Re: [newbie] What commands a package provides
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, JoeHill wrote: J: Gotcha, thanks much Charles. Unfortunately, PyPanel doesn't seem to pick it up, J: but that's for another forum. J: J: Thanks again, much appreciated! When you figure it out could you pass along the information. Thanks. -- Job Evers -- If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S Truman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:12:59 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 22:37:44 -0400 > Guy Rouillier disseminated the following: > > > > Actually - I prefer VNC to VPN; although, if you're keen on VPN > > > you should check out Sourceforge... > > > > I don't see how VNC is going to help. If his employer has a > > firewall, he is going to have to establish a VPN connection first > > before he can use VNC. > > Couldn't you just open the appropriate port on the firewall for the > VNC connection (the same as you would do with a VPN) and forward it to > the appropriate machine which has access to the shared dirs, etc.? I suppose that would be possible. But if the employer has a VPN, they obviously want their employees to use that, so probably wouldn't be interested in punching holes in their firewalls. If they were, there would be no need for a VPN. > > I still agree the VPN sol'n is the best though. > > -- > JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org > 23:09:52 up 18 days, 15:24, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.04, 0.00 > +++ > "One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human > beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing > atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and > the state." -- Eric S. Raymond > > -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PRBOOM Kaput!!
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 11:02, Terence Golightly wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 15:45, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Saturday 31 July 2004 03:23 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: > > > > ->I installed prboom-gl and wahla! it worked! all I have to do now is find > > ->my old doom "iwad" files. I did download Intrsect.wad and added it as a > > ->secondary "wad" file. What are these alternative "wad" files? > > -> > > ->Thanks, > > -> > > ->Terry > > > > Well, its not so much "alternative" as just the convenience of having the > > doom1, doom2, and ultimate doom wads available in one place. I think its like > > $9-10 bucks at Wal-mart - it has a preview of Doom 3 and other stuff. Worth > > it to me. :-) > > > > Glad you got it working! > > Yesh!! Now I need to find a Descent I/II clone to run on my box and I'll > be back to my good ole gaming days! > > Terry When you FIND a decent Descent clone, please let me know about it - I miss that game most of all... 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 __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. "Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 22:37:44 -0400 Guy Rouillier disseminated the following: > > Actually - I prefer VNC to VPN; although, if you're keen on VPN you > > should check out Sourceforge... > > I don't see how VNC is going to help. If his employer has a firewall, > he is going to have to establish a VPN connection first before he can > use VNC. Couldn't you just open the appropriate port on the firewall for the VNC connection (the same as you would do with a VPN) and forward it to the appropriate machine which has access to the shared dirs, etc.? I still agree the VPN sol'n is the best though. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 23:09:52 up 18 days, 15:24, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.04, 0.00 +++ "One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state." -- Eric S. Raymond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mouse sucks in latest iteration of 10.0 community on asus A7V8X
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 04:43, Lee Wiggers wrote: > Subject says it all. > > Grpmi got me up and running, after menu upgrade, etc. but mouse goes > nuts if I kvm boxes and scrollwheel works sometimes. > > I'll do the usual, but if someone has been here, same me a day or > two. > > Lee Just thought of something that I did and usually always do: I install GPM (urpmi gpm) which is the console mouse for text mode; as well, I had to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and make sure it was forced to MY mouse (MS Intellimouse) and the mappings were correct - and I set up a cron job that reloads the gpm service every hour... 