Re: [newbie] Samba Assistance
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Michael Corbin wrote: I have been given a task at work to get Linux up and running by Wednesday Oct. 4th. The developers want to attach to this Linux system with '95 and NT workstations as though it is a NT "share." I found a reference to Samba, but can't seem to find any complete beginner lever step-by-step instructions for setting up this "share." Here is the background: My experience with Linux/Unix = zero. Experience with Novell/NT = extensive. PC we are using for testing: Hewlett Packard Vectra LE Pentium II / 333 MHz RAM: 384 MB Hard Drives: 2 x 2.1 GB EIDE CD-ROM: 20X Network Card: Intel Etherpro 100 You may already have Webmin going on your machine, if not, it is on the CD's. Usually just enter (in Netscape) http:// (Your Machine name):1/ You should get a box asking for user name (usually root) and the current root password. This tool will help you out of your jam! Good luck.
Re: [newbie] VMware
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:36:57 EDT, you wrote: Dear Anyone, Is VMware in Linux-Mandrake 7.0 complete? If so, where can if be found ? Thank you, Marcia Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:16:45 Dear Marcia...not absolutely positive but I think, vmware is a commercial program ..the kind they want...awk..money for...the free one is wine,,,that one is on the MDK disc's but if vmware is, I wouldn't think it would be a complete only demo,,,unless they made it GPL and didn't tell me?na .. 8-) anyone grin Hi, VMware IS a commercial product, and IMHO, worth every penny. It is the only place Windows can and should be run, so it doesn't muck up my real OS. However, lots of ram is needed. I have 128M, but more would be nice. The version that comes with most distros these days is a 30 day evaluation, which was enough to get me hooked! At the time I bought the full version, I was having to use MSVisual Basic, so I stuck it in a virtual machine loaded with Win98 and placed it in the corner of my desktop where it belonged. ;-) I especially like VMware for trying out new distros w/o changing my system until I see the problems and/or merits of them. Saves a lot of grief! End of commercial! (no, I have no connection w/Vmware) -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043 Powered by SuSE 6.4
RE: [newbie] Star office loading
Hi, I'm jumping into the middle of this, but thought you may not know this: at the Boot prompt, type "linux idebus=66". (w/o quotes) Sometimes I start this way, but I really don't notice much difference in performance. YMMV. TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043 On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Abe wrote: Hey, if you tell me how to do that I will gladly post my numbers. I've got a UDMA 66 drive and the boot up claims it is using 33mhz system bus for it but I don't know how to get solid numbers. This is neat. I'm really enjoying the multitude of conversations going on in teh list these days. Learning as lot too. Thanks everybody! Abe = Original Message From Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: H...it took mine 43 seconds to come up. On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Patti Wavinak wrote: I hate to disappoint you or maybe I am just lucky -- I have Star Office 5.2 in Linux with 2.2.16 kernel a PII 450 processor and 256M of memory. I just timed how long it took to bring it up -- less than 3 seconds after I clicked on the icon. I'll stick with Star Office but that's jmho. ;-) From an article I just read, the speed of the harddisk and throughput of the IDE/SCSI controller contributes a tremendous lot to the speed of loading of this package. Compare those, just for fun, ok? :) Paul -- In a world without walls and fences who needs windows or gates? http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. --
Re: [newbie] Network Card Address
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Justin W. Udelhofen wrote: Can anyone tell me a command, or config tool that will enable me to find the address of my network card? (XX-XX-XX-XX-XX) Thank you. -- Hi, In a terminal, do as su, ifconfig eth(x). This will tell you the MAC address and the IP address, etc. of your NIC. TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] Broken? Bug? can't compile please help
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Vic wrote: Hello, would some kind soul please help me with a compiling problem? I downloaded kleandisk its an app that is supposed to clean extra files off the harddisk, but these error messages on the ./configure command are all it gave which I do not understand what it wants---at the end of all this---about some "small KDE application" and I'm afraid I don't have a clue what it means. Thanx checking dynamic linker characteristics... Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... no checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for objdir... .libs creating libtool checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for KDE... libraries /usr/lib, headers /usr/include/kde checking for extra includes... no checking for extra libs... no checking for kde headers installed... yes checking for kde libraries installed... configure: error: your system fails at linking a small KDE application! Check, if your compiler is installed correctly and if you have used the same compiler to compile Qt and kdelibs as you did use now [root@kittypuss kleandisk-1.1.1]# Boy, I sure hope you get a response to this! I posted the exact same problem a week ago and got nothing. If you find out, could you mail me off-list? Thanks a million. This had never happened until I did a fresh install recently to move to another HD. I was trying to compile Knapster and it just would NOT work. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that someone responds to you. -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043 Powered by SuSE 6.4
