Re: [newbie] suid icon on desktop
Ok, so if I setup a shell script: #!/bin/sh adsl-stop && adsl-start i can set it up to run with kdesu. What program does running MandrakeUpdate invoke when you open it as user? It is prettier. -Paul Rodríguez On 19 Sep 2001 16:03:52 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Giving direct root access without password protection to a user is a very bad > thing. A possible solution would be to use kdesu, which prompts for the root > password when it is run. To use it, prefix your command in the icon properties > with "kdesu -c". > > Another possible solution could be to set up the commands as a > regularly-occurring cron job. That way, the connection is renewed at regular > intervals (perhaps every ten minutes). I have a similar setup to renew my cable > modem's DHCP lease and it works well. > > On 18 Sep 2001 23:13:03 -0400, Paul Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's the way it is set up now. I wanted an icon to reset the network > status in case the connection fails (allways a possibillity) without > having to restart the computer. > > > > -Paul Rodríguez > > -- > 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 > > > =_1001021477-779-516 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix / Fetchmail problems solved!
Hi! So that others may not have to go through the same silliness that I brought upon myself, here is a recap and a solution: setup: I'm running Mandrake 8.0. Tried to get fetchmail to fetch pop3. I have a mailbox and it appeared to be set up properly (after advice from David Fox). background: I've posted before about this problem and then gave up for a day. Earlier Mark (Dark Matter) had astutely asked me how I got mail via Mozilla to work. I recalled the settings incorrectly (stupid me!). Tonight I reviewed my situation. My pop3 server name is mail and NOT mail.home.com. Settings/configuration: My .fetchmailrc file is as follows: set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" poll mail protocol POP3 user 'femail.bc.wave.home.com' there with password '' is zorba here options fetchall outcome upon launch: SENDING MAIL WORKED! THE KEY was thinking about what Mark had said. I put in the "mail" (which is the name of my mail server on the @Home system) above. I got an error message that included something I'd seen in my e-mail headers before: authorization failure: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@femail.bc.wave.home.com So I then realized that the "femail.bc.wave.home.com" is what I've seen in my own headers, so likely that is what I ought to be using instead of @home.com. I made the changes to make the .fecthmailrc as it is above, and Bob was my cousin, er, uncle. THANKS EVERYONE! Cheers! -warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cron
ll putting a shell script in one of my cron folders execute it as root if need be (how do I differentiate). ANd how do I change frequency (i.e. other than daily weekly or hourly). Say, three time a day? -Paul Rodríguez On 23 Sep 2001 01:57:16 -0400, Paul Rodríguez wrote: > How do I set up a cron job? And how do I set the frequency? > > -Paul Rodríguez cron jobs _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] suid icon on desktop
How do I set up a cron job? And how do I set the frequency? -Paul Rodríguez On 19 Sep 2001 16:03:52 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Giving direct root access without password protection to a user is a very bad > thing. A possible solution would be to use kdesu, which prompts for the root > password when it is run. To use it, prefix your command in the icon properties > with "kdesu -c". > > Another possible solution could be to set up the commands as a > regularly-occurring cron job. That way, the connection is renewed at regular > intervals (perhaps every ten minutes). I have a similar setup to renew my cable > modem's DHCP lease and it works well. > > On 18 Sep 2001 23:13:03 -0400, Paul Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's the way it is set up now. I wanted an icon to reset the network > status in case the connection fails (allways a possibillity) without > having to restart the computer. > > > > -Paul Rodríguez > > -- > 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 > > > =_1001021477-779-516 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?
Here's the entries I'm looking at removing. Thanks! Sep 23 00:47:12 home portsentry[1073]: attackalert: UDP scan from host: dhcp1.cgocable.net/24.xxx.x.xx to UDP port: 68 and Sep 23 00:47:12 home portsentry[1073]: attackalert: Host: dhcp1.cgocable.net/24.xxx.x.xx is already blocked Ignoring and Sep 23 00:45:00 home postfix/pickup[3669]: 887BF2BADC: uid=0 from= Sep 23 00:45:00 home postfix/cleanup[4791]: 887BF2BADC: message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sep 23 00:45:00 home postfix/qmgr[1605]: 887BF2BADC: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=20502, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 23 00:45:01 home postfix/smtp[4793]: 887BF2BADC: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=mail.plannettechnologies.com[216.36.196.159], delay=1, status=sent (250 XAA02069 Message accepted for delivery) On Sunday 23 September 2001 00:36, you wrote: > If you don't want to see certain activity in the reports, look at > logcheck.ignore. Anything specified in that file will be ignored by > logcheck. > If you have trouble, send me one of the messages from the log file. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall
On Saturday 22 September 2001 19:35, you wrote: > I have setup my firewall (iptables) with the control center in mandrake > 8. It works great untill I reboot and I see that all are set back to > allow all. What is up with that? How do I get the rules to stick? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: I don't know the answer to your problem, but I might suggest that you go to su console and then cd to /sbin and type in "InteractiveBastille" go through the setup with that select no for file limits question, and the settings should stick. It is fairly descriptive as it asks you what you want to do to set the firewall up. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?