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 __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 12:30:46 +0100 Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All > > I am looking for a client. easy to configure, for VPN connections with > > MS Windows servers. Any ideas? I've had luck with PPTP Client over PPP connecting to an MS VPN server my employer uses. You can find details here: http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/. There is a GUI available to help configure a connection. You don't mention what version of Mandrake you are running. If 10.0, be aware that Mandrake (and other distros) messed up their packaging of PPP. They are still including ppp 2.4.1, but the kernel code is only compatible with 2.4.2. So forget the Mandrake packages and download a matching set from the referenced site. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:54:56 +1000 Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 21:30, Paul Smith wrote: > > Dear All > > > > I am looking for a client. easy to configure, for VPN connections > > with MS Windows servers. Any ideas? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Paul > > Actually - I prefer VNC to VPN; although, if you're keen on VPN you > should check out Sourceforge... I don't see how VNC is going to help. If his employer has a firewall, he is going to have to establish a VPN connection first before he can use VNC. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning Cue/Bin images
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:40:08 +1000 Trevor Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a cue and bin file of a movie and everytime I try to burn it, > the cd gets ejected and k3b tells me it has burnt successfully. After Try using cdrdao instead. I've not had a problem with the resulting images. For instance: # cdrdao write --device ATA:1,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --speed 4 videocd.cue The use of the cue file automagically puts the associated .bin file on the disk. -- 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
Re: [newbie] Wireless driver
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:02:49 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tried any wireless device before. So, could you pls help me: > 1. Are those devices have linux driver? Because in the specification Maybe there is a driver, depends on the device. A friend and I (he has started to get his feet wet in Mandrake, but also has Kanotix and other distributions to try) were trying to get this working but it doesn't seem to be as easy as it sounds. He has a Netgear MA111. It seems that the kernel modules are available (prism2_usb) but 'ifconfig wlan0' comes back with blanks for an inet addr. So far, we've (in Mandrake) tried mcc and adding a new wireless connection with all three variants of the prism driver. The net (pardon the pun) result is thrown for a loop while the system reports "found devices" then asks you if there is another one. One thinks at this point the output should be "found no devices", right? We are completely unsure as to what values if any to put in the choices for the various drivers. There are some howto's (there is a rather big wireless howto, there's the linux-wlan-ng project etc.) but they drown in material (especially the wireless howto, some 80 pages at least) that it's not altogether easy to say "do 1, 2, and 3" and bingo -- wireless. It would be rather nice to see that. I already checked the Community twiki, nothing at all relevant there :(. > Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org -- 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
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 18:03:12 -0400 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: > > Moot point really, though, I guess, the OP's sysadmins aren't going to let > > him VNC in anyhow. > > Since he is trying to access a machine at work, my guess is that he will need > to VPN in, more than likely the server won't be running SSH and he will need > to connect to some central VPN server since that is likely the only one with > a publicly accessible IP. > > However, not at all sure that it will help. If work is completely MS, then > much of the networking and connections, file mapping, etc is likely to > require Windows as well. Wouldn't Freeswan and Samba take care of both of those? From the Freeswan site: "...and with the appropriate patches interops nicely with Microsoft Windows XP/2000 using X.509 certificates." I can see it being easier by far though to follow your line of thinking and just use a Windows box :-( -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:46:20 up 18 days, 14:01, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.11, 0.03 +++ "At least 855 American soldiers have died since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, and nearly 85 percent of those casualties occurred after President Bush declared an end to major combat operations on May 1, 2003." -- New York Times, Thursday 01 July 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PRBOOM Kaput!!
