Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 05:22 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: Isaak, Get your hands on the latest version of webmin at www.webmin.com I thought that Mandrake changed the location of so much stuff that the default webmin was basically unusable for server administration. Am I wrong about that? Yup, You're mistaken. If you're already running webmin, simply un-install it from the system it's on, making sure you delete the /etc/webmin and usr/libexec/webmin folders afterwards, and proceed with a normal install of the latest version. For whatever reason, Jamie Cameron has changed the default location of most of the webmin components, placing almost everything in the /usr/libexec/webmin folder and has done away with the use of the /etc/webmin folder. Other than that, it runs like a champ. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake
Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy server, with some new onboard graphics chipset. It has a PCI Express card which i do not intend to use. I might go looking for a PCI graphics card, but untill i find one i need to fix things through some other tool, what to use? Regards Isak Isaak, Get your hands on the latest version of webmin at www.webmin.com Download the rpm package from the link in the upper right hand corner of the home page and install it in the usual fashion. You're also going to need the following packages; 1) perl-Authen-PAM 2) perl-Net_SSLeay 3) perl-CGI They will need to be downloaded and installed prior to installing webmin, but they are available from your CD's and from your urpmi sources. Once they're installed, install the webmin package you downloaded from Webmin's site (webmin-1.190-1) using the following command while you're in the folder where you downloaded it. You'll need to open a root console to do all of this. rpm -ivh webmin Once it's installed, open a web-browser on your client system and log into the server using the following link; https://IP-Address-of-your-server:1 HTH's -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SMC Barricade
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:31:13 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Well, here's another weird one for the list. I recently bought a Linksys Wireless card and it's working quite well, but of course, there's one little problem. The card is unable to receive packets from the SMC router. I've tried it with and without DHCP, and with or without WEP. The SMC Barricade is an 11Mbps, 3-Port router with a print-server (not in use for now). I am able to get an IP address for the Linksys card from the router (Model # SMC7004AWBR), and KNemo shows that the card is sending packets to the router and that there's a connection at the proper speed, but the card is not receiving from the router. Just to simplify this, the problem doesn't seem related to Linux or Windows, since I'm getting the same problem in either OS. Meanwhile, my wired connection from the same system works fine. Wireless networking was working fine on the router the last time it was in use, even though an occasional reboot of the router was required. I've tried it before and after updating the firmware, and I've reset the router to default settings about 35 times, and still 'No Joy'! Even using the default settings, my wired connection is fine and the wireless card is getting an IP address from the router. But the wireless card can't successfully ping the router. If anyone has had any previous experience with this unit, I'd appreciate any suggestions they might have. I have yet to take my laptop out to another wireless zone to see if it connects and that's probably next on my list of things to try, but hopefully, there's something I'm missing. Personally, I suspect that the problem is due to the RTS/CTS Fragmentation settings, but there doesn't seem to be a way to change them in the router and I can't find the spec's for them on Google or at SMC. Thanks for any help that you can provide Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Have you considered that the card itself may not work? Has it worked with any other router? Mikkel Hi Mikkel. This card is brand new. It might be defective and I'm going to check into that, but I'm going to try connecting to another wireless router before I look at that as a possibility. That way, if I need to return it to the store, I won't be surprised when they test it. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 I have a similar SMC router and have used it for years. Would be more apt to suspect the RJ45 or Cat 5 wiring. Lee Mikkel, As it turns out, SMC apparently releases several versions of each router model. Depending on which version a person ends up with (and this is not based on geographical locations, except where it concerns government regulations), the unit can either be a great, dependable device or a complete P.O.S. Apparently, I ended up with the P.O.S. version and even a firmware upgrade doesn't solve the problem. It has to do with the chipset used in each version. My guess is that SMC releases their first version with high-quality chips and components (which tends to get them great press reviews), but subsequent units are built with the substandard parts and these can be highly unreliable. If you look at the manufacturer's label (usually on the bottom of the unit), you will find a 7 digit number for the sub-assembly as well as a corresponding number for the supplier's part number. Based on a number of consumer comments and late reviews I Googled, this version of the model I ended up with is the crappy one. No biggy though. A new Linksys router will be showing up tomorrow morning, courtesy of one of my suppliers who owes me a few favors. The weird thing is that the wired systems have no problem with router, network or Internet access, while wireless cards can't seem to go anywhere. This router is simply not returning any packets to the wireless card. I went out yesterday and ran a few tests at a number of free wireless internet locations (there's about 40 of them, here in Montreal) and everything went fine, and I didn't have to make any corrections or changes to the card's configuration, so it's definitely a router problem. Fortunately for me, this one was a trade-in, so I didn't lay out any cash for it. Thanks for your suggestions though. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi update problem.
Simon wrote: On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:52, Mr. Geek wrote: Simon; You have to uninstall libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf and possibly ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf before you can install the newer version of both packages using; urpme ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf which should also remove the old libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf in the process. It will probably ask you if that's OK. What I don't know is if anything else will need removal at the same time, but again it should ask. Once that's done repeat the first command to install the newer versions. That's great, all done. Thanks for your help. Simon. NP Simon. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
Elwyn York wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:53, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 07:52 am, Elwyn York wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 Oooohh, wait for 10.2. It'll only be a few days and it is very nice. hal + dbus == hardware that works better Very stable KDE 3.3.2, you will only get 3.2.3 with 10.1 OO.o 1.1.4 and better integrated into the desktop Newest Firefox and thunderbird I am running on 2 production machines for a few weeks with no showstoppers Ok, so if I temporarily transfer my mail over to another machine, and sort out some place to dump 80 gig of mp3s to another place on my network I too can play with 10.2 ?? :) What do I need to do to get it ?? Elwyn Well, other than the fact that you just answered your own question Elwyn, you need to transfer your mail to another machine and sort out some place to dump 8 Gb's of MP3 files. Which begs the question,...should we consider setting up our own private P2P system? But back to your question,. How is your hard drive partitioned now? Is the 80 Gb's of MP3's on a separate partition? If you decide to install 10.2, your /home folder should be fine as long as you don't attempt to change your partition sizes or to re-format your drive. The 10.2 installer should detect your existing partitions, and it will show you that the /home partition will not be formatted, unless you manually select it. Any other partitions which have atypical names (partitions names that Linux doesn't already have in it's own list), will also be left alone unless you tell the installer and/or diskdrake otherwise. Hope that helps. Now, about that VP-P2P-Network,.. Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error You know Aron, you shouldn't see this as a personal failure. Lots of people fail to install and they still manage to cope with day-to-day life and ,OH! Sorry! I accidentally posted this to the wrong list! It was intended for the Microsoft Users Group! My apologies! Damn Outlook Express! Grrr! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 15:56, Hugh Dixon wrote:
[JDOW] April Fools has existed since the days of the Roman Empire.
{^_-}
Did the Romans get to Brazil?
Where do you think the Brazilians came from? Rome had been there.
Etruscans had been there. Phoenicians had been there. Egyptians had been
there. The Atlanteans had been there, the Polynesians had been there.
Needless to say, though, I have inside information that Josenildo
actually runs IBM OS/2 Warp4 and he's been pulling everyone's leg from
the beginning of this annual exercise - just to get at Anne.
Ugh! Stephen! You've been inside of Josenildo? Did you really have to
mention it on the list?
Yeesh!
