Re: [newbie] Re:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sndconfig will not work with the ensoniq pci card you have to (as was mentioned b4) goto the creative labs page, dl the ensoniq driver and install it Dunno about 6.x, but I know for certain that no such thing is true in Mandrake 5.3--as evidenced by the fact that I got mine working w/o problems by just using sndconfig. The module needed is, if memory serves, es1370. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] aol
"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: does A-O-HELL offer dialup ppp? if so then you could possibly (not sure tho) AFAIK, AOL doesn't offer PPP (enough acronyms there?). If wine doesn't work, there's always VMware, but it'd be stretching it to say that you were online with AOL "using Linux" that way... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] OT: useless factoid part deux
David wrote: U have 1, 3 gallon bucket " " " 1, 5 gallon bucket u absolutely need "exactly" 4 gallon's of water Fill the 3-gallon bucket, empty it into the 5-gallon one. Fill it again, empty what will fit into the 5-gallon bucket. Pour the remainder (in the 3-gallon bucket, which will be 1 gallon) wherever you need it. Refill the 3-gallon bucket and pour it wherever you need it, which will give you 4 gallons there. What does this have to do with a Linux list? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
[newbie] Winmodems...
Just FYI, I recently ran across a page of somebody who's working on a Linux driver for the Lucent Tech. winmodem. Check out http://www.close.u-net.com/ for more info. A hardware modem is still a much better bet, though... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [newbie] NetScape 128bit encrypted
From: David M. Kufta [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am sending this to the list in the hope that someone can point me to a 128bit encryption enabled version of netscape that I can run on my Hmmm, I got mine (4.61) from home.netscape.com. There might not be a version of 4.7 with the 128 bit encryption yet, but 4.61 should be available...
Re: [newbie] Setting up a modem
From: Mike Easter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi i was wondering how to get linux to recognize my modem it is definetly not a winmodem because it recognizes it as a pci device any help with this will be greatly appreciated If it's a PCI device, it almost certainly _is_ a winmodem, and Linux' recognizing it as a PCI device in no way counters this probability. There are a few exceptions (though even those, IIRC, don't have Linux drivers), but the vast majority of PCI "modems" are software-based, not hardware-based.
Re: [newbie] Starting httpd (or any program for that matter) on boot
From: Arcana [EMAIL PROTECTED] I posted this question before but I received about six or seven entirely different responses and so I'm going to ask again. You posted this exact same question yesterday, and I replied to it. Did you try what I suggested? If so, what happens?
Re: [newbie] Mounting a Detected SCSI CD-ROM?
From: Paul Hoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I'm unable to locate an entry for sda0, only sda, sda2, etc..Am I completely on the wrong track? Actually, the device you should be looking for is /dev/sr0, not /dev/sd[x].
Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot
From: Arcana [EMAIL PROTECTED] try to run the /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd, it returns the error, "service httpd does not support chkconfig". Edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd, and add these two lines near the top--like after line 2: # chkconfig: 2345 10 90 # description: Activates/Deactivates Apache Web Server Then run /sbin/chkconfig --del httpd, then /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd.
Re: [newbie] Install nightmare
From: Valheru [EMAIL PROTECTED] starting sendmail. After the delays it gets all the way to the Login prompt, pauses a few seconds, and in the middle of me typing, the screen starts to scroll down and fills with messages (too fast for me to read) and the monitor resets itself, but stays in power-on mode Sounds like it's set to start up X windows, but the settings are incorrect for your video card/monitor. When the Lilo prompt comes up, type "linux 3" and it should bring you to the console login.
Re: [newbie] IP Masquerading: Questions.
Arcana wrote: 2) According to the "IP Masquerading HOWTO" I need the program called "ipfwadm". I found and downloaded ipdwadm-2.3.0 from What kernel are you running? If you're running 2.2.x (as in Mandrake 6.0, or 5.3 with a kernel you've upgraded yourself), you'd use ipchains instead. Both packages are available as RPMs. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Samba - Help with Linux Box and Win98 Box.
Sevatio Octavio wrote: Plus, is there some information out there that gets to the point and tells me how to set this up? http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] KPPP With Earthlink
Taki Shirayanagi wrote: I have been having trouble to get KPPP to work with earthlink. It will dial but then when i open netscape it can not connect. I have a virtual kppp set up on my page at http://home.earthlink.net/~danb35; click on the "Tech Support" link, and see if the settings match. To troubleshoot, try pinging something by IP address (for example, 204.71.200.75 for yahoo.com), and see if you get a response. If you do, try entering that address in Netscape and see if it'll come up. If you can ping and browse by IP address, then your problem is DNS resolution. If not, your routing isn't set properly. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] how to set up monitor res and more problems
Chris Price wrote: Thanks for the info, but how do I close X to get to root? I can log out, but can't get out of the "desktop enviornment logon" screen. Click "shutdown", tell it to restart, and at the lilo prompt, tell it "linux 3" (for full multiuser access, but in text mode), or "linux 1" for single-user access. I've found that there are very few problems in Linux which require you to reinstall the system. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Un-tar?