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 15:45, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2004 03:23 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: > > ->I installed prboom-gl and wahla! it worked! all I have to do now is find > ->my old doom "iwad" files. I did download Intrsect.wad and added it as a > ->secondary "wad" file. What are these alternative "wad" files? > -> > ->Thanks, > -> > ->Terry > > Well, its not so much "alternative" as just the convenience of having the > doom1, doom2, and ultimate doom wads available in one place. I think its like > $9-10 bucks at Wal-mart - it has a preview of Doom 3 and other stuff. Worth > it to me. :-) > > Glad you got it working! Yesh!! Now I need to find a Descent I/II clone to run on my box and I'll be back to my good ole gaming days! Terry Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB 21:00:54 up 3 days, 31 min, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.09, 0.03 FROM THE DESK OF Rapunzel Dear Prince: Use ladder tonight -- you're splitting my ends. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] connection sharing
I have a laptop I use at work that has an unused wireless connection. The work LAN is thru a 100 mbs wire. I have another machine at home that is connected via a wire to my home LAN and also has an unused wireless connection. The home LAN goes through a router to the net. I can get to the net with my work box at home by plugging a wire in to the wire, but I thought it would be educational to just use the two wireless connections to the work box connected to the net at home. Shouldn't I be able to share the wireless connection on my home box to do this, effectively making my home box a second router? Can this be done directly through MCC or do I need to do additional configuration? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sunday 01 August 2004 12:21 pm, JoeHill wrote: > Moot point really, though, I guess, the OP's sysadmins aren't going to let > him VNC in anyhow. Since he is trying to access a machine at work, my guess is that he will need to VPN in, more than likely the server won't be running SSH and he will need to connect to some central VPN server since that is likely the only one with a publicly accessible IP. However, not at all sure that it will help. If work is completely MS, then much of the networking and connections, file mapping, etc is likely to require Windows as well. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Updating
On Sunday 01 Aug 2004 19:37, Björn Lundin wrote: > SME Server Admin wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of > > KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. > > > > ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the > > place I've found to get the updates from. > > > > What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through the shell with > > urpmi? > > > > Ta > > > > Elwyn > > Search for a thread James Sparenberg wrote ~ a month ago, where he > describes in detail how to maek it work through urpmi. I think using wget > url/* was involved + generating a hdlist + adding the download directory as > an urpmi source. But look in the archives... > > I did it, and had some minor glitches, that I solved, but others have had > total success. > > /Björn Ta :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lintalk
On Sunday 01 August 2004 04:06 pm, PM wrote: > Hope it's of use. Well, that was a kind of dead end. I fired off an e-mail to the name listed there so maybe I'll get directions to useful help from him. Thanks Paul! :-) -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lintalk
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:52, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2004 12:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:53, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > Anybody successfully used this program? I've been trying to use this > > > between my laptop and my desktop but I'm not having any luck. Docs > > > seem to be very sparse, no man pages, google returns next to nothing > > > on "lintalk howto" or "lintalk" or "lintalk help". > > > > > > I started it from a shell to see the output and the only thing I can > > > get is that its failing to load the "buddy" list from > > > /home/darklord/.lintalk but I checked this file, it was blank so I > > > put in an ipaddress, but with nothing to go on I'm not sure about the > > > format needed, so of course that didn't work either. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > Sounds like most linux programs. > > Actually its quite a bit sparser than most. Honestly, between man pages, this > list (especially!) and google searches - there's not been much that I could > not find. This one is a tough nut to crack though. There is a newsgroup - it's got a whole 3 messages. The first is welcome to the group, but the other 2 deal with the buddy list. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lintalk-list/ Hope it's of use. -- pm Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Updating
SME Server Admin wrote: > Hi Folks > > Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of > KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. > > ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the > place I've found to get the updates from. > > What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through the shell with > urpmi? > > Ta > > Elwyn Search for a thread James Sparenberg wrote ~ a month ago, where he describes in detail how to maek it work through urpmi. I think using wget url/* was involved + generating a hdlist + adding the download directory as an urpmi source. But look in the archives... I did it, and had some minor glitches, that I solved, but others have had total success. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lintalk
