Re: [newbie-it] Primi passi in MySQL
Alle 00:21, mercoledì 15 ottobre 2003, kudega ha scritto: finalmente sono riuscito ad installare MySQL! [cut] mysql CREATE DATABASE prova; ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'prova' ?!?! Come accesso negato? Non posso creare un nuova BD di nome prova? uhmm.. Help... thanx byebye by Davide PS: Sono riuscito a creare un BD chiamato prova ma solo da root! Da root sono riuscito anche ad inserire i record... ma da user?? Se provo a connettermi al DB prova creato ovviamente mi dice che non ho i permessi. Dove li salva i DB? Ma soprattutto perchè da user non riesco a creare un database? E' perfettamente normale che mysql permetta solo a root si creare dei database, almeno appena installato. La filosofia di un server, come mysql è, si basa sulla dinamica Client-Server e su quella della multiutenza. In un tale sistema devono per forza esistere privilegi diversi tra chi progetta e costruisce la base di dati e chi la utilizza. In questa ottica chi amministra il database non coincide, solitamente, con chi immette i dati dentro le tabelle. Per permettere ad un ipotetico utente di amministrare i database bisogna dargli i permessi. Dato che, penso stai sperimentando e non stai usando Mysql operativamente per lavoro, puoi dare all'ipotetico utente sia i permessi per amministrare i database, sia quelli per immettere i dati. Questo lo puoi fare con il comando GRANT (guarda il manuale di mysql). Per dare i permessi a tutti gli utenti, ad esempio, una volta lanciato mysql da root, dai questo comando: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGE on *.* to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A questo punto puoi accedere a Mysql come normale utente. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux 2.40.21 on Pentium III 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux Machine #103048
Re: [newbie-it] Problema con l'audio all'avvio.
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 14:52, Nevermind wrote: Come posso fare per far sì che mantenga i settaggi? Salva come valore predefinito o una dicitura simile -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Leggi di Golub: 2. La realizzazione di un progetto mal pianificato richiede il triplo del tempo previsto; quella di un progetto pianificato con la massima attenzione solo il doppio. Slack 9.0 Linux user Tattari_manna aka plugs Mauro... un'ammaestratore di liste ... un incubo!
Re: [newbie-it] Problema con l'audio all'avvio.
Alle 15:07, mercoledì 15 ottobre 2003, tom ha scritto: Salva come valore predefinito o una dicitura simile Le uniche diciture che ci sono dall'aumix: Load, Save, Load From, Save To e Quit. A questo punto dovrebbe essere Save To, ma dove lo salvo per far sì che sia predefinito? -- // ( o o ) --ooO-(_)-Ooo-- Nevermind, un newbie di Linux con tanta voglia di imparare!
Re: [newbie-it] Problema con l'audio all'avvio.
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:13, Nevermind wrote: Alle 15:07, mercoledì 15 ottobre 2003, tom ha scritto: Salva come valore predefinito o una dicitura simile Le uniche diciture che ci sono dall'aumix: Load, Save, Load From, Save To e Quit. A questo punto dovrebbe essere Save To, ma dove lo salvo per far sì che sia predefinito? come finisco riavvio con MDK e ti faccio sapere cmq se usi KDE prova a settare l'audio con kmix.è semplicissimo e immediato. -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Legge delle istituzioni: L'opulenza dell'ufficio di rappresentanza e' inversamente proporzionale alla solvenza della ditta. Slack 9.0 Linux user Tattari_manna aka plugs Mauro... un'ammaestratore di liste ... un incubo!
[newbie-it] Plugger per Netscape
Qualcuno di voi ha installato il plugin suddetto per Netscape? se si, mi sapete dire perchè pur risultandomi nella lista dei plugin non mi fa sentire l'audio nè midi nè wave? -- // ( o o ) --ooO-(_)-Ooo-- Nevermind, un newbie di Linux con tanta voglia di imparare!
[newbie-it] kylix 3 MySQL
Come ci si connette ad un DB MySQL tramite Kylix ?? Io utilizzo questi componenti.. DB --SQLConnection1 --SQLClientDataSet1 --DataSource1 --DBGrid1 Quando poi mando in esecuzione mi si pianta tutto e sono obbliagto a killare Kylix3.. uhmmm ?!? Help... thanx byebyeby Davide -- \\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@] -o00-(..)-00o by Dave,Adde,Kudega,Kua,Zarax,Pichan... - Se esiste un problema esiste anche la sua soluzione, se invece la soluzione non c'è... allora nemmeno il problema sussiste!!! =
[newbie-it] Aiuto su installazione MANDRAKE 9.1
sono un 'newbie' quindi non meravigliatevi delle mie richieste ho avuto un nuovo PC che consiste in un 'Athlon xp' da 2400 Mhz funzionante a 2000 Mhz un hard disk di 80 Giga Maxtor 6Y080L0 da 512 Mega di memoria DRam undrive CD R-W un DVD uno scanner una stampante una cam Radeon 9600SE (scheda grafica) un TFT (video) da 17 pollici scheda di rete SIS900 based PCI fast ethernet UDMA 133 da BIOS vengo al dunque: quando installo Mandrake 9.1 da 'CD' l'installazione rileva il disco in maniera corretta ma in sede di rilevamento sincronismo su..hda: mi appare la dicitura: hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt hda: host protected area = 1 hda: 1600086528 (8144MB) w 2048 KiB Cache chs9964/255/63 (UDMA133) hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt partition check hda: 4 hda; dma_timer_expiring : dma == 0x64 hda: lost interrupt Unable handle Kernel NULL pointer dereference of virtual address 0024 ... ... KERNEL panic AIEE: Killing interrupt handler In interrupt handler not syncing qui si ferma...e non va + avanti
Re: [newbie-it] Problema con l'audio all'avvio.
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:23, tom wrote: come finisco riavvio con MDK e ti faccio sapere susa per il ritardo,ma visto che c'ero ho aggiornato un po di roba. allora. l'ho installato..si devi fare come hai detto! Save To ti crea un file .aumixrc che va a posizzionarsi nella tua home di default (ti consiglio di lasciarlo li)... ogni volta che quell utente si logerà riprenderà quei parametri non ne sono sicuro,ma se lo fai come root questi saranno predefiniti per tutti gli utenti.non ho mai giocato con aumix :) -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Prima legge di Clarke: Quando un illustre ma anziano scienziato sostiene che qualcosa e' possibile ha quasi certamente ragione. Quando sostiene che qualcosa e' impossibile, molto probabilmente ha torto. Slack 9.0 Linux user Tattari_manna aka plugs Mauro... un'ammaestratore di liste ... un incubo!
