Re: [newbie] Menu
Tuesday 22 June 2004 02.27 skrev Lee Wiggers: > Lost my kmenus on one box out of 5 upgrading yesterday. > > It's my brother's box (computerphobe) so he probably won't notice, > but it offends my sense of "right". > > Of course I haven't kept notes on the many posts with this problem > because I've never had it happen to me. > > Can someone enlighten me? > > 9.2 on kde > tmb enterprise kernel > > TIA > > Lee su to root and enter update-menus -v then do the same in your user account. /Pedro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernel 2.6 and 9.2
Hi All, I there a know problem with 9.2 and Kernel 2.6? I installed 6.2 and boot into the system with no problems,until I tried to use K3B.The program would not start,so I used XKill to stop it.When I reboot, the info on the boot screen said I had not unmount my Home partition. When I got into KDE the hard drive light stayed on,and the Teac CD-writer active light l stayed on,like I was using the drive.When I reboot again I received a string of error messages,about Home not been unmount. I booted into Gnome and did not get the H/D or Writer problem,until I tried to use the writer again.So when I shut down the PC,i had the unmount problem again,when I went back to Gnome the problems above start again. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LM10 and AMD Athlon 1.3 MHz
- Original Message - From: "OOzy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:04 AM Subject: [newbie] LM10 and AMD Athlon 1.3 MHz > Would LM10 work with my old AMD Athlon 1.3 MHz I have 10.0 installed on an Athlon and a Duron. Both are 1.2 Mhz and they both work fine. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Can't download LM10
My Internet connection sucks slow and I would like to but LM10 from online. I found one site that sells (I think the download version) for $8.95. What do you think? Is there a trustworthy site that you recommend? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] LM10 and AMD Athlon 1.3 MHz
Would LM10 work with my old AMD Athlon 1.3 MHz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Web Cams
Okay, one of the things I'd really like to get rolling again now that I've pretty much settled in and adjusted to Mandrake after blowing off windows is my web cam. When I first switched over, I did a google search for drivers for my cheapo Windows cam I picked up with employee discount at Radio Shack (Yes, I work there... unfortunately! Looking to change that when I can!). None that I've found. Anyone know where I can pick up anything for the 25-3006 Radio Shack PC camera? We don't make the cheap P.O.S. anymore, but it seems to work okay on windows, especially for something that I only paid $15 + tax for while it was on sale, with employee discount. And failing getting that working, I'm eying the Logitech camera we recently started carrying at work. Logitech is a fairly well known brand, so I figure I'd probably have an easier time finding drivers for that. If anyone can tell me if they've had any success getting a "Logitech QuickCam Messenger" webcam to run on Mandrake, I'd appreciate that. Thanks in advance! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Menu
Lost my kmenus on one box out of 5 upgrading yesterday. It's my brother's box (computerphobe) so he probably won't notice, but it offends my sense of "right". Of course I haven't kept notes on the many posts with this problem because I've never had it happen to me. Can someone enlighten me? 9.2 on kde tmb enterprise kernel TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] x-windows based encryption software
Hi: I'm looking for a nice gui based encryption software program. Preferably something that will run under KDE, and perform on the fly encryption of the files in a directory. But I'm willing to encrypt the files one at a time too. I've been using "Kremlin" under windows, and I'm trying to move over to linux. Anybody know of anything like that? Any info is appreciated. Thanks in advance Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Rusty Morse.
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 05:31, Keith Powell wrote: > Are there any radio amateurs on the list? > Yep, AB2RC here > After many years of being inactive, I want to get back into amateur radio and > brush up my *VERY* rusty Morse. > > Can anyone recommend a good Morse training program which uses the sound card, > please? I want to listen to it with headphones. Preferably one which also has > a GUI rather than just using the command line, but I am not all that fussy > about this. There are quite a few, try looking on freshmeat.net. Personally I am a digital kind of guy, mostly psk31 -- Alex / AB2RC Yaesu FT100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Why do they call Radio "Wireless", between my shack and antennas I must have over 1500 feet of wire! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: HSF Linmodem under MDK 10OE
Stephen Kuhn wrote: MacOS... Either which, the telephone exchange is less than a block away. That's the route we're going to end up going. stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Stephen Contact me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I can help with a n external modem for the price of postage. We have just gone to DSL and have a couple of external modems lying around. Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Database Recommendations?
