[newbie] How to configure eth1 for wireless connection?
I have Mandrake 9.0, kernel 2.4.19, Linksys WPC11 ver3.1 andorinoco 0.13e.Now the card is already recognized:(/var/log/messages Apr 13 23:47:02 china cardmgr[2893]: socket 1: Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11bWLAN CardApr 13 23:47:02 china cardmgr[2893]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'Apr 13 23:47:02 china cardmgr[2893]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco'Apr 13 23:47:02 china cardmgr[2893]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'Apr 13 23:47:03 china cardmgr[2893]: executing: './network start eth1'Apr 13 23:47:03 china /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth1Apr 13 23:47:17 china su(pam_unix)[3041]: session opened for user root by(uid=502) As a newbie to linux, I was told that the next step should be: 1 update also /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts 2update init script configuration file (which depends upon the distribution you have; mine is /etc/conf.d/net) As for point 2, I don't know where I should do it in Mandrake 9.0? ifup eth1 shows: configuration for eth1 not found. I have an access point running simple DHCP with no WEP protection. So I guess the configuration should be simple enough. Another thing that worries me is the "session opend for user root" message in the system log. If that implies only root user can use the connection, how do I enable other normal users to use this wireless connection?
[newbie] wlan-ng cannot be loaded in Mandrake 9
hi, I have Mandrake 9, kernel 2.4.19, wlan-ng 0.2.1-pre20, and Linksys pcmciaWPC11 ver3.1. After installation, I get this messagen in the system log: Apr 12 14:37:21 china cardmgr[3513]: socket 1: Bromax OEM 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card (Prism 3) Apr 12 14:37:21 china cardmgr[3513]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'Apr 12 14:37:21 china kernel: init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.14 Loaded Apr 12 14:37:21 china kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs Apr 12 14:37:21 china kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 9, io 0x0100-0x013f Apr 12 14:37:21 china cardmgr[3513]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0'Apr 12 14:37:21 china /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup wlan0 Apr 12 14:37:21 china cardmgr[3513]: + modprobe: Can't locate module wlan0 Apr 12 14:37:21 china cardmgr[3513]: + grep: /proc/net/p80211/wlan0/wlandev:No such file or directoryApr 12 14:37:21 china cardmgr[3513]: + ./wlan-ng: line 130: _fwload: command not found Apr 12 14:37:21 china cardmgr[3513]: + Firmware failed to load for device wlan0 Apr 12 14:37:26 china cardmgr[3513]: + wlanctl-ng: No such device Apr 12 14:37:26 china cardmgr[3513]: + error: Autojoin indicated failure! Apparently wlan0 is not loaded. This post should fit wlan mailing list better, but I recall a while ago someone said the Mandrake 9.0 distribution has a corrupted 802.11 module that should be removed first. I cannot remember the details. And also I am not sure if my Linksys WPC11 falls into the "Bromax OEM" categary. And if it's "prism 3", why is prism2_cs loaded rather than prism25? Any hints or thoughts would be highly apprecited. (ifconfig -a and lsmod are listed below) many thanks, Wei Wang ifconfig -a shows:wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x100 lsmod shows: Module Size Used by Not taintedprism2_cs 57744 0 (unused)p80211 10808 1 [prism2_cs]pcnet_cs 10880 18390 6192 0 [pcnet_cs]ds 6828 2 [prism2_cs pcnet_cs]yenta_socket 9728 2pcmcia_core 42272 0 [prism2_cs pcnet_cs ds yenta_socket]
Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation
Many thanks for helping. I tried the first choice but when I come up with the partitioning stage, the partition with Mandrake on it was not mounted. (I mounted one partition as / and the other as linux swap). Now they are not mounted at all. If I mount them, would I lose the data on it? Should I proceed by mounting them at / and linux swap? If I do proceed, should I just manually DESELECT all the packages that are selected in default installation? As for the second approach, I've come to the stage where in /mnt/mnt I could see the windows partitions. (No linux partition can be seen either here). I couldn't find the lilo.conf file. Should it be in the first partition which is win_c in my case? Or it's somewhere else? Please help! I am writing my final year project and I have all my coding there without a backup(I know it's a mistake not backup them). Many thanks, Wei - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 1:38 pm, Wei Wang wrote: I have Mandrake 9.0 and just recompiled the kernel. The compilation gave out some kind of kernel panic error. After I rebooted the machine, I get: Linux Loading . with either the linux boot or the custom2419 boot. It looks like grub or lilo is messed up. I don't have a floppy driver in my laptop so can't boot from there. Actually someone