Re: [newbie] C compilers
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Steve Weltman wrote: Didn't mean to bash Iowa (it's generally an okay place for family things and growing corn, etc...), I just HAD to comment on this guy's signature! One of those dumb-things-ya-gotta-do-sometimes! I have been there for work before, so I thought I would mention my view on things. So if any Corn Huskers were offended by my message, sorry. Steve W. (and no, I haven't made my first billion dollars yet, but closer than some to doing so) Well we weren't offended until you associated the Corn Huskers with Iowa! The great state of Nebraska is home to the Corn Huskers. All fussin' and feudin' and inbreedin' aside, we Midwesterners (especially Nebraskans) take our football seriously. They (Iowa) are on one side of the Missouri river and we are on the other side... which happens to be the winning side! ;-) TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Brendan K Callahan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] C compilers Are there any graphical interfaces for the compiler? I'm used to using Borland Turbo C++ (v3.x and v4.x) for Windows. More clearly defined, I like having scrollable windows, multiple windows, the open file dialog and such. Anyone know anything? I use the compiler that comes with Mandrake which is also the same one in Redhat and the others. If it's C you're programming in invoke 'gcc', if you're doing C++ use 'g++'. Although actually either one will work for both C and C++. I've gotten some funny errors from gcc when compiling a C++ program. -- Brendan K Callahan, Grinnell, IA, US K0EES, Extra Class License http://www.mp3.com/darkmare_romeo K0EES, Extra Class License dahdidah dahdahdahdahdah dit dit dididit
Re: [newbie] Conneting Win-Linux
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Juggernaut wrote: Hello.. I want to connect my computer between Windoz and Linux. My first computer use Mandrake 7.0, 3Com ethernet card and it has IP Address = 192.168.0.1. My second computer use Windoz 98 SE, Realtek ethernet card, and it has IP Address = 192.168.0.2. I knew that if I want to share files, we can use Samba. But I don't understand about configuring Samba. Any help will be appreciated. -Pungki Get Webmin from the 'net (sorry, don't know url). Great program for tinkering w/Samba, etc. Actually, it might be included w/Mandrake, now that I think about it. Also, Knetmon will let you see users or d/l LinNeighborhood, which is a little fancier. Have fun! -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043 Powered by SuSE 6.4
Re: [newbie] Startup problem (fwd)
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Michael Hatzakis wrote: Hi guys, new to the list. Installed mandrake linux 7.1 perfectly using Automode install, the X-Windows interface during the install worked fine, it recognized all my hardware, but during the reboot progress it failed. I got something like, "Start1 Start2" then it hung. I forget the actual words, but it hangs on boot up and does nothing. Tried booting from floppy so I could run and check the lilo.conf, but I could not get the floppy boot to recognmize the CD-ROm during 'Recovery' mode. So I never got a prompt. I used to use RH 5.1, but I am NOT an expert user. My hardware: E-Machines Pentium II 333mhz 32 mb memory 2Gig HD Partition does include /temp /usr and swap drives CD-ROM IDE NEC Monitor Question: What is wrong? Do I need to re-run LILO or look at my LILO.conf? In auto install mode, I did not specify MBR or 1st drive as my boot method, does it matter which I use? I usually use my 1st drive. I also tried to install an old version of Redhat Linux before my Mandrake arrived, but it also hung on re-boot. The system works fine with Win98 and Win2000, which is how I polled the hardware to set up linux. I am NOT doing dual boot. Hoping this is an easy solution. Thanks, Michael Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine University of Washington Medical Center Medical Director, Inpatient and Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs Puget Sound Veterans Administration Health Care System [EMAIL PROTECTED] (206) 277-1792 (206) 764-2263 Fax Welcome to the list! I had no choice but to respond to this familiar address..my oldest son graduated from U-Dub in ChemEng a couple of years ago. Anyway, your info is a little confusing. I will assume you have ONE HD w/o a /temp, /usr, or a swap "partition"? Really should have a swap partition..you are a little light in the Ram dept. I have 128M and want to double it. KDE is a memory hog as are others. Also, on the assumption of one HD, LILO would be installed in the MBR. What I do (and it's probably the goofy way) is put the CD back in and proceed as an update not install. This will get you to the installation of LILO. I'm kinda doing this from memory, but I believe the automated install uses GRUB? Or am I confusing this w/ another distro? You may have to use expert mode, but don't be intimidated by it, just jet through the stages and don't select any packages. This is my best shot, hope it helps. I'm sure if I'm wrong, someone will jump on this. Oh, one more thing, make sure you haven't run out of space on that 2G drive. That could also be causing you this grief. Good luck! -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043 Powered by SuSE 6.4
