanks for the help Mike, but that didn't help me either. Sure wish I knew what the problem was. Would really hate to reinstall LM yet again on this machine to fix it. Terry On Tuesday 22 May 2001 18:56, you wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 09:07, you wrote: I had the same problem with Software Manager telling me things were already installed and I tried the rpm --rebuilddb with no luck then I tried rpm --rebuilddb then ran updatedb right after and went back to Software Manager and it worked again. Dont know why but it worked for me try it and see if it helps. I ran them in console not from KDE or Gnome. Good luck. Thanks for the answers, but I have tried those, and they still don't have any effect on Software Manager. Things work just fine at the command line, just not in Software Manager. If I try to use rpm -e packagename from the command line, it just tells me that the package is not installed on this system. Software Manager is being very peculiar. Anyone else come across this sort of problem? Terry On Tuesday 22 May 2001 16:38, you wrote: first use rpm --rebuilddb then if you still have a report that packages are installed, try rpm -e packagename for each one and then use the software manager. Civileme
RE: [newbie] mandrake security question
hi depends how you have it set up.. I did something similiar... I have several internal servers, and they use the 192.168 range of internal ip's I wanted to make port 80 on one of them visable as port 80 on the external systems IP. so, I downloaded ipmasqadm rpm from rpmfind.net (couldn't get a MDK one, so I just chose the newest src version from another distro and rebuilt it. Then installed the resultant binary rpm.) Oncee that was installed, it was simply a matter of adding some rules to the end of my ipchains rules... (lacking that you can add it to the end of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file (make sure it is executable before you leave) anyway, here are some example rules for you.. # First Clear the forwarding Rules ipmasqadm portfw -f # Second we add a portforward rule for Port 80. #ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $OUTERIP 80 -R $EZEPAY 80 # Now we do the same for SSL. ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $OUTERIP 443 -R $EZEPAY 443 $OUTERIP has been predefined as the IP address of the external machine. $EZEPAY was predefined as the internal ip of the internal server.. So you can replace the variables with the actual IP's without any hassle. I made the ports the same, but there is nothing from stopping you sending it to a different port... ie port 80 internal to port X on the external machine... It was surprisingly easy to do... I have it tested and working using the above rules right now. If you want the copy of ipmasqadm I used, let me know,, I have it rebuilt for i686 on mdk 7.2... if you have the same, then great, if not, I can email you the src rpm, which you put on your linux box and type: rpm --rebuild It will tick away for a while and then a new rpm will miracously appear in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/iX86 where ixxx is the type of system you have, if its a 486, you will find the file in i486 if its a pentium, i586, PII is i686 etc. the rpm will be called ipmasqadm0.4.2-4.ix86.rpm just install that like normal with rpm -ivh ipmasq. then put in the rules and start them... easy as,, you will then have transparent port forwarding... works great, I wish someone would have told me to do this a week ago,, took me alot of research to find the best method... Actually, I will attach the file to rebuild, so if you want it you don't have to ask again... good luck, let me know how you go. regards frank Perth WA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Colmar Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2001 1:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mandrake security question Hi all! I've got my mandrake security box up and running... All is well, except for the few services that I want to make available to the outside world. I have the firewall configured to pass http traffic through to the internal ip address of our web server. 192.168.1.26 So, when I try and load this page from outside the firewall, do I need to try and connect to the ip address of the firewall machine's external interface? I've been trying this with no luck... I can see the web pages from the internal side, but not from the outside. Any tips would be greatly appreciated! BTW... mandrake security rocks! -e- ipmasqadm-0.4.2-4.src.rpm
Re: [newbie] Voodoo on amd kapm idled
