Re: [newbie] 56k modem
I see your modem and your video and share an IRQ, (11) have you considered that might be the problem? are you installing these modems in the same PCI slot? I have a usr 5610 model modem, and it requires an added init string of ATS32=66, you might try looking at the USrobitics website and see if there are any strings required for your particular 5610 modem (mine is a 5610b external) Also, this type of problem may mot be the modem, but related to your ISP. Is this a dual boot computer? is it set with plug and pray aware OS set to off or no in the BIOS? if it is dual boot, have you tried the winders side to see if the problem is the same? using the same wire from the jack as the older box with an ISA modem? have you considered to take the ISA modem out and try it in the new box? does the new box have an ISA slot? I seem to remember a problem like this for some USR modems, and it required a reset of the modem after about an hour or so. I think USR had some drivers update for windows that cured it once the new drivers were run once, seems they either changed some internal setting on the modems firmware, or provided the correct init string and then that was copied into the linux KPPP setup. Might even be a bum modem, or need to be reset into the PCI slots On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:42 am, Anonymous wrote: This is information about the PCI internal hardware modem that works sporadically on a newer machine (even as the ISA modem that's in an older machine stays online with little problem -- on the same phone line). Someone suggested that I change the init string from ATZ to AT F C1 D2 E1 Q0 V1. I did, and the symtom remains...I was online for an hour and 30 minutes, when suddenly I could no longer surf the net (although kppp indicated that the modem was still connected...and I could see graphed details. It is not clear to me how I'm supposed to access relevant troubleshooting logs, which is what has also been suggested. Any assistance appreciated of course ... BTW ( FWIW) The modem in question spat this out when kppp queried it: 5601 10AC U.S. Robotics 56K FAX INT V5.20.4 U.S. Robotics 56K FAX NT Settings... B0 E0 F1 L2 M1 Q1 V1 X4 Y0 BAUD=57600 PARITY=N WORDLEN=8 DIAL=TONEON HOOK CID=0 A3 B1 C1 D2 G0 H1 I0 K1 M4 N0 P0 R2 S0 T5 U0 Y1 S00=000 Template Y1 DIAL=TONE B0 E1 F1 L2 M1 Q0 V1 X4 BAUD=115200 PARITY=N WORDLEN=8 A3 B1 C1 D2 G0 H2 I2 K1 M4 N0 P0 R1 S0 T5 U0 Y1 S00=000 S02=043 S03=013 S04=010 S05=008 S06=002 S07= Caller ID, Distinctive Ring Clock To answer someone's questioion: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rita]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 667931 XT-PIC timer 1:953 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci, usb-ohci 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 3019 XT-PIC CMI8738 11: 230809 XT-PIC serial 12: 76801 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 13918 XT-PIC ide0 15: 8 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 667895 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] rita]# cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 33). Master Capable. Latency=32. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec00 [0xefff]. Bus 0, device 0, function 1: IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 208). Master Capable. Latency=16. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd80f]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 0). Bus 0, device 1, function 1: Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 131). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xeb80 [0xeb800fff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 2: USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 7). IRQ 3. Master Capable. Latency=32. Max Lat=80. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xeb00 [0xeb000fff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 3: USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2) (rev 7). IRQ 3. Master Capable. Latency=32. Max Lat=80. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea80 [0xea800fff]. Bus 0, device 2, function 0: PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=8. Bus 0, device 5, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 16). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24. I/O at 0x9800 [0x98ff]. Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Re: [newbie] Modem hanging on connection
On Friday 21 March 2003 09:11 am, Chris wrote: Hi All, I have recently joined the many fleeing from M$ to Linux and have chosen Mandrake 9.0 to try out. The install was simple and flawless and similar success to working my way around the desktop etc... I have come unstuck however on connecting to my local isp . The computer in question is the server ( for want of a better word ) for my home lan and also the only one with a modem attached to it ( Maestro Woomera 56k ext ) The lan works fine with me being able to ping the other comps at home , the internet dial up seems to be more confusing than what I thought it should have been. I started with the Connect to Internet section in the What i want to do and it brought up the kppp interface ... I was feeling pretty confident to getting this going as I had watched a mate set up his dial up with RedHat 7.3 ...Easy ;-) After entering what i thought would be the relevant information the modem dials , connects and hangs... ( Not hangup - but hangs ) I can't access mail , web services or the like Was there anything amazingly simple I missed ...( Hangs head ) Any guidance in the right direction would be a great help.Thanks Chris what does cat /etc/hosts and cat /etc/resolv.conf say -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:51 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 12:49 AM 3/22/03, David E. Fox wrote: That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to=20 become root and change the permissions by issuing the=20 command : chmod 777 * . That's because FAT32 doesn't implement permissions the same way - so a chmod wouldn't have any effect, and the permissions only reflect how the device was originally mounted. FAT32 in and of itself doesn't have permissions - at least they aren't built into the filesystem in the same way that Linux and other Unix systems do (at the inode level). Nevertheless, it is possible - even with Windows 95 to set up private and public spaces (aka drives). I've seen it done when I used to work at the local Census office here. We had a network of some 20-odd PCs all running Windows 95 - and a big server running NT. Of course, all this smoke and mirrors we had set up probably was courtesy of NT and Novell and not 95 specifically. But we were able to login at any workstation and attach our private drive or store files in a public area. I wasn't involved in IT there so I don't really know how it was done -- but Im sure it would have been easier to do it in Unix :). Kaj Haulrich. NT doesn't use FAT32 - it uses NTFS - which does support security at node level. yes, but this person does not have windows at all, they have a fat partition as a means of saving and sharing public files. thanks for the info tho. BTW (NT can use fat, it is a choice you make at partition/install time) -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux
On Friday 21 March 2003 05:08 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today. But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or form. Only Mandrake 9.0. Well, a modification is needed here : My box is set up with 4 users : My ever-beloved wife, my two daughters and the man himself. (Our two cats use it as well, but only because it's a nice, warm place to take a nap). We respect each others privacy. Accordingly the security-level is set to *high*. We can't peep into each others stuff. Fine. But we have a lot in common. We have various family-related stuff, letters, and the family photo-album. Now, the last time the *sysadmin* (me) installed Mandrake he wanted to show off : creating a *common* partition on the 80 GB drive. In fact, besides the usual / , swap and /home partitions - all ReiserFS - he created a fourth : a FAT32 partition (/dev/hda4). The reason for FAT32 (VFAT) was simple : a Windows-FS. No permission issues, no security at all, free access to everyone, everything in public, belly-up. Surprise, surprise. Initially everything was perfect, but after a few weeks the FAT32 partition seems to close its *Gates*. - Normally it would have *dwrxrwxrwx* permissions, meaning that it was showing off nude in public. But maybe it's getting shy : now the permission are *dwrxr-xr-x*, meaning that only root (me again) can write to it. That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to become root and change the permissions by issuing the command : chmod 777 * . Guess what ? : No effect at all ! Then : chmod u+w * .. : Operation not permitted And so on and so forth. Conclusion : Bill Gates finally found a way to defeat even a linux - ROOT. At least on my box. Kaj Haulrich. were you changing permissions on the fils? try changing the mount points (ie. chmod 777 /mnt/fatpartitionnamegoeshere -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:10 am, Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and they had a huge linux article comparing all the major distros for desktop use... They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but ahead of SUSE and all the others) Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release that I have failed to read?? I hope like hell I don't have to go elsewhere, but if I do, it might as well be sooner rather then later Any info would be much appreciated. rgds Franki Now, when did you start believing anyone that rates lindows as better than MDK? -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
On Thursday 20 March 2003 06:34 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday March 20 2003 04:33 pm, robin wrote: By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Xtra Proprietary XPectorate as in to spit -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New installation
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 11:48 am, Albert Charron wrote: I'd like to have your advice on a new installation. For this installation, I plan to use 3 hard disk (IDE). This machine will be use as a file server for my Windoze machines. Additionnal services will be CVS, HTTP, MySQL 3 HD are: - 40Gigs - 10Gigs - 4Gigs How should I partition (partition size, location, etc.) these HD? Distro I plan to use is Mandrake 9.0. System memory for this machine is 384 Megs. Albert Charron need more info, how many users? how many http requests, how many web pages? and of course you know you can use logical volum mangers to create 1 virtual hard drive out of two or more physical hard drives, if you want or need to have say a 50 gig partititon for your files. -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 56k modem
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:53 am, Anonymous wrote: I've reinstalled mandrake 9, and now the modem works; however, the symptom (being able to surf for awhile, then for some odd reason not) remains. This happened with Redhat 8 as well ... I'm testing an old machine with Mandrake 9 -- it has an ISA internal 56k modem, and DOES NOT have that symptom...I'm using the 2 machines simultaneously (2 different phone lines, same outlet) ... I also bought and tested another modem, and the symptom began immediately when I connected. Mandrake 9 must not like PCI modems? Or what do you think? BTW, both modems are HARDWARE modems. What are the troubleshooting steps I need to take (if there are any, please be specific rather than general about how to do these tests. I'm very much a newbie). Rita __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- Linux counter number 167806 as root, in a text term, without the quotes cat /proc/interrupts cat /proc/pci if you need help figuring out what it means, post it to the list, adn let us tease you about what a cheep computer you have,,, (just joking about the teasing, a bunch of us have just fine old computers) ET Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] thought this might interest some folks Fwd: Linux
