[newbie] setting up to update the distributed kernel
I am trying to change some of the defaults in the distributed kernel. My experience has been with RedHat, until they raised the flag;-) How does one get from the source distribution, with all of the patches etc, to a /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk tree I can modify and build from. When I installed the RPM, it put the sections in /usr/src/RPM... like one would expect if not building a kernel. I could find no documentation that did not assume a /usr/src/linux directory exists. Sorry if this is a dumb one. don -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GE Wireless Optical Mouse H097990
I am using an IBM optical scroll mouse with Mandrake 9.1 with no problems at all. Mandrake setup detected and congfiured it automatically. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried. --- On Wed 08/20, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: John Richard Smith [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:57:34 + Subject: Re: [newbie] GE Wireless Optical Mouse H097990 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:brbrDoes anyone know if there are any linux drivers for this wireless optical mouse? The mandrake site does not show GE as a manufacturer, much less the mouse. Is there some other support for it? If not, has anyone tried Microsoft's wireless optical mouse with Mandrake 9.1? If so, does it work? How did you get it to do so? I wanted to avoid buying anything MS, but if that's all that will work, then that's what I'll go with.brbrThanks in advance,brJackbrbr brbrI currently have 4 Packard Bell CO-3UP 3 button scrollwheel optical brmouse working just fine as either a PS/2 or usb mouse using the standard brMD drivers.brbrJohnbrbr-- brJohn Richard Smithbr[EMAIL PROTECTED] brbrbrbrWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? brGo to http://www.mandrakestore.combr ___ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] particition magic etc.
Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think that the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc. My husband has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can set up Linux on. He would like to try to reformat my drive and take the time to figure out where we went wrong. In other words start from scratch. As I have no operating system ie: I can get to login: in something similar to dos but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. login and get my files 2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we have the program) Many thanks in advance, Alexa
[newbie] curious
Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off. Just a thought
Re: [newbie] curious
that's a thought - Original Message - From: Franki To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:46 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] curious Its a good way to get confirmed address's if you are a spammer... rgds Frank -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don and Alexa PongraczSent: Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:59 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] curious Why would a list member request a reply from my computer that I have received his message. Will they then get myraid's of emails with our addy's...already available on our posts. Perhaps this should be turned off. Just a thought
[newbie] whew-boy help again
Well, I've gone a redone a bit. First my printer didn't work, and I thought perhaps it was the settings, although they seemed okay. Then it hung...my fault, and then I rebooted. The printer still won't print, I now suspect it is out of ink, and the one red warning is this: dhcpd failed and now my internet won't work. Question one: what remedy would work Question two: would the settings I had in place perhaps change as I had to shut the computer off when it hung?? Any help would be appreciated. Alexa
[newbie] well, help!
Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. I had Mandrake 8.2 installed and don't have any dollars to get the upgrade. Well, it bombed on me and I lost my X thing for the desktop so I have to reinstall. Now my internet, never a problem before won't install. As I lay in bed last night thinking...I wondered if I tried to jam too much on ie: lots of packages where only one was highlighted (button) and if I should just stick to workstation and games. At least, that's what I'm trying this morning. The best thing about yesterday was finding this support group. Like someone else, I am back in windows, but on my husbands machine. I develop Web Pages, have a goal of owning my own Linux server, and really want to learn. Finally there's someone I can ask questions of...second question..will the group get too irritated if I ask really dumb questions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] more research
I believe I am having problems defining my host. I am networked to my husbands computer and we get our internet services from shaw.ca. when I am asked to define the host it wants me to be very specific. The book says to use data provided by your ISP. Well and good but shaw cable says that as I am networked, despite the fact we pay for two computers, it is my problem and I must deal with it myself. Their solution is for me to connect to the cable directly, which would create different settings, and I think that would be useless. So - question - when I am defining host, what is the right way to go?
[newbie] addendum
An addition to my previous correspondence. The computer now looks for the internet addy for shaw.ca ...I think I my have keyed in the wrong thing for host and now the poor computer is dreadfully confused
Re: [newbie] mouse stops pointing correctly
Ben Bayer said: I think power supply might be another possible culprit. Installing the K6 eliminated weird x-windows behaviour during boot-up, where the pixels appeared to scatter a bit, and fonts were fuzzy. I think the 145 W power supply may have been marginal for the P200 installed then, operating at 3.3 V. The K6 works at 2.2 V, and the problem is gone. Ben: I think you may be right. I experienced strange problems when I upgraded to a K6-2 450. Most the time it wouln't even boot. Turned out the old 250W PS developed -5V @ .25A. A new 250W PS pumped out -5V @ .5A. The extra 1/4 amp made all the difference and box still works fine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list
MR HAVLIK. How many of your Mandrake customers are dead or maimed? How many potential Mandrake business customers responsible for the re-building of IT infrastructure have you just alienated? Does the death of more than five thousand souls not transend the fact that this is a Linux mailing list? These are unprecedented events and you should take that into consideration. This affects all countries, all peoples of the world and Mandrake Linux is NOT more important. I do agree there may be forums set-up to discuss these issues, but any place to communicate is appropriate and proper. If you have noticed, the original purpose of the list is proceeding as normal, so what is the big deal? You allow other OT topics such as Bill Gates is Satan and XP can be cracked. What do these have to do with your customers learning how to use your product? Not one damned thing, yet you and others defend the right for such inappropriate postings. It seems to me that given your experiences you would understand, obviously you do not! This is a world forum to discuss things which affect Linux and Mandrake, is it not? Don't you think these past few days affect Linux Mandrake? Blacklist me if you like, I'm not sure I want to associate with someone like you any further. Good day and open your mind! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
If you just need disk space, why not do some housekeeping first and use the Windows tools to clean out the recycle bin, temporary files, old Windows uninstall info, down-loaded files, etc.? Also remove old programs you aren't using any more. You will be shocked how much space can be recovered and you may be able to keep Linux. I keep my disk cleaned up and I just checked and I can recover 140MB from less than a week. Run Disk Cleanup in System Tools. Also in in your browser, reduce the time for hanging on to history. I use ten days and if I haven't returned to a site within 10 days, I probably never will. Of course if you really want to throw Linux away, follow the instructions Civileme sent. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie having problems with modem...
I use an Actiontec PCI Call Waiting modem and the box even says Linux.. It is NOT a winmodem! Just followed their instructions for Linux and worked right off the bat. It consistently connects at higher speeds in Linux than in Win98SE too. I found it at Walmart of all places for $40. The model no. is PCI56012-01CW. Check it out here: http://www.actiontec.com/products/modems/cwi/cwi_overview.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie having problems with modem...
I have a SM56, but never tried it in Linux. However Motorola has drivers for Linux here: http://e-www.motorola.com/products/softmodem/support/software.html Also check the archives for posts about the SM56, I remember seeing posts regarding the SM56. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem
I have tried several versions of Linux and have had no success getting any of them to recognize a modem. I had an internal winmodem. Removed it and have an external modem that is listed as compatible with Linux. It is a Zoltrix FMVSP56e and works great with Win98. Recently installed Mandrake 8, again with no recognition of the modem. I would appreciate your help, Don
[newbie] Printer
I recently installed Mandrake 8 and am unable to get the printer to respond. lp is not ready I have a HP Deskjet 694C that is listed in the setup. In fact there are 6-7 drivers listed. I have tried each of them and still nothing. Any help here? Don
[newbie] Uncompress???
Does anyone know where the uncompress command is for Mandrake 8? I can't find a rpm for it. Thanks, Don
[newbie] Backup needed
If I buy the disc imaging program Ghost 6.5 and install it on the Win2000 primary channel hard drive, will the program be able to see my MK7.2 ext2 system on a second hard drive set as master on the secondary IDE controller? My goal is to get a convenient, speedy way to backup my Linux system so I will be less hesitant to try modifying it for my special needs. Could I get this convenience by splitting the second hard drive (devoted to Linux) into an experimental partition and a backup partition? Would the dd command allow a complete restore of a saved backup, to the experimantal partition, without a lot of manual intervention? Thanks for any suggestions. Don
[newbie] Re: Broken Internet connection
OK , I have made an internet connection, and learned some things: 1. Do not use any of the specifics in "ISP-Hookup-HOWTO" 2. The correct script file is: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 3. Entering kppp config via su from user mode of KDE never showed me option to query modem 4. When I started KDE as root, I got an Internet icon that led me to a useful kppp config process. 5. Doing modem query from (4) above showed a single digit error in the phone number for my ISP but I could not find a place to edit that number there (must be my thick glasses !! ) 6. Searching with grep on the false phone number led me to the above correct chat-script where I edited the phone number. 7. Rebooting showed that the phone number was still wrong. Some other file was maintaining the old wrong number. 8. I widened my grep search beyond /etc to include /usr, and found /usr/share/config/kppprc which has all the details for kppp 9. Changing the phone number in above got me to my ISP, but it complained they no longer accepted SLIP connections. (I had always specified PPP ?? ) 10. SLIP did not show in the above /usr file, but an edit button in KDE's kppp setup allowed me to change from a wrong 'terminal' choice to 'PAP'. 11. Finally I am able to access my ISP and get to the Internet. 12. Unfortunately, I can NOT yet exit, and turn off my modem without shutting down the computer. Just accessing the internet icon should offer this option, but it gives an error. 13. I suppose I am still doing a number of things wrong. Suggestions please. Don
[newbie] Broken Internet connection
Unable to re-establish my internet connection. My initial install of LM 7.2 setup internet OK. So I know the hardware/modem is not the problem. While messing with cups to try to get user access to my printer, I broke LM badly - flashing monitor, no NTLDR or boot on startup, boot floppy just gets back to flashing monitor - so I used the CDs to do an update ( 2 hours + on this 166Hz/64MB machine). The update got me back to where I could use DrakConf to setup my ISP connect info. But many tries with various combinations of info never got a beep out of the modem - and no messages that I could find. So I tried the manual for kppp. But I could not find any help in where to start, or how to troubleshoot. Next I tried the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO. It led me thru a verification of files: /etc/hosts.deny ALL: ALL /etc/hosts.accept ALL: LOCAL /etc/HOSTNAME Don /etc/hosts 127.0.0.0 localhost 0.0.0.0 donm /etc/networks loopback 127.0.0.0 localnet 0.0.0.0 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets donm * passwd ( where passwd = my ISP passwd) /etc/ppp/chatscript #this file did not exist so I built it as #instructed in the HOWTO TIMEOUT 5 "" ATZ OK ATDT12345678 ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT WAITING TIMEOUT 45 CONNECT "" TIMEOUT 5 The above was implemented as root with cmd: exec pppd connect \ 'chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript' \ -detach crtscts modem defaultroute \ user donm /dev/modem 38400 This gets as far as showing ATZ on the screen and then error: /dev/modem permission denied I tried all permission settings on /dev/modem and its link to /dev/ttyS1 but could never get past this error. The first char in the permission strings for /dev files are not normal files and may prohibit direct access. But the HOWTO script says do it. I tried chmod, chgrp, chown to all possibilities but never got past the error. After a day of this I need help ! Don
RE: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus
My 2cents-I have been trying to get 7.2 to install on a BCM I810P, but it doesn't seem compatible with Linux. KDE, Gnome, and X have problems with it. Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] motherboard compatibility: asus On Thursday 01 February 2001 08:15 am, Mark Johnson wrote: I checked the mandrake site for MB compatibility but couldn't find any information. I was planning on getting an Asus ATX Super7 5/2 [P5A] does anyone anticipate problems. no problem, Asus makes a very good board, so does Gigabyte mostly I had a gigabyte board and linux refused to install with the CDROM I got for it. what cdrom?, some are almost useless, Sony comes to mind It installed fine when I tried the same CDROM on my dell PC so I just assume the gigabyte board was the problem I'd rank anything Dell first. Dell only uses the absolute lowest cost, limited, often substandard, proprietary stuff they can arm-twist thru volume buying hardware. Does anyone think I'll have problems with this Asus board? nope, other than it won't be compatible with a Dell case/power supply. The cure is to get rid of Dell junk as much as possible -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Re: [newbie] Help!! Ayuda!! (en español de preferencia!!!)
