[newbie] Trinux
Hi everybody, Have you seen this?: http://trinux.sourceforge.net/ Trinux is a portable Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy disk, loads it packages from a FAT/Ext2 partition, floppy disks, or HTTP/FTP servers, and runs entirely in RAM. Sounds interesting. Cheers, Carol^
Re: [newbie] Meta key defined where?
Hi, I just want to ask something: What is a Meta Key? Thank you, Carol^ El vie, 22 sep 2000, escribiste: I am running Mandrake 7.1, Bash, KDE. My Meta key is not producing the same results as it does in Gnome. Where is the meta key defined in KDE? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Typing special characters
Hi, Thank you for your help, all of you. But non of the things you told me helped, I must have a strange keyboard. :( I tried all possible combinations and at the end I FOUND IT! It's ALT GR + 4 (on the upper part of the keyboard, not on the numeric one on the right). I hadn't tried the ALT GR key before. That is on my keyboard, I don't know if it would work in others. Cheers, Carol^ El jue, 21 sep 2000, escribiste: dwyatt escribió: Um, the tilde key is right next to the "1" key. :) dwyatt Ejem... not in a spanish keyboard };-) - Original Message - From: "Carolina Kohler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 7:53 PM Subject: [newbie] Typing special characters Hi everybody, I have a sort of silly question: How do you type in Linux the following character: ~ In Windows or MS-DOS it's Alt-126, but that doesn't work in Linux, this time I've had to copy and paste it on this message. Thank you, Carol^ -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de
Re: [newbie] Typing special characters
Hi, Thank you for your help, all of you. But none of the things you told me helped, I must have a strange keyboard. :( I tried all possible combinations and at the end I FOUND IT! It's ALT GR + 4 (on the upper part of the keyboard, not on the numeric one on the right). I hadn't tried the ALT GR key before. That is on my keyboard, I don't know if it would work in others. Cheers, Carol^ El jue, 21 sep 2000, escribiste: dwyatt escribió: Um, the tilde key is right next to the "1" key. :) dwyatt Ejem... not in a spanish keyboard };-) - Original Message - From: "Carolina Kohler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 7:53 PM Subject: [newbie] Typing special characters Hi everybody, I have a sort of silly question: How do you type in Linux the following character: ~ In Windows or MS-DOS it's Alt-126, but that doesn't work in Linux, this time I've had to copy and paste it on this message. Thank you, Carol^ -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de
Re: [newbie] Typing special characters
Hi Larry,
I am in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain (Atlantic Ocean, in
front of Marrocco - Africa) ; probably you haven't even heard of it, it's a very
small volcanic island, the population is around 80.000 people, but loads of
tourists.
I have a normal keyboard, I guess it must be a Spanish one because it has the
ñ, which is an exclusively spanish letter like in ESPAÑA. It also has 3
Microsoft keys, you know the ones that get you to the Start Menu in Windows and
other things that I don't know, I've never used them.
In my keyboard there isn't a ~ key.
But there is a -Alt Gr- key, which is just next to the space bar on the right,
you use it normally to type the third character of a key when it exists, like:
{ } [ ] \ | @ # ¬
I supose there must be a key for the same purpose in other keyboards, even if
they call it with a different name.
To type ~ , I have to click Alt Gr + 4 (but not in the numeric pad), although
in the 4 key you can only see the 4 and the $ (this one you type it with
Shift+4), that's why I didn't find the way to type this character.
Cheers,
Carol^
El jue, 21 sep 2000, escribiste: It's ALT GR + 4 (on the upper
part of the keyboard, not on the numeric one on
I'm curious Carolyn, what's a "GR" key? Where are you anyway and what
sort of keyboard do you have?
Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] Typing special characters
Hi everybody, I have a sort of silly question: How do you type in Linux the following character: ~ In Windows or MS-DOS it's Alt-126, but that doesn't work in Linux, this time I've had to copy and paste it on this message. Thank you, Carol^
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work
Hi, I think you can find some information about Linmodems and Winmodems on: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html I hope this can help you, Cheers, Carol^ El mié, 20 sep 2000, escribiste: Barry Premeaux wrote: Mark, When I go Mandrakes home page and pull up the 'Supp. Hardware' link, this is all I find under 'MODEM' " Most modems and ISDN adaptors are supported. Most "Win-modems" are NOT supported." 'Most' to me means many, but not all. I am comforted by a Manufacturer/Model Number type of list, because invariably the first modem I pick won't be one of the many. Barry :-) Mark Weaver wrote: wait...I'm confused about something here. How can the HCL leave you in the dark about whether a peice of hardware is supported or not. Either it's on the list or it isn't. Was yours on the list? Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake's HCL left me in the dark on modems. You can go to http://www.linux.com for a list of modems that work. Barry :-) On Tue, 19 September 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Rodrigo Villela LAB17 wrote: I almost giving up. I'll buy an USR 56K.But ISA or PCI ? Any sugestions ? [snip] Rodrigoexternal Alan yeah...what Alan said. An external or ISA...if you decided to go with an internal check the HCL on the Mandrake site to see if the modem you want to get is on that list. If it is, then buy it! check the HCL = Hardware Compatability List it list all the hardware that is supported by Linux Mandrake. Makes the job SO much easier. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed| ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this| ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 _ The freedom to choose your own Internet access price. Surfree.com - got to be free http://www.surfree.com Barry, Sorry about that. I had no idea the list was naked like that where modems was concerned. I've written the kind folks at Mandrake and hope that they'll take my mild protest seriously. When I saw that there was nothing on the list that dealt with Linux friendly modems while most other hardware was addressed I could barely believe my own eyes. My message to them reflected this and hopefully they'll at least address it in some way. In the mean time, for the most part ISA modems are usable while "most" PCI modems are not. From what I've heard "all" externals are Linux friendly and in most cases are desirable. My supervisor swears my them and uses nothing else but his Supra Express 56K external. I myself use a 3Com US Robotics 56K modem. It's an ISA slot device and works great in Linux. Do a search at the newbie list archive because this was discussed not too long ago and there was a URL given that will lead you to a compilation of modems and their manufacturers that will work with Linux. At the moment I can't recall what that web address is or I'd give it to you now. happy hunting, -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496
[newbie] Modem and Conection Problems SOLVED
Hi everybody, Last week I said I would explain how I solved my modem and conection problems in case it could help someone, as I've seen there's so many people with this tipe of problems. Well, I don't know "exactly" what my problems where, but I guess something to do with IRQ, ports, modem, etc. settings. First I didn't have Kppp in my Linux, I didn't even know it existed and I was trying to connect using ppp0 or something like that. Now I have Kppp and it works fine. PC: -My modem is: Zoom VoiceVideoFax Modem 56K - Internal ISA/PnP (NOT a winmodem) on ttyS1 (COM2 in W98) -Pentium 133 Mhz -2 Hard drives of 1,2 Gig. each (one with Linux Mandrake 7.0 and the other W98) -RAM 24 Mb. -Mouse: 3 button serial Genius on ttyS0 (COM1 in W98) -Printer: Epson Stylus Colour 440 First of all, BIOS settings: Go into BIOS with Del at boot. Go to Power Management Setup: - Set MODEM use IRQ: 3 Go to PNP/PCI Configuration: - IRQ 3 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP Go to Integrated Peripherals: - Onboard Serial Port 1: Auto - Onboard Serial Port 2: Auto ESC F10 and Exit Reboots automatically. Now Kppp Configuration: Go to Conections: - Add - Give a name to your conection - Select the conection you've just created and click Edit The following is all inside the Edit of the conection you've just created: Go to mark, ( the first tab on the left, I'm not sure of the english name of this) - Enter conection Name - Phone Number of your ISP - Authentication: PAP (unless you have to use something else like CHAP, etc.) Go to IP Address: - Check IP set by server (unless you have a static IP) Go to Name Servers: - Enter the Domain Name of your ISP - DNS, click on Add and enter the primary DNS of your ISP and then do the same with the secondary DNS Go to Gateway: - Select Default gateway - check default path to gateway OK and back to the Kppp main configuration. Go to Serial Device: - Modem Device: /dev/ttyS1 (or whatever serial port you have it set to) - Flow Control: CRTSCTS - End of Line: CR/LF - Conection Speed: 115200 - leave the "use file block" selected (I don't know what this is, I just left it how it was by default ) - Modem timeout: 120 secs. Go to Modem: - Wait for busy line: 0 (default) - Modem Volume: Low (I guess you can set it how you like, but when I had it on High, when starting the conection it hanged while "setting modem volume", so I set it on Low and now it's OK) Go to ppp: - pppd timeout: 120 (I don't know what this means, but I set it the same as the modem timeout) - check the following options: Show clock in title-bar, Disconect when closing X Server and Minimize window when conection. And that's about it, at least for me now it works OK. If someone has any questions you're welcome to ask, I don't promise I can help because I'm very, very newbie in this, but with all these problems I've had I've learnt quite a lot, so there's always a good side on everything, even if it looks like a terrible problem. If everything had worked OK right from the begining I wouldn't have learnt anything new. I hope these settings can help someone. Cheers, Carol^
Re: [newbie] RV: Screen Problem, SOLVED!!!!!! YEAAAAAAHHH!!!!
Hi everybody, First of all thank you very much to all of you who tried to help me. After spending so many hours trying to type something between the screen flashes with no luck and almost getting crazy, I can't believe the solution was SO EASY: I JUST HAD TO TIPE LINUX 3 AT THE LILO PROMPT ! And I was in terminal mode with no blinking. Started xf86Config, followed the instructions (with all the details of my monitor, card, etc. that I had noted before) and that was it. I spent a terrible time yesterday and today all morning trying to fix it, but now I feel really GRET. Thank you again, Cheers, Carol^ El sáb, 16 sep 2000, escribiste: How do you get into single user mode??? At lilo prompt type: linux single Almost too easy? --Greg - Original Message - From: "carol" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Greg and Mwinold (I dont know your name, sorry), Thank you for your help, I'll try all what you've said and I'll let you know if it works. I hope I can do all that, the typing is really difficult, I have to type letter by letter taking care of when I have to type it or if not it doesn't work, the hardest part is to type the password. Just one more question: How do you get into single user mode??? TIA Carol^ -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Greg Stewart Enviado el: sábado, 16 de septiembre de 2000 3:22 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [newbie] RV: Screen Problem, please help!!! Strange... The S3's are fairly well supported cards... maybe you had misconfigured your monitor and X went screwey from this? I'll assume you are(were) running XFree86 3.3.x. You'll want to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and look for the lines that say "HorizSyncxx-xxx" and "VertRefreshxx-xxx". You'll want to change the values you see in x's. these are the ranges of Horisontal and Vertical sync rates. I would try to find the correct ranges on the internet, or maybe they are written on the back (of course, if you still have the manual, that would be the first place to look). I looked on the internet, but the only pages I can find with anything resembling specs for Olivetti monitors are in German, and I cannot understand German. Anyway, if you can find the correct values, enter them in the XF86Config file, and try to restart x. The monitors that i could find that had specs following the names mentioned 64Khz... so I'd start with ranges that don't go too far above that. At thr first sign of trouble, hit CTRL-ALT-Backspace, and try something else. That's about as much as I can offer in this arena. --Greg - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 15-Sep-00 16:09:37 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everybody, I had my Linux working fine, only that I wanted to change the screen resolution to 800 x 600 (it was setup to 640 x 480 and some windows are too big and I can't see the OK, CANCEL, HELP, CONNECT, etc... buttons and can't change the size of some of those windows). So from DrakeConf I tried to change it to 800 x 600, and something terrible happened: the screen keeps blinking all the time and it won't start XWindows, it stays in the login screen (text mode)and it's almost impossible to type anything unless I do it very, very slowly and making sure I type each letter just in the exact moment that it blinks, which is every 2 seconds approx. I've tried a new install of LM 7.0 (Air), but it hangs after it gets to the second stage install. Is there a command or a way that I can get back into de screen configuration again and change it back to where it was?(although its gonna be very difficult to type, but I don't mind trying) Or, Is it better to download (with W98) LM 7.1 and install it over the old one? I've also tried to boot with the boot disk but no way, it doesn't work, I guess I didn't make it correctly. If someone could help me it would be really great. My pc is: Pentium 133mhz 2 hard drives (one with W98 and the other LM 7.0 (Air)-kernel 2.2.14-15) 24M of RAM CD-ROM OTI-Hermes 10x Monitor: Olivetti DSM 28-142 PS / LOW EMISSION Graphic Card (or whatever it's called): S3 Trio64V+ PCI(765) In Linux Mandrake list of Monitors the olivetti doen's show, so it was set as Generic SuperVga something (I don't remember the rest) Another thing: I tried with another old Compaq Monitor I have lying around unused, but exactly the same problem. TIA Carol^ P.S.: I was so happy with my Linux working, included the internet connection. I don't why I had to fiddle with the screen resolution, it wasn't so terrible. Now I don't know what to do!!! well you did what i
Re: [newbie] RE: Learning Linux?
