Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
On 11 Jul 2003 14:30:22 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeah, well, we're talking about JoeHill here - he couldn't partition his way outta paper bag...or hit the broadside of a barn from the inside, let alone deal with a complex, highly technical, super sophisticated BIOS partition for a Compaq...maybe his wife oughta do it for him, ya reckon? (g) LOL, who needs more crummy Compaq crap on here anyway? New MDK 9.1 system booting as we speak, partitioned manually I might add... course, my daughter could do that with an MDK install... I almost miss the days of fdisk. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 00:57:13 up 16 days, 6:38, 4 users, load average: 3.06, 3.08, 3.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Linux for the desktop
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 15:28, Eric Huff wrote: http://www.osafoundation.org/desktop-linux-overview.pdf Particular thanks go out to Waldo Bastian, Liu Bo, Jurgen Botz, Joseph Cheek, Laura DiDio, Matthias Ettrich, Nat Friedman, Dwight G., Jody Goldberg, Joseph Hill, ... Is this our joe? Wouldn't reckon so, but either which, it's a wonderfully laid out document - definitely worth keeping and even printing out. -- Fri Jul 11 16:10:00 EST 2003 16:10:00 up 4 days, 17:42, 3 users, load average: 0.22, 0.21, 0.13 - |____ |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 * So... did you ever wonder, do garbagemen take showers before they go to work? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 08:55, Lanman wrote: Nice reply Joe. So incisive, that I couldn't put it down. A good read! And I see we finally agree on something. You are touched. Perhaps you should seek professional help. g Evidently he defeats his opponents by smashing his jaw into their knuckles. And the Yer filtered thing is quite confusing. That's the most amount of filtering I've ever seen done where nothing was filtered. Glad we finally got that dealt with. What say we move on to something that's interesting, like, um, I don't know, maybe Linux? Have a nice Day! Lanman Glad you're here, LM. --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Linux for the desktop
On 11 Jul 2003 16:11:28 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Is this our joe? pft. right, with my many...months experience with... one distro, they called on me to contribute! I submitted the pr0n aspects of the project, mostly. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 02:15:07 up 16 days, 7:56, 4 users, load average: 3.00, 3.02, 3.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:45, Frankie wrote: Lol!!! Oh god, why do I talk to you... you are gonna get me in trouble again... Can't get in any deeper than y'all already jumped in the first time... I certainly hope my reply to that question can't be deemed unintelligable and stupid, not sure I can handle the critism a second time.. :-) Wait - you're almost married - living with a woman, right? You should have enough of a hide to be able to take it mate...(g) Stephen, whatever you are smoking on the east coast of AU... can i have some??? White Ox, mate. White Ox. nothing good ever makes it over to WA.. :-) What, y'all ain't got White Ox over there? -- Fri Jul 11 15:45:00 EST 2003 15:45:00 up 4 days, 17:17, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 - |____ |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 * Are those cocktail-waitress fingernail marks? I asked Colletti as he showed us these scratches on his chest. No, those are on my back, Colletti answered. This is where a case of cocktail shrimp fell on me. I told her to slow down a little, but you know cocktail waitresses, they seem to have a mind of their own. -- The Incredibly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs National Lampoon, October 1982 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 21:45, Frankie wrote: Lol!!! Oh god, why do I talk to you... you are gonna get me in trouble again... I certainly hope my reply to that question can't be deemed unintelligable and stupid, not sure I can handle the critism a second time.. :-) Stephen, whatever you are smoking on the east coast of AU... can i have some??? nothing good ever makes it over to WA.. :-) rgds Franki Wait a minute didn't they have a thing about Toad Licking a few years ago in Aussieland? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Friday, 11 July 2003 12:30 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved] On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:10, Frankie wrote: I have added that partition myself on deskpro 4000n systems before.. you get the softpaq from their site, make the disks and you can use them to create the partition on your system.. unfortunatly its not friendly to your existing partitions... rgds Franki Yeah, well, we're talking about JoeHill here - he couldn't partition his way outta paper bag...or hit the broadside of a barn from the inside, let alone deal with a complex, highly technical, super sophisticated BIOS partition for a Compaq...maybe his wife oughta do it for him, ya reckon? (g) -- Fri Jul 11 14:25:00 EST 2003 14:25:00 up 4 days, 15:57, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - |____ |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 is never enough time to do it right the first time, but there is always enough time to do it over -- Murphy's Laws on Work n19 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware
wade, well seeing as how it's a microsoft piece of kit i'd guess that the odds of them realeasing drivers are vanishingly small, however according to: http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html under 'network adapters' the top two entries looks promising, you will need to know what speed usb port you have, note the second entry seems to imply that you need a later kernel it's also not obvious what the actual driver names are from the devices listed there :) however assuming that a)the pegasus driver is what you want b) you have your usb system up and running then hopefully #modprobe pegasus (note done as root) will load the driver, if not you could try some of the other drivers listed under /lib/modules/2./kernel/drivers/usb/ use #modinfo modulename to see what sort of driver it is now the next bit i could be wrong! :) assuming the driver is correct then you will need to set up an interface using that device, assuming you haven't any already then i think you may be talking 'usb0' from something i read online if you do: # ifconfig -a you should hopefully see a refernce to usb0 or indeed to a net interface that didn't use to be there, if so then you need to set it up, i believe you will need to create a file under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ called ifcgf-usb0 (assuming usb0 is the interface name) that has something like: BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.129.255 IPADDR=192.168.129.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.129.0 DEVICE=usb0 this assumes a static ip for the interface, you will have to adjust accordingly or DEVICE=usb0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp IPADDR= NETMASK= NETWORK=0.0.0.0 BROADCAST=255.255.255.255 DHCP_CLIENT=/sbin/dhcpcd for a dhcp assigned ip i ripped that from my dhcp assigned interface on my mandrake firewall so i figure it should be the right format, not you would have to have /sbin/dhcpcd on your system then you should be able to do #ifup usb0 and if it works #ifconfig should show it up and running then you would need to add your pegasus module (or whatever it turns out to be) to your start up files, that would either be /etc/modules with a line: pegasus or /etc/modules.conf with a line: alias usb0 pegasus i'm not sure if both would work and if so which is better form for how wrong i am with this advice wait for others to comment! :) bascule On Friday 11 Jul 2003 3:24 am, Wade Waldron wrote: Microsoft MN-110 USB ethernet adapter. Wade - Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware On Thursday 10 July 2003 08:15 pm, Wade Waldron wrote: Okay, maybe some more background is needed. When I run the mandrake configuration utility, and look under the listed hardware I have a few unknown devices (like my network adapter). I have looked around and found that my network adapter probably uses the pegasus driver. I would like -- Oh no, not again. -- A bowl of petunias on it's way to certain death. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:35:57 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Setting the boot order isn't enough for you? luckily it already knew to boot from a CD...for the Win98 install. unfortunately (see other Compaq post), without a CD it will just NOT do a network install, had to swap the CD eventually, install MDK, now X won't start...lousy S3 Trio... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 02:35:07 up 16 days, 8:16, 4 users, load average: 3.16, 3.24, 3.15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 15:00, JoeHill wrote: LOL, who needs more crummy Compaq crap on here anyway? New MDK 9.1 system booting as we speak, partitioned manually I might add... course, my daughter could do that with an MDK install... I almost miss the days of fdisk. Uh, so you're saying you had to have your daughter do the installation for ya mate? (g) BTW, what was the issue, and how did you resolve it - for those of us that really want to know...??? -- Fri Jul 11 16:30:01 EST 2003 16:30:01 up 4 days, 18:02, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.06 - |____ |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 * The difference between a lawyer and a rooster is that the rooster gets up in the morning and clucks defiance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
On 11 Jul 2003 16:35:21 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: BTW, what was the issue, and how did you resolve it - for those of us that really want to know...??? Well, I really just wanted to get into the BIOS to poke around, and this whole thing just went crazy, I can't believe how many responses I got to this thread! But I now have one pain in the ass Win98 box to send off to mother of wife of brother-in-law, and one identical box (compaq deskcrud, P200, 192 MB RAM) with Mandrake 9.1 to hack to bits. Maybe it'll end up as my web/mail/file/print server if it behaves... I never did get it to do a network install of MDK...who knows what the hell that was about. I still think CG's recommendation for the compaq is most realistic! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 02:55:25 up 16 days, 8:36, 4 users, load average: 3.03, 3.10, 3.14 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
