Re: [newbie-it] update
Il problema è che tu gli dai il kernel che possiedi già. Se provassi con urpmi --media update_source kernel allora cercherebbe nella tua fonte per gli aggiornamenti tutti i pacchetti che hanno a che fare con il kernel aggiornato. Comunque quando usi urpmi dai sempre l'opzione --test per non combinare guai. Sarò pedante ma ricordati sempre di leggere quella pagina che ti ho suggerito. Ciao, Germano il 15:00, sabato 14 giugno 2003, si è scritto riguardo a Re: [newbie-it] update ho determinato la versione del mio kernel così: $ uname -r 2.4.21-0.13mdk e poi ho digitato questo: # urpmi kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk --media update_source nessun pacchettto denominato kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk poi ho provato anche così: urpmi kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk-1-1mdk --media update_source nessun pacchettto denominato kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk-1-1mdk dove sbaglio? grazie. ciao. keph.
Re:[newbie-it] [OOT] Sunday bloody sunday
-- Initial Header --- From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date : Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:40:32 +0200 Subject : [newbie-it] [OOT] Sunday bloody sunday Vota Si! Due Volte. Alfredo Grazie per il consiglio! Ma cosa credi che non abbiamo la testa per fare certi ragionamenti! Per fortuna che ci sono persone come te che invece intasano le mailing list con consigli utili agli acquisti. Saluti Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digilander.libero.it/mlodirizzini http://space.virgilio.it/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_...Membro.del.FoLUG //\...Forlì.Linux.Users.Group V_/_...http://folug.linux.it Linux.Mandrake.9.0.su.Celeron.733
Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2
Alle 16:27, domenica 15 giugno 2003, Mario Speranza ha scritto: Salve, qualcuno ha idea di come si faccia a fare vedere, alla mandrake 8.2, un modem US robotic 56K montato dopo l'installazione? Ho provato con modemconf ma non lo rileva... Ho anche provato a fare un link simbolico con una delle porte tts ma niente da fare... Grazie per l'aiuto. Vado a memoria, ne è passato ditempo... ;-) Accendi il modem. Dal MCC (Mandrake Control Center) trova la voce Rete Internet e clicca poi su Conessione. In basso c'è un pulsante Wizard o assistente (non ricordo il nome giusto); In automatico fagli cercare i dispositivi di rete (tra cui apparirà selezionato il modem) e procedi alla configurazione della connessione di rete tenendo selezionato solo il modem (perchè se hai una scheda di rete di selezionerà automaticamente anche quella). bye.
Re: [newbie-it] update
sono riuscito a sostituire via tool grafico il kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk con il kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk infatti dando il comando : $ uname -r 2.4.21-0.18mdk per i più è nulla ma per me è un successo enorme :-))) mi è stato consigliato: Dopo di che ti sinceri che sia stato fatto tutto bene in /etc/lilo.conf (confronta con quanto detto alla URL che ti ho dato l'altra volta). Quando hai usato un pò di volte il kernel nuovo senza che ti abbia dato problemi, rimuovi il/i kernel vecchio/i e togli in /etc/lilo.conf tutte le voci che gli si riferiscono (non è vitale ma aiuta la pulizia ho consultato l'URL: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php purtroppo non conosco molto l'inglese e quindi mi sono dovuto arrangiare con i vari traduttori online tipo babelfish, comunque dando il comando: # urpmi --media update_source kernel Tutto già installato Ma leggendo questo articolo: Vulnerabilità nel Kernel Linux 2.4.18 Postato Venerdì, 13 giugno @ 08:01:02 CEST Alessandro I kernel Linux fino alla versione 2.4.18, per l'architettura intel x86, possono essere forzati ad ignorare i privilegi di accesso dell'utente nella gestione di segnali IPC. Questo fa riferimento alle routines dell'Intel Binary Compatibility Standard (IBCS) in arch/i386/kernel/traps.c . Un attacco efficace che sfruttasse questa vulnerabilità potrebbe consentire all'attaccante di inviare segnali tipo SIGKILL a processi arbitrari, inclusi quelli di sistema. cosa vuole dire che bisogna aspettare il prossimo kernell stabile? o si puo correggere in altro modo? dando il comando: # urpmi.update -a esamino il file di sintesi [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x 86) (cdrom1).cz] esamino il file di sintesi [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x 86) (cdrom2).cz] esamino il file di sintesi [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x8 6) (cdrom3).cz] recupero il file descrittivo di update_source... ...recupero terminato recupero la source hdlist (o una sitntesi) di update_source... ...recupero terminato esamino il file di sintesi [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] sto leggendo i file rpm da [/home/gdtclber1/win_lin/programmi] /var/cache/urpmi/headers/j2sdk-1.4.0_03-fcs.i386:j2sdk-1_4_0_03-fcs-linux-i586 /var/cache/urpmi/headers/partimage-0.6.1-1mdk.i586:partimage-shared-0.6.1-1-mdk8 1.i586 /var/cache/urpmi/headers/gtk-gnutella-0.91.9-2.i386:gtk-gnutella-GTK1-0.91.9-2.i 386 /var/cache/urpmi/headers/opera-6.10-20021029.4.i386:opera-6.10-20021029.4-shared -qt.i386 file [grip-3.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm] già in uso nello stesso supporto my_progr scrivo la lista d file per il supporto my_progr sto costruendo l'hdlist [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.my_progr.cz] choosing compression method with gzip -4 for archive /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.my_ progr.cz real archive size of /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.my_progr.cz is 131776 ho costruito la sintesi dell'hdlist file per il supporto my_progr 17 intestazioni trovate in cache sto rimuovendo 4 intestazioni obsolete in cache scrivi il file di configurazione [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] cosa vuole dire: scrivi il file di configurazione [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg]? allego i file lilo conf e lilo conf.old perchè non ho capito quali sono le voci del vecchio kernell da cancellare (pare che funzioni tutto bene), se poi qualcuno mi dice come cancellare il vecchio kernell...sarebbe il massimo della vita. So di approfittare della vostra pazienza, questo non mi esime dal farvi i più sinceri ringraziamenti per i vostri preziosi consigli avuti, indipendemente che me ne vorrete dare ancora o meno ( ne ho già avuti molti). certo che pensando a $windows, quando appariva l'errore nel kernell...era poi l'anticamera alla formattazione...oggi con linux mi sono permesso addirittura di sostituirlo, pazzesco... grazie ancora. ciao. keph. Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:21:55 +0200 Il problema è che tu gli dai il kernel che possiedi già. Se provassi con urpmi --media update_source kernel allora cercherebbe nella tua fonte per gli aggiornamenti tutti i pacchetti che hanno a che fare con il kernel aggiornato. Comunque quando usi urpmi dai sempre l'opzione --test per non combinare guai. Sarò pedante ma ricordati sempre di leggere quella pagina che ti ho suggerito. Ciao, Germano lilo.conf Description: Binary data lilo.conf.old Description: Binary data
[newbie-it] linux professional
cosa è la distro linux professional che vedo in edicola in questi giorni? syd wrote: * Arwan wrote: Pero' con r ci fa il reply, Arwan e' R e non r; ho sbagliato io a scrivere nelle precedenti mail.. pardon ;)) ho tutti gli headers da rifare... A questo Gli headers da rifare? Come dire... mi sembra il minimo se trattasi di una mail spedita a capocchia ;)) Giusto Arwan? Te li rifai direttamente mentre stai modificando il corpo della mail. Un'altra soluzione alternativa alla tua e a quella suggerita da Giuseppe (ha ragione lui, perche' salvarti la mail modificata nel file delle bozze? La invii a quel punto a meno di non aver fatto una modifica non ancora definitiva.. l'ennesima) e che e' fattibile usando vim come editor (o vi) e' quella di 1) aprire la mail incriminata 2) schiacciare v 3) salvare la parte text/plain (praticamente solo il body della mail.. cliccaci sopra e individualo) in una tua dir (diciamo /home/arwan/nomecorpodellamaildatescelto) 4) schiacciare q per ritornare sulla mail _normale_ 5) uscire dalla mail schiacciando i 6) schiacciare m per scrivere una nuova mail (avrai quindi gli headers nuovi di zecca) A questo punto usando vim o vi sei gia' in modalita' _esecuzione comando_ quindi scrivi 7):r!cat /home/arwan/nomecorpodellamaildatescelto ti comparira' nella nuova mail il corpo della vecchia. Hai capito Arwan? E' piu' difficile a dirsi che a farsi. Hai semplicemente sfruttato una feature di vim che tramite il comando r! ti permette di direzionare l'output di un qualsiasi comando all'interno del file (in questo caso una mail) che stai scrivendo. Non ti sto dicendo che questo percorso sia preferibile a quello individuato da te ma ti ho solo indicato una caratteristica di vim che potra' risultarti molto comoda in futuro quando avrai acquisito un po' di dimestichezza con esso.