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 07:14 am, you wrote: s, Thanks for posting this information -- could you clarify a few things just for my edification: 1. Do you know what motherboard he is using? No, we can't id it, nor find the manual. It does have a sis530 chipset. 2. Is performance really significantly worse than your Intel machines or are you basing performance just on the CPU usage (with kapm)? I'm basing it primarily on it taking konqueror or the control center or anything ~20-30 seconds to open, and if restoring from minimized it takes 8 - 10 seconds to repaint the widgets. That's what prompted me to look at top and try to see if I could ascertain what was wrong. And that with the kapm-idle showing 50 - 60% cpu used up. When kapm-idled is on 0%, it does better. However, it's rarely on 0%. I had run 8.0 on a Celeron 433 with hardly any noticeable performance difference from my PIII 733. 3. It sounds like you are not using Mandrake 8.0, based on my inference that you have not seen the kapm idle thing on your machines? I'm using 8.0 on all of them. I've seen it on mine, but it's always way down the list and says 0% cpu usage. And mine always has setiathome (with ksetiwatch), korn and a terminal open, and commonly kmail, konqueror and knode all running at the same time. And I just fly along - can even open gltron in addition with no noticable performance hit. 4. If you are using Mandrake 8.0, would you post the relevant specs on one of your machines so we have a basis for comparison (CPU, clock speed, RAM (amount, type, speed), HD (size, RPM, MB/sec (if available). Mine1(main): PIII 733 with 133 bus speed, with Crucial 256M 133 ram (215 swap), Abit SE6 mobo (with intel 815 chipset), two hdd - main Maxtor 7200rpm 20gig ~24 mb/s. (other rarely used-storage only) Mine2: PIII 667 w/133 bus, Crucial 512M 133 ram (313 swap), Biostar M6VCG with VIA 82C686A chipset, Maxtor 10gig 5200 rpm ~14 MB/sec. Mine2: Celeron 433 w/66 bus, crucial 128mb 100 ram (at 66) (256 swap), unided mobo (a Florida or something, it's an emachine), samsung 10 gig 5200rpm hdd. All these do fine. Of course the celery is a little slower, but not much. 2 or 3 extra seconds to open an app. Takes the other two like 3 - 5 seconds to open something like netscape, his (the amd) takes like ~30 seconds to open netscape if that kapm-idled thing is showing 50% used, if it's not, it takes netscape an acceptable 7 - 9. His: AMDK-2 450, 192mb 100 ram, unided mobo with sis chip AmericanTrends Bios (might be hint), Seagate (assuming 5200rpm) 17 gig hdd, ~5MB/sec with kapm-idled showing 50% cpu usage, about ~14mb/s when not. (Bearing in mind that the former occurs 99% of the time.) By the way, it may not be relevant, but his is quite speedy in windows. That's why I thought it would smoke with Mandrake. Thanks very much for any clarification you can offer. Randy Kramer My non-technical hypothesis: this kapm-idled is supposed to be a little app to report cpu usage, done so by fooling the cpu into thinking some little thing else is running so kapm idled can get a measurement of what is free. But this kapm idled is faulty, and actually does eat up the cpu cycles in some configurations. Questions to ponder: I wonder if a large percentage of people having performance issues are using amd products, or sis products? What could be the common denominator? Any why is this kapm-idled commonly involved? Why do people think it is kapm idled that is eating their cpu cycles? s wrote: Hi all, I just installed 8.0 on a die-hard windows user's machine, and it didn't make a very good show. This machine has the same voodoo card as in one of mine (voodoo3 2000), and tho mine's 3d performance is lacking, his is non-existant. The installer installed XFree86-3.3.6 by default without asking (tho in expert mode), so after boot I found out why. I went into display to set it up, I was finally given the choice of 4.0.3, but not 'with acceration'. I chose 4.0.3 anyway, and then it wouldn't boot into X. Without gaming support, we're gonna lose him. Also, I finally know what some people are saying about poor performance. 8.0 runs good my three intel machines, but his amd k-2 450 is sad - most of the time. I did the hdparm thing and raised that performance a little, however this kapm-idle thing in top is showing over 50% of the cpu being used up by something, when nothing extraneous is open or running. Made sure no servers or unnecessary processes were running (as I always do). Sometimes it goes back down to 0% like mine always show, but most of the time something is going on. Any advise/info would as always be appreciated. -s As said, its has an amdk-2 450 with 192Mb100m ram, 256 swap, seagate 5200rpm 17gig hdd with 4 given to LM, voodoo3 2000, onboard sound (that comes and goes, sis on-board video (that's supposed to be disabled, yet