Arcana wrote: I have an archive that is tar-ed. I have no idea how to open the archive. Just tarred, or also gzipped? If only tarred, do: % tar xf filename.tar x tells it to extract f tells it to read from a file If it's also gzipped, add 'z' to tell it to uncompress as well. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Serial port/modem problems
Dan Brown wrote: OK, I finally got the NIC working on this Compaq. However, I still can't get a properly-functioning serial port. Here's what's happening: The most frustrating kind of fix... The internal modem is working now, and I don't know why, as I can't tell what I did different from the last time I tried it. Ah well, since it ain't broke (any more), I'm not going to try to fix it. Thanks for the help, all! -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Trouble w/ NIC, modem.
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: it can't get irq0, specify it in your conf.modules 'options ne irq=X' This sounded good, so I tried it. The module is ne2k-pci, so I added "options ne2k-pci irq=10" to conf.modules. Now, it says "invalid parameter irq". Checking Don Becker's site, it appears that the only options supported by that driver are debug, and options, which is obsolete. Drat. Is there any other way of getting Linux to give this card irq 10, or do I just need to try a different card? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] TNT2 no go??
From: RiNgMaStEr [EMAIL PROTECTED] well if i can, what OS r u running, and also how can i get my second HD I'm running Mandrake 5.3, stock + the TNT2-enabled X server from nVidia's web page.
Re: [newbie] Trouble w/ NIC, modem.
From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, obviously i wasn't fully paying attention i said options ne. No like it says the ne2k-pci doesn't accept an irq, you'll need to tell your bios to assign it an irq, somecards have a tool to set this also. What flavor is the card anyway? The card is an Acer PCI (I forget the model number) card, based on a Realtek 8029 chipset. The Linksys card (using a tulip-compatible chipset) was also trying to use irq 0, so I finally installed an ISA NE2k clone, and it works fine. I'll have to check the CMOS setup options to see if I can assign an IRQ to the (single) PCI slot on this machine; otherwise, if not, I'll just stick with the ISA card. Thanks for the help! Now, to get the #^* modem working...
Re: [newbie] (Off Topic)
From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps a friendly reminder is far better than a stab in the back, especially since it appears he was simply trying to help out fellow "tuxters" No, it appears that he was attempting to hawk his ill-thought-out service, while giving the appearance that he just happened to run across this neat site. That's problem #1. Problem #2 is that his service seems to violate numerous conventions of the net.
Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll probably need NetBEUI on the clients if you're going to be running Samba on the Linux server. If you're not interested in Samba, you could stick with straight TCP/IP for all machines. How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT server. The SMB protocol works just fine over tcp/ip. Admittedly, I haven't done a _lot_ of work with it, but I'm able to share files and printers between my Linux, Win98, and WinNT boxes, using Samba over tcp/ip, without any trouble. The only value I see in NetBEUI is that you don't have to assign addresses, but that's not a big deal in a small LAN.
Re: [newbie] need to increase my /root
From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I made /root too small and /home too big. Can I use PM 4 to resize ext2 partitions without messing things up I really don't want to reinstall Yes, this should work fine--at least, it's worked for me several times. Be sure to re-run lilo.
Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT server. The You mean require? Either, actually--it almost sounded like you were saying that Samba was netbeui, or some such thing. My apologies. I've been dealing with NetBEUI/TCP/IP problems for the past two weeks at work. Eventually, you just don't care WHICH one you use as long as one works... :) "If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid." I'm not sure I knew that Linux supported NetBEUI, although I guess that shouldn't surprise me (heck, it supports almost everything else).
Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar
Brett Jones wrote: apache+mod_ssl+php. I remember a failure when building one of the packages using this guide, but it was an easy fix. I you run into it drop me a line. I'm having trouble with this one--I finally got mod_ssl working, but PHP still isn't. I'd appreciate any info you have on this. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Modem
From: Sam Munns [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I set it up where when I restart my machine it runs the command /etc/setserial /dev/ttyS3 UART 16550A automatically? edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and add this command at the end.
Re: [newbie] the programming language
From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for the overly simple question... but can anyone tell me what language Linux was written in? Thanks in advance and don't laugh too long The kernel is largely in either C or C++, with bits of assembly. The other utilities are in various languages.
Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user
From: terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have set Domain Name: megabitwest.net Host name: http://www.megabitwest.net * Please post as plain text; the HTML messages can get hard to read sometimes. In this case, it looks like you set your host name incorrectly; the "http://" isn't part of the hostname. Also, has your ISP actually assigned you 209.54.142.164? It looks like www.megabitwest.net is actually 207.87.8.117. If you're typing "ftp www.megabitwest.net" from your windows boxes, this could be causing a problem. Try FTP'ing to your IP address, and see if that helps.
Re: [newbie] iso
From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between an iso distro and a "regular" one? An .iso file is a CD image. If you have a CD burner (and a fast net connection), you can just download this file to your drive, and burn it to a CD (as an image, not a file--check the software docs for info), and you'll have a complete, correct CD.
[newbie] Trouble w/ NIC, modem.
