Re: [newbie] pon/poff
ifup and ifdown are the commands mandrake uses for pon and poff. The labels are ppp0, ppp1, etc. instead of a label you can designate. I am not aware of a console configuration utility but netcfg can be used in X. rpm is the package manager and can be used from the command line, or from X with kpackage or gnorpm. RRP. Hans wrote: Hello, First time Mandrake user (Helium), but have been running Debian for 2 years already. Two questions: 1) is there no curses-based package manager like Debian's dselect included with Mandrake? 2) the package ppp is installed, but pppconfig not. Anything additional I need to install for pon/poff use? Thanks for the help. --hans
Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE 100tx problems w/ mdk7
RRPotratz wrote: What are the numbers on the biggest chip on the card? If one of them is LC82C169 it should work well as I've got two running on different distros, If it says version 2.0 somewhere on the card in white lettering then it requires the latest tulip driver which you may have to compile yourself. Did have that working in that way but it is no longer in a box right now. RRP David Talbot wrote: I speak from absolute experience here. I too picked up that card (Ohhh a $10 NIC), and there are currently no drivers for linux. Sorry. The NE2000's work great though... -David Talbot At 09:47 PM 6/10/00 -0400, you wrote: I tried setting up a Linksys LNE100TX NIC on my HP / MDK7 / Win98 machine. I have it up at boot as seen in my dmesg, but when I run ifconfig, eth0 states Broadcast and not Up Broadcast. I can't ping it from my internal network and I see the routes are correct. Mdk7 has the tulip driver already compiled and everything I tried seems okay. The card is set as active in the etherconfig and routes are correct in the route tables. I have checked the scripts and they all have the required variables. I guess the question is how to get the broadcast up or what else could be wrong. My buddy said to buy a supported NIC like a 3COM. Maybe he's right, but the Linksys should work... right?
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
I realize you're venting but let's go over some of these: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc. But I've have enough of the critism that is passed around by the linux community, whats the matter with you people Bill Gates made a system that is so easy to use that an idiot could use it and add to it on the fly, and as for servers all companies that I have been to don't use linux for their servers they use NT, Yes, the windows bashing does get pretty intense at times but you've got your opinions too, so.. Besides I have had several experiences with windows where if I wasn't very familiar with the OS I would have given up in frustration, sometimes just because the OS was designed for idiots, that it made it harder. When I spend the time and the money which is scarce to download software for my linux off the Internet and run the installation it never works and what's more is that in order to get it to work if have know all about programming and text based linux/Unix if you like, and yet If you don't use this flavor of linux well too bad now you have have to learn a new flovour so that you get the feature you like. And 4 months later ... If you which to compete with windows you have to create a product that has have builtin server tools that an idiot can use, a graphic frontend that an idiot can understand, easy software addition that is idiot proof and just works No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3 pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than windows ever was. This I just don't get. RPM's are as easy or easier than any setup program in windows, and will warn you if you need something on you system. Sure, every program could include all the libraries etc. it needs but can you imagine how much of your scarce time that would involve? Besides what MSWindows bundle includes just about every application you'll need on one or 2 CD's for 0 - 70 bucks? So if you want to come and watch how when I insert a picture into netscape composer or office 2000 or even wordperfect eight how it crashes, the program just disspears off the screen and one has to start all over again. Star Office is so slow that I could go and have a 3 course meal while it eats up my cpu time and slows my pc down to the speed of a 486 sx before its ready to use. And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb ram , I think somebody should pull that statement back. -snip- I would agree with you here, because the distributions out of the box Are configures to run too much at boot time for a newbie and there is no evident way to configure it otherwise, or to tell what everything does. Cleaned up though I would think a 486 with 16 MB is reasonable. Every tried to run windows on that set-up. I have. Slow. How about a 386 with 8 MB, win95 minimum configuration. A Joke. So in conclution I ask anyone out there If there is a flavour of linux that has server and tools built in for use as a pdc dns etc. the grapghic front end that i easy to understand and if i try to run the vmware that i bought for 400 dollars will it work with out telling me my kernel is an asshole and i must now try mdk, and loose the nice file manger that did my networking for me in corel os. Or Ihave a nice set of graphic tools suse but (cad3d) it's to complicated and takes months wich no in modern times can afford to spend learning . So now I'll just have corel because I can manage my network in the network neighbourhood that is like windows but now I cant do my graphic design because corel only provides me with and unstable gimp . this is where I would much prefer to just put windows back on all my pcs becuase I just cant win with this linux. You are mixing Linux and the applications. Some administrative tools are distribution specific but the applications can be used with almost any distro. Get'em and install them. -snip- Please Dont take this mail as an Insult or as an attack Iam simply stating the factsas I have experienced them PS: excuse the spelling the kmail spellchecker doesnt work properly so i gave up with it . Works for me but I don't need it : ) thanks Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 012 3332276
Re: [newbie] Large Disk (14G) on a P166
