Re: [newbie] Wireless
Hi All, After a bit of playing and the purchase of a new pci-pcmcia adapter I have a single beep when cardmanager starts followed by a low tone. I guess the adapter is recognised but not the wireless card. Can anyone help me with that. Running a skynet global roamabout wireless lan card. - Original Message - From: Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Patrick. Do you hear the 'beeps' when pcmcia service starts? No Have a look in syslog (/var/log/syslog) for messages relating to pcmcia What do they say? starting pcmcia succeded yenta_socket no such device Is this a laptop or a desktop with a pcmcia-pci adapter? Desktop with a plx pci-pcmcia adapter What happens if you type pcic_probe in a root terminal window? command not found derek On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 2:32 am, Patrick Griffin wrote: Thanks derek for that have all installed as far as i can tell. Cardmanager reports No pcmcia driver in Proc/devices on start. What did I do wrong - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless BTW: I should have also said. If your pcmcia card is not detected then look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia It should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket derek On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat You need to install the pcmcia_cs and wireless-tools RPMS from your CDs Then next time you reboot yor pcmcia sockets should be detected and become active. You will hear two beeps from your computer when the pcmcia slots are enabled. Two beeps of different tone means your oricoco card was detected OK. Two beeps of same tone means it was not. Go through the Mandrake Control Centre Networking wizard. It should have detected your card and installed the 'wvlan_cs' driver. In the wizard you can set the wireless parameters (encryption key rate etc) after you complete the wizard with OK, DO NOT exit the GUI with OK. A bug means that it will write your old configuration back again. You must exit the GUI with 'Cancel' Your card should now be working. If it is not it is most likely a problem with encryption key or essid (Note ASCII encryption keys have to be entered in the format s:key_name ) You can use the command 'iwconfig eth0' in a root terminal window to set up the wireless card by hand, and 'man iwconfig' will give you all the parameters. HTH derek -- - - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless
Install the pcmcia-cs-x11 RPM and then type cardinfo in a terminal. What do you see? Is this a package in 8.2 I can't seem to find it If you Open Mandrake ControlCentreNetworkConnection do you see the interface and driver listed in the panel near the bottom of the screen? no only the lan card Also do you have the wireless-tools and RPMs installed? yes What happens if you type iwconfig in a root terminal? lono wireless extensions eth0no wireless extensions derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rescue
Hi Paul, Unfortunately the cd rom is not bootable. I booted from the floppy and typed rescue at the prompt but none of the available options seem to be of any help I can list the file systems on each hd but that just confirms what I already know. - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] rescue In reply to Patrick's mail, d.d. Sat, 9 Nov 2002 22:37:00 +1100: Boot from the first setup cd, hit ESC at the graphics screen and type rescue. That will boot you into linux. From there you are root and you can fix things up. Paul Hi All, I'M running mandrake 8.2 and have just installed squid and set it up to cache on my second hd. All was going well then the hd crashed and now the system won't boot it says that sdb5 does not contain a valid ext2 file system. How do I repair this I have another hd replkacement but the same problem exists. help please -- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. -Thornton Wilder http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.3 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Patrick. Do you hear the 'beeps' when pcmcia service starts? No Have a look in syslog (/var/log/syslog) for messages relating to pcmcia What do they say? starting pcmcia succeded yenta_socket no such device Is this a laptop or a desktop with a pcmcia-pci adapter? Desktop with a plx pci-pcmcia adapter What happens if you type pcic_probe in a root terminal window? command not found derek On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 2:32 am, Patrick Griffin wrote: Thanks derek for that have all installed as far as i can tell. Cardmanager reports No pcmcia driver in Proc/devices on start. What did I do wrong - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless BTW: I should have also said. If your pcmcia card is not detected then look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia It should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket derek On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat You need to install the pcmcia_cs and wireless-tools RPMS from your CDs Then next time you reboot yor pcmcia sockets should be detected and become active. You will hear two beeps from your computer when the pcmcia slots are enabled. Two beeps of different tone means your oricoco card was detected OK. Two beeps of same tone means it was not. Go through the Mandrake Control Centre Networking wizard. It should have detected your card and installed the 'wvlan_cs' driver. In the wizard you can set the wireless parameters (encryption key rate etc) after you complete the wizard with OK, DO NOT exit the GUI with OK. A bug means that it will write your old configuration back again. You must exit the GUI with 'Cancel' Your card should now be working. If it is not it is most likely a problem with encryption key or essid (Note ASCII encryption keys have to be entered in the format s:key_name ) You can use the command 'iwconfig eth0' in a root terminal window to set up the wireless card by hand, and 'man iwconfig' will give you all the parameters. HTH derek -- - - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vnc
sorry my mistake read all the previous mail on the subject using 8.2 - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] vnc On Monday 04 Nov 2002 11:53 pm, Patrick Griffin wrote: Hi All, I have sucessfully installed vnc and can make it run from the desktop but how do i cinfigure it ti run as a service from start so i can remotley control the terminal from my windows box. If you installed Tightvnc from the mandrake 9.0 RPMs you can start vnc as a service from boot simply by checking the box in Mandrake ControlCentreSystemServices. There is a configuration file in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers entries in there will start 1 or more vnc servers at boot. The syntax to use is VNCSERVERS=1:myusername derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless
Thanks derek for that have all installed as far as i can tell. Cardmanager reports No pcmcia driver in Proc/devices on start. What did I do wrong - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless BTW: I should have also said. If your pcmcia card is not detected then look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia It should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket derek On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat You need to install the pcmcia_cs and wireless-tools RPMS from your CDs Then next time you reboot yor pcmcia sockets should be detected and become active. You will hear two beeps from your computer when the pcmcia slots are enabled. Two beeps of different tone means your oricoco card was detected OK. Two beeps of same tone means it was not. Go through the Mandrake Control Centre Networking wizard. It should have detected your card and installed the 'wvlan_cs' driver. In the wizard you can set the wireless parameters (encryption key rate etc) after you complete the wizard with OK, DO NOT exit the GUI with OK. A bug means that it will write your old configuration back again. You must exit the GUI with 'Cancel' Your card should now be working. If it is not it is most likely a problem with encryption key or essid (Note ASCII encryption keys have to be entered in the format s:key_name ) You can use the command 'iwconfig eth0' in a root terminal window to set up the wireless card by hand, and 'man iwconfig' will give you all the parameters. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wireless
Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat
