[newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intel centrino)
Hi all, sorry if I bother you with an old topic but so fare I haven't found anything which really helped me with my problem in the mailing list. I have an Dell Inspiron 510m with a Pentium M. The PC is fine apart for the wireless. 10.1 detects my card but apparently I had to download and install the firmware of the card as well and now firmware and card are installed, it's detected but I can't use it. Frist thing which is strange is the output for ifconfig: [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# ifconfig eth0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:0D:56:E0:61:15 inet6 Adresse: fe80::20d:56ff:fee0:6115/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b) Interrupt:11 Basisadresse:0x5000 loProtokoll:Lokale Schleife inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0 inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0 RX bytes:11462 (11.1 Kb) TX bytes:11462 (11.1 Kb) No wireless... but if I type ifconfig eth1 I get the wireless card: [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# ifconfig eth1 eth1 Protokoll:UNSPEC Hardware Adresse 42-4F-C0-00-24-85-04-30-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) In my opinion this is strange... The card is installed since I get this output under dmesg: eth0: no IPv6 routers present ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.54 ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI interrupt :01:03.0[A] - GSI 7 (level, low) - IRQ 7 ipw2100: :01:03.0: Detected at mem: 0xFCFFE000-0xFCFFEFFF - e0f07000, irq:7 eth1: Using hotplug firmware load. I know I did something right but also something wrong, since I know nothing about programing, IT or linux (apart using it) I am thankful for any help and hint you might have Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intel centrino)
On Monday 25 October 2004 09:51, Alexander Ruoff wrote: Hi all, sorry if I bother you with an old topic but so fare I haven't found anything which really helped me with my problem in the mailing list. I have an Dell Inspiron 510m with a Pentium M. The PC is fine apart for the wireless. 10.1 detects my card but apparently I had to download and install the firmware of the card as well and now firmware and card are installed, it's detected but I can't use it. Frist thing which is strange is the output for ifconfig: [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# ifconfig eth0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:0D:56:E0:61:15 inet6 Adresse: fe80::20d:56ff:fee0:6115/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b) Interrupt:11 Basisadresse:0x5000 loProtokoll:Lokale Schleife inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0 inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0 RX bytes:11462 (11.1 Kb) TX bytes:11462 (11.1 Kb) No wireless... but if I type ifconfig eth1 I get the wireless card: [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# ifconfig eth1 eth1 Protokoll:UNSPEC Hardware Adresse 42-4F-C0-00-24-85-04-30-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) In my opinion this is strange... The card is installed since I get this output under dmesg: eth0: no IPv6 routers present ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.54 ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI interrupt :01:03.0[A] - GSI 7 (level, low) - IRQ 7 ipw2100: :01:03.0: Detected at mem: 0xFCFFE000-0xFCFFEFFF - e0f07000, irq:7 eth1: Using hotplug firmware load. I know I did something right but also something wrong, since I know nothing about programing, IT or linux (apart using it) I am thankful for any help and hint you might have Alex You need to install the wireless-tools package from your CD and then run through the network connection Wizard in Mandrake Control Centre and configure it as a wireless connection. You could also configure it with iwconfig from the command line. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] real newbie
On Sunday 24 October 2004 23:44, mike wrote: Steve Chase wrote: first attempt at linux here, have 10.0 amd64 up and running,have rpms for video and motherboard on a cd but can not fiigure out how to install them, even have some rpms (bittorrent) on my desktop but cant figure out the basics. amd 3000+ asus k8n-e deluxe (onboard lan not recognized) msi geforce 4 4400ti wd 60 gb on ata (recognized) linux 2 seagate 80gb sata(recognized but not as the mirror the are) xp linksys lan on pci liteon cdrw/dvd Steve what have you done so far to install mandrake? Well one option would be to create a directory, name it what you like, example would be Local_software. Copy your rpms to that directory. Then in terminal window as root type drakrpm-edit-media without quotes and add that directory as local media. Then you can in terminal urpmi name_of_package or use the graphical installer drakrpm (which may be easier if your new to linux) to install the rpms you like. Mike -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] real newbie
On Sunday 24 October 2004 23:44, mike wrote: Steve Chase wrote: first attempt at linux here, have 10.0 amd64 up and running,have rpms for video and motherboard on a cd but can not fiigure out how to install them, even have some rpms (bittorrent) on my desktop but cant figure out the basics. amd 3000+ asus k8n-e deluxe (onboard lan not recognized) msi geforce 4 4400ti wd 60 gb on ata (recognized) linux 2 seagate 80gb sata(recognized but not as the mirror the are) xp is that raid? hardware? software? linksys lan on pci liteon cdrw/dvd Steve Well one option would be to create a directory, name it what you like, example would be Local_software. Copy your rpms to that directory. Then in terminal window as root type drakrpm-edit-media without quotes and add that directory as local media. Then you can in terminal urpmi name_of_package or use the graphical installer drakrpm (which may be easier if your new to linux) to install the rpms you like. Mike -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] real newbie
On Monday 25 Oct 2004 10:23, et wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 23:44, mike wrote: Steve Chase wrote: first attempt at linux here, have 10.0 amd64 up and running,have rpms for video and motherboard on a cd but can not fiigure out how to install them, even have some rpms (bittorrent) on my desktop but cant figure out the basics. amd 3000+ asus k8n-e deluxe (onboard lan not recognized) It is here... The gigabit lan uses the sk98lin driver and the mcp network lan uses the forcedeth driver. Hope this helps. Try using the control center/ hardware part and use the drivers mentioned above. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intel centrino)