You're screwed. I resemble that remark! Apparently, even you do get into the BIOS, from what I've read, there's not much to do anyway. Whadda ya mean? Setting the boot order isn't enough for you? Good ole Compaq. It'll make a good test machine, though. If it'll work on this piece of shite, it'll work on anything! Yeah, i'll never get one of these again. (this wasn't free, but was cheap) It worked (as good as anything else) with windows, but it seems these things were designed specifically for windows... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 16:36, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:35:57 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Setting the boot order isn't enough for you? luckily it already knew to boot from a CD...for the Win98 install. unfortunately (see other Compaq post), without a CD it will just NOT do a network install, had to swap the CD eventually, install MDK, now X won't start...lousy S3 Trio... Ahem...had to swap the CD, did ya? Wonder who told ya that from the BLOODY BEGINNING, hmmm? (g) -- Fri Jul 11 17:10:00 EST 2003 17:10:00 up 4 days, 18:42, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.11, 0.03 - |____ |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 * I woke up a feelin' mean went down to play the slot machine the wheels turned round, and the letters read Better head back to Tennessee Jed -- Grateful Dead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ARTICLE: Linux for the desktop
http://www.osafoundation.org/desktop-linux-overview.pdf Particular thanks go out to Waldo Bastian, Liu Bo, Jurgen Botz, Joseph Cheek, Laura DiDio, Matthias Ettrich, Nat Friedman, Dwight G., Jody Goldberg, Joseph Hill, ... Is this our joe? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 20:15, Wade Waldron wrote: Okay, maybe some more background is needed. When I run the mandrake configuration utility, and look under the listed hardware I have a few unknown devices (like my network adapter). I have looked around and found that my network adapter probably uses the pegasus driver. I would like to set it up to use that driver to see if that will work. I can not see anywhere in the Configuration utility that allows me to assign a driver to a device. When I highlight the device, there are no options buttons or configuration buttons that show up. When I right or left click I get nothing. On the Right hand side it shows that there is no module loaded for that device so I try clicking there and nothing happens. None of the menus have any options that suggest I can do that. I ran the networking wizard, but nothing there seemed to help because it can't seem to find my network adapter (presumably because it is an unknown device) besides, that won't help with my other devices like my CD-RW. There must be a way to manually assign a driver to a device, but for the life of me, I can not seem to find it. Thanks, Wade I've got a suggestion that might work for you. Drakconf detects hardware changes when a system is booted. What you could do is shut the system down, pull the network card, boot it back up, answer the configuration questions such that there is no network card, and then shut the system down again. Reinstall the network card and boot the system. Drakconf should go thru a detection routine and your network card will be redetected. If the system cannot then detect the card properly, you are left with two choices. Either get a supported card, or manually configure the driver that you actually need into the config files with vi. Assuming that it will work with your card. I can help with the manual config changes if you need it. Let me know how it goes. :) --LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
Joe - Well did you get into the darned bios or not...there's wagers here about the result. MRW - Original Message - From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 3:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved] On 11 Jul 2003 16:35:21 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: BTW, what was the issue, and how did you resolve it - for those of us that really want to know...??? Well, I really just wanted to get into the BIOS to poke around, and this whole thing just went crazy, I can't believe how many responses I got to this thread! But I now have one pain in the ass Win98 box to send off to mother of wife of brother-in-law, and one identical box (compaq deskcrud, P200, 192 MB RAM) with Mandrake 9.1 to hack to bits. Maybe it'll end up as my web/mail/file/print server if it behaves... I never did get it to do a network install of MDK...who knows what the hell that was about. I still think CG's recommendation for the compaq is most realistic! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 02:55:25 up 16 days, 8:36, 4 users, load average: 3.03, 3.10, 3.14 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI error
