RE: [newbie] ISP - KPPP - error 19
Hi there, Have a look at 'man kppp' and you will get a list of errors and what they mean. Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Les Jacobson Sent: 23 August 2001 03:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] ISP - KPPP - error 19 File: message.footer After finally getting Mandrake Linux 8.0 to talk with my modem, I have tried to connect to my ISP. I am able to do so via windows but when I try via KPPP I get an error code (19) which seems to indicate that there is some sort of authentication issue. One person has suggested that this is due to some magic that windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 do but which Windows 3.1 and Linux do not do. Another person has suggested it might be an SSL issue. My ISP is quixnet.net. To the best of my knowledge (and ability) all of the required data has been set to the correct values (including userid and password). Can someone please shed some light on this situation? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] NetMeeting - Is Linux in the way?
Hi Ron, I am sorry that this isn't a reply to your question, rather it is a request for info. I notice that you have a home network. I'd like to set one up but haven't been able to make sense of networking. Would you mind explaining it to me it simple terms? I have 3 i486s with 8Mb Ram and 212Mb hard drives with 3-com Ethernet cards. My main box has an Athlon 900 MHz processor, 384Mb Ram, 20 Gb hard drive and a RealTek card. I basically don't understand much about this. Thanks a lot. Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ron Bouwhuis Sent: 23 August 2001 03:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] NetMeeting - Is Linux in the way? File: message.footer All, I have a Linux Mandrake (8.0) box with 2 ethernet cards - one to my ISP, the other to my home network, where the machines run Windows 98. The LM8.0 box does very basic IP masquerading for the other computers. I've had a wonderfully easy time with it to date, but now need to reach out to this community for help. When using NetMeeting on a W98 box, the other party can hear us OK, but we can't hear them. However, chat works fine. Same thing with MSN messenger: text chatting works fine, but Talk fails to connect. However, when that W98 box is directly connected to the cable modem (i.e. not through the Linux box), I can get sound both ways! Interestingly, 2 W98 boxes on the home network communicate great with each other - sound AND video - even successfully using the directory to find each other! So, the only thing that seems to stop NetMeeting and MSN Messenger sound working properly appears to be the Linux box. I have no firewalling in place (I plan to, once I figure all this out!). No Bastille running, only 1 rule in iptables - the one to get masquerading going with NAT. I also know that the ISP hasn't got a firewall in place, as I've checked with them (plus it works directly connected!). What am I missing? I assume that all packets in and out the cable modem are passed through untouched (other than IP address), so port handling and other communication details should be handled by the W98 boxes. Of course, the IP address NetMeeting shows behind LM8.0 as a 192.168 etc. address, but (not sure of nomenclature) I understood that iptables changes that when it does the masquerading? I've tried putting in port entries in /etc/services as per various obscure MS support pages I've managed to find. I've looked at the xinetd man page, but can't figure out what service I'd need to set up to enable this. And as I said, I thought that with masquerading, packets get passed through unless there's a rule saying not to. Any help, guidance, etc. would be greatly appreciated. I've been having a great time dusting off my old Unix skills, but I have to admit that TCP/IP networking is an area that's a black art to me. Keen to learn, though (which is the point, huh!) Regards, Ron. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] dual boot
Try editing /etc/lilo.conf - you will find (at a guess) that the last entry in the list is windoze 2000. Move it to the top of the list and save the changes. Then run /sbin/lilo Give it a try. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux
Hello there, Are you saying that windoze sees it as 4GB? A 4Kb drive is a very retrograde step! What sort of motherboard do you have, processor etc? Which version of 'doze' do you use? How have you partitioned your drive. Are you using Partition Magic or what? Send some more info please. Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joe Brault Sent: 22 August 2001 20:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux File: message.footer Hello, I found this mailing list on the Mandrake site, and thought you all might be able to help me with my problem. I purchased a hard drive yesterday (maxtor 40GB 5400rpm) and installed it thru windoze. I can see and use the drive fine in windoze, however when I access my linux setup (Linux Mandrake 8.0, running KDE; I have a dual boot system using grub) I can see the drive when I look for it in the windoze explorer browser (can't remember name?) but the size shows as 4kb and I can't see any files on it... its like a blank drive... Does anyone know how to configure Linux to see this drive in kde so I can read/write to it? I've got all my mp3's on this drive... so it's kinda important to have it up:) no music until it's working! Thanks in advance! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux
Lo Joe, A little more info please. Of the 40Gb you are using 15. What happens to the rest? The point is that if Doze sees it ok then Linux should. Are you using Mandrake 8.0? When you load Md 8.0 you are asked a) which drive and b) how do you want to partition it. If you assume that doze is the C: drive then Linux will see that as /dev/had. What drive letter does Linux assign? Sorry to be so boring but it all helps to crack the prob. Mail me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joe Brault Sent: 22 August 2001 21:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux File: message.footer Mike, Sorry, should have put that info in before :) I think I did a typo... the drive is a 40GB drive, 5400rpm. here's the rest of my specs: Motherboard: Tyan 1854s CPU: Genuine Intel P3 666Mhz Pri HD: Maxtor 15GB 7200rpm RAM: 256mb Video Card: Vodoo 3 3500TV AGP CD Drive: Creative 52x CDRW Drive: Creative CDRW 8*4*32x Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live Platinum! Network card: Generic Ne2k card Modem: Actiontec 56k internal PCI call waiting modem (works with Linux :) I think that's all the pertinent info... my system is a dual boot, 7gig partition is win98. 8gig for Linux Mandrake 8.0. I use grub to boot my system. I'm not sure if I need to 'install' the hard drive in Linux or not.. please see my previous post below for the specifics... But I can read/write to the drive in Win98 (and it sees it as a 40gb drive) but in linux it sees the drive however it shows it to have a size of 4kb... and I see no files on the drive even though over 9gigs are full already. Thanks for any help :) you can email me directly if you have more specific q's about my system, or with an answer to my problem :) Thanks! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- From: Michael McGibben [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 21:32:44 +0100 Hello there, Are you saying that windoze sees it as 4GB? A 4Kb drive is a very retrograde step! What sort of motherboard do you have, processor etc? Which version of 'doze' do you use? How have you partitioned your drive. Are you using Partition Magic or what? Send some more info please. Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joe Brault Sent: 22 August 2001 20:19 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux File: message.footer Hello, I found this mailing list on the Mandrake site, and thought you all might be able to help me with my problem. I purchased a hard drive yesterday (maxtor 40GB 5400rpm) and installed it thru windoze. I can see and use the drive fine in windoze, however when I access my linux setup (Linux Mandrake 8.0, running KDE; I have a dual boot system using grub) I can see the drive when I look for it in the windoze explorer browser (can't remember name?) but the size shows as 4kb and I can't see any files on it... its like a blank drive... Does anyone know how to configure Linux to see this drive in kde so I can read/write to it? I've got all my mp3's on this drive... so it's kinda important to have it up:) no music until it's working! Thanks in advance! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux
Lo Joe, As is usual, I had an idea just as I was about to go to bed. Am I right in thinking that you can boot into Linux? If so, try the following for me and send me the results. From the command line, or from a terminal, run 'fdisk /dev/hda' (no quotes). Run too 'df' and send the results. Once you've run these two let me have the results please. I suspect that you have, quite simply, finished the 'fdisk' too early. I may be wrong of course but keep your fingers crossed! Mail me directly. Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joe Brault Sent: 22 August 2001 21:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux File: message.footer Mike, Sorry, should have put that info in before :) I think I did a typo... the drive is a 40GB drive, 5400rpm. here's the rest of my specs: Motherboard: Tyan 1854s CPU: Genuine Intel P3 666Mhz Pri HD: Maxtor 15GB 7200rpm RAM: 256mb Video Card: Vodoo 3 3500TV AGP CD Drive: Creative 52x CDRW Drive: Creative CDRW 8*4*32x Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live Platinum! Network card: Generic Ne2k card Modem: Actiontec 56k internal PCI call waiting modem (works with Linux :) I think that's all the pertinent info... my system is a dual boot, 7gig partition is win98. 