I know it ain't about Mandrake, but it is about linux -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Linux Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:48:38 -0500 From: george e featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Infrastructure to Provide America's Three Million Truckers Nationwide Truck Stop Wireless Internet Access 17 Mar 2003, 3:53pm ET E-mail or Print this story - - - - - 1,000 Truck Stops to Be Transformed to Offer Transportation Industry e-Business on Demand IBM and Rocksteady Networks today announced that the companies will provide the infrastructure for Columbia Advanced Wireless (CAW) to offer high speed wireless Internet access at more than 1,000 truck stops throughout the country. The new solution will enable trucking enterprises to gain access to critical information by extending an e-business through this new wireless e- solution. Rocksteady software loaded on IBM's Intel-based servers running Linux will enable the nation's truckers to connect to the Internet through 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN'S) deployed by Columbia Advanced Wireless. The new solution follows IBM's recent announcement that the company joined Intel and ATT to form a new company called Cometa Networks to roll out a ubiquitous nationwide network of public wireless LANs. According to studies by CAW, more than 25 percent of the three million truck drivers in the U.S. carry laptops. [1] The benefits of Internet access to truck drivers are numerous including the ability for drivers to quickly locate and negotiate loads, to transact banking, to maintain contact with their business partners and employers, and to track weather and road conditions. CAW will deploy 802.11b or Wi-Fi hotspots at selected truck stops and offer prepaid access cards that act like prepaid calling cards. When accessing the Wireless Local Area Networks at the truck stop drivers can access the Internet using wirelessly enabled laptop computers and are prompted to enter an account number from the prepaid access cards. This new service is designed to increase the driver's success in a highly competitive industry. For security and optimum performance CAW will deploy the Rocksteady NSA Network Sharing Application and IBM eServer xSeries systems running Linux as the platform for the new Internet access points. Rocksteady NSA selectively determines whether the truck driver can enter the network and dynamically manages their Internet session based on their credentials. Additional capabilities, such as dynamic bandwidth shaping and metering, help provide a high level of network performance by allocating and prioritizing bandwidth usage in real time on a user-by-user basis. Trucking enterprises can help maximize the return on their IT investment by utilizing an on demand operating environment through this secure, reliable and scalable end-to-end mobility solution, said Rich Michos, VP Linux Servers, IBM. Accessing backend applications and data running Rocksteady Network software on Linux and IBM Intel-based servers, the new solution will help streamline the efficiency of the trucking industry's business processes enabling truckers to do more business from the road. We wanted truck drivers to be able to enter a truck stop, and purchase a prepaid card to gain access to the network, much like a pre-paid phone card, said William Read, CEO, Columbia Advanced Wireless. We require virtually 100% uptime, and since we don't maintain an IT staff at the locations, we need a highly reliable solution. We tried other solutions that simply were not up to the task of performing reliably in a hostile environment. Fortunately, we have found the integration of the IBM xSeries systems and Rocksteady's Network Sharing Application meets our reliability requirements and provides us the ability to rapidly deploy and easily manage our platforms. With our expanding relationship with IBM, we can provide cost-effective solutions that will span 1,000 truck stops within four time zones, said Kerry Grimes, president and CEO, Rocksteady Networks. CAW wanted a product that was easy to install and maintain but powerful enough to handle high-volume Internet access with maximum quality of service. With IBM's hardware and our software, we were able to provide those services without requiring IT managers to be onsite, which has the ability to save CAW thousands of dollars in costs each month. About CAW, Inc. Columbia Advanced Wireless, Inc. (CAW) is in the business of marketing and deploying 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN's) to the truck stop industry. The applied technology allows end users to access the Internet remotely within a controlled area. The benefits of CAW's service allows end users to connect to the Internet anywhere at a truck stop without the limitations of wired telephone ports or other wired business solutions typically provided by truck stops. Wired service providers are limited in the number of ports available to the end user and typically
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Monday 17 March 2003 10:14 pm, Todd Slater wrote: Using cdrdao, with the --eject flag, sometimes after burning the green light on the cd burner flashes, but I am unable to eject it. But sometimes it does eject. This is annoying because right now the only way I know to get the CD out is to reboot :(. The burner is an HP CD-Writer Plus. Todd have you tried eject /mnt/cdrom or whereever the cdrom is mounted, and at the time, do you have any file manager windows open? -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 01:22 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot Winblows don't support any Linux file system. So put Winblows partitions first because it will stop reading the partition table when it encounter the first partition it doesn't understand. Both of these statements are untrue for Win2k/XP. I read somewhere (sorry, don't remember where - I'm pretty sure it was on the ext2 project page) that there is an apparently fairly stable filesystem driver for Win2k/XP that allows it to use ext2 filesystems. And I run Win2k, and it has no trouble just skipping partitions it doesn't recognize and continuing on with ones beyond that. I KNOW that there are 3rd party utilities to allow win2k/xp to use EXT2 filesystems, but I would not trust them as much as I trust linus on any filesystem, and sure would HATE to loose important data just cause I wanted to try stuff out that said NTFS file systems can sit anywhere on the disk, as long as a valid MS/WIN filesystem is on the first logical partiton of the first IDE channel hard drive master. if you format the disk for linux only, and go to install win2k later, you will have problems, unless you left at least 10 megs as a dos partion in the begining. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 07:35 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:20, et wrote: I KNOW that there are 3rd party utilities to allow win2k/xp to use EXT2 filesystems, but I would not trust them as much as I trust linus on any filesystem, and sure would HATE to loose important data just cause I wanted to try stuff out that said NTFS file systems can sit anywhere on the disk, as long as a valid MS/WIN filesystem is on the first logical partiton of the first IDE channel hard drive master. if you format the disk for linux only, and go to install win2k later, you will have problems, unless you left at least 10 megs as a dos partion in the begining. I going to snip part of Civileme post on January 27: Now this is where Windows has been programmed to fail. As soon as it sees a non-windows type in the extensions, it stops traversing the chain, and will miss any windows partitions logically beyond that. Windows XP home edition also messes with this table in unpredictable ways, often trying to make the LAST extended partition (if not a Windows type) into a primary, so that it is COMPLETELY UNSAFE to install XP after linux. It is possible to recover the problem once you can analyze it with the rescue CD, but definitely neither for the faint of heart or the newbie. So prior to XP, windows misses any partitions that numerically follow linux partitons, and beginning with XP it sabotages the partition table to make linux unbootable, I just took for granted what he said. this is correct, however I believe Civileme is refering to the boot-up record, not the ability to see and read files. I have WINme, Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2K installed all over my drives here is what # df says; Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on dev/hda7 7439692 4005108 3056660 57% / /dev/hdc5 5067904 2916396 2151508 58% /home /dev/hda4 4433936 2420300 2013636 55% /mnt/nt /dev/scd1 664392664392 0 100% /mnt/scd1 /dev/hda1 28918880 19773728 9145152 69% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdc6 4858156 2261060 2597096 47% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hda6 9010880 1393096 7617784 16% /mnt/win_d /dev/hda8 2891540305228 2586312 11% /var so you can see that on my hdc while hdc5 is /home hdc6 s a fat win partiton that both OSs have no problem seeing and using. something I just noticed is that while on the graphic for diskdrake it looks like (all on one line) -[hda1/winME]-[hda5/linux swap]-[hda7/linux /] - [hda6/fat winD] - [hda8 /var] - [4gigs empty] - [hda4 /winNT] - so maybe there is something I did that I am not aware of that keeps MS thinking the hda4 partion is the last partiton on this drive and hda/5,6,7,8 are in the middle of the drive. Hopefully some one can explain who did that for me? was it diskdrake when I made the space available for win2k? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:38 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:30, et wrote: this is correct, however I believe Civileme is refering to the boot-up record, not the ability to see and read files. I have WINme, Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2K installed all over my drives here is what # df says; Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on dev/hda7 7439692 4005108 3056660 57% / /dev/hdc5 5067904 2916396 2151508 58% /home /dev/hda4 4433936 2420300 2013636 55% /mnt/nt /dev/scd1 664392664392 0 100% /mnt/scd1 /dev/hda1 28918880 19773728 9145152 69% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdc6 4858156 2261060 2597096 47% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hda6 9010880 1393096 7617784 16% /mnt/win_d /dev/hda8 2891540305228 2586312 11% /var so you can see that on my hdc while hdc5 is /home hdc6 s a fat win partiton that both OSs have no problem seeing and using. something I just noticed is that while on the graphic for diskdrake it looks like (all on one line) -[hda1/winME]-[hda5/linux swap]-[hda7/linux /] - [hda6/fat winD] - [hda8 /var] - [4gigs empty] - [hda4 /winNT] - so maybe there is something I did that I am not aware of that keeps MS thinking the hda4 partion is the last partiton on this drive and hda/5,6,7,8 are in the middle of the drive. Hopefully some one can explain who did that for me? was it diskdrake when I made the space available for win2k? Thank you for clarifying the whole thing. Anyway, to stay in the safe side, I will keep placing Windows partition first and then Linux. For sure at least the bootable win partitons. as far as fat32 partitions, put them anywhere. Until I get Windows free. Saludos Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
On Sunday 09 March 2003 08:23 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:52:49AM -0600, Robert Wideman wrote: Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? Rob I thought that the big difference between VMware and Win4Lin is that Win4Lin does not provide a virtual machine? Am I wrong? VMware will let you really run any OS, inside a VM form most any other OS, win4lin will imiatate a M$window partion under linux. -- hendrik PS-The link for the ad on Win4Lin discount is at http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=441mode=nocomments Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB hard drives?
On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:49 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? Thanks! this is a function provided by the bios, and it would not matter what OS is on the drive, as long as the drive could be booted from. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
On Sunday 09 March 2003 04:08 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:51:10 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way round this? Recently I also opted in for Online banking here in Holland. I was worried about the possible Window$-only thing, so I searched and searched, but there was no mention of it. I always reccon that if there is no mention, I could always get my money back for it... However, Mozilla / Phoenix both run it very well... so I would say to use Mozilla, as it is the most developed browser out there adhearing to the rules of the internet `laws` (yes including IE). Greetings Ralph and of coarse the user agent can be set to report damn near any browser you want to tell the server it is looking at, and if they think IE is secure. what bank was that. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own
On Saturday 08 March 2003 09:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Chris wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 11:57 pm, David Williams decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any reason for this at all. I've checked the logs. This also happened yesterday. Can anyone Just out of curiousity, is it rebooting at the same time or some multiple of time or is it random. It seems like its a random event. You don't have a green monitor ? (TCO marked) John I just have to say, do you think anyone would even have noticed (or not just expected it) if this box was running win95? IMHO that this thread even exists is a great reason to use Mandrake-Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] howto for setting up a digital audio workstation with Mandrake 9.1
I would like to reprint something from cooker, since I know Austin does not possibly have the time to have monitored newbie as well as put this together for us and many many THANKS to Austin, Well, since 9.1 should be out next week, and most of the kernel/alsa/jack problems seem to be cleared up, I'd like to present the howto for setting up a digital audio workstation with Mandrake 9.1. While several specialty distros have tried to come up with a pro quality, easy to set-up DAW, they have failed or are floundering. What people don't realize is that you don't need a specialty distro. You can set up a DAW on Mandrake 9.1 with about six commands. Hopefully this will be publicised a bit, and may be a good selling point for Mandrake 9.1. see http://groundstate.ca/mdkaw.html Comments/corrections/suggestions are welcome. Many thanks to Buchan, Danny, and Quel for assistance and ideas. Enjoy, Austin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] streaming server
On Friday 07 March 2003 08:51 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:04:12PM +, Jozef Riha wrote: hi is there a simple (for newbie) how-to for establishing streaming server (audio)? the streaming format which winamp or wpm uses is enough. thanks. cheers, --joe Hi Joe, It's been a few months since I looked into this, but I think you have a few options. Apple's Darwin streaming server is free software and can handle mp3 and mp4. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/ Real Networks offers a free streaming server (Helix??) but it limits you to something like 25 simultaneous connections. The license lasts for one year, and I'm not sure if you just have to renew the license or purchase a new one. It pretty much streams the proprietary Real formats. http://licensekey.realnetworks.com/rnforms/products/servers/eval/index.html ?ulf=b and other free/trial prodcuts for Real: http://www.realnetworks.com/products/free_trial.html Icecast and Icecast 2 are released under the GPL. The original is still available and will stream mp3; version 2 will stream ogg vorbis! http://www.icecast.org/ Depending on what you want to stream (music, speech, or some combo), o/v now supports low bitrates and has an encoder specifically designed for speech audio (speex). See http://www.xiph.org/ for more info on those codecs. HTH, Todd might want to check into festival too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Partition Failure. PLEASE HELP!!!
