Re: [newbie] C header files
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:45 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Looks like you forgot to install the kernel-headers rpm. More likely kernel-sources may be, he is still pushing his cart, only now he has new cardboard. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy "made in america". Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] network name cannot be found.
Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running samba but they cannot see anybody on the network. They get the following message when they try to connect to the network: WORKGROUP not accessible The network name cannot be found The network was working fine before. Can someone help me get it running again? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB and Linux
Hi, I have finally got my machine to talk to both by CD burner and webcam (both USB). Yay. It's only taken about a year (and a new version of Mandrake). Does anyone know how to get Linux to talk to Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB (v 1.0). A lsusb shows me that it is picking it up but utilities like xawtv don't seem to sense it. I have checked the web and seem to get links that don't seem to help. Jon.
Re: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1
Ok, installed the kernel source, and I am still getting the same error message. Upon further examination I noticed /lib/modules/(kernel ver)/build does not exist, and from what I can tell from the make file the source would very much like to access something there. Any ideas? > >> -Original Message- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer > >> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:55 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: Re: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1 > >> > >> On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:07 pm, Brian Trainor wrote: > >> > I'm trying to instal the au8830 drivers in Mandrake 9.1rc1 > >> > >> under KDE 3.1 > >> > >> What source tarball are you using? I had to update from aureal > >> cvs to get it > >> to build on my machine with 9.1. > >> > >> -- > >> Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] user mode linux question
I have played with UML with the basic FS's that are on their site. I have actually DLed the MDK 8.2 FS on their site and tested it on my MDK9 box. It came up with a bunch of errors, guessing b/c my box is all scsi. Ok, down to the real issue. The UML docs state you can install a distro into its own space and run it inside the main OS. Like i have MDK9 installed, i could (supposedly) install RH8 into its own FS and run it on the same box. This is very similar to VMWare, just not really. I have asked on the mIRC channels for UML and on their mailing list and that went no-where. Has anyone done this with UML or Vserver??? TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC
On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:55 am, you wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:47 pm, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: > > I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble > > and found some problems with that board but nothing that could help me. > > > > Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another > > one? > > What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that > > this is no the problem? > > > > I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A > > under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake 9.0 > > is not working properly with my board? > > Did you try either booting the kernel with the noapic parameter or turning > the APIC (not ACPI) off in the BIOS? I have this board and everything except the on-board sound was picked up on the install. NIC has always worked. Sound works too (if you have a problem re-post and I'll post the fix). 'Course, I'm still in the dark ages using 8.2, so with 9.x YMMV, as you mentioned above. Since everything I have works fine, I've seen no reason to migrate to 9. IRQ 11 is shared with usb-ohci, Eth0, SIS 7012 My nvidia card shares IRQ 5 with usb-ohci. No other IRQ is shared. I am not booting with "noapic" and I never reset apic in my bios. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xfree86-4.3.1 in Mdk 9.0 ?
I'm running MDK 9.0 and 4.3.1 with an SiS 3D-AGP board. also using a a wheel mouse that it didn't like for a while ... no idea why. It all seems to be working now. Only fault I can see are some little "sparkles" or tiny streaks at the left side of the screen when I scroll a page. I don't think you'd notice it if you weren't waiting to see something out of the ordinary. I think it might be my cheapy monitor. Harv On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:16 am, mycal62 wrote: > Hi , > > has anyone tried the new Xfree 4.3 under 9.0? > > I am currently running kde 3.1 with Xfree86 version 4.2.1-3mdk using an > nvidia tnt2 32mg agp card. with the nvidia drivers version 3123-1mdk > > anyone tried it yet? or have any suggestions or hints? > > I don't need help installing it , but would appreciate any experiences > others may have had trying this. > > ( and yes I did read the documentation already. ) ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1
CVS is what he was using. >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer >> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:55 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1 >> >> >> On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:07 pm, Brian Trainor wrote: >> > I'm trying to instal the au8830 drivers in Mandrake 9.1rc1 >> under KDE 3.1 >> > >> What source tarball are you using? I had to update from aureal >> cvs to get it >> to build on my machine with 9.1. >> >> -- >> Greg >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Please check your reply-to settings
About 8 times today, I replied to a message and had it go directly to the OP instead of to the list. This happens because people have a reply-to set in their mail clients. This is not necessary if your from and reply-to are the same. It is very annoying because once I realize what happened, I have to go track down the message in my sent, resend it to the listy and then send a note to the OP apologizing and explaingni what happened. Please check and see if you have a reply-to set in your mail client and unset it when posting to the MandrakeSoft mailing lists. The reply-to is meant for if you want a reply to go to an address that is different that the one you are sending the message from. -- Gregory K. Meyer, CPA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1
On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:07 pm, Brian Trainor wrote: > I'm trying to instal the au8830 drivers in Mandrake 9.1rc1 under KDE 3.1 > What source tarball are you using? I had to update from aureal cvs to get it to build on my machine with 9.1. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xfree86-4.3.1 in Mdk 9.0 ?
On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:16 am, mycal62 wrote: > Hi , > > has anyone tried the new Xfree 4.3 under 9.0? > > I am currently running kde 3.1 with Xfree86 version 4.2.1-3mdk using an > nvidia tnt2 32mg agp card. with the nvidia drivers version 3123-1mdk > > anyone tried it yet? or have any suggestions or hints? > > I don't need help installing it , but would appreciate any experiences > others may have had trying this. > > ( and yes I did read the documentation already. ) ;-) I was able to rebuild the cooker src.rpm on my box, but I have not installed it. That would be the way to go if you want to do it. Just installing the cooker rpms on 9.0 would be bad because it does not have Xft2. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] worried
- Original Message - From: "Jose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] worried > I run both and Win2k as well. Win2K is the best Windows, IMHO. I absolutely concur. I have XP courtesy of an MSDN subscription (which I am seriously considering to let lapse) and I've never installed it. >From what I can see, it is just window dressing. No new functionality, but a lot of frills which slow down the interface. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] port monitor sought
>> Well, i made my suggestion only because he was asking >> for a ZoneAlarm-like program. As you may already know, >> ZA is a software firewall for Win32, it notifies you of blocked >> connections as they happen, and can be set up with simple >> rules. To my eyes, iptables + firestarter are pretty much the >> same thing, with the only difference that ZA is application-based >> (i.e. whenever an app wants to access a network interface >> you are presented with the option to allow that process or not) >> and Iptables is purely rule-based. I agree with you stating that Firestarter is good for that. I have used it when i started to evolve in the beginning. It was broken half the time. Then again i should probably start playing some of the new versions to give it a fair shot. You are correct and i will agree with you stating that it would be the best for a beginner looking for something like ZA for Linux. Its just a huge field where it took me about 6 months to fully understand the concept of all the firewalling/IDS stuff and what is what and who does what. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1
On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:15 pm, you wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:07 pm, Brian Trainor wrote: > > I'm trying to instal the au8830 drivers in Mandrake 9.1rc1 under KDE 3.1 > > What source tarball are you using? I had to update from aureal cvs to get > it to build on my machine with 9.1. I'm using the CVS actually. Did a check and I don't have the kernel source installed, although I thought I did. At any rate, going to install that and try again. If you got it working, there should be no reason I can't, so it's probably just that. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xfree86-4.3.1 in Mdk 9.0 ?
Hi , has anyone tried the new Xfree 4.3 under 9.0? I am currently running kde 3.1 with Xfree86 version 4.2.1-3mdk using an nvidia tnt2 32mg agp card. with the nvidia drivers version 3123-1mdk anyone tried it yet? or have any suggestions or hints? I don't need help installing it , but would appreciate any experiences others may have had trying this. ( and yes I did read the documentation already. ) ;-) -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ~~ Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta3 with Kde 3.1; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 ~~ "If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! " Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1
Do you have the kernel source installed
Just install the rpm version that your using from the RC1 DL cd's.
Rob
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Trainor
>> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:07 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to instal the au8830 drivers in Mandrake 9.1rc1 under KDE 3.1
>>
>> It's not going well. Here's some error message for ya:
>>
>> In file included from au_vortex.h:54,
>> from au_audio.c:49:
>> /usr/include/linux/module.h:299: parse error before "UTS_RELEASE"
>> /usr/include/linux/module.h: In function `print_symbol':
>> /usr/include/linux/module.h:433: `ESRCH' undeclared (first use in this
>> function)
>> /usr/include/linux/module.h:433: (Each undeclared identifier is
>> reported only
>> once
>> /usr/include/linux/module.h:433: for each function it appears in.)
>> In file included from au_vortex.h:55,
>> from au_audio.c:49:
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:2:2: #error
>> "==="
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:3:2: #error "You should not include
>> /usr/include/{linux,asm}/ header"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:4:2: #error "files directly for the
>> compilation
>> of kernel modules."
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:5:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:6:2: #error "glibc now uses kernel
>> header files
>> from a well-defined"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:7:2: #error "working kernel version (as
>> recommended by Linus Torvalds)"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:8:2: #error "These files are glibc
>> internal and
>> may not match the"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:9:2: #error "currently running kernel. They
>> should only be"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:10:2: #error "included via other
>> system header
>> files - user space"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:11:2: #error "programs should not directly
>> include or"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:12:2: #error " as well."
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:13:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:14:2: #error "To build kernel
>> modules please do
>> the following:"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:15:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:16:2: #error " o Have the kernel sources
>> installed"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:17:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:18:2: #error " o Make sure that the
>> symbolic
>> link"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:19:2: #error "
>> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
>> exists and points to"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:20:2: #error " the matching kernel source
>> directory"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:21:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:22:2: #error " o Now copy
>> /boot/vmlinuz.version.h
>> to"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:23:2: #error " /lib/modules/`uname
>> -r`/build/include/linux/version.h"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:24:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:25:2: #error " o When compiling,
>> make sure to use
>> the following"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:26:2: #error " compiler option to use the
>> correct include files:"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:27:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:28:2: #error " -I/lib/modules/`uname
>> -r`/build/include"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:29:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:30:2: #error " instead of"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:31:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:32:2: #error " -I/usr/include/linux"
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:33:2: #error ""
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:34:2: #error " Please adjust the Makefile
>> accordingly."