I'm installing Mandrake 6.0 on a Compaq Presario 4504, and I'm running into two problems which are rather distressing. In short, it won't communicate with the NIC or the modem. First the NIC problem. At system boot, it says it's bringing up eth0, and it gives a green "OK" indicating that this was completed successfully. Other services (apache, samba, etc.) also start normally. However, when I run ifconfig, the NIC isn't there. It's a PCI NE2000 clone based on a Realtek chipset. /var/log/messages shows Sep 17 12:39:54 ffj network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded Sep 17 12:39:57 ffj kernel: eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0xfca0, IRQ 0, \ 00:60:67:4A:03:E5. But, when I try running "ifup eth0", I get SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable SIOCADDRT: Network is down I also tried it with a Linksys tulip-based card, with almost identical results. I see that the kernel reports irq0, which I suspect may be a problem, but I don't know what to do about it. Other than that, I don't have a clue. What else should I check? Second problem, the modem. It's an ISA, hardware modem with DIP switches and jumpers to select resource settings, or it can also be configured for PnP. First, I tried it PnP, since I didn't want to go digging for the manual to find how to set the switches. pnpdump found it just fine, so I edited isapnp.conf to select com3, io 3e8, irq 5, and ran isapnp. It responded with a fatal error allocating 8 bytes of io at that address. Per /proc/ioports, 3e8 was free, and /proc/interrupts indicated that irq 5 was also free. Isapnp gave the same error with every other selection I tried. Thus foiled, I found the manual, and set the modem to com2, irq 3. The system saw the com port when it booted, but it didn't work properly. I could open minicom, but the modem took about 20 seconds to respond to "AT." I tried setting the modem to com3, irq 5, again using the switches, and had the same result. Normally, I've found that this comes from an incorrect irq specification, but that wasn't the case here (setserial reported correct information both times). I haven't yet tried adding my external modem on the built-in com port. Any ideas on this one? Any help would be much appreciated. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar
"Eric L. Damron" wrote: So, If anyone out there can tell me how to install a "tar.gz" file so that I don't have to RTFM I would appreciate it! The problem is that there is no answer to "how to install a .tar.gz file", because such a file could contain just about anything. In the case of php 3.0.12, which I've just been working with, here's what I've done: mv php-3.0.12.tar.gz /usr/local/src cd /usr/local/src tar zxf php-3.0.12.tar.gz /* this extracts the file's contents */ cd php-3.0.12 ./configure /* here, you need to give it various options, depending on what you want to do with it. You'll probably need to add --with-mysql, as I think I remember your saying you wanted to use mysql. Here, you really do need to RTFM, or be willing to try several times until it works. */ make make install That's the gist of it. The same basic idea will work with most major source packages any more--extract the package, usually in /usr/local/src, run ./configure in the package's directory, and then run make (to compile everything) and make install (to install it). However, if there's a README file with the package, it'd be a good idea to read it. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [newbie] this is a subject.
John Aldrich wrote: I think the SupraMax 56i is also a software-modem. The call The SupraMax is a Winmodem. The SupraExpress, however, is not, and is a fairly decent modem (I've got three of them). -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [newbie] Mount hd on boot
Ken Wilson wrote: Try playing with the permissions for your mount point, in particular the This wouldn't do it--in particular, it wouldn't let me set the permissions I wanted (namely 777) on the directory. What I found, courtesy of the archives (thanks Axalon!), was to add "uid=" or "gid=" (as appropriate) to the options for each drive I wanted accessible. For example, if I wanted it to be owned by uid 501, I'd add "uid=501" to the options. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] rpm package won't install!
Mark Hall wrote: Do you know if it is possible to have Linux connect to the internet using my NT machine as a gateway? Yes, it is possible. AFAIK, though, it requires extra software to handle IP masqing and/or proxies. Linux, OTOH, could serve as the gateway (or, more properly, the router) for the NT box with about 5 minutes of configuration. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [newbie] Recovering LILO
From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the future, if I should have to install, reinstall Windows 98 or 2000 when it comes out, how can I recover LILO _without_ having to reinstall Linux also? Very easily, but it depends on your having a suitable boot disk which will boot your OS. Once you're booted using the disk, log in as root and run /sbin/lilo.
Re: [newbie] Modem
Murray Strome wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root5 Sep 14 07:52 /dev/modem - ttyS1 (the modem is on COM1). Well, this is one problem--ttyS1 is com2; you'd need to change the link to ttyS0. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] New Problem
Caymen wrote: called) my ethernet card. then it sits there then it fails. After everything is done it asks for my login name and password. I type it in and then it gives me something like you are suposed to type in your server. I try everything I can "something" like _what_? Does it give you a prompt, an error message, or what? And in any of those cases, what does it say? Since you didn't say otherwise, I assume it didn't reject your login; if that's the case, you could continue from that point to fix anything that needed fixing without reformating the drive once, let alone 8 times. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Runlevel 5
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes, though, I find it necessary to kill X. How can I do so $ su # init 3
Re: [newbie] Runlevel 5
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure you're in runlevel 5? Or have you hand-hacked it to display that information on VT1? Typically, there's nothing logged to the text consoles in runlevel 5. There is in mine, or at least I think there is. When I boot, it acts just like runlevel 3 (comes up with the penguin and login prompt, etc.), then it loads X--I'm almost positive it displays the normal logging on tty1. I haven't intentionally hacked anything related to this. Not a problem, though...
Re: [newbie] Bypassing X windows
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] telinit 3 What's the difference between this and "init 3"?
Re: [newbie] say it isn't so...
The Drake's wrote: printer and modem. Does anyone know if I can run my Compaq IJ900 printer or Rockwell HCF Data Fax PCI modem from Linux. I was hoping to Your modem is a Winmodem, and there is no way to use it with Linux, unless and until somebody writes a driver (don't hold your breath). Don't know about the printer. Oh, BTW, please turn off HTML in your mail client... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Mount hd on boot
John Aldrich wrote: YeahI think Linux is trying to protect you from yourselfit doesn't like to let anyone other than "root" write to a non-ext2 drive I don't think that's it exactly--it's more a matter that the FAT filesystem doesn't have any support for permissions, and it's got to default to _something_. It's safer, I guess, to disallow writes by default. There is a way to change this, but I forget how. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] ISDN Router
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: network setup that I am just beginning to explore and would like to know if I can set up my linux box with it's serial modem up as a router. I Sure. The easiest way to do it would be to download the e-smith Server and Gateway software from www.e-smith.net. The next easiest would be to use Ballantain or FreeSCO (at http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~router). In all of these cases, you'd be dealing with a specialized Linux distribution that's designed to work as a router. It's also entirely possible to do it with a stock distribution of Linux. For more info, check out http://members.home.net/ipmasq/. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
[newbie] Lost lilo...
Here's another thing to try. Once you've booted from your rescue disk, mount your root partition under /mnt. Put a blank, formatted floppy in your floppy drive. Then do dd if=/mnt/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 Then reboot from that floppy. If it gives you a lilo prompt, enter "linux root=/dev/hdb1" (or whatever partition is root). This should boot your system somewhat normally. Then, once it's booted, do /sbin/lilo. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] losing lilo
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Well, "su" was not a recognised command from #bash. Neither was "mkbootdisk" nor "/sbin/lilo". Just to be clear: using the rawrite utility in DOS I OK, then try this: bash# mkdir /mnt bash# mount /dev/hda1 [or whatever is your root filesystem] /mnt bash# /mnt/sbin/lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Installation
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] But where would it go? /usr/local? Should I make a special directory to hold downloaded packages? I suppose the proper place would be /usr/src, but I've usually just left the source directories in /root (or, sometimes, in /home/danb/src). If you're in /root, and you unpack the tarball, you'll probably place all of its contents in /root/tinyfugue-1.2.3. The make install script will place the binaries where they need to go.
Re: [newbie] losing lilo
From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2 to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD ...and you didn't have a boot disk made? Too bad, makes the process a bit trickier. If you've got the bash prompt from the rescue disk, though, you should be able to run mkbootdisk your kernel version number to make one. Then, when it's booted from that, run /sbin/lilo. I'm not sure what the rescue disk does with your existing hard drives. If you know where your original root directory was mounted (say, in /mnt), you can run (e.g.) /mnt/sbin/lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf.
Re: [newbie] losing lilo
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkbootdisk {kernel-version} will make a boot disk for me? I made one,
but I can't seem to find it. Now I want another one...
Yes, it will. Rather a nice feature actually. Just be careful--if
you're running (for example) 2.2.9-19mdk, you need to specify all of that
("mkbootdisk 2.2.9-19mdk"). In such cases, it may have trouble with
modules, but I'm not sure.
And what's this about rescue disks?
IIRC, in the /images directory on the M5.3 CD-ROM, there's a file called
"rescue.img" which is a rescue disk. Don't know exactly what it is, as I've
never used it.
Re: [newbie] ethernet card setup (an add on)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too help narrow down the program that i want, i know its not ifconfig. It had I think what you want isn't netconfig, but netcfg.
Re: [newbie] Re: 3Dfx configuration help
Dan Hamilton wrote: I am having trouble configuring my Riva TNT 3D card also. I have tried to use the Glide driver (see http://www.linuxgames.com/3dfx_info.shtml ) but had If you're trying to use a Glide driver, or anything else 3dfx-related, with a Riva TNT card, that would cause problems. You need to use the Riva drivers with the Riva cards, and the 3dfx drivers with the 3dfx cards. If your card is actually TNT-based, download the correct X server from www.nvidia.com and install it per their directions. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Problems configuring a modem
Miguel Prestol wrote: I have a HSP 56 Modem PCI, and when I try to configure it on linux, it doesn't recognize the modem on any TTYS* port, windows autodetects it. This is a winmodem, and it won't work with Linux at this stage. It's unlikely, IMO, that it will _ever_ work, but it certainly won't now. Get a hardware modem for Linux. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Doc
From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over? It's very unlikely, but why would you want to anyway? Just make a Mandrake 6.0 boot disk from the image file on the Mandrake CD using rawrite. Then boot from that floppy and install as usual.