On Friday 07 March 2003 10:09 am, Christopher Steimer wrote: I have recently purchased a book, SAMS Teach Yourself LINUX In 24 Hours, in order to inroduce myself to LINUX and all it has to offer. It comes with Linux-Mandrake 7.1, GPL Edition. I also just purchased a used Dell Pentium II, 450MHz, 128MB RAM, 8G hard drive off of EBay. When attempting to install LINUX on the machine, I am unable to partition the hard drive. I recieve an error message at the beginning of the partition process that says something about the disk being too corrupted and also receive the following error message when I try to Auto Allocate: [Writing of partition table failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table.pm line 442] I am new to this, and would like any assistance possible. But go easy on me, cuz I'm just starting. Thank you! __ boy this is an old version,,, but it is about the same age as your box. My first suggestion would be to try and upgrade to a more recent version. That said, try and start over, this time instead of recomended go for expert and do not attempt to auto allocate. and also if you are attempting to keep win on this box, first boot into windows, back up everything, and run defrag befor attempting to install linux. study up on how hard drives can be partitoned in linux first too. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:54 pm, cervixcouch wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 09:38 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:26 am, cervixcouch wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: You are right, from directories other than the /home/belardi it cannot be deleted (I tried '/' '/etc' '/home'). But still, I think that some time ago I tried to delete a root file from my home, and had to su to manage. On everybody else's system its' the same? i just tried it on my system and the same thing happens. Hadn't noticed before that I could delete a root-owned file if it was in my home directory. very curious... Why would you want something in your home directory that you couldn't delete? I'm not being obtuse - is there any reason you can think of that would make root place a file in your home directory but not want you to be able to delete it? Anne Maybe if a sys/net admin wanted to push out a screen saver or have a systems-related feature run on all computers and not allow the end-users to tamper with it.? Just a guessling... I don't think so, if it was to run on all computers, you sure would not place it un user space the only reason I cna think of is to prevent a user for deleteing a folder that needs to be in the users folders for some custom application Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: RE: [newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: RE: [newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 05:04:06 -0600 From: Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh ye, i forgot about that. My bad. Rob -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:04 AM To: Robert Wideman Subject: [newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read we are trying to keep the sound to noise ratio on the linux-Mandrake sponsored list to the minimum, and so I would like to ask if you have anymore interesting mail, not related to Mandrake-Linux, could you possibly instead of send it to a @linux-mandrake.com address. you send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as this is our off topic and not sponsored mailing list. Thanks ET --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0
can you boot from a floppy? On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:50 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a stab in the dark, mind you! Any help at all is very much appreciated at this point. Diane - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:19, Diane Arsenault wrote: Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies. Unfortunately, I have already placed my Cd-ROM drive at the top of the boot priority list, but some reason I can't boot from it regardless. What now? Diane Let me ask you something. Can you boot from a Windows CD? The reason I ask you this is because the Mandrake CD may be corrupted. Just to make sure. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a stab in the dark, mind you! Any help at all is very much appreciated at this point. Diane No Diane. You only get to the hard drive MBR after bypassing the CD bootup step. But if you can't boot from *any* bootable CD, no matter whether it is Windows or Linux, then something is wrong with the hardware (assuming that the BIOS is correctly set up). Given that it is a new computer, I would take it back to the store and ask for another one. Carry the Windows and Mandrake boot CDs to show them the problem. Good luck! of course we could teach you how to do it from booting with a boot disk you can create from the CDroms,,, if we want, and if you can boot up from a cdrom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:14 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a stab in the dark, mind you! Any help at all is very much appreciated at this point. Diane No Diane. You only get to the hard drive MBR after bypassing the CD bootup step. But if you can't boot from *any* bootable CD, no matter whether it is Windows or Linux, then something is wrong with the hardware (assuming that the BIOS is correctly set up). Given that it is a new computer, I would take it back to the store and ask for another one. Carry the Windows and Mandrake boot CDs to show them the problem. Good luck! of course we could teach you how to do it from booting with a boot disk you can create from the CDroms,,, if we want, and if you can boot up from a cdrom this instruction is cut and pasted from the Mandrake 9.0 download edition CD#1 a file called install.txt and you should be able to read this file even in Windows or Dos Make a boot floppy with Windows If your computer cannot boot from the CDROM and previous methods do not work, you must make a boot floppy under Windows as follows: * insert the CDROM, then open the icon My Computer, right click on the CDROM drive icon and select Open * go into the dosutils directory and double-click on the rawwritewin icon * insert a blank floppy in the floppy drive * select D:\images\cdrom.img in the Image File field (assuming that your CDROM drive is D:, otherwise replace D: as needed) * select A: in the Floppy Drive field then click on Write. To begin the installation: * insert the CDROM in the drive, as well as the boot floppy, then * restart the computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:29 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I haven't tried yet. Dennis suggested I connect my CD-ROM as the Primary SLAVE. Jonathan suggested I try disconnecting the CD-RW. I'm going to try both right now. I will post back to the list with the results! Thank you so much to everyone for trying to help me out. I am really anxious to learn Linux, but this has been very discouraging for me. Wish me luck! Diane P.S. I checked the jumpers on these drives a few days ago - they are set properly. so sorry I jumped in late and did not read the complete first post to reliaze you had already tried cdrom.img, how ever, rebooting durring the install process is not normal, (this ain't winders) and I am now wondering at what point and why did it reboot? and was the floppy still in the floppy drive when it reboots? and before it reboots durring the install process does it give you the chance to reboot or does it just throwdown and restart? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:36 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:29 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I haven't tried yet. Dennis suggested I connect my CD-ROM as the Primary SLAVE. Jonathan suggested I try disconnecting the CD-RW. I'm going to try both right now. I will post back to the list with the results! Thank you so much to everyone for trying to help me out. I am really anxious to learn Linux, but this has been very discouraging for me. Wish me luck! Diane P.S. I checked the jumpers on these drives a few days ago - they are set properly. so sorry I jumped in late and did not read the complete first post to reliaze you had already tried cdrom.img, how ever, rebooting durring the install process is not normal, (this ain't winders) and I am now wondering at what point and why did it reboot? and was the floppy still in the floppy drive when it reboots? and before it reboots durring the install process does it give you the chance to reboot or does it just throwdown and restart? and a good chance to introduce you to a kwel feature in most linux shells. autocomplete. anytime you dont know the name of some command or how to complete some command with the complete name of a file, type in what ever you know, and if you got no clue, leave it blank, but hit tab and autocomplete will offer up all the remaining possiblities, so when it asks for kernel info what does it say when you tab? when you say and I get a message that it can't find the CD-ROM. is this in the installers graphic program? I would also like to know if this has an onboard shared memory video card, as that may be the root of any reboot durring install, other than the final reboot. Asks me which driver to try. (I have NO idea). If I randomly choose a driver to try (what the heck, aye), I get asked for kernel info. Well, now I'm just lost. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:44 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi again, No problem - I'm getting replies so fast I can hardly keep up to it myself! Anway, it rebooted during the process of installing the actual program files. No warning at all - she just up and quit - and rebooted. When this happened it did come back to the Press enter to install screen, and the progress bar indicated that it was loading files (although I hadn't pressed enter). In all honesty, I don't remember if the floppy was still in the drive or not ... Too much going on and I'm just about braindead. As an update - I just disconnected the CD-RW - Still can't boot from the CD-ROM. Now I'm going to set up the CD-ROM as Primary SLAVE and see where that gets me. Diane At this point, I wonder if the fans are running correctly, and I kinda agree with Adolfo on this. it really should start from the CDrom. it also should NOT have rebooted durring the install there. this might be a sign of some other problem. It might be worth noting, at least a couple of years ago, if you had a Gateway computer (I don't think this is the same with HP/Compaq) and even attempted to ask their tech support if you could install linx on it got you a litle note in the warrenty records, and would void the warrenty by installing Linux. - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:36 PM so sorry I jumped in late and did not read the complete first post to reliaze you had already tried cdrom.img, how ever, rebooting durring the install process is not normal, (this ain't winders) and I am now wondering at what point and why did it reboot? and was the floppy still in the floppy drive when it reboots? and before it reboots durring the install process does it give you the chance to reboot or does it just throwdown and restart? --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - install with onboard video
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:51 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi et, The can't find Cd-ROM drive message appears on a blud screen, with text only, and this happens after the computer reboots. It is definitley being generated by Linux. And, Yes - as a matter of fact, it does have a onboard shared memory video card. Hmm... when you boot the first time to install, you will have to report the shared video memory to the install kernel. Start over with the boot floppy, when it says hit enter to install or upograde or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type linux mem=xxxM where you change xxxM to the amount of system memory minus the amount of shared memory (I have 256 installed memory, but share 16 megs with the onboard video, so in that case I type linux 240M) remember the capital M at the end. and then got thru the install again, and also if you have bios level virus protection on, turn it off durring the install, and change plug and pray aware OS to off. also note that NTFS (winXP, win2k, winNT) should not be resized by the Disk Drake installer, at least untill 9.1 is out. and as always, back up your data first... Diane - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:36 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:29 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I haven't tried yet. Dennis suggested I connect my CD-ROM as the Primary SLAVE. Jonathan suggested I try disconnecting the CD-RW. I'm going to try both right now. I will post back to the list with the results! Thank you so much to everyone for trying to help me out. I am really anxious to learn Linux, but this has been very discouraging for me. Wish me luck! Diane P.S. I checked the jumpers on these drives a few days ago - they are set properly. so sorry I jumped in late and did not read the complete first post to reliaze you had already tried cdrom.img, how ever, rebooting durring the install process is not normal, (this ain't winders) and I am now wondering at what point and why did it reboot? and was the floppy still in the floppy drive when it reboots? and before it reboots durring the install process does it give you the chance to reboot or does it just throwdown and restart? and a good chance to introduce you to a kwel feature in most linux shells. autocomplete. anytime