Re: [newbie] To Buy or not to buy
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: Speaking from my experience I say that there is no compelling reason to update if you are happy with your current install. I made the leap to 7.1 last week and have been plagued by problems ever since. Mouse wheel refuses to work. Over all performance is slow. Gnome and enlightenment crash when I try to open netscape. GQphoto doesn't work. It leaves weird artifacts on my desktop. My internet connection is much slower then it was in 7.02. It went from average 70-80K to 15-25K download rates. Quake3 is slower and more laggy. My mouse simply doesn't feel right. Somethings different but I can't seem to get it to feel comfortable to me. Earlier this morning my girlfriend and I decided to burn a CD of all our important files, wipe the whole drive and re-install 7.02. Thats my experience with 7.1. Yours will probably be different. Dacia --- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me throw this out again, I need help in deciding whether or not to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1. If YES!!, (if I may jump in here) 7.1 has been THE most problematic install I have ever done in about a dozen different flavors and versions, including FreeBSD and Debian. I think Mandrake ought to stop with making it easier and fancier and get it back to stable and less bug-ridden. This is after all, Linux's strong suit. At $50.00+ I am seriously dissapointed w/ Mandrakesoft and Macmillan. This is my third Mandrake, and probably my last. Don't court Windows users by becoming the Beast itself! - TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] Registered Linux User??
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Hi! I know this may be off topic but I see people with signatures that have a "RegisteredLinux User number" Whats that? And can I register too? I may still be a newbie but Im getting there! =) JOhn )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Your Signature looks like you ARE registered??? If you, indeed, are registered, then you are well aware of the stipulations for registration. Allow me to list them:"All registered Linux users must send $5.00no, wait, $10.00 to the below listed registered user. Failure to do so, will result in immediate removal of all Linux partitions from the offending users hard drive. (Yes, we have the technology)" This is directly quoted from the DBAT license, which of course, is short for : Don't Believe A Thing! TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] Configuring my ISA Modem
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've tackled almost every device on my computer, there lies one last part to be recognized by Mandrake: my ISA "Compaq 56K-DF" modem. I doubt that it is a winmodem due to the fact that Windows reads it on Com2, and not as an expansion device. Any advice, drivers? I've already set Linux to look for it on Com2 (ttyS2), only to the success of a droning "Modem busy" message each time I try Kppp. And another comment ... switching to a Windows session after a long Linux session avails my modem undetectable to Windows unless I do a clean reboot. Could this be related? Believe me, this modem has giving me trouble many times before. Kenny Com2 would be ttyS1 in linux. -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] Modem Audio
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Barry Premeaux wrote: On Monday, I replaced Calderas Open Linux 2.2 with Mandrake 7.1. Really love the install. It went smoothly with Mandrake finding all my hardware, including my Stylus Color 850. My SB128 sound card performs far better than it ever did with COL 2.2. The only problem I have is the small internal speaker that plugs in the ASUS P5A motherboard does not seem to be operational. The only reason I miss it is that I can no longer listen to the modem dial out and hear the handshake. The modem is an internal 56K with the Rockwell chip set. It came with the PC from QLI-Tech. Neither the modem board or the little user manual identify the manufacturer. The modem works fine and the log screen shows the 'ATM0L1" initialization string. It isn't a major problem, but I'm clueless as to where I should go to resolve it. -- Barry :-) If you're using Kppp, there is a modem speaker setting in setup somewhere, You can make it talk to you again. I believe the ATM0 indicates that the speaker is off, whereas ATMQ (?) will produce sound. Tom
Re: [newbie] The pppd daemon died unexpectedly!
