[newbie] problem with too much ram
Hi everyone, I have a problem with adding RAM that I hope someone can help me with. We have a Compaq SP750 (dual P3 866 Xeon) that had 1.5GB of RDRAM. When we added another 512MB to bring the total up to 2GB, the LM7.1 installed on the machine refuse to boot. It gets to the place where it's suppose to load the RAM disk (I think) but go into kernel panic: unable to mount root. We tried just putting in 1792MB of RAM, then the machine boots up w/o any problems. Anyone has any idea why? TIA. Andy
RE: [newbie] problem with too much ram
Don't be jealous... The machine is being used by the whole dept. (about 5 heavy duty users) for running large computational tasks. It originally came with 512MB RAM, but one user's "modest" job brought the machine to its knees. That's why we are adding RAM like that. (We actually have 2 machines like this. Haven't got the second one setup yet.) The machine is fairly new (6 months). According to Compaq, the mobo uses Intel 840 chip set (whatever that means), and can hold upto 4GB of 800-MHz ECC RDRAM. I'm quite sure the RAM modules were purchased from Compaq authorized dealers, so they ought to know what they are doing. Anyone else has any hints? Andy From: Tim Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Most motherboards have a certain amount of RAM it will support. A lot of them stop at 1.5 GB. The one I have does support 2 GB. But you should check the web page for the Motherboard and find out if that board will support the 2GB All I know is I'm jealous... 1.5 GB and a dual processor machine? :0( That would be SWEET!!! One other thing I just thought of, which most likely won't be an issues, but I know Comcrap (lol) used to only accept proprietary RAM. I'm pretty sure the did away with this, but I'm not sure how old your Motherboard is either. So it's possible that it doesn't support 2 GB of RAM, or it needs to be RAM from Comcrap. Extremely jealous, tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010409 15:18]: | Hi everyone, | | I have a problem with adding RAM that I hope someone can help me with. | | We have a Compaq SP750 (dual P3 866 Xeon) that had 1.5GB of RDRAM. When we | added another 512MB to bring the total up to 2GB, the LM7.1 installed on the | machine refuse to boot. It gets to the place where it's suppose to load the | RAM disk (I think) but go into kernel panic: unable to mount root. We tried | just putting in 1792MB of RAM, then the machine boots up w/o any problems. | Anyone has any idea why? | | TIA. | | Andy
RE: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
Check which package the file belong to at rpmfind.net. Andy -Original Message- From: Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86? also forgot to ask .. some of these dependency errors list files that I have no idea what package they come from (so far the ones that appear regularly are "libfreetype.so.6" and "glibc-devel") .. what package(s) are these files found in? Terry --- Robin Regennitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2001 01:01 pm, you wrote: what I did to upgrade 2.1.1 from 2.0.1 was first thing first. put XFree in its own directory and cd to that directory and type: rpm -Fvh *.rpm and put qt2 in its directory and cd to that directory and type: rpm -Uvh --replacefiles *.rpm and finally with all your kde rpm in the directory all by itself and type. rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm you may have a conflict with kdeaddutil rpm you can either use rpm -e kdeaddutil*.i586 and that should remove the package or just simply use rpm -Uvh --nodeps --replacefiles *.rpm to install all your 2.1.1 with no dependency and to replace the files that conflicts with kdeaddutil files. Hope that helps. Rob __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] how to permit users to mount SMB shares?
