Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ciao, qualcuno di voi sa dirmi un sito dal quale posso scaricare la mandrake 8.1 ? ciao e grazie alessandro ..Oltre al sito che ti hanno indicato, su Linux Pratico di questo mese c'e' la Mandrake 8.1 su 3 cdrom... Ciao. Steo. __ Abbonati a Yahoo! ADSL con Atlanet! Naviga su Internet ad alta velocità, e senza limiti di tempo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina http://adsl.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] mdk 8.1 non legge Cd Rom
--- Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: max wrote: Ho installato ieri Linux Mandrake 8.1. Il sistema però non mi legge nè il cd rom nè il masterizzatore in /mnt/cdrom e /mnt/cdrom2. In DrakeConf ho visto che il masterizzatore è registrato in due modi diversi, in uno con la sua marca Philips nell'altro con l'espressione Unkown. Devo ripetere l'installazione? li hai montati prima di leggerli? Il mndk-8.1 hanno dovuto togliere il supermount per incompatibilita` con il nuovo kernel. ciao, Andrea Perdona la mia ignoranza. /mnt è il supermount? Cosa vuol dire montarli? Come si fa? max __ Abbonati a Yahoo! ADSL con Atlanet! Naviga su Internet ad alta velocità, e senza limiti di tempo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina http://adsl.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] mdk 8.1 non legge Cd Rom
max wrote: ... li hai montati prima di leggerli? Il mndk-8.1 hanno dovuto togliere il supermount per incompatibilita` con il nuovo kernel. ciao, Andrea Perdona la mia ignoranza. /mnt è il supermount? Cosa vuol dire montarli? Come si fa? Quando hai un dispositivo che contiene un filesystem, per utilizzarlo lo devi innestare (montare) sull'albero delle directory. Nell'esempio il contenuto del cdrom viene innestato/montato sulla directory /mnt/cdrom e visto come una nuova ramificazione dell'albero. Questo lavoro veniva fatto automaticamente dall'utility supermount nelle vecchie Mandrake. Questa utility provvedeva anche a smontare il CD quando volevi estrarlo. Adesso devi farlo a mano. -In kde/gnome: clicchi sull'icona di cdrom, floppy e simili con il tasto destro del mouse e scegli monta o smonta. -Da xterm/console, dai il comando mount /mnt/cdrom o umount /mnt/cdrom. Ricorda che non e` possiblie estrarre un cd non smontato e non si puo` smontare un cd se un utente lo sta usando (basta che lo abbia come directory di lavoro) Ovviamente, non avendo un filesystem, i cd musicali non vanno (s)montati. Le partizioni del disco fisso vengono montate automaticamente al boot seguendo le indicazioni contenute in /etc/fstab. man mount e man fstab per maggiori dettagli. ciao, Andrea
R: [newbie-it] mdk 8.1 non legge Cd Rom
Spero che l'amico Max sia riuscito a risolvere i suoi problemi con i CDrom. Io no Ho il masterizzatore che non c'è verso di farlo funzionare!!! Già in fase di installazione (se tento di installare linux dal masterizzatore) me lo riconosce a mi avvia l'installazione, ma poi... mi chiede di continuare l'installazione dall'altro lettore CD. Ad installazione ultimata, il masterizzatore viene riconosciuto dall'hardDrake, ma non sono in grado di montarlo, ne cliccando sull'icona da KDE, nè da shell manualmente. La cosa strana è che il mio è un masterizzatore TraxData (abbastanza comune) e con la madrake 8.0 non ho mai avuto un problema!! Qualcuno sa consigliarmi qualche cosa?? Saluti Enrico -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: martedì 13 novembre 2001 12.35 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] mdk 8.1 non legge Cd Rom max wrote: ... li hai montati prima di leggerli? Il mndk-8.1 hanno dovuto togliere il supermount per incompatibilita` con il nuovo kernel. ciao, Andrea Perdona la mia ignoranza. /mnt è il supermount? Cosa vuol dire montarli? Come si fa? Quando hai un dispositivo che contiene un filesystem, per utilizzarlo lo devi innestare (montare) sull'albero delle directory. Nell'esempio il contenuto del cdrom viene innestato/montato sulla directory /mnt/cdrom e visto come una nuova ramificazione dell'albero. Questo lavoro veniva fatto automaticamente dall'utility supermount nelle vecchie Mandrake. Questa utility provvedeva anche a smontare il CD quando volevi estrarlo. Adesso devi farlo a mano. -In kde/gnome: clicchi sull'icona di cdrom, floppy e simili con il tasto destro del mouse e scegli monta o smonta. -Da xterm/console, dai il comando mount /mnt/cdrom o umount /mnt/cdrom. Ricorda che non e` possiblie estrarre un cd non smontato e non si puo` smontare un cd se un utente lo sta usando (basta che lo abbia come directory di lavoro) Ovviamente, non avendo un filesystem, i cd musicali non vanno (s)montati. Le partizioni del disco fisso vengono montate automaticamente al boot seguendo le indicazioni contenute in /etc/fstab. man mount e man fstab per maggiori dettagli. ciao, Andrea
Re: R: [newbie-it] mdk 8.1 non legge Cd Rom
Enrico Piccinini wrote: Spero che l'amico Max sia riuscito a risolvere i suoi problemi con i CDrom. Io no Ho il masterizzatore che non c'è verso di farlo funzionare!!! Già in fase di installazione (se tento di installare linux dal masterizzatore) me lo riconosce a mi avvia l'installazione, ma poi... mi chiede di continuare l'installazione dall'altro lettore CD. Ad installazione ultimata, il masterizzatore viene riconosciuto dall'hardDrake, ma non sono in grado di montarlo, ne cliccando sull'icona da KDE, nè da shell manualmente. Hai provato a montarlo a mano? Ossia inserire un cd e dare mount /mnt/cdrom2come utente normale o mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdY /mnt/cdrom2 con Y opportuno? Poi, prova a controllare se tutto quello che e` previsto per il cdrom e` attivo anche per il masterizzatore. ls -l /dev/cd* dovrebbe risponderti: ... /dev/cdrom /dev/hdX .. /dev/cdrom2 /dev/hdY ossia ci sono due link simbolici che puntano ai due device eide (X e Y, saranno a,b,c,d a seconda di dove stanno fisicamente gli oggetti) o a /dev/sdunalettera se il mast. e` SCSI. poi in /etc/fstab, dovresti avere due righe simili per cdrom e cdrom2 (quella del masterizatore avra` in piu` i permessi di scrittura). infine se apri col tasto destro del mouse le proprieta` delle icone sul desktop, dovresti avere configurazioni analoghe. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] Problemi con chipset sis 630
Aiutatemi, ho installato Mandrake 8.0 ssu un portatile olivetti xtrema 4000 con chipset integrato sis630 e non riesco a far funzionare il modem e la scheda video. ° su http://www.tim.it, con iTim, puoi incontrare amici in chat °
Re: [newbie-it] DCOP server
Il 19:45, lunedì 12 novembre 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Il 19:03, lunedì 12 novembre 2001, hai scritto: Provato a controllare le proprietà del file? Luko Quale, scusa... quello che dovrebbe essere cancellato? E' appena risuccesso. Il file (che dovrebbe essere stato rimosso allo spegnimento del PC) è di proprietà del mio utente. L'utente ha i diritti di lettura e scrittura. Gli altri solo di lettura. La cosa ti aiuta a capire da che possa dipendere? Daniele
Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word
Thanx for everyones help, go figure it now works, I dropped the file from Konqueror onto the printer icon and it printed with AbiWord formatting, I then went into Abi Word and as someone else stated it printed the last page only?? But I can request whichever page want and it will print that page out. If anyone knows why Abi Word will only print the last page I am courious. I am using lpr and I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 Andrew D On Monday 12 November 2001 12:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:02, you wrote: Currently I am using Abi Word version version 0.9.2 and I cannot get it to print on Mandrake 8. The setting in Abi Word is Printer and command lpr. But nothing. I can print to file (ps) all OK, but when I print to the printer nothing happens. Where should I start looking so to fix this problem? (I can print from other apps like KWord and such but I want to use ABI Word). Thanx Andrew D You've probably got cups installed. Instead of lpr use qtcups and it should work. To check if it's working, open a console and type: lpq it should read something like this; Printer is ready and printing RankOwner Job File(s) Total Size active harm35 file:/ 20480 bytes to stop a running or queued printing job, type: lprm and enter the job number when asked. good luck, Harm Bathoorn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page of a document! Anyone got any clues about this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] mounting smbfs
I did not have a clue neither. By accident, I stumbled upon harddrake disc mounting. It seems to be a program only for repartitioning, but it does more with samba.. There you can define the parts of different windows computers you want to access and it installs without a problem. . Geert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mounting smbfs try komba2, should be on rpmfind or on the cds if you have 8.1 On Monday 12 November 2001 18:40, you spoke unto me thusly: Hi, I'm just fine tuning here. I can access the windows network with mount -a smbfs username.etc but I would like to know if i can automate -- Linux, cause i reboot less often than windows users reinstall. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing hardare
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:12:24 +0530 Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: daim !! i must have missed it then. and all this time used to install wvdial from a RH 6.x cd, and for mdk 8.1 i had to compile wvdial from the sources. I have the downloaded 3 cd set of mdk 8.1, where can i find wvdial ?. My apologies to the excellent folk at mandrake, all this time i considered mandrake linux the easiest OS yet except for the dialup proggy. If only i had known earlier. Software manager will find it, IIRC it's on the second CD, I'm sure it's in the downloaded 3 cd set of mdk 8.1 . -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Mouse Scrolling Distance
g stated the following: SoloCDM wrote: Anuerin G. Diaz stated the following: SoloCDM wrote: While at the console (not X), what settings make the mouse scroll further from top to bottom and left to right? I dont think mouse works in the console mode unless you are using framebuffers No . . . not at all. My display at the console works perfectly. It is set at 1280x1024, which makes the mouse scroll shorter distances with each move in any direction. ok. you 2 now have me wanting to know... solo, you say 'console (not x)' is set to 1280x1024. just how did you get this setting? i was of impression that console was 25 lines by 80 coloums. i have a 19 adi monitor that i would like to get 1280x1024 on in console mode. mouse does not work, but i have no need for mouse in console mode. while under x and kde, i use 1280x1024, which is great when working in xterm. would be nice to have that size of screen in console mode for when i am in init level 1 and 3. Put vga=794 in /etc/lilo.conf as one of the global settings *or* if you're using loadlin, add it to the end of the syntax. -- Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] filesharing and firewalling and ftp services HELP PLEASE!