Re: [newbie-it] Download Manager
Downloader for X 8noto prima come nt ora come D4X) è il migliore; ha anche possibilità come limitare la banda relativa al download se nel frattempo vuoi anche, per esempio, navigare... Lo trovi su rpmfind (scegli la versione per il tuo sistema) o naturalmente tramite MandrakeUpdate. L'ultima stabile è la 2.4 Ho scaricato da rpm find la 2.4.1-2mdk.i586.me la sono installata correttamente, solo he quando tento di aprirla,dopo pochi secondi mi scompare senza lasciare traccia e senza nessuna finestra di errore. Cosa può essere? NIC -- ...siate sempre capaci di sentire nel+profondo qualsiasi ingiustizia commessa contro chiunque,in qualsiasi parte del mondo.è la qualità+bella di un rivoluzionario che
Re: [newbie-it] Download Manager
kget, che appare tra gli strumenti di konqueror non va bene? Mi spiegheresti a me come funziona? Grazie NIC -- ...siate sempre capaci di sentire nel+profondo qualsiasi ingiustizia commessa contro chiunque,in qualsiasi parte del mondo.è la qualità+bella di un rivoluzionario che
[newbie-it] Cancellazione DB MySQL
Scusate la domanda che potrà anche essere stupida ma sono le prime volte che metto mano a MySQL... Una volta creto un DB, che nel mio caso si chiama prova, come cavolo faccio ad eliminarlo? Sono riuscito a cancellare i record contenuti nella tabella pet, che appartiene ad DataBase prova, ma non a cancellare il DB! Grazie ciao ciao Davide -- \\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@] -o00-(..)-00o by Dave,Adde,Kudega,Kua,Zarax,Pichan... - Se esiste un problema esiste anche la sua soluzione, se invece la soluzione non c'è... allora nemmeno il problema sussiste!!! =
Re: [newbie-it] Aiuto su installazione MANDRAKE 9.1
On 14.10.2003 17:32, Claudio Callocchia wrote: sono un 'newbie' quindi non meravigliatevi delle mie richieste ho avuto un nuovo PC che consiste in un 'Athlon xp' da 2400 Mhz funzionante a 2000 Mhz Premetto che non so rispondere alla tua domanda.. l'unica cosa che farei in questo caso è tentare di installare la versione 9.2 ma non penso che possa risolvere il tuo problema... Quello che ti volevo chiedere è perchè se hai in 2400 lo fai andare a 2000 ?!?!? E poi con 2400 intendi un 2400+ o proprio un 2400Mhz? Ciao Davide
[newbie-it] Periferiche IDE: problemi assortiti
Ciao, le ultime discussioni su lettori cd, k3b, icone sul desktop ecc. mi hanno portato alla luce una serie di problemini: premetto che la mia configurazione (un po' stramba) prevede: hdb = scd0 è il cdrom montato su /mnt/cdrom hdc è il dvd montato su /mnt/cdrom2 hdd = scd1 è il masterizzatore montato su /mnt/cdwriter 1) Avevo provato a disabilitare il supermount per queste periferiche, e ho creato dei collegamenti ad hoc sul desktop per ognuna di esse. Quando accedevo al cd,dvd o al master. mi compariva sul desktop un'ulteriore icona del tipo CDROM montato su /mnt/..., che spariva allo smontaggio. E' normale? Si può evitare che succeda (e che cambi semplicemente l'icona del collegamento fatto a mano, p.es.?) 2) Dopo aver applicato l'emulazione scsi del cdrom non riuscivo più a sentire i cd audio con xmms. Ho risolto il problema facendo puntare il collegamento simbolico /dev/cdrom a /dev/scd0 (che a sua volta punta a /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd). Non riesco però a sentire i cd audio inseriti nel dvd. I brani vengono caricati e partono regolarmente, ma non si sente niente. E' dovuto al fatto che il dvd, a differenza del cdrom, non ha il cavetto di collegamento con la scheda audio? (però l'audio dei dvd lo sento perfettamente lo stesso...) 3) ... adesso non mi ricordo più qual'era il terzo problema ;-) Beh, se qualcuno potesse darmi qualche dritta sui primi due gliene sarei molto grato. Ciao Moreno
Re: [newbie-it] Download Manager
Tutto era filato liscio fino alle 22:49, mercoledì 15 ottobre 2003, quando NIC ha scritto: kget, che appare tra gli strumenti di konqueror non va bene? Mi spiegheresti a me come funziona? Grazie NIC Io ogni tanto lo uso, è una specie di Getright e ha l'opzione per integrarsi con Konqueror. Ma io che uso Firebird come browser ho trovato comoda l'opzione modalità auto incolla che avvia lo scaricamento automatico di quello che è copiato negli appunti (il link al file da scaricare, in questo caso). Certo che se lo lasci attivo in background a volte questa opzione rompe un po' le palle quando fai copia-incolla su altri file ;-) Ciao Moreno
Re: [newbie-it] Periferiche IDE: problemi assortiti
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 22:51, Moreno T wrote: 2) Dopo aver applicato l'emulazione scsi del cdrom non riuscivo più a sentire i cd audio con xmms. Ho risolto il problema facendo puntare il collegamento simbolico /dev/cdrom a /dev/scd0 (che a sua volta punta a /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd). Non riesco però a sentire i cd audio inseriti nel dvd. I brani vengono caricati e partono regolarmente, ma non si sente niente. E' dovuto al fatto che il dvd, a differenza del cdrom, non ha il cavetto di collegamento con la scheda audio? (però l'audio dei dvd lo sento perfettamente lo stesso...) prima li sentivi normalmente? (mi pare strano) come sai i cd audio non hanno fs,è vengono interpretati direttamente dalla sk audio.al contrario i dvd devono essere codificati da software sia audio che video. magari sbaglio.ma credo che tu abbia proprio ragione. -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ 7:) Reagan. Slack 9.0 Linux user Tattari_manna aka plugs Mauro... un'ammaestratore di liste ... un incubo!
Re: [newbie-it] Periferiche IDE: problemi assortiti
Tutto era filato liscio fino alle 00:23, giovedì 16 ottobre 2003, quando tom ha scritto: prima li sentivi normalmente? (mi pare strano) No, hai ragione, li sentivo anche prima solamente nel cdrom. Ho creato confusione mettendo assieme il pb del dvd con quello del cdrom emulato scsi. Grazie comunque per la risposta. Ciao Moreno
Re: [newbie-it] Download Manager
Il mer, 2003-10-15 alle 22:45, NIC ha scritto: Ho scaricato da rpm find la 2.4.1-2mdk.i586.me la sono installata correttamente, solo he quando tento di aprirla,dopo pochi secondi mi scompare senza lasciare traccia e senza nessuna finestra di errore. Cosa può essere? Ho la stessa identica versione e non da problemi... Prova ad aprire un terminale e a lanciarlo da li, così puoi leggere i messaggi di errore. -- Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] Download Manager
Tutto era filato liscio fino alle 00:39, giovedì 16 ottobre 2003, quando Corrado ha scritto: Prova ad aprire un terminale e a lanciarlo da li, così puoi leggere i messaggi di errore. Anch'io ho la stessa versione (installata da rpm) Questi sono i messaggi di errore: # nt (nt:2818): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading menu image: Image header corrupt (nt:2818): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading menu image: Image header corrupt (nt:2818): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading menu image: Image header corrupt (nt:2818): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading menu image: Image header corrupt Floating point exception Moreno
Re: [newbie-it] Web-Cam + scanner
Io ho un problema riconducibile alla stessa categoria: ho una digitale fujifilm ex-10 (non la comprate), che supporta i due driver DSC e PC: ora: attaccata windows e con l'immancabile ausilio dei driver proprietari la macchinetta funziona correttamente DSC--webcam PC---macchina digitale attaccata a Lin Mdk 9.1 invece: 1)per riconoscere la macchina come USB Mass Storage, devo esplicitamente settare su PC il driver della fujii prima di attaccarla al computer (sto dicendo che se per esempio è già su PC io devo fare PC--DSC---PC), ma in compenso non ho bisogno di alcun driver proprietario. 2) Se non setto esplicitamente il driver: a) sul desktop appare automaticamente l'icona di una utility grafica per l'importazione, ma nei suoi menù la fujii che posseggo non è presente, b) nel centro di controllo di MDK al riconoscimento dell'Hardware la macchina fotografica viene riconosciuta come uno scanner mah... bye Alfredo PS: Per chi potesse aiutarmi su altri fronti My Linux History 1) Il root hub non funziona con MDK 9.1, con Suse 8.2 si 2) Il nokia 5510 non è riconosciuto, devo immettere la stringa per l'unusual_device e ricompilare il kernel ho una paura tremenda, non l'ho mai fatto 3) Ancora non ho capito di che marca è il modem Good News: 1) Ho installato i driver nvidia ed ho potuto apprezzare l'accelerazione 3D 2) ho installato nokryptia Nevermind wrote: Dunque, ho uno Scanner Mustek 1200 UB Plus, correttamente configurato grazie a consigli dati tempo addietro in questa ML, su una porta USB, ed una WEB-CAM Creative webcam go plus su un'altra porta USB. Se lascio staccata la web, lo scanner viene montato regolarmente all'avvio e funziona. Se invece la lascio attaccata, lo scanner non viene montato e per farglielo vedere devo staccare e riattaccare il cavo. Come mai mi dà questo problema? Esiste un modo per configurare anche la go plus della Creative, che al momento non mi viene riconosciuta dal sistema?
Re: [newbie-it] Primi passi in MySQL
E' inutile che tu faccia finta di nulla e ti guardi intorno, caro kudega, perche' ho le prove, il mercoledì 15 ottobre 2003, alle 00:21 hai scritto: Ho provato a digitare i primi comandi seguendo la guida mysql tipo Iniziai anch'io con i passi della guida, ma ahime', non riuscii a venirne fuori indenne. Tra l'altro era in inglese: sai se l'ahho tradotta? Per imparare ad usare Mysql, almeno per le basi e per l'importazione di massa dei vecchi dati che avevo gia' catalogato sotto win$, ho usato alcuni articoli usciti su riviste italiane; in particolare consiglio caldamente quelli apparsi su LinuxC: credo siano in tutto tre, un minicorso molto utile e chiaro (ho imparato anche a fare script che interagiscano con mysql). Quanto alla tua domanda, mi pare ti abbiano gia' risposto, cmq si', la prima cosa da fare e' modificare il database che gestisce gli accessi, tramite grant. Io non ho ancora le idee chiare in merito (una volta sistemato tutto non me ne sono piu' occupata), ma con quegli articoletti ne venni fuori. Arwan -- There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones.