If you don't want to see certain activity in the reports, look at logcheck.ignore. Anything specified in that file will be ignored by logcheck. For example, "ipop3d.*Moved" will ignore entries like this from maillog: Sep 22 21:28:06 yoda ipop3d[2967]: Moved 7395 bytes of new mail to /home/ed/mbox from /var/spool/mail/ed host= eds.wrenkasky.com [10.10.10.11] If you have trouble, send me one of the messages from the log file. Ed At 11:01 PM Saturday, 9/22/2001, Paul Rodríguez wrote -=> >After reading this, I installed Logcheck (after a couple of hours of playing >around with sendmail and postfix, and after an hour realizing I wasn't >getting the emails because I had disabled postfix on boot up since I wasn't >using it yet.. DOH!) > >Anywase.. how do I filter out the port 68 DHCP scans from the program? It >thinks they are attacks and fill my log pretty good.. :( > >On Saturday 22 September 2001 15:13, you wrote: > > FWIW - > > > > I use a handy little tool called Logcheck from Psionic that monitors logs > > and reports via email. It's very configurable and runs via cron so you can > > run it as often as you like. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it. -Yogi Berra, giving directions Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Mysterious Behavior (Was RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem)
I've tried everything on it already, tried different drivers out of desperationutter desperation. BTW, I borrowed a Hayes Accura Faxmodem from my brother and got it to work a couple of times. Now, when kudzu tries to probe COM2, my box reboots! I tried turning it on once I entered linuxconf and the system hangs once I start a ppp session. Everything freezes. NOW, I removed the modem and use COM2 for my mouse, kudzu can't find the mouse. I have Windoze on a slave drive and it also can't find the mouse now. It also reboots once it probes COM2 on startup. Other times it says: Windows Protection Error...restart your system. What the hell is that? Everything started when I used the Accura on a ppp session. COM2 is busted and COM1 is starting to go on a fritz! I just bought this ASUS last year! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You might try opening a terminal window and running modemconf (you'll have to >su first). Then tell it "unknown" and to detect and see what it says. My >PCTel modem showed up on something like /dev/ttyS15. If you tell it to >"accept", I believe it creates a link with /dev/modem. > >Out of curiousity, what made you try the PCTel chipset driver since that chip >set isn't on your modem? > >Joe > > > >On Saturday 22 September 2001 02:39 am, you wrote: >> Noits the 3CP5699A, it says "made specially for the Windows >> operating system" on the box. I need "3cmlnkw.exe" in Win to get >> it to work. >> >> I tried the PCTel chipset driver, loaded the serial and ppp modules >> and got the modem responding in >> minicom, but I get an I/O error when I try to dial with it. >> >> I've done setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 9 io e800 .., >> but no response, also in kppp. >> >> It's definitely a software modem. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Whata PCTel chipset is on your 3Com modem? I've using several different >> >winmodems based on the PCTel chipset on several linux boxes and haven't >> > had any problem. What problems did you have with the driver? >> > >> >Joe >> > >> >On Saturday 18 August 2001 12:33 am, you wrote: >> >> I'm using both COM ports already and my board only has 1 ISA slot, and >> >> I have a SBAwe 64 on it. >> >> >> >> Ok, I'm willing to do the setserial and symlink combo thingies >> >> But PCI is the only thing I have left...really. >> >> I have a 3Com winmodem and I hate it. >> >> I've even tried the PCTel driver, in desperation...no luck. >> >> >> >> I haven't tried USB externals, how do those work in MDK? >> >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >yes, his name is mario and he lives just down the street from here... >> >> > :-) >> >> > >> >> >As for the Modem, externals are really no config.. linux conf has a >> >> > modem detect that creates a symlink that links /dev/ttysX to >> >> > /dev/modem and thats most of your config done there.. >> >> > >> >> >As for the internals, I have had some success with non PNP isa cards, >> >> > but you would very likely find an external easier to get sorted. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >On another note, I have just "bought" my first linux distro,, I have >> >> > been using links for many many years, but always got it from >> >> > somewhere, never paid for it before.. >> >> > >> >> >but I just lashed out and preordered/prepaid 165 odd bucks AU for >> >> > Mdk8.1 powerpack,,, I am sorta excited... :-) >> >> >hopefully I will soon make a flawless leap from mdk7.2 and 2.2kernels >> >> > to 8.1 and 2.4 on all our servers... (thats why I didn't swap with >> >> > mdk8, we worry about major new releases on first versions) >> >> > >> >> >woooh not as good as buying shares in mandrake I supose, but at >> >> >least I am supporting the movement. >> >> > >> >> >rgds >> >> > >> >> >Frank >> >> > >> >> >-Original Message- >> >> >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp >> >> >Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 7:01 PM >> >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >Subject: Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >I don't think you are gonna find a cheap OR a pci modem that does not >> >> >require >> >> >any configuration. you might look at e-bay and find an old 28.8 >> >> > external cheap, and an external requires LESS config than PCI. I want >> >> > a pizza maker that spits out a pizza on nights that i am to tired to >> >> > fix dinner, without me >> >> >having to even open the box or tell it I am tired too, and I want it to >> >> > have the correct popings when the pizza is done,,, know where I can >> >> > get one of those? >> >> > >> >> >On Friday 17 August 2001 18:10, you wrote: >> >> >> Anybody know of a "cheap" PCI non-winmodem supported by kernel >> >> >> 2.2.? >> >> >> While I'm at it, how about for 2.4.xxx? >> >> >> >> >> >> I've been to http://./~gromitkrc and linmodems, but can't >> >> >> make a suitable choice. >> >> >> >> >> >> I want one that configures itself...doesn't make me have to load >> >> >> any modules. >> >> >> >> >> >>
[newbie] Kernel 2.5...?
Hi Folks! when is the date that the Kernel 2.5 is expected to be released?? I read that it will has the ALSA drivers on it is that true? Nicolas Gomez Montevideo, URUGUAY ICQ#45144976 GNU/Linux -Mandrake 8.1 Release Candidate
Re: [newbie] a couple a things
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:56:10 -0400, etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a couple of weeks ago I had an e-mail config problem, and I started a new > user, as that new user I have not been able to add a name in the kmail > address book. it seems to be in there, but the next time I open the address > book it is gone, I am guessing a permissions problem, but where? Check the status (permissions, etc.) of your /home/yama/.kde/share/apps/kmail/addressbook file. > also I have not been able to access my usb cdwriter as the new user. at least > not to burn in Gcombust any more. Use userdrake to add that user to the 'cdwriter' group. -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet refused
Did you recently install any firewalls? -Paul Rodríguez On 22 Sep 2001 17:58:43 -0500, Michael D. Viron wrote: > >check your /etc/inetd.conf file whether your telnet server is commented out > >or not... > >otherwise check your hosts.allow and hosts.deny as well as eventually > >existing ipchains rules... > > > >--quay > > The above is true only if he is running 7.1 and earlier. 7.2 and later use > xinetd, which has its files under /etc/xinetd.d/ . > > Michael > > -- > Michael Viron > Registered Linux User #81978 > Senior Systems & Administration Consultant > Web Spinners, University of West Florida > > > =_1001199836-779-991 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Anyone Running Mac Linux-Man?
Anyone running Linux-Mandrake on a Mac? Thinking of installing on a G3/266. - Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help
:) I can't explain it. I found a bunch the other day and really wanted to add one to a new high-end system I'm building. For fun, for remeniscence, to see what they were really like (it's been so long). The drive was cheap. Would have had to wipe the disks before donating them to some retro-computing facility/hobbyist anyway. But mostly for fun. -Paul Rodríguez 22 Sep 2001 00:39:46 -0400, James R. McKenzie wrote: > Not to ask a dumb question but why did you want a 5.25 inch drive? No one > makes the disks any more and they're slower than hell in hot. > T H A N K Y O U > > > James R. McKenzie > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - Original Message - > From: "Paul Rodríguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:43 PM > Subject: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help > > > > I just got my hands on an Epson DYO dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive. (I > > really wanted a 5.25 drive.) ANyway, I have no idea how to hook it up > > to my system. It has a PCMCIA drive socket. I thought that was for > > laptops. ANybody know how to hook this up to my machine? Not even the > > power chords seem to fit. > > > > -Paul Rodríguez > > > > > > _ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > =_1001133731-779-841 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?
After reading this, I installed Logcheck (after a couple of hours of playing around with sendmail and postfix, and after an hour realizing I wasn't getting the emails because I had disabled postfix on boot up since I wasn't using it yet.. DOH!) Anywase.. how do I filter out the port 68 DHCP scans from the program? It thinks they are attacks and fill my log pretty good.. :( On Saturday 22 September 2001 15:13, you wrote: > FWIW - > > I use a handy little tool called Logcheck from Psionic that monitors logs > and reports via email. It's very configurable and runs via cron so you can > run it as often as you like. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed
check out the latest gimp-print driver. 4.1.99-b2 i think. it is much improved from the one that is in LM8 and written just to improve epson printer output On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:25:30 -0500 Linus Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 September 2001 6:02, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > I'm not sure what I'd tweak... > > It seems to print ok, but it has no pure ascii mode. It does everything > > as graphics (nice grey scale text, and lines...), and it's hopelessly slow. > > > (snip) > You should be able to fix the slow part by INCREASING the resolution. For > some reason, the Epson printer drivers default to a non-supported resolution > of something like 180 dpi. Change that to 360 or higher and you'll probably > be much happier. > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bootloader doesn't work after clean install of Mandrake 8.0
> ->Then it just starts spewing out 1s and 0s like this across the > ->screen "01 01 01 01 01 01 " except it goes on forever!! That's usually the case of either a missing bootloader for the driver, or perhaps one of the cables to your hard drive isn't quite seated properly. I recall this happening when one of my drive cables had a short, and it was (of course) the drive that held the boot record. > ->This of course wipes over whatever the Mandrake installer did, > ->but at least I can boot windows to read docs and send emails :) Try reloading the boot sector - if you are using lilo, it's pretty easy - it even saves a copy of the old boot sector for the drive(s) which you can use dd to copy over. You might see the file 'boot.0300' in /etc/lilo or in /boot - in any case, it's the boot record for the 03,00 device (i.e. /dev/hda). David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cannot ping localhost
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:03:27 +, Divinefire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks paul > > "ifup lo" worked a treat > it has also solved the problem with the buffer using my inet address > > didn't realise you had to put the local up aswell :) Normally, you don't -- but this is a bug in Mandrake 7.2. I had the same problem, and I fixed it by placing "ifup lo" in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so that it would load at startup. > -Divinefire > > "Good work Fella" > > Paul & Tami Albertine wrote: > > > > Have you tried ifconfig lo to see if the local interface is up? > > Also, you can try ifup [interface] (i.e. ifup lo) > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Paul Albertine > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Divinefire > > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:01 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [newbie] cannot ping localhost > > > > After a long time of being offline with my mandrake 7.2 I finally > > reached the net. Before this I could talk to my box fine. > > > > Now I can surf, telnet and ftp to my hearts delight, > > but I cannot ping myself; through inet ip or 127.0.0.1 . > > others can telnet me, I can telnet others - but not myself. > > > > pinging localhost just hangs > > > > pinging my inet comes up with the error > > "sento: No buffer space available" > > > > same with the telnet > > > > I have trudged through most of what I know > > (that isn't a lot really) > > I've disabled the firewall - restarted - nothing (its re-enabled atm) > > reset eth0 - nothing > > everything is fine in windows (that a change eh?) > > > > anybody with any ideas ? > > > > -Divinefire > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux
I dont recognize the error, but I would guess you have a process hung. I would first log in to gnome and see if you get the same error there (that would tell you if it is a kde problem) I would second try another browser to see if it is a netscape specific problem. Third, use the top command to see if there is a netscape process running that needs to be shut down. If they are use the kill command to exit them. Fourth, create a new user, and see if the netscape problem occurs on other users. Hope that helps. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:17:38 -0700 Marcia L Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Last night I was using Netscape and minimized my window while I was > working on something else. I forgot that I had Netscape open and opened > it again and got the usual warning message that someone else is using it. > I realized then I was already on and shut that message down. I tried to > find my other open one at the bottom bar but it was gone it seemed. I > thought that I would just shut down and things should be OK. I did then > opened Netscape and it thought I should sign up again and put my info > into preferences as if I was never on it before. I canceled that and > decided to shut down again. When I turned it on that time I went through > the start up fine got to the login and after logging in it waited 20 > minutes with the arrow on the blue screen before it finally gave me an > error message which said: > > "There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. > The mesage returned by the wystem was: Could not read network connection > list. /home/marcia.DCOPServer cdm-208-215-124-bntv-:0 > Please check that the "dcop server" is running! > > It has been the same story since. Does anyone have ideas how I can fix > this without losing everything and installing again? I have had Linux > Mandrake 8 for awhile and had just about everything fine tuned and > working well plus some great new programs that I did not get to back up > yet. It took my a month to get cups printing to work right with my Epson > Stylus Color. I definitely do not want to reinstall. Any suggestion will > be great suggested. > Marcia At one time I knew how to fix that but it has been so long since I have even used kde that the solution is now buried somewhere in the dark recesses of my brain. If no one else submits the answer I'll try to beat it out and get back to you. In the meantime do not do anything drastic. You can still run any of the other WMs. You will not be able to use any of the purly kde apps but there but there are other that can be used in their stead. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. And for too many there are now no tomorrows. I Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:17:38 -0700 Marcia L Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Last night I was using Netscape and minimized my window while I was > working on something else. I forgot that I had Netscape open and opened > it again and got the usual warning message that someone else is using it. > I realized then I was already on and shut that message down. I tried to > find my other open one at the bottom bar but it was gone it seemed. I > thought that I would just shut down and things should be OK. I did then > opened Netscape and it thought I should sign up again and put my info > into preferences as if I was never on it before. I canceled that and > decided to shut down again. When I turned it on that time I went through > the start up fine got to the login and after logging in it waited 20 > minutes with the arrow on the blue screen before it finally gave me an > error message which said: > > "There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. > The mesage returned by the wystem was: Could not read network connection > list. /home/marcia.DCOPServer cdm-208-215-124-bntv-:0 > Please check that the "dcop server" is running! > > It has been the same story since. Does anyone have ideas how I can fix > this without losing everything and installing again? I have had Linux > Mandrake 8 for awhile and had just about everything fine tuned and > working well plus some great new programs that I did not get to back up > yet. It took my a month to get cups printing to work right with my Epson > Stylus Color. I definitely do not want to reinstall. Any suggestion will > be great suggested. > Marcia At one time I knew how to fix that but it has been so long since I have even used kde that the solution is now buried somewhere in the dark recesses of my brain. If no one else submits the answer I'll try to beat it out and get back to you. In the meantime do not do anything drastic. You can still run any of the other WMs. You will not be able to use any of the purly kde apps but there but there are other that can be used in their stead. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. And for too many there are now no tomorrows. I Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PPP on PPC on 8.0
PPP on my Mandrake 8.0 installation is behaving oddly. (Installed on a '99 iMac DV SE.) If I go to the Mandrake control centre and launch ppp, it connects once, then hangs up, then tries to connect again, and can't because the modem is still locked by another process, then tries a third time and finally succeeds. I can connect to remote web sites, so the connection seems to be fully functional. As far as I can tell from /var/log/daemons/info, all this is being run by ifup-ppp, which is a script. I can't read scripts very well. Nor can I figure out how to run this from anywhere but the control centre, which has to be logged in as root. Any help gratefully received. David Chart Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bootloader doesn't work after clean install of Mandrake 8.0
->-Original Message- ->From: Wendy Langer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ->Sent: Saturday, 22 September 2001 9:58 ->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Cc: Teresa ->Subject: Bootloader doesn't work after clean install of Mandrake 8.0 -> -> ->Hello everybody, -> ->Aarlier I was having problems getting my SCSI card recognised ->(the aha1510), however I swapped it for an aha1542A and that ->problem now seems to be resolved :) -> ->I am now having another problem though...I have tried to install ->Mandrake 8.0 onto a second hard-drive (my first drive has ->windows), and although the install seems to all go ok, after ->finishing the install then rebooting, the bootloader doesn't seem ->to work. -> ->I get a few messages from the BIOS, then "searching for boot ->record on IDE-0" (my main hard-drive, where the windows ->partitions are, and also where I *think* I told it to put the ->boot - loader) -> ->Then it just starts spewing out 1s and 0s like this across the ->screen "01 01 01 01 01 01 " except it goes on forever!! -> ->It's definitely done *something* to the start of my first ->hard-drive (BIOS IDE-0) as it now can't load windows either, it ->has clearly written something over the master boot-record here ->but whatever it has written isn't working! -> ->I can boot to DOS using a boot disk, but to get it to boot to ->windows I have to do "fdisk /mbr" (not sure why really, I thought ->if you booted from floppy you didn't need the MBR anyway but ->clearly something I don't understand here.) -> ->This of course wipes over whatever the Mandrake installer did, ->but at least I can boot windows to read docs and send emails :) -> ->I can boot into Mandrake using the install floppy in rescue mode, ->and I can mount the root partition (hdc5) from here using "mount ->-t ext2 /dev/hdc5 /newroot" where "/newroot" is a directory I ->created as mountpoint just to test this out. -> ->So from here I ought to be able to look at some log messages and ->figure out what is going on. and then somehow reinstall the ->bootloader properly? I don't know where to begin though!!! What ->messages should IO view? How would I go about repairing a boot-loader? -> ->I have actually been through the install program on the disk ->twice completely and a few other times in "update" or "expert" ->mode and am getting very sick of it, so if there is anyway of ->fixing this without another complete install, I would be ->thrilled. At the moment *even* another complete install would be ->ok IF it worked!!! Just don't wanna do it agian and have it ->*still* not working! -> -> ->Ok, so here is a summary of my setup: -> ->AMD GA 71XE4 Motherboard ->850 mHZ AMD Duron CPU ->128MB RAM ->Adaptec 1542A SCSI host adaptor with Matsushita cd-rom connected ->(nothing else) - this scsi card is recognised by mandrake ->installer but not currently by windows. -> ->2 Hard-Drives: -> ->1st Primary IDE (IDE-0 according to my BIOS) - Seagate 20.4 GB ->2nd Primary IDE (IDE-1 according to my BIOS) - Samsung 6.4 GB -> ->Amd here is how I have partitioned it. -> ->Seagate 20.4GB (hda) (hda1) Windows 18GB -> (hda5) *old* RedHat linix ->partition 870 mb -> (hda6) *old* RedHat swap ->partition 203 mb -> -> -> ->Samsung 6.4GB (hdc) (hdc5) Mandrake / 300MB -> (hdc6)Mandrake swap 392MB -> (hdc7) Mandrake /usr 1.9GB -> (hdc8) Mandrake /var 1.5GB -> (hdc9)Mandrake /home 1.8GB -> -> ->This info I wrote down whilst going through the install a second ->time. I don't know what on the second drive it starts at hdc5 ->instead of hdc1, I've never understood partitions, but hopefully ->this is ok as it was pretty much auto-chosen by the wizard, I ->just made the root partition a bit bigger and added a /var and a ->/home as it was suggested in a book I am reading. -> ->the stuff on the 20.4 GB drive I just left alone, so this is how ->it used to be and still is. -> -> -> ->When I got to the bootloader section, I chose "hda" for where to ->put it. Actually, the first time I tried I was in "novice" mode ->but it still defaulted to hda, definitely did *something* there ->as I mentioned earlier, since it over-wrote the windows mbr! I ->have tried at various points all three bootloader options - Grub, ->LILO with graphical interface, and LILO with text interface. Some ->very slight variation in error messages but basically the same ->behaviour with each of these options. -> -> ->So, to summarise, I have installed Mandrake on a second ->hard-drive, and the install seems to have worked to the extent ->that there is certainly *something* there on the /hdc5 partition. ->I know this as I can boot in using rescue mode and mount it, it ->looks like it is full of typical linuxey files and utilities and so forth! -> ->However, the bootloader is not wo
Re: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 8.0 on IBM Thinkpad T21: No recognition of track-point!!!
On Saturday 22 September 2001 22:50, Leif Madsen wrote: > What if you can't? :) > > No floppy drives on IBM Thinkpad A22e's. Then install in text mode and sekect the kernel 2.2 package or buy a copy of MandrakeFrequent Release for $3.49 from Cheapbytes, It will work. Civileme > > On Saturday 22 September 2001 16:37, you wrote: > > Well, first, if you can install from a floppy/CD combo, copy the Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] a couple a things
a couple of weeks ago I had an e-mail config problem, and I started a new user, as that new user I have not been able to add a name in the kmail address book. it seems to be in there, but the next time I open the address book it is gone, I am guessing a permissions problem, but where? also I have not been able to access my usb cdwriter as the new user. at least not to burn in Gcombust any more. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boot Errors
I have picked up some mount errors during boot up. I get a line that reads: "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on none, or too many mounted file systems" After checking fstab, I find some new entries and I am not sure where they are coming from. I've attached a copy of my fstab. I was planning on simply editing out the offending lines: "none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0" "none /proc proc defaults 0 0" "none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0" These errors cropped up after doing some Security/Cooker updates with Software Manager. Before I do, I wanted to ask if these entries are telling me that I have other problems I should be looking into? Barry /dev/hda5 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults0 0 /dev/hda6 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 8.0 on IBM Thinkpad T21: No recognition of track-point!!!
What if you can't? :) No floppy drives on IBM Thinkpad A22e's. On Saturday 22 September 2001 16:37, you wrote: > Well, first, if you can install from a floppy/CD combo, copy the Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 8.0 on IBM Thinkpad T21: No recognition of track-point!!!
On Saturday 22 September 2001 22:16, you wrote: > I'd would like to try out Linux. But I dare not fulfil the installation > procedure on my IBM thinkpad T21, as the Mandrake ver. 8.0 does not > recognise the Thinkpad track-point. I have tried all mouse setting > posibilites of the installation program. > > Any solutions or advices out there? > > Thanks in anticipation > > Peter Holm Well, first, if you can install from a floppy/CD combo, copy the /images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 to a floppy using dd in linux or rawrite in dos/windows (there are several versions of rawwrite in /dosutils on your install CD.) Then boot from that floppy and install in expert mode. When you get to package selection, at the bottom of the box is a little symbol that looks vaguely like recycling. Click it for an alphabetized list and scroll down to find kernel22-2.2.19 and check the box for installation. Proceed to the bootloader step and there you want to click on "Add" select vmlinuz-2.2.19-10mdk from the drop down for your boot kernel Now you will have no trouble at all with the mouse. If instead you go to a cooker iso site and download MandrakeFreq, it will work also.. This is a case where fixing one bug broke something else. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 8.0 on IBM Thinkpad T21: No recognition of track-point!!!
On Saturday 22 September 2001 15:16, you wrote: > I'd would like to try out Linux. But I dare not fulfil the installation > procedure on my IBM thinkpad T21, as the Mandrake ver. 8.0 does not > recognise the Thinkpad track-point. I have tried all mouse setting > posibilites of the installation program. > > Any solutions or advices out there? > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html has a few accounts of installing linux on your laptop. Not necessarily mandrake, but you may find some pointers there. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation of Mandrake 8.0 on IBM Thinkpad T21: No recognition of track-point!!!
I'd would like to try out Linux. But I dare not fulfil the installation procedure on my IBM thinkpad T21, as the Mandrake ver. 8.0 does not recognise the Thinkpad track-point. I have tried all mouse setting posibilites of the installation program. Any solutions or advices out there? Thanks in anticipation Peter Holm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet refused
At 14:20 22.09.2001 -0500, you wrote: >On Saturday 22 September 2001 14:01, John Clegg wrote: > >for some reason I can't quote your message. this is regarding telnet working >at first but not after a reboot. > >Go into the mandrake control center, it's likely on your desktop. Then system > >> services. See if you can find telnetd in there. Is "on boot" checked? If >not check it and reboot. Your telnet daemon should be up and running. > >Matt > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com check your /etc/inetd.conf file whether your telnet server is commented out or not... otherwise check your hosts.allow and hosts.deny as well as eventually existing ipchains rules... --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Giving permission to /mnt/windows
fat file systems do not allow the same permissions as Linux. what are you tring to do that you want to change the permissions? On Saturday 22 September 2001 15:42, you wrote: > I'm trying to give permission to a user to /mnt/windows (specifically > /mnt/windows/mp3) but can't seem to figure out how to do it. I've tried > using chmod 777, 755, etc... but it gives me back 'invalid mode' > > Idea's? > > Thanks. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Giving permission to /mnt/windows
I'm trying to give permission to a user to /mnt/windows (specifically /mnt/windows/mp3) but can't seem to figure out how to do it. I've tried using chmod 777, 755, etc... but it gives me back 'invalid mode' Idea's? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet refused
On Saturday 22 September 2001 14:01, John Clegg wrote: for some reason I can't quote your message. this is regarding telnet working at first but not after a reboot. Go into the mandrake control center, it's likely on your desktop. Then system >> services. See if you can find telnetd in there. Is "on boot" checked? If not check it and reboot. Your telnet daemon should be up and running. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?
FWIW - I use a handy little tool called Logcheck from Psionic that monitors logs and reports via email. It's very configurable and runs via cron so you can run it as often as you like. Ed At 11:13 AM Saturday, 9/22/2001, you wrote -=> >It'll be in your error_log and access_log files in /var/log/httpd/ . >(unless each site has its own set of log files). >At 08:28 AM 09/22/2001 -0700, you wrote: > >I'm running Mandrake 8 and Apache to host a couple of small web > >sites. I'd like to find out the amount of port 80 scanning that's > >going on as a result of the Nimda virus. Anyone know what tool to > >use or where this might be logged? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Linux registered user 219525 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Telnet refused
Last time I booted my Linux box I could telnet in to it, now I can't. I can ping it, and I can connect with VNC, so the connection is obviously working, but when I try telnet it is refused. Can anyone help me with any basic pointers please? John Clegg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Staroffice hangs system
Hello, As soon as I run StarOffice 5.2, the system hangs itself completely. The StarOffice setup runs OK though. I use Mandrake 8.0 on a x86 computer (Toshiba Tecra 8100). Deinstalling and reinstalling doesn't help. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.0, PPC, and USB Zip
--On 21/9/01 22:15 -0400 A V Flinsch wrote: > try /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 Nope. Thanks for the suggestion. BTW, I found the PP problem; I'd managed to get kernels mixed up. (How? Ah, well that involves black magic and DrakX being braindead. Currently, I can't install Mandrake at all, as DrakX refuses to mount a boot, swap, and root partition. At this rate, I'll be asking for my money back...) David Chart Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cannot ping localhost
thanks paul "ifup lo" worked a treat it has also solved the problem with the buffer using my inet address didn't realise you had to put the local up aswell :) -Divinefire "Good work Fella" Paul & Tami Albertine wrote: > > Have you tried ifconfig lo to see if the local interface is up? > Also, you can try ifup [interface] (i.e. ifup lo) > > Hope that helps. > > Paul Albertine > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Divinefire > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] cannot ping localhost > > After a long time of being offline with my mandrake 7.2 I finally > reached the net. Before this I could talk to my box fine. > > Now I can surf, telnet and ftp to my hearts delight, > but I cannot ping myself; through inet ip or 127.0.0.1 . > others can telnet me, I can telnet others - but not myself. > > pinging localhost just hangs > > pinging my inet comes up with the error > "sento: No buffer space available" > > same with the telnet > > I have trudged through most of what I know > (that isn't a lot really) > I've disabled the firewall - restarted - nothing (its re-enabled atm) > reset eth0 - nothing > everything is fine in windows (that a change eh?) > > anybody with any ideas ? > > -Divinefire > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cannot ping localhost
Have you tried ifconfig lo to see if the local interface is up? Also, you can try ifup [interface] (i.e. ifup lo) Hope that helps. Paul Albertine -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Divinefire Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cannot ping localhost After a long time of being offline with my mandrake 7.2 I finally reached the net. Before this I could talk to my box fine. Now I can surf, telnet and ftp to my hearts delight, but I cannot ping myself; through inet ip or 127.0.0.1 . others can telnet me, I can telnet others - but not myself. pinging localhost just hangs pinging my inet comes up with the error "sento: No buffer space available" same with the telnet I have trudged through most of what I know (that isn't a lot really) I've disabled the firewall - restarted - nothing (its re-enabled atm) reset eth0 - nothing everything is fine in windows (that a change eh?) anybody with any ideas ? -Divinefire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Sig file, was Re: [newbie] Me, Linux, or my !@#$%^ ISP
Honestly, I only know enough about pine, that I hate it! lol So I wouldn't know what needs to go in a ~/.pinerc, but hey. If it doesn't work, you can just take it out of there! There are other ways of doing it, and I've known some people to write a script that does all the work for them, but I went with the simple way of doing it. (Mainly because I wasn't into writing scripts when I set that, so I wouldn't have known how to do it any way! :0) Let us know if that does indeed work. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: 1:17pm up 17:00, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | Cool! Thanks, man! Wonder if that'll work in my pinerc... | | Only one way to find out, eh? ;-) | | peace, | | Rog | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cannot ping localhost
After a long time of being offline with my mandrake 7.2 I finally reached the net. Before this I could talk to my box fine. Now I can surf, telnet and ftp to my hearts delight, but I cannot ping myself; through inet ip or 127.0.0.1 . others can telnet me, I can telnet others - but not myself. pinging localhost just hangs pinging my inet comes up with the error "sento: No buffer space available" same with the telnet I have trudged through most of what I know (that isn't a lot really) I've disabled the firewall - restarted - nothing (its re-enabled atm) reset eth0 - nothing everything is fine in windows (that a change eh?) anybody with any ideas ? -Divinefire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?
It'll be in your error_log and access_log files in /var/log/httpd/ . (unless each site has its own set of log files). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 08:28 AM 09/22/2001 -0700, you wrote: >I'm running Mandrake 8 and Apache to host a couple of small web >sites. I'd like to find out the amount of port 80 scanning that's >going on as a result of the Nimda virus. Anyone know what tool to >use or where this might be logged? > >TIA > >Andy Miller > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?
I'm running Mandrake 8 and Apache to host a couple of small web sites. I'd like to find out the amount of port 80 scanning that's going on as a result of the Nimda virus. Anyone know what tool to use or where this might be logged? TIA Andy Miller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD Burning of ISOs
Can someone explain what to do with gtoaster to burn a usable image from an ISO. (If I'm saying that right) or put another way, I want to burn the 8.1rc1 ISOs to a bootable CD to install on a spare HD. Is there a special tag that you click in gtoaster or Gcombust to do this. I know you make a selection to do it in windows on Adaptec CD creator, but don't know how to handle it in gtoaster. Thanks for any help. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
PENA FAMILY wrote: > > Just finished building my Linux box a few days ago. I took an old 4Gb > Quantum Fireball which suddenly Linux doesn't recognize and keeps > asking me for SCSI drivers and gives me a list to pick from. > > Nevertheless, I just want to turn this 4Gig drive as extension for raw > data such as photos and music. I have manuals with jumper settings for > another harddrive, but I wanted to ask if anyone knew if jumper > settings are standard among all harddrive makers or specific to each > manufacturer. jumpering varies by manufacturer and may vary within models by same manufacturer. there are/maybe _similiar_ jumpers between 'maufacturers', tho this is usually when same _oem_ makes drives for different 'brands'. what is _model_ number of quantum drive? have you check quantum site for jumpering? tc,hago. g . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bastille-related problem: can't log in as su . . .
On Saturday 22 September 2001 01:57, you wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:16:57 -0700, "WCBaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I used InteractiveBastille. Subsequently I could not go into a > > terminal in a non-root account and log in as su. As soon as I enter > > the correct password I get the message "File size limit exceeded". I > > don't think that the log files could be so big (I only re-installed a > > few days ago and have not been on the system much) > > > > Also, when I returned to Interactive-Bastille in another session, to > > reset some options, there seemed to be no effect. . . Is there > > something like a "Bastille-reload"? > > > > I'm clearly clobbering myself but I'm not sure how. > > > > Cheers! > > > > -warren > > I can't remember the exact answer, but I know that this has been brought > up on the list several times. Try searching the list archives. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Pauls answer is the right one. This is a bug or feature that has not been corrected even in the final release as far as I can tell. So, try rerunning InteractiveBastille and select no for the file size limits. This was put in, by the way to eliminate the possiblity of the computer being taken over to use as part of a DDOS attack. It kinda messes things up a bit. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
PENA FAMILY wrote: > On a side note I really wish someone would get a driver working for > winmodems. I don't really want to spend the money on an external one since > this one works just fine. Oh well keeping the faith going. Just as a reminder, not all internal modems are winmodems. I prefer an internal modem for reasons of convenience (modem inside the computer, no wall wart, less cabling, etc.) and cost. A friend of mine recently bought a "white box" external modem for $50 (while she was visiting relatives in Phoenix). I helped hook it up for her (as part of an "install fest"), and somebody else completed the Linux installation. Worked first time and ever since with no problems. I haven't bought a modem in a while, but based on the above and on recent browsing at computer shows, I would expect to pay: * $10 to $25 for a winmodem * $35 to $50 for an internal "real" modem * $50 and up for an external modem (not USB) Aside: Don't choose the modem based on these prices -- for example, a vendor will be happy to sell you a winmodem in the $35 to $50 price range -- that doesn't make it a real modem. Look for a warranty and the address / telephone number of the manufacturer. Last time I bought a modem, almost everyone was offering a five year warranty. Buy from a vendor within driving distance, know his return, refund, and warranty policies, and keep the receipt with his legible phone number and addresss. (Many vendors will accept defective merchandise for a period of up to 30 days, saving you the hassle of dealing with a manufacturers warranty, but policies differ so you need to ask -- likewise on non-defective return / refund policies.) I've bought a lot of stuff at computer shows, I've had problems with less than 2% of it, and always got the problem resolved, even though twice I had to drive to a vendor's place of business. (Most problems were resolved over the phone or by exchange of parts by mail.) I've tried to stick with vendors in Philadelphia, New Jersey, or New York city, 50 to 80 miles away, just in case. The purchase that was my worst experience at a computer show was a Hewlett Packard inkjet printer which died a few months after the warranty expired. I expect equipment I buy to work for much longer than the warranty period -- 3 to 20 times the length of the warranty. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem
Noits the 3CP5699A, it says "made specially for the Windows operating system" on the box. I need "3cmlnkw.exe" in Win to get it to work. I tried the PCTel chipset driver, loaded the serial and ppp modules and got the modem responding in minicom, but I get an I/O error when I try to dial with it. I've done setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 9 io e800 .., but no response, also in kppp. It's definitely a software modem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Whata PCTel chipset is on your 3Com modem? I've using several different >winmodems based on the PCTel chipset on several linux boxes and haven't had >any problem. What problems did you have with the driver? > >Joe > >On Saturday 18 August 2001 12:33 am, you wrote: >> I'm using both COM ports already and my board only has 1 ISA slot, and >> I have a SBAwe 64 on it. >> >> Ok, I'm willing to do the setserial and symlink combo thingies >> But PCI is the only thing I have left...really. >> I have a 3Com winmodem and I hate it. >> I've even tried the PCTel driver, in desperation...no luck. >> >> I haven't tried USB externals, how do those work in MDK? >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >yes, his name is mario and he lives just down the street from here... :-) >> > >> >As for the Modem, externals are really no config.. linux conf has a modem >> >detect that creates a symlink that links /dev/ttysX to /dev/modem and >> > thats most of your config done there.. >> > >> >As for the internals, I have had some success with non PNP isa cards, but >> >you would very likely find an external easier to get sorted. >> > >> > >> >On another note, I have just "bought" my first linux distro,, I have been >> >using links for many many years, but always got it from somewhere, never >> >paid for it before.. >> > >> >but I just lashed out and preordered/prepaid 165 odd bucks AU for Mdk8.1 >> >powerpack,,, I am sorta excited... :-) >> >hopefully I will soon make a flawless leap from mdk7.2 and 2.2kernels to >> > 8.1 and 2.4 on all our servers... (thats why I didn't swap with mdk8, we >> > worry about major new releases on first versions) >> > >> >woooh not as good as buying shares in mandrake I supose, but at >> >least I am supporting the movement. >> > >> >rgds >> > >> >Frank >> > >> >-Original Message- >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp >> >Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 7:01 PM >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Subject: Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem >> > >> > >> >I don't think you are gonna find a cheap OR a pci modem that does not >> >require >> >any configuration. you might look at e-bay and find an old 28.8 external >> >cheap, and an external requires LESS config than PCI. I want a pizza maker >> >that spits out a pizza on nights that i am to tired to fix dinner, without >> >me >> >having to even open the box or tell it I am tired too, and I want it to >> > have the correct popings when the pizza is done,,, know where I can get >> > one of those? >> > >> >On Friday 17 August 2001 18:10, you wrote: >> >> Anybody know of a "cheap" PCI non-winmodem supported by kernel >> >> 2.2.? >> >> While I'm at it, how about for 2.4.xxx? >> >> >> >> I've been to http://./~gromitkrc and linmodems, but can't make >> >> a suitable choice. >> >> >> >> I want one that configures itself...doesn't make me have to load any >> >> modules. >> >> >> >> TIA. >> >> >> >> __ >> >> www.edsamail.com >> > >> > >> >Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" >> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >> >Content-Description: >> > >> >> __ >> www.edsamail.com __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
there are drivers that take a "little" work on your part...see www.linmodems.org On Saturday 22 September 2001 09:05, you wrote: > I managed to answer my own question. The problem is that for whatever > reason WindowsME and Linux couldn't see the old drive. I looked it over and > made sure the jumper settings were correct. I kept at it until BAMM! Linux > and Windows saw it. > > On a side note I really wish someone would get a driver working for > winmodems. I don't really want to spend the money on an external one since > this one works just fine. Oh well keeping the faith going. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
I managed to answer my own question. The problem is that for whatever reason WindowsME and Linux couldn't see the old drive. I looked it over and made sure the jumper settings were correct. I kept at it until BAMM! Linux and Windows saw it. On a side note I really wish someone would get a driver working for winmodems. I don't really want to spend the money on an external one since this one works just fine. Oh well keeping the faith going. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
jumper settings are even more specific than that, they are specific to that model and serial number dreive. however, if the question was "do most all ide drives have a setting for master and slave or cable select" I can say from experiance that all but the oldest ide drives do, and the older ones just do not have cable select as a setting. is the BIOS set to regognize the drive? or is this an scsi drive? On Saturday 22 September 2001 06:35, you wrote: > Just finished building my Linux box a few days ago. I took an old 4Gb > Quantum Fireball which suddenly Linux doesn't recognize and keeps asking me > for SCSI drivers and gives me a list to pick from. > > Nevertheless, I just want to turn this 4Gig drive as extension for raw data > such as photos and music. I have manuals with jumper settings for another > harddrive, but I wanted to ask if anyone knew if jumper settings are > standard among all harddrive makers or specific to each manufacturer. > > Thanks in advance. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hardware help
Just finished building my Linux box a few days ago. I took an old 4Gb Quantum Fireball which suddenly Linux doesn't recognize and keeps asking me for SCSI drivers and gives me a list to pick from. Nevertheless, I just want to turn this 4Gig drive as extension for raw data such as photos and music. I have manuals with jumper settings for another harddrive, but I wanted to ask if anyone knew if jumper settings are standard among all harddrive makers or specific to each manufacturer. Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What program for news ??