I'll translate the response back if any one can provide the response: Quote: I am a novice with Linux, I bought Corel Linux. It's disgusting. I was able to install it and I couldn't configure anything. I obtained Mandrake and tried to install 7.0 and upon installing and configuring X server I came to the end. I need help to know what happened. I have two different computers, one with a Trident video card (which Corel Linux easily detected) and the other with a ATI Rage 128 All in Wonder Pro (which Corel also configured well). I am asking for any help. I can use any bit of advice. Unquote: I'm not sure from the context but it seems like he can't get X server to recognize either of his video cards. Don Munson P.S. Sorry for the choppiness of the translation its been a LONG time. - Original Message - From: Carlos Pedreros Lizama To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 2:30 PM Subject: [newbie] Help!! Ayuda!! (en español de preferencia!!!) Soy principiante en linux, me compre corel linux que es un asco, lo pude instalar y no podia configurar nada. Mandrake: lo consigui lo trate de instalar el 7.0, y al finalizar y configurar el x server se me fue a la cresta necesito ayuda, saber por que pasa, llevo dos computadores diferentes, uno con una tarjeta de video trident, cosa que corel linux detecto facilmente, y el otro equipo con una ati rage 128 all in wonder pro, que tambien corel configuro bien, consejos ayuda, necesito todo lo que pueda usar. Atte. Carlos Pedreros (Diseñador) Macmaniaco y amigo de linux Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] FW: Mandrake 7.2 install/missing font/XFree86?
Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Don W. Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mandrake 7.2 install/missing font/XFree86? Until recently, I was the happy master of a dual boot system with Win 98/Mandrake 7.1. I got a new machine so I could be separate from the rest of the family, and it initially came with Win ME installed. I then attempted to install Mandrake 7.1 on a second HD, but I could never get a clean install-packages didn't get installed which were critical to the system, so it wouldn't even run. I suspected that the medium was faulty, as I had gotten these errors earlier on the other machine. So I bought the Mandrake Complete 7.2 boxed set (4 CD), and the install seemed to go fine, no error messages. It even did a good job of setting up the internet connection, which worked. One of the few things that does. When I booted up again, I found that neither KDE nor Gnome will run. Blackbox is OK, which is fine with me, but there are programs from both KDE and Gnome that I need to run. When I try to start any KDE programs, I either get a total crash message, or I get an error message that no acceptable fixed font can be found. The version of Xfree86 is 4.0.1, and I'm wondering if this is part of the problem. A time or two, when I tried to open something it didn't like, X just crashed, leaving me to a command line console. The only way to restart X is to reboot. I'm wondering why there is/are missing fonts, or if they aren't missing why X can't find them. I'm wondering if things would run better with the previous version of Xfree86. My system is a Celeron 566, 64 mb of ram, one 20 gig HD with Windows and one 15 gig HD for Linux. The MB is a BCM IN810P, with onboard video and sound. I can't figure out from the manual what the video RAM is. Anyway, does anyone have any insight into this problem? I had been pleased with Mandrake up to this point. Thanks! Don W. Jenkins www.jinxinker.com www.maxfarce.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] -C code=
lll wrote: i just downloaded a c program and it said to make it executable 'chmod +x file', and when im going to run it it just says that the file doesnt exist.. helP. are you using the format ./program_name or typing the full path of the program. If the directory that the program is in is not in your path you need to use one of the above methods. Don S
Re: [newbie] Will U.S. Robotics 56K PCI Performance Pro Modem work with Linux?
If you are referring to the 3cp5610 model - yes it's supposed to work. There is a page at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/3cp5610.txt that describes how to configure it. I used it to reconfigure my 5613 (gaming modem) and it still works except I had to get rid of the ^fourport option (didn't work - got modem busy). Don S - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Will U.S. Robotics 56K PCI Performance Pro Modem work with Linux? Egghead has the U.S. Robotics 56K PCI Performance Pro Modem on sale. It appears from the description that it is not a winmodem. Can anyone tell me if it will work with Mandrake 7.2?
Re: [newbie] Network solution
Gentlemen: I apologize for the problem since this apparently started with me. This was not an issue of request a read from the list but I have this setting on my machine always on for other issues. As has been mentioned there are settings in the email programs and mine is set to automatically respond so I don't ever see the dialog boxes so wasn't aware they were there until I started getting read receipts. I will endeavor to keep them off the list from now on. Don - Original Message - From: "abe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Network solution glad to help. I hate those damn reply requests too. Abe "Eugene C. Zesch" wrote: Thanks, thats a setting didn't notice before. abe wrote: if you are using netscape mail you can set the preferences to never send a reply. edit=preferences=mailnews groups=return receipts: its in the bottom right box. He can request 'em all he wants and I'll never even know. Abe "Eugene C. Zesch" wrote: Penndragon wrote: Hi Steven I understand your reason, but it irritates more people than will reply. My experience is that many will simply block ypu to avoid that dialog box every time you post :( I'm not one of those, but I do find it annoying. When posting to a liast, surely your post there is sign enough that it gets though? James I agree. I also find it annoying. FWIW Gene
Re: [newbie] Where did D: go?
Don't know if it is like this, but my Windows 98 regularly switches drive letters on me between my second partition HDD, and my Zip drive, supposed to be E:. I regularly wind up with the letters reversed, and shortcuts not working, etc. You might check to see if Windows is calling it something else. Don J. - Original Message - From: "Paul R" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Where did D: go? Hi, Caroll, this is a bug on the 7.1 installer when run in non-expert mode. There is a fix at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3 halfway down the page (2nd error scenario). Download the script and save it as a file and then run it using the command "perl linux_extended_fix.pl". Searching the list's database you can find explanations of what caused this problem, I'm not really sure off the top of my head (actually, I didn't understand it when I read it). :) Good luck! I hope this helps! -paul r Carroll Grigsby wrote: I'm in the process of undergoing a major rebuild/reinstall. I've replaced the old m/b with an Abit KT7 and Athlon 800. Neat. After I god the system up and running, I said to decided to just kill all of the old software and start over. That turned out to be not so neat. After removing all of the old partitions from both drives with PM 6.0, I installed Win98SE on the master -- 10 gb, two partitions. Sorta got that working, so tonight I put LM 7.1 on the other drive (15 gb). Not wanting to push things, I settled for the basic LM install. All went well with one exception: I can access the win d: from Linux, but windows can't. Says there ain't no such critter. Any ideas about how I can convince windows that the extended partition is still there? If worse comes to worse, I can always use windows' fdisk to recreate the partition and reload the stuff that's in there, but I'd like to avoid that hassle. (The thing that really ticks me off about this is that I've done this before without a hitch. Guess I forgot something.) Regards, cmg __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] Anyone gotten 1400x1050 on a Dell Inspiron 7500?
Hi Everyone, I am trying to run XF86 v4 on my Dell Inspiron 7500. I get 1024x768 and 1280x1024 OK, but I can't seem to use the 1400x1050 resolution. This is a valid resolution with Redhat 7, so I figured I would just use the modes from my XF86Config-4 for redhat in my Mandrake XF86Config. No luck. It still shows that the resolution is invalid and let's me in with 1280x1024. Anyone struggled through this yet, or know of a place I can look? Thanks in advance -pDon
Re: [newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome
Alexander Arzberger wrote: Hi everybody! I am new to Mandrake and this list and I´ve tried to change Mandranke´s default KDE2 (too slow) to the faster Gnome Desktop, but there´s no menu item to do this!? Can somebody help? So I found out that Mandrake loads the very fast IceWm if I start the X writing startx (any letter). Alex If you are using Mandrake 7.2 you can bring up Gnome easily by using the drop down list in the log in box. Just log in, then select Gnome and press enter. I presume you are not running Linux for Windows. If you are, every thing runs slow. DCH.
[newbie] RPM dependency
I purchased ver 7.2 from the Mandrake site along with the Extension disk. Install locks up on attempt to add files from the Extension disk so I did not get the doc manual for Mandrake which shows up as one of the RPM files on it. When I try to install that file via an rpm -install command, I get an error saying I need file "locales-de" . The same error results if I try to rpm one of the "howto" files. Where can I get "locales-de" ?? Please, Don Mayhew
[newbie] ftp doesn't work
I am trying to get ftp to work,but none of my ftp programs recognize the modem, and I can't find where to go to fix that. There were a few references to making Netscape download the files by pressing Shift while clicking on a file, or by right clicking on a file, but that doesn't work on my machine, tho Netscape does know where to find the modem (so its the only connection to the internet, and i would like to escape that, now its part of AOL, its in the same league for me as microsoft ) The reason I want to ftp is to update my kernel, hopefully to fix whatever makes Mandrake Config utility hang my computer (another question there: does anybody else have this problem?) Thanks in advance
[newbie] WordPerfect fonts
Hi all: After reading all the frustrated postings over the last week, I feel in good company. My question is; I'm using the downloaded version of WP, and it comes with a crummy few fonts, and gives me no information about using all the other fonts on my system, surely there is a way to make them available, how would I do this? and Clues? TIA Ray
Re: [newbie] Linux and Netscape 6
I had the same problem with Netscape's own installer program, but I recalled that I had seen a download link at Icewalkers for the tarball itself. I downloaded that with wget just fine, no cut-offs, and untarred it and than ran the installer that is included. It works much better that way than trying to do it from Netscape. The link is: http://www.icewalk.com/softlib/app/app_00916.html Good luck. Don J. On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone else had a problem d/l the Netscape6 browser? I get part way through, a download and the netscape server seems to die. I still have a internet connection but get 0 from the d/l server. I didn't hear of any time limits on the connection but I am trying to get it with a 56k modem. I have seen the 6 at work and it does look like Mozilla. Maybe I should just wait for Mozilla to get to alpha and let Netscape keep trying to get back their windows share. Any one with thoughts or suggestions? Dennis M. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842 -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jinxinker.com (Under Development) | www.maxfarce.com Registered Linux User 190728 Linux Box 84430 -- I can make the Penguin crawl, but it usually takes 30 or so open windows.--
Re: [newbie] Got RealPlayer?