Re: [newbie] tax software?
Hello Eric, Tuesday, October 14, 2003, 7:04:08 PM, you wrote: EH I'm sure it's too late for this year, but now might be a good time EH to flood turbotax and taxcut with requests for a linux version. EH They already have mac and windows... I had several talks with their management last year about the obnoxious product activation. At that time they said they had NO interest in a linux version. IF M$ does not buy them out, and pushes a competing product, the linux version might start to look a lot better to them. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
After ca. 6 hrs, I've still only got about 10% downloaded (with DSL). Only got about 43 hours to go. Wooo h!! Not too impressed with Bittorent so far g. Yes BT is a bit hit and miss. I got 45kb/s no problem with the test but am now getting a paulty 4kb/s with the real thing. No tacker errors as yet. As long as I get it down before 9.3 comes out... :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 7:59am up 28 days 21:12, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.06, 0.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mirrors already deleting 9.1/contrib
Just a heads up. Even though Mandrake 9.2 only came out yesterday I have noticed that 9.1/contrib has **already** been deleted from my favourite mirror (rediris.es) If anyone has trouble installing packages then check your mirror. I have also noticed that on rediris.es 9.2/contrib does not have an hdlist2.cz file so I cannot use it as a urpmi source. I am not too worried at the moment because I am running Cooker (virtually identical to 9.2) Has anyone got a good mirror for 9.2/contrib ? derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. -- Len Lawrence -- Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy way to update Gaim to 0.70?
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:28:19 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: yes it *did* update... I watched it go. so? Okay, try this (should've thought of this sooner): urpmi --texstar gaim that way it will not go and get from contrib or whatever instead. if *that* doesn't work, go to Texstar's site and download the RPM manually. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/gaim-0.71-1tex.i586.rpm -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:49:33 +0100 Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? What type of modem is it? If it is simply an ethernet connection, then the only software you will need is probably included in Mandrake, ie. something like KPPPoE, maybe not even that if they are using a direct connection without PPPoE. In that case you just plug it in and it gets an IP from the ISP's DHCP server. If it's a USB modem, the story might be a lot different, maybe not, depends on the modem. I would definitely complain like hell that they were not even willing to *attempt* to help you. Also, contact your local LUG and see if there are any other customers of this provider who can give more specific info. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. -- Tom Lehrer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy way to update Gaim to 0.70?
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 10:44 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:28:19 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: yes it *did* update... I watched it go. so? Okay, try this (should've thought of this sooner): urpmi --texstar gaim that way it will not go and get from contrib or whatever instead. if *that* doesn't work, go to Texstar's site and download the RPM manually. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1 /rpms/gaim-0.71-1tex.i586.rpm I think that should be urpmi --media texstar gaim derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:49, Len Lawrence wrote: working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. That was all he needed. The hardware (mac adress) registers itself and gets an IP adress assigned by the cable company. Mdk does that faster...the guy's a nitwit. Just connect and let MCC do the rest. It usually takes some time to register the first time up. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnumeric where is it? How can i call it?
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:42:54 -0700 (PDT) emim limam [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hi everyone, I want to use gnumeric on my old pc. i download it and rmp it and it told me it is installed. But i am not able to call the program from shell. And it is not on my applications list or menu list how could i call gnumeric to work with it either from run command, shell or if there is anotherway around. Thx for help in advance. emin If it *is* installed, you should be able to simple call it from the command line like you tried: gnumeric (case sensitive remember!) if it is not coming up, it is either not installed properly or not in your PATH, most likely the former. as root, do: updatedb then as regular user do: locate gnumeric Post the output here. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy way to update Gaim to 0.70?
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:08:22 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I think that should be urpmi --media texstar gaim you are correct sir! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ If you put it off long enough, it might go away. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Asus L3D notebook compatibility
Good morning, I would only want to know if this LAPTOP has no problems with LINUX. Thanks anyway. __ Carlos Dias, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PowerOn, Lda. Rua João Pedro Ribeiro, 846 4000-306 Porto Portugal Tel: + 351 225 500 373 Fax: + 351 225 519 214 Web:www.poweron.pt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good Article on Linux Filesystems
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:55:04 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Eric is right about potential legal issues with respect to this article though one is left to wonder about the notion of fair use. It would certainly not be my intention to change a dot of the article as that would create major problems with both the the publisher and the author. I think it's called plagarism. :-) One thing I just noticed: This article is excerpted from the recently published book Linux Power Tools So it's not Newsforge at all we should be concerned about. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
The windows software you have been given registers the modem on their network and allows the modem to download the correct software into it to set the download upload speeds etc.. Howeveer, you should be able to install the modem manually, it takes a little effort. If you go to http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/broadjump.html follow the instructions under 'Doing without the Broadband Installer you *should* be able to install it OK. Hope this helps. Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Len Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 October 2003 10:50 To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. -- Len Lawrence -- Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. -- ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mirrors already deleting 9.1/contrib
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 04:48, Derek Jennings wrote: Just a heads up. Even though Mandrake 9.2 only came out yesterday I have noticed that 9.1/contrib has **already** been deleted from my favourite mirror (rediris.es) If anyone has trouble installing packages then check your mirror. I have also noticed that on rediris.es 9.2/contrib does not have an hdlist2.cz file so I cannot use it as a urpmi source. I am not too worried at the moment because I am running Cooker (virtually identical to 9.2) Has anyone got a good mirror for 9.2/contrib ? derek is this deleted? or moved from current -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 04:13, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 10:01, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: i also agree with you, I am not able to get my Bittorrent to work even at HOME!, My system is on DMZ host... STILL not working!!! YPK I'm not even trying, any more:( I finally got logged into club and noticed the 25% price cut on pre-orders for members..so I ordered the PowerPack at MandrakeStore. Maybe better that way. I'll have more fun when it gets here:) good luck, harM I cranked up bit torrent last night, after an hour it told me I have 72 hours left. this morning, I have all 3 isos. -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mirrors already deleting 9.1/contrib
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 11:51 am, ed tharp wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 04:48, Derek Jennings wrote: Just a heads up. Even though Mandrake 9.2 only came out yesterday I have noticed that 9.1/contrib has **already** been deleted from my favourite mirror (rediris.es) If anyone has trouble installing packages then check your mirror. I have also noticed that on rediris.es 9.2/contrib does not have an hdlist2.cz file so I cannot use it as a urpmi source. I am not too worried at the moment because I am running Cooker (virtually identical to 9.2) Has anyone got a good mirror for 9.2/contrib ? derek is this deleted? or moved from current Yes deleted current still points to 9.1 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 07:01, ed tharp wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 04:13, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 10:01, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: i also agree with you, I am not able to get my Bittorrent to work even at HOME!, My system is on DMZ host... STILL not working!!! YPK I'm not even trying, any more:( I finally got logged into club and noticed the 25% price cut on pre-orders for members..so I ordered the PowerPack at MandrakeStore. Maybe better that way. I'll have more fun when it gets here:) good luck, harM I cranked up bit torrent last night, after an hour it told me I have 72 hours left. this morning, I have all 3 isos. and right after I posted that, I realized I bet I also have to have the 3 cd 'download' edition to get the first 3 cds, as well as the 3 powerpack cds (silver club member), oh well I guess it will run until I get home from work -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tax software?