asked this about a year ago but he got this error after upgrading the kernel while I was simply compiling the kernel. But the answers to that were contradictory: One suggestion is to do a MOCK INSTALL and NOT an upgrade with the installation CDs. The other suggestion is to do an UPDATE and NOT an install. What should I do? Use the installation CDs to do a MOCK INSTALL or UPGRADE? Many thanks, Wei Installing again without selecting any packages will recover your system again, and involves minimal effort. Another way of recovering is to boot from your install CD and at the first screen hit F1 then type 'rescue' at the prompt. You will be presented with a short menu. One of which is to mount your partitions. You can then find your hard disc files under /mnt and you can have a go at repairing your lilo.conf. (Use 'vim-minimal' as an editor) It is likely that the symlinks for 'initrd' and 'vmlinuz' have become broken when you compiled your kernel. The command lilo -v -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf will rewrite lilo to your bootsector HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine
Hi, This sounds a bit soothing for me. ;-) Now it takes about 45 minutes to compile the whole kernel. I've heard the Pentium4 deficiency problem before I bought this laptop. But the comments I found gave me an impression that P4 1.8GHz is aboutthe same performance as a P3 1.2GHz, but there is SSE2 to consider. So I bought it. So I'd be happy to keep this laptop with the similar performance with an Athlon 1.4 GHz. Maybe I should get a P3 1.2 instead? To wait for Centrino product means another 12 months maybe. Many thanks, Wei make dep clean bzImage~ 5 mins. time make modules ~ 38 mins. make modules_install install ~ 1 min. On a 1.4 gig Athlon. But it's always 1.4 gig ... takes 80 minutes to finish. Every gcc stays on the screen for a second or so that you can read almost every one of them. Is it normal? The gcc is version 3.2. ... your laptop (mobile cpu) isn't always 1.8 ghz. It slows down under load. A P3 would probly be faster too. So yes, it's a hardware deficiency ... get a real computer ;~ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine
Many thanks for your input. Have you done anything to the OS such as optimising or tuning? Since this is a new laptop and I am thinking of returning it if there is a hardware deficiency with it. On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:13:48 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OUCH, how the hell??? My computers and times that i have used for linux: -Compaq 7180 (p100) and it takes 1.5 hours to compile a complete kernel. -Clone all SCSI p3-450 and it takes 30 mins to compile a complete kernel. -Dell Optiplex GX1 P3-450 and it takes 35 mins to compile a complete kernel. You guys might want to rethink your timing. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Burns Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine On Mon, January 20 2003 11:01 am, Wei Wang wrote: *snip* I am not sure if this is hardware related or OS related. I have Mandrake 9.0 on my Pentium 4 M 1.8Ghz laptop. Now the complete kernel compiling make clean bzImage modules *snip takes 80 minutes to finish. Every gcc stays on the screen for a second or *snip* I have a P4 1.6 desktop, and it takes me about 45 minutes to compile everything, all modules and everything. My P3-500 desktop takes almost 2 hours, however, my P3-500 laptop takes over 3 hours. In case you didn't know, ALL x86 laptop cpu's are NOT the same cpu as the desktops, which makes them just a little better than half the speed of their respective desktop counterparts. While they both run at the same speed, the pipelining, power control, etc etc is much different. Data bus width also comes into play. AFAIK the only computers that use the exact same processors for both desktops and laptops are Apples. So, in answer to your question, no, there's probably nothing wrong with your hardware other than the fact it's a Mobility CPU, hooked to the cheapest components the maker of that laptop could find. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- You are old, Father William, the young man said, All your papers these days look the same; Those William's would be better unread -- Do these facts never fill you with shame? In my youth, Father William replied to his son, I wrote wonderful papers galore; But the great reputation I found that I'd won, Made it pointless to think any more. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine
Hi, I am not sure if this is hardware related or OS related. I have Mandrake 9.0 on my Pentium 4 M 1.8Ghz laptop. Now the complete kernel compiling make clean bzImage modules takes 80 minutes to finish. Every gcc stays on the screen for a second or so that you can read almost every one of them. Is it normal? The gcc is version 3.2. Is there anything that I can do to speed it up? I know I could omit some modules to speed it up but I just want to know how long the compiling takes on your machine. BTW, if it is hardware related, is there any software that can detect the current running frequency of the CPU? Cheers, We Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DivX audio plugin (WMA) for linux