Re: [newbie-it] linux professional
On Monday 16 June 2003 20:37, alfredo wrote: cosa è la distro linux professional che vedo in edicola in questi giorni? è la RedHat 9. non può essere re-distribuita col suo nome originale (gli unici che possono sono quelli di RedHat Magazine, ovviamente), così quelli di Linux C. hanno dovuto alterare il nome per poterla allegare al giornale. Quelli di Linux Magazine invece l'hanno scorso pubblicarono la RH 8 col vero nome (già protetto) e si beccarono una bella causa, che ovviamente hanno perso... furono un pò ingenui... -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.2 - KDE 3.1.2 - Mandrake Linux 9.1
Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 16:27, domenica 15 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2, Mario Speranza ha scritto: Salve, qualcuno ha idea di come si faccia a fare vedere, alla mandrake 8.2, un modem US robotic 56K montato dopo l'installazione? interno o esterno? perchè cambia tutto... Grazie per l'aiuto. - -- bye miKe Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.21 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7hcNF/9fksDJ4y0RAsyaAJ4+IfxUwl64W1kOA9Du0fPzOyTfhgCfc1BP qmy/fVmpD736oOSaYiYhrdA= =ATQP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Stampante Epson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:04, domenica 15 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Stampante Epson, Luigi Beltramini ha scritto: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:16:38 +0200 miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fai un salto qui: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C olor_800 e verifica le impostazioni ci sono stato ma non ne ho tirato niente di buono, sara' pr via dell'inglese puoi cercare comunque con google passando le stese chiavi di ricerca, io per linuxprinting ho passato epson 800 cups se restringi alle sole pagine italiane puoi comunque trovare informazioni interessanti, prova.. - -- bye miKe Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.21 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7hekF/9fksDJ4y0RAsy0AJwN+dCdVw0WwzOkoVtiWT/MfTGR0QCfRjRO T100xK4FRLK3WRo/2Z6pHnM= =lf+b -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2
Il modem è esterno e, per sfiga, non ho neanche l'interfaccia grafica. Ho letto che i modem esterni non danni problemi, l'unico problema è che non riesco a fare il detect... - Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 16:27, domenica 15 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2, Mario Speranza ha scritto: Salve, qualcuno ha idea di come si faccia a fare vedere, alla mandrake 8.2, un modem US robotic 56K montato dopo l'installazione? interno o esterno? perchè cambia tutto... Grazie per l'aiuto. - -- bye miKe Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.21 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7hcNF/9fksDJ4y0RAsyaAJ4+IfxUwl64W1kOA9Du0fPzOyTfhgCfc1BP qmy/fVmpD736oOSaYiYhrdA= =ATQP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2
Grazie per l'aiuto ma non ho l'interfaccia... - Original Message - From: fabio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2 Alle 16:27, domenica 15 giugno 2003, Mario Speranza ha scritto: Salve, qualcuno ha idea di come si faccia a fare vedere, alla mandrake 8.2, un modem US robotic 56K montato dopo l'installazione? Ho provato con modemconf ma non lo rileva... Ho anche provato a fare un link simbolico con una delle porte tts ma niente da fare... Grazie per l'aiuto. Vado a memoria, ne è passato ditempo... ;-) Accendi il modem. Dal MCC (Mandrake Control Center) trova la voce Rete Internet e clicca poi su Conessione. In basso c'è un pulsante Wizard o assistente (non ricordo il nome giusto); In automatico fagli cercare i dispositivi di rete (tra cui apparirà selezionato il modem) e procedi alla configurazione della connessione di rete tenendo selezionato solo il modem (perchè se hai una scheda di rete di selezionerà automaticamente anche quella). bye.
Re: [newbie-it] gpg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:42, domenica 15 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] gpg, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: Alle 01:01, domenica 15 giugno 2003, miKe ha scritto: Alle 02:51, giovedì 12 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] gpg, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: Come faccio? lo fa solo con l'identità principale!!! Nel senso che non mi firma più con l'identità principale! spiegaci meglio.. ti firma solo con l'dentità principale o non ti firma? Il contrario! Ho 3 chiavi, la principale (a) non viene più usata anche se selezionata mentre (b) e (c) vengono usate. In pratica il posto di (a) mi usa (c) Cercando di settare il uid come primario il programma me lo ha impedito! Che fare? la chiave che vuoi usare come principale l'hai trustata? (le hai dato la tua fiducia e l'hai processata con sign?) Questo è l'output di gpg; come puoi vedere è trustata. Peccato che la chiave a cui si riferisca è quella di (a) e non di (c)! gpg --edit-key ... gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.2; Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. È disponibile una chiave segreta. pub 1024D/DC9798AB creata: 2002-09-12 scade: 2003-09-12 fiducia: u/u sub 1024g/2688BBE3 creata: 2002-09-12 scade: 2003-09-12 (1). (c) (2) (a) (3) (b) hai già provato a dare gpg --edit-key ... e quindi segnare l' uid che vuoi come predefinito con 'uid 3 ' e dargli 'primary' ? - -- bye miKe Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.21 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7ht5F/9fksDJ4y0RArrsAJ9+wBK6fyrNx6uF0KacpwnKB8MfrACfeLKZ NyBGJ2RgSctonEC/Q7U5I+Y= =F/uo -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] update
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 15:13, lunedì 16 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] update, piter ha scritto: Vulnerabilità nel Kernel Linux 2.4.18 Postato Venerdì, 13 giugno @ 08:01:02 CEST Alessandro è stato fixato il 28/5/2003 allego i file lilo conf e lilo conf.old perchè non ho capito quali sono le voci del vecchio kernell da cancellare (pare che funzioni tutto bene), ma quanti kernel hai installato? ti bastano il 2.4.21-0.18mdk e l'originale (per estrema paranoia) tutti gli altri sono inutili (enterprise smp ...) *** boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=2421-18 keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt prompt nowarn timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount acpi=off read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.18mdk label=2421-18 root=/dev/hda1 read-only optional vga=788 append= quiet devfs=mount acpi=off initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.18mdk.img *** se poi qualcuno mi dice come cancellare il vecchio kernell...sarebbe il massimo della vita. in /boot hai i vari vmlinuz-2.4.21.xxx puoi toglierli tutti tranne il 21.18 e l'originale vmlinuz (attenzione che non sia un link a un 2.4.xx) idem puoi rimuovere le varie System.map-2.4.xxx e config-2.4.xx lasciando solo la 18 e l'originale ATTENZIONE risparmi pochissimo , quindi se non sai cosa stai per cancellare, pensaci bene, fai comunque un floppy di boot per poter ripristinare la situazione, in caso di errori oltre al kernel dovrai cancellare anche i moduli in /lib/modules trovi delle dir. chiamate 2.4.xx lascia solo la 18 e l'originale, come sempre in questo caso guadagni già più spazio - -- bye miKe Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.21 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7h5EF/9fksDJ4y0RAgyEAJ47b+Kb1WjMvSJrybQacpwBSFJgWACfUOxp UMGZBwSvFjdQ/6i+QSqfMV0= =yamK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] linux professional
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 June 2003 20:37, alfredo wrote: cosa è la distro linux professional che vedo in edicola in questi giorni? ahem, apprezzo il fatto che tu abbia cambiato il subject ma anche quotare non sarebbe male. La Linux Professional dovrebbe essere la Red Hat (e la maledizione dei marchi). bye - -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://www.marcob.org/go.asp?~freefred/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7iF/JoljSvtxdFkRAhH5AJ4zN6BYuwESrtloreORE+d5fgFxQgCeId7q EWw1EIIe2JLgLleOSW9Nc5Q= =MpoB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] motherboard ecs k7s5a non suona aiuto!
scusa ma veramente non so bene cosa sia il pcm. penso sia il volume principale quando lancio kmix mi compare una piccola icona di altoparlante in basso a destra. se clicco tale icona mi compare un cursore che è al massimo. come dicevo, tutti i volumi di kmix sono al massimo e tutte le lucine sono verdi. peraltro sul mio pc (un'ottima mother MSI) nel menu K alla voce multimedia-audio ho aumix e non kmix. nella installazione incriminata alla voce multimedia-audio ho una sbrodolata di roba (non ce l'ho sott'occhio adesso) tra cui kmix che è quello con cui ho verificato i volumi. grazie. freefred wrote: ...
Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 21:26, lunedì 16 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2, Mario Speranza ha scritto: Il modem è esterno e, per sfiga, non ho neanche l'interfaccia grafica. nessun problema per collegarti userai uno dei tanti script che si trovano in rete io uso pppsetup per la configurazione quindi ppp-go per lanciare la connessione fanno parte del pacchetto omonimo, pppsetup Ho letto che i modem esterni non danni problemi, l'unico problema è che non riesco a fare il detect... beh c'è poco da rilevare se lo monti sulla prima seriale, hai /dev/ttyS0 lo sforzo massimo potrebbe essere il simlink /dev/ttyS0 -- /dev/modem per vedere se tutto funziona hai a disposizione minicom al 99% già installata - -- bye miKe Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.21 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7jkBF/9fksDJ4y0RAgWPAKCqRSf7xtFe075oz5sK7aYJGbFmfgCgnBpt fynvJEv6vIuuXQemyLBm66Y= =HHNb -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Dlink USB Radio
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 15:33, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi. I've got a usb radio that I'd like to use with mandrake 9.1 Running lsusb gives: Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:1002 Cypress Semiconductor CY7C63001 R100 FM Radio So I know its detected. What I don't know is how to control it. Any ideas? Thanks, Nathan There are applications that allow for control of radio cards, but it's more a matter of finding the application that suits your purpose. I'd suggest doing a search at Freshmeat.net and Sourceforge.net firstly - then everywhere else after that. -- Mon Jun 16 16:00:00 EST 2003 16:00:00 up 2 days, 23:14, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.05 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Have you locked your file cabinet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 9 2003 11:03 am, eric huff wrote: Just curious: What exactly is different about the mm (multimedia, right?) kernel? eric For most users, more advanced/better supermount and the low latency and preempt patches. The cooker ready made rpm should have no problems on older releases. One of the rare times cooker is suitable in this regard. Latest is 2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk on cooker /contrib (RPM2) mirrors. Ok, finally got around to this. Tried to install the mm kernel off the cooker mirror on 9.1, and it failed saying it needed shorewall = 1.3.14-1mdk. So then I downloaded the plain old 2.4.21-0.18mdksmp kernel from one of the regular mirrors (raven.cslab.vt.edu) and installed that. It installed okay, but upon rebooting, I'm still getting the ldm_validate_partition_table messages. So it looks like this version of the kernel does not fix this problem, unfortunately. BTW, I unplugged the USB flash card reader while I was installing the kernel. Was that the correct thing to do? Should I even bother with the mm kernel, or would I get the same result from that? Another strange thing I noticed is that after installing the 18 kernel, in /boot/grub/menu.lst, both the linux-smp entry and the 2421-18smp entry point to version 18 (the former because all the symbolic links were changed to point to 18.) So now there are two sets of SMP entries pointing to 18, and none pointing to 13. This seems like a bug to me. Or is this working as designed? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid
Hi Yes technically I gree. However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need dependancies satisfying). Anybody else confirm correct me on this? I prefer to do download and install from the command prompt. But then I like being in control :-) its a linux thing :-) John On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:58:04+0100 Derek Jennings[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 7:23 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with hdlist.cz many times and never got it to work. I then tried another suggestion by someone else and the file was available and was downloading for a couple of hours until I gave up - it never finished. Then I went to the texstar ftp site , downloaded the file in a couple of minutes and clicked on the file and it installed in another couple of minutes - all by itself - Question is why is this not the preferred method of installing new software - ? Am I missing something ? urpmi is better than just downloading the package because Linux apps are modular. They depend on each other. If you install an app using urpmi it will automatically work out which other apps/libraries are needed, find them on the web and install them too. You were lucky with gaim because you already had all the dependencies installed. Had one been missing the install would have failed. With urpmi you do not even need to know where an app is on the net. You just declare a number of 'sources' and whichever one has the most up to date version of the application you want will be used. You can use the Mandrake software manager to browse the available apps. The reason you had trouble with Texstars urpmi source is because you were using the mirror in Turkey which is ***dreadful*** 'urpmi.removemedia texstar' will get rid of it. Go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php to find the path to Texstars ibiblio mirror. While there add a source for contrib and plf and you will gain access to many hundreds of cool applications. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net xxx Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Web:http://www.thewillbys.com ASCII ribbon campaign / \ MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - against HTML email \ / ICQ:92791912vCards X OS: Mandrake 9.1 [Well and truly cooked]/ \ I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me xxx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer
Hi Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it to extract the image. Don't worry its freeware. Extract the image to a tmp folder and you will then have an iso file that Nero or any CD writer can handle. Burn the CD to disk following the CD burning software you haves instructions. HTH John On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:53:51-0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, someone needs to explain to me WTF i'm supposed to do here, because i'm so god damn pissed off i'm about to smash my computer to bits and pieces. i download the iso image, it's in winrar format, i can't extract it and burn it or can i? the computer won't install...lemme put it this way... xxx Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Web:http://www.thewillbys.com ASCII ribbon campaign / \ MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - against HTML email \ / ICQ:92791912vCards X OS: Mandrake 9.1 [Well and truly cooked]/ \ I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me xxx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?
Slypheed is a good mailer on Linux but the win32 version is not as good (unless they have improved it lately - been a while since I could be bothered to fire up my XP machine - I only keep it for gaming) John Hey!! how about sylpheed?? it has a win32 version... xxx Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Web:http://www.thewillbys.com ASCII ribbon campaign / \ MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - against HTML email \ / ICQ:92791912vCards X OS: Mandrake 9.1 [Well and truly cooked]/ \ I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me xxx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it to extract the image. Don't worry its freeware. Extract the image to a tmp folder and you will then have an iso file that Nero or any CD writer can handle. Burn the CD to disk following the CD burning software you haves instructions. HTH John On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:53:51-0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, someone needs to explain to me WTF i'm supposed to do here, because i'm so god damn pissed off i'm about to smash my computer to bits and pieces. i download the iso image, it's in winrar format, i can't extract it and burn it or can i? the computer won't install...lemme put it this way... unrar is the program for Linux that will uncompress .rar files. I got mine from the plf file repository. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: win98se are you updated? w98se oem, w/o updates may not have correct support .dll's etc, for cd burner and nti 2k+ may not fully support a non updated w98se. sofware houses think every body updates. 4 - what is model of cd burner? _this_is_a_must_know_ to find out if burner program will fully control cdrw drive. when your system boots, note what your bios says about cdrom. if you can boot knoppix, you can find info in system hardware menu. 5 - what cd burner prog are you using? NTI CD Maker 2000 Plus.OEM version for my CD drive what is full version and rev number of prog? even tho it came with drive, it is possible that prog does not fully talk to burner. '2000 plus' is only insured to work in current ms os, that is, releases after w98se. a slick way out by cdrom drive labeler's is that latest vers of nt, me, and 2k, will support most cd burners of 32x and better. wrong versions of 'nero burn' are know to have been shipped with a lot of 42x burners. roxio, easy cd creator v5.2 and later will work in w98se up to 52x. i have tried nero and several other cd burner progs, and have yet to find an easier to use, cover all oems, than what roxio does, as it's name is, easy cd. 6 - are you using any type of firewall with ms? no firewalls bad. very, very, bad. how often do you reinstall from being hacked? :) if nothing else, get a freeware copy of zonealarm and install it. run md5 test on all downloads. + it is 2:00 am cdst, at mem, tn. i need to crash. get cd drive model and prog ver back to me and i will check on them tomorrow, later today. it will take a little time to verify, will post asap. 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] Alternative Software
Hi, I currently have 3 machines running windows, a 2K box I use myself to run Visio, and SSADM Enterprise and 2 98 machines that my children have. I want to totally remove any dependence to the man from redmond from my Office and Home. So I need to find software that's comparible (if not better) than: VISIO 2002 (Database and Software Modelling) (UML) SSADM Pro Enterprise (SSADM!) For the boys I'm looking for, at minimum, an instant messenger that will support ICQ, Yahoo and MSN. Ideally all in one box. I've seen EveryBuddy mentioned on the Mandrake site (which IIUIC) is supplied with 9.1, but I can't find it. Being an advocate of OpenSource I'd prefer solutions of this type, but I'm equally willing to pay a fair price if need be. -- William Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative Software
Hi Kopete is very good. In fact its the dogs danglies IMHO. Don't know about Yahoo though I think you have to add a special plugin. Worth a look anyway. 0.6.2 is available from the vclub site as an RPm and it installs without any problem (the newer version has a list of dependencies as long as you arm). John For the boys I'm looking for, at minimum, an instant messenger that will support ICQ, Yahoo and MSN. Ideally all in one box. I've seen EveryBuddy mentioned on the Mandrake site (which IIUIC) is supplied with 9.1, but I can't find it. Being an advocate of OpenSource I'd prefer solutions of this type, but I'm equally willing to pay a fair price if need be. -- William xxx Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Web:http://www.thewillbys.com ASCII ribbon campaign / \ MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - against HTML email \ / ICQ:92791912vCards X OS: Mandrake 9.1 [Well and truly cooked]/ \ I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me xxx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative Software
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Kopete is very good. In fact its the dogs danglies IMHO. Don't know about Yahoo though I think you have to add a special plugin. Worth a look anyway. 0.6.2 is available from the vclub site as an RPm and it installs without any problem (the newer version has a list of dependencies as long as you arm). John Hi John, Thanks for the feedback but vclub? Don't know what or where that is. -- William Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative Software
Hi Sorry typo the club site (mandrakeclub). Might be worth taking alook at the kopete site and seeing what they say about yahoo plugin too. John On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:07:54 +(UTC)Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Kopete is very good. In fact its the dogs danglies IMHO. Don't know about Yahoo though I think you have to add a special plugin. Worth a look anyway. 0.6.2 is available from the vclub site as an RPm and it installs without any problem (the newer version has a list of dependencies as long as you arm). John Hi John, Thanks for the feedback but vclub? Don't know what or where that is. -- William Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Web:http://www.thewillbys.com ASCII ribbon campaign / \ MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - against HTML email \ / ICQ:92791912vCards X OS: Mandrake 9.1 [Well and truly cooked]/ \ I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me xxx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[OT] Black box (was: Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...)