Glider pilot? Then can I recommend KFLog, a glider pilot flight logging program for KDE, at http://www.kflog.org/ . For a general purpose Access-like database application, there's a number of programs out there such as Rekall and Knoda that give you a usable front-end to the various database back-ends. If KFLog doesn't meet your needs, follow up here and I'll give you more details on these and other options and fill you in on the whole database scene on Linux. John. On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 07:34, Aidan Holmes wrote: > Hello all, > Can anyone recommend a good database application for my needs? I have > searched the net on the subject and just get myself more and more confused > about what I need to run. MySQL seems to be the one everyone raves about, > but it's far too powerful for what I want.not that that's > necessarily a bad thing, but if it's too complicated then that's a problem. > > I'm a glider pilot in my spare time and I'd like to keep a database on my > flying experience. I'd like to be able to enter data such as: Flight date, > duration, type of aircraft flown, solo/instructional and so on. > Then I'd like to get it to report on information such as: > Total hours flown > Total hours in a particular aircraft type (solo and/or dual) > Total hours solo and/or dual regardless of aircraft type...etc > > Can anybody steer me in the right direction and let me know what packages I > would need to install? > > Thanks - Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 04:43, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 09:42 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > >>> snip > > > > Ok, so ya pinned me to a dead fish on that - but still, UNLESS YOU'RE AN > > EXPERT, you're going to hose up the installation...and if you're > > dependent on particular partion numberings, installing Windows AFTER > > linux is going to be a nightmare. > > > > stephen kuhn - proprietor > > Installing Windows BEFORE Linux isn't exactly a day in the country, either. > There was a thread on /. last night about the problem of updating a brand new > installation of Windows without getting hacked. Not a simple task, > particularly for a home user with only one PC. > -- cmg Actually, I had a laugh over that one (I'm on /. at least twice a day) I've developed a particular routine for dual-boot machines: 1.) Partition the drive, give Windows the first partition; format the partition with VFAT, then move that first partition to the REAR of the HD - reboot 2.) Install Win 3.) After Win is installed, boot into Partition Magic, create whatever partitions are required (a swap and at least a / partition) format with ext3 4.) Start the GNU/linux installation - keep the partitions unless wanting a different file system (like ReiserFS or whatever) 5.) Install lilo to the MBR Works like a champ every time. stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 00:43, Lord Storm wrote: > > > Storm, old china plate, Windows ALWAYS needs to be installed FIRST - no > > matter what - it's a Microsoft thing - it will rewrite your partition > > tables no matter what - and if you hose up your Windows installation > > after mucking around with GNU/linux, well, you're going to have to blast > > it all out and start again. > > > > For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - > > or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for > > that matter); by common practise, Windows is install first, then > > everything else after that. Can't get around it. > > > > Windows 2k was installed first then mandrake then partition scrambled. > "FIXMBR" "FIXBOOT" did not work at all. I know that Windows has to be > installed first (been using mandrake since 9.0) but this is the first time I > have encountered this problem with MDK in 10. Some how it could be the bios > level F4 bios its now F6 and Mandrakesoft may be configuring stuff for the F6 > BIOS now. > > Also I do not know enough about lilo to configure it after mandrake is > installed. > > I think ill be doing the beta run with MDK 10.1 and all candidates I just hope > they anounce it on Distrowatch. Have you tried using Partition Magic to repair the partition table? stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products [Washington, D.C.] is the home of... taste for the people -- the big, the bland and the banal. -- Ada Louise Huxtable Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HSF Linmodem under MDK 10OE