I am trying to view a WMA file in linux with xine. But an error message says "No audio plugin available to decode 'DivX audio (WMA)'. I searched on google and found that DivXa32.acm is the main suspect. But it seems that's a MS-DOS excecutable file only for windows. Is there such a file for Linux? Many thanks. Wei
[newbie] pine4.5 installation on Mandrake 9.0
I am trying to install pine4.5 on my Mandrake 9.0 from source and get error message saying I don't have Openssl support. I already had openssl and openssl-devel 0.9.6g-1 installed. Am I missing something here? Wei
[newbie] mount problem
I know this is too naive. But I got confused of different helps I found on the internet. I get error message when I do mount /dev/cdrom mount: can't find /dev/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab mount /mnt/cdrom gives out: /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type and non was specified /etc/fstab read: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /var/log/messages reads: hdc: DV22E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive One of the helps I found on the internet told me to delete /dev/cdrom and do ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom But I kept rm /dev/cdrom and it doesn't go away. It cannot be deleted. What should I do? The other help told me to mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom I don't know what that means but it gives an error saying: mount point /cdrom does not exist. Any hint what I should do? Many thanks.
[newbie] libalsa2 circular dependency and libasound.so.1 confusions
I am trying to install libalsa2-0.9.0 from binary rpm. Dependency fail reads:error: failed dependencies:libalsa-data is needed by libalsa2-0.9.0-0.8rc2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libarts2-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk(and 13 other similar dependency fails for libasound.so.1 is needed by ...)RESULT=1libalsa-data-0.9.0 rpm install gives dependency fail like this:error: failed dependencies:libalsa2 = 0.9.0 is needed by libalsa-data-0.9.0-0.10rc6mdkRESULT=1As far as the circular dependency between libalsa2 and libalsa-data, maybe I could solve it by install the two rpm together? Like "rpm -i libalsa2 libalsa-data"? Haven't tried that coz I think the libasound.so.1 dependency problem would still jump out. What confused me here is that I have libasound.so.1 in usr/lib/ provided by alsa-lib0.5.10-2mdk.rpm. And also the libarts2, kdelibs, kdelibs-sound, libSDL1.2 etc are alreay installed in my system. Why does the system report libasound.so.1 is needed by these already installed packages? ps. the other libalsa2 dependency fail includes:libasound.so.1 is needed by kdebase-2.2.1-7mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libsmpeg0.4-0.4.4-3mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_image1.2-1.2.0-2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libao2-0.8.0-3mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by arts-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2.1-2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_mixer1.2-1.2.0-3mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libSDL_net1.2-1.2.2-1mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by mures-0.4-2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by xmms-smpeg-0.3.4-4mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by nethack_falconseye-3.3.1_jtp_1.9-3mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by rocksndiamonds-2.0.0-4mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by xmms-more-vis-plugins-1.4.0-3mdk
[newbie] A general question about dependency
I am a total newbie to Unix/Linux world. Using the rpms recently, I get lost in the way packages are installed. Sometimes when I try to install a certain package on my system via an binary rpm, I get lots of unsatisfied dependencies. For example, a recent attempt to install kdelibs-3.1.rpm on my Mandrake 8.1 gives out around more than 100 failed dependencies involving around 30 files needed. Do I have to install all these required packages manually, one by one, which is what I've been doing? Is there an automatic tool that installs all the required packages and thus automatically resolve all the failed dependencies? I understand that it's been more than a year between the kdelibs-3.1 and the libraries in Mandrake 8.1. In that case, do I have to keep very closely up-to-date with the new version of packages? Otherwise I would end up facing lots of failed dependencies due to the rapic software/package development? This may sound like a very naive and primitive question. But I have been exhausted by manually iron out the sometimes chains of failed dependencies one by one. Please give a newbie some hint on this. Bunch of thanks.