Re: [newbie] Disable X at start
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 11:01, you wrote: Phil How can I stop the automatic startup for X at startup. Change /etc/inittab to have this as the first non-blank/non-comment line: id:3:initdefault: I'm sure there's some way to do it via a graphical interface but I'm not as astute with that stuff as with the old-school way of doing things... If you're trying to install video card drivers or whatever, this is a little less scarey for the average newbie, although knowing your way around /etc/inittab is desirable in the long run of course. Go logout - shutdown - console mode 'startx' gets you back into x, and from the console 'poweroff' shuts your machine down, if you're setup to boot into x. When you next boot, everything should be back to as it was before, unless you've completely stuffed it up in the meantime, of course! ;o) Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Disable X at start
Phil Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I stop the automatic startup for X at startup. Regards Phil. Edit your /etc/inittab Change run leverl 5 to 3: id:3:initdefault 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://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] System startup
The easiest way is to go into your Mandrake Control Center, under Boot configuration and uncheck 'start aurora at boot'. And If you go into advanced, you can change the lilac lilo menu to the old comfortable txt menu. -s On Wednesday 23 May 2001 08:22 am, you wrote: How can I disable the graphical startup system in the configuration files. Sometimes I need to see what is happening. thanks Phil.
Re: [newbie] XFREE86 and CL 5446
i have the same problem but i dont know what to do to fix it. if you find out please let me know james - Original Message - From: Dave DeGear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:33 PM Subject: [newbie] XFREE86 and CL 5446 I installed Mandrake 8 without any problems except that my video is funny under KDE and GNOME. I went to the xfree86.org site and found that my video card, a Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI, is supported. Whenever I start up KDE I have problems with Mouse Tracks. If I click on the screen it will become corrupted/duplicated. I've tried at various resolutions and numbers of colours but the problem persists. I have the same problem at 640x480 with 16 colours as I do with 800x600 and 24 bit colour. I've been reading this list for several weeks now and haven't noticed anyone else with a similar problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. ...Dave
[newbie]printing with Cups in LM8 again
Dear All, My Epson Stylus color printer does not work at all now. I installed the new cups , I did a test page which printed but had alot of bands with the black white print. I was able to finally use the calibration for Epson but I cannot print anything other than test pages and calibrations pages.When I try to print from any application it just eternally runs through paper not printing at all. When I tried to cancel through the terminal, it will not cancel my jobs. I looked into my files and there is the cups 1.1.7 installed but there is an alternative file with a file for lpc, lp, lpr, etc. I checked the /etc/printcap file and it has lp: and nothing else. Does anyone have any ideas? I had great printing in 7 and 7.2 and do have it with my WIN98 on my laptop. I am really confused about this. Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Marcia
[newbie] Some queries about Linux on Macintosh
Hi, Sorry to trouble the mailing list, but I have a few issues that I would like to know: Firstly, is there any Linux-Mandrake distro for Macintosh? Secondly, anybody knows where can I get some good information about Linux on Mac? Third lastly, say I have installed a Linux distro in Macintosh, can I still use Redhat RPM for x86 or I can only use RPM for ppc? Thanks for your help, Aaron
Re: [newbie] Funky fonts back to normal in 8.0
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 22:57, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, I installed all the fonts I could find. And, voila! The web pages look normal again. Lucida Console looks kinda nice. Thanks all that helped. Roman How does one install fonts from Windows or Linux in LM8? Thanks. -- Marcia Waller
RE: [newbie] Why bootup shows L 02 02 02....?
