[newbie-it] Stampante cercasi x Linux
Sono in procinto di acquistare una nuova stampante, qualcuno di voi mi può segnalare qualche stampante che funzioni bene con linux? Grazie e ciao a tutti
[newbie-it] mandrake 8.0: installazione e mouse
Salve, dopo una prima installazione tranquilla ne sto facendo una problematica. L'installazione in se procede bene, non viene segnalato nessun problema ed il mouse si configura/lavora bene. Al riavvio appare una scritta del tipo: checking for new hardware failed to open terminal: [1;24r[4][?25][/1c...e roba simile [k [k .. [k [k [k [k .. poi una pappardella che finisce dicendo che passa oltre per timeout Quando appare il kdm il mouse e` completamente bloccato! La sezione pointer di /etc/XF86config sembra ok (identica a quella di mndk-7.2). Suggerimenti? ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] Sentir midi ?
Ciao, qualche progresso nella comprensione del come mai kmid e kmidi non funzionino, almeno credo. Ho provato ad usare sndconfig, che, come sounddrake, mi fa sentire un messaggio che dice che la scheda audio e' stata configurata, ma il risultato, manco a dirlo, e' quello di prima. In fase di boot e' pero' successa una cosa strana, e cioe' comparivano errori al tentativo di caricamento/installazione (non so) di un modulo midi: in particolare veniva citato opl3.o Ora, io di kernel non so proprio nulla, ma so che facendo lsmod si ha la lista dei moduli installati: questa e' la mia: [alberto@master alberto]$ lsmod Module Size Used by parport_pc 7568 0 (autoclean) parport 7744 0 (autoclean) [parport_pc] usb-uhci 19184 0 (unused) usbcore43632 1 [usb-uhci] es1371 24656 1 soundcore 2800 4 [es1371] nls_cp437 3952 2 (autoclean) vfat9408 1 (autoclean) fat30432 1 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 14224 3 (autoclean) ide-scsi7664 0 mentre se tento di inserire opl3 con insmod ho [alberto@master alberto]$ insmod opl3 Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol synth_devs_R1ddfe121 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol compute_finetune_R04c87ec8 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sound_alloc_synthdev_Rc748d109 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sound_unload_synthdev_R06339815 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sound_notifier_chain_register_Rc5ee3883 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol conf_printf2_R7bdf0907 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sound_locker_R90857606 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sequencer_init_Rf78f6363 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol note_to_freq_R5d986fc9 Intuile dire che ancor di piu' non so dove sbattere la testa. comunque qualcuno potrebbe, per favore, magari mandarmi l'esito del suo lsmod o suggerire qualcosa ? Ho una Ensoniq ES1371 PCI (kernel module: es1371) Un grazie anticipato a chi mi vorra' rispondere. Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Fwd: POLISHED LINUX DISTRIBUTION ?
Ciao, ho notato che cercando dei pacchetti su www.rpmfind.net si trovano diversi pacchetti per diverse distribuzioni... e fin qui tutto ok... ma cosa vuol dire POLISHED LINUX DISTRIBUTION? Significa forse che funziona con qualunque distribuzione? E poi sono per forza costretto a scaricare gli rpm della mia distribuzione (ad es MDK) oppure funzionano anche quelli per le altre distribuzioni? Grazie, ciao!
[newbie-it] Configurazione CASELLE DI POSTA
Ciao, vorrei configurare la mia mandrake per ricevere posta in locale come se fosse in rete, è possibile? Ho pensato che magari si riesce a cambiare il nome della mia macchina in modo che la mia casella di posta non sia più la solita [EMAIL PROTECTED], e quindi se un qualsiasi altro utente manda una mail al mio indirizzo locale... magari mi arriva... ora però sorge un problema... se io sono connesso come faccio a ricevere in locale qualcosa che un altro mi spedisce dalla rete? Dunque vi chiedo una mano perché mi sa di non capirne molto, da come avrete capito per quello che ho scritto :))) Ciao e grazie :) P.S. Se qualcuno lo sa mi può dire come si fa a cambiare il nome della macchina in maniera completa... c'avevo già tentato ma ogni volta mi si incasinava qualcosa, da postfix a sendmail...
[newbie-it] fonts di Mdk 8
Ciao a tutti, ho installato da poco la Mdk 8, e i caratteri di Star Office 5.2 con font di tipo Time dei documenti creati con la 7.1 sono segmentati, di difficile lettura. Credo che sia un problema generale, perchè anche con Netscape leggo male alcuni caratteri. Come si può ovviare? Grazie, Fabio. D'altro per la mia scheda Savage4 l' XFree86 4.0.3 blocca il sistema all'installazione e all'avvio di Star Office, sono quindi tornato al 3.3.6
Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione CASELLE DI POSTA
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:54:31 +0200 Matteo Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, vorrei configurare la mia mandrake per ricevere posta in locale come se fosse in rete, è possibile? Ho pensato che magari si riesce a cambiare il nome della mia macchina in modo che la mia casella di posta non sia più la solita [EMAIL PROTECTED], e quindi se un qualsiasi altro utente manda una mail al mio indirizzo locale... magari mi arriva... ora però sorge un problema... se io sono connesso come faccio a ricevere in locale qualcosa che un altro mi spedisce dalla rete? Dunque vi chiedo una mano perché mi sa di non capirne molto, da come avrete capito per quello che ho scritto :))) Se ho capito bene quello che chiedi credo che non sia possibile perche' il tuo nome non e' associato a nessun indirizzo IP. Quello che conta per essere visibili in rete e' un indirizzo IP e non un semplice nome.. Ciao e grazie :) P.S. Se qualcuno lo sa mi può dire come si fa a cambiare il nome della macchina in maniera completa... c'avevo già tentato ma ogni volta mi si incasinava qualcosa, da postfix a sendmail... Devi editare il file /etc/sysconfig/network e sostituire localhost.localdomain con i nomi che preferisci. La stessa cosa devi fare con /etc/hosts. Hai qualche problema con la configurazione della posta? Ho ricevuto ben TRE copie dei tuoi messaggi! Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] Attivazione di nuovi tasti.
Ciao, ho una tastiera Logitech con alcuni tasti aggiuntivi per alzare o abbasssare il volume, far partire un brano di musica, leggere la posta, ecc. e vorrei cercare di attivarli. In /etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap c'e' la key map attiva in /etc/rc.sysinit (vedi mail precedente) -- Dando una rapida occhiata a rc.sysinit: rc.sysinit: loadkeys $KEYMAP /dev/tty0 /dev/tty0 2/dev/null \ KEYMAP è definita nello stesso file: KEYMAP=/etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap Credo che un qualche accrocchio di mandrake metta nel file default.kmap la mappa di tastiera scelta da tool grafico. --- Nel mio file, ad esempio, ci sono le righe ... keycode 19 = r keycode 20 = t keycode 21 = y keycode 22 = u keycode 23 = i keycode 24 = o keycode 25 = p ... Se lancio xev e premo i corrispondenti tasti ho invece rispettivamente i codici 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 La cosa e' analoga per gli altri tasti. Come mai questa discrepanza ? Ad ogni modo, vista la facile corrispondenza, vorrei usare un tasto per far partire xmms, che xev mi dice aver keycode 162. A questo punto devo mettere nel file una linea che dice (154 = 162 - 8) keycode 154 = F21 ed un'altra, piu' sotto, con string F21 = xmms \n Dico bene ? c'e' qualcuno che e' riuscito ad attivare tali tasti, e, se si', come ? Grazie, Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Sentir midi ?