On Sunday 01 August 2004 12:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:53, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Anybody successfully used this program? I've been trying to use this > > between my laptop and my desktop but I'm not having any luck. Docs > > seem to be very sparse, no man pages, google returns next to nothing > > on "lintalk howto" or "lintalk" or "lintalk help". > > > > I started it from a shell to see the output and the only thing I can > > get is that its failing to load the "buddy" list from > > /home/darklord/.lintalk but I checked this file, it was blank so I > > put in an ipaddress, but with nothing to go on I'm not sure about the > > format needed, so of course that didn't work either. > > > > Thanks. > > Sounds like most linux programs. Actually its quite a bit sparser than most. Honestly, between man pages, this list (especially!) and google searches - there's not been much that I could not find. This one is a tough nut to crack though. -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Package list help.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 10:35:26 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sunday 01 August 2004 09:38 am, RickS wrote: >Thanks! That's a much better solution than I posted > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > Proud to be an American Glad to help ... also I've been working on bash scripting, and also wrote this script from that alias I don't always know what all these packages actually are. So I added a sorted list of all the rpm info .. For any interested Here it is . #!/bin/bash ### # filename:rpminfo.sh # date:2004-07-26 # author: ricks ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) # generates list of installed rpms. Sort the results, # appending the date to a text file. # then lists info for same rpm list, to another file ### # *.txt is the list of rpms installed # *.list is the info for each of the rpms installed from list txt file### DATE=`date +%d%m%y_%I%M` FILE1=/home/ricks/backup/rpmlist-$DATE.txt FILE2=/home/ricks/backup/rpmlist-$DATE.list rpm -qa | sort > $FILE1 xargs rpm -qi < $FILE1 > $FILE2 HTH too ... RickS +--+ MandrakeLinux 10.0 official - 2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 +--+ I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Publilius Syrus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBDTAJJo/ckCSqvmERAs9DAJ0V8XuGlThBSssMRpSF7Qzqz/8dKgCfXO+x jjl5ZZ3LmEBiFWHo416980E= =l/w6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 11:46:35 -0400 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: > > I'm not sure about the security of VNC. The idea of a VPN is to use an > > encrypted/tunnelling protocol like PPTP for secure connections, I don't > > think VNC does this, AFAIK. > > In most implementations VNC is tunnelled through SSH. Therefore, it is as > secure as is SSH. I staand corrected. Still, a VPN connection is going to provide more security (properly configured of course) in the sense that it follows the user and group policies and perms set on the server, whereas VNC is considered a 'local' logon, an ability usually restricted (and rightly so) no? Moot point really, though, I guess, the OP's sysadmins aren't going to let him VNC in anyhow. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 12:13:05 up 18 days, 4:27, 6 users, load average: 1.25, 1.27, 0.83 +++ "Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging." -- Martin Luther Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lintalk
On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:53, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Anybody successfully used this program? I've been trying to use this > between my laptop and my desktop but I'm not having any luck. Docs > seem to be very sparse, no man pages, google returns next to nothing > on "lintalk howto" or "lintalk" or "lintalk help". > > I started it from a shell to see the output and the only thing I can > get is that its failing to load the "buddy" list from > /home/darklord/.lintalk but I checked this file, it was blank so I > put in an ipaddress, but with nothing to go on I'm not sure about the > format needed, so of course that didn't work either. > > Thanks. Sounds like most linux programs. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Lintalk
Anybody successfully used this program? I've been trying to use this between my laptop and my desktop but I'm not having any luck. Docs seem to be very sparse, no man pages, google returns next to nothing on "lintalk howto" or "lintalk" or "lintalk help". I started it from a shell to see the output and the only thing I can get is that its failing to load the "buddy" list from /home/darklord/.lintalk but I checked this file, it was blank so I put in an ipaddress, but with nothing to go on I'm not sure about the format needed, so of course that didn't work either. Thanks. -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sunday 01 August 2004 09:41 am, JoeHill wrote: > I'm not sure about the security of VNC. The idea of a VPN is to use an > encrypted/tunnelling protocol like PPTP for secure connections, I don't > think VNC does this, AFAIK. In most implementations VNC is tunnelled through SSH. Therefore, it is as secure as is SSH. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Package list help.
On Sunday 01 August 2004 09:38 am, RickS wrote: > Try this, > It came from this list a year ago or so and I made it an > alias > > alias lrpm='rpm -qa | sort > > /home/ricks/rpmlist-`date +%d%m%y_%I%M`.txt' > > it will add the date to the file list. > > HTH > RickS Thanks! That's a much better solution than I posted -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PCI wireless card
Hello: I just erased Mandrake 9.2 because I could never configure access to Internet, and installed 10.0 official trying to take advantage of its wireless support. The machine has a SMC2402W wireless PCI card which works fine under Windows. To my disappointment, mandrake 10 does not recognize my card. When I try to configure it, I am left with the manual choice. Fine, I can try to make it work. According to my research, the right driver is the Prism54, but when I try to select it from the list in the Mandrake Control Centre, I am asked if I want to specify additional parameters. I do not have the slightest idea of what the parameters mean or what to enter, so, I say: "no". then I am taken to the beginning to choose a driver. The end result is that I cannot install the driver, and cannot go further than that. Your help will be appreciated. Cordially, Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Building Kernel
Kevin Ferguson wrote: Where from can one get the kernel 2.6.7 ? Source Kernel www.kernel.org Rpm one http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=26&dist=34&size=18610507&name=kernel-2.6.7.2mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm give that ago mate. Thanks, Kevin. Sorry for not having noticed the link that you had already given to us. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Building Kernel
Paul Smith wrote: I'm wanting to build my kernel from source, the lastest kernel I'm downloading is 2.6.7. Is if ok for me to go ahead and build the source? Would I need to apply any patch's in between? Where from can one get the kernel 2.6.7 ? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Source Kernel www.kernel.org Rpm one http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=26&dist=34&size=18610507&name=kernel-2.6.7.2mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm give that ago mate. regards Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] howdy! & solving problems & this list,.....