you dont know the name of some command or how to complete some command with the complete name of a file, type in what ever you know, and if you got no clue, leave it blank, but hit tab and autocomplete will offer up all the remaining possiblities, so when it asks for kernel info what does it say when you tab? when you say and I get a message that it can't find the CD-ROM. is this in the installers graphic program? I would also like to know if this has an onboard shared memory video card, as that may be the root of any reboot durring install, other than the final reboot. Asks me which driver to try. (I have NO idea). If I randomly choose a driver to try (what the heck, aye), I get asked for kernel info. Well, now I'm just lost. --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:59 pm, Jonathan Shilling wrote: Et, I've loaded linux on Gateway servers, and laptops with little to no problems, was unaware that it would void the warranty, interesting... -Jonathan give Gateway a call, maybe it has changed. I did not say it does not work, since it does (in most casers, excluding some sound and video card workarounds). -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:44 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi again, No problem - I'm getting replies so fast I can hardly keep up to it myself! Anway, it rebooted during the process of installing the actual program files. No warning at all - she just up and quit - and rebooted. When this happened it did come back to the Press enter to install screen, and the progress bar indicated that it was loading files (although I hadn't pressed enter). In all honesty, I don't remember if the floppy was still in the drive or not ... Too much going on and I'm just about braindead. As an update - I just disconnected the CD-RW - Still can't boot from the CD-ROM. Now I'm going to set up the CD-ROM as Primary SLAVE and see where that gets me. Diane At this point, I wonder if the fans are running correctly, and I kinda agree with Adolfo on this. it really should start from the CDrom. it also should NOT have rebooted durring the install there. this might be a sign of some other problem. It might be worth noting, at least a couple of years ago, if you had a Gateway computer (I don't think this is the same with HP/Compaq) and even attempted to ask their tech support if you could install linx on it got you a litle note in the warrenty records, and would void the warrenty by installing Linux. - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:36 PM so sorry I jumped in late and did not read the complete first post to reliaze you had already tried cdrom.img, how ever, rebooting durring the install process is not normal, (this ain't winders) and I am now wondering at what point and why did it reboot? and was the floppy still in the floppy drive when it reboots? and before it reboots durring the install process does it give you the chance to reboot or does it just throwdown and restart? -- - - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie
On Thursday 06 March 2003 04:21 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Oh yeah, just as a follow-up. The reason I'm able to install Windows 95 is because I can run the setup file from DOS (I'm booting right now with a Win98 boot disk). And for whatever reason the computer doesn't reboot itself during that installation. I'm suspicious now about the media type being the problem (650 MB VS 700 MB). Maybe they'll send me a new CD-ROM ... But wouldn't you think the CD-RW - which was just installed - would be able to boot ... Diane the Hidden partitoin deal is what is screwing you,,, this PITA has what I consider and incomplete bios I bet you will have to order the HP emergancy restore disk to be able to restore that hidden partiton. I have run into this with older Compaqs but had hoped it had gone away wih the merger. - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 16:26, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, When I first tried installing XP on this thing, I called the tech support. The guy I spoke to told me that when he installs XP he disconnects everything - right down to modems, video cards, etc - before attempting the install. I figure if you have to be a Philadelphia Lawyer to install it, they can keep it! The thing from HP about disconnect all peripherals not including the monitor - That's like the message Keyboard not found. Press F1 ... Diane Were you successful installing XP following all the witchery recipe from the support guy? If so, it means that you could boot from CD, doesn't it? Have you tried following the same recipe to install Mandrake? -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FIPS and File Systems
On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:32 pm, Passing Memory wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to use FIPSto safely partition my HardDrive before installing Linux but it doesn't work. I keep having the following error: Unknown File System I tried on disk formatted by Windows XP and on another disk formatted by Windows 2000, but it fails on both. PLease help. Cheers. Passing! there is no help for ntfs until you get the final 9.1... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:38 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Problem solved I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart or at least to restart some service after configuring... that you did not restart manually, but could have if bringing down the machine would have cost a lot of money. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
what this is is either the default gateway or the DNS is wrongly configured. On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:37 am, Margot wrote: Hello All Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back now, and have got a bit further, but not much! Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and gone with freeserve anytime. Have set it all up in MCC/kppp and Mozilla (thanks to John Richard Smith for freeserve screenshots), but still having problems. Subscribed to the Berlin news server via Win 98 machine, and next time I tried to connect via Linux machine the news.cis.dfn.de account automatically showed up in Mozilla - but when I tried to subscribe to newsgroups I got Failed to connect to server news.cis.dfn.de. Seems to me that it HAS connected to the server - or how would Mozilla know that I had registered for that service - but for some reason it won't let me see the information that is coming from the server! When trying to receive email, I get Failed to connect to server pop.freeserve.com. Attempted browsing gives me a message at the bottom of the browser screen Resolving host www.google.co.uk and a box in the middle of the browser saying www.google.co.uk could not be found. Please check the name and try again. By mistake the other day I forgot to set kppp running before trying Mozilla - and got the exact same error messages on mail, news and browse without even being connected to the internet! I have tried to ping, and got strange results - when I did ping www.yahoo.com I got unknown host www.yahoo.com, but when I tried ping 66.218.71.83 (the numeric version of yahoo) I got PING 66.218.71.83 (66.218.71.83) from 217.134.91.169 : 56(84) bytes of data. I don't understand why it works by number but not by name. Can anyone help me further? Thanks Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:24 pm, james Mellema wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:17, Robert Wideman wrote: I'll agree on that point. Too bad the bastard lives in Alaska. Else I'd ask him to come on down here to Aussie for a tour...(g) Alaska? WTF is up there other than dry cold weather? Rob Asked like someone from a small state:-) Alaska is like living in a post card on the frontier. Much of what has made mankind successful is here and thriving. It has more of everything and less bullshit people than any other place I have ever lived. (and a fair percentage of Mandrake users to boot.) one of my friends that I grew up with in Miami Fla., decided after 3 fishing seasons that he wanted to stay, but was back in So. Fla the next year. When I asked why he swares it was because of all the treehuggers that never had to fight fo their lunch money. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:47 pm, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm at the point of giving up. First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: ECS K7S6A Athlon xp 1800 256 MB ram NIC 3com 905 TX and everything was working except the NIC. I emailed the newbie mailing list to have some help (which was greatly appreciate by the way) and after trying different setting it still doesn't work. I am fairly sure that it's a motherboard problem because I tried different NICs without any success and my 3com works on another PC running mandrake 9.0. I tried to install with USB,serial and parallel ports, soundcard disable to free a maximum of IRQ, tried different PC slots and none of that has worked. When I look in KDEcontrol centre informationirq my nic is not listed but if I look in KDEcontrol centre information PCI the NIC is listed in the correct IRQ. Another thing, I don't know if it's normal but no matter what I do the NIC IRQ is always the same as another device. I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble and found some problems with that board but nothing that could help me. Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another one? What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that this is no the problem? put the nic in a different pci slot I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake 9.0 is not working properly with my board? JP if it works w/ 9.0 prosuite, it works with 9.0. by what standard are you using to say the nic does not work? no ping? no lights? what does (as root, without the quotes, in a text console) ifconfig say? what does cat /proc/pci and cat /proc/interrupts say? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Worried
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:53 pm, Jesse \G-Tez\ Houston wrote: In my opinion - If you are going to say Mandrake SUX (Which it doesn't) back up your statement with clear and concise reasons then perhaps you may get an inteligent responce This is a forum for discussing problems and getting resolutions. Best of luck in the future On this note: Has anyone had installer issues with Dual CPU/via chipset/nvidia graphics cards? My workstation is being rather flaky. System Info: Dual 1.0 GHz p3 Via 694XDP Chipset 1 Gig of ram NVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 128megs Promose ATA 100 RAID Controller (FastTrack Lite) I remember reading something along the lines of why this wasn't working before but wasn't able to find it in my old emails Thanks for your help guys. Well, Jess, I have a dual 1.0 gig p3, an Nvidia GeForce4 ti4600 128megs, only 512 ram, but I think it is smoKINg. with the amount of ram you have, you need the enterprise kernel, and it will enable SMP too the only thing is I know nothing about how your promise controller will work. maybe you could define flaky, a little better, and start it's own thread so it can be searched out in the archives a little easier. et Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] worried
On Friday 28 February 2003 07:24 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I believe that as far as the end user is concerned speed is the most important factor. Only to geeks. For the other 99.9 percent of computer users, functionality is most important - can I do what I want with minimum hassle? The biggest impediment to desktop adoption of Linux is not Windows but Microsoft Office. and as much as functionality is high on the list of priorities so to is stability, and if you consider the amount of time and money spent in a for profit environment with rebooting and defraging (etc) type maintenance, sure makes an argument that speed can be measured in both quarter mile and top end quantities and if you can't complete the whole 500 mile race, what good is it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
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Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Redirecting in KMail
On Friday 28 February 2003 01:53 pm, Robert Golovniov wrote: On Friday, February 28, 2003, 7:27:35 PM, et wrote: Does the KMail support redirecting messages or can I only forward them? e in the main (KDE Mail Client window) setting, configure filters, As far as I understand, it will allow me to automatically redirect the incoming messages. And what if I received a message, which I want now to redirect? I do not want to forward it (with This is a forwarded message, bla-bla-bla stuff), but just to send it to another address while preserving the original sender's From info and so on? Under Windows, The Bat! allows you both to forward messages and to redirect (alternative forward) them. Is there a similar option in KMail? ehhh...apply filters Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] worried
On Friday 28 February 2003 05:30 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Now before I get flamed let me explain. I run a small 500mhz Athlon with 64mg memory but for speed and effeiciency XP is by far the fastest. My Md9 is a minimal installation (although having most of the HD) but still pales in comparison to XP even when a large number of apps are working. With XP I boot and hey-presto I'm logging in with Md9 I can make a brew etc etc. (well not literally but you get the point) Now this is rather interesting, XP should not even run with 64MB if I am correctly informed, there you go.anyway, personally I ran Mdk 9.0 on a PII 233 Mhz although with 160 MB of RAM without any problems whatsoever, of course I did not use KDE as my desktop but XFce but still. I am not saying you are wrong, just that I am very surprised that you could even get XP to run on that configuration. /Anders or install anyway,,, no more feeding the trolls, says the wife,,, little does she know she married an alpha troll. et Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /net and /misc