On Friday 21 September 2001 10:20 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:49:41 -0700 (PDT), Manuel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now to figure out why I couldn't get the latest version > > installed... > > Assuming that you're trying to install a Cooker package, this problem > would be because Cooker uses GLIBC 2.2.3, whereas Mandrake 8.0 uses > 2.2.2. You have several options here: > > 1. You can upgrade your GLIBC. The best way to do this would be to > install Mandrake Freq3. > 2. Better yet, wait for Mandrake 8.1, which is due early next week. > 3. Compile PAN from source. You can get the Cooker SRPM and issue a > "rpm --rebuild" to it. > 4. Get a binary package from elsewhere (e.g. Red Hat or Ximian > packages). 5. Install Ximian GNOME. > > I took option 5, because I am a GNOME user as well. I used option 3. I always get the src.rpm for an app like this. After fulfilling a few deps, I got pan-0.10.0 installed, working and used it quite a bit. Then I upgraded kdenetwork to 2.2.1 which fixes the date errors since 9/13 in Knode. Immediately bugs started showing up, to the point pan became unusable, ie, newsgroups no longer were displayed by their name, just a bunch of jibberish, mostly numbers. I --force'd pan-0.9.6-2mdk back in and now all is well again. So, at least for me, installing 8.1 is gonna be the way to get pan upgraded ;> -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Admiral Yamamoto: "I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?
it is a measurement of the IDLED (as in not running, sitting still) CPU for the reading of AdvancedPowerMangagment. and is not an illusion, it is required for Mandrake8.0+ On Saturday 22 September 2001 01:19, you wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, s wrote: > > On Friday 21 September 2001 10:46 pm, Manuel Drake wrote: > > > What the heck is this and why is it always sucking so much of my CPU? > > > > Please do a search, this has been discussed to death on all the forums. > > Ok, read up... Hrmm, so I guess it's only an illusion? > > Eek. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd burning help
Gr. After reading the cd-burning howto's (which were a bit general and generally unhelpful) I have burned a few more coasters. I have used gtoaster and xcdroast and all runs perfectly until the very end. When I put the cd into a reading device, thereis no data but the cd has been fixed! What on earth is going on. These programs are popular so I am assuming someone has got them working. How is it meant to go? any help will be appreciated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1
On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:26, civileme wrote: > On Saturday 22 September 2001 10:40, Michel Clasquin wrote: > > I can see KDE 2.2.1 files just lying there in the cooker, waiting for me, > > but they don't seem to be showing up at kde.org > > > > Which leads me to think that with the code freeze over at mdk, it might > > be better to wait this one out. Comments? > > You know that the ones in cooker are built for 8.1 and its libraries. No I didn't, thanks. I'm pretty much up to date, though > And of course, some objectionable things will have been removed. We tire > of passing on other people's bugs unless someone really wants them. ! -- 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 People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1
On Saturday 22 September 2001 10:40, Michel Clasquin wrote: > I can see KDE 2.2.1 files just lying there in the cooker, waiting for me, > but they don't seem to be showing up at kde.org > > Which leads me to think that with the code freeze over at mdk, it might be > better to wait this one out. Comments? You know that the ones in cooker are built for 8.1 and its libraries. The ones at kde.org will be built for 7.2 and 8.0, at least two weeks from now. And of course, some objectionable things will have been removed. We tire of passing on other people's bugs unless someone really wants them. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help
Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > Thanks, Randy. That sounds like it. I live in the NY Metro area, I'll > look arround. I don't really know of any hobbyist places, but there > must be some. > > Thanks! > > I guess this betrays my age a bit. I'd never seen one of these before. > :) > > -Paul Rodríguez you might also want to try a floppy cable with 'dual' connectors. it has connectors for both 3.5" and 5.25" drives. there are a lot of computer stores around which still have these cables. i would suggest calling first. if you can not find such, send me your address 'off list' and i will send you cable you need. i still have 5 or 6 at my lab and i have 3 at home. i also have a dual 3.5/5.25" drive. have not used it in a while, but it still works. also, being that you are in new york area, please contact me off list. i have a daughter up there, and have not been able to get in contact with her. good luck and thank you. -- -=- beauty of real is revealed only to those who persevere. old orthodox saying. -=- perseverance can be a virtue. new orthodox saying -=- perseverance can be a reward. renewed knowledge of old orthodox custom -=- http://home.mem.net/~leem/ -=- may God bless, and have mercy | take care, have a good one slaying dragons | linux + firewalls + wrappers + spoof = fence to gates -=- g . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] newbie] Any Linux Software To Burn audio cds from mp3s? & a gcombust problem
how about it.. now i have a burner im trying to burn cds to listen to my mp3s in the car etc.. i have tried gcombust but i get a cd full of white noise when i try? do i need to convert them to wav files first for combust to work? what do other people use? and while i can burn cds when logged in as root, i get the errors in the mkisofs window "warning-contractions.c 254: popen_r_err_in:execl() returned(mkiosfs)" and in the cdrcord window "warning-contractions.c 227: popen_r_err_in:execl() returned(cdrecord)" is this a permissions problem (cos it works under root) and if so where/on what files could i change the permissions to get it going on? "...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!"- Trent "Double Down" (Vince Vaughn) -- www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