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 08:49, Curt Tresenriter wrote: Yes the error is the same. The only files I've edited manually were fstab to recognize my Win disk, and urpmi sources. Other than that a, number of packages were installed via both urpmi rpm -ivh Until the other day, urpmi *did* eject the cd. I can't pinpoint exactly when the behavior began - is there a log I could look at that might give a hint? Curt Check /var/log/messages. Do a less on messages and then hit / and a string to search for. Like cdrom; and that should put you on the trail. --LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
On 11 Jul 2003 17:12:51 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: BLOODY BEGINNING as I said, I really wanted that network install to succeed, I know, I know, whatever works, but it was bugging me... Heh. Go have another! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 03:17:14 up 16 days, 8:58, 4 users, load average: 3.24, 3.07, 3.06 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware
On Friday 11 Jul 2003 2:15 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 08:15 pm, Wade Waldron wrote: Okay, maybe some more background is needed. When I run the mandrake configuration utility, and look under the listed hardware I have a few unknown devices (like my network adapter). I have looked around and found that my network adapter probably uses the pegasus driver. I would like to set it up to use that driver to see if that will work. I can not see anywhere in the Configuration utility that allows me to assign a driver to a device. When I highlight the device, there are no options buttons or configuration buttons that show up. When I right or left click I get nothing. On the Right hand side it shows that there is no module loaded for that device so I try clicking there and nothing happens. None of the menus have any options that suggest I can do that. I ran the networking wizard, but nothing there seemed to help because it can't seem to find my network adapter (presumably because it is an unknown device) besides, that won't help with my other devices like my CD-RW. There must be a way to manually assign a driver to a device, but for the life of me, I can not seem to find it. Thanks, Wade Wade: Exactly what adapter are you trying to install (manufacturer and model number)? -- cmg The pegasus driver is a USB driver so are we to assume we are talking about a usb device? If so then the driver will be loaded by USB hotplugging. When the device is plugged in its vendor code and device code will be read from the USB bus and compared to the lookup tables in /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap or usb.usermap or usb.handmap. If a match is found then the appropriate driver is loaded. It may be there is no table entry for your device in which case you should run usbview so you can read the device/vendor codes and make an entry yourself in usb.handmap. Once the driver is loading OK the networking wizard should be able to configure it. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware
Thanks for identifying the driver source bascule. If you look at the latest source code for the driver http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pegasus2/pegasus/pegasus.h you can see the Microsoft adapter was added to the source 4 weeks and 5 days ago. From the latest source we can see VENDOR_MICROSOFT0x045e PEGASUS_DEV( Microsoft MN-110, VENDOR_MICROSOFT, 0x007a, DEFAULT_GPIO_RESET | PEGASUS_II ) Adding the line pegasus 0x0003 0x045e 0x007a0x 0x 0x00 0x000x000x000x000x00 0x (That is all one line) to /etc/hotplug/usb.handmap should cause the driver to be loaded whenever the USB adapter is plugged in. If that does not work then you may have to compile the driver from CVS which is quite a lot more work for a newbie. derek On Friday 11 Jul 2003 7:31 am, bascule wrote: wade, well seeing as how it's a microsoft piece of kit i'd guess that the odds of them realeasing drivers are vanishingly small, however according to: http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html under 'network adapters' the top two entries looks promising, you will need to know what speed usb port you have, note the second entry seems to imply that you need a later kernel it's also not obvious what the actual driver names are from the devices listed there :) however assuming that a)the pegasus driver is what you want b) you have your usb system up and running then hopefully #modprobe pegasus (note done as root) will load the driver, if not you could try some of the other drivers listed under /lib/modules/2./kernel/drivers/usb/ use #modinfo modulename to see what sort of driver it is now the next bit i could be wrong! :) assuming the driver is correct then you will need to set up an interface using that device, assuming you haven't any already then i think you may be talking 'usb0' from something i read online if you do: # ifconfig -a you should hopefully see a refernce to usb0 or indeed to a net interface that didn't use to be there, if so then you need to set it up, i believe you will need to create a file under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ called ifcgf-usb0 (assuming usb0 is the interface name) that has something like: BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.129.255 IPADDR=192.168.129.