>> /usr/include/linux/version.h:35:2: #error
>> "==="
>> In file included from au_audio.c:49:
>> au_vortex.h:70:41: missing binary operator before '('
>> In file included from au_vortex.h:73,
>> from au_audio.c:49:
>> /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h: At top level:
>> /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:31: conflicting types for `spinlock_t'
>> /usr/include/linux/spinlock.h:73: previous declaration of `spinlock_t'
>> /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:80: parse error before "do"
>> /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:116: parse error before '{' token
>> /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:126: parse error before "void"
>> /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:157: conflicting types for `rwlock_t'
>> /usr/include/linux/spinlock.h:137: previous declaration of `rwlock_t'
>> /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:182: parse error before "void"
>> /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:191: parse error before "void"
>> au_vortex.h:76:41: missing binary operator before '('
>> au_vortex.h:120:41: missing binary operator before '('
>> au_vortex.h:126:41: missing binary operator before '('
>> au_vortex.h:154:41: missing binary operator before '('
>> au_vortex.h:205:41: missing binary operator before '('
>> In file included from au_audio.c:50:
>>
>> it goes on like this for quite some time. Can anyone figure o
[newbie] au8830 install in 9.1
I'm trying to instal the au8830 drivers in Mandrake 9.1rc1 under KDE 3.1
It's not going well. Here's some error message for ya:
In file included from au_vortex.h:54,
from au_audio.c:49:
/usr/include/linux/module.h:299: parse error before "UTS_RELEASE"
/usr/include/linux/module.h: In function `print_symbol':
/usr/include/linux/module.h:433: `ESRCH' undeclared (first use in this
function)
/usr/include/linux/module.h:433: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
once
/usr/include/linux/module.h:433: for each function it appears in.)
In file included from au_vortex.h:55,
from au_audio.c:49:
/usr/include/linux/version.h:2:2: #error
"==="
/usr/include/linux/version.h:3:2: #error "You should not include
/usr/include/{linux,asm}/ header"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:4:2: #error "files directly for the compilation
of kernel modules."
/usr/include/linux/version.h:5:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:6:2: #error "glibc now uses kernel header files
from a well-defined"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:7:2: #error "working kernel version (as
recommended by Linus Torvalds)"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:8:2: #error "These files are glibc internal and
may not match the"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:9:2: #error "currently running kernel. They
should only be"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:10:2: #error "included via other system header
files - user space"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:11:2: #error "programs should not directly
include or"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:12:2: #error " as well."
/usr/include/linux/version.h:13:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:14:2: #error "To build kernel modules please do
the following:"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:15:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:16:2: #error " o Have the kernel sources
installed"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:17:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:18:2: #error " o Make sure that the symbolic
link"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:19:2: #error " /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
exists and points to"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:20:2: #error " the matching kernel source
directory"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:21:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:22:2: #error " o Now copy /boot/vmlinuz.version.h
to"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:23:2: #error " /lib/modules/`uname
-r`/build/include/linux/version.h"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:24:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:25:2: #error " o When compiling, make sure to use
the following"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:26:2: #error " compiler option to use the
correct include files:"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:27:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:28:2: #error " -I/lib/modules/`uname
-r`/build/include"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:29:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:30:2: #error " instead of"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:31:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:32:2: #error " -I/usr/include/linux"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:33:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:34:2: #error " Please adjust the Makefile
accordingly."
/usr/include/linux/version.h:35:2: #error
"==="
In file included from au_audio.c:49:
au_vortex.h:70:41: missing binary operator before '('
In file included from au_vortex.h:73,
from au_audio.c:49:
/usr/include/asm/spinlock.h: At top level:
/usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:31: conflicting types for `spinlock_t'
/usr/include/linux/spinlock.h:73: previous declaration of `spinlock_t'
/usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:80: parse error before "do"
/usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:116: parse error before '{' token
/usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:126: parse error before "void"
/usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:157: conflicting types for `rwlock_t'
/usr/include/linux/spinlock.h:137: previous declaration of `rwlock_t'
/usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:182: parse error before "void"
/usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:191: parse error before "void"
au_vortex.h:76:41: missing binary operator before '('
au_vortex.h:120:41: missing binary operator before '('
au_vortex.h:126:41: missing binary operator before '('
au_vortex.h:154:41: missing binary operator before '('
au_vortex.h:205:41: missing binary operator before '('
In file included from au_audio.c:50:
it goes on like this for quite some time. Can anyone figure out what the hell
is going on there, because I'm lost.
Thank you for your time,
Brian Trainor
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] port monitor sought
On Sunday 02 de March 2003 23:55, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> Have you tried firestarter? It's quite simpler than > >> ZoneAlarm --it only has two tabs, one which reports > >> connection attempts and blocked packets, and the other > >> inside of which you can create rules for your firewall > >> > >> http://firestarter.sf.net > > Ok, this is what initially got me into Linuxfirewalling and security. > I am not saying i am the shit. God knows that i am not. I am just saying > this is a HUGE field that you actually got to do the research yourself b/c > there are so many capabilities of apps out there. > > Also, i am not stating that Damien is incorrect in his information. > > Firestarter is not a port "monitor". It is a front end to IPTables. > IPTables is a firewall. If your wanting a port monitor look into Snort > or other IDS (intrusion detection system). Snort is the best IDS out > there, with options of a firewall. If your wanting a firewall then go > with IPtables. If you go with IPTables and you want a GUI configurator > then go with Firestarter. Well, i made my suggestion only because he was asking for a ZoneAlarm-like program. As you may already know, ZA is a software firewall for Win32, it notifies you of blocked connections as they happen, and can be set up with simple rules. To my eyes, iptables + firestarter are pretty much the same thing, with the only difference that ZA is application-based (i.e. whenever an app wants to access a network interface you are presented with the option to allow that process or not) and Iptables is purely rule-based. You are correct anyway, i was not talking about a port monitor at all. But i did not intend to. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:05 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi Ron, > > I wouldn't know a dupe message if I fell over it. In fact I haven't seen > one since I started using procmail filtering two years ago. Although I have > been wondering about whats been going on with the lists the last few days. > Any ideas...info? Well, they had a discussion/explanation one time (or maybe a couple of times) about why there were duplicate messages on the list at times. I can't remember exactly how it went, but it did make sense. :-) Usually though, when its the list itself, you'll see the repeated msgs one right after the other... A Troll...on the other hand, tends to reseed them every so often, appearing here and there... At least thats been my experience... -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:58 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > singing... > > Oh the yellow rose of Kentucky > la la la la la la > > hmm. Doesn't have the same ring. :( Heh. Neither does "My old Texas Home"... Methinks we should leave well enough alone... -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Change mouse pointers ?
On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:53 pm, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: > Hi everyone, > Can I change the arrow mouse pointer with something else like in M$ > Windows ?. My friend told me that it is a disadvantage of XFree. I > hope I can change an arrow pointer with a fish pointer or anything > else. Thanks for any help. You will be able to (I think) in 9.1. It is a feature add in XFree 4.3 -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] port monitor sought
>> Have you tried firestarter? It's quite simpler than >> ZoneAlarm --it only has two tabs, one which reports >> connection attempts and blocked packets, and the other >> inside of which you can create rules for your firewall >> >> http://firestarter.sf.net Ok, this is what initially got me into Linuxfirewalling and security. I am not saying i am the shit. God knows that i am not. I am just saying this is a HUGE field that you actually got to do the research yourself b/c there are so many capabilities of apps out there. Also, i am not stating that Damien is incorrect in his information. Firestarter is not a port "monitor". It is a front end to IPTables. IPTables is a firewall. If your wanting a port monitor look into Snort or other IDS (intrusion detection system). Snort is the best IDS out there, with options of a firewall. If your wanting a firewall then go with IPtables. If you go with IPTables and you want a GUI configurator then go with Firestarter. The difference being: firewall: you setup to block/allow certain packets going in/out of certain ports. For instance, if you have a web server but not an ftp server, you allow port 80 and block port 21. IDS: you look at each packet and see if the insides look like an attack that is defined by your ruleset. For instance, if you have an ftp server you obviously allow port 21 BUT you look at each packet and see if it contains malformed packets that would possibly look like a DDoS or something else where the intruder is trying to actually attack the ftp server to grab your /etc/passwd file. Thats more or less security of the FTP server BUT it can be configured in your IDS rules. Just remember that a "port monitor" and a firewall are totally different. IPTables and Snort can actually do monitoring and firewalling BUT IPTables is made for firewalling and Snort is made for IDS. If your wanting "port monitor" then Snort would be it. http://www.snort.org for cabled networks http://airsnort.shmoo.com for wifi For IP Tables and firewall http://www.netfilter.org Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
>> Hush, rob, or we'll cut Alaska in two and make Texas the third >> largest state. LOLso true. Its weird that Alaska is double the size of Texas. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] port monitor sought
> > > > Is there something similar to ZoneAlarm available for linux? Or can you > > reccomend another application? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Andrei Have you tried firestarter? It's quite simpler than ZoneAlarm --it only has two tabs, one which reports connection attempts and blocked packets, and the other inside of which you can create rules for your firewall http://firestarter.sf.net Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:39 am, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> Asked like someone from a small state:-) > > HAHA. I live in the largest state there is (atleast in the continuous 48 > states)...Texas. > Alaska is too far away from anything for me. > Rob Hush, rob, or we'll cut Alaska in two and make Texas the third largest state. ;-) Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
>> Tom: >> You bring up a good point. The only valid conclusion is that >> either they are >> perjurers and monopolists, or traitors and monopolists. Don't hold your >> breath waiting for John Ashcroft to announce that anyone has >> been indicted, >> though. I would say they are Traitors and Monopolists. Since they take school districts and government agencies to court over licenses for billions of dollars WHY in gods name take school districts to court when they are already low on money and firing teachers left and right b/c of the type of situation with the economy? They are just making it worse. They could atleast give high schools and below (elementary and middle/junior high) licenses for the desency of our youth trying to learn. Does MS want the youngsters of today to learn Linux (which is starting to happen with RH and the RHCE program) or do they want them to learn MS, or does MS want districts to actually purchase Apple products? , geee, i wonder. Seems like more and more everyday districts and colleges are going with Linux b/c it is free/cheap. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Change mouse pointers ?
