[newbie] Boot manager
Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together with a Drive Overlay. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put it in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/modem and ran modprobe snd-atiixp-modem.ko, and I get module snd-atiixp-modem.ko not found. Then I tried to put it several places, but I always get the same result. Do you know where I should put snd-atiixp-modem.ko in order to be able to load it? I need my modem because I will not always be at home and not always will have a wireless connection. Teilhard. First - you did not need to decompress it. Teh kernel decompresses the modules as needed. Second - you need to run depmod -a so that the new module is added to the module map modprobe uses. Third - use snd-atiixp-modem and not snd-atiixp-modem.ko with modprobe. Modprobe wants the module name, and not the module file name. So you never use the .ko.gz when giving modprobe the module to load. Thanks for taking the time. Some day I will learn enough not to make silly questions. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?
The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put it in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/modem and ran modprobe snd-atiixp-modem.ko, and I get module snd-atiixp-modem.ko not found. Then I tried to put it several places, but I always get the same result. Do you know where I should put snd-atiixp-modem.ko in order to be able to load it? I need my modem because I will not always be at home and not always will have a wireless connection. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kpnqueror wouldn't launch in Mandrake 10.1
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kpnqueror wouldn't launch in Mandrake 10.1 On Tuesday 22 March 2005 05:26 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: This is a simple question for you. My konqueror wouldn't launch and perhaps you can tell my why this can happen and possible fixes. Teilhard. I had same problem until I updated my kde rpms. I think an urpmi kdepim and kdenetwork and kdeutils did the trick. Not sure which one was the fix tho. It was a bunch of packages. This is assuming you are running a 10.1 release with only the first updates. I decided to follow your example. Upgraded my packages and installed the three ones you mentioned. Konqueror is running now. Thanks so much. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kpnqueror wouldn't launch in Mandrake 10.1
- Original Message - From: Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kpnqueror wouldn't launch in Mandrake 10.1 On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:26 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: This is a simple question for you. My konqueror wouldn't launch and perhaps you can tell my why this can happen and possible fixes. Teilhard. I had a problem launching Konqueror-as-filemanager after I'd fiddled with the Konqueror-as-browser settings - got a spinning hourglass in the panel for thirty seconds and then nothing. I can't tell you exactly what I did to fix it (it is fixed now) but the fiddling with the browser settings is definitely what caused the problem (in my case). I appreciate the time you took to give me feedback, but my Konqueror is running now after I upgraded my packages. Thanks so much. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kpnqueror wouldn't launch in Mandrake 10.1
Hello: This is a simple question for you. My konqueror wouldn't launch and perhaps you can tell my why this can happen and possible fixes. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Wireless adapter
I have this laptop I bought me recently, and the wireless adapter driver fails to install. I get the error message when I select to configure a wireless connection: Driver ath_pci failed on /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 302. Do you think I have any hope to put this adapter (Atheros AR5005GS) to work? Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound in a laptop
I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on top of 10.0 in my laptop. That's the only way I can get the multithread boot option. My problem is that I have no sound. For what I gather the problem is that /dev/dsp does not exist in my system. I have gone through the troubleshooter and the driver doesn't seem to be loaded. I will appreciate any advise. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD sound
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD sound On Wednesday 09 Mar 2005 05:59, Teilhard Knight wrote: The advice Kaj gave is good install xmms-cdread and configure xmms to read audio CDs through IDE See my page here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html Thanks so much, Derek. As it happens there is a home theatre attached to one of my computers and it is configured for digital output only. I know this computer contain the cables properly plugged because I cloned it myself. About the other computers I haven't open, I do not know, but I believe you, and as a matter of fact I consider you solved my problem. I had a go with xmms, but I couldn't make it work. I'll have to do it following your instructions more carefully. Although received wisdom is that you only need xmms-cdread if no audio cable is attached to your sound card, I have found that it is necessary with both SBLive card and Audigy card in my systems. Both of them have audio cables attached. HTH Actually my card in my clone computer is the SB live. More wisdom my way. Thanks a lot. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD sound
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD sound On Monday 07 March 2005 00:03, Teilhard Knight wrote: The wiring is OK in the three computers. I can listen to CD music in other OSs. Teilhard That is not proof the wiring is OK Windows does not need the analogue cable since it reads audio CDs using the IDE interface. So to save money many computer manufacturers omit the audio cable. The advice Kaj gave is good install xmms-cdread and configure xmms to read audio CDs through IDE See my page here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html Thanks so much, Derek. As it happens there is a home theatre attached to one of my computers and it is configured for digital output only. I know this computer contain the cables properly plugged because I cloned it myself. About the other computers I haven't open, I do not know, but I believe you, and as a matter of fact I consider you solved my problem. I had a go with xmms, but I couldn't make it work. I'll have to do it following your instructions more carefully. About the package I need to install, I get bad signatures, but then again, in all computers and in all cases where I have wanted to install a package, I get this annoying bad signatures error. I install anyhow. Do you know what is happening here? Sorry for my late reply, but I have been kind of busy. Best wishes and thanks for taking the time. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD sound
From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD sound On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:24 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Windows does not need the analogue cable since it reads audio CDs using the IDE interface. So to save money many computer manufacturers omit the audio cable. The advice Kaj gave is good install xmms-cdread and configure xmms to read audio CDs through IDE See my page here amarok can read audio cd through ide too Thanks for the info. I suppose I have to grab the package because I do not see it in my Multimedia items. I am assuming it is a GUI application, not a command line which would be rather odd. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] It can't just be me
I have installed Mandrake 10.1 in several computers and I NEVER get into X. I am left with a blue screen with Mandrake 10.1 in the lower right hand corner of the screen and that's it. Someone told me to add the line ServerVTs=-7 to the General section of the /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc file, but is solved nothing. My cure: install Mandrake 10.0 Official and then Upgrade to 10.1 Official. I know it's not as good as a clean install, but . Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CD sound
After a lot of struggling with alsamixer and other programs, I was able to get sound from 3 computers. I was all happy until I decided to listen to a CD. No sound. I have looked everywhere I can see and see no problem. Also, when one goes to configure your desktop-sound-sound system, there is a button to test MIDI. Nothing happens if I press there. I suspect the only sound I can produce is Wav sound. Any help to allow me to listen to my music will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD sound
From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD sound On Sunday 06 March 2005 04:23 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: After a lot of struggling with alsamixer and other programs, I was able to get sound from 3 computers. I was all happy until I decided to listen to a CD. No sound. I have looked everywhere I can see and see no problem. Also, when one goes to configure your desktop-sound-sound system, there is a button to test MIDI. Nothing happens if I press there. I suspect the only sound I can produce is Wav sound. Any help to allow me to listen to my music will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard. Teilhard, is the CDROM or DVD player the device that has the sound cable jumpered to the Motherboard or Sound Card? I do not get a sound when I test midi either but can still listen to CD audio. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 The wiring is OK in the three computers. I can listen to CD music in other OSs. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD sound
From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD sound On Sunday 06 March 2005 23:23, Teilhard Knight wrote: After a lot of struggling with alsamixer and other programs, I was able to get sound from 3 computers. I was all happy until I decided to listen to a CD. No sound. I have looked everywhere I can see and see no problem. Also, when one goes to configure your desktop-sound-sound system, there is a button to test MIDI. Nothing happens if I press there. I suspect the only sound I can produce is Wav sound. Any help to allow me to listen to my music will be greatly appreciated. You can get sound from .mp3's .ogg's and from the net etc., but not from CD ? If so, maybe you use a CD player like Noatun (the KCDplayer). That one requires analog input. That means you'll have to check if there is an audio cable from the device to the motherboard or soundcard. Other players like grip or xmms can use digital input and require no audio cable. I don't think grip needs any additional software, but xmms does. I think it is called xmms-cdread. But first, try grip. If no go, report back. It's a no-go, I'm afraid. Can't get even a small note, no low volume, nothing. I'll try to get the xmms-cdread and I'll report the outcome. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quick question
Thanks. To all those who replied to this thread. Sometimes Mandrake amazes me. I never imagined it had support for hyperthreading. I thought that it was going to treat my processor as a single processor as in the recent past. If I just could solve the Internet problem I would migrate to Mandrake right away. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I want to migrate to Mandrake
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] I want to migrate to Mandrake On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:59:35 -0600, Teilhard wrote: I cannot set wireless Internet in computer1. Now computer2 which uses the same wireless adapter than computer1 (SMC2662W) has Internet and works just fine. Neither machine lists the adapter in Hardwaredrake. They probably do with usbview. The protocol in the machine where the adapter works is wlan(0). If I go to Mandrake Control Centre (Configure your Computer) and I select Manage Connections it doesn't give the driver the connection is using, so, I cannot know what to try in the computer1. I know (If I am mistaken please correct me) that this device is an Orinoco device. Well, none of the Orinoco drivers work in computer1. Yes, I've had the same experience. I have a a USB wireless adapter that uses prism_usb, but I cannot set up the driver manually using it. I doubt it's a driver problem, though. To end, the adapter SMC2662W is an USB adapter, and I am using Mandrake 10.1. Ah. I hid a similar problem. I installed a wireless USB NIC on a machine, then had to reinstall 10.1 after a nasty power outage. After the re-install, I had a very tough time getting it to configure. What I ended up doing was using Mandrake Control Center to set it up as a LAN connection (not WLAN!). It spotted the USB NIC fine. Then to get it working on my network, I used a small app called wlanfe which allows you to configure the wireless connection. That got it completely working. Then, once it was working, active connection, I went back to mcc, added a real wlan connection, and mcc found it just fine. I can't remember if I set up the wireless stuff at that point or had to go to manage connections after that. But that was the basic procedure: add it as a lan connection, get the connection actually working with wlanfe, then re-add the connection as a wlan connection, and optionally configure it with Manage Connections if need be. Thanks a lot for your feedback, Miark. I got me the Wlanfe little program and I proceeded to follow your example, but I simply do not have an idea of how to configure the wireless nick as a lan nic. When I am in the MCC I get, for lan, the choice of configuring my Ethernet card and configure manually. I have tried to avoid configuring the Ethernet card because it is completely identified as an Ethernet card and I do not see the way to end with a Wlan device instead. Well, then I go to manual configuration and it is the same story as for trying for the wireless nic instead. No driver works at all and the Wlanfe simply remains idle. Is there any way you can help me by describing with more detail what you did? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: I want to migrate to Mandrake
