Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction
John Wilson wrote: On October 21, 2004 04:11 pm, Elliot Somers wrote: This is a pretty general question, I've heard it said by one party that linux/unix is virus proof, other's say it's that virus authors go after the big guys, so MS, wintel servers, etc. What I want to know is what's true and what's not. Also I'm curious not only if it is, or not, but why? If there's any references you all know of to point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Elliot Goodness, here we go again. To a degree it's true that virus writers go after the big guys. It's also true that virus/trojan/spyware writers go after the easiest system to use to propagate their nasties and that also happens to be Windows. One, in fact the only, reason the crackers charge after Windows is that from 95 to XP Pro most windows boxes run in administrator mode or with administration rights widely given. Even when they are not things like adding new software default to that. Toss in Microsoft's much vaunted ease of use mantra which has led to VBA, scripting languages that operate system wide, browsers and email clients that happily install just about anything so that you won't have to trouble yourself about it. Oh...and browsers and email clients that will follow HTML code anywhere no matter where it goes. What all this boils down to is that a cracker can devise a simple program that will install itself on your Windows box without your so much as even knowing about it. Nice, eh? And Windows users have shown themselves the most undiciplined of surfers, well perhaps that title goes to AOL users, who will go to a web site and download any old crap, usually spyware, so they can get the video feeds of porn, stock tickers, latest prices of medicines or whatever. As for wintel servers on the internet they are a definite minority when compared to Linux, one of the BSDs or UNIX. But they are as easily breakable as the desktop Windows on which they're based and for the same reasons. Only a near total moron would put anything on a windows server on the internet these days and for good reason. Admittedly this is much simplifed and much understated, beleive it or not. Try Bugtraq or CERT is you want to know more. You might also want to google virus writing to see how much there actually is out there. Now, Linux, in common with almost all POSIX compliant software also has an administrators account and you can, if you want to, set up as insecure a system as any old Windows box. Responsible Linux distributions will insist that you have at least one regular user as well as root and will boot you in as that. Now it's possible for a virus to be written for Linux and it's been done. But, unlike the Windows situation, there is absolutely nothing that can be done in user space that overlaps with or conflicts with the root/system space. In short, a virus cannot propagate itself. Oh, it can mess up the user's home in short order but not the machine itself. Spyware can find out everything it wants about you but nothing at all about the root or any other user on the box. Nasties do exist for Linux but they are much further and fewer between than the almost daily attacks on Windows. And they are, in general, far easier to defend against. Also, it often takes less than 24 hours for a package to be fixed after a vulnerability is found, often before it's exploited, and the fix sent out. Compare that to the rather cavalier attitude of Micosoft to such things. ttfn John Wow! what a reply! :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with my web site
Bryan Phinney wrote: I have just noticed a very troublesome problem with my web site and was hoping that someone here could point me in the right direction. I am using Postnuke CMS version .750 Gold, MySQL server and PHP 4.3.8. The site displays in IE, Opera fine but whenever I hit it from a Mozilla browser, including Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape, I get a really strange corrupted display. Another interesting item, if you go to the site as the root site using http://kislinux.org/ You get the corrupted display within Mozilla. If you go to http://kislinux.org/linux/ which is an alias for the same directory, the site comes up just fine. It is really bugging the crap out of me. If anyone uses php, apache, and wants to take a look and make suggestions, I am all ears and would really appreciate the help. Wish I had an answer for you but I don't. If it were me I'd set up a proxy so that I could capture the HTTP between the browser and the server and look for any differences between the two requests. That might tell you something, it might not... Good luck! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Conférence à Bordeaux.
Warly wrote: Je serai sur Bordeaux Mardi 19 octobre pour une conférence à l'ENSEIRB de 11h à 12h30 sur le thème de l'économie du libre et Mandrakesoft. Si des gens sont intéressés pour passer et discuter un peu. I ran this through a French-English translation robot: I will be on Bordeaux Tuesday October 19 for a lecture to the enseirb of 11H to 12h30 on the theme of the economy of the free one and Mandrakesoft. If people are interested to pass and discuss a little. I think the French made more sense. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 802.11G support
Ken Sieving wrote: I have purchased a new HP model ZE4805 which has a Broadcom 94306 chipset. Does anyone know if 10.1 supports this out of the box? Thanks. I had to use ndiswrapper to wrap the Window's drivers for the 94306 chipset (PCMCIA) in MDK 10.0 and 10.1. Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using Midnight Commander
et wrote: A MUCH better answer, really was yes, rtfm. along with complaining that the previous answer did not include 'RTFM', imho. But I knew Aron would (and probly had begun to) rtfm. BTW, I count Aron as a frien from the OT list, and I am sure that if he had had further problems, he would have asked a more specific question. the question, as I read it, was is it worth looking for the answer, or is this something that can not be done. also IMHO, RTFM is not an aswer to any specific question, thank you. ET IMHO, your posts to this thread are a waste of bandwidth. Please refrain from posting unless you've got something useful to contribute. This *is* the newbie list. Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gnome panels
Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config directories in my home directory, still no panels. Any suggestions? Thanks, Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome panels
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2004 07:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config directories in my home directory, still no panels. Any suggestions? Thanks, Brandon Go back to KDE. That fixed me up, 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] Gnome panels
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 22:50, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I'm using 10.1 CE. After having used KDE for a while I decided that I would give Gnome a try. All was going well until this morning when I launched gnome - I had no panels. I tried deleting all gnome config directories in my home directory, still no panels. Any suggestions? Thanks, Brandon I'll assume you're in the GUI login - I've experimented with it and Gnome almost always chokes after a few logins; although from runlevel 3 using Xtart it works like a charm. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses --- Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed. -- Arthur Miller Nope, I was starting from run level 3. I created a .xinitrc file in ~ to launch Gnome. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome panels
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 07:09, Brandon Rife wrote: Nope, I was starting from run level 3. I created a .xinitrc file in ~ to launch Gnome. Install Xtart and don't muck around with your .xinitrc unless you truly know what you're doing - at least it allows you to run any number of installed window manglers and desktop environments - and is really nice and easy to install (urpmi Xtart) That's good to know. Thanks for the advice. Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Security Updates
On Friday 08 October 2004 09:24 am, Stew Benedict wrote: You currently see updates hitting community main? I was under the impression that that is static atm. Went through this last night with a support person and it looked like the hdlist on proxad was dated Sept15. I haven't gotten any updates from main or contrib for quite a while. Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem
On Thursday 07 October 2004 08:27 pm, Chris wrote: On Thursday 07 October 2004 09:53 am, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: Authentication failed. Most likely the password is wrong. The server responded: Authentication failure I've re-entered the password 10 times and I'm sure that it, as well as the user id, is correct and I do know that smtp.comcast.net requires authentication. The same user id, password works fine with pop3 - I have no problem fetching mail using KMail. I'm probably mindlessly missing something Thanks! Brandon If comcast is anything like Earthlink, shouldn't it be smtpauth.comcast.net? Also, the only EL will work for me in Kmail is in the security setting Encryption is set to TLS and Authentication is set to login In the EL support group they tell me that CRAM-MD5 will work, however it gives me the same error as you. Nope, smtp.comcast.net is correct. I need TLS and CRAM-MD5 to authenticate. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Setting wlan0 connection timeout
Hi, I have wired and wireless PCMCIA cards in my laptop. At home I connect wireless, at work, I am wired. The wired interface, eth0, fails almost instantly on boot at home - good. At work the wireless interface, wlan0, takes a couple of minutes to fail - bad. Is there anything that I can do to make the wireless interface fail more quickly? Thanks, Brandon (currently wired at work:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting wlan0 connection timeout
On Friday 08 October 2004 07:21 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 08 October 2004 05:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I have wired and wireless PCMCIA cards in my laptop. At home I connect wireless, at work, I am wired. The wired interface, eth0, fails almost instantly on boot at home - good. At work the wireless interface, wlan0, takes a couple of minutes to fail - bad. Is there anything that I can do to make the wireless interface fail more quickly? Thanks, Brandon (currently wired at work:) Brandon, put this in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 DHCP_TIMEOUT=5 This of course, assumes that you are using DHCP. You can play with the value (5) to get the best performance. HTHs. :-) PS If nothing else, compare what is in ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-wlan0. Thanks, I'll gve a try - Let you know how it works on Monday. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem
Hi, Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: Authentication failed. Most likely the password is wrong. The server responded: Authentication failure I've re-entered the password 10 times and I'm sure that it, as well as the user id, is correct and I do know that smtp.comcast.net requires authentication. The same user id, password works fine with pop3 - I have no problem fetching mail using KMail. I'm probably mindlessly missing something Thanks! Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem - SOLVED
On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:53 am, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: Authentication failed. Most likely the password is wrong. The server responded: Authentication failure I've re-entered the password 10 times and I'm sure that it, as well as the user id, is correct and I do know that smtp.comcast.net requires authentication. The same user id, password works fine with pop3 - I have no problem fetching mail using KMail. I'm probably mindlessly missing something Thanks! Brandon I finally found a how-to. I believe the problem was that I wasn't specifying CRAM-MD5 as the autentication method. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Konqueror/toolbar persistence
This isn't a big deal but it is getting annoying. Everytime I run Konq I have to reconfigure the toolbars the way I lke them. It appears that the toolbar state is not being persisted when Konq is closed. Anyone else seeing this on 10.1CE? Anyone have a fix? Thanks, Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror/toolbar persistence
Brandon Rife wrote: This isn't a big deal but it is getting annoying. Everytime I run Konq I have to reconfigure the toolbars the way I lke them. It appears that the toolbar state is not being persisted when Konq is closed. Anyone else seeing this on 10.1CE? Anyone have a fix? Thanks, Brandon I put up with this for a couple of weeks while looking for something obvious like a Save Settings menu item. 30 seconds after I post to the list I see the Save view profile menu item under the Settings menu. Never mind*sheepish grin* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] qcad library. How to?