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Re: [newbie] Failed Install
Margot wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error You know Aron, you shouldn't see this as a personal failure. Lots of people fail to install and they still manage to cope with day-to-day life and ,OH! Sorry! I accidentally posted this to the wrong list! It was intended for the Microsoft Users Group! My apologies! Damn Outlook Express! Grrr! You're a day late - April Fools Day was yesterday! At least...I *hope* you were joking ;-) Of course I was kidding! Except for the part about there being some sort of psychological support group for Microsoft Users! With all the problems that they have, there HAS to be one, don't you agree? What amazes me is how much Microsoft charges for that kind of support! First they create the problem, and then the charge a fee to all those who are traumatized from their use of the it. Talk about creating your own market! After all, since they don't release their source code to the general public, no one can ever effectively solve a Microsoft-related problem. Now that's what I call a captive audience! Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows (Curios)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just seen the April Fool stories on Linux Today and I see that some of them are dated/timed AFTER midday on 1st April, in my part of the world (Derby, U.K) tradition has it that the trick must be played before noon, anyone playing the trick after noon is traditionally the Fool. does the tradition change according to which part of the world you are in ? Poogle - Technically ,...No. But sometimes you have to allow for a bit of creative license. By the time some folks get out of bed, the rest of the world is way past noon. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SMC Barricade
Well, here's another weird one for the list. I recently bought a Linksys Wireless card and it's working quite well, but of course, there's one little problem. The card is unable to receive packets from the SMC router. I've tried it with and without DHCP, and with or without WEP. The SMC Barricade is an 11Mbps, 3-Port router with a print-server (not in use for now). I am able to get an IP address for the Linksys card from the router (Model # SMC7004AWBR), and KNemo shows that the card is sending packets to the router and that there's a connection at the proper speed, but the card is not receiving from the router. Just to simplify this, the problem doesn't seem related to Linux or Windows, since I'm getting the same problem in either OS. Meanwhile, my wired connection from the same system works fine. Wireless networking was working fine on the router the last time it was in use, even though an occasional reboot of the router was required. I've tried it before and after updating the firmware, and I've reset the router to default settings about 35 times, and still 'No Joy'! Even using the default settings, my wired connection is fine and the wireless card is getting an IP address from the router. But the wireless card can't successfully ping the router. If anyone has had any previous experience with this unit, I'd appreciate any suggestions they might have. I have yet to take my laptop out to another wireless zone to see if it connects and that's probably next on my list of things to try, but hopefully, there's something I'm missing. Personally, I suspect that the problem is due to the RTS/CTS Fragmentation settings, but there doesn't seem to be a way to change them in the router and I can't find the spec's for them on Google or at SMC. Thanks for any help that you can provide Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Something vexes thee? -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SMC Barricade
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Well, here's another weird one for the list. I recently bought a Linksys Wireless card and it's working quite well, but of course, there's one little problem. The card is unable to receive packets from the SMC router. I've tried it with and without DHCP, and with or without WEP. The SMC Barricade is an 11Mbps, 3-Port router with a print-server (not in use for now). I am able to get an IP address for the Linksys card from the router (Model # SMC7004AWBR), and KNemo shows that the card is sending packets to the router and that there's a connection at the proper speed, but the card is not receiving from the router. Just to simplify this, the problem doesn't seem related to Linux or Windows, since I'm getting the same problem in either OS. Meanwhile, my wired connection from the same system works fine. Wireless networking was working fine on the router the last time it was in use, even though an occasional reboot of the router was required. I've tried it before and after updating the firmware, and I've reset the router to default settings about 35 times, and still 'No Joy'! Even using the default settings, my wired connection is fine and the wireless card is getting an IP address from the router. But the wireless card can't successfully ping the router. If anyone has had any previous experience with this unit, I'd appreciate any suggestions they might have. I have yet to take my laptop out to another wireless zone to see if it connects and that's probably next on my list of things to try, but hopefully, there's something I'm missing. Personally, I suspect that the problem is due to the RTS/CTS Fragmentation settings, but there doesn't seem to be a way to change them in the router and I can't find the spec's for them on Google or at SMC. Thanks for any help that you can provide Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Have you considered that the card itself may not work? Has it worked with any other router? Mikkel Hi Mikkel. This card is brand new. It might be defective and I'm going to check into that, but I'm going to try connecting to another wireless router before I look at that as a possibility. That way, if I need to return it to the store, I won't be surprised when they test it. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
Philippe Landau wrote: Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! once again you are all just jealous that he will get to enjoy all the hyper sucking action fun all by himself, having the courage to escape the social pressure of the self hating/torturing linux is c00l factor ;-) long live the sado/maso linux club. kind regards philippe You guys DO realise that it's April Fools Day, yes? Methinks that you have been had! Big Time! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 17:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Having something like a newsletter would also allow people to compile their own libraries on a variety of technical topics, which can be reviewed offline at their leisure, while cutting back on some of the redundant posts to the list. Following along this line of thought, would it be possible to post the newsletters on the Twiki site for future reference, with a possibility of any user requesting those article by email at a later date? In theory, it sounds good. In practice, I suspect that the people that need it most would not read it. It would get treated like the welcome message - filed and forgotten. Having been away, I've only just seen this. Just a few points I'd like to make: 1) The TWiki was started for just this reason - so many FAQs. 2) It wasn't being read by many newbies, so some of us started adding a link from our sigs. 3) It wasn't being read by many newbies, so the 'Welcome' letter was added. 4) When we re-direct people to the TWiki they say that they have never heard of it, and would have like to have known about it earlier. I accept the criticism that getting around is not always easy, but we get few constructive comments to make it easier. There is an Index, and there is a search, which, though primitive, always seems to help me find something that isn't in the obvious place. Improvements are always welcome, but we need suggestions to help us. As for the drop in new posters to the newbie list, it seems to have been roughly in proportion to the increase in complete newbies posting to the expert list. Not wanting to put a damper on anyone's ideas :-) Anne Anne; No damper 'taken'. After all, it was only a suggestion. I would like to point out however (there's always a however, isn't there? Grin!) that a mailer - like the 'Welcome to Newbie' one - could become the next evolution of the Twiki. I'm not suggesting that we drop or stop focusing on the Twiki, not by a long shot! I'm suggesting that a newsletter could contain links to various sections of the Twiki, with references to various topics. For example, one note or topic could refer to setting up file sharing between various OS's, with a link to the appropriate Twiki section, while another could refer to installation problems and again could include a corresponding link. In addition to the fact that this would make it simpler for newbies to find information quickly and reduce the amount of repeated questions regarding basic topics, it should increase the use of the Twiki. Newbie's would become familiar with and would probably contribute more of their own helpful info to the Twiki. Anyway, it seems rhetorical at this point, since the majority of the feedback concerning the idea was not positive. It seems that other assessments were right on this. No one would have the time. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.2 on Dell d610
Andre LABBE wrote: Hi IT boots from the cd fine, then it tells me that there is no cd. I have tried alt1 with or without option. I went on the ftp to get extra boot floppy image (I do have an external usb floppy) same thing. Anyway to get 10.2 to find the CDrom. I have tried with 10.1 and it is the same problem. I don't want to do a network install. By the way Fedora 3 works Regards, Andre Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Andre; Mandrake's kernels are built differently than Fedora's. You might need to pass some options to the kernel in order to get it to boot for your install. When you boot from the first CD, press F1 at the first install panel (It gives you a choice between pressing F1 or 'Enter', and this will take you to a console. At the prompt, type in the following; linux noapic nolapic noapm Press 'Enter' and see if that does the trick. Also, you should see if you can disable APIC in your system's BIOS. Once the install is finished, you can re-enable APIC in the BIOS if needed. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:50:11 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: et wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee let us know how it goes... Lee; I went a few rounds with OpenGroupware and couldn't get it to work. I switched over to Egroupware and SugarCRM and had them both running in about 20 minutes each. Don't know if that helps, but you might want to have a look at them both. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Thanks, This is my second go-around with ogo. Seems like the installation is intentionally obtuse. Paranoia tells me that the Skyrix team is hungry. Lee Lee; That's a very 'Politically Correct' way of saying it! Grin! Yeah, I was kinda frustrated with it myself. Sigh! Hence the reason why I ended up with EGroupware and SugarCRM. At least their documentation made sense, and was written in a step-by-step order. Had them running in no time. You might want to consider them as alternatives, since i don't know if there's a major difference between OpenGroupware and Egroupware. Your call though. HTH's -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
