Re: [newbie] security - should I be worried? [Your internal IP should be hidden]
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 08:02, JoeHill wrote: [...snip] The question is, is Merlin using a dedicated firewall/router/NAT of some sort or not? not that I know of. It's a single machine connected to the net by dialup; I just installed Mandrake 10.0 straight off the CDs. I don't recall any questions about a firewall in the install process. How would I find out if there's a firewall running? Does Mandrake set one up by default? TIA... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] security - should I be worried? [Your internal IP should be hidden]
Hello, someone sent me this site http://www.auditmypc.com/ so I thought I'd have a look; I did the first firewall test and they said: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Notice! Our system detects your internal IP address as 203.172.36.52 and your external address as 208.147.1.1. Your internal IP should be hidden whereas your external is always exposed. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - So what should I do about this? What's the difference between an internal and an external IP? And anyhow, I thought I had set my IP to 192.168.0.20??? Running Mandrake 10.0 straight off the CDs, not messed with any security setting at all. TIA for all advice... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Am I right in thinking..
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:16, evolt wrote: [...snip] I would reccomend mldonkey, it can access many different p2p networks like fastrack a.k.a kazaa, edonkey/emule, gnutella/gnutella2, soulseek, direct connect, open napster, and bittorent. Go to urpmi.org, use easyurpmi to help you set up a repository for plf, I just tried that - I got back this command: urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandrake/10.0 with hdlist.cz which I put in, and just over an hour later it finished downloading *something*... It seemed to work, but: ...retrieving done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.plf.cz] writing list file for medium plf examining pubkey file of plf... ...imported key caba22ae from pubkey file of plf built hdlist synthesis file for medium plf found 0 headers in cache then I tried the following: then as root type: urpmi mldonkey-gui and got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi mldonkey-gui no package named mldonkey-gui [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# hmm... I wonder how many headers it was *supposed* to find in the cache??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 09:48, Chris wrote: On Monday 01 November 2004 08:41 pm, David Johnson wrote: You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether or not it actually works, but I was able to set it to . Nope, it doesn't work David. I can confirm that. I sent email to them and got back the standard this feature is not supported at this time type generic response back... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...
Hello, I'm running 10.0, having recently upgraded from 9.0. I'm trying to get my USB card reader to work, and I went to the Apacer site and they say to edit my modules.conf file. But when I try to save the edited file it complains I don't have permission. So I'm guessing I need to be root to do it; but now that I'm on 10.0 I can't log in as root any more. It only gives me two choices [the two usernames I set up] at login time. In 9.0 I could just type in root in the login field and the password; it would warn me something about running graphics as root [can't remember exactly] but it would let me in anyhow. But now I can't - there's nowhere to type! I can open a text window and SU, but then edit modules.conf only gives me: bash: edit: command not found help??? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 09:49, Amy wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:41:20 -0800, David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:40:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users To: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether or not it actually works, but I was able to set it to . No go, we've had that mentioned a couple times. I tried the same thing. While it may show in your preferences that it's set to , when you actually look at the headers of messages you send to the list (hit the more options link at the top of your message) you'll see that gmail is still putting your own email address as the reply-to. I thought the same thing, and I had about half a dozen people reply to me that I'd been wrong, and saw as much for myself when I looked at my own headers. yeh I've just tried it as well - if you put Test in the field, the email will be sent with a replyto:test field... So you could put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the field, compose your reply[s] to this list, then set it back. If already sent them a couple of emails about this, but so far received no reply. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Evolution broken :(
Well last night I sent off a happy email telling of my success... This morning I log on to find that Evolution won't start up :( [For those who were not followwing the earlier thread, I just upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0] Now when starting Evolution I get the following error messages: Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Summary_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' And then Evolution starts, but there's nothing to do. It says (Not folder displayed) in an empty screen. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? TIA, -- Merlin Zener. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution broken :(
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 15:25, Merlin Zener wrote: Well last night I sent off a happy email telling of my success... This morning I log on to find that Evolution won't start up :( [For those who were not followwing the earlier thread, I just upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0] Now when starting Evolution I get the following error messages: Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Summary_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' And then Evolution starts, but there's nothing to do. It says (Not folder displayed) in an empty screen. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? I got an answer from the Evolution mailing list, so I thought I'd post it here for the archives: does rm -rf /tmp/orbit-$USER and then logging out and back in again work for you? (insert your user name for $USER) well yes it worked for me!!! LOL -- Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0] SUCCESS!!!! :)
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 05:01, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 01 October 2004 23:06, Merlin Zener wrote: - wish me luck! You don't need luck, you've got Linux...you need a clear head and a slow mouse hand. Read everything carefully and check the options before you click next and you'll be fine:) Hi all, well I did it!!! :) it was almost painless - not exactly as smooth as it could have been, but the important thing is it boots and connects etc, the rest I fix up as I go... The first thing was the CD wouldn't boot, so I made a boot floppy and it would only get half way through before crashing, so I burnt a CD from the boot.iso image and that one worked. It detected everything except my modem, I had to go in and tell it where it was connected. And then [after I found my login and password details for my ISP] it wouldn't browse or get email. I had to go back and reset the static address for my LAN to get that working again. Weird, isn't it - I'm still scratching my head over that one. What's the lan got to do with the modem??? Oh, and I had to go back and reinstall Mozilla and Evolution from the CDs - and delete and re-create the desktop shortcuts: the old ones didn't work. Mozilla loads flash pages out of the box, but no java. I'll have to look into that later... All in all, not too bad - the new fonts look better, I *think* it seems a little faster, most things are where I expect them. Considering how little I know about Linux/Mandrake, the fact that I managed to get it installed and connected speaks volumes for the progress Mandrake etc are making to the masses... Thanks again to all that helped and gave advice. :) -- Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 05:41, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 01 October 2004 00:19, Merlin Zener wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 00:21, Stephen Kühn wrote: Two words: CLEAN INSTALL so that would involve reformatting both drives? No, just the existing / and maybe /usr partitions. Leave all the others as they are! If so, then I guess I'm in for a long backup session first... How should I go about it? Could someone address these concerns for me?: What kind of backup should I do first, just in case anything goes wrong? I'm guessing, simply copy anything that's in /home/merlin, but where else are things kept that I need to back up? What about Mozilla, Pan and Evolution - where do they keep their files? Is there a Linux equivalent of the registry that I should back up? [and would it work with 10.0 anyway?] They're all in your home directory i.e. /home partition. and something I just thought of: How do I get my mail back into Evolution after the backup/reformat/reinstall process? They'll still be there if you haven't formatted your /home partition Oh, and I just thought of another thing: If I have to reformat my Windows drives, should I reinstall windows first before installing Mandrake 10.0? And, I seem to recall there's something about NTFS that makes it so Linux and Windows can't access the same files - so should I take the opportunity and redo Windows in FAT32 or something? Whatever you want, but I'd leave everything as is and use the FAT32 a a sort of transit-space from ext3 to ntfs and back. thanks for your thoughts. How, exactly, do I only format certain partitions? Does the installer on the 10.0 CD give me this option? Or do I have to use some other software? As for the fat32/ntfs thing, that's what I'm doing now. Every time someone sends me a spreadsheet or word doc or something in email, I have to mount my second hard drive, save it to there, shut down, then boot into windows to open it. Seems clunky, in this day and age... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 10:16, Erylon Hines wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2004 12:24 am, Merlin Zener wrote: | Hello all, | | I've just got hold of 4 Mandrake 10.0 CDs; I'll be upgrading from 9.0, | and I wanted to ask if there's anything particular I should [or should | not] do to ensure a smooth transition. | It is a BIG jump from 9.0 to 10--I wouldn't even try an upgrade, myself, due to the different kernels. Is there a good reason that you want to upgrade?? Unsupported hardware or some such? I don't know much about 9.0, I went from 8.2 to 9.1 (not an upgrade--fresh install). I've since upgraded a couple of machines from 9.1 to 9.2, but I don't see much difference, except that I had to apply some fixes to get stuff that worked perfectly in 9.1 to work in 9.2. At least the upgrade didn't really break anything badly, and was actually smooth--for an upgrade. I still haven't moved any of my machines to 10.x because I have older hardware and there just isn't any point to it. Plus, judging from the topics on list, the 2.6 kernel can break stuff that is working fine for me now. If this is your only box, I would wait, if I were you. On the other hand, you can consider it a chance to learn some more about Linux 8). Worrying comments, Erylon. I was advised to upgrade because my system is now quite old and most of the advice-givers here have newer systems, so when they tell me do do something that works on their system, it won't work on mine. Really, my original problem is Mozilla crashing on opening pages that used to open just fine before - if someone could tell me how to fix that, then I wouldn't need to upgrade, I guess. But then I'd be missing out on all the other stuff ppl have been telling me about like rootkit, fontconfig, urpmi and so on, none of which are working on my system now. Comments from the gallery, anyone? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
Thanks to Paul, Erylon, Margot, Eric, Harm, Haj [and anyone I've missed:)] for the advice so far. I'll be doing the new install on Sunday - wish me luck! LOL -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
Hello all, I've just got hold of 4 Mandrake 10.0 CDs; I'll be upgrading from 9.0, and I wanted to ask if there's anything particular I should [or should not] do to ensure a smooth transition. I'm currently dual booting with WIN2KPRO, and I don't want to mess up that partition, or mess with the LILO setup as it is. If I just put the CD in and boot, will it notice what's already there and put itself over the top of the old 9.0 install, or will I have to make sure it doesn't stomp on anything that it shouldn't? What kind of backup should I do first, just in case anything goes wrong? I'm guessing, simply copy anything that's in /home/merlin, but where else are things kept that I need to back up? What about Mozilla, Pan and Evolution - where do they keep their files? [Oh, btw, I still didn't get any answer about how to get my bookmarks and passwords back in Mozilla, in the other thread...] Is there a Linux equivalent of the registry that I should back up? [and would it work with 10.0 anyway?] Anything else I should be aware of? Any gotchas? Something maybe that you guys have come across and dealt with before me? TIA for all advice [as usual:) ] -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 17:41, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2004 09:24, Merlin Zener wrote: Hello all, I've just got hold of 4 Mandrake 10.0 CDs; I'll be upgrading from 9.0, and I wanted to ask if there's anything particular I should [or should not] do to ensure a smooth transition. [...snip] There's a lot of ways of doing this the right way and a lot of opinions too:) Upgrading 9.0 - 10.0 will probably give a lot of trouble as they use very different kernels. I wouldn't advise it anyway, a clean install is the best way...that is, if you've got your /home on a separate partition. Doing a clean install whilst retaining your /home partition will have you lose previously installed 3rd party software which is usually installed in /usr. The way I prefer working is to set-up an new install on a new partition on its own without any creating any users and mounting the old /home partitions in a later stage..which has some pitfalls too, as always:) Installing 10.0 left me with an XP that wouldn't boot normally (it will in safemode though and after that it's OK). It happens everytime after using diskdrake. No big deal for me - I only boot XP if I have to help out some poor stuck XP sod- but others might get a bit ruffled:) this is just the kind of thing that scares me - I need the win stuff for my music programs. Lilo has to be changed and will be, otherwise 10.0 can't be booted! To be really helpful we'd need to know what your partition setup is, so let's start with that,heh? Otherwise we'd be rewriting the installation manual all over. well I'm not sure how to find out, so I copied this from the KDiskFree display: /dev/hda1 ntfs 7.8GB /mnt/nt 889.3MB 88.9% /dev/hda5 vfat 22.6GB /mnt/windows 3.2GB 86% /dev/hda6 ext3 980.5MB / 798.8MB 18.5% /dev/hda8 ext3 3.8GB /usr 2.3GB 40.2% /dev/hda9 ext3 2.7GB /home 730.1MB 73.8% /dev/hdc1 auto 74.5GB /mnt/hd 17.6GB 76.4% /dev/sda1 auto N/A /mnt/removable 0B N/A Is this the info you wanted? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
how to get my bookmarks and passwords back? [was: Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...]