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 19:35, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 09:25, et wrote: > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 01:36 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 00:09, Glenn wrote: > > > > Are you kiddin'? Lafayette, LA loves their Ice Gators > > > > > > That's a scary thought. Does Miami have a hockey team yet? > > > > > > stephen kuhn - owner > > > > had one for a few years... the Florida Panthers > > > > I tink da one a trophy 2 > > I WROTE THAT IN MARCH, matey...where the hec you been? > > stephen kuhn - proprietor > __ Looks to me like he replied in March too, so the question is rather "where has IT been"? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Package list help.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 08:18:59 -0500 Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Saturday 31 July 2004 07:37, Hoyt Bailey wrote: >> On Saturday 31 July 2004 05:28, Frank wrote: >> > OK. A favour for a favour, ( I hope? ) >> > >> > # rpm -qa >> > >> > Thats the command, now what do I add to the end of it to >> > successfully pipe it to a text file? >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Frank >> >> >> rpm -qa (filename) | tee (file where you want the answer) >Forgot something. >rpm -qa | sort | tee (file where you want the answer). >-- >Regards; >Hoyt > > Try this, It came from this list a year ago or so and I made it an alias alias lrpm='rpm -qa | sort > /home/ricks/rpmlist-`date +%d%m%y_%I%M`.txt' it will add the date to the file list. HTH RickS +--+ MandrakeLinux 10.0 official - 2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 +--+ You can't take it with you -- especially when crossing a state line. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBDQB8Jo/ckCSqvmERAn7LAKCOZmTb3U8IMQGxapgi0ZY8v4+LBwCeKGSp tS39Q2I/koEs7hKjVSeLQto= =5FMy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:54:56 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > I am looking for a client. easy to configure, for VPN connections with > > MS Windows servers. Any ideas? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Paul > > Actually - I prefer VNC to VPN; although, if you're keen on VPN you > should check out Sourceforge... I'm not sure about the security of VNC. The idea of a VPN is to use an encrypted/tunnelling protocol like PPTP for secure connections, I don't think VNC does this, AFAIK. Freeswan is the most oft mentioned VPN client I've seen, should allow you to connect to VPN servers on Win. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:36:58 up 18 days, 1:51, 6 users, load average: 0.32, 0.17, 0.06 +++ "If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." -- Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Building Kernel
I'm wanting to build my kernel from source, the lastest kernel I'm downloading is 2.6.7. Is if ok for me to go ahead and build the source? Would I need to apply any patch's in between? Where from can one get the kernel 2.6.7 ? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updating
Hi Folks Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place I've found to get the updates from. What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through the shell with urpmi? Ta Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Building Kernel
Kevin Ferguson wrote: Frank wrote: Kevin Ferguson wrote: Hi Guys Just a quickie. I'm experiementing at the moment. I have Mandrake 10 CE, with Kernel 2.6.3-4mdk installed. I'm wanting to build my kernel from source, the lastest kernel I'm downloading is 2.6.7. Is if ok for me to go ahead and build the source? Would I need to apply any patch's in between? Thanks Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Just my 2 cents worth as someone who has just done kernel stuff. Why not either: # urpmi kernel-source-2.6.7 and let urpmi do things for you. use the readme.txt to do the rest, OR: # urpmi kernel and from the list on offer - choose one? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hi Frank I wasn't sure if it was in the urpmi so I thought I'd give it a try. I think I need to update my urpmi to be honest. Thanks again for your help. I'll post back if I have any probs Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com If you get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# urpmi kernel Everything already installed Then search for the package you want and do a : #urpmi.addmedia -- Regards SnapafunFrank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] please, do a cat zcip cat tmdns