Hi everyone, We have a dual-P3 Xeon box running LM7.1 that is shared by people in my group. It would be nice if users can mount their own NT harddisk on their home directory under Linux. The problem is, when executed by a user, mount says it can only be done by root. This is obviously for good reasons. Is there anyway to give users permission to mount/umount specific things? TIA... Andy
RE: [newbie] (OT) want my linux work faster and networking
Sorry for the OT... I installed M$ Money 2001 on the Windoze part of my machine the other day. Anyone wants to guess how much disk space it took up? "Complete install" = approx. 250 MB Andy -Original Message- From: carjam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking Notice that office is only about 10 meg? Where does it go? Well, the windows directory grows by a few hundred meg. - Original Message - From: Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking Tanggal 15 Feb 2001, dari Tafta Zani : hi guys, I have heard that linux is relatively faster then windows. But why do windows can open such large application like MS Word 2000 in less than five seconds but LM 7.2 needs more than that to open Star Office 5.2 thats because windows already load another part of it during boot up. im sure you noticed that windows tooks more time to boot after the office apps installed. TIA, Tafta -- Ribbo "Consider yourself lucky. I only let the Adrianator do that." -- Slash, "Quake 3 Arena"
[newbie] WordPerfect 8 license key and PhotoPaint install
Hi, I downloaded WP8 and followed the instruction for installation. After the install, I typed "xwp". The program launched, but I get a dialog box saying "The grace period for this software will expire after 90 days. "etc. and asks me for a license key. I can click on the button "Enter key later" and keep using the program. However, I thought the download version of WP8 is supposed to be better than the 90-day trialware that this apparently is. Am I missing something? Anyone has any idea? Also, I downloaded PhotoPaint9 for Linux and installed it. The problem is I don't know how to start the program! The installer put a bunch of files in /usr/lib/corel, but I couldn't find an appropriate excecutable under that directory tree. I couldn't find anything in the README either. Has anyone have better luck? Please let me know. TIA! Cheers, Andy
[newbie] dependency problems with rpm in LM7.1
Hi everyone, I have LM7.1 installed on a machine shared by several people in the office. I tried to install some newer apps with rpm, but several times hit the error "only packages with major number =3 are supported by this version of RPM". I checked the version of rpm I have, and it says 3.0.4. I tried to upgrade rpm to 3.0.5, but it needs a newer version of "menu". Trying to install the newer version of "menu" again gives me the error "only packages with major number =3 are supported by this version of RPM". Can someone help me get out of this loop? Much appreciated!! Cheers, Andy
[newbie] adding new window manager to kdm list
Hi, I've downloaded and installed xfce in my LM7.1 box. Can someone tell me how I can add it to the menu at the login screen? TIA! Cheers, Andy
[newbie] USB Orb drive with SCSI HD
Hi, I have a question about how to access my USB Orb drive on a machine that has SCSI HD. In my machine at home I have an IDE HD. To use the USB Orb drive, I do the following: modprobe usb-storage modprobe usb-uhci and then check /proc/scsi/scsi to see that the drive is recognized. Then I mount it by mount -tvfat /dev/sda5 /mnt/orb My question is, I'm trying to use the Orb drive on the Linux box at work (I have stock LM7.1 running on both), which has a SCSI HD and a SCSI tape drive. What device would the Orb drive be then? TIA! Andy
RE: [newbie] dual processor detection?
Try "cat /proc/cpuinfo", or run "ktop" and click on the performance meter tab. If the system sees two cpu (cpu0 and cpu 1), you should see two meters for the two cpu's. Andy -Original Message- From: Mike Berezowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] dual processor detection? Hello, I am pretty new to the linux environment, and I have a question. I have installed linux mandrake 7.2 and updated the kernel to 2.4, with SMP enabled. I am using a dual celeron motherboard, hence the SMP. I was wondering if there is any way of explicitly telling if the dual processor support is enabled. My hard drake lists only one processor under the processor type, and that is the only indication I know of. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thank you Mike Berezowski __ ___ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
RE: [newbie] Dual processors ??