This may have already been thought of, but correct me if I'm wrong. I see a lot of posts on the list from new list-members and veterans alike, most of which concern run-of-the-mill questions. Many of these are answered on the Twiki site, while a lot more are answered repeatedly here on the list. For whatever the reason, be it response time, difficulties in finding answers on the Twiki, or in-experience in knowing what to search for, we've seen a lot of the same questions asked and answered on this list many times over. While I see that some questions can be affected by an individual's specific situation, many are also very common to all Mandrake-Linux users. Over time, like others, I have been copying/pasting a variety of tidbits of info and useful command fragments from this list, into a text file, which I keep handy for reference purposes. Many are items which I only need once in a 'Blue Moon', while others are in my text file for quick pasting into a root shell. Since many users are interested in finding their answers as quickly as possible, while others on this list are hoarders of vast amounts of 'Tips 'n' Tricks', I'd like to suggest a different approach to delivering some of the Giga-Quads' of data stored in our collective memories (whether that memory be gray matter, text or stored digital data) to all List-members. What I propose is a series of repeating emails sent to the list in a similar method to the 'Welcome to Newbie' emails which we all receive. Each email could consist of a variety of tips, articles, links, etc., in a similar fashion to a newsletter. This newsletter or information email could consist of any sort of information that could be useful to any/all and could be split into various sections. Much of the content could be copied from the Twiki site and a 'feature of the Week' article could also be added, be it humorous, technical, or thought-provoking in nature. With all the new folks and soon-to-be Linux enthusiasts joining the list this might be the next evolution in providing help and support to the members while adding an entirely(?) new method of delivering relevant info to newbies or 'Gurus' alike. Does this sound like a manageable or feasible project to anyone? Is it something worth considering? My reason for suggesting it is simply because of the amount of repetitive posts and queries I see on this list. Having something like a newsletter would also allow people to compile their own libraries on a variety of technical topics, which can be reviewed offline at their leisure, while cutting back on some of the redundant posts to the list. Following along this line of thought, would it be possible to post the newsletters on the Twiki site for future reference, with a possibility of any user requesting those article by email at a later date? It's just an idea for discussion, but perhaps it's also a 'pro-active' method of getting the info out to people? Just a suggestion. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:06:08 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:50:11 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: et wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee let us know how it goes... Lee; I went a few rounds with OpenGroupware and couldn't get it to work. I switched over to Egroupware and SugarCRM and had them both running in about 20 minutes each. Don't know if that helps, but you might want to have a look at them both. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Thanks, This is my second go-around with ogo. Seems like the installation is intentionally obtuse. Paranoia tells me that the Skyrix team is hungry. Lee Lee; That's a very 'Politically Correct' way of saying it! Grin! Yeah, I was kinda frustrated with it myself. Sigh! Hence the reason why I ended up with EGroupware and SugarCRM. At least their documentation made sense, and was written in a step-by-step order. Had them running in no time. You might want to consider them as alternatives, since i don't know if there's a major difference between OpenGroupware and Egroupware. Your call though. HTH's -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 ogo Thanks, I'm looking at them. OpenCRX deserves a shot too. I think it is closer to ogo and appears to be open source, although not gpl. Lee Let me know how it goes Lee. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
Hugh Dixon wrote: As someone who reads, and feels enlightened, by much of the stuff on this list I'd appreciate this greatly. As with many things though, does someone have the time to organise it? Hugh I can see where this would take some effort, but it seems to be a worthwhile addition to the work already done on the Twiki. It would also provide a direct method of delivering pertinent info to the members. I would think that a small initial group of members could be asked to take up the challenge and others would be able to contribute on a voluntary basis. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB Wireless
Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. HP built a Mini-PCI adapter slot into my laptop (accessible from the underside of the laptop), but any wireless card that can fit in the slot requires an external antenna. According to an HP Tech-Support Rep, the heat generated by my P4 CPU would also end up cooking the wireless card in a short time. Apparently, they've had a few problems with heat in these monsters. I'd appreciate knowing what packages to install and what would be required to get it up and running. I prefer a wireless adapter that doesn't need the ndiswrapper package, since I'd prefer to keep it as simple as possible. FYI, I'm running KDE 3.4 and ML Limited Edition 2005 (a.k.a. Cooker) with a 2.6.11-6mdksmp kernel, in case that info helps. Thanks in Advance for any suggestions and help. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Wireless - Solved!
Miark wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. I have a Syntax USB-400 that I bough new for less than $10. It has a Prism chipset, so it works great. No ndiswrapper needed. But why not use a CardBus NIC instead? It would be a bit more convenient than a USB NIC. Miark Well cover me with pollen and stick me in a bee's nest. To tell you the truth Miark, I was under the impression that this laptop didn't have a Cardbus slot until a few minutes ago. There was a weird-looking slot on the side that didn't resemble a Cardbus slot, but I had a look inside and it has a single internal CardBus connector. Instead of the usual two slots (one on top of the other), it has a pair of flaps (one swings up and another one swings down when you insert a card - or a finger for that matter), and the opening is double-height, but it only has the one set of connectors inside. I was convinced that it was some type of Flash card slot, but it seems that it's CardBus alright. Serves me right for not looking farther. I'll repost to get some recommendations on a good CardBus unit. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Um, Cardbus Wireless recommendations
Can someone suggest a good Cardbus wireless card for me? I'm hoping to get a Wireless G card for my HP laptop, especially now that I found the cardbus slot! As I understand it, wireless G will allow me to connect to 802.11 'B' 'G' enabled networks with speeds up to 54Mbps, so this is preferred to either 'B' or 'A' cards. Even so, I'd still prefer one that can use Linux native drivers and has no need of the ndiswrapper package. I'm running KDE 3.4 on ML - Limited Edition 2005 (read as Cooker) with a 2.6.11-6mdksmp kernel on an HP ZD7000 laptop with a 3.2Ghz Full P4 (with Hyper-Threading, of course!), and 512MB's of Ram. Theoretically, that should do the trick if I can find a good card for it. I'd appreciate it if someone could also suggest the right wireless packages for setting up the card. That's probably asking a lot, but what the heck,...it's worth a try! TIA. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It may have broke a couple of other things. The reasion is that the mount points for other things must have been created after hda6 was mounted on /mnt. With /dev/hda6 no longer mounted there, then mount point is missing. Mikkel Fixed now. I can mount CDs and see photos, and play music. Yes - I have sound. Thanks Rosemary Life is good. I guess you are not using ALSO for your sound. This makes me wonder why it was trying to start. I guess it could be that the last time you ran harddrake it changed something in the sound config, so that ALSO was not handling the sound drivers any more, but left it still trying to run. Not a good thing. Is you are fealing brave, you could try plugging in your USB card reader, and seeing if it works now. It wouldn't susprise me if it did. Mikkel Not sure what to expect as have only used it in Windows where a dialogue window comes up with options (once it is plugged in with card in), and the green light on the card reader flashes when the photos are being uploaded. I went into gwenview to see if I could see anything - couldn't, but my process could be incorrect. Don't know if this helps or not [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ cat sysconfig/hotplug # This file contains defaults for hotplug # # HOTPLUG_RC_$SUBSYSTEM controls whether subsystem is started by # hotplug rc script (cold plugging) # # SUBSYSTEM currently is usb, input, ieee1394, scsi. HOTPLUG_RC_usb=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ I may just need to learn to mount it? Rosemary Well, if you are running KDE, you should get a new desktop icon when you plug it in. From the CLI, there should be ether /mnt/removable or /mnt/camera with the device already mounted on it. If not, you could try: mkdir /mnt/camera mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera If that does not work, then run usbview and see if it is being detected... Mikkel Don't know if this has been mentioned or not, but make sure the camera is in 'Play' mode as well. That was my problem and as soon as I flipped the 'Play' switch, FLPhoto plopped an icon on the desktop and Digikam and GwenView were happy little campers. Sometimes it's the simple things that make all the difference. Good Luck Rosemary! HTH's. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Wireless - Solved!
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Miark wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. I have a Syntax USB-400 that I bough new for less than $10. It has a Prism chipset, so it works great. No ndiswrapper needed. But why not use a CardBus NIC instead? It would be a bit more convenient than a USB NIC. Miark Well cover me with pollen and stick me in a bee's nest. To tell you the truth Miark, I was under the impression that this laptop didn't have a Cardbus slot until a few minutes ago. There was a weird-looking slot on the side that didn't resemble a Cardbus slot, but I had a look inside and it has a single internal CardBus connector. Instead of the usual two slots (one on top of the other), it has a pair of flaps (one swings up and another one swings down when you insert a card - or a finger for that matter), and the opening is double-height, but it only has the one set of connectors inside. I was convinced that it was some type of Flash card slot, but it seems that it's CardBus alright. Serves me right for not looking farther. I'll repost to get some recommendations on a good CardBus unit. That sounds like a type III PCMCIA socket. It will accept type I, II, and III cards. I have the same thing on my Thinkpad. I wish they had went with 2 type II sockets instead. I could still use it for a type III PCMCIA hard drive when I needed it, but there are times when I want to use more then one type II card. But it is still better then some of the new laptops that only have one type II sockets. Mikkel I can see where that would be handy. This thing is loaded for bear though, so I understand why they only equipped it with one slot. Too bad it's only good for about 90 minutes on a battery though. This thing sucks more juice than a 426 Hemi with Dual-Quads. First time I've actually had to open a user's Manual in about 8 years. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wlan pcmcia cards, cardbus cards
Dennis Myers wrote: Oh what the heck, here is the URL that I used to get my wireless card. I am not affiliated nor otherwise connected with this company or persons. Hope this helps someone. http://stores.ebay.com/DataAlliance_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm Thanks Dennis. I'll have a look. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user
et wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee let us know how it goes... Lee; I went a few rounds with OpenGroupware and couldn't get it to work. I switched over to Egroupware and SugarCRM and had them both running in about 20 minutes each. Don't know if that helps, but you might want to have a look at them both. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows
Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that I can look it over. The problem I've found is that clicking on a url or email address makes it attempt to launch IE or OE, even if you are only trying to edit it. She'll never cope with that - she'll just abandon it. I can't see how to turn this off. I'm sure it must be possible. Can anyone help me, please. Anne Anne; Take a look at the title bar in OpenOffice. Go to ToolsOptionsOpenOffice.org, and open that section. Look for a subsection called External Programs and change the settings to match your preferences. I know you have to be logged in as the specific user (your daughter in this case) for the changes to be applied to her desktop and to her instance of OpenOffice. __ Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Which Kernel For 10.1 ?