Hi all I have LM 8.1 setup with an adsl connection networked and sharing the net connection to 2 win machines. I'm having problems setting up samba and firewalling and ftp services properly. 1) How can I tell which processes are running... I have read about samba and learn that it doesn't necessarily start up auto at boot time.. how can I tell whether it is running somewhere in the background? Also, when I try to test it the localhost doesn't seem to be setup correctly.. it's unknown.. omg.. how can localhost be unknown? but it is.. what have I done wrong here.. 2) this relates to number 1 in the sense that I have plenty of ways of configuring a 'firewall' available to me however I don't know which firewall is being used (whether more than 1 is actually running?!) etc.. I just installed the whole of LM with all options ticked when I installed it and notice that it says starting bastille firewall as it boots up.. again, which one is being used and how can i tell ? (any suggestions for which firewall would be best accepted thankfully!) 3) I have full web and ftp services.. and while I'm happy(ish) with the web hosting (although it hasn't been tested as being crack proof - and no doubt isn't with current settings!) I am definitely NOT happy with the ftp setting.. AGAIN, how can I tell which ftp proggy is giving the box the ftp service? I can ftp in from a remote comp, however, if i use a user account on the LM box as the login then I can literally go round the whole file system.. eek.. i don't want this.. instead some way of making it only present a folder or two of my choosing would be safer.. I know it's a lot to ask of this list.. and it's a long email to read (made even longer by these few words).. but if i can get some help here it would be much appreciated as I really want to use linux (apache etc) instead of IIS spits to one side Neil - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 19:40, _nasturtium wrote: It works and you know it... The NT Loaded stopped Linux from booting and you know it. If it doesn't work then remake it. I've tried it and it works perfectly on a Pentium II 350... And don't forget I happen to be an Internet Security expert (just ask civileme) who can read iptables even in Chinese... This expert is the one that deleted my ENTIRE extended partition once by accident. I'm surprised that such an NT-fanatic could join this list. I is very good as it is now possible to access my primary operating system (Win '98) in one step rather than two. But the _real_ operating system (Linux) could not be accessed at all thanks to the NT loader. How things suddenly stuff up next dayis beyond me but there was probably a bit of helpfrom you. Your comments are unhelpful and so are you turning up on this list. I shall not respond to any more emails from you. Regards, _nasturtium - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo) It can and _will_ cause you great harm. The next day, LILO got up to LIL- and wouldn't boot. It makes configuring LILO more difficult. It is hacky and dangerous. Causes more trouble than good. It is therefore stupid. - pesarif - Original Message - From: _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:42 PM Subject: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo) Hello, LILO can be placed in the Windows 2000 Boot menu! Using instructions at www.ntcompatible.com/faq2.shtml, (not reproduced here - they are designed with SuSE linux in mind which would not be appropraite on this list!), you can add it - and takes only 512bytes. [at a terminal] lilo -s /mnt/c/linux.bin [in boot.ini add this line] C:\LINUX.BIN=Mandrake Linux 8.0 I have tried it with linux mandrake 8.0 and it works perfectly. Hope it's useful, _nasturtium --- - 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: Re[2]: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 02:35, Dan Butler wrote: If LILO is so damn great, why is GRUB so much easier to work with? Does a better job and is easier to manage. I believe in working smarter, not harder. Thus, I have to agree that LILO can be improved. I am sticking with Grub. And I work in the computer industry also, for 25 years now. Dan J Actually I believe in LILO. More people have it. I know how to configure it. GRUB probably is better but I'd have to learn it first. I hate NTLDR. - pesarif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
jamie, install them as you would the offical nvidia ones. they will work fine on X4.0 hth ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- -- 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] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
www.nvidia.com has the latest drivers- Original Message - From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp 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] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
cheers i'll give it a go later tonight. Jamie From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:56:59 +0200 jamie, install them as you would the offical nvidia ones. they will work fine on X4.0 hth ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- -- 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 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
they do not have the 8.1 drivers. the only place for 8.1 drivers is off of mandrakeuser ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing www.nvidia.com has the latest drivers- Original Message - From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] filesharing and firewalling and ftp services HELP PLEASE!
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 09:43, Neil R Porter wrote: Hi all Hi... You got your ADSL working then ? I have LM 8.1 setup with an adsl connection networked and sharing the net connection to 2 win machines. I'm having problems setting up samba and firewalling and ftp services properly. 1) How can I tell which processes are running... I have read about samba and learn that it doesn't necessarily start up auto at boot time.. how can I tell whether it is running somewhere in the background? Also, when I try to test it the localhost doesn't seem to be setup correctly.. it's unknown.. omg.. how can localhost be unknown? but it is.. what have I done wrong here.. From a console type 'top' or for a graphical display KDE Menu ApplicationsMonitoringKDE System Guard If you just want to know which services you have defined, and running, and which will automatically load at boot the go to Control CenterSystemServices Local host can indeed be unknown Check your file /etc/hosts The first line should read something like 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost If you are trying to get the graphical samba setup facility SWAT running you must first check that the swat daemon is running (I think it may need the xinetd daemon as well) Check this in Control Center 2) this relates to number 1 in the sense that I have plenty of ways of configuring a 'firewall' available to me however I don't know which firewall is being used (whether more than 1 is actually running?!) etc.. I just installed the whole of LM with all options ticked when I installed it and notice that it says starting bastille firewall as it boots up.. again, which one is being used and how can i tell ? (any suggestions for which firewall would be best accepted thankfully!) All firewall utilities ultimately use the iptables function in the kernel. On the standard Mandrake install you have a choice of: TinyFirewall - in the Firewall section of Control Center BastilleChooser - To set up a basic firewall InteractiveBastille- A questionaire type interface I do not like any of them, because it is very difficult for a newbie to work out if the firewall is active or not, and they all stop Samba from working without mentioning the fact. The most common difficulty newbies seem to have with samba is having a firewall in place without realising it. On the Mandrake Disc is a utility called Guarddog which allows you to set up your firewall in a simple intuitive way. My favourite however is Firestarter which has a nice Wizard to set it up (Linux oldies will cringe at this point) What makes Firestarter good is that if the firewall is hit you get a visual and audible alert, and you can dynamically open holes or close them whenever you need to. It is not on the Mandrake disc, but Texstar has an rpm in his download section at www.pclinuxonline.com To guide you in setting up samba check out the guide at mandrakeuser http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/index.html#ss and if you look at these posts, where I have been guiding a newbie through setup, you will see some of the simple mistakes http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/viewtopic.php?topic=2189forum=617 3) I have full web and ftp services.. and while I'm happy(ish) with the web hosting (although it hasn't been tested as being crack proof - and no doubt isn't with current settings!) I am definitely NOT happy with the ftp setting.. AGAIN, how can I tell which ftp proggy is giving the box the ftp service? I can ftp in from a remote comp, however, if i use a user account on the LM box as the login then I can literally go round the whole file system.. eek.. i don't want this.. instead some way of making it only present a folder or two of my choosing would be safer.. I'm no expert. but I know all ftp access should be anonymous as they have passwords in clear text. HTH Derek I know it's a lot to ask of this list.. and it's a long email to read (made even longer by these few words).. but if i can get some help here it would be much appreciated as I really want to use linux (apache etc) instead of IIS spits to one side Neil - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:00, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Yes Just follow the instructions in the Nvidia text (you can find it at the bottom of the Nvidia linux download page) Yes it works with XFree4.x BTW: if your kernel is non standard you should use the .src.rpm files and intall them with 'rpm --rebuild' I do that anyway. Also I have checked the mandrakeuser rpms. They contain two patches. One called mandrakeconf, and the other one is a patch for devfs. Derek Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Card: Opti PnP
Hi,
First and foremost, I would like to apologise for the lengthy mail,
but I am sure those that are willing to help me will find the info.
important. Please note that there may be some incorrections because
I am on another location/machine at the moment and am writing this from
some notes I took at the time.