If the install program sees two CPUs, it will install the SMP kernel. For example, the kernel installed on our dual P3 Xeon box is 2.2.15-4mdksmp (from LM7.1). As mentioned before, only multi-thread apps and apps specifically written for SMP will run faster. Who makes mobo for dual Athalons? I thought AMD said they won't have SMP-capable Athalons until later this year. Cheers, Andy -- From: abe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual processors ?? if you are running an SMP mandrake system will recompiling the software you use help it to use the SMP capabilities of the machine or not? You all have me curious now. My girlfriend wants a dual T-Bird system for her birthday this summer. This will be a strictly mandrake machine. Abe Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 09 January 2001 08:17 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: I'd be real interested in knowing about this too cause I've been toying with the same idea of building a dual processor system. Linux is all I run anymore. I'd be more concerned as to how the kernel would react to such a situation more then some of the apps on that system. I can't imagine how'd they'd really care whether there were 1 or 10 processor. Well, i've never run SMP. From what I understand, a multi processor system has no problems running software written for single proccessor systems, but multi cpu systems won't run 'em any faster/better either. The application has to be specifically written and compiled to take advantage of multi proccessors ... and they're few and far between on most all desktop systems. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] problem printing to SMB from LM7.1 w/ Samba 207 and CUPS 115
Hi all, Can some kind soul help me with this problem? I've wasted a few days on this and didn't get very far...8- We have a Compaq SP750 (dual P3 Xeon) with LM 7.1 installed and connected to our corporate intranet (NT4). I have been struggling to set up printing to a SMB printer on the corporate network. I learned the hard way that I had to remove printpro. In my struggle I also removed lpr, printtool and rhs-filters (and others) to try and get cups to install. I finally got cups 1.1.5 rpm from the cups site to install. I also upgraded samba-common, samba, and samba-clients to 2.0.7. I can use smbclient and smbprint (slightly modified) to print, but I can't get cups to print. The status says "printer lp is disabled - Unable to connect to SAMBA host: Success". I checked Till's article, and it says to use kups. I checked out kups, and it requires KDE2 (along with other packages). I do *not* want to upgrade to KDE2 (yet), since I have LM7.2 with KDE2 at home and it is not as stable as KDE1. So, can someone tell me how to setup the SMB printer under cups? Where do I specify username and password? Can I use some magic filter with this setup (such as rhs-filters)? How? Also, the Linux box is being used by several people in my group. How do I configure the system so that everyone will be using his/her own NT username and password to print to the SMB printer? Thanks a bunch in advance! Andy
[newbie] help configuring a SMB printer on LM7.1
Hi everyone, Can someone help me configuring LM7.1 to print to a printer on our NT network? I was told that I should not run the LM7.1 box as a Samba server, so all I want to do is print to this network printer. The info: The printer is a HP 4050 (Postscript) on our corporate NT network. The share name is \\CRRY0F02\WRYBIO1. I tried using printerdrake to setup the printer, but can't figure out how to fill in these fields: SMB server host SMB server IP Share name User name Password Workgroup I tried looking in the control panel from my NT box for this printer, and found serveral IP's. Under the "General" tab, it has a greyed out box that says: HP 4050 ps xxx.xxx.xxx.220 #DHCP xx #IP:xxx.xxx.xxx.230 (4si/mx) Then on the "Ports" tab, it has an entry checked off: Port: xxx.xxx.xxx.222:AUTO Printer: WRYBIO1 So which is the right IP to use? Also, should I use my NT domain username and password? But the Linux box is shared by several people in my group (each with own NT username and password). Any help are greatly appreciated. TIA!! Regards, Andy
[newbie] how to downgrade XF86 from 4 to 3.3?
Hi everyone, Can someone tell me how I can downgrade XFree86 from 4.0 (in LM7.1) to 3.3? I found out that some of the software that we want to run do not support XFree86 4.0 (yet), such as Win4Lin and VMware. Cheers, Andy
[newbie] where are default config files?
Hi everyone, I have just installed LM7.1 on a machine that will be shared by several people via remote VNC connections. I would like to customize some settings for all users. Obviously when a new user account is created, some config files with default settings (eg., for bash, KDE, VNC, etc.) are copied to the user's home directory. What I'd like to know is, where are these files stored? Especially the files for KDE and VNC. TIA for any help!! Cheers, Andy
RE: [newbie] Might be OTResume software
Learn to use TeX/LaTeX. If you are serious in finding a decent job, don't rely on resume templates in word processors. Andy -- From: Vic[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 1:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Might be OTResume software Sorry about the ot message, Does anyone know of a decent software package that one can write a resume on? I have star office 5 so that might work, except I have not seen how to cause it to make a resume, or else I am asleep. Just wondering. Oh and it must be able to print to an old HP Deskjet no numbers or anything, just HP Deskjet it is an old black and white inkjet printer. Thanks