Pete Moscatt wrote: Thanks Mr Geek (I like the name...), Pete Nice of you to notice. I got fed up with being called a 'Geek' all the time, so I decided to add the 'Mr' in the hopes it might make people respect me more. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped much, but at least it brings a smile to a few faces now and then! Sigh. Besides, it's like they say,when you're this old, they call you Mister! Grin! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Running apps on networked machine
Miark wrote: I ssh'ed to another box on my network and ran Firefox. But instead of it running off the remote machine, it ran from my _local_ machine. Odd! How do I prevent that? Miark Miark; There's probably an option to do what you're trying. If I understand you correctly, you want the ability to launch an app from a remote system, and have it run from the local system. IE: Connect to PC #2 from PC #1, Launch a program on PC #2 from PC #1, and have the program run on PC #2's display? That possibility might be tough to do. But keep in mind that even though the application or program displays itself on PC #1, it's actually running on PC #2 and just allowing you to interact with it. It is using the CPU and RAM of PC #2 to perform the task you launched, but it's exporting the display of that program on PC #1. This is a direct and default action of ssh and the fact that it can export X-sessions. In fact, it's very much like LTSP. HTH's -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] YAY! Success! But a bit hiccup. was Doomed: KDE 3.4
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sure it doesnt clear up the package. But it seems that when I did the urpme kde3.2, some packages that have been already installed last night also got wiped out, so it's downloading them again. Also it seems that thacs have been updated, because wget failed to get kdearts. I have to urpmi.update -a and it's downloading again. Phew! After a second download, it seems that kde3.4 is installed successfully in my mdk10.1. Thanks for the suggestion of installing mdkkdm package, the login menu is wonderful. However, there are still a couple of hiccups: 1. The splash screen is still the same? 2. Kmail doesnt see my mailing list folders! Oh, boy I've got ten of thousands emails there. What should I do to get Kmail 1.8 recognize them? Thanks, so far it is been a wonderful journey. Fajar. Fajar; You can change it in KDE Control CenterLook 'n' FeelSplash Screen. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi adding resources
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed them, but failed to add Thacs RPMs. I'm wondering if I have used the command incorrectly. urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz Am I supposed to name the media maybe? Any help appreciated. Thanks Rosemary Rosemary; You're command was a bit off. This one below should work fine. Remember that there's a space between 'RPMS/' and 'with'. urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ with hdlist.cz -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] audacity
Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s Aron; If you need to find it quickly, use MCC's Remove Software section of RPMDrake and you can use the Find box to select In File Names option. Type in some of the file name you're looking for and click on the search button. Any package containing your search text (ie; 'libmp3lame') will appear in the list and you can see where your file is installed. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] audacity
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:16 am, Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s $ locate libmp3lame /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.la /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so /usr/lib/libmp3lame.a Oh, Sure! You can always do it the EASY way if you want to, I suppose! Grin! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
Fajar Priyanto wrote: I'm going to do the upgrade.. wish me luck :) Luck! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: One minor change - One major pain
Well, after a few hours of file-by-file comparison, I finally found the right icon. Turns out that it's called 'menuk-mdk.png'. A quick renaming of the icon I prefer (no, it's NOT the Windows 'Start' button!) and the problem was solved. Now, only 4 or 500 more icons to go, then I have to resize them to 6 different sizes and it's all done! Phew! Glad the hard part's over! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
Guys, you're beating yourselves up for nothing on this. After you add Thac's RPM's to urpmi, take a moment to install the ICE desktop or some other one. Chances are that you'll have at least 2 desktop environments installed anyway. Log out of KDE, and log back in as root or a normal user, but log into the alternate desktop, no matter what it is. Find Mandrake Control Center, open it and switch your package selection to the third button marked All Packages, By Group. Change that so it reads All Packages, By Medium Repository, and expand the one marked as thac's.rpms. Now have a look at the rpms which have version numbers of 3.4.0-1.mdk10.1.thac. Start with the basics like the i18n package for your preferred language and kdebase or kde-common. Mandrake will automatically select any dependancies. Make sure you install any new packages which may be in Thac's repository which refer to 'mdkkdm', 'mandrake_desk', 'mandrakegalaxy', 'mandrakelinux-create-kde-mdk-menu', 'mandrakelinux-kde-config-file', etc. You get the idea. Keep installing KDE 3.4 in small groups of packages - like all the kdepim packages, or whichever you need. In the process of doing this update, Mandrake will delete (uninstall) any unneeded KDE 3.2 or 3.3 packages. Once you have everything you want or need, you're done. If you've already downloaded the rpms from Thac's site, copy them into /var/cache/urpmi/rpms and MCC will use them instead of downloading fresh copies, saving you some time. Once you're all done, log out of this desktop environment and log back into KDE and enjoy. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-experts http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertm=00737215901w=2 http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2005-03/msg00840.php Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to your urpmi resources as well. Yeah, and KDE 3.4 not only looks good but runs great on my laptop. One suggestion folks. Make sure you have a different desktop system installed (ICE, BlackBox, etc.) and log into that desktop before updating KDE. In other words, either boot into runlevel 3 or a different Desktop Environment before installing KDE 3.4, since it will replace your existing KDE in the process. If you remain in KDE whilst updating it, you're asking for trouble. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Mandrake-Linux 10.2Beta3, 2.6.10-3M-M Kernel, and KDE 3.4. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] One minor change - One major pain
Talk about a small customization being a pain in the butt! As everyone on this list knows, the 'Start' button in KDE is a Mandrake Star by default. Since installing KDE 3.4 earlier today, I've been trying to change the icon for that button (a.k.a. kmenu.png) to the new one provided by KDE 3.4. But everytime I try, it ends up staying as the default Star. I've gone through almost every single icon in the /use/share/icons folder, found the Mandrake Star icon (a.k.a. mandrake.png) and replaced it with a re-named version of the new KDE icon, but everytime I do, nothing changes. It's almost as if there's a default Mandrake icon hidden somwhere that gets used instead of the new one. Or perhaps there's a different theme profile that's being used and it's using the Mandrake Star icon, over-riding the changes I'm trying to make. Does anyone have any suggestions? If I switch icon themes the Kmenu icon changes about 50% of the time, but it means using an iconset that I'd rather not use. If someone can sort this out for me, I'd be really appreciate it! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 11:41, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 10:12, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Kaj, if you have a windows boot disk, use fdisk to completely remove the partition, then let MCC deal with it. I've never used the linux fdisk, but I would have thought you could do the same with that. Anne Thanks, Anne. But..eh.. I don't have Windows disk, and even if I had, how could I get in into the external drive ? Ah - I missed that it was an external drive - sorry about that. I've never used an external drive, but I would think that you could only do that if the bios recognised the external drive - I understand that some do. The linux fdisk utility won't let me do anything on the drive. Is the drive seen at all? I would have thought that if the drive is recognised it should be possible to remove the partition as long as it's unmounted? Anne The drive is seen OK, but trying to format it with a real file system is a no go. I'm wondering if someone wrote a defragger for linux to use on a FAT32 partition ? - It's my impression that many here have such a partition for their Windows stuff. I'll google around some. No major problem though, just my perfectionism Kaj Haulrich. Kaj; I think Anne has the right idea. I have several clients using external USB drives instead of other types of backup drives/media. Many of them came partitioned and pre-formatted as FAT32, but Diskdrake made fast work of it. One thing you should consider though, is that it helps sometimes to delete the mount-point folder right after you unmount the drive and before you attempt to delete the FAT32 partition. Your problem may have something to do with that. If not, then this will make sure that drive access and permissions are updated at the least. If necessary, go to the harddrive manufacturer's website and download their diagnostics tools. Some like Maxtor have a bootable ISO image you can download and use to reformat the drive back to factory standards. Others have the same type of tools which can be run from a bootable floppy diskette. Worst-case, you can remove the hard drive from it's USB case and temporarily connect it as a slave drive on your Linux box. Once Diskdrake sees the drive you can proceed normally and delete and create new partitions and re-format the drive the way you prefer. Your problem might also be that the circuitry in the USB box itself may have either a hardware or software 'Lock' system. Check your owners manual for the USB box to see if it does. Once more possibility is that the controller chip in the USB case does not support Linux, but I find that highly unlikely. IN all cases, you'll have to unmount the drive from diskdrake to begin the process, so keep that in mind. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 12:17, Mr. Geek wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 11:41, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 10:12, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Kaj, if you have a windows boot disk, use fdisk to completely remove the partition, then let MCC deal with it. I've never used the linux fdisk, but I would have thought you could do the same with that. Anne Thanks, Anne. But..eh.. I don't have Windows disk, and even if I had, how could I get in into the external drive ? Ah - I missed that it was an external drive - sorry about that. I've never used an external drive, but I would think that you could only do that if the bios recognised the external drive - I understand that some do. The linux fdisk utility won't let me do anything on the drive. Is the drive seen at all? I would have thought that if the drive is recognised it should be possible to remove the partition as long as it's unmounted? Anne The drive is seen OK, but trying to format it with a real file system is a no go. I'm wondering if someone wrote a defragger for linux to use on a FAT32 partition ? - It's my impression that many here have such a partition for their Windows stuff. I'll google around some. No major problem though, just my perfectionism Kaj Haulrich. Kaj; I think Anne has the right idea. I have several clients using external USB drives instead of other types of backup drives/media. Many of them came partitioned and pre-formatted as FAT32, but Diskdrake made fast work of it. One thing you should consider though, is that it helps sometimes to delete the mount-point folder right after you unmount the drive and before you attempt to delete the FAT32 partition. Your problem may have something to do with that. If not, then this will make sure that drive access and permissions are updated at the least. If necessary, go to the harddrive manufacturer's website and download their diagnostics tools. Some like Maxtor have a bootable ISO image you can download and use to reformat the drive back to factory standards. Others have the same type of tools which can be run from a bootable floppy diskette. Worst-case, you can remove the hard drive from it's USB case and temporarily connect it as a slave drive on your Linux box. Once Diskdrake sees the drive you can proceed normally and delete and create new partitions and re-format the drive the way you prefer. Your problem might also be that the circuitry in the USB box itself may have either a hardware or software 'Lock' system. Check your owners manual for the USB box to see if it does. Once more possibility is that the controller chip in the USB case does not support Linux, but I find that highly unlikely. IN all cases, you'll have to unmount the drive from diskdrake to begin the process, so keep that in mind. Thanks a lot, Mr. Geek - what a lot of options :-) Funny thing is, Diskdrake doesn't color the /dev/sda1 meaning it can't see the FS type. And, yes, this is a Maxtor device, works fine apart from this issue. Now, I'll play with your suggestions. Kaj Haulrich. NP. I'll be around if you need any help. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] networking two mandrake 10.1 PC systems
Carlton Matthew wrote: I have two PCs sharing the same internet router, which I would like to network together. Both PCs are running mandrake 10.1, but I can't seem to make any network connections. Do I need to install something like samba on both machines? Thanks in Advance Carlton Carlton, In a word, yes. Samba is probably your better choice since they will both be connected to the router. NFS doesn't have the same levels of security that Samba has. Go Figure. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
Julie Sloan wrote: I found a new-newbie oriented tutorial at http://www.linuxcommand.org/ which everyone here probably already knows about. But just in case some lurker doesn't, there's the link. I may not be pestering y'all with questions for a while. I'm busy reading. Julie, Thanks for the link. I've never heard of it myself, and it looks like it will be helpful in explaining some of the CLI commands and options. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printer recognition.
Carlton Matthew wrote: I have a HP laserjet 4 printer attached directly to the parallel port of my PC, Runing windows XP, the printer operates correctly. Mandrake 10.1 fails to locate the printer at all. any ideas? Thanks in advance Carlton Hmmm. That's a new one to me. I've never has problems with HP Laserjet 4 printers in Linux. Ever. Do you have the CUPS and HPOJ packages installed Carlton? If you decide to install cups, make sure you also grab the cups-common and cups-drivers packages as well. That might be your whole problem. While you're at it, make sure that Linux sees your printer port. Try 'lsmod' to make sure that the printer port driver modules have been loaded. You should see something like; parport_pc 32132 1 lp 9836 0 parport32040 2 parport_pc,lp in the list of installed hardware drivers. HTH's -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
Paul wrote: Go on Ronald, admit it. That wasn't really a photo of your house was it? 8-) It was probably the guest house. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
Julie Sloan wrote: Dang. Didn't know they taught reading in Kentucky. (http://linuxfordummies.org) They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Ouch! She definitely got you on that one Stephen! LMAO! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Julie, meet Stephen. Stephen rarely has anything good (read accurate as well) to say about Kentucky or Kentuckians, as a general rule. You'll get used to it. :-) I had to post pictures of my home and yard before he would believe that there weren't cars up on blocks in the front yard, refrigerators on the porch, blah, blah, blah... Zing! Uh-Oh, Stephen, You're 0 and 2 now! Nice to see some Linux Geeks still have a sense of humor! I'm going back to lurking now. Watching this thread is getting way too interesting! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automount USB devices
Charles Rodgers wrote: At one time my 10.1 system would autodetect if I plugged into USB a card reader or a digital camera on a temporary basis. I must have changed something unwittingly because now it doesn't work. What must I do to make it work again ? I've tried reading Howto's including: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Supermount But my Linux experience is minimal. Charles Charles, Don't make the same mistake I did. If your camera has a playback mode, you need to activate it and them your camera should be detected. I had this exact problem just the other day with a Canon Powershot A85. As soon as it was in 'play' mode, everything worked like a charm. HTH's. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] another urpmi query
Julie Sloan wrote: (I am on Mdk10.0-official and I do have Charles Edwards set up as a media source.) what seems the course to take is rm the cups-drivers and the kdelibs-common files form /partial and once again urpmi --auto-select --no-md5sum, but if this is way wrong someone tell me please, before I do it :) thanks Julie Julie; It sounds as is the rpms that you've got stored in the /partial folder may be corrupted, so even if urpmi could resume the download, it's not going to help the situation. Dump the rpms in /partial and rerun urpmi. It's your safest bet. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi can't locate URPM.pm
Steven Carrie wrote: Hi everyone, this is my first cry for help on the newbie list. I was tinkering with mandrake 10.1 and decided to upgrade to the cooker source. So I updated my urpmi sources and began to install. Shortly into the process the power failed because my PSU has gone dodgy. Now when I try anything with urpmi, I get the following error. The system has also become unstable, not connecting network and trying to open MCC fails. In /usr/lib/perl5 are directories for 5.8.5 and 5.8.6, the file urpm.pm does not exist as far as I can see. So the big question! Can I fix this or will I have to make a fresh install? Any help you can offer is much appreciated. Steven Carrie Steven; Been there, done that. You're looking at a fresh install from my experience. It took me about 2 hours to find out that I could have re-installed faster then fixing the problem. Your problem occurred because urpmi tried to upgrade Perl, which is required for urpmi as well as MCC and a whack of other apps. It will be a lot less painful and faster to re-install. Just make sure that you don't let the installer touch your /home partition. It's OK if it wants to create a mount point for it, but that should be all. Hope that helps. I can sympathize with your situation since I went through the same thing. Good luck. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] You know it's gonna be a bad day when,...
