Re: [newbie-it] Hard Disk rallentato
Il 23:40, giovedì 31 Maggio 2001, scrivesti: Il 02:30, giovedì 31 Maggio 2001, Daniele Micci ha scritto: [cut] 2. ACCESSO AL DISCO. Non so da cosa possa dipendere, ma quando lancio un qualsiasi programma (uso KDE; ho verificato che con GNOME non succede: in quel caso il PC va veloce come sempre!), So che il kernel 2.4 fa un uso piu` intensivo dello spazio di swap rispetto alle versioni precedenti... Il fatto che con Gnome non succeda puo` essere dato dal fatto che, essendo piu` leggero, non esaurisce la ram e quindi non ha necessita` di swappare.. Non direi proprio... per due motivi: principalmente gnome non è che sia più leggero, ed in secondo luogo il fatto che il 2.4 faccia un uso più intesivo dello swap non vuole dire che sia più lento, ci mancherebbe. I motivi sono altrove... -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
[newbie-it] help lan
Salve a tutti, chiedo a voi ( con gentilezza ) aiuto per quanto riguarda la configurazione di samba con mandrake 8. Nel mio caso , ho una lan di circa 10 pc con SO windows 9x , ho già creato con samba le cartelle condivise , ma il problema è che NON CAPISCO come si possa proteggere le cartelle condivise mediante utente e password. Ringrazio anticipatamente max.
[newbie-it] keymap attiva ?
Ciao, un'informazione, cme faccio a sapere quale keymap attiva ho ? Quali sono i files da vedere (ed eventualmente da modificare) ? Grazie, Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] keymap attiva ?
Il 19:27, sabato 02 giugno 2001, Alberto Zanoni scrisse: Ciao, un'informazione, cme faccio a sapere quale keymap attiva ho ? Quali sono i files da vedere (ed eventualmente da modificare) ? Dando una rapida occhiata arc.sysinit: rc.sysinit: loadkeys $KEYMAP /dev/tty0 /dev/tty0 2/dev/null \ KEYMAP è definita nello stesso file: KEYMAP=/etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap Credo che un qualche accrocchio di mandrake metta nel file default.kmap la mappa di tastiera scelta da tool grafico. Ci sono anche tutte le altre, appena ho un attimo vedo dove sono tenute, credo da qualche parte in /usr/share -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
[newbie-it] staroffice
Dove posso trovare i driver per stampanti su staroffice 5.2 la mia stampante è una epson stylus color 670 e su staroffice stampa male invece con altri programmi tipo kword e perfetto . C'è un modo per fare usare la stampante di sistema a staroffice? Grazie per l'aiuto. Lele _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie-it] staroffice
bellotti wrote: Dove posso trovare i driver per stampanti su staroffice 5.2 la mia stampante è una epson stylus color 670 e su staroffice stampa male invece con altri programmi tipo kword e perfetto . C'è un modo per fare usare la stampante di sistema a staroffice? StarOffice ha solo i driver per alcune stampanti con cartuccia postscript hardware. Tutte le altre si configurano come postscript generica, S-O. prepara un file postscript che viene dato in pasto a lpr.. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] GR
Scusate il subject, ma in realtà dice tutto...! ^_^ Quando installai Mandrake 7.2, mesi fa, successe una cosa strana: fallito l'upgrade dalla 7.1, riformattai la partizione / mantenendo intatta la partizione home, con utenti e settaggi definiti; mi successe che sotto Gnome e solo come utente corrado alla pressione dei tasti g e r, anzichè vederli apparire nell'applicazione in uso, quale che essa fosse (Messenger, X-Chat, terminale...), anzichè veder regolarmente apparire le lettere in questione, mi lampeggiava la finestra in questione e di r o g neanche l'ombra... questo accadeva solo sotto Gnome e solo a corrado; a root e ad altri utenti già impostati prima dell'upgrade andava tutto bene Ero poi riuscito a risolvere il problema, solo che non ricordo assolutamente come... ;__; Il fatto è che ora ho seguito la stessa procedura passando dalla 7.2 alla 8.0, e di nuovo il povero corrado si ritrova privo di due lettere Nessuno ha qualche idea sul perchè accada ciò o suggerimenti sul come scoprirlo? E'sicuramente un problema legato a Gnome, poichè ho provato Sawfish da solo ed è okay... Inoltre, la spariozione delle due lettere si verifica anche se lancio un'applicazione Gnome sotto KDE Grazie per l'aiuto! Corrado
[newbie-it] migliorare la connessione?
salvecortesemente volevo sapere se esiste un modo (non troppo complicato :o) ) per ottimizzare la velocita' di connessione o cmq renderla piu' stabile la mia connessione attualmente e' una ISDN a 64 grazie
[newbie-it] Navigare in Internet !