Re: [newbie] modem questions
From: Mike Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got a U.S. Robotics 56k Voice Win Modem. Does anyone know if it's Winmodems are not supported under any variety of Linux, period (hence the name, _Win_modems). It is possible that future versions of the kernel will contain some support, but I'm inclined to doubt it.
Re: [newbie] moving /home
"David M. Kufta" wrote: I have currently my /home directory under / partition on /dev/hda3. I have added another disk drive to my system and would like to move all the current /home to that new disc and mount it under /home at boot mount /dev/newdrive /mnt/home cp -a /home/* /mnt/home cd /home rm -r * pico /etc/fstab --add a line to mount /dev/newdrive on /home umount /dev/newdrive mount /dev/newdrive -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
[newbie] lnx4win problems...
Two days ago, I downloaded the mandrake60-2 iso image, figuring that it'd be interesting to play with it. Since I don't want to do anything to my existing 5.3 installation, though (and also since I'm actually installing it on a work computer), I tried installing it using lnx4win. The installation itself went normally, if a bit slowly, with no errors reported. However, when I tried starting the system, I got lots of errors of the form, "kernel-module version mismatch. ..was compiled for kernel version 2.2.9-19mdk while this kernel is version 2.2.9-27mdk." The affected modules seem to be loop.o, fat.o, and vfat.o (though each is listed twice, once in /boot and once in /boot and /boot/modules). The modules in /boot are compiled for 2.2.5-14BOOT; the others are compiled for 2.2.9-19mdk. It would seem to me that modules from one 2.2.9 build should work as well as modules for another, but this apparently is not the case. I don't have any other Linux installation on this computer. What can I do to get this one to boot with lnx4win?
Re: [newbie] Modem difficulties
From: Rick Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] more pronounced way. Obviously these vendors, such as Diamond and others, that refuse to write drivers for *nix must know something that we don't. And what, do you think, would that be? I can tell you one thing that we all know: there are more Windows users than there are Linux users (duh!). So, where will Diamond's efforts most efficiently be invested? In Windows development, so that a given amount of effort will have the greatest return. They may or may not be right, but I expect that's their motivation. In any case, I'd be willing to bet that it has nothing to do with the capabilities of the OS. it is. So, forget all these .config files we seem to have to manually edit with wonderful devices such as VI. [BLEAH!!] You know, there _are_ more intuitive editors out there--lots of them, in fact. I like pico, but kedit is pretty good as well. Of course, there aren't that many cases any more where you _have_ to manually edit the .conf files, as software like linuxconf and others tend to work as well. Also, I guess this means you've never had to hack the Windows registry? When you can make a version of this Linux, whether it be Red Hat or Mandrake, that's better at plug 'n play than Windows, maybe more of us will start using it on a more pronounced basis. "So, quitcherbeleakin" yourself. Linux is getting much better at PnP, though it admittedly isn't to the level of Windows yet. Windows isn't anywhere near the level of the Mac, either, so why are you holding Windows out as the holy grail of PnP?
Re: [newbie] Re:
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] According to www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html, the TNT2 is NOT supported, unless it'll work with the TNT drivers. You might find an X server for the TNT2 off Nvidia's home page I'm not sure if the TNT driver will work, but nvidia does have an X server that works with XFree86. Go to their home page, and follow the download link to get it.
Re: [newbie] Need path help with NFS (or FTP) install
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I want to install Mandrake on the other machine. The obvious choice is an NFS install, so I boot up the machine I want Linux on with bootnet.img, The problem with an NFS install is that the machine with the files must be configured as an NFS server. This is possible with 95/98, but it requires extra software (like Omni NFS Enterprise, available from tucows). Same problem for an FTP install. You can download free FTP server software for 95/98, and install it. Once it's installed, make the directory with Mandrake accessible, and use that as the directory for the installation. Of course, you could do an FTP install from one of the ftp sites, but you'd need its IP address first.
Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No they aren't. Do you know any people who don't know anything about computers, who don't WANT to know anything about computers, who just want to surf, get email, and do processing, who run Linux? I don't. And if you I don't know any who do, but they _could_ run Linux without a problem. Of course, Netscape's kind of flaky, which doesn't help, but if people were selling preconfigured boxes to do this, Joe average user could handle Linux just as well as Win9x. Even the setup isn't necessarily that bad--Caldera, for example, has a pretty intuitive setup procedure--but it's more of a pain than using it. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Modem problems. - Motorola Voice Sufer?
Joseph Gardner wrote: If memory serves my correctly the Voice Surfer is an external modem?? If so then use the kppp dialer and under the Device tab select the cua2 not the ttys2 (cua is for and external device) Not so. It doesn't matter whether you're using internal or external devices; if you're using kernel 2.2.x, you need to use ttyS*, because the kernel's done away with the cua* devices. If you're using 2.0.x, you can use cua*, but ttyS* is a better choice, because it leaves the door open for upgrades. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] word processing and finance apps
From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] anyone got any suggestions on what word processing or simple check book balancing programs to use for linux? i am used to ms word, so i would As far as a word processor goes, how about WordPerfect? Version 7 is available for Linux, free for non-commercial use. http://linux.corel.com. Don't know about checkbook software, though--Quicken for Linux would be really nice.
Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?
From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder. Are there any home users on this list? I'm a home user. I'm also a tech support rep for a major ISP. There's no way I'd recommend Linux to the majority of the people with whom I deal daily. For the most part, it's not a matter of intelligence or competence, it's a matter of mindset. To use Linux effectively, you have to think as a sysadmin at least part of the time, and you have to care about knowing how the computer and OS works. Windoze and (especially) MacOS tend to discourage this--their mindset seems to be that you don't need or want to know what's going on. With Linux, you do need to know, whether you want to or not. If we were shipping out preconfigured Internet-only boxes, I wouldn't have a problem with Linux as the OS--we'd set up all the hardware, software, etc., and it'd be ready to go, out of the box. However, we don't do that.
Re: [newbie] How do i know if i have a winmodem?
"Matt G. Ellis" wrote: I MAY have a winmodem or i'm screwing up when i try to set it up in linux. Any way i can find out if my modem is a winmodem on a wintel box? If it's a PCI modem, it's probably a winmodem. Sometimes, the modem control panel will tell you--watch for "winmodem," "HCF," "HSP." -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] USB
John May wrote: Does anybody have any resources regarding USB in Linux? Particularly on setting up modems. I read somewhere that it was possible. In current production kernels (2.0.x, 2.2.x), there is no USB support. There is _very_ basic USB support in the development kernels (2.3.x; 2.3.11 is the latest), but I still don't think there's enough to actually use a modem. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [newbie] File operations and Zip archives
James Stewart wrote: Also, what are the commands to rename, copy and move files? I've tried saying ln and then removing the previous file, but this hasn't worked. To rename and to move, use mv old file new file. To copy, use cp file[s] new location. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] partitions...
From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a very serious problem. I am trying to delete my partitions, and am unable to. I can delete the partition for dos, but I cannot delete the Option 1: use the Linux fdisk (or disk druid) program. Option 2: use Partition Magic 4.0 (3.0 might also work).
Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
From: Singer XJ Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernal 2.4.x series will support WinModems. Linux has already called for a Feature Freeze for 2.4.x in a week. Remeber. the upgrade from 2.2 to 2.4 OK, we're freezing features in a week for 2.4, and there's currently (even in 2.3.11) no support for Winmodems--not even a hint of it, but it's going to be there for 2.4? Somehow I don't think so. Maybe over the course of 2.4.x (that is, before we get to 2.6.x) it may be integrated, but I doubt even that. Considering that each Winmodem is potentially a completely different device, I really don't think we're going to see this any time soon--nor do I think the developers should waste their time on it. XFS, OTOH, sounds seriously cool.
Re: [newbie] still can't use usercfg!
brandon wrote: someone suggestted I type in: rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RMS/usercfg* I tried that, it doesn't recognize this command either. What do I have to do to get usercfg working? When you say "it doesn't recognize this command," what exactly _does_ it do? If it can't find the rpm command, IMO, that would be a Very Bad Thing. Perhaps your path is messed up, but I'm not sure how that would have happened. If it gives a different error, then of course the course of action would change. That command looks correct to install any package starting with usercfg. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Honest opinions on Linux
From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] to running this OS rather than a Windows 98 system? Believe me I hate Bill Gates and will be happy when he folds - that is why I am switching to Linux - but is there really an advantage at this point in the game or IMNSHO, that is exactly the wrong reason to switch to Linux (or Be, or FreeBSD, or any other OS). If you want a desktop OS that works like Win98 but is non-Microsoft, maybe MacOS or BeOS would be better for you. If you want to work (or play) with a powerful, flexible, open system, where you can, with enough study, find out exactly what makes it tick, Linux is great--but it isn't Windows, and it never will be.
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
Michael Chopek wrote: unmount /mnt/cdrom It's umount, not unmount (the first n doesn't belong there). -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Command Line
Neilesh Patel wrote: how do I get to the command line in linux? everytime i start up it goes past the lilo command prompt and goes into the GUI and makes me login to kde etc. Click on one of the terminal icons on the taskbar; it'll open up a shell window. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] KPPP
From: Brian Leas [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been trying to get kppp to dial out to my isp, but with no luck. The prompt says "Sorry, the modem is not ready" pops up. Does anyone have any ideas of what could be wrong? 1.The modem's in use. 2.The modem isn't set up correctly. 3.kppp isn't set up correctly (using the wrong port, etc.) 4.The modem is a winmodem. What kind of modem do you have, and does it work elsewhere in Linux?
Re: [newbie] Command Line
From: Neilesh Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] however, once i'm in the /etc folder how do I open and edit inittab? I'm a Use a text editor; you could use any of them--vi, joe, edit, emacs, pico, whatever. I usually use pico. Type "pico inittab"
Re: [newbie] booting to GUI
From: Stephan Rex [EMAIL PROTECTED] I updated some files yesterday, and now linux only boots to the command line login prompt and not the KDE login. Some which file and what options do i need to change to fix this? Can you get into X at all, like with startx? If that works, try running (when logged in as root) "init 5". If that gives you the KDE login, then change the initdefault line as Axalon suggested. If not, what happens?
