[newbie-it] kernel
Dove trovare versioni aggiornate del kernel mandrake? Son fermo alla 2.4.3-mdk! Cu s%N! Ciaociao Byez ! L8r \\marco [www] http://members.xoom.it/verbal_666 ||| http://surf.to/verbal_666 [email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||| [EMAIL PROTECTED] [icq] 19758469 ] do you have an opinion ? ] a mind of your own ? ] i thought you were special. ] i thought you should know. ] but i've run out of patience, ] i couldn't care less. ] now i lay me down to sleep, ] pray the Lord my soul to keep, ] if i die before i wake, ] pray the Lord my soul to take. ] 10 hippopotamuses to change your mind. ] Dance! Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. ] oh my God, it's full of stars!
Re: [newbie-it] SAMBA
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:03:03 +0100 Mark AKA VèrB@L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho appena downloadato la v. 2.2.2 dal sito www.samba.org! C'è modo di farla girare sotto Mandrake 8.0? Ho provato di tutto... la compilazione RPM non va a buon fine! Allora al solito sono andato in sources e configure/make/make install! Ma il servizio? Non me lo attiva da solo? Se avete qualche hint per l'installazione DEL SERVIZIO... thanx! Beh io non uso piu' mdk dalla 7.2 ma dovrebbe esserci ancora il tool che permette di scegliere i servizi da avviare, senno' puoi farlo a mano creando i symlink nella dir del tuo runlevel di default. Comunque tutto questo non ti serve perche' e' altamente consigliabile avviare i due demoni di samba (smbd e nmbd) tramite il superserver inetd cosi' da poterne controllare gli accessi tramite host.allow e host.deny (tcp wrapper). Quindi l' unico servizio che devi avviare e' inetd e configurare poi quest' ultimo per avviare i due demoni di cui sopra. Io uso ancora il vecchio inetd che si configura semplicemente editando il file /etc/inetd.conf, ma nella tua distro credo che ci sia xinetd che e' un po' diverso. Dovrebbe esserci una dir /etc/xinetd con all' interno un file per ogni servizio nei quali devi mettere enabled per attivarlo. Mi spiace di non essere troppo preciso ma come ti ho detto non conosco mdk 8.x, comunque il solito man potra' senz' altro esserti d' aiuto. Ciao -- Sebastiano
Re: [newbie-it] grip
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:03:55 +0100 (CET) lori cava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti. Ho provato a rippare e a codificare dei brani da cd a mp3 con grip (mdk8.1), ma il risultato è un file inascoltabile, sembra un disco fatto girare al doppio della velocità, ho provato anche con mp3c, ma il risultato è lo stesso. Con mdk8.0 tutto andava bene anche se l'encoder era diverso (lame per la 8.0 e oggenc per la 8.1). Qualcuno può darmi dei consigli? Grazie in anticipo. Scusa ma non puoi usare ancora lame? Oggenc non l' ho mai provato ma puo' darsi che sia lui il problema. Se vuoi un suggerimento installa gogo (non ricordo il sito ma dovresti trovarlo su freshmeat): usa lo stesso lame come encoder ma e' molto + veloce. Ciao -- Sebastiano
Re: [newbie-it] grip
18:03, sabato 15 dicembre 2001, lori cava: Ho provato a rippare e a codificare dei brani da cd a mp3 con grip (mdk8.1), ma il risultato è un file inascoltabile Ogni tanto mp3izzo qualche traccia da cd usando semplicemente da terminale cdda2wav e bladeenc che ci sono in tutte le mandrake. Se voglio rippare la seconda traccia e chiamare il file seconda.mp3 faccio così: cdda2wav -t 2 seconda.wav -D 0,3,0 bladeenc seconda.wav -t 2 significa traccia 2 -D 0,3,0 sono le coordinate del mio lettore SCSI CD, dovrebbe funzionare anche con -D /dev/cdrom Trovi varie opzioni con: man cdda2wav ciao, Tommaso
Re: [newbie-it] kernel
Il 10:55, domenica 16 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: Dove trovare versioni aggiornate del kernel mandrake? Son fermo alla 2.4.3-mdk! www.kernel.org siamo alla 2.4.16 (fino a venerdì 14/12...) -- --- Perfect Dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake 8.1 P133 - 48 Mb Ram Incredibile! Posso fare altre cose con il PC mentre masterizzo!
[newbie-it] StarOffice 5.2 + Adabas
..Non riguarda proprio Mandrake. Accedo a StarOffice attraverso un bottone che ho costruito con menudrake il cui comando è /home/fabio/Office52/soffice. Così facendo però, quando voglio accedere ad un database Adabas il programma mi dice che non è stato in grado di caricare adabas. Se però lo stesso comando lo do dalla shell non c'è alcun problema; da qui infatti sembra che venga correttamente letto .bashrc che contiene le variabili di ambiente del programma. Come posso farle leggere anche con il tasto costruito con menudrake? Grazie anticipate a chi saprà rispondermi. Fabio
Re: [newbie-it] grip
--- Sebastiano Cordiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Scusa ma non puoi usare ancora lame? Oggenc non l' ho mai provato ma puo' darsi che sia lui il problema. Se vuoi un suggerimento installa gogo (non ricordo il sito ma dovresti trovarlo su freshmeat): usa lo stesso lame come encoder ma e' molto + veloce. Ciao -- Sebastiano Ho seguito il tuo consiglio, mi sono scaricato i sorgenti di lame e li ho compilati (non ti dico che casini!). Ora tutto funziona bene come prima. Bye. __ Iscriviti al Meglio della Settimana, la newsletter di Yahoo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina: http://buongiorno.yahoo.it
[newbie-it] come configurare il mio server apache.
Salve a tutti, sono un nuovo iscritto alla ml. di lavoro faccio il web master e siccome mi sono appassionato di PHP e MySQL voglio iniziare ad utilizzarlo in Linux, ma non riesco a capire come modificare la directory dove memorizzare le pagine del mio sito ne tantomeno dove memorizzare i miei DB. ho provato a modificare il file apache.conf ma così facendo all'avvio mi dice che non riesce più a caricare un sacco di moduli... Qualcuno mi può spiegare bene come si fà? Grazie. Stefano
[newbie-it] Internet
Navigando in rete (uso Mdk 8.1 e Mozilla 0.9.4) sono andato sul sito di trenitalia e mi è comparso il seguente messaggio: This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm)that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in. Chiaramente ho subito scaricato i plug-in, che si sarebbero dovuti installare da soli. Ho riavviato Mozilla ma il messaggio è sempre lo stesso. Ho controllato le impostazioni riguardanti java e java-script abilitandoli ma ancora niente. Qualcuno sa aiutarmi? Chiedo perdono per la mia ignoranza. Grazie.
[newbie-it] Salve
Ciao a tutti, ho appena installato Mandrake 8.2 sul mio note acer travelmate 212tx. Non funziona ne la scheda audio ne il modem!!Confesso che non so dadove cominciare,che faccio? Ciao grazie Claudio
RE: [newbie-it] Salve
E la 8.2 quando è uscita? Ciao a tutti, ho appena installato Mandrake 8.2 sul mio note acer travelmate 212tx. Non funziona ne la scheda audio ne il modem!!Confesso che non so dadove cominciare,che faccio? Ciao grazie Claudio
Re: [newbie] host name look up failure
Thanx alot for the reply Derek.To answer you 1 by 1 here... 1)Yep..127.0.0.1 localhost is there alright... 1 for 1 eh :) 2) DNS is indeed enabled,and the ip of the proxy is there..so good so far :-) 3) The default gateway is also the ip of the proxy. Now something that's bothering me is this,I was under the (false) impression that if I used a host file,I didn't need DNS. anyway..I do have DNS enabled (required for normal operation ?) in linux.conf (under names server spec) I'm still geting this host name lookup failure in the place I described below? Anyway's it's 3:30 am sun. morning and I'm still trying..lol Hava great Sun. all :-) Lee Do you have an entry in your /etc/hosts file that says 127.0.0.1 localhost Do you have your DNS enabled and the host names of your DNS servers in it? Have you declared a default gateway? The default gartway will be the IP address of the machine between you and the Internet. You can use netconf to set up all that stuff. Derek On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:15, lee wrote: Hi folks, Ok..running 8.1 here,using the box as a proxy (squid),at present trying to connect another box (also 8.1). I can ping the proxy ( vice versa) but can't surf thru it (dns?). X does not start auto. So I enter my login info enter the command to start x. All well up TO this point. Now however, after entering the command, I see a message host name lookup failure. Then x starts as planned. Now as I look thru my stuff..I see the hostname in all the places it's supposed to be ( I think..lol ). Just not sure how to fix this issue..and whether it's contributing to my inability to get this box to proxy. There may very well be issues with squid that is causing this..but if I could get this message to go away..I'd sure feel better :-) fwiw..getting (unknown host) when i try to surf. Also I just noticed that when I do a whereis for lisa --kde2,it finds it,,but nmblookup is a command that cannot be found. Furthermore when in drakconf,and Itry to start named..aka bind..I get a failed message (x-tra command line arguments). not sure if it has anything to do with what I'm trying to do,as I'm thinking this may be a web thing,but if I can ping but not surf,that would be a dns issue..correct ? Thank you all very much for your time. I'm sorry for the long post,just trying to be complete :-) Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linmodems
Roy Barton wrote: ok.. I'm new to this wonderful thing called linux, but i love it. i understand the file system and the fact that everything is a file. i know there is support for some linmodems, including the one i my machine. 8.1 did not autodetect it so i went on a search for a rpm that would work and found one. i installed it, but cannot get the internet dialer to recognize it. is there another dialer i can use .. or would it be best to by an external modem?. i have the same problem with my PDA.. the soft where is there, but it is looking @ /dev/polit when it is connect to comm2.. does any one know of some free training one the web or some good books i can read. i want to use my machine on the web instead of going under windoz all the time.. thanks roy HI - I don't know what a linmodem is, but considering the low cost of an external modem, buy one and use it instead ! Best book about linux I've ever seen is : Running Linux from O'Reilly. It is very beginner-friendly and with a touch of humour too. Enjoy ! Regards Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd rom and cd writer
Robert Boggs wrote: In harddrake I can see my cdrom and my cd writer, however, they will not mount in root. How do I force them to? These are SCSI. RB Robert, you have to check (and possibly edit - (as root)) two files : 1. the file /etc/lilo.conf should read something like this : image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hda2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount vga=791 read-only the important line being : append= hd(your CD-drive here)=ide-scsi which tells the kernel to see your ATAPI CD-ROM as a SCSI device. After editing this file, remember to run lilo (at a command-prompt, type : lilo. Then reboot to let the kernel know the changes. 2. the file /etc/fstab should read something like this : /dev/hda2 / reiserfs notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda4 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 the important lines being the ones with the cdrom's. Regards Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Identd
Hi, Im having some problems.. First my system: Mandrake 8.1 on a network. I have a cable router (Linksys).. Problem.. I am trying to get my eggdrop bot to work and everytime my bot goes to connect I get a must install IDENTD.. Well the IDENTD service is running.. any help? Eric
Re: [newbie] Linmodems
RB ok.. RB I'm new to this wonderful thing called linux, but i love it. i understand the file system and the fact that everything is a file. i know there is support for some linmodems, including the one i RB my machine. 8.1 did not autodetect it so i went on a search for a rpm that would work and found one. i installed it, but cannot get the internet dialer to recognize it. is there another dialer i RB can use .. or would it be best to by an external modem?. RB i have the same problem with my PDA.. the soft where is there, but it is looking @ /dev/polit when it is connect to comm2.. does any one know of some free training one the web or some good books RB i can read. i want to use my machine on the web instead of going under windoz all the time.. RB thanks RB roy I did make some models work fine under linux, but all have different styles to be configured. Which modem are you trying to make work ? What rpm did you use ? Btw, many of the modems can not work with rpms, as they need to be compiled against your machine. 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] Linmodems
in its simplist terms, a winmodem is a modem where half the hardware has been replaced by software.. so certain stuff that would normally be done by the modem itself is done by your PC's CPU via the driver software.. The problem is that not many winmodem manufactures make linux drivers or even supply the specs so that one may be written. makes it hard to get them working properly. a linmodem is generally one that either had linux drivers supplied for it, or someone has worked out how to write one for it themselves and have released it.. I am of the belief that nothing does as well as a good old serial external modem, it won't need a driver at all, and should have you up and away almost instantly, it also puts alot less load on your PC, since your CPU isnt' doing half the work of the modem. be careful of USB external modems, alot of them are also winmodems. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2001 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linmodems Roy Barton wrote: ok.. I'm new to this wonderful thing called linux, but i love it. i understand the file system and the fact that everything is a file. i know there is support for some linmodems, including the one i my machine. 8.1 did not autodetect it so i went on a search for a rpm that would work and found one. i installed it, but cannot get the internet dialer to recognize it. is there another dialer i can use .. or would it be best to by an external modem?. i have the same problem with my PDA.. the soft where is there, but it is looking @ /dev/polit when it is connect to comm2.. does any one know of some free training one the web or some good books i can read. i want to use my machine on the web instead of going under windoz all the time.. thanks roy HI - I don't know what a linmodem is, but considering the low cost of an external modem, buy one and use it instead ! Best book about linux I've ever seen is : Running Linux from O'Reilly. It is very beginner-friendly and with a touch of humour too. Enjoy ! Regards Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
fdisk ??? Re: [newbie] partition not mounted at boot.