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] I want to migrate to Mandrake On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:59:35 -0600, Teilhard wrote: I cannot set wireless Internet in computer1. Now computer2 which uses the same wireless adapter than computer1 (SMC2662W) has Internet and works just fine. Neither machine lists the adapter in Hardwaredrake. They probably do with usbview. The protocol in the machine where the adapter works is wlan(0). If I go to Mandrake Control Centre (Configure your Computer) and I select Manage Connections it doesn't give the driver the connection is using, so, I cannot know what to try in the computer1. I know (If I am mistaken please correct me) that this device is an Orinoco device. Well, none of the Orinoco drivers work in computer1. Yes, I've had the same experience. I have a a USB wireless adapter that uses prism_usb, but I cannot set up the driver manually using it. I doubt it's a driver problem, though. To end, the adapter SMC2662W is an USB adapter, and I am using Mandrake 10.1. Ah. I hid a similar problem. I installed a wireless USB NIC on a machine, then had to reinstall 10.1 after a nasty power outage. After the re-install, I had a very tough time getting it to configure. What I ended up doing was using Mandrake Control Center to set it up as a LAN connection (not WLAN!). It spotted the USB NIC fine. Then to get it working on my network, I used a small app called wlanfe which allows you to configure the wireless connection. That got it completely working. Then, once it was working, active connection, I went back to mcc, added a real wlan connection, and mcc found it just fine. I can't remember if I set up the wireless stuff at that point or had to go to manage connections after that. But that was the basic procedure: add it as a lan connection, get the connection actually working with wlanfe, then re-add the connection as a wlan connection, and optionally configure it with Manage Connections if need be. Thanks a lot for your feedback, Miark. I got me the Wlanfe little program and I proceeded to follow your example, but I simply do not have an idea of how to configure the wireless nick as a lan nic. When I am in the MCC I get, for lan, the choice of configuring my Ethernet card and configure manually. I have tried to avoid configuring the Ethernet card because it is completely identified as an Ethernet card and I do not see the way to end with a Wlan device instead. Well, then I go to manual configuration and it is the same story as for trying for the wireless nic instead. No driver works at all and the Wlanfe simply remains idle. Is there any way you can help me by describing with more detail what you did? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Quick question
When I boot Mandrake the boot manager gives me a choice between: linux-smp, linux, and linux-nonfb. What is the difference between these? That's it, thanks. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Silly move
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Silly move -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 02:46, Teilhard Knight wrote: I was all right and as I have a screen resolution 0f 1280x1024 in other OSs, I tried to change to that value in Mandrake. Now I get a plain out of range resolution screen when I boot. Please tell me how do I fix this. What is and where is the conf file to change? Thanks in advance. XFdrake can be run either from MCC or from the command line. You should be able to sort it there. You may need to look at colour depth as well as resolution - I avoid 24-bit depth as I know it has caused many people's problems. Thank you, Anne, it's good to know this stuff, I've never had problems with screen resolutions I can manage. I do not remember if in other computers I installed Mandrake upon, but not in these two I am dealing with now (which are the most modern). I still have a look at color depth which I think I set at 24 bit. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Silly move
Teilhard Knight wrote: I was all right and as I have a screen resolution 0f 1280x1024 in other OSs, I tried to change to that value in Mandrake. Now I get a plain out of range resolution screen when I boot. Please tell me how do I fix this. What is and where is the conf file to change? Thanks in advance. Teilhard The config file is /etc/X11/XF86Config. But you will probably want to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in as root, and run drakxconf. Make sure you have the correct monitor defined. You should be able to get 1280 x 1024 as long as you have the refresh rates set correctly. Thank you, Mikkel. I am sure I set the refresh rates correctly as I got them from my monitor specs (Sony Trinitron G220). I am also surprised why I cannot have 1280x1024. I am now at 1024x768 and the icons seem a bit bulky, but it is nothing that terrible. In another computer I HAD to set 1280x1024 in order to have things set properly. Something in XF86Config you think? Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Silly move
Subject: Re: [newbie] Silly move -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 11:03, Teilhard Knight wrote: Thank you, Anne, it's good to know this stuff, I've never had problems with screen resolutions I can manage. I do not remember if in other computers I installed Mandrake upon, but not in these two I am dealing with now (which are the most modern). I still have a look at color depth which I think I set at 24 bit. 16-bit has quite enough colours to fool my eyes ;-) Yes, I would agree with you that 24 bit is perhaps too much. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] I want to migrate to Mandrake
I would be delighted if my default OS was Mandrake. But I have three computers where I have installed the OS on and in each of these there is one problem. I once posted a couple of problems in the same message and was told not to do so. Therefore I will post my three problems separately. Now let's call the machines compute1, computer2 and computer3. I cannot set wireless Internet in computer1. Now computer2 which uses the same wireless adapter than computer1 (SMC2662W) has Internet and works just fine. Neither machine lists the adapter in Hardwaredrake. The protocol in the machine where the adapter works is wlan(0). If I go to Mandrake Control Centre (Configure your Computer) and I select Manage Connections it doesn't give the driver the connection is using, so, I cannot know what to try in the computer1. I know (If I am mistaken please correct me) that this device is an Orinoco device. Well, none of the Orinoco drivers work in computer1. To end, the adapter SMC2662W is an USB adapter, and I am using Mandrake 10.1. All feedback will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Silly move
I was all right and as I have a screen resolution 0f 1280x1024 in other OSs, I tried to change to that value in Mandrake. Now I get a plain out of range resolution screen when I boot. Please tell me how do I fix this. What is and where is the conf file to change? Thanks in advance. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Very simple question
What's a USB mouse port? I know that a PS/2 mouse is /dev/psaux, but I do not know what a USB mouse is. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Change privacy for softhome if you want to intrude my inbox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE
On Thursday 02 December 2004 1:27 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Bad news, Rob. I can uninstall the package kdebase-kdm, but when I type urpmi kdebase-kdm, I get an error message telling me the package has the wrong signature, and it is not installed. What to do now? NO biggie, all the initial packages for 10.1 were not signed properly or urpmi was not able to understand the right signature. Just say you want to go on, and it will let you. Or run urpmi --allow-force kdebase-kdm Rob, I am able to start KDE if I go to the first virtual console (Crl+Alt+F1) and type: startx -- :1. Can this help to be able to autolog on boot? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Change privacy for softhome if you want to intrude my inbox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE
- Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE E138: Can't write viminfo file $HOME/.viminfo! I wouldn't concern yourself with this one. You are in single user mode, and $HOME is probably not set. Can you make up something of all of this? By the way, I added the line you suggest at the beginning and at the end and of the [general] section and it makes no difference. one easy thing to do is to run urpme kdebase-kdm to uninstall it. Then you should boot into (on reboot) mdkkdm, and that will work normally. Then you can run urpmi kdebase-kdm and make the change to kdmrc from a console prompt. When you exited vi, did you do so with a wq to write and quit? Bad news, Rob. I can uninstall the package kdebase-kdm, but when I type urpmi kdebase-kdm, I get an error message telling me the package has the wrong signature, and it is not installed. What to do now? Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE
- Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE On Tuesday 30 November 2004 7:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Official (Download), and everything went all right except that on boot, I cannot enter into KDE. The boot process reaches only the point of the blue screen with the Mandrake logo in the lower part, and that's it. It doesn't go further from there to enter KDE. I would appreciate if you could help me to solve this. Yep, that's a standard problem with KDE if you are using KDM as your login manager. There is a phrase missing from kdmrc. Just add ServerVTs=-7 to the [general] section of /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc and reboot. Now to get there: at login go to failsafe, and boot the machine. you can either boot kde with a startx command, or open vi at /etc/kde/kdmrc, and figure out the eccentricities of that editor, so that you can add the line. When you are done, you can exit with the command shutdown -r now. It didn't work, Rob. I booted normally and when I reached the blue screen I pressed Cont+Alt+F1 and made the change you suggest. It didn't work that way. I tried entering in failsafe mode as you suggested, and I get the following error: HylaFAX FATAL ERROR: /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is missing! Then I get: INIT: Going single user. And the prompt: sh-2.05b# I still can reach the file kdmrc, and I can write with vi all right, but when I quit I get: E138: Can't write viminfo file $HOME/.viminfo! Can you make up something of all of this? By the way, I added the line you suggest at the beginning and at the end and of the [general] section and it makes no difference. Thanks so much for your feedback. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE
- Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE E138: Can't write viminfo file $HOME/.viminfo! I wouldn't concern yourself with this one. You are in single user mode, and $HOME is probably not set. Can you make up something of all of this? By the way, I added the line you suggest at the beginning and at the end and of the [general] section and it makes no difference. one easy thing to do is to run urpme kdebase-kdm to uninstall it. Then you should boot into (on reboot) mdkkdm, and that will work normally. I'll do what you say, I just want to be sure the right command is urpm*e*. Sorry, I'm a newbie and never came across to it. Then you can run urpmi kdebase-kdm and make the change to kdmrc from a console prompt. When you exited vi, did you do so with a wq to write and quit? Well, not in one go. I first typed w to write, and then q to exit. I feel more comfy this way. One can always open vi to see if the changes were made. I always do it. Thanks for taking the time. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 19:23, Teilhard Knight wrote: I'll do what you say, I just want to be sure the right command is urpm*e*. Sorry, I'm a newbie and never came across to it. urpme uninstalls (think of erase) urpmi installs Go to the TWiki (the link in my sig takes you there) and read the page UsingUrpmi for lots of useful info. Thanks so much, Anne. I already bookmarked the Wiki site. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cannot enter KDE
Hello: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Official (Download), and everything went all right except that on boot, I cannot enter into KDE. The boot process reaches only the point of the blue screen with the Mandrake logo in the lower part, and that's it. It doesn't go further from there to enter KDE. I would appreciate if you could help me to solve this. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PCI wireless card
- Original Message - From: Kevin Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] PCI wireless card Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I just erased Mandrake 9.2 because I could never configure access to Internet, and installed 10.0 official trying to take advantage of its wireless support. The machine has a SMC2402W wireless PCI card which works fine under Windows. To my disappointment, mandrake 10 does not recognize my card. When I try to configure it, I am left with the manual choice. Fine, I can try to make it work. According to my research, the right driver is the Prism54, but when I try to select it from the list in the Mandrake Control Centre, I am asked if I want to specify additional parameters. I do not have the slightest idea of what the parameters mean or what to enter, so, I say: no. then I am taken to the beginning to choose a driver. The end result is that I cannot install the driver, and cannot go further than that. Your help will be appreciated. Cordially, Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hi Mate If your card is a prism one, try this link if you already not done so;) http://prism54.org/ I use dwl520+ which uses the T1 chipset so I'm forced to use acx100 but it works I guess. There is the ndis wrapper I think on source forge, but I 'm sure someone will correct on this?? Regards Kevin Thank you. I already knew about the site. The thing is that the Prism54 driver comes with Mandrake 10.0 Official. It is just a matter of installing it for the card, but the Mandrake Control Centre does not, in my view, works as it should. I have had some other references in Internet where the situation for the owners of a copy of my card have exactly the same problems I have. I have other machines, and in them everything was straightforward. Of course, they use other devices. The option to install the receiver existed along with the manual Choice, and just selecting it I was in Internet right away. No luck this time, I suppose. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Ping Derek Jennings