Mi aggrego al problema di Alberto, anche a me non vanno i midi ed anche per me al comando insmod opl3 ottengo gli stessi identici messaggi di errore... Guarda caso ho anch'io lo stesso tipo di scheda di alberto... mentre se tento di inserire opl3 con insmod ho [alberto@master alberto]$ insmod opl3 Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol synth_devs_R1ddfe121 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol compute_finetune_R04c87ec8 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sound_alloc_synthdev_Rc748d109 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sound_unload_synthdev_R06339815 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sound_notifier_chain_register_Rc5ee3883 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol conf_printf2_R7bdf0907 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sound_locker_R90857606 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol sequencer_init_Rf78f6363 /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/opl3.o: unresolved symbol note_to_freq_R5d986fc9 Intuile dire che ancor di piu' non so dove sbattere la testa. comunque qualcuno potrebbe, per favore, magari mandarmi l'esito del suo lsmod o suggerire qualcosa ? Ho una Ensoniq ES1371 PCI (kernel module: es1371) Un grazie anticipato a chi mi vorra' rispondere. Alberto
Re: [newbie-it] Stampante cercasi x Linux
Il mer, 06 giu 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Sono in procinto di acquistare una nuova stampante, qualcuno di voi mi può segnalare qualche stampante che funzioni bene con linux? Grazie e ciao a tutti Se vuoi una laser puoi andare tranquillo con la quasi totalità dei modelli, se poi usi CUPS, direi con tutti; io personalmente (non verrò pagato per queste mie affermazioni...) prediligo le Laserjet HP; ho una 5L che lavora da anni ed una 1100 che costa poco ed è sufficientemente veloce. Se invece vuoi una inkjet, le mie preferenze virano verso EPSON, che con CUPS e GIMP stampano meglio che con Win$, hanno consumabili che costano poco e un servizio tecnico impeccabile. uso una Photo 700 ed una Photo EX da alcuni anni senza problemi. Le HP sono ottime stampanti, dei veri trattori che funzionano per anni senza problemi (hanno spesso la testina di stampa integrata nelle cartucce quindi non c'è praticamente rischio di usura, ma le ricariche costano parecchio), non le ho mai usate sotto GNU/Linux quindi non ti voglio dare consigli che potrebbero essere imprecisi; il supporto di CUPS è comunque pieno. bye -- ___ Nucleo Gestione Sistemi Informatici MDK GNU/Linux 2.4.x P III 500 256 U.T. 04/2001
RE: [newbie] DOS on MBR
Hi, I think this is what you are after; To scrap the current MBR boot from your boot disk and type; fdisk /mbr from a boot disk Then to create the (minimal boot) file system, type; sys c: Of course you will need a DOS (or Win95/95/ME) boot disk with fdisk.exe and sys.com on it to do this. Hope this help Nick -Original Message- From: Davinci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 June 2001 13:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] DOS on MBR Hi all, I'm a newbie. Anybody know how to create DOS file system on MBR from C prompt? davinci
Re: [newbie] DOS on MBR
Davinci: To restore the MBR, put a Windows boot disk in the A: drive, boot to it, and enter fdisk /mbr. HTH, Carroll Davinci wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie. Anybody know how to create DOS file system on MBR from C prompt? davinci
[newbie] Toshiba PDR-M5 digital camera
Hi All I'm trying to use my brand new camera with the LM8.0, but without any success. I know there is some GUI interface, something like GPhoto but can't find any of it. It uses USB interface, and all needed packages installed. Can anyone help ? TIA
Re: [newbie] Where can Star Office be?
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 17:31, you wrote: Many people worry about the icon, but where is the program? I loaded it with Kpack, and in /Office51, I get a 'no such command' as soffice. I'm running a pc clone with Mandrake 7. Cheers Tom Powell Have you tried whereis soffice (as usual without quotes) ? FWIW, I am running MD 8.0 with StarOffice 5.2 (on a pc which is a clone of a disorganised garden shed, with mains power )and the output from whereis soffice is /usr/bin/soffice -- Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it)
Re: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS
Ok, well since Mandrake refuses to help me on their official tech support site, I hope you guys can get me through it. Lousy way to do business if you ask me. Anyway, CUPS is installed. The gentleman who started to help me also had me try to telnet into localhost 631 and it tells me that the connection was refused. I guess what this means is that even though the service cups start command returns with Ok, it is still not running. Is there anything else I can try? Thanks, Wendell Gragg From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wendell Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 17:49:26 -0500 Wendell Gragg wrote: I am having problems getting my printer working on LM 8.0. It is an HP 895c connected to an Intel Netport Express printserver. The printserver is on my lan as 192.168.0.2 while my computer accesses the internet through DHCP over a cable modem on one nic and the lan is on the other nic. The ip for the computer is 192.168.0.1. From linux, I can ping the printserver and even get to it via the browser, but CUPS does not recognize it. When I try to get to the printer configuration for KUPS, I get a message saying that the CUPS server is not active. Can someone point me to the proper place to find doc on doing this or if it is simple please let me in on what to do to get this thing defined? Thanks, Wendell Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com make sure the CUPS server is installed for some reason mine was not. Then I had to start the server. Make sure it is running Jeanette _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
RE: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS
On Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:06 PM, Wendell Gragg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Ok, well since Mandrake refuses to help me on their official tech support site, I hope you guys can get me through it. Lousy way to do business if you ask me. oh I don't know. There's a company in Seattle, WA that's done quite well by being even less helpful to their customers...
Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up
I'm assuming you're trying to connect this Linux box to the RoadRunner server by itself, and not through a gateway router. Let's start in DrakConf. Since you're using Mandrake 8, there's an option on the left, that reads Network Internet. Select that option, then select the Connection option. From what you've said below, it sounds like you've gone through this method. Go through and configure the card. You can select the Cable Connection, or LAN connection, either will work since they are basically the same set up. Tell it to use DHCP, if it doesn't have the software, it will prompt for the CD and will install it. It will tell you that it's going to restart the network. I can't remember if it gives you a choice to say no, but if it does, tell it now. It's just going to time out. After you've done that, power off your cable modem. Leave it off for a good 10 seconds or so, then power it back on. Now head back to your Linux box. su - to root, and run this command. [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/network status Configured devices: lo eth0 Devices that are down: Devices with modified configuration: You should get some variant of that output when you run that command. However if you see eth0 listed under Devices that are down: then you're network card is not completely configured. If your output does look like that, then run this command. [root@yoda /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart Setting network parameters:[ OK ] Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0:[ OK ] And that should look something like it does above. It may take a little bit of time at bringing up interface eth0, that's expected since it's trying to get an IP address from the DHCP server. If it comes back and gives you an [ OK ] then you should be set. But to make sure run the command ifconfig. Your out put will look something like this. [root@r2d2 /root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Bcast:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Mask:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:720497 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2 TX packets:123941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:20 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:439288285 (418.9 Mb) TX bytes:10165271 (9.6 Mb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x9400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb) TX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb) The numbers that are X'd out are the ones that you should look at. The inet addr will be your IP address. From there you will be able to get to the outside world with no problem. Try testing it by pinging yahoo.com, or something else that's local. Then check if your machine also downloaded the DNS information. It's stored in /etc/resolv.conf, and will like this most likely. [root@r2d2 /root]# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 24.131.1.9 nameserver 24.131.1.8 search mw.mediaone.net That should then get your machine on the network. Now if your machine is going through another machine that's doing internet connection sharing, then you'll have to go other routes on getting your Mandrake 8 box on the Internet. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | I am trying to install NetGear ethernet card to use with my cable modem | (RoadRunner service, dynamically assigns IP addresses) which is recognized | and uses the tulip driver on Mandrake 8.0. It seems like the detection | using the Mandrake Internet Configuration, goes fine. It detects an | ethernet card and sets up LAN with no error messages. Under host I tried | rr.twmi.com and the default localhost.localdomain, neither work, but I don't | really know what host they are looking for. Neither worked though, my Win2K | system works fine and with ipconfig tells me that the default host is | rr.twmi.com (that's where I got it from). After the internet set up, the | applet has the connect to internet button which when I click tries (for | about 20-30 seconds) to connect but with no luck. I did select auto dhcp, | when setting up. A few times the applet actually showed that something was | send, but no bytes received??? I am also not sure that anything was ever | send, since there is no way for me to verify and the applet might have a | different deffinition of send and consider no error as send??? Am I missing | some steps here? I did go through the archive and found that I need to run | the | 'dhcpcd -d -n -h COxxx-A eth0' | command. What is
[newbie] Icon Zooming
Hi, I'm using KDE 2 thats comes with MDK 8.0 and I'm using Icon Zooming for the icons on my panel. But, some of the icons don't zoom, does anyone know why or how to fix it? Cheers, Jord
Re: [newbie] Who turned out the lights?