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 23:49, Lanman wrote: > Stephen; No Prob. Took about 40 seconds to find the links. WooHoo! I was > kinda surprised to see you asking about modem info, since I thought > you'd already know about them. Guess I was right. I do - up till MDK 9.1 and 9.2 - and the driver I have (from before MBSI started charging a license for the damn driver) doesn't compile with 10.0 OE (which I'm trying to slowly upgrade to); although I might take some time to sort through the source code for the driver and try to figure out where they've put the "lock" to keep the speed at 14.4k for data and fax - can't be that hard to find. > If you go with an external modem, you should be able to find some nice > ones out there, but even so, the fastest Fax you'll ever find is 19,600 > bps. They just don't make fax machines any faster than that, so that > will be the best speed you'll ever get from the fax software. Tina and I have thought it over and we're probably going to just get a standard "off the shelf" 56k modem until the DSL stuff is ready; I've been wanting to move completely away from dialup for quite some time, but couldn't when I was still married - but Tina has the same needs as me (high speed need!) so it's different this time around. > Having a modem for faxing is probably a good idea, but as things are, i > only use mine on my laptop when I'm out of town on Business. Even so, I > make a point of making sure that the hotels I stay in have "data-ports" > in the rooms. I'd like to still have a modem so that I can "dial in" from remote (and also have a BBS again - heheheh - dig that) > Personally, I think that modem manufacturers are toning down their R&D > efforts because of the availability of High-Speed solutions. That's > probably the reason that their not breaking any records in releasing > Linux drivers, too. > > Hope you're not too far away from a good DSL or Cable ISP down there. > > Good Luck with the driver project. > > Lanman You're right about the manufacturers - they don't give a squat. They've made their money offa Microsoft and don't want to spend the time nor the effort on providing drivers for any other OS - sometimes including MacOS... Either which, the telephone exchange is less than a block away. That's the route we're going to end up going. stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products Flee at once, all is discovered. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:57:08 -0500 "C. Tresenriter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well that seems to have solved the issue, it's booting from the > primary channel, master position on the cable. > Guess I'll leave well enough alone. Appears I spoke too soon. Once I put the CD/DVD back on the cable I got the error again. BOth units are set to the cable select position. H. ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Rusty Morse.
Bill Spatz wrote: I am a digital sort of guy, rtty, gtor pactor amtor Nice to see that. Here it is not possible to run rtty, gtor pactor amtor or HF packet without Morse test. That is why I stay on VHF packet only. Anyway, I keep promoting amateur (digital) radio, with my howto: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html Regards, Misko YT7MPB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD-writer added to 10.0 Official
Hi, folks. I have just added a DVD-writer to my ML 10.0 box. I'm wondering if everything is OK...Cdrecord shows the following message. $ cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a28-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 # # # Warning: Using ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Use dev=ATA:X,Y,Z or dev=/dev/hdX # # Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-Mandrakelinux-scsi-linux-sg '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.81 04/04/18 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4320B' '1.01' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4082B' 'A201' Removable CD-ROM 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * The brand is LG, model is GSA-4082B. Aby help appreciated, as always. TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 Este computador está livre de vírus e da Micosoft ** "In heaven all the interesting people are missing." Friedrich Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:54:01 -0700 Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Me, too. If I want to urpmi something from the install disks I don't > have to shove them in the drive. Sweet. I wasn't aware one could install from just the images located somewhere on the drive, and I imagine that the installer is smart enough to mount the ISO on a loop device if presented with an iso, but I never tried that. I did a number of HD and ftp installs though, just not recently. Now, post-install, having the ISOs themselves available somewhere, and loopback mounted, yes of course. That's how I got by without a CDRW and only one available disk in the 9.x days ;) - just loopback mount the other ISOs off of /mnt/cdrom somewhere, and then make urpmi point to those mount points as sources. > e. > > > -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Database Recommendations?