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.129.0 DEVICE=usb0 this assumes a static ip for the interface, you will have to adjust accordingly or DEVICE=usb0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp IPADDR= NETMASK= NETWORK=0.0.0.0 BROADCAST=255.255.255.255 DHCP_CLIENT=/sbin/dhcpcd for a dhcp assigned ip i ripped that from my dhcp assigned interface on my mandrake firewall so i figure it should be the right format, not you would have to have /sbin/dhcpcd on your system then you should be able to do #ifup usb0 and if it works #ifconfig should show it up and running then you would need to add your pegasus module (or whatever it turns out to be) to your start up files, that would either be /etc/modules with a line: pegasus or /etc/modules.conf with a line: alias usb0 pegasus i'm not sure if both would work and if so which is better form for how wrong i am with this advice wait for others to comment! :) bascule On Friday 11 Jul 2003 3:24 am, Wade Waldron wrote: Microsoft MN-110 USB ethernet adapter. Wade - Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware On Thursday 10 July 2003 08:15 pm, Wade Waldron wrote: Okay, maybe some more background is needed. When I run the mandrake configuration utility, and look under the listed hardware I have a few unknown devices (like my network adapter). I have looked around and found that my network adapter probably uses the pegasus driver. I would like -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'M A COMPLETE IDIOT - SHOT ME!
Just following instructions: No, you most certainly are NOT. It is SHOOT ME not SHOT ME. I knew it. (snip) Now you will go *nowhere* if you cannot follow the simplest of instructions! At least my finger didn't type the i key. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with urpmiweb
Can't update properly? Again, what's hdlist or where can I read about this? Thanks urpmi.removemedia -a urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://plf.time4t.net/pub/plf/9.1 with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz urpmi.addmedia jpackage.free ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/jpackage/1.5/mandrake-9.1/free with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia Samba ftp://au1.samba.org/pub/samba/Binary_Packages/Mandrake/RPMS/9.1 with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia Sambaldap ftp://au1.samba.org/pub/samba/Binary_Packages/Mandrake/RPMS/9.1 with hdlist-ldap.cz urpmi.addmedia Drakian http://www.drakian.org/RPMS/ with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia Nexedi http://www.nexedi.org/static/RPMS/ with synthesis.hdlist.czremoving medium plf removing medium Drakian found 0 headers in cache removing 0 obsolete headers in cache write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] added medium plf retrieving description file of plf... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of plf... ftp://plf.time4t.net/pub/plf/9.1/hdlist.cz ...retrieving done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.plf.cz] writing list file for medium plf performing second pass to compute dependencies examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.plf.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium plf found 0 headers in cache removing 0 obsolete headers in cache write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] usage: urpmi.addmedia [options] name url [with relative_path] where url is one of //path ftp://login:password@host/path with relative filename of hdlist ftp://host/path with relative filename of hdlist http://host/path with relative filename of hdlist removable://path and [options] are from --help - print this help message. --wget - use wget to retrieve distant files. --curl - use curl to retrieve distant files. --limit-rate - limit the download speed. --proxy- use specified HTTP proxy, the port number is assumed to be 1080 by default (format is proxyhost[:port]). --proxy-user - specify user and password to use for proxy authentication (format is user:password). --update - create an update medium. --distrib - automatically create all media from an installation medium. --distrib-XXX - automatically create a medium for XXX part of a distribution, XXX may be main, contrib, updates or anything else that has been configured ;-) --from - use specified url for list of mirrors, the default is http://www.linux-mandrake.com/mirrorsfull.list --version - use specified distribution version, the default is taken from the version of the distribution told by the installed mandrake-release package. --arch - use specified architecture, the default is arch of mandrake-release package installed. -c - clean headers cache directory. -h - try to find and use synthesis or hdlist file. -f - force generation of hdlist files. ./updatePackages: line 4: ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS: No such file or directory ./updatePackages: line 5: with: command not found usage: urpmi.addmedia [options] name url [with relative_path] where url is one of //path ftp://login:password@host/path with relative filename of hdlist ftp://host/path with relative filename of hdlist http://host/path with relative filename of hdlist removable://path and [options] are from --help - print this help message. --wget - use wget to retrieve distant files. --curl - use curl to retrieve distant files. --limit-rate - limit the download speed. --proxy- use specified HTTP proxy, the port number is assumed to be 1080 by default (format is proxyhost[:port]). --proxy-user - specify user and password to use for proxy authentication (format is user:password). --update - create an update medium. --distrib - automatically create all media from an installation medium. --distrib-XXX - automatically create a medium for XXX part of a distribution, XXX may be main, contrib, updates or anything else that has been configured ;-) --from - use specified url for list of mirrors, the default is http://www.linux-mandrake.com/mirrorsfull.list --version - use specified distribution version, the default is taken
[newbie] .bashrc and .bash_profile translation, please
not being unable lo loggin in anymore. I'm not sure what you mean here, but I would imagine that there is something in the .bash_profile which is incompatible in .bashrc. as you noted, .bashrc is run when you log in, if there is something generating an error, you may not be able to login. is there some way you could post your current .bashrc? Attached. # .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:$HOME/bin export PATH echo dentro de .bashrc # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:$HOME/bin echo dentro de .bash_profile export PATH unset USERNAME Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where's Todd Lyons when I need him? and NEW E-MAILLIST....
Mike, Thanks for that courteous reply. It seems to me the mailing list just gets damaged, the way it was hijacked pretty well completely for a day, for an interminable bad-tempered spat, involving people who are normally among the most helpful contributors. I can understand the person who wrote he was unsubscribing; and I think any newly subscribed newbies coming in search of information and help must have been regretting they'd had anything to do with Linux Mandrake. I'd beg guys not to destroy the role of the Newbie Mailing List, which is one of the most valuable things about Mandrake, and to respect the OT - take squabbles elsewhere, before they start getting out of hand. There. That's my 2 pennys/cents/centimes worth :-) DougB On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:56, MWafkowski wrote: Doug - I wasn't joking...I was serious about taking this stuff to the OT list. One begins to think that the list is made up of all the loudmouths (like myself) and then other people chime in and say hello, I belong to this list for other reasons and you think, well, time to move it to where it belongs 8^) Peace, Mike Wafkowski - Original Message - From: Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beginners' Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Where's Todd Lyons when I need him? Good for you, Carroll! re: MRW - I'm with momma :-) DougB On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 02:11, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I joined this list several years ago because I needed all the help with Linux that I could get (still do), and this seemed like the best place to get it. I was right -- good advice, good people. As an unexpected bonus, I've made a lot of friends here, too. It's my belief that this list comes as close to being a genuine community as anything that I've seen on the web. I did NOT join this list to read great gobs of illiterate political ravings by otherwise very intelligent and likeable people who sadly seem to periodically lose all self control, indulging in the sort of shouting and name calling that would get any of my grandchildren an old-fashioned ass-chewing along with a good solid spanking. Look, if I want to read and discuss political matters, I know lots of places to go for that. If I want to listen to the kind of prattle that I've had to weigh through today, I can go down to the local jail and listen to the buffoons in the drunk tank. In short, as political analysts/proponents, you guys don't hack it. Cease and desist. Why the reference to Todd Lyons? Well, late last year one of these episodes broke out on the expert list. It got hot and heavy. Todd stepped in, and sent an off-list mail to all of those who had participated in the discussion that anyone who continued to post to the thread would be banished. End of discussion. FWIW, some of those guys have not been heard from since. On the good side, the various OT lists were formed in response to that action. And please don't tell me about filters -- why the hell should I have to do that to kill the drivel that other people are posting? (Nasty letter to follow.) -- cmg __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