On Monday 04 June 2001 08:50, n6tadam wrote: Hi, I have had a similar situation like this on my laptop. It seems that it is linked to the framebuffer that you use to boot up, and the default colour depth that X-window runs in. I would suggest, that as a test, you change your vga= in lilo.conf to vga=normal. Save the file, and then run lilo. Then, change the default colour depth in /etc/XF86Config to 8, and then reboot your machine (init 6). If the colour depth displays ok, at 8 bit, without having to chvt each time, then it means that most likely, it is a problem with your graphics display. The fact that it restores the colour depth after you have switched to a VT and back again, suggests that your refresh rate for your monitor maybe inaccurate. But that is only a guess! If I can be of any further assistance, please let me know. Kind Regards, Thomas Adam Hi! I followed your instructions andit worked! But I don't like 8-bit colour :). Is there a way to make 16-bit work with the darkness (it used to work before I upgraded KDE or XFree)? I've checked the refresh rate used by X for 1024x768x16 and it's higher than what is reccommended by my manufacturer but still within the limits of my monitor (VX700). Thanks, George Petri
Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?
On Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001, Romanator wrote: Where can I find OpenOffice? Is this from Sun? To answer your Sun question, when they released the StarOffice source code, it was 'renamed' to OpenOffice. www.openoffice.org will tell you more than you ever wanted to know. ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 5 days 12 hours 13 minutes.
[newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!?
Hi there all you newbies, I happen to be one of the totally ignorant newbies who hasnt got the faintest notion of computer languages although I love playing around with them!!! I have an extremely old 386 processor with DOS 6.0 version and Windows in Japanese. Unfortunately, not being Japanese, I cannot work with it. I have a Linux Mandrake 7.2 CD Rom but can't install it as the processor is too old. I have tried looking in the download pages on the Linux homepage, but as I am totally ignorant, I have no idea what to download. Is anybody able to help me, pretty please with a cherry on top!!. Thanking you s much in advance. Christina Kokori
RE: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS
Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining about Linux and most of my dealings with Mandrake have been fine, until this one incident. All comparisons with MS aside, I just feel that they should be a little more open concerning the free support. If it is limited to certain issues, they should specify it on the packaging that they are putting in stores. They claimed that my issue was not installation related; however, I only installed 2 days ago and the printing has not worked from the time I installed. They also claimed that the support was for setting up printing on one computer. Essentially that is what I am trying to do, though the printer is set up on a 2 computer network, I am only trying to get it defined to Linux. I simply felt that it was rather inappropriate (and somewhat Microsoftish) to be told that my problem, immediately upon installation, did not qualify for free installation support. Nowhere on the retail box did it have such exclusions and nowhere that I have seen in the documentation does it disclaim such problems. As much as I like the concept of Linux, certain things will have to change (and many are) before the mass consumer market will accept them as a replacement for Windows. Some of those things are being helped along by Mr. Gates, but others are under the direct control of the Linux distribution companies. One such issue is the technical support. Frankly, I think the CUPS idea is a great one, but when it does have problems (or I have a problem in configuring it straight out of the box), someone needs to support it. I would hope the mfr of the distro would do it, at least in the first few days of the install. Anyway, I don't want to rant on this. I just want to get my printer working. Mandrake to their credit did point me to a couple of other resources (including this one) that I am pursuing. Perhaps, using the shotgun approach I can get it fixed. Wendell Gragg From: Edward Barrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:27:51 +0100 On Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:06 PM, Wendell Gragg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Ok, well since Mandrake refuses to help me on their official tech support site, I hope you guys can get me through it. Lousy way to do business if you ask me. oh I don't know. There's a company in Seattle, WA that's done quite well by being even less helpful to their customers... _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!?
Quoting Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/metalab/Linux/distributions/peanut/Pean ut-Linux-8.3/ Will run on a 386. The later packages for peanut will NOT, particularly 9.0. This package sounds quite interesting. I took a quick look to see the minimum specifications but couldn't find how much memory is required. I know that most distributions won't run unless they have more than 8 megs. ...Dave
[newbie] Printer setup on 8.0
I've just installed LM8.0 and when I go to the printer setup, and choose network printer, and go to the next screen that wants the printer name, etc, it won't let me type anything in the blank spaces so I can tell it WHERE the printer is. Has anyone run into this problem? Thanks, Tom http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions
Re: [newbie] SCSI support - AHA 2940
It was Wed, 6 Jun 2001 05:49:47 + (GMT) when Len Lawrence wrote: System AMD K6 450MHz Matshita 4X CD-ROM drive 4 Gb SCSI disk Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI adapter The installer recognises the card: * PCI: device 9004 7178 is AdaptecAHA-294x / AIC-7871 (aic7xxx) but fails to find the driver Hmmm. The pc that I already upgraded also has the 2940(uw) and that one installed without a problem. Did you try expert mode install? Paul -- Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. -Helen Keller http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] mailserver with antivir
hi all ! i would like to use an antivir program with my email server. has anybody of u experience with avmailgate from www.antivir.com what i´d like to know how it works, its manual is not very good. if anyone uses it, maybe u can explain me whether this is right or not : 1) mails are coming in (in my case via fetchmail) 2) they are handled over to antivir which is sitting on port 25 3) antivir scans all mails and forwards them to the local smtp server (i.e postfix, sendmail etc) 4) the local smtp stores them via procmail in the corresponding mail dir.. now, what my problem is : 1) i dont want to install a smtp server, does anybody know whether antivir can forward the mails it scanned directly to procmail ? 2) i noticed that one has to create a /usr/spool/antivir folder for the mails, why that ?..i thought procmail would store the mails in the default mail spool dir ? (/var/spool/mail/user in my case) or maybe u can recomment any other scanner ? any help would be greatly appreciated. greetings --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
Re: [newbie] problem with mysql
Kuang, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some e-mail clients add all kinds of extra html tags, reduce the size of the font such that it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish color, making it much more difficult to read. In answer to your question, mysql has a mysql database that contains a user table. To connect as a user other than root, you need to insert the users into the user table, as well as the hosts table. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:30 PM 06/06/2001 +0700, Kuang wrote: MySQL server is working but only root account in linux can run MySQL client what should I do to make it available to other account thanks a lot...
[newbie] wanting to upgrade my system, looking for recommended online stores
I would like to update my system but the stores around town don't seem to carry what I'm looking for. I have never bought computer stuff online and I'm relunctant to do that since I've heard so many horror stories. Can anyone recommend a trustworthly online computer store for buying motherboards and procs? thanks...