In the following HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-Rescue/x67.html I see that the result of fdisk gives a listing of the following format: Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 153 1228941 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 154 166 104422+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb3 * 167 291 1004062+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb4 295 523 1839442+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 295 422 1028128+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 423 523 811251 6 FAT16 Mine however looks much stranger: #fdisk -l Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 216 1734988+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 217 292610470 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 293 2846 20515005 5 Extended /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 2202 2583 3068415 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 293 342401593+ 82 Linux swap /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 343 1106 6136798+ 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ?224061112815 1253901899 29 Unknown I can't use Linux now. Do you know where does the problem come from and how I could solve it??? I just stumbled on this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mandrake-Linux/message/1445 for my hard drive (hda), I have the following symlinks: /dev/hda --- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc /dev/hda1 --- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /dev/hda2 --- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 and so on. but i don't know if it is relevant at all... And also following a link from google, I find this quote: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/SGI/xfs/Release-1.0/RH7.1-SGI-XFS-1.0/RedHat/RP MS/devfsd-1.3.11-sgi.i386.html (DiskDrake won't like /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 instead of /dev/hda1 ...) I used diskdrake to add one partition and my problems started (not immediately) after that... The rest of the page doens't give anything helpful though... I am puzzleder and puzzleder. thanks, Anguo Below is the background information from my previous posts. Linux doesn't mount /home and other important partitions at boot. It does mount / and /usr though... It does mount win98 c:/ but not d:/ win98 can't read d:/ anymore. There seems to be a problem with my partition table... I am still investigating how I can solve the problem. I found the partition rescue mini howto which may or may not be relevant in my case. I'll look more for the answer but if anyone knows where the problem is and could give me some pointers, I'd be grateful. Would you please post the content of cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /archive ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda9 /files ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda10 /mnt/windows2/ vfat umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda4 /redhat ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 #df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 587M 133M 424M 24% / none 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 1.7G 1.5G 236M 87% /mnt/windows /dev/hda4 2.9G 4.0k 2.7G 1% /redhat /dev/hda6 5.8G 1.6G 3.9G 29% /usr #fdisk -l Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 216 1734988+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 217 292610470 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 293 2846 20515005 5 Extended /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 2202 2583 3068415 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 293 342 401593+ 82 Linux swap /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 343 1106 6136798+ 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ?224061112815 1253901899 29 Unknown #fdisk -l -u Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
Non domain windows machine authenticate every time they open a share. Domain controlled machines basically log in once, then have access to the resources allocated on a per user basis. Domain controlled machines can also do some interesting things... E.G. autoconfiguration of printers, network logon scripts, roving profiles, etc. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank McKenna Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 1:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Hi Michael, To make things easier, you can set up your Linux box as a domain controller and therefore will only have to deal with username / passwords on the Linux side. If you want to pursue that, let me know. Could you please let me know how to do this and why it would be beneficial TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] host name look up failure
I forgot to ask the other obvious question. Have you entered the proxy port nunber into your browsers proxy settings? The default port number for Squid is 3128 However you should still be able to surf without Squid being properly configured so long as you have enabled Network Address Translation (NAT or IP Masquerading) in the Gateway Computer. Can you surf if you do not declare the proxy in your browser? You can test if IP Masquerading (NAT) is working if you can ping the Ethernet adapter on the Internet side if the gateway computer. If you can ping that, then try pinging the DNS servers. If that works then try pinging a network server by name like :- ping www.yahoo.com It might be worthwhile stopping the Firewall while you debug the system. Firewalls are notorious for stopping services and get in the way of faultfinding. You can stop the firewall with this command /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall stop As for your question about Host Tables and DNS. Your computer has to try to resolve network host names into IP addresses since IP packets use only IP address and never host names. It will always start by looking at the host table. If there is a match there it will use that IP address. If there is no entry in the host table for a given name, then it will use DNS to look up a name. This is why leaving out the 'localhost' entry is bad. If the localhost entry is missing, then everytime the computer has to attach to a local socket the computer will go and ask the DNS server where 'localhost' is, and of course will not get an answer. On Saturday 15 December 2001 22:16, lee wrote: Thanx alot for the reply Derek.To answer you 1 by 1 here... 1)Yep..127.0.0.1 localhost is there alright... 1 for 1 eh :) 2) DNS is indeed enabled,and the ip of the proxy is there..so good so far :-) 3) The default gateway is also the ip of the proxy. Now something that's bothering me is this,I was under the (false) impression that if I used a host file,I didn't need DNS. anyway..I do have DNS enabled (required for normal operation ?) in linux.conf (under names server spec) I'm still geting this host name lookup failure in the place I described below? Anyway's it's 3:30 am sun. morning and I'm still trying..lol Hava great Sun. all :-) Lee Do you have an entry in your /etc/hosts file that says 127.0.0.1 localhost Do you have your DNS enabled and the host names of your DNS servers in it? Have you declared a default gateway? The default gartway will be the IP address of the machine between you and the Internet. You can use netconf to set up all that stuff. Derek On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:15, lee wrote: Hi folks, Ok..running 8.1 here,using the box as a proxy (squid),at present trying to connect another box (also 8.1). I can ping the proxy ( vice versa) but can't surf thru it (dns?). X does not start auto. So I enter my login info enter the command to start x. All well up TO this point. Now however, after entering the command, I see a message host name lookup failure. Then x starts as planned. Now as I look thru my stuff..I see the hostname in all the places it's supposed to be ( I think..lol ). Just not sure how to fix this issue..and whether it's contributing to my inability to get this box to proxy. There may very well be issues with squid that is causing this..but if I could get this message to go away..I'd sure feel better :-) fwiw..getting (unknown host) when i try to surf. Also I just noticed that when I do a whereis for lisa --kde2,it finds it,,but nmblookup is a command that cannot be found. Furthermore when in drakconf,and Itry to start named..aka bind..I get a failed message (x-tra command line arguments). not sure if it has anything to do with what I'm trying to do,as I'm thinking this may be a web thing,but if I can ping but not surf,that would be a dns issue..correct ? Thank you all very much for your time. I'm sorry for the long post,just trying to be complete :-) Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 06:56:50 -0500 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Non domain windows machine authenticate every time they open a share. Domain controlled machines basically log in once, then have access to the resources allocated on a per user basis. Domain controlled machines can also do some interesting things... E.G. autoconfiguration of printers, network logon scripts, roving profiles, etc. -JMS heavens! all I wanna do is just be able to read and write from the windows box to the linux box and be able to use the Linux printer. honest. how ya'll doing today. I was pretty well fried when i went to bed last night. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 3:05am up 6 days, 5:00, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:11:14 -0500 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Password Encryption? as in is encryption turned on? as far as i know it is. is this a bad thing? -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 3:05am up 6 days, 5:00, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd rom and cd writer
what command are you using to mount? what is the error message? On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:53, you wrote: In harddrake I can see my cdrom and my cd writer, however, they will not mount in root. How do I force them to? These are SCSI. RB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled
turn OFF plug and pray aware OS in bios, yes that is the first thing. how did you do it? reserve (also in Bios , isa-pnp) an IRQ for the ISA slot slot the modem is in. you might also have to see if there is a setup utility to set the modems IRQ (probly dos based) or if this modem has jumpers or dip switches. On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:51, you wrote: Hi All, I want to desperately get my Linux box online but my modem causes my mouse to uninstall and I currently cannot navigate that well in command prompt mode. My latest acquisition is a 1998 Diamond System Multimedia Communications Division 56 K ISA internal modem Maybe someone will be able to tell me how to stop my mouse from being uninstalled when I insert my modem. I think that I have turned off PnP if that is the first thing that anyone is going to suggest. TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:45:51 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: turn OFF plug and pray aware OS in bios, yes that is the first thing. how did you do it? reserve (also in Bios , isa-pnp) an IRQ for the ISA slot slot the modem is in. you might also have to see if there is a setup utility to set the modems IRQ (probly dos based) or if this modem has jumpers or dip switches. On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:51, you wrote: Hi All, I want to desperately get my Linux box online but my modem causes my mouse to uninstall and I currently cannot navigate that well in command prompt mode. My latest acquisition is a 1998 Diamond System Multimedia Communications Division 56 K ISA internal modem Maybe someone will be able to tell me how to stop my mouse from being uninstalled when I insert my modem. I think that I have turned off PnP if that is the first thing that anyone is going to suggest. You are going to have to chage the jumpers on the modem for com port. Right now it is set to use the same port that your mouse is on, this is why you loose the mouse. Your ISA moden will have anywhere from 1 to 3 jumoers, allowin you to manually set the com port, IRQ and I/O address. If you do not have the docs for the modem then check the Diamond site. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] quickie kernel compile
Hi all, out of curiosity, I tried to rebuild my kernel.src.rpm I have these packages installed: rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.2.19-6.3mdk.src kernel-utils-2.2.19-6.3mdk kernel-secure-2.2.19-6.3mdk kernel-headers-2.2.19-6.3mdk kernel-source-2.2.19-6.3mdk as you can see, tht is pretty much everything. So I tried this: rpm --rebuild kernel-2.2.19-6.3mdk.src.rpm (I wanted to just get a quick i686 kernel without all the fuss of a normal source compile.) and I got this: + echo 'Patch #250 (linux-2.2.19-deep-symlinks-ptrace-security.patch.bz2):' Patch #250 (linux-2.2.19-deep-symlinks-ptrace-security.patch.bz2): + /usr/bin/bzip2 -d + patch -p1 -s + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + echo 'Patch #251 (linux-2.2.19-synq-security.patch.bz2):' Patch #251 (linux-2.2.19-synq-security.patch.bz2): + /usr/bin/bzip2 -d + patch -p1 -s + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cp ibcs/CONFIG.i386 ibcs/CONFIG + cp /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/rhkmvtag.c . + find . -name '*~' -o -name '*.orig' + xargs rm -f + rm -f pcmcia alsa + exit 0 Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.31501 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd linux ++ gcc --version + '[' 2.95.3 = 2.96 ']' + FLAGS=-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro - ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations + echo -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -f fast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -ffast- math -fexpensive-optimizations + '[' -z '' ']' + '[' -x /usr/bin/getconf ']' ++ /usr/bin/getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN + NRPROC=1 + '[' 1 -eq 0 ']' + rm -rf /var/tmp/kernel-2.2.19-6.3mdk-root + BuildSecure + cp arch/i386/defconfig arch/i386/defconfig.secureorig + BuildKernel secure + '[' -n secure ']' + Config=i686-secure + KernelVer=2.2.19-6.3mdksecure + echo BUILDING A KERNEL FOR secure... BUILDING A KERNEL FOR secure... + cp /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/kernel-2.2.19-i686-secure.config arch/i386/defconfig cp: /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/kernel-2.2.19-i686-secure.config: No such file or directory Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.31501 (%build) So why is it missing that file or directory? I have installed everything bar the docs... don't get it,, anyone got any ideas? rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linmodems