Hello all, Can anyone recommend a good database application for my needs? I have searched the net on the subject and just get myself more and more confused about what I need to run. MySQL seems to be the one everyone raves about, but it's far too powerful for what I want.not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but if it's too complicated then that's a problem. I'm a glider pilot in my spare time and I'd like to keep a database on my flying experience. I'd like to be able to enter data such as: Flight date, duration, type of aircraft flown, solo/instructional and so on. Then I'd like to get it to report on information such as: Total hours flown Total hours in a particular aircraft type (solo and/or dual) Total hours solo and/or dual regardless of aircraft type...etc Can anybody steer me in the right direction and let me know what packages I would need to install? Thanks - Aidan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:56:13 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I were you, I would try changing to cable select, and see if that > fixes the problem. I know that one setup I have does not work right > when useing the cable select cable, and jumpering as master, or slave. > (The drive also says to use cable select if possible...) Well that seems to have solved the issue, it's booting from the primary channel, master position on the cable. Guess I'll leave well enough alone. Thanks Mikkel! Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter
On Monday 21 June 2004 09:42 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: >>> snip > Ok, so ya pinned me to a dead fish on that - but still, UNLESS YOU'RE AN > EXPERT, you're going to hose up the installation...and if you're > dependent on particular partion numberings, installing Windows AFTER > linux is going to be a nightmare. > > stephen kuhn - proprietor Installing Windows BEFORE Linux isn't exactly a day in the country, either. There was a thread on /. last night about the problem of updating a brand new installation of Windows without getting hacked. Not a simple task, particularly for a home user with only one PC. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install/use WebDAV.
> Where is your conf file? Here is the lines that I insert in my httpd2.conf: ### == LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so DAVLockDB /dav/DAVLock DAV On AuthType Basic AuthName "WebDAV Server" AuthUserFile /dav/.DAVlogin ### == > > Your dav directory is world writable, right? well, I type 'ps -ef | grep httpd' and see the service running under 'apache' user... so, I made this: mkdir /dav chmod -R 775 /dav chown -R apache.apache /dav And I create the password file: htpasswd -c /dav/.DAVlogin flavio (flavio is the user running Calendar on win98 client station). Made this, I try to publish my calendar but no file is writing in /dav directory... and I don't know how to test if my WebDAV server is running I put a single txt file in /dav directory and try to see it on my win98 client station like this: http://192.168.200.50/dav/test.txt but I got a 'page not found' error... Can you see something wrong ? Thank you again. Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Help - Again - Burning CD-RW discs
Hi again folks!! My problems continue. I used Partition Magic 5.0 to collapse my 5 Fat32 partitions to make room a Linux Install. I reduced the size of each Fat32 partition and moved the free space to the end and created a linux partition. Windows (C:) boots and I can see everything on the drive. I see drives D:, E:, F:, and G: but cannot access them from W98 or MSDOS and I can not see the files. BUT I can see and access these drives and files from Linux. And they show up in Partition Magic and Partinfo which i can run from a disk. Partinfo shows C: and D?, E?, etc. Do the question marks instead of colons have any significance? If I can not access these drives in W98, I am thinking I can burn them to CDs in Linux and copy them back to the themselves after reformatting the drives. I have just spent a couple of hours trying to write to a CD-RW disc - no joy. I know I am missing something. Can someone walk me through the exact process to copy files from one of the W98 Fat32 drives to a CD-RW disk? After I have successfully transferred the files back to the Fat32 disk I want to delete those files from the CD-RW and copy new files to it. What programs do i need to do this? The easiest way may be to use my CD-RW drive in UDF mode so that I can easily copy and delete files. Thanks for your help Preston Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Programs
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, OOzy wrote: > Is there a good site to download Linux Program beside rpmfind and tucows. I > know downlaod.com does have Linux programs anymore. www.gnu.org --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #353653 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter
> Storm, old china plate, Windows ALWAYS needs to be installed FIRST - no > matter what - it's a Microsoft thing - it will rewrite your partition > tables no matter what - and if you hose up your Windows installation > after mucking around with GNU/linux, well, you're going to have to blast > it all out and start again. > > For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - > or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for > that matter); by common practise, Windows is install first, then > everything else after that. Can't get around it. > Windows 2k was installed first then mandrake then partition scrambled. "FIXMBR" "FIXBOOT" did not work at all. I know that Windows has to be installed first (been using mandrake since 9.0) but this is the first time I have encountered this problem with MDK in 10. Some how it could be the bios level F4 bios its now F6 and Mandrakesoft may be configuring stuff for the F6 BIOS now. Also I do not know enough about lilo to configure it after mandrake is installed. I think ill be doing the beta run with MDK 10.1 and all candidates I just hope they anounce it on Distrowatch. -- MDK10 Unsupported Gigabyte GA-8SR533 P4 Titan M/b F4 BIOS 1.7Ghz Celeron 384MB RAM Geforce 4 64MB Labtec USB mouse ADSL eth0 40gig Maxtor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware
C. Tresenriter wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:58:35 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dumb question time - Are the connectors on that cable labeled for where they should be plugged in? (Motherboard, drive 0, drive 1) If so, are you plugging things in the correct place? You may also have to try cable select instead of master/slave... Mikkel -- They are labled... the end connector says it's the master one... and it's installed properly. I've never used cable select setting before - and it may work and allow me to avoid the issue altogther but if it's possible I would like to understand what's going on in addition to getting things working better than intermittently - failing that, getting things working would be good enough. If I understand correctly, a disk that sits at drive 0 would be looking for the boot record in one place and that same disk at drive 1 would be looking to boot from the same place but would want to see a different label - hdb as opposed to hda. Would this be basically correct? Curt Not exactly how I would explain it. Think of it this way - the drive connected to drive 0 acts like it is jumpered as master, and the one on drive 1 acts like it is jumpered as slave. So you can swap the drive assignments by changing where the drive is plugged in, instead of having to change jumpers on the drive. On the first IDE interface, the drive on drive 0 will be /dev/hda, and on drive one /dev/hdb. If I were you, I would try changing to cable select, and see if that fixes the problem. I know that one setup I have does not work right when useing the cable select cable, and jumpering as master, or slave. (The drive also says to use cable select if possible...) As far as booting goes, if you have a drive on drive 0, that is normaly the drive the system will dry and boot from. Some BIOS will let you boot from other drives, but the default is IDE0, drive C, or the first hard drive - depending on what the BIOS calls it. While may be able to boot from a drive on drive 1 (IDE1), it is better to have the boot drive on IDE0, because LILO gets confused if you boot from IDE1, and later add a drive on IDE0. The BIOS numbering of the drives changes, and LILO uses the BIOS number to load things. (Grub, and the kernel are smarter...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HSF Linmodem under MDK 10OE
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 23:00, Lanman wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: I set aside an 18gb SCSI to install 10.0 OE on - a clean install - so that I can still work/serve with my 9.1 until I get it completely up to snuff prior to cutting over (I love having a back-out plan, ya know?) Meanwhile, I'm going to have to get my modem going with 10.0 OE prior to being able to completely do the switch. I noticed (on the last boot into linux-enterprise) that I'm going to have to install some extra "kernel" stuff that doesn't necessarily pertain to the kernel I THINK I'm using (ain't it supposed to be kernel 2.6.3???); so, being that I didn't spend a heck of alot of time in there on the last boot, what's the gig? Everything else seems to work great - NVidia found itself, Audigy works like a champ, everything APPEARS to be happening correctly - all except the modem...but that I understand... SO, with that said, what light can be shed? stephen kuhn - proprietor Also found this,... http://linmodems.org/ Lanman Thanks Lanman - for all the links and the time it took - but sorry to say I've already been that route and have been pointing out two of those links for several years