[newbie] Dependency fail.
I am installing libglib-devel and it requires pkgconfig. I installed pkgconfig from source code. Now pkg-config sits in usr/local/bin. But kpackage still returns pkgconfig =0.12 is needed. How can I make the system know that pkgconfig is already installed? I know this is a very primitive question. But please help. Many thanks, Wei
Re: [newbie] Dependency fail.
Stephen, Thank you for your reply. I did ln and ldconfig. But kpackage still thinks pkgconfig is not installed. Wei - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dependency fail. On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 00:00, Wei Wang wrote: I am installing libglib-devel and it requires pkgconfig. I installed pkgconfig from source code. Now pkg-config sits in usr/local/bin. But kpackage still returns pkgconfig =0.12 is needed. How can I make the system know that pkgconfig is already installed? I know this is a very primitive question. But please help. Many thanks, Wei Try putting a symlink in the /usr/bin directory - like: ln -s /usr/local/bin/pkg-config /usr/bin/pkg-config ..then re-run ldconfig for laughs...then try again... -- Tue Nov 26 00:00:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn If you don't do the things that are not worth doing, who will? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dependency fail.
I installed pkg-config from source code. I've just done ./configure --prefix=/usr, make and make install. Now pkg-configure sits in /usr/bin. I ran ldconfig, rebooted the system. Now kpackage still reports pkgconfig missing when I tried to install libglib-2.0_0-devel.rpm - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dependency fail. On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 00:14, Wei Wang wrote: Stephen, Thank you for your reply. I did ln and ldconfig. But kpackage still thinks pkgconfig is not installed. Wei How did you install pkg-config - ? Was it via RPM? Was it compiled on your system? If it was by RPM, can you try it again - but from a terminal ? If so, try using rpm -Uivh --force Xfilename.rpm - and then see if you can reproduce the error... If it was compiled by yourself, can you try this: unpack the archive again, and when you run CONFIGURE, run it like this: ./configure --prefix=/usr then run make then make install ...run ldconfig after that's done, then see if KPackage reports it there - you may have to reboot, though - sometimes the lib deps require a reboot in order to truly refresh themselves... -- Tue Nov 26 00:15:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Bugs, pl. n.: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls. 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] Pine installation on Mandrake 8.1
Hi, all, I am trying to install Pine 4.5 on Mandrake 8.1. I got the following error message. ranlib libpico.a cc -g -DDEBUG -Dlnx -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE main.o libpico.a -lncurses -o pico /usr//bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [pico] Error 1 I am not sure if this is Mandrake specific or not. So please excuse me if this is not the right place to ask this question. Many thanks, Wei _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]
I am trying to install sylpheed 0.7.6 on Mandrake 8.1. And I got the following error message. I checking for flex... no checking for lex... no ./configure: flex: command not found checking for flex... lex checking for yywrap in -ll... no checking lex output file root... ./configure: lex: command not found configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up Then I tried to install Flex2.5.4, I got this message when doing make install yacc -d ./parse.y make: yacc: Command not found make: *** [parse.c] Error 127 I searched yacc in google but couldn't find a package called yacc. Is it a package? If it is not, how can I obtain it? Please excuse me for these silly and primitive questions. I am trying to start to use Linux and keep getting messages telling me I need this and that for installing this software. Wei _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sylpheed installation on Mandrake 8.1
Sorry for the previous mail without title I am trying to install sylpheed 0.7.6 on Mandrake 8.1. And I got the following error message. I checking for flex... no checking for lex... no ./configure: flex: command not found checking for flex... lex checking for yywrap in -ll... no checking lex output file root... ./configure: lex: command not found configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up Then I tried to install Flex2.5.4, I got this message when doing make install yacc -d ./parse.y make: yacc: Command not found make: *** [parse.c] Error 127 I searched yacc in google but couldn't find a package called yacc. Is it a package? If it is not, how can I obtain it? Please excuse me for these silly and primitive questions. I am trying to start to use Linux and keep getting messages telling me I need this and that for installing this software. Wei _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