I already tried that. The problem is that after I select UNIX, there is no Mandrake 7.0 in the selections on the next page. There are 2 Redhats and a few others that I am not familiar with. I am a newbie and have only had experience with Open Linux, Mandrake 6.2 and Mandrake 7.0. I tried one of the Red Hat selections, but when I try to install, either as upgrade or new install, I get an error message; conflicts with ( such and such) existing file. Ialso tried one of the selections with an rpm extension and it did the same thing. The "Linux 2.x (libc6 i386) RPM" is the one you want, but you may need to install from the command line. The instructions on the download page say 4.Once you've successfully completed the download, you will be ready to install the RealPlayer. Rename the uncompressed file. Type mv rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm rp7.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm To install this package, use the standard rpm install command. You must be logged in as root to install this package. Type rpm -i rp7.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm For Red Hat 5.x installations: Employ the --nodeps option of the RPM installer.Users updating current installations should use the --force option. So, if you are having problems, try (from the console, as root) rpm -i --nodeps rp7.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm or rpm -i --nodeps --force rp7.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm Good luck! -Don
Re: [newbie] OT 6th question - SCSI vs IDE OT
Adrian, SCSI in itself is not really faster than the latest UDMA ide interfaces. There is another layer of arbitration that has to be gone through to read from a device as the SCSI bus is an idependant bus. I have seen tests some where they took identical drives (except interface) and tested them side by side and the ide drive won because the command has to go through less steps with UDMA than SCSI. So if you get an old SCSI drive don't expect it to be faster than your new 7200 rpm IDE scorcher. Now that i've sort of bashed SCSI I'll give you the advantages. 1. The fastest drives made are SCSI. New harddrive technology debuts in high end SCSI drives. The 15000 rpm Seagate cheatah is one ex. of this. Of course they are some of the most expensive. 2. Much more expandable. You can up to 7 narrow and /or15 wide devices to a single SCSI adaptor card which uses only one irq. This is opposed to 2 devices per channel on IDE at one irq per channel. 3. More variety of devices. DVD, -RAM's,-RW's, tape drives, CD-ROM, RW's, R's, hard drives, solid state storage, scanners, high end printers, and much more. 4. Separate bus. This may be a disadvantage with one device but when it comes to doing high intensity disk activities the scsi buss really shines. It uses a lot less cpu cycles to do inter-bus tranfers (from scsi hdd to cdrw for ex.) That's why scsi cd burners have lower processor utilization than ide ones do. Before burn proof you had a lot less coasters with scsi cdrw's and you do other things while the cdburner was doing it's thing. Caching raid controllers are still almost unheard of in the ide world. In a server enviroment scsi is usually the best way to go. So scsi has a quite a few advantages in the right enviroments. In a typical desktop enviroment it's probably not worth the extra cost. But if you consider yourself a power user and need the expandability and have the cash then go for it. Don S - Original Message - From: "Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:57 PM Subject: [newbie] OT 6th question - SCSI vs IDE OT this came up the other day. someone told me that a SCSI hard drive is faster than an IDE hard drive. i have never used a SCSI drive in my life, so i don't know from experience. is this true?? thanks much no more questions for now Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Linux version of Arachnophilia?
If you want bells and whistles and an interface similar to HomeSite, CoffeeCup works pretty well, although it ultimately is not free. If you just want to write HTML with some basic support, including Weblint to check it for you, try Bluefish, which is free. Another is AsWedit, which I like less well. Don J. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: There is a powerful free webpage editor called Arachnophilia which I use and like in the NT world. There does not seem to be a Linux version of it (even though it is freeware). Does anyone know of a similar html editor in Linux? Thanks -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jinxinker.com | www.maxfarce.com "It is the nature and disposition of almost all men, when they get a little power, as they suppose, that they immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion." --Joseph Smith--
Re: [newbie] Auto Updates
at a terminal in x windows type drakconfig You will get a window popping up and Mandrake Update is one of the choices. Don S - Original Message - From: "Jon Greisz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Auto Updates I think I chose server install and went with pretty much every option. This is for a router/firewall. I do not have any Star Icons except for news. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/9/00 at 12:50 PM Larry Marshall wrote: I bought and installed Mandrake 7.1 this weekend. I cannot find how to do an Auto Update. Where would this be located. If you did a normal, X-windows configuration it's sitting right on your desktop as one of those Mandrake star icons. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Running Setiathome
Thanks! Downloading as we speak. Don J. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Trevor Reynolds wrote: Dan, You may want to use a GUI on top of Seti go to: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/links.html#links_unix and you'll find some nice accessories. Good luck Trevor - Original Message - From: "Dan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 5:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Running Setiathome If you want to run it in text mode you can add the verbose option. Just add -verbose at it will show lots of detail and once in a while the percentage done. If you let it run all the time it will try to connect to the internet and get a new work unit. I think it checks every hour for a network connection so if you have dial up only and stay on for an hour it will connect automatically. If not you can shut it down and restart it when you are connected. --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Oct 2, 2000, 22:03, when Dennis Myers keyboarded: I downloaded Setiathome and installed, initiated the first download from the website and started just fine. Now I can't see what progress is made or not and can't figure out how to get another work unit if my first one is done. Doesn't it tell you when you log on to the net that it want's to connect for download? This could be fun if I can figure out how to run it. Some help to a man or faq page or just some enlightenment by email would be appreciated. You can get the xsetiathome package to see what the progress is. When it's done, it will try to connect to the net to get the next package, unless you specify -stop_after_process with it Paul -- Windows crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jinxinker.com | www.maxfarce.com "It is the nature and disposition of almost all men, when they get a little power, as they suppose, that they immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion." --Joseph Smith--
Re: [newbie] Some Emails Returned
I got the same problem with AOL, as well as some others. I think I solved the problem by using Pine with SMTP rather than Postfix. I don't know if that will help you. It seems that programs like Netscape Messenger and Pronto which don't use Postfix are all right, too. Don J. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Michael R. wrote: Is anybody else having trouble sending emails to persons using AOL? I recently reinstalled Mandrake 7.1 after two months with very little trouble.Emails sent to AOL addresses get returned with the following message: " This is the Postfix program at host localhost.localdomain. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host zb.mx.aol.com[152.163.224.33] refused to talk to me: 550 DIRECT CONNECTION FROM DIAL-UP OR DYNAMIC-IP DENIED" Everything else works great and I didn't have trouble sending messages to friends using AOL before I reinstalled 7.1. Any ideas? My system: dual boot with W98. AMD500, 64 Meg RAM, 10 Gig Hard. ISA Modem Thanks, Michael E. -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jinxinker.com | www.maxfarce.com "It is the nature and disposition of almost all men, when they get a little power, as they suppose, that they immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion." --Joseph Smith--
Re: [newbie] SCSI card, Where to buy?
My next scsi card will most likely be a tekram card. They have drivers for their newest cards on their website and I believe their older cards are supported out of the box. You can pick up the U2scsi for around $100 and the U3scsi for around $190. These are full kits with all of the cables (3), terminators, and 50 pin internal to md50 external adaptor. -Don S - Original Message - From: "hugh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 6:32 PM Subject: [newbie] SCSI card, Where to buy? Does anyone have a location that they like to purchase a new scsi card? Heck I would even buy used as it's going. Cant find many cards that are supported for sale. And of those are most often sold in bundles of ten. :) Any ideas? Hugh -- Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Re: [newbie] ttyS4 problem still!
Mark, I posted this before, basically you don't need a dev/ttyS4 for COM5 because coms above 2 are software set by the OS so the modem doen't care what com port it uses. Use the setserial command with the irq, iobase and uart opteions (see link in message). On my modem (USR Internet Gaming Modem PCI) it is set up as COM 5 in Windows and dev/ttyS3 in Linux Mandrake 7.1. Check out www.unionbuiltbox.com/faqmodem.htm it basically says that COM 3 on up are software derived Com ports and you can use either dev/ttyS2 or dev/ttyS3 in linux. They also have a modem setup tutorial on that site for PCI modems. It's worked for me twice setting up my modem in Mandrake 6.1 and 7.1. Another thing to check for is to see if your usb is on the same IRQ as your modem. If it is the only work around that I have heard (and what I'm currently using) is to go into the mandrake setup program and disable USB and your modem won't have the Device Busy Message when you try to use KPPP. - Don S - Original Message - From: "markOpoleO" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ttyS4 problem still! Yes I know all this stuff, but my modem in WIndows was on COM 5, so that is why i am looking for ttyS4...i though i made myself pretty clear :) markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ttyS4 problem still! Ok i tryed all your suggestions so far, I finally got linux to reconize my modem. All communication programs show it working, But i still can't get kppp to dial my ISP..cause there is NO ttyS4 listed (only ttyS0-ttyS3). Does anyone know the procedure to get Kppp to reconize ttyS4 from the list? You're looking for ttyS4 because? If it's the equivalent of COM4 that you're looking for, use ttyS3. What's curious is how you know that "all communications programs show it working" if you haven't even set the port that it's connected to :-) In any case: com1 = ttyS0 com2 = ttyS1 com3 = ttyS2 com4 = ttyS3 Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] mail-client software
Paul wrote: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, pungki wrote: Hi everybody Is there any mail-client software besides Messenger or KMail ? Thanks. Pine, Mutt, Mahogany, Balsa, to name a few... Paul -- "I think there is a world market for about five computers." (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM 1943) http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Spruce, Arrow, Elm. -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | It is the nature and disposition [EMAIL PROTECTED]| of almost all men when they get [EMAIL PROTECTED]| a little power, as they suppose, www.jinxinker.com | that they immediately begin to exercise www.maxfarce.com| unrighteous dominion --Joseph Smith--
Re: [newbie] 2nd hardrive follow up
markOpoleO wrote: Ok i got a second hardrive for linux, had 7.0 installed on it but some reason is said Kernel was corrupt, so i get 7.1 in mail and when i try to boot up from CD it just goes to LILO and not the CD, how the heck do I format my linux drive so i can do fresh install on 7.1? markOpoleO You need to change the boot sequence in the bios. When your computer boots, at the first screen it will give you the option, probably by pressing "Delete" to enter setup mode. When there, you have to look around for the place where you can change the sequence of boot devices so that your CDROM is first. Then you can boot from the CD. You are going to LILO because your HD is listed first. When you are through installing, you can change back. Actually, a good default sequence is A, HD, and then CDROM, if that is an option. The computer will look for a boot record on the floppy drive, not find it and go to the HD to boot, unless you need to use a boot disc, and then you are all set. Exactly where you will find this setting depends on your Bios. Hope this helps. Don J. -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | It is the nature and disposition [EMAIL PROTECTED]| of almost all men when they get [EMAIL PROTECTED]| a little power, as they suppose, www.jinxinker.com | that they immediately begin to exercise www.maxfarce.com| unrighteous dominion --Joseph Smith--
[newbie] 7.1 install funkiness
I saw another posting about a problem with 7.2 beta 1 not wanting to get past the partition check on the installation. Well, I had the same problem with the "stable" version of 7.1, for which I paid far too much money apparently. I go through the whole process of making my partitions on a totally blank new HD, and when I proceed to the formatting screen, I get a cryptic message about "mount" failing because of invalid arguments. Well, since I didn't provide any arguments, I'm at a loss as to what makes the difference. I was able to install 7.0 all right. I'm debating trying to upgrade to 7.1 now that I have 7.0 running, but I remember how long that took last time I tried it, and how partially successful it was. When I was done, it never booted to the new kernel, even though the vmlinuz link in /boot pointed to 2.2.15-4. Still booted 2.2.14-15. Any ideas? Thanks! Don J. -- Don W. Jenkins 8^) | It is the nature and disposition [EMAIL PROTECTED]| of almost all men when they get [EMAIL PROTECTED]| a little power, as they suppose, www.jinxinker.com | that they immediately begin to exercise www.maxfarce.com| unrighteous dominion --Joseph Smith--
[newbie] A Few Questions
1) I have a 500 mhz processor but Linux shows it running at 475, should I worry? 2) I have one of those built in sound cards, with C-Media Electronics chips-ICM18738 which sndconfig found and set up but it seems that the window managers keep crashing the darn thing. The CD player works great but system sounds will work for about a dozen sounds and then silence(does not effect the cd player but does effect the mp3 player). The MP3 player works great as long as I have system sounds turned off. If I lose sound and log out and back into KDE sounds return until they crash again. Any ideas 3) I had to re-install Mandrake 7.0 once in the month I have been operating. I found out the hard way dont log in as root and leave it for several hours. A thunderstorm came through and momentary knocked the power off, just enough to reboot it. Now it rebooted fine and I worked on it for several hours that night, but in the morning I turned it on and while the boot seemed fine it could not run x. After trying everything I could think of I finally after two hours reloaded the system. More then likely X's configuration file was damaged and it could not load the right video driver. Even using the so-called rescue disk I made durring the first installation would not work. Now I was able to control the last part of the boot but I could not find a right combination of yes/no's that would get me into a non-graphical screen. Is there a way to do a safe mode boot?? 4) I have seen many people of the list knocking PCI modems, but many of us can't afford an external modem. I now have a PCI modem that works fine, it was the only external at Best Buy that had a Linux compatible label on it. Its an Actiontec 56k internal call waiting modem and come with instructions on setting it up for linux at the command line and also writing a new line to the /ect/rc.d/rc.local file so it will be auto configure on start up. No problems and it works fine , at least one company tries to support Linux. 5) Before I had to reinstall I had installed Acrobat Reader, but it had errors everytime I used it. Any thoughts before I try again? 6)Does the normal install have the c-compilers? Thanks for any help, Don Hensley
Re: [newbie] Problem updating xemacs
Don't know the answer, but I tried the same update last night and got the same errors. Don J. On Sun, 28 May 2000, Wilson, Al wrote: Hello, all. Is anyone having trouble using Mandrake Update to update emacs. Mandrake Update lists four packages to update, but I keep getting two errors: file /usr/bin/xemacs from install of xemacs-21.1.-7mdk conflicts with file from package xemacs-base-21.1.8-3 file /usr/bin/b2m from install of xemacs-extras-21.1.9-7mdk conflicts with file from package emacs-20.5-3mdk The result is that I cannot update emacs. I can find nothing in the way of help for Mandrake Update. Also, is there a way to tell which mirror I have selected? Which mirrors are updated most frequently? I cannot find a mirror with the kdesu update on it. Where are the RPMs stored? Are they added to the existing RPMs on my drive? So many questions; so few answers. Thank you, Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
[newbie] Sound Problems
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on a machine with an AMD k6-2 475mhz. The motherboard is a FIC VA503A which has onboard sound. In Windows device manager the sound is reported as VIA AC97 PCI. When I run sndconfig, the chips are found but then when I try sndconfig gets to play the sample sound, I get an error of device or resouce busy Does anyone have any ideas that might solve this problem? Thanks
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION (Documentation)
I installed 7.0 on a second hard disc, and the key seems to have been that there were already Linux partitions on the second hard disc--it was already ext2. If you establish at least one ext2 partition on the second HD, I think Mandrake will find it. All the distros I haved tried seem to do it. Don J. - Original Message - From: Edison Gica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 1:45 PM Subject: [newbie] DISCUSSION (Documentation) I have not yet installed 7.0 coz I'm still reading the stuff on installation. My comment is in the documentation (Installation Manual). It only explains or presumes that the user has only one hard disk and that if the option 'Custom' or 'Expert' is installed it is again presumed that the user knows what to do. Now in my case, I have 2 hard disks and found out from the demos in the web that I have to go to either 'Custom' or 'Expert' installation to be able to install 7.0 in my second hard disk w/c I want to do. I'm a newbie (obviously :) ) and if I have not read those I would have accidentally used the 'Normal' installation and it would go and shrink my Win partition (!) w/c I would not want to happen. A well organized installation procedure posted in the web site would be great if printing a bulky manual is not considered economical. Thanks for letting us users give feedback. Hey, this is one great way to compete with MS so this should be done more often. No sleep guys :D edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] HD problems during install - cylinder 1024
The boot loader can't be installed on a partition that goes beyond cylinder 1024. I believe one solution is to make a small boot partition that is at the very first of the the HD on which Linux is to be installed. Don J. - Original Message - From: Fu Shanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:10 PM Subject: [newbie] HD problems during install - cylinder 1024 Installing: Mandrake 7.0 Complete on a 5GB partition Running: Windows 98 WD 15 GB 7200RPM HD When trying to install BootMagic, it says it cannot install since the partition is beyond cylinder 1024. I have the same problem using DiskDrake and LILO (LILO won't install due to this problem). Any suggestions? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] staroffice as user
No. I think you can chown the soffice binary to user and it will run as user. I know I had the same problem in the past and was able to solve it without a reinstall. Try that first. Don J. At 03:38 AM 5/19/00 +0200, you wrote: David Olsson wrote: I installed staroffice as root, now I cant access staroffice as user. How do I do? David in Sweden Hey David You will have to install it 'again' when you are logged in as user. Mogens Jæger
Re: [newbie] staroffice as user
It should be /home/user/Office51/bin/soffice, as I recall. Don J. At 07:27 PM 5/18/00 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2000, David Olsson wrote: I installed staroffice as root, now I cant access staroffice as user. How do I do? David in Sweden Locate the binary that starts StarOffice (so51 or something, in a 'bin' directory of the staroffice install, if I remember correctly), and do a chmod u+x filename on it. I think that should do it. Paul )0(---)0( 2nd Law of Tests: 80% of the final will be on the one lecture you missed about the one book you didn't read. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Michael-Pine
At 07:02 PM 5/16/00 +0200, you wrote: I use Pine, too, along with Getmail. I like Getmail because it will deliver my Pop3 messages directly to my inbox, and then Pine can pick them up. It also appears to me that Pine can be configured to use SMTP to send messages out directly through my ISP, as that is the way it is working for me. Which is a good thing, as I can't get Mutt to send, and it works in conjunction with Postfix/Sendmail. The only thing I would really like Fetchmail for is its polling ability, but there again, I can't get it to work, as it also works with Postfix/Sendmail, and I have no idea where the messages are ending up with Fetchmail. Not the inbox. Do you know if there is any way for Getmail to poll the server periodically or run ad a daemon? I guess its beauty is its simplicity. I like Pine, too because it is easy to read, it will open URL's either in Netscape or Lynx, and I can do everything without moving my hands from the keyboard. Don J. On Tue, 16 May 2000, Michael wrote: Paul, Thanks for the heads up. I only venture forth into Bill's world when forced. So you use Pine, eh? I am comfortable with NS' mail program; guess if comfort was my criterion I wouldn't be on this list, though, so where would you point me to in terms of help files, to be able to get it (Pine)up and running? Hi Michael, First off: Pine is not graphical. It is all text-based although in a konsole-window it reacts to mouse clicks (reall neat). I picked pine because I don't want colored backgrounds and music and jumping images in my mail. I am colorblind, and most of the colored background stuff makes it impossible for me to read the actual mail. Pine is a Mail User Agent. That means you use it to type mail and tell it to dump it somewhere. Then a Mail Transport Agent picks up the mail and sends it out. NS Mail does this all for you, it directly connects to SMTP and POP servers. For MTA you have several choices: Sendmail (standard in the package, but see the "Sendmail in a nutshell" and be scared) -used ver much, terrible (for me) to configure Qmail (www.qmail.org) -Easier to install (although that gave me some extra grey hairs too) and apparently more safe than Sendmail. ALthough for 1 person, that is not a big deal I guess. To pull mail from a server you can either use FETCHMAIL (standard in the package) or Getmail (which I use) Now you know this, decide if you want to venture into Pine or Mutt (also text based) and let the world know... Paul )0(---)0( Law of Life's Highway: If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] serial mouse problems
I'm trying to install the LINUX 7.0 but during the installation my microsoft serial mouse is not being recongonized. I have downloaded the patch and it still doesn't work. Even after the installation is complete and X-Windows comes up, the mouse still doesn't work. I notice during bootup a message about detecting a P/S 2 mouse which I do not have. Do you have any suggestions. Don Brandl Hardware Engineer Lockheed Martin (LMIS) *(407) 306-6755 * fax (407)306-2261 * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] getmail/mutt-partial success
I recently downloaded a small program called getmail, a simpler substitute for fetchmail, and I got it working pretty much. I wrote a script that fetches the mail from my pop account and deposits it into the correct folder /var/spool/mail/$USER. Mutt reads it all fine, and then I compose and send a reply or a new message, and Mutt seems to send it, or says it does. But I don't see the messages arriving where they are sent, and I'm at a loss as to where they are going. My system uses Postfix, and I'm not sure if it could be a Postfix config problem or something else. Is there a queue somewhere that eats the messages? I don't see them in any outbox or sent-mail box. It is bemusing, because it used to be the other way around--I could send OK, but Fetchmail didn't seem to be putting the messages anywhere. I have to say that Mutt was working fast doing whatever it was doing. I need to figure out why Getmail leaves the messages on the server when I supposedly am supplying the -d option for deleting them. Later, Don J. -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
RE: [newbie] dang modems - please help
You have mistaken me for someone else. I did not send this original message. Check your address. Thanx! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 12:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dang modems - please help Looks as though you have either set something up in the login script section that shouldn't be there, or your ISP needs a login script that includes that string On Fri, 05 May 2000, you wrote: Ok I finally got kppp to recognize my modem. I have an internal USR 56k pnp modem. Kppp will say the modem is there, but when it goes to dial my isp, it says "expecting: OK" down at the bottom, and my modem never sends the OK signal. I have read all the help files and have tried what they said, but it still didn't work. I tried installing my other modem (a Rockwell v.90 56k PnP). I got it all set up so that kppp knew it was there too (I, of course, disabled the USR modem). It went a little further. It send the OK signal, but when it reached the dialing step (atdt###), it would start over and initialize the modem again. It would then proceed to go to the dialing step, and then on and on in the same loop. If anybody can help me get either modem to dial I would be most appreciative. thanks ~Tim __ Get free Internet service and email at http://www.worldspy.com
Re: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three
You don't have to touch hda with your Windows 98 on it. You will be asked to create Linux partitions, which you must be sure you are doing on your second drive, hdb, or whatever it turns out to be. Be sure that when you do your partitioning and formatting that you are working with the space on hdb and not hda. The only thing that your installation procedure will do that may involve your Windows partition is when you get to the part about installing lilo, the boot loader. You will get the opportunity to chose whether to install it in the MBR on the Windows partition, or on the first partition (/boot) on your Linux drive. If you don't mind having Lilo manage booting up for both Windows and Linux, you can chose the first way. Or if you don't mind booting from a floppy all the time, you can chose the second way. A third way, which I use is to have a separate boot manager, Boot Magic in my case, that manages both systems and gives you the opportunity to chose either at boot up. But Lilo does this, too. Other than Lilo, don't do anything to your Windows disc at all. Don J. On Wed, 03 May 2000, Tim Schmidt wrote: Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 17:29:01 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tim Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three I hope someone can help me on these Mandrake installation problems. First, I'm trying to install 7.0 on a second hard drive with windows 98 on the first one. Someone told me in order for Lilo to work I have to reformat hda and answer yes for large disk support and no for no for using the whole disk. Is this true? I'd like to be sure before I mess with it. My second and third questions have to do with installing 7.0 on a IBM Thinkpad 380E. When installing it tries to check the pcmcia cards then I get "An error occurred: insmod pcmcia core failed" How do I fix this? Last but not least if I skip checking for pcmcia cards it goes a little farther before I get " No available partition" even though I used fdisk and format. How can I fix this problem? Much thanks for any help given. Tim Schmidt -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] Don: About moving /usr and /home (fwd)
I had to alter a few things, but essentially, it worked pretty well. I found that what I needed to do was to make a switch between /usr, which is huge, and /home, which is not quite so huge. I finally had to just make all the switches and hope for the best, as there wasn't enough room to save /usr.old and do everything else, too. But so far, things seem to be working. I moved /usr to the second hard drive where it sits all alone on its big partition, and I moved /home to the main hard drive. I'll let you know if anything else crops up, as things tend to do at atimes. But for now, thanks a lot! Don J. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:26:58 +0200 (CEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Don: About moving /usr and /home (fwd) Hi Don, This is one of the mails I got to help me in this, and it worked all great. Hope it helps you too! Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:03:10 +0200 From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home Paul wrote: Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called /b1 and /b2. Can someone tell me how I should go about with this, without messing up my entire system? Thanks for the help and advice you can give me. Paul First of all, if you're not confident with linux, read the whole mail before proceeding, and make sure you understand everything (if you don't, read the related man pages). I mean, don't do it "blindly". Let's say your / partition is on /dev/hda1 and you want to move /usr to /dev/hda2. All the following should be done ad root, so TAKE CARE AND THINK TWICE BEFORE HITTING YOUR 'ENTER' KEY! You should take one more precaution by going into single user mode (by typing "init 1") before doing this. Ok. Here we go. - First, you create a ext2 file system on /dev/hda2 with mke2fs. mke2fs /dev/hda2 - Then you mount this partition. (Let's say in /mnt/tmp) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/tmp - You now have to transfer your /usr to /mnt/tmp. To do this, I'd use a command as : (cd /usr tar cpf - .) | (cd /mnt/tmp tar xpf -) Once this is done, rename your /usr directory (for instance in /usr.old), create a new /usr directory, umount your /dev/hda2 partition, and remount it into /usr. mv /usr /usr.old mkdir /usr umount /mnt/tmp mount /dev/hda2 /usr Finaly, update your /etc/fstab and add the line : /dev/hda2/usr ext2defaults1 2 Voila! You're done! Useless to say that you do exactly the same for your /home partition. To go back to your previous runlevel, type init 3 (console login) or init 5 (graphical login). ONCE YOU'VE SEEN THAT YOUR NEWLY CREATED PARTITIONS ARE OK, you can delete your /usr.old and /home.old directories. If you need more infos, take a look at the Hard-disk-upgrade mini-HOWTO HTH Flupke -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] ISP
Found it: http://www.teledyn.com/products/FreeWWW/ Good luck! Don J. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, "Don W. Jenkins" wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:59:42 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Don W. Jenkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP One I have used and it works pretty well is freewwweb.com. I'm not sure of the url for the sign-up page, but I'll post it when I find it. This one is good, because you don't need any software. You sign up and get a pop3 account and a phone number to configure your dialer or scripts with. Don J. At 05:22 PM 4/30/00 -0400, you wrote: Also another i saw with no ads but havent used http://www.isps-free.com/ - Original Message - From: doom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP yes there is.i have not tryed it though yet.cause its beta heh.it is called freenet.check it out. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ if you try it tell me what you think. === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" === - Original Message - From: "The Buckster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: [newbie] ISP Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] ISP
Actually, I have stayed on longer than 5 hours, so I'm not sure how they keep track of your time--by the day or by the month. But it is fairly easy to get two or three accounts and then switch off from one day to the next or even the same day. No reason to pay. Don J. On Mon, 1 May 2000, Michelle Schneider wrote: Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:29:45 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michelle Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: One I have used and it works pretty well is freewwweb.com. I'm not sure of the url for the sign-up page, but I'll post it when I find it. This one is good, because you don't need any software. You sign up and get a pop3 account and a phone number to configure your dialer or scripts with. Don J. It's www.freewwweb.com. You have to have there home page set as the home page of your browser. You cannot stay on more than5 hours at a time or 80 hours a month, but they allow you to open multiple accounts. Michelle -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] Don: About moving /usr and /home (fwd)
Thanks! I'll be giving it a try and let you know how it flies. There may be an added complication/ step as the empty partition is mounted at /home at the moment, but I'll sort that out before I start. Don J. At 08:26 AM 4/30/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi Don, This is one of the mails I got to help me in this, and it worked all great. Hope it helps you too! Paul )0(---)0( The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:03:10 +0200 From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home Paul wrote: Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called /b1 and /b2. Can someone tell me how I should go about with this, without messing up my entire system? Thanks for the help and advice you can give me. Paul First of all, if you're not confident with linux, read the whole mail before proceeding, and make sure you understand everything (if you don't, read the related man pages). I mean, don't do it "blindly". Let's say your / partition is on /dev/hda1 and you want to move /usr to /dev/hda2. All the following should be done ad root, so TAKE CARE AND THINK TWICE BEFORE HITTING YOUR 'ENTER' KEY! You should take one more precaution by going into single user mode (by typing "init 1") before doing this. Ok. Here we go. - First, you create a ext2 file system on /dev/hda2 with mke2fs. mke2fs /dev/hda2 - Then you mount this partition. (Let's say in /mnt/tmp) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/tmp - You now have to transfer your /usr to /mnt/tmp. To do this, I'd use a command as : (cd /usr tar cpf - .) | (cd /mnt/tmp tar xpf -) Once this is done, rename your /usr directory (for instance in /usr.old), create a new /usr directory, umount your /dev/hda2 partition, and remount it into /usr. mv /usr /usr.old mkdir /usr umount /mnt/tmp mount /dev/hda2 /usr Finaly, update your /etc/fstab and add the line : /dev/hda2/usr ext2defaults1 2 Voila! You're done! Useless to say that you do exactly the same for your /home partition. To go back to your previous runlevel, type init 3 (console login) or init 5 (graphical login). ONCE YOU'VE SEEN THAT YOUR NEWLY CREATED PARTITIONS ARE OK, you can delete your /usr.old and /home.old directories. If you need more infos, take a look at the Hard-disk-upgrade mini-HOWTO HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] ISP
One I have used and it works pretty well is freewwweb.com. I'm not sure of the url for the sign-up page, but I'll post it when I find it. This one is good, because you don't need any software. You sign up and get a pop3 account and a phone number to configure your dialer or scripts with. Don J. At 05:22 PM 4/30/00 -0400, you wrote: Also another i saw with no ads but havent used http://www.isps-free.com/ - Original Message - From: doom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP yes there is.i have not tryed it though yet.cause its beta heh.it is called freenet.check it out. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ if you try it tell me what you think. === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" === - Original Message - From: "The Buckster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: [newbie] ISP Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display
That URL has too many dots between www cs Don john wrote: Have you visited http://www..cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop - I found a lot of useful info there. On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Dear Ian, I have a similar problem with another computer. I am not sure yet what the problem is (videocard ?) but maybe if you use the settings in last settings in the framebuffer section in the install guide manual with the Linux Mandrake 7.0 box to get it up and running. If you get an answer before that I am going to try the above standing as well, please let me also know. Thank you, Martin J. Hellema -Original Message- From: Ian Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 April 2000 19:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display Hello, I am reasonably new to Linux and I am having problems with the install. All seems to be well until I try and find a monitor in the last step. My machine is a Compaq Presario 1200xl109 Laptop and the documentation I got with it isn't very comprehensive. I have found that the driver is for a 'Trident CyberBlade i7 (47)' which is listed in the first part of the setup but then I cannot choose the correct monitor for the install to complete. I have tried all the Compaq ones to no avail and I really would like to use the GUI in Linux-Mandrake. Hope you can be of help. Ian Carmichael Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Moved /usr and /home!
I haven't been following this thread closely, but I have been having what must be similar problems with space, as my / partition is full, and I must do something or I won't be able to save or create new docs or print or stuff like that. I have two hard drives involved. On one, I have a /boot partition of 18,000k, and a swap partition of 131,000k, and lastly a / partition of 1.5 gigs, which contains everything except /home. The / partition is full. On a second hard drive, sharing space with a FAT32 partition, I have an EXT2 partition that contains /home, and that has about 1.2 gigs free. I have attempted to simply copy my /usr directory to /home and link it up with a symlink, and that worked for a lot of things, but I discovered that things got dropped on the way, so odd stuff would happen, like no backspace on the keyboard. I also tried the whole process of creating new mount points and remounting directories, but that caused even worse side effects. So, HDA1 is Windows HDA3 is /home with 1.2 gigs free. mounts at /mnt/DOS_hda3 HDC1 is /boot HDC2 is swap HDC3 is /(everything else) I need to move whole file systems around and still have things work. I would appreciate feedback as to the surest way to accomplish this without destroying my system. Thanks! Don J. On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 09:52:11 +0200 (CEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Moved /usr and /home! Hi all, Thanks for the great advice on my question, I have just moved /usr and /home to the new partitions, and it all went without a problem. Paul )0(---)0( Why do you need BELIEF when you KNOW? )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z And isn't as greasey. Do Good Stuff! 8^)
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor
I installed Coffecup, and I like the interface, which resembles Homesite in some ways. However, unless you purchase, most of the goodies are disabled, so I can't comment on that. Are you having problems with the install. It's been a while, but I don't recall any. Don J. Martin Solms wrote: Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)? then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup (http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake? Cheers -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor
Bluefish is a good one, too, with fewer bells and whistles than Coffecup, but it does use Weblint to check your HTML for you. Another possibility is AsWedit, although I would chose Bluefish over that as far as the free editors. Don J. Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Download bluefish from ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker You'll have to check both the cooker and contrib RPMS because I can't remember which one it's in. - Original Message - From: "Martin Solms" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 12:46 AM Subject: [newbie] HTML Editor Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)? then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup (http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake? Cheers -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] fetchmail and pine
I'm sorry I can't offer an answer, but I just wanted echo your frustration. I have
had the identical problem with
fetchmail--I have no idea where the messages are going, so there is no way to use pine
or mutt to any advantage.