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 04:58, Merlin Zener wrote: On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 19:34, SnapafunFrank wrote: [...snip] I don't use Mozilla for mail [I use Evolution] so I'm not worried about that. But how do I get all my bookmarks and passwords and history back? [...snip again] Sorry. I'm late to this thread so forgive me if this has already been covered. Do you still have your /home/username/.mozilla directory? If so then: $ cd /home/your_user_name $ ls -al | grep mozilla Mine is : drwxrwxrwx4 frank frank 4096 Aug 17 19:58 .mozilla/ If you still have this from before any recent re-install of mozilla then: $ mv .mozilla XXX.mozilla This will save all your stuff ready to feed back once you have re-installed mozilla. well I did all that [copied and pasted it in exactly] but it made no change. How, exactly do I feed back my old bookmarks, passwords and history? btw while looking around for some clue I did find my old bookmarks in a plain html file in /home/merlin/.old_mozilla - and clicking on those links opens up those pages in Konqueror! So at least I can browse most places, except for any that require logging in. All my passwords are still somewhere in the old Mozilla settings - how do I get them back? I never saw an answer to this question; I thought it may have been overlooked as the thread moved more to installing Firefox, [and then went even further to suggest upgrading the whole system!!!] so I thought I'd repost it with a more descriptive subject. I hope this is ok:) I'm looking at upgrading to 10.0 on Sunday, but still this question applies - either now or after then - I still want to get them back... To revisit the original thread: My problem was that Mozilla suddenly started crashing on opening some pages that I'd been going to for ages with no problems. I had emailed a couple of them and they had made no changes on their end. Besides, those pages open ok in Konqueror. I tried this suggestion: rename the entire /.mozilla directory to i.e. /.old_mozilla. Then log out and back in, restart Mozilla. So now I've lost all my bookmarks, passwords and various other settings like home page etc, and I don't know how to get them back. Oh and btw it didn't fix the crashing either :( help??? :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 00:21, Stephen Kühn wrote: Two words: CLEAN INSTALL so that would involve reformatting both drives? If so, then I guess I'm in for a long backup session first... How should I go about it? Could someone address these concerns for me?: What kind of backup should I do first, just in case anything goes wrong? I'm guessing, simply copy anything that's in /home/merlin, but where else are things kept that I need to back up? What about Mozilla, Pan and Evolution - where do they keep their files? Is there a Linux equivalent of the registry that I should back up? [and would it work with 10.0 anyway?] and something I just thought of: How do I get my mail back into Evolution after the backup/reformat/reinstall process? TIA, Oh, and I just thought of another thing: If I have to reformat my Windows drives, should I reinstall windows first before installing Mandrake 10.0? And, I seem to recall there's something about NTFS that makes it so Linux and Windows can't access the same files - so should I take the opportunity and redo Windows in FAT32 or something? TIA, again :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 19:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: [...snip] In keeping your /home partition as is all your configuration files will be retained BUT!! especially KDE has evolved since 9.0 and will most certainly crash on you. Rename the (hidden) .kde directory to something else (so you'll be able to recognize it again later) so you'll be able to get most of your old settings back. The're all in there (at least the KDE connected ones) as *.rc files. How do I put them back again later? By renaming .kde in your home directory KDE will create new config files on first start-up after which you can put back the ones important to you, one by one. Another option is to start up for the first time in a windowmanager (say icewm or whatever) you normally don't use and edit the config files from there. Either way it's best to NOT opt for the autologin option for the first boot as you're not sure it won't crash. This is easily reconfigured at a later stage, if wanted. noted - thanks :) Note!: Different to the 9.0 install, take a good look at the sumnary screen and check if ll the configurations are OK..don't take for granted that they are! In that respect it might be wise totake a note of your existing network and XFree settings. Especially if you've got special videocard settings or so, it might wise to make a copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (whichever you're using) to your home directory as a reference. How do I know which one I'm using - they're both there. I don't now what kind of video card is in there, but I can't imagine it's anything special:) Cheers;) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 06:28, Margot wrote: [...snip] Merlin, I see you are still using Mandrake 9.0, which is rather old! Even 9.1 is no longer supported by Mandrake (since last week, when 10.1 Community was released). You'd probably be better off installing 10.0 or 10.1 - I have 10.0 on CD which I'd be happy to send to you if you mail me off-list with your address. thanks for the kind offer, Margot [and once again thanks again to Kaj, too] but by good fortune I found a place that has the CDs today. I'll start a new thread about the upgrade process next... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 06:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: [...snip] For the fun of it I just tried an urpmi firefox (I do have mozilla but not firefox installed)and this is what I get: ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] triade]$ su Password:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] triade]# urpmi firefox The following packages contain firefox: mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED] triade]# urpmi mozilla-firefox ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl//pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/devel/10.0/contrib/i586/mozilla-firefox-0.8-14mdk.i586.rpm 10% of 10.7M completed, ETA = 0:02:55, speed = 60176 *** That's where I CTRL-C'ed out but I'm sure that after this download firefox would have behaved quite nicely. That's the way rpm packages should behave as opposed to to random .tar.gz files. Well I'm going back over the answers here trying again; I too have Mozilla but not Firefox atm just like the above poster. But it didn't work for me... [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi firefox no package named firefox [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# hm -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:46, Kaj Haulrich wrote: [...snip] try the following : In your home/merlin direcory, rename the entire /.mozilla directory to i.e. /.old_mozilla. Then log out and back in, restart Mozilla. If it worked earlier, this procedure should reload default settings. If it works now, you can always copy back your mail and whatnot. I don't use Mozilla for mail [I use Evolution] so I'm not worried about that. But how do I get all my bookmarks and passwords and history back? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 19:34, SnapafunFrank wrote: [...snip] I don't use Mozilla for mail [I use Evolution] so I'm not worried about that. But how do I get all my bookmarks and passwords and history back? [...snip again] Sorry. I'm late to this thread so forgive me if this has already been covered. Do you still have your /home/username/.mozilla directory? If so then: $ cd /home/your_user_name $ ls -al | grep mozilla Mine is : drwxrwxrwx4 frank frank 4096 Aug 17 19:58 .mozilla/ If you still have this from before any recent re-install of mozilla then: $ mv .mozilla XXX.mozilla This will save all your stuff ready to feed back once you have re-installed mozilla. well I did all that [copied and pasted it in exactly] but it made no change. How, exactly do I feed back my old bookmarks, passwords and history? btw while looking around for some clue I did find my old bookmarks in a plain html file in /home/merlin/.old_mozilla - and clicking on those links opens up those pages in Konqueror! So at least I can browse most places, except for any that require logging in. All my passwords are still somewhere in the old Mozilla settings - how do I get them back? And, of course, Konqueror doesn't have tabbed browsing that I like... TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 01:56, Margot wrote: Merlin Zener wrote: Well I'm going back over the answers here trying again; I too have Mozilla but not Firefox atm just like the above poster. But it didn't work for me... [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi firefox no package named firefox [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# hm The package is called mozilla-firefox, not just firefox, so try urpmi mozilla-firefox and you should get it! that didn't work either. [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi mozilla-firefox no package named mozilla-firefox [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# any ideas why? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
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Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:46, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 08:17, Merlin Zener wrote: snip -replies within fontconfig seems to be missing... That's definitely a problem. [...snip again] So should I try and find, download and install fontconfig from somewhere? [...wondering what I'll need to have for that, and then what I'll need for the next thing...] On my system it is fontconfig-2.2.1-7mdk, Try (as root) : urpmi fontconfig that didn't work either. At this stage I'm not the slightest bit surprised! :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi fontconfig no package named fontconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# [...snip again - I'll try shuffling around Mozilla directories later tonight] If my memory serves me well, your system (or was it Mozilla) is quite old. If you want to continue using it, try the following : In your home/merlin direcory, rename the entire /.mozilla directory to i.e. /.old_mozilla. Then log out and back in, restart Mozilla. If it worked earlier, this procedure should reload default settings. If it works now, you can always copy back your mail and whatnot. I don't think you're hacked. But try running (as root) chkrootkit. hmmm.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# chkrootkit bash: chkrootkit: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Do you think it would be easier to try and continue installing Firefox or fix Mozilla? Why not upgrade your entire system to 10.0 ? - I understand you're on dial-up so downloading it is out of the question. But you can get very cheap CDs from a lot of places , like here : http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070011031.html http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/general/#pid16904 http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=L000-215id=C1CBDkfPqzGCL Considering all your problems, I think it is worth it. thanks once again for all your comments and advice, Kaj. I might try to get time to go to Bangkok on Sunday. I know I can get as many copies of XP as I like for 80 baht a CD there, I don't know if they sell any Mandrake stuff... LOL -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 17:12, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 20 September 2004 22:53, Merlin Zener wrote: snip Actually I don't know, Merlin. This problem is very strange as Firefox is supposed to come as a complete package, i.e. with its own installer as opposed to a rpm. Judging from your screenshot, the problem seems to be a missing or defect libplc4.so. On my system it says : [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaj]$ locate libplc4.so /usr/lib/mozilla/libplc4.so /usr/lib/libplc4.so /usr/lib/firefox-installer/libplc4.so /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libplc4.