Hi everyone, Can I change the arrow mouse pointer with something else like in M$ Windows ?. My friend told me that it is a disadvantage of XFree. I hope I can change an arrow pointer with a fish pointer or anything else. Thanks for any help. -- Can Linux defeat Windows in desktop ?. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:40 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Sunday March 2 2003 06:21 am, Dennis & Sue wrote: > > > I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, > > > fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the > > > dotted line... > > > > I'm sure they will have a special site just to themselves. Where M$ > > "promises" not to spy on them. And I'm sure M$ won't. ( Not right > > away anyways, Gotta lull them into a false sense of security first > > ). > > Speaking of security. During the DoJ/M$ trial(s), the States > wanted M$ to release Windows source. M$ argued that to do so would > compromise National Security. So it's either ironic, or criminal that > they're now furnishing it to the Chinese and some other governments. Tom: You bring up a good point. The only valid conclusion is that either they are perjurers and monopolists, or traitors and monopolists. Don't hold your breath waiting for John Ashcroft to announce that anyone has been indicted, though. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] no sound in 9.0
>> >>>AMD Mainboard that uses SiS 740 chipset. It also has a built in AC97 >> >>>Codec. I am not sure what other information you might need out of the >> >>>book. I am very new to Mandrake Linux. There is so much I don't >> >>>understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Brenda What motherboard do you have? including model #. Once i have that i will research fo you and give the list what i find. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! Well Andrew, I have a question for you: R U a Troll? I've seen this same message a couple of times now. In fact, as is "per normal" for this list, it received excellantly reasoned and constructed responses. Hi Ron, I wouldn't know a dupe message if I fell over it. In fact I haven't seen one since I started using procmail filtering two years ago. Although I have been wondering about whats been going on with the lists the last few days. Any ideas...info? -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound in 9.0
lewis wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 05:19 pm, robin wrote: lewis wrote: Hello, I have Mandrake Linux 9.0 installed on my computer. The sound doesn't work but it does on the windows side of the partition. I have an AMD Mainboard that uses SiS 740 chipset. It also has a built in AC97 Codec. I am not sure what other information you might need out of the book. I am very new to Mandrake Linux. There is so much I don't understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Brenda Try exiting X-window and running sndconfig (as root). Sir Robin Hi, I logged in as root and tried the sndconfig, but it says no PNP or PCI sound cards were found. It said to select my card type but I didn't know which one to pick. I did try the Intel i810 AC97 Audio but no luck. I also looked at Mandrake Control Center but the hardware list only had a floppy, disk, CDRom, and mouse. Thanks again. Brenda I'm betting that your sound card is of the onboard variety. This being the case you be need to try another card. Disable the onboard card in the BIOS and stick another sound card in. Mdk9.0 likes the Ensoniq chipset fairly well. At least a bit better then it likes the Intel i810 chipset. -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
> song and ditty that elaborates on how big and bad Texas is would have to > be changed. singing... Oh the yellow rose of Kentucky la la la la la la hmm. Doesn't have the same ring. :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Unofficial February stats
>> look at the bright side Anne. At least you're not still fighting >> with Java >> and Mozy. :P She has a ways to catch up with me this month if i keep on like i am. ROFL Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unofficial February stats
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 3:34 pm, Todd Slater wrote: Most active posters 200 Robert Wideman 158 Anne Wilson Shucks - I'm still talking too much. I thought I'd been quieter lately. Anne look at the bright side Anne. At least you're not still fighting with Java and Mozy. :P -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unofficial February stats
Todd Slater wrote: Monthly stats for Mandrake-newbie Total posts processed:3027 Most active threads 86 Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned 47 Xwindows Stability 43 Lovin' KDE 3.1 38 OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad! 34 Update the kernel ? 34 Another one... 34 33 This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected. 33 NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update 33 Fun discussion question for the list Most active posters 200 Robert Wideman 158 Anne Wilson 135 et 123 Greg Meyer 104 Stephen Kuhn 100 FemmeFatale 78 Derek Jennings 77 civileme 77 Tom Brinkman 72 Ronald J. Hall heh! Stephen!! you're still in the top five. :) -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 02:37, Margot wrote: > Hello All > > Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back > now, and have got a bit further, but not much! > > Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and gone with freeserve anytime. Have set it > all up in MCC/kppp and Mozilla (thanks to John Richard Smith for freeserve > screenshots), but still having problems. > > Subscribed to the Berlin news server via Win 98 machine, and next time I > tried to connect via Linux machine the news.cis.dfn.de account automatically > showed up in Mozilla - but when I tried to subscribe to newsgroups I got > "Failed to connect to server news.cis.dfn.de". Seems to me that it HAS > connected to the server - or how would Mozilla know that I had registered > for that service - but for some reason it won't let me see the information > that is coming from the server! > > When trying to receive email, I get "Failed to connect to server > pop.freeserve.com". Attempted browsing gives me a message at the bottom of > the browser screen "Resolving host www.google.co.uk" and a box in the middle > of the browser saying "www.google.co.uk could not be found. Please check > the name and try again". > > By mistake the other day I forgot to set kppp running before trying > Mozilla - and got the exact same error messages on mail, news and browse > without even being connected to the internet! > > I have tried to ping, and got strange results - when I did ping > www.yahoo.com I got "unknown host www.yahoo.com, but when I tried ping > 66.218.71.83 (the numeric version of yahoo) I got "PING 66.218.71.83 > (66.218.71.83) from 217.134.91.169 : 56(84) bytes of data. I don't > understand why it works by number but not by name. > > Can anyone help me further? > > Thanks > Margot It is most obviously a network problem - either your KPPP setup is incorrect, or the actual local machine settings are incorrect. You should go through all the settings for KPPP and make sure that you're putting in their Primary and Secondary DNS entries, as well as setting it to use a server given IP address. Often I have run across network problems with KPPP, hence my aversion to using it - preferring to use WV-DIAL instead (along with Xwvdial as the GUI interface). WV-DIAL in on the MDK disks - can't quite remember which one, but it's a tad more simplistic in it's setup - more of a static setup and easier to get to the bits and bobs for doing further configurations - as well, it leaves a really nice little text file in the /etc directory that is very easily modified. Another thing to make sure is that your modem is being initialised properly - I have seen in some instances that the modems basic init strings disallow proper network flow - a good standard init string is: AT &F &C1 &D2 E1 Q0 V1 (for literally any modem) HTH! -- Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:45:01 +1100 9:45am up 4 days, 23:48, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.07, 0.17 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- I went home with a waitress, The way I always do. How I was I to know? She was with the Russians too. I was gambling in Havana, I took a little risk. Send lawyers, guns, and money, Dad, get me out of this. -- Warren Zevon, "Lawyers, Guns and Money" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 02:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Hmm, probably wrong but I always thought the "C" was for color... Maybe we're wrong and the "C" stands for CONTRAST - the black against the white, perchance? -- Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:40:00 +1100 9:40am up 4 days, 23:43, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.12, 0.22 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- You never ever volunteered. Not even if a sergant stood there and said, "We need someone to drink alcohol, bottles of, and make love, passionate, to women, for the use of." There was *always* a snag. If a choir of angels asked for volunteers for Paradise to step forward, Nobby knew enough to take one smart pace to the rear. (Feet of Clay) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] C header files
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 19:17, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > Hi all > > Much conventional question this time (sorry about the last one I really didn't > mean to offend or annoy). > > Anyway I'm trying to install VMware 3.1 and after installation I get this > message when trying to run: > > VMware Workstation Error: > VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured > for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator > must find and run "vmware-config.pl". > > After running vmware-config.pl I get this message: > > None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your > running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for > your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? > > After choosing yes I receive another message: > > Argument "gcc (GCC) 3" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at > /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 1476, line 1. > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your > running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] > > Where are these files please they are not in the directory it suggested > [/usr/src/linux/include]. I've tried allsorts but with no luck. > > Thanks in advance > Andrew > You're going to need to install the kernel sources and header files - I think they're on CD3 - but could be on CD2 - either which, once you get the kernel sources and headers installed, you can then safely run the config script for VMWare without any further hassles. I manually added the kernel sources because I didn't want to depend on the Mandrake Control Centre and the Software Manager - but someone else might have a better way of doing the installation of the kernel sources... -- Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:40:00 +1100 9:40am up 4 days, 23:43, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.12, 0.22 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- You never ever volunteered. Not even if a sergant stood there and said, "We need someone to drink alcohol, bottles of, and make love, passionate, to women, for the use of." There was *always* a snag. If a choir of angels asked for volunteers for Paradise to step forward, Nobby knew enough to take one smart pace to the rear. (Feet of Clay) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta
> What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? (I dont know where > to read the available space. I can see usage with 'df' or in konq, but not > free space.) Like another poster said, 1440 1K blocks. On the other hand, that assumes you don't put a filesystem on it, which would take up some portion of the available space. > > Do you create the volumed tarball direct to floppy's or on the hard drive > first? Either. But you can send the tar right to the floppy, without creating a file system first. You just need to visualize the floppy disk as a short, flattened tape :). # tar -cvf /dev/fd0 /path/to/data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:27 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > is the average end user perspective. I think your point is understood, although what gets me, is that many times, and I'm not saying you did this, when comparing the two from a "Windows user" or "average user" perspective, we forget about how much we know about windows, and how much we don't know about the alternative. To a windows user, the linux way is too hard and too much work. The conclusion is always that if I have to learn anything, it is not as easy as Windows. At this point in time, it is about re-learning, not being harder. Case in point: Installing the nVidia video driver. Under windows, I click on a file, click yes, agree, yes yes, reboot, change the screen resolution and depth in display settings and reboot. On linux, I type "rpm -ivh NVIDIA*" and then make a couple of minor changes to a config file and restart the X server. But if you objectively evaluate the differences without regard to what the user already knows, I believe the linux method is a lot faster and is less work. If I timed it, it would be a lot faster and I did not have to reboot. But to the Windows user, who is not *familiar* with linux, it *seems* a lot harder. But once educated and familiar with the process, it isn't harder after all. I at one point I even agreed with this, but as I got *familiar* with it, I started to see why it wasn't easier. Now yes, there are places where Linux is in fact harder, but there are places where Windows is hard too. So when people say they want things to be easy like Windows, they are really saying 'I don't want to learn another way right now" and I think that is okay. I just wish the endless comparisons of which is better would be more honest about stuff like this. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:27 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > Hi all > > Can I please state for the record that I am a complete Linux supporter. I > have been with Mandrake since version 6 and although having left the arena, > so to speak, for sometime now I still believe that linux is the best OS > system around and Mandrake the best version. > > What my original e-mail was trying to show (and I apologise for not making > this clear) is the average end user perspective. There is much talk here, > as there always has been, of Linux-v-Windows and I was just illustrating, > after my installation of XP, as to what a windows user must think when > faced with Md9 or any other linux version for the first time. > > In my opinion too much time and effort is directed towards "converting" the > windows user to linux and basically I was showing that although linux is by > far the better of the two, XP gives people what they want and damn fast. > > Some of you have said that chaning desktops will improve preformance but as > I originally stated I don't want to, again getting my head into a windows > users perspective where KDE or Gnome is the more familiar. Showing some > new person Enlightenment or even ICEwm is not going to impress at all. > They want familiararity, hence my choice of desktop. > > I hope this has made my stance clear, > > Andrew Not a problem here Andrew, I understood what you were saying. Although some folks maybe did not. The point is well taken and I agree. Problem is, most people don't look before they leap and as I mentioned end up with chains on their legs and hands cause they didn't know the consequences of their actions. On the other hand there are people like my wife who do not (not cannot) want to learn a few things to break their bonds. My wife is a AOL user and windows is her game, period. Oh, I'll get her eventually, and folks on the list keep feeding me more ammunition, so one day she will change. If that's all right with her of course. (Husbands' copout sentence). : P -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First connection w/ 9.1rc1
On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:11 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Ok!, I am on the LAN and connected to the internet with a BioStar M7VIG > > Pro motherboard and a duron 750mhz processor. The onboard NIC works, The > > onboard video works, the onboard sound has no driver. It is a via chip > > using the ac97 codec and reports no driver available. I could not get a > > internet connection through the rc1 KDE setup so switched to gnome and > > am able to connect. Can't figure that out. I will look at the sys logs > > and see if I can tell what changed. I was also getting a comp shut down > > when the screensaver goes blank. Anyone know what that might be? I > > changed out my cpu fan and made sure it is running so will have to see > > if that solves the problem, otherwise could it be bios or the APIC > > thing? Testing will go on with rc2 we hope. > > > > -- > > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > > I have a M7VKQ that has the via KLE133 chipset and the sound is > autodetected and set up. Are you sure it is enabled in BIOS? What is the > specific VIA chipset? if you don't know, post the output from "lspci -v" > as root. Sorry, I can't dig it up. I put in a asound sound card and it was auto detected and works very well, so I do have sound. Later if need be I will try again with the onboard, all I can say is the config tool in MCC said there was no support for that via chipset, whatever it was. Thanks for the reply, as always with linux, "never say die" unless your talking about M$. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:54 pm, Margot wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 6:17 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) > > > > > Ummm > > > > sounds like a cookie/nameserver problem (two problems with similar > > results) > > > First resolve the nameserver problem > > > > Then take care of the cookies by re-registering for the services. > > > > For the nameserver problem, let us see the output of a command line > > > > 1. Open a terminal > > 2. Type the command > > 3. highlight the output with the mouse > > 4. click on the email window and middle-click (or right and lefgt click > > at > > > same time) to paste > > Actually printed out then retyped the output - because the email on the > linux machine isn't working! - but thanks for the tip about the middle > mouse button, I had wondered what it was for. > > > The command is > > > > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > > search localdomain eurobell.co.uk > search localdomain > search localdomain freeserve.com > search localdomain freeserve.com > # nameserver 192.168.100.6 > nameserver 192.168.0.2 > nameserver 212.24.65.65 > nameserver 212.24.65.199 > > # ppp temp entry > [EMAIL PROTECTED] user] > > Presumably I need to remove the first line, but what about the others? > > > Also in kppp make sure you have some nameservers set or that you are > > getting > > > automated retrieval > > ... is set to Automatic > > > Civileme > > Thanks for your help. > Margot Margot , here is my resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 68.13.16.30 search cox.net based on that I would say that you only need what is related to your comp and freeserve. So search freeserve.com nameserver 192.168.100.6 nameserver 212.24.65.65 nameserver 212.24 65.199 assuming that the last two are indeed the nameserver IPs for freeserve. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:11:33AM -0800, David E. Fox wrote: > > I don't think compression in backups is such a good idea. If there are > media problems a bad spot could hose most of the backup. Not really true if you're using something like afio to pack up and compress the files. The archive format used by afio allows it to recover from read errors and go on unpacking the next file. And if you are backing up to CD-R, then compression is of great help in keeping the number of CDs down. andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
Hi all Can I please state for the record that I am a complete Linux supporter. I have been with Mandrake since version 6 and although having left the arena, so to speak, for sometime now I still believe that linux is the best OS system around and Mandrake the best version. What my original e-mail was trying to show (and I apologise for not making this clear) is the average end user perspective. There is much talk here, as there always has been, of Linux-v-Windows and I was just illustrating, after my installation of XP, as to what a windows user must think when faced with Md9 or any other linux version for the first time. In my opinion too much time and effort is directed towards "converting" the windows user to linux and basically I was showing that although linux is by far the better of the two, XP gives people what they want and damn fast. Some of you have said that chaning desktops will improve preformance but as I originally stated I don't want to, again getting my head into a windows users perspective where KDE or Gnome is the more familiar. Showing some new person Enlightenment or even ICEwm is not going to impress at all. They want familiararity, hence my choice of desktop. I hope this has made my stance clear, Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
- Original Message - From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) > Ummm > > sounds like a cookie/nameserver problem (two problems with similar results) > > First resolve the nameserver problem > > Then take care of the cookies by re-registering for the services. > > For the nameserver problem, let us see the output of a command line > > 1. Open a terminal > 2. Type the command > 3. highlight the output with the mouse > 4. click on the email window and middle-click (or right and lefgt click at > same time) to paste Actually printed out then retyped the output - because the email on the linux machine isn't working! - but thanks for the tip about the middle mouse button, I had wondered what it was for. > The command is > > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf search localdomain eurobell.co.uk search localdomain search localdomain freeserve.com search localdomain freeserve.com # nameserver 192.168.100.6 nameserver 192.168.0.2 nameserver 212.24.65.65 nameserver 212.24.65.199 # ppp temp entry [EMAIL PROTECTED] user] Presumably I need to remove the first line, but what about the others? > Also in kppp make sure you have some nameservers set or that you are getting > automated retrieval > ... is set to Automatic > > Civileme > Thanks for your help. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:23 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and > >> everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a > >> restart > > If you use your system everyday then DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER. > Literally. I have 10 computers (4 are my roomates, and this is half of the > computers we own) that are on all the time, 24/7. It might increase the > electric bill about $20-30 BUT it beats dealing with computer problems all > the time and spending $50+ a month on replacing hardware. Also, the > turning on and turn off everydaywould you like to be turned off and > then turned on everyday? Wait, i woudl but thats a different story > Turned on, meaning...by the electro shocks like they use to survive people > with in the ER??? Thats how the computer hardware feels. The more you > turn it off/on the more you wear the parts out. > > Rob There has been much debate over the years about this subject and I have heard both sides of the debate. After working with electronics and mechanical equipment since a hell of a long time before the Personal Computer this is my 10 cents worth I am not saying I am right this is just my opinion. In a computer the MOBO and other cards are just more electronic stuff, more or less basic solid state electronics much like a TV, radio cordless phone ect. These other devices get turned on and off all the time without harm. if the boards and power supply are of half way decent design turning power on and off a few times a day should not be a very big issue. Inrush current on startup may be of some concern on one hand but on the other hand most electronic components only have so much life expectancy in tens or hundreds of thousands of hours and eeventually they just sort of get used up espically if they are being used at nnear maximum ratings so on this point we have what is probably a even trade ooff. Constant power on operation and turning off power when not in use can both have advantages. I can see where expansion and contraction with heating and cooling can work chips and other connectors loose from their sockets but all this means is that every couple of years everything may needed to be reseated and it is also a good arguement for a extra cooling fan or 2 or even some of the more advanced cooling options but then again these are not a bad idea no matter if you leave power onn all the time or cycle it on and off. Heat is ALWAYS the enemy of electronic parts. Last is the really debatable issue and that is the Hard drive. I can see where there could be a LOT of shock load on startup going from 0-7200 rpm in a few seconds espically when parts are cold and contracted possibly causeing things to fit a bit tight on startup and I would guess that some designs deal with this issue better than others. But on the other hand what is worse a few seconds of shock load or thousands of hours of wear while the hdd is idleing along at 7200 rpm unused, To me it is a tough call to say witch does more harm. Here is a bit of a decideing factor for me anyway. I live in a area with FREQUENT power surges lightining strikes and even darn big spikes coming up the phone wires. If we should have a big storm at night while I am sleeping or other times when I am away I am not shure I want my machine running. Some of you folks in urban areas may not have a clue what a big issue this can be for some of us in rural areas. It is not uncommon to get a big enough spike after a lightining to blow the capactors and sometimes even arc accross motor windings in a well pump and this stuff is a hell of a lot more durable than the somewhat delicate electronics of a PC. And to tell you the truth I am not 100% shure a UPS is a cureall for these big spikes. And the last issue is so what in at the rate computers are changeing 5 to 10 years from now all the machines we are useing today will be so obsolete that they will have almost no value anyway so why worry about getting every last miniute of life from them anyway. If the parts are of decent design they should last at least 10 years with anything but hard abuse. Any other electronic device should afterall. Just my $10 worth, inflation after all -- Marc KM5KW Powered by Mandrake Linux 9.0 and Kmail. This is a 100%Windows and microsoft free computer For a superior OS, virus and crash resistant go to http://www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:16 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? (I dont know > where to read the available space. I can see usage with 'df' or in konq, > but not free space.) 1440 I guess -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC
On Monday 03 March 2003 02:47 am, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: > > Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider > getting another one? > What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq > JP If you consider another mainboard, here are some news : A week ago I bought a Chaintech 7VJL, and you know what ? IT COMES WITH A FULL LINUX (on CD) ! That's the first time I saw a MB with linux bundled. It's a distro called *Thiz Linux* and resembles RedHat. I wiped it and installed MDK 9.0 in less then 20 minutes. Works like a charm. Information can be found here : http://www.chaintechusa.com/eng/products/SOCKA/7vjl.asp Good luck. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+