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Steve Elliott wrote: A guy a few days back had a similar prob i think and the advice was to shove NOAUTH into the /etc/ppp.options file - or something similar - can someone correct me if i am wrong ? Please .. toyswins wrote: Well, sorry but having to revert to you folks for help. Get this message on dialing so the other end is hanging up immediately on connect. I've checked the various files in the HOWTO's and all seems fine. Used KPPP 1.6.22 as the dialer and to set up the system. pppd is 2.3.8 so I've provided the full fault message below. I've reloaded the entire Linux Mandrake 6.5 two times, no changes. All the startup files load okay. As root, it's a pretty system, but hit this glitch. pppd 2.3.8 started by root, uid0 Using interface ppp0 Connect ppp0---/dev/ttyS1 Hangup (SIGHUP) Modemhangup Connection terminated. Exit This is what I understand so far: The modem is found, dials and gets a machine on the other end. The other machine then immediately initiated a disconnect, (SIGHUP), then it disconnects at my end, gives me the error message. ISP is S. W. Bell. I've got the ADSL on the Windows system going fine, but it dies now and then, also I travel and need access from other locations. The dialup on LINUX would be really handy, if I could get it to work. I know there's either a bug or three and need to update to something or I've got some configuration problem. Either way, I've looked at it so long I'm not seeing it. Pointers Thanks B. B. Stanfield III KC5PIY Might also want to increase the timeout on the modemperhaps to 60. Tom
Re: [newbie] Wine VmWare
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Al wrote: Greetings! I am having extreme difficulty in making Wine or VMWare work on a Mandrake 7.1. I have tried numerous options and read the man pages for both of these but no joy. I only wish to run MSMoney :-) Which of the two (if I get it working) is easier to use? And are there any Linux programs like MSMoney? Any help or link is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Hi, I've never had luck w/wine, but I do use VMware. What is(are) your problem(s)? The Vmware website is full of info ( www.vmware.com). You may need to upgrade your version of Vmwarenot sure if 7.1 is supported, but there is a new version available. I may not get back to this right away, but list what you need and I'll help as best as I can. Tom -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] Networking problems
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I am having a problem that puzzles me. I have two boxes set up with windows and one (the one I'm on now) is exclusively Linux. Here's the puzzle, I can ping one of the "windows" boxes but get no response on the other. I have the network connections but have'nt set up SAMBA yet. Still I should be able to ping the other machine. I am using addresses 192.168.0.1 , .2 . and .3 with the linux box being the .3. any ideas or do I need to provide more info? -- Are all the machines listed in /etc/hosts? TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] how do i install mandrake over itself?
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, vergel wrote: Hi everyone. I've got this question that I just cannt figure out. Is there a way of making the install not recognize that there was a linux system on the disk? I've tried everything, fdisking a new partion, re formatting. booting the boot floppy and trying to set the 'initrd'. I'm at my wits end. I know it has something to do with the 1028 cylinder thing but i just want to re install Linux on the drive. please please please someone help me. thanks. verg. -- I'm not sure I understand this. If nothing else, I've installed and re-installed linux dozens of times w/o problem. You should be able to initialize your existing linux partitions and go full steam ahead. Are you selecting "Install" not "Upgrade"? Perhaps have a go at "expert" It doesn't get much easier than LM, so I'm puzzled. If you had it installed before, I doubt you have a 1024 limit prob., besides this would only prevent you from booting your installed system. Perhaps a little more info? Hope I'm not off-base, I will add that I have installed LM the least amount of times, but most installs are close to the same. TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Marc wrote: I want to uninstall Mandrake7.0 since I now have more experiance installing it and configuring it. I did alot of things I did not wanna do during the install. If someone could please advise me on this I would thank them alot. I could not find any papers on this process. I am guessing it to be easy. Thanks alot to the person who answers this in advance! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- You know, I see a lot of this (and I am as guilty as the next newbie), you feel as if you have a less than perfect install and you want all to be nice by re-installing. I understand the feeling, but really, re-installing seems to be the first choice instead of the last. If you have Linux up and running, you have Linux up and running. Most anything can be fixed on a running system. A little reading, a little editing, maybe uninstalling and re-installing a package or two and you are back to normal and smarter for it all. I have been in what seemed to hopeless, desperate situations before on my system, and have bounced backand nothing compares to the feeling of accomplisment that comes from doing it yourself. Your gonna get your hands dirty w/Linux, but your pride will shine. Tom (do I sound like a dad or what!) TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] Is there a Cakewalk type of software package for Linux?