8gig for Linux Mandrake 8.0. I use grub to boot my system. I'm not sure if I need to 'install' the hard drive in Linux or not.. please see my previous post below for the specifics... But I can read/write to the drive in Win98 (and it sees it as a 40gb drive) but in linux it sees the drive however it shows it to have a size of 4kb... and I see no files on the drive even though over 9gigs are full already. Thanks for any help :) you can email me directly if you have more specific q's about my system, or with an answer to my problem :) Thanks! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- From: Michael McGibben [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 21:32:44 +0100 Hello there, Are you saying that windoze sees it as 4GB? A 4Kb drive is a very retrograde step! What sort of motherboard do you have, processor etc? Which version of 'doze' do you use? How have you partitioned your drive. Are you using Partition Magic or what? Send some more info please. Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joe Brault Sent: 22 August 2001 20:19 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux File: message.footer Hello, I found this mailing list on the Mandrake site, and thought you all might be able to help me with my problem. I purchased a hard drive yesterday (maxtor 40GB 5400rpm) and installed it thru windoze. I can see and use the drive fine in windoze, however when I access my linux setup (Linux Mandrake 8.0, running KDE; I have a dual boot system using grub) I can see the drive when I look for it in the windoze explorer browser (can't remember name?) but the size shows as 4kb and I can't see any files on it... its like a blank drive... Does anyone know how to configure Linux to see this drive in kde so I can read/write to it? I've got all my mp3's on this drive... so it's kinda important to have it up:) no music until it's working! Thanks in advance! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 8.0 internet desktop icon does not give me a button to connect disconnect to Internet. . .
Hi there, I assume that you have set up a connection to your isp. If so, try adding kppp to the panel. When you click on the kppp icon, you should get a pop-up window with: quit, , setup and connect. (More or less)! Obviously you need to configure your modem etc. Check things out and try again. Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of WCBaker Sent: 23 August 2001 00:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Re: Mandrake 8.0 internet desktop icon does not give me a button to connect disconnect to Internet. . . File: message.footer Hi! I very recently installed Mandrake 8.0. The internet desktop icon in KDE (and I think, in Gnome, too) does not give me a button to connect disconnect to Internet. . . I'm wondering how I can go about troubleshooting this problem. Thanks! -warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Coding resources?
Try www.linux-newbie.org words of wisdom. You will find a newbie NHF on C programming (I think). Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric Caron Sent: 20 August 2001 18:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Coding resources? File: message.footer Hi everybody, I installed Mandrake 8.0 on my old P166, 64M because I want to do some portable C code. Maybe my question will be a little bit off-topic, but I'd like to know if there are websites for newbie programmers on Linux. I knew how to use the display under dos by accessing the memory directly or using the dos libs, but the functions I knew so well were only available under dos also. I heard that you have to use n/curse to do the same things, but I don't know where to start. Any help would be great. Eric. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] Linux Uninistall HD/Partion Prob.
hi there, i suggest that you format your hard drive to start with. having finished that i would then load windoze (for simplicity) giving it the full 9Gb. once you have 'doze loaded, use 'fips' to shrink the partition to 2 - 4 gb or whatever size you decide on. at this point you can reload linux, setting up the partitions as you do so. for mandrake you need at least a swap partition as well as your root partition but this only a short term requirement. longterm you will need to give some thought to creating (perhaps) /usr and /home partitions. can you get your hands on a copy of partition magic? if you can it will make life much easier for you since you can use it to create both 'doze and linux partitions. whatevere you do, don't panic. you can always wipe your hard-drive and start again. you'll soon get the hang of it. give it a go and if you have any probs. mail me. cheers .. michael