I am newbie at Linux/Unix and attempted to install Mandrake Liniux 8.1 on a
AMD 200+ with 64 Mbytes of RAM and two volumes (4 and 1.5 Giba
respectivelly).
On volume 1 I had (have?) a:
a) Dos partition of 100 MBytes (for booting)
b) FAT 32 w/ Win95 (+/- 2G)
c) NTFS (a little less than 2G)
On volume 2 is:
a) Free for Linux (/dev/hdb)
I have had some trouble on boot issues (explained in another e-mail) and am
now
attempting to install my sound card. Just in case this helps: I also
installed a HP Deskject
printer which was correctly set-up and is functioning. The S3 Video card was
correctlly
detected (!!), installed and is running. The monitor (SAMTRON 95P Plus) was
not listed so I
used a high freq. SVGA set-up and this seems to work fine. On install I had
an IOMega Zip
drive connected between the LPT1 and the printer. The install indicated a
detection of an
IMM SCSI and asked if I had any more (answered no because I only have a two
port IDE).
The modem was correctly installed and seems to be working fine. I still need
to configure
the mail clients before all is ok at the network end (hence the need to send
e-mail via another
machine).
Several problems seem to be festering:
1) During the boot-up, some indications of DMA time-out when accessing
/dev/hdb are
showing. The machine seems to react very sluggishly, don't know if it is
this.
2) The modules file (sorry don't recall the /etc/'s file name) shows two
SCSI adapters
(sda1 and sda6) if I remember correctly.
3.) Mandrake's control center shows the detection of 2 unknown devices. This
seems to be
related to the sound card.
4.) The sound card doesn't work.
5.) OpenGL screen savers don't work.
After some reading I am aware that two steps exist to handle installation of
devices:
a) The detection of the devices (PnP and the isapnptools)
b) The instalation of the modules (drivers in win-speak?) with the
{xxx}mode{xxx}
routines like insmod and modeprobe.
What happened:
The install seemd to detect the sound card correctly (OPTi PnP card). When I
launch
Mandrakes control center, the sound cards listed in the hardware section
show two entries:
1) the sound card: vendor unkown, module mad16
2) the MPU401: vendor unkown and modeule unkown.
When I select the card, attempt to alter the IRQ's and DMA as per Win95
configuration,
the configuration application gives the following error:
modprobe: can't locate module isa-pnp.
The detection seems to have worked fine save for two unkown entries. When I
attempt to
install the modules as follows:
modprobe -v mad16
I get the follwing error:
hint:insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
IO or IRQ
parameters.
When I look at the /etc/isapnp.gone file I see all the lines with IRQ and
DMA cahnnel
data commented. The /etc/isapnp.conf seems to be very confusing.
Question: How should I proceed to corrcet the sound card installation?
Should I attempt a new
detection (isapnp?), change parameters (in the /etc/isapnp.conf) or
attempt installing the modules
in a different manner (how?).
TIA.
Hugo
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[newbie] DVD Installation help
DVD drive installation help needed. I have just pulled my old cdrom and replaced it with a friends spare dvd drive and can't get Mandrake 8.1 to recognize it as dvd. After swapping out the cdrom Mandrake and HardDrake did not detect new devices for DVD but kept the cdrom settings. Hard Drake shows Vendor: Unknown Model: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500 Device: /dev/hdb Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE etc shows /dev/hdc5 / reiserfs notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc9 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 none/mnt/cdrom supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/hdb,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,codepage=850,nodev,exec 0 0 none/mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/scd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,nosuid,codepage=850,nodev,exec 0 0 none/mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,nosuid,nodev,codepage=850,exec 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda8 /mnt/win_g vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc7 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdc8 /var reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdc6 swap swap defaults 0 0 mtab shows /dev/hdc5 / reiserfs rw,notail 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdc9 /home reiserfs rw,notail 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=auto,dev=/dev/hdb,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount rw,nosuid,nodev,fs=auto,dev=/dev/scd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,nosuid,nodev,fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda8 /mnt/win_g vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdc7 /usr reiserfs rw,notail 0 0 /dev/hdc8 /var reiserfs rw,notail 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 automount(pid1528) /misc autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=1528,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 automount(pid1543) /net autofs rw,fd=8,pgrp=1543,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0 What should be changed? Thank You JDRradio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xawtv recording
Yes, I do hear sound. I've been using xawtv to watch tv for a while already and there is sound. There is also sound when it's recording, just the avi file has no sound. Mohammed Arafa wrote Valerie, did u hear the sound output before u began recording? if not did u check to see the sound was being sent to ur sound card? if so, i m afraid i cant help u there - Original Message - From: Valerie Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 7:23 AM Subject: [newbie] xawtv recording Hi, Has anyone tried recording with xawtv? I tried recording to avi file... But it's always sound-less. I'm playing w/ xine and I thought it might be a xine problem... but I tried playing in windoz and it still didn't have sound. So I think it's the xawtv that is having trouble encoding the sound... Does anyone know what's going on? Thank you. -Valerie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
Just noticed that you said that these files are patched, what are they patches for ? BTW do you know if these drivers work for GeForce 3 cards, i heard that some of the earlier drivers had problems ?? cheers Jamie From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:40:06 + On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:00, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Yes Just follow the instructions in the Nvidia text (you can find it at the bottom of the Nvidia linux download page) Yes it works with XFree4.x BTW: if your kernel is non standard you should use the .src.rpm files and intall them with 'rpm --rebuild' I do that anyway. Also I have checked the mandrakeuser rpms. They contain two patches. One called mandrakeconf, and the other one is a patch for devfs. Derek Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
they work fine on all geforce cards he was speaking about other patches on the mandrakeuser site, as far as I understood it. ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Just noticed that you said that these files are patched, what are they patches for ? BTW do you know if these drivers work for GeForce 3 cards, i heard that some of the earlier drivers had problems ?? cheers Jamie From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:40:06 + On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:00, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Yes Just follow the instructions in the Nvidia text (you can find it at the bottom of the Nvidia linux download page) Yes it works with XFree4.x BTW: if your kernel is non standard you should use the .src.rpm files and intall them with 'rpm --rebuild' I do that anyway. Also I have checked the mandrakeuser rpms. They contain two patches. One called mandrakeconf, and the other one is a patch for devfs. Derek Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- -- 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] Installation
Hi folks, I'm a newbie and wanted to install mandrake 8.1 - it don't work :-( There is a PC with a 200 CPU, 1,2 gb hdd, 24 CD-ROM and 64 MB ram. The hdd is empty - fresh born. I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and started the PC. It stoped while accessing the cd-rom. Then I made a bootdisk - the same :-( What can I do? greetings Ivo :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 work only after I run sndconfig
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 08:40 am, you wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:03:01 -0800 Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, all I clean installed Mandrake 8.1 on a P166 box to set it up as a mp3 box. Everything works alright, except the sound card. The sound card only works after I run sndconfig, it will recognize the sound card correctly and start working. What I have to do now is to logon and run sndconfig every time I reboot the box. I am guess it's a problem with IRQ setting, I have tried turning PnP on and off in the bios, no luck there. Is there a configuration file to set IRQ for ISA cards? or any other idea? I had a similar problem getting my sound card at home to work properly. I have a sound blaster live, and every time I booted up the machine and started KDE, the opening sound would play properly, but I could not get the mixer to work. Even after running sndconfig, it would not keep my settings past a reboot of the system. I looked into /etc/modules.conf, and there was the correct entry for my sound card, so I assumed that it wasn't loading properly. So I copied the entry from my /etc/modules.conf file (ALIAS SOUND-SLOT-0 EMU10K1) to my /etc/modules file (SOUND-SLOT-0 EMU10K1) to pre-load the module at boot time, and presto, everything works now. Don't know if this will work for you, but maybe it will help someone out. -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician / Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture [EMAIL PROTECTED] 434 (or 804) 982.3047 - Registered Linux User #218330 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation
Hi, I'm a newbie too but I have had problems installing from a CD (Win95 installation). After many hours wasted, I came to the conclsion that the CD ROM was broken. If you can, I suggeste your conform that the CD, CD ROM, IDE or disk are operational. Try installing NT 4 for example. The installation will check the transfer and any errors will be flagged. HTH's Hugo. - Original Message - From: windstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:49 PM Subject: [newbie] Installation Hi folks, I'm a newbie and wanted to install mandrake 8.1 - it don't work :-( There is a PC with a 200 CPU, 1,2 gb hdd, 24 CD-ROM and 64 MB ram. The hdd is empty - fresh born. I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and started the PC. It stoped while accessing the cd-rom. Then I made a bootdisk - the same :-( What can I do? greetings Ivo :) 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] fat32 vs reiserfs for storage
unless you want to access your file from winows and from your post, you don't, there is really no point in storing your files on fat32. As far as the disk usage goes, on a 8 GB partition, the smallest block on a fat 32 partition was 8 kb i think. so a 10 kb file would use up 16 kb on you fat 32 partition, and a 30 kb file would use up 32 kb of space. the larger the file the less percentage of space wasted. but since reiserFS is native to linux you could even store your applications there and run them from the reiserFS partition. somehow i wasn't able to do this on a dos partion. you can set a 4kb block with partition magic fat32 has the advantage of being the lowest common denominator, you can have access to your data with a single win98 boot disk, and you can access the drive from any PC (should yours die) - Unless you have plenty of Linux friends, getting at your files stored on a Linux partition could be real pain. I have a small drive in a removable bay that I backup all important documents to (as well as tape) so in the event of something going wrong, I can quickly take said drive to any other PC and have access to the data. (unlike my tape backup) Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:13, Carl Lafferty wrote: You are on the right track. By fedault, Mandrake creates an fstab entry for the floppy with the fat (DOS) filesystem. You can create another fstab entry for the same device (using the ext2 filesystem), just give it a different name (and thus a different directory under /mnt). I had wondered if I could do that. So will that allow my icon to work? No, you will need to create a separate icon for the Linux/ext2 floppy. Dave -- Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. -- F. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse execute by two persons and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. -- George Washington, 1732-1799 msg81463/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