Derek, I am sure you can help me configure my wireless card under 10.0 Official. I haven't had much luck with feedback from the list, but here it goes my original post: Hello: I just erased Mandrake 9.2 because I could never configure access to Internet, and installed 10.0 official trying to take advantage of its wireless support. The machine has a SMC2402W wireless PCI card which works fine under Windows. To my disappointment, mandrake 10 does not recognize my card. When I try to configure it, I am left with the manual choice. Fine, I can try to make it work. According to my research, the right driver is the Prism54, but when I try to select it from the list in the Mandrake Control Centre, I am asked if I want to specify additional parameters. I do not have the slightest idea of what the parameters mean or what to enter, so, I say: no. then I am taken to the beginning to choose a driver. The end result is that I cannot install the driver, and cannot go further than that. Your help will be appreciated. Cordially, Teilhard. I would like to give you the output of lspci: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcovar]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 22) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AG P] 00:03.0 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 08) 00:04.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface 00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10) 00:07.0 SCSI storage controller: Advanced System Products, Inc ABP940-U / ABP960 -U (rev 03) 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (re v 02) 00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller 00:14.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 13 ) 00:14.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/ C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:14.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 02) 00:14.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 02) 00:14.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 02) [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcovar]# I do not know why my card is listed as Texas Intstruments (chip?), but it suggests that the correct driver is the ACX100, which, by the way, doesn't work either.. Feedback from anybody in the list will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PCI wireless card
Hello: I just erased Mandrake 9.2 because I could never configure access to Internet, and installed 10.0 official trying to take advantage of its wireless support. The machine has a SMC2402W wireless PCI card which works fine under Windows. To my disappointment, mandrake 10 does not recognize my card. When I try to configure it, I am left with the manual choice. Fine, I can try to make it work. According to my research, the right driver is the Prism54, but when I try to select it from the list in the Mandrake Control Centre, I am asked if I want to specify additional parameters. I do not have the slightest idea of what the parameters mean or what to enter, so, I say: no. then I am taken to the beginning to choose a driver. The end result is that I cannot install the driver, and cannot go further than that. Your help will be appreciated. Cordially, Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Additional drivers floppy
Teilhard Knight wrote: I am trying to install Mandrake 10.0 Official in a Toshiba laptop and the installation program asks me to insert the Additional Drivers Floppy. Where do I get it?, or what does it mean? Teilhard At a guess, I would say it is asking if you have a floppy containing additional drivers needed for your specific hardware. I believe you can click cancel or skip at that screen, and continue with the install. Mikkel Thank you, I was guessing the same. Funny it doesn't seem to happen to everybody, Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless PCMCIA Card
Glenn wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2004 22:41, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I will probably get flamed for saying this, but the Microsoft MN-520 works with Mandrake 9.2, and I would think 10.0 I think it also works with XP. ;) On the other hand, it doesn't exactly work 'out of the box' in Linux. You have to add 3 lines to the pcmcia config file so that the proper driver is loaded for the card. If they have any left, Office Max was closing them out for less then $20. Mikkel Mikkel; I just ordered one of these from JR Music (no luck at Office Max). Can you provide a pointer to the proper install/configuration to make this card behave well (the 3 lines you mentioned, specifically g). TIA; Glenn In /etc/pcmcia/config, in the Wireless network adapters section, add: card Microsoft Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520 1.0.3 version Microsoft, Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520, , 1.0.3 bind orinoco_cs Do you know which would be the lines for a 2WIRE 802.11 g PC Card Wireless Adapter? Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Additional drivers floppy
I am trying to install Mandrake 10.0 Official in a Toshiba laptop and the installation program asks me to insert the Additional Drivers Floppy. Where do I get it?, or what does it mean? Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Additional drivers floppy
I am trying to install Mandrake 10.0 Official in a Toshiba laptop and the installation program asks me to insert the Additional Drivers Floppy. Where do I get it?, or what does it mean? Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sorry ...
... for the duplicate message (winblows). Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Test and thanks
This is a good opportunity to tell you I can print. Thanks to Cezary who poitm me to the right port. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Scanner
Is there any work around to be able to use an scanner which doesn't support Mandrake 10.0 Official? My scanner is an HP 2300c. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Puzzled
Until now I have been using Windows (OE) to send messages to the list. I could never got one through (had to do it in the web); the server refused to rely. But when I came to Mandrake to post, all my messages get through. What on earth happens? Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Test2
This test is intended to see whether I can post from Windows. I apologize for so many posts today. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Quick question
Is the so called parallel port LPT1 in the Windows world the parallel port 0 or 1 in Linux? Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] LILO
Can you think any reason why Mandrake 10.0 Community, and also the Official, report that there is a sector of 80 Gb, and another sector of 891 !! Gb overlapping? When I installed the Official for a second time, I got a worse thing saying that the partition table was too messy for Mandrake. I trusted the offer to fix the problem and I went to the dogs with 4 OSs installed in my 120 Gb disk. It even disappeared from the BIOS. I do not want to tire you with what I did to fix this. I have checked now possible problems in the partition table with different tools, and there are none. I am now trying to install and at the end LILO fails to install everywhere, so I cannot boot. What on earth is going on? Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LILO
Teilhard Knight wrote: Can you think any reason why Mandrake 10.0 Community, and also the Official, report that there is a sector of 80 Gb, and another sector of 891 !! Gb overlapping? When I installed the Official for a second time, I got a worse thing saying that the partition table was too messy for Mandrake. I trusted the offer to fix the problem and I went to the dogs with 4 OSs installed in my 120 Gb disk. It even disappeared from the BIOS. I do not want to tire you with what I did to fix this. I have checked now possible problems in the partition table with different tools, and there are none. I am now trying to install and at the end LILO fails to install everywhere, so I cannot boot. What on earth is going on? Teilhard Did you have to install anything like disk manager in order to use the entire drive? These programs normally load a BIOS extension in the master boot record. Depending on where you tell LILO to install itself, it can overwrite this, and make a mess of things. No, I don't have any disk managers installed. Actually, the disk is 160 Gb and not 120Gb (in another machine), but I have a modern motherboard (ASUS A7V333) which does recognize the full length of the drive. But as I pointed out in my post, I have been double checking in many ways the partition table and it is free of problems. You can also run into problems if the drive was original set up in one mode, and you changed it to another one. Switching between LBA, Large, and Normal can do some interesting things. Normally the system just doesn't boot, but some OSs remember what the disk was set up for when they were installed, and ignore the change... There are probably other causes, but this is all that comes to mind right now... Mikkel Well, the problem is not precisely that the system doesn't boot after installing. The problem is that LILO doesn't get installed at the end. What the heck, I have seen weirder things. Thanks for your feedback. Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | Teilhard Knight wrote: | snip | | | | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate | command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be | honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and | its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only | improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the | more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary, | for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold | in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the | advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving. | | Cordially, | | Teilhard | | - Once you get it setup (and quite often--depending on hardware--it is setup right on install) anyone can use it, and use it well. My wife's computer was converted to Linux a couple of years ago and she has no trouble with it whatsover, across a couple of upgrades from 8.2 to 9.1, which she is using now. As she told a friend a few months ago, Linux is easy to use--it must be if I can do it. As for myself, I was a network administrator back in the NT 4 days--what Linux has now is far simpler than NT was then. I can't say about W2K or XP administration, but I think just keeping up with the updates for security vulnerabilities appears to be far more trouble than I want to go to. Contrary to appearances, the famous Windows ease-of-use is really a facade because the administration of the system is a nightmare. I learned back in my day that I couldn't just install a security fix because there was a chance, a very good chance, that the fix would break some essential application. From what I see on the newsgroups, it doesn't appear that this Windows feature has changed much over the years. I have always had problems with networks in windows. I am far from being a network administrator, but I have had some such at home from my ISPs who rarely fix something for me in that area. I am using Mandrake 10,0 in one of my machines, but in others I have installed previous versions. The first time I installed the distro, I got delighted everything was working. With 10.0 I have no sound and I haven't been able to make it work. It is here where I find Windows more friendly to what one can do to fix the problem. But, as you say, past the configuration, Linux is a very friendly OS. Maybe I feel a bit lost because I am a newbie. For example, it is essential to me the support of this list and I do not belong to any Microsoft mailing lists. All in all much have been said about Linux Vs Windows, and I have read all sort of things, including people who try Linux and reject it like the pest going back to their Windows. Cordially. Teilhard. - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:26:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done, I downloaded and installed drakxtools-newt. My problem now is: where are the tools the package gives? I know there are thousands of Well, in this case, it should have deposited 'draksound' and some other files on your system. su to root, type 'draksound ' in a console, and you should then be able to set your card up. Thanks. I haven't been able to change driver. For some reason that perhaps will be obvious to you, alsa has to get shut down and the program fails to do it. I get this when trying to change driver: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcovar]# Doing alsactl to store mixer settings... [ OK ] Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.2c): no. (sound is being used by pid 3647 )) [FAILED] ERROR: Module snd-emu10k1 is in use by snd-emu10k1-synth Loading mixer settings [ OK ] Your feedback will be appreciated. Cordially Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
Teilhard Knight wrote: snip Thanks a lot. I think I know now how the Linux world works. It is such a surprise for me to realise I have to know by memory about hundreds of programs in order to make them work. For someone from the Windows world it is kind of disappointing. But perhaps there are ways I do not know about to check which installed programs there are, huh? Cordially, Teilhard For most of the GUI tools, you can pick them from the menus. (Not all programs are in the menu's yet, but it is getting better.) For command line tools, it is sort of like dropping to the DOS prompt, except that you have tools to help you that you don't have in DOS. Things like typing part of a command, directory name, or file name, hitting Tab, and haveing the system complete it, or offer you options on completing it. You can also scroll through the command you have entered using the up and down arrows. You can edit the commands you bring up this way, and run them again. (A great help when you type like I do!) With most commands, you can get help by putting --help or -h after the command. You can also type man command name to get help with the commands. There is indeed a lot to learn if you want to take full advantage of the power of Linux, but you usualy don't need the command line tools to get things done. (I like them, and sometimes have to check on what the GUI tool is...) Mikkel Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary, for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving. Cordially, Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:33:38 -0400 Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...} | But perhaps there are |ways I do not know about to check which|installed programs there |are, huh?| |Cordially, | |Teilhard [...] Hi Teilhard, I started using linux over 9 months ago and someone suggested this.. Greg Meyer maybe ? IIRC any way .. you can go to Mandrake Control Center [mcc] -- then to Software management -- Remove and .. with no intention of removing any packages 8) .. just click on any of the installed programs for their information .. make suremaximum information is checked, so you can take a look at the list offiles that are installed from a package. :: or the longer way :: in a terminal you can type: $ rpm -qa | sort ~/rpmlist-`date +%d%m%y_%I%M`.txt will create a file like this with the current date at the current time: rpmlist-100604_0904.txt which is a sorted list of all rpm packages installed that you can read in any text editor 8) and save for later. and for any package name you can get the information of by typing: $ rpm -qi packagename or for the list of files a package will install: $ rpm -ql packagename also .. $ man rpm in a terminal or in konqueror type man:rpm for more info check out www.urpmi.org for info on urpmi HTH RickS What you tell me is great. I started thinking in Linux as a black box. I hope in 9 months from now, I'll be able to get familiar with the OS like you. I do not have much time to spend learning it, so, I wouldn't be so sure. Thanks so much for your feedback. Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Sunday 06 June 2004 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thanks a lot. Actually I played a bit with that. However, I got a Home Theatre, and one of the lights of the amplifier blinks whenever the sound card is not active. In that way I know that it is not just a matter of not enough volume and such. Thanks for the feedback. Is your amplifier connected to the soundcard with a digital S/PDIF cable (optical or coaxial)? HTH, -Frans I do not really know, but I would say it's coaxial, otherwise I would have Cambridge (the make of the Home Theatre) boasting of optical connections in the manual, etc. Teilhard. You said earlier: My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. Here is a link: http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?prodid=572 . It says: - Take advantage of the digital connection to Cambridge SoundWorks DeskTop Theater 5.1 DTT3500 Digital speakers and the analog connection to Dolby Digital-ready home theater systems - You should be able to see whether your cards digital or analog output is used by consulting the cards manual and checking to which connector the cable to the amplifier is connected. I think you use the digital output and the blinking light on the amplifier means it's not getting a (recognised) signal. In alsamixer digital input and output is labeled IEC958. HTH, -Frans Thanks. I know I am using digital output, so, maybe I just need to set IEC958 in alsamixer in order to make the system work. However, I have searched everywhere for alsamixer, and I do not find it. Just today I installed drakxtools-newt, and I do not see how to unearth the applications it gives. If you would be so kind enough so as to reply, please tell me how can I have access to the different programs and applications in KDE besides the ones in the main menu. Cordially, Teilhard. Teilhard - This mail sent through CWMail: http://www.crosswinds.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Internet on 10.0