RE: Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!?
yeah,, you could do that I think,,, problem with that, is it might technically run on a i386, but its still a memory and space hungry OS compared to what has been cut down for use with i386. as far as I am aware, all the mini distros have been cut down alot to make them more suitable for slower pc's with lower all around specs, ie like hard disk and ram... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donald Carmona Ugarte Sent: Wednesday, 6 June 2001 11:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!? Hi everyone This seems really interesting as a way to use an old computer. But I have another question. Can I install this distro of linux and then compile the new sources of LM 8.0 or LM 7.2 so I can have the new kernel running on a 386. Thanks Donald Carmona Sorry, Chrisitna, Mandrake once produced an image for 486, I believe for 7.0, but you have to go back to Mandrake 5.3 (Festen) to get one that is compatible with 386. http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/metalab/Linux/distributions/peanut/ Peanut-Linux-8.3/ Will run on a 386. The later packages for peanut will NOT, particularly 9.0. Peanut is a small distro with a good working desktop and is somewhat more modernized than Festen (if you could even find Festen). The basic package, which includes KDE and is likely to work on your 386, takes only 85Mb or less. Civileme QA Team ___ Yo me registré en www.costarricense.com
RE: [newbie] wanting to upgrade my system, looking for recommended online stores
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:39 AM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] wanting to upgrade my system, looking for recommended online stores I would like to update my system but the stores around town don't seem to carry what I'm looking for. I have never bought computer stuff online and I'm relunctant to do that since I've heard so many horror stories. Can anyone recommend a trustworthly online computer store for buying motherboards and procs? thanks... I have purchased numerous computer components from a variety of online retailers and have 'no' horror stories to relate. Any of the sites you find using www.shopper.com or www.pricewatch.com should be able to handle you transaction securely and without any difficulty. The products listed at Shopper are most often the Retail box where as those listed on Pricewatch are usually OEM. If you are looking fo only a MOBO and processor I like the site www.compuplus.com. They sell the processor in both Retail/3 year warranty and as OEM/ 1 year warranty when purchased with fan. Their prices are low/lowest. They deliver 2nd day air using FedX or Airborn for only 12.95 But my #1 reason for liking and using this site is that they guarantee that any item they have listed for sale Is in stock. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] Laptop install MDK 8.0
Hello I upgraded (full re-install) my desktop computer from MDK 7.2 to MDK 8.0. I am pleased with the later version, so I decided to upgrade my laptop computer. I have a TOSHIBA 435 CDS with a 120 MHz processor and 48 Meg RAM. It was so slow in MDK 7.1 LIN4WIN that it was useless. It was slow in MDK 7.2, but so was Windows. The computer will not boot from CDROM so I made the install diskette and proceeded with a full install after formatting new larger partitions (/, swap, usr, home). Install started normally! When it got to Trying to access cdrom it seemed to access the cd OK, then went into second stage install with more CDROM activity. A few seconds later it said Install exited abnormally and proceeded to end the install. Hoping it was a problem with the boot disk I made another. Same result! To eliminate the install cd I bought the STANDARD EDITION set. Using the new cd and the install floppy provided with it I get the same result. I was able to re-install MDK 7.2 with no problems. Where do I start??? TIA Lee Waters
Re: [newbie] other StarOffice problem
I am having the same problem!! I get the same response when I select the STAR OFFICE PRINTER SETUP, and the STAR OFFICE SETUP from the K-MENU. Lee Waters On Tuesday 05 June 2001 14:37, David Beahm wrote: When I click on the StarOffice icon, an installation screen comes up, however when I click on Next to procede, the PC locks up entirely -- no CTRL-ALT-DEL, the time on the clock doesn't change, etc. -- and I have to power-cycle. This is a new LM 8.0 install. Any suggestions? TIA Easy + Automatic = EMATIC E-commerce enable your web site AND sell your product on ours. Accept credit cards with no merchant account. Free email and hosting. Do it all yourself at www.ematic.com.
Re: [newbie] problem with mysql
To Kuang: the users in MySQL aren´t the same users that log in you Linux box. you have to create these users in MySQL and define what databases these users can view, modify, create... thats why only root has access when you start MySQL without creating users. You can create users in the MySQL console or, if you have Webmin installed, in the Webmin MySQL option. orlando Ilya Sterin wrote: How about changing the execute permissions. What error message are you getting? Ilya Sterin From: Kuang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] problem with mysql Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:30:00 +0700 MySQL server is working but only root account in linux can run MySQL client what should I do to make it available to other account thanks a lot... _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- ,~~v~~,,~~v~~, ,'. .', ,'. .', === + ====== + === / ~ \ / ~ \ /\_m m_/\/\_m m_/\ .\ +--+ /. / ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! \ / +--+ \ `\m/ \m/' `\m/ \m/'
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-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donald Carmona Ugarte Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia -s -- linux inside (registered user: #197855) Where do you register? Donald Carmona http://counter.li.org/ Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] USB digital cameras and Linux?
Ok, it's time for me to finally buy a new camera, and it's going to be digital this time. My top pick right now is the Cannon Elph Powershot 300. Like most digital cameras these days, it comes with a USB port instead of a serial port. Well, I've never used a USB port for anything under any OS, so what I'm wondering is, if I get this camera, will I be able to get it to work with Linux? Will I be able to download photos? I searched around on Google and I couldn't find anything about this, and of course the guys at Cannon assume that everyone uses Windows or Macintosh. The reason why this is so important to me is because I literally don't have access to anything which doesn't run Linux or *BSD. If it doesn't work with Linux, I basically can't use it. Thanks for any tips.
[newbie] Xwindows not work
My Xwindows not work since I changed some features of his config. The amazing is that I probe the new config and It works. The next time I reboot don´t work. I have try to reconfigure it using Xconfigurate and don´t work also. Any ideas? Thanks. __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
[newbie] Disappointed - Mandrake rules supreme!
Just a quick note to say thank you all who have assisted me with my problems getting Mandrake 8 booted on my laptop. The issue has now been resolved, loading the 2.2 kernel - it now boots and works brilliantly! Many thanks, Adam Adam Henson Facts Helpdesk Advisor Meggitt Petroleum Systems Tel : 02476 69 Fax:02476 418210
Re: [newbie] 7.2 complete does not give lnx4win option
CICVET, Have you tried loading the disk while you are running windows? This should bring up a window allowing you to install lin4win. That is how I did it. Hope this helps. J On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:35:11 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the manual shows a screen with options such as recommended mode. the opening screen states that by typing lnx4win at the prompt, that it will happen. it doesn't. i am given the choice of erase disk (which would wipe out my w98) or expert mode (which i'm not). until i buy another box, i need to use lnx4win. help, please. thanks. ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/
Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 23:37, Romanator wrote: I'm looking for the rpm version of Star Office 5.1 Roman Ric Tibbetts wrote: tester8080 wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2001 19:50, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Same problem here. StarOffice used to install itself into the KDE panel. In fact the installation still claimes it does that, but it doesn't actually work. I suspect that the problem is with KDE 2.x. Too many changes. Ric Simon Zarate wrote: You can run StarOffice in konsole, go to directory and run ./soffice. You can make a shortcut to this link. Remember,is possible that staroffice take 1 or two minutes to start, depending on your machine and the speed of your hard disk. Simon From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Barry Premeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel? Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 18:09:23 -0400 Barry Premeaux wrote: Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Has any one been successful in having StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel after installation in LM8? I can't get it to work. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 I had to go into the Menu Editor and manually add it. The executable for me was: /home/barry/office52/soffice Now if Sun would only come up with a KDE compatible icon, it would round it out nicely. Barry :-) Hi Barry, The weird thing is that StarOffice 5.x used to install really well with LM7.2. Argh... Thanks for responding. Roman __ ___ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Well, try this KMenu-Configure Panel-Add-Button-Menu-Office-StarOffice Then you will have a panel button. Yes, but you shouldn't have to. That's the point. StarOffice claims that it installed the icon to the panel during install, and it doesn't work. The question from the original poster was more wondering if it was just him/her, or if everyone was having the same problem. I think the answer is obvious: Yes, everyone is having that problem. Ric Yes you should have to unless you have the mandrake package. There have been many changes in KDE and system and none in SO. So you need an RPM specifically prepared for this particular version for a painless install. If you had to add it to the menu--that is likely because you downloaded a bin package directly from SUN and that hasn't been appearing on menus since 7.0. Civileme
Re: [newbie] bash script to remove ?