Yeaaahh Really good!!! Later on I'll send a post explaining how I solved my modem and connection problems I had for the last 2 weeks, in case it can help someone (I've seen there's a lot of people with that kind of problems. But, I'll do that a little later, now I have to take my daughter to school. Cheers, Carol^ El jue, 14 sep 2000, escribiste: feels good doesn't it? bascule By the way, this is my first post wiht linux ! Cheers, Carol^
Re: [newbie] How to assign dynamic DNS??
Hi John, I a very very newbie in Linux but I'll try to help you anyway. In Kppp: 1. go to configuration 2. Put a name for your connection 3. then edit the connection 4. In the IP ADDRESS tab check the Ip Address given by server option(I'm translating from spanish so I'm not sure if in english you use the same words, but I supose you understand me, if not let me know, :) ) 5. In the Name Server tab enter the Domain Name of your server 6. In the IP ADDRESS OF THE NAME SERVER enter first the Primary DNS and click ADD and then do the same with the secondary DNS, and thats it. Now you can connect, if all the rest is OK. Oh! one thing if you don't know what are your primary and secondary DNS in windows, go to c:/windows/winipcfg and there you can see them. I hope this can help you, Cheers, Carol^ El jue, 14 sep 2000, escribiste: My ISP automatically assigns my DNS. In windows I don't need to specify primary or alternate. How do I set this up in PPP/KPPP? John Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Re: [newbie] Solicitar información
Hi, this is not an advertisement, it's in spanish. This person would like some information on where he can get the drivers for the Viper II Z200 of diamond. Here is the translation: "Newbie group: I need that you inform me, to know if you could send me or inform me in which web I can download the drivers so that I can start Linux Mandrake in grafical mode because the program doesn't recognise my colour board. It's the VIPER II Z200 of diamond. I hope that you can help me, because if it's not possible y will not be able to run Linux on my pc. Thank you very much. Fernando Vasconcelos." I can speak spanish but I don't know where to get this information, so I can't help him. If someone does and he doesn't understand then I can help with the translation. Fernando, no sé dónde puedes conseguir los drivers, puedes probar en Google y buscar desde ahí. De todas formas lo que si puedo hacer es ayudarte si hay cosas que no entiendas porque estén en inglés, aunque al parecer tú si que hablas inglés, en cuyo caso creo que si posteas en inglés seguro que consigues más respuestas, aunque ya se que no es lo mismo entender que hablar o escribir, es mucho más fácil lo primero que lo segundo, de hecho cuando aprendemos un idioma nuevo lo primero que hacemos es entender y luego empezamos a hablar, escribir, etc. Un saludo y mucha suerte, Carol^ Ah! y no te preocupes si ves que hay gente que no le gusta que escribas en español en la lista, siempre tiene que haber de todo (me refiero a toda clase de personas). Seguro que en esta lista también hay gente dispuesta a ayudarte. Si quieres tambien puedes escribirme directamente a mi dirección. TRANSLATION OF MY REPLY (just in case..): "Fernando, I don't know where you can get the drivers, you can try in Google and search from there. Anyway what I CAN do is help you translate if there are things that you don't understand because they are in english, although apparently you do speak english, and in this case I think that if you post in english sure you would get more answers. I know that it's not the same to understand than to speak or write, the first thing is much easier, in fact when we learn a new language the first thing we do is understand and THEN we start speaking, writing, etc Cheers and good luck, Carol^ Ah! and don't worry if you see that there are people that don't like it if you write in spanish to the list, there always must be all sort of things (I mean all sort of people). Sure that on this list there are also people that will offer you some help. If you want you can also write to me directly to my address." P.S.: I've translated this so EVERYONE can read what I wrote in spanish, as I've posted this to the list and not to this person privatly. Cheers, and "buen rollito" (this is a spanish sort of modern expression that the young people use a lot now, it means something like "good vibrations" in a more slang way, I supose you know what I mean, don't you?) Carol^ El jue, 14 sep 2000, escribiste: I don't think it's an advertisement. Maybe something about getting the Viper II to work in 7.1? dwyatt - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Solicitar información what the heck buddy this is an english speaking news group and we dont like advertisements!
Re: [newbie] hard to threads....
In windows, if you use Outlook then you select the message (any of the thread, the first one for example), right click, choose read the thread. And that's it. There are also other options you can change so that the messages get sorted by thread as they come in, but I don't remember how it is, have a look in tools, options or the like. Cheers, Carol^ El jue, 14 sep 2000, escribiste: I hate mailing lists that are so active, it is real hard to follow all the threads. Does anybody have any suggestions for a program or some method to sort threads into some sort of hierarchical list? Preferably for windoze, cause I'm still screwing around with my linux install. TIA dwyatt Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Can't browsing to internet
I am not sure, but perhaps in the DNS tab you have to uncheck this option: --Disable existing DNS Servers during connection : enable-- so that it DOESN'T disable the existing DNS Servers during the connection. That's how I have it set up and it works. Hope this can help, cheers, Carol^ El jue, 14 sep 2000, escribiste: Sorry. :-) I'll try to explain my problem from the beginning. I'm using a modem (Rockwell) to dial the internet. I (think) don't using ISDN and DSL (actually I don't know what ISDN and DSL are). And I also have internal LAN configured on my machine. And here some information about my system : LAN Computer 1 : Mandrake 7.1, kernel 2.2.16, IP Address : 192.168.0.1 Computer 2 : Windoze98, IP Address : 192.168.0.2 Gateway : 192.168.0.254 ( I have no idea, where this number come from ?. I don't remember to set this number) /etc/resolv.conf domain telkom.net.id search telkom.net.id nameserver 202.134.0.155 nameserver 202.134.2.5 /etc/ppp/options noauth lock /etc/ppp/pap-secret - empty kppp setting: Login ID : telkomnet@instan password : telkom On Box Edit Account : telkomnet tab Dial : Connection name : telkomnet Phone number : 08098 Store password : enable tab IP Dynamic IP Address : enable Auto configure host-name from this IP : disable tab DNS : Domain name : telkom.net.id DNS Address List : 202.134.0.155 and 202.134.2.5 Disable existing DNS Servers during connection : enable tab Gateway : Default Gateway : enable Assign the default Route to this Gateway : enable Setting on linuxconf : Networking - Routing and Gateway - Set - Defaults Default Gateway : 192.168.0.254 Enable routing : disable DNS Configurator on Server task : Domain : empty Internet Services on Server task : Internet netwrok services : empty Allowed server access : empty OK, I'm confused... Are you using a modem to dial the internet? Are you using an ISDN modem to connect to the internet? Are you using DSL/Cable to connect to the internet? Do you hhave an internal LAN configured that might be getting in the way? What exactly have you done to your machine? New things keep popping up in your e-mails that don't flow correctly. You've got ISDN configured, and failing... and then you're trying to dial-up a modem connection using KPPP? Even though you are posting failures bout a network interface card. No offense intended, mind you, but things just don't make sense. Can you take a bit of time, and carefully describe your setup, step by step, so that we'll have a better undertanding of what you need fixed? --Greg - Original Message - From: "Pungki" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. I'll check that site. And then, when I startx linux, I got message like this : Bringing up eth0 interface[OK] modprobe : modprobe : can't locate modele ippp0 modprobe : modprobe : can't locate module isdn0 Are these message has any effect to connection to internet ? If yes, what should I do to fix it ? Thank you very much for any help. -Pungki
Re: [newbie] Re: [newbie] Solicitar información
Hi, I just want to add a comment to this discussion. Fernando, at the end of his post wrote that he UNDERSTANDS english and italian, not that he SPEAKS or WRITES these languages, which is very different. So I supose he doesn't expect anyone to answer him in spanish, I think he asked for help the only way he could and he will be happy to get information in english. If he understands the answers or not is his problem, I don't think this could bother anyone on the list, IMHO of course. Cheers, Carol^ El mié, 13 sep 2000, escribiste: Sounds like spanish to me and "solicitar informacion" is loosely "asking for information" no need to flame the guy. Some english speaking people can also speak spanish. I thought the list was to help fellow penguinistas. If I'm wrong let me know and I will unsubscibe from the list. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: either way i dont speak italian and i presumed based on solicitar in the subject but you sould be right that word is used else where In a message dated 13-Sep-00 21:05:02 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it's an advertisement. Maybe something about getting the Viper II to work in 7.1 -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] hard to threads....
Hi, just want to add another tip: In Outlook (Windows, of course) choose: View, Sort By to sort your mail. Cheers, Carol^ El jue, 14 sep 2000, escribiste: In windows, if you use Outlook then you select the message (any of the thread, the first one for example), right click, choose read the thread. And that's it. There are also other options you can change so that the messages get sorted by thread as they come in, but I don't remember how it is, have a look in tools, options or the like. Cheers, Carol^ El jue, 14 sep 2000, escribiste: I hate mailing lists that are so active, it is real hard to follow all the threads. Does anybody have any suggestions for a program or some method to sort threads into some sort of hierarchical list? Preferably for windoze, cause I'm still screwing around with my linux install. TIA dwyatt Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