I'm am using a LT winmodem(lucent chip) and ltmodem-kv_2.4.8_34.1mdk-6.00b7-1.i586.rpm. it installed a device.. i think using /dev/ltmodem ? linux rpm installers dont tell you much of what they are doing.. also.. thanks for refering the basiclinux course. i have signed up for it... roy - Original Message - From: Bill Winegarden To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 2051 Subject: Re: [newbie] Linmodems Hi Roy,I was in the same boat as you. I needed a ltmodem driver for my modem to work. If you could supply a little more information; specifically which modem you are using, which 'rpm' did you use, I might be able to help. There are many on this list who can supply the answers you seek. Regards,Bill W.On Saturday 15 December 2001 23:18, you wrote: ok.. I'm new to this wonderful thing called linux, but i love it. i understand the file system and the fact that everything is a file. i know there is support for some linmodems, including the one i my machine. 8.1 did not autodetect it so i went on a search for a rpm that would work and found one. i installed it, but cannot get the internet dialer to recognize it. is there another dialer i can use .. or would it be best to by an external modem?. i have the same problem with my PDA.. the soft where is there, but it is looking @ /dev/polit when it is connect to comm2.. does any one know of some free training one the web or some good books i can read. i want to use my machine on the web instead of going under windoz all the time.. thanks roy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE Media Player broken
Hi there, Can anyone give some ideas on troubleshooting this? I've been using KDE Media Player (noatun) steadily since I installed with little to no problems. Of course, I've tweaked some sound server settings to get better playback, but I'm still using the default settings in Media Player. Recently, it's showing some strange behavior. When I start it from the K menu, it looks like it's opening, but never comes up. I can use Konq and select an .ogg file and actually listen to music, but I can't get to my playlist or see the noatun interface. So, Media Player seems to be running in the background, but I can't see anything of it. It even shows up in the list of running processes. So, what can I do here? Thanks, Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
Hi Jose, Thank you for your reply and sorry for the long post everyone. 1) Are the user accounts valid. smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser Have done this for all three users and there does not appear to be any error messages is the Windows Login name (that you used on the Windows machine to log in initially) that you have added to Samba via smbpasswd -a Windowsuser. As far as I know, things are set up correctly for this. The password that I entered while doing smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser should be the same as the Linux/Windows password or am I wrong Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you probably don't have one. I had DNS set up before I broke my install and had to reinstall the O/S. I thought that I had everything set up the same way as before but that would make sense. I am stumbling around in the dark with this. How would I find out if DNS is running? I know that it is enabled in smb.comf You must then help windows. There are several ways to do this... A) Create a HOSTS file (in the same location as your LMHOSTS or LMHOSTS.SAM example file) which contains the IP - NETBIOS equivalences. Not sure where I would put this or what I would have to put in it. C) Enable the WINS component in Samba and create a local HOSTS entry, and then point the workstations to the Samba box's IP for WINS resolution... Have done th is except for the local hosts entry. Could you explain the local HOSTS entry please Changing the hashing depth to 8 helps. This is a new term for me. Also remember that Windows uses Encrypted passwords, when you use SMBCLIENT locally you are sending clear text so if it works locally but not remotely (from Windows) it's likely that you do not have encryption set up properly... In my smb.conf, I have encrypted password = Yes. On my Windows 98 box, I have hacked the registry to send passwords in clear text. On my W2K box I did nothing in terms of password encryption and I can still log on. If smb.conf is correct, you may be missing a crypt lib or something else and/or too high of a security setting... Crypt.lib is a new term as well. When you say security settings do you mean security = user or the settings for Linux itself? TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Bear in mind that this is different, but related to the FQDN for your machines! Re: USER B It sounds like your login is failing, and you are falling thru to a Guest share which has no rights! You MUST NOT get an invalid password message, if you do Samba normally has rejected the password sent by Windows... See my other posts about this... -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] new partition and moving /usr/local - help
I need some help /dev/hdd is partitioned in the following way -- 2.1GB primary partition - free space hdd512GBlogical partition -- 6.2 GB logical partition I want to bring the current free space online as linux partitions and then mount /usr/local on the 6.2gb partition. Currently, /usr/local is part of the / mount point. I would really appreciate having someone help walk me throuhg this process. I took a look a cfdisk ... I can't afford to wipe out the 12GB partition...which is what I am concerned about doing... Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Epson scanners
hi according to the mandrake website the following epson scanners are supported EPSON GT-5500 EPSON GT-7000 EPSON Perfection 1640 SU EPSON Perfection 1650 photo but the Epson website says these below are suported on mandrake 8.1. atm i am on scanner number 2 and going onto scanner3 in the search of a supported scanner. This scanner is the 1250 ,according to the guy in the pc shop its the same drivers as the 1240 (obviously not) . i think i might find it easier to get a 1240 rather than any of the others so i was wondering if anyone out there was using a 1240 on mandrake 8.1 .. Perfection 1240U Perfection 1640SU Perfection 1650/ Perfection 1650 Photo Perfection 2450 Photo Expression 1600 Expression 1680 Expression 1640XL .. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Crazy Mouse
Hello, I have installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 (Powerpack) on my system. I have a problem with my mouse. When I try to move the cursor it goes crazy. It likes to go to the lower left of the screen but it may go anywhere... So fast it almost seems to just appear there. Along the way it may open menus, move my menu bar from along the bottom of the screen to the left side. (How do I put it back along the bottom - in Gnome desktop?) My mouse is a MS Intellimouse Optical. I am using (well, trying to 8-( ) Xfree86 4.0 so I am looking at xfree86config-4, correct? It said: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse or /dev/mouse1 or something (I changed it to /dev/psaux) Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 and the cordmiddle option is # so it isn't activated. I have tried various things including reinstalling approximately 15 times now. Nothing changes. I started out with a logitech 2 button mouse and some keyboard. Was going crazy all over the screen. Tried reinstalling. Nope. Got the wife to go get a different mouse. She came home with the intellimouse packaged with the MS Internet Keyboard. Still the same behavior. Exactly the same. Goes crazy opens menus moved my task bar to the left crazy. At one point I got to the mouse screen where I roll the mouse wheel to activate. I did, it worked for up down push wheel push left button push right button. Movement worked. Ok, complete install still crazy. Two mice two keyboards still crazy. Crazy. Surely I'm not the only one in existance that can't get mouse to stop being crazy. What do I need to do that it can't figure out by itself? Is crazy I say! Must do in Gnome, KDE locks up at screen. Where blinking icon loading window manager it stops blinking locked up. That is another problem always in every installation. Will worry about that later, got option #2 Gnome to work. Mouse crazy in login and Gnome. Crazy. Help. Trying to use this keyboard mouse emulation is crazy too, will start moving and stop but pointer keeps to edge of screen then I have to remember what way I was moving and hit that key again and then it stops trying to move that way and I can move back. Sometimes different keys act this way. Noticed I was trying to type in my user password and it wasn't working. Went back to input user name to test and sure enough... All my input was in caps, the #'s were in @#!@%!! My shift key was stuck so I pressed them and retyped user, password fine. Is there a conflict between my mouse and keyboard? Would explain multiple keyboards/mice exhibiting the same problem? According to the colors on the plugs/ports and also the labeling I've got them plugged into the correct ps2 ports. And they work fine in Windows98 (as if that's supposed to be any colsolation GRIN). I have the bios configured for Plug Play OS OFF like the installation guide that came with ML8.1PP said to. Help, Wes Gregg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stuck in Windows where my mouse is a mouse and my keyboard is a keyboard and they both work fine. 8-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] host name look up failure
Thanx again,very much derek for taking the time to reply. The port # has been entered. 3128..I've also tried using port 80 port 8080 too..lol. Anyways I'm back to 3128 as we speak :-). It definately won't surf when configged as a direct connection. The firewall has been shut down, I was using InteractiveBastille,which along with iptables chains have been shut down,taking no chances for the moment..lol I'm not sure I understand what you mean by pinging the nic on the 'net side So now in the meantime I got the bright idea to just try a fresh install (idiot) cause now I'm back to the problem of getting that modem is busy message again I fixed this once before and I can't remember how I did it !! So I'll start over again.The good part is no Bastille has been configged at all. Gotta get some air now tho..lol. Hava great Sunday friends :-) Lee I forgot to ask the other obvious question. Have you entered the proxy port nunber into your browsers proxy settings? The default port number for Squid is 3128 However you should still be able to surf without Squid being properly configured so long as you have enabled Network Address Translation (NAT or IP Masquerading) in the Gateway Computer. Can you surf if you do not declare the proxy in your browser? You can test if IP Masquerading (NAT) is working if you can ping the Ethernet adapter on the Internet side if the gateway computer. If you can ping that, then try pinging the DNS servers. If that works then try pinging a network server by name like :- ping www.yahoo.com It might be worthwhile stopping the Firewall while you debug the system. Firewalls are notorious for stopping services and get in the way of faultfinding. You can stop the firewall with this command /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall stop As for your question about Host Tables and DNS. Your computer has to try to resolve network host names into IP addresses since IP packets use only IP address and never host names. It will always start by looking at the host table. If there is a match there it will use that IP address. If there is no entry in the host table for a given name, then it will use DNS to look up a name. This is why leaving out the 'localhost' entry is bad. If the localhost entry is missing, then everytime the computer has to attach to a local socket the computer will go and ask the DNS server where 'localhost' is, and of course will not get an answer. On Saturday 15 December 2001 22:16, lee wrote: Thanx alot for the reply Derek.To answer you 1 by 1 here... 1)Yep..127.0.0.1 localhost is there alright... 1 for 1 eh :) 2) DNS is indeed enabled,and the ip of the proxy is there..so good so far :-) 3) The default gateway is also the ip of the proxy. Now something that's bothering me is this,I was under the (false) impression that if I used a host file,I didn't need DNS. anyway..I do have DNS enabled (required for normal operation ?) in linux.conf (under names server spec) I'm still geting this host name lookup failure in the place I described below? Anyway's it's 3:30 am sun. morning and I'm still trying..lol Hava great Sun. all :-) Lee Do you have an entry in your /etc/hosts file that says 127.0.0.1 localhost Do you have your DNS enabled and the host names of your DNS servers in it? Have you declared a default gateway? The default gartway will be the IP address of the machine between you and the Internet. You can use netconf to set up all that stuff. Derek On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:15, lee wrote: Hi folks, Ok..running 8.1 here,using the box as a proxy (squid),at present trying to connect another box (also 8.1). I can ping the proxy ( vice versa) but can't surf thru it (dns?). X does not start auto. So I enter my login info enter the command to start x. All well up TO this point. Now however, after entering the command, I see a message host name lookup failure. Then x starts as planned. Now as I look thru my stuff..I see the hostname in all the places it's supposed to be ( I think..lol ). Just not sure how to fix this issue..and whether it's contributing to my inability to get this box to proxy. There may very well be issues with squid that is causing this..but if I could get this message to go away..I'd sure feel better :-) fwiw..getting (unknown host) when i try to surf. Also I just noticed that when I do a whereis for lisa --kde2,it finds it,,but nmblookup is a command that cannot be found. Furthermore when in drakconf,and Itry to start named..aka bind..I get a failed message (x-tra command line arguments). not sure if it has anything to do with what I'm trying to do,as I'm thinking this may be a web thing,but if I can ping but not surf,that would be a dns issue..correct ? Thank you all very much for your time. I'm sorry for the long
[newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?
