RE: [newbie] Tulip driver
The problem with the tulip based cards isn't the driver, which was written by Becker and is reportedly very good. It's the clones of the DEC chips that the tulip driver was written for. Not all the clones are good copies of DEC's work. I personally have this problem with an ASIX chipset AX88140 on my tulip clone cards. I have never been able to get the tulip driver to work with this, although I heard that version 0.91e or f would work with this card, I have always gotten compiler errors with this driver compile. That's why I am looking for a new card... :) Mark
[newbie] Auto update headaches
Fresh install of 6.0, setup modem, etc. Run auto update. Wait all night for downloads. Multiple errors. Some file conflicts with BeroFTP. Some things need to be forced due to conflicts with existing files. The auto update icon is a good idea, but let's face it, Newbies are not gonna have a clue what files would be needed / not needed or in conflict with other system files. It's just right back to old school but with a slick script to save typing. HELP! mark I'd attach the file of errors but it's at home.
[newbie] Duplicate emails.
I have been getting a LOT of duplicate emails. This is the 4-5th time for this one. Don't send multiple copies! It's driving me nuts, and there's no way to filter multiple copies in my email program. -Original Message- From: Tony Fey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Diamond SupraExpress Problem To anyone that can help, I just installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 and it did not setup my supraexpress 56k V.90 modem, chipset 2120. That is because the modem is pnp i'm guessing, went to www.linuxnewbie.com and read their article on installing an isapnp modem. Did all the setserial and editing the isapnp.conf file to change it to detect the modem at com1, both serial ports are diabled in the bios and i have no other isa cards. I keep getting a conflict with irq 4, when i set it for com2, i get a conflict with irq3, any setting right now gets a conflict. my computer is an amdk6-2 450, asus p5a mainboard, voodoo3 3000, sound blaster live value, intel pro100 management nic, and da modem. if anyone has seen this problem or knows the fix for it plz reply to the list or e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED], i checked the list archives and didn't see any problems like this one. thanks a whole lot in advance, this is the only reason why windows is still on my computer, once the modem works goodbye billie boy's software. tony
RE: [newbie] Proxy Setting
There's some ISP's out there that run off a satellite connection using proxy software to the main office. It doesn't work very well, that's why I dumped em. (mainly for remote/rural areas) -Original Message- From: Steve Philp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 12:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Proxy Setting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody here knows how to Proxy Netscape . I've edited it in setting (Control) for Netscape but still it does not point to my ISP Proxy a windows NT using Wingate... Thanks Lapu_Lapu You should be able to set it under the Advanced/Proxies tab in the Preferences window of Netscape. Simply tell it 'Manual Configuration' then enter the hostname and port number for each relevant item. That should be all you need to do! An ISP using Win NT and Wingate?? What sort of fly-by-night operation is that?! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] SMP + OT DSL Question
Incedentally, where's this BP6 SMP article that started this thread? My next computer's gonna be a BP6/300A setup. -Original Message- From: Seth Gibson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 11:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SMP + OT DSL Question On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta sorry if I sound stupid here, but BP6??? The ABit mobo that supports dual celerons. . .anybody else heard the rumor that intel is going to start diasbling SMP capability in PPGA Celerons too? I read that somewhere. . .Hopefully AMD wont follow that path with the Athlon Selects. . . Now for the OT DSL Question(: Im getting DSL with a static IP and im running a DSL box into a NIC. So basically do i just need to configure eth0 for normal operation and then connect the DSL box to the NIC? Thanks all! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) Aggression Takes Its Toll.
RE: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD?