In reply to Nicolas gomez's words, written Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:35:36 -0300 Did you set up the DNS servers in your settings? That is vital for stuff like that. Paul Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online I do not know what else do Thanks Bytes -- What we think, we become. -Buddha http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] burning ISO CDs
Hi all, Thanks for the responses and help. The software I had is what came with the CD, i.e. DirectCD. I now have NeroBurn; it is working great. Once again thanks. Paul W Gronbach Jr / IS Supervisor Light travels faster than sound, Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc.that is why some people appear bright 500 Hwy 18 W ... Garner, Iowa 50438 until you hear them speak. anon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 01:41, you wrote: i'm trying to create a new user in postgres (createuser [user]), but when logged in as root or any other user, i get permission denied. i tried to su postgres, but it prompts me for the password, which seems to have been set by default by mandrake. does anyone know what it is? if i log in as root and 1) change the password or 2) remove the postgres user and create a new one with a new password, will the postgres startup service still work? thank you very much, a linux and postgres newbie... Just after sending the last reply i went to: URL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/index.php?start-psql.html This one's interactive and they have answers for LM 8.0! Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion and terrorism. For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:24, Carl Lafferty wrote: it occured to me the other day to try mounting a floppy on which I had created an EXT2 file system. I can mount the floppy with mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t ext2 as root and things work OK but under no circumstances can I mount it from my floppy icon. I don't have my fstab here but if it is required I can post it tonight or tomorrow. You are on the right track. By fedault, Mandrake creates an fstab entry for the floppy with the fat (DOS) filesystem. You can create another fstab entry for the same device (using the ext2 filesystem), just give it a different name (and thus a different directory under /mnt). Dave -- Blessed be those who initiate lively discussions with the hopelessly mute, for they shall be know as Dentists. msg81467/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Abiword abnormal exit
Hmm what happened here? abiword AbiWord_d: manager_impl.cc:30: void free_lt_handle (void *): Assertion `s == 0' failed. /usr//bin/abiword: line 68: 10605 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d $@ It printed this on the console when it just disappeared. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Once again MR8 on PPC Open Firmware
I try once again to get an answer as I didn't get any answer the first time and this problem is bugging me completely to get Mandrake 8.0 up and booting om my iMac 333, rev b (I think): Installation seems to have been alright. (Two OS'es MacOS 8.6 and MR8) But I get no bootprompt on restart. So I open OpenFirmware and are ready so insert this command: setenv boot-device hd,6:\\:tbxi but the keyboard in open firmware is very limited and there are no \\ available?? Suggestions on what to do? /gunner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
the next place to look i would bet is dns, do you have it configured? can you ping a site by ip but not name? can you for example go to 207.200.81.139 but not dmoz.org? if so the trouble is likely dns On Tuesday 13 November 2001 07:35, you spoke unto me thusly: When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect -- Vini, vidi, Linux. I came, I saw, I got a real OS. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?
hi andre! thx very much for the advice! it worked! :) out of curiosity, are you using postgres as mandrake pre-installed it (in /var/lib/pgsql/data) or have you changed the location and create your own db/installation? thx again! :) At 11:09 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2001 01:41, you wrote: i'm trying to create a new user in postgres (createuser [user]), but when logged in as root or any other user, i get permission denied. i tried to su postgres, but it prompts me for the password, which seems to have been set by default by mandrake. does anyone know what it is? if i log in as root and 1) change the password or 2) remove the postgres user and create a new one with a new password, will the postgres startup service still work? thank you very much, a linux and postgres newbie... Hi tek1! I sure hope you'll get better help than this! (I'm going through the learning curve for Postgresql from LM8.0). I'll be using PostgreSQL with Linux-Kontor (an accounting package), and the install instructions for Postgresql are fairly clear. You might want to check them out. Anyway, while as root user, change the password for the user postgres -- then exit the root shell. su postgres [use your new password when it prompts you] To answer your questions: 1) I've done it, and the postgres startup service still seems to work (though I'm having all sorts of probs with postmaster and its refusal to accept connection in the gui Postgresql Access. 2) Hopefully?? Check out the Newbie Mail Archive: RE:[ newbie] postgresql. There were an articleson what you were asking. Wish I could help more . . . Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion and terrorism. For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ 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] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 09:35, you wrote: Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online I do not know what else do Thanks Bytes If you have a local area network, 2 or more computers connected, and you setup the LAN and eth0 during install, there is a bug in 8.1 that seems to stop the internet connection. Try going to a console and suroot passwd and then tlype ifdown eth0 then back to the desktop and try connecting to internet again. This has worked for me on two installs. HTH -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:49:57 +0100 windstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm a newbie and wanted to install mandrake 8.1 - it don't work :-( There is a PC with a 200 CPU, 1,2 gb hdd, 24 CD-ROM and 64 MB ram. The hdd is empty - fresh born. I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and started the PC. It stoped while accessing the cd-rom. Then I made a bootdisk - the same :-( What do you mean with 'the same' ? I understand it also didn't let you install LM8.1 but more details can help to find a reason for the failure or even gasp a solution ;) If booting from CD doesn't work it may be that your BIOS does not support booting from CD. Anyway, whether booting from CD or bootdisk, the CD/floppy device should be made a boot device in the BIOS setup. Did you read the README file on the first CD on how to make a bootfloppy? (the README is of course accesible from Windows and the floppy can also be made under that OS). Oh, and recently I got a kernel panic trying to boot from a standard bootfloppy, it turned out a new floppy made the same way worked, somehow the first floppy was corrupt :( -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online I do not know what else do Thanks Bytes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 13:18, you wrote: hi andre! thx very much for the advice! it worked! :) out of curiosity, are you using postgres as mandrake pre-installed it (in /var/lib/pgsql/data) or have you changed the location and create your own db/installation? thx again! :) At 11:09 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2001 01:41, you wrote: i'm trying to create a new user in postgres (createuser [user]), but when logged in as root or any other user, i get permission denied. i tried to su postgres, but it prompts me for the password, which seems to have been set by default by mandrake. does anyone know what it is? if i log in as root and 1) change the password or 2) remove the postgres user and create a new one with a new password, will the postgres startup service still work? thank you very much, a linux and postgres newbie... Hi tek1! I sure hope you'll get better help than this! (I'm going through the learning curve for Postgresql from LM8.0). I'll be using PostgreSQL with Linux-Kontor (an accounting package), and the install instructions for Postgresql are fairly clear. You might want to check them out. Anyway, while as root user, change the password for the user postgres -- then exit the root shell. su postgres [use your new password when it prompts you] To answer your questions: 1) I've done it, and the postgres startup service still seems to work (though I'm having all sorts of probs with postmaster and its refusal to accept connection in the gui Postgresql Access. 2) Hopefully?? Check out the Newbie Mail Archive: RE:[ newbie] postgresql. There were an articleson what you were asking. Wish I could help more . . . Andre Hi tek! Nope. I'm using the pre-installed version. Btw, shortly after I sent the last reply, I solved my problems with gui Postgresql Access. In case you run into the same problem: it took me three days to figure this one out - I forgot to su to root (and exit after!) for: bash$ export DISPLAY=hostname:0.0 As soon as I had entered this, of course I could access the db! (A big duhh here!). I've found that if I plug away at something long enough, I get to know the program. I was going to change LM's directory settings, but after reading enough, I left them alone. I works great! Btw the listing from Konrad Hernblad?? was mine -- I don't know how that happened! Now comes the fun stuff -- formatting the table structure. Have fun! Regards, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion and terrorism. For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation
Hi, I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and started the PC. It stoped while accessing the cd-rom. Then I made a bootdisk - the same :-( I did try with cd nothing. I did try with the bootdisk ( I made 3 of them) I did start to install win98 - it worked I did try a bootable cd with redheat on it - it worked More or less I guess the CD might be wrong somehow be that your BIOS does not support booting from CD. Anyway, whether booting from CD or bootdisk, the CD/floppy device should be made a boot device in the BIOS setup. I know about booting and BIOS and selecting bootdevice... Did you read the README file on the first CD on how to make a bootfloppy? (the README is of course accesible from Windows and the floppy can also be made under that OS). I made 3 of them as I said above :-( with 5 different floppies... Oh, and recently I got a kernel panic I only come to the point where mandrake is trying to access to a cd-rom blue stripe. The cd-rom is running big time and never stops - thats it. Greetings Ivo :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word
- Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word On Monday 12 November 2001 18:26, you wrote: I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page of a document! Anyone got any clues about this? Abiword certainly isn't perfect yet, but it shouldn't/doesn't do that :-p Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr command i.e. do you print through ghostscript or cups? If you enter the qtcups command instead of the lpr, the cups dialog (same as the one the printer-icon on the desktop gives) should appear. Which gives you quite a lot of fine-tune options if you dig any deeper. Otherwise you can always give turboprint a try, they're at www.turboprint.de (not .com), the webpage is very transparent :) Harm Printer Samsung ML4500 printing through CUPS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
Ng Hi Buddies! Ng I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. Ng When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online Ng I do not know what else do Ng Thanks Ng Bytes I guess you have a dns problem. Writing your isp's DNS servers' ips to /etc/resolv.conf most probably will solve the problem. say if they are 1.2.3.4 and 1.2.3.5 then write to resolv.conf nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 1.2.3.5 You can get these numbers from your isp, or if you have windows, use winipcfg (write it at start -- run ) and note the DNS servers. Onur Kucuk _ 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] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email