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Vic wrote: I installed jazzware http://www.jazz.com ? I think but if that is not correct please go to http://freshmeat.net and do a search for jazz it should find it for ytou -- Thanks for the URL! Tom TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie]disregard HELP and HELP2
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: Guys kindly disregard HELP and HELP2 postings. I reinstalled LM 7 and rebooted and rebooted and it started to unmount things and LO! it started working. Well if u have responded to it I will of course read your comments at least I can have some idea on what could have happened. Thanks in advance for your replies. edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Glad to hear you're up and running. I was concerned by the first emails I read this afternoon. Sorry I was unavailable for help yesterday P.M. especially since I gave out some advice. Enjoy! I have found in Linux, that the most frustrating problems yield the greatest satisfaction. It's SO nice when something finally works.and you made it work. Tom -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] Linux Installation (need advice)
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: I have 2 hard disk, one dedicated to Windows and the other one, new. Have not been partitioned nor formatted by either Windows or Linux. And, I plan to install Linux on my new disk. I have two queries regarding installation. 1) I plan to disconnect my Windows disk and setup the new disk as 'Master' and install Linux. I will use a 'boot disk' to load Linux and will not install LILO. Once I install and setup everything under Linux, I will reconnect my Windows disk (as Master) and connect my Linux disk (as slave). My question is this, since I installed Linux w/ the disk as 'Master' and now that I have reconnected my Windows disk and set Linux disk to 'Slave' would the 'boot disk' recognize that Linux is now the slave drive (since I installed everything w/ the disk as 'Master')? Or, I should do some editing in the 'boot disk'? 2) I will setup the new disk as 'Slave' and when the section mount point and partitioning comes in Linux installation, I dedicate the whole 2nd disk. Thus, I will let Mandrake do the partitioning and formatting of the new 2nd hard disk. Again, I will only use 'boot disk' to boot to Linux and will say 'No' in LILO option. Question: In this procedure, should I presume that Linux will not do any changes or save something in the Windows disk? I will start installing once I get this clear. Thanks for your help. edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Hi Edison, I'm no guru, but here goes. First, I'm not sure why you want to put yourself and your hardware through all this.you seem to be concerned about messing up your win install? I will just say that I have windows and Mandrake on my 2nd drive which are booted by Lilo, from the first drive, which is dedicated to SuSE6.4, with no probs. The only thing I can see, doing it your way, is that you will have to remember to set the jumpers on your hard drives appropriately and you will probably have to do some editing to /etc/fstab to get Mandrake to boot...I don't know about the boot disk. I would think you could just install your hard drives in the order they will remain and install Mandrake on your new disk (as master, /dev/hdax) and boot windows w/Lilo. (/dev/hdb1). Windows does not need to be on the master disk (is this a philosophical question? ;-) ) I've had no problem with any Linux hurting my win98 install...only FreeBSD, which has a different partitioning scheme, but that's a different story! Hope I'm not way off base here. Tom -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Card
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Pete Clapham wrote: Hi, all -- I am running Linux Mandrake 6.1 on a Toshiba satellite 1625 laptop. Feeling that I wanted to connect it to my household LAN, I went to my neighborhood Office Max and bought a PCMCIA Ethernet Card (the Linksys version, which would appear to be the common sort available). When I tried to do anything with it, I discovered that although the signon log indicates that PCMCIA is being turned on OK, it does not see the card, and Eth0 is not initialized. When i called Linksys, they informed me that it would be necessary to recompile the kernel, which I don't believe. I assume that the Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet card is common, and that it should be recognized by Linux as being in the machine and that it should actually work. Do any of you have these? And what did you do to get them to work? Thanks. cheers, pete For what it's worthI have a Linksys ISA card and had to use the utility that came with it to turn off PNP and set the irq and i/o. Don't know if this applies to PCMCIA or not, I can't even spell PCMCIA! Tom -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
[newbie] Diald Probs