David, Many thanks for your reply. I installed both bison and byacc, and flex rpms without any problem. Then I tried to install Sylpheed again. Got this message from ./configure checking for GLIB - version = 1.2.6... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. configure: error: Test for GLIB failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help. I searched in the Mandrake RPMS.cooker and found these: [[SND]] glib-gettextize-2.0... 21-Aug-2002 12:1514k [[SND]] glibc-2.2.5-16mdk.i5.. 19-Aug-2002 09:07 3.6M [[SND]] glibc-devel-2.2.5-16.. 19-Aug-2002 09:08 1.6M [[SND]] glibc-doc-2.2.5-16md.. 19-Aug-2002 09:08 765k [[SND]] glibc-doc-pdf-2.2.5-.. 19-Aug-2002 09:09 3.1M [[SND]] glibc-i18ndata-2.2.5.. 19-Aug-2002 09:09 2.6M [[SND]] glibc-profile-2.2.5-.. 19-Aug-2002 09:09 10.2M [[SND]] glibc-static-devel-2.. 19-Aug-2002 09:10 886k [[SND]] glibc-utils-2.2.5-16.. 19-Aug-2002 09:1044k [[SND]] glibc_lsb-2.2.90-11m.. 18-Sep-2002 07:02 1.0M Which one should I install? I tried to install glibc-2.2.5-16mdk.i586.rpm but get dependency errors: error: failed dependencies: initscripts = 6.40.2-6mdk conflicts with glibc-2.2.5-16mdk glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by locales-2.3.1.2-4mdk glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by locales-2.3.1.2-4mdk glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.4-6mdk Did I install the wrong rpm? Many thanks. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:43:35 -0800 (PST) I searched yacc in google but couldn't find a package called yacc. Is it a package? If it is not, how can I obtain it? Lex and yacc are related, if not somewhat complementary in function, but there are some differences. First of all, yacc stands for yet another compiler compiler. Well, what's a compiler compiler? Well, it's a tool that people use to compile compilers with :). Actually, it's a tool to parse language grammars - for instance the language grammars in role playing games, ftp sessions, irc, and others may use yacc or a similar tool. It's not something that is only used with computer programming language designers. Specifically for yacc, there are several variants. There's Berkeley yacc (byacc). Also there's GNU's yacc, which is called 'bison' (yak / bison) :) get it? Mandrake has a bison, it's (currently) bison-1.35-3mdk.i586.rpm Mandrake also has berkeley yacc (byacc), available as byacc-1.9-12.mdk.i586.rpm I am not sure what the differences are, but it's been my experience that packages might want one, and some might want the other, so it's probably safe to install both. If a tool needs yacc/bison/byacc to build, it'll probably need lex aas well. There's a few different versions as well: flex, for instance flex-2.5.4a-20.mdk.i586.rpm Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
Oh, I installed libglib1.2-1.2.10-6mdk.i586.rpm. I think this is the one needed. Now I have 1.2.10 which is = 1.2.6. But I still get the same error message. Anything wrong here? From: Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:34:50 + David, Many thanks for your reply. I installed both bison and byacc, and flex rpms without any problem. Then I tried to install Sylpheed again. Got this message from ./configure checking for GLIB - version = 1.2.6... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. configure: error: Test for GLIB failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help. I searched in the Mandrake RPMS.cooker and found these: [[SND]] glib-gettextize-2.0... 21-Aug-2002 12:1514k [[SND]] glibc-2.2.5-16mdk.i5.. 19-Aug-2002 09:07 3.6M [[SND]] glibc-devel-2.2.5-16.. 19-Aug-2002 09:08 1.6M [[SND]] glibc-doc-2.2.5-16md.. 19-Aug-2002 09:08 765k [[SND]] glibc-doc-pdf-2.2.5-.. 19-Aug-2002 09:09 3.1M [[SND]] glibc-i18ndata-2.2.5.. 19-Aug-2002 09:09 2.6M [[SND]] glibc-profile-2.2.5-.. 19-Aug-2002 09:09 10.2M [[SND]] glibc-static-devel-2.. 19-Aug-2002 09:10 886k [[SND]] glibc-utils-2.2.5-16.. 19-Aug-2002 09:1044k [[SND]] glibc_lsb-2.2.90-11m.. 18-Sep-2002 07:02 1.0M Which one should I install? I tried to install glibc-2.2.5-16mdk.i586.rpm but get dependency errors: error: failed dependencies: initscripts = 6.40.2-6mdk conflicts with glibc-2.2.5-16mdk glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by locales-2.3.1.2-4mdk glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by locales-2.3.1.2-4mdk glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.4-6mdk Did I install the wrong rpm? Many thanks. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:43:35 -0800 (PST) I searched yacc in google but couldn't find a package called yacc. Is it a package? If it is not, how can I obtain it? Lex and yacc are related, if not somewhat complementary in function, but there are some differences. First of all, yacc stands for yet another compiler compiler. Well, what's a compiler compiler? Well, it's a tool that people use to compile compilers with :). Actually, it's a tool to parse language grammars - for instance the language grammars in role playing games, ftp sessions, irc, and others may use yacc or a similar tool. It's not something that is only used with computer programming language designers. Specifically for yacc, there are several variants. There's Berkeley yacc (byacc). Also there's GNU's yacc, which is called 'bison' (yak / bison) :) get it? Mandrake has a bison, it's (currently) bison-1.35-3mdk.i586.rpm Mandrake also has berkeley yacc (byacc), available as byacc-1.9-12.mdk.i586.rpm I am not sure what the differences are, but it's been my experience that packages might want one, and some might want the other, so it's probably safe to install both. If a tool needs yacc/bison/byacc to build, it'll probably need lex aas well. There's a few different versions as well: flex, for instance flex-2.5.4a-20.mdk.i586.rpm Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mozilla 1 on Mandrake 8.1 dependency problem
Les, Thank you for your reply. Did you upgrade from 0.x to 1.x? I did rpm -ivh mozilla-'whatever version'.rpm libnspr-'whatever version'.rpm but got the same error message: mozilla 0.9.9 conflicts with libnspr4-1.1-10mdk As for default mozilla, what I mean is that galeon is based on mozilla. So I must let galeon know that a new mozilla is installed. If you install mozilla 1.x from source, the readme says it must be installed in a different directory. I am not sure if rpm does that for you. But unfortunately rpm doesn't work for me. So I have installed 1.10 from source and mozilla works by its own just all right. I didn't want 2 copies of mozilla, it was the installation instruction that said installing new mozilla into the same directory would cause problem. Now the new version works fine by itself. What I want to do now is to let Galeon(which is based on mozilla) know that a new version is installed and let Galeon use the new mozilla. I used the packages from the mozilla web site, not from any of the mandrake releases, but it was easily done by just installing the packages at the same time. # rpm -ivh mozilla-'whatever version'.rpm libnspr-'whatever version'.rpm what do you mean by the default mozilla? if you mean how to change the menus in gnome so it points to the new mozilla just go to panel - edit menus in the gnome menu. if you launch mozilla from a command line just create an alias for the correct path. sorry i don't remember what is the preffered file to create aliases in for bash (which i assume is your shell). why do you want to have both versions of mozilla installed anyways? On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Wei Wang wrote: Maybe this question should be for mozilla mailing list. But could anyone using mozilla galeon give me a hand here? I have mozilla 0.9.4 and am trying to upgrade to 1.10. I downloaded mozilla-1.1-10mdk.i586.rpm from mandrake rpms.cooker When I test this rpm I get this error message: error: failed dependencies: libnspr4 = 1.1-10mdk is needed by mozilla-1.1-10mdk mozilla = 0.9.4 is needed by mozilla-mail-0.9.4-3mdk RESULT=1 But when I try to install libnspr4-1.1-10mdk.i586.rpm I get an error message like this: error: failed dependencies: mozilla 0.9.9 conflicts with libnspr4-1.1-10mdk RESULT=1 Is this some kind of cross-dependency problem? What am I going to do now? Trying to solve this problem, I downloaded a mozilla 1.01 from mozilla website. Hoping that installing 1.01 would allow me to install libnspr4-1.1-10, then consequently I could upgrade to mozilla 1.10. But the README told me that I have to install it in a clean(new) directory. So I installed it in /usr/local/mozilla (my old 0.9.4 is in usr/lib/mozilla). Now how can I make the system recognize this new version as default mozilla? I mean after I installed mozilla 1.01 in a different directory, libnspr4.rpm still thinks I have mozilla 0.9.4. What should I do? Many thanks, Wei _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] zip missing in mozilla configure.