Emailed to them... YPK On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:04, Eric Huff wrote: As far as i can tell, no one support linux (other than web based). I'm sure it's too late for this year, but now might be a good time to flood turbotax and taxcut with requests for a linux version. They already have mac and windows... https://orderupdate.intuit.com/corporate.asp -- screwed up link you have to flounder to to get to feedback mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cool toy
I just used jigl.pl to make thumbnails for a page I was doing, and never having played with it before, I was pleased as punch, and thought that anyone else wanting an automated way to create a web page with click-able thumbnails might like to know about. xome.net/projects/jigl/ requires perl, imagemagick, jhead. -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Call center
Hi everybody! I'd like to make a small call center with my Mdk and a fax modem. Is there any software that makes this? Thank you for your help. Gabor Kum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Genius Wireless Mouse and Keyboard
i make a few of assumptions, since your mail isn't really clear. 1. wireless usb keyboard works in linux, but not before linux boots up. there's a setting in BIOs that is pertinent to this. it's usually called USB Legacy Keyboard or something like that. turn it on, and see if you can then use it before linux boots up. 2. wireless usb mouse doesn't function in Xwindows you need relevant settings in XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file, most probably the 2nd one, usually in your user directory. i assume your previous mouse is a ps2 mouse, which means there is a section in XF86Config that looks like this Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Device /dev/mouse Option Protocol PS/2 EndSection change it to Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option Protocol PS/2 EndSection and hopefully all is well. if it doesn't work, post back here with more info, or if it works, drop a note so that others searching the archives can find it. - Original Message - From: Kyle Hartigan ( Sharpshooter ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 13:37 Subject: RE: [newbie] Genius Wireless Mouse and Keyboard With my wireless keyboard and mouse I dont get any errors a have 1 receiver for both the keyboard and mouse which go into a USB port when I come to lilo I cant use them at all I have to plug a keyboard in the ps2 slot then I select mandrake linux the a can only use the keyboard the mouse dosnt respond and I have tried reconnecting the mouse and keyboard using the switch on them. Kyle Hartigan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.524 / Virus Database: 321 - Release Date: 6/10/2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:49 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I went thru something like this when I hooked up with Charter. I simply told the tech that I was willing to sign to the effect that I took all responsibility for getting the Ambit modem working with my setup. He called his supervisor and that was good enough for them. I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. Hmm, once they provisioned my cable modem, all it took was a simple (as root): ifdown eth0 then ifup eth0 and it acquired everything that was needed. I'm assuming that service network restart would do the same thing. Keep us informed as to how it goes! :-) PS This link may help some: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/ -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
Hi! Could you tell me how can I decode DTMF codes with a sound card? Thanks, Gabor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 VMware
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:39:24 -0400 Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone use VMware successfully on Mandrake 9.2? Paul Works fine. Remember to install the source for the kernel and VMware takes it from there. It's all fresh in my mind after getting the office up on 9.2 last week, in case you need more info. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 03:38 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: On the Mandrake club site there are a few articles on bittorrent and how to make it work. They have tried to make this easy and have been letting people test the bittorrent set-up's before hand. If you are having problems login to the club and read the postings. I had a few errors yesterday, and it was going slow. Left it running all night and I have 8 hours to wait. That's not so bad as I will be at work for 9 so it should be finished by the time I get home. Yeah, it may be a bit slower, but it means more people get it faster. Tony. snip I did the testing and opened the suggested ports for port forwarding. Testing worked, but not the real deal. I could connect then but not now. ??? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
-Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:42 PM On Wednesday 15 October 2003 03:38 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: On the Mandrake club site there are a few articles on bittorrent and how to make it work. They have tried to make this easy and have been letting people test the bittorrent set-up's before hand. If you are having problems login to the club and read the postings. I had a few errors yesterday, and it was going slow. Left it running all night and I have 8 hours to wait. That's not so bad as I will be at work for 9 so it should be finished by the time I get home. Yeah, it may be a bit slower, but it means more people get it faster. Tony. snip I did the testing and opened the suggested ports for port forwarding. Testing worked, but not the real deal. I could connect then but not now. ??? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 I had a few error's last night, but I just left it and went to bed. This morning when I got up I had 8 hours left to go. I was getting more uploaded than downloaded last night but that had changed by this morning. It is possibly cause it is still newish who knows. I have used it a few times before on Linux and Windows and had similar error's on both os's but it does still seem to work. I agree with others that the speed is not the best. That will hopefully be fixed in the not to distant future but it does look good for what it is capable of. Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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] 9.2 VMware
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:20:33 -0400 LW wrote: |On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:39:24 -0400 |Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Does anyone use VMware successfully on Mandrake 9.2? | Paul | | |Works fine. Remember to install the source for the kernel and |VMware takes it from there. | |It's all fresh in my mind after getting the office up on 9.2 last |week, in case you need more info. | |Lee Does it matter if it's v3 of v4? I've got v3 but just haven't taken the time yet to get it running on 9.1 yet. Will it also work on 9.2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Permissions solution
Apparently, when you create a FAT32 partition during installation Linux mounts the partition as readonly. Or more specifically, doesn't give permissions for any other user. This makes sense. Editing the appropriate line in /etc/fstab adding my userid with rw permissions, un-mounting, and then remounting seemed to do the trick. I'm now copying over all my backed up mp3s from CDs to /mp3s. Regards, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Permissions solution On Wednesday 15 October 2003 03:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carroll, The problem is solved. As far as the reply setting goes, it is blank. How did you solve that? Was it the mounting permissions? Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Call center
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:53, Kum Gábor wrote: Hi everybody! I'd like to make a small call center with my Mdk and a fax modem. Is there any software that makes this? Thank you for your help. Gabor Kum There's a mini howto on callback with linux. If you don't have it (on CD or system): www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/call-back-2 or: www.bdcol.ee/linux/callback.shtml Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:00, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:49 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I went thru something like this when I hooked up with Charter. I simply told the tech that I was willing to sign to the effect that I took all responsibility for getting the Ambit modem working with my setup. He called his supervisor and that was good enough for them. I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. Hmm, once they provisioned my cable modem, all it took was a simple (as root): ifdown eth0 then ifup eth0 and it acquired everything that was needed. I'm assuming that service network restart would do the same thing. Keep us informed as to how it goes! :-) PS This link may help some: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/ Happened likewise here. There was sheer panic in the eyes of the guy who came to install when he saw it was Linux;) Gave him a cup of coffee, said watch me do it, and yell whoa if you think I'll break something. He was stunned that I had it up and running before he'd even had a chance to sip his coffee. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 13:25, ed tharp wrote: and right after I posted that, I realized I bet I also have to have the 3 cd 'download' edition to get the first 3 cds, as well as the 3 powerpack cds (silver club member), oh well I guess it will run until I get home from work Huhh?? You need those too to install? Those PowPack CD's aren't the first 3 install CD's? Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good Article on Linux Filesystems
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:06:35 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: If you thikn it's a good article, then sure, put it on the wiki! this one, even more depth, about optimizing performance. from a presentation at a local LUG meeting: http://robert.timetraveller.org/talks/optimisation/ -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good Article on Linux Filesystems
One thing I just noticed: This article is excerpted from the recently published book Linux Power Tools So it's not Newsforge at all we should be concerned about. Yeah, Newsforge said to ask the publisher for permission. That's about when i got lazy... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tax software?
EH I'm sure it's too late for this year, but now might be a good EH time to flood turbotax and taxcut with requests for a linux EH version. They already have mac and windows... I had several talks with their management last year about the obnoxious product activation. At that time they said they had NO interest in a linux version. IF M$ does not buy them out, and pushes a competing product, the linux version might start to look a lot better to them. At least turbotax did listen to the backlash about the spyware they installed. They even have a way to uninstall last years... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
Gave him a cup of coffee, said watch me do it, and yell whoa if you think I'll break something. LOL. That's great. When I was setting up 9.1 with my cable service it was really simple. I used Comcast and all I needed was the hostname that Comcast needed to 'see' on my system. During installation, I selected DHCP, popped in my hostname and everything has been good to go. You don't need the proprietary software (in most cases at least) that the cable company wants to install. Usually all it is is their custom version of IE and a bunch of links to go on your desktop. All Windows crap really. Anyhow, as mentioned you really only need to know how the cable company authenticates your modem, DHCP or static IP, and probably a hostname. YMMV, -A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:00, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:49 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I went thru something like this when I hooked up with Charter. I simply told the tech that I was willing to sign to the effect that I took all responsibility for getting the Ambit modem working with my setup. He called his supervisor and that was good enough for them. I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. Hmm, once they provisioned my cable modem, all it took was a simple (as root): ifdown eth0 then ifup eth0 and it acquired everything that was needed. I'm assuming that service network restart would do the same thing. Keep us informed as to how it goes! :-) PS This link may help some: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/ Happened likewise here. There was sheer panic in the eyes of the guy who came to install when he saw it was Linux;) Gave him a cup of coffee, said watch me do it, and yell whoa if you think I'll break something. He was stunned that I had it up and running before he'd even had a chance to sip his coffee. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
Well, shiznit. I thought I was ahead of the curve. That's gottat be false advertising. Sorry y'all. -Original Message- From: Avi Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process downloading from a mirror site. -Original Message- On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:26 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: 9.2 is out for club members Saw that, but I am not able to connect to a tracker, how bout anyone else? I am downloading it now via bitTorrent. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cool toy
Thanks Ed! I've actually been needing this, but haven't had a chance to look... --- ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just used jigl.pl to make thumbnails for a page I was doing, and never having played with it before, I was pleased as punch, and thought that anyone else wanting an automated way to create a web page with click-able thumbnails might like to know about. xome.net/projects/jigl/ requires perl, imagemagick, jhead. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mirrors already deleting 9.1/contrib
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 15, 2003 05:21 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 11:51 am, ed tharp wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 04:48, Derek Jennings wrote: Just a heads up. Even though Mandrake 9.2 only came out yesterday I have noticed that 9.1/contrib has **already** been deleted from my favourite mirror (rediris.es) If anyone has trouble installing packages then check your mirror. I have also noticed that on rediris.es 9.2/contrib does not have an hdlist2.cz file so I cannot use it as a urpmi source. I am not too worried at the moment because I am running Cooker (virtually identical to 9.2) Has anyone got a good mirror for 9.2/contrib ? derek is this deleted? or moved from current Yes deleted current still points to 9.1 derek I looked for an hdlist2.cz on every mirror I could reach yesterday, no such beast in any of the 9.2 trees. Still none showing now either. Like you I have this box cooked so it hardly matters, and if I really needed to I could sync a 9.2 tree locally and force a genhdlist against that. Probably/maybe/could be. (-: It's what I've done to generate current cooker ISOs to burn to install from for friends; with the proviso that it's *cooker* and risky, and they only get it if they join the club or buy a box set or at least the Discovery Edition from the store. Or both. If they want my help they'll play by my rules or find someone else to bug. g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 09:37:55 up 24 days, 23:00, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.09 Ad astra per aspera. [To the stars by aspiration.] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE/jWwxG11CaRuZZSIRAimzAJj1q8dY4jkgBKgFRwHXI0SRa0RTAJ94Mgcd pN8yryibfoao7aEu97EIlg== =Bnu5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Public Library Mandrake HOWTO?