Hi, This can be done, using the following: 1. assuming that your local mailbox is in /var/spool/mail/$username, then do the following: snip #!/bin/bash regex= mailbox=/var/spool/mail/$username #list contents cat $mailbox | grep $regex | sed -e /$regex//g; /var/spool/mail/newmail snip 2. replace all instances of $username mentioned above with the actual filename of your inbox. If the inbox you will be searching is not your own, then this script will have to be ran as the root user. 3. Save the above script in /usr/bin folder, using a suitable name, and issue the following command: chmod 700 /usr/bin/filename 4. Then run the script. The resultant output will appear in the file /var/spool/mail/newmail HTH, Thomas Adam Linux Co-ordinator for the Purbeck School (Network Support) - Original Message - From: Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:55 AM Subject: [newbie] bash script to remove ? I know it has to be pretty simple but I can't figure it out. How can I right a bash script to remove the from forwarded emails? 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] Samba a no-go
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 23:50, s wrote: Hi all, I know it's a long shot anyone being able to help on such a project with so many variables, but I need to try... I'm trying to configure it, but it just won't work. I bascally followed the plan layed out at: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/samba/samba1.html with a little: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN209 on the side. However it's a no-go. Anyone seen errors like: error connecting to 127.0.0.1:139 (connection refused) when testing with smbclient -L localhost ? I have tripled checked the all files and such and just can't eyeball the problem. I reconfigured firewall using BastilleInteractive and tried to leave ports 137 139 open to internal interfaces. So if course none of the computers knows too much about the others existance, other than returned ping packets. I hate to lay out all the boring gory details right off the bat. If this rings any bells to anyone and need more info, I'll gladly post it. I would appreciate your help on this. As always, TIA, -s Take down the firewall Implement Samba Bring up the firewall, step by step, which is particularly easy to do with Bastille. You are not going anywhere wuth so many variables to juggle, and it looks like a firewalling problem. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Samba a no-go
thats my problem,too. i configured bastille a few times now, and with allow=icmp and allow 139 and so on, the netbios ports still are closed on my internal trusted nic. i just cant get bastille to leave everything opened on it. also on the external nic everything is closed, although i told bastille to let the icmps open,.. regards On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Civileme wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2001 23:50, s wrote: Hi all, I know it's a long shot anyone being able to help on such a project with so many variables, but I need to try... I'm trying to configure it, but it just won't work. I bascally followed the plan layed out at: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/samba/samba1.html with a little: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN209 on the side. However it's a no-go. Anyone seen errors like: error connecting to 127.0.0.1:139 (connection refused) when testing with smbclient -L localhost ? I have tripled checked the all files and such and just can't eyeball the problem. I reconfigured firewall using BastilleInteractive and tried to leave ports 137 139 open to internal interfaces. So if course none of the computers knows too much about the others existance, other than returned ping packets. I hate to lay out all the boring gory details right off the bat. If this rings any bells to anyone and need more info, I'll gladly post it. I would appreciate your help on this. As always, TIA, -s Take down the firewall Implement Samba Bring up the firewall, step by step, which is particularly easy to do with Bastille. You are not going anywhere wuth so many variables to juggle, and it looks like a firewalling problem. Civileme
[newbie] Download stuff from Powerpack
Hello can anyone download stuff that comes in the powerpack? I used to have one but it with a friend now and she is a summer vacation. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] paranoia and a letter
How did you get that Parallel port tape drive to work in Linux? I have one here and can't get it to work? Jeanette Franki wrote: have you tried to find windows 2000 or ME or XP drivers for lots of legacy stuff? I have, and have had many failures in doing so... MS have their own policy... try running win2000 on a P100, I dare you... (I have a mandrake box doing that just fine.) As an example, I have a really nice Seagate tape backup drive that uses the parallell port, slow, but who cares it did unattended backups over night I am unable to use it now in win2000 I have to have a win95 machine on the network and back up to that That is just one of my stories of woe. linux still supports most old hardware windows just drops it entirely and tells you that you should be using something newer anyway I think its only a matter of time before that becomes obvious to people, Have a look at the minimum specs for WinXP, and then read about what all the testers are saying the REAL minimum should be to actually use the software productivity... just thought I'd add my 10 cents worth... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pablo García Durán Sent: Wednesday, 6 June 2001 6:05 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] paranoia and a letter Dear guys: Yes, I misused the word paranoia (I gave it the sense it nowadays has in slang Spanish) so probably I got slightly misunderstood. Sorry for that. But it was a critic anyway. Again I want to declare my sympathy towards the Linux community. It's a nice idea that matches part of what I think computers should be. But again don't expect the crowd to abandon their Windows-based machines at this time. Most people will pay to be able to click the add any hardware icon and start printing, scanning or connecting to the Internet immediately. I'm not saying you surrender. I'm just saying: read History and learn the Macintosh lesson. I leave you with an open letter I found, about the real importance of an operating system. -- Pablo Garcia-Duran A letter to operating system designers Written By: Timothy Nordloh Linux, Microsoft, Apple! It's so confusing! which operating system is best? I'm here to tell you, as briefly as possible, that it doesn't matter. First of all, the majority of users are like me; they see their operating system for no more than three seconds, before launching their favorite application. Second, we know you all want money, even the Linux companies. also, we know you're in bed with the hardware companies. After reading the line on the bottom of the new Mac OS X, display box, I now know that it is the Most Advanced Operating System in the World. All this statement tells me is that even Apple can't be trusted to be completely honest. I worry that the chief operating system companies out there are getting away from the true meaning of 'operating system.' I think back on the days of DOS. I typed 'edit', and I'm editing documents. I typed 'menu' and I got a menu. Best of all, I got a printed instruction manual that told me these things. What ever happened to instruction manuals? They went from explaining the ins and outs of DOS to describing how to double-click. We need to examine the computer of yesterday. It was simple and reliable. We could print our documents. There were about 20 options on any one product. Anyone could jump in and be 'certified' on a word processor in under thirty minutes. An example of how computers have gotten away from simplicity; back in 1990, if I pressed the button labeled 'print screen', guess what happened? the words on my screen were magically transported to my printer! I miss that. Also, my computer booted up in less than two minutes. When did we lose sight of that simplicity? Stepping back to the present, I have a computer that forgets what kind of monitor I have in Windows, and doesn't shut down properly in Linux. I still have the default background on my computer. I think it's light blue, but I'm not sure. The only time I see my background is during the two seconds it takes me to click on an application icon. I also don't spend a lot of time personalizing my settings. I sit down and start typing on a word processor. Or I install the latest version of Quake. Or I surf the internet. Typically, the only part of the operating system I see is the taskbar. I've seen the pretty Whistler screenshots, and I like the lovely Mac OS interface, but it's all going in the wrong direction. I want to get to where I'm going in one click, or with a simple typed command. No menus, no searches, just give me my games or my web browser. What's up with the .NET concept? First of all, it's silly to think about selling me the chance to use Microsoft Word; I already paid 300
Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up