You need to install the wireless-tools package from your CD and then run through the network connection Wizard in Mandrake Control Centre and configure it as a wireless connection. You could also configure it with iwconfig from the command line. derek Hi Derek Well... I did have problems with the CDs when I installed 10.1 thus I installed most of it with urpmi thus I don't know what packet I need since I would install it with urpmi... But I have a config tool for wireless. When I set up a new network connection, I have wireless as an option but even though I tried to set it up that way I always end at the option manual or automatic setup, no matter which option I choose. The problem with ifconfig in the command line is that it doesn't show eth1. I only get eth1 when I type ifconfig eth1... Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intel centrino)
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alexander Ruoff wrote: The problem with ifconfig in the command line is that it doesn't show eth1. I only get eth1 when I type ifconfig eth1... ifconfig -a (shows all interfaces, including those that are down) -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intel centrino)
On Monday 25 October 2004 12:38, Alexander Ruoff wrote: You need to install the wireless-tools package from your CD and then run through the network connection Wizard in Mandrake Control Centre and configure it as a wireless connection. You could also configure it with iwconfig from the command line. derek Hi Derek Well... I did have problems with the CDs when I installed 10.1 thus I installed most of it with urpmi thus I don't know what packet I need since I would install it with urpmi... urpmi wireless-tools But I have a config tool for wireless. When I set up a new network connection, I have wireless as an option but even though I tried to set it up that way I always end at the option manual or automatic setup, no matter which option I choose. You can set it up with iwconfig from the command line. See 'man iwconfig' I am not sure if it is still the case, but the ipw2100 driver used to not work with encryption. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intel centrino)
On Monday 25 October 2004 14:05, Derek Jennings wrote: I am not sure if it is still the case, but the ipw2100 driver used to not work with encryption. derek I didn't get the ipw2100 driver version 0.54 to work with encryption. 0.54 is the version included with 10.1 CE. However by uninstalling the 0.54 completely from the kernel and installing 0.55 i got encryption working. Be carefull however als 0.55 needs a different firmware than 0.54 sebastian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
AW: [newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intelcentrino)
On Monday 25 October 2004 12:38, Alexander Ruoff wrote: But I have a config tool for wireless. When I set up a new network connection, I have wireless as an option but even though I tried to set it up that way I always end at the option manual or automatic setup, no matter which option I choose. The problem with ifconfig in the command line is that it doesn't show eth1. I only get eth1 when I type ifconfig eth1... This sounds like you didn't install the firmware properly. For 10.1 you need the firmware version 0.54. Once that was installed in the right place, I could go past the point of choosing between manual or automatic and properly set up the device. However with the version 0.54 (wich is the one included in 10.1 Community) i could not get encyption to work, I had to upgrade to 0.55. sebastian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VMware and 2.6 kernel
Is anybody here running vmware with the 2.6 kernel? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hard disk clone
Good day all I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's partition? Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. Thanks Alan -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:07:32 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark I'd rather say it's something with your cd burner. I'm using 10.0off and have no problems when comparing md5sums of iso and cd. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga caesar(at)os.pl priv / thereidos(at)gmail.com Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: thereidos(at)ebox.pl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark Not at all. When burn to disc, the md5sums include the lead in and lead out and so will inevitably result in different md5sums. The trick is to get it to md5sum the data on the disc only. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
Op Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200 schreef Alan: Good day all I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's partition? Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost You could check out partimage. It is either on freshmeat or sourceforge, I think. Paul -- Discretion is the better part of valour http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Monday 25 October 2004 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark Not at all. When burn to disc, the md5sums include the lead in and lead out and so will inevitably result in different md5sums. The trick is to get it to md5sum the data on the disc only. John There is never a problem eith any of this when I use K3b however I did have to slow down my burn speed to 4X Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
On Monday 25 October 2004 12:31, Alan wrote: I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's partition? Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. Partimage is a linux clone of Partition Magic, Paragon Hard Drive manager and other types of partition manager tools. One really good way to handle this is to download a copy of System Rescue Live CD from http://sysresccd.org burn the ISO to CD and boot up using the CD. That way, none of the hard drive partitions start out as active and you should be able to copy all the partitions from one hard drive directly to the next hard drive, intact and then just boot from either one after it is connected at the same physical location. I think that it even supports copying entire NTFS partitions, it just doesn't allow you to write to NTFS partitions directly without loading up CaptiveNTFS. -- 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] Hard disk clone