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaj]$ If you get the same answer from locate someone wiser than me please step in here. Well it's not quite the same, I don't know what to make of it so I'll just paste it here for any comments... [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]$ locate libplc4.so /usr/lib/libplc4.so /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libplc4.so /usr/local/mozilla/libplc4.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]$ seems to be missing from the firefox-installer directory, but to me that would be a symptom of it not being able to install in the first place. I've been all over the mozilla site but not found any hints. Should I just copy the one from either the /usr/lib or open office directories? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:29, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:55, RAT wrote: :( I've got similar problem when accessing some https:// sites (Seems like when there's some JavaScript or even Java) Mozilla dies with segfault. I've installed Mozilla compiled with GTK1 and it works fine on these pages but I like more the visual style of GTK2 widgets~ :( WHACK Why not just download and install Firefox and alleviate all the BS problems in the first place, eh? good idea - I just downloaded it... unzipped it, and clicked on the firefox-installer file; got this error message: Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library What to do about this? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 20:18, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 20 September 2004 14:47, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:29, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:55, RAT wrote: :( I've got similar problem when accessing some https:// : sites (Seems like when there's some JavaScript or even Java) Mozilla dies with segfault. I've installed Mozilla compiled with GTK1 and it works fine on these pages but I like more the visual style of GTK2 widgets~ :( WHACK Why not just download and install Firefox and alleviate all the BS problems in the first place, eh? good idea - I just downloaded it... unzipped it, and clicked on the firefox-installer file; got this error message: Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library What to do about this? Well, the way I do it is as follows : Open a terminal, become root, change into the directory firefox-installer, (the one created by tar -zxvf), then type : ./firefox-installer (without the quotes). Maybe it won't install from a GUI. thanks for your thoughts, Kaj. But that didn't work either: http://www.merlinzener.com/snapshot6.png and from the text window: [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads]$ cd firefox-installer [EMAIL PROTECTED] firefox-installer]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] firefox-installer]# ./firefox-installer [EMAIL PROTECTED] firefox-installer]# what am I doing wrong? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. ...if my calculations are correct... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] clock doesn't keep accurate time
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 00:13, C. Tresenriter wrote: I've recently upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 and ever since I can't seem to make the clock keep correct time - everything else seems to be ok. At this moment, it's either 7 hours fast or 5 hours slow it's 11:08 CST but the clock reads 6:08. I chose ntp to sync time - just like I did in 9.1, so I'm not sure where the problem is. What I've found googling hasn't helped so far. In an effort to correct this, I've been fiddling with system time in webmin ... trying different servers so far with no effect. Can anyone give me a hint on this? I had the same thing, quite a while back. Every time I rebooted it would jump 7 hours ahead [my time zone is GMT+7]. In Mandrake Control Center, click on system, then date time, then click on time zone. When you're selected your time zone it will ask you if your hardware clock is set to GMT; I had to click on no - your case may be different: just try one and reboot, see if that fixes it. If not, try the other:) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box]
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 04:29, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] I'm not sure what's gone before, Merlin, but here's my thoughts. Assuming you're using 9.2? Try kdesu That brings up konqueror with root priveleges, I believe. You should then be able to right-click /etc/hosts and edit it. HTH Hi Anne, No, I'm using 9.0 - and it didn't work; it said No command specified. Must be some new addition I guess. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box]
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 07:58, Steve Kaufman wrote: [...snip] As a newbie this command intrigued me so I played with it and the way to use it is 'kdesu kedit /etc/hosts' and it will then prompt you for root password and when you put it in it should open the file in edit and you can then save it. yes, that worked - thanks Steve. So now I'm back to the original problem. I was able to edit my /etc/hosts file so it now reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.10laptop.workgroup laptop 192.168.0.20cel2gthai.workgroup cel2gthai But the problem is still the same as before: If I set the NIC to auto in DrakeConnect it hangs on bringing up ETH0 when booting, and I can't ping to/from the laptop. If I set it to 192.168.0.20, then the machines can ping, but the internet doesn't work. And I haven't even got to the stage of getting Samba sorted yet... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box]
-Forwarded Message- From: Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie - Mandrake Linux list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box Date: 03 Feb 2004 17:45:13 +0700 On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 21:49, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] Here is what's in /etc/hosts atm: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.20localhost.localdomain localhost I presume that 192.168.0.20 is your linux box? That should be something like merlin.yourworkgroupname merlin Hello good people, I'm trying this ***yet again***. . . You may remember I couldn't edit /etc/hosts before with kedit; someone suggested I try gedit - that didn't work either because it wasn't there. Well now, after finally managing to stay connected long enough to download it and the dependencies it still won't work. Here's what I got, just now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# gedit /etc/hosts Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified (gedit:3156): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# I don't understand why this is so hard. First, I am running KDE as a desktop - I thought kedit was the KDE editor? And gedit is the Gnome one? Do I have to be running Gnome for gedit to work? [I don't see how it would make any difference - I'm starting it from the text box anyhow...] And what's so special about this hosts file that I need to edit it with a special program? Isn't it just plain text? Or is there some other issue - do I have to shut down the network first before editing that file? [I don't know - I'm clutching at straws here...] If so, how do I do it? What I really need, is a clue... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 20:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 23 January 2004 06:02 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: so I tried that, and this is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# kedit /etc/hosts _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOPServer up and running. [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. Try the command gedit /etc/hosts and see if that works better. [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# gedit /etc/hosts bash: gedit: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# I'm not having a lot of luck... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 06:00, Erylon Hines wrote: You might find this useful: http://dennis_caparas.tripod.com/samba_test.html Bad Gateway The following error occurred: The host name was not found during the DNS lookup. Contact your system administrator if the problem is.not found by retrying the URL. (DNS_HOST_NOT_FOUND) Please contact the administrator. It helps for setting up SAMBA, and may offer you some insight into what the problem is. Once your system recognizes the ethernet card, it is pretty much a matter of editing your /etc/samba/smb.conf, lmhosts, and smbusers files. Then /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.allow and maybe (but usually not unless it is already borked) etc/resolv.conf. Since you've tried, and failed before, there may be problems in your /etc/sysconfig/network also. KPPP is separate, and should work with it's own configuration (just check the box to disable other DNS servers during connection. After all that is working, you can setup connection sharing. e 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] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 06:13, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 05:42 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:26, Bryan Phinney wrote: [...snip] You should run the wizard DrakConnect again and make sure that you choose static IP address and give your ethernet card an IP address yourself. What should I set it *to*? The same as when it's running WIN2K? Interestingly, since I ran that wizard, now it stalls for quite a long time on booting, when it hits the line bringing up ETH0, then it eventually says failed and [thankfully] continues booting. It never used to do that before. Well, according to your previous post, you are currently setup to use DHCP on your Linux machine. However, you don't have DHCP on your machine because the Windows software is using zeroconf to automatically provide an IP address. Run DrakConnect from the Mandrake Control Center. Choose the Wizard and let it autodetect. You should see a Lan connection -ethernet card(s) detected with a check box that should have an X in it. Choose Next. Uncheck the Automatic IP box and enter an IP address on that line. You can use a 10. address like 10.0.0.20 and enter 255.255.255.0 for the netmask. Enter something for the hostname, use whatever you like. I would leave the DNS Server and Gateway blank, as well as the zeroconf hostname. That should get your lan card working and then you only need to edit your /etc/hosts file and create an entry for your machines to connect to them. That should read: 10.0.0.20 machinename 10.0.0.21 machinename2 I left all the above quoted because it's been a while since I visited this problem - real life has been intervening... But I'm having another go at it: for those machine names above, what names do I use? The names they use under windoze? Or just make up two new names? The situation atm is: If I use autodetect in DrakConnect it stumbles at bootup, at the bringing up ETH0 line [as above] but the internet works. If I give it a static address - either the 192.168.0.20 one or the 10.0.0.20 one, then the two machines will ping ok but the internet doesn't work. Here is what's in /etc/hosts atm: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.20localhost.localdomain localhost I'm trying to make headway on the documentation you suggested; I installed the HOWTO rpm but it didn't install the exact docs you specified. There are some others that seem related, but so far I haven't come across something that deals with my problem - aside from ask your system administrator :) I get the feeling it would take years to wade through all these docs, and the answer is possibly in there - somewhere! But I don't have years to spend on it - I need to know how to maybe search for the elusive bit of info I need... cheers, and TIA again... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 19:26, Bryan Phinney wrote: [...snip] Once you get the local net connections up and running, you should be able to activate the modem connection by loading the drivers. How, then, am I connecting to the net now, without any need to load drivers? All I do is click on the link I put on my desktop which starts KPPP. Suggest you check out /etc/modules.conf for entries that might indicate what modem drivers you are using and how to rig those to load on boot rather than relying on the connect wizard to do it for you. here is that file: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 8139too alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss I don't see anything to do with the modem in there; the modem is an Aztech 56K external modem. I don't see any model numbers on it... You can also check the hardware list to get the modem type and then try to find someone that can tell you which lines to add to load the modem drivers automatically. Where is that list? If you really want to simplify matters, I would suggest buying an inexpensive router device. A nice idea, but unfortunately impossible atm. Then, you can let the router serve as DHCP and assign IP addresses to the machine that you hook up. If you don't have such a device, you are going to have to put some work into configuring the network such that LAN traffic and Internet traffic coexist peacefully. Here is what's in /etc/hosts atm: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.20localhost.localdomain localhost I would change this to something different. localhost is always 127.0.0.1 but you need to differentiate the traffic that will be sent over the local lan from machine to machine from localhost traffic that stays confined to a single machine. The 192 line should have something different from localhost, call linux machine steinway and the windows machine baldwin for example. I just tried to change it - I right-clicked and opened it with Kedit, made the change, but then I couldn't save it. It says unable to write to file. Do I have to use some special program to edit this file? And: should I have separate entries for both machines? For example: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.20desktop 192.168.0.10laptop Would that work? [...snip] From my perspective, either you spend money, or time and effort, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Point taken. Unfortunately as I said buying a router is not an option, that would require a trip to Bangkok [which takes pretty much all day] because there's not much in the way of computer shops around here, and especially not any that would be Linux aware. And knowing my luck I'd spend all day and the equivalent of a month's rent here on a router and for some reason it wouldn't work... Can you imagine trying to explain a problem that I don't really understand in broken Thai to some local kid who's never heard of Linux? It would be easier to buy a plane ticket to Singapore and then pay the duty on the router on the way back... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:37, Bryan Phinney wrote: [...snip] well I managed to get it working - sort of... It doesn't seem to want to work if I just use the old dialup connection I had on the desktop [which is a shortcut to the same place that connect to the internet on the K menu points to]. But if I go through the wizard again, and let it detect the modem and the nic, at the end it lets me tell it to use the modem to connect. Then it complains of errors and tells me to use net_monitor - and from there if I tell it to connect, it will actually work. But on rebooting, everything is back like before - will connect, but not go anywhere... I've done it a few times, tried but the set address and the auto one with more or less the same results: it works when it feels like it :) So at least I can connect, but it's a lot of mouse clicks etc, and it's a bit hit'n'miss. Oh at least it can ping the laptop now [and back again] so that's a good step forward. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you browse through some of the available Mandrake Linux documentation, [...snip] Below are links that should be available on your local Linux machine that can talk you through how to setup networking on your machine step by step. [...snip] file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Ethernet/Ethernet-HOWTO.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Net/index.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Linux-Modem-Sharing/index.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/SMB/SMB-HOWTO.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Intranet-Server/Intranet-Server-HOWTO.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Netscape+Proxy.html Unfortunately, none of those exist on my system. Indeed, /usr/share/doc/HOWTO doesn't exist. These are the only howtos I can find: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# locate howto /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.91/ipv6-6to4.howto /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.91/ipv6-tunnel.howto /usr/share/doc/vim-common-6.1/doc/howto.txt /usr/share/doc/chbg-1.5/xscreensaver-howto.txt /usr/share/doc/mplayer-0.92/tech/cvs-howto.txt /usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/docbook/howto /usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/docbook/howto/README.NOW /usr/share/webmin/man/view_howto.cgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# I googled for the first one, but found it only in individual html pages - not as a single set I can download and read offline. The second one I could only find in Dutch [or something...] Do you know where/how I could download those docs you suggested, as a set? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]
Hi, First, I set both windoze boxes to static IP addresses, and verified they still talk to each other. The desktop refuses to shut down now, it just goes to blue screen and stays there. But I could care less about that atm, I can just hit the reset switch and boot into Linux and shut down cleanly from there. That's not the problem. The problem is I've killed my internet connection. I'm typing this in a net cafe, after setting up a new account and subscribing it to the list. [btw what's with the archives at mandrake.com only going up till Nov03?] I ran the drakeconnect wizard again, but it wouldn't let me NOT put in a DNS server or [the other one - I can't remember now] It complained that the DNS Server should be in the form n.n.n.n and suggested [IIRC] 186.192.0.3 and 186.192.0.2. I'm not sure of those numbers, I'm going from memory here. It was 7AM when I was trying to sort out what was going wrong and that's late, even for me... When I start KPPP it dials and connects to the ISP ok, but then nothing further happens. Evolution times out with unknown reason and all web pages return connection refused. I ran the wizard again and it had obliterated my dialup account - I had to go searching through boxes and boxes of bits of paper and receipts etc to find the original signup stuff from the ISP so I could re-enter the dialin numbers and username and password again. But still, the same symptoms, no matter what I tried. It seems like regardless of the state of the dialup, the network connection seems to want to take over. interruption I had a bunch more stuff typed but then there was a power failure here and I had to type it all again. I think you have enough to get the idea of the problem. I have no time left now; I'll try and find another net cafe in a few hours or so. In the meantime, any suggestions will be appreciated... -- Merlin Zener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]
[...snip] That would be Gateway. You can always use 127.0.0.1 which is the IP address for localhost as the DNS. Gateways should NOT be required, IIRC. I have never used zeroconf to try to network machines together so I don't know how zeroconf sets a default DNS or Gateway since there is none. Localhost would be my guess, however. If you really want to go back to zeroconf and try to let the wizard's work things out, you can simply check the DHCP/Bootp/zeroconf checkbox and let tmdns generate an IP for you. Do you mean for me to do that in the dialup section, or the lan section? [...snip] I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you browse through some of the available Mandrake Linux documentation, understanding that there may be language difficulties. You may get lucky and find a similar howto that is in your native language. LOL - My native language is Australian! :) My difficulty is in picking out the bits of info I actually need, before my eyes go fuzzy scrolling through page after page of fairly heavy going stuff... Oh and the other thing is knowing *where* to look; last night I was trying man this and man that and not geting anywhere. I wish there was a man troubleshooting ... :) Thanks a lot for those links you gave me; I'm on my way home now, so I'll print your email out and go looking when I get there. -- Merlin Zener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:19, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] Right - well the first thing is to see what your windows boxes are using. Check *all* the network config tabs and write down the results. It's very likely that they are using dhcp - i.e. letting the isp set your ip. That's fine on many counts, though there are some advantages in using static I, my preferred option. Once we know what the rest of your lan is doing we can advise you how to make your Mandrake box join in g Thanks for your reply, Anne. There's only the two computers, connected with a crossover cable. One is a Bitsa - a Celeron 2G desktop and the other is a Thinkpad. Both came with WIN2KPRO installed, and all I had to do to make them talk when both are running windoze was to create a username on each machine for the other machine. Simple. Both have Obtain an IP address automatically selected in the TCP/IP properties. Clicking on Network Identification reveals that both are on WORKGROUP; the desktop is named CEL2GTHAI [because it's a 2G Celeron machine that I bought in Thailand] and the laptop is named THINKPAD. Running ipconfig from a DOS prompt shows: laptop: Connection-specific DNS Suffix. . : Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.5.217 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : C:\ desktop: Connection-specific DNS Suffix. . : Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.115.144 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : C:\ Thanks again for your help :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:39, Adolfo Bello wrote: [...snip] First of all, let's find out whether Mandrake is loading your NIC driver. For this, enter the command: lsmod | grep 8139too [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# lsmod | grep 8139too 8139too14472 0 (autoclean) mii 1152 0 (autoclean) [8139too] [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Next, let's see what your NIC setup is. Enter the command: cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Thanks for your help, Adolfo. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:26, Bryan Phinney wrote: [...snip] You should run the wizard DrakConnect again and make sure that you choose static IP address and give your ethernet card an IP address yourself. What should I set it *to*? The same as when it's running WIN2K? Interestingly, since I ran that wizard, now it stalls for quite a long time on booting, when it hits the line bringing up ETH0, then it eventually says failed and [thankfully] continues booting. It never used to do that before. TIA for your help:) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:45, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Erm... When I said had you run the drakconnect wizard I meant had you gone into Mandrake ControlCentreNetworkingDrakconnect and pressed the 'Wizard' button. I ran drakconnect from the command line, and it started the GUI and proceeded in the same way as if I had started it from the K button. With the added advantage [I thought] that if there were error messages I'd be able to catch them and paste them here for the list to see. I remember doing something like that when I was trying to get Xine working [again, with the help of this list] :) Was it not a good idea? Should I do it again from the GUI? [actually, I'm waiting on clarification from earlier answers about changing it to a static address, and how to know what to set it to.] The wizard will write the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 that Adolfo has asked you about. here's the contents of that file: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes Thanks again for your help:) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 06:45, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] The line PING 169.254.5.217 (169.254.5.217) from 203.146.175.77 means your Mandrake desktop is trying to reach your Windows box via a different subnet. Either because the Ethernet on the Mandrake box is not configured correctly, or because your route table is incorrect. What do you see if you do 'ifconfig' and 'route' Thanks [yet again] for your answer, Derek. Here's the results: I must confess it means *nothing* to me... [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:11908 (11.6 Kb) TX bytes:11908 (11.6 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:203.146.33.130 P-t-P:203.146.173.199 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1514 Metric:1 RX packets:297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:207945 (203.0 Kb) TX bytes:19008 (18.5 Kb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface nas-cbilf2.loxi * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default nas-cbilf2.loxi 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kPackage error messages