Tim it works after your advice. Just turned the modem off, restarted the network, and it's up and running. I can't begin to tell you how thankfull I am for your help. I posted to a few newsgroups, week of agravation and then you came and helped. Thanks again. If you are ever in Michigan, USA email me. I owe you lunch. Ilya Sterin From: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ilya Sterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:37:55 -0400 I'm assuming you're trying to connect this Linux box to the RoadRunner server by itself, and not through a gateway router. Let's start in DrakConf. Since you're using Mandrake 8, there's an option on the left, that reads Network Internet. Select that option, then select the Connection option. From what you've said below, it sounds like you've gone through this method. Go through and configure the card. You can select the Cable Connection, or LAN connection, either will work since they are basically the same set up. Tell it to use DHCP, if it doesn't have the software, it will prompt for the CD and will install it. It will tell you that it's going to restart the network. I can't remember if it gives you a choice to say no, but if it does, tell it now. It's just going to time out. After you've done that, power off your cable modem. Leave it off for a good 10 seconds or so, then power it back on. Now head back to your Linux box. su - to root, and run this command. [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/network status Configured devices: lo eth0 Devices that are down: Devices with modified configuration: You should get some variant of that output when you run that command. However if you see eth0 listed under Devices that are down: then you're network card is not completely configured. If your output does look like that, then run this command. [root@yoda /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart Setting network parameters:[ OK ] Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0:[ OK ] And that should look something like it does above. It may take a little bit of time at bringing up interface eth0, that's expected since it's trying to get an IP address from the DHCP server. If it comes back and gives you an [ OK ] then you should be set. But to make sure run the command ifconfig. Your out put will look something like this. [root@r2d2 /root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Bcast:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Mask:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:720497 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2 TX packets:123941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:20 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:439288285 (418.9 Mb) TX bytes:10165271 (9.6 Mb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x9400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb) TX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb) The numbers that are X'd out are the ones that you should look at. The inet addr will be your IP address. From there you will be able to get to the outside world with no problem. Try testing it by pinging yahoo.com, or something else that's local. Then check if your machine also downloaded the DNS information. It's stored in /etc/resolv.conf, and will like this most likely. [root@r2d2 /root]# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 24.131.1.9 nameserver 24.131.1.8 search mw.mediaone.net That should then get your machine on the network. Now if your machine is going through another machine that's doing internet connection sharing, then you'll have to go other routes on getting your Mandrake 8 box on the Internet. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | I am trying to install NetGear ethernet card to use with my cable modem | (RoadRunner service, dynamically assigns IP addresses) which is recognized | and uses the tulip driver on Mandrake 8.0. It seems like the detection | using the Mandrake Internet Configuration, goes fine. It detects an | ethernet card and sets up LAN with no error messages. Under host I tried | rr.twmi.com and the default localhost.localdomain, neither work, but I don't | really know what host they are looking for. Neither worked though, my Win2K | system works fine and with ipconfig tells me that the default host is | rr.twmi.com (that's where I got it from). After the internet set up, the | applet has the connect to internet
Re: [newbie] howto get linux onto a windows network
You can use samba say you have a server named server (winnt) (\\server) and you want to get to your directory user (brandon) (\\server\brandon) you can use this command mount -t smbfs \\server\brandon /mnt/brandon any questions email me brandon caudle - Original Message - From: duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:24 PM Subject: [newbie] howto get linux onto a windows network Hi Can anyone tell me how I can get my 7.2 Laptop onto a windows network at my work. Do i need Samba. the network has proxy and dhcp but i'm not sure where to point my machine etc Any help would be great Thankyou Duncan
Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up
Well, having had my own problems with my cable connection, and then being even more frustrated when all it took was a modem reboot to fix the problem. It appears that the modem connects first, downloads any software updates for the modem each time. And if there isn't something there asking for an address, or requesting traffic, it forgets it's actually there. So it downloads the acceptable MAC addresses and then fetches an IP address. So if you run into this problem again, just give that a try. All our machines for UNIXTECHS are on cable connections and when we run into problems, that usually does the trick. But glad I could help! tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Tim it works after your advice. Just turned the modem off, restarted the | network, and it's up and running. I can't begin to tell you how thankfull I | am for your help. I posted to a few newsgroups, week of agravation and then | you came and helped. Thanks again. | | If you are ever in Michigan, USA email me. I owe you lunch. | | Ilya Sterin --
Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8
Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is kicking in. I want KDE. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility I was looking at this back in 7.2. The man says you will find it in either the .xinitrc in your /home or in the xinitrc in /lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc. As I recall, it was in the /lib/X11 directory for 7.2. Apparently your script isn't updating with the last windows environment used (KDE, Gnome etc.). Do you log in from the GUI or from the terminal? Barry
[newbie] Internet Connection Problems
Okay I'm using Mandrake 7.2 with the kppp (kde) dial frontend,I can`t connect to the internet, I keep getting pppd server died unexpectedly errors?...I`ve gone into /etc/ppp/options and looked at the file. I have been told to change the `auth` command to `#auth` or `noauth` but to no avail. Also when I ran `ifconfig` in the terminal I got the following but no `ppp0` entry? [palisade@localhost palisade]$ su - Password:[Root@localhost /root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:D3:62:8F inet addr:172.0.0.1 Bcast:172.0.0.225 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:14 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 [root@localhost /root]# if config a a: error fetching interface information: Device not found [root@localhost /root]# I get ppp errors, timeouts and a connection that isn't really a connection!This is really getting me down.Please help. My pc spec follows:Desktop - Custom CPU : Athlon - 1.2Ghz Overclocked to 1425Mhz Manufactuer : Amd - Thunderbird RAM (Mo) : 256 - 133cas2 Crucial running at 152 Hard disk : I.B.M. - 46.1Gb Deskstar Video card : No record - 3dfx Voodoo 5500 AGP Sound card : Creative labs - SB Live Platinum CD / DVD ROM : No record - 54x cheapo Operating System : Mandrake - 7.2 Modem : Us Robotics - Sportster Flash 56k Printer : Epson - Colour Stylus 440 Also have Win98se Installed, managed by lilo boot manager In case you havn't noticed I am new to linux and need quite a but of help! Regards Chris Keegan
[newbie] changing soundcards in Mandrake 8?
I've just swapped my SB Live! out of my machine and enabled the onboard VIA AC'97 audio instead. I checked harddrake and the module via82cxxx_audio seems to be loaded. The module for the Live! card seems to be no longer loaded. However, I seem to have lost all sound running any multimedia application (including Realplayer, XMMS etc) at all in my machine. I ran the Soundmixer (kmix) and it only claims Invalid mixer Creative SBLive. Is there any way to get Mandrake to use the VIA sound instead, short of re-installing Mandrake? Thanks in advance for any help.
[newbie] Problem entering Sawmill config tool
Hi, today I decided to sit down and play with linux (my machine is a Celeron 566, 64 MB, ram, running LM7.2.). I thought I'd like to play with sawmill-sawfish, as I've been meaning to learn about lisp for a bit. Now I've installed it and I was happy how fast, responsive and fairly easy to use it was even in it's minimal default settings. My problem is I would like to play with the configuration tool provided in the menu, but whenever I try to access any of the items in the config list, nothing happens. *click* void at the moment. I've searched around the web a little and have found a couple of posts on msg boards but none with replies that answered the persons question. Has anyone had this problem? Any light on how to fix it? Also as a tack on, if someone knows a good tutorial for sawfish/sawmill, or lisp programming, if you have the time to send a link it would be nice :-) Thanks, Trevor Stewart (Zaphod42) AF 1982 Canada M BSC/BCS in training alt.atheism atheist/agnostic list, #1623! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. --Albert Einstein
[newbie] using LM 8.0 as a mail server
Is there a mail server that I can set up on LM 8.0?? Not a client, but an SMTP mail server?? Thanks, Tom http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions
[newbie] Linux Directory Structure for the Totally Ignorant (rev)
LINUX DIRECTORY STRUCTURE revised (for best viewing, use size 10 font) I was told that the proper word is STRUCTURE but I prefer SYSTEM. Your choice One way to get some understanding of the Linux Directory Structure is to compare it to a typical office filing cabinet. We'll consider the cabinet as the starting point or root of the office's filing system. The filing system is divided into drawers that have labels that in some way identify with their contents Our special filing cabinet has an identification symbol / and its four drawers are named '/roundfile', '/cabinet', '/stuff', and '/idontknow'. Each drawer contains folders and some documents and all these items have labels for identification. Some folders contain additional folders and even these may contain more folders with documents here and there. By having an organized order to these folders and documents, we are able to locate any document by starting with the root of the system, the cabinet, then going to the proper drawer and opening specific folders until we come to the desired document. Incidentally, the / at the start of each drawername tells us that the drawers belong to the cabinet ( / ) A Linux Directory Structure is organized much like the above cabinet. The difference is, in Linux, we are working with electronic data storage instead of physical data storage. The Linux Directory Structure is contained in a huge directory. Think of this huge directory as an electronic file cabinet that contains all the Linux directories . Linuxers call it the 'root directory' and identify it with the symbol ' / '. It contains electronic drawers which contain electronic folders and electronic documents. Instead of calling them cabinet, drawers, and folders, we'll call all of them directories and instead of documents, we'll say files. / (the root of the system) __|_ | | | | | | | | | | | | | /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /usr /mnt /proc /root /sbin /tmp /lib /var This shows Linux's standard names of the directories that are like electonic drawers of a cabinet. These directories are assigned names according to their purpose. For example, /dev contains data for devices such as disk