On Monday 25 October 2004 18:31, Alan wrote: Good day all I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's partition? Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. Thanks Alan What I would do in a situation like this: 1)Create the needed partitions on the new disk --- let's assume it's /dev/hdb and the partions are similar to /dev/hda ..only bigger, using fdisk or cfdiskand make those active or bootable that need to be. 2)unmounting all mounted partitions except / from which you're running...Optionally you can do telinit 1 as su/root which will achieve the same. 3) mount the partitions you want to copy to, on ready made directories in /mnt (i.e. /mnt/disk2, /mnt/disk3, etc..) 4)Then copy all the partitions to hdb going into the toplevel of each partition (excepting /, the root partition) and type (as su/root): find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt/diskx (where x is the partition/mount n° needed) 5)Get some coffee as that'll take a while;) 6)reboot using a liveCD or mandrake rescue mode i.e. run in ram. 7)mount your old root partition (/) as well as your new one some where on /mnt/ (i.e. /mnt/oldroot /mnt/newroot° 8)cd into /mnt/oldroot: cd /mnt/oldroot and repeat the find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt/newroot (not the quotes and mind the . !) 9)Drink some more coffee and edit /mnt/newroot/etc/lilo.conf and /mnt/newroot/etc/fstab appropiately ...then edit /mnt/oldroot/etc/lilo.conf and add a new entry there called linux-new (or such) pointing to your newroot partition (this way you can back out if something goes wrong!) 10)reboot into your old system (there is a way of running lilo on a not running / , but I never looked how) and run lilo, and reboot again ;( where you now should see linux-new as an added option in your lilo bootmenu.and boot into that. 11) If all goes well you can then remove/delete your old hda partitions physically and from lilo.conf Bear in mind that I've never done this with a ntfs or vfat partition so (triple)check those thouroughly before removing/deleting the old stuff!!! -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:27:05 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 12:31, Alan wrote: I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's partition? Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. Partimage is a linux clone of Partition Magic, Paragon Hard Drive manager and other types of partition manager tools. One really good way to handle this is to download a copy of System Rescue Live CD from http://sysresccd.org burn the ISO to CD and boot up using the CD. That way, none of the hard drive partitions start out as active and you should be able to copy all the partitions from one hard drive directly to the next hard drive, intact and then just boot from either one after it is connected at the same physical location. I think that it even supports copying entire NTFS partitions, it just doesn't allow you to write to NTFS partitions directly without loading up CaptiveNTFS. -- Bryan Phinney __ Herbalife Independent Distributor http://www.healthiest.co.za Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] File Systems
Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? __ Herbalife Independent Distributor http://www.healthiest.co.za Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nebula DigiTV
Does this digital TV card work with Linux 10? When I use the TV Card control tool in Manrake Control Centre I select Nebula DigiTV in the card model area and Auto-detect in the tuner type area. When it starts tuning a console window pops up and then disappears after about 1 second. Is there any way of finding what my problem is? Andy Tuson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware and 2.6 kernel
On Monday 25 October 2004 11:55 am, Miark wrote: Is anybody here running vmware with the 2.6 kernel? Yes -- /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] Hard disk clone
On Monday 25 October 2004 14:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. I think that means that the time stamp on the boot.* file is incorrect for what lilo expects the time stamp to be. This could mean that you issued the lilo command to write the MBR at a later or earlier time than is shown on the timestamp of that file. If you copied a partition over and then reran the lilo command or copied the file with a newer write date than lilo expects, it should give you the error. One way to fix this is to boot with the Linux cd into rescue mode and tell it to mount your partitions under /mnt and then reinstall Lilo which should pick up the configuration again, rewrite the mbr and you should then be able to reboot back into Linux or whatever is allowed under lilo. -- 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] Hard disk clone
On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to reinstall the bootloader. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware and 2.6 kernel
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:55, Miark wrote: Is anybody here running vmware with the 2.6 kernel? Miark I am, on 10.0 Official with no problems: vmware workstation 4.5.2-8848. You have to run the configuration tool vmware-config.pl to compile the plugin modules for the new kernel (and for every bugfix kernel release subsequently) but this is dead easy. I haven't tried it on 10.1 CE yet. -- N. B. Day Ni dieu, ni maître Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:02:41 -0500 14:02:41 up 6:15, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.08 2.6.3-19mdk GNU/Linux Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
Marc wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark Not at all. When burn to disc, the md5sums include the lead in and lead out and so will inevitably result in different md5sums. The trick is to get it to md5sum the data on the disc only. John There is never a problem eith any of this when I use K3b however I did have to slow down my burn speed to 4X Marc How do you md5sum the disc ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware and 2.6 kernel