On Monday 03 May 2004 05:55, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: Derek Jennings, in this list, led me through the process of enabling Internet for Mandrake 9.2 and a wireless adapter. I now have another computer which I want to run with Mandrake 10.0, but the configuration which worked in 9.2 doesn't work for this version. What Derek taught me: Mandrake (9,2) loads 2 drivers for the wireless adapter (SMC 2662W VS..3) I have plugged in that computer: atmelwlandriver, and at76c503c. The problem was to exclude the first and use the second. He had more than one ways to do it. First, write the lines: usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 in /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Then, make a configuration file for wlan0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts called /fcfg-wlan0, which is this one: DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.36 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.0 ONBOOT=yes BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=94:41:94:54:75 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 Either I made a mistake, or I have to do things in a different way for 10.0. Derek, if you find you can have a little time for considering this, I will appreciate it. Teilhard. Teilhard Using an Atmel USB wireless device in 10.0 is easier than in 9.2 The USB version of atmelwlandriver is no longer present in 10.0, so you will not have it conflicting with the at76c503a driver. Also the drakconnect GUI now works with Atmel USB devices, so you no longer have to set up the files by hand. Take a look at my latest guide on my home page, and if you still have problems come back. Thanks a lot, Derek. My situation is like this. I have one computer connected directly to the wireless modem through an ethernet cable. Another one in the little network is configured to receive with the USB adapter which you helped me to configure. By several reasons, I changed to Mandrake 10.0, and could configure my USB reception with DeakConnect, as you told me to do. The third computer's OS is 9.2, and is wireless conected to the modem by a PCI adapter. I tried to do the same you told me to do with the USB adapter, but it didn't work. I suspect I need a different driver from at76c503c. Is it true? I, presently will visit your web page(s), maybe the answer is there, huh? Thanks for all the help you have granted me. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Internet on 10.0
Hello: Derek Jennings, in this list, led me through the process of enabling Internet for Mandrake 9.2 and a wireless adapter. I now have another computer which I want to run with Mandrake 10.0, but the configuration which worked in 9.2 doesn't work for this version. What Derek taught me: Mandrake (9,2) loads 2 drivers for the wireless adapter (SMC 2662W VS..3) I have plugged in that computer: atmelwlandriver, and at76c503c. The problem was to exclude the first and use the second. He had more than one ways to do it. First, write the lines: usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 in /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Then, make a configuration file for wlan0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts called /fcfg-wlan0, which is this one: DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.36 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.0 ONBOOT=yes BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=94:41:94:54:75 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 Either I made a mistake, or I have to do things in a different way for 10.0. Derek, if you find you can have a little time for considering this, I will appreciate it. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Erased mounting points of my IDe devices
On Sunday 15 February 2004 15:33, Teilhard Knight wrote: I had to move my IDe devices (2 HDs, 2 burners and a DVD-ROM), and consequently Mandrake detected that and asked me to do a simple actualization of the configuration. But because I have very short time to fiddle with my computers (5), I keep being a newbie in spite of my wishes, and I screwed up. The thing is, at certain point I was asked for mounting points of the devices, and I made the mistake to strike erase them all. Is there an easy way to create them again and have a link at the dektop? I was thinkong in re-installing (over the old installation), but I invested some pain to configure my wireless internet access with the guidance of Derek, and I am fearful to screw it. What do you advise me to do? Teilhard. Have you tried Mandrake Control Center Mount Points ? It should detect the partitions on the hdds, but you will have to try to remember which partition held what. There are also wizards for getting the cdroms and dvd drive back, in the same section. Anne Thanks so much, Anne. I think I am going to get me some icons for my drives in the KDE root desktop. As for now, I am relieved they are there on the user's desktop. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Change privacy for softhome if you want to intrude my inbox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Erased mounting points of my IDe devices
On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 3:33 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I had to move my IDe devices (2 HDs, 2 burners and a DVD-ROM), and consequently Mandrake detected that and asked me to do a simple actualization of the configuration. But because I have very short time to fiddle with my computers (5), I keep being a newbie in spite of my wishes, and I screwed up. The thing is, at certain point I was asked for mounting points of the devices, and I made the mistake to strike erase them all. Is there an easy way to create them again and have a link at the dektop? I was thinkong in re-installing (over the old installation), but I invested some pain to configure my wireless internet access with the guidance of Derek, and I am fearful to screw it. What do you advise me to do? Teilhard. Just create a directory where you want to mount your drives. You can do that with with konqueror (open a root terminal and type 'konqueror ' to get a root version of konqueror. Right click and create new directory. Or I think the CD Mpunt GUI in Mandrake Control Centre will do it for you. To get a desktop Icon KDE Control CentreLookNFeelBehaviour Select what devices you want displayed on desktop Or alternatively Right click on desktopCreate NewLink to URL give the mount point as the URL The mounting directories where there in mnt from before, so I just had to mount the drives and all was solved. Also, I got my icons on the desktop all right. Thanks so much for taking the time. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Change privacy for softhome if you want to intrude my inbox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Erased mounting points of my IDe devices
On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 11:33 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2004 15:33, Teilhard Knight wrote: I had to move my IDe devices (2 HDs, 2 burners and a DVD-ROM), and consequently Mandrake detected that and asked me to do a simple actualization of the configuration. But because I have very short time to fiddle with my computers (5), I keep being a newbie in spite of my wishes, and I screwed up. The thing is, at certain point I was asked for mounting points of the devices, and I made the mistake to strike erase them all. Is there an easy way to create them again and have a link at the dektop? I was thinkong in re-installing (over the old installation), but I invested some pain to configure my wireless internet access with the guidance of Derek, and I am fearful to screw it. What do you advise me to do? Teilhard. Have you tried Mandrake Control Center Mount Points ? It should detect the partitions on the hdds, but you will have to try to remember which partition held what. There are also wizards for getting the cdroms and dvd drive back, in the same section. Anne Thanks so much, Anne. I think I am going to get me some icons for my drives in the KDE root desktop. As for now, I am relieved they are there on the user's desktop. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial The reason your root desktop has no links is to discourage you from using it. That's precisely what I was thinking just after replying to Ann. I tend to think of myself as an infallible bloke, but in fact I make a lot of mistakes. And I am bound to do a lot, because I simply remain being a newbie. As I am sure you aware logging in as root is a bad thing Not only does it compromise your computers security, but it means a slip of the mouse could cause serious damage to your system. Any time you want to do something as root you can do it from within a user desktop. Just open a terminal and enter 'su' to become root user. Any application started within that root terminal will also run as root. So for example type 'konqueror ' in a root terminal to get a root instance of konqueror. I used to think that every time I sent the command su, I became root locally. That is to say, just to install a package and such. But I now see I do not have to change to a root desktop. Thank you. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Change privacy for softhome if you want to intrude my inbox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and Video Update
Thanks a lot Brian. I will have to look in a hardware USENET group to hopefully get help about the DVD contrivances. Teilhard. On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 07:44, Teilhard Knight wrote: First, I would like to thank all those who answered my post Sound and Video On the video side, I have downloaded the NVIDIA package, but I have not installed it because I do not know how to switch off KDE. Could you tell me how? And also how to start it again? In a console window, type: init 3 X will shut down and you can log in as root, do your nvidia install, then type: startx to get X started again. On the sound side, I seem to have a hardware problem. For those who didn't read my first post, I have a DVD drive, a CD-RW, and a DVD+RW. Both WinXP and Mandrake (9.2) have problems even displaying the contents of the DVD drive and the DVD+RW. The CD-RW works fine. This happened after installing Mandrake, but I do not know how this can give problems in WinXP. The two OS's live in their own partitions, and as far as I know, they do not fiddle with each other. I feel this is not a Mandrake issue, but in case you can offer me a hand, I'll be grateful. It's tough to see how mdk could be responsible as you say. No clue here. Sorry Teilhard 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] Sound and Video Update
First, I would like to thank all those who answered my post Sound and Video On the video side, I have downloaded the NVIDIA package, but I have not installed it because I do not know how to switch off KDE. Could you tell me how? And also how to start it again? On the sound side, I seem to have a hardware problem. For those who didn't read my first post, I have a DVD drive, a CD-RW, and a DVD+RW. Both WinXP and Mandrake (9.2) have problems even displaying the contents of the DVD drive and the DVD+RW. The CD-RW works fine. This happened after installing Mandrake, but I do not know how this can give problems in WinXP. The two OS's live in their own partitions, and as far as I know, they do not fiddle with each other. I feel this is not a Mandrake issue, but in case you can offer me a hand, I'll be grateful. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 08 December 2003 10:12 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: whack, snip and edit Open Source Sound (OSS), or Alsa. Which? How do I tell? Here goes another of those damned Charlie books. Sorry for length in other words. Your posting of the output for the command that I requested tells me what driver you're using. ie.: snd-emu10k1 which says you have installed and are using the proper alsa modules for your card. As am I, but mine is working and yours isn't so let's see what we can see. Is artsd controlling properly, and is it set to Auto suspend after X number of seconds of inactivity. Mine is set for 1 second and the sound works fine. I'm afraid I do not know what is artsd. Artsd is the KDE sound server. Now you know why I asked that question. Open the Configure your desktop (kde control centre) dialogue and find the Sound heading, then the Sound System sub-heading. There are three tabs. If you like I'll send you a screen shot off list to show the settings on mine since we have the same basic card. Let me know. The sound is controlled by a PCI Creative Sound Blaster Live! + 5.1. Onboard sound is disabled (by a jumper). The home theater is a Cambridge SoundWorks DTT3500 Digital Five Satellite/Subwoofer. Funny thing is that one of the leads (for digital output) blinks if there is no signal to the amplifier, but with Mandrake, it remains solid. That leads me to think that no complicated configuration is needed, and that perhaps it is only adjusting the volume or something like that. Nothing unusual there. I see in another reply you have found that you needed to install aumix. Have you? Did you then launch it (in a terminal just type aumix and strike the enter key) and adjust the settings, then click the File button, click the Save button then close it? If not try it. Keep that terminal open, preferably as super user and open the Mandrake Control centre. Find the System heading in the left column, then the DrakXservices sub-heading in the right panel and see whether alsa is running and whether it's set to start at boot. It should be the first item in the alphabetical list. Next scroll down and find sound and look for the same conditions. After being certain that both conditions are true (alsa running and set to start at boot, sound the same settings) click the OK button. Report the output of any error messages back to the list. If you still have no sound; still in the Mandrake Control Centre, click Hardware in the left column and HardDrake in the right panel. Find your sound card and click it. You should see, in the farthest right panel something similar to this: Vendor: Creative Labs Alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1 Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1102:2:1102:8027 Location on the bus: 0:b:0 Description: SB Live! (audio) Module: snd-emu10k1 Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Below that there are 2 buttons, one says configure module (leave that one for now) and the bottom one says Run config tool. Click that one. Now you'll have another dialogue that has an information pane and three pull down buttons, one of which shows the driver currently being used, another says Trouble shooting, the last says Let me pick any driver. My card is configured and working with the default driver snd-emu10k1. So is your apparently. Click the trouble shooting button and follow the instructions. Post the output of this shell command from a terminal as super user: lspcidrake -v snip snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8061) Same as mine, so I'm still thinking you have a volume level set to zero somewhere. Or muted somehow. Or the cable is connected to the wrong socket. Or the volume setting on the speakers is set to off. I did that when I first got my Altec Lansings. Two volume controls, one on the sub, one on the left speaker. The sub was zeroed. Oops! g Check all the obvious (blatantly obvious?) things first and then we'll play software roulette. (-; I'm still CC:'ing you to be certain you get this. Thanks so much for this. I got this post of yours only as a message for me, not as a post in the list. If you had replied only to the list, I wouldn't have got it. Also, thanks so much for taking the time to see into my problem. Teilhard. Don't thank me unless I actually help you get sound working. g You're very welcome. Charlie Well, Charlie, you made it this time. I have sound now. I saw I had KMix, and I didn't want to download aumix because I would have two devices doing essentially the same (and perhaps competing). I found out that KMix had the master volume all the way down. After correcting that, I could have sound. In any case, I did all you told me to do, but I was afraid of making changes. Now, I have another problem. I have a DVD reader, a CD burner, and a DVD burner, none of which will play music. As a matter of fact, I cannot even see the contents of a music CD (I only
[newbie] CD drives problem
My computer has a DVD reader, a CD burner, and a DVD burner. Three drives. My problem is that Mandrake seems to have problems reading the contents of a CD (DVD) in any of the drives. Usually Konqueror feezes the computer for something like 3 min, and after that it says it cannot access the drive. I didn't have this problem with 9.1. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 6:14 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Sorry to reply so late. My server or the list are not behaving in a decent way for me. I appreciate your feedback. Only problem is that it seems there are no drivers for my Athlon. I seem to need an equivalent to IA32, but there is not one. What can I do? To remain with the niv (is that the provided by Mandrake?) driver? Teilhard I'm sending this to the list and CC:'ing it to you since you say you're having problems. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496 I know it says IA32. It is. But so is an Athlon, a Duron, any Pentium and any Celeron. It's the architecture, not the manufacturer. Think Intel compatible. Don't sweat that, just follow the instructions on the page. Good luck. Charlie Oh, I never thought of an Athlon as Intel compatible. Thanks so much, the video problem is, then, solved. I haven't installed the package, but I'm not contemplating any problems. I installed it long ago in another machine (with Mandrake 9.1) with P4, and everything worked just fine. I have got your post about sound (this time I only got it once, as compared to this one which I got twice). Thank you for posting and emailing your posts. I will now reply. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 6:23 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: snip Sound server? I do not follow. Do I need a sound server to get sound? Open Source Sound (OSS), or Alsa. Which? How do I tell? Is artsd controlling properly, and is it set to Auto suspend after X number of seconds of inactivity. Mine is set for 1 second and the sound works fine. I'm afraid I do not know what is artsd. Most importantly, and you've probably posted this in the past, what sound chip are you using? On-board, a PCI card, is the out to the home theatre's amp plugged into the correct socket? Some information about what you're using would be beneficial in trying to help The sound is controlled by a PCI Creative Sound Blaster Live! + 5.1. Onboard sound is disabled (by a jumper). The home theater is a Cambridge SoundWorks DTT3500 Digital Five Satellite/Subwoofer. Funny thing is that one of the leads (for digital output) blinks if there is no signal to the amplifier, but with Mandrake, it remains solid. That leads me to think that no complicated configuration is needed, and that perhaps it is only adjusting the volume or something like that. with this one. Post the output of this shell command from a terminal as super user: lspcidrake -v Here it goes. The complete enchilada, so you can know how my system is configured: unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:1106 device:0305) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:1106 device:8305) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super] [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:1106 device:0686 subv:1106 subd:) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] [STORAGE_IDE] (vendor:1106 device:0571) usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:1106 device:3038 subv:0925 subd:1234) usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:1106 device:3038 subv:0925 subd:1234) unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] [BRIDGE_OTHER] (vendor:1106 device:3057) unknown : Promise Technology, Inc.|20269 [STORAGE_OTHER] (vendor:105a device:4d69 subv:105a subd:4d68) snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8061) emu10k1-gp : Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick) [INPUT_OTHER] (vendor:1102 device:7002 subv:1102 subd:0020) natsemi : National Semi|DP83810 10/100 Ethernet [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:100b device:0020 subv:1385 subd:f311) unknown : ESS Technology|ES2898 Modem [COMMUNICATION_OTHER] (vendor:125d device:2898 subv:148d subd:1030) advansys : Advanced System Products|ABP940-U / ABP960-U [STORAGE_SCSI] (vendor:10cd device:1300 subv:10cd subd:1310) Card:NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic): nVidia Corporation|GeForce3 [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:10de device:0200 subv:107d subd:2860) unknown : Unknown|USB UHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub] (vendor: device:) unknown : Unknown|USB UHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub] (vendor: device:) unknown : Hewlett-Packard|DeskJet 845C [Printer|Printer|Bidirectional] (vendor:03f0 device:0904) unknown : unknown (0d5c/a002//) [] Yes, it is a home theatre with an amplifier. No, it is not a computer with speakers attached. It is a full home theatre. Technically it is a computer with speakers attached, it's just not traditional computer speakers. (-: That's OK, I'm certain a lot of us have helped with much stranger beasts in the past. I see, thanks. If you have already posted the specs on your system I apologize for asking you to do so again. I must have missed it. Regardless, please do so now. I'm sure somebody around here can help troubleshoot this. No problem. It's just copy and paste. I'm still CC:'ing you to be certain you get this. Thanks so much for this. I got this post of yours only as a message for me, not as a post in the list. If you had replied only to the list, I wouldn't have got it. Also, thanks so much for taking the time to see into my problem. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UPS's was Re: Complete failure
On Monday 08 December 2003 06:03 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Lanman wrote: On 12/7/2003 at 3:22 PM John Richard Smith wrote: Lanman wrote: John; The basic purpose of a UPS is to filter or condition the electrical power which your computer receives. Typically, your computer runs off of the battery inside the UPS, and a charger keeps the battery charged from the wall outlet. lanman gave you partially incorrect informtion ie that it is continuous! John be warned that this is an ideal and preferred setup. Some UPS's actually let the equipment plugged into it run run off the main supplied power that is is also using to charge the batteries, filtered of course to prevent spikes but still basically straight through. When a power outage occurs the UPS detects this and switches the computer supply from the now dead mains supply to the backup mains supplied via the battery and an inverter to transform the voltage of the battery (12volts DC) to 230v AC. Sometimes the time taken for the UPS to switch results in your computer losing power/rebooting. Nothing that a kettle would notice but a PC's nightmare. True, where I live, power spikes, outages, surges, and cuts, are very common. Just a few minutes ago, we had something which appeared to be a power spike, but contrary with my experience with UPS's, the protected computer rebooted. I think I'll have to invest in a better one. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
Rick is rigth you can use aumix to adjust the volumen level. No mather if you use a simple speaker set or if you use a home treater audio sistem.. they will recive the same output from the pc. so install aumix then execute them and ajust the sound volumen levels and you are done. Thank you for telling me I have to install aumix. I was looking for it, but I never found it. What I found was kmix. Seems to be very complete, but it didn't make a difference adjusting the levels. I'll look now for aumix. Thanks a lot. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 11:47 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hold on. I just realised something. You are using Class B addressing in this network. In that case the broadcast address I gave you is wrong. It should be BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 Good news, Derek. I could get into Internet already. I sometimes find that I cannot get rid of what I am used in Windows. Just after making the changes you indicated, iwconfig reported crazy things. I opted to reboot, and viola, I was even navigating. At first I was disappointed because iwconfig reported link quality=0, but you were not definitive about the wireless key to be the wrong one. You say something like usually means, so, I decided to try it like that, and it worked. Many thanks, of course. I wish I could take you for a beer. I would never had done it myself. Cordially, Teilhard. Yowsa Well done. Yeah that link quality =0 means you either have a really good signal quality, or none at all. I find it more comforting when I see it as anything other than zero. You are welcome to buy me a pint ,but you are probably quite a long way away. How about you donate a similar value to PJ at www.groklaw.net ? PJ is leading the OpenSource fight against the money grabbing bastards at SCO who are trying to steal Linux. groklaw has become compulsive reading for me. It is open collaboration at its best. Good idea. I just have the problem of finding where to make a donation to PJ. I do not even find PJ mentioned in the web page. It seems it is all news and articles. I tried to become a member, but I do not get the password email, and I do not see an option for re-sending it. I'll keep an eye on this site. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 05 December 2003 1:23 pm, RickS wrote: whack *HOLD IT! IA32 or IA64 are Intel architecture 32 and 64 bit AMD64 is well ..you guessed it .. for your AMD Athlon 1.4, so download the AMD64 driver and make sure you look at the readme file 1st. I have an Intel and I rushed thru it to get it working and ended up mangling it. So prepare yourself. You have any more questions post them. Incorrect, wrong, not freakin' likely and _don't do that!_ Good Luck RickS Yeah, he'd need luck with that advice. You're right about IA32 and IA64 being Intel but AMD64 is NOT an Athlon anything. It's an actual 64 bit processor. Also called Opteron, AMD64. FX-51 etc ad infinitum. While the AMD64 processors will run in a legacy mode and you're able to run 32 bit operating systems on them, the reverse is _*NOT*_ true. Don't try to install a 64 bit application or driver on the Athlon, you won't like the result. Regards; Charlie Sorry to reply so late. My server or the list are not behaving in a decent way for me. I appreciate your feedback. Only problem is that it seems there are no drivers for my Athlon. I seem to need an equivalent to IA32, but there is not one. What can I do? To remain with the niv (is that the provided by Mandrake?) driver? Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound and video
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 06 December 2003 12:38 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Actually my questions are dumb questions. First: is there a master volume control in Mandrake 9.2? I can only hear sound when the amplifier of my home theatre is at its maximum. I hope you read my reply to Rick's error below before you downloaded and started attempting to install 64 bit drivers on an Athlon. Yes, I did. Happily I got two replies from you. I am nor receiving many posts from the list. I do not even get my posts. Onward and sidewise; master volume would be aumix, or kmix or alsamixer, or alsamixerGUI or what are you looking for? Which sound server are you using? Sound server? I do not follow. Do I need a sound server to get sound? One of those should work to do what you want, but if you're outing through a home theatre system amplifier you'll have to experiment to find which line adjusts what. Yes, it is a home theatre with an amplifier. If you're talking about the PC speaker system called Home Theatre by marketting weenies any of the mixers should do. No, it is not a computer with speakers attached. It is a full home theatre. In other words it's easier to figure out when you're looking at the system g Second, I want to install the NVIDIA drivers, and there are the IA32, and the AMD64, both supporting my Geoforce3 (Platinum) card. My processor is an Athlon 1.4 Ghz. I reckon the 32 and 64 refer to a 32 bit OS and a 64 bit OS respectively, but I am in doubt about the AMD bit which might refer to the processor. Thanks for allowing me to dumb-ask. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound and video
Actually my questions are dumb questions. First: is there a master volume control in Mandrake 9.2? I can only hear sound when the amplifier of my home theatre is at its maximum. Second, I want to install the NVIDIA drivers, and there are the IA32, and the AMD64, both supporting my Geoforce3 (Platinum) card. My processor is an Athlon 1.4 Ghz. I reckon the 32 and 64 refer to a 32 bit OS and a 64 bit OS respectively, but I am in doubt about the AMD bit which might refer to the processor. Thanks for allowing me to dumb-ask. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ping Derek
I have been having problems with receiving from the list, and with searching for another addy. If you posted a reply of my last post, I would appreciate if you could post it again. It seems I am receiving now. If you would click in reply all I would have a copy as a personal email, which would be cool. Cordially, Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re:
Hold on. I just realised something. You are using Class B addressing in this network. In that case the broadcast address I gave you is wrong. It should be BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 Good news, Derek. I could get into Internet already. I sometimes find that I cannot get rid of what I am used in Windows. Just after making the changes you indicated, iwconfig reported crazy things. I opted to reboot, and viola, I was even navigating. At first I was disappointed because iwconfig reported link quality=0, but you were not definitive about the wireless key to be the wrong one. You say something like usually means, so, I decided to try it like that, and it worked. Many thanks, of course. I wish I could take you for a beer. I would never had done it myself. Cordially, Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I'm not receiving
I am not receiving messages from the list since yesterday at about 5:30 PM. My addy is working all right. Can someone tell me why I cold be having this problem? Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dumb question
How do you start/stop a network connection (Internet mainly) from a command line? Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 SNIP When you type iwconfig and see eth0 appear that tells me that the atmelwlandriver has been loaded. (It uses eth0 by default) If the at76c503c driver was loaded the device would be called wlan0 Follow the advice in my workaround and it will work. All you have to do is move the folder /lib/modules/2.4.22-xxmdk/kernel/3rdparty/atmelwlan (where xx is the version of kernel you are using) to somewhere outside the /lib folder and the atmelwlandriver will no longer load. derek Actually I just realised there is an even easier way of forcing hotplug to install the at76c503c driver instead of the atmelwlandriver. All you have to do is put the names of the atmelwlandriver in /etc/hotplug/blacklist Just inserting usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 should do the trick. You still have to define the configuration file by hand (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ) since draknet will not recognise the interface Thanks a lot, Derek. It seems everything is set now. I still do not get into Internet, though. First, as you said, iwconfig gives: wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:2WIRE193 Nickname:castillo.nuthouse.nut Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:0D:72:17:AA:E9 Bit Rate=11Mb/s RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B Encryption key:9442-9454-75 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:100 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I wrote the two lines you mention in blacklist. I guess the problem is in my ifcfg-wlan0 file. I worte it as: %% DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.34 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.1 ONBOOT=yes KEY=94:42:94:54:75 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 %% Note that the line giving the value of BROADCAST is absent, I simply could not figure out what to put there. Only thing to mention is that my wireless modem is a router too. I then wrote everything as if the adaptor saw an static configuration. Although the external IP may vary (dynamic account), the internal IP's are always the same. For NETWORK, I wrote the router address, and also for NETMASK, the router NETMASK, the IPADDR is the internal one. For the WIRELESS_MODE, I would have written: infrastructure, but in your web example you select managed, so, perhaps it is not what I am thinking. Thanks so much for helping me with this. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
SNIP When you type iwconfig and see eth0 appear that tells me that the atmelwlandriver has been loaded. (It uses eth0 by default) If the at76c503c driver was loaded the device would be called wlan0 Follow the advice in my workaround and it will work. All you have to do is move the folder /lib/modules/2.4.22-xxmdk/kernel/3rdparty/atmelwlan (where xx is the version of kernel you are using) to somewhere outside the /lib folder and the atmelwlandriver will no longer load. derek Actually I just realised there is an even easier way of forcing hotplug to install the at76c503c driver instead of the atmelwlandriver. All you have to do is put the names of the atmelwlandriver in /etc/hotplug/blacklist Just inserting usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 should do the trick. You still have to define the configuration file by hand (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ) since draknet will not recognise the interface Thanks a lot, Derek. It seems everything is set now. I still do not get into Internet, though. First, as you said, iwconfig gives: wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:2WIRE193 Nickname:castillo.nuthouse.nut Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:0D:72:17:AA:E9 Bit Rate=11Mb/s RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B Encryption key:9442-9454-75 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:100 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I wrote the two lines you mention in blacklist. I guess the problem is in my ifcfg-wlan0 file. I worte it as: %% DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.34 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.1 ONBOOT=yes KEY=94:42:94:54:75 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 %% Note that the line giving the value of BROADCAST is absent, I simply could not figure out what to put there. Only thing to mention is that my wireless modem is a router too. I then wrote everything as if the adaptor saw an static configuration. Although the external IP may vary (dynamic account), the internal IP's are always the same. For NETWORK, I wrote the router address, and also for NETMASK, the router NETMASK, the IPADDR is the internal one. For the WIRELESS_MODE, I would have written: infrastructure, but in your web example you select managed, so, perhaps it is not what I am thinking. Thanks so much for helping me with this. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2
I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to configure a wireless internet access on a desktop computer by means of an SMS2662W USB adaptor On Mandrake 9.2. Derek advised me to use one of two drivers: at76c593a or atmelwlandriver. I never tried them because I felt I had to fix problems in Windows before trying in Mandrake. I also have the drivers provided by SMC. The problem with this one is that I can simply do not see how the driver is called. The file to download is SMC2662WV2_Linux.tar.gz, and upon de-compression it gives the folder: SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W. No more references to how the driver is called. There are here 2 tools to configure the driver, I have used one and I think the driver is now ready. If I go to configuration to Internet access, I can select from a list of drivers, but the ones Derek suggested do not appear in 9.2. I apologize to you, Derek, because I suddenly disappeared, but I have had very little time to configure my computers. I would appreciate it if you will still help me this time. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 and a SMS 2662W USB NIC
On Saturday 29 November 2003 11:44 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to configure a wireless internet access on a desktop computer by means of an SMS2662W USB adaptor On Mandrake 9.2. If I go to configuration to Internet access, I can select from a list of drivers, but the ones Derek suggested do not appear in 9.2. Around here, Mandrake 9.2 is not a great description of your problem. You might mention that it is about a wireless USB adapter. Of course, sorry about that. Now, onto the problem. Does your usb connection see the wireless NIC? I would recommend running in a root console tail-f /var/log/messages and then see if the system is working well. You should see the USB system detect new hardware, and then identify it, and set it up for use. If not, you need to solve usb problems for it. Only after that, can you move on. I only had success with tail -f /var/log/messages, but the ten lines displays do not show much. I am very inexperienced reading logs, so, I logged out and rebooted again and copied the entire boot log. I give it to you at the end. I do not think the adapter is recognized, but my USB printer is, so, I must expect the USB filesysten is all right. A query on Google gives over 400 hits for SMS 2662W Linux one page tells me it works with a at76c503a module (driver) which is available in Mandrake 9.2. You just need to pick it from the list. I suppose you mean the list which appears when one chooses expert mode in DrakConnect. There must be something wrong in my system, because I do not find it. If you mean another list, please tell me as I do not know about it. Now, is it working? Not yet. log file Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.22-6mdk Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo partmon: Checking if partitions have enough free diskspace: Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Loaded 21034 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.22-6mdk. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.22. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Loaded 482 symbols from 25 modules. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Linux version 2.4.22-6mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)) #1 Sun Sep 7 18:11:19 EDT 2003 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1fff (usable) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 1fff - 1fff3000 (ACPI NVS) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: 1fff3000 - 2000 (ACPI data) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: 511MB LOWMEM available. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 131056 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: zone(1): 126960 pages. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: zone(2): 0 pages. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIA694 ) @ 0x000f76c0 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x1fff3000 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x1fff3040 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x1000 MSFT 0x010c) @ 0x Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: Vendor VIA694 System AWRDACPI Revision 0x0 has a known ACPI BIOS problem. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: Reason: Bogus table. This is a non-recoverable error Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ACPI: BIOS listed in blacklist, disabling ACPI support Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Building zonelist for node : 0 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=2105 devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi hdh=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: ide_setup: hdh=ide-scsi Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: bootsplash: silent mode. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Found and enabled local APIC! Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Initializing CPU#0 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Detected 1396.942 MHz processor. Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Nov 29 18:24:17 castillo kernel: Calibrating delay loop
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 7:44 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I posed this question before and I was greatly helped by Derek. I had problems in Windows XP, and two months have passed before I solved them. I am trying to configure a wireless internet access on a desktop computer by means of an SMS2662W USB adaptor On Mandrake 9.2. Derek advised me to use one of two drivers: at76c593a or atmelwlandriver. I never tried them because I felt I had to fix problems in Windows before trying in Mandrake. I also have the drivers provided by SMC. The problem with this one is that I can simply do not see how the driver is called. The file to download is SMC2662WV2_Linux.tar.gz, and upon de-compression it gives the folder: SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W. No more references to how the driver is called. There are here 2 tools to configure the driver, I have used one and I think the driver is now ready. If I go to configuration to Internet access, I can select from a list of drivers, but the ones Derek suggested do not appear in 9.2. I apologize to you, Derek, because I suddenly disappeared, but I have had very little time to configure my computers. I would appreciate it if you will still help me this time. Teilhard As it happens the at76c593a driver is included with 9.2 and it works beautifully. The only problem is that the atmelwlandriver is also included and will claim your SMS2662W first. The atmelwlandriver is my opinion a right pig to configure especially since the configuration utility is *not* included in 9.2 I have a workaround described here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=19 Thanks so much, Derek. It seems that my adaptor is not recognized by the OS. However, when I write: iwconfig. the right parameters of the wireless networking appear in eth0. I just get info; I do not know how to use it as a configuration utility. Please tell me where I find the drivers you recommend and how to load them. For the driver provided by SMC, I get a configuration utility which I have used already. Seems the driver is properly configured now, but I do not even know its name. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Upgrading to 9.2?