Hi, I saw VNC mentioned on another mailing list and so I thought I'd try it; so I downloaded it and then clicked on the downloaded file. kPackage opened up and offered to install it, so I said yes and told it my root password. But then: home/merlin/downloads/VNC/vnc-3.3.7-1.i386.rpm;echo RESULT=$? file /usr/share/vnc/classes/DesCipher.class from install of vnc-3.3.7-1 conflicts with file from package tightvnc-1.2.5-2mdk file /usr/share/vnc/classes/index.vnc from install of vnc-3.3.7-1 conflicts with file from package tightvnc-1.2.5-2mdk file /usr/share/vnc/classes/shared.vnc from install of vnc-3.3.7-1 conflicts with file from package tightvnc-1.2.5-2mdk RESULT=1 Nothing else. I've done a search on tightvnc and tight - neither seems to exist on my system. Any ideas? TIA -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:32, Derek Jennings wrote: Well it tells me that you only have a dial up connection. Your Eth0 interface is not there. Have you tried going through the wizard in drakconnect? heh - no, but here goes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# drakconnect modprobe: Can't locate module serial modprobe: Can't locate module serial Please wait while probing serial ports... Shutting down interface ppp0: [ OK ] Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ] Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0... failed. [FAILED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Is the correct driver being loaded? Is there a line starting alias eth0 in the /etc/modules.conf file? here's the contents of that file: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 8139too alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss What make of ethernet interface is this? I've got no idea. Probably something cheap and Chinese... If I *have* to, I suppose I could open up the case and look... Thanks again, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:57, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] 8139 suggests a Realtek, which are usually OK. Do you use dhcp or static IP? I've got no idea. When both machines are running windoze it *just works*. I've never entered a specific IP address to connect to the net [via modem] so I'm assuming the ISP assigns one to me. I didn't think I needed an IP address to get my local network running - I thought that was only to connect to outside web pages etc? How would I find out what Linux *thinks* it's using? TIA -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
Hi all, well I've been trying to get these two boxes [my Mandrake 9.0 desktop and my Thinkpad with WIN2KPRO] talking, and haven't been able to get Samba to do much of anything. I had an idea to try the basics, and surprise surprise, it's no wonder Samba is having trouble - the two boxes aren't even recognizing each other! I ran ipconfig on the windoze box and it said: autoconfiguration IP address: 169.254.5.217 so from a terminal window on the Mandrake box I typed: ping 169.254.5.217 and got: PING 169.254.5.217 (169.254.5.217) from 203.146.175.77 : 56(84) bytes of data. but then it just sat there and did nothing. So then I pinged 203.146.175.77 from the windoze box and it returned 4 lines of Destination host unreachable. Needless to say, these two boxes talk to each other just fine over the same bit of cable using the same internal LAN cards they both came with when they're both running windoze... What do I have to do in Linux to make the network work? [btw it connects to the internet just fine via the modem] TIA for any help [again] :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] confused by Samba
Hi all, I'm having another go at trying to get my Mandrake desktop to talk to my WIN2K laptop. I tried a while back but gave up. I think I'm confusing the basic concepts here - I had the impression that I had to use Samba, but just now tonight I've just been reading some help pages and they seem to only talk about using Samba for windows users to log on to the Linux box. Am I trying to use the wrong tool for the job? I want to be able to see the files on the laptop, so I can do some editing etc while I'm away from home and then transfer my work to the Mandrake machine without first booting into windows to do the transfer. Even better would be if I could get it so I could run Dreamweaver on my Mandrake box [using Wine???] so I could edit the files right there on the laptop, and continue on next time I boot the laptop away from home again. My logic would seem to tell me that I have to have a username and password set up on the WIN2K box so I made one, but I can't find anywhere in Samba to specify the new username and password. I found a Wiki page on Samba basics which says WebMin and SWAT both have methods for dealing with this, and are easy enough to use that I won't cover them. Well that sounded encouraging, so I installed Webmin. After much stuffing around and seemingly downloading the same set of files 4 times I got Webmin running [don't ask me how...]. But in the Samba Share Manager page the only thing I can see that is relevant is the link Edit Samba users and passwords. But clicking on that only gives me the message No Samba users defined - without giving any hint as to how to define them. I did some more reading and googling without finding a helpful instruction page [man Samba doesn't help much, for example! LOL]. Before I go any further I thought I'd better check in with you guys - to get back to the question at the top of this email: am I using the wrong tool? [or trying to...] TIA for your advice, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:22, JoeHill wrote: I use Sylpheed. I send mail. I receive mail. I have an address book. It does some cool stuff like we mentioned before, like auto-snipping, auto-formatting, etc. What am I missing here? Does anyone know if there's a way to transfer all existing messages and folders from Evolution over to Sylpheed? I don't see any export menu item anywhere in Evolution, and as far as I can see, Sylpheed only imports mbox format... TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 05:09, JoeHill wrote: On 01 Dec 2003 03:39:22 +0700 Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there's a way to transfer all existing messages and folders from Evolution over to Sylpheed? I don't see any export menu item anywhere in Evolution, and as far as I can see, Sylpheed only imports mbox format... what format is mail in Evo? It may be you can use an intermediary, like Mozilla, to import the mail to mbox format, which can then be used by Sylpheed. I've got no idea. Anyone?? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting From 9.2
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:14, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hi Merlin. You said: in the gui, click on setup, then the Modem tab, you'll see a horizontal slider named Modem Volume. Slide it all the way to the right. Just where in the GUI does one find the setup on which to click and it's modem tab? I hope these attachments get through to the list; if they don't, let me know and I'll upload them to a web site you can retrieve them from... anyhow, three pics - they should tell the story better than a thousand of my words :))) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 attachment: snapshot1.pngattachment: snapshot2.pngattachment: snapshot3.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting From 9.2
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 19:59, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hi again Merlin. It wasn't until I logged off last night that I realized that you were referring to the kppp connect dialog. I feel rather stupid but thanks for the heads up and forcing me to think for myself a little. ;~) Oh. Don't worry about it - I'd already sent the message with the pics to the list before I saw this message. No matter, they were only 8 - 10 K each anyway. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting From 9.2
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 11:19, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 24 November 2003 08:45 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Thank you John. Once again I'm in your debt. The kppp program was indeed what I wanted, I just didn't know where to find it. I now have it on my desktop and it is working fine. The one exception to that is that now I hear no sound from the modem during dial, ring, and handshake.I don't know that that is necessarily a problem, it's just a little strange. in the gui, click on setup, then the Modem tab, you'll see a horizontal slider named Modem Volume. Slide it all the way to the right. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xmms won't play songs consecutively
On Sun, 1999-06-06 at 13:38, David-Linux wrote: After googling all morning, I still haven't found anything on this. Xmms works fine as far as playing a file. The problem comes when I try to play a playlist or a directory. When I try to play a playlist or a directory, the whole directory/playlist will load correctly, but when a song finishes, the next song will not play. I must either highlight another song and click play(or double-click) or I must click the 'next track' button. Anyone have any idea what's going on? CTRL-N will fix it. or, if you prefer the mouse way: right-click in an empty area of the main window to bring up the drop-down menu. move the mouse down till it hovers over the word Options. A second drop-down menu will appear: the sixth item down from the top is the one you want: No Playlist Advance. [otherwise known as DJ mode] You'll want to have this option UNCHECKED to have the playlist advance normally. HTH -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] trouble upgrading Kino from 0.51 to 0.64
Hi, I have ver0.51 installed on my Mandrake9.0 system here, and I've just managed to get it working after sorting out the missing subsystem problem that a few other have had. But I can't seem to save stills - in the capture mode, I can click on the Still button and it opens up a typical save dialog box but after browsing to the location I want and entering the filename I want, there is no file written. Not there, not anywhere. I can capture video to the same location no trouble, but I want to be able to capture stills too. I looked here and in the help file but didn't see any mention of this problem. Indeed, the help file does not even mention the capture mode at all, nor the stills function... Then I noticed there is a much more recent version available so I downloaded it. Following the instructions after extracting the archive I entered ./configure and got the following error: $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gnome-config... no checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated by gnome-libs install Can anyone tell me what to do about this? I'm using KDE, not Gnome, if that makes any difference. TIA -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES **
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:03, Eric Huff wrote: Just reposting this for those who just (re)joined us. Also, if there are questions about the list that you want to post to the list, use the subject i did here, so we can keep them all grouped together, and i'll see them better just FWIW, I was unsubbed too - I just resubbed yesterday. I think I was off for about 3 or 4 days - did I miss much? g -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] internet phone software??