N. B. Day wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:55, Miark wrote: Is anybody here running vmware with the 2.6 kernel? Miark I am, on 10.0 Official with no problems: vmware workstation 4.5.2-8848. You have to run the configuration tool vmware-config.pl to compile the plugin modules for the new kernel (and for every bugfix kernel release subsequently) but this is dead easy. I haven't tried it on 10.1 CE yet. It works also on 10.1. The difference is though that each time you have to compile the plugin modules again, which has to do with udev. I've found a workaround somewhere; you have to place the following lines in de vmware script in /etc/rc.d/initd/vmware after line 811 and before the text:# See how we were called: # Place VMware vmnet nodes for UDEV if [ ! -c /dev/vmmon ]; then mknod -m 600 /dev/vmmon c 10 165 fi for a in `seq 0 9`; do if [ ! -c /dev/vmnet$a ]; then mknod -m 600 /dev/vmnet$a c 119 $a chown root.root /dev/vmnet$a fi done success! Bart Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
Ian wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to reinstall the bootloader. I've just burnt an ISO of G4L (Ghost for Linux) Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will clone one onto the other.. seems pretty cool.. it has a heap of partition tools and stuff on it as well. (including partimage) rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Systems
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 14:26, Alan Rolfe wrote: Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? Jfs LX -- Trouble with sound? Dump Alsa with an upgrade to the best: get your free high quality OSS drivers at www.opensound.com Superior features, superior API, better support. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware and 2.6 kernel
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 01:55, Miark wrote: Is anybody here running vmware with the 2.6 kernel? Miark Yes. Latest version of VMWare Workstation for linux. Why? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered User # 267497 --- Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile. -- Karl Lehenbauer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 05:27, frankieh wrote: Ian wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to reinstall the bootloader. I've just burnt an ISO of G4L (Ghost for Linux) Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will clone one onto the other.. seems pretty cool.. it has a heap of partition tools and stuff on it as well. (including partimage) rgds Franki Aw crikey - and here I thought I was the ultimate scavenger of useful utilities and helpful applications - dang a dingo's kidney - this is great! (Downloading now after less than five seconds of Googling) Cheers Franki! -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered User # 267497 --- Fools rush in -- and get the best seats in the house. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Systems
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 04:26, Alan Rolfe wrote: Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? ReiserFS - and don't listen to LX. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered User # 267497 --- The future isn't what it used to be. (It never was.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update
This Linux newbie needs help!!! No matter how many times I've tried over the last few weeks, I have not been able to update with Mandrake 10.1. I always get the message: It is impossible to retreive the list of new packages from the media 'update source.' Either the update media is misconfigured, and in this case you shouldd use the software media manager to remove it and re-add it in order to reconfigure it, either it is currently unreachable and you should retry later. It also reports trying to download '... which doesn't seem like a viable name to me. Thing is, I think I'm missing something. In my media manager, I don't HAVE an update source. I have the 3 installation cd's listed and main, contrib, and plf. That's all. No media called updates. I have done the urpmi 3 steps thing and have searched far and wide over the internet, but I cannot find a solution to this problem. Can someone help? - Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Systems
Thanks On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:22:11 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 04:26, Alan Rolfe wrote: Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? ReiserFS - and don't listen to LX. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered User # 267497 --- The future isn't what it used to be. (It never was.) __ Herbalife Independent Distributor http://www.healthiest.co.za Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
On Monday 25 October 2004 22:20, Stephen Kühn wrote: Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will clone one onto the other.. Franki, When it does that, can it resize the new partition too or do you keep the original partition size (table) like when you use dd to copy? seems pretty cool.. it has a heap of partition tools and stuff on it as well. (including partimage) rgds Franki -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 06:28, Jack wrote: This Linux newbie needs help!!! No matter how many times I've tried over the last few weeks, I have not been able to update with Mandrake 10.1. I always get the message: It is impossible to retreive the list of new packages from the media 'update source.' Either the update media is misconfigured, and in this case you shouldd use the software media manager to remove it and re-add it in order to reconfigure it, either it is currently unreachable and you should retry later. It also reports trying to download '... which doesn't seem like a viable name to me. Thing is, I think I'm missing something. In my media manager, I don't HAVE an update source. I have the 3 installation cd's listed and main, contrib, and plf. That's all. No media called updates. I have done the urpmi 3 steps thing and have searched far and wide over the internet, but I cannot find a solution to this problem. Can someone help? - Jack http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Follow the instructions and try again. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered User # 267497 --- Never promise more than you can perform. -- Publilius Syrus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update