drives, modems, and other hardware. One directory here is named /root. This is one of the subdirectories of the root directory (of the system) labelled /. Think of it as our cabinet having a drawer labelled '/cabinet. (so, when we say 'cabinet' we mean the cabinet and when we say /cabinet, we mean the drawer - /root is like a drawer in the root directory) /root is a special directory that is allowed to be opened by just one person, Think of it as a drawer that has a combination lock and only one person knows the combination. We'll call this person 'the root user', the person in charge of the entire system. The 'root user' is the only person who knows the password that will open this directory called /root. The 'root user' is the only one who is allowed to manipulate whatever important information is found in '/root' to make the computer do what it is supposed to do . In Linux lingo, the ' root user ' is more often called just 'root'. This could make it difficult sometimes to distinguish between root , the overall directory ( / ), and root, the user, but in the lingo, , / is called the ' root directory.' So, to emphasize the point, /root is a subdirectory of the 'root directory and /root is the private domain of the user named 'root. Think, 'root directory' = cabinet, /root = drawer and root user = manager (some Linux mucky-mucks prefer the title 'administrator) user root is also referred to as the 'superuser' because of root's power over the whole system Linux allows more than one user use its facilities. These users have private directories that are located in the /home directory. Each private directory is protected by a password to prevent other users from using it. In some situations, there may be so many ordinary users who may generate so much data that the /home directory may contain more folders and data than any other directory, except the root directory, of course. The only other user who can access these general user's private directories is 'root', the manager of the Linux system . ' root ' can and should register as an ordinary user with a common user name and assume the role of root only when some action calls for it. This is to avoid accidental mishaps during routine operation that could upset the entire Linux system if root did all routine work as root . A mistake as an ordinary user is more likely to harm just that user's data but a mistake by root could shut down (ruin) the entire Linux System. Some errors are correctible but it requires intimate knowledge of the system. Ordinary users are allowed to create or delete their own directories and files (with some exceptions) but not another user's. ' root ' can delete or rename any personal directory that was created by a regular user. or file
[newbie] VMware Express for $20
Hello Guys Is it worth it to buy VMWare Express for $20? VMware Express will only support Win95 and Win98. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
FW: [newbie] RPM Manager
[Original Message] From: Dave DeGear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/6/01 2:55:29 AM Subject: [newbie] RPM Manager I've been using the Software Manager to update my RPM packages. I see that the Installed -- Flat List tab shows most of the packages twice. The name, size, version, and description is exactly for same for each of the duplicate listings. Is there a way to get rid of the duplicates? Also, in the Software Manager, I notice that some of the packages are black on a white background while others are black on a grey background. All of the duplicate listings have the same colour background as the other one in the listing (sometimes the duplicates both have a grey background and other times they both have a white background). Thanks. ...Dave I see this happen when you have a url for a security update and another for general updates in the list of servers to connect to. Seems as they both have the same updates and so both feed the package name back to you. My best guess anyhoo. --- Dennis Myers --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.
Re: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0
Nope.. haven't gotten any replies yet... Don't think I got any CUPS errors, just not letting me type ANYTHING at all in those spaces.. - Original Message - From: Wendell Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0 have you gotten any replies on this? No one seems to know alot about network printing under CUPS. Frustrating. Let me know if you get any answers and I will do the same. Wendell Gragg From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:29:33 -0500 I've just installed LM8.0 and when I go to the printer setup, and choose network printer, and go to the next screen that wants the printer name, etc, it won't let me type anything in the blank spaces so I can tell it WHERE the printer is. Has anyone run into this problem? Thanks, Tom http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions
Re: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0
Tom wrote: Nope.. haven't gotten any replies yet... Don't think I got any CUPS errors, just not letting me type ANYTHING at all in those spaces.. - Original Message - From: Wendell Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0 have you gotten any replies on this? No one seems to know alot about network printing under CUPS. Frustrating. Let me know if you get any answers and I will do the same. Wendell Gragg From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Printer setup on 8.0 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:29:33 -0500 I've just installed LM8.0 and when I go to the printer setup, and choose network printer, and go to the next screen that wants the printer name, etc, it won't let me type anything in the blank spaces so I can tell it WHERE the printer is. Has anyone run into this problem? Thanks, Tom Tom/Wendellhave either of you tried the web based CUP setup/admin utility or pup (both are in the menu)? -- Alan
Re: [newbie] using LM 8.0 as a mail server
On Thursday 07 June 2001 00:46, Tom wrote: Is there a mail server that I can set up on LM 8.0?? Not a client, but an SMTP mail server?? Thanks, Tom http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions the question, my friend, is not 'is there one' but rather, 'which one'. :) www.qmail.org www.sendmail.org of course, these are linux programs...so they must not be as 'standardized' or as 'secure' as microsoft products which is why about 3 gazillion (or, a lot) mail servers are using it. :) it seems like a good combo for email and server is qmail and freebsd...just from what i've seen anyway. good luck -- +- + Jeffrey M. Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + (508)792-6070 +-
[newbie] Sane
Hello I installed Sane with frontends and backends (from MDK 8.0 install disk) on my desktop computer running MDK 8.0. I can can access my scanner from GIMP, but only get a communication error. I am running an ABIT BP6 motherboard with a pair of Celeron 366's (at 550 Mbps) and 384K PC133 ram. The scanner is a HP 4C flatbed connected to channel 1 of a TEKRAM DC-390U3W SCSI 160 controller. Where do I find a SANE configuration utility? TIA Lee Waters
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!?
Christina, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some e-mail clients add all kinds of extra html tags (see your post below), reduce the size of the font such that it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish color, making it much more difficult to read. You have several options for a 386 processor, depending on how much hard-drive space you have. One would be peanut, as Civilme suggested, another would be tiny (http://tiny.seul.org), and there are others -- take a look at the english distribution list on linux.org Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:17 PM 06/06/2001 +0200, Christina Kokori wrote: Normal 0 DocumentEmail 21 0 0 size=3 color=blue face="Bradley Hand ITC"> 12.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Hi there all you newbies, size=3 color=blue face="Bradley Hand ITC"> 12.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> size=3 color=blue face="Bradley Hand ITC"> 12.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I happen to be one of the totally ignorant newbies who hasnt got the faintest notion of computer languages although I love playing around with them!!! style="mso-spacerun: yes"> I have an extremely old 386 processor with DOS 6.0 version and Windows in Japanese. yes"> Unfortunately, not being Japanese, I cannot work with it. I have a Linux Mandrake 7.2 CD Rom but can't install it as the processor is too old. yes"> I have tried looking in the download pages on the Linux homepage, but as I am totally ignorant, I have no idea what to download. style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Is anybody able to help me, pretty please with a cherry on top!!. size=3 color=blue face="Bradley Hand ITC"> 12.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> size=3 color=blue face="Bradley Hand ITC"> 12.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Thanking you s much in advance. size=3 color=blue face="Bradley Hand ITC"> 12.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> size=3 color=blue face="Bradley Hand ITC"> font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:blue'>Christina Kokori face=Arial>
Re: [newbie] VMware Express for $20
If you want to run Win95/98 (and not ME/NT/2000XP) then why not? The normal retail cost is $US79, so you've got yourself a real bargain there. I myself run Win98 and Win2K in VMware Workstation, and I can say they run quite well, albeit a bit slowly on my Pentium II 350. Just make sure you have a fast processor and oodles of RAM (I have 256MB; I would recommend 192MB minimum). On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 03:35, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Guys Is it worth it to buy VMWare Express for $20? VMware Express will only support Win95 and Win98. = Regards, OOzy -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] VMware Workstation with Mandrake 8
Attention all users of VMware Workstation with Mandrake 8, VMware (http://www.vmware.com) have finally released version 2.0.4 of VMware Workstation. Current users of the 2.x series can get a free upgrade. A notable feature of this release is its support for 2.4 kernels. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
RE: [newbie] Linux Directory Structure for the Totally Ignorant (rev)