I am having a similar problem. Using Boot Magic I requested to boot from / partition. When Linux is selected I to L 40 40 40 etc. I saw at least one other problem like this in the expert list but no answer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Viboon Chaojirapant Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 2:38 AM To: Linux Newbie Subject: [newbie] Why bootup shows L 02 02 02? Hi Linux users, I finally took the plunge into v8.0 yesterday evening (upgraded from v7.2). However, after the smooth installation, I almost got a heart attack when LILO showed L 02 02 02 02 02 02 02. to infinity. Has anyone else got this problem? I assume not, since I didn't find any L 02 problem in the archive. Can someone tell me how to solve this problem? Any ideas will be appreciated. Thank you. -- Cheers, Viboon
[newbie] konsole text color
in mandrake 7.2 and up, i set up konsole so that it shows my background (the transparent setting) but i want to set my font to a lighter color. How do I do so?
[newbie]printing with Cups in LM8 again
Dear All, I am sending this again since I sent it hours ago and it never showed up on the list it seems. My Epson Stylus color printer does not work at all now. I installed the new cups , I did a test page which printed but had alot of bands with the black white print. I was able to finally use the calibration for Epson but I cannot print anything other than test pages and calibrations pages.When I try to print from any application it just eternally runs through paper not printing at all. When I tried to cancel through the terminal, it will not cancel my jobs. I looked into my files and there is the cups 1.1.7 installed but there is an alternative file with a file for lpc, lp, lpr, etc. I checked the /etc/printcap file and it has lp: and nothing else. Does anyone have any ideas? I had great printing in 7 and 7.2 and do have it with my WIN98 on my laptop. I am really confused about this. Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Marcia --- -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie] CD Writer
Alright I hesitated jumping in here with all the plextor people, but wth. I have a samsung SW-212 12-8-32 and it worked in Mandrake out of the box. I don't think I even had to fix the links. It burns good and also haven't made a coaster yet. I've only used it at 8x tho. I paid like $110 for it, but I see it around at places/sites for $100. It came with some windows software, but I don't know what. It has an 8 mg buffer. -s On Wednesday 23 May 2001 12:58 pm, you wrote: I have a HP usb burner which definatly works in IDE mode, (ie if you take it out of the usb case and put it in your linux box) and apparently it works via usb as well, (found a site on linux and usb and it said it was a working Burner.) I have found the HP to be an exceptional burner.. good quality and don't think I have ever made a coaster with this one... regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Flinders Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2001 1:21 AM To: Paul; newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] CD Writer Um...what? Unless Yamaha has a brand spanking new burner, it is NOT an OEM of a plextor. Yamaha does not have burn proof technology like the Plextor does. And it's latest model is reported to be unstable. Also most of the Yamaha drivers are not supported by the CloneCD software while Plextor is. I strongly believe they are two very different drives. Incidentally, I own a Yamaha and I do not recommend it. It's certainly not the worst drive on the market, but you can get much better for about the same price. Plextor or TDK is the way to go. Plextor is probably the safest for Linux. I haven't heard anything from anyone using a TDK in Linux. --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Tue, 22 May 2001 15:21:23 -0700 (PDT) when Todd Flinders wrote: Plextor and TDK's are rated as the best in the Windows' world. I haven't personally tested them in Linux, but when this was discussed before, someone said they were successfully using a Plextor. In a linux hardware newsgroup I heard good things about Plextor. You can also try a Yamaha, which is OEM of the Plextor, but I was told to better go for the Plextor since it is most reliable. Also a bit more expensive though. Paul -- Bowie's Theorem: If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] firewall setup
I tried that route, but didn't have much luck. It seemed to want to be a bridge for ethernet with only connection capablities for 56k dial up. Is this correct or did I misunderstand/ do something wrong? -s On Wednesday 23 May 2001 01:14 pm, you wrote: a realy good firewall/dhcp/proxy server can be found at http://www.freesco.org i run it on an old 486 and it runs off one floppy disk