Hi, does anyone know of any internet phone software that's something like http://www.callserve.com/Homepage.asp that works in Linux? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 20:41, Todd Slater wrote: This was a good chuckle. USA Today has a piece about problems with the computers in certain BMW's--a cd player that spits cd's at passengers, engines that shut down while running at highway speeds etc. Now, didn't BMW choose Microsoft for that system? There was a story widely reported in the papers here in Thailand about a Government minister who was locked inside his BMW when it stopped on the highway. Eventually someone had to smash the window with a sledgehammer and he got out. http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39130270,00.htm http://www.google.co.th/search?q=bmw+minister+thailandie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8hl=enbtnG=Google+Searchmeta= -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VCD programs
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:12, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 7:10 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 04:19, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Hi does the download edition of MDK 9.1 come with programs that can play VCDs? Installing Xine gives me problems with MD5 signs. Mplayer can't play VCDs. well, it's supposed to be able to. On my system it plays too fast, and the video is all messed up. I expect it's some setting I haven't found yet - I haven't looked too much so far. If I rip the .dat file to my hard drive and then play it, it plays fine. I have 2 commercially produced vcds, and they play faultlessly. What version of xine are you using? Mine is 0.9.18. If you don't have the right codecs installed you will not have buttons for the various kinds of disk. The one for vcd is called vcdx - if you don't have that you need to get plf set up as one of your sources and search for anything that matches your version of xine. Download everything you can find. no, I was only saying that Mplayer doesn't play VCDs on my system; Xine works just fine. I've only just recently downloaded Mplayer, and I haven't had much chance to play around with it yet. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux in Thailand
http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32110.html just thought a few ppl here might be slightly interested :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Kpackage does not resolve dependencies. So if you use it you will have to download and install all the dependencies. An easier way is to get mplayer-gui-0.92-0.1plf.i586.rpm from PLF. ( http://plf.zarb.org/ ) I think you are using Mandrake 9.0 aren't you? They have a version there for Mandrake 9.0. Now to make sure you do not get dependency problems go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and follow the instructions to declare a urpmi source for plf (Hint:- Many of the servers are quite slow. Club-Internet is the best I have found) You can now just go to your Mandrake Software install gui type mplayer-gui in the box and everything will install nicely. Thanks for your very helpful reply, Derek. Unfortunately I'm not able to tell you yet if it works or not - the download just failed again for the 5th time in a row. Not having a lot of luck staying connected for the [estimated] 55 minutes in a single session to download a 6.5M file. I don't suppose there's any way to make it resume, instead of starting again from scratch each time? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:20, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Ah yes, the joys of dial up networking :-( You could try doing the installation from the command line. Use the command urpmi --wget --no-clean mplayer mplayer-gui Thanks again for your help, Derek. I'm not at the stage of trying to get mplayer yet - I'm still trying to get the urpmi sources updated: the first one downloaded ok, but the second one keeps on timing out, usually at around 70 - 80%... Is there a way to make that easy urpmi gadget use wget too? The other thing is, I entered urpmi.removemedia -a like it said to on that site, and of course now rpmdrake doesn't see my original install CDs. I went to add sources in the Software Sources Manager in the Mandrake Control Center and added /mnt/cdrom but it said: unable to update medium; it will be automatically disabled. Now Konquerer sees no files on the CD... TIA for your thoughts/suggestions ;) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:30, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] In your urpmi.addmedia command use synthesis.hdlist.cz instead of hdlist.cz hdlist.cz is the file that contains the list of RPMS on the repository, their dependencies, their descriptions, and a list of the files within them. synthesis.hdlist.cz is the same but without the descriptions or file list. It is a lot smaller and quicker to download if you are on dialup. The downside is when browsing packages with rpmdrake, you cannot find out what they do by reading the descriptions. To put your CD sources back in use the command urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom Thanks Derek, that did the trick. :) Now to go and get mplayer... cue Jaws background music:) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dependencies - what to do?
Hi, I know I'm not the first to have problems with dependencies, but it's the first time for me and I've been unable to find a page that tells me actually what to do in this case. I'm trying to install Mplayer. I downloaded mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1.i386.rpm and double-clicked on it. and Kpackage reported the following: error: failed dependencies: mplayer-skin is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1 mplayer-common = 1.0pre2 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1 libpng.so.2 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre2-1 RESULT=1 so I went googling and found the first two files. [Oh btw what's up with the whole program being 1.8M but the SKIN IS OVER 4M???] mplayer-common was the first one to finish downloading, so I double-clicked on it and got: error: failed dependencies: mplayer = 0.92 is needed by mplayer-common-0.92-1 RESULT=1 so now it seems I've got two programs saying they need each other, but neither will install first... What should I do next? TIA for your help... :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:29, Tom Brinkman wrote: [...snip] I'm not real sure what LV's tryin to do, but I think this whole deal is ISP/phone line specific. In my case when I got DSL I kept a dialup Earthlink account for a while. The DSL line uses micro filters to split out analog voice signal from the digital line. So I figured, no problem, I can connect both my ATU-R (dsl modem) and my dialup modem. DSL line to the ATU-R, filter out an analog signal to the dialup modem. No go. With both connected, neither would work even tho the other was not in use. Only physically disconnecting one or the other would allow me to to switch between digital DSL and analog dialup. OTOH, I've got the DSL line into the ATU-R, and using a micro filter to also connect my phone, that works. Since LV's cable is a digital line, and dialup needs analog, I reckon he's in a similar situation as mine. yeh. FWIW I ran across a similar problem a while back, in Australia. A co-worker had just got ADSL set up at home, and then found that his all-in-one fax machine/answering machine/printer/scanner/etc gadget would kill his ADSL connection anytime he tried to send or receive a fax on that same line. It would then require a call to the helldesk [which often involved more than 30 minutes on hold...] to get them to reset his username so he could get net access again. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] using old ICQ number and contacts database etc in LICQ or similar?
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 03:06, Paul M. Bucalo wrote: [...snip] Your ICQ database is online with ICQ, unless you specifically saved it locally. If I'm not mistaken, ICQ only keeps a list of your buddies numbers so that when you connect it will let you know which of your friends is online. But all your messages and files you've transferred etc are stored locally on your own machine. In the windoze version of ICQ it's stored in C:/Program Files/ICQ/2003a/xxx.dat [where xxx is your ICQ number]. Mine is about 13M, which is why I want to retain access to it. It's useful to be able to look up phone numbers or addresses you've been given years before :) Plus, when you get a new buddy, they always start by asking the same questions - it's handy to be able to just send them files you've previously sent to others... I'm looking for a way to import that database file into LICQ, or some other ICQ-type program for Mandrake 9.0. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] using old ICQ number and contacts database etc in LICQ or similar?
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 06:36, Ronald J. Hall wrote: [...snip] Hmm, I've always used my old number with each new release of Licq that comes with a Mandrake disto - I've never had any trouble entering my old account - what specifically did you have trouble with, concerning your old account? Hi Ronald, please see my other reply to Paul on this topic. I want to import my old messages and files transferred so I can carry on where I left off after switching from windoze - just like I did with importing my old messages from Outlook into Evolution... Cheers, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] using old ICQ number and contacts database etc in LICQ or similar?
Hi, I got LICQ working, using a new number [UIN], but I'd like to be able to use my old ICQ number that I've had for years, and import my old database from ICQ with all my contacts and old messages etc in it. Kind of like copying my old mail into Evolution, only this time for ICQ. Can anyone tell me how to import my old ICQ database into LICQ [I looked in their FAQ, it wasn't there] or suggest another ICQ program that will work with Mandrake 9.0 that will import my old ICQ database? TIA, [again:)] -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] adding a new HDD to a dual boot system
Hi, I found an 80G HDD that I'd forgotten I'd brought over here with me in my luggage; I'd like to add it to my existing dual boot Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2KPRO system. I temporarily put it in my external USB case and found it's formatted as NTFS and it's got some MP3s on it I'd like to keep... So I was thinking, if I connect it as slave on the first IDE channel and then boot into windoze to copy the files on it to CDR before re-formatting it as FAT32, will Linux then find it on the next reboot? Or will the dual boot software spit the dummy when it sees a new hard drive it doesn't know about? Is there any possibility of screwing something up? [ie: losing files, making my system unbootable, etc...?] AND Can someone point me to a document or URL that explains in simple terms how Linux names drives/partitions and how to find out the relationship between the partitions and the naming scheme? For example, if I look at my HDD in Konquerer, I see a bunch of directories but no way to see the partitions [aside from /mnt/cdrom]. But when Googling I found somewhere that told me to type ls /dev/hd*, which gives me this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# ls /dev/hd* /dev/hda@ /dev/hda2@ /dev/hda6@ /dev/hda8@ /dev/hdd@ /dev/hda1@ /dev/hda5@ /dev/hda7@ /dev/hda9@ How do I find out what directory is on what partition, and how much space is available on each? And when I add the new HDD [which I want to use for video editing files and MP3s etc] is it possible or advisable to move existing partitions or directories to it? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] encrypted email to/from windows/linux howto?