Hi all, I've got a couple 200 Mhz 128 MB Dells that I'd like to throw Mandrake on for the local Library. I put 9.1 on it, but I think that's to much for it - even running IceWM. Are there any HOWTOs similar to what I'm trying to accomplish here? Users will need to be locked down as not to tamper with configuration or install any software. However, tasks such as web browsing, chatting (multi user?), viewing multimedia, and using office applications will be standard usage. If not, what do you suggst I do for these systems? I still have the MDK 8.2 disks, but Mandrake dropped support for this version - this could lead to a comprimised system. Thanks in advance, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 15, 2003 03:49 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. That should have been sufficient Len. Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? No it isn't true. At least here in Canada. The cable company here has the usual disclaimer programmed into the hell desk denizens too but they never argue about any software required, just a way to configure the hardware. The local tel-co told a neighbour of mine last Wednesday that they couldn't support 'lienux' (that's how the lad pronounced it) since their ADSL software was designed for Windows only. I called customer service for her and told them that was crap, since the only requirement they actually have is the hardware address of the NIC. They shut up and did it manually and she's running a Cooker install. She has since ordered a Discovery Edition of Mandrake Linux 9.2 Canicule. She really likes it. Says Windows sure sucks compared to this, doesn't it? I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. The DHCP servers have to log the MAC address against an assigned IP number activate the lease then enable DNS access and response. That is all, as far as I've ever been able to determine, any connection to an ISP requires. Good luck Len. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 09:48:53 up 24 days, 23:11, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.07 The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jW/zG11CaRuZZSIRAh9yAJ4vgJviv1jnuBTa6QXBFQ5uFu6nCACdGP+4 hgHMkJBrzni0EV3iIgWkr+g= =pJKQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
Len Lawrence wrote: Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. I had the same sort of arguement with CenturyTel. My solution was to buy a small D-Link DI-604 router (about $20). The router fights the battle with their modem, DHCP/DNS servers, etc. (It even includes its own littlde firewall, so now, I get an extra Linux box for FREE. ) I plug all my Linux machines, Windows machines (via another little router) and security cameras into the D-Link router. Reboot everything, and BANG! It all works. No sweat. No tears. Harv / AI9NL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mirrors already deleting 9.1/contrib
Hello Derek, Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 1:48:49 AM, you wrote: DJ Just a heads up. DJ Even though Mandrake 9.2 only came out yesterday I have noticed that DJ 9.1/contrib has **already** been deleted from my favourite mirror DJ (rediris.es) This was the topic I brought up a short time ago before 9.2 came out. I was worried 9.1 code would disappear quickly. The same thing happened when 9.1 came out (I was till trying to get 9.0 running). I finally switched to 9.1 because it was too hard to get the 9.0 programs I was looking for. List members were reassuring me that the 9.1 code would be around for a while and there would be no problems getting 9.1 code when 9.2 came out. Maybe it's not as easy as everyone was suggesting. :-) -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Public Library Mandrake HOWTO?
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:53:15 -0700 (PDT) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've got a couple 200 Mhz 128 MB Dells that I'd like to throw Mandrake on for the local Library. I put 9.1 on it, but I think that's to much for it - even running IceWM. I would recommend XFCE4, it's easy to install, thanks to Todd Slater there are RPMs on the site, and is extremely light, should run fine on those machines, I know it did on my P233 with similar memory. http://www.xfce.org/ If it is possible, I might recommend picking up some additional RAM, SDRAM for those boxes is cheaper than duck shit right now, you can pick up a 128MB stick for about 20 or 30 dollars. Are there any HOWTOs similar to what I'm trying to accomplish here? Users will need to be locked down as not to tamper with configuration or install any software. However, tasks such as web browsing, chatting (multi user?), viewing multimedia, and using office applications will be standard usage. Generally, as long as the individual users do not have the root password, they will not be able to go beyond what you want them to do. The only access they will have is to their own dir, and if you set up only one general user, like a 'guest' account, then you seriously minimize the admin and maintenance aspects. They *would* need to have write perms to this home dir, though, even to do simple browsing and such, as config files are created and changed by the applications in general use. Most config files, though, are hidden, so unless the user is fairly savvy, they would not even see these files if they opened a file manager or terminal. You could very easily hide access to a terminal window or file manager simply by not having one available through the GUI. Set the security level to just higher than standard and you should have no problems, certainly far less than you would on a Windows box. If not, what do you suggst I do for these systems? I still have the MDK 8.2 disks, but Mandrake dropped support for this version - this could lead to a comprimised system. I would even suggest grabbing the latest 9.2 release, there have been some enhancements and fixes that are fairly significant. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ No matter where I go, the place is always called here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Public Library Mandrake HOWTO?
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:53:15 -0700 (PDT) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've got a couple 200 Mhz 128 MB Dells that I'd like to throw Mandrake on for the local Library. I put 9.1 on it, but I think that's to much for it - even running IceWM. I would recommend XFCE4, it's easy to install, thanks to Todd Slater there are RPMs on the site, and is extremely light, should run fine on those machines, I know it did on my P233 with similar memory. http://www.xfce.org/ If it is possible, I might recommend picking up some additional RAM, SDRAM for those boxes is cheaper than duck shit right now, you can pick up a 128MB stick for about 20 or 30 dollars. Are there any HOWTOs similar to what I'm trying to accomplish here? Users will need to be locked down as not to tamper with configuration or install any software. However, tasks such as web browsing, chatting (multi user?), viewing multimedia, and using office applications will be standard usage. Generally, as long as the individual users do not have the root password, they will not be able to go beyond what you want them to do. The only access they will have is to their own dir, and if you set up only one general user, like a 'guest' account, then you seriously minimize the admin and maintenance aspects. They *would* need to have write perms to this home dir, though, even to do simple browsing and such, as config files are created and changed by the applications in general use. Most config files, though, are hidden, so unless the user is fairly savvy, they would not even see these files if they opened a file manager or terminal. You could very easily hide access to a terminal window or file manager simply by not having one available through the GUI. Set the security level to just higher than standard and you should have no problems, certainly far less than you would on a Windows box. If not, what do you suggst I do for these systems? I still have the MDK 8.2 disks, but Mandrake dropped support for this version - this could lead to a comprimised system. I would even suggest grabbing the latest 9.2 release, there have been some enhancements and fixes that are fairly significant. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ No matter where I go, the place is always called here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux Power Tools (WAS Good Article on Linux Filesystems)
One thing that's a rarity in the part of Canada that I live in is a book that acknowledges that Mandrake even exists. So you can imagine my delight when the cover of a recent release by Sybex called Linux Power Tools said it covered Mandrake. Imagine even further my delight to see Mandrake handled on a par with Red Hat and SuSe rather than being parked in a deep dark appendix. The book covers just about everything you want covered in the setup and maintenance of a system. Bear in mind though that it's not going to cover everything. What it does cover, in dizzying array, is hardware tools, user tools, system administration tools, networking and server tools. I say in dizzyin array because it covers all differences in the different distros that it covers. No one size fits all here. Where Mandrake handles things uniquely that is covered. A notable exception is urpmi which, sadly, isn't in any detail. This seems to be that urpmi has no gui to automate updates. MCC, msec and others are fully covered though. The writer appears to be very familiar with our favourite bird in the penguin flock and has used it to demonstrate the KDE enviornment using a 9.1 beta. It's targeted at Intermediate/Advanced users, though a newbie might get some very good ideas from it. The reason that this isn't a full review is that I'm still working through it. :-) That said I'd recommend it highly. The author is Roderick W. Smith, a columnist in Linux Magazine and author of Linux Samba Server Administration: and Linux+ Study Guide. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good Article on Linux Filesystems
On October 15, 2003 08:17 am, Eric Huff wrote: One thing I just noticed: This article is excerpted from the recently published book Linux Power Tools So it's not Newsforge at all we should be concerned about. Yeah, Newsforge said to ask the publisher for permission. That's about when i got lazy... That's not a bad idea. Actually, as the book in question covers Mandrake specifically and not as an add on or appendix I can't see the publisher denying us the ability to use this on Twiki. It might spur sales after all. :-) I should have recognized it because I have the book and, in a seperate email in a new thread, I recommend it with a very high level review. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Public Library Mandrake HOWTO?