RE: [newbie] gates gets linux
I also read an article that says Corel is thinking about spinning off the Linux OS. Cheers, Andy -- From: Kelly, Christopher[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 9:26 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] gates gets linux I read an article that said that they might be using Linux code to fix all the bugs that Winblows has... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 9:13 AM To: patrick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets linux Ironicly they now own a Linux OS. They bought Corel did they not? :) u know this is sound rather silly but i have thinking this for awhile about microsoft. are they using linux code ? -- Love is all u need Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] FW: network card configuration problem
Sorry. Forgot to mention that I installed Mandrake 7.1. There is no other OS on the machine. The machine is a dual PIII Xeon 833 with 512MB ram and 18GB SCSI hard disk. -- From: Liaw, Andy Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 4:54 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: network card configuration problem Hi all, Can anyone help with the following problem with ethernet card? Much thanks in advance. Basically, the auto-detect does not recognize the card correctly. Even after setting it to the correct card in DrakConf, at reboot it still revert to the wrong card. We recently purchased a Compaq SP750 workstation with an "Integrated Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter" with an Intel chip set 82559. [DarkConf][Hardware Configuration] setup shows it as 82557 and try to map it to "IBM i82557 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter". Here are the things that I have tried some information that hopefully will help: -- 1) Startup Messages: Bringing up Interface lo [OK] Bringing up Interface eth0insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/net/eepro100.o : invalid parameter parm_io Delaying eth0 initialization [FAILED] Binding to NIS domain [FAILED] 2) # ifconfig only shows lo --- 3) script written to manually configure the drivers for the network card: networksetup.sh: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/net/eepro100.o /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S17ypbind start /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S80sendmail start /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S95innd start # /networksetup.sh bringin up device eth0[OK] shutting down device eth0 [OK] bringin up device eth0[OK] shutting down device lo [OK] bringin up device lo [OK] binding to NIS domain [FAILED] Starting Sendmail: Starting INND system [OK] - 4) # ifconfig eth0 Link encap: EthernetHwaddr: xx inet addr: 54.xx.xx.xx Bcast: 54.xx.xx.254 Mask:255.255.255.0 . UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packet: 145 . TX packet: 0 . . Interrupt: 18 Base address: 0xb000 lo . -- 5) # ifup eth0 SIOADDRT: File Exist SIOADDRT: network unreachable 6) # route add default gw 54.xx.xx.254 dev eth0 network unreachable --- 7) # route Destination Gateway GenMask FlagUse iface xyz.somewhere.com * 255.255.255.255 UH eth0 xyz.somewhere.com * 255.255.255.255 UH lo 54.xx.xx.0 * 255.255.255.0 U eth0 --- 8) # route add 54.xx.xx.xx gw 54.xx.xx.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 ERROR: netmask: 00ff doesn't make sense with host route Andy I. Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research Phone: (732) 594-0820 Merck Co., Inc. Fax: (732) 594-1565 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] printing problem after upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1
Hi all, I recently upgraded my machine from LM7.0 to LM7.1, and the printer stopped working. Would appreciate if anyone can help. The printer is a Epson Stylus 600. It is connected to a scanner, which in turn, is connected to the parallel port. It was working fine when I had LM7.0. It still works fine under Win98SE. When I try sending jobs with lpr, it just doesn't do anything. I tried PrinterDrake, and neither the ASCII nor PS test page will print. Oddly, if I cat an ASCII file to /dev/lp0, it does print. Can anyone provide some hints? Regards, Andy
[newbie] network card configuration problem
Hi all, Can anyone help with the following problem with ethernet card? Much thanks in advance. Basically, the auto-detect does not recognize the card correctly. Even after setting it to the correct card in DrakConf, at reboot it still revert to the wrong card. We recently purchased a Compaq SP750 workstation with an "Integrated Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter" with an Intel chip set 82559. [DarkConf][Hardware Configuration] setup shows it as 82557 and try to map it to "IBM i82557 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter". Here are the things that I have tried some information that hopefully will help: -- 1) Startup Messages: Bringing up Interface lo[OK] Bringing up Interface eth0insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/net/eepro100.o : invalid parameter parm_io Delaying eth0 initialization[FAILED] Binding to NIS domain [FAILED] 2) # ifconfig only shows lo --- 3) script written to manually configure the drivers for the network card: networksetup.sh: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/net/eepro100.o /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S17ypbind