-Original Message- From: Thomas J. Hamman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 9:40 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD? Technically you could, yes. You'd just remove the packages you're replacing from Mandrake/RPMS, put the newer packages you want to use in Mandrake/RPMS, and then from the base of the distribution tree run: ./misc/genhdlist . To update the hdlist with the new packages. That's what I did when I made an updated M6.0 CD (with the updates specifically for 6.0). I can foresee you possibly having dependency problems when trying to mix 6.1 packages in, though; it's quite likely that there are slightly newer versions for some libraries (like gtk, qt, etc.) in 6.1 that some packages in 6.1 depend on, so you would need to add them too (and might as well toss in the newer development packages while you're at it). But THEN you MIGHT (or might not, your guess is as good as mine) break some of the 6.0 packages that are linked with slightly older libraries from 6.0. If you haven't actually tried 6.1 yet, I'd suggest giving it a try. It works great for me, and my impression of it is that it's less buggy than 6.0. There were some updates for 6.0 that ya just HAD to get, but I didn't even bother getting the 6.1 updates until I was burning a CD for a friend and figured I might as well put the existing updates on it. Secondly, once I get this ready, can it be burnt in *GAK* Windows, or do I actually need to figure out XCDroast? As far as I know, burning in Windows should be fine. Though I don't know if Windows burning programs allow you to use Rock Ridge extensions? I'd think you would want a Linux CD burned with Rock Ridge extensions (it's like the Linux version of Windows' Joliet). -Tom Okay, so I copy the contents of the CD to a partition, run /misc/src/.genhdlist so that it updates a file somewhere, then burn the whole mess back onto a CD? Truly uninformed, Mark
RE: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD?
-Original Message- From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD? On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,Thomas J. Hamman wrote: | On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, mshirley wrote: | | With all the problems with 6.1, is there a way to | make an updated 6.0 CD so that all the updates are | installed automagically? IE, I put the CD in, and | run install, etc, and get the new kernal, initscripts, | and heck even the new 2.2.13 kernal and XFree86 even. | Is there a file used for installation that says what files | are on the CD? | | Technically you could, yes. You'd just remove the packages you're replacing | from Mandrake/RPMS, put the newer packages you want to use in Mandrake/RPMS, | and then from the base of the distribution tree run: | | ./misc/genhdlist . | | To update the hdlist with the new packages. | | That's what I did when I made an updated M6.0 CD (with the updates specifically | for 6.0). I can foresee you possibly having dependency problems when trying to | mix 6.1 packages in, though; it's quite likely that there are slightly newer | versions for some libraries (like gtk, qt, etc.) in 6.1 that some packages in | 6.1 depend on, so you would need to add them too (and might as well toss in the | newer development packages while you're at it). But THEN you MIGHT (or might | not, your guess is as good as mine) break some of the 6.0 packages that are | linked with slightly older libraries from 6.0. | | If you haven't actually tried 6.1 yet, I'd suggest giving it a try. It works | great for me, and my impression of it is that it's less buggy than 6.0. There | were some updates for 6.0 that ya just HAD to get, but I didn't even bother | getting the 6.1 updates until I was burning a CD for a friend and figured I | might as well put the existing updates on it. | | Secondly, once I get this ready, can it be burnt in *GAK* | Windows, or do I actually need to figure out XCDroast? | | As far as I know, burning in Windows should be fine. Though I don't know if | Windows burning programs allow you to use Rock Ridge extensions? I'd think you | would want a Linux CD burned with Rock Ridge extensions (it's like the Linux | version of Windows' Joliet). | | -Tom Mandrake 6.1 works great here. The only problem I have found is that there apears to be a conflict between the kcmclock package and the kdelibs package. If you have this problem, remove the kcmclock package, and install the kdelibs package in kpackage. Problem solved! Ernie I have been following the banter from Steve Philps and Axalon about how broken 6.1 is, and don't even want to touch it until the SECOND bug fix is out. 6.0 works well for me, but have been unable to get the fix packages to install correctly, and thought that since I am still learning, and hence, screwing up my installs bad enough that I need to reinstall every now and then, that I would make an updated 6.0 CD, that way I have one less step every time I reinstall. On that note, when updating the kernal and initscripts for instance, how do I get the package to install? De-install the kernal and then reinstall the new one, then update lilo? or the other way around? Secondly, how do you update lilo that is on a floppy? I don't have lilo on the MBR. Know-nothing, Mark