[newbie] netscape + mousewheel
hiya i be using manrdake 8 i have my silly little mousewheel to work for everything except netscape. help -- +- + Jeffrey M. Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508)792-6070 +-
Re: [newbie] firewall setup
Well, the connection, firewall, and ipmasq in pretty easy in 8.0. I can't help with the samba cause we don't really want ours to communicate to each other. But with the prior, if you are doing a fresh install, choose set up lan and put in your ips for each of your machines and a submask. Then once you boot. Uninstall mdk rp-pppoe and Install rp-pppoe 3.0 (I think it is, their latest) cause I still haven't any luck with mdk version. Go into Mandrake Control Center under connection sharing and fill in the few blanks/questions. Go into the firewall part and answer the few questions. Then in a terminal type: adsl-setup. Answer the few questions. Type adsl-start and you should all be on the internet. These are the basic steps and easier said than done. If you need more help, the list is here. You may have to check around the internet for info on samba. -s On Wednesday 23 May 2001 12:45 pm, you wrote: Hi, everybody. I would like to set up a heterogenous home LAN using a Mandrake 8 desktop computer (with 2 NICs) as a firewall/router/connection to the internet (and normal workstation when needed), with one win98/mandrake8 laptop and one MacOS9/Suse7.1ppc desktop as peers to each other, connecting to the internet through the Mandrake 8 desktop and able to communicate to each other freely. Can anyone help me on how to begin this project? I am very new to networking, and am not sure how to setup a firewall/router, (or even the presice terms to describe what I'm doing). I would appreciate any help you can give me both in terms of pointing me towards available material and helping explain to me in simple terms what's involved. I figure the process should go in 4 simple? steps. -Setting up the router/workstation to work with 2 NICs and properly connect to the internet. -Set up the above computer as a gateway/firewall to the other two computers -set up the other two systems to connect to the internet through the gateway, then to each other (in Linux) -set up the other two systems to connect to the internet through the gateway, then to each other (in their respective dual-boot environments) I can't stress how much of a newbie I am with this, and I very much appreciate your help. Thank you. -Paul R Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 14:09, Chales A. Punch wrote about Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem that ... Charles Wackerman wrote: I used a version of WP 8 that came free with the purchase of a book (the Wordperfect Bible). It worked fine in 7.1, but in 7.2 I had a similar experience to yours i.e, it would not install. I thought it was becuase My version came from CheapBytes' Applications CDRom and it installed and works fine on 7.2. Will it work in 8.0? I'll be able to tell you by Sunday! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC
Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 07:09 am, you wrote: Charles Wackerman wrote: I recently bought a copy of Corel's WordPerfect 8 for Linux. I am using Mandrake 7.2 OS. On three different occasions I have followed the instructions printed in the QuickStart install guide and on all three occasions I have been unable to install -- I get a message intiger expression expected followed by Graphic Install Device failed, followed by a long list of files that are either unavailable or won't install. My nephew tried the disk on his (bite my tongue) Red Hat system and it installed with no problem, but I simply cannot get it to work for me. Has anyone else out there had a similar problem? I used a version of WP 8 that came free with the purchase of a book (the Wordperfect Bible). It worked fine in 7.1, but in 7.2 I had a similar experience to yours i.e, it would not install. I thought it was becuase the version I had was not complete, but evidently there is more to it than that. If you find out any workaround or solution, please let me know. I will do the same. ShalomOut Chal Yah Shua Messiach is Sovereign Shalom Dudes, install libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm and :-) -s
Re: [newbie] orinoco wireless cards