Hello, I'm using Evolution on Mandrake 9.0, and I'd like to be able to send/receive encrypted emails to my friends [and my Mum], most of whom use Outlook on WIN2K. I managed to work out how to generate my public key using gpg --gen-key, and I uploaded it to wwwkeys.pgp.net. So, can anyone point me to a set of basic instructions I can send to my Windoze friends so they can install whatever is needed on the other side to read/write encrypted email from Outlook? Oh, and btw: should I put my public key in my .sig? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getting rid of ads on the web
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 07:46, Kaj Haulrich wrote: [...snip] Femme, in Mozilla : Edit -- Preferences -- Privacy Security -- Popup windows -- Block unrequested popup windows. FWIW, in my version of Mozilla it's in a different place: edit--preferences--advanced--and then unclick allow scripts to: open unrequested windows. I'm using Mozilla ver 1.1. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 17:35, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 04:21, Merlin Zener wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:22, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 06:41 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but There is a prebuilt package for dia in the Mandrake distribution. Just use rpmdrake or urpmi from the command line to install it. # urpmi dia installing /mnt/dist/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/dia-0.90-5mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...## 1:dia## I tried that, but it just hangs. ctrl-z, ctrl-c, q, exit, nothing seems to bring it back to life. I have to shut down the terminal window and log back in again. wait 30 mins, and see if you don't have some further info on screen, and the problem will be gone, and the software installed Hi Ed, thanks for your reply. weird - I just tried it again, and immediately I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi dia everything already installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# yet I can't find it in the start menu or on the desktop. Trying to start it from within the terminal gets this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]$ dia-0.91 bash: dia-0.91: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]$ cd dia-0.91 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ dia-0.91 bash: dia-0.91: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ I wonder, would it have installed itself somewhere else, and maybe I have to start it from there??? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:32, julian wrote: [...snip] thanks for the explanations, Julian. picking up the process where the trouble starts: ./configure (this prepares for the actual build. It may fail if you don't have the particular software development packages that it needs installed. If this happens you need to install those packages and run ./configure again) Here's what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake-1.4... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ so now I need to go through and install each of those 5 lines with the word working in them? What about the gcc, cc and cl - are they programs I have to install too? And those last 2 lines make me wonder too: does Mandrake come with a C compiler already installed? I had a look in config.log but as far as I can see it only has some entries about LICQ, nothing about dia-0.91. Should I post it here? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:35, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Merlin If you want to install dia just Open your Mandrake Control CentreSoftwareManagementSoftware Install and type dia in the search box . You will find it is already on your CDs Hi Derek, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I don't find it in there: there are only three results that come up: DansGuardian, diald and kdemultimedia-devel. I also tried searching directly on the CDs using find files and came up empty. I have Mandrake 9.0 - perhaps you have a later version? [...snip] While it is fun and a great learning experience to compile your own code, it is not actually necessary nowdays. There are a gazillion precompiled packages for Mandrake easily available. Quite a lot of them are on your CDs. What I'm looking for is something that will let me make simple drawings of boxes [and basic shapes] with text in them, and lines and arrows going from the boxes to other boxes. Like: source --- preamp --- EQ --- line mixer +--- out 1 | +--- out 2 etc. Can anyone offer any suggestions? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:22, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 06:41 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but There is a prebuilt package for dia in the Mandrake distribution. Just use rpmdrake or urpmi from the command line to install it. # urpmi dia installing /mnt/dist/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/dia-0.90-5mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...## 1:dia## I tried that, but it just hangs. ctrl-z, ctrl-c, q, exit, nothing seems to bring it back to life. I have to shut down the terminal window and log back in again. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
Hi, I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but just right now I can't seem to find it. Not looking in the right help file or man page, I guess. I did google on install and install problems and such, came across a couple of pages but nothing that actually explain what to do when it doesn't work. I'm trying to install a program to do some basic diagrams of PA systems etc - it's called dia-0.91. The instructions say: INSTALL: install it by doing: make install but all I get when I try that is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]# make install make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]# I tried pasting that error message into google.com/linux but I only found some discussions about problem with other programs. I tried man make but it says I should just have to type make by itself, and it should suffice. It goes on to say that make will look for a makefile - and I can see in Konquerer there are 3: makefile.am, makefile.in and makefile.msc. They're right there in the same directory I'm in. I thought it might be some kind of permissions problem, but I entered SU and the root password and tried again with the same result. I'm beginning to think there's something basic broken on my system - the simplest little things don't seem to work for me - things you guys seem to take for granted. like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]# whereami bash: whereami: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# cron bash: cron: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ urpmi bash: urpmi: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]$ path bash: path: command not found and there's a bunch of others too, I just can't think of them atm. btw when you download something and then [try to] install it, where are you supposed to install it to? TIA -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
Hi, I'm guessing I'm probably missing something obvious and basic here, but just right now I can't seem to find it. Not looking in the right nelp file or man page, I guess. I did google on install and install problems and such, came across a couple of pages but nothing that actually explain what to do when it doesn't work. I'm trying to install a program to do some basic diagrams of PA systems etc - it's called dia-0.91. The instructions say: INSTALL: install it by doing: make install but all I get when I try that is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]# make install make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]# I thought it might be some kind of permissions problem, but I entered SU and the root password and tried again with the same result. I'm beginning to think there's something basic broken on my system - the simplest little things don't seem to work for me - things you guys seem to take for granted. like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]# whereami bash: whereami: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] dia-0.91]# and there's a bunch of others too, I just can't think of them atm. btw when you download something and then [try to] install it, where are you supposed to install it to? TIA -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie trouble with installing a program
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 05:41, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, [...snip] sorry about the duplicate. I had the half-finished version in the outbox, edited it then sent it, but then it seems it [Evolution] didn't delete the original version... ??? It's been that kind of day... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux on a Thinkpad?
Hi, have any of you folks put Linux on a Thinkpad? I've got an A21E - 600Mhz, 256Mram 800x600lcd. I noticed that when I got it there were two partitions set up on the HDD - one is [I think] about 8G or so which has the IBM setup files etc on it; the rest came pre-installed with WIN2KPRO. I've never needed the preload stuff so I was wondering about deleting it and putting Linux on there and set it up as a dual boot like my desktop now. Good idea? TIA -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB not hot-swappable in Linux?
Hi, I find that unless I have my USB external hard drive connected and powered up *before* booting, Linux won't find it. Is that the way it normally is, or is there something wrong with my system? Is the there equivalent of the stop device function, so I can safely unplug without powering down the computer first? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Exploits (Was: keep password broken?)
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:37, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 29 Sep 2003 1:43 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 23:35, Derek wrote: [...snip snip] 3/ Make sure you enter an email address in the Mandrake control Centre Security window. That way you will be alerted to security attacks. Is this a new thing in 9.1? I'm running 9.0, and I went to the MCC security section and I didn't see any place to input an email address... cheers, -- Merlin Zener Yes It is there. Put the email address in the 'Security Administrator' box, and tick the checkbox to get mail alerts. http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/90c/en/Starter.html/draksec.html# ahh - I see. Thanks, Derek. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] should I upgrade?
Hi, just a question born of idle curiosity, and the fact that I just read that 9.1 came with LinNeighborhood already in it [and I've had no luck getting Samba to do anything...] : I'm on 9.0 now; should I upgrade to 9.1? What are the steps involved? And are there any gotcha's, like possibly screwing up my mail or bookmarks or saved docs etc? TIA :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:19, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] Install Acrobat. It's on the disks, and it gives you very good control of printing, including scaled printing. what do I do when rpmdrake doesn't find it? I searched in files, names, and descriptions, with all packages selected, search results (none). TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] installing anacron - newbie question...
In the thread: Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:35, RichardA wrote: [...snip] While you're at it, install anacron, too, unless you leave your computer on 24/7. When you boot, it starts the tasks that cron didn't do whilst the PC was off. This includes an updatedb every day. Sorry, I don't know where to go next from here... I got slocate installed ok but not anacron: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi anacron no package named anacron [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# locate anacron /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/8anacron Interestingly, I thought I'd have a look at cron itself to see what it's [not] been doing. but even though locate cron brings pages of results, cron itself doesn't seem to want to run: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# cron bash: cron: command not found Could you perhaps point me to some reading material that explains cron/anacron installation and use? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:04, Charlie M. wrote: [...snip snip] I'll accept the apology if you'll accept mine, then we'll call it even and start over. OK? (-: Even. Sounds good to me. Thanks, Charlie. Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups -- alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. sigh. If only the Thais understood coffee, the place would be almost perfect... :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mailwasher style filter/spam stopper for Evolution?