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:13:21 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: But Blackbox?! Not even nice pixmaps to play with? Bah! == I just make my own. Talk about customization |8^) Best, Mike -- The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life --Muhammad Ali Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] boot hangs on starting pcmcia
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 11:55 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: Hello, I recently purchased a Compag Presario 2140 laptop ... I want to dual-boot with MDK 9.1 ... Install seemed to go fine, but when I boot into linux the system freezes completely at starting pcmcia ... (which follows the bringing up interface etho) Adam, I can't help you withthis problem, but it might help you if I point out a problem. You have 'hijacked' a thread, by using reply and deleting info instead of starting a new one. This causes problems, because if you tell your browser to display all headers (or full headers) you will see that it is linked to other messages, the messages in the thread that you hijacked. From your point of view, anyone ignoring that thread will not see your message. From the point of view of others, searching the archives is complicated when this happens. Otherwise - welcome. Why not try this enquiry again in a new thread and see if it gets picked up more quickly? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 7:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it to extract the image. Don't worry its freeware. Extract the image to a tmp folder and you will then have an iso file that Nero or any CD writer can handle. Burn the CD to disk following the CD burning software you haves instructions. Personally, I think we are adding to his confusion. It really doesn't matter to him what kind of compression is used. If his cd-rw and his writing software are capable of doing it, downloading the mdk iso files and burning an image are all he needs to do. No unzipping - nothing else at all. The best bet is to follow g's line of questioning, to help him find out whether he actually has the capability at this moment. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:00 am, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 16:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:55, Technoslick wrote: What are the advantages of using dhcp for such small network of three computers. Kindly explain. I have fixed ips for my LAN of 5 PCs. Just my two cents: I've always considered DHCP to be the lazy way out of a situation; that is, unless you've got a large corporate department with heaps of laptops and changing systems - otherwise, static IP's lend to better overall network accountability and security. I manage a corporate network of over 400 desktops, 50 laptops, 50 servers, 70 networked laser printers, 4 routers, 40+ switches, 3 firewalls, and 30+ virtual IP's for web servers and load balancers. All this started with a question about a lan of 5 pcs. A network such as you describe is a different animal altogether, and I'm not surprised that you find dhcp relevant here. For 5 desktop pcs, though, I still think static ip is better. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB Flashdrive
I Finaly got the USB Flashdrive working in a R/W mode but where my WinDoze box sees it as 2 32mb drives my Linbox only sees it as one of the drives any Ideas on how to reformatt the drive as one drive? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 12:10 pm, Saurav Gohain wrote: Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and is connected to a LAN that has both windows nt and linux machines. Using LIN , i can connect to the Linux machines and exchange files but I am unable to connect to the windows machine. In the lin neighbourhood, it shows the names but i couldn't make it through to enter and access the files. what could be the problem. furthermore, i am unable to connect to the net even though the gateway address to connect to the net is correct. There's more than one issue here, Saurav. First, we need to know a bit more about your lan. For a start, where is your gateway? I mean is it on your linux box, a windows machine, a server box, a router? Then, you need to get the network functioning properly. Print out the attached file - it should help you to find the problem. Once you can ping your machines correctly both by number and name, and run all the tests listed there, you are ready to configure samba. The easiest way to do that is through Webmin. If you don't have it installed, it's on your disks. Under ther Server tab you will find a section for configuring windows sharing. That should get you started. Let us know what happens. AnneIn some of the following tests I have commented alternative commands that seem to be needed with later versions of Samba. It appears that nmb -L is replaced by nmblookup. DIAGNOSING YOUR SAMBA SERVER This file contains a list of tests you can perform to validate your Samba server. It also tells you what the likely cause of the problem is if it fails any one of these steps. If it passes all these tests then it is probably working fine. You should do ALL the tests, in the order shown. I have tried to carefully choose them so later tests only use capabilities verified in the earlier tests. I would welcome additions to this set of tests. Please mail them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you send me an email saying it doesn't work and you have not followed this test procedure then you should not be surprised if I ignore your email. ASSUMPTIONS --- In all of the tests I assume you have a Samba server called BIGSERVER and a PC called ACLIENT. I also assume the PC is running windows for workgroups with a recent copy of the microsoft tcp/ip stack. The procedure is similar for other types of clients. I also assume you know the name of a available share in your smb_conf. I will assume this share is called tmp. You can add a tmp share like by adding the following to smb_conf: [tmp] comment = temporary files path = /tmp read only = yes These tests also assume version 1.9.14 or later of the samba suite. If you have version 1.9.13 then see NOTE 1 below. TEST 1: --- run the command testparm. If it reports any errors then your smb_conf configuration file is faulty. TEST 2: --- run the command ping BIGSERVER from the PC and ping ACLIENT from the unix box. If you don't get a valid response then your TCP/IP software is not correctly installed. Note that you will need to start a dos prompt window on the PC to run ping. If you get a message saying host not found or similar then your DNS software or /etc/hosts file is not correctly setup. It is possible to run samba without DNS entries for the server and client, but I assume you do have correct entries for the remainder of these tests. TEST 3: --- run the command smbclient -L BIGSERVER -U% on the unix box. You should get a list of available shares back. If you get a error message containing the string Bad password then you probably have either an incorrect hosts allow, hosts deny or valid users line in your smb_conf, or your guest account is not valid. Check what your guest account is using testparm and temporarily remove any hosts allow, hosts deny, valid users or invalid users lines. If you get a connection refused response then the smbd server could not be run. If you installed it in inetd.conf then you probably edited that file incorrectly. If you installed it as a daemon then check that it is running, and check that the netbios-ssn port is in a LISTEN state using netstat -a. TEST 4: ; try nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__ --- run the command nmbd -L __SAMBA__ -B BIGSERVER. You should get a bunch of info back including the string got a positive name query response. You should also see a message got a positive node status response and below that a list of netbios names. The name BIGSERVER should be included in that list. If you don't then nmbd is incorrectly installed. Check your inetd.conf if you run it from there, or that the daemon is running and listening to udp port 137. One common problem is that many inetd implementations can't take many parameters on the command line. If this is the case then create a one-line script that contains the right parameters and run that from inetd. TEST 5: ; try nmblookup -B ACLIENT --- run the command nmbd -L '*' -B
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 21:02, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 05:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~prillih3/blog/stories/2002/08/03/microsoftWantsAdminPrivile.html This impacts countries national security. Many governments won't take it easy. A huge mistake. Adolfo Look, all in all, no one seems to be doing anything to stop Microsoft from ditching every anti-trust suit thrown at them and doing as they wish no matter what. Remember the browser BS? Now they're ditching stand alone IE for an IE that's built into the system (as if it wasn't in the first place) - so it would appear that everything that's been done to keep them from being a monster monopoly (all the DOJ battle?) have been completely for naught, and have cost the US public untold millions of tax dollars just so that Microsoft can do as they want anyways and get away with it. Palladium and Longhorn and DRM are moving into the popular stream because most of the public doesn't have a clue as to what it is or what it does - just that Microsoft says it's good! and they go for it hook, line and sinker. It's bad enough hypothesising about the reality of it, but in THINKING about the reality of it, this is even more than scary. It's more than Big Brother and even more than a breach in personal privacy. It's hard to say what the US government is going to say because they're already doing everything they can to bypass US citizens privacy and personal rights and if they're in bed with Microsoft, then it's really all for naught because then it WILL go through and it WILL be pushed upon the rest of the computing world - whether it's right or not. Microsoft has already shown that they have really no care about privacy or security or even offering privacy or security to the end user - just as much as the US government doesn't care about personal privacy or personal security; so hand-in-hand this would end the computing world and/or internet privacy/anonymity as we know it now. -- Mon Jun 16 21:20:01 EST 2003 21:20:01 up 3 days, 4:34, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.02 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Good night, Austin, Texas, wherever you are! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Knoppix_v3.2-2003-05-20-EN
Brilliant programme. Just one problem. It's locked me out of desktop in both M9.0 and M9.1. I get as far as login, then KDE display window and, Intitialising system services, whereupon it HANGS. Forced to crash and reboot with all the fsck business. Tried failsafe , etc. cannot get to desktop , Help John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems
You would either need to use the Enterprise kernel, or limit the mem usage to I believe less than 800MB. This from the OT list and Tom Brinkman, the absolute authority on these issues around here: I believe your video problems are E-kernel related. If you've got a lot of ram use mem=860M with the regular kernel. Your memory performance will actually be better than usin the E-kernel and tryin to use all of it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas hm ok where do iput that command? How-to pls. :D Put mem=860M in your lilo append line for the regular kernel, run lilo, reboot an choose the regular kernel. Update: Well, I did manage to install with a patched kernel that someone else patched for the vesa framebuffer video problem, that is the Nvidia graphics card + 1gig of memory error. However, even when I get mandrake installed, I still get major errors with the video. It appears that the nvidia graphics drivers demand a patched kernel and someone the kernel patch is not compatible with the other stuff that is required to install it. When starting x, I get screen corruption and a lock of Linux. The lack of Highpoint RAID controller support is not desirable but something that I could live with but I also have issues with the onboard LAN. I can solve that by using a Dlink LAN card but the graphics problems are a show stopper. I replaced the geforce 4 with a geforce 2 with 32 meg of memory and was able to install normally. Still get the enterprise kernel but also the regular kernel as well. I can boot into either one with regular kernel limiting the memory used. However the problems with x exist with both regular and enterprise kernels and I can't figure out how to get around those. Anyone with any suggestions would be appreciated. As it is, as much as I HATE to do it, I am going to try to download Redhat ISO's in the hopes that they support higher end hardware a little better. I don't know what else to do after 2 days of trying to get Mandrake to work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Knoppix_v3.2-2003-05-20-20-EN
Knoppix is a brilliant programme. I have just one little problem. I'm locked out of desktop on M9.0 and M9.1 now. I get as far as login, and KDE window, and then at , Initialising system sevices, it HANGS. I have to crash and reboot, fsck the partitions and still it hangs. I'm stuck, Help John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:08:59AM -0700, Aron Smith wrote: I Finaly got the USB Flashdrive working in a R/W mode but where my WinDoze box sees it as 2 32mb drives my Linbox only sees it as one of the drives any Ideas on how to reformatt the drive as one drive? So I take it the drive *is* 2 32MB drives? If so, a recent post on a USB smart media and compact flash combo reader might help; I got my SanDisk reader to mount both without a hitch. I can dig that out if it's what you might need. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:16:46 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have always used static addressing because I have never been able to work out how clients can be addressed by hostname when there is no fstab entry. Surely the DNS server has to be made aware of the dhcp clients so it can resolve hostnames for other clients. Hmmm, that's a good question, in Windows we had that NetBIOS thing that would automatically resolve hostnames to IPs. I've never had a problem calling other hosts on my LAN by name though, but that's probably because Samba takes care of it. Guys, I'm confused now. Are you saying you can't (for example) ping by name a computer on your LAN? I can hereI can do: ping darkforce ping darkforce2 ping darkforce3 and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address. PS and what does fstab have to do with it? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?
Hi Everyone, I am considering a purchase of a: ATI OEM RADEON 9500 128MB DDR AGP 8X video card. What have been your experiences with this piece of hardware? Do you recommend it for Mandrake 9.1? I am in great need to upgrade the old video card for better gaming, but need to know that this card will not be a headache... TIA!! __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?
On Monday 16 June 2003 08:27 am, Tango Echo wrote: Hi Everyone, I am considering a purchase of a: ATI OEM RADEON 9500 128MB DDR AGP 8X video card. What have been your experiences with this piece of hardware? Do you recommend it for Mandrake 9.1? I am in great need to upgrade the old video card for better gaming, but need to know that this card will not be a headache... Most people have reported that the newer Radeon cards are a headache, especially on nforce2 mobos. I don't know where the ATI binary drivers stand, but if you want a mature solution that does not require a lot of research and fiddling, and need good 3d, get an nVidia. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)
I am just trying to foresee what Microsoft will become if SCO wins. If they can come out with this sort of EULA even when they feel threated by Linux, just imagine what they would do if there were no challenging alternative. Adolofo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
On Monday June 16 2003 01:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf rpm. I use it everyday usin FileRoller as the GUI frontend to it. Works great, even on very large files with many many partxx.rar's. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it to extract the image. Don't worry its freeware. Extract the image to a tmp folder and you will then have an iso file that Nero or any CD writer can handle. Burn the CD to disk following the CD burning software you haves instructions. On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:53:51-0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i download the iso image, it's in winrar format, i can't extract it and burn it or can i? the computer won't install...lemme put it this way... I don't understand this. You're d/l'g .iso images from Mandrake's site and W98 see them as .rar's? Doesn't make any sense at all. This from several year old memory, but I completely borked my Mandrake install, and had to use W98 to d/l the Mandrake .iso's, then used EZCD Creator to make CD's so I could get back to Linux. No problem. If you're really d/l'g Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso it isn't a rar archive and winrar won't extract it. It just needs to be burnt to a cd as an image, not a data file. .iso are just one type of image file, audio CD's are another, any OS. As has already been suggested, check the md5sum of the iso before, and the CD after burning. If those check, and the CD won't boot, most likely it's a hardware or configuration problem. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative Software
Dunno bout the other software but by far the best cross platform IM program I have found is Gaim. It is multiprotocol and I use it at work every day. HTH, Jason For the boys I'm looking for, at minimum, an instant messenger that will support ICQ, Yahoo and MSN. Ideally all in one box. I've seen EveryBuddy mentioned on the Mandrake site (which IIUIC) is supplied with 9.1, but I can't find it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 22:27, Tango Echo wrote: Hi Everyone, I am considering a purchase of a: ATI OEM RADEON 9500 128MB DDR AGP 8X video card. What have been your experiences with this piece of hardware? Do you recommend it for Mandrake 9.1? I am in great need to upgrade the old video card for better gaming, but need to know that this card will not be a headache... TIA!! 1.) Nothing is better than an nVidia card. 2.) Nothing is better than an nVidia card using linux. 3.) Nothing is better than an nVidia card using Mandrake. 4.) If you have any questions, refer to #1. (grin) -- Mon Jun 16 22:40:01 EST 2003 22:40:01 up 3 days, 5:54, 4 users, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.05 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:44:15 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it to extract the image. Don't worry its freeware. IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what it *thinks* it is... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 08:38:37 up 1 day, 9:18, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LinNeighbourhood problems
Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and is connected to a LAN that has both windows nt and linux machines. Using LIN , i can connect to the Linux machines and exchange files but I am unable to connect to the windows machine. In the lin neighbourhood, it shows the names but i couldn't make it through to enter and access the files. what could be the problem. furthermore, i am unable to connect to the net even though the gateway address to connect to the net is correct. please help... regards, saurav india Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
[newbie] boot hangs on starting pcmcia
original message: - Hello, I recently purchased a Compag Presario 2140 laptop ... I want to dual-boot with MDK 9.1 ... Install seemed to go fine, but when I boot into linux the system freezes completely at starting pcmcia ... (which follows the bringing up interface etho) The pcmcia adapter in this laptop is O2Micro Oz6912 Carbus Controller. As I understand it, pcmcia is used for pc cards, which I don't have any, and don't intend to get any anytime soon ... So if it's possible to simply disable this function/feature I'd be happy to do that ... Any and all help is apprecaited, Thanks, Adam -- When you come to the graphical login screen it says on my system press 'i' to enter interactive startup. Some time after you do that you are asked for each service if you want it to start. Say no to pcmcia. If that works, MCC - system - DrakXServices - don't start pcmcia on boot. I notice I haven't an entry for service pcmcia but maybe that's because I don't have a pcmcia slot. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dlink USB Radio
On Monday 16 June 2003 02:03 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 15:33, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi. I've got a usb radio that I'd like to use with mandrake 9.1 Running lsusb gives: Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:1002 Cypress Semiconductor CY7C63001 R100 FM Radio So I know its detected. What I don't know is how to control it. Any ideas? Thanks, Nathan There are applications that allow for control of radio cards, but it's more a matter of finding the application that suits your purpose. I'd suggest doing a search at Freshmeat.net and Sourceforge.net firstly - then everywhere else after that. make sure the following modules are loaded videodev dsbr100 then any of the fm radio control programs should work. -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT] Black box (was: Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormallylong...)
