[newbie] Machine name on a network
I have my linux computer on an company Win95/98/NT LAN. I need to give the computer a name for Samba. Since I do not know the file names that I need to modify in order change this, I use linuxconf. Under Networking, Basic host information, I have the host name as "kevin". What should be the "Primary name + domain" for Adaptor 1? Our NT server has all of the users in the XSELL domain. Thanks kevin
RE: [newbie] Linux slooooow!
The DNS is a local machine on my network that acts NAT. My resolv.conf: search nameserver 192.168.10.200 My hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhostlocalhost.localdomain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Adams Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 3:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux slow! On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: %_Hi! Usually, Sendmail is really slow to start when there is a DNS problem. you may check your /etc/hosts file or your DNS configuration in order to see if your hostname is well defined. Fred Kevin Fife wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0 installed on a 450 Pentium-II computer. Everything worked fine. I installed a Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter so that I could share an optical drive on my network. When I started the machine the first time after installing the card, linux started going very slow when starting sendmail. Each service afterwards takes about 5 minutes each! I then shut down the computer and ripped out that card (which did work fine in another computer). After restarting the machine, linux still acts the same. I start at the GUI login normally, but it would not come up. So I pressed Alt-F2 to login as root. I was able to 'startx' and get to the GUI login and eventually to KDE. The shell program works normally, but Netscape takes about 5 minutes to start. No nameserver(s) defined in /etc/resolv.conf or they are unreachable, (no route) or you have defined localhost as your computer name in /etc/hosts, localhost should be somelike; 127.0.0.1 localhost What has happened?? kevin -- -- Frederic PLE email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Linux slooooow!
#1 lesson when taking your computer cover off and back on: Make sure all cable connections are secure. I tried pinging the computer and got no response so I check the network cable, and lo and behold: It was in all the way. kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Adams Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux slow! On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote: The DNS is a local machine on my network that acts NAT. My resolv.conf: search nameserver 192.168.10.200 Then i would say thats your problem, 192.168.10.200 is a non-existant host/domain My hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhostlocalhost.localdomain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Adams Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 3:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux slow! On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: %_Hi! Usually, Sendmail is really slow to start when there is a DNS problem. you may check your /etc/hosts file or your DNS configuration in order to see if your hostname is well defined. Fred Kevin Fife wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0 installed on a 450 Pentium-II computer. Everything worked fine. I installed a Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter so that I could share an optical drive on my network. When I started the machine the first time after installing the card, linux started going very slow when starting sendmail. Each service afterwards takes about 5 minutes each! I then shut down the computer and ripped out that card (which did work fine in another computer). After restarting the machine, linux still acts the same. I start at the GUI login normally, but it would not come up. So I pressed Alt-F2 to login as root. I was able to 'startx' and get to the GUI login and eventually to KDE. The shell program works normally, but Netscape takes about 5 minutes to start. No nameserver(s) defined in /etc/resolv.conf or they are unreachable, (no route) or you have defined localhost as your computer name in /etc/hosts, localhost should be somelike; 127.0.0.1 localhost What has happened?? kevin -- -- Frederic PLE email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Linux slooooow!