Hi, I had a look at Spamassassin but AFAICT it filters on messages already downloaded. I just finished downloading today's email, and aside from list mail which I have going to their individual folders, my inbox had 82 messages in it, and only 4 of them were not spam and/or viruses. When I was using Outlook on WIN2K, I had Mailwasher going, which I liked because I liked the idea of bounce messages going to the sender of any messages I marked as spam. Not that I think the spammers take a blind bit of notice... Is there something I can use to look at the headers and delete/bounce them before I get them from my POP server? Something automated like the Bayesian idea would be nice :) TIA -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:31, Charlie M. wrote: [...snip] If you don't want to answer questions then don't. That's simple enough. Just don't try to discourage others from freely sharing what they've learned. Please. But before someone can realistically expect a total newbie to be able to search the available data sources someone must, first, teach them _how_ to ask what so many deem as 'intelligent questions.' As well as how to find intelligible answer from those so beloved data sources. RTFM and STFW are about as helpful from one that has knowledge as; My monitor doesn't have a picture, just a few lines of text, why? from a newbie. I for one am not averse to a little hand holding since that level of patience was once extended to me by someone knowledgeable that had apparently reasoned the situation out as I do now. YMMV Hi Charlie. I emailed you offlist to apologize but it bounced; I hope you don't mind me taking this opportunity to do it publicly. [for those that missed it, or came in late, I sent a rather hasty reply to one of Charlie's answers - I wasn't pi**ed off as I wrote it, but on re-reading it in the archives I could easily see how it could have been taken that way.] So, sorry once again Charlie. In my case, I've had Mandrake on this machine for a while [and I wouldn't have been able to get it installed without this list] but I haven't actually tried to do anything with it until recently. I got connected using Linux [again, with help from this list] a few weeks back, but when I really think about the actual amount of contact time in front of the computer I think it would really only total about 30 hours tops. So maybe I'm impatient and possibly have unrealistic expectations. Typical newbie? Maybe it all comes down to expectations. The newbie just expects the basics to be the same and is caught out when they're not. Kind of like moving to a different country [as I've done several times] - it's not the things you get told about that catch you out - it's the little things you don't expect that get you. [F1 doesn't mean help, for example]. Maybe the helpful answerers expect things too. Someone suggested [I'm sorry, I don't know who - Evolution is acting up again: emails open up with blank windows - but that's a topic for another thread] that I try locate, but when I do, all I get is command not found. And man locate gets me No manual entry for locate. All I'm saying is, clearly the answerer in that case expected I would have locate installed already... And like whoever suggested the RUTE pdf - I got several page not found results before I finally found somewhere I successfully downloaded it from. At 660 pages it's going to take me quite a while to get through, and in the meantime what do I do about problems that I encounter day by day? I've just begun reading it, and really, I think it will take months to get through. Especially if I follow the advice in the introduction: Any system reference will require you to read it at least three times before you get a reasonable picture of what to do... For me, for now, at least, it's just the same as me trying to read anything more complicated than a menu board in Thai - first I've got to figure out the characters, then work out what the individual words mean, and only then try to work out the meaning of the sentence. I'd venture to point out that most windoze users have never heard of grep or urpmi or invoke or that there's a difference between l and |. I've just scanned quickly through the first couple of chapters and it seems to jump immediately into the command line stuff, like password management and wildcards and expressions and so on. I don't know how often the typical user would ever have to bother with such things, unless he/she is a programmer already. All I'm saying is, from the newbie's perspective, a lot of this stuff is hard work. And to truly understand it will take a LOT of time investment, which is something not everyone can afford. I wonder, is there a more basic guide available which would cover the real basics - in plain English - the essential things you need to know about what's different? Thanks to all those who give freely of their time and expertise on this list, and also, sorry once again to Charlie... :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] which kernel version
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:31, Charlie M. wrote: [...snip] Lot's of ways Bill. But: 1.) Just Ctrl+Alt+F1 and look at the kernel version there; very funny. I tried it, thinking I'd see some kind of help file or info, but it immediately went to a black screen with just a couple of lines of text at the top. This wasn't just a text window, it was the full screen. How was I supposed to get back to where I was? Quit, exit, q, CTRL-C etc, nothing seemed to work. ALT-TAB didn't work, it only put some ] and ^ symbols on the line. And then the CTRL-ALT-DEL [I thought it would bring up a log in screen, like before] rebooted the computer without any warning or any chance to stop it. So I lost an 8M download, which [of course] was about 90% done... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:21, Ralph Slooten wrote: [...snip] For those with e-mail programs that download their mail, I'm sure forwarding rules can easily be added in proggies like Evolution, kmail and Sylpheed, and probably the rest too.. I don't know. FWIW, I just checked in Evolution [1.0.8]. Forwarding isn't one of the options. :( -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] which kernel version
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 04:55, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:42, Charlie M. wrote: careful snipping of all context... By not answering any more questions. oh dear... It was meant to be funny. Sorry: I thought it was obvious, even though I didn't plaster smileys all over it. My impression was, this list is well acquainted with the Australian style of self-deprecating humor: some misfortune befalls you, and you don't bottle it up and turn into a miserable git, you tell your mates, everyone has a laugh, you learn something and move on. Oh well. Clearly, the fact that I'm typing this means it wasn't taken in the spirit it was meant. [If you have to explain the joke, then it isn't one...] Sorry, once again. [...snip]. In this instance,,, I think no real harm done... I hope so :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to find out the speed the modem connects to the ISP at?
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 09:05, Carroll Grigsby wrote: [...snip] Adding ATW2 as the secondary initialization string in the kppp modem setup works here. ... and it worked here, too :) thanks a lot. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:04, RichardA wrote: [...snip[ed lots of useful info - thanks, Richard] chmod: failed to get attributes of `/home/merlin/cvs2vcard.pl': No such file or directory Puzzled. Is the script in /usr/bin or your home? It's in both. I've just checked again. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:08, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:06:10 -0400, Mathieu Frenette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, I already have Mozilla Mail and Mozilla AddressBook installed. However, when I go to Tools-Import-Address Books, the only choice I have is to import Text file (LDIF, .tab, .csv, .txt). Do I need to install an extra package for doing what you mention? Or maybe upgrade Mozilla? My version is 1.3 (as pre-packaged with Mandrake 9.1): mozilla-1.3-1mdk mozilla-mail-1.3-1mdk Regards, Mathieu. I haven't done this myself. I just pasted those instructions in case they helped. What is more, I may have introduced some confusion between importing mail and contacts. Sorry. FWIW, I can confirm that the original instructions were to transfer mail and contacts from Outlook to Evolution, in a two step process. In Mathieu's case though, I think it should work: but first he would have to export the contacts from Outlook into .CSV format - file import/export export to file next comma separated values [dos] next select contacts folder next select where you want to save it to, and the name. then Netscape should be able to import the .CSV file [assuming you put it some place Netscape can get to it] :) In my case, Evolution doesn't import .CSV files, hence my questions here about the csv2vcard function... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to find files and look everywhere except /mnt?
Hi, I wonder if it's possible to make the find files look everywhere *except* in the /mnt directory? I notice that it takes ages to find anything, and it seems to be when it get to the /mnt part of the search - it rattles the floppy and click-clicks the CDRW, even though there's no disk in either. I just thought is might speed things up a bit if I could tell it not to even try... TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] importing contacts into Evolution?
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 02:13, Merlin Zener wrote: [...snip] Hello all, I've been offline for a few days, due to a monumental lack of communication between my domain name registrar, my old web hosting provider, my new web hosting provider, and myself - resulting in my domain name not resolving... [insert appropriate expletives here] g Still, I've checked the archives of this list on the mandrake site, and I see there has been no answer to this question; I wonder if maybe someone might like to give me even just a place to start reading about what might be the cause... I'm trying to import my contacts from Outlook into Evolution. I've exported the contacts to a .CSV file and followed the instructions to convert to file to a vcard file but this is the error I get: bash: csv2vcard.pl: command not found It happens no matter if I try it as myself or if I su to root. I can see that the file exists if I search for it using find files - it is sitting in file:/usr/bin. Could it be the .pl on the end? If so, what to do about it - rename the file, or modify the command? [I pasted it directly off the web page...] TIA for any help:) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to find files and look everywhere except /mnt?
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 04:17, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 13 Sep 2003 03:50:36 +0700 Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if it's possible to make the find files look everywhere Try using slocate instead of find If you have not used it before su to root and then # updatedb I think there is something broken somewhere - all I get is: bash: updatedb: command not found bash: slocate: command not found The same thing happens when I try that other command I was asking about in the importing contacts into Evolution question. I'm guessing, but maybe it's some sort of PATH: not set? How would I find out? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to find files and look everywhere except /mnt?
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 04:06, Charles-Roberts wrote: Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, I wonder if it's possible to make the find files look everywhere *except* in the /mnt directory? I notice that it takes ages to find anything, and it seems to be when it get to the /mnt part of the search - it rattles the floppy and click-clicks the CDRW, even though there's no disk in either. I just thought is might speed things up a bit if I could tell it not to even try... TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Try the -xdev option. See 'man find'. Charles Unfortunately that doesn't seem to make any difference. I tried both -xdev and -mount [from the man page - thatnks for the pointer btw] but it still accesses the CDRW and the floppy whenever I start the search from /. -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to find out the speed the modem connects to the ISP at?
Hi there, I'm using KPPP to connect to the internet [because it was hanging off the start menu, labeled connect to the internet and it worked first time... :) ]. But it reports that I'm connected at 115200, which I expect is the speed my UART is talking to the modem at... Is there a way I can find out what speed the modem has connected to the ISP at? Often, it seems to connect slowly because of line noise due to rain etc, in windoze I could see it if I hovered the mouse over the little icon in the system tray. I expect there's some way in Mandrake, but I don't know what word to search for TIA again :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: dad got blaster on 1st day with new xp computer!
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:14, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] My sister-in-law is a technophobe radiographer, working in a major city hospital. A couple of weeks ago a whole new system was put in for them, and they had to start the big job of migrating all their data - a nightmare of them, when they also had to continue their own jobs. Two days later they were hit by the virus and the whole, brand-new, network was down for a full week. Not only their hospital, but all the others to which they were linked. When they got it back they had a week's backlog of work to enter into the system. Their sysadmin is being paid by the National Health Service, our taxes are paying him. Why I don't know what it is with doctors and technology. My mother works for a govt dept that does surveys on doctors etc and has similar stories - the office has a couple of dozen PCs and is down more than it's up. They have a guy who is on call at $180 an hour and is usually there 3 days a week. One time it took him 23 hours billed time to make one printer available to the computer on front desk... The other thing is, I remember one time I went to my local GP and he was running XP on a laptop on his desk. He typed in my symptoms etc and it suggested the medicine and the dose, printed out a neat little scrip etc. I thought that was pretty neat until I mentioned it to my Mum, and she told me that one particular drug company GIVES the doctors the laptops loaded with their own particular software that ONLY suggests their own drugs... hmm - conflict of interest, anyone? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] a printing problem which leads to a Samba problem...
Hi, I have a Canon S200SP connected to this computer, which I can't get working. It either prints double size or just whole pages of black, depending on which model I tell printerdrake it is - and I've tried several... I tried google, and came across my post to this list from about six months ago!!! So anyway, I thought to myself, stuff it, it works in windoze [without the slightest effort...] so I'll just hang it off the laptop and print through that. heh heh... But that means making this machine talk to the laptop [which is running WIN2KPRO]. I ran configure Samba off the what to do menu and it seemed to start up no trouble at all. The only thing is, I can't see anything outside of Linux on this computer, and the laptop can't see this computer either. Clearly, something hasn't been set up properly, but where to begin looking? CTRL-ESC shows that Samba is running, but I kinda think there should be some form of diagnostic output somewhere, if only I knew what to look for, and where... Any help, anyone? [Even just a starting point, to get me going from there...] TIA -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