Been there, Done that! Can you say LTSP Tango? IMHO, it's a much better solution than independant installs. Write me off list if you need to know more. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/15/2003 at 8:53 AM Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, I've got a couple 200 Mhz 128 MB Dells that I'd like to throw Mandrake on for the local Library. I put 9.1 on it, but I think that's to much for it - even running IceWM. Are there any HOWTOs similar to what I'm trying to accomplish here? Users will need to be locked down as not to tamper with configuration or install any software. However, tasks such as web browsing, chatting (multi user?), viewing multimedia, and using office applications will be standard usage. If not, what do you suggst I do for these systems? I still have the MDK 8.2 disks, but Mandrake dropped support for this version - this could lead to a comprimised system. Thanks in advance, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] linux complient notebooks
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 8:48 pm, Franki wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be general purpose using productivity apps and also video and audio playing from cds and dvds in addition to internet oriented jobs. I have just just gotten a Dell Inspiron 5150, 3.06gig Mobile Pention 4. 512MB DDR. Geforce FX5200 go. 60 gig HDD. TM1300 b/g wireless. I have not loaded linux on it yet, was waiting for Mandrake 9.2 however I did start the machine with knoppix and it all seemed to work fine. Didn't try the wireless but some searching on the net shows it is possible to work, but you have to compile a module to do it. (no biggie). When mdk9.2 comes out, I will be documenting all the steps I took to get it working and link it on the Twiki. Thanks for the response. After Asus A7N8X deluxe MB and asus v9180SE video card in my desktop, I am wary of video system and MB chipsets. knoppix 3.2 works OK even in my desktop with fb without dri. Even closed source binary nvidia driver from their site, doesn't provide dri support. Further MB chipset nvidia nforce2 is not supported by mdk 9.1 stock kernel. I have to download a new kernel without source(I have only dial up connection). Now without source, video driver wont compile. I will wait for your trial with mdk9.2. Any opinion on centrino? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well since Centrino is not as fast as 3.06 gig mobile P4, I chose to go with the later.. Centrino is only of use for those wanting smallest laptop with longest battery life. The 5150 has over 4 hours battery life so its fine for me. Why get a centrino with 802.11b and limit yourself to 11mb transfers, when you can have 802.11b/g in the 5150 and get the full 54mb transfer speed? Centrino is ok, but why pay extra for less CPU grunt? rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufactures to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On October 15, 2003 02:49 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. Ya know I just sit here and giggle at companies that send out alleged techs to do this sort of work. Part timers given a sticker for their car and a Winblows CD and off they go. Funny thing is that in my experience the CD is just about worthless in that it doesn't work 50% of the time. And even funnier is that they assume that all home users will run winblows. Okay..so all that said...here goes. For DSL or cable you gave the tech all he needs to know in the MAC address. All he should need to do is register that address and you're off. Some cable modems handle this differently in that they have their own MAC address and come preconfigured. For DSL you need the MAC. So the simple thing at your end to to make sure the provider has, in fact, registered your MAC address with your provider against your account. Now comes the really difficult part. (I'm feeling wicked this morning. :-) ) Pull up MCC then go to your internet/network choice and set up eth0 (or eth1 if that's where it is) as DHCP client. Let MCC load whatever packages it needs and let it restart the network. You should now have your IP from your provider. Try to surf. If you can..you're on. If you can't I'll bet dollars to donuts that your provider is having a hissy fit because you're using Linux and haven't properly registered your MAC against your account. Bug the hell out of them. I've been in the telecom business for 30 years and it never ceases to amaze me how totally ignorant the MSCE's who run DSL for telecoms are. The fact that I get calls in the field every day about this tends to prove it. Support couldn't tell me how to do this but they said you knew! Somehow this always happens when I'm on top a pole in the pouring rain. Sheesh! Add this to the fact that the IT people are running all the DSL servers on, ta da!!!, Linux or OpenBSD. Particularly after Slammer the quickest way to get fired from our IT department is to deploy a Windows box pointing the the network cloud. The next step is to turn off/decline all firewalling and anti virus at your provider and make darn sure they haven't given you a modem with the hardware firewall in place. Those things cause more trouble than they prevent. Note that the provider site firewall/antivirus is a customer option not thier own firewalls. Haywire Mac has the right way to prepare for an oddball way of connecting DSL that's often used in Europe and is used by some companies in North America (can anyone say S-P-R-I-N-T?). After that the above should apply. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wallpaper
Ok, we now know which wallpaper this is, but which KDE theme is it? Thanks, Max Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 10/12/2003 03:26:24 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:[newbie] wallpaper hi does anybody know where to downlaod this wallpaper? http://images.mandrakesoft.com/img/screenshots/mdk91-scr2.jpg remo 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] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On October 15, 2003 09:22 am, Harv Nelson wrote: snip I had the same sort of arguement with CenturyTel. My solution was to buy a small D-Link DI-604 router (about $20). The router fights the battle with their modem, DHCP/DNS servers, etc. (It even includes its own littlde firewall, so now, I get an extra Linux box for FREE. ) I plug all my Linux machines, Windows machines (via another little router) and security cameras into the D-Link router. Reboot everything, and BANG! It all works. No sweat. No tears. Harv / AI9NL You can see my reply to Len and company about what I think of people like that. Don't count on that little firewall. Slammer got through it. The DLink is a nice piece of hardware but the firewall leaves much to be desired. It can scew up IM or prevent it compeletly. DCC file transfers on IM or IRC are next to impossible in most cases. Do install tripwire at least on your main Linux box and pay attention to it. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK9.2 Standard vs. Power Pack.
Hi All, Can Anyone tell me the difecence between: - 3 ISOs of the Download Edition, - The first 3 ISOs of the PowerPack. Thanks in advance. = []'s Lucio Costa Linux user #204519 Mandrake Club Member. We do what we can, we give what we have Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task The rest is the madness of art. Yahoo! Mail - o melhor webmail do Brasil http://mail.yahoo.com.br Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mirrors already deleting 9.1/contrib
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 15, 2003 10:25 am, rikona wrote: Hello Derek, Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 1:48:49 AM, you wrote: DJ Just a heads up. DJ Even though Mandrake 9.2 only came out yesterday I have noticed that DJ 9.1/contrib has **already** been deleted from my favourite mirror DJ (rediris.es) This was the topic I brought up a short time ago before 9.2 came out. I was worried 9.1 code would disappear quickly. The same thing happened when 9.1 came out (I was till trying to get 9.0 running). I finally switched to 9.1 because it was too hard to get the 9.0 programs I was looking for. List members were reassuring me that the 9.1 code would be around for a while and there would be no problems getting 9.1 code when 9.2 came out. Maybe it's not as easy as everyone was suggesting. :-) Maybe it's a matter of looking for it? The admins of the voluntary mirrors have to count cost as well as anyone else so not all are going to keep the full tree of older versions. Some will though. Such as ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/9.1/ For anyone that wants longer access to contrib directories for non-current versions there's always local mirroring with rsync. The entire tree for almost any recent Mandrake Linux release, main, contrib and SRPMS is around 10 GB. If you can afford the bandwidth and the time it might make sense. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 11:44:26 up 25 days, 1:07, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.09, 0.05 If there isn't a population problem, why is the government putting cancer in the cigarettes? - -- the elder Steptoe, c. 1970 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jYmrG11CaRuZZSIRAqKPAJ4xnSX3U4TTcUO/QA+fz+EZTnTHXwCfd7PB V6+tpkppKZw/4dCH7O8h62U= =DRTK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wireless LAN support in Mdk 9.2: Cisco Aironet?