James does anyone have any tips or tricks to get this card to work. James its in a pentium class machine with 64mb of ram running mandrake James 8. it is a pcmcia card with a isa adapter. I'm struggling at the moment with an orinoco as well (though without the isa adaptor). Check the wireless mailing list archives: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/ for discussion about such things on a list more focused on wireless networking. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
Re: [newbie] Some queries about Linux on Macintosh
check out Yellow Dog for Mac bub. i've used it before and it was pretty cool. unfortunantely, i didn't get to install anything on it since it was a work machine. i'm pretty sure the standard install (rpm) should work for almost any distrib of linux...with the exceptional few like Debian (which, by the way, is VERY cool) good luck and remember, the only TROUBLE you're making for the list is not asking questions. that's what it's here for man..silly questions or not. On Wednesday 23 May 2001 14:46, AKC Chu wrote: Hi, Sorry to trouble the mailing list, but I have a few issues that I would like to know: Firstly, is there any Linux-Mandrake distro for Macintosh? Secondly, anybody knows where can I get some good information about Linux on Mac? Third lastly, say I have installed a Linux distro in Macintosh, can I still use Redhat RPM for x86 or I can only use RPM for ppc? Thanks for your help, Aaron -- +- + Jeffrey M. Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508)792-6070 +-
[newbie] OT: Intel Performance
I thought this was interesting. I have an older 400 PII, and a newer 650 PIII (laptop). Using Setiathome as a performance curve to compare by, there is something amiss with PIII processors. My 400 PII will complete a set of Seti data is an average of 8 hours (my dual 266 PII will complete one set every eight hours, per CPU, so it pumps out 2 in 8 hours). The PIII takes 50 hours! per set. Just a data point. The PIII is a laptop, on a different OS. But if I boot my 400 PII in that OS, it will still complete them in 8 hours, vs. 50 on the PIII I find this very interesting. While the PIII shows some performance abilities that the PII does not (it multi-tasks better, and smoother), there are some things that the PIII seems to just suck at! What's just as interesting is that it's not consistant. There are similar machines areound me here at work. Some scream, some crawl. All with similar set ups. It has me wondering if Intel has a QA problem? This could be an indication of why some people are reporting performace problems with Mandrake 8.0 / KDE, and others are not. Just a thought. :) Ric
[newbie] looking to buy new hd, size an issue?
I going to buy a larger hard drive. I was looking at a 75Gb drive. Maybe half shared with Windows. Do I need to worry about having partitions that are too large? What is a reasonable limit? I'll probably be running ReisserFS on them. Thanks. -Paul R _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] mount win files
kaab kaoutar wrote: By the way how to unmount :() umount /mnt I mean if i delete the mounted files does it delete from windws ? :( Yes it will! Don't do that!
[newbie] windows partition install
A friend of mine is trying to install Mandrake lunux 8.0 on his computer and clicks on install on the windows partition and he keeps getting a Disk is too fragged error. I have mandrake on its own HD so I don't know what to tell him as to what to do besides get a new HD..any ideas??? Walt
Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem
Michel Clasquin wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 14:09, Chales A. Punch wrote about Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 install problem that ... Charles Wackerman wrote: I used a version of WP 8 that came free with the purchase of a book (the Wordperfect Bible). It worked fine in 7.1, but in 7.2 I had a similar experience to yours i.e, it would not install. I thought it was becuase My version came from CheapBytes' Applications CDRom and it installed and works fine on 7.2. Will it work in 8.0? I'll be able to tell you by Sunday! Thanx in advance for the info, I appreciate it. I finally have enough ram to run Star Office (512mb) but I really miss the fonts in wp8. ShalomOut Chal Yah Shua Messiach is Sovereign Shalom
Re: [newbie] konsole text color
In Konsole right click and go to Schema then choose your desired colors; then right click again and save. On Wednesday 23 May 2001 17:27, you wrote: in mandrake 7.2 and up, i set up konsole so that it shows my background (the transparent setting) but i want to set my font to a lighter color. How do I do so?