aron Smith wrote: BTW .zip files are for windows That's a ridiculous statement. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1CE
Paul Kaplan wrote: My initial impression is that 10.1CE is faster than 10.0 Official. Can anyone confirm or would people like a sample of what I've been smokin'? Paul I don't see too much difference. I does seem to me though that XFree was faster then Xorg. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Calling Firefox from Thunderbird
Russell Butler wrote: Hi all Hopefully a simple question: I have just installed Firefox and Thunderbird on my MK10 setup -KDE desktop and am most impressed. If there is a web link in an email, clicking on it opens konqueror. Is there any way to use Firefox as the default agent? I have set Firefox with the default file association for html, but konqueror still opens. Thanks for help Russell The following works for me in KDE. In your $HOME/.thunderbird/random chars.default directory look for a file called user.js (if you see a file called prefs.js you're in the right directory). If you don't find user.js create it. Add the following line to user.js user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, /usr/bin/firefox); Note that your path to firefox may be different than mine. I also had to do something similar to get Thunderbird to handle the mailto protocol inside of Firefox. In the $HOME/.mozilla/thunderbird/random chars.default directory I created a user.js file and added the following line: user_pref(network.protocol-handler.app.mailto, /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird); Good luck! Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 and 10.1 mouse driver
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:27:36 -0600 Scott Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:18:09 +, Lee Wiggers wrote Hello list Recently my test box in 10.0 Official noted new hardware on boot. With vast stupidity, I followed along and it changed my mouse driver. The mouse hiccups and goes into fits when I kvm to another box and back. I saw it as an opportunity and reformatted, then installed the new 10.1. It does the same thing. I swapped the kvm outputs with another box to make sure it was not a hardware problem (Belkin Omni-view with perfect track record). It is most definitely a mdk thing. Anyone have a suggestion or experiencing the same problem? I have not had satisfactory performance since 9.2 and, frankly, I'm growing weary. My mouse kvm problems usually end with a switch to a USB keyboard and mouse (KVM with USB connections). Different Kernel versions just seem to have some aversion to mice on KVM switches. IMHO it's entirely an Linux Kernel bug that should have been put to rest a long time ago. My final solution was an inexpensive PS2-to-USB adapter cable to make all my keyboard/mouse problems USB problems. Seems USB mice just don't suffer from the same confusion. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) rant Let me tell you what pisses me off. I have been using the same mouse, same keyboard, and same chair since 7.2. They have all worked fine with Generic Wheelmouse until now. And never did the distro detect new hardware and do me in. Every time I was done in it was an upgrade and that occurs regularly. Upgrade and your sound doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your burner doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your ears turn green. In other words upgrade means fsk-up as much as it means improves. I'm sick of it. I burn with Nero on a 2k box. I listen to oggs and mp3s with Winamp on a 2k box. It works...always...period. I keep my files, connect with the net, and serve my site on the mdk 9.2 box. That's all important, but pretty basic crap for a hot shot super distro like mdk. /rant Call me a troll if you wish, but I've tried hard to swallow this shiet. How is a beginner supposed to embrace this crap? The current wheelmouse is a Logitech, BTW, and I was wrong about it living through all. Previous was a Microslop wheelmouse. When I bought the Logitech, I plugged it in and it worked in place of the other. Now it does not, because 10.1 detected a change two years later, I suppose? Let me also say that I can probably fix it by identifying the driver on the 9.2 box and forcing it on the 10.1 box, but why do I have to do this? Is this a computer operating system or a frustration generator? I can listen to my wife and get frustrated, although I'll admit mdk works faster. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com AMEN! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Synatics Touchpad
I have a synaptics touchpad and a USB wheel mouse. I've installed the synaptics driver so that I can scroll and double click on the touchpad. This works great provided that I have or have had the USB mouse puggged in. If I boot without the USB mouse plugged in then it seems my touchpad functions without the synaptic driver, no scrolling, double-clicking, etc. I'm using Xorg but I experience the same behaviour under XF. Any ideas? Thanks! Brandon Section InputDevice Identifier synaptic Driver synaptics Option Protocol auto-dev Option Device /dev/psaux Option MinSpeed 0.06 Option MaxSpeed 0.12 Option BottomEdge 4200 Option SHMConfig on # Option Repeater /dev/ps2mouse Option LeftEdge 1700 Option FingerLow 25 Option MaxTapTime 180 Option MaxTapMove 220 Option FingerHigh 30 Option VertScrollDelta 100 Option AccelFactor 0.0010 Option TopEdge 1700 Option RightEdge 5300 EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice synaptic AlwaysCore InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer Screen screen1 EndSection 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 PCMCIA Card
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Brandon Rife wrote: I'm looking for a wireless PCMCIA card that works 'out of the box' with MDK 10 and XP. Can someone suggest such a card? Thanks! I will probably get flamed for saying this, but the Microsoft MN-520 works with Mandrake 9.2, and I would think 10.0 I think it also works with XP. ;) On the other hand, it doesn't exactly work 'out of the box' in Linux. You have to add 3 lines to the pcmcia config file so that the proper driver is loaded for the card. If they have any left, Office Max was closing them out for less then $20. Mikkel Mikkel, Thanks, it is brave of you to make the suggestion. :) Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Wireless PCMCIA Card
I'm looking for a wireless PCMCIA card that works 'out of the box' with MDK 10 and XP. Can someone suggest such a card? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Proxim Orinoco gold a/b/g card
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Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:46:42 -0400 eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own .. after some years of using and trusting it I was let down. Well I have seen this some time ago. Kindly point me to site were I can try to find the mail please. Maybe if it is short kindly explain please. I did a repair by popping cd 1 and upgrade same system .. some side effects .. nvidia must be re-istalled .. urpmi in MCC additional sites wiped .. maybe something else I stiil have not discovered. Thanks I've had that happen to me. Basically what you have to do is go find the rpm packages to install yourself by spelunking through ftp and stuff, and install everything package by package. Annoying, but I managed to do it with the help of my friend, and I'm fairly new to all this stuff. I had the same thing happen to me this morning. I don't have urpmi or rpmdrake any more. I found both packages but when I click on the icon it asked what program it should use to open the rpm with and I don't know what to answer. The whole menu entry for Packaging has disappeared. How do I deal with that? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, Eric I know how you feel. There is not a lot of advice available on this . to date .. The only answers to this question so far on this list are 1-The way Amy did with the help of a friend,, Amy .. kindly if possible the required rpms to restore urpmi please. ** 2- What I did . re-install . after saving home direcrory in safe place . if you have done updates with the --noclean option all rpms should be here ../var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ ..copy them to save place. ** here is rsync command I use .. su - -c rsync -va --ignore-existing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ \ /mnt/hde14-backup/mdk10/updates10/RPMS/ ** here is the rsync for the home directory.. su - -c rsync -av --delete /home/ \ /mnt/hde14-backup/mdk10-home/ ** You have to create the destination dirs first .. adjust the destination to your system. Maybe you know even more than I do about this. Goodluck Johan Sch ** From what I was told, urpmi is a fairly simple program, so it just removes what needs to be removed, then installs the new stuff. But when one of the things it removes is one of it's dependencies, it'll remove itself too because it wasn't told ~not~ to. Good luck on getting that rolling. I haven't had a problem with it again since I had to reinstall it the hard way. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #33034 May this be a good day for learning I did get things straightened out. I had a urpmi rpm on a CD. I used rpm to install it but everything else I tried to install failed because of dependencies. I used urpmi remove.media -a (I think) to remove my old listings. Next I added new sources for urpmi to use. After I finished that I used urpmi to add rpmdrake, gurpmi, drakxtools, drakxtools-newt and drakconf to my system. Everything seems to be fine. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com When this happened to me I ran the update from the 10CE cd. This installed the missing rpms and left all the newer rpms alone. After the update, I just had to run urpmi --auto-select to bring everthing up to date. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems
Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, I tried to use Kbear for the first. I have no problem connecting to a website. After connecting, I see that the login and password was accepted followed by this message: 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode. But, after I connect I can see no directories and files at the website. I also see the word reading and below it 0%. After a wait of about 4 minutes the file system on the website appears. However, it takes another 3 to 4 minutes to open any directory. Every directory change requires another 3 minutes. Why would Kbear run so slowly? Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I had the same problems when trying to connect to my FTP service which is hosted on a WinXP box. You might try turning of passive ftp for that site to see if that helps. As for me, the more I used KBear the more bugs I ran into. Although I don't care much for the UI I'm now using gftp, it is at least, dependable. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DrakeConf is uninstalled
Brandon Rife wrote: I absently mindedly uninstalled drakconf, at least that's what I think its called. It's the Mandrake app that corresponds to the Configuration/Configure your computer menuitem. At this point I'm still very dependent of the GUI to get things done in Linux, especially configuration related stuff. If some kind soul would give or point me to instructions ofn gettting this app back via the console I'd much appreciate it. I'm running MDK 9.2. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Nevermind! urpmi drakconf fixed me up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput
Amichai Rotman wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 05:01, Brandon Rife wrote: The sound driver info is below. I've tried both the maestro and snd-es1968 drivers with no luck. I do know that the maestro module was working. Should it matter, this problem is occurring on a Micron Transport ZX laptop. Vendor: ?ESS Technology Alternative drivers: ?snd-es1968 Bus: ?PCI Bus identification: ?125d:1978:144d:3240 Location on the bus: ?0:c:0 Description: ?ES1978 Maestro 2E Module: ?maestro Media class: ?MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Hi Brandon, The problem seems to be the aRts Server. I had a similar problem. This is what I've done: I started by running draksound. If it detects the soundcard, it will configure the right driver (module) if it doesn't work, click the Trouble shooting button. It gives you a few suggestions to follow. Try it. If that doesn't work, try running alsaconf. That solved it for me. ;-) Good Luck ! Write back if you didn't succeed, I have a few more ideas. .::. Amichai Rotman Short text-only e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hello Ami, Thank you my friend, your advice fixed the problem! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound is kaput
Hello, I must have done something to break my sound card. It worked a couple of days ago but now when KDE is initilaizing I get the following error message. Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I get a similar error when loading Gnome. I'm running MDK 9.2. Thanks for any help you can offer! Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput
Lanman wrote: On February 19, 2004 09:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: Hello, I must have done something to break my sound card. It worked a couple of days ago but now when KDE is initilaizing I get the following error message. Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I get a similar error when loading Gnome. I'm running MDK 9.2. Thanks for any help you can offer! Brandon Brandon; Please do everything in your power to disable HTML encoding in your emails, as this is the prime way that many viruses are transmitted around the Internet. Many people on this list will simply not respond to your problems due to this fact alone. Sometime in the next week, you will receive an email regarding the protocols on this list. Please do your best to study and adopt those protocols to ensure a pleasrable experience for all. In the meantime, try using the MCC hardware panel to re-detect your sound card and asign a proper driver module to it. It would also be a big help if you could include additional info regarding which version of Linux and the brand and model of sound card. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The sound driver info is below. I've tried both the maestro and snd-es1968 drivers with no luck. I do know that the maestro module was working. Should it matter, this problem is occurring on a Micron Transport ZX laptop. Vendor: ?ESS Technology Alternative drivers: ?snd-es1968 Bus: ?PCI Bus identification: ?125d:1978:144d:3240 Location on the bus: ?0:c:0 Description: ?ES1978 Maestro 2E Module: ?maestro Media class: ?MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution mail client mail folders and saved email
Has anyone else experienced the Evolution mail client losing their email addresses and saved email? This has happened to me twice. Funny thing is that Evo did not lose my mail account info so its not like my whole config was lost. At this point I've switched to Thunderbird. Thanks, Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