to "noobs" already - I just keep ending up at the Linuxant site where I'm prompted to pay for a driver; my modem cost about that much - and after some discussion with THE BETTER HALF, I think we're just going to get a nice external modem because the philosophy behind "buying a modem then buying a driver" doesn't sit too well with either of us. Being that I haven't spent much time inside of 10.0 OE MYSELF and haven't had the chance to hack around a bit, and seeing as though the device driver code requires a "license", I might give it a go at hacking through the code a tad bit FOR MY OWN LEARNING so that I can locate and remove the license code generation crap and possibly have a driver that can be a fully functional fax and modem that isn't limited to 14.4k (how bloody damn stupid is that shit?) ...and if anything else, I think the days of "modems" in our house is coming to an end. I can't function properly over dialup what with all the Windows updates I have to get for customers - it's getting slightly more than ridiculous... stephen kuhn - proprietor Stephen; No Prob. Took about 40 seconds to find the links. WooHoo! I was kinda surprised to see you asking about modem info, since I thought you'd already know about them. Guess I was right. If you go with an external modem, you should be able to find some nice ones out there, but even so, the fastest Fax you'll ever find is 19,600 bps. They just don't make fax machines any faster than that, so that will be the best speed you'll ever get from the fax software. Having a modem for faxing is probably a good idea, but as things are, i only use mine on my laptop when I'm out of town on Business. Even so, I make a point of making sure that the hotels I stay in have "data-ports" in the rooms. Personally, I think that modem manufacturers are toning down their R&D efforts because of the availability of High-Speed solutions. That's probably the reason that their not breaking any records in releasing Linux drivers, too. Hope you're not too far away from a good DSL or Cable ISP down there. Good Luck with the driver project. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 22:58, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 08:49 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - > > or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for > > that matter); by common practise, Windows is install first, then > > everything else after that. Can't get around it. > > To give MS credit where it is due, that is not totally true. Win XP can be > readily installed to any hard drive and while it is true that it will rewrite > the MBR of HDA with its own boot loader, booting from the Mandrake CD and > adding an entry to lilo.conf and then reinstalling lilo to the MBR will allow > dual booting. Of course, you have to know what you are doing when you > install Windows and IIRC, you have to manually create the installation > partitions, not allow Windows to do it on its own. Ok, so ya pinned me to a dead fish on that - but still, UNLESS YOU'RE AN EXPERT, you're going to hose up the installation...and if you're dependent on particular partion numberings, installing Windows AFTER linux is going to be a nightmare. stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products Real wealth can only increase. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HSF Linmodem under MDK 10OE
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 23:00, Lanman wrote: > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > I set aside an 18gb SCSI to install 10.0 OE on - a clean install - so > > that I can still work/serve with my 9.1 until I get it completely up to > > snuff prior to cutting over (I love having a back-out plan, ya know?) > > > > Meanwhile, I'm going to have to get my modem going with 10.0 OE prior to > > being able to completely do the switch. I noticed (on the last boot into > > linux-enterprise) that I'm going to have to install some extra "kernel" > > stuff that doesn't necessarily pertain to the kernel I THINK I'm using > > (ain't it supposed to be kernel 2.6.3???); so, being that I didn't spend > > a heck of alot of time in there on the last boot, what's the gig? > > > > Everything else seems to work great - NVidia found itself, Audigy works > > like a champ, everything APPEARS to be happening correctly - all except > > the modem...but that I understand... > > > > SO, with that said, what light can be shed? > > > > stephen kuhn - proprietor > > Also found this,... > > http://linmodems.org/ > > Lanman Thanks Lanman - for all the links and the time it took - but sorry to say I've already been that route and have been pointing out two of those links for several years to "noobs" already - I just keep ending up at the Linuxant site where I'm prompted to pay for a driver; my modem cost about that much - and after some discussion with THE BETTER HALF, I think we're just going to get a nice external modem because the