On Saturday 31 July 2004 11:24 am, Anguo wrote: > Please anyone, > > could you do the following commands and send me the output: > > # cd /etc/init.d > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# cat tmdns > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# cat zcip > > > thanks, > > I am trying to solve a connection problem: Best way I know of to solve connection problems with zeroconf is to do the following: 'urpme zcip tmdns' Solved all my problems here :-) -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Building Kernel
Frank wrote: Kevin Ferguson wrote: Hi Guys Just a quickie. I'm experiementing at the moment. I have Mandrake 10 CE, with Kernel 2.6.3-4mdk installed. I'm wanting to build my kernel from source, the lastest kernel I'm downloading is 2.6.7. Is if ok for me to go ahead and build the source? Would I need to apply any patch's in between? Thanks Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Just my 2 cents worth as someone who has just done kernel stuff. Why not either: # urpmi kernel-source-2.6.7 and let urpmi do things for you. use the readme.txt to do the rest, OR: # urpmi kernel and from the list on offer - choose one? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hi Frank I wasn't sure if it was in the urpmi so I thought I'd give it a try. I think I need to update my urpmi to be honest. Thanks again for your help. I'll post back if I have any probs Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
Stephen Kühn wrote: I am looking for a client. easy to configure, for VPN connections with MS Windows servers. Any ideas? Actually - I prefer VNC to VPN; although, if you're keen on VPN you should check out Sourceforge... Thanks, Stephen. I do not prefer VNC to VPN; it is a preference of the system administrator at my work. There, at my work, everything is unfortunately MS Windows based. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VPN client
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 21:30, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I am looking for a client. easy to configure, for VPN connections with > MS Windows servers. Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul Actually - I prefer VNC to VPN; although, if you're keen on VPN you should check out Sourceforge... 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 __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered. -- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VPN client
Dear All I am looking for a client. easy to configure, for VPN connections with MS Windows servers. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Laptop choice - REPORT
Hi list, I had an unbelievable good response to my request for some pointers. I want to thank all those kind people who took the time and effort to try to make my choice easy .. I still like the IBM. Here follow all responses from 4 mail lists compiled in this document. Hope with all this on one doc it my help some one else. ** NEWBIE maillist.. Johan; There's a lot of things to consider when buying a laptop. My personal preference is a laptop that can handle a normal P4, and NOT a P4M. While this means that it will use battery power faster, most of the time I'm using the laptop, I'm plugged in to AC power somewhere. P4M's (Pentium 4 Mobile CPU's) are OK, but a standard P4 and laptop that uses Hyper-Threading will always outperform a P4M without question. Also, you should be able to upgrade the P4 as new ones come out, and P4's will always be less expensive than the P4M's. One other thing about P4's. Some of the newer P4's also have onboard cache that is one MB, and not 512K. This makes a huge difference in how fast the laptop will run. All that extra performance will keep you happy with the laptop much longer than a Centrino or Celeron could ever hope to do. Celeron CPU's are basically the same as a P4, but have a lot less cache onboard, and this is what makes them slower. Centrino's aren't an actual CPU, but a collection of P4M, Intel Chipset, Intel graphics GPU, and wireless and/or Bluetooth technologies built-in. Once I knew they used the P4M, I never kept looking for more details so you might want to look into that a bit more. I've set up or owned Toshiba, Compaq and Asus laptops. My problem is that my clients see whichever one I have and offer to buy them right there! The next one on my shopping list is the ECS G900 which can be viewed here; http://www.ecsusa.com/products/g900.html And that says it all. I know ECS isn't always known for their quality, but I have to see how this one runs before passing judgement. I'm hoping that it will surprise me. Since laptops are very expensive, most people don't buy new ones very often. My philosophy is to buy the fastest, most powerful one you can buy for the best price, so that your investment lasts a long time. Remember that many laptops will have modems which aren't supported by Linux, and others can be a real pain to set up. If you manage to get a modem working, consider yourself very