>> Any comments on my original query? >> I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been >> hijacked by another >> subject... or two. >> >> Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. >> >> On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: >> > I was trying to install the latest sources of Glade, and found that it >> > needed a newer version of GTK+ v2 than the mdk9.0 default >> install provides. >> > This involves compiling glib, atk, pango and gtk+. I can compile and >> > install glib, but one of the others detects that I have two >> copies of glib >> > installed and refuses to continue. >> > >> > If I try to uninstall GTK+ v2 dpmdrake tells me >> (understandably) that it >> > will have to uninstall a huge number of applications. >> > >> > I am sure there is a simple way to do this, but in this case >> learning by >> > trial and error is likely to involve trashing a lot of functionality. >> > >> > So - How do I upgrade a shared library under the noses of >> dozens of apps >> > that are dependent on it? And what is this likely to do to rpmdrake's >> > database? Thoughts: why would you need to recompile anything enless its not in RPM form. If you redo your glib and glibc your kinda fucked. Everything on your system requires the version that you have installed b/c they are compiled against that version. 2 versions of glib installed is b/c one is in source form and one is in rpm form. You kinda screwed yourself. If you uninstall any window widget you will be uninstalling 90% of your GUI. You update a shared library by updating it via rpm's. It will test first if it can be updated and tell you any issues. Use the rpm -Uvh --test rpm-filename.rpm" first. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] First connection w/ 9.1rc1
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > Ok!, I am on the LAN and connected to the internet with a BioStar M7VIG > Pro motherboard and a duron 750mhz processor. The onboard NIC works, The > onboard video works, the onboard sound has no driver. It is a via chip > using the ac97 codec and reports no driver available. I could not get a > internet connection through the rc1 KDE setup so switched to gnome and > am able to connect. Can't figure that out. I will look at the sys logs > and see if I can tell what changed. I was also getting a comp shut down > when the screensaver goes blank. Anyone know what that might be? I > changed out my cpu fan and made sure it is running so will have to see > if that solves the problem, otherwise could it be bios or the APIC > thing? Testing will go on with rc2 we hope. > > -- > Dennis M. linux user #180842 I have a M7VKQ that has the via KLE133 chipset and the sound is autodetected and set up. Are you sure it is enabled in BIOS? What is the specific VIA chipset? if you don't know, post the output from "lspci -v" as root. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW
> After all that, it wanted to make a compressed copy of my hda1 partition on= > =20 > hda6. Which copy, I would then have to burn to CD, manually. This is=20 Agredd - why compress it into another partition? Is your hda1 larger than a CD's capacity? I have a rather large /home (5 gb partition) obviously I would have to back it up on a number of CDs. Currently I use tapes, and all I do is tar -cvMf /dev/st0 /home, for instance. CD's have their own separate issues and you'd have to divvy up the partition into a number of cd-sized items first and then burn each in succession. I don't think you can just tar right through to the device - but then I don't have a CD burner. I don't think compression in backups is such a good idea. If there are media problems a bad spot could hose most of the backup. > to sleep at night so the backups can complete. That's the nice thing about using cron, schedule the backup for 3am, and you have a backed up machine in the morning. Of course, the backup could take longer, and having your machine wake you up to change media self-defeats automating the backup. > Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Worried
>> I haven't booted in 4 months. And this is even AFTER system/software updates. >> I don't think boot or load time is a fair comparison. S true. Again look at the # of times we boot in 4 months. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tar questions, ta
1. I backed up an old system and i made the mistake of using absolute paths. I now want to extract from this tar ball into my newer system. I want to extract individual files and want to place them in an 'extraction' directory. Can i do it? How? (if i get it wrong i could write over existing files) 2. Speaking Volumes:-) What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? (I dont know where to read the available space. I can see usage with 'df' or in konq, but not free space.) Do you create the volumed tarball direct to floppy's or on the hard drive first? What number of blocks would fit on a UDP? formatted CD-RW disk? tar -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] First connection w/ 9.1rc1
Ok!, I am on the LAN and connected to the internet with a BioStar M7VIG Pro motherboard and a duron 750mhz processor. The onboard NIC works, The onboard video works, the onboard sound has no driver. It is a via chip using the ac97 codec and reports no driver available. I could not get a internet connection through the rc1 KDE setup so switched to gnome and am able to connect. Can't figure that out. I will look at the sys logs and see if I can tell what changed. I was also getting a comp shut down when the screensaver goes blank. Anyone know what that might be? I changed out my cpu fan and made sure it is running so will have to see if that solves the problem, otherwise could it be bios or the APIC thing? Testing will go on with rc2 we hope. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:30:24 + Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any comments on my original query? > I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been hijacked by > another subject... or two. The 2 are not natively compatible. If you upgrade to GTK2++ then none of your current apps which require GTK++ will work. Charles -- A fool and his honey are soon parted. - Mandrake Linux 9.1 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.11mdk - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] C header files
On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:45 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > > Argument "gcc (GCC) 3" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=3D) at=20 > > /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 1476, line 1. > > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match > > your=20 running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]=20 > > Looks like you forgot to install the kernel-headers rpm. More likely kernel-sources > > your=20 running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]=20 ^ -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW
> physical disaster (fire, flood, massive power spike, al-Qaeda attack, > Avril Lavigne video) can wipe it out along with the rest. Otherwise Your insurance carrier regards Avril Levigne videos as acts of God too ? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC
>> I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm >> at the point of giving up. >> First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: >> ECS K7S6A >> Athlon xp 1800 >> 256 MB ram >> NIC 3com 905 TX Personally i will not buy ESC b/c they have jumpers to screw with. I have not built a computer myself unless it is jumperless b/c of these types of issues, plus there is more control of certain devices. >> and everything was working except the NIC. I emailed the newbie mailing >> list to have some help (which was greatly appreciate by the way) and >> after trying different setting it still doesn't work. I am fairly sure >> that it's a motherboard problem because I tried different NICs without >> any success and my 3com works on another PC running mandrake 9.0. First off, what is the NIC sharing an IRQ with? That makes a huge difference. Even though NIC's can NOT share IRQ's period. I have seen this and be the cause of so many things when i worked at Dell Server Support, Linux and Windows. You can also tell the kernel to give the NIC a certain IRQ if neededin /etc/modules.conf on the ethx line just put "irq=X"...X being the IRQ you want it to have. >> I tried to install with USB,serial and parallel ports, soundcard disable >> to free a maximum of IRQ, tried different PC slots and none of that has >> worked. Did you atleast disable serial and parrallel ports and all things NOT needed first? >> Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another >> one? Personally i would buy an A-Bit or Asus, they are the best that i have worked with. Then again they are the only boards i have bought to build my systems with. >> What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that >> this is no the problem? Disable everything on the MB that you dont need, then go from there. >> I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A >> under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake 9.0 >> is not working properly with my board? I doubt 9.0 is the issue, then again i have heard of other issues not working due to some differences... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] C header files
> Argument "gcc (GCC) 3" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=3D) at=20 > /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 1476, line 1. > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your=20 > running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]=20 Looks like you forgot to install the kernel-headers rpm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:53 pm, Jesse \"G-Tez\" Houston wrote: > In my opinion - If you are going to say "Mandrake SUX" (Which it doesn't) > back up your statement with clear and concise reasons then perhaps you may > get an inteligent responce > This is a forum for discussing problems and getting resolutions. > Best of luck in the future > > On this note: Has anyone had installer issues with Dual CPU/via > chipset/nvidia graphics cards? My workstation is being rather flaky. > > System Info: > Dual 1.0 GHz p3 > Via 694XDP Chipset > 1 Gig of ram > NVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 128megs > Promose ATA 100 RAID Controller (FastTrack Lite) > > I remember reading something along the lines of why this wasn't working > before but wasn't able to find it in my old emails Thanks for your help > guys. Well, Jess, I have a dual 1.0 gig p3, an Nvidia GeForce4 ti4600 128megs, only 512 ram, but I think it is "smoKINg". with the amount of ram you have, you need the "enterprise" kernel, and it will enable SMP too the only thing is I know nothing about how your promise controller will work. maybe you could define flaky, a little better, and start it's own thread so it can be searched out in the archives a little easier. et Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
>> Asked like someone from a small state:-) HAHA. I live in the largest state there is (atleast in the continuous 48 states)...Texas. Alaska is too far away from anything for me. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] /net and /misc
>> I think there is some confusion. >> LinNeighborhood is nothing to do with autofs. >> >> If autofs were a dependency of LinNeighborhood, then you would >> be warned when >> you tried to 'urpme autofs'. But it isn't... So you won't.. >> >> If you want to know what dependencies a package has. Just look it up in >> kpackage. It will also show you the files inside the package. OR just go to command line and give it the ole command "rpm -qpR package-name.rpm" Easier for me to type than mess with the damn mouse. Plus i type like 100 gwpm. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
>> This isn't meant as an insult ,so don't take it that way. >> You sound like others I have "heard". Almost apologetic about >> the fact that >> some distros made a profit, or intend to. >> As though they have somehow "soiled" the O.S. movement with money. >> Profit is not a dirty word. It is a necessary thing in order to >> pay wages, >> build infrastructure, Do R & D, build a better company, Do advertising, >> Secure a future, etc. >> It wouldn't bother me a bit if Mandrake had $40 billion in the >> bank, as it >> were. Provided they earned it honestly, And not through >> extortion, or other >> nefarious methods. Or engage in M$ tactics to further themselves >> among the >> other distros. >> If the above came, or comes to pass. I would drop Mandrake faster than I >> dropped Microsoft. >> Because Mandrake has an example of what not to do. It isn't >> right of M$ to do >> these things, Not because they are M$, But because this behaviour isn't >> morally justifiable. I totally agree with them making a profit or if they had billions in the bank. I like what they have put out and will continue to do so unless they do move to those tactics... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+
Any comments on my original query? I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been hijacked by another subject... or two. Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: > I was trying to install the latest sources of Glade, and found that it > needed a newer version of GTK+ v2 than the mdk9.0 default install provides. > This involves compiling glib, atk, pango and gtk+. I can compile and > install glib, but one of the others detects that I have two copies of glib > installed and refuses to continue. > > If I try to uninstall GTK+ v2 dpmdrake tells me (understandably) that it > will have to uninstall a huge number of applications. > > I am sure there is a simple way to do this, but in this case learning by > trial and error is likely to involve trashing a lot of functionality. > > So - How do I upgrade a shared library under the noses of dozens of apps > that are dependent on it? And what is this likely to do to rpmdrake's > database? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?