Hi You can use the link below to follow to the Official LM 8.0 directory structure explanation http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/bfiles.html -Original Message-From: alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:47 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Linux Directory Structure for the Totally Ignorant (rev) LINUX DIRECTORY STRUCTURE revised (for best viewing, use size 10 font) I was told that the proper word is STRUCTURE but I prefer SYSTEM. Your choice One way to get some understanding of the Linux Directory Structure is to compare it to a typical office filing cabinet. We'll consider the cabinet as the starting point or root of the office's filing system. The filing system is divided into drawers that have labels that in some way identify with their contents Our special filing cabinet has an identification symbol / and its four drawers are named '/roundfile', '/cabinet', '/stuff', and '/idontknow'. Each drawer contains folders and some documents and all these items have labels for identification. Some folders contain additional folders and even these may contain more folders with documents here and there. By having an organized order to these folders and documents, we are able to locate any document by starting with the root of the system, the cabinet, then going to the proper drawer and opening specific folders until we come to the desired document. Incidentally, the / at the start of each drawername tells us that the drawers belong to the cabinet ( / ) A Linux Directory Structure is organized much like the above cabinet. The difference is, in Linux, we are working with electronic data storage instead of physical data storage. The Linux Directory Structure is contained in a huge directory. Think of this huge directory as an electronic file cabinet that contains all the Linux directories . Linuxers call it the 'root directory' and identify it with the symbol ' / '. It contains electronic drawers which contain electronic folders and electronic documents. Instead of calling them cabinet, drawers, and folders, we'll call all of them directories and instead of documents, we'll say files. / (the root of the system) __|_ | | | | | | | | | | | | | /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /usr /mnt /proc /root /sbin /tmp /lib /var This shows Linux's standard names of the directories that are like electonic drawers of a cabinet. These directories are assigned names according to their purpose. For example, /dev contains data for devices such as disk drives, modems, and other hardware. One directory here is named /root. This is one of the subdirectories of the root directory (of the system) labelled /. Think of it as our cabinet having a drawer labelled '/cabinet. (so, when we say 'cabinet' we mean the cabinet and when we say /cabinet, we mean the drawer - /root is like a drawer in the root directory) /root is a special directory that is allowed to be opened by just one person, Think of it as a drawer that has a combination lock and only one person knows the combination. We'll call this person 'the root user', the person in charge of the entire system. The 'root user' is the only person who knows the password that will open this directory called /root. The 'root user' is the only one who is allowed to manipulate whatever important information is found in '/root' to make the computer do what it is supposed to do . In Linux lingo, the ' root user ' is more often called just 'root'. This could make it difficult sometimes to distinguish between root , the overall directory ( / ), and root, the user, but in the lingo, , / is called the ' root directory.' So, to emphasize the point, /root is a subdirectory of the 'root directory and /root is the private domain of the user named 'root. Think, 'root directory' = cabinet, /root = drawer and root user = manager (some Linux mucky-mucks prefer the title 'administrator) user root is also referred to as the 'superuser' because of root's power over the whole system Linux allows more than one user use its facilities. These users have private directories that are located in the /home directory. Each private directory is protected by a password to prevent other users from using it. In some situations, there may be so many ordinary users who may generate so much data that the /home directory may contain more folders and data than any other directory, except the root directory, of course. The only other user who can access these general user's private directories is 'root', the manager of the Linux system . ' root ' can and should register as an ordinary user with a common user name
Re: [newbie] RPM Manager
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:44:1 -00, Dennis Myers wrote: I see this happen when you have a url for a security update and another for general updates in the list of servers to connect to. Seems as they both have the same updates and so both feed the package name back to you. I did have duplicates in my list of Installable packages when I selected both the cooker versions and the stable versions. The problem that I'm having is the duplicates in my Installed list so this doesn't seem to be the same thing. Thanks. ...Dave
Re: [newbie] using LM 8.0 as a mail server
Tom, sendmail and / or postfix should be included on the LM 8.0 CDs, or you can download them from any of the Mandrake mirror sites. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:46 PM 06/06/2001 -0700, Tom wrote: Is there a mail server that I can set up on LM 8.0?? Not a client, but an SMTP mail server?? Thanks, Tom http://1cis.com Free E-mail Servers with unlimited mailboxes 1st Class Internet Solutions
Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up
That's what I was looking for. Thanks. I'll try later today and let you know if it works. I've tried some of that, but haven't turned the modem off and did some other suggested configs. Thanks again. Ilya Sterin From: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ilya Sterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:37:55 -0400 I'm assuming you're trying to connect this Linux box to the RoadRunner server by itself, and not through a gateway router. Let's start in DrakConf. Since you're using Mandrake 8, there's an option on the left, that reads Network Internet. Select that option, then select the Connection option. From what you've said below, it sounds like you've gone through this method. Go through and configure the card. You can select the Cable Connection, or LAN connection, either will work since they are basically the same set up. Tell it to use DHCP, if it doesn't have the software, it will prompt for the CD and will install it. It will tell you that it's going to restart the network. I can't remember if it gives you a choice to say no, but if it does, tell it now. It's just going to time out. After you've done that, power off your cable modem. Leave it off for a good 10 seconds or so, then power it back on. Now head back to your Linux box. su - to root, and run this command. [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/network status Configured devices: lo eth0 Devices that are down: Devices with modified configuration: You should get some variant of that output when you run that command. However if you see eth0 listed under Devices that are down: then you're network card is not completely configured. If your output does look like that, then run this command. [root@yoda /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart Setting network parameters:[ OK ] Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0:[ OK ] And that should look something like it does above. It may take a little bit of time at bringing up interface eth0, that's expected since it's trying to get an IP address from the DHCP server. If it comes back and gives you an [ OK ] then you should be set. But to make sure run the command ifconfig. Your out put will look something like this. [root@r2d2 /root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Bcast:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Mask:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:720497 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2 TX packets:123941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:20 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:439288285 (418.9 Mb) TX bytes:10165271 (9.6 Mb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x9400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb) TX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb) The numbers that are X'd out are the ones that you should look at. The inet addr will be your IP address. From there you will be able to get to the outside world with no problem. Try testing it by pinging yahoo.com, or something else that's local. Then check if your machine also downloaded the DNS information. It's stored in /etc/resolv.conf, and will like this most likely. [root@r2d2 /root]# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 24.131.1.9 nameserver 24.131.1.8 search mw.mediaone.net That should then get your machine on the network. Now if your machine is going through another machine that's doing internet connection sharing, then you'll have to go other routes on getting your Mandrake 8 box on the Internet. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | I am trying to install NetGear ethernet card to use with my cable modem | (RoadRunner service, dynamically assigns IP addresses) which is recognized | and uses the tulip driver on Mandrake 8.0. It seems like the detection | using the Mandrake Internet Configuration, goes fine. It detects an | ethernet card and sets up LAN with no error messages. Under host I tried | rr.twmi.com and the default localhost.localdomain, neither work, but I don't | really know what host they are looking for. Neither worked though, my Win2K | system works fine and with ipconfig tells me that the default host is | rr.twmi.com (that's where I got it from). After the internet set up, the | applet has the connect to internet button which when I click tries (for | about 20-30 seconds) to connect but with no luck. I did select auto dhcp, | when
Re: [newbie] problem with mysql
How about changing the execute permissions. What error message are you getting? Ilya Sterin From: Kuang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] problem with mysql Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:30:00 +0700 MySQL server is working but only root account in linux can run MySQL client what should I do to make it available to other account thanks a lot... _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] DOS on MBR
Hi, I am not sure if I understand your correctly?? I don't know of a way to create DOS filesystem on MBR, but I do know of a way of restoring it. Usually this is done by the following command: fdisk /mbr If you could perhaps be a little more specific, then I can help you. HTH, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: Davinci [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:31 PM Subject: [newbie] DOS on MBR Hi all, I'm a newbie. Anybody know how to create DOS file system on MBR from C prompt? davinci 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