I currently have Mozilla 0.9.4, running on 8.1. I used to have Moz 0.9.5, from Cooker, but had to remove it, for some reason (I forget why). Anyway, I can't seem to find that version anymore, only 0.9.6 ... which uses a different libpng. I'm a bit leery about updating libpng, since many apps depend on it. I tried rebuilding from src.rpms, but that didn't work. I also tried using RedHat's rpms, but had no luck rebuilding. Has anybody done this - updated to 0.9.6 from Cooker, with associated libpng upgrade? And if so, has it broken any applications? I'm thinking specifically of things like Evolution, Konqueror, Opera, GIMP, etc. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Two apache questions
I know I have asked these before but I can't seem to find them in the archives and I have somehow lost them. 1. How do I setup a password protected site? The .htaccess file goes in the directory you want protected? What goes in the .htaccess file? What goes in and where does the .htpaswd file go? Or is that even the right file? 2. How do I create my own certificates for my site? I know it has something to do with mod_ssl right? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linmodems
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Franki wrote: in its simplist terms, a winmodem is a modem where half the hardware has been replaced by software.. so certain stuff that would normally be done by the modem itself is done by your PC's CPU via the driver software.. The problem is that not many winmodem manufactures make linux drivers or even supply the specs so that one may be written. makes it hard to get them working properly. a linmodem is generally one that either had linux drivers supplied for it, or someone has worked out how to write one for it themselves and have released it.. a winmodem is basically a soundcard -- . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird // \ \ Use Linux (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org --- Linux localhost 2.4.17-rc1 #5 Thu Dec 13 18:25:16 AST 2001 i686 unknown 2:00pm up 41 min, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crazy Mouse
Hi, I am using an intellimouse optical on LM8.1 (on a laptop). The mouse works beautifully. The only difference that I see between our free86config-4 files is that my mouse is pointed to /dev/mouse. Have you tried that? hth, Bill W. On Sunday 16 December 2001 12:17, you wrote: Hello, I have installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 (Powerpack) on my system. I have a problem with my mouse. When I try to move the cursor it goes crazy. It likes to go to the lower left of the screen but it may go anywhere... So fast it almost seems to just appear there. Along the way it may open menus, move my menu bar from along the bottom of the screen to the left side. (How do I put it back along the bottom - in Gnome desktop?) My mouse is a MS Intellimouse Optical. I am using (well, trying to 8-( ) Xfree86 4.0 so I am looking at xfree86config-4, correct? It said: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse or /dev/mouse1 or something (I changed it to /dev/psaux) Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 and the cordmiddle option is # so it isn't activated. I have tried various things including reinstalling approximately 15 times now. Nothing changes. I started out with a logitech 2 button mouse and some keyboard. Was going crazy all over the screen. Tried reinstalling. Nope. Got the wife to go get a different mouse. She came home with the intellimouse packaged with the MS Internet Keyboard. Still the same behavior. Exactly the same. Goes crazy opens menus moved my task bar to the left crazy. At one point I got to the mouse screen where I roll the mouse wheel to activate. I did, it worked for up down push wheel push left button push right button. Movement worked. Ok, complete install still crazy. Two mice two keyboards still crazy. Crazy. Surely I'm not the only one in existance that can't get mouse to stop being crazy. What do I need to do that it can't figure out by itself? Is crazy I say! Must do in Gnome, KDE locks up at screen. Where blinking icon loading window manager it stops blinking locked up. That is another problem always in every installation. Will worry about that later, got option #2 Gnome to work. Mouse crazy in login and Gnome. Crazy. Help. Trying to use this keyboard mouse emulation is crazy too, will start moving and stop but pointer keeps to edge of screen then I have to remember what way I was moving and hit that key again and then it stops trying to move that way and I can move back. Sometimes different keys act this way. Noticed I was trying to type in my user password and it wasn't working. Went back to input user name to test and sure enough... All my input was in caps, the #'s were in @#!@%!! My shift key was stuck so I pressed them and retyped user, password fine. Is there a conflict between my mouse and keyboard? Would explain multiple keyboards/mice exhibiting the same problem? According to the colors on the plugs/ports and also the labeling I've got them plugged into the correct ps2 ports. And they work fine in Windows98 (as if that's supposed to be any colsolation GRIN). I have the bios configured for Plug Play OS OFF like the installation guide that came with ML8.1PP said to. Help, Wes Gregg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stuck in Windows where my mouse is a mouse and my keyboard is a keyboard and they both work fine. 8-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:45:55PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote: I currently have Mozilla 0.9.4, running on 8.1. I used to have Moz 0.9.5, from Cooker, but had to remove it, for some reason (I forget why). Anyway, I can't seem to find that version anymore, only 0.9.6 ... which uses a different libpng. I'm a bit leery about updating libpng, since many apps depend on it. I tried rebuilding from src.rpms, but that didn't work. I also tried using RedHat's rpms, but had no luck rebuilding. Has anybody done this - updated to 0.9.6 from Cooker, with associated libpng upgrade? And if so, has it broken any applications? I'm thinking specifically of things like Evolution, Konqueror, Opera, GIMP, etc. Michael, I've always had better luck using the official Mozilla binaries/installer. I'm using 8.1 as well and I've never had to worry about this dependency you're having and I'm using the latest nightly. Since you appear to have an official Mandrake mozilla package, leave it installed and install using mozilla's net install. Then all you need to do is call mozilla from the command line using the default path, which is /usr/local/mozilla. A bit of a kludge but it's the easiest way to do things IMHO. HTH. -- Cheers, Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?
On Sunday 16 December 2001 10:45 am, you wrote: Has anybody done this - updated to 0.9.6 from Cooker, with associated libpng upgrade? And if so, has it broken any applications? I'm thinking specifically of things like Evolution, Konqueror, Opera, GIMP, etc. I used rpmfind to grab all the required rpms to go with the cooker version of Mozilla 0.9.6 and updated the whole kit kaboodle at one time. No problems as yet and it's been about a week. It did clean up several problems that I was seeing - broken display of pages with html showing in the middle, etc. It feel a little bit faster as well, but that could be perception. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mouse-Pointer offset with Trident Cyberblade
Good news ! - I remember some people here on the list (or was it the expert-one ?) having big-time trouble with their Trident chipsets. It almost drove me nuts as well ! - The problem manifested itself only occasionally : the mouse-pointer got an offset, and couldn't be moved to the left rim of the screen, but stopped dead about 30 pixels from it. Furthermore, when clicking something, I had to point the cursor about those 30 pixels to the RIGHT of focus. Only cure was to reboot - and that's not something we linuxers like ;-) Well, I looked around on the net and found the answer to all my troubles on the S.u.S.E. - mailing list : http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/wessels_trident_mouse.html The solution is surprisingly simple : pass the option sw_cursor to CF86Config ! In my case, only thing I had to do was to uncomment the line Option sw_cursor bu removing the #-mark. This being a newbie-list, I'll show how I did it my way : 1. Open a console-window 2. type : su 3. enter your root-password 4. open Midnight Commander by issuing the command : mc 5. highlight the file /etc/X11/XF86Config and press F4 to edit it 6. search for the entry below ( or something very similar ) : # ** # Graphics device section # ** Section Device Identifier Generic VGA Chipset generic EndSection Section Device Identifier Trident CyberBlade (generic) VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown # Chipset CyberBlade # VideoRam4096 # Clock lines # Uncomment following option if you see a big white block # instead of the cursor! Option sw_cursor Option power_saver EndSection # ** # Screen sections # ** 7. either remove the #-mark in front of Option sw_cursor or simply add the line 8. save the file by pressing F2 9. exit Midnight Commander by pressing F10 10. back in the console-window, type exit , and you are done 11. restart the X-server or reboot. That's all, folks. And credit for this advice to the S.u.S.E. - people ! Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?
Ditto. I've had some good experiences like Steve below with Mozilla's installer. Don't forget that to install flash and java you may need some extra steps. Flash is pretty straight forward, follow the README. You will need to download and install jre from java.sun.com . Then create a symlink from /usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to you mozilla plugin directory, for me: ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/ To give credit where it's due, someone on #mandrake on irc.openprojects.org helped me figure this out. You can get help there too if you need it, try xhcat from the networking menu. -Paul Rodríguez On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 13:12, Steve wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:45:55PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote: I currently have Mozilla 0.9.4, running on 8.1. I used to have Moz 0.9.5, from Cooker, but had to remove it, for some reason (I forget why). Anyway, I can't seem to find that version anymore, only 0.9.6 ... which uses a different libpng. I'm a bit leery about updating libpng, since many apps depend on it. I tried rebuilding from src.rpms, but that didn't work. I also tried using RedHat's rpms, but had no luck rebuilding. Has anybody done this - updated to 0.9.6 from Cooker, with associated libpng upgrade? And if so, has it broken any applications? I'm thinking specifically of things like Evolution, Konqueror, Opera, GIMP, etc. Michael, I've always had better luck using the official Mozilla binaries/installer. I'm using 8.1 as well and I've never had to worry about this dependency you're having and I'm using the latest nightly. Since you appear to have an official Mandrake mozilla package, leave it installed and install using mozilla's net install. Then all you need to do is call mozilla from the command line using the default path, which is /usr/local/mozilla. A bit of a kludge but it's the easiest way to do things IMHO. HTH. _ 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] Mozilla 0.9.4?