>> shorewall has taken a bashing on this list, >> with many suggesting alternatives, >> eg gshield, guarddog, firestarter, etc. >> >> i just wanna relate my own good experience. >> >> i was trying to configure my mdk 9.0 box to share >> my internet connection with a small home network >> consisting of 3 win9x pcs and 2 linux boxes. >> >> i first used the internet connection wizard in mcc, >> which didn't work. >> >> went to www.shorewall.net, and the quickstart guide suggested >> the two interface config. >> >> instead of using it wholesale, i compared the config files, >> found a few differences, opened up the ports i needed, >> restarted shorewall, and it worked. >> >> the entire process took me around 15 mins, >> included reading the stuff at www.shorewall.net. >> >> i think the essential diff was mdk 9.0 tried to >> 3 zones in their shorewall config, while the two >> interface version of the quickstart guide used 2 zones. >> (if you dun understand what i'm saying, >> just spend a couple of mins with www.shorewall.net) >> >> i'm no expert, and i'm sure the mdk developers had >> a good reason to do what they did, but this setup worked >> easily for me. >> >> others trying to configure shorewall can also search >> the archives for a couple of extremely well written I do not doubt that Shorewall can run nicely once configured properly. I was meaning that my experiences with it (like most) are terrible. Most of my experiences with any firewall configurator sucks. Thats why i say go down to learning the actual rules and ways of iptables since it is directly in charge of it...not any of the GUI configurators. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
>> When you ping by name your machine first has to convert the name >> to numbers. >> In your case that step is failing. >> >> Check your DNS server setting. Or just edit /etc/hosts. Lots quicker and is the first place that is checked for name->IP conversion. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
> Now before I get flamed let me explain. I run a small 500mhz Athlon with > 64mg memory but for speed and effeiciency XP is by far the fastest. Hmm. On the other hand, XP is the desktop and everything else. There's no real way (to my knowledge) to boot XP with a minimal environment as there is with Linux where you have the option not to run X and/or a number of window managers and desktop environments, some which use less memory than others. It's very possible that Mandrake 9.0 default install with KDE is less responsive than XP on the same system, but so what? KDE is a memory hog, and 64 megs of RAM is barely enough. Try Windowmaker or Afterstep on that machine and you'll get a snappier response, I'll bet. > With XP I boot and hey-presto I'm logging in within seconds and after > hey-presto my desktop has loaded and away I go. However with Md9 I can make I haven't booted in 4 months. > a brew before logging in and then drink it all and eat my biscuits while > waiting for the desktop to finish loading (well not literally but you get I don't think boot or load time is a fair comparison. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:47 pm, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: > I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm > at the point of giving up. > First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: > ECS K7S6A > Athlon xp 1800 > 256 MB ram > NIC 3com 905 TX > > and everything was working except the NIC. I emailed the newbie mailing > list to have some help (which was greatly appreciate by the way) and > after trying different setting it still doesn't work. I am fairly sure > that it's a motherboard problem because I tried different NICs without > any success and my 3com works on another PC running mandrake 9.0. > > I tried to install with USB,serial and parallel ports, soundcard disable > to free a maximum of IRQ, tried different PC slots and none of that has > worked. > > When I look in KDE>control centre information>irq my nic is not listed > but if I look in KDE>control centre information> PCI the NIC is listed > in the correct IRQ. Another thing, I don't know if it's normal but no > matter what I do the NIC IRQ is always the same as another device. > > I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble > and found some problems with that board but nothing that could help me. > > Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another > one? > What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that > this is no the problem? put the nic in a different pci slot > > I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A > under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake 9.0 > is not working properly with my board? > > JP if it works w/ 9.0 prosuite, it works with 9.0. by what standard are you using to say "the nic does not work"? no ping? no lights? what does (as root, without the quotes, in a text console) "ifconfig" say? what does "cat /proc/pci" and "cat /proc/interrupts" say? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop
>> I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and >> everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a >> restart If you use your system everyday then DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER. Literally. I have 10 computers (4 are my roomates, and this is half of the computers we own) that are on all the time, 24/7. It might increase the electric bill about $20-30 BUT it beats dealing with computer problems all the time and spending $50+ a month on replacing hardware. Also, the turning on and turn off everydaywould you like to be turned off and then turned on everyday? Wait, i woudl but thats a different story Turned on, meaning...by the electro shocks like they use to survive people with in the ER??? Thats how the computer hardware feels. The more you turn it off/on the more you wear the parts out. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hello How can i unzip my files upgrades in TAR?
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 07:50, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 23:27, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: > > hello... > > > > once again, how can I unzip a file that I can upgrade my system? > > > > its already in TAR and I am not sure how I should go ahead with? > > > > Thanks! > > > > YPK > > > > You should be able to double-click on them in your file manager and they > SHOULD open up, or decompress, OR open up yet another program to allow > you to do things to the program inside. I was able to unzip it and put in a directory... Thanks > TAR files generally have source files/source code within them and need > to be "compiled" into true executable binaries...what did you download? Trying to get my Palm Pilot to work with Avantgo conduit... I am not able to get it to work at this time, I dont see any conduit for it. YPK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:24 pm, james Mellema wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:17, Robert Wideman wrote: > > >> I'll agree on that point. Too bad the bastard lives in Alaska. Else > > >> I'd ask him to come on down here to Aussie for a tour...(g) > > > > Alaska? WTF is up there other than dry cold weather? > > Rob > > Asked like someone from a small state:-) Alaska is like living in a post > card on the frontier. Much of what has made mankind successful is here > and thriving. It has more of everything and less bullshit people than > any other place I have ever lived. (and a fair percentage of Mandrake > users to boot.) one of my friends that I grew up with in Miami Fla., decided after 3 fishing seasons that he wanted to stay, but was back in So. Fla the next year. When I asked why he swares it was because of all the "treehuggers that never had to fight fo their lunch money". Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:37 am, Margot wrote: > Hello All > > Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back > now, and have got a bit further, but not much! > > Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and gone with freeserve anytime. Have set > it all up in MCC/kppp and Mozilla (thanks to John Richard Smith for > freeserve screenshots), but still having problems. > > Subscribed to the Berlin news server via Win 98 machine, and next time I > tried to connect via Linux machine the news.cis.dfn.de account > automatically showed up in Mozilla - but when I tried to subscribe to > newsgroups I got "Failed to connect to server news.cis.dfn.de". Seems to me > that it HAS connected to the server - or how would Mozilla know that I had > registered for that service - but for some reason it won't let me see the > information that is coming from the server! > > When trying to receive email, I get "Failed to connect to server > pop.freeserve.com". Attempted browsing gives me a message at the bottom of > the browser screen "Resolving host www.google.co.uk" and a box in the > middle of the browser saying "www.google.co.uk could not be found. Please > check the name and try again". > > By mistake the other day I forgot to set kppp running before trying > Mozilla - and got the exact same error messages on mail, news and browse > without even being connected to the internet! > > I have tried to ping, and got strange results - when I did ping > www.yahoo.com I got "unknown host www.yahoo.com, but when I tried ping > 66.218.71.83 (the numeric version of yahoo) I got "PING 66.218.71.83 > (66.218.71.83) from 217.134.91.169 : 56(84) bytes of data. I don't > understand why it works by number but not by name. > > Can anyone help me further? > > Thanks > Margot Ummm sounds like a cookie/nameserver problem (two problems with similar results) First resolve the nameserver problem Then take care of the cookies by re-registering for the services. For the nameserver problem, let us see the output of a command line 1. Open a terminal 2. Type the command 3. highlight the output with the mouse 4. click on the email window and middle-click (or right and lefgt click at same time) to paste The command is $ cat /etc/resolv.conf Also in kppp make sure you have some nameservers set or that you are getting automated retrieval Here is my cat /etc/resolv.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] tester]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search civileme.net nameserver 209.193.4.8 nameserver 209.193.4.7 # ppp temp entry [EMAIL PROTECTED] tester]$ Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba File Permissions
Hi All, I have a samba server running a few shares here and there, now I have a folder that is shared to everyone on my network (requiring a username/password) This works great except for one teeny weeny little issue. Is there a way of setting the default permissions when a file is created ie lets say JoeUser uploads 'MySong.mp3' the permissions would of course be JoeUser:JoeUser rw-r--r-- I am looking for the files to be group (possibly world) writable. But I would like this to be transparent not requiring (my stupid roommate) users to have to log on to the server and chmod anything. Thanks guys and gals. Jesse "G-Tez" HoustonSoftimage XSI 201 Certified InstructorEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web: http://www.gtez.com/
RE: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter
>> First, as root: >> setup -net >> Then hit setup again as user. Also DL the latest updates from Sun for SO6. http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xprod-StarOffice&nav= pub-patches Is the site to DL the updates. Roc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PortSentry2
>> as well as >> using PortSentry2 for further monitoring. I know this company that used to make Port Sentry is here in Austin TX. The company psionic.com. Is it bought out by cisco now? Thats all that the website has on it. Also the searches on google pull up mailing list items and directs it to parts of psionic.com which also are redirected to cisco. Where did you get PS2 from? I knew that it was in development but didnt know it was out yet (or was that the other software they made?). Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
re:[newbie]ARTICLE:Windows Security Update Revealed
Stephen thanks for the heads-up... IN reality this is nothing new, just the continuation of a sad set of policies that no one seems to be aware of. At one pre-linux time I was going to run a web site and I had NT 4.0 Workstation and the Netscape Enterprise server. Then in the blink of a Microsoft attorney's eye, I was illegal for more than 10 connections and "had to" purchase NT Server to do the same job which incidentally came "free" with IIS but crashed a lot on the Netscape Enterprise server. "Had to" That was my introduction to RH 4.0 and Apache. I did not look back. Yes I read the EULA and by clicking on the "I Agree" I had agreed to ex post facto changes. In windows shipped from 3.0 all through 1999, there was an NSA key in the encryption authorization services. Microsoft and NSA both denied having any agreement, and Microsoft stated that the tag "NSA" on that key was because it met some National Security Standards (which did not exist). The upshot of that key is that the holder of it could download security software/spyware onto a windows computer without the user's being aware of it. The key may still be there. A third key was found which authorized cryptographic services, but no one ever identified what it was. A program to change key2 and to enable strong encryption was produced by cryptonym (www.cryptonym.com) which blew away export restrictions. Microsoft Passport had a means to collect personal data and its use was misrepresented. They signed some sort of consent order with a Federal agency about disclosure and some list member can easily research the particulars through google. So is Microsoft lying to the public? Is Microsoft spying on the public? If you use Windows, is it true that your computer, which you paid for, does not belong to you? Yes. It was true three years ago. It was true six years ago, and it is still true. Moreover, the chicanery does not end there. Do you have a retirement fund? FInd out how heavily they are invested with Microsoft Stock. There are EIGHT BILLION shares out there for a company that takes in $25 billion a year not in profit but in revenue. There is an unreported debt of Microsoft to its own employees which runs to the tune of about $55 billion in the form of stock options. Retirement funds have invested heavily in Microsoft, which has been losing money (if you include the employee stock options) since 1996, and all they have to show for it is heavily watered stock which, if it ever hits true value, will make the Enron implosion look slow and gentle. Check www.billparish.com to see the credibility of the source, then here to see the article http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=9726 Microsoft is not a technical corporation. It is a business founded on the prinnciples of greed and predation. What else should one expect other than extralegal and criminal behavior whenever they think they can get away with it? And consider that they may have plundered _your_ retirement fund already. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:47 pm, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: > > I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble > and found some problems with that board but nothing that could help me. > > Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another > one? > What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that > this is no the problem? > > I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A > under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake 9.0 > is not working properly with my board? > Did you try either booting the kernel with the noapic parameter or turning the APIC (not ACPI) off in the BIOS? -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
In my opinion - If you are going to say "Mandrake SUX" (Which it doesn't) back up your statement with clear and concise reasons then perhaps you may get an inteligent responce This is a forum for discussing problems and getting resolutions. Best of luck in the future On this note: Has anyone had installer issues with Dual CPU/via chipset/nvidia graphics cards? My workstation is being rather flaky. System Info: Dual 1.0 GHz p3 Via 694XDP Chipset 1 Gig of ram NVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 128megs Promose ATA 100 RAID Controller (FastTrack Lite) I remember reading something along the lines of why this wasn't working before but wasn't able to find it in my old emails Thanks for your help guys. Jesse "G-Tez" Houston Softimage XSI 201 Certified Instructor Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.gtez.com/ - Original Message - From: "Andrew Scotchmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 12:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Worried On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:31 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > > Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since > > v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, > > perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! > > Well Andrew, I have a question for you: > > R U a Troll? > > I've seen this same message a couple of times now. In fact, as is "per > normal" for this list, it received excellantly reasoned and constructed > responses. LOL Something went wrong I think somewhere. Sorry :) > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC
I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm at the point of giving up. First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: ECS K7S6A Athlon xp 1800 256 MB ram NIC 3com 905 TX and everything was working except the NIC. I emailed the newbie mailing list to have some help (which was greatly appreciate by the way) and after trying different setting it still doesn't work. I am fairly sure that it's a motherboard problem because I tried different NICs without any success and my 3com works on another PC running mandrake 9.0. I tried to install with USB,serial and parallel ports, soundcard disable to free a maximum of IRQ, tried different PC slots and none of that has worked. When I look in KDE>control centre information>irq my nic is not listed but if I look in KDE>control centre information> PCI the NIC is listed in the correct IRQ. Another thing, I don't know if it's normal but no matter what I do the NIC IRQ is always the same as another device. I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble and found some problems with that board but nothing that could help me. Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another one? What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that this is no the problem? I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake 9.0 is not working properly with my board? JP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] basic concept question
On Friday 28 February 2003 04:28 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > G'day, > > I've just begun reading man:wine > and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs > within Mandrake. Never mind the fact that I can't make it > start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while yet before > asking here], I thought I'd ask for the overview that perhaps > I'm missing... > I apologise if this is a really stupid question, but like several > things when confronted with a totally new OS, if you're starting > off with the wrong assumptions you'll just waste a lot of time. > > Can you run a windoze session *in* Linux? > Like: you can run a DOS session in a window in windoze, and I've > heard you can emulate a PC on a Mac. > If so, can you make the two "virtual machines" talk to each other? > For example, Mandrake can't see files on the NTFS partition > which Win2K is on, but if I had Windows running I could network > across to it from Mandrake, just like it was on my laptop? > > Come to think of it, that's the next thing I'll try - to get > Mandrake and the laptop [Win2K, again] talking to each other... > > TIA, again ;) > > -- > Merlin Zener > piano and synthesizer > Pattaya, Thailand. > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 25/02/2003 There are many emulators and wine is only one of them. In order to run most of Microsoft Office you have to emulate not only dlls (dynamically linked libraries) and Windows APIs (Application Program Interfaces) but also the DIRECT calls to the windows kernel that Microsoft put into the office package to give it the competitive edge over other word processors and spreadsheets (And incidentally opened superhighways for exploits to travel on). Win4Lin will run windows Apps using an on-board windows system that you have on your computer. VMWare will run quite a few OSes on your machine from a different OS. Crossover Office will run MSOffice Apps. None of these are free and they often have to be changed when the kernel changes. But with OpenOffice already available and free on Linux, there is no burning need to run Excel or Word. There is an NTFS read-only module (writing is still experimental cause Windows keeps the NTFS format secret and changes it with newer systems (NT 4.0 had one format, NT 5.0 (win2K) had a differnt and incompatible format, and NT 5.1 (XP) has yet another incompatible format). So it is unnecessary to run an emulator to read NTFS files, and it is unnecessary to run an emulator to read Office files with the exception of the greeting-card maker (Publisher). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:17, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> I'll agree on that point. Too bad the bastard lives in Alaska. Else I'd > >> ask him to come on down here to Aussie for a tour...(g) > > Alaska? WTF is up there other than dry cold weather? > Rob Asked like someone from a small state:-) Alaska is like living in a post card on the frontier. Much of what has made mankind successful is here and thriving. It has more of everything and less bullshit people than any other place I have ever lived. (and a fair percentage of Mandrake users to boot.) -- --- Jim -- james Mellema, CRNA MA Linux user #71650 ICQ #19685870 -- "Too many stupid people - Not enough comets" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /net and /misc
I think there is some confusion. LinNeighborhood is nothing to do with autofs. If autofs were a dependency of LinNeighborhood, then you would be warned when you tried to 'urpme autofs'. But it isn't... So you won't.. If you want to know what dependencies a package has. Just look it up in kpackage. It will also show you the files inside the package. derek On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 8:36 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: > A good recommendation. Short of uninstalling and breaking LinNeighborhood > (if it should happen) is there a quick way to determine whether > LinNeighborhood requires or creates and then uses the files? > Paul > > On Saturday 01 March 2003 23:04, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Friday 28 Feb 2003 9:17 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: > > > On Friday 28 February 2003 15:25, et wrote: > > > > On Friday 28 February 2003 10:09 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > > > On Friday 28 February 2003 01:45 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: > > > > > > Anyone know what /net and /misc are? They automount under m9, > > > > > > are always busy and can't be unmounted. As a result I can't do a > > > > > > clean shutdown. How can I remidy? > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > Paul, can you cd to these directories and do a "ls" in console > > > > > mode? Might show what is in them, cause my system does not have > > > > > either directory. > > > > > > > > if I remember correctly (that might be a first) these are mount > > > > points created by some wild program (like linneighborhood or gnomba > > > > for the /net) and have a "hard" mount point in the script that > > > > creates them, maybe posting fstab and mtab might help. > > > > > > Dennis, > > > ls /misc and ls /net return nothing > > > > > > et, > > > From /etc/mtab: > > > automount(pid1561) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1561,minproto=2,maxproto=4 > > > 0 0 automount(pid1574) /net autofs > > > rw,fd=5,pgrp=1574,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 > > > > > > I use linneigborhood to work to access a LAN > > > > > > Derek, > > > What configuration file am I looking for w/ autofs? > > > > As I said these are the mount points for autofs > > The configuration files are /etc/auto.master /etc/auto.net and > > /etc/auto.misc If you do not know why you have autofs installed, then you > > almost certainly do not need it > > urpme autofs will get rid of it. > > > > derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?