lucky! If possible, try to find one that comes without an OS, so that you can do a fresh install and not have to worry about a Windows recovery CD set erasing your whole hard drive. Lanman ** > celerion .. various speeds. Not as good as equivilent P4, stay away if you can > centrino .. various speeds. Really the Pentium-M. Centroni is a brand that means the combination of the processor, chipset and WiFi card. It has a slower clock speed, but more work per cycle a la AMD, giving a cooler chip that uses less power and does the same amount of work. My 1.6GHz Pentium-M compiles a kernel a few seconds faster than my desktop 2400+. Intel's reliance on the Megehertz myth the past few yeares to try and best AMD has cost them with the Pentium-M IMO. > The centrino seem to be the slower one than the other two. >> Do not mind price .. hardware .. trying to find what would be best in long > run between the 3 processors. In a laptop, the Pentium-M IMHO. > Kindly some pointers and suggestions to IBM laptops .. please. I like the T series the best. A great blend of portability and power. The R's are to big and bulky, and the others are crippled or too small. /g Greg I would like to put in a good word for Dell laptops. I have used 2 different models. The Inspiron 8000 and the Inspiron 9100. Both are considered heavy at around 8 or 9 pounds. The reason I chose them is that they both are easily setup with Mandrake. I dual boot into both of them. I had minor installation problems, both easily resolved with an email to this list. Another reason that I chose them is that they are both considered gaming machines with dedicated (upgradeable) video cards. No dependence on 'integrated' graphics. The 9100 is new and has a 3.2 Ghz P4 (not mobile). I generally use this machine at two different locations but plugged into power at both. I'm not sure if you have been pointed to the linux laptops page yet, so here's a real good link for that information. http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Best of luck in your research, I'll give one vote for Dell. (They also have dedicated forums for issues that may arise). Bill W. *** > > Best of luck in your research, I'll give one vote for Dell. (They > > also have dedicated forums for issues that may arise). Hoyt *** > Dell needed a good word. I was about to place them with gateway. Dell has also recently anounced two linux corporate workstations in their inventory. I can't afford on
Re: [newbie] MP3 to WAV in K3b?
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 16:32, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > Personally I find k3b rock solid. > > Yikes, I have had bad system takedowns with K3B running in AUTO disk write > mode, rather than TAO or DAO right after 10 Official came out. Now its right. > > Also if you want to go down real hard, run a 2.4 kernel, and upgrade to a 2.6 > kernel. Reboot to the 2.6. If you come out alive, you are luckier than I. I > lost my whole system, no way back. > > Rob I did the better thing - I removed all but the kernel I use from the lilo menu so that I don't make any mistakes - and as well, it made a nice bit of space in the /boot partition (after I removed the kernels I don't want) - HA! (grin) 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 __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. "You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten." -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and Over and Over" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lost the lot - Hijacked = (MP3 to WAV in K3b?)
Also if you want to go down real hard, run a 2.4 kernel, and upgrade to a 2.6 kernel. Reboot to the 2.6. If you come out alive, you are luckier than I. I lost my whole system, no way back. Rob Even as a newbie, I can see you had 'something' go wrong, but to lose the lot. Nah! I may have stuffed things up to the point where I need a clean re-install to get things working again, but never have I lost anything. Care to share what it is you did so that we can show others what not to do? Regards SnapafunFrank 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] PRBOOM Kaput!!
On Saturday 31 July 2004 03:23 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: ->I installed prboom-gl and wahla! it worked! all I have to do now is find ->my old doom "iwad" files. I did download Intrsect.wad and added it as a ->secondary "wad" file. What are these alternative "wad" files? -> ->Thanks, -> ->Terry Well, its not so much "alternative" as just the convenience of having the doom1, doom2, and ultimate doom wads available in one place. I think its like $9-10 bucks at Wal-mart - it has a preview of Doom 3 and other stuff. Worth it to me. :-) Glad you got it working! -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