No one so far has seemed to know what is going on. So I will add my plea for help.
Don J.
Jeff wrote:
ok ive been trying to configure fetchmail an pine and im having some
difficulty.. i have pine sending msg's and im recieving them fine but
fetchmail isnt putting my msg's in /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge i dont know
where its puttibng them but ive lost quite a few msg's since i started messing
with it..
ok heres what i did ..
first i ran fetchmailconf and got it running. fetchmail seems to be running
good it downloads mesg's but not to /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge so im thinking
maybe its the file permissions getting in the way. so i do
"chmod a+rw /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge" so now everyone on the box has read
write permission to that file, but that doesnt matter as im the only one on
here.. still no good the mesg's im downloading just arent in there. instead
of running fetchmail in daemon mode at this point im just using fetchmail to
check once when i type the command cause ive lost alot of mail and have no idea
if anything there was important..
ok and for pine i got it set up and it sends msgs but of course cant read the
mail cause nothing is in /var/spool/mail/LeadingEdge
heres the config files
(sorry this is so long i just wanna be detailed)
-fetchmail--
# Configuration created Fri Apr 28 23:23:53 2000 by fetchmailconf
set postmaster "LeadingEdge"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
poll mail.nccw.net with proto POP3
user "Leading_Edge" there is Leading_Edge here
-end fetchmail
---pine-
# Over-rides your full name from Unix password file. Required for PC-Pine.
personal-name=Jeff
# Sets domain part of From: and local addresses in outgoing mail.
user-domain=kmfms.com
# List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail.
smtp-server=mail.nccw.net
# NNTP server for posting news. Also sets news-collections for news reading.
nntp-server=news.nccw.net
# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox
# Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
inbox-path=
# List of incoming msg folders besides INBOX, e.g. ={host2}inbox, {host3}inbox
# Syntax: optnl-label {optnl-imap-host-name}folder-path
incoming-folders=
# List of directories where saved-message folders may be. First one is
# the default for Saves. Example: Main {host1}mail/[], Desktop mail\[]
# Syntax: optnl-label {optnl-imap-hostname}optnl-directory-path[]
folder-collections=
# List, only needed if nntp-server not set, or news is on a different host
# than used for NNTP posting. Examples: News *[] or News *{host3/nntp}[]
# Syntax: optnl-label *{news-host/protocol}[]
news-collections=
# List of folder pairs; the first indicates a folder to archive, and the
# second indicates the folder read messages in the first should
# be moved to.
incoming-archive-folders=
# List of context and folder pairs, delimited by a space, to be offered for
# pruning each month. For example: {host1}mail/[] mumble
pruned-folders=
# Over-rides default path for sent-mail folder, e.g. =old-mail (using first
# folder collection dir) or ={host2}sent-mail or ="" (to suppress saving).
# Default: sent-mail (Unix) or SENTMAIL.MTX (PC) in default folder collection.
default-fcc=
# Over-rides default path for saved-msg folder, e.g. =saved-messages (using first
# folder collection dir) or ={host2}saved-mail or ="" (to suppress saving).
# Default: saved-messages (Unix) or SAVEMAIL.MTX (PC) in default folder collection.
default-saved-msg-folder=
# Over-rides default path for postponed messages folder, e.g. =pm (which uses
# first folder collection dir) or ={host4}pm (using home dir on host4).
# Default: postponed-msgs (Unix) or POSTPOND.MTX (PC) in default fldr coltn.
postponed-folder=
# If set, specifies where already-read messages will be moved upon quitting.
read-message-folder=
# If set, specifies where form letters should be stored.
form-letter-folder=
# Over-rides default path for signature file. Default is ~/.signature
signature-file=
---i think this should be enuff-
--
My dual-boot system
Works better than
my Z, and isn't as greasey.
Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 knows its name not
I believe that in order to run Netscape 6, you have to cd to the directory it is installed in and then type ./netscape. It is still in development, and I guess it needs to be run from its own directory. Don J. Vic wrote: I tried installing Netscape 6 and went straight back to Netscape 472 because when I would either click my netscape icon, or type netscape or-- /usr/local/package/(name of binary) or whatever the whole path was, it still did not know its own name. -- ** Signature: Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] PPP security (firewalls and such)??
Better be careful using BlackIce...some mention about snooping and e-mail problems...I got a message this am about this... Don vern wrote: Okay I'm just one guy with one computer and I like to surf and do email. Is there a way to monitor ports, and keep away evildoers? I'm used to Windoze programs like Black Ice, Zone Alarm and such. I would like to log port scans and such sniffer activity hitting my machine while online. I've read Network HOWTO's IPchains, and firewalling info's HOWTO's and man pages. I have no LAN, no separate 486 machine for a firewall. I've #'ed out all my services and disabled my "super server" (inetd) and tried to be as "security conscious" as I know how. There's a KDE program called kfirewall (front end for ipchains) but no docs, and as of this morning no website to get info on how to use it. What am I missing? I've looked into Ksnuffle but that seems a bit extreme for one machine and one very slow (24K) PPP dialup connection. Any help or ideas would be appreciated! Vern
Re: [newbie] PPP security (firewalls and such)??
This paste came directly from the message I received... Don... It seems there are Trojans in BlackIce. The jury is still out on what exactly is happening but from all appearances, the is a version that sends info to an email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hopper wrote: Can you elaborate on what you've heard? Regards, Nathan Hopper - Original Message - From: "Don Macy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] PPP security (firewalls and such)?? Better be careful using BlackIce...some mention about snooping and e-mail problems...I got a message this am about this....... Don vern wrote:
Re: [newbie] 2 Questions about install....
Anyone running a "newer" Gateway or Dell may have problems patitioning the h/d...They both have hidden partitions that contain the o/s. as far as I know there is no easy way around it...may have to check with the mfr. on this...I know for a fact that Dell uses hidden parts...(~500 meg) on their drives... Regards, Don Richard Bonebrake wrote: I ran into the same thing on mine. It was the size of my win98 partition. Set your first partition down to about 7.5 gigs and the others will install. You need to have your boot partition in the first 1023 cylinders, under 8 gigs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, First I'll state my current system configuration: Gateway 700MHz PIII, 192MB PC100, IBM DeskStar 27.4GB running on Promise PCI ATA/66 Controller Card, 32MB nVidia GeForce 256, Soundblaster Live! I am currently running into two problems during installation of Mandrake 7.0. The First: After partitioning my drive using Partition Magic to a 4.084GB partition for Linux, I try to install BootMagic. The intallation within Windows gives me an error message to the effect of: BootMagic Installation cannot complete because: 1. There is no FAT16 or FAT32 partition available under the 1024 cylinder or, 2. BootMagic is already installed on a hidden partition. Any ideas? The Second, more important problem: When running the DrakX installation utillity from CD-ROM I get to the drive mounting point, only to find that Linux is not recognizing my drive (I suspect this is because my hdd is running from the ATA/66 Controller) I have tried all the drivers listed and none of them will work. Also I found some instructions geared for Red Hat 6.1 where you enter "text" at the boot: prompt and make changes manually. Mandrake 7 gives me the message, unable to locate kernel image "text". Is anyone willing to give me detailed instructions on how to fix this? I have never even seen Linux running except for screenshots, so please explain in plain terms. Thanks very much! Steve Gillson "DJ Phrenzy"
Re: [newbie] kppp
I got timeouts also...until I put in the dns #'s...then everything is ok... Don Stan DeWitt wrote: Let me get in on this thread. I've been having the same problems as Rainer Lindenmaier (and many others). I have installed Linux Mandrake 7 on three PCs. I can't get KPPP to start on two of them (don't ask me why it works on one of my desktop PC's - an IBM Aptiva with 64MB of RAM and an AMD 300 MHz processor with an external modem). On a second desktop PC (Cyrix PR200 with 80 MB of RAM and both internal and external modems) the modems dial out, connect with the ISP's modem and then I get a message KPPP timed out. I get the same message on my Fujitsu C-4235 notebook (AMD K-2 450MHz 64 MB RAM, and an internal Linmodem that also dials out, connects and then kppp refuses to start. I've added the "noauth" line to the options file. I've even installed Kppprpm from a Red Hat 6.2 disk with no success. Does anyone else have any ideas? It is really frustrating having a Linux system which really depends on the Internet for the latest documentation and updates and not being able to connect to the Internet. - Stan DeWitt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Civileme Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 6:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] kppp Rainer Lindenmaier wrote: after made my settings in kppp on new installed LM 7.0 I get connection to my IPS (indicatet on the taskpanel) but then comes nothing more. Ping gets no answer. I tried all the tips inside kppp-handbook , howtos etc. without success. With LM 6.1 there wasn't any probleme. AMD K6 350Mc 64MB Modem: 3com Sportster Flash. Thanks for reply Rainer I am willing to bet that you set your security level high enough that kppp is requiring the remote server to authenticate itself As root edit /etc/ppp/options and add this line noauth and things should start working Civileme
Re: [Re: [newbie] 2 Questions about install....]