hi, I've got mandrake 8.2 and trying to install mozilla 1.0. during the ./configure, I got an error message of : zip not found in $path. unzip could be found in /usr/bin/ but zip is not in either sbin, usr/sbin, bin, usr/bin, or usr/X11r6/bin. Why is the zip missing? Anyway I could install it? Cheers, Wei
[newbie] Print pdf multiple page on single sheet?
Hi, How to set the parameters of lpr in printing pdf file with multiple pages on a single sheet?(Not duplex, I mean 2 logical pages on one side for example). I could only find help on ps file, text file, dvi file. No such support was found via the net. Surely there are tools such as xpdf and ghostview. But neither has fancy printing graphical interface such as the one provided in Windows. Could anyone tell me how to do this with simple command line lpr? Many thanks, Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Connection sharing reconfiguration.
One Mandrake box and a windows box sharing one IP address. IP masquarading was set up via Mandrake control center Connection Sharing. Everything works fine except that everytime after Mandrake reboot, the configuration of Conneciton sharing has to be done again. Is there any way I could keep the configuration? Many thanks, Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] classes.zip not found in ICQ Java installation.
I am trying to install an ICQ Java version on my Mandrake 8.1. in ICQJava/install: JAVA_CLASSES=$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip And ./install prompts Invalid JAVA_CLASSES: file classes.zip not found I don't have a classes.zip in my j2re1.4.0/lib directory. What should I do? Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kdeinit: Fatal IO error.
I was playing a CD and just quit from kmanager. Suddenly got this message in the bash: /kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. [root@china software]# KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1 What does this mean and is it really fatal? Many thanks, Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mid button of 3-button mouse.
Thanks, Dennis, I set the mouse to Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse instead It doesnt work at all at first The system gives warning sounds when I move the mouse around The cursor keeps moving at the edges of the screen Then I logout by Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace and relogin, then it works fine Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] mid button of 3-button mouse.
I just installed Mandrake 81 It recognised my mouse as standard 3-button mouse But I cannot use the middle button to do things like paste or scroll down the browser Did I install the wrong mouse? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] mid button of 3-button mouse.
Yes, I did try Mozilla, Netscape communicator and Galeon Also the paste function never works in any application, from bash to browser It's quite painful without the mid-button paste ;-) Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
sndconfig: soundcard not supported Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.
Thanks. I just ran sndconfig 0.65.0 and was told my sound card ESS IES1969 Solo-1 is not currently supported. I think this means the end of the day. ;-( From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem. Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:23:19 +0100 On Fri, 01 Mar 2002 01:06:36 + Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks guys, ;-) Still got problems here. When I set mount quiet, execute lilo and reboot, no mixer in /dev and cdroms is in /dev. When I set append=devfs=nomount quiet in /etc/lilo.conf, after lilo and reboot, the mixer does appear in /dev, but this time cdroms disappeared. In this case, KMenu-Multimedia-sound-audio mixer still prompts no permission to /dev/mixer and check if module compiled into kernel. I am sure I have permission to /dev/mixer. And the module IS compiled into kernel coz lsmod gives out: Module Size Used by snd-es193812176 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-pcm 0 (autoclean) [snd-es1938] snd-timer 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] snd-mixer 0 (autoclean) [snd-timer] snd 0 (autoclean) [snd-es1938 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer] soundcore 0 (autoclean) [snd] So when mixer exists in /dev, I have full permission to it, the module is in the kernel. The only thing I don't understand is why it's NOT used by anyone) /etc/modules.conf reads: pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-ohci alias eth0 eepro100 alias sound-slot-0 snd-es1938 Anything wrong here? snip Yes. See the /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/alsa-driver-0.5.11/INSTALL file, it's in the kernel-source .rpm package. Note the name of the module (snd-card-es1938) and the remarks about devfs. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.