This is what happens when you wake up in the morning and you're out of coffee! You start imagining all sorts of scary things! 1) You wake up from a nightmare where all your computers had Windows installed instead of Linux, and all your systems have blue-screened on you, 2) You wake up with the phone in your hand and your STILL on hold with Microsoft support, and it's the Christmas holidays, 3) You receive a Microsoft Audit CD in the mail, but you've never used anything but Linux, 4) Microsoft releases MS Linux which has NO security, crashes often, has a whack of bugs in it which you can't fix, includes an optional BSOD splashscreen, and patents all the source code for it, 5) PHP and Perl turn out to be HTML and Visual Basic in disguise and you just bought every book on the subject, 6) Microsoft patents the GPL, 7) You receive SPAM emails with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer 'dressed-in-drag' pictures attached and they're so horrible that they cause permanent brain trauma! 8) All your Linux and Open-Source T-Shirts get stolen and you haven't a thing to wear! Feel free to add to the list. Maybe the one thing we really should add to the Mandrake Twiki is a humour section? Let the games begin! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Syslogd
Once again, I'm back with a seemingly odd situation. Running my server on Mandrake 10.1. Syslogd has been showing a non-stop list of log entries on my server's monitor. The server is starting in console mode (X, XFS and DM are not set to start on bootup, but can be started manually), and it starts displaying syslogd and klogd entries or data. I thought that syslogd was supposed to store it's entries in a log file(s), bot on the console. Can someone explain what's happening? I've never seen this before and I don't want to have to shut down the syslog klogd daemons. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Syslogd
Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:12 am, Mr. Geek wrote: Once again, I'm back with a seemingly odd situation. Running my server on Mandrake 10.1. Syslogd has been showing a non-stop list of log entries on my server's monitor. The server is starting in console mode (X, XFS and DM are not set to start on bootup, but can be started manually), and it starts displaying syslogd and klogd entries or data. I thought that syslogd was supposed to store it's entries in a log file(s), bot on the console. Can someone explain what's happening? I've never seen this before and I don't want to have to shut down the syslog klogd daemons. Just a wild guess ..but are you running logrotate IIRC you should be from what I have read on these lists Aron; I just did a quick read on the functions included in logrotate (which is installed and called by crond whenever necessary). It doesn't seem capable of displaying system events on the screen. So, if that's correct, I'm back at my original question. How do I prevent syslogd from showing events on the screen? Is it not normal to simply pass these events to the correct log file in /var/log ? My understanding is that syslogd/klogd would only output messages to the screen/console/monitor when it was either in debugging mode or if it had been specifically configured to do it. Since this is a relatively fresh install of Mandrake 10.1, nothing's been done to modify syslogd/klogd at all. It is currently a default install of syslogd/klogd. It seems to be displaying every single log entry on the console as they're being generated, instead of urgent messages or debug info which would only be occasional if at all. This also seems to happen even if no one is logged onto the server locally, and also happens when I 'ssh' into the server remotely. The log info/data immediately starts to show up on the remote terminal. Since it's a default install (ie; no one's modified syslogd/klogd daemons at all), why would this be happening? If it happens here, wouldn't it be happening for everyone running Mandrake 10.1 Official on a server where syslogd/klogd are default installs and activated on boot? Other suggestions? -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Syslogd
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:50:12 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I prevent syslogd from showing events on the screen? Is it not normal to simply pass these events to the correct log file in /var/log ? question, can you confirm that any of the messages being displayed on the monitor *are also being logged* in /var/log/syslog ? I also had this problem on our server after playing around with vlan - although I couldn't put my finger on it that vlan or possibly vclient IRC could have even had anything to do with it. Logged myself (the only user) off, and noticed the messages kept coming. Seemed to only be firewall hit messages were showing up on the screen though. My M$ infliction - which doesn't seem to go away since I have to work with it everyday - kicked in about now and my uncontrollable urge to reboot overtook me. ;( the messages went away after that and I never bothered going back to figure it out. Yes, they are being logged as well. I suspect that there is either a problem with the default config (a.k.a. bug?), or that some other program is causing this. But other than the kernel, logrotate, and crond what else could be doing this? Hmmm. The plot thickens! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
Eric Huff wrote: In theory it's a storage device, so you should be able to. OTOH, I'd rather play safe and let the camera do it. Mr Geek, have you been able to mount it as a storage device? I haven't on my A80. eric Eric; I didn't even try to mount it. Once it was working inside of Digikam and GPhoto, I didn't see a need to. Since Digikam has a delete option when connected to the camera, I'm using that to clear the flash card's memory. Works like a charm. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Syslogd
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: It actualy sounds like the daemons are not running. As root, run service syslog status and make sure both syslogd and klogd are running. If they both report that they are running, then chack /etc/syslog.conf - there should be only one entry that uses *, tty, tty0, or console for the output file. (*.emerg *) Mikkel Yo, Mikkel; Thanks for the suggestions. Syslogd is definitely running; service syslog status syslogd (pid 7208) is running... klogd (pid 7217) is running... The only thing I saw that looked a bit strange was that debug messages were set to be delivered to everyone (?), if that makes any sense. # Everybody gets emergency messages *.debug * That seems to be the sole exception which MIGHT send log events to the console, but since there aren't any emergencies,. In fact, it seems that most of the log messages going to the monitor have to do with my email server, and my PPPOE client, but instead of being emergencies, the monitor is getting every single event, such as users connecting successfully and retreiving their emails, or PPPOE re-establishing a connection - including every step of the connection process. It's almost as if a monitoring program was sending every single server activity to the screen. But it's reporting the events as coming from syslogd. Now here's something interesting though. When I did a restart of syslogd, service syslog restart , I got the following,... Shutting down kernel logger:[ OK ] Shutting down system logger:[ OK ] Starting system logger: /etc/init.d/syslog: line 100: 7885 Terminated $* [FAILED] Starting kernel logger: [ OK ] So, I checked /etc/init.d/syslog and looked at line 100 which only states; esac That's it. For some reason, that line is generating an error. Even so, syslog successfully restarts; service syslog status syslogd (pid 7886) is running... klogd (pid 7894) is running... If I have some sort of error on line 100, and this is a default config file, then everyone should be having the same thing in their syslog init scripts, right? But they're not or there's be a lot of talk about it on the list. See why this is getting on my nerves? G! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Syslogd
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You should not be getting the error. You may want to run rpm -V syslogd and see what errors it reports. You may also want to run a package like chkrootkit to make sure your box wasn't hacked. A look at the log files is also in order. The /etc/syslog.conf file got changed, and maybe the /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog file as well. Mikkel Mikkel, Thanks again for your suggestions. These are the results from your suggestion; rpm -V sysklogd .M.T c /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog S.5T c /etc/sysconfig/syslog S.5T c /etc/syslog.conf Of course, there's no information in the help file to tell me what this means, but maybe someone else can decipher it for me. chkrootkit came back without any errors at all. The log files didn't show anything about possible hacks to the files either. Guess I'l keep looking for a reason for this behaviour. I changed the debug setting to emerg in syslog.conf, but I'm still getting an error. At least it's a different error number. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Syslogd
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing I forgot to put in the last message - the changes you make in /etc/syslog.conf will not take affect untill you restart syslog. Normaly, I would run service syslog restart to do this. But you may have to fix what ever is wrong in /etc/sysconfig/syslog first. Or you can try renameing it to syslog.sav, and then restart syslog. The syslog script will work just fine without the /etc/sysconfig/syslog file - it check for the file, and if it isn't there, it uses some good default values in place of it. Mikkel Mikkel, That did the trick! I had already restarted syslogd and even though it started there was an error code. Renaming the /etc/sysconfig/syslog file did the trick. It restarted without errors and there's nothing happening on the monitor. I'd love to know how the file got modified, but I may never find out. Thanks for sticking with me on this! Have you heard of this happening before? There's nothing in the logs about it being modified and I'm the only one with access. My firewall logs have no record of anyone getting and modifying anything, and none of the firewall logs are missing. If you have a default /etc/sysconfig/syslog file could you send it to me for comparison? I'd like to find the differences between the two files. Thanks again for the help. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Syslogd