I have Mandrake 6.0 installed on a 450 Pentium-II computer. Everything worked fine. I installed a Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter so that I could share an optical drive on my network. When I started the machine the first time after installing the card, linux started going very slow when starting sendmail. Each service afterwards takes about 5 minutes each! I then shut down the computer and ripped out that card (which did work fine in another computer). After restarting the machine, linux still acts the same. I start at the GUI login normally, but it would not come up. So I pressed Alt-F2 to login as root. I was able to 'startx' and get to the GUI login and eventually to KDE. The shell program works normally, but Netscape takes about 5 minutes to start. What has happened?? kevin
RE: [newbie] Problem with Mandrake 6.0 detection of Ethernet card
I cannot get Linux to even detect and install the appropriate driver during installation, therefore I cannot setup the ethernet card nor a LAN. kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerry Doyon Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with Mandrake 6.0 detection of Ethernet card As for myself, I need some more information. Can you PING the Linux box for another Linux/Windows box ? When Linux loads does it indicate an error when it attempts to load the network card driver ? Your card should work perfectly because I use several of them myself. Kevin Fife wrote: I am trying to install Mandrake 6.0 on a Pentium-III 450mhz Gateway computer with a 3Com 3C905C (Tornado) Ethernet card. I can install and configure the system fine up to the point of detecting the Ethernet card. I have tried the 3C90x and the 3C59x with autoprobe with no success. I know that the card works in Windows 98, and when I attach the patch cable, it auto-senses and the 100 light is green and the activity light flashes on the card. Any ideas? kevin
[newbie] Can't use Alt-O to open a page with Netscape
I have Netscape 4.61 installed on a computer running Mandrake 6.0. I cannotuse Alt-O to open a page. When I press that key combination, the computerbeeps as if it was an invalid keystroke. Alt-O works fine in other programs.Any suggestions?Thankskevin
RE: [newbie] Can't use Alt-O to open a page with Netscape
I did that and it still doesn't work. kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Axalon Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't use Alt-O to open a page with Netscape rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Kevin Fife wrote: I have Netscape 4.61 installed on a computer running Mandrake 6.0. I cannot use Alt-O to open a page. When I press that key combination, the computer beeps as if it was an invalid keystroke. Alt-O works fine in other programs. Any suggestions? Thanks kevin
Re: [newbie] Formatting problems
I'll try that. I had Windows on the first drive, but I can easily make that drive the second drive. Thanks for the info. kevin - Original Message - From: John Mandeville [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Formatting problems - Original Message - From: Nick Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Formatting problems At 09:45 12/04/99 -0400, you wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake 5.3 on a Pentium II 200 with two 4 gig SCSI hard drives connected to an Adaptec 2940. I would like to install linux on the second hard drive (sdb). However, during a Custom install, after I select the partioning I want (600mb root, 128mb swap, the rest as /usr), and the packages I want installed, linux hangs with the following message: Making ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1... Can anyone please help me format my drive and install linux. kevin Can you do a low-level format of the drives from within the Adaptec bios? Is the termination correct? Do you have active termination? There may be other messages on some of the other virtual screens - hit ALT F[2345] to see them. May the fish be with you. nick@nexnix I dont know if it means anything but i coudnt get linux to install on my 6.4 gb as a primary slavr...my zip was the master...sounds like the same thing only different...due to scsii got basically the same error 'cept it was something like /dev/hdb5... try switching it to the first drive John
RE: [newbie] Making KDE run faster
I've installed Mandrake 5.3. I believe it has the 2.0.36 kernel. I haven't upgraded any package yet. kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Philp Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Making KDE run faster Kevin Fife wrote: Irsan, I'm having a similar problem, except I have even more memory than you do. When I run free -m I get the following results. total usedfreeshared buffers cached Mem:10 9 1 5 1 2 -/+ bufffers/cache: 4 5 Swap: 101 15 86 As you can see, linux thinks I only have 10meg of memory!! I even added the append='128MB' statement to the lilo.conf, but no difference. Run the free -m command and see if you get similar results. Check the dmesg output to see what the kernel finds when it starts. Are you running a 2.2.x kernel and haven't upgraded the procps package?? -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Making KDE run faster
I ran Mandrake on a clean install. I have 128 meg of memory. Could it be that since I couldn't get LILO to boot my hard drive and am booting from a bootdisk that it's not respecting the append statement? kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kuraiken Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 5:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Making KDE run faster Kevin Fife wrote: Irsan, I'm having a similar problem, except I have even more memory than you do. When I run free -m I get the following results. total usedfreeshared buffers cached Mem:10 9 1 5 1 2 -/+ bufffers/cache: 4 5 Swap: 101 15 86 As you can see, linux thinks I only have 10meg of memory!! I even added the append='128MB' statement to the lilo.conf, but no difference. Run the free -m command and see if you get similar results. kevin Whoah! This is bad. How much RAM do your really have, Kevin? This says that Linux itself only sees (and hence can use) 10 MB ONLY. You do NOT want to run KDE on that. (or any other wm for that matter...) I think your problem is different from Irsan's, though. Did you install Mandrake clean? Or did you upgrade from some other distro / version? Linux kernel version? -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster -- Discussions heartily welcomed; Flames generally ignored. --