On Friday 28 February 2003 04:17 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 15:25, et wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 10:09 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 01:45 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Anyone know what /net and /misc are? They automount under m9, are always busy and can't be unmounted. As a result I can't do a clean shutdown. How can I remidy? TIA Paul Paul, can you cd to these directories and do a ls in console mode? Might show what is in them, cause my system does not have either directory. if I remember correctly (that might be a first) these are mount points created by some wild program (like linneighborhood or gnomba for the /net) and have a hard mount point in the script that creates them, maybe posting fstab and mtab might help. Dennis, ls /misc and ls /net return nothing et, From /etc/mtab: automount(pid1561) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1561,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 automount(pid1574) /net autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1574,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 I use linneigborhood to work to access a LAN nothing in fstab? re /net, /misc??? Derek, What configuration file am I looking for w/ autofs? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /net and /misc
mtab= Mount TABle fstab= File System TABle On Saturday 01 March 2003 08:12 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Nope, just /etc/mtab. I know what fstab is used for. What is mtab used for? Paul On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:26, et wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 04:17 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 15:25, et wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 10:09 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 01:45 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Anyone know what /net and /misc are? They automount under m9, are always busy and can't be unmounted. As a result I can't do a clean shutdown. How can I remidy? TIA Paul Paul, can you cd to these directories and do a ls in console mode? Might show what is in them, cause my system does not have either directory. if I remember correctly (that might be a first) these are mount points created by some wild program (like linneighborhood or gnomba for the /net) and have a hard mount point in the script that creates them, maybe posting fstab and mtab might help. Dennis, ls /misc and ls /net return nothing et, From /etc/mtab: automount(pid1561) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1561,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 automount(pid1574) /net autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1574,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 I use linneigborhood to work to access a LAN nothing in fstab? re /net, /misc??? Derek, What configuration file am I looking for w/ autofs? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Random X crashes and freezes
On Saturday 01 March 2003 01:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I'm still having problems with v9.0 (Powerpack) and X freezing up or quitting back to the desktop during games. I installed memtest last night, ran it for almost 12 hours, it gave no errors with 24 passes. (512 megs of DDR Ram - PNY brand) Temperature, as reported by BIOS before the test was 27 degrees Celsius (System) and 50 degrees Celsius (CPU). Afterwards, CPU was 52 Celsius. Linux games that randomly crashout: Tribes 2, UT2003, Rune. An oddity here - no WineX games crash. All work perfectly, including resource hogs like Warcraft 3. I can sit at the keyboard constantly doing something (not games) and nothing happens. Walk away for a while - come back. X will be frozen, no mouse, or it will have a screen with totally wiped out graphics on it. Mouse or keyboard do not respond, nothing but a button reset works. System is less than 3 months old: IBM Deskstar 60 gig HD, AMD 2100XP CPU, Soyo Dragon Plus MB, Adaptec SCSI with Toshiba DVD, Plextor CDRW, Umax scanner, Zip cart, USB mouse, printer, joystick, webcam, Linksys network card, Nvidia Geforce TI4200/4191 drivers. Some BIOS stats: Vcore - 1.74v VCC - 2.5v 3.3v +5 4.83v +12 12.09v 5vsb 4.86v Chassis fan - 2033 CPU fan - 3013 Any ideas anyone? Thanks much! APM? acpi apic? no pentium? in lilo? in bios? as a service? agp apature size? cpu /FSB clock speed? memory wait states? what does cat /proc/interrupts and cat /proc/pci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] video [VCD] editing on ML9.0?
I have not tried Kino, but will soon, seems to me that Cinelerra is broadcast 2003 for Nvidia cards with at least 64 megs mem, while it works for me I have heard of folks that did not have a GeForce card not being able to use it, and it really looks like a rework of bcast2000 for a little more eyecandy (like bcast2000 was written in C for gtk, and Cinelerra is Re-written in C++ for GTK2. the Power Pack had Main Actor as part of the commercial offerings, and while it said it was installed, it just started and exited with out an error or an open window. On Friday 28 February 2003 09:35 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: Do not forget kino (kini.schirmacher.de) It can be used to get video off and on via the firewire but it does not contain a timeline so I wonder how easy soundtracks can be added. MainActor has this latter option, but version 3.65 was the latest I could get for Linux. They have developed a version 5 now and said they would export that to Linux too. But people say so many things... None of the packages have all the fancy things that you find on video editors you can get for Windows, like Adobe Premiere, but on Linux I can do all I want for my simple home video. Very professional (they say) is Cinelerra. Demands a very hig spec machine to work with. Seems to be something more useful for render farms. Ed depending on a few things, and not the least is your own defination of clunky you can check into broadcast2000, (bcast2000) and/ or cinelerra and vlc and mainactor. let us know what you like and why. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie with Dual Window
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Feb 2003 3:29 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello.. I am getting really close to switch my system from Windoze to Linux and I am wondering if there is a way that I can get my dual monitor to work with Linux? So I would have two working desktop on my Linux? I have a stretched out windoze desktop that I can use both monitors as one big desktop... Can someone give me guidance on this? Then I m ready to switch over and junk the windoze OS. Thanks! Yoel, I can't help you, but I'm sure there will be someone here shortly that can. Meanwhile, however, it would greatly help to get you a meaningful answer if you told us what video card(s) you use. Anne xinerama XFDrake dual head some nice words to learn about Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Redirecting in KMail
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:20 am, Robert Golovnyov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello, group! Does the KMail support redirecting messages or can I only forward them? in the main (KDE Mail Client window) setting, configure filters, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My introduction to diy pc hardware was a lecture in which we were advised to clean keyboards in a dishwasher - no heat, no detergent and short wash. I never tried it. Anne evil look on face I have a dishwasher here...do you suppose, in the interest of science??? :-) this subject reminded me of the thread some time ago about what to do with used CD disks (llike AOL disks, or old betas) and the consenses seemed to be that the best use was to microwave them in a dark room. My wife is now trying to get me to get together a few folks who do that, adn get them to be on Jerry Springer my mate sneaks out to the garge at night to zap old cdroms, adnit is ruining our night life. I volenter to make a video of me sneaking out, in my bathrobe, in the middle of the night, to go to the shed to zap old cds, if we can get a few others to go on the show with us. My cordless logitec keyboard took a drink of coffee about 2 weeks ago, and now the Fx keys are one number off, so if I want f10, I use f9. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:39 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Go on, then! - you will have the webcam set up won't you? g Anne Hehehehe, I might want to wait a bit - I'm using one of the older IBM model keyboards (clickety-clack!). Weighs about 5 pounds by itself. Methinks that could become a semi-lethal weapon in a dishwasher! I'll wait until I find one of those win keyboards. Wait a minute - I dunno, those might just melt into a pile of semi-gelatinous goo... grin if you really want to try it, I have a bunch of old (but working) keyboards, including some old steel backed (ast) and a IBM ps1, and one from a ti88. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 4:09 am, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:35 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:04 pm, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:14 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: Found this interesting, thought I'd pass it on. (Is the future really now?) Jerry. Personally, I can't find it interesting, since I don't know where or what it is I think Jerry was referring to this http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/1717223 Interesting, but seems to be very little difference from my old Commodore 64 and OSI C1 days. My reaction was 'Didn't the ZX81 have that?' As one of the comments pointed out, it would tend towards proprietary standards too. And if we are talking flashing the bios to fix security issues I imagine that might have security issues of its own. Anne my first reaction was this yo-yo has no clue at all the very first line he says computer operating system as we know it today is as dead as the planetary transmission that drove the Model T Ford. A fact checker should have told him all current automatic transmissions are derived from that same planetary gear system, and it ain't an obsolete concept, the only thing obsolete about plantary gears tranmissions from model A Fords is the outside case, and that same style of case is still in use today. if he statrs out so very wrong and miss-informed about stuff he states as fact it the very first paragraph, why in the name of crap would I read on, or begin to think this guy has a clue about OSs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:03 pm, David McGlone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I noticed a lot of people want to have OT discussions, so I created a mailing list for off topic discussions for anyone here to join. if you would like to join here is the URL: http://www.edificationweb.com/lists.html Hope to see everyone soon - -- David M. Edification Web Solutions http://www.edificationweb.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XDx/AulWMV3BRjARAvuDAKCwCPieXlkJH6J3+agnMmpEl0PXFgCfVLY3 Jn7CzTF9kHss6q1we+IJXMA= =lDGU -END PGP SIGNATURE- hey dave, we already got one [EMAIL PROTECTED], come join... maybe we will move to your server if you give us a better deal, as it is we get free beer... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dead pppd (was OT: M$: Bugs are cool)
On Saturday 22 February 2003 10:49 am, robin wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:49:46 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake 9.* in the hope that the bug will be fixed that occasions the need to reboot 8.2 every couple of days; pppd goes into a sulk and refuses to get off the machine. Are you sure that isn't just a kpppd-pid file not getting killed? Might be something like that. I am using gnome-ppp but the same thing occurred with kppp. Not sure where to look but will search for a pid file. If this is the cause the question is then why?. It's probably somewhere like $HOME/.gnome/gnome-ppp/gnome-ppp-pid - just a guess by analogy with kppp. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it's worth checking out. Sir Robin might be the lock file that is an option in kppp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Leaving the list for a while
On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:57 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: I am unable, at the present moment, capable of coping with the numbr of emails on this list. Mostly because I am stoned 24/7 I don't have the strength to read answer them. For the most part I've lately been deleting a lot of threads which I would normally read. Anyway I've been considering this for a couple of weeks. I thought I'd be able to keep up with them all but I can't. So I shall depart for a bit. I'll be back I'm certain when i've healed can concentrate again. Hope you all will be well have fun. :) - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert damn your stoned stuff was making folks give up on TV just to see what you wrote Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can you help me with my NIC?