On Sunday 16 December 2001 11:56, you wrote: Ditto. I've had some good experiences like Steve below with Mozilla's installer. Don't forget that to install flash and java you may need some extra steps. Flash is pretty straight forward, follow the README. You will need to download and install jre from java.sun.com . Then create a symlink from /usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to you mozilla plugin directory, for me: ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/ To give credit where it's due, someone on #mandrake on irc.openprojects.org helped me figure this out. You can get help there too if you need it, try xhcat from the networking menu. *smiles and winks* Cheers -Paul Rodríguez On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 13:12, Steve wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:45:55PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote: I currently have Mozilla 0.9.4, running on 8.1. I used to have Moz 0.9.5, from Cooker, but had to remove it, for some reason (I forget why). Anyway, I can't seem to find that version anymore, only 0.9.6 ... which uses a different libpng. I'm a bit leery about updating libpng, since many apps depend on it. I tried rebuilding from src.rpms, but that didn't work. I also tried using RedHat's rpms, but had no luck rebuilding. Has anybody done this - updated to 0.9.6 from Cooker, with associated libpng upgrade? And if so, has it broken any applications? I'm thinking specifically of things like Evolution, Konqueror, Opera, GIMP, etc. Michael, I've always had better luck using the official Mozilla binaries/installer. I'm using 8.1 as well and I've never had to worry about this dependency you're having and I'm using the latest nightly. Since you appear to have an official Mandrake mozilla package, leave it installed and install using mozilla's net install. Then all you need to do is call mozilla from the command line using the default path, which is /usr/local/mozilla. A bit of a kludge but it's the easiest way to do things IMHO. HTH. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- H. L. Mencken's Law: Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach. Martin's Extension: Those who cannot teach -- administrate. --- 12:28pm up 3:33, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printers-Epson
Hiya, back to this topic. 1 Week ago I bought an Epson Stylus C80. According to the www.linuxprinting.org this is a very good buy. So I have it, but I cannot get it to work :-( Whether it's me or what I don't know. I tried so many things, after inserting their driver for the C80, and eventually someone said to me that I had to install the latest gimp-print. I did this but the damage was already done. CUPS seems extremely messed up, and when running printerdrake now it just hangs for about 5 minutes, and finally when I get through to the configure printer screen, things do not work. Has anyone here else (running Mandrake) go a C80, and if so, how did you get it to work? I know it does work, as users running Debian and Redhat have told me, but maybe it's Mandrake (don't think so), or just my CUPS. I tried uninstalling CUPS and deleting all config files created by it, but this didn't help. It just hangs. I am thinking about reinstalling Mandrake, but then at least I should know what to do beforehand. I would appreciate any ideas / info you guys could offer :-) Thanks in advance Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kapm-idled
Hello i just finished configuring a new desktop machine and a samba, print, nfs, server, gateway (weeew). On the desktop machine (athlon 1333 ddrram etc.) running Mandrake 8.1 with kde 2.2.2 and a kernell 2.4.13, i suddenly realised the a prozess called kapm-idled uses between 15 and 40% of my cpu allthetime! What can i do about it does that have something to do with apm ? I dissabled that in drakxservices but still kapm-idled continues lurking through my system. Give me a hint im damn tired that was like 10 hours configs i got behind=). Thanx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto update of files?
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 09:21, you wrote: I heard once of a program that will automatically update files on your computer from a remote server. Any body know how I can automate, say, Well, if there is a way to access the site and file with rsync that would probably be the best way. Otherwise you can use cvs or cvsup depending on how you can access the site. If there's only Web access you might try 'lynx -dump' followed by the full url of the program name. Once you've been able to determine how you can get the file from a command line it should be easy to make a crontab to automate this every night. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
Heh, then the much simpler share level authentication is all you need. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:49 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 06:56:50 -0500 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: heavens! all I wanna do is just be able to read and write from the windows box to the linux box and be able to use the Linux printer. honest. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
I know exactly what you want to do, but can you get by with something just slightly less? The reason I ask is that one way to make things almost do what you want is to use the [homes] Section type configuration and hide the [homes] share itself by making it non-browseable. (assuming you eliminated all the other shares for the moment...) Each user then only sees ONE entry for themselves when they double click on the server. This entry is user dependant, so if you log in as Jim, all you see is a share called Jim... Of course you can actually use the macro functions to make it appear as machine name, user name, etc. or even the name of a passed variable... (Samba logs in as the authenticated user on the Linux box so you can pass user specific variables this way...) Once this is set up, you can always add shares that you do want everyone to see. You can replicate this technique for multiple shares, and even to point certain users to specific directory shares which only appear when they log in. Yeah I know you talked about it before, but by hiding the homes share itself it almost appears to the user that there are user/login specific shares available... Not really of course... BTW: the NMB portion of Samba could be easily patched to give you what you want if the browseable function was changed slightly. This may be something worth suggesting to the Samba group. Browsing is already controlled by a boolean per share, if instead it could be set to use passed variables then you have your cake and icing... A thought. -JMS -Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 8:48 PM To: 'Julian Opificius' Subject: RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
No it's needed. I'm speculating, but given what you posted it sounds like you almost have everything set up properly. If this is the case the useraccount and/or password being passed is not recognized by samba. If a lib were missing you'ld get this behaviour... Also what version of Windows are you trying to connect with? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:54 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:11:14 -0500 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Password Encryption? as in is encryption turned on? as far as i know it is. is this a bad thing? -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 3:05am up 6 days, 5:00, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kapm-idled
On Sunday 16 December 2001 02:58 pm, Florian wrote: Hello i just finished configuring a new desktop machine and a samba, print, nfs, server, gateway (weeew). On the desktop machine (athlon 1333 ddrram etc.) running Mandrake 8.1 with kde 2.2.2 and a kernell 2.4.13, i suddenly realised the a prozess called kapm-idled uses between 15 and 40% of my cpu allthetime! What can i do about it does that have something to do with apm ? I dissabled that in drakxservices but still kapm-idled continues lurking through my system. Give me a hint im damn tired that was like 10 hours configs i got behind=). Thanx Florian: Don't worry about it -- it's a process that keeps track of idle CPU time. If you want further information, look up last week's (Thursday, 12/13/01) thread under the same topic. Ed Tharp's posting was a classic. Regards, -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank McKenna Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Hi Jose, Thank you for your reply and sorry for the long post everyone. 1) Are the user accounts valid. smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser Have done this for all three users and there does not appear to be any error messages is the Windows Login name (that you used on the Windows machine to log in initially) that you have added to Samba via smbpasswd -a Windowsuser. As far as I know, things are set up correctly for this. The password that I entered while doing smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser should be the same as the Linux/Windows password or am I wrong Yes and it is case specific! You can get around this slightly by changing the password hashing levels... --- Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you probably don't have one. I had DNS set up before I broke my install and had to reinstall the O/S. I thought that I had everything set up the same way as before but that would make sense. I am stumbling around in the dark with this. How would I find out if DNS is running? I know that it is enabled in smb.comf You must then help windows. There are several ways to do this... A) Create a HOSTS file (in the same location as your LMHOSTS or LMHOSTS.SAM example file) which contains the IP - NETBIOS equivalences. Not sure where I would put this or what I would have to put in it. --- The example LMHOSTS.SAM shows you what to do... Basically if the name of your Linux box's SAMBA Netbios name (specified in smb.conf) is SAMBABOX and it's ip is 192.168.0.1 then you put a line in to HOSTS like this 192.168.0.1 SAMBABOX Afterwards ping SAMBABOX Should return 192.168.0.1 C) Enable the WINS component in Samba and create a local HOSTS entry, and then point the workstations to the Samba box's IP for WINS resolution... Have done th is except for the local hosts entry. Could you explain the local HOSTS entry please --- See above... Changing the hashing depth to 8 helps. This is a new term for me. --- The password level = 8 username level = 8 Entries in smb.conf control how many characters in the user name and password Samba will hash in attempting to match the login name and passwords. Say you entered MaryS as a user name and in Windows you also entered the same. Windows loves to change the case of entries. As a result Samba may be seeing MARYS as the username, coming from Samba (or marys). In this case Samba would not accept the user! The USERNAME LEVEL = entry tells Samba to try up to 8 characters changing each to different combinations of uppercase and lower case letters until it gets a match. Without it things must be EXACT. Also remember that Windows uses Encrypted passwords, when you use SMBCLIENT locally you are sending clear text so if it works locally but not remotely (from Windows) it's likely that you do not have encryption set up properly... In my smb.conf, I have encrypted password = Yes. On my Windows 98 box, I have hacked the registry to send passwords in clear text. On my W2K box I did nothing in terms of password encryption and I can still log on. DAMN that's the problem You are not consistent! If encrypted passwords is set to ON in samba then it expects encrypted passwords from Windows. No wonder your W2K box can log in. It's sending encrypted passwords while Windows is not. REVERSE the registry hack in Windows. Make it NOT send cleartext and reboot. --- If smb.conf is correct, you may be missing a crypt lib or something else and/or too high of a security setting... Crypt.lib is a new term as well. When you say security settings do you mean security = user or the settings for Linux itself? --- Neither, the security level for the Linux box overall. You set this during installation and you can reset it in the Mandrake Control center... --- -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Media Player broken
Hi Matt I had exactly the same problem. I deleted the config file and now media player shows its self!!! $HOME/.kde/share/config/noatunrc Thanks Mark Evans On Sunday 16 December 2001 3:39 pm, you wrote: Hi there, Can anyone give some ideas on troubleshooting this? I've been using KDE Media Player (noatun) steadily since I installed with little to no problems. Of course, I've tweaked some sound server settings to get better playback, but I'm still using the default settings in Media Player. Recently, it's showing some strange behavior. When I start it from the K menu, it looks like it's opening, but never comes up. I can use Konq and select an .ogg file and actually listen to music, but I can't get to my playlist or see the noatun interface. So, Media Player seems to be running in the background, but I can't see anything of it. It even shows up in the list of running processes. So, what can I do here? Thanks, Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kapm-idled
Hi Don't worry about it -- it's a process that keeps track of idle CPU time. Ok thanks now i got it (pheew) now i can go to sleep and dream of penguins =). Good concept actually nice work linus! If you want further information, look up last week's (Thursday, 12/13/01) thread under the same topic. Ed Tharp's posting was a classic. Yep Maybe seti is worth a try lol Ciao Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linmodems
Hi Roy, Same basic configuration as me. Before we try anything more complicated, you should go into the kppp , setup tab. In there, under 'device' you should try the /dev/tty0 or /dev/tty1 . Also, I have flow control set to xon/xoff. Under the 'modem' tab, there is a 'query' button. You could give that a try and see if your modem is responding at all. I'm sure you're very close. Regards, Bill W. On Sunday 16 December 2001 10:37, you wrote: I'm am using a LT winmodem(lucent chip) and ltmodem-kv_2.4.8_34.1mdk-6.00b7-1.i586.rpm. it installed a device.. i think using /dev/ltmodem ? linux rpm installers dont tell you much of what they are doing.. also.. thanks for refering the basiclinux course. i have signed up for it... roy - Original Message - From: Bill Winegarden To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 2051 Subject: Re: [newbie] Linmodems Hi Roy, I was in the same boat as you. I needed a ltmodem driver for my modem to work. If you could supply a little more information; specifically which modem you are using, which 'rpm' did you use, I might be able to help. There are many on this list who can supply the answers you seek. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 15 December 2001 23:18, you wrote: ok.. I'm new to this wonderful thing called linux, but i love it. i understand the file system and the fact that everything is a file. i know there is support for some linmodems, including the one i my machine. 8.1 did not autodetect it so i went on a search for a rpm that would work and found one. i installed it, but cannot get the internet dialer to recognize it. is there another dialer i can use .. or would it be best to by an external modem?. i have the same problem with my PDA.. the soft where is there, but it is looking @ /dev/polit when it is connect to comm2.. does any one know of some free training one the web or some good books i can read. i want to use my machine on the web instead of going under windoz all the time.. thanks roy --- --- 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] host name look up failure
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by pinging the nic on the 'net side Just that your gateway computer has two network interfaces. One facing the internal network, the other facing the outside world. You ought to be able to ping both interfaces from within your internal network. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.