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:15:20 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I just make my own. Talk about customization |8^) Sorry, does Blackbox support pixmaps now? Cool! I just got sick of gradients everywhere, I like a more solid look. I am in the process (ie. sitting on my skinny geek ass doing nothing) of presenting alternatives for newbs on my site, letting them know about the fact that they don't have to use KDE or Gnome, they can use anything that suits their porpoise. It really is, in my mind, one of the best parts of using Linux, besides the whole it doesn't screw you in the arse like Windows thing :D what was this thread again? Ooooh, OpenOffice, right. Well, that really good too! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 08:40:44 up 1 day, 9:20, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:17:09 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ping darkforce ping darkforce2 ping darkforce3 and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address. well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping by name or IP, though I have no DNS (which I believe actually has nothing to do with it, that's for FQDN, ie. internet, not LAN) server running. PS and what does fstab have to do with it? The only time fstab should enter into it, IIRC, is if you want to mount network shares at startup, and I have never had anything but headaches doing that. Much easier just to create a mountscript...boom, yer mounted, with one click or keystroke. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 08:52:00 up 1 day, 9:31, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:27:36 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need dependancies satisfying). Anybody else confirm correct me on this? That shouldn't happen with URPMI if all of your sources are configured and updated. It's really important to run urpmi.update periodically to avoid this, also keep in mind that we are still maybe in a transitional phase, as the 9.0 mirrors shrink and the 9.1 mirrors grow. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 08:57:45 up 1 day, 9:37, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid
On Monday June 16 2003 01:27 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need dependancies satisfying). Anybody else confirm correct me on this? Originally I believe that's a fair complaint. But urpmi has been under heavy development and improvement. Latest version for the up coming 9.2 is urpmi-4.3-15mdk and works very well. There will always be more problems with non-Mandrake packages tho. A lot of this due to improperly packaged rpms, not urpmi. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LinNeighbourhood problems
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 22:46, Saurav Gohain wrote: Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and is connected to a LAN that has both windows nt and linux machines. Using LIN , i can connect to the Linux machines and exchange files but I am unable to connect to the windows machine. In the lin neighbourhood, it shows the names but i couldn't make it through to enter and access the files. what could be the problem. furthermore, i am unable to connect to the net even though the gateway address to connect to the net is correct. please help... regards, saurav india Does the Mandrake machine have the same workgroup name as the Windows boxes? -- Mon Jun 16 23:10:00 EST 2003 23:10:00 up 3 days, 6:24, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.07 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * There comes a time to stop being angry. -- A Small Circle of Friends Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] and a hearty FSCK YOU!
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:20:28 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: nah...it's not you. On the whole, M$ is behind the FUD as always. I'm waiting to see what IBM does next cause I really don't think they're going to take this lying down. IBM has invested billions in Linux. So, no, they are not going to take this lying down. What worries me more is that in the aftermath of the war, and it is a war, make no mistake, Linux could end up being the property of IBM, or at least perceived as such, and you know how much perception counts in todays *un*real world. However, to paraphrase the NRA (shudder), they can take my Linux box when they pry it from my cold dead hands! This is about so much more than just us geeks too. The rest of the world *needs* an alternative to MS, so they can break free in one big way from the dependency on Western technology and corruption. We need to fight this not just for ourselves but for our brothers and sisters who are just trying to make a better life in places where the West's exploitive claws have made them miserable for centuries. More Simpsons: Won't somebody pleeease think of the children! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 09:01:48 up 1 day, 9:41, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] and a hearty FSCK YOU!
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:23:09 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: lets just hope big BLUE is involved in the whole thing. They're out best bet for the Linux Community. For *now*. But never take your eyes off them for a second. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 09:09:38 up 1 day, 9:49, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?
So far Poland (woot! my wife's Polish, lemme tell ya what happens when they get pissed! oh, and Polish women have really nice butts) and Germany have civil actions pending against SCO for spreading FUD. Now this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1741253 -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 09:13:08 up 1 day, 9:52, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1
On Monday June 16 2003 01:17 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: For most users, more advanced/better supermount and the low latency and preempt patches. The cooker ready made rpm should have no problems on older releases. One of the rare times cooker is suitable in this regard. Latest is 2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk on cooker /contrib (RPM2) mirrors. Ok, finally got around to this. Tried to install the mm kernel off the cooker mirror on 9.1, and it failed saying it needed shorewall = 1.3.14-1mdk. Damn I forgot about that, sorry. I run cooker so I let urpmi install shorewall along with the kernel, and then uninstalled shorewall. You should be able to 'rpm -ivh --nodeps 2.4.21-0.18mmTab' or use --force. I use guarddog, and soon after shorewall was installed it made my DSL connection blocked up jelly tight, can't go anywhere. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer
Ahh my mistake... From the guys post I thought he had downloaded a .rar file with an ISO in it and could not get it out to burn it. Still it got me pointed in the right direction of a rar program! ROTFL! John On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:40:09-0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:44:15 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it to extract the image. Don't worry its freeware. IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what it *thinks* it is... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 08:38:37 up 1 day, 9:18, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 xxx Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Web:http://www.thewillbys.com ASCII ribbon campaign / \ MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - against HTML email \ / ICQ:92791912vCards X OS: Mandrake 9.1 [Well and truly cooked]/ \ I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me xxx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT] Black box (was: Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormallylong...)
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:48:35 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled furiously: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:15:20 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I just make my own. Talk about customization |8^) Sorry, does Blackbox support pixmaps now? Cool! I just got sick of gradients everywhere, I like a more solid look. = Yes...; .blackboxrc can be set to any number of themes, and the theme can be edited in such a way that virtually any fair sized .jpg (or other image file) can be used as the background. I've used some really nice ones of Laetitia (the supermodel - hehe). There are even quite a few at the various theme sites out there = I am in the process (ie. sitting on my skinny geek ass doing nothing) of presenting alternatives for newbs on my site, letting them know about the fact that they don't have to use KDE or Gnome, they can use anything that suits their porpoise. It really is, in my mind, one of the best parts of using Linux, besides the whole it doesn't screw you in the arse like Windows thing :D === Choice and alternatives are what it's all about Have it YOUR way, not Bill's or Steve's ;-) = what was this thread again? Ooooh, OpenOffice, right. Well, that really good too! == Oh..., oh, yeah, that's right ;) Mike -- The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. --Muhammad Ali Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:25:59 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page for this. If we all added video cards, printers, scanners, and other hardware that people are likely to ask about, together with versions tested against, and any limitations, I think it would be extremely helpful. Anyone care to start it off? My only concern would be the subjectivity of it. Example: I use a Geforce 4Ti on an Intel 810 mobo. It works fine, not great but fine. Then someone says, hey, I read on the Twiki page that this should work, why doesn't it? Well, who made your Geforce4 Ti? Which version of the Intel810? However, I think you are on to something. With all the threads here on this or that hardware, and this is something I've been meaning to say for some time, if you get your hardware to work, post the solution for all to see and we can add *that* to the Twiki page. Or maybe that's what you meant and I haven't had enough coffee yet today! :) -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:17 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:16:46 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have always used static addressing because I have never been able to work out how clients can be addressed by hostname when there is no fstab entry. Surely the DNS server has to be made aware of the dhcp clients so it can resolve hostnames for other clients. Hmmm, that's a good question, in Windows we had that NetBIOS thing that would automatically resolve hostnames to IPs. I've never had a problem calling other hosts on my LAN by name though, but that's probably because Samba takes care of it. Guys, I'm confused now. Are you saying you can't (for example) ping by name a computer on your LAN? I can hereI can do: ping darkforce ping darkforce2 ping darkforce3 and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address. PS and what does fstab have to do with it? Well assuming you are using Dhcp then how are you managing to resolve the hostnames? When you ask to ping a host your system will first go to /etc/hosts to see if there is an entry there (that was a mistake in my original post. I said fstab by mistake) if there is no entry in hosts, it will go and ask the DNS server. If you are using your ISPs DNS server, there is no way it is going to know about clients on your local net. If you use your own DNS server (like I use djbdns) then there has to be some method for the dhcp server to tell the DNS server when an address has been assigned. If you have a router assigning IP addresses then the router might be able to tell you, but I have no router so my question is how can I get my linux gateway to resolve them? derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Monday 16 June 2003 08:57 am, JoeHill wrote: well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping by name or IP, though I have no DNS (which I believe actually has nothing to do with it, that's for FQDN, ie. internet, not LAN) server running. Oh, I beg your pardon Joe, I didn't see where you guys were talking about Samba use - I thought you meant just between 'Nix boxes. :-) I always put the IP address of each machine with an alias in /etc/hosts. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Monday 16 June 2003 09:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page for this. If we all added video cards, printers, scanners, and other hardware that people are likely to ask about, together with versions tested against, and any limitations, I think it would be extremely helpful. Anyone care to start it off? I'll do it as a link off the Getting Support Page -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:57 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:17:09 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ping darkforce ping darkforce2 ping darkforce3 and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address. well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping by name or IP, though I have no DNS (which I believe actually has nothing to do with it, that's for FQDN, ie. internet, not LAN) server running. So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative Software
Jason wrote: Dunno bout the other software but by far the best cross platform IM program I have found is Gaim. It is multiprotocol and I use it at work every day. HTH, Jason For the boys I'm looking for, at minimum, an instant messenger that will support ICQ, Yahoo and MSN. Ideally all in one box. I've seen EveryBuddy mentioned on the Mandrake site (which IIUIC) is supplied with 9.1, but I can't find it. I second that. Gaim is by far the best one on Linux. It now has encryption plugins and speaks with every major service there is (msn, aol, yahoo, jabber, icq, irc, napster). The more recent versions even look good. :-) -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT My last SCO post
This was just too funny I couldn't resist passing it along. Linux kernel coder puts SCO on notice SCO, THAT PARIAH of the IT industry, has received what might turn out to be legally damaging return fire from a Linux kernel developer. An email presenting SCO with formal notice alleging copyright infringement was sent to the firm this weekend. The email to SCO is reproduced below. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10018 Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:42 pm, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page for this. If we all added video cards, printers, scanners, and other hardware that people are likely to ask about, together with versions tested against, and any limitations, I think it would be extremely helpful. Anyone care to start it off? Anne Hi Anne, I'd consider putting myself forward for doing the webpage if I knew wtf TWiki meant? It's a community owned and administered website. Ours is at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome If you go there you will see links that tell you all about how it works. It sounds a little daunting, but in fact it is extremely easy. I would recommend that you print out the page called TWiki Shorthand Basics, as well as taking a quick look around the TWiki section, then return to the community pages and have a browse around. Basically, all you have to do is register as a user, which gives you editing rights. You don't have to maintain the page, as others will add their own material as the page develops. When you've added your material you get a preview, and if you are satisfied, you save. If you're not happy you simply use the back button and make changes. Simple g If you could start us off that'd be great! Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:19:31 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: and soon after shorewall was installed it made my DSL connection blocked up jelly tight, can't go anywhere. Bleh, I hate software firewalls. Grab an ol' P100, and check out these: Clarkconnect, BBIAgent (runs on a floppy, and unlike the Linux Router Project, it's still in constant devel mode), Smoothwall (heaaavy duty), Devil Linux, and many many more. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
Me too. -Original Message- From: Wm. G. Urquhart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:42 PM To: newbie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page for this. If we all added video cards, printers, scanners, and other hardware that people are likely to ask about, together with versions tested against, and any limitations, I think it would be extremely helpful. Anyone care to start it off? Anne Hi Anne, I'd consider putting myself forward for doing the webpage if I knew wtf TWiki meant? -- William http://wurquhart.co.uk -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:30 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:25:59 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page for this. If we all added video cards, printers, scanners, and other hardware that people are likely to ask about, together with versions tested against, and any limitations, I think it would be extremely helpful. Anyone care to start it off? My only concern would be the subjectivity of it. Example: I use a Geforce 4Ti on an Intel 810 mobo. It works fine, not great but fine. Then someone says, hey, I read on the Twiki page that this should work, why doesn't it? Well, who made your Geforce4 Ti? Which version of the Intel810? There are certainly issues like that. Where there are known problems of that type, as much info should be given as possible, and it would help if instructions on where to find identifiers could be given. There's always some subjectivity, but for instance I would say that I use a Matrox G400, which has worked well for me under 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1, but I don't use 3D gaming, so I couldn't answer for its capabilities there. That way, it is clear just how much you can guarantee. if you get your hardware to work, post the solution for all to see and we can add *that* to the Twiki page. That would be a natural for including in the same place g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box. Anne I do have my machines IP addressess in /etc/hosts with aliases. Also, I am using a Dlink router since I got broadband. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:38 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 09:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page for this. If we all added video cards, printers, scanners, and other hardware that people are likely to ask about, together with versions tested against, and any limitations, I think it would be extremely helpful. Anyone care to start it off? I'll do it as a link off the Getting Support Page Good idea, Greg. Let us know when it's up and we'll chivvy as many as possible to add to it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:51:54 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Oh, I beg your pardon Joe, I didn't see where you guys were talking about Samba use - I thought you meant just between 'Nix boxes. :-) Samba *was* *nix last time I checked... ;) it is just as useful without Win boxes on your LAN, in fact many people recommend it over NFS for file sharing between Linux boxes. I always put the IP address of each machine with an alias in /etc/hosts. ya, that's the true geek method! -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?
Crap, I was afraid you were going to say that... Alright Stephen, I'll try to repeat that mantra every night before bed =) As much as I hate to hear it, I am greatly appeciative of the forwarning (BEFORE I bought the card). So I guess that leaves me with more questions. I've heard that ATI is ahead of nVidea but maybe that's just regaurding their most recent cards?? What do you suggest in place of the ATI RADEON 9500 128MB? The card had excellent reviews... Something of equal or better technology is what I'm looking for (plus great reviews ;). Lastly, any idea how UR2K3 works with nVidea? Seems I remember FemmeFatale having problems but that may have been with ATI. Heard that there was a Linux install on the UR2K3 cd... is that true? -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:43 AM To: newb-mdk Subject: Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1? On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 22:27, Tango Echo wrote: Hi Everyone, I am considering a purchase of a: ATI OEM RADEON 9500 128MB DDR AGP 8X video card. What have been your experiences with this piece of hardware? Do you recommend it for Mandrake 9.1? I am in great need to upgrade the old video card for better gaming, but need to know that this card will not be a headache... TIA!! 1.) Nothing is better than an nVidia card. 2.) Nothing is better than an nVidia card using linux. 3.) Nothing is better than an nVidia card using Mandrake. 4.) If you have any questions, refer to #1. (grin) -- Mon Jun 16 22:40:01 EST 2003 22:40:01 up 3 days, 5:54, 4 users, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.05 - |____ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_ - Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_ __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Well assuming you are using Dhcp then how are you managing to resolve the hostnames? When you ask to ping a host your system will first go to /etc/hosts to see if there is an entry there (that was a mistake in my original post. I said fstab by mistake) if there is no entry in hosts, it will go and ask the DNS server. Thats the ticket, I do have IP addressess/aliases in my /etc/hosts file. Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.100 darkforce.ky.org darkforce 192.168.0.101 darkforce2.ky.org darkforce2 192.168.0.102 darkforce3.ky.org darkforce3 If you have a router assigning IP addresses then the router might be able to tell you, but I have no router so my question is how can I get my linux gateway to resolve them? derek I also do have a Dlink router since I got broadband... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:37:36 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box. He answered above, you edit your /etc/hosts file. That's pretty much all a nameserver does anyway, is keep a text record, though it can be dynamic. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:42 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Me too. OK - Greg's offered to start us off, but now's your chance to learn g Go to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome and follow the TWiki links to see how it works, then browse our community pages. They're growing fast, and there's already lots of really useful stuff there, both newbie and more advanced. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?