Hi Rafael, At 09:48 PM 11/11/2001 -0300, you wrote: Stephen, I didn't have that problem with Linux, but not long ago I have exactly the same problem in Windows. First I thought it was a problem with my ISP, but finally I solve this deleting the Outlook account and creating a whole new one. Belive it or not even when I typed exactly the same information, this time it works perfectly. Sorry. It could not work for me. I think that most likely the problem came from my OS - Mandrake 8.1 When I tried Evolution, on retrieving email from ISP it prompted : evolution - mail (Process. 2623) has crashed due to fatal error (Segmentation fault) I could not connect to the email server of ISP B.R. Stephen -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Stephen Liu Enviado el: domingo, 11 de noviembre de 2001 7:38 Para: Rafael Lepra CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: RE: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email (OS - Mandrake 8.1) Thanks for your detail information. I used pop3 server and I repeated numerous configuration on Kmail settings as follows ; (I skip Sending Mail configuration which has no problem) INCOMING MAIL Account Type Pop Account under General Tab Host pop.aaa.net (I also tried only aaa.net without pop) Port 110 (defaut) X Store POP password in configuration file (also tried deselect this item) X Delete mail file from server Under Security Tab Under Encryption - blank all items Under Authentication method Tried all items Each time when I checked mail, following warning pop-up ... . I said pass your password And then the server said -ERR authorization failed In another PC running Win ME, I configure Eudora with the same settings and password. It works fine without problem. My Mandrake 8.1 was not very stable. I encountered lot of difficulties to install it from the CDs which were burnt from the ISO Images downloaded from website (md5sum matched). Now PS/2 port is still not working and I have to connect the mouse to serial port. Later I found telnet client command missing from bash and I have RPM it. But Kmail sitll could not download emails from ISP server with the same warning pop-up. From Konsole window I typed telnet pop.aaa.net 110 (also tried aaa.net without pop) with same result as follows; Trying xxx.x.xxx.xxx ... Connected to smtp01.aaa.net (xxx.x.xxx.xxx) Escape character is ' ^] ' + OK [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I typed either login or password it prompted _ERR. authorization first. I tried to locate the log file but could not discover it. Have you had any recommendation ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen At 12:13 AM 11/11/2001 -0300, you wrote: Stephen, I am a newbie, but from what I know it is perfectly possible that you cannot receive your mail but at the same time you can send. The problem is that each task is performed by different protocols. You need a SMTP server for sending mails and ussually a POP server for recieving. And, as long as a passwor is not needed for an SMTP server (whenever it is an open realy) you will be able to send your mails without problems. In the other hand, you will need a password to download your messages from your POP server, and if it doesn't match you'll get an error message. I recommend you to check your Kmail configuration, and if you are not including capitals letters. I hope this helps :-) Rafael Lepra -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Stephen Liu Enviado el: viernes, 09 de noviembre de 2001 14:01 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email Hi All People, I encounter another problem in running Mandrake 8.1 Each time when I check mail in Kmail, a warning pop-up saying Error, incorrect password. But it can send emails without problem. I am quite sure the password entered in configuration is correct. Any guy on the list came across such strange thing ? B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy
Michael D. Viron wrote: Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user. How do you do this? -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:24 AM 11/13/2001 -0500, you wrote: it occured to me the other day to try mounting a floppy on which I had created an EXT2 file system. I can mount the floppy with mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t ext2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email
Hi Derek, At 01:19 PM 11/11/2001 +, you wrote: Sounds strange. Does it work with another mail client such as Evolution? I think that most likely the problem came from my OS - Mandrake 8.1 When I tried Evolution, on retrieving email from ISP it prompted : evolution - mail (Process. 2623) has crashed due to fatal error (Segmentation fault) I could not connect to the email server of ISP B.R. Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 01:41, you wrote: i'm trying to create a new user in postgres (createuser [user]), but when logged in as root or any other user, i get permission denied. i tried to su postgres, but it prompts me for the password, which seems to have been set by default by mandrake. does anyone know what it is? if i log in as root and 1) change the password or 2) remove the postgres user and create a new one with a new password, will the postgres startup service still work? thank you very much, a linux and postgres newbie... Hi tek1! I sure hope you'll get better help than this! (I'm going through the learning curve for Postgresql from LM8.0). I'll be using PostgreSQL with Linux-Kontor (an accounting package), and the install instructions for Postgresql are fairly clear. You might want to check them out. Anyway, while as root user, change the password for the user postgres -- then exit the root shell. su postgres [use your new password when it prompts you] To answer your questions: 1) I've done it, and the postgres startup service still seems to work (though I'm having all sorts of probs with postmaster and its refusal to accept connection in the gui Postgresql Access. 2) Hopefully?? Check out the Newbie Mail Archive: RE:[ newbie] postgresql. There were an articleson what you were asking. Wish I could help more . . . Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion and terrorism. For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...
gnucash is an excellent finiancial management program. It reminds me of quicken. As for games, most the top games are also for linux, and those that aren't for linux ie half-life, run flawlessly under wine. I have even had success with Zoo Tycoon, a Microsoft game to run almost perfectly under wineX www.transgaming.com (WineX is wine with directX support). The Sims is now also available for linux. I think Mandrake teamed up with wineX for this one. As of turbo tax, i think your best bet is wine. 'If that doesn't work you can always use emulators www.trelos.com or www.vmware.com mark On Wednesday 14 November 2001 05:48, you wrote: Folks, I'd love to ditch Windows completely, but there is still some good software that I hang on to that I think is only available for Windows. Somebody prove me wrong: Outlook with Exchange server - I run an Exchange server at the house and want to maintain the Outlook functionality. Is there Linux software to mimic this? MS Money - I have grown to love this software over the years for keeping track of my finances. Is there comparable software out there for Linux? Turbo Tax - I discovered this gem last year and love the ease with which it helps me do my taxes every year. Is there tax prep software out there? Finally, Games - I do quite a bit of LAN gaming with my friends who run Windows. I know that things like Quake 3 are around, but what about others like Half-life, Diablo II, etc. Is there anywhere near the selection of first rate games for Linux as for Windows? Thanks for any help. 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] Mounting EXT2 Floppy
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 13:23, you wrote: Michael D. Viron wrote: Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user. How do you do this? Pardon me for jumping in, I am off work today and thought I might help here. If you are using KDE: Go to the Kpanel and Configurationotheruserdrake and click on your user name to highlight and then click edit, or double click your user name and it should take you right to edit and then click on the group tab. Then select the function you want and click the arrow to move it to your user. save and quit and it should now work. HTH -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 11:51, you wrote: the next place to look i would bet is dns, do you have it configured? can you ping a site by ip but not name? can you for example go to 207.200.81.139 but not dmoz.org? if so the trouble is likely dns On Tuesday 13 November 2001 07:35, you spoke unto me thusly: When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect Shane, another thing to try, with Earthlink/Mindspring they use contracted services and I notice my ISP connection changes almost everytime I dial in, so you might go to the Kpanelconfigurationnetworkingppp,ipx whatever and enter your IP addresses and password and etc here and then try logging on again, This may not hold but after you have logged the first time it will or should continue to work. The Mindspring/Earthlink DNS servers seem to be some kind of proxy set up or something cause if you look at the logs to see where you logged in the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx addresses change regularly. HTH Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need DVD drive install help
I don't think it has to be changed. You may want to ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/dvd so that DVD-specific applications, which often look for DVDs at /dev/dvd, see DVDs using default settings. But I don't think there's anything you have to do. DVD drives are basically CD drives that can read DVDs. What exactly can't you do? Miark - Original Message - From: JDRadio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:22 PM Subject: [newbie] Need DVD drive install help Just pulled my old cdrom and replaced it with a firends spare dvd drive and can't get Mandrake 8.1 to recognize it as dvd. HardDrake did not add any new devices for DVD but kept the cdrom settings. Hard Drake shows Vendor: Unknown Model: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500 Device: /dev/hdb Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE etc mnt and mstab show /dev/cdrom What should these be changed to? Thanks JDradio 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] Printing with Abi Word
On Monday 12 November 2001 23:20, you wrote: From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word - Original Message - Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr command i.e. do you print through ghostscript or snip cups? Printer Samsung ML4500 printing through CUPS. Well frankly I've never printed multipage documents under Abiword. I always use Staroffice :) So I tried it. Apart from some loading problems (Abiword just disappeared on me ) forcing me to load/open from the commandline--no problems. On clicking the print button (9 page document) the dialog pops up, I change lpr to qtcups and press -print-. Then the cups-print dialog pops-up and that's the normal printqueu for me. I'd check out the page settings of both dialogs and see if there's something awry there, if the problem persists. Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with netscape6.2 bookmarks on mandrake/linux
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:50, tek1 wrote: | anyone have the problem when clicking on the bookmarks, that the | bookmarks pop-up menu doesn't go away and you can't do anything else in | netscape? | | thanks. Yep, seems to happen when a page is loading and you click on bookmarks. Even worse when a popup (eg. allow cookies) comes up when you have the bookmark menu open. I just kill it (CTRL+ALT+ESC) but yep its very annoying. Luckily I very rarely use nutscrape anyway. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] burning ISO CDs
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:14, you wrote: Hi all, Thanks for the responses and help. The software I had is what came with the CD, i.e. DirectCD. I now have NeroBurn; it is working great. Once again thanks. Paul W Gronbach Jr / IS Supervisor Light travels faster than sound, Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc.that is why some people appear bright 500 Hwy 18 W ... Garner, Iowa 50438 until you hear them speak. anon Paul, if you are seeing direct CD then you have the Adaptec software and it only works in windows, I missed which system you are using, but if you are using it in windows then the Adaptec CD should also have Easy CD Creator 4.x as well, This is the software you will want to use to create CD images or Audio or Data cd's, The Direct CD is used by preformatting a cd with that hardware and then you can use it like any removable disk to copy files or whatever. The formatting can take an hour. But the Easy CD Creator is very straight forward and works a lot like Gtoaster. HTH -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...