They store the restore/recovery info in the hidden parts...Dell says you can't change it... Jaguar wrote: Just out of curiosity...what is contained in these hidden partitions?? Jaguar Don Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone running a "newer" Gateway or Dell may have problems patitioning the h/d...They both have hidden partitions that contain the o/s. as far as I know there is no easy way around it...may have to check with the mfr. on this...I know for a fact that Dell uses hidden parts...(~500 meg) on their drives... Regards, Don Richard Bonebrake wrote: I ran into the same thing on mine. It was the size of my win98 partition. Set your first partition down to about 7.5 gigs and the others will install. You need to have your boot partition in the first 1023 cylinders, under 8 gigs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, First I'll state my current system configuration: Gateway 700MHz PIII, 192MB PC100, IBM DeskStar 27.4GB running on Promise PCI ATA/66 Controller Card, 32MB nVidia GeForce 256, Soundblaster Live! I am currently running into two problems during installation of Mandrake 7.0. The First: After partitioning my drive using Partition Magic to a 4.084GB partition for Linux, I try to install BootMagic. The intallation within Windows gives me an error message to the effect of: BootMagic Installation cannot complete because: 1. There is no FAT16 or FAT32 partition available under the 1024 cylinder or, 2. BootMagic is already installed on a hidden partition. Any ideas? The Second, more important problem: When running the DrakX installation utillity from CD-ROM I get to the drive mounting point, only to find that Linux is not recognizing my drive (I suspect this is because my hdd is running from the ATA/66 Controller) I have tried all the drivers listed and none of them will work. Also I found some instructions geared for Red Hat 6.1 where you enter "text" at the boot: prompt and make changes manually. Mandrake 7 gives me the message, unable to locate kernel image "text". Is anyone willing to give me detailed instructions on how to fix this? I have never even seen Linux running except for screenshots, so please explain in plain terms. Thanks very much! Steve Gillson "DJ Phrenzy" The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Problems with IWheel
Dropping in on this thread, as I have never been able to get imwheel to work, either. I don't have a /home/user directory. Should I create one? Where is my autostart folder supposed to be located? Thanks! Don J. Michael Holt wrote: You need to add these lines to your /etc/X11/XF86Config file under the pointer section: Buttons 3 ZAxisMapping4 5 Then comment out (with the # symbol) the lines: Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout Next, drop a copy of /etc/X11/imwheelrc into your /home/user directory and put a copy of /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel into your autostart folder and use the -k option. i.e. 'imwheel -k' Mike Hawk82 wrote: I downloaded IWheel from the Mandrake ftps and installed it. It is a rpm, so I figured that is all I had to do. It does not work. I can't scroll though web pages. Thanks for the help. Josh -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
[newbie] DOS naming vs Linux recognition
I have a question regarding the DOS convention of naming files with spaces, such as C:\Program Files. When I use a program like Wine, Linux can't follow a path that includes spaces, so I'm wondering if there is a way to write the file names so Linux can recognize them, or do I have to copy the programs to folders and give them names that don't include spaces? Thanks! Don J. -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] MS Word
Star Office from Sun will read Word documents. I use it for that reason. Hint, though, don't save the word docs as rtf, but as .docs, as it works better. Star Office is a huge download, but it is free. Don J. Martin Solms wrote: I am looking for software that can open Word documents - I don't want to keep rebooting to read my bosses documents!! Thanks Martin -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
[newbie] How do I mount an IDE Tape drive?
Hi All, I am running Mandrake Air 7.0 on an AMD 233 Mhz system using 96 megs of ram. The install went well, and it saw all my DOS partitions for Windoze and listed them on the desktop, along with the floppy and CDROM drives. However, there is no entry in fstab for my IDE-ATAPI AIWA tape drive. Lothar minimally sees it as /dev/hdd (2nd device on the secondary IDE channel). I've tried manually installing it through linuxconf applet but I'm either not doing it right, or don't have all the params correct. I can't get Linux to recognize or initialize the drive. Any help on this would be appreciated. It's my intent to use the tape drive for backups. The drive works flawlessly on the Windoze side. Regards, Don --- "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson
Re: [newbie] How do I mount an IDE Tape drive?
At 01:33 PM 3/27/00 -0800, Sevatio Octavio wrote: You don't have to mount an IDE tape drive. As long as your system recognizes the tape drive you can just run taper -T ide. Ok, that worked and it recognized the tape drive. Is there any better tape backup software for Linux? Taper crapped out on me several times on a small backup. I tried setting the preferences, but found it difficult at best, to ascertain which were the default values and which were the altered values. It does not provide a whole lot of useful information on which column is which, ie. which are the default and which are the altered, when you use the cursor keys to highlight a column. Hitting the left/right cursor keys only does a screen anomaly which throws characters out of the field, at least on _my_ system (Kde desktop, 800 x 600) For example - Have fast fsf - no yes Can seek - no yes Can fsr - no yes After an error-ridden attempt at a backup supposedly succeeded, the restore module would not identify the backup as a taper archive. Any suggestions on better tape backup software that anyone else is using? Regards and thanks, Don --- Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson
[newbie] mail problems
Greetings! I am new to the list, but not as new to Linux. I just installed Mandrake 7.0, which I am liking extremely well. I have been working with getting the console based mail system to operate so I can conserve resources, etc., but I am experiencing some sort of disconnect that I haven't been able to sort out yet. I intend to use either Mutt or Pine, preferrably the former. Mutt is installed and working, and it will send messages out, which suggests that Sendmail is also working at least in part. I can send messages out to myself at my ISP or Excite. I can also use fetchmail to retrieve the messages from my ISP, and I see them all coming in and registering on the console, but then there is the disconnect. I understand that Fetchmail is supposed to hand the messages off to either Procmail or Sendmail for delivery to my system mailbox. I have installed the latest Procmail and made .procmailrc and .forward files, but apparently nothing is happening. I get an error message when I open either Pine or Mutt to the effect that /var/spool/mail/$USER doesn't exist, which suggests that Procmail/Sendmail hasn't functioned correctly to create the mailbox. So, I see the messages coming down from the ISP server, but they disappear into the ether, I guess. Does anyone have any insight? Is there something specific to Mandrake that would bear on this? Does Mandrake 7.0 have default mail programs it uses? Thanks! Don J. Do good stuff! ___ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp
[newbie] mail problems
Greetings! I am new to the list, but not as new to Linux. I just installed Mandrake 7.0, which I am liking extremely well. I have been working with getting the console based mail system to operate so I can conserve resources, etc., but I am experiencing some sort of disconnect that I haven't been able to sort out yet. I intend to use either Mutt or Pine, preferrably the former. Mutt is installed and working, and it will send messages out, which suggests that Sendmail is also working at least in part. I can send messages out to myself at my ISP or Excite. I can also use fetchmail to retrieve the messages from my ISP, and I see them all coming in and registering on the console, but then there is the disconnect. I understand that Fetchmail is supposed to hand the messages off to either Procmail or Sendmail for delivery to my system mailbox. I have installed the latest Procmail and made .procmailrc and .forward files, but apparently nothing is happening. I get an error message when I open either Pine or Mutt to the effect that /var/spool/mail/$USER doesn't exist, which suggests that Procmail/Sendmail hasn't functioned correctly to create the mailbox. So, I see the messages coming down from the ISP server, but they disappear into the ether, I guess. Does anyone have any insight? Is there something specific to Mandrake that would bear on this? Does Mandrake 7.0 have default mail programs it uses? Thanks! Don J. Do good stuff! ___ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp
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[newbie] vanishing applications
I don't know if this is something I can do anything about, but I have noticed in more than one distrubution of Linux, including Mandrake 7.0 that when it gets, perhaps, overtaxed by too many things open or too many things happening at once, rather than freezing itself up, it just makes the offending applications go away. For example, if I click too many links too fast in Netscape, rather than freezing everything up like Winbloze used to do, Netscape will just close spontaneously. The same with some other apps. Maybe that's preferable, but when one is in the middle of a large download, it's a pain to start it all over. In that vein, is there anything that will save and resume a download in Linux? Is there any kind of keep alive program that will emulate activity to circumvent the ISP's inactive time limits while downloading? Just some questions. It may have more to do with the fact that I get excited about sixteen or more virtual workspaces and I get things going in a lot of them. Thanks! Don J. Do good stuff! I drive a '73 240Z With dual carbs, A dual boot system And a 30-inch bodhran-- If I can only remember which to flog And which to coax! __ Get Visto.com! Private groups, event calendars, email, and much more. Visto.com. Life on the Dot. Check it out @ http://www.visto.com/info
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RE: [newbie] Mandrake-7.0 problems
I don't have an answer for #2 but for #1, if Linux is like HP-UX UNIX, look in /etc/inittab; look for entries that are set to respawn. I don't know what your background is in UNIX, mine is good but not great. The inittab entry for getty: respawn is why a process you kill automatically restarts. Also look in /etc/inetd.conf for respawn configs. -- From: Andrea Celli[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake-7.0 problems Hi, I've just upgraded my Mandrake-6.1 to Mdk-7.0. It seems very good (installation, configuration tools, automount, ...) but I've two little troubles: 1) It's very loud. If I start kde+netscape it uses all RAM (160MB) and every new application is very slow. I checked ktop and I find six (6) processes mgetty working. I tried to kill them but they restart at once. Why? Who starts them? I tried to find it with 'grep mgetty `find /etc -print`' but i didn't find anything. 2) In 6.1 i was using my tv-card using bttv (launching the bttv-script "upgrade" and kwintv ). Now kudzu has been able to recognize the card but, if I launch "upgrade", it says "the kernel is not modular" and stops. Can I see Tv without compiling the kernel? bye, Andrea
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
Ken Wilson wrote: There will never be an MS IE for Linux. Find out what whoever is telling you that is smoking. I want some. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donny Sent: November 23, 1999 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] MSIE when? Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. it was sumone on this list who said that a while back, but i cant remember who. In many respects linux is better, but so is windows. for instance games. but once linux widens out more to consumers rather that the tech elite (which its now doing) itll give MS a better run for its money.
Re: [newbie] eth0
Ok, thanx. Im just on a home lan so using static is no prob. How to i go back to configure my network settings? Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Donny wrote: Hey everyone. When booting, it takes FOREVER to start interface eth0. dhcp sucks in general, use static if posible. Ok i know thats not practical for everybody, try setting the BOOTPROTO to pump and see if you get a fast response. Theres not much tobe done about this. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [[newbie] hp 722c in 6.1 and howto start oss at boot time]
The hp 722c is a winprinter. It needs windows to work. There is a program out there that works with ghostscript called ppa. You can find it at www.httptech.com.ppa .It only works with black and white. Your best bet probably is to buy a new printer if you want color. D Brandon Somogie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 722c: NEED HELP! My hp 722c doesn't work at all with any of the drivers in printtool. I NEED to use my printer (preferably in color). Help is appreciated. oss: I'd like to start oss at boot time so I won't have to log in as root and do a soundon then log out for other users to have sound. I wouldn't use oss, but I have to (Vortex card) or buy another card. Help is appreciated. (I hope this is an appropriate question for this mailing list, if not tell me where it should go.) __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] update problelms?
I just tried to update for the first time. I am running mandrake 6.0. I selected all updates which was quite a lot. It took about one and a half hours to download. Then when it was installing I got an error (do not remember exact message) and was asked to either force or quit so I forced. I then got about 7 errors stating that I had conflicting files and it I believe asked me to continue. After that everything was gone. Nothing got installed. Where did I go wrong. Is it there somewhere that I can try to reinstall? Is there an easier way to do this?Thanks Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] tnt nvidia 32mg?
I am trying to install Mandrake 6.0 on my brothers machine. He has the tnt nvidia 32mg video card. During install linux recognized the video card but had problems with the ram. The probe did not work. It said unable to detect ram. It kept wanting us to retry. Is there any way to get it to work with the card? Has anyone had luck with this card? Thanks D Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] tnt nvidia 32mg?]