I looked all over the Linux Documentation Project website for this information. I couldn't seem to find it anywhere so I was hoping someone could help me with it on this list. I'll explain my situation. I have two hard drives installed on my computer. hda is dedicated to Windoze. hdc is dedicated to Linux. When I install Linux (I've gone through the process a few times) it has me choose between LILO and GRUB. I have chosen LILO since I've read more about it than GRUB and I have a better understand of how it works. After installing and booting up, I get the choice of booting Linux-Secure, Linux, Linux Failsafe, or Windoze. Everything works fine like it should. When I installed I tried both the normal boot and also the nicer looking boot (the equivalent of vga=791 in the config. file), they both worked fine. The trouble comes afterwards. I edited my /etc/lilo.conf file, saved it, and then typed lilo into the shell. It returned a confirmation that the file was edited properly. When I restarted my computer the BIOS went through its normal checks and when it got to the OS Loading... part the screen starts filling with 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 etc. I understood that this meant my MBR was corrupted, so I did a fdisk /mbr from my DOS bootdisk. This allowed me to get into Windoze normally and I could of course get into Linux using my Linux bootdisk. I restored the /etc/lilo.conf file to its original condition and typed lilo once more. When I restarted my computer the next time I got the same 1s and 0s. Considering that I took much care into editing the /etc/lilo.conf file originally, this leads me to believe that it wasn't the result of a typo in the file. What it does lead me to believe is that the installation process writes to the MBR differently than LILO does from Linux. I'm not sure if that's the case though. It's also possible that I'm doing something wrong somehow that I don't realize. Is it possible that hda isn't being mounted properly before it's being written to? Does the fact that the drive is used for Windoze make a difference in this case? Is there something else I'm overlooking here? I'd appreciate any help that anyone can offer to fix this problem. I'd like to be able to boot into Linux without a floppy disk again and be able to use LILO properly. Ivan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crazy Mouse
Hello, On the update issue...yes..instead of doing an install...click the update box..and then don't install anything(unless there's something else on there you want). For me,I always choose the expert (altho I'm FAR from that) mode. both of these mice should install tho... On your Nvidia card,if you'll look on the Linux-Mandrake site..under errata you'll find an issue with the Nvidia cards. Something about 8.1 only loading the binary version of the driver? If my memeory is correct here, they instruct us to log in as root, then to a terminal,then enter the command depmod -a Then reboot..but PLEASE..read from the site..don't take my word..it is there tho. :-) So I can act like I'm reinstalling but type update when it gives me that option? I thought that was just for going from one # to another (7.2 to 8.1 for example). Hi, I am using an intellimouse optical on LM8.1 (on a laptop). The mouse works beautifully. The only difference that I see between our free86config-4 files is that my mouse is pointed to /dev/mouse. Have you tried that? Yes. It actually seems to return itself that way periodically. Going as crazy as my mouse. I wonder if it has something to do with my keyboard which is also giving me fits. Don't seem to have an IRQ conflict, although my sound only works for a bit and then freezes the system. (I just learned this even applies to playing an mp3 file from my windows partition.) Thanks for trying everyone. Still hoping to solve this because the wife and I both like what we can see so far. Waiting on the mouse to start working so I can tackle the nVidia driver install and see some of the 3d apps/games. Later, Wes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.
Eh, this may not be a lilo problem at all. Linux may be getting an erroneous report about the hard drive size (of the primary or secondary) and the location of the boot sector of the secondary. This would result in the behaviour you have seen. The initial installer may have received an erroneous report, now when you run LILO it's putting the location of the boot sectors at the wrong place in it's table. Of course it could be backwards. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ivan Offalich Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:58 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives. I looked all over the Linux Documentation Project website for this information. I couldn't seem to find it anywhere so I was hoping someone could help me with it on this list. I'll explain my situation. I have two hard drives installed on my computer. hda is dedicated to Windoze. hdc is dedicated to Linux. When I install Linux (I've gone through the process a few times) it has me choose between LILO and GRUB. I have chosen LILO since I've read more about it than GRUB and I have a better understand of how it works. After installing and booting up, I get the choice of booting Linux-Secure, Linux, Linux Failsafe, or Windoze. Everything works fine like it should. When I installed I tried both the normal boot and also the nicer looking boot (the equivalent of vga=791 in the config. file), they both worked fine. The trouble comes afterwards. I edited my /etc/lilo.conf file, saved it, and then typed lilo into the shell. It returned a confirmation that the file was edited properly. When I restarted my computer the BIOS went through its normal checks and when it got to the OS Loading... part the screen starts filling with 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 etc. I understood that this meant my MBR was corrupted, so I did a fdisk /mbr from my DOS bootdisk. This allowed me to get into Windoze normally and I could of course get into Linux using my Linux bootdisk. I restored the /etc/lilo.conf file to its original condition and typed lilo once more. When I restarted my computer the next time I got the same 1s and 0s. Considering that I took much care into editing the /etc/lilo.conf file originally, this leads me to believe that it wasn't the result of a typo in the file. What it does lead me to believe is that the installation process writes to the MBR differently than LILO does from Linux. I'm not sure if that's the case though. It's also possible that I'm doing something wrong somehow that I don't realize. Is it possible that hda isn't being mounted properly before it's being written to? Does the fact that the drive is used for Windoze make a difference in this case? Is there something else I'm overlooking here? I'd appreciate any help that anyone can offer to fix this problem. I'd like to be able to boot into Linux without a floppy disk again and be able to use LILO properly. Ivan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Memory Problem?
I've got Mandrake 8.0 on my system right now (but I'm writing this from Windows, for reasons that will be made clear). My system, an Athlon 950 from Gateway, came with 128 Megs of RAM. Everything installed and ran fine. So, of course, I had to change things. I added 256 Megs of RAM. It's not the same overall dimensions as the OEM one, but they both are SDRAM and 133 Mhz, so they should be fine. And, they work fine under Windows ME. But when I try to boot back into Linux (using LILO), it tries to start up the Xwindows, and then boots back to a command prompt, asking for a logon. Before I can even do that, I start seeing a series of error messages, apparently having something to do with the USB support. Since this worked fine with 128 Megs, I think that this isn't the problem, but that the memory is. So: does Mandrake not like changing the installed memory after you've got a system up and running? Should I boot from the boot disk and add a parameter telling it of the new amount of RAM? (That would be 'Linux append=mem=384, right?) Or should I just reinstall? Thanks! Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SCSI Emulation of CD-ROM
Hello, I have just installed Linux Mandrake 8.1. I am running it on a system with and ide atapi cdrom (Kenwood 52X True-X) and a ide atapi cd-rw (Creative 6424). When i installed mandrake it set up my cdrw for scsi emulation but it kept my cdrom as ide. Everything works fine, but i cant use X-cdroast to do a direct copy of a cd because, my cd-rom isn't set up with scsi-emulation and the program only knows of scsi devices. Does anyone know of a way i can setup my cdrom for scsi emulation and is their a way without recompiling my kernel. Maybe a script of something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ira Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crazy Mouse
snip I have a mouse with IMPS/2. Nothing else seems to work at all. As for a suggestion for a fix...well if it was me,and everything else worked ok...I'd try an update (from the cd's,assuming(dangerous) you installed that way) and this time give the mouse install a few minutes to get its head together..lol. So I can act like I'm reinstalling but type update when it gives me that option? I thought that was just for going from one # to another (7.2 to 8.1 for example). snip Just thought I best jump in here and let you know that using update to go from one version to a newer version is not a good idea. Unless, you place all of your important files on a partition such as /goodstuff or what ever you want to call it, then when you upgrade on a new version you pick the expert install and when it goes into the diskdrake mod and has your partitions showing you can set them all up as named before but reformat everything but /goodstuff. This will save the good stuff but install all of the files and their libraries without leaving any of the older libraries behind. That can sometimes cause problems. This is not a sure fire guaranteed method, cause some of the good stuff may be dependent on libraries you no longer have. Well, that's the way I understand things as of today, if anyone on the list want's to correct me or clarify or add to what I have here, just jump right in, HTH. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.
On Sunday 16 December 2001 20:57, you wrote: I looked all over the Linux Documentation Project website for this information. I couldn't seem to find it anywhere so I was hoping someone could help me with it on this list. I'll explain my situation. I have two hard drives installed on my computer. hda is dedicated to Windoze. hdc is dedicated to Linux. When I install Linux (I've gone through the process a few times) it has me choose between LILO and GRUB. I have chosen LILO since I've read more about it than GRUB and I have a better understand of how it works. After installing and booting up, I get the choice of booting Linux-Secure, Linux, Linux Failsafe, or Windoze. Everything works fine like it should. When I installed I tried both the normal boot and also the nicer looking boot (the equivalent of vga=791 in the config. file), they both worked fine. The trouble comes afterwards. I edited my /etc/lilo.conf file, saved it, and then typed lilo into the shell. It returned a confirmation that the file was edited properly. When I restarted my computer the BIOS went through its normal checks and when it got to the OS Loading... part the screen starts filling with 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 etc. I understood that this meant my MBR was corrupted, so I did a fdisk /mbr from my DOS bootdisk. This allowed me to get into Windoze normally and I could of course get into Linux using my Linux bootdisk. I restored the /etc/lilo.conf file to its original condition and typed lilo once more. When I restarted my computer the next time I got the same 1s and 0s. Considering that I took much care into editing the /etc/lilo.conf file originally, this leads me to believe that it wasn't the result of a typo in the file. What it does lead me to believe is that the installation process writes to the MBR differently than LILO does from Linux. I'm not sure if that's the case though. It's also possible that I'm doing something wrong somehow that I don't realize. Is it possible that hda isn't being mounted properly before it's being written to? Does the fact that the drive is used for Windoze make a difference in this case? Is there something else I'm overlooking here? I'd appreciate any help that anyone can offer to fix this problem. I'd like to be able to boot into Linux without a floppy disk again and be able to use LILO properly. Ivan. when you did this, did you take note of the harddrive showing in the lilo config. Since linux is on the second harddrive lilo probably wrote to that one and then when you boot now your computer is looking at hda not hdc for the config file where it isn't . Try setting it up again as before but make sure that it is configuring and writing to the hda drive. You should then get the screen to select the OS of your choice and all other intelligent beings on the planetLINUX-MANDRAKE ! (huge applause and cheers heard in the background). : ) -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory Problem?