Hello, Just installed diald 0.16.5a-2 and diald-config. At boot I get: Unable to open options file /etc/diald.conf no such file or directory No device specified you must have at least one device You must define a connector script (option 'connect') You must define the local ip address You must define the remote ip address Terminating due to damaged reconfigure All the files are there and have been edited with the proper info. Do I need to move diald.conf to /etc/ for it to be found? Symlinks? Didn't want to muck about too much w/out some advice. Thanks, Tom
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote: You know you hear so much of the fact that if you have problems with Linux that there is a large group of people who are willing to help. Just be willing to do a little homework first and try to find the answer somewhere in all the how to's and other documentation. If you can't find anything that related to your problem just post your question in a newsgroup etc... and someone who possibly overcame the problem will help with a reply. Well for this newbie that has not been the case. I am not stupid, just inexperienced with Linux. I have posted questions in several newsgroups, and in this newbie list and all I have gotten is a resounding wall of silence. Maybe my questions aren't interesting enough or maybe not technical enough for you to show the world that you are the smartest Linux guru on the planet. My girlfriend suggests that I post questions in her name and maybe that would stroke enough male ego's out there to get a response. So one last time before I just reformat the drive and just go back to windows, maybe one person who has been there will take a few minutes and write a reply . 1) I have a 3Com 3c509b nic. I cannot get this card to install. I have been told that this card needs to have the PnP feature disabled to work properly. The machine that I am using for my Linux installation is the family computer and windows has to be on it for the rest of the family. What will disabling the PnP feature do to the windows side?? 2) I also cannot get Draxconf to work. From a post to this list I found that you must install the RPM and then it would work. After installing (I think I did, there was nothing that told me that it was installed) and when I click on the icon nothing happens. Maybe that's another reason I can't get my nic to work. I can't configure anything. 3) Lastly, this may seem like a very stupid question but how do I turn off my x server and just use the bash shell? I mistakenly answered yes to the question to start the x server on startup when I was installing Mandrake. I am using KDE and the only exit I can find is the option that will shut the machine down. Please someone help. I know that Linux has a steep learning curve and from using it so far I like it a lot and would like to use it exclusively. I just have to get over these newbie problems. Thanks for listening Art Hiya, I'll do the best that I can..I'm no guru. 1) If you know the settings that Windows uses for your nic, then use the utility that came with your card to disable pnp and set it manually. This will not disable it in Windows, but should bring it to life in Linux. This is what I had to do and all is well. You will have to add the i/o and irq numbers to whatever setup program you will use in Linux. I am more familiar with SuSE, so I guess it's Lothar(?) in Mandrake. 2) As far as Drakeconf goes, if it is not installed, install it logged in as root . Installing the .rpm SHOULD do the trick.. You can poke around kpackage to see if it is indeed installed. Sorry, not a lot of help here. 3) As root, you will have to edit the inittab file ( /etc/inittab). One of the first lines in the file has something that looks like this: id: 5 : etc, etc. Change the 5 to a 3 change nothing else! Save and exit. You will no longer be in graphic mode. You could also leave all alone and type Ctrl-Alt-F1 orF2 or F3, etc. to get to console mode without messing with inittab. Hope this helps. I know the frustration you have been feeling. ;-) Tom
[newbie] kde2
Hello All, Giving Mandrake 7.0 a spin for a while. Very nice! Many great additions since 6.0. On the contrib. CD I noticed .rpms for kde2. Is this what I think it is? Is this beta or what? If I install the various kde2 .rpms, will I mess up my desktop/system, or will it integrate nicely? I have to admit I miss a couple of apps that I had with SuSE for networking. Where can I find some more info? I poked around a bit, but didn't come up with much. Thanks for your help. Tom
Re: (OT) Re: [newbie] Office Suites
- Original Message - From: M Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 3:23 PM Subject: (OT) Re: [newbie] Office Suites In response to the long downloads, which Linux download manager does everyone recommend? (Go!Zilla for Windows is a great program. Is there a Linux application with similar features?) Thanks, Matt 6 hours download time is a walk in the park for 56k... try 183 hours that is what it took to download the .iso file for linux! hehehe...alot of line noise on my end didn't help matters either! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com caitoo Only looked at it briefly, don't use it, though. I believe there are other(s)? Tom