Jack wrote: This Linux newbie needs help!!! No matter how many times I've tried over the last few weeks, I have not been able to update with Mandrake 10.1. I always get the message: It is impossible to retreive the list of new packages from the media 'update source.' Either the update media is misconfigured, and in this case you shouldd use the software media manager to remove it and re-add it in order to reconfigure it, either it is currently unreachable and you should retry later. It also reports trying to download '... which doesn't seem like a viable name to me. Thing is, I think I'm missing something. In my media manager, I don't HAVE an update source. I have the 3 installation cd's listed and main, contrib, and plf. That's all. No media called updates. I have done the urpmi 3 steps thing and have searched far and wide over the internet, but I cannot find a solution to this problem. Can someone help? - Jack Community versions of Mandrake do not have updates or update source media - the updates are contained in the media which you have already added as sources. To obtain the updates, instead of using the GUI you must use urpmi. Open a root terminal, give the following command: urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum urpmi --auto-select This will update all your media, and show you a list of updated versions of any packages you have installed. -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Mozilla on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk ~~~ Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance -- Jim Horning ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 22:20, Stephen Kühn wrote: Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will clone one onto the other.. Franki, When it does that, can it resize the new partition too or do you keep the original partition size (table) like when you use dd to copy? seems pretty cool.. it has a heap of partition tools and stuff on it as well. (including partimage) rgds Franki I can't answer that.. as I've booted from it, and have played in the menu's abit.. but I've not yet written anything to disk. I suspect that the click and clone thing is just a direct RAW copy. meaning you'd have to resize the partitions yourself later. rgds franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
On Monday 25 Oct 2004 20:27, frankieh wrote: Ian wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to reinstall the bootloader. I've just burnt an ISO of G4L (Ghost for Linux) Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will clone one onto the other.. seems pretty cool.. it has a heap of partition tools and stuff on it as well. (including partimage) rgds Franki Franki, Can I pre-empt Anne here, as How do I clone a disk is asked so often here (and elsewhere for that matter), when you are familiar with it could you put something on the Wiki please ? -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Systems
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:07:12 -0400, Lyvim wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 14:26, Alan Rolfe wrote: Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? Jfs Eh?! Don't you mean XFS? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Systems
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 07:09, Miark wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:07:12 -0400, Lyvim wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 14:26, Alan Rolfe wrote: Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? Jfs Eh?! Don't you mean XFS? Miark As stated before, don't listen to Miark; use ReiserFS... (Besides, he drinks way too much and gets easily confused) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered User # 267497 --- Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. -- Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:54:15 +0100, John wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? When burn to disc, the md5sums include the lead in and lead out and so will inevitably result in different md5sums. The trick is to get it to md5sum the data on the disc only. I don't think that's the case for two reasons. First, I've always used this method before, and it's always worked. And second, even if I screwed it up from the commandline, I'm sure K3b would do it correctly when I select the Verify data option. But it always comes up wrong, too. One other thing I considered: crappy media. And make no mistake, I'm using Ritek--the crappiest, most god-awful media on planet. But when I burned to a RW this morning, I had the same problem (burning with K3b, with verification checked). What do you do to verify discs? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:01:42 -0500, Marc wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? There is never a problem eith any of this when I use K3b however I did have to slow down my burn speed to 4X I've been burning at 8x, but dropping to 4x is a good idea. I'll give that a shot. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:26:35 +0200, Thereidos wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:07:32 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are_always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark I'd rather say it's something with your cd burner. I'm using 10.0off and have no problems when comparing md5sums of iso and cd. What method(s) are you using to generate md5sums for the disc? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ordered new laptop
Greetings, I just ordered a new laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1150. Is there anyone on the list who has experience with this model and Mandrake Linux?? As best as I could determine, Dell laptops are relatively Linux compatible/friendly. Any feedback would be appreciated. Dell had a great offer on the Inspiron.free shipping, free upgrade to a 60GB harddrive, free nylon carrying case, and..a free Kodak CX 6445 digital camera! :-) Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware and 2.6 kernel
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:04:30 -0500, N. wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:55, Miark wrote: Is anybody here running vmware with the 2.6 kernel? Miark I am, on 10.0 Official with no problems: vmware workstation 4.5.2-8848. You have to run the configuration tool vmware-config.pl to compile the plugin modules for the new kernel... Ah ha--that's the tid-bit I needed. Thanks! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
Miark wrote: One other thing I considered: crappy media. And make no mistake, I'm using Ritek--the crappiest, most god-awful media on planet. But when I burned to a RW this morning, I had the same problem (burning with K3b, with verification checked). If your burner is modern, 8x is not particularly fast. I doubt it is the cause. What do you do to verify discs? Miark Do you still have the iso file ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hard disk speed
