Re: [newbie] cable modem
The Roadrunner service that I am using (midsouth.rr.com) does not require me to log-in except to check e-mail. The way it works is it verifies me by the Mac address of the ethernet card that they supplied me. It is all done via DHCP. You don't need to run a proxy server which in Linux is IP masquerade unless you are trying to connect two or more PC's to the internet. Here is a link that will tell you more than you want to know about setting up a cable modem and firewalls and IP Masquerading, etc. It also has a section on Roadrunner setup for Linux. Here is the site: www.cablemodeminfo.com . ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: Pittman, Merle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 6:49 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem Are you sure you even need the proxy server, I doubt it for roadrunner. If you do, in netscape go to "edit preferences advanced proxy ". All the other info you have to get from your isp, just call them up and ask for it. -Original Message- From: Cory Hirano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 12:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem Hi there doing a upgrade I got rr to work but I don't know if all my TCP/IP settings are right and I don't know where to find them. Also in w98 using IE I run rr though a porxy server is there any way to set it up in communicator I've never used Netscape before. BTW if I'm not logged in to the network how can I be on it? I haven't set up my user name or password for rr and don't know where to do it. Cory -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem Same old story from the tech guys, that is their excuss for "they have no idea what they are doing". Do you have linux installed already?? If you get linux installed and your network card setup properly the rest is cake. You need to find you if you are using static IP addressing or DHCP, find this out from tech support if you don't know. Get the info for gateway, DNS, your IP (if it is static), smtp mail server, pop mail server, etc. Ready to start when you are :) -Original Message- From: Cory Hirano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem Hello there I have Road Runner cable modem service and I was wondering if anyone knows how to set it up so I can get on to the internet with linux . I tried tech support but they said that they only support win/mac and can't help with any other OS. Cory
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and @home cable
Check out this site for all your cable modem DSL needs: www.cablemodeminfo.com . ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: Roger Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:05 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake and @home cable
Re: [newbie] SB PCI 128 Sound Card
I had a similar problem with a NIC. Here is what I did. I queried to see if the module was installed: modprobe xx.x (I think emu10k1) and even though it was trying to load it upon boot lothar recognized it, it was not installed. I next did insmod x.x. This installed the module. I rebooted and viola all was well. ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: PC Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 4:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SB PCI 128 Sound Card If you find out, let me know as well. I have had that problem with Mandrake exclusively Ramon E. Tristani From: "Bob" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SB PCI 128 Sound Card Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:37:18 -0600 I can't get this card to work in MD 7.0. According to the "howto's" this card is supposed to be supported. Using Lothar the card is identified as Ensoniq ES1371. All of the settings use -1 and don't offer any other settings. Testing the card in Lothar locks up the computer. Trying to use other cards settings just says that the device or resource is busy. During boot I can see where it loads the sound module. What do I need to do? Any help appreciated. Bob __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]]
Make sure that there is only one append line in lilo.conf. I couldn't get it
to work in mine because it already had an append line. Here is how I got it
to work. Lilo.conf had an append line of: append="ide=scsi" (for CD burner).
I edited the line to read: "append="ide=scsi mem=128" , ran lilo, rebooted
and all is well.
---Mark Irving---
- Original Message -
From: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]]
Michael,
Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the
life of
me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file.
If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from
lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M.
It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install
will not.
I am really confused at this point why this happens.
Cheers
Wayne
On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote:
Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of
ram.
When
I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append
section),
it only boots with 65M. Any reasons why this would be so, and is
there a
way
aroudn this/
Wayne
PS: it worked first time last time!
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Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"?
append="mem=128M"
Mike
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Re: [[newbie] Ram Problems]
Okay, one more time. You should not just blindly add the line 'append="128M" ' to lilo.conf. You need to test it first. To test it, when linux first boots you will have a boot: prompt. -boot: -Type at the prompt linux mem=128M -This sets the RAM manually for this session (until you reboot only) -When I did this I achieved kernel panic, so I rebooted and tried mem=127M this worked fine. -I now went to lilo.conf and added the line append=mem="127M" rebooted -When I rebooted it still only recognized 64MB of RAM -What I discovered was that I already had an append line in lilo.conf 'append="ide=scsi" for my CD burner. Linux only recognizes one append line in lilo.conf -I edited this line to read 'append="ide=scsi mem=127M" ' rebooted and all is well. ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Ram Problems]
Re: [newbie] increasing the font size in Netscape?
Go into edit/preferences/font to change this. Sometimes you have to exit Netscape and KDE for the changes to take effect. I also had to change my desktop resolution to get a better view. Small fonts, old eyes...not a good combo. ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: Funk Soul Brother [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: [newbie] increasing the font size in Netscape?