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing I forgot to put in the last message - the changes you make in /etc/syslog.conf will not take affect untill you restart syslog. Normaly, I would run service syslog restart to do this. But you may have to fix what ever is wrong in /etc/sysconfig/syslog first. Or you can try renameing it to syslog.sav, and then restart syslog. The syslog script will work just fine without the /etc/sysconfig/syslog file - it check for the file, and if it isn't there, it uses some good default values in place of it. Mikkel Mikkel, That did the trick! I had already restarted syslogd and even though it started there was an error code. Renaming the /etc/sysconfig/syslog file did the trick. It restarted without errors and there's nothing happening on the monitor. I'd love to know how the file got modified, but I may never find out. Thanks for sticking with me on this! Have you heard of this happening before? There's nothing in the logs about it being modified and I'm the only one with access. My firewall logs have no record of anyone getting and modifying anything, and none of the firewall logs are missing. If you have a default /etc/sysconfig/syslog file could you send it to me for comparison? I'd like to find the differences between the two files. Thanks again for the help. I am glad you have it working. Here is what my syslog file looks like: # Options to syslogd # -m 0 disables 'MARK' messages. # -r enables logging from remote machines # -x disables DNS lookups on messages recieved with -r # See syslogd(8) for more details SYSLOGD_OPTIONS=-m 0 # Options to klogd # -2 prints all kernel oops messages twice; once for klogd to decode, and #once for processing with 'ksymoops' # -x disables all klogd processing of oops messages entirely # See klogd(8) for more details KLOGD_OPTIONS=-2 It set the same options as the default in /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog. It is what most people need. The only time I have used other options is when I have logged messages from the firewall on a server. I wish I knew how your got changed. It should not happen. This is not Windows where the regestry gets modified by everything! MCC will modify /etc/sysconfig/syslog, and I think you can use it to change /etc/syslog.conf, but you would remember changing things there. Besides, MCC should not have written an invalid /etc/sysconfig/syslog file. If you installed an RPM that updated the files, then the rpm -V would not have shown them changed. When I have seen this kind of change, I suspect that: Someone has getten into the box, and is trying to play a trick, or goofed up in hacking a box. You were trying to do something else, and managed to change the wrong thing. (Kind of hard, as you need to be root.) You managed to run a program or script as root that did something you were not expecting. This is usualy the result of installing from source, or installing a RPM from a bad source. I would keep an eye on the box, and look for any other changes. You may also want to run rpm -Va /tmp/RPM_check.log and look at the changed and missing files it finds. It will find changed files. There are alway files that get changed when you configure a system. But if there are files besides config files that have changed, then it is time to take a hard look at the logs! Mikkel Thanks for the info, help and suggestions. I'll look into it tomorrow and get back to you if I find anything interesting. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Canon Powershot A85
Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work with this camera (It's listed in their respective camera lists, but since it's not being seen on the USB port, nothing is able to connect to the camera. If it helps, Hotplug is installed and running, and my USB mouse has been running for months without a hitch. What's the best way to mount a USB device, in which standard folder, and other than the standard USB Kernel modules, is there anything else needed? FYI, I'm running Mandrake 10.1, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work with this camera (It's listed in their respective camera lists, but since it's not being seen on the USB port, nothing is able to connect to the camera. If it helps, Hotplug is installed and running, and my USB mouse has been running for months without a hitch. What's the best way to mount a USB device, in which standard folder, and other than the standard USB Kernel modules, is there anything else needed? FYI, I'm running Mandrake 10.1, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk. Are you sure it is not being seen? I have not looked up the camera, but most newer cameras show up as a storage device. Hotplug may have already mounted it as /mnt/camera or /mnt/removable. What does the output of lsusb show? Mikkel Mikkel; Thanks for getting back to me. Here's the output from lsusb; Bus 004 Device 001: ID : Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Logitech Corp. Optical Mouse Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID : I tried the mouse on some of the other USB ports and it came back without a hitch on those ports as well. Would I have to activate anything on the camera to enable USB connections? That's about the only other thing that would make any sense, unless the USB cable is bad, but the camera is only a few months old, and was working on some Windows PC's without any problems, even with this USB cable. Thanks for any help you can offer. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
Anne Wilson wrote: Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. Anne That did the trick Anne! It wasn't in play mode! Jeesh! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Canon Powershot A85
Thanks to everyone who tried to help, and especially to Anne, who's suggestion got things working. It was somewhat weird that the camera would have to be in a certain mode to work with a computer. So I hope that my next question won't seem as strange. Is there some software that will allow me to erase pictures which are stored on the camera? Or something to re-format the flash card in the camera? Thanks again! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 18:15, Mr. Geek wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. Anne That did the trick Anne! It wasn't in play mode! Jeesh! ;-) Not just a pretty face ;-) Anne Uh, Er, nevermind. I found the stuff I needed in Digikam. Guess I should spend some quality time with it before asking, Hmmm? Grin! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Mr. Geek, if you mount your camera as /mnt camera, become root in a terminal, cd to /mnt and issue the command chmod 777 camera (where camera can be anything you choose, i.e. removable or whatever). That will allow you to write, delete etc. directly on the camera. Beware though, sometimes you won't be allowed to chmod even as root. In order to bypass that, you'll have to edit your /etc/fstab so that umask=0 (instead of the default 0022) for the device line. Save that file, umount the device and mount again. Now you'll have all permission set drwxrwxrwx which means that root, yourself and all others can do as they please. Kaj Haulrich. Kaj; Thanks for the info. It turns out that Digikam allows me to erase the camera's flash card memory without a single problem (it has a delete option). Since Digikam sets up a default folder for the pics in my /home folder, permissions aren't a problem. My whole problem revolved around the fact that the camera wasn't in play mode when I tried to access it. Now it's working fine. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New HP laptop with NTFS Partition and trying to dual boot
to format any larger than that. If you ended up with the 60 or 80 GB drive in your laptop and you've used the partition sizes I mentioned above, Windows will not format the remaining space as FAT32. But Mandrake will! Leave it to Linux to solve a Microsoft problem! LOL! By using Linux to format your remaining space as FAT32, you'll be able to access it from Mandrake AND from Windows without any problems. Once that's partitioned, formatted and mounted in MCC, remember to update Lilo as well. That way, Windows will be added to your boot list in Lilo. If you create a My Documents folder on that partition, you can tell Windows to move it's My Documents folder to the same place by right-clicking the My Documents on your desktop, clicking on Properties, and changing the location. In KDE's Control Center, you can select the same folder for your user's Documents folder under System Paths. Microsoft Office and Microsoft Works will both use the new location by default. In short, you'll have WindowsXP installed on a 10GB partition formatted with NTFS, followed by about 9GB's used up by Mandrake, and the remaining space on the drive will be a large FAT32 storage partition that both OS's can easily access. The main Windows partition can be used as a dedicated space where only your programs are installed and all your user data (MP3's, Email, Documents, etc.) is stored on that last FAT32 partition. If you ever need to re-install Windows (which you probably will, sigh!), at least it won't cost you anything you've downloaded. Programs like Mozilla Thunderbird can be configured to use the storage partition to store your profile and mail, which can then be accessed by Mozilla-Thunderbird on your Linux partition. Same emails, same accounts, same filters, everything. Hope that helps. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New HP laptop with NTFS Partition and trying to dual boot
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 07:13 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: However, if your hard drive is already partitioned, they only use which ever partition is first on the drive. The nice thing is that the restore or full install methods won't do anything to your Master Boot Record, since Windows detects that the Master Boot Record is already in use. Lilo is already installed there. That means that the next time you boot the laptop, Lilo will still be there, and will only show you the Mandrake-Linux option. Yes, I experimented with my Acer TM802 too (I had to reinstall and format the drive several time cause of mistakes). Not every recovery CD will allow you to resize the partition though. In case of Acer, they allow it, so it makes thing easier. And it will not destroy the Lilo. Lol, I once wanted to send my notebook to the service center, but afraid that the guarantee would be void if they know I installed linux. No problem. That's exactly what should be there. Once you've booted back into Linux, start up your Mandrake Control Center (a.k.a. MCC), and add the 10Gb Windows partition by creating a mount point for it. You're not obligated to use the Mandrake default mount-point, so feel free to be creative. Just don't mount it inside the /root home folder! Windows will not format the remaining space as FAT32. But Mandrake will! Leave it to Linux to solve a Microsoft problem! LOL! Yes, linux is certainly very friendly :) By using Linux to format your remaining space as FAT32, you'll be able to access it from Mandrake AND from Windows without any problems. Once that's partitioned, formatted and mounted in MCC, remember to update Lilo as well. That way, Windows will be added to your boot list in Lilo. This is a good practice indeed. I have my D drive in windows as FAT32. Thanks Mr. Geek. Your explanation is crystal clear. No Problema. That's what I was hoping. Good Luck! Let me know if you need more help on this. Adios! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
Ian wrote: On Saturday 05 Mar 2005 14:19, et wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:13 am, Ian wrote: One of my mates is getting really cheesed off with XP ...go figure :-) I told him how much nicer, safer etc etc Mandrake is. I installed 10.1 official on a partition on his slave drive. Konqueror won't open, and MCC is taking ages as well.yet starting from root is fine. I know I read it somewhere on this list. Anyone care to remind me what the solution is? Konqueror won't open on a fresh new install? or has he had a week to muck about? Yeah, it was a fresh install. no, I installed it and then logged in and tried to start Konqueror. It didn't start...either in file manger mode or as a browser. when you say starting from root are you speaking about starting X from root? starting mcc from a command line root? how about what errors you get starting what ever doesn't start, if you try to start it from a command line. Logged out, restarted the computer (windoze habits die hard), logged in as root. Konqueror started as web browser immediately. Logged out and logged back in to his account, same as before. My excuse is it was late, and I had to leave at this point. He won't go near it, so it will be the same when I go back. I'm hoping someone can tell me the steps to take before I do go back :-) I'll try starting it from bash next time. Hopefully this will shed some light on the error. I didn't even configure his router last night. Ian; If I remember correctly, the problem is due to a minor bug having to do with Konqueror profiles for the regular users. If you open konqueror as a normal user (open a terminal or console to do it, typing the command 'konqueror' - without the quotes), konqueror will open. Once you've got it open, go to SettingsConfigure View Profiles, and find the profile called File Management. change the name of it to filemanagement and save it. Close Konqueror and re-open it using the Home icon on your desktop. If the web-browser version of Konqueror gives you the same problem, repeat these steps, changing Web Browsing to webbrowsing and save the profile again. It would seem that the desktop and taskbar icons aren't willing to play nice because of these minor differences in profile syntax. It's a very minor bug and I'm sure someone will catch it in the near future but for now, that's all you should need to do. HTH's. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation out of it. must be 10.1 interactive p0rn edition ;-) Aron; Close but no cigar! Truth be told, no one ever told Joe NOT to attempt scratch-mixing with his CD drive during a Mandrake install. Now, you know as well as the rest of us that he just can't leave some things alone and he loves to play with stuff, so we figured that we'd let him have his fun. It's been one of our secrets for a long time now and it usually brings a smile to our faces when he's been having a hard time making things work on his PC, so don't let him know, OK? *snicker!* -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
Aron Smith wrote: must be 10.1 interactive p0rn edition ;-) Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? After all they seem to have just about every other type of conceivable distro! At least they'd have a good reason to spend a few minutes holding up the CD with one hand! OOOhh! That was rude and tasteless! My bad! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:20:28 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Hmmm - That could work! We could even add videos of Pamela Anderson, and, Ah, No, everyone's seen those. Sinux? This one wouldn't work well. Some Microsoft geek would turn it into S-UX or something. Either that or they'd confuse it with a cold remedy. I like your first one better. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: various issues
Russell Butler wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Maybe I am being unecessarily negative about linux. But it does seem that one has to work inordinately hard to achivee some basic functions. I have reverted to Kmail simply because I can't get links to browser to open from Tbird. It seems this may a Tbird problem rather than Mandrake or linux. Nonetheless - fixes suggested, other than command line, which is beyond me as a newbie, don't work. I guess of course, that it's possible that I am entering text incorrectly. At the moment I understand why linux has the reputation that it has. I *do* appreciate all the help I've had. Wondering about going back to windows Hi Rosemary, I hear your frustration. The curve is pretty steep at first. A couple of points about CLI : Don't forget the Tab completion in the shell. If you start typing a link or a command, then hit Tab, it will show you the possible completions, and as you work along will fill everything in, correctly, because it only allows correct syntax. Not a cure-all, but stops a lot of typos. The other feature of the konsole shell that I find can avoid typos is to highlight something you know you want to type, for instance a file found by locate then do Edit (from the menu in the top border) - Copy If you then do shift-insert it will paste the copied data into your shell. Can also work eg from browser links. I use it setting up my urpmi sources from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. Saves a lot of potential errors. Saw this link a couple of days ago on MDK Expert list: http://www.bytecave.net/anders/guide/mpguide/TroubleShooting.html#FirefoxFromThunderbird Have a look, it may solve your T'bird/Firefox linking problem. Certainly worked for me, and (I hope) not too complex for a newbie. HTH Russell Actually, as long as you have the gpm package installed, you can select (ie; highlight) text from virtually anywhere, move your mouse into your shell, and either click (do not rotate, but depress) the wheel on your mouse or simultaneously click both left and right buttons at the same time. Whatever you had previously selected will now show up in your shell. HTH's! Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP, Firewall and Proxy
Dennis wrote: Hi, I want to setup a DHCP, Firewall and Proxy server. What do I need to install first? Thanks Dennis; Please send more info. How many network cards are in the Mandrake box, and is it (or will it be) directly connected to the Internet, or is it inside of a larger network and managing a number of other computers behind it? Mr. Geek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP, Firewall and Proxy
Dennis wrote: I have 3 NIC card... Actually I also have a plan to use that machine to having to internet connection... OK, Then it would be better if you set up Mandrake to handle the Internet connection and Internet sharing first. If you plan on hosting any websites, email servers, FTP, or other Internet-available services, it would follow that you'll be better off with a static IP address and a domain name. As an alternative, you can use one of the many free dynamic DNS services, but a lot of your functionality may be a question of whether or not your ISP will permit it. For instance, your ISP may be blocking ports 21, 25, 80, and 110, effectively preventing you from offering FTP, SMTP, HTTP, and POP3 directly from your connection. This is something you'll have to find out by contacting them directly. On the other hand, assuming that you are allowed by the ISP to offer up your web services to the Internet, then I'd suggest a few things. Since you have 3 network interface cards (a.k.a. NIC's) already, I'd suggest that eth0 (NIC #1) be used for your Internet connection, eth1 (NIC #2) be used on it's own subnet (10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 - for example) to connect to a hub or switch and from there to most of the other systems on your network, and finally eth2 (NIC #3) on a different subnet (192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 - for example) to connect to one last system, which can host any additional services you wish to experiment with. As a bonus, you can build your firewall so that anything on NIC #3 can be your De-Militarized Zone (a.k.a. DMZ) and/or set up as a Honey Pot zone to trap would-be intruders. If you don't plan on implementing a DMZ in this fashion, then remove NIC #3, since it wouldn't serve any other purpose. The only other option with NIC #3 would be to set up the second subnet and to use it like NIC #2, as another subnet. Keep in mind that you should still use a different subnet than your first one. While that may be a lot to digest, it gives you several option on what you can do with the system. Once you decide on a plan of action, come back to the list with as much info as you can provide (ISP details, long-term goals of the Mandrake box, etc., and I'm sure that someone will be around to help out. Thus endeth the lesson. Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP, Firewall and Proxy
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 22 February 2005 04:11, Dennis wrote: Hi, I want to setup a DHCP, Firewall and Proxy server. What do I need to install first? Thanks Install drakwizard and your MandrakeControl Centre will have a new 'Server' section to allow you to install the DHCP and Proxy servers. For the Firewall use the Mandrake GUI for the initial setup, but then use the shorewall firewall module in Webmin for more detailed setup. (Install webmin, then start the webmin service in MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices, then point your browser to https://localhost:1 ) derek As an add-on to Derek's suggestion (well, sort of anyway), once you complete the Internet Connection Sharing Wizard, you can shut down Shorewall and Squid (permanently if you like), and switch to webmin networkingLinux Firewall to maintain Internet Connection Sharing and your firewall. For some of us (yes, me too), Linux Firewall is a lot less complex to manage, configure and maintain as long as you run Mandrake's ICS wizard first (and you only need to run it once). There seems to be a file located in /etc/sysconfig that is either modified or created when you run the ICS Wizard and that file makes ICS possible. I don't know which file it is, but then I normally don't have the time to find out. Once it's created, it stays put and works with Linux Firewall or Shorewall. On a small network with a broadband Internet connection, you might not want to use a proxy server (ie; Squid), and at least this gives you an option. Shorewall is definitely strong, but it's also highly complex to administer (at least in webmin), while Linux Firewall can take only a few minutes to set up. Since Mandrake's Shorewall Wizard is over simplified, it leaves a lot of the configuration possibilities and permutations out of the Wizard. As a direct opposite, IMHO, the webmin version of Shorewall can rapidly speed up your aging process. Linux Firewall allows you to set up a sophisticated firewall - one rule at a time, and like Shorewall, it will prevent you from starting a firewall which may have errors in it. One of the nicest benefits of the Linux Firewall is your ability to transport that set of rules as one file, instead of a bunch of sub-folders and files, allowing you to use it on other Mandrake systems with only a few basic changes. Again, it's only a question of choice. The good news is that you can play with both and decide which is best for you. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP, Firewall and Proxy
Dennis wrote: The reason for having 3 NIC is for making Mandrakelinux handling Two Internet Connection and configure it automatic connection failover, it means when one ISP line down it will be automatically transfer to the other one. Is it possible? So the role of my Linux will be DHCP, Firewall, Proxy and Failover. My hardware specs right now is, P4 2.4GHz, 512MB, with 3NIC one is built-in... My plan is the built in one is use for LAN and the 2 NIC will be connected to my two ISP. Thanks Have a look at this Howto. It should help. http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html MrGeek. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP, Firewall and Proxy
Dennis wrote: In my case, what do I need to configure first, the DHCP, Firewall and Proxy or the Multiple Connection? Thanks Go with the Internet connection as your first item of priority. It will make everything else a lot easier. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP, Firewall and Proxy
Dennis wrote: You mean the multiple internet connection? Yes. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 Feb 2005 09:20, Ronald J. Hall wrote: MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html As I understand it, they are excepting security updates, because they realise that everyone suffers if unpatched vulnerabilities exist. If that's so, who's worried? Who would actually choose to update a windows application if they are running under wine? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Anne; There's something else to consider as well. Win4Lin would probably do a better job in any case. Sure, it requires that you have a copy of Windows to install, but once the install is complete, Win4Lin runs as smoothly as a normal Windows install, but with a few major advantages; 1) It runs as a virtual OS, so it's significantly faster, 2) It runs on top of the Linux environment and kernel, making it the most stable version of Windows on the planet, 3) Win4Lin is about to release a new version (Win4Lin Pro)in the next few weeks which uses Windows 2000 Professional or WindowsXP, instead of Windows98 or Millennium. Don't ya just love science? Mr. Geek Registered Linux user # 190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xfce4 user login broken
Margot wrote: [I blame the cat - attempting sneaky overnight downloads of 'kitty porn' must have corrupted a file somewhere!] Margot; Maybe the cat and the kitty-porn scared the XFCE Mouse into shock? BTW, How's Rival, Felix, Simone, the goat and the duck? BTW, Was the boxing match that bad? Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