Re: [newbie] Loading modules?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Dan Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where do I specify what modules to load at boot time? Currently, /etc/conf.modules Currently, I have one active, and three commented, lines in conf.modules. One commented line reads "# alias eth0 tulip", and I assume uncommenting this line will allow the system to autoload the tulip module. However, there's no reference in there to the sg module, which appears necessary to run xcdroast. How would I add that? Or, alternatively, where is this all documented, so I can stopp bothering the list? Thanks again for any info! -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone ever bothered pressing Ctrl+D at the shell prompt? Just try it. On my computer, it appears to be another way of logging out. Yes, it is. It's also the "end-of-file" character in Unix. Just a bit of theory: In Unix, everything is a file, including the keyboard, mouse, hard drive, etc, hence all the /dev/something stuff. The shell takes input from from "standard input" (usually your keyboard) and processes it. When it gets the EOF character, it figures that its job is done, and so it closes. Some shells (like csh, I think) have an option to disable this behavior.
Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternately, you can call a shell and tell it to run the shell script file. "sh printpwd" should do the trick... is this right? In most shells, ". printpwd" (notice the period) will run a shell script as Both of those will run a script, but there's a difference. "sh printpwd" will run the script in a new instance of the shell.
Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection
From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternately, you can call a shell and tell it to run the shell script file. "sh printpwd" should do the trick... is this right? In most shells, ". printpwd" (notice the period) will run a shell script as Both of those will run a script, but there's a difference. "sh printpwd" will run the script in a new instance of the shell. now to finish the message... Running the script in a new instance of the shell means it spawns another shell which runs the script, and then terminates. Running ". printpwd" (or "source printpwd", which is the same thing) runs the shell in the currently-running shell, not spawning a new one. Usually, this doesn't make much difference. However, if you are using the script to set environment variables (like the prompt, for example), the difference is significant.
[newbie] Loading modules?
Where do I specify what modules to load at boot time? Currently, some modules load, while others do not. Particularly, the tulip and sg modules do not load. I can manually load them as root by typing /sbin/insmod, but that's a bit of a pain. Thanks for any info!
Re: [newbie] SAMBA troubles!
Petey wrote: situation. I've tried multiple times to try and get SAMBA running, and I can't get anything to pop up in the win 95 network neighborhood. All tests Try this: Click on start, run, then enter "\\linux computer name" and click OK. If that doesn't work, try "\\linux machine's IP address". I've frequently seen cases where a computer won't appear in the network neighborhood, even though it is accessible on the network. Of course, also test to make sure the Win95 machines can see the Linux box at all--try pinging it by name and IP, etc. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Would people please stop sending HTML mail to this list?
From: stephan schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? HTML is pretty much a standard... outlook, eudora, netskape mail... Sure, HTML is a standard--for web pages. Especially considering that this is a Linux list, not everybody uses an HTML-aware GUI mail client. Lots of people still use programs like pine, for example, which can't handle html.
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, each file name is like a hard link to the data? Yes, precisely.
Re: [newbie] kernel re-compilation
From: Periklis Christodoulou [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if I can get help with recompiling my kernel in order to support ntfs file system. When I tried "make xconf" it failed saying there are It's make xconfig. Make sure you're in /usr/src/linux when you do this.
[newbie] Samba Server Step-by-Step
I thought I'd posted this to the list, but I guess not. The guide is at this URL: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] networking
From: Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] So where do I go from here? That they can ping is good. Where you need to go from here is to set up Samba, which will let your win98 box see files/printers/etc on your Linux box, and smbclient, which will do the same for your Linux system. There's an excellent step-by-step guide to setting up Samba; I'll try to e-mail it when I get home from work tonight.
Re: [newbie] networking
From: Mike Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] implimentation. Is samba a better alternative? I suppose for a small home network it doesn't make a lot of difference. For a larger network, where the Linux (or Win) box may need to integrate with existing standards, it would obviously be more important. Samba is, by most accounts, a very good imitation (as far as the rest of the network is concerned) of an NT server.
Re: [newbie] Modem
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps someone can identify it as a Winmodem from its name. According to Windows, it's a TOSHIBA Internal Modem (V.34 33.6 Data+Fax+Voice). It's on what Windows calls "Toshiba Modem Port (COM2)" (which ought to I can't identify it for sure, but "Toshiba Modem Port" does sound suspiciously like something for a Winmodem. What resources does that port use? IIRC, it ought to be on i/o 2e8; if it's much different, it's probably a Winmodem.
Re: [newbie] networking
From: Morpheus The Sinful Weeper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, that samba step by step guide, could i get a copy ? It's at http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/, along with several other similarly useful pieces of documentation.
Re: [newbie] Man ?