philosophy behind "buying a modem then buying a driver" doesn't sit too well with either of us. Being that I haven't spent much time inside of 10.0 OE MYSELF and haven't had the chance to hack around a bit, and seeing as though the device driver code requires a "license", I might give it a go at hacking through the code a tad bit FOR MY OWN LEARNING so that I can locate and remove the license code generation crap and possibly have a driver that can be a fully functional fax and modem that isn't limited to 14.4k (how bloody damn stupid is that shit?) ...and if anything else, I think the days of "modems" in our house is coming to an end. I can't function properly over dialup what with all the Windows updates I have to get for customers - it's getting slightly more than ridiculous... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products A world is supported by four things: the teaming of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. -PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Galactic Leadership Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HSF Linmodem under MDK 10OE
Stephen Kuhn wrote: I set aside an 18gb SCSI to install 10.0 OE on - a clean install - so that I can still work/serve with my 9.1 until I get it completely up to snuff prior to cutting over (I love having a back-out plan, ya know?) Meanwhile, I'm going to have to get my modem going with 10.0 OE prior to being able to completely do the switch. I noticed (on the last boot into linux-enterprise) that I'm going to have to install some extra "kernel" stuff that doesn't necessarily pertain to the kernel I THINK I'm using (ain't it supposed to be kernel 2.6.3???); so, being that I didn't spend a heck of alot of time in there on the last boot, what's the gig? Everything else seems to work great - NVidia found itself, Audigy works like a champ, everything APPEARS to be happening correctly - all except the modem...but that I understand... SO, with that said, what light can be shed? stephen kuhn - proprietor Also found this,... http://linmodems.org/ Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re:HSF Linmodem under MDK 10OE
Found this too Stephen. http://freewebhosting.hostdepartment.com/g/gromitkc/winmodem.html HTH Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter
On Monday 21 June 2004 08:49 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - > or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for > that matter); by common practise, Windows is install first, then > everything else after that. Can't get around it. To give MS credit where it is due, that is not totally true. Win XP can be readily installed to any hard drive and while it is true that it will rewrite the MBR of HDA with its own boot loader, booting from the Mandrake CD and adding an entry to lilo.conf and then reinstalling lilo to the MBR will allow dual booting. Of course, you have to know what you are doing when you install Windows and IIRC, you have to manually create the installation partitions, not allow Windows to do it on its own. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Troubleshooting hardware
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:58:35 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dumb question time - Are the connectors on that cable labeled for > where they should be plugged in? (Motherboard, drive 0, drive 1) If > so, are you plugging things in the correct place? You may also have > to try cable select instead of master/slave... > > Mikkel > -- They are labled... the end connector says it's the master one... and it's installed properly. I've never used cable select setting before - and it may work and allow me to avoid the issue altogther but if it's possible I would like to understand what's going on in addition to getting things working better than intermittently - failing that, getting things working would be good enough. If I understand correctly, a disk that sits at drive 0 would be looking for the boot record in one place and that same disk at drive 1 would be looking to boot from the same place but would want to see a different label - hdb as opposed to hda. Would this be basically correct? Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HSF Linmodem under MDK 10OE
Stephen Kuhn wrote: I set aside an 18gb SCSI to install 10.0 OE on - a clean install - so that I can still work/serve with my 9.1 until I get it completely up to snuff prior to cutting over (I love having a back-out plan, ya know?) Meanwhile, I'm going to have to get my modem going with 10.0 OE prior to being able to completely do the switch. I noticed (on the last boot into linux-enterprise) that I'm going to have to install some extra "kernel" stuff that doesn't necessarily pertain to the kernel I THINK I'm using (ain't it supposed to be kernel 2.6.3???); so, being that I didn't spend a heck of alot of time in there on the last boot, what's the gig? Everything else seems to work great - NVidia found itself, Audigy works like a champ, everything APPEARS to be happening correctly - all except the modem...but that I understand... SO, with that said, what light can be shed? stephen kuhn - proprietor Stephen; Don't know if this will help, but page #1 has links to a bunch of sites that might have the info and driver modules you need. HTH Lanman http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Linmodem-HOWTO-1.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kbluetoothd