Hi folks, hope you can help me out with this. I am running Mdk 9.1 on a Gateway Solo 9500 laptop. I have from my office a Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card. When I installed 9.1 on the laptop, I was unable to get the wireless card working (well, I was told I could flash it back to a previous firmware to make it work, but being a company asset, not my own, I'm leery to mess with it like that). Does anyone know if 9.2 will provide support for the Cisco Aironet card? In previous attempts to get this card working, I downloaded and installed it seems like half a dozen different PCMCIA and Cisco drivers, all to no avail. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Mark Kirschner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to install additional Software(guile=1.6)?
ok, I installed the second degree/prequisites of the first except guile which is requirement of the first prequisites but it is asking me guile=1.6 and i installed guile-1.6.0-1mdk.rpm and this suppose to provide it but it is still asking me guile=1.6, Is there a special different pack guile=1.6 or i did install the right rpm. If not how could i install from guile-1.6.0.tar.gz If i could install from tar.gz would that be ok or i still need to find guile=1.6? thx in advance for any comments and help emin --- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emim limam wrote: Hi, This is so annoying but how could i install additional software from installation cd 2? I sent this off list , they are a bit terse there these days. Put media in drive, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mount /mnt/cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls /mnt/cdrom Boot/ Mandrake/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake]# ls RPMS2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake]# cd RPMS2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS2]# rpm -i gnumeric-1.0.12-1mdk.i586.rpm It should list the dependencies make a note of them. Then rpm -qa | grep name of package like this, [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS2]# rpm -qa | grep gnumeric gnumeric-1.0.12-1mdk substitute the name of the remaining dependencies. if it cannot find the package installed then find the package on your discs . Use find files , it's on Kstart menu-application-tools-findfiles, enter the name of the package substituting an * for the version number and navigate the path to the /mnt/cdrom directory and tell it to find , make a note which disc they are on. Then install then one at a time, usually libraries first followed last my the end package use, [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS2]# rpm -i name of package [copy and paste the name of package from preferences of the icon] and rpm will install each package. When your done you should have a working gnumeric installed from mandrake CD sources. Hope this helps. Installing software in linux is a more complex business than windblows, but nearly always is a better installation. If at the end of the day you have no Kstart menu entry fir the app then go th MCC and create one. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 Standard vs. Power Pack.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 15, 2003 11:40 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: Hi All, Can Anyone tell me the difecence between: - 3 ISOs of the Download Edition, - The first 3 ISOs of the PowerPack. Proprietary software like Flash, Acrobat Reader, and various and sundry drivers that can't be shipped with a fully GPL compliant download edition. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 12:01:17 up 25 days, 1:23, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.08 Why do we have two eyes? To watch 3-D movies with. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jYu/G11CaRuZZSIRAo0UAJ0VdpX55mVuJjOKsQeu/YDdyNa9SQCfZiz6 yLfTwLLfWf0r85DPdp5PnHc= =Jf/m -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rwho
The rwho service is running on my system by default, and it seems that this is responsible for giving information about my system in the event that someone finger's this IP. Only thing is that since I'm using a hardware firewall, I don't think this will work. Am I correct in believing that I might as well turn that service off or does it have some other function? Thanks, Max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong
This mornin I got up and was readin my email. Much of which was
down on bittorrent (sux!), much of which was very positive. So
what'a heck, I started a 9.2 iso torrent after checking here,
http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/ to see how many givers
and getters were online. After the first hour, my upload connection
was maxed out. Making sending email, even surfing very slow. I was
getting about 5kB/s down, but uploading 12kB/s up. SOS, seemed as
bad as my prior experience gettin cooker iso's with torrent.
-BUT-
Many of the positive on torrent posts, gave the links and even
posted the edits to tweak bittorent to increase performance and not
kill your connection for other use. I decided to try. During my
prior cooker experience, I was usin bittorrent on the CL. This time
I was usin the GUI. So I stopped the current torrent.
Seems all I had to do was edit...
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent/download.py
and change
defaults = [
('max_uploads', None, 2,
^ this was a 4
.and limit upload.
('max_upload_rate', None, 6,
'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),
The 6 was a 0, or unlimited. My adsl connection is only 128
kilobit up, about 14kB/s upload max. More likely 12 in the real
world. So I made the upload rate about 50%, or 6kB/s, 2 getters
instead of 4.
Made a world of difference. My internet connection became
completely usable, yet in the next hour after restarting (it
resumed where it had been stopped) bittorrent started going. Took a
while to ramp up, but then started getting over 300MB/hour (50% of
my normal speed). About 6 times as fast as when I first tried with
the default config.
So I was wrong. Bittorrent does make sense for getting Mandrake
iso's. Specially since Mandrake depends on donated mirror space
and bandwidth, and torrent goes easy on both. And since the
reduced upload rate makes my connection otherwise completely
usable, I intend to keep torrent runnin long after my d/l is
complete. It's only fair to do so. Thanks,
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rwho
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 15, 2003 12:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The rwho service is running on my system by default, and it seems that this is responsible for giving information about my system in the event that someone finger's this IP. Only thing is that since I'm using a hardware firewall, I don't think this will work. Am I correct in believing that I might as well turn that service off or does it have some other function? Thanks, Max That would depend on the hardware firewall now wouldn't it? Any service you don't recognize or need (if you need them you are generally expected to know it -;) should be turned off. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 12:07:19 up 25 days, 1:29, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.06 The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe. -- Bill Murray -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jY07G11CaRuZZSIRAtG2AJ9osC7fdLSkjnEle9xI3xPHkYVfQQCfWu8/ xuHcR+ZImONO5Ir/crDqU2A= =xGKO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: This mornin I got up and was readin my email. Much of which was down on bittorrent (sux!), much of which was very positive. So what'a heck, I started a 9.2 iso torrent after checking here, http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/ to see how many givers and getters were online. After the first hour, my upload connection was maxed out. Making sending email, even surfing very slow. I was getting about 5kB/s down, but uploading 12kB/s up. SOS, seemed as bad as my prior experience gettin cooker iso's with torrent. -BUT- Many of the positive on torrent posts, gave the links and even posted the edits to tweak bittorent to increase performance and not kill your connection for other use. I decided to try. During my prior cooker experience, I was usin bittorrent on the CL. This time I was usin the GUI. So I stopped the current torrent. the default config. So I was wrong. Bittorrent does make sense for getting Mandrake iso's. Specially since Mandrake depends on donated mirror space and bandwidth, and torrent goes easy on both. And since the reduced upload rate makes my connection otherwise completely usable, I intend to keep torrent runnin long after my d/l is complete. It's only fair to do so. Thanks, Tom, is there anything special one has to do to connect with a tracker? Open a port or whatever, I have a Lynksys router with the 688x ports forwarded, but have not gotten a tracker since starting yesterday. The folders were made automagically and files for the iso's but they are 0 bits. Any suggestions? Grasping at straws to make sure I have this set up right. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 8:06 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Jamie Taylor wrote: Oh, and don't bother with Crossover - it takes forever to install anything and then it doesn't work anyway. I put it on one day and took it off in disgust the day after. I disagree with that statement. Crossover-Office is real easy to install in my experience, and works precisely as Codeweavers says it does for supported applications. Supported applications are just selected from a GUI. You just put in the CDs when prompted. If you are installing the Crossover-plugin version, then the supported plugins are downloaded for you over the Internet and installed for you. And if you do have problems, their support staff are the most efficient I have ever encountered. Really nice people. Moreover Codeweavers are the single biggest contributor of code to the Wine project. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions solution
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:55:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm now copying over all my backed up mp3s from CDs to /mp3s. Regards, If you don't have a portable player and space is an issue, you might look at ogg instead of mp3 to get more quality in less space. cheers, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy way to update Gaim to 0.70?
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:44:43 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/gaim-0.71-1tex.i586.rpm the second link workd. the urpmi one did not. Don't know why. Ty. now to figure out where the hell Harm HaywireSmack are hiding. :D Built Femme Tough! *I even have a JPG of the FORD logo with that on it.* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy way to update Gaim to 0.70?
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:08:22 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 10:44 am, HaywireMac wrote: SWIPE I think that should be urpmi --media texstar gaim derek ty derek :) Fe Fi Fo FEMME! I smell the blood of a Derelict Derek! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy way to update Gaim to 0.70?