On Sunday 16 December 2001 21:31, you wrote: I've got Mandrake 8.0 on my system right now (but I'm writing this from Windows, for reasons that will be made clear). My system, an Athlon 950 from Gateway, came with 128 Megs of RAM. Everything installed and ran fine. So, of course, I had to change things. I added 256 Megs of RAM. It's not the same overall dimensions as the OEM one, but they both are SDRAM and 133 Mhz, so they should be fine. And, they work fine under Windows ME. But when I try to boot back into Linux (using LILO), it tries to start up the Xwindows, and then boots back to a command prompt, asking for a logon. Before I can even do that, I start seeing a series of error messages, apparently having something to do with the USB support. Since this worked fine with 128 Megs, I think that this isn't the problem, but that the memory is. So: does Mandrake not like changing the installed memory after you've got a system up and running? Should I boot from the boot disk and add a parameter telling it of the new amount of RAM? (That would be 'Linux append=mem=384, right?) Or should I just reinstall? Thanks! Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney First thing I would do is use Tom Brinkmans' trick and take the new ram and very gently use an eraser to clean the contacts and put it back in, and try again. Linux is very good about seeing new ram unless it is defective. Windows will tell you you have all that ram when it may not be working correctly. If after cleaning and you boot up again and don't see the correct ram identified on the screen just before it goes to the gui or if you have it set on single user mode and it goes to the blocky penguin screen, the ram is shown there, then try appending the correct amount of ram to lilo. If that doesn't work try using memtest86 which is on the 8.1 download CDs . HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson scanners
On Sunday 16 December 2001 11:18 am, David wrote: hi according to the mandrake website the following epson scanners are supported EPSON GT-5500 EPSON GT-7000 EPSON Perfection 1640 SU EPSON Perfection 1650 photo but the Epson website says these below are suported on mandrake 8.1. atm i am on scanner number 2 and going onto scanner3 in the search of a supported scanner. This scanner is the 1250 ,according to the guy in the pc shop its the same drivers as the 1240 (obviously not) . i think i might find it easier to get a 1240 rather than any of the others so i was wondering if anyone out there was using a 1240 on mandrake 8.1 .. Perfection 1240U Perfection 1640SU Perfection 1650/ Perfection 1650 Photo Perfection 2450 Photo Expression 1600 Expression 1680 Expression 1640XL .. David David: While I don't know much about scanners, I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night, so here goes... I took look at www.yolinux.com (an excellent source of linux information BTW). Their tutorial on linux scanning that a link to (www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/). This is the guy that writes the sane backends for Epson scanners, and he says that the 1250 is not and probably never will be supported, but that the 1240 is OK. HTH, Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd rom and cd writer
El Domingo 16 Diciembre 2001 21:36, escribió: OK Carlos, your English is probably better then mine (I'm danish). I think you've got it right ! It seems that you are afraid of adding something to the append-line in your lilo.conf ? - Don't be. Just to clarify a few things : hda is the hard drive (the master on your first IDE-bus) and contains 8 partitions, some of them with windows on them - right ? hdb is your CD-ROM (the slave on your first IDE-bus). Accordingly, add the following to the append : hdb=ide-scsi (just put space between the statements in the append-line). In your fstab-file this drive should be named /dev/scd0. Then I suppose, your second CD-drive (cdrom2) is the master on your second IDE-bus, right ? This drive should be named /dev/scd1 in the fstab-file, and in lilo.conf, just put the statement : hdc=ide-scsi after the other statements, separated with one or two spaces. If you are afraid of spoiling something, then start by copying your original files to e.g. fstab_old, and lilo.conf_old in your home directory before editing it. then you can reuse them if anything goes wrong. Good luck, Carlos, I think you are done ! Kaj Haulrich I'm done, Kaj, and thanks a lot! That do the trick! Finally, and after several months asking about this, I'm burning with X-CD-Roast on the fly; and, in between, I build and print the labels. Linux is a real multitask OS. Is there any windoze apps that can do that? I don't believe. Regards Carlos Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?
That sounds good to me too, but I seem to be getting into one of these chase the dependencies until you forget what you were trying to install in the first place loops. DL'd the RPMs mentioned below. Galeon demands something called GConf whatever LM 8.1 installed. Found and DL'd a tarball of the required GConf version - configure can't find something called oaf-config. Usually when I get to this point I give up because I knew a little about what I tried to do first, less about the next layer and so on until I figure I know so little about what I'm doing that all I'll acheive is a totally screwed system. Well, maybe not a great philosophy, but it works for me - at least to the extent that my system still boots ;-) Comments? Advice? Brian On Monday 17 December 2001 10:32 am, you wrote: Go here ftp://ftp.eastwind.net/pub/mirrors/texstar/Mandrake-8.1-i686 Texstar keeps lots of nice RPM's on his site. The mozilla0.9.6 here is compiled against libpng2, so no need to mess up your system. Also here is galeon 1.01 compiled against libpng2. They work just dandy. Derek On Sunday 16 December 2001 17:45, Michael Leone wrote: I currently have Mozilla 0.9.4, running on 8.1. I used to have Moz 0.9.5, from Cooker, but had to remove it, for some reason (I forget why). Anyway, I can't seem to find that version anymore, only 0.9.6 ... which uses a different libpng. I'm a bit leery about updating libpng, since many apps depend on it. I tried rebuilding from src.rpms, but that didn't work. I also tried using RedHat's rpms, but had no luck rebuilding. Has anybody done this - updated to 0.9.6 from Cooker, with associated libpng upgrade? And if so, has it broken any applications? I'm thinking specifically of things like Evolution, Konqueror, Opera, GIMP, etc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cannot get into system, how do I rescue Lilo?
Hi folks, A dual boot system. I was trying repair an earlier problem, and of course made it even worse. Now Lilo will not boot up. It gets to LI and just sits there blinking. How do I re-install Lilo so as to access the system again. I have tried booting into the boot cd and typing 'rescue', I can then get to a prompt. After looking at an article about basic Unix commands I used 'ls' to see my directories. Whoopee, I can see then 'til I'm blue in the face. I swear I am going to take a course in basic Linux commands after I get through this! I did also try to reinstall the whole kit and kiboodle, but each time I try, it gets as far as installing packages and then just quits, with two minutes to go! The activity lights on thecdrom drive and HD just die. I've tried waiting for ages! Nothing! I tried using the Plextor burner as a boot device and to load the OS from but with the same result. Here are some tech details that may help. Any help will be gratefully appreciated, as I'm kinda' dead in the water here. (Posting from the wifes machine here, sshhh...) Mick AMD Athlon 1Ghz 512 ram Plextor CD Burner 52X ATAPI CDROM Floppy NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 LM 8.1
[newbie] Vmware
Dear All, I have downloaded Vmware 2.0.4 plus the 2.0.4 prebuilt kernel modules however I am having trouble getting it all installed in my Linux Mandrake 8.1. I continue to get a message that I do not have the correct modules. How do I get VMware 2.0.4 and the modules to install correctly? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory Problem?
El Domingo 16 Diciembre 2001 23:31, escribió: I've got Mandrake 8.0 on my system right now (but I'm writing this from Windows, for reasons that will be made clear). My system, an Athlon 950 from Gateway, came with 128 Megs of RAM. Everything installed and ran fine. So, of course, I had to change things. I added 256 Megs of RAM. It's not the same overall dimensions as the OEM one, but they both are SDRAM and 133 Mhz, so they should be fine. And, they work fine under Windows ME. But when I try to boot back into Linux (using LILO), it tries to start up the Xwindows, and then boots back to a command prompt, asking for a logon. Before I can even do that, I start seeing a series of error messages, apparently having something to do with the USB support. Since this worked fine with 128 Megs, I think that this isn't the problem, but that the memory is. So: does Mandrake not like changing the installed memory after you've got a system up and running? Should I boot from the boot disk and add a parameter telling it of the new amount of RAM? (That would be 'Linux append=mem=384, right?) Or should I just reinstall? Thanks! Larry Varney Larry. A couple of days ago, like you, I upgrade from 128 to 384 without problems. Try the Tom-Dennis's hint. Good luck. Carlos Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slow image activation
Thanks for the responses to this. I don't think that there are any extra servers running. One thing that may be related is that if I run linuxconf and quit, it complains that squid isn't running and will start it if I let it do so. Could this be implicated? I notice that during the shutdown, I get error messages telling me it failed to be stopped, presumably because it wasn't running, so it seems that something expects it to be started. Hosts files shouldn't be an issue as I am using DHCP and therefore don't have any addresses there other than that of the server. thanks again for the input! Brian On Friday 14 December 2001 10:10 pm, you wrote: have you both considered turning off all the servers possible ? this sounds to me like a dns , routed or ypbind server running (that you don't need, and is not correctly configured. are you trying to run a local DNS server? (as oppsosed to a local cacheing name server) do you have ypbind running (but don't have yellow pages needed?). Are all the local network computers hosts file correct? what about the IP numbers for the DNS servers? do you have it set to need DNS all the time? are you running reiserFS on the dedicated server, which offers some NFS exports (not a good Idea) my bet is on the DNS. I always thought a novell server would use ipx/spx, not tcp/ip? On Thursday 13 December 2001 23:19, you wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:40:46 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: I have a total of 4 Linux machines (OK, some of them dual boot, but let's not talk about that) on a home/office LAN. One of them is a dedicated server, which offers some NFS exports. Everything works very nicely, except that programs take forever to load the first time. Just to fire up a konsole can take 10 seconds plus - this on a machine rated at 2800 bogomips with lots of memory. After things have been up for a while (don't know how long, but many minutes at least), everything is quick again. Haven't tested exhaustively, but it seems that with the LAN unplugged, none of this applies. This is a network issue if I've ever heard one. There is something not right with the network. I have a feeling it's got something to do with authentication somewhere on that LAN. Or, (the last time I saw this one of the machines responsible was a windows box - the novell client went south and killed the TCP/IP stack.) In that case when the TCP stack became corrupt it really dirtied the TCP communications on the network between that machine and the servers. While it didn't affect the overall performance of the network itself, it affected profoundly the machine that was having the trouble. In that case the offending client was uninstalled, as well as the TCP/IP stack which was then reinstalled, along with a newer, upgraded version of the Novell client. Problem happily solved. I'm presently having some similar problems on my home LAN when it comes to FTPing from a client machine to the FTP server here on my Mandrake box. Outside my network FTP server response is very quick, but locally on the LAN from time to time connecting and resolving that connection in order to do any transfers can take a few minutes. hope this helps at least shed some light. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linmodems
HOORAY! i'm getting close! thanks for all of your help. I used /dev/modem under kppp and it queried my LT linmodem but it did not respond. i tried to dial up any ways and it didnot initialize. when i ran the query it found the modem but it did not give any response back.. under my isapnp.conf the modem is set to irq 3 or 4 cant remember cauze i had to come back to windoze.. my bios says its on 9 when my machine boots up.. could this be the problem? roy - Original Message - From: Bill Winegarden To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 1423 Subject: Re: [newbie] Linmodems Hi Roy,Same basic configuration as me. Before we try anything more complicated, you should go into the kppp , setup tab. In there, under 'device' you should try the /dev/tty0 or /dev/tty1 .Also, I have flow control set to xon/xoff. Under the 'modem' tab, there is a 'query' button. You could give that a try and see if your modem is responding at all.I'm sure you're very close.Regards,Bill W.On Sunday 16 December 2001 10:37, you wrote: I'm am using a LT winmodem(lucent chip) and ltmodem-kv_2.4.8_34.1mdk-6.00b7-1.i586.rpm. it installed a device.. i think using /dev/ltmodem ? linux rpm installers dont tell you much of what they are doing.. also.. thanks for refering the basiclinux course. i have signed up for it... roy - Original Message - From: Bill Winegarden To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 2051 Subject: Re: [newbie] Linmodems Hi Roy, I was in the same boat as you. I needed a ltmodem driver for my modem to work. If you could supply a little more information; specifically which modem you are using, which 'rpm' did you use, I might be able to help. There are many on this list who can supply the answers you seek. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 15 December 2001 23:18, you wrote: ok.. I'm new to this wonderful thing called linux, but i love it. i understand the file system and the fact that everything is a file. i know there is support for some linmodems, including the one i my machine. 8.1 did not autodetect it so i went on a search for a rpm that would work and found one. i installed it, but cannot get the internet dialer to recognize it. is there another dialer i can use .. or would it be best to by an external modem?. i have the same problem with my PDA.. the soft where is there, but it is looking @ /dev/polit when it is connect to comm2.. does any one know of some free training one the web or some good books i can read. i want to use my machine on the web instead of going under windoz all the time.. thanks roy -- 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] Linmodems
Hi,
Once again, this is exactly the same response that I would get. In order to
get a functioning modem there is a setup to follow
This fellow from the Linmodem mailing list solved the problem for me and many
others.