Already tried not to probe and checked the 8mb or more selection but still had problems. Has anyone else got the tnt nvidia to work with mandrake 6.0 Thanks D John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am trying to install Mandrake 6.0 on my brothers machine. He has the tnt nvidia 32mg video card. During install linux recognized the video card but had problems with the ram. The probe did not work. It said unable to detect ram. It kept wanting us to retry. Is there any way to get it to work with the card? Has anyone had luck with this card? Sure..don't probe. Just tell it how much RAM there is on the card. :-) That's all you should have to do. I believe if you tell the X setup program NOT to probe, it'll ask how much RAM you have. John Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] 100dpi
Wassup ernest?Your at least half-way cool out of everyone on dis list. I was just EXTREMELY pissed off when i read the response for my question. I came expecting Linux to be the "help everyone out" type of people, but obviously i was wrong. I apologize to u and everyone else who got offended by my messeges... however, i WILL NOT apologize for the gay faggots (excuse me) who were involved. Maby if you people are gonna get so anoyed with giving people the same answer, maby you shuldnt be in a list for linux NEWBIES! Doesnt anyone else here agree wit me? L8r, Bababueee "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: This is to make it absolutely clear that HTML is not appreciated in email lists, and that it is considered bad net ettiquet in all such lists as well as in newsgroups! Often, those of us who attempt to use this list, grow tired of repeatedly making the same request, and our patience wears thin. Although it may not be your fault, you unfortunately, have the honor of being the recipient of our frustration. Your highly intelectual responce does nothing to improve the situation. As a result, when people on this list see your ID in the future, they will likely delete the request for assistance, rather than provide an answer. This is unfortunate, but it is human nature. So with your childish retort, you have made yourself the loser in the end. What a shame Ernie On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Donny wrote: wat da hell. This faggot dont even ask me to stop using HTML, he makes a friggin sarcastic remark. So im not apologizing for jack crap. U dont like it? tough. And if u dont like HTML mail... at least ~ask~ for me to turn it off. Hay, heres a nice HTML hyperlink for yall. www.F-OFF.com Theres your apology. - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 100dpi Don wrote: Sorri u dont like my HTML. Too bad. Apologize. Please. I almost feel upset that I posted an answer for your question after your crappy attitude in this reply. Ken Wilson wrote: Yup, it sure does. So does HTML in your postings. I was wondering how to enable Linux to use 100 dpi fonts and my windows TT fonts. Netscape looks terrible! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 100dpi
OK THIS IS IN ANSWER TO ALL UR FAGGOTS POSTS! Oooo i've really learned a lesson! Yeah rick, u really turned my life around. No i'm not 13-14 and u can take ur nettiquet and screw it. Steve, I ALREADY HAVE A HIGH PAYING JOB! A network engineer. (not the MOST high-paying). I was just learning linix on the side. And oh, u dont think I'll get help from you guys? Your wrong... I create a new email address and you homo's will STILL be helping me! I shall continue to use all of you to my own personal gain untill I am the master of your crappy operating system Linux. I shall be hearing from all of you shortly! So now, ALL of you can take dat cookie and stick it up yo... yeah. Oh yeah, heres another HTML link for ya, www.youallblow.com . To all da kool Linux peepz out there that HELP each other, peace out. To the rest of you... SUCK IT! Steve Philp wrote: Donny wrote: [BIG SNIP] Theres your apology. I truly hope that you find yourself in a good paying job, because it's going to be expensive buying book after book to learn Linux. Your behavior in the last two messages you've posted to this list have pretty much guaranteed that you won't easily find help from the subscribers to this mailing list. There's not alot that these people can do to punish you, but ignoring you will feel pretty good. Don wrote: Sorri u dont like my HTML. Too bad. Apologize. Please. I almost feel upset that I posted an answer for your question after your crappy attitude in this reply. Ken Wilson wrote: Yup, it sure does. So does HTML in your postings. I was wondering how to enable Linux to use 100 dpi fonts and my windows TT fonts. Netscape looks terrible! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 100dpi
AND WHERE THE HELL IS KEN WILSON? HE STARTES ALL THIS "RUDE" B.S. Steve Philp wrote: Donny wrote: [BIG SNIP] Theres your apology. I truly hope that you find yourself in a good paying job, because it's going to be expensive buying book after book to learn Linux. Your behavior in the last two messages you've posted to this list have pretty much guaranteed that you won't easily find help from the subscribers to this mailing list. There's not alot that these people can do to punish you, but ignoring you will feel pretty good. Don wrote: Sorri u dont like my HTML. Too bad. Apologize. Please. I almost feel upset that I posted an answer for your question after your crappy attitude in this reply. Ken Wilson wrote: Yup, it sure does. So does HTML in your postings. I was wondering how to enable Linux to use 100 dpi fonts and my windows TT fonts. Netscape looks terrible! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 100dpi
Sorri u dont like my HTML. Too bad. Ken Wilson wrote: Yup, it sure does. So does HTML in your postings.Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donny Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 100dpi I was wondering how to enable Linux to use 100 dpi fonts and my windows TT fonts. Netscape looks terrible!
Re: [newbie] 100dpi
Sorri u dont like my HTML. Too bad. Ken Wilson wrote: Yup, it sure does. So does HTML in your postings. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donny Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 100dpi I was wondering how to enable Linux to use 100 dpi fonts and my windows TT fonts. Netscape looks terrible!
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
In reply to sean's resopnse: Hay man, Although linux is great, it still wont take down MS for many years to come. I dont think one OS os better than the other. I use each for different things... Linux is great to compete with MS, and give people a choice. But were still gonna have to live with both OS's and co-exist for a LONG LONG time. I dont think linux will or shuld take over the OS market. People must have choices. If they like Windowz, fine... linux, Be, whatever. I jus think the OS's shuld co-exist, so the user of one OS wont loose out on the features another one provides. Theres my feeling on the matter :-) Sean Pritchard wrote: Wait a minute Fellow Newbies! I thought that one reason we started converting to Linux was to break away from MS systems and Apps? If we start putting in requests for MS Apps, MS will bungle up the beauty of this OS and it's community. I am not a purist, but in look at it this way. If I own a Dodge Ram, I don't want Ford redesigning and building accessories for my truck, nor do I want them to do any maintenance on it. But, third party mechanics can take a look, and do service on it if they are qualified and respect my property. They'll have warrantee liscensing to be qualified, to ensure the customer satisfaction and protection. MS was to OS's and computers as Henry Ford was to cars. Big Bad Bill setup the mass production and implementation but Ford does not have the most dependable vehicles, nor were they the inventors - BENZ has a product that is fast and decades durable and dependable and the engineering is out reach for Ford to impliment in there vehicles. There were hybrid vehicle corporations out there that died - AMC=Ford+GMC, they couldn't even take the best of both to do it. So CHRYSLER had a mind to buy it up and revamp it. They had the brains for marketing and technology to do it. DOes Linux have the edge to do something like this to MS?, we'll only see in the decade ahead. Sorry for the deep philosophy... Regards, Sean David van Balen wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Donny wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? I believe the only versions of Unix supported by IE are HP-UX and Solaris. I very much doubt that MS has any plans to port their product to Linux for obvious reasons... then again, I may be wrong :) Neither of the above versions should work with Linux as far as I know. Thanks! David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Internet Problems-can't locate server
I think I did something while being root. I was in linuxconf just exploring not doing anything. I believe the only thing I did was in the status of system menu. I believe I activated the changes. I did not look at the changes before. I didn't use linux for a day or two. When I came back I could not pull up Internet sites. I can log onto my ISP but I can not send or receive e-mail and I can not pull up Internet sites. I get two error messages. One says "unable to locate server". The other says "Warning the following hosts are unknown, Problem with nameserver". Of coarse I would appreciate any help. Thanks Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] /etc/resolv.conf is missing]
Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:br I recently had a melt down. I messed around with the monitor settings. When Ibr rebooted everything was messed up. So I re-installed. Now I can only connectbr to the web as root. When I am a normal user I get an error message when Ibr start kppp. It says /etc/resolv.conf is missing and to create a non-empty filebr with appropriate read and write permissions. So if there is anyone out therebr that could lend me a hand I would certainly appreciate it.DonbrbrLog in as root, the go to the /etc dir on your system. Right click thebrresolve.conf file, and go to properties. Then go to the permissions tab andbrclick the groups and others buttons. This will make the file available tobrother users, not just root.brHTHbrbr--brBest Regards,brPaul Hendrickbrhttp://www.btinternet.com/~engprin1/linux.htmbr Thanks for your help Paul but I am having problems with your suggestions. I went to the disk navigator in my root account but I could not right click on /etc/resolve.conf. I pulled it up as a file and could do nothing with it. I then tried to find it through the shell. It was not listed in the etc directory and I could not right click anything anyway to get properties. Could you give me a litle more help? Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] /etc/resolv.conf is missing]
Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:br I recently had a melt down. I messed around with the monitor settings. When Ibr rebooted everything was messed up. So I re-installed. Now I can only connectbr to the web as root. When I am a normal user I get an error message when Ibr start kppp. It says /etc/resolv.conf is missing and to create a non-empty filebr with appropriate read and write permissions. So if there is anyone out therebr that could lend me a hand I would certainly appreciate it.DonbrbrLog in as root, the go to the /etc dir on your system. Right click thebrresolve.conf file, and go to properties. Then go to the permissions tab andbrclick the groups and others buttons. This will make the file available tobrother users, not just root.brHTHbrbr--brBest Regards,brPaul Hendrickbrhttp://www.btinternet.com/~engprin1/linux.htmbr Paul disregard my first response I figured it out. Had to use kfm then right click. It worked so thanks alot. Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] PPA?
I unfortunately have a HP 722c printer. I am trying to install ppa. I downloaded ppa to my home directory, extracted the archive, changed directories, and compiled the program (to the best of my knowledge). There are still some files I need to add. I have some questions though. It said to copy the file to the /usr/local/src directory before all that was done. I have tried several things; /home/Don/ppa.0.8.6.tar.gz cp /usr/local/src , I have cd directories to /usr/local then typed cp ppa-0.8.6.tar.gz and a whole host of other things and ways with no success. So if there is anyone out there who has successfully installed ppa I would appreciate some help. Also how does it work. Do you have to issue a print command from the konsole? Can you use the print command from the pull down menu? How does Ghostscript come into play? Could I just leave it in my /home/Don directory? And finally what files do I need to add and more importantly how. As you can see I am very confused so any help would be greatly appreciated. ThanksDon Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] PPA?]
Steve Spiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Whitman wrote: I unfortunately have a HP 722c printer. I am trying to install ppa. I downloaded ppa to my home directory, extracted the archive, changed directories, and compiled the program (to the best of my knowledge). There are still some files I need to add. I have some questions though. It said to copy the file to the /usr/local/src directory before all that was done. I have tried several things; /home/Don/ppa.0.8.6.tar.gz cp /usr/local/src , snip I may be wrong here (I'm a relative newbie) but shouldn't that be: cp /home/Don/ppa.0.8.6.tar.gz /usr/local/src I have tried that among other things. I got no such file or directory. Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