It is very possible and likely you need to flash your bios to support the larger drive. I've got an old motherboard that had a 133 pent running with 3 15 gig IBM drives and a cyrix 300, but nono would have been possible without flashing the bios. Would need to know motherboard manufacturer and model to help much more. RRP On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: HELP ME PLEASE !!! my friend has a 14g HD (FUJITSU) and he is trying to install Mandrake 7 on his computer. we tried to boot the computer with 14G, but the computer just hung. The HD has option to use only 2GB so that the old computer can use the drive, but i want to set it up so that he could use whole 14G. Please help me... Thanks in advance!!! Sujeevan R Toronto, Ontario Canada. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] Sound and Modem problems]
I have that combination on a HP at work and the modem is a winmodem and the sound card is piggybacked on to it. Will probably not work under linux but 1) I haven't tried too hard and 2) I'd like someone to prove me wrong On Wed, 09 Apr 2036, you wrote: Matthew Loschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Rockwell 56k faxmodem on com1 and irq3 and my sound card is a Riptide PCI Audio Legacy and I have the info on that to. I can't seem to get linux 6.5 to find them. Why, it always returns an error saying that the device is busy. How do I set them up. HELP Matthew Matthew, What have you tried thus far? Have you run sndconfig? What was the result? Have you tried kppp to set up your modem? If the modem is on COM1 in windows, set it to ttyS0 in kppp. the query the modem and see what you get back. It *might* be a winmodem, in which case it probably will never work and you'll need an external. HTH, Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] SB 64 AWE config
Hello, I've upgraded my motherboard and CPU and now can not get my SB64AWE to work correctly. As the modules are loaded as it boots the card starts to buzz and does not stop. The only way to get it to stop is to edit anything having to do with sound out of /etc/conf.modules and reboot. After rebooting, I run sndconfig and the buzzing appears again as soon as the card is initalized. The card seems to be using the correct parameters according to the info panel in KDE (i.e. irq 5, dma low 1, dma high 5, mem at 220 and midi at 330. Any Ideas? Thanks, Randy
Re: [newbie] SB 64 AWE config
Yes tried that didn't make a difference. Also took all other cards but sound and video out, and didn't make a change. On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, you wrote: RRPotratz wrote: Hello, I've upgraded my motherboard and CPU and now can not get my SB64AWE to work correctly. As the modules are loaded as it boots the card starts to buzz and does not stop. The only way to get it to stop is to edit anything having to do with sound out of /etc/conf.modules and reboot. After rebooting, I run sndconfig and the buzzing appears again as soon as the card is initalized. The card seems to be using the correct parameters according to the info panel in KDE (i.e. irq 5, dma low 1, dma high 5, mem at 220 and midi at 330. Any Ideas? Thanks, Randy Randy, Did you try to move your sound card to a different slot maybe it will work. Just a thought because sometimes if you physically move it around it will assign a different setting. Dino -- This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Different CPUs
Heck I'm even using it on Cyrix 333 MII 128MG ram. works great! At 04:23 PM 2/22/00 +0100, you wrote: The documentation claims that K6 processors are Pentium class. I have a K6-2/266 that is working beautifully with Linux. Lance GECOS wrote: James Mellema wrote: I think it unlikely that your install will succeed. Mandrake is optimized for pentium class CPUs, and will not perform adequately on a 486. My experience has been that in most cases Mandrale will not install, and if it does performance is dismal with many problems. The above was in response to an inquiry, but it makes me wonder if Mandrake is the best distro for my AMD K6-2/400. I don't know much about CPUs, so I don't know if my AMD is "pentium class" or not. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...
Re: [newbie] subscribe/unsubscribe
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote: Good idea - I need the unsubscribe email and instructions please. Who on earth has time to read this much e-mail?! i.e I sure don't want to learn THAT much !
Re: [newbie] Linux Partitions
Your / seems too small should probably be 500-1000, /home might be trimmed some unless you are going to storing lots of datamaybe about 500. If you took 500 from /home and some from /usr (500 or so) and put that towards / I think that would be pretty balanced. Are you putting this on it's own disk? At 11:49 AM 2/18/00 -0800, you wrote: Hello people, You all have been a great help to me. I have saved many emails that I may need at a later date. Tonight, I am going to install LM6.1 for the 5th time (I always messed something up before). Anyway, I plan on a custom install. I never know what size to make partitions or even, what partitions to use. Can someone give me a recommendation? Or, can everyone tell me how their system is setup? This is what I did last time: / 100 MB /home 1000 MB /usr 3000 MB swap 128 MB Any and all help/recommendations will be appreciated. thanks, James = - James Luongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] Fwd: Re: PCI modems with Linux?
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: PCI modems with Linux? Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:53:52 -0600 From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:32:06PM +0800, gou.dedalus wrote: I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a functional internet-connection. The first step is to determine if your modems will work or not. The vast majority of PCI modems are "winmodems", but there are a few that will work with Linux. Check the Linux/Modem Compatibility Knowledge Base at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and look up your particular modems. There are Rockwell-based modems that are winmodems, and some that actually work (and some that work but have troubles). Another quick way to test is to use minicom to access the modem (you need to know which /dev/ttyS* it's on. COM1 in DOS - /dev/ttyS0, COM2-/dev/ttyS1, etc). Send it various AT commands, and see if it responds correctly. Once you know your modem works, look into the pppconfig package. It makes ppp setup very easy. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added --- -- This message is composed and delivered with an MSFreeCE ( Microsoft Free Computing Enviroment ). unnamed
[newbie] Fwd: Re: PCI modems with Linux?