On Monday 16 June 2003 08:15 am, JoeHill wrote: So far Poland (woot! my wife's Polish, lemme tell ya what happens when they get pissed! oh, and Polish women have really nice butts) and Germany have civil actions pending against SCO for spreading FUD. Now this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1741253 This all reminds me of a t shirt that my wife has with a picture of a huge eagle swooping down at a mouse. The mouse is holding a big gun in 1 hand and giving the eagle the finger with the other hand. See http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9952 -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer with Mandrake Linux 9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:59 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box. Anne I do have my machines IP addressess in /etc/hosts with aliases. I guessed that, Ronald. I was just pointing out that linux may be good, but it's not psychic. g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:57:47 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: chivvy britspeak? -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
Anne Wilson wrote: The best bet is to follow g's line of questioning, to help him find out whether he actually has the capability at this moment. maybe. i am going on experience of what i have run across here in u.s. of a., a whole lot of cdrw drive dumping, to make way for a lot of 4x dvd drive dumping. something is bad wrong for crak600 to have trouble he is having. i have had problems with these drives, both in my own w98se system and with 8 w98se systems i maintain. drives do not work with supplied software in w98se, but do work in nt, 2k, and me. reasons explained in my 6:44 am post. i have not checked out any phillips drives, and why i asked crak600 for model number so as to check phillips and nti sites. 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
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
JoeHill wrote: IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what it *thinks* it is... ms windows is 'stupid'. yet, in w98se, a '.iso' file shows as a wavy flag on a single page and of type 'iso file'. i am still at wonder as to where '.rar' is coming from. 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
RE: [newbie] LinNeighbourhood problems
saurav, I may have misread your post or you may have already tried this. But just to be sure: 1. Open your LinNeighborhood 2. On the menu click: Options Browse Entire Network 3. Check the box Browse as user, put in the username and password and hit ok 4. You should see some + appear next to your servers. Click a + to show shares, double click share, and enter info for access. 5. Your share has now been mounted to your local computer. Browse with Konqueror or other file manager... HTH? -Original Message- From: Saurav Gohain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] LinNeighbourhood problems Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and is connected to a LAN that has both windows nt and linux machines. Using LIN , i can connect to the Linux machines and exchange files but I am unable to connect to the windows machine. In the lin neighbourhood, it shows the names but i couldn't make it through to enter and access the files. what could be the problem. furthermore, i am unable to connect to the net even though the gateway address to connect to the net is correct. please help... regards, saurav india Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!Now only $29.95 per month! __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:57:04 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: There's always some subjectivity, but for instance I would say that I use a Matrox G400, which has worked well for me under 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1, but I don't use 3D gaming, so I couldn't answer for its capabilities there. That way, it is clear just how much you can guarantee. true, true, the old YMMV! if you get your hardware to work, post the solution for all to see and we can add *that* to the Twiki page. That would be a natural for including in the same place g I wish more people would post those Problems with USB Router [SOLVED]! I'm definitely into it. As far as me being definitely and into it goes, LOL, I'll do my best for ya Anne! -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?
Tango Echo wrote: Lastly, any idea how UR2K3 works with nVidea? Seems I remember FemmeFatale having problems but that may have been with ATI. Heard that there was a Linux install on the UR2K3 cd... is that true? Works fine and it's true. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
On 16 Jun 2003 at 13:25, g wrote: JoeHill wrote: IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what it *thinks* it is... ms windows is 'stupid'. yet, in w98se, a '.iso' file shows as a wavy flag on a single page and of type 'iso file'. i am still at wonder as to where '.rar' is coming from. i told it to download NOT as an .rar file and it still downloaded that way anyway. it's a little stack of books, not a wavy flag on a single page. will physically take computer apart in a little bit here and get the model number of the CD drive. and will physically take it apart by removing the appropriate screws, not by getting a hammer :P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:23 pm, g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: The best bet is to follow g's line of questioning, to help him find out whether he actually has the capability at this moment. maybe. i am going on experience of what i have run across here in u.s. of a., a whole lot of cdrw drive dumping, to make way for a lot of 4x dvd drive dumping. something is bad wrong for crak600 to have trouble he is having. It looked at first as though he was not understanding, but it looks more like a physical problem now. i have had problems with these drives, both in my own w98se system and with 8 w98se systems i maintain. drives do not work with supplied software in w98se, but do work in nt, 2k, and me. reasons explained in my 6:44 am post. i have not checked out any phillips drives, and why i asked crak600 for model number so as to check phillips and nti sites. I have a niggling feeling that I have read something about Phillips drives, but for the life in me I can't remember what or where. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will physically take computer apart in a little bit here and get the model number of the CD drive. and will physically take it apart by removing the appropriate screws, not by getting a hammer :P LOL - you'll get there. Stick with it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Monday 16 June 2003 10:00 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:42 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Me too. OK - Greg's offered to start us off, but now's your chance to learn g Go to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome and follow the TWiki links to see how it works, then browse our community pages. They're growing fast, and there's already lots of really useful stuff there, both newbie and more advanced. I added it as a link off the support page. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/GettingSupport Look for the HardwareCompatibility topic about halfway down the page. The direct link to the page I added is http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/GettingSupport/HardwareCompatibility Have fun! - Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:01:48 -0500 Marc Oestreicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This all reminds me of a t shirt that my wife has with a picture of a huge eagle swooping down at a mouse. The mouse is holding a big gun in 1 hand and giving the eagle the finger with the other hand. Love it! Any chance of scannin' that fer us? What a great image! -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:01:48 -0500 Marc Oestreicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This all reminds me of a t shirt that my wife has with a picture of a huge eagle swooping down at a mouse. The mouse is holding a big gun in 1 hand and giving the eagle the finger with the other hand. Oh, and you got one helluva cool wife! -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid
9.2? Jeez you guys work hard! Don't seem very long at all since i downloaded 9.1. Its no wonder people like Miscrosoft look at Linux and think this is too good to be true. It really is. I like mandrake been using it since version 7 but only really got into it properly recently when I decided to finally get rid of XPee as my main system as I was sure I could do all that I wanted with it bar play games and with computers so cheap at the moment why not just get one to do that. My friend picked up a brand new Athlon 2Ghz with a CD-writer and 80gb of HDD and 256 RAM for £300 cash the other day! No monitor nor anything else but I have a KVM switch :-) John On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:04:48-0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday June 16 2003 01:27 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need dependancies satisfying). Anybody else confirm correct me on this? Originally I believe that's a fair complaint. But urpmi has been under heavy development and improvement. Latest version for the up coming 9.2 is urpmi-4.3-15mdk and works very well. There will always be more problems with non-Mandrake packages tho. A lot of this due to improperly packaged rpms, not urpmi. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas xxx Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Web:http://www.thewillbys.com ASCII ribbon campaign / \ MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - against HTML email \ / ICQ:92791912vCards X OS: Mandrake 9.1 [Well and truly cooked]/ \ I have dreamed a dream but now that dream has gone from me xxx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:07:00 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but it's not psychic. That's supposed to be implemented in Kernel 2.6... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:17:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body On 16 Jun 2003 at 13:25, g wrote: JoeHill wrote: IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what it *thinks* it is... ms windows is 'stupid'. yet, in w98se, a '.iso' file shows as a wavy flag on a single page and of type 'iso file'. i am still at wonder as to where '.rar' is coming from. i told it to download NOT as an .rar file and it still downloaded that way anyway. it's a little stack of books, not a wavy flag on a single page. I'm a little late coming to this thread, but why the emphasis on the icon? As far as I know, the icon is a rather arbitrary symbol to tell the user what type of file it is; you can set it to be any icon you like. The question is whether the extension is .iso or .rar; who cares about the icon? In Windoze open a folder, View Folder Options View tab, uncheck Hide file extensions for known file types. This is one of the first things I do when I work on Windoze. If the iso did save as .rar, I have had luck with just renaming and changing the extension. What browser/ftp program did you use to download the iso's? Good luck, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 08:57 am, JoeHill wrote: well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping by name or IP, though I have no DNS (which I believe actually has nothing to do with it, that's for FQDN, ie. internet, not LAN) server running. Oh, I beg your pardon Joe, I didn't see where you guys were talking about Samba use - I thought you meant just between 'Nix boxes. :-) I always put the IP address of each machine with an alias in /etc/hosts. We were talking about Dhcp. Samba will resolve NETBIOS names for you which is entirely a different thing. By putting the names/adrresses in /etc/hosts you are using static addressing. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:05 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:57:47 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: chivvy britspeak? Could be - or even dialect g Longman's New Generation Extended Dictionary: chivy, chivvy also chevy, chevvy ... esp spoken, to annoy (someone) by continually arguing, scolding etc. Now would I do that to you? Of course g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:41:10 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: W98 see them as .rar's? Windows sees ISOs as archives... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT My last SCO post
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:48:28 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10018 Oh, they are so fuxored...right now Steve Ballmer is sitting in his skull-topped Satan chair, watching his ill-conceived plot unravel before his eyes. As Ice Cube would say: He's [EMAIL PROTECTED]@#% in the **% and *^*% the @#$%$#, he can *%**$#@ his own *$% and *$#@ the **[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:17:52 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: i told it to download NOT as an .rar file and it still downloaded that way anyway. it's a little stack of books, not a wavy flag on a single page. but what is the actual file extension? The stack of books is because, believe it or not you can actually look inside an ISO with some archiving apps like Winzip and WinRAR, so Windows sometimes does it's file association thing like that. As long as the *extension* is ISO, yer okay there. As has been said by Anne and g, methinks this is a hardware issue, and you have every right to be frustrated. Glad to hear you put the hammer away, you'll fit right in here as you seem to have a nasty temper and a mean-ass attitude. We need more people like that! -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:23 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I added it as a link off the support page. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/GettingSupport Look for the HardwareCompatibility topic about halfway down the page. The direct link to the page I added is http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/GettingSupport/HardwareCom patibility Thanks, Greg. I've passed that mail onto the expert list to prompt them to get started g BTW, the link is wrong, it should be http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