Re: [newbie] Swap space 128 Mb?
Yeah I was puzzled about the swap space deal too. So I did some research on it. It appears that the older versions of Linux would not use a swap space larger than 128MB although you could create more than one swap partition. The newer distros (not sure when) can have up to a GB of swap space. I have a swap partition on my system of 251MB 256MB RAM. Rarely does it go to swap, so it's kind of useless. If you are running a server it might be a different issue though. ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: Lothar Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 2:37 AM Subject: [newbie] Swap space 128 Mb?
Re: [newbie] Disableing PNP IN BIOS
It depends on your BIOS as to how you get into it. The most common ways are DEL, F1, F2, F10, ESC. Some manufacturers use real funky combos like CRTL-ESC, F10, etc. Also most of the time the ones that have the combo keystrokes don't usually show how to get into it. As far as disabling your PnP in the BIOS. The only thing that I have found that helpful for is in modem setup. I could not get my modem to work. I then disabled PnP in BIOS voila it worked. No problems with any other devices. ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: Bill Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disableing PNP IN BIOS I know I had to push f2 on my win95 machine. Try holding down the delete key as soon as your machine boots. If it loads completely, restart and hold down f2. You might also want to read the booklet included with your machine - Original Message - From: Mike Koceja To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disableing PNP IN BIOS Matthew Loschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is PNP os and how do I get there. I am a NEWBIE, everybody starts somewhere. At 12:18 AM 3/9/00 +0100, you wrote: pnp os - - Original Message - From: Matthew Loschmann To: Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 3:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Disableing PNP IN BIOS I now know how to enter bios even though there is no prompt but I could not find this PnP setting everbody is talking about. Where is it? Please share Matt Hey Matt PNP OS stands for PLUG AND PLAY OPERATING SYSTEM. To get into your bios just watch real carefully when you turn your computer on. It will say something like press Delete to enter setup. When it says that press and hold the! delete key until it opens up. One last thing it might not be delete. Delete is just the most common it might be a differnt key so just watch when it boots up Mike Koceja Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
Re: [newbie] Cute login
Try KDE Control Center-Applications-Log in. I think that you can change the log in look there. - Original Message - From: Rog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cute login On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:21:01 -0600, you wrote: This is my second request here... anyone know how to get rid of the penguin graphic at login? Well, when LILO comes up, you could type in Linux 3 and go to the command line, then log in and type startx...I don't know if thats what you're looking for, but it should do the trick... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] Ram dectection
You have to be careful with this one. It is recommended that before you add the line "append="mem=128M" to lilo.conf that you test it first. When Linux first boots, at the boot: prompt, type in "Linux mem=128M" boot that way. You might have to change the way that Linux boots to give you some time to type. On my computer, it only saw 64 of 128MB RAM. I added the line Linux mem=128M at the prompt got "KERNEL PANIC", not a good thing. So I fiddled with the settings added Linux mem=127M everything was fine. Then I could safely add this line to the top of lilo.conf. Here is the documentation from REDHAT: "7.1 Problems with Linux finding all of a machine's RAM Question: My machine has 128 MB of RAM, however Linux only sees 64 MB of it. What is going on, and how can I fix it? Answer: On most systems, the reason is that the BIOS has a limit of how much memory it will tell the OS is present in the machine, even though the board can have more. Common limits seen with this problem are 16M, 32M, 64M, and 128M. To get around this, we need to explicitly specify the amount of memory to the kernel at boot time via the mem= actual memory goes here flag. In the following example, we have a 128M machine but only 64M are being seen by Linux. At the LILO prompt, we type LILO: linux mem=128M After the machine boots, we use the free command to see if the larger amount of memory was recognized by the kernel. If so, we can add an append line to the /etc/lilo.conf file and rerun LILO to make it happen permanently. The example from above could look like the following: boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20 label=linux root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img read-only append="mem=128M" Do not forget to run /sbin/lilo -v after editing the file. " - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ram dectection Start linux with either "linux mem=128M" or As root, edit /etc/config and code a line like the following in each stanza: append="mem=128M" Now run /sbin/lilo and next time you restart you'll have your full 128 meg available Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst Lincong Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 29/02/2000 16:39:46 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] Ram dectection Hello. everyone I have an Athalon 600 computer with 128Mb Micron PC100 memory. Somehow Linux can only recognize about 64 Mb. Can anybody tell me how to fix it. Thanks in advance Lincong Wang from Ann Arbor MI