start /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S80sendmail start /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S95innd start # /networksetup.sh bringin up device eth0 [OK] shutting down device eth0 [OK] bringin up device eth0 [OK] shutting down device lo [OK] bringin up device lo[OK] binding to NIS domain [FAILED] Starting Sendmail: Starting INND system[OK] - 4) # ifconfig eth0Link encap: EthernetHwaddr: xx inet addr: 54.xx.xx.xx Bcast: 54.xx.xx.254 Mask:255.255.255.0 . UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packet: 145 . TX packet: 0 . . Interrupt: 18 Base address: 0xb000 lo . -- 5) # ifup eth0 SIOADDRT: File Exist SIOADDRT: network unreachable 6) # route add default gw 54.xx.xx.254 dev eth0 network unreachable --- 7) # route Destination Gateway GenMask FlagUse iface xyz.somewhere.com* 255.255.255.255 UH eth0 xyz.somewhere.com* 255.255.255.255 UH lo 54.xx.xx.0 * 255.255.255.0 U eth0 --- 8) # route add 54.xx.xx.xx gw 54.xx.xx.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 ERROR: netmask: 00ff doesn't make sense with host route Andy I. Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research Phone: (732) 594-0820 Merck Co., Inc. Fax: (732) 594-1565 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup
Just my guess: You might have set runlevel to something like 2 or 3. I don't remember exactly which file in /etc you need to look. My guess is /etc/init.rc. It should be set to 4 (multi-user) or 5 (multi-user with graphical login screen). Hope this helps. Andy -- From: Joan Tur[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:40 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] No user pwd needed on startup Hallo!! I've installed 7.2 on my laptop and i've changed something... don't know where!! It's booting directly to my user account without asking me for the password! Where are those settings?? Thanks!! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
RE: [newbie] Fw: helpppppppppp
There are two CDs in the 7.1 distribution. The second one (x86 extension) is optional. When you started the installation program should have, at some point, asked you which CDs you have (the retail boxes have two more CDs). If you don't have those CDs but check them off anyway, at the package installation stage the program will ask for these CDs. Supposedly you can just click on "cancel" if you don't have the CDs, and the installation should continue. However, there are times that this won't work for some reason. I ran into a similar problem before (I put in the CD but it refuse to recognize it). After 4~5 tries of starting the installation over, it finally worked. Hope this helps. Will be glad to help further. Andy -- From: rebeccap[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Fw: helpp - Original Message - From: rebeccap To: newbie@linux-mandrake Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 6:51 PM Subject: helpp Hi , I suppose I am considered a newbie since I have only learned computers this past year. I am however very brave or stupid cause I have tackled cmos, bios,fdisking etc. I am also quite good at putting computers together and fix many peoples for them. I can not however do a clean install of Linux for the life of me. I give up and come back to it thinking as I learn more I will have a better chance of a sucess. ARGH, is all I can say. I have tried to install mandrake 6,7 and 7.1 as well as Stormix. All programs were from maximum linux mags. I have since gotten a larger hard drive and it is SCSI ,which I thought would be better. I started the setup and after one and a half hours I got a message to put the extension 86 cd into my drive to continue or cancel if I did not have it this of course stopped my installation since I had no clue what it was let alone try to install it. At this point I am now completely frustrated I like Windows but I am sick of all the fatal exception errors and the many bugs windows has. I NEED SOME HELP, I am either completely out of my mind or I just donèt get. The more times I fail the more I want to install it. I have had sucessful installs if I do not need windows but unfornately I still need to use windows for all the proggrams not supported by Linux. If anyone has any suggestions I would be glad to here them. My system is a Pentium 200mmx Ati all in wonder 8 mg video card creative ensonique sound card A adaptec AHA pci SCSI controller 40x cd-rom Yamaha cd-recorder 4x (which I can not figure out) 9 gig Quantum (vikingII) HARD DRIVE (installed) 3 gig fujitsu hard drive(installed) IDE US Robotics 56k voice modem Barracuda hard drive(not sure if I will install it)
RE: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem
I also have a modemblaster (don't remember if it's PCI). It's NOT a winmodem, but it is PnP. I had to disable the PnP (thru a jumper on the modem board) to get it working with plain old IRQ and DMA. Andy -- From: Charles A Edwards[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem The ModemBlaster PCI is a winmodem. Check Linmodem.org. There is a chance that there may be a driver available for your modems chipset. Otherwise, if you want to connect to the internet in Linux you will need to get a hardware based modem. There are PCI models that run under $50. Charles - Original Message - From: "Darin Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 7:27 PM Subject: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem I've got a creative Modem Blaster PCI modem, and don't know how to configure it in Linux, if it's even possible.
