[newbie] faxing?
Dear All, Is there a way to fax from a Linux box? I used to do that with Windows often and I would like to set it up with Linux. I have Linux-Mandrake 7 Complete and a Cirrus Logic faxmodem 56k I believe. Would someone help me set this up or lead me to info about doing so? Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie]ethernet card setup
Dear All, It has been advised to me to use Pnp dump to configure my SMC EZ 10/100 ISA plug and play card. Could someone take me step by step through that process? If that works would it be best to go to Linuxconf or netcfg to finish? I looked at Netcfg and I cannot figure out alot of what they want where. Their terminology is a bit different from the Windows IP configuration that I have. Would someone help me with that, also, step by step? I am a true newbie. I am impatiently waiting for my "Running Linux" book I ordered last week. I hope that can help me, also. I am supplying again my card configuation for Windows 95 below: Distribution: Linux Mandrake 7 Complete Ethernet card- SMC EZ card 10 ISA Network Card-plug and play uses smc-ultra driver and is NE2000 compatible Windows 95 IP Configuration Host Name: MICROSOU.tcac.net DNS Servers: 205.218.118.1, 204.70.128.1 Node Type: Broadcast NetBios Scope ID: IP Rounting Enabled: No NetBios Resolution Uses DNS: No Ethernet Adaptor: Description: Novell 2000 Adaptor Physical Address: 00-E0-29-17-B7-6B DHCP Enabled: Yes IP Address: 208.180.96.251 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 208.180.96.1 DHCP Server: 205.218.118.1 Primary WINS Server: Secondary WINS Server: Lease obtained: Sund Jul 30 00 12:02:58 P.M. Lease expired: Sun Jul 30 00 2:02:58 PM Ethernet Adaptor: Description: PPP Adaptor Physical Address: 44-45-53-54-00-00 DHCP Enabled: Yes IP Address: 0.0.0.0. Default Gateway: DHCP Server: 255.255.255.255 Primary WINS Server: Secondary WINS Server: Lease Obtained: Lease Expires: Now this is the information that I got from the Cox internet technician: Domain Name: cox-internet.com email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your IP Address: Automatically assigned by our server each time you log on Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.cox-internet.com Incoming Mail Server: pop.cox-internet.com News Server: news.cox-internet.com FTP Server: ftp.tcainternet.com Of course I have an external cable modem and the brand I believe is Tetrayon(?). I appreciate all of your help. I am hoping to avoid doing a low level format on my computer disks which I was told is the only way for my computer to except a reinstall of Windows 95. I really don't want it back. I just want to use Linux only on that computer. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you all very much. Sincerely, Marcia
[newbie] Xfce and KDE?
Dear Paul and All, Thank you Paul for the explicit directions for setting up Xfce. How would I set up Xfce as one of my desktops and not to be the only one? Actually I want to use KDE and Xfce. In other words I want to be able to switch from one to the other.Those so far are my favorites. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia
[newbie] Using Wine to play a Windows game?
Dear All, My husband thinks he is being deprived because he can't play his Hearts game ( a Windows compatible game) on Linux. May I use Wine to play the game? This is not the hearts game that comes with Windows. If it can be played by using Wine how exactly do I do that? I am a newbie so please tell me exactly what I do. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia
[newbie] Choosing different desktops
Dear Anyone, As was suggested I did reinstall Linux Mandrake 7 because I could never get the graphical login to comeup. Now I have it! I am thrilled. However, I cannot figure out how to get into the other window desktops such as xfce, enlightenment, etc. The choice is there but I can only get into KDE or Gnome. Even trying as root did not help. Also, how would I creat accounts with the other desktops so I can go in as a user? Thank you very much. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Kudzu
Dear Paul, I will try the Harddrake. Thank you for your immediate reply and help. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Kudzu
Dear Anyone, Thank you for your help. I just created a big problem for myself, I think. I went into linuxconf startup services and activated autofs for some strange reason. I do not know what it does, but afterwards I could no longer use my mouse. Is there anything I can do now? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens
Dear Anyone, I would like to install Acrobat Reader from an RPM. Where do I get it like that? Is it on the LinuxM CD's? Thank you for your help? Marcia
Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens
Dear All, I have decided to give up on the Acroread. I have heard that xpdf reads the pdf format and I do have xpdf. I just do not know how to open my Linux books with this program? Can anyone lead me through this? Thank you, Marcia
Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager
Dear Alan and All, After my computer crash I erased the Linux partitions and did a clean install of Linux. Everything went well until I came to configuring X. I believe I just chose the wrong monitor and went into the Xconfigurator and finally after many attempts got the right settings. Everything is working well except for what I told you about sound and graphical login. Even so, you may be correct about reinstalling the Linux-Mandrake 7. I will consider that if I do not get these things fixed. Thank you for the good advice. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens
Dear Mark and All, I am trying to read the books in Linux. My crash happened with Linux to begin with then in the process of trying to fix things I lost my Windows 95 also. I have reinstalled Linux but have not been able to reinstall Windows 95. That does not bother me. I am happy to have a Linux only machine. I do have a laptop with Windows 98 that I just purchased before the crash and I am using that for my internet access until I get back on cable internet with Linux. I have not installed Acrobat Reader and I would love to. Where do I find it? I have Linux-Mandrake 7 complete.Will it be on one of those CD's? Also, I would like to install it on my Windows 98 machine to read them there, also. Thank you for your help. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens
Dear Alan and All, Thank you. That sounds like what I need to do. How do I install that Linux tar file from CD#3? I have tried to install it before and had no luck. I do not understand the tar procedure. I am a newbie so could you or anyone explain step by step how to do this? Thank you very much? Marcia
Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager
Dear Alan All, Yes, I did the edit and changed it to id:5:initdefault: and nothing changed except for one time the gui login manager came up for a couple of seconds while I already was into KDE and then went away. It never shows up at all now. Is there anything else I can do? Sound-I did find the mixer last night and tried to open it. All I got was permission denied. I changed the permissions which had worked on other files when I did this but it did not change anything here. I have an ESS ES1868 plug and play audio drive and with an Input/Output range of 0800h-0807h. A Genius Sound Maker 18PnP Series is also somewhere with an IRQ usage of 5. Any ideas here? Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia
[newbie] Only one Linux book opens
Dear Anyone, When I put in my Linux Mandrake 7.0 #3 CD in order to read some of the books only one book will open for me. This happened before with my first install of Linux, too, before the crash. They all opened with Acrobat reader under Windows 95. What do I need to do for this? Thank you. Marcia
[newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager
Dear Anyone, Before my computer crash 4 weeks ago I had sound working in Linux but I do not know why it worked finally. Now after my reinstall (without windows 95 this time) I am trying to set up sound and I just get error messages when I try to do it through sndconfig. I went through this exact same thing before and finally I just put in a musical CD after weeks of going through this and I had sound! Now I tried the CD but no sound. Is there anything else I can do? Yes, my card is supported and is on the list. It did work before. It says something about device resource busy. Would anyone be able to help me on this one? My other problem is- now that I finally have X going correctly( I think )I do not get the graphical login manager where you login and pick a window manager. I can only login in from the prompt with startx then I get KDE and Gnome. I would like the choice of the other window managers, also. How do I get the graphical login manager to come up? Thank you very much, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Thanks for the help for the KDE problemo
Dear All, Where would the kderc. file be? I had alot of problems getting my Xscreen down to size. I went back into xconfigurator,made some changes and it is almost down to normal size but not quite. Does anyone know what else I can do to get it to normal? Plus, My graphic login page does not come up now where I can login and choose window managers. What can I do to remedy this? Thank you for your help. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Xconfig help
Dear all, Thank you for your help. I went back into xconfigurator and changed the monitor and resolution. I also changed the mouse. It ended up working. I was shocked. The graphics and fonts are slightly larger than normal but that is the way I like it. My mouse works, too! My next job is to get the cable internet going that I was set up with in Windows 95. After that I plan to set up the internal Atapi zip drive. The Cd rom works fine and I believe the floppy does, too. I did not do sound yet but finally got that to work when I first installed Linux, so I am sure I will get it going again. Not that I care that much, but is there anyway to access my Windows 95 or the files that are hiding on my D drive that I cannot access right now? When my computer crashed I lost access to it on both C and D drive. I tried reinstalling Windows 95 before I tried reinstalling LINUX but it just would not happen. I ended up reinstalling Linux on my C drive and I believe that my D drive has the Windows 95 but I can't get there yet. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Bad News, Napster is dead
What is GNUtella and how does one get it? How does it work? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Xconfig help
Dear Anyone, I crashed my linux and windows a few weeks ago. Had a local linux friend/expert help me to to reinstall linux-mandrake 7.0. Xwindows did not configure automatically so he helped me do it manually. We got a huge KDE screen and I do not know how to fix it. The font and graphics are huge and the mouse does not work . He is not available to help me now. I checked as much documentation and mail archives as possible I think. I have a generic S3 Virge card with 2048 memory and a high frequency SVGA monitor. What can I do to fix it? I tried XF86Setup and that did not get me anywhere. I am a newbie so please explain every detail. Thank you very much. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Xconfig help
I did not try XFdrake. Can one use it at the Lilo command prompt? How do I run XFdrake? I did go through the xconfigurator again and got my mouse to work now, however the screen, graphics, and icons are still huge and it would be hard to see what is going on unless I can do it from a terminal window. Any help will be greatly appreciated.Thank you very much for your help. Marcia