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 02:22 am, Michael Kostis wrote: hey, i got your email of mandrake posting. I was wondering if you could help me figure out how to install my netgear FA311 NIC. I saw it listed in your specs. Any help would be most grateful. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com how far along with it are you, do you need instructions on how to remove the cover of the computer box? or just how to setup networking? or just how to get this card working in a working network in Mandrake? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability (Thungggg sound from the monitor)
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Mudder wrote: Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor switching modes. I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync monitors. Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound every day when I boot into MDK 9.0 and my monitor is 5 years old and has not blown up yet... Anyone else hear this noise? yes, It's quite normal to hear that on startup and shutdown, but I'm getting it randomly during use. John have you tried to see if it goes away with a lower resolution? what are you running at? and what is the type and model of monitor? does it happen just waitting for the screensaver, or only when you are working with it? what is the type and model video card. Sorry about comming into this thread so late and asking a bunch of questions that you might have already answered and then they got snipped Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability (Thungggg sound from the monitor)
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:11 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 07:07 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote: Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor switching modes. I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync monitors. Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound every day when I boot into MDK 9.0 and my monitor is 5 years old and has not blown up yet... Anyone else hear this noise? Hope it helps. Mudder I have a 19 NEC Multisync FE 950+. Yes i hear it too. Don't know what multisync means ... inferior? Its an aperture grille tube too. I liek it. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert you are such a show off 19 NEC Multisync. gee I did not think women got into mine is bigger thatn yours kinda contests. to answer the question (I have a 17 NEC Multisync FE700) do you most often hear that when changeing modes? like when you start X or starting tuxracer or Quake? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Ethernet Interface
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 10:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in etc/hosts there are 2 entry 192.168.254.10 (ip address of NIC) and 127.0.0.1 in etc/hosts.allow and etc/hosts.deny are empty you need to add 192.168.254.17 and the name of the computer to /etc/hosts and restart the network From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/02/18 Tue PM 02:15:59 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Ethernet Interface what does /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/host.deny say? On Tuesday 18 February 2003 07:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i ran the mandrake wizard and i have now ip address 192.168.254.10 on eht0 and eht0 is up. to test the card I ping 192.168.254.10 and it does reply correctly, then i plugged it into a hub where i have an other machine with an ip address 192.168.254.17. Both machine can't see each other, if i try to ping 192.168.254.17 from 192.168.254.10 it does not work. From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/02/18 Tue AM 11:59:20 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Ethernet Interface On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 10:01 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, my system: processor athlon xp 1800 motherboard ECS K7S6A with SiS745 chipsets memory 250Mb DDR soundcard integrated to the motherboard sis7012 PCI 2 NIC realtek RTL8139 videocard sis315 router from british telecom (BT 5861 router) with NAT JP From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/02/17 Mon PM 11:19:38 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 February 2003 05:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for your reply derek yes my system is working with win2000. here's my ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:33:58:03 Broadcast Multicast MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:5 Base Address:0x8000 Well the Interface is not UP, and you do not have an IP address Type ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.44 (for example) in a root terminal followed by ifup eth0 Did you go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre? That should set it up correctly. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live
On Sunday 16 February 2003 09:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:15 pm, Andrew Robert wrote: Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not functioning under MDK v9. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this working under MDK 9? Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I searched the FAQ list but all I could find were references to ISA cards. If it isn't already, install sndconfig and then in a console type sndconfig. This will take take you into a dos like install of the sound card, hopefully. mhhhmmm, As _I_ understand it sndconfig is for ISA sound cards. harddrake, should be run, alsamixer and kmix should also be checked to insure the levels are turned up enough to hear (it may be working, but the default is all the way down in the volume Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:24 pm, Miark wrote: I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark my experience with the logitec Quickcam is that it can not stand being dropped at all, and is not very sturdy, I would be cautious about a used one. I like to suggest that if you already own a regular video cam, to hook it up with a TV card. you will have a thousand % better picture and color than any quickcam, and since you are using something you already might own and you can pull the cable out of the videdeo cam and use it like you would normally Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mdk 9.1 beta3 network problem
what does (in a text console without the quotes) hostname report? On Monday 17 February 2003 03:53 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, I reinstalled beta 3 and it did not work again. Seems like there is a bit of a problem with Realtek network cards. Mine is a RTL 8139 but there is a guy on the cooker list with a RTL8129 with the same problem. The route for the gateway is setup eth0 is there everything seems fine. So it looks like this is a show stopper for beta 3 for me and anyone else with a realtek card. Yes I have done the acpi=off and so had he. It has been logged at bugzilla https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566 so now it's wait and see. Tony. -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mdk 9.1 beta3 network problem -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 February 2003 06:40 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi all, I installed beta 3 last night on my system (formatted /, /usr and /var but kept /home), everything seems fine except for the internet connection. I have a realtek 8139 card. The mcc says the lan is up but not the internet (have to run mcc from command line as menu icon does not work). I had no probs with 9.0 and when I boot into windows the internet is there. I looked through cooker list last night and could not find anything similar to my problem so I assume that it is a settings problem. Do I need to remove some of the hidden directories from my home dir, and if so which ones, as I have a lot for programs I want to keep the settings for? Thanks, Tony. Do you have a newer motherboard. Some newer hardware, particularly mobos with VIA chipsets, does not have acpi implemented properly in the kernel, which causes what you are describing. Try hitting the esc key when the LILO menu comes up and typing the following at the prompt: linux noapic acpi=off and see if that solves the problem. If it does, upgrade your beta 3 kernel to the latest one in Cooker and see if that fixes the problem also. It did for my machine. /g -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question
On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device). I don't know much about digital video cameras so i'm not sure if that's how it'll be recognized. also look in mandrake control center's hardware / hardware list and see if you can see it listed there (possibly under other/unknown) and see if there's any info about it. then you need to find out what the /dev entry is (i don't remember for the life of me where i've seen how and haven't added hardware in so long i forgot) Anyone? how DO you know what /dev entry hardware uses? not sure what kind of filesystem it'd use but i'd venture a guess that it's vfat if it's a mass storage device that windoze reads. now for my camera i'd (as root) mkdir /mnt/camera modprobe usb-storage mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera Mounting with -t vfat doesn't work (mount: wrong fs type, bad option, badsuperblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems) and -t auto sulks and asks me to specify the file type (same result as when I tried John's solution). It ain't msdos either - any ideas? Sir Robin I may be way outta line here but: if /mnt is not a separate partition, but on your / partition, wouldn't you have to mount using the filesystem that your / partition is (ie. ext2, ext3 or whatever)? I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a partition that is formatted vfat. Just a thought... Sharrea ahhh, the mount point is not formated, the partition is formated if it is a block device (a drive) but there is no formating the /dev or /proc (etc) partitions. the mount point tells the OS what filesystem module (?driver? for win-types) the kernel should use to read the filesystem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail config for sending
On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:49 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to get kmail sending to work again and I keep getting Sending failed: The server did not accept the sender address. The server responded: Sender address is missing a domain The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. I can not for the life of me figure out what domain is missing. Must be late and need sleep. Any help is appreciated. Dennis M. are you replying or sending? some spam that i bounce gives me this error too. delete the first message in your outbox, or move it to the drafts folder, then try Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === I thought he was talking about my life story Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:40 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:27 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) I thought he was talking about my life story Why so depressed, Ed ? - You got here, eh ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === ahh all toungue in cheek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:18 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? Thanks Jim you might check out the visualziation plugins in xmmms, and also search google for blursk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sendmail question person, look at this, OT Thread hijack... mail server @ home?
On Friday 14 February 2003 10:32 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:31 AM 2/14/2003 -0600, you wrote: And yes i deleted all my email and NO i didnt want to look up the subject on the archives...deal with it, :) I see some ppl n the list setup mail servers in their home... Whats the reason for that? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert same reason a dog licks it's balls? 'cause they can' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
On Friday 14 February 2003 09:31 pm, mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and especially with opinion it's really a matter of perspective, and It becomes a relative thing as well. When I first tried Linux RH 5.2 ( I think ) I would say I was an absolute Newbie. Now after several years can I say I am an Expert? Most definitely NOT, but I don't feel I am a true Newbie either. I would call myself a User in perpetual training ( I really don't think I'll ever be an expert though because that would take more brains than I have left. ) But then , That's purely from MY perspective, massive grin I Like a saying of Confucius : to know that what you know is what you know, is not knowledge, But to know that what you do not know is what you do not know That is the beginning of understanding somethng like that. I often say the one thing I learned about computers in 1992 that I still use, and is still true, is that what ever you buy today will be obosolete in 3 years, and the same goes with software, (actully I have one program that was written for win95 and I bought in 1995, that I still use almost every day, and that is winfax for win 95, since I have kept my hourly billing on it as a faxed document since 1995 but the OS it ran on is no longer avail, good thing it still runs using other M$products) and I still use pine when I ssh into a shell account, and it has been around (without much change that I can see) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1----STOP USING MY LINK I KNOW IT DOESNT WORK
On Saturday 15 February 2003 01:19 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Did anyone read my emial a few hours ago??? STOP USING MY LINK WITH THE HTTP:// IN THERE, CHANGE IT TO FTP:// FIRST. Rob we are not going to read anything from RW that is using so many caps. so there. PPPPpppthst. and my child says since you are useing so many caps (shouting) I should offer to bust a cap, with Tony Soprano, on them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs... True. But there are still some security measures that you would want to be able to take. Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be servers. Rob I'm not positive this has not changed, but in the past, there are points given to different programs and based on what type of install you chose and what sort of packages you selected and how much hard drive space you have, during the install stage the installer then selects programs for you as basic install expecting (in the expert install anyway) you to either just go with what it installs and have you install what ever programs you want after, or to just use what ever is there. I think the logic has something also to do with if this program requires some advanced knowledge (something beyond click mouse and play) then whomever is going to need to use it should also be capable of downloading and installing it. Also when installing, one of my complaints like this, is that, if you toggle to flat durring the package selection (so that the packages are listed alphabetically instead of by group) there seems to me to be many more programs available. and they are not listed six times each (once as a kde desktop app, once as a Gnome app, once as other desktops app and then also as mulitmedia etc). but it does require a knowledge of what most of the programs are, and I believe there is a possiblity of installing conflicting programs this way, or at least screwing up the programs you selected by de-selecting some part of one program to get a conflicting package installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs... True. But there are still some security measures that you would want to be able to take. Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be servers. Rob Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be serversdo you consider this a good thing? or a secure thing? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:50 pm, Glenn wrote: Please fill me in. What support did the U.S. government provide to the IRA? Not disputing it, but this is the first I've heard of government support to the IRA. Individual Irish ex-patriates in the U.S., yes, but not government support. he,,, I would like to take this oppertunity to invite all discussions not relating to GNU-Linux and the Mandrake Distrubition to the new MANDRAKE-OT list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned
On Friday 14 February 2003 04:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 14 Feb 2003 12:51 am, et wrote: well really I think it was Anne that made the statement in question; OK - if we don't agree, we don't exist if you made that statement, perhaps you would like to explain it. I don't agree with Rush Limbaugh, but I am pretty sure we both exist. Et - I did make the statement in question. It was in response to a statement (by Rob? not sure) that there had been not a single voice raised in support/liking for the newer interface (and BTW, it doesn't sound much different from 9.0's). That was patently untrue, though there are far more posts about disliking it. I have since apologised for my angry retort. Manners cost nothing. Anne I understood that, I just thought that my reply had caught the eye of others who were also a bit hot under the collar, so to speak, and they were hoping for something else to take out of context, I saw your apology and explaination, and I hope everyone that had so much energy over a GUI, noticed not one person said so if you want the gui your way, learn perl and/or C++ and write the GUI the way you want, since it (GNU-Linux) is all about choice and learning. No one is stopping anyone from writting their own GUI and offering it to the world as an additional choice. (it is GNU/GPL is it not?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] webmin
On Friday 14 February 2003 01:55 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 01:47, et wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:39 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 14:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 10:41 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 8:49 am, Gil Katz wrote: Hi when i try to enter to webmin i only get the user password when i enter root and the password nothing happens and i get again the login window. any idea Gil Does the user password let you in? If so, there's a screen for Webmin users. Make sure that root is on the list, and try again. When you're sure it's working properly you can remove the user if you want to. Anne No when using the user i get login failed Gil Sounds to me like a corrupt installation. Wait a few hours to see if anyone else has any ideas. If nothing comes, uninstall and start again. Are you using the Mandrake install from the cds? Anne Hi i tried to reinstall but got the same results. i got the CDś that i downloaded from the internet. any ideaś Gil I am kinda late getting in here, but how are we trying to start webmin? (in a browser, https://127.0.0.1:1? I try https://localhost:1 when i try to connect in the first time i get that i don't have certificate is that mean anything? Gil it means you have not gotten a certificate for your website, and since you can pretty much trust yourself, go ahead and click i don't give squat about no stincken certificate or what ever, and not to worry about that. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enabling DMA on CD-Writer
On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:57 pm, Ryan Moe wrote: Hmm, it appears my drive is using 16-bit IO mode. Is this a large factor in HD performance? ahhh yes 16 is half of 32 so it is about 1/2 speed /dev/hde: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.61 seconds =209.84 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.37 seconds = 46.72 MB/sec Thanks, Ryan On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 19:58, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:08:10 -0600 Ryan Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it could be that my hd perhaps isn't configured correctly and the real bottleneck isn't my CDR eating up CPU but my HD eating up CPU to send data to the CDR. Can you post the output of # hdparm -ctT /dev/hde Charles -- Love your neighbour, yet don't pull down your hedge. -- Benjamin Franklin - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-6mdk - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:18 am, Chuck Burns wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 3:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you stop asking questions like this on the mandrake-newbie list. :) when the kids move out and the dog dies Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
On Friday 14 February 2003 08:17 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. No joke. I am personally going to be taking a newbie learning course (not a course, just a self taught action) in Apache/Perl/Python/SQL programming here soon. So i totally understand that statement. Rob sounds like looking for fun in all the right places Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
On Friday 14 February 2003 08:05 pm, robin wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. Sir Robin Notme I sware that after the all the critters die, and the kids move out on their own, I am going right out and get me a life. and boy, once _I_ get a lifelookout out world... and reserve me a room in the orthopeapics wing, cause I am likely to wreck something Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned
On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:43 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I have not seen one posting to Newbie OR Expert stating they like the separate programs for RPM installation. Its a hassle switching between the different progs. OK - if we don't agree, we don't exist. Not understanding what you meant by this. Rob my interpatation of statements like this is either it is no so freaking far out of context no one can possibly figure it out, or the author really should go ahead and start back with the caffeine in their coffee, or less working on beta testting of uubp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] webmin
On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:39 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 14:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 10:41 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 8:49 am, Gil Katz wrote: Hi when i try to enter to webmin i only get the user password when i enter root and the password nothing happens and i get again the login window. any idea Gil Does the user password let you in? If so, there's a screen for Webmin users. Make sure that root is on the list, and try again. When you're sure it's working properly you can remove the user if you want to. Anne No when using the user i get login failed Gil Sounds to me like a corrupt installation. Wait a few hours to see if anyone else has any ideas. If nothing comes, uninstall and start again. Are you using the Mandrake install from the cds? Anne Hi i tried to reinstall but got the same results. i got the CDś that i downloaded from the internet. any ideaś Gil I am kinda late getting in here, but how are we trying to start webmin? (in a browser, https://127.0.0.1:1? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned
On Thursday 13 February 2003 11:06 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:52, et wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:43 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I have not seen one posting to Newbie OR Expert stating they like the separate programs for RPM installation. Its a hassle switching between the different progs. OK - if we don't agree, we don't exist. Not understanding what you meant by this. Rob my interpatation of statements like this is either it is no so freaking far out of context no one can possibly figure it out, or the author really should go ahead and start back with the caffeine in their coffee, or less working on beta testing of uubp. What exactly did you mean by that, ed? ;) LX __ if we don't agree we don't exist? that statement is so far in left field, unless it has something to do with part of this thread that was clipped, I can not begin to make sense of it. Hell, I don't agree with a lot of stuff that I am damn sure exists. And I don't (usually) object if we apply normal respect around here, and capitalize proper names, so if you want to call me Ed, I would not mind too much. Now, what exactly did you mean by that, LX? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned
On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:59 am, Robert Wideman wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:43 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I have not seen one posting to Newbie OR Expert stating they like the separate programs for RPM installation. Its a hassle switching between the different progs. OK - if we don't agree, we don't exist. Not understanding what you meant by this. Rob my interpatation of statements like this is either it is no so freaking far out of context no one can possibly figure it out, or the author really should go ahead and start back with the caffeine in their coffee, or less working on beta testting of uubp. I was the one that stated the above comment. I am subscribed to both newbie/expert for the last 2 months and i havent seen very much comparing the GURPMI. What i have seen/read is commenting on how much they with the 8.2 version was back, with the capabilities that have reached thus far. Meaning the interface (tabs, installed, uninstalled, available, not available) were in 9.x. I personally would like to have that back. But its not a big deal for me since i hardly ever use anything except install section. I use the CLI for everything else, querying, uninstalling, etc. Rob well really I think it was Anne that made the statement in question; OK - if we don't agree, we don't exist if you made that statement, perhaps you would like to explain it. I don't agree with Rush Limbaugh, but I am pretty sure we both exist. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Aargh: Internet Explorer HTTPS = DNS fail
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 04:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 9:46 am, Michael Adams wrote: Does somebody recognize a strange error a friend is having while making HTTPS attempts to connect to his bank with IE (Never thought i'd be asking this one here). IE returns an Error Page with no number (like 404) The page advises it could be caused by - site temporarily unavailable - slow connection - incorrect address - site doesn't exist (Sounds 404ish doesn't it) He was previously connecting OK to this site. It does still exist. All Security settings are checked on in Tools Internet Options Advanced tab Security (SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, PCT 1.0). I did see a momentary request for http://https://web.site.name, Which may be the problem, or it may be an attempt to re-lookup after the initial failure. My second course of action is to reload win98 for him as neither the bank nor his ISP could help. Loading Mandrake for him is not an option as he is on a course which requires Word and Outlook Express (AAARGH again). Just a suggestion - load Mozilla for windows for him. It would tell you whether the problem was IE specific, or something more general. Anne and you can make konq or mozilla report it is IE4+ and the bank might never know the diference,,,works for my bank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stoopid question from a soon to be newbie
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 05:16 am, cowinacape wrote: Howdy all, Just a quick question, as I sit here waiting for mailman to deliver our (the girl friends and mine) mandrake disks. Can we expect Mandrake to behave the same on her PC as it does on my Mac, ie: does the OS operate differently on different machine platforms? Or is Mandrake simply mandrake regardless of where it calls home? Thanks Kindly Dan hmmm,,, I think the answer to both questions is yes. yes it will look a lot the same and behave the same and you will both have home folders and have to be root to install programs and will have to deal with MSEC. And, yes, in fact no two install on the same machine come out exactly the same way since there are SO damn many choices to make and customize, so it matters less weither you are using a g4 mac or a p4 intel, than it does if you do expert or recomended install. HTH et Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk installation
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 04:03 am, Gil Katz wrote: Hi my friend try to install mdk 9.0 he got Matrox G200 8MB and unknown monitor the installation recognize the Matrox and sets the monitor as generic 1024x768 65milion colors when the installation ends and the computer restarts when starting X server the computer stuck. Has anyone got idea what to do? Gil explain / cescribe further the starting X server the computer stuck. what was on the screen? any errors? what happens if you CTRL+ALT+F3 and login as root and run top? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] digest
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:01 am, Weber wrote: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 5:10 really??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] webmin
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 10:41 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 8:49 am, Gil Katz wrote: Hi when i try to enter to webmin i only get the user password when i enter root and the password nothing happens and i get again the login window. any idea Gil Does the user password let you in? If so, there's a screen for Webmin users. Make sure that root is on the list, and try again. When you're sure it's working properly you can remove the user if you want to. Anne No when using the user i get login failed Gil Sounds to me like a corrupt installation. Wait a few hours to see if anyone else has any ideas. If nothing comes, uninstall and start again. Are you using the Mandrake install from the cds? Anne caps lock Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] digest
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 08:40 am, Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:23:04 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:01 am, Weber wrote: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 5:10 really??? well it beats 192.168.0.1:139 =)~ lol (ok its late and i'm getting loopy) I laffed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 PNY GeForce4 MX 440-SE
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 08:38 am, John S. Chalice wrote: Hey there.. I just upgraded my video card to a new PNY PCI GeForce4 MX 440-SE, from my previous of a Radeon 7000. Unfortunately, I am still having a problem getting XWindows to work for Mandrake 9.0. I tried installing the I32 nVidia driver rpm binaries (both the GLX and the kernel) for Mandrake from nVidia's site.. I also tried making the drivers from the .tar.gz source files as well, *and* I tried playing with some of the options in the XF86Config-4 file.. but I still couldn't get the GUI to show up. It doesn't lock up the keyboard, but I can't see anything but a black screen. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks for your time. -- John Chalice a.k.a. crysaliq ??startx?? init 5? post XF86Config-4 file? what happens if you hit enter? any flashing lites or prompt? do you have anything on screen durring bootup? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange problem with my 8.2-box
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 03:50 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Anders, I can't comment about command lines but I've seen this with other pieces of software. Usually, when I lose something here, and it won't restart its because its not completely dead. You can do a top or controlesc to bring up KDEs' System Guard and see if part of that process is still running. If it is, just kill it, then restart your app. Works for me here. :-) top won't work since i can't write anything in the commandline and I have as little KDE installed as possible, but then again this is a Compaq-box we are talking about LOL. I should perhaps also add that starting a terminal is no problem but it kinda hangs and no commandline comes up /Anders what happens if you ctrl+alt+f3? can you login there? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:18 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Tom, Got mine as well. Thanks. Dual boot time coming up. hehe The beta CD's have arrived - and anyone in NZ or Australia that needs copies of the 3 x CD's - gimme yer details and I'll post'em off to ya mates! Stephen, (NOTE to NZ'ers) - I can't send beer or better footy players. Beer, NO. Footy Players, most definitely. We'll be sending better footy players in winter when the footy season starts up again. We always send better footy players. That's why we keep beating them. I used to keep stats from the games on my Linux computer (does that keep me on topic?) Regards Trevor Rhodes hopefully you all will post problems via bugzilla AFTER checking to see the if the bug is been reported. the reason being as while you now have beta3, rc1 is either due out any time now, or is out by now === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 5:14pm up 1:47, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why is a x.1 bleeding edge?