Apparently, it has something to do with the devfs (file system) and some
drivers. Anyway, go here.
http://linmodems.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?1:mss:6582:200112:bobbejjjefngmoikejpf
HTH,
Bill W.
On Sunday 16 December 2001 23:31, you wrote:
HOORAY! i'm getting close! thanks for all of your help. I used /dev/modem
under kppp and it queried my LT linmodem but it did not respond. i tried to
dial up any ways and it didnot initialize. when i ran the query it found
the modem but it did not give any response back.. under my isapnp.conf the
modem is set to irq 3 or 4 cant remember cauze i had to come back to
windoze.. my bios says its on 9 when my machine boots up.. could this be
the problem?
roy
- Original Message -
From: Bill Winegarden
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 1423
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linmodems
Hi Roy,
Same basic configuration as me. Before we try anything more complicated,
you should go into the kppp , setup tab. In there, under 'device' you
should try the /dev/tty0 or /dev/tty1 .
Also, I have flow control set to xon/xoff. Under the 'modem' tab, there
is a 'query' button. You could give that a try and see if your modem is
responding at all.
I'm sure you're very close.
Regards,
Bill W.
On Sunday 16 December 2001 10:37, you wrote:
I'm am using a LT winmodem(lucent chip) and
ltmodem-kv_2.4.8_34.1mdk-6.00b7-1.i586.rpm. it installed a device.. i
think using /dev/ltmodem ? linux rpm installers dont tell you much of
what they are doing..
also.. thanks for refering the basiclinux course. i have signed up for
it...
roy
- Original Message -
From: Bill Winegarden
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 2051
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linmodems
Hi Roy,
I was in the same boat as you. I needed a ltmodem driver for my modem
to work. If you could supply a little more information; specifically
which modem you are using, which 'rpm' did you use, I might be able to
help. There are many on this list who can supply the answers you seek.
Regards,
Bill W.
On Saturday 15 December 2001 23:18, you wrote:
ok..
I'm new to this wonderful thing called linux, but i love it. i
understand the file system and the fact that everything is a file.
i know there is support for some linmodems, including the one i my
machine. 8.1 did not autodetect it so i went on a search for a rpm
that would work and found one. i installed it, but cannot get the
internet dialer to recognize it. is there another dialer i can use
.. or would it be best to by an external modem?.
i have the same problem with my PDA.. the soft where is there, but
it is looking @ /dev/polit when it is connect to comm2.. does any
one know of some free training one the web or some good books i can
read. i want to use my machine on the web instead of going under
windoz all the time..
thanks
roy
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Re: [newbie] Linmodems
Try this. Open a shell or terminal window. SU and then type/run modemconf.
This will display a window with an option to autodetect. Select it and if it
finds your modem, it will configure the /dev/modem appropriately. For
instance, under Windows98, my winmodem is on IRQ 3, under Linux, it is IRQ
15. Anyway, assuming it finds it, it means that a) you have the correct
driver installed and b) it should work for you after you accept the settings.
(if you get a command not found error, then you didn't SU before running it!)
Joe
On Sunday 16 December 2001 10:31 pm, you wrote:
HOORAY! i'm getting close! thanks for all of your help. I used /dev/modem
under kppp and it queried my LT linmodem but it did not respond. i tried to
dial up any ways and it didnot initialize. when i ran the query it found
the modem but it did not give any response back.. under my isapnp.conf the
modem is set to irq 3 or 4 cant remember cauze i had to come back to
windoze.. my bios says its on 9 when my machine boots up.. could this be
the problem?
roy
- Original Message -
From: Bill Winegarden
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 1423
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linmodems
Hi Roy,
Same basic configuration as me. Before we try anything more complicated,
you should go into the kppp , setup tab. In there, under 'device' you
should try the /dev/tty0 or /dev/tty1 .
Also, I have flow control set to xon/xoff. Under the 'modem' tab, there
is a 'query' button. You could give that a try and see if your modem is
responding at all.
I'm sure you're very close.
Regards,
Bill W.
On Sunday 16 December 2001 10:37, you wrote:
I'm am using a LT winmodem(lucent chip) and
ltmodem-kv_2.4.8_34.1mdk-6.00b7-1.i586.rpm. it installed a device.. i
think using /dev/ltmodem ? linux rpm installers dont tell you much of
what they are doing..
also.. thanks for refering the basiclinux course. i have signed up for
it...
roy
- Original Message -
From: Bill Winegarden
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 2051
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linmodems
Hi Roy,
I was in the same boat as you. I needed a ltmodem driver for my modem
to work. If you could supply a little more information; specifically
which modem you are using, which 'rpm' did you use, I might be able to
help. There are many on this list who can supply the answers you seek.
Regards,
Bill W.
On Saturday 15 December 2001 23:18, you wrote:
ok..
I'm new to this wonderful thing called linux, but i love it. i
understand the file system and the fact that everything is a file.
i know there is support for some linmodems, including the one i my
machine. 8.1 did not autodetect it so i went on a search for a rpm
that would work and found one. i installed it, but cannot get the
internet dialer to recognize it. is there another dialer i can use
.. or would it be best to by an external modem?.
i have the same problem with my PDA.. the soft where is there, but
it is looking @ /dev/polit when it is connect to comm2.. does any
one know of some free training one the web or some good books i can
read. i want to use my machine on the web instead of going under
windoz all the time..
thanks
roy
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RE: [newbie] Two apache questions
do a search on google for htaccess you will find more info then you know what to do with.. there are a heaps of differnt things you can put in there depending on what you want to do, so you would be better off seeing for yourself then my telling you.. you may have to change your httpd.conf to allow overrides to,, you can do that from linuxconf if you need to, ,and don't like manual editing.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Doe Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 1:57 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Two apache questions I know I have asked these before but I can't seem to find them in the archives and I have somehow lost them. 1. How do I setup a password protected site? The .htaccess file goes in the directory you want protected? What goes in the .htaccess file? What goes in and where does the .htpaswd file go? Or is that even the right file? 2. How do I create my own certificates for my site? I know it has something to do with mod_ssl right? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot get into system, how do I rescue Lilo?
you did fine booting the cd and goin' to the rescue. at the prompt, you have to execute lilo again. Sorry i can't quite remember the full path to it, but since you can see your directories, you will probably find it in no time.. once you have, sit on that directory and type './lilo' .. that will reinstall it and it should go just fine. From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Cannot get into system, how do I rescue Lilo? Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:10:45 -0800 Hi folks, A dual boot system. I was trying repair an earlier problem, and of course made it even worse. Now Lilo will not boot up. It gets to LI and just sits there blinking. How do I re-install Lilo so as to access the system again. I have tried booting into the boot cd and typing 'rescue', I can then get to a prompt. After looking at an article about basic Unix commands I used 'ls' to see my directories. Whoopee, I can see then 'til I'm blue in the face. I swear I am going to take a course in basic Linux commands after I get through this! I did also try to reinstall the whole kit and kiboodle, but each time I try, it gets as far as installing packages and then just quits, with two minutes to go! The activity lights on the cdrom drive and HD just die. I've tried waiting for ages! Nothing! I tried using the Plextor burner as a boot device and to load the OS from but with the same result. Here are some tech details that may help. Any help will be gratefully appreciated, as I'm kinda' dead in the water here. (Posting from the wifes machine here, sshhh...) Mick AMD Athlon 1Ghz 512 ram Plextor CD Burner 52X ATAPI CDROM Floppy NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 LM 8.1 _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Card Question
Es Dilluns 17 Desembre 2001 01:12, en Shadow va escriure: I'm attempting to install Linux for the first time ever. I'm installing Mandrake 8.1 on a Dell C600 laptop. The problem I'm currently running into concerns my PCMCIA Card. I have a Linksys PCMPC100 ethernet card. I'm using the Gnome desktop and when I go into Mandrake control center and attempt to configure my network card, it detects the card and then presents me with a list of drivers, asking which Net Driver to use. I've checked several websites and have found that I should use axnet_cs as the driver. Unfortunately, that driver is not listed in the table the command center is presenting to me. /etc/pcmcia/config shows that your card is shown as: Linksys Etherfast 10/100 Fast Ethernet or Linksys Etherfast PCMPC100 V3 Fast Ethernet You should try these. If it doesn't work the following cards use axnet_cs driver: -Asix AX88190 Fast Ethernet -Ambicom AMB8110 Fast Ethernet etc. To try more look for axnet_cs string in /etc/pcmcia/config Hope that helps... ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain Yahoo AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mitch Wilson/AUS/NIC is out of the office.
I will be out of the office starting 12/17/2001 and will not return until 12/21/2001. I will respond to your message when I return. I am on vacation from Dec 17 - 21, the week before Xmas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