Folks, I'd love to ditch Windows completely, but there is still some good software that I hang on to that I think is only available for Windows. Somebody prove me wrong: Outlook with Exchange server - I run an Exchange server at the house and want to maintain the Outlook functionality. Is there Linux software to mimic this? MS Money - I have grown to love this software over the years for keeping track of my finances. Is there comparable software out there for Linux? Turbo Tax - I discovered this gem last year and love the ease with which it helps me do my taxes every year. Is there tax prep software out there? Finally, Games - I do quite a bit of LAN gaming with my friends who run Windows. I know that things like Quake 3 are around, but what about others like Half-life, Diablo II, etc. Is there anywhere near the selection of first rate games for Linux as for Windows? Thanks for any help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need DVD drive install help
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 12:00 pm, you wrote: I just link it to cdrom and it works like a dvd this is what I did: ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd I don't think it has to be changed. You may want to ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/dvd so that DVD-specific applications, which often look for DVDs at /dev/dvd, see DVDs using default settings. But I don't think there's anything you have to do. DVD drives are basically CD drives that can read DVDs. What exactly can't you do? Miark - Original Message - From: JDRadio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:22 PM Subject: [newbie] Need DVD drive install help Just pulled my old cdrom and replaced it with a firends spare dvd drive and can't get Mandrake 8.1 to recognize it as dvd. HardDrake did not add any new devices for DVD but kept the cdrom settings. Hard Drake shows Vendor: Unknown Model: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500 Device: /dev/hdb Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE etc mnt and mstab show /dev/cdrom What should these be changed to? Thanks JDradio --- - 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] Can't upgrade Mandrake with the Single Network Firewall.
Hi, I wanted to install the Single Network Firewall on Mandrake 8.1, but it doesn't upgrade, it replaces Mandrake 8.1 with Mandrake 7.1 and the firewall. I've noticed this after ending an incomplete install. The install is incomplete because I couldn't choose my adapter because it wasn't listed. I've chosen to skip that step but the screen keeps coming back again. I can't just click on ok. I chose to manually go further with the install, but this din't help. How can I dissolve this? Thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kmail filters
Hi Can Kmail be set up via the filters NOT to download an email that complies to a set of filter rules Cheerz David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
Stupid question alert! Are you installing from a CDR/W drive or an old fashioned ROM drive? I've had no luck what so ever installing from my PLEXTOR 16/10/40a (ATAPI) and I've tried both LM 8.1 and RH 7.2. My cheezy/generic PINE 52x CD-ROM drive has very few troubles however. I don't know if this is even vaguely relevant but even if I could get either to install they wouldn't fully boot, they'd get to some point and seize and it would be a different point each time. Tried it with ext2 and ext3 with BOTH distros. Don't know if this helps hurts or makes no difference one way or another but anyway just in case my experiences are now on record. == Separate issue I still need help with... BTW I still haven't been able to get my PC-ZIP100 to work with either distro, it shows on the desktop[s] but I can't access it. I get something about device unmountable and that I need to specify the file system type. Mobo= Asus P3V4X revision 1.00, I'm afraid to flash it in case it hurls HDD = Old Maxtor 8 gig, UDMA 33 family, ,5400RPM spindle Ribbon Cable = 80 pin type AKA UDMA 66/100 Zip Drive = NEC PC - 100 Linux' I've tried = LM 8.1 (8.0 won't boot, gets to loading Font XServer and freezes, Red Hat 7.2 ($60 version). I know I need to send more info, please specify what that is and I will. T H A N K Y O U James R. McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I haven't found any info yet. - Original Message - From: Mandrake7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Aaron Peterson' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:54 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Yes I have the same problem it cant make a ramdisk and when I amlooking in the log said the same thinks 4hdb: drive not ready for command 4isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339 and other stuff like this I am using a via chipset and a dvd rom gd2500 any solutions? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aaron Peterson Sent: , 11 2001 1:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hello, This is a problem I haven't been able to solve. Hi. I'm very new to Linux so I bought the 3 CD pack for Mandrake 8.1 expecting the installation to be pretty much trouble free. Unfortuantely, after the initial setup/ welcome screen using the boot disk and bootable CD-ROM, the setup said that it couldn't find an installation CD in the CD-ROM. The error message is as follows: I can't access a Mandrake-Linux Installation disk in your CDROM Drive. By looking in the setup log I also saw some of these messages: 4ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed setting, Oh well 4hdb: Status timed-out 4hdb: DMA Disabled 4hdb: drive not ready for command 4isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339 and other stuff like this If you guys don't know of any solutions off the top of your heads then I guess I'll see if we can get it up and runing at the Installfest. Thanks. / He has a DFI motherboard with Award BIOS. bios version is current. CD rom is primary slave, HD is primary master This problem also occurs when using RedHat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1 We tried two copies of the installmedia, so the disk wasn't bad. Demo Linux boots just fine off of the CD-Rom. / First of all, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I built the computer myself and currently I have Win 98 and Win 2K on two seperate primary partitions. Then I used PartitionMagic 5.0 to create a Linux partition. Anyway, the CD-ROM is bootable, but since I was having trouble with just booting off the CD-ROM I tried it again with a bootdisk. I think that I'm using the cdrom.img file if that is what you mean by the image file - the actual CD is from MandrakeSoft. Also, windows has no trouble booting from the CD-ROM. I got an email from Eric Sandall and I asked him what the situation is with getting rides to the Installfest and what all peripherials we need to bring. I can bring my Mandrake 8.1 CD's, but do I need to bring anything else besides my tower (i.e. monitor, keyboard, mouse)? Anyway, thanks for the help. Travis Chamberlain == Travis Chamberlain From: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Travis Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LUG] Mandrake 8.1 installation problem Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:36:29 -0800 boot disk and bootable CD-ROM, a boot disk is not required with a bootable CD-ROM newer Computers can boot from the CD-rom. go
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
one page I found with lots 'o help is http://theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html; the problem may be dns or the default route setting. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:35, you wrote: Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online I do not know what else do Thanks Bytes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation
did you buy the cds or burn them? sounds like a defect cd On Tuesday 13 November 2001 14:06, you wrote: Hi, I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and started the PC. It stoped while accessing the cd-rom. Then I made a bootdisk - the same :-( I did try with cd nothing. I did try with the bootdisk ( I made 3 of them) I did start to install win98 - it worked I did try a bootable cd with redheat on it - it worked More or less I guess the CD might be wrong somehow be that your BIOS does not support booting from CD. Anyway, whether booting from CD or bootdisk, the CD/floppy device should be made a boot device in the BIOS setup. I know about booting and BIOS and selecting bootdevice... Did you read the README file on the first CD on how to make a bootfloppy? (the README is of course accesible from Windows and the floppy can also be made under that OS). I made 3 of them as I said above :-( with 5 different floppies... Oh, and recently I got a kernel panic I only come to the point where mandrake is trying to access to a cd-rom blue stripe. The cd-rom is running big time and never stops - thats it. Greetings Ivo :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
wasn't me with the trouble, but i have noticed that also. seems that is
dialup only though, since i got the dsl much less dns trouble.