I recently installed version 9.1 both in a desktop computer and in my laptop. Do you think it is all right to just erase and install 9.2 in both machines? I am specially concerned with my wireless access to Internet. Are there any improvement for that? Derek: I am sorry I have had a lot of work, and I haven't been able to sit and do any more for setting my network. I will have some time tomorrow. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 1:57 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:16 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: SNIP Huff, Derek, I don't know what I am doing wrong because I do not succeed in connecting to Internet. My encryption key is a ten digit number, so I wrote in the corresponding fields as: s:xx. Are you **sure** it is an ASCII string that just happens to be numbers. Or could it be a Hex number which just happens not to include any digit larger than 9 ? Try again giving it in the format xx:xx:xx:xx:xx I have tried it already. No connection either. The modem-router assigns the directions IP, so I never unchecked the DHCP box. I also know my ESSID: 2wire806. I suppose here I do not have to be careful with capitals or lower case letters. Keep the capitalisation the same as in Windows OK. I will try in a moment to write an IP address from the pool in the router, and see if I can connect. I think I followed your instructions carefully. Maybe I am doing something silly. Teilhard. Also what do you see if you enter iwconfig and ifconfig in a root terminal? It may be the link is working but your default route is set to use a fixed ethernet. (Post us the result from a 'route' command ) I'll do that in a minute, thanks. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the desk in front of me in a regular room) wireless router. I have the drivers to make the USB device which receives, and although the installer looks for a file that doesn't find, I get the message setup ok when I run the installer. But I do not know how to put the driver to work. If I go to the Mandrake Control Centre and I try to configure a LAN connection, the driver does not show up among the ones I can use, so I do not know what to do, except configuring the relevant PPPoE configuration files by hand. But besides I do not know which they are, I do not even know how my driver is called. Also, if things are like in Windows, I have to feed somehow a ten digits number to the configuration. Can you help? Well if you tell us what the wireless hardware is and which driver you are trying to use we could help. But you haven't So we can't. Oh, sorry about that, I just thought any wireless configuration was the same. The modem-router is a 2Wire which on the back it says Home Portal 1000SW (Provided by ISP) The home portal is connected to one computer through an Ethernet card, and to another (wireless) to a SMC receiver which is the (USB) SMC2662W, and to a laptop with a (wireless) PCMCIA card 2Wire WiFi, apparently the only model there is from 2Wire. Everything works all right in WinXP. If you need any other info, I'll gladly supply it. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 5:06 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the The modem-router is a 2Wire which on the back it says Home Portal 1000SW (Provided by ISP) The home portal is connected to one computer through an Ethernet card, and to another (wireless) to a SMC receiver which is the (USB) SMC2662W, and to a laptop with a (wireless) PCMCIA card 2Wire WiFi, apparently the only model there is from 2Wire. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial So the card you are trying to get working is the 2Wire WiFi PCMCIA card.? The manufacturers web site does not give any details about the chip set used, but the picture looks like an Orinoco card. If it is, then setting it up in Mandrake is easy. First make sure you have the wireless-tools RPM loaded using Mandrake Software Manager. Also make sure the pcmcia-cs RPM is installed (it should have been installed by default) When you insert the card do you hear two 'beeps' from the speaker? Are they the same tone or different tones? When you then open Mandrake Control CentreNetworking does it list the wireless interface in the box with a driver name? When you go through the wizard does it say it has discovered a card? And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you to fill in? If you do not see these things then open a console, enter su to become root and enter cardctl ident and post the results to us. Thanks very much, I am sorry I wasn't clear about what card I want to get working. Actually I intended to get going the SMC external USB adapter in a desktop machine. But what you tell me will help me to configure the 2Wire card in the laptop. Actually in fact I need the wireless network in both the desktop computer (with the SMC adapter), and the laptop (with the 2Wire PCMCIA card). I'll do what you instruct me and I'll get back to you. If you have some advise about the SMC adapter, it will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
The 2Wire cards are, in fact, Orinoco cards, an Mandrake 9.1 should recognize it natively...it did with mine at the very least... Thank you. I'll try to get going the PCMCIA card in the laptop, but if you have some advise for the SMC USB adapter it will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 5:06 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the The modem-router is a 2Wire which on the back it says Home Portal 1000SW (Provided by ISP) The home portal is connected to one computer through an Ethernet card, and to another (wireless) to a SMC receiver which is the (USB) SMC2662W, and to a laptop with a (wireless) PCMCIA card 2Wire WiFi, apparently the only model there is from 2Wire. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial So the card you are trying to get working is the 2Wire WiFi PCMCIA card.? The manufacturers web site does not give any details about the chip set used, but the picture looks like an Orinoco card. If it is, then setting it up in Mandrake is easy. First make sure you have the wireless-tools RPM loaded using Mandrake Software I installed the wireless-tools(some version).mdk Manager. Also make sure the pcmcia-cs RPM is installed (it should have been installed by default) I installed the pcmcia-cs(some version).mdk When you insert the card do you hear two 'beeps' from the speaker? Are they the same tone or different tones? I inserted the card before booting. When you then open Mandrake Control CentreNetworking does it list the wireless interface in the box with a driver name? Yes, etho1, with driver orinoco_cs When you go through the wizard does it say it has discovered a card? Yes And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you to fill in? Yes, I do not know what to write in those parameters. I cannot write anything in the field for the IP address, not in the one for subnet mask. If you do not see these things then open a console, enter su to become root and enter cardctl ident and post the results to us. I didn't have to. If you just tell me what to write in the fields above, I think I am done with the laptop. Thanks. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 7:24 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: The 2Wire cards are, in fact, Orinoco cards, an Mandrake 9.1 should recognize it natively...it did with mine at the very least... Thank you. I'll try to get going the PCMCIA card in the laptop, but if you have some advise for the SMC USB adapter it will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial The SMC2662W uses the atmel chip set. There is a driver for that in Mandrake 9.1 The atmelwlandriver, but I find it quite unreliable and not that easy to set up. There is an alternative driver at76c503a which works a lot better. There are instructions on how to compile it on my web site http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=17 You may need to add the SMC device to the list of supported devices. My page describes how to do that. Also do not forget to install the kernel-source RPM which matches the kernel you are using. The only other thing you need is the gcc compiler RPM. Thank you Derek. I am a bit confused. SMC has a driver for Linux. I already installed it, and although in the installation some kind of file is not found, I get the confirmation: setup ok in the end. What I do not know is what to do with the driver or how to configure it. Do you think that I should use the driver at76c503a? I do not get the adapter detected as in the laptop. Thanks for taking the time to help me. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:16 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: SNIP And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you to fill in? Yes, I do not know what to write in those parameters. I cannot write anything in the field for the IP address, not in the one for subnet mask. Teilhard In the GUI enter the ESSID to be the same as your Windows Config. It might be called a different name in Windows. Basically this us the name of the wireless network. If you do not know how to set it, leave it as any Enter MODE=Managed Enter the RATE=11M Enter the Encryption key - This *must* be the same as in Windows If your Windows key is an Ascii string then prefix it with s: As in s:my_key If your Key is a Hex number then enter it as AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF You can leave the other parameters blank. If you get your IP address via DHCP from your wireless router then leave the dhcp box ticked. If not untick it and enter an IP address. When you exit the wizard with 'Finish' the light on the wireless card will light and the interface will start working. (If you got that encryption key right) Do *NOT* press OK to exit the drakconnect GUI A bug will cause you to lose the config you just made.(Bug 1881- Still not fixed in 9.2) Instead exit with 'Cancel' derek Huff, Derek, I don't know what I am doing wrong because I do not succeed in connecting to Internet. My encryption key is a ten digit number, so I wrote in the corresponding fields as: s:xx. The modem-router assigns the directions IP, so I never unchecked the DHCP box. I also know my ESSID: 2wire806. I suppose here I do not have to be careful with capitals or lower case letters. I will try in a moment to write an IP address from the pool in the router, and see if I can connect. I think I followed your instructions carefully. Maybe I am doing something silly. Teilhard. -- ÄùñåÜí e-mail, http://www.fastmail.gr (POP3/IMAP/18 MB ÷þñï) Free e-mail, http://www.fastmail.gr (POP3/IMAP/18MB of space) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wireless Interet
Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the desk in front of me in a regular room) wireless router. I have the drivers to make the USB device which receives, and although the installer looks for a file that doesn't find, I get the message setup ok when I run the installer. But I do not know how to put the driver to work. If I go to the Mandrake Control Centre and I try to configure a LAN connection, the driver does not show up among the ones I can use, so I do not know what to do, except configuring the relevant PPPoE configuration files by hand. But besides I do not know which they are, I do not even know how my driver is called. Also, if things are like in Windows, I have to feed somehow a ten digits number to the configuration. Can you help? -- Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My USB modem on 9.1
On Friday 04 April 2003 16:28, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:00 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I tried to install the drivers for my external USB modem, and the Mandrake 9.1 installer reports they are the wrong signature. Does that mean I am doomed and the drivers are no good for me? Is there any way to get around this?. I installed anyway, and the modem doesn't work. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? RPM packages can be signed by the packager with their private GPG privacy key. When you install them, your system will check to see if you have a public key to match the signature. If a match is found it confirms that the person who is claiming to have packaged the RPM is the same person you have the key for. It is a protection against the public RPM download sites being hacked and malicious RPM packages being planted onto an unsuspecting public. If you install without a key you hoping that the RPM is OK. (I have heard of only one instance of a download site being hacked and malicious code inserted into a package) Your system is preloaded with Mandrakes key, so any official Mandrake RPM should install without any error. Other maintainers of download sites such as Texstar publish their key on their site (with instructions) However many sites offer RPMs without any signature at all, with the inevitable error message you saw. So you are not doomed. If the drivers are not working there is something else wrong. Thank you, Derek. I now have hopes, but I do not have the slightest idea of what to do. I have searched my modem's web site for instructions of how to install, how to configure, troubleshooting, FAQ, whatever, and there is nothing which can help. They just throw the drivers at you and that's it. In 9.0 I installed another set of drivers. When I attempt to install them in 9.1, I get a too technical a message saying what to do instead, but it is like reading chinese. Maybe I will post it just in case someone like you who have experience would take the time to put it in lay man terms. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] My USB modem on 9.1