shorewall has taken a bashing on this list, with many suggesting alternatives, eg gshield, guarddog, firestarter, etc. i just wanna relate my own good experience. i was trying to configure my mdk 9.0 box to share my internet connection with a small home network consisting of 3 win9x pcs and 2 linux boxes. i first used the internet connection wizard in mcc, which didn't work. went to www.shorewall.net, and the quickstart guide suggested the two interface config. instead of using it wholesale, i compared the config files, found a few differences, opened up the ports i needed, restarted shorewall, and it worked. the entire process took me around 15 mins, included reading the stuff at www.shorewall.net. i think the essential diff was mdk 9.0 tried to 3 zones in their shorewall config, while the two interface version of the quickstart guide used 2 zones. (if you dun understand what i'm saying, just spend a couple of mins with www.shorewall.net) i'm no expert, and i'm sure the mdk developers had a good reason to do what they did, but this setup worked easily for me. others trying to configure shorewall can also search the archives for a couple of extremely well written Derek Jennings posts in Nov 2002. - Original Message - From: Robert Wideman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 17:59 Subject: RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ? Actually Stephen is correct. Of all the iptables GUI or configurator applications Shorewall was the worst. It took me 30 mins after the first time of installing MDK9 was i able to figure out what the hell was going on with my box...not able to get out of the local box. I remember that Shorewall was a firewall using IP Tables. I listed the current rules of iptables "iptables -L" and it listed a crap load of them by default from shorewall. I disabled shorewall and i was able to connect just normal. So on your understanding of what Stephen stated that it was "dont use linux" is totally misunderstood. Reread his message. It stated "dont use shorewall"did it say anything about dont use "linux"...NO IT DID NOT. You asked what the solution washe simply stated "dont use shorewall". I agree with Stephen. Dont use Shorewallnot linux just shorewall. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bela Markus Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 2:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ? Hi Stephen, you advice is not very constructive. Sounds like: dont use LINUX, do not use LINUX, etc. Doesn't matter is it SHOREWALL or else, the key is the IPTABLES, oll others just cosmetics. Now I see, original subject was misleading. The right would be " IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect". Best regards... Bela Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 18:11, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, I spent nights without any success to configure SHOREWALL in 9.0 to run Direct Connect (DC++ exactly) to run in active mode. Is there a solution out there? Regards... Bela, HA5DI Yes. Don't use SHOREWALL. 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] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter
Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev, 2. märts 2003 06:34) kirjutas Bob Read: > I've been thru the books and searched back posts but > no help. I can't seem to get Star Office or OO.org > installed properly! Every time I try to save a > file I get a message like "can't save. Program > started under wrong parameter." > > Could someone steer me to some info on how to > initialize SO/OO for an installation with several > users on one machine, each using their own space? > I've just installed LM9.0 on a new machine with several > users, but haven't initiallized them yet. I'd really > like to get it right this time. > > Much Thanks, > > Bob First, as root: setup -net Then hit setup again as user. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:37 pm, Margot wrote: > I have tried to ping, and got strange results - when I did ping > www.yahoo.com I got "unknown host www.yahoo.com, but when I tried ping > 66.218.71.83 (the numeric version of yahoo) I got "PING 66.218.71.83 > (66.218.71.83) from 217.134.91.169 : 56(84) bytes of data. I don't > understand why it works by number but not by name. When you ping by name your machine first has to convert the name to numbers. In your case that step is failing. Check your DNS server setting. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] C header files
Hi all Much conventional question this time (sorry about the last one I really didn't mean to offend or annoy). Anyway I'm trying to install VMware 3.1 and after installation I get this message when trying to run: VMware Workstation Error: VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run "vmware-config.pl". After running vmware-config.pl I get this message: None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? After choosing yes I receive another message: Argument "gcc (GCC) 3" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 1476, line 1. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Where are these files please they are not in the directory it suggested [/usr/src/linux/include]. I've tried allsorts but with no luck. Thanks in advance Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:31 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > > Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since > > v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, > > perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! > > Well Andrew, I have a question for you: > > R U a Troll? > > I've seen this same message a couple of times now. In fact, as is "per > normal" for this list, it received excellantly reasoned and constructed > responses. LOL Something went wrong I think somewhere. Sorry :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] libsmbclient info
Hi, I am trying to access a windows authenticated site to retrieve some files. I have no problem when using IE but I get this error on any linux browser. HTTP 401.3 - Access denied by ACL on resource Internet Information Services I did a google search and found others with the same problem. A possible solution offered was the libsmbclient but I cannot find any documentation on it at all. Does anyone else need to access files via http? Is there another method? The network admin that is serving the files has no use for linux so he will not change anything on his end. I just hate booting to windows to retrieve this info, then back to linux for everything else. Thanks and regards, Bill W. -- The Beatles: Paul McCartney's old back-up band. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
what this is is either the "default gateway" or the DNS is wrongly configured. On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:37 am, Margot wrote: > Hello All > > Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back > now, and have got a bit further, but not much! > > Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and gone with freeserve anytime. Have set > it all up in MCC/kppp and Mozilla (thanks to John Richard Smith for > freeserve screenshots), but still having problems. > > Subscribed to the Berlin news server via Win 98 machine, and next time I > tried to connect via Linux machine the news.cis.dfn.de account > automatically showed up in Mozilla - but when I tried to subscribe to > newsgroups I got "Failed to connect to server news.cis.dfn.de". Seems to me > that it HAS connected to the server - or how would Mozilla know that I had > registered for that service - but for some reason it won't let me see the > information that is coming from the server! > > When trying to receive email, I get "Failed to connect to server > pop.freeserve.com". Attempted browsing gives me a message at the bottom of > the browser screen "Resolving host www.google.co.uk" and a box in the > middle of the browser saying "www.google.co.uk could not be found. Please > check the name and try again". > > By mistake the other day I forgot to set kppp running before trying > Mozilla - and got the exact same error messages on mail, news and browse > without even being connected to the internet! > > I have tried to ping, and got strange results - when I did ping > www.yahoo.com I got "unknown host www.yahoo.com, but when I tried ping > 66.218.71.83 (the numeric version of yahoo) I got "PING 66.218.71.83 > (66.218.71.83) from 217.134.91.169 : 56(84) bytes of data. I don't > understand why it works by number but not by name. > > Can anyone help me further? > > Thanks > Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:27 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully > > > understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... > > > > I would guess so. There are some very savvy people out there. > > > > Anne > > If they don't know, tell'em to talk to the Germans - they dropped Windows > because they said that Microsoft had it setup to report stuff on their > military back to our military. In Beijjing buses run around with linux slogans on the side. There is much support for it there, so I don't expect that Bill will get any more than they actually want to give - and that won't be much. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:38 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > Problem solved > > I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and > everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a > restart or at least to restart some service after configuring... that you did not restart manually, but could have if bringing down the machine would have cost a lot of money. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xinerama program on RPMS
Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello... I am starting to play more with the M9.0 and I am enjoying every momement of it, I am asking if anyohne can show me where i can get this xinerama RPMS so I can get it downloaded? I am not able to find it on those M9.0 cd's. Thanks! YPK http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22788&release_id=90641 Is this any help John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
On Sunday March 2 2003 06:21 am, Dennis & Sue wrote: > > I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, > > fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the > > dotted line... > > I'm sure they will have a special site just to themselves. Where M$ > "promises" not to spy on them. And I'm sure M$ won't. ( Not right > away anyways, Gotta lull them into a false sense of security first > ). Speaking of security. During the DoJ/M$ trial(s), the States wanted M$ to release Windows source. M$ argued that to do so would compromise National Security. So it's either ironic, or criminal that they're now furnishing it to the Chinese and some other governments. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
Hello All Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back now, and have got a bit further, but not much! Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and gone with freeserve anytime. Have set it all up in MCC/kppp and Mozilla (thanks to John Richard Smith for freeserve screenshots), but still having problems. Subscribed to the Berlin news server via Win 98 machine, and next time I tried to connect via Linux machine the news.cis.dfn.de account automatically showed up in Mozilla - but when I tried to subscribe to newsgroups I got "Failed to connect to server news.cis.dfn.de". Seems to me that it HAS connected to the server - or how would Mozilla know that I had registered for that service - but for some reason it won't let me see the information that is coming from the server! When trying to receive email, I get "Failed to connect to server pop.freeserve.com". Attempted browsing gives me a message at the bottom of the browser screen "Resolving host www.google.co.uk" and a box in the middle of the browser saying "www.google.co.uk could not be found. Please check the name and try again". By mistake the other day I forgot to set kppp running before trying Mozilla - and got the exact same error messages on mail, news and browse without even being connected to the internet! I have tried to ping, and got strange results - when I did ping www.yahoo.com I got "unknown host www.yahoo.com, but when I tried ping 66.218.71.83 (the numeric version of yahoo) I got "PING 66.218.71.83 (66.218.71.83) from 217.134.91.169 : 56(84) bytes of data. I don't understand why it works by number but not by name. Can anyone help me further? Thanks Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > If they don't know, tell'em to talk to the Germans - they dropped Windows > because they said that Microsoft had it setup to report stuff on their > military back to our military. Sorry, forgot to add the link! :-) http://www.aaxnet.com/news/M010318.html -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: I broke my desktop
Problem solved I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart -- Marc KM5KW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 > though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, > sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! Well Andrew, I have a question for you: R U a Troll? I've seen this same message a couple of times now. In fact, as is "per normal" for this list, it received excellantly reasoned and constructed responses. -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!
On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You're probably right about the differences in markets. My HP 930C > (Hey, maybe the "C" stands for Chipped) is sitting in a box right now > because it's too much of a hassle to deal with the cartridges. The HP > carts are too expensive and the recycled carts are not all that > reliable. I tried refilling my own carts, but that's also a hassle. > The book that came with the refill inks was were I got the idea for > rotating three cartridges. > > Rich Hmm, probably wrong but I always thought the "C" was for color... -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully > > understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... > > I would guess so. There are some very savvy people out there. > > Anne If they don't know, tell'em to talk to the Germans - they dropped Windows because they said that Microsoft had it setup to report stuff on their military back to our military. -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