RE: [newbie] Problem with login
I think there is an option that displays asterisks when typing in the password field. The plain vanilla xdm login screen does this by default. It's Mandrake's default *not* to display the asterisks. Andy -- From: John Rye[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with login Twice Tshwenyane wrote: I have got a problem with my login screen .My username field accept input but not my password,which means i can't get into linux. Thanks Twice Linux DOES NOT ECHO PASSWORDS to the screen. Type your password in the field and tap enter oe click GO. and you're off to the real world. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
RE: [newbie] VMWare: Is 96 M memory really sufficient ?
Are you guys using 2.0 or the earlier version? The VMWare web site said that 2.0 is supposed to be quite a bit better. Has anyone experienced this? Andy -- From: Mark Weaver[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 6:50 AM To: Renaud OLGIATI Cc: *List Linux-Newbie-MK Subject: Re: [newbie] VMWare: Is 96 M memory really sufficient ? Renaud, To tell you the truth it will run slow as molasses on Neptune with 128MB of RAM. And that was on a 500Mhz processor. It's really cool software for what it's doing, but IMHO it's not a mission critical solution. I don't even use it at home anymore. I tried it for a week and the slow performance drove me nuts. -- Mark /*I never worry about the to-jams. *Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth *it's already too late...just make sure *you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 8:26pm ,Renaud OLGIATI spake passionately in a message: Or will it run only just, slow as molasses in Winter, and I should get 128M if I want to be able to use it ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- Reality is for people who lack imagination. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
RE: [newbie]
You need to load the parport and a couple of other kernel modules. From a command line (such as a konsole window), type modprobe parport modprobe paride There is one more you need to load, but don't remember which (I have an parallel port Orb drive, not a ZIP drive). Go to any search engine and search for "linux paride". There is a web page with instructions for all kinds of parallel port drives. Andy -- From: Chen Stev[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 5:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] hi, i have a parallel port ZIP drive and i want to use it under linux mandrake 7.1 . how ? your sincerly, Stev
RE: [newbie] No-one answers ?
-- From: Kevin A Sadler[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No-one answers ? Hi yoall. What's happened. No-one had my problem before ? On 21/10/00 I put forward the fact my desktop has expanded its picture to the size of my wall so all I can see on my puny 15" screen are the Application starter and Panel buttons. I have reinstalled about six times, partitioned, formatted over and over but it still looms brightly. If I could afford a 30' x 20' monitor I would have it all over yoall but I can't so I would like some help to get my graphic view back to rather normal. Thanks, anyone ! Kev Sadler It sounds like the desktop is larger than the screen resolution. If you try moving the mouse pointer to the corners, does the desktop "shifts"? If this is the case, you need to figure out a way to get to a higher resolution mode (check the manual or tons of info on the net) or set the virtual desktop to the same size as the screen resolution. Hope this helps. Andy
RE: [newbie] Flashing login-screen
Try alt-ctrl-+ and/or alt-ctrl-- (use the ones on the numeric keypad) and see if you can change to a lower-resolution video mode for X. Then login and reconfigure the high resolution mode for X. It could be the monitor selection, too. I had a NEC XV17+, but selecting that one from the list never worked. I ended up selecting a generic 1024x768. Hope this helps. Andy -- From: Benny Johansson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Flashing login-screen After setting to a new resolution I had to log off/on. But when the system tries to enter the logon-screen, it starts flashing, and i can´t logon. So now I cannot log-on at all! How can I get around this problem ?
RE: [newbie] Mandrake support
rawrite.exe is a DOS program that must be run from a command line. It's the original program that was used to write Linux boot floppy back when there's no such thing as LILO. Hope this helps. Andy -- From: Tim Jackson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support I did receive a rather prompt response from mandrake. However, their answer doesn't seem to work. I may be missing something but I have no one to go over it with. I have formatted my hard drive and now want to install linux. I have an older P60 Dell and I have to boot with a diskette, I have a MagicSpin cdrom that the system can not find. The response I got back was create a special boot disk using cdrom.img under rawwrite.exe. I am not able to do anything once I open rawwrite.exe am I missing something? From: "Bob Abbott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:53:04 -0600 - Original Message - From: "Rod Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake support I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod I also have been having problems with support form Mandrake. I have never really gotten a response from them. Even after several e-mails. Robert C. Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana, The Big Sky Country _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