I tried to install the drivers for my external USB modem, and the Mandrake 9.1 installer reports they are the wrong signature. Does that mean I am doomed and the drivers are no good for me? Is there any way to get around this?. I installed anyway, and the modem doesn't work. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 installation a real mess
On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:36, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:34, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:13 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:58, Teilhard Knight wrote: As I posted before, I installed 9.1 on a HD on the (master) secondary IDE channel. Problem is that almost anything is loaded as read only on boot. I tried to install the NVIDIA drivers but I couldn't, because no directory could be created because it is a read only file-system. I installed twice. First, I put the bootloader in the partition and in the second at the beginning of the disk (MBR according to the installation, but the MBR is in the other disk). There was no difference. There is no problem with the machine booting, though. Any ideas of what is happenig to me? Teilhard Knight What filesystem are you using? Ext3. Coud that be the issue? Teilhard Knight Nah - has to be something else...I'm wondering if you disable msec if that will help... Actually that was the issue. I changed to Ext2 and everything worked marvelously. I do not really know what is what the installation CD's do when formatting Ext3, because, as a matter of fact, the swap partition and the Linux partition were both detected as Ext3 (Journalistic). At first, I thought that the problem was that the swap partition had been formatted Ext3, and I went and formatted it as swap, but it didn't cure the problem. When I changed to Ext2, the CD's detected it as Linux Native. I dunno, maybe this things happen only to me because I am a bad boy. :o( Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 installation a real mess
On Thursday 03 April 2003 10:27, John Richard Smith wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:36, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:34, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:13 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:58, Teilhard Knight wrote: As I posted before, I installed 9.1 on a HD on the (master) secondary IDE channel. Problem is that almost anything is loaded as read only on boot. I tried to install the NVIDIA drivers but I couldn't, because no directory could be created because it is a read only file-system. I installed twice. First, I put the bootloader in the partition and in the second at the beginning of the disk (MBR according to the installation, but the MBR is in the other disk). There was no difference. There is no problem with the machine booting, though. Any ideas of what is happenig to me? Teilhard Knight What filesystem are you using? Ext3. Coud that be the issue? Teilhard Knight Nah - has to be something else...I'm wondering if you disable msec if that will help... Actually that was the issue. I changed to Ext2 and everything worked marvelously. I do not really know what is what the installation CD's do when formatting Ext3, because, as a matter of fact, the swap partition and the Linux partition were both detected as Ext3 (Journalistic). At first, I thought that the problem was that the swap partition had been formatted Ext3, and I went and formatted it as swap, but it didn't cure the problem. When I changed to Ext2, the CD's detected it as Linux Native. I dunno, maybe this things happen only to me because I am a bad boy. :o( Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial I don't think so, because whilst my experiences are not exactly the same as yours , in that I found the embedded formatting tool made a dogs breakfast of my ext2 /root base partition, the only one it had to format, everything else was a reuse of existing usage. Mind I'm talking here of every M9.1 up to rc2 , not yet got a final release available to install to know if it continues. Well, I installed the dowmloaded final release. I would be interested in others' experiences with Ext3. I simply refuse to think tthat this only happens to me. There must be a bug or something in the installation CD's. I gues the problem you mention got cured, but they swaped it for another one. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do I do a home partition?
I mean, I know how to partition my HD. What I want to know is how to have a home partition, how to make Mandrake install to recognize I am selecting a particular partition as home partition. Also, how large should it be? I suppose that will be my /home/user partition, will it not? I have Mandrake installed in two machines. In one I gave it 10 Gig space, and in the other 6 Gig, only one partition in each aside from the swap partitions. and lastly, is it advisable to have any other partitions? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Second HD
I have heard that Linux can boot from a drive in the secondary IDE channel. Is this true? And a boot manager will still allow me to manage booting from both disks? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Want to upgrade to 9.1
On Monday 31 March 2003 09:24 pm, Terry Smith wrote: As always, excellent advice from Derek. It looks like there may be an easier way to go as of today. NVIDIA has announced an automated shell script which will automagically check your machine, select and install the right drivers. See http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4349 I haven't tried it but a friend at work who is on day two of his linux newbie career managed to get his GEForce4 up and running by simply executing the script. This sounds great indeed. I'll go and check it righr now. Thanks. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Want to upgrade to 9.1
On Monday 31 March 2003 03:45 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 05:33, Teilhard Knight wrote: Most of you are running 9.1 already. I am confy with 9.0, but, things move and we should move with them, so, I would like to upgrade. First question: can I upgrade from 9.0 or do I have to do a clean install? I suppose a clean install is what is most recommended. Second question: I have read something about some issues with NVIDIA graphics cards. I have a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 64 pro and I would like to know in advance what to do in order to make it work right after the installation. I see, strange that with 9.0 the system worked right after install, and now you have to install the drivers separately. But it doesn't seem really a big deal. Thanks. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Want to upgrade to 9.1
On Monday 31 March 2003 03:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 31 Mar 2003 4:33 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Most of you are running 9.1 already. I am confy with 9.0, but, things move and we should move with them, so, I would like to upgrade. First question: can I upgrade from 9.0 or do I have to do a clean install? I suppose a clean install is what is most recommended. Second question: I have read something about some issues with NVIDIA graphics cards. I have a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 64 pro and I would like to know in advance what to do in order to make it work right after the installation. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? As someone else discovered recently. Upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1 does work, but if you are using the closed source Nvidia drivers, the old drivers from 9.0 will not work in 9.1 and as a result X will be broken until you reconfigure the XF86Config-4 file. Since you are quite new, I would suggest the simplest course of action is to do a new install (but without formatting your /home partition if you have one) 9.1 will then come up working with the open source 'nv' driver. You can then install the closed source 'nvidia' drivers from Texstar's site. I have posted recently on how to add Texstar as a urpmi source. I have not tried it myself, but I hear Texstars Nvidia RPM will do all the configuration file edits for you. Texstar also has RPMs to install java, flash, and RealPlayer I have not tried them because they I use the ones from Mandrake Club You can find which RPMS a urpmi source has by using Mandrake Software Manager to show rpms 'by source repository' When installing Texstar RPMS you will get a signature error This is because RPMS can be signed with a key to prove they were made by the person claiming to have made them. You can either ignore the error, or install Texstars keyring you will find here ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distrib utions/mandrake/9.1/gpgkey Your advise is always so good that I always print it to have it at hand when I carry on with the things I want to do. Thanks for taking the time to offer your feedback. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Want to upgrade to 9.1
On Monday 31 March 2003 10:18 am, Zariyan Zephyr wrote: The latest Nvidia drivers I have seen for Dolphin. Does it work for Bamboo ?. This is cool, but what is Dolphin and what is Bamboo? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Second HD
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 07:25 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Yes, it was my first setup. hda (primary IDE channel 1) contained a windows, hdb (secondary IDE channel 1) contained MDK8.1. Lilo installs in the MBR of hda and boots both os without problems. I don't remember the details since it was more than a year ago, but since it was my first linux installation and worked immediately, I assume it was straightforward. raffaele Cool, thanks, Raffaele. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Second HD
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:53 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:25:10PM +0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Yes, it was my first setup. hda (primary IDE channel 1) contained a windows, hdb (secondary IDE channel 1) contained MDK8.1. Lilo installs in the MBR of hda and boots both os without problems. hdb is the slave (second) hard disk on the first IDE chain. This is one of the disks that ancient PC's (like the one I'm using now) used to be able to boot from. What they couldn't do (and neither did mine) is boot from either HD on the second IDE chain. Even on such a machine, you could arrange to have /boot be near the start of a HD on the first IDE chain, and the rest of the Linux system could be anywhere. With modern BIOSes, all is different, of course. Things changed when they started booting from -- gasp!! -- CDROMs. I hope they changed so I can boot from the master of the secondary IDE channel. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more very basic questions
On Monday 31 March 2003 01:34 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Those are typically executables. They are not associated with anything, but must be run from the shell. Open a shell (also known as terminal), change to the directory where the .bin is located (with cd), then type ./filename.bin Thank you, but I was getting a permission denied message before Derek told me I had to make it executable. After that, I did what you said and it worked all right. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another very naive question
On Sunday 30 March 2003 03:19 pm, Toran Korshnah wrote: MM, After that you have to perform (not always, I think) ./configure make make install This for both rpm and tar. For Urpmi, I do not think so.Ik think that one does all automatic, but not sure! Thanks. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