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:42 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:13, civileme wrote: Large snip But if you have used 9.1 Beta3, you may have already discovered that bleeding edge can send a wind from your terminal screen to blow your hair back. I wish releases were as nice as that beta. Civileme I am having trouble understanding this statement. Are you saying that final releases are generely not as good as the final betas and that the final release of 9.1 will not be as good as the beta 3 and if so why? Marc I think he is saying it gets better all the time, and this beta is about as good as the final versions just a number or 2 back Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 09:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll start by stating that I'm a newly converted Windows user. I know.. flame me if you must. no flames for that here,,, you are in the correct place. Anyway, I am trying to get SAMBA running and I need a little help. Where do I start? Real basic stuff - remember, I lived in the Windows world until about a week ago... first place is to make sure your hardware and network is up and running? http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hmlf_dell.html http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,224997,20271094,00.htm http://samba.linuxbe.org/ might be some links to ge tthe reading started... I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on a Dell Latitude CPi laptop... TIA, PM I'd rather be upside down in my kayak than right side up at my desk - bumper sticker, 72 Volvo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:31 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an easy to use HTML editor. One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented toward the inexperienced user. TIA for any feedback on this. Best regards to all. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** I love this thread... I suggest jed, kate, joe, nedit, emac or vim, and do it by hand so you know how to fix what ever your wsiwyg editor screws up. if you can't read the html produced, how can you fix it? and how come, if there is time to go back over it and fix it correctly later, how come there is not enough time to do it correct the first time? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 11:19 am, Franki wrote: huh?? you are gonna reinsall to get samba and webmin??? don't do that.. open a terminal (like a linux dos prompt.. and in the menu) type the following: might wanna su and login with the root password about right here.. urpmi webmin urpmi samba service webmin start service smb start That will get you installed and going.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SAMBA help? I don't think I have Samba services or Webmin installed. I'll run through the re-install and make sure they are enabled... Thx, PM Patrick Miller I'd rather be upside down in my kayak than right side up at my desk - bumper sticker, 72 Volvo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:51 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:14 PM 2/11/2003 +, you wrote: On a side note how can I tell which version of any window manager I'm using? Whats teh CLI cmd or Gui place to look? - FemmeFatale umm.. like this? [root@localhost user]# rpm -qa | grep -i Windowmaker WindowMaker-0.80.1-2.1mdk HTH Damian -- That will do. Thx Damian. Not that I'll remember the command cause I don't understand grep yet... :) So I'll just save your mail as a txt file. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert grep is just a way to use regular words to sort and see only certian info. in the above command, rpm -qa (asks the rpm program to Query All so -qa) then | is a pipe to or route thru, then, grep -i Windowmaker says only answers that (-i) include WIndowmaker so grep strips out all the answers that don't include Windowmaker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] quick and dirty local mail server
On Monday 10 February 2003 07:47 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:36, Brian Parish wrote: I need to set up a mail server based on Mdk 9.0 tomorrow to serve local mail only. i.e. Just to be a pop server for W$ client machines on the LAN. No relaying outside the network. I have approx. zero time to do this. Can anyone offer the simplest way or point me at the appropriate URL? TIA Brian OK - bad form to reply to your own posts, but I think I've made it part way. I've installed postfix and it's running with default settings. I've installed the imap rpm and can see in webmin that the pop3 server is enabled within the xinetd thingy. No, No, we like it a lot whenyo reply to your own posts, especially if it is with the correct (ar at least a good) answer. So now I can check for new messages and presumably if there were some, I would get them. If I try to send to the server using smtp however, I get connection refused on port 25. The firewall shouldn't be implicated as this is coming from the trusted interface, but I opened port 25 just on case. No change. I assume that postfix is providing the smtp server functionality, so maybe I haven't switched on what needs to the switched on there? As always, all input gratefully received. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question
On Monday 10 February 2003 09:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:49 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question Trust me: I almost got a PhD in installing Windows and Mandrake this week :-) 1.- *First of all*, install Windows 2000/XP. 2.- Create a FAT32 partition to hold data that you want to read/write with Windows and Mandrake. 3.- Install Mandrake. It is this easy. You will get a dual boot system. G'day, Thanks to those who answered. I followed the instructions from Lanman and Adolpho above, and got this far: * I disconnected my 80G HDD - better safe than sorry LOL * I fired up Partition Magic and resized the existing NTFS partition down to 8G, and labelled it windoze. * I added another 8G partition, made it FAT32 [on a guess - I figured if Linux couldn't see files on a NTFS partition it probably couldn't install in one either:)], labelled it linux * set the remaining 22G [I wonder where the other 2G went???] as FAT32 and labelled it archive. I fired up windows and moved my data from C: to E: [the newly created archive partition]. So far so good - windoze sees all three partitions. Put in Mandrake 9.0 CD1, went through the languages, kbd/mouse, security - accepted the defaults as they seemed reasonable. Setup Filesystems shows a graphical representation something like this: +-++-+ | /mnt/nt | /mnt/win_c |/mnt/win_d | +-++-+ This **looks** right, but it's not seeing the labels, and it **seems** to be confused: In linux (it's all about choice) you can call the partiutions what ever you want, but the system needs to see certain standard partitions. I would also suggest that you leave the 80 gig in the box, since you will want to give them mount points that the system will see in linux, and you would not really want to see the drive letters switched around in windoze either, (but you might anyway, since in Linux, you control the drive names, and in Uncle billy's OS he get to make the choice for you, and what he chooses is anyones guess). but you can name the partition win_e if you like, as long as you suck it up and consider that the Expert is pretty much equal to custom on the install of most Win Software, and look for the options. As long as you do not format, you will not loose any info on the ntfs or fat partitions, and when you create linux partions, they do not need / nor sould be formated via PM, just let the diskdrake part of the install do that, but do it as expert, and untill you get used to Linux and the differnet partition schemes, just go with that second 8 gigs as one big / partiton. what it calls win_c is actually E and what it calls win_d is actually F [D: is the CDROM]. To be fair, it does say just a guess in the details box when I click on each partition. But: there doesn't seem to be any way [that I can see] to be sure. And even if I was pretty sure that the second partition is the one to put Linux on, I don't see any way on this screen to tell it to do that. click on the red zone of that partition, that will select that partition, and get you some more choices (in expert) Auto Allocate says: not enough space for auto-allocating The wizard gives three options: - erase the entire disk - use the free space on the windoze partition - use the windoze partition for loopback I clicked on toggle to expert mode [with some trepidation, because clearly I'm not - LOL] and found a button to format the partitions, but I chickened out, because I can't be sure which partition is which. And anyhow, the partitions are already formatted FAT32 - do they need to be formatted again to put Linux on them? I guess I'm looking for some button that says install here... ...asking too much? g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:14 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:36, Robert Wideman wrote: OK... so whats the real diff between those 2 editors which one is more newb friendly? If neither is newbie friendly, well name something that is and is more or less standard on most *nix's. How about GEDIT if you have X working or PICO if in CLI??? Rob right about here I like to suggest jed for it's resembalance to dos edit, and it is command line/console, plus I like the name Haven't got PICO yet... get some weirdo thingy callled JPico tho... dunno where it came from... Gedit been playing with a bit. Loaded Rox yesterday and the POS defaults to VI!?! Ack! And I didn't know how to use Vi yet so I just closed it. I'll play with it AFTER I get through my list of things to get running/working/up/un-fucked/into shape somehow. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RE: Problem Running 9.0...
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:07 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:27, Richard Urwin wrote: Julian Templeman wrote: amputate irrelevancy here You will end up with a 1024x768 desktop though, so you'll have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (digression - why are there two files? Why is the -4 there?) -- Richard Urwin, Private No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato. Afaik it is a new standard set by the X-Free86 consortium for the new XWindow 4.2.x (i hope thats the right version #) graphics output system. Hm... In simpler terms: XF86Config is the old standard cfg file for Xwindow up to ver 3.x.x IIRC. When XWindow 4.x.x came around they needed to add new parameters to that config file. Instead of re-writing it from scratch they appended a new file with some of the old parameters some new ones added in for newer graphics cards. If you compare the two files they are nearly identicaly in all respects except that the XF86Config-4 one contains some newer modelines some other techy errata that means nothing to anyone outside the Consortium... or Civilme perhaps. G that's about right if you have a -4 it uses that, if not it knows you are in Xfree86 ver3x Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
On Monday 10 February 2003 07:23 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:25, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 23:56, Russ wrote: Hi All, Snipped out prev post IF what you want is to have quick access to data in a drive, you can symlink to the mount point, like: ln -s /mnt/disk /a ln -s /mnt/windows /d ln -s /mnt/cdrom /e However, I would recommend you to unlearn that Window$ crap and stay with the linux/unix file system way. Now now dear, that windows crap (as you call it) is still useful. Everyone needs to learn one way or another no way is wrong. ehh,,, femme, believe me, I can find the wrong way, so I am willing to sware there is a wrong way... blame the drugs... Not even Windows methods. They're just different, albeit some are more efficient than others. And your linking suggestion is very good for beginners experts alike if it helps them get around in their preferrred environment(s). :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