I am using konquerer to move stuff from one hard disk to another. Konquerer reports on 2.5MB/s. Shouldn´t this be faster? Seems very slow to me. Any advice will be appreciated Thanks -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
Poogle wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 20:27, frankieh wrote: Ian wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to reinstall the bootloader. I've just burnt an ISO of G4L (Ghost for Linux) Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will clone one onto the other.. seems pretty cool.. it has a heap of partition tools and stuff on it as well. (including partimage) rgds Franki Franki, Can I pre-empt Anne here, as How do I clone a disk is asked so often here (and elsewhere for that matter), when you are familiar with it could you put something on the Wiki please ? LOL, ok, when I've had a good play.. I'll knock something together for it. rgds Franki Linux user 218317 (counter.li.org) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk speed
On Monday 25 October 2004 23:59, Alan wrote: I am using konquerer to move stuff from one hard disk to another. Konquerer reports on 2.5MB/s. Shouldn´t this be faster? Seems very slow to me. Any advice will be appreciated Thanks Alan, If you're trying to clone disks with konqueror you're going to get into a right mess as a lot of inconsistancies are going to show up in respect to ownership and RW permissions to files and links. On top, take care that your don't copy all the mounted mountpoints and their underlying files toothat wouldn't save much diskspace, would it. Use the commands I gave you in a prior answer to eliminate those risksor if you're sure there's no (mounted) mount points or hardlinks: cp -ax originalfile-name copiedfile-name. I've found the combined find and cpio method the only 100% sure way. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ordered new laptop
On October 25, 2004 15:21, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I just ordered a new laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1150. Is there anyone on the list who has experience with this model and Mandrake Linux?? As best as I could determine, Dell laptops are relatively Linux compatible/friendly. Any feedback would be appreciated. Dell had a great offer on the Inspiron.free shipping, free upgrade to a 60GB harddrive, free nylon carrying case, and..a free Kodak CX 6445 digital camera! :-) Best regards. --Angus I have an old Dell Inspiron 3800. Both 10.0 Official and 10.1 Community work well on it. A few glitches, most notably with a wireless pcmcia card (got it working in 10.0, but only with encryption disabled, and with some very weird glitches, like trashing of my default system font; haven't had time to try yet with 10.1). Also, I only have 64MB memory, which is not enough to run KDE on, so it thrashes badly (and I haven't had time to investigate a more memory friendly window mangler). Strangely though, MandrakeMove does not work on it. It fails during booting (I forget the exact symptoms). It's not the cd, because I can boot it fine on a Compaq Armada M700 laptop, and a Dell Dimension XPS R400 desktop. I can also boot Knoppix on the Inspiron. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update
I will second Margot's words, but also add that another problem can be timeouts from the server you are connecting to. I always connect to the server with Konqeror before I add it to my sources, and I avoid .edu sites as they seem to shut down sites on the weekends. And I also use the lists at mandrakeclub, as a link to the files is provided, and I can easily check the speed of the server. Rob On Monday 25 October 2004 1:47 pm, Margot wrote: To obtain the updates, instead of using the GUI you must use urpmi. Open a root terminal, give the following command: urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum urpmi --auto-select This will update all your media, and show you a list of updated versions of any packages you have installed. -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernel update source/binary mismatch
I never got a sympa confirm request for this the first time, and it doesn't seem to have come through the list, so here it is again: This past Friday (Oct. 22) I decided it was time to update my Mdk 10.0 system, so I did the usual commands as root: # urpmi.update -a # urpmi --auto-select I noticed that one of the updates selected was kernel-source-2.6.3-19mdk. But there was no corresponding kernel-2.6.3.19mdk package. I checked in /boot and the rpm database, in case I had gotten the binary without the source in a previous update. But the latest kernel binary I have installed is kernel-2.6.3.16mdk (and that was back on Aug. 13). This is the kernel that I'm currently booting with: # uname -r 2.6.3-16mdk In case the kernel binary was a bit late arriving, I did the same urpmi commands today, and I just get Everything already installed. In case auto-select was somehow missing it, I also did this: # urpmi kernel Everything already installed Finally, I did the following: # urpmi kernel-2.6.3.19 ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/ 10.0/RPMS/./kernel-2.6.3.19mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm ... And now it's downloading the new kernel binary! What's up with that? auto-select doesn't work with kernel binaries, but it does with kernel source? Shouldn't the two always be kept in sync? And why doesn't urpmi kernel find the latest version of the kernel? Why should I have to specify which version I want? Very strange. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 21:47 +0100, Margot wrote: Community versions of Mandrake do not have updates or update source media - the updates are contained in the media which you have already added as sources. To obtain the updates, instead of using the GUI you must use urpmi. Open a root terminal, give the following command: urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum urpmi --auto-select This will update all your media, and show you a list of updated versions of any packages you have installed. Thanks Margot... this seems to have done it. So this means that I can't use the drakes to update, right? - Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel update source/binary mismatch