[newbie] Do you have trash can that never empties
HI everybody, I have noticed an odd anomaly with the Trash Bin. Once in a while you will notice that the Trash Bin will NOT empty. In my case, I found a hidden folder and .directory file inside. I manually deleted them but the Trash Bin was still full. Hoping to fix the problem, I right-clicked on it and selected Properties. I clicked on the full icon and selected the empty Trash Bin icon. Now, when it was full of documents, it would never empty out. Workaround Log in as 'root' and select /home/desktop and delete the Trash Bin. Log out of KDE and log in under your user name. This will correct this anomaly. Just thought I would let you know, in case it happens to you. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Freedom Fighter for Penguins Everywhere
Re: [newbie] netscape + mousewheel
Well, they usually work out of the box in 8.0, but here's a link since yours didn't: http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org/Help___How_To/netscape/netscape.html -s On Wednesday 23 May 2001 04:24 pm, you wrote: hiya i be using manrdake 8 i have my silly little mousewheel to work for everything except netscape. help
[newbie] How to uninstall GRUB OS switcher
Hey all. I'm having a big, big problem. I can uninstall LM just fine, but after I do I'm stuck with a computer that refuses to boot! It comes up with that GRUB program, but it can't boot Windoze! I have to reinstall LM in order to boot to Windoze again! Please help! Is there a way I can get it to go back to booting straight to Windoze? Please tell me because I need to get this back to Windoze because I will be getting a more powerful comp and giving this one to my mom's office. Thank you all in advance!
Re: [newbie] boot loader problem
-First check that you have installed grub rpm -q grub -now try this: run the file install.sh that found in /boot/grub [kheb@dors grub]$ pwd /boot/grub - This is the content of my file, but check my partitions I have / in hda9 and /boot in /hda6 [kheb@dors grub]$ less install.sh grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --batch EOF install (hd6,5)/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0,6)/grub/stage2 p (hd0,6)/grub/menu.lst quit EOF [kheb@dors grub]$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda9 445964350980 94984 79% / /dev/hda675544 37168 38376 49% /boot /dev/hda8 2857540862108 1995432 30% /home /dev/hda5 7287 2 6909 0% /mnt/fake /dev/hda1 1880360 1685576194784 90% /mnt/windows /dev/hda7 4293912 1862584 2431328 43% /usr [kheb@dors grub]$ Hope that help Kheb On Mon, 21 May 2001 17:43:35 -0700 (PDT), Terry C said: I have just installed LM 8.0. The biggest problem I have with it is that I have to boot from a floppy. After the install I rebooted and ended up with a kernel panic. After a little research I found out that I had to enter linux ide=reverse when I boot lilo from a floppy. OK, easy to fix, just boot up, add the appropriate info to lilo.conf, and I should be up and running. Doesn't work that way. I try to run lilo -b /dev/hda to install it in my MBR and I get the 1024 cylinder error. Shouldn't happen with this version of lilo. I try to use Drakeboot, select Grub and it continually tries to use lilo. It won't use Grub, only lilo. My hardware and the file system may have something to do with this. FIC AZ-11 MB, with a Promise ATA 100 controller card. IBM 16GB ATA 100 hard drive, partitioned 1/2 for windoze, and 1/2 for Linux, using reiserfs. Except for not remembering the exact wording of the error I get when I try to run lilo this pretty well sums up the situation. Thanks for the help in getting this resolved. TC __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Intel Performance
In most cases, it is not the cpu that is having troubles, it is either the hard drive or the memory configuration. The hard drive is generally the worst bottleneck on any PC system, no matter how fast that drive is -- even at 160MB/sec with Ultra Fast Wide SCSI, it is WAAYYY slower than the typical data transfer rate of SDRAM. The faster the hard drive you have, the better the system will perform overall. Memory configuration can be another issue, especially if you have an entry level system which shares standard RAM and video memory. My desktop system at work has 96 MB of shared memory, and it is dog-slow compared to my ThinkPad -- the ThinkPad has less of both standard (64 vs. 96) and video memory (only 2 MB in the ThinkPad, but it is dedicated to the card), it has a slower cpu (350 MHz PII vs. 333 MHz Celeron), but it has a *faster* hard drive. Between the better drive and