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[newbie] boot failed
hi, i am a newbie and i am having problems installing mandrake 7.2, i did download it from the net , rigth now i am trying to install it from my hard disk but it does not work. My computer specifications are the following: - win98 version a - celeron 533 mhz - 5 gb free space - ibm model pc300 - No particions made just one drive i have made several floppy disks( with the right image hd.img ) but it does not work it sends me a message BOOT FAILED , i have read that it may be the BIOS file if it is how can i change it? pd. i did down load an ISO file , and at the moment to extract it, i did it on C:\ __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome
In reply to Søren Neigaard's words, written 13 Nov 2001 21:53:04 +0100 How do I take a screenshot of my desktop in Gnome? Run Gimp, there's an option for it in there somewhere. Paul -- What we think, we become. -Buddha http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail filters
Not sure about NOT downloading, but you can filter it straight to trash. Take a look at the filter options, dead easy. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 20:32, David wrote: Hi Can Kmail be set up via the filters NOT to download an email that complies to a set of filter rules Cheerz David -- MJK Systems-IT Consultants Training Phone/Fax-020 8697 4912 Mobile-077 4066 3292 Linux User #-196384 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...
Mark D'voo wrote: I have even had success with Zoo Tycoon, a Microsoft game to run almost perfectly under wineX www.transgaming.com (WineX is wine with directX support). Anyone know if EverQuest will run under WineX? That's really about all that keeps me from getting rid of Windows completely. Well, that and Scorched Earth (old DOS shareware game). :) Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome
is it possible to take a screen shot using a command line utility? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome In reply to Søren Neigaard's words, written 13 Nov 2001 21:53:04 +0100 How do I take a screenshot of my desktop in Gnome? Run Gimp, there's an option for it in there somewhere. Paul -- What we think, we become. -Buddha http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't upgrade Mandrake with the Single Network Firewall.
and , may I ask why you would want to do that? if you have 8.1, run InteractiveBastille to set up the firewall.. SNF is a earlier (some saymore stable) kernel, without all the bells and whistles a regular Mandrake Distro comes with. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 15:24, you wrote: Hi, I wanted to install the Single Network Firewall on Mandrake 8.1, but it doesn't upgrade, it replaces Mandrake 8.1 with Mandrake 7.1 and the firewall. I've noticed this after ending an incomplete install. The install is incomplete because I couldn't choose my adapter because it wasn't listed. I've chosen to skip that step but the screen keeps coming back again. I can't just click on ok. I chose to manually go further with the install, but this din't help. How can I dissolve this? Thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] boot failed
What you need to do is, burn the ISO file onto a CDR. Then put that into your cdrom drive and make your system boots off of the CD first. Then from there the Mandrake CD should boot up. Then just go threw the steps of the installation. I would do the recommended install. Once you get to the step where you have to create HDA and stuff, just wipe the whole thing out and then do a auto allocate. I'm sure you wont be needing win98 anymore. ;-) ./Tom -Original Message- From: Antonio Soto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 21:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] boot failed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed
Thanks all. Will follow thse suggestions Dave S. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail filters
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 20:32, David wrote: Hi Can Kmail be set up via the filters NOT to download an email that complies to a set of filter rules No. KMail does not see a mail until it is already downloaded. However there is an application called Mailfilter which you can run to preprocess the mail headers before you download them from your ISP. You can find MailFilter on sourceforge. Cheerz David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed
A search on Sourceforge for the word 'Autocad' throws up 10 projects of various types. One of them ought to do the trick. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 22:59, Ed Tharp wrote: as far as mail goes... try Kmail, and on the file menu, imports On Tuesday 13 November 2001 17:44, you wrote: I am still a captive of Windows, mainly because I depend on Autocad and I have a relatively huge mail archive stuck in Outlook Express. Because of this dependency I find that while I am in Windows I make full use of it's other facilities - Office97 etc. and only try to familiarise myself with MLinux in my 'spare' time. I would very much like to take the plunge and go full-time Linux but I want to bring my mail archives with me in some form where I can consider them MY files - such as delimited ascii at worst or an accessible indexed database format at best. So, does anyone know of: a) a prog that will convert OE files b) a draghting package similar to Autocad for Linux. TIA Dave S. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 14:57, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Derek, At 01:19 PM 11/11/2001 +, you wrote: Sounds strange. Does it work with another mail client such as Evolution? I think that most likely the problem came from my OS - Mandrake 8.1 When I tried Evolution, on retrieving email from ISP it prompted : evolution - mail (Process. 2623) has crashed due to fatal error (Segmentation fault) I would not worry about that too much. Evolution is still not final code. It does crash sometimes. I would be more interested in what the output of the fetchmailconf test showed you. Derek I could not connect to the email server of ISP B.R. Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have Mandrake done to cdrom/floppy devices?
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 13:51, you wrote: Dear all, I have recently updated to LM8.1 on my office PC and my laptop. It seems like Mandrake have taken a step backwards regarding accessing cdrom/floppy drives, which worked fine for me in LM8.0! Yes. They rushed the 8.1 release, and it went out with supermount broken :-( If you want it that much there is a kernel on Mandrake Cooker version 2.4.13-2mdk in which supermount works. However I do not recommend it since when I tried it my computer would hang on unloading usb drivers. Until a fixed 2.4.8 kernel appears we have no choice but to mount/unmount manually I like to keep kwikdisk as an icon in my icon tray to mount/unmount at a click. It ain't ideal, but heck its just like a mackintosh :-) Here is my fstab. It works just fine /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrom auto user,exec,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto iocharset=iso8859-1,user,exec,noauto,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhide 0 0 This accessing seems extremely temperamental in LM8.1 and is driving me nuts at the moment. Something as simple as this, that has been sorted previously, should work fine and dandy in LM8.1! I am aware that there have been many posts regarding this, but I can't access them at present! What is the answer? Is there a simple 5 minute fix that will sort it all out for me? Any help would be much appreciated... Yeah its annoying, but I've kind of got used to it. kwikdisk is kinda cute, and I used to be a mac user so its not so different. What's most annoying is that Mandrake knew about it before release, but for commercial reasons released it anyway instead of waiting 1 or 2 weeks for a fix. Derek Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed
i too am looking to switch from my win2k system over to linux, as my system has crashed or been corrupted (undeletable files, programs, massive application errors, corrupted eudora emails/netscape bookmarks, etc.). glad for the staroffice6beta alternative to bring over all the ms office dox, but can anyone recommend an email package that can import eudora emails, filters, and address book? i was able to import my filters into kmail, but not emails and the filters... also, is there a linux alternative to import ms outlook data (calendar, contacts, etc.)? re drafting packages on linux, try checking out the below 2: -dia -kivio they're both located under office/graphs from the mandrake menu... At 17:59 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote: as far as mail goes... try Kmail, and on the file menu, imports On Tuesday 13 November 2001 17:44, you wrote: I am still a captive of Windows, mainly because I depend on Autocad and I have a relatively huge mail archive stuck in Outlook Express. Because of this dependency I find that while I am in Windows I make full use of it's other facilities - Office97 etc. and only try to familiarise myself with MLinux in my 'spare' time. I would very much like to take the plunge and go full-time Linux but I want to bring my mail archives with me in some form where I can consider them MY files - such as delimited ascii at worst or an accessible indexed database format at best. So, does anyone know of: a) a prog that will convert OE files b) a draghting package similar to Autocad for Linux. TIA Dave S. 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] Screenshot in Gnome
On 13 Nov 2001 21:53:04 +0100 Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I take a screenshot of my desktop in Gnome? You can use the SCreenShooter panel applet. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows 2000: Designed for the Internet. The Internet: Designed for UNIX. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?