As a newbie I tried to get bluetooth up and running. Any suggestions? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Downloads]# urpmi kdebluetooth One of the following packages is needed: 1- bluez-sdp-1.5-1mdk.i586 2- libbluez-sdp2-1.5-1mdk.i586 What is your choice? (1-2) 2 To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (4 MB): bluez-utils-2.4-4mdk.i586 kdebluetooth-0.0.cvs20040302-3mdk.i586 libbluez-sdp2-1.5-1mdk.i586 libopenobex1-1.0.1-1mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) y Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 3 (x86) " on device [/dev/hdc] Press Enter when ready... ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/official/10.0/contrib/i586/libopenobex1-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/official/10.0/contrib/i586/kdebluetooth-0.0.cvs20040302-3mdk.i586.rpm installing /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3/bluez-utils-2.4-4mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3/libbluez-sdp2-1.5-1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libopenobex1-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdebluetooth-0.0.cvs20040302-3mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## 1:libopenobex1 ## 2:libbluez-sdp2 ## * w 3:bluez-utilsarning: /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf created as /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf.rpmnew warning: /etc/bluetooth/pin created as /etc/bluetooth/pin.rpmnew warnin#g: /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf created as /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf.rpmnew warning: /etc/rc.d/init.d/bluetooth created as /etc/rc.d/init.d/bluetooth.rpmnew # service bluetooth does not support chkconfig error: %post(bluez-ut 4:kdebluetooth ils-2.4-4mdk) scriptlet failed, exit status 1* ## Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 21:39, Lord Storm wrote: > Well I run the bellow system. I had windows 2k pro with NTFS and some how > mandrake purged Win2k from Partitions and windows would not reinstall. > Operating system error or something like that it was about 2 weeks ago. Not > that I realy care now, but SOT linux did it to me as well. 9.2 Didnt do it. > So I was wondering if it is creeping into the NTFS partition managagement > tree. > > I have downloaded the maxtor tool for low level format to try and fix the hard > drive latter. Storm, old china plate, Windows ALWAYS needs to be installed FIRST - no matter what - it's a Microsoft thing - it will rewrite your partition tables no matter what - and if you hose up your Windows installation after mucking around with GNU/linux, well, you're going to have to blast it all out and start again. For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for that matter); by common practise, Windows is install first, then everything else after that. Can't get around it. stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products Are you a parent? Do you sometimes find yourself unsure as to what to say in those awkward situations? Worry no more... Go away. You bother me. Why? Because life is unfair. That's a nice drawing. What is it? Children should be seen and not heard. You'll be the death of me. You'll understand when you're older. Because. Wipe that smile off your face. I don't believe you. How many times have I told you to be careful? Just beacuse. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] HSF Linmodem under MDK 10OE
I set aside an 18gb SCSI to install 10.0 OE on - a clean install - so that I can still work/serve with my 9.1 until I get it completely up to snuff prior to cutting over (I love having a back-out plan, ya know?) Meanwhile, I'm going to have to get my modem going with 10.0 OE prior to being able to completely do the switch. I noticed (on the last boot into linux-enterprise) that I'm going to have to install some extra "kernel" stuff that doesn't necessarily pertain to the kernel I THINK I'm using (ain't it supposed to be kernel 2.6.3???); so, being that I didn't spend a heck of alot of time in there on the last boot, what's the gig? Everything else seems to work great - NVidia found itself, Audigy works like a champ, everything APPEARS to be happening correctly - all except the modem...but that I understand... SO, with that said, what light can be shed? stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. -- Edward A. Murphy Jr. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