the dedicated memory, it makes my desktop look like an old P-75 with 8MB RAM! Dave On Wednesday 23 May 2001 17:26, thus spake Ric Tibbetts: I thought this was interesting. I have an older 400 PII, and a newer 650 PIII (laptop). Using Setiathome as a performance curve to compare by, there is something amiss with PIII processors. My 400 PII will complete a set of Seti data is an average of 8 hours (my dual 266 PII will complete one set every eight hours, per CPU, so it pumps out 2 in 8 hours). The PIII takes 50 hours! per set. Just a data point. The PIII is a laptop, on a different OS. But if I boot my 400 PII in that OS, it will still complete them in 8 hours, vs. 50 on the PIII I find this very interesting. While the PIII shows some performance abilities that the PII does not (it multi-tasks better, and smoother), there are some things that the PIII seems to just suck at! What's just as interesting is that it's not consistant. There are similar machines areound me here at work. Some scream, some crawl. All with similar set ups. It has me wondering if Intel has a QA problem? This could be an indication of why some people are reporting performace problems with Mandrake 8.0 / KDE, and others are not. Just a thought. :) Ric -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
Re: [newbie] windows partition install
If you really want to be thorough, disable swap space in Windows (see below) before doing the defrag, so that even your swap space gets defragged. Once defrag is done, then re-enable swap, or you will run into many out-of-memory problems! How to disable swap: 1. Right-click My Computer icon, select Properties. 2. Select the Performance tab. 3. Click the Virtual Memory button. 4. Select the Let Me Specify My Own Virtual Memory Settings radio button, then click the Disable Virtual Memory checkbox. 5. Click OK all the way out, then you will be prompted to reboot. Do it. 6. After rebooting, run scandisk and then defrag. 7. Go back into My Computer properties and enable virtual memory, then reboot again. Dave On Wednesday 23 May 2001 06:35, thus spake Chales A. Punch: walt wrote: A friend of mine is trying to install Mandrake lunux 8.0 on his computer and clicks on install on the windows partition and he keeps getting a Disk is too fragged error. I have mandrake on its own HD so I don't know what to tell him as to what to do besides get a new HD..any ideas??? Walt Run disk defragmenter in Windows Accesories- System Tools- Defragmenter ShalomOut Chal -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
RE: [newbie] Problems to install usb device
Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. -Original Message- From: Botta-Ex, Bjorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:26 AM To: 'Hans N.' Subject: RE: [newbie] Problems to install usb device Well it's a speedtouch from Alcatel. I'm new with Linux. I already installed hotplug but linux doesn't install my usb devices. It' seems to be supported but I just don't know how to install a usb device in linux. -Original Message- From: Hans N. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: mercredi 23 mai 2001 1:36 To: Botta-Ex, Bjorn Subject:RE: [newbie] Problems to install usb device I don't use a usb modem, but I do know if someone is going to help you with yours, assuming someone on the list has the same modem or had the same modem, then you might want to provide more information. I would send the list information about who makes your modem and what model it is. Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Botta-Ex, Bjorn Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Problems to install usb device Can someone tell me how to install a usb modem? I just can't do it. Thanks
[newbie] Mandrake 8 Firewall killed samba access!
I've been sharing files using samba on my Mandrake 8 machine with other Windows PCs in my home network for a while now, and all computers can see one another in the network neighborhood. A few moments ago though, I ran the Firewall wizard in the Mandrake Control Panel. Now, I find that I can no longer see the other computers on the network, and vice versa. I can still ping the other computers though. I have verified that Samba services are definitely running. What could be the issue here - and how do I rectify it? Or do I need to disable the firewall features - and how? Thanks in advance.
[newbie] linux 7.2 won't run
Hi I use to logon linux wihout problem! Now it asks me for login then password in a black window then gives me the prompt! Now i enter KDE linux using safe-mode PLease help! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