RE: [newbie] SCSI card not recognized at boot
-Original Message- From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 3:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SCSI card not recognized at boot If you simply use a conf option example from someone else make sure that IRQ is not in use, if it is then that is possably the reason why conf.modules crashed your machine. Setserial will do exachtly the same, i suggest you read the SCSI HOWTO found in /usr/doc/* and find out which IRQ's are used and which are resurved for PCI devices, before you do anything else. -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IRQ was the one set on the jumpers on the card. Unless some of the IRQ's are being rearranged, I don't think anything else is using 10, since that's what Win98 is using for it. This card is NOT PNP by the way. The SCSI howto was not helpful. Mark
[newbie] SCSI card not recognized at boot
I have a PEL-1600 Scsi card for my CDR. It is supposed to use the AHA152x module. I did some research on the net, and found that somebody was able to get it working using the following command aha152x=0x340,10,7,1 unfortunately, I don't know where to put this command. I want this card recognized at bootup everytime, and would like to not have to type this command in every time. I tried this in conf.modules, but it crashed the box. Help please. Thanks, Mark
RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer
Speaking as a big-three employee, leave the analogies to Ford/GM/Chrysler out next time. They aren't really accurate, and don't take into account market factors in effect at the time. And calling Chrysler smart... whew, we won't even get into that one. -Original Message- From: Sean Pritchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer Wait a minute Fellow Newbies! I thought that one reason we started converting to Linux was to break away from MS systems and Apps? If we start putting in requests for MS Apps, MS will bungle up the beauty of this OS and it's community. I am not a purist, but in look at it this way. If I own a Dodge Ram, I don't want Ford redesigning and building accessories for my truck, nor do I want them to do any maintenance on it. But, third party mechanics can take a look, and do service on it if they are qualified and respect my property. They'll have warrantee liscensing to be qualified, to ensure the customer satisfaction and protection. MS was to OS's and computers as Henry Ford was to cars. Big Bad Bill setup the mass production and implementation but Ford does not have the most dependable vehicles, nor were they the inventors - BENZ has a product that is fast and decades durable and dependable and the engineering is out reach for Ford to impliment in there vehicles. There were hybrid vehicle corporations out there that died - AMC=Ford+GMC, they couldn't even take the best of both to do it. So CHRYSLER had a mind to buy it up and revamp it. They had the brains for marketing and technology to do it. DOes Linux have the edge to do something like this to MS?, we'll only see in the decade ahead. Sorry for the deep philosophy... Regards, Sean David van Balen wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Donny wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? I believe the only versions of Unix supported by IE are HP-UX and Solaris. I very much doubt that MS has any plans to port their product to Linux for obvious reasons... then again, I may be wrong :) Neither of the above versions should work with Linux as far as I know. Thanks! David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
What are you, a M$ plant? This is the wrong place to be espousing the value of M$ OS's! Besides, not everybody runs NT anyway. 95/98 DOES crash a lot. 2000 probably will too. -Original Message- From: Sam Gentile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 12:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Sam Gentile Subject: RE: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor) I know this a joke but know what you are talking about before you speak - Windows 2000 is extremely stable and does not require reboots. I have been running it for almost 6 months now as my primary system including using huge server applications like SQL Server 7.0, and other things like Visual Studio 6.0, Borland's JBuilder and IT HAS NOT CRASHED ONCE. NO REBOOTS. The NT Team did an analysis of all situations in which re-boots are required in NT 4.0 and came up with 78 situations. All but three have been eliminated. Change TCP parameters? No reboots. So I would caution you to have experience with what you speak of or you just spreading around crap and FUD and that is un-professional. Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer Viridien Team Leader toysmart.com 170 High Street Waltham, MA 02454 -Original Message- From: Jeanette Russo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