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: # urpmi kernel Everything already installed Finally, I did the following: # urpmi kernel-2.6.3.19 ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/ 10.0/RPMS/./kernel-2.6.3.19mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm ... And now it's downloading the new kernel binary! What's up with that? auto-select doesn't work with kernel binaries, but it does with kernel source? Shouldn't the two always be kept in sync? And why doesn't urpmi most times, yes, one would want them in sync if your intent is to build modules for your binary kernel kernel find the latest version of the kernel? Why should I have to specify which version I want? Very strange. urpmi --fuzzy kernel will return a list, if urpmi kernel doesn't All binary kernel packages have unique names, so you can have more than one installed at a time. (Can be handy if your new kernel won't boot your system for some reason). -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Systems
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:13:51 +1000, Stephen wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 07:09, Miark wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:07:12 -0400, Lyvim wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 14:26, Alan Rolfe wrote: Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? Jfs Eh?! Don't you mean XFS? Miark As stated before, don't listen to Miark; use ReiserFS... (Besides, he drinks way too much and gets easily confused) Easily confused, yes, but it's _Anne_ that's the drunkard. ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File Systems
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:52, Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:13:51 +1000, Stephen wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 07:09, Miark wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:07:12 -0400, Lyvim wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 14:26, Alan Rolfe wrote: Which file system is best to use? Reiser fs or ext3? Jfs Eh?! Don't you mean XFS? Miark As stated before, don't listen to Miark; use ReiserFS... (Besides, he drinks way too much and gets easily confused) Easily confused, yes, but it's _Anne_ that's the drunkard. ;-) Miark Anne - Wilson? Prolly so. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered User # 267497 --- Murder is always a mistake -- one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner. -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200, Alan wrote: Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot system). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:35:39 +0100, John wrote: Miark wrote: One other thing I considered: crappy media. And make no mistake, I'm using Ritek--the crappiest, most god-awful media on planet. But when I burned to a RW this morning, I had the same problem (burning with K3b, with verification checked). If your burner is modern, 8x is not particularly fast. I doubt it is the cause. What do you do to verify discs? Do you still have the iso file ? Yes. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 02:01, Miark wrote: http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot system). Miark message.footer well, if you only want to back-up and restore use dump and restore..both have excelent man-pages:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] virus
Saturday at 21:06, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a virus... I only had to say I'm running Linux, so I can't send you a virus. That and check out the headers - that's what tells the truth. I recently had about 10 viruses come into my inbox, and the funny thing is, they were all supposed to be FROM me TO me. Doing a little checking, I found out that one of my contacts had gotten a virus, and of course it was spoofing everything. What happens is, the virus raids their address book, and randomly sends out viruses to everyone in that address book, and it picks a random user from the address book to spoof from. It took all of about 30 seconds to figure out where it was coming from - I ended up going over to her office and cleaning up the system, and the emails disappeared. Funny how that works... How can you know exactly who it came from? I realize that such mostly comes from infected windoze boxes, and I'm thinking that someone out there who has my email in their address book has a virus which has been spoofing my address, like the one Tom Karen Pino got. The question is who? -- Mit freundlichen Gren, Russ. Sick of democrat and republican lies? http://badnarik.org/whybadnarik.php What is freedom, really? See this great flash presentation: http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf You have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don't get caught exercising them. -- Terry Mitchell Talking against Religion is unchaining a Tyger; the Beast let loose may worry his Deliverer. http://www.TruthAboutWar.org Visit my nursery: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/behnesnursery/ The Behne Family Genealogy Project: http://www.usgenealogy.net/members/rwbehne/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] virus
Friday at 18:39, Tom Karen Pino wrote: To anyone this may concern, I received this notice from my ISP today. A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the original message has been placed into the greymail quarantine area. To review the text only portion of the message, you may log into your greymail area and click on the message(s) in red. I do not know that this has to do with Russell W. Behne, but I also get things that claim to come from me inspite of increased security at rangeweb and constant attention to security by my security guy (me) to virus and spyware crap (have never had a virus). The subject line is Re: Hello. SNIP Hi Tom, No, that message isn't from me. I never use the worrd `Hello' on the Subject: line. Someone obviously spoofed my email address. If you can bounce a copy to me I'd appreciate it. And if anyone knows how to find out who actually did it, and how to get even with them, I'd appreciate that too. -- Mit freundlichen Gren, Russ. Sick of democrat and republican lies? http://badnarik.org/whybadnarik.php What is freedom, really? See this great flash presentation: http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf Don't throw Stones at your Neighbours', if your own Windows are Glass. Doing an injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him. http://www.TruthAboutWar.org Visit my nursery: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/behnesnursery/ The Behne Family Genealogy Project: http://www.usgenealogy.net/members/rwbehne/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone
Miark wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200, Alan wrote: Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot system). http://www.mondorescue.org works better. Bob -- -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Home network help needed
Wednesday at 10:49, Anne Wilson wrote: Russell, if you don't mind me saying so, you are a sucker for punishment ;-) Get your switch. It's a doddle after that. You won't believe how easy it is after what you were trying to do. Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to ping either host from the server I get this error message: ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted Any idea what's causing this, and how to fix it? -- Mit freundlichen Gren, Russ. Sick of democrat and republican lies? http://badnarik.org/whybadnarik.php What is freedom, really? See this great flash presentation: http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last. From a letter to Thomas Jefferson: ``I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved ---the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!'' --John Adams (the second President of the United States) http://www.TruthAboutWar.org Visit my nursery: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/behnesnursery/ The Behne Family Genealogy Project: http://www.usgenealogy.net/members/rwbehne/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update
At 06:26 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: I will second Margot's words, but also add that another problem can be timeouts from the server you are connecting to. I always connect to the server with Konqeror before I add it to my sources, and I avoid .edu sites as they seem to shut down sites on the weekends. And I also use the lists at mandrakeclub, as a link to the files is provided, and I can easily check the speed of the server. Rob On Monday 25 October 2004 1:47 pm, Margot wrote: To obtain the updates, instead of using the GUI you must use urpmi. Open a root terminal, give the following command: urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum urpmi --auto-select This will update all your media, and show you a list of updated versions of any packages you have installed. And, if there are any updates to be had but there are dependency issues, urpmi will ask if it can install what's needed and then go and do the download/update for you all automagically. I've got this in a script file that cron runs every day. -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Dennis Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #362232 Not yet M$ free-but getting closer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update
On Monday 25 October 2004 07:40 pm, Jack wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 21:47 +0100, Margot wrote: Community versions of Mandrake do not have updates or update source media - the updates are contained in the media which you have already added as sources. To obtain the updates, instead of using the GUI you must use urpmi. Open a root terminal, give the following command: urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum urpmi --auto-select This will update all your media, and show you a list of updated versions of any packages you have installed. Thanks Margot... this seems to have done it. So this means that I can't use the drakes to update, right? - Jack There is a problem with the hdlists on the 10.1 mirrors right now too. Messages have been posted to Cooker about this, and I hope it will be fixed soon. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] movie player
with my mdk10 installed i can't play movie directly from a source CD especially the extension file is DAT or VCD format.. wat do i need to configure my totem media player? im using Gnome thanks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Home network help needed
On Monday 25 October 2004 09:04 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to ping either host from the server I get this error message: ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted Any idea what's causing this, and how to fix it? A quick google search turned up this. Does it help? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] module removal
Hello, I've installed the 10.1 Community and I tried to install nVidia driver. It displays a warning about incompatibility with rivafb driver module (the kernel is set to run with). I don't have a Riva. How could I remove the rivafb module from the kernel? Thanks, Mike = Best Regards, Mihai Sorin Dobrescu __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Home network help needed
Today at 00:22, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 09:04 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to ping either host from the server I get this error message: ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted Any idea what's causing this, and how to fix it? A quick google search turned up this. Does it help? Ok, I did this: ]# iptables -L OUTPUT -n -v Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 10175 4066K ACCEPT all -- * lo 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 DROP!icmp -- * *0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state INVALID 24541 1478K fw2net all -- * eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 4286 336K all2all all -- * eth1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 Reject all -- * *0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 LOG all -- * *0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0 level 6 prefix `Shorewall:OUTPUT:REJECT:' 0 0 reject all -- * *0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Being a complete newbie at this, it appears that shorewall is blocking ALL pings. Exactly how should I enable bidirectional pings (and everything else for that matter) within my local network, and still block only those pings coming from outside, (from the Internet)? I've never had to manually config shorewall, and haven't a clue what ccommand to use, or where to put it to make it permanent. -- Mit freundlichen Gren, Russ. Sick of democrat and republican lies? http://badnarik.org/whybadnarik.php What is freedom, really? See this great flash presentation: http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf ``All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.'' ---Arthur Schopenhauer He that best understands the World, least likes it. http://www.TruthAboutWar.org Visit my nursery: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/behnesnursery/ The Behne Family Genealogy Project: http://www.usgenealogy.net/members/rwbehne/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