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 21:07, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:44:43 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9 .1/rpms/gaim-0.71-1tex.i586.rpm the second link workd. the urpmi one did not. Don't know why. Ty. now to figure out where the hell Harm HaywireSmack are hiding. :D Built Femme Tough! *I even have a JPG of the FORD logo with that on it.* Waiting for the auth request, that's real S-M for ya:) ...hèhehè, logged into into irc.freenode.net, channel #mandrakeguru: You won't believe it...there's no guru's there, only me...so I'm ops. A free channel for the taking:) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] svg and wmf
HI ALL, anybody know a linux app that can save .wmfi.e. convert .fig or .svg to .wmf?? Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, Discovery Edition??, WAS: Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:04:02 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIPPITY SNIP SNIP She has since ordered a Discovery Edition of Mandrake Linux 9.2 Canicule. Charlie what is that Discovery Edition thing? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Why torrent is too slow!!!
Hi guys, I´m experimenting download 3 mdk 9.2 iso using torrent, I don't know why but it's too slow. I accessed this link: http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969 and I saw my infos below. Is it normal? BitTorrent download info * tracker version: 3.3 * server time: 2003-10-15 23:05 UTC info hash completedownloading downloaded 003b62fea4d3bd301d364feae6bc30604594112596 293 397 4b53fb281276f855dfa991491a64455e563140a4261 712 1024 ce91553fd644781e6f1d5e24103c047d73a169102 0 1562 0 files 335/359 943/10052983/2993 * info hash: SHA1 hash of the info section of the metainfo (*.torrent) * complete: number of connected clients with the complete file (total: unique IPs/total connections) * downloading: number of connected clients still downloading (total: unique IPs/total connections) * downloaded: reported complete downloads (total: current/all) * transferred: torrent size * total downloaded (does not include partial transfers) Thanks in advance = []'s Lucio Costa Linux user #204519 Mandrake Club Member. We do what we can, we give what we have Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task The rest is the madness of art. Yahoo! Mail - o melhor webmail do Brasil http://mail.yahoo.com.br Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
Greetings, I posted last month message me thinks I got a virus. Well.. I'm almost positive that I don't have a virus. I am still having the locking up problem and I downloaded memtest ISO burned it to a CD and ran the standard tests. It locked up on test 5 with errors in the 5 figures range. I ran it successfully by starting at 5 but the system crashed on 8. According to the documentation on the memtest86 web site, these are the crucial tests that shouldn't fail. Indicating that I have a bad DIMM. I read something about setting up memtest as a selection from the bootloader writing the bad memory blocks to disk and using another program/module to tell the kernel to not use that memory. Has anybody done anything like this? If not too involved I would like to try it before I buy new. In the event that this route is not feasible for any reason, would someone care to comment on the ram that they use and who make quality memory. I know that this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find them on the newbie mailing list archives. The search engine hasn't worked for me yet. If someone remembers the month I'll go back and check it out, no need to add any more bandwith like this sentence :). Thanks, Terry -- Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 9.1 - 2.4.21-0.13mdk | Gnome 2.0 | Evolution 1.4.5 | Opera 7.11 Soyo Dragon Plus K7VXA-ZBA2 256MB RAM Unknown brand AMD Athlon(tm) 1250mhz | nVidia Riva TNT Model 64 | Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A Maxtor 6Y080P0 80GB | Media Electronices CM8738 5 Channel Sound VT6102 Rhine II 10/100 Ethernet | Monitor Sony CPD-A200 --Just a Newbieo- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, Discovery Edition??, WAS: Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 03:19 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:04:02 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIPPITY SNIP SNIP She has since ordered a Discovery Edition of Mandrake Linux 9.2 Canicule. Charlie what is that Discovery Edition thing? Femme It is the newest CD set designed for raw newbies to install Mandrake with a minimum of fuss. I think 2 CDs and you just stick them in with very little input and no partitioning required? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't find a file
A program references the /etc/network/interfaces file, but I don't see this in mandrake...where would this file be? It contains info such as: iface usb0 inet static address 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie]
Is anyone getting bounces from users on the list when posting? Aaron is getting a bunch, but i am not getting any. I assume most people aren't or there'd be more grousing... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bounces from newbie
Sorry, forgot to fill in the subject. Is anyone getting bounces from users on the list when posting? Aaron is getting a bunch, but i am not getting any. I assume most people aren't or there'd be more grousing... thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easy way to update Gaim to 0.70?
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:42:53 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snicky Waiting for the auth request, that's real S-M for ya:) ...hèhehè, logged into into irc.freenode.net, channel #mandrakeguru: You won't believe it...there's no guru's there, only me...so I'm ops. A free channel for the taking:) Good luck, HarM heh how cool :P hm well I was thinking of trying GAIM Finding you both. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, Discovery Edition??, WAS: Telewest broadband connection - nogo
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:08:57 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 03:19 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:04:02 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIPPITY SNIP SNIP She has since ordered a Discovery Edition of Mandrake Linux 9.2 Canicule. Charlie what is that Discovery Edition thing? Femme It is the newest CD set designed for raw newbies to install Mandrake with a minimum of fuss. I think 2 CDs and you just stick them in with very little input and no partitioning required? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Thx Dennis. Muc appreciated. Is it sold retail? Femmes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On October 15, 2003 08:09 am, Kum Gábor wrote: Hi! Could you tell me how can I decode DTMF codes with a sound card? Thanks, Gabor Don't bother..it's a public protocol. Google DTMF and you'll find all 12 codes, the frequencies they use and the duration. Signalling is one of the very few things all telcos agree on. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bounces from newbie
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, forgot to fill in the subject. Is anyone getting bounces from users on the list when posting? Aaron is getting a bunch, but i am not getting any. I assume most people aren't or there'd be more grousing... thanks, eric Aaron is but Aron isn't __ 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] Permissions solution
Good point. I do have a portable mp3 player. And space isn't an issue as the /mp3s partition is 25GB. ;-p -a On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:57, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:55:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm now copying over all my backed up mp3s from CDs to /mp3s. Regards, If you don't have a portable player and space is an issue, you might look at ogg instead of mp3 to get more quality in less space. cheers, Todd __ 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] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong
On Wednesday October 15 2003 02:48 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: So I was wrong. Bittorrent does make sense for getting Mandrake iso's. Specially since Mandrake depends on donated mirror space and bandwidth, and torrent goes easy on both. And since the reduced upload rate makes my connection otherwise completely usable, I intend to keep torrent runnin long after my d/l is complete. It's only fair to do so. Thanks, Tom, is there anything special one has to do to connect with a tracker? Open a port or whatever, I have a Lynksys router with the 688x ports forwarded, but have not gotten a tracker since starting yesterday. The folders were made automagically and files for the iso's but they are 0 bits. Any suggestions? Grasping at straws to make sure I have this set up right. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 You're not askin an expert ;) Shortly after I posted the 'I was wrong' sentiment, the BT GUI crashed. Well, it froze anyhow. I killed it and restarted. But it wouldn't. Here's the steps I took; I used 'rpm -Uvh --force bittorrent-*' to reinstall the bittorrent rpms. That didn't do it. Still no go. So I did a similar deal with it's deps, 'rpm - Uvh --force' libwxPythonGTK2.4-2.4.1.2-3mdk.i586.rpm wxPythonGTK-2.4.1.2-3mdk.i586.rpm (these are all, 9.2 cooker versions, I'm already runnin) Try'd again, still no go. 404. By now I wished I'd never bitched about torrent, or said 'I was wrong' and it 'makes sense'. Last straw; I deleted my bittorrent file and re d/l'd it from Club. Voila!! (or as we say in TX, walja!!). The damn torrent connection started goin again ... right where it left off. So I guess when BT GUI froze, an I killed it, my.torrent file got screwed. Re-install'n the rpms with --force was probly not needed. Re-doin my 'download.py' edits was, again, to limit upload, speed up d/l and keep my connection otherwise usable. As I started off with, this bittorBS is new to me, never been a fan of p2p anyhow. There's a growin consensus of docs, FAQ's, an smart BT people tho. Use the list archives, cooker, expert, an newbie, Club links, plus Google for people smarter than me. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound volume
I'm running 9.1/KDE 3.1 on a ThinkPad T40. Sound works, but the volume is very low on KsCD (barely audible) and doesn't seem to go to speakers that are integral to an external monitor, even if I set the hardware speaker volume control to max. With the same CD under Win2K I can push the volume and distort the sound. System sounds are audible (and play to the monitor mounted speakers), although I would think that I should be able to make them louder than I can. Is there a master volume control hidden somewhere? Any other suggestions are welcome. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