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: PCI modems with Linux? Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:09:02 -0500 From: paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a functional internet-connection. Sorry, if this is a boring question. In this case, please anyone who answer, do it to my own addres. Thank you. AFAIK, there are PCI modems that work under Linux with no special configuration. See http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/PCImodems.html for more information. According to the documentation there, it is possible that your modem is Linux compatable (a real modem as oposed to a software modem). Best of luck! WinModems /dev/null! -ptw -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- -- This message is composed and delivered with an MSFreeCE ( Microsoft Free Computing Enviroment ).
[newbie] Fwd: Re: PCI modems with Linux?
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: PCI modems with Linux? Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:23:01 -0800 (PST) From: aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] look your modem(s) up on this page: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/2207b.html confirm they are not winmodems, chances are if you paid less then $90 US. it is a winmodem. anyways if it is not, i think it would be easiest to contact tech support from the company that makes it and ask em how to get the modem working in dos MODE. if it works in dos mode it works in linux, pretty much gauranteed. if it needs some special driver/program you can load it in dos mode then boot linux iwth loadlin. nate On 10 Feb 2000, gou.dedalus wrote: dedalu Hi, dedalu dedalu I and my friend have a problem with Linux. In some documents we dedalu read that PCI modems can not be used, because of the structure dedalu of Linux. Searched some sources, we couldn't find any usable info dedalu about this, so please help! Both my friend and I have 56k PCI dedalu Rockewell compatible modems (no winmodems) without any Linux- dedalu relate thing. I'd like to ask some kind of short tutorial about how to dedalu install the needed software-pieces and what steps to follow for a dedalu functional internet-connection. dedalu dedalu Sorry, if this is a boring question. In this case, please anyone who dedalu answer, do it to my own addres. dedalu dedalu Thank you. dedalu dedalu dedalu dedalu dedalu [EMAIL PROTECTED] dedalu dedalu dedalu -- dedalu Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null dedalu dedalu dedalu -- dedalu Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null dedalu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:18pm up 174 days, 10:32, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 1.06, 1.04 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- -- This message is composed and delivered with an MSFreeCE ( Microsoft Free Computing Enviroment ).
Re: [newbie] Mandrake versions
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote: I have not seen 6.5 before, is it like 6.1? Or just a ver they did not release on official CD? -- Linux Cat -- I believe what is being refered to is a MacMillian version with extra pdf versions of some linux books on a third cdrom. for some reason it has the moniker 6.5 on the box but seems to be 6.1 in actuality. This message is composed and delivered with an MSFreeCE ( Microsoft-free Computing Enviroment ).
Re: [newbie] KPPP and Desktop icons
Well, on the Kppp question if you've typed in your password in the kppp window I'm not sure.. To put a new icon on the desktop you click your right mouse button on an empty area on your desktop and a menu will popup and from there go to "new" on that menu and chose what type of icon you want to add to your desktop. One of these choices is application. Once you click one of the menu choices, a window will come up in which you can name your icon (edit the name to the left of the .kdelnk). Once you ok that , you will be presented with a window to set the properties for your icon. On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, glyn wrote: Hi - to questions, having finally got Mandrake 7.0 up and running (beautifully!) 1. Setting up Kppp - I've followed the instructions carefully but each time I try to dial up with Kppp I get a "pppd died suddenly" message. The log says "localhost pppd[1821]: the remote host is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find a secret (password)which would let it use an IP address" Can anyone suggest a cure? 2. How do I putna new icon on the desktop - not replace a current model but a new icon for a new programme. Can't find this in the docs - maybe it's too obvious? Thanks in anticipation Glyn M. -- ~ "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts" D Hoftstatder. ~ -- This message is composed and delivered with an MSFreeCE ( Microsoft Free Computing Enviroment ).
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PCI modems , the way I understand it , are almost always WINMODEMs. I too agree that external modems are the way to go in linuxI even have a very cheap no name model that works fine with linux. RRP
Re: [newbie] StarOffice install /usr/share -vs- /usr/local
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thanks to all that replied. I ended up installing SO to /usr/share (someone suggested /usr/local but since I intended this to be a "network" install ...) and all seems to be happy. As a newbie I haven't quite figured out this file system thing YET and I'm curious if perhaps I have incorrectly interpreted the use of /usr/share and usr/local. I suppose I'll have to go digging for some more info but if someone would care to shed some light on the subject I'd appreciate it. Thanks -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] From what I've read, /usr/local is generally used for programs that are local to your machine and the permissions are read and write while /usr/share are for programs that are accessable through the network and permissions are read-only , someone can correct me on this if they'd like. In reality I use /usr/local for programs that were installed without benefit of using a package (i.e. RPM). The exception would be as you say a network install of a network aware application. -- This message is composed and delivered with an MSFreeCE ( Microsoft Free Computing Enviroment ).