John Aldrich wrote: Why the hell are you sending me "happy99.exe"??? Don't you know that's a First, the subject's already been addressed on-list a bit. Second, though, and somewhat more to the point, happy99 sends itself. For all I know, I could be sending it (though I strongly doubt it), even though I haven't told Netscape to attach any files to this message. Cool off, OK? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] vmware help
hevnsnt wrote: Basically I would like http://www.vmware.com/support/vmodules.html #Fixing /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm explained to me in lamans terms. =) I understand what they are saying, $ su Password: # cd /usr/include # rm linux # rm asm # ln -s linux /usr/src/linux/include/linux # ln -s asm /usr/src/linux/include/asm -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [newbie] zip drive help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] how can i use my zip drive in linux? i need to download things in win98 to the disk and then bring them over to linux. any suggestions? What kind of zip drive? SCSI, IDE, parallel? If it's SCSI, you'll need to mount /dev/sdx4 (where x is the appropriate device designator) to an appropriate mount point. If IDE, mount /dev/hdx4 as above. You shouldn't need anything special to use either of these. For parallel port, I haven't used that, so I couldn't help you.
Re: [newbie] speaking of passwords
"Aaron W." wrote: I am not saying you are wrong because I cetainly do not know but How can it be this easy to change the root password?! Seems that would be *very* insecure. Anyone that can get to the keyboard can now get into and mess anything up. Sure enough--if the machine isn't physically secure, no (reasonable) amount of software security will help you. As to the "I certainly do not know", why not try it out yourself? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed
John Aldrich wrote: Okone I can give you right off the top is "timed" It will NOT run as SuperUser, but it WILL run as "root." It comes back with "timed command not found." This is from a It will still run just fine as su, but you need to specify the path to it. When you su, it doesn't run the normal login files for root, which means that anything that's in root's path, but not in your path, won't be visible. There is an option to su to change this behavior, but I don't remember what it is. man su would tell you, though. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Installation of LM 6.0: Best partition size
Civileme wrote: The mileage of others may vary. The trick is to remember that your initial partitioning cannot be changed without a full backup/clean wipe. On the other Sure it can--just use partition magic (and, of course, re-run lilo). -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Re: [SATLUG] more networking help
From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] No there is no limit of pc's only line length and that actualy depends on the cable quality. Not so. Actually, I was wrong too--the max is 30 PCs per 10Base2 segment. You can populate up to three segments with computers, using repeaters between the segments. Each segment can be no more than 185 meters long. If you need more than 90 computers on an ethernet network, you can (1) use one or more routers to split the network, (2) use 10BaseT (UTP), or (3) use 10Base5 (thicknet).
Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare
"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: Can Win98 (or WinNT) inside the vm access anything on the Linux partition, or is it locked in? Alternately, can the Linux OS run samba and let the windows vm mount the samba share? As far as Windoze in the VM is concerned, the Linux machine does not exist. Samba, however, works great. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] DSL and Mandrake
From: Rich McCabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will give that a try. I am not sure what you meant by "where 2=x=254". I think maybe a typo in there. No typo -- x should be at least 2, but not more than 254. Unfortunately, the standard keyboard doesn't have a "less than or equal to" character, so I use "=" or "=" as I learned when programming in BASIC several years ago. The reason for two ethernet cards is because the Cisco 675 is an external router and it hooks up to a NIC with a crossover cable. So the first one is for the router and the second is for my small home LAN. Seems like you should be able to run the router to a hub, but I won't swear to that...
Re: [newbie] DSL and Mandrake
From: Rich McCabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will give that a try in the morning. And Dan the Cisco is plugged directly into the hub and I will be sending this E Mail with it. It works OK but I want to use IP masquerading on the Linux box and have everything go through it. Maybe not needed, but my experience so far with dial ups has been the Masqing is cool, all right. It just seems to me (and I'm certainly no expert) that this system is more complicated than it needs to be, by at least one device. If you're going to be doing masqing on the linux box anyway, it could just as well be set up as its own router, and you wouldn't need the Cisco at all. You'd just plug eth0 straight into the DSL modem, and eth1 into the hub--and it's in this sort of application that I'd prefer going with a separate, dedicated Linux box as a router. Whether the info is there to properly configure the Linux box is, of course, a separate issue. modem connection. No Kidding. Besides, I have to "out cool" my buddies. A Always a good reason... g
Re: [newbie] samba
John Brack wrote: Anyone remember the webpage for that very help samba walkthru? http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [newbie] need help networking
Steve Philp wrote: I believe you can turn on IP Masqing with this command: echo "1" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding Not exactly. That needs to be done, but that only turns on packet forwarding. IP Masq'ing needs to be built into the kernel, and ipchains needs to be installed as well. The HOWTO is an excellent walkthrough; it takes you through the process step by step. I have a real Win98 box, as well as virtual NT and 98 machines (in VMware) accessing the net through my Linux machine this way. You can also configure a firewall this way. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
[newbie] Screenshots in KDE?
Does anybody know of a utility that will do screenshots in KDE (or X generally?) I ran across a trick using xv, but I could only get that to capture the xv window, which isn't what I'm trying to do. Any help is appreciated! -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