hi andre! thx for the DISPLAY warning. can you explain why this was necessary? thx! :) good luck with the creating the tables! my next step too... :) At 14:05 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote: Hi tek! Nope. I'm using the pre-installed version. Btw, shortly after I sent the last reply, I solved my problems with gui Postgresql Access. In case you run into the same problem: it took me three days to figure this one out - I forgot to su to root (and exit after!) for: bash$ export DISPLAY=hostname:0.0 As soon as I had entered this, of course I could access the db! (A big duhh here!). I've found that if I plug away at something long enough, I get to know the program. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 16:44, you wrote: I am still a captive of Windows, mainly because I depend on Autocad and I have a relatively huge mail archive stuck in Outlook Express. snip So, does anyone know of: a) a prog that will convert OE files b) a draghting package similar to Autocad for Linux. TIA Dave S. For cad work, see qcad on the 8.0 and 8.1 distribution, it is on the #2 disk in 8.1, supposed to be a fairly powerful CAD program, I have not had a chance to look at it but you might find it acceptable. HTH -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 18:53, you wrote: hi andre! thx for the DISPLAY warning. can you explain why this was necessary? thx! :) good luck with the creating the tables! my next step too... :) At 14:05 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote: Hi tek! Nope. I'm using the pre-installed version. Btw, shortly after I sent the last reply, I solved my problems with gui Postgresql Access. In case you run into the same problem: it took me three days to figure this one out - I forgot to su to root (and exit after!) for: bash$ export DISPLAY=hostname:0.0 As soon as I had entered this, of course I could access the db! (A big duhh here!). I've found that if I plug away at something long enough, I get to know the program. Hi tek! Without the export DISPLAY statement, I couldn't load the GUI Postgresql Access, but I could access it on the commandline. I kept getting the following error messages (since the postmaster wasn't running): Connection to database 'postgres' failed. connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting connections at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'? or Connection to database 'postgres' failed. connectDB() failed: Isthe postmaster running and accepting connections TCP/IP (wit -i) connections at 'localhost' on port '5432'? Wish I had su-ed then typed the command. It would have saved me lots of grief; but then again, I wouldn't have learned much. Regards, Andre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion and terrorism. For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download
Whenever I hit a web page with a midi file, the web page disappears and http://kittypuss.org/dialogue.gif appears and stays there. What is going wrong please? Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed
From what I've read, and what I've played with, you don't need to make the Outlook Express mail file anything. You should be able to use it as is, and then port it to something you can use in *nix. http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbx2mbox/ I was looking for something to port Eudora Pro mail files to Linux, and had a bit of frustration and problems and then it didn't really do that well of a job. But check out that app above. Maybe it will work. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | | I am still a captive of Windows, mainly because I depend on Autocad and I | have a relatively huge mail archive stuck in Outlook Express. | | Because of this dependency I find that while I am in Windows I make full use | of it's other facilities - Office97 etc. and only try to familiarise myself | with MLinux in my 'spare' time. | | I would very much like to take the plunge and go full-time Linux but I want | to bring my mail archives with me in some form where I can consider them MY | files - such as delimited ascii at worst or an accessible indexed database | format at best. | | So, does anyone know of: | a) a prog that will convert OE files | b) a draghting package similar to Autocad for Linux. | | TIA | | Dave S. | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 9:05PM up 20 days, 9:45, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] web page woe's
I have a little problem. I set up a web page on my linux mandrake 8.0 server and am unable to get to it remotely. I can connect to it on a small local network (3 winblows systems and a mandrake server) by typing in the ip of the local address (192.xxx.x.x) or the external ip(24.x.x.x)but as soon as I try to connect from out side ie work there is no trace. no ping no telnet no ssh no nothing. I am not running a firewall (to my knowledge). Any help would be great. Lost in Linux Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web page woe's
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can connect to it on a small local network (3 winblows systems and a mandrake server) by typing in the ip of the local address (192.xxx.x.x) or the external ip(24.x.x.x)but as soon as I try to connect from out side ie work there is no trace. no ping no telnet no ssh no nothing. I am not running a firewall (to my knowledge). Any help would be great. It definitely sounds like firewalling of some sort. So you can't even ping the address from outside. If you can actually ping it then that's a start and you might want to try: telnet host 80 where host is the address of the machine (and assuming the server is on port 80). Also something else to look at, assuming you can ping, is the logs on the server machine to see if you get anything relating to the connection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xawtv recording
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:53, Valerie Cheng wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried recording with xawtv? I tried recording to avi file... But it's always sound-less. I'm playing w/ xine and I thought it might be a xine problem... but I tried playing in windoz and it still didn't have sound. So I think it's the xawtv that is having trouble encoding the sound... Does anyone know what's going on? Thank you. -Valerie I also had the same problem. Use streamer that comes with xawtv in console. to use read man streamer. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web page woe's
24-net... which one? Are you running off a RoadRunner connection? They closed down port 80 after the CodeRed fiasco. So you'd have to change the port you use for your webserver in httpd.conf to something like port 90. That's what most people do. http://name.dns.com:90/ is how you'd access it. But make sure you have the processes running. Run these commands. [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/httpd status Apache is running. httpd: 1308 19629 19628 19627 19310 19309 19308 19307 1074 Apache-mod_perl is running. httpd-perl: 1064 1063 1062 1061 1060 Use /etc/init.d/httpd extendedstatus for more information. [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/network status Configured devices: lo eth0 /Devices that are down: Devices with modified configuration: [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/sshd status sshd (pid 709) is running... If you get output similar to that, then you should be able to acquire connections from the outside world. By default, Mandrake 8.0 does not install Bastille, and even if you do have iptables installed, there aren't any set up to block certain traffic. First thing, make sure you can ping the machine. Can you ping your work machine? There might be something on your work firewall that's denying you. So do some testing on both sides to find out where the problem is. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I have a little problem. I set up a web page on my linux mandrake 8.0 | server and am unable to get to it remotely. | | I can connect to it on a small local network (3 winblows systems and a | mandrake server) by typing in the ip of the local address (192.xxx.x.x) | or the external ip(24.x.x.x)but as soon as I try to connect from out side | ie work there is no trace. no ping no telnet no ssh no nothing. | | I am not running a firewall (to my knowledge). Any help would be great. | | | Lost in Linux | | Mike | | | | Get your own free email account from | http://www.popmail.com | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Uptime --- 9:20PM up 20 days, 10 hrs, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW problem
At 11:35 PM 11/12/2001 -0400, skidley wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I added append hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf but I still can't find the drive with cdrecord -scanbus and gcombust can't find it. The ide-scsi driver does get loaded and the drive gets mounted at boot time as read-only. Try it like this (note the space right after the first ) append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet If it's still no go, try changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount There's also a nobiospnp option you can try adding, and make sure your bios is set to 'pnp OS = no (or disabled)' Don't forget you need to run 'lilo' as root to make any edits to lilo.conf take affect, ie, before you reboot. I've tried everyone's suggestions plus copied and pasted some info from the CD-Writing HOW-TO. Maybe I should try recompiling the kernel or do a fresh install? You must have SCSI emulation support, SCSI generic support, SCSI CD-ROM support compiled in your kernel or even as modules you can load. -- I added insmod ide-scsi.o to rc.local and that did load according to lsmod. The SCSI support is compiled into the kernel, apparently, since my SCSI CD-ROM works OK. For some reason, I can't get the CDRW to work and Gcombust can't find it and cdrecord -scanbus can't find it. The CDRW worked in 7.2 but I had sent the CDRW in for repair prior to installing 8.1. I suppose that the simpler solution is to do a fresh install of 8.1 with the CDRW installed this time. If that doesn't get it going then I'm going to reinstall 7.2. I might reinstall 7.2 anyway since I can't get my internet connection sharing working in 8.1 (worked great in 7.2). I'm beginning to believe that there are still some major bugs that need to be worked out of 8.1. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy
At 02:23 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, you wrote: Michael D. Viron wrote: Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user. How do you do this? edit /etc/groups, and add the username after the last : in whatever group that user needs to be a part of. Or, edit the user via linuxconf, and add as many groups as you want in the 'Supplementary groups' field. -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tripwire-1.3.1-1.tar.gz
Gidday G So what would one use in addition to (instead of) tripwire and how can things trick tripwire? Thanks Max g answered Anuerin G. Diaz on Monday, November 12, 2001 6:32 PM Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: and what does tripwire do anyway? basically, it is a file security monitor data base for files to monitor changes. it is ok, but there are better ways, as files can be tricked to not show changes that tripwire checks. it is useful, but not to be used alone for security. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nec870 network printer
Hi everyone, Now I'm just getting greedy. I already have a funtioning network printer, but I have moved to a different location and the closest printer is the NEC870. The first printer, I set up using CupsIPP protocol as a socket printer. It is a HP2200dnworks beautifully. I tried the same basic configuration for this one, but there is no driver specified for an NECtherefore I just set it up as a raw printer. When I print a test page, I get about 2 or 3 lines of data then nothing. Is there a driver for this guy? Or am I on the right track at all? Has anyone been successful setting this one up on a network? TIA, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] joystick as mouse?
Does anybody have any information of using a joystick as a mouse in Linux? I'm putting a system together for an elderly person, i think that a joystick will be much more comfortable for her. Particularly, perhaps, one that went naturally back to the center. How do I set this up? -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
Re: [newbie] Abiword won't load this document
Abi can only officially open Microsoft Word Docs up to 98, for Me and XP Word Docs you may need to try OpenOffice.org. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:24, Richard Wenninger wrote: Anyone else get this? It happens when opening a .doc file. I'm assuming it's a microsoft office document. Doesn't seem to be document specific. Diagnostic: (escher.c:223) Eating type 0xf004 AbiWord_d: manager_impl.cc:30: void free_lt_handle (void *): Assertion `s == 0' failed. /usr/bin/abiword: line 68: 3890 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d $@ =_1005690295-1851-2195 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] Konqueror Help Midi download
You might want to look at the SBLive instructions I posted earlier... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Newbie |Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:17 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download | | |Whenever I hit a web page with a |midi file, the web page disappears |and http://kittypuss.org/dialogue.gif | |appears and stays there. | |What is going wrong please? | |Thank you. | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