hi, This is what I found in Soundcard in HardDrake: Vendor: ESS Technology Model: ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive This is the Kernel Module: snd-card-es1938 Bus Type: PCI And system prompts this when I try to open KMenu-Multimedia-Sound-Audio Mixer: Not able to open audio device Please check that you have permission to /dev/mixer and make sure you have sound support compiled into your kernel I am root running all these From GNome Control Center, I could only see 2 tick box for Enable Soundserver Startup and sounds for events And they ARE ticked Doesn't what I see in HardDrake mean the sound support is already compiled into my kernel? And there is no mixer in the /dev directory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.
Thanks guys, ;-) Still got problems here. When I set mount quiet, execute lilo and reboot, no mixer in /dev and cdroms is in /dev. When I set append=devfs=nomount quiet in /etc/lilo.conf, after lilo and reboot, the mixer does appear in /dev, but this time cdroms disappeared. In this case, KMenu-Multimedia-sound-audio mixer still prompts no permission to /dev/mixer and check if module compiled into kernel. I am sure I have permission to /dev/mixer. And the module IS compiled into kernel coz lsmod gives out: Module Size Used by snd-es193812176 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-pcm 0 (autoclean) [snd-es1938] snd-timer 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] snd-mixer 0 (autoclean) [snd-timer] snd 0 (autoclean) [snd-es1938 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer] soundcore 0 (autoclean) [snd] So when mixer exists in /dev, I have full permission to it, the module is in the kernel. The only thing I don't understand is why it's NOT used by anyone) /etc/modules.conf reads: pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-ohci alias eth0 eepro100 alias sound-slot-0 snd-es1938 Anything wrong here? From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem. Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:33:23 +0100 On 28 Feb 2002 06:14:04 -0800 Douglas A. Rist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have this same problem. The sound devices are in /dev/sound but are not linked to /dev. I also have problems creating links from /dev/sound to /dev. If I get a solution, I will post it here. On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 05:43, Wei Wang wrote: This is what I found in Soundcard in HardDrake: Vendor: ESS Technology Model: ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive This is the Kernel Module: snd-card-es1938 Bus Type: PCI And system prompts this when I try to open KMenu-Multimedia-Sound-Audio Mixer: Not able to open audio device. Please check that you have permission to /dev/mixer and make sure you have sound support compiled into your kernel I am root running all these. From GNome Control Center, I could only see 2 tick box for Enable Soundserver Startup and sounds for events. And they ARE ticked. Doesn't what I see in HardDrake mean the sound support is already compiled into my kernel? And there is no mixer in the /dev directory. Just an idea: change append= devfs=mount quiet to devfs=nomount quiet in /etc/lilo.conf for your default boot image. Then run 'lilo'. After a reboot your system should have devfs disabled. Douglas, snd-card-es1938 is an ALSA driver, are you also using ALSA? Good luck! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to input Chinese character(Simplified).
hi, all, I've just set up Mandrake 8.1 English version. Could anyone kindly tell me how to input Chinese? Many thanks, Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.
hi, all, I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my Acer 342T laptop. Mandrake recognised and installed the driver(I guess) for its soundcard: ESS ES1946 solo-1E. I could run CDplayer or MP3 player apps, but no sound comes out of the speaker. Could anyone give me a hand? Many thanks, Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem
Many thanks for help. This is what I found in Soundcard in HardDrake: Vendor: ESS Technology Model: ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive This is the Kernel Module: snd-card-es1938 Bus Type: PCI And system prompts this when I try to open KMenu-Multimedia-Sound-Audio Mixer: Not able to open audio device. Please check that you have permission to /dev/mixer and make sure you have sound support compiled into your kernel I am root running all these. From GNome Control Center, I could only see 2 tick box for Enable Soundserver Startup and sounds for events. And they ARE ticked. Doesn't what I see in HardDrake mean the sound support is already compiled into my kernel? And there is no mixer in the /dev directory. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