Ciao prima di tutto 1 grazie a chi risponderà!! Il mio problema è che dopo tante fatiche sono riuscito a configurare un winmodem su mandrake 8.0 ma con il mandrake Control Center nella sezione sicurezza/livello di sicurezza mi da il livello 'benvenuti cracker' e quando seleziono il livello medio e clicco ok il computer sembra memorizzare l'opzione ma poi una volta riaperto il programma mi da sempre il livello iniziale (che non misembra proprio adatto per navigare in internet).poi ho cercato di configurare il programmino Bastille ma non so se basta.Quindi la mia domanda è : come posso sistemare i parametri magari testualmente?? oppure ancora meglio sequalcuno ha dei links su delle guide (posssibilmente semplici) sull'argomento. Ciao e grazie!
Re: [newbie] Divx
On Monday 04 June 2001 12:50 am, you wrote: How do I get mplayer to work in Mandrake 8.0? Or is there an other divxplayer?? running XFree 4 //Magnus You're going to have to read the readme and install doc that comes with it. It's not a simple 1-step process. However, follow the directions and it works. You may need to download some libs or something, but it'll let you know. I can't recall what all's involved, and would be too complicated to put in an email. It's documented really well, and the faq are always a good read with any app. It's the only one that's works (that I've tried). -s
[newbie] Static and Virtual IP's for ADSL not working.
Hi all, We have a mandrake box here, (7.2 with all updates) that is permanently connected to the net via ADSL with a static IP address... That is working just wonderfully, It uses an Alcatel Modem, that connects to the ph line at one side and via a crossed over network cable to eth0 of the server on the other side. We were then assigned another 4 IP's to use for Domains with our network, and I set them all up to be virtual IP's of eth0 and then I want to use port forwarding to send specific ports to the internal machines.. The port forwarding is working fine for the static IP (using Ipmasqadm and loving it.) and all internal machines can ping the new IP's, (which are in the range 203.59.xx.xx) but they are not getting out though the adsl connection and as such are not accessable to the net... its not a firewall stopping them, even with the firewall (modified PMfirewall) turned off, there is no connection, so I can only assume it has something to do with the ADSL or the modem,,, But I have never used ADSL before and don't really know the details of it... I have used the virtual IP method before, even with Dialup and I have one machine with 7 IP's set as virtual IP's on ppp0 and it works fantastically (also a mandrake 7.2 box), but it won't with ADSL, has anyone had this problem before? can anyone make suggestions as to what I might try? kindest regards, Frank
RE: [newbie] New LM 8.0 Box, not much joy! Help!!
don't know if this has been answered yet, so I shall try for you... shutdown -r now to reboot, shutdown -h now to stop it completely As for your video card, I haven't got the same card, but I have had non listed cards before, and when I do, I usually try similiar cards. one will usually get pretty close to the make and allow you to use higher then vga res and color... I must admit to some surprise that that card isn't supported,, what chipset does it use? look at the card itself, and then try to find a driver for the chipset not the card... regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mick Sent: Monday, 4 June 2001 6:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] New LM 8.0 Box, not much joy! Help!! Hello List, Just got back from purchasing the new Linux box. I got an Asus m/b A7A266, an AMD Athlon T/Bird 1 ghz. 512mb of PC-133 Memory. I thought I was okay in the assumption that most ATI video cards would work in Linux, especially LM 8.0, I got an ATI Expert 2000 AGP w/32mb. The new HD is a Quantum Fireball 40 gig 7200rpm. I then loaded up the new LM 8.0. Everything appeared to go well until setting up the X Server. This brings up my first question about LM in general. Why is the setting up of the X Server and the video and monitor hardware left to be the very last thing in the line of items in installation? From reading problems day after day on the list it appears that this is the main problem that arises 95% of the time during installs. Anyway, to get back to the new install, the first error occurred after my X didn't come up. At the prompt I ran XFdrake. The first thing I noticed was no ATI Expert 2000 AGP in the list to choose from. If that wasn't bad enough then came the second very annoying error: Probable hardware bug: Clock timer configuration lost. Probably VIA 686a motherboard. Restoring chip configuration: This keeps coming up every few minutes. Hmm...I wonder if I shouldn't have had chose the GMT time zone option? And then if that wasn't enough, you'd think that after all these weeks of using LM 7.2, that I'd know by now how to powerdown from the prompt! I have always used a GUI login and logout! I have tried HALT, POWEROFF, EXIT, TERM, and many other words I can't repeat here! Please, what is the Linux command to power down and off? Many thanks, Mick
[newbie] File sharing with windows question
Can two windows98 machine file share thru a linux gateway with tiny firewall without samba? My family's two windows machines can't share. The names of these computers and the gateway show up in network neighborhood, but no files. If I try to map them, I get an error about not finding the machines. Or do I need to try and get samba configured? (someone got a good newbie site/link on this subject?) -s
[newbie] Orinoco w/Mandrake 8
Has anyone successfully gotten an Orinoco Silver wireless lan card to work under Mandrake 8? I've got an orinoco that wants to talk to an apple airport. I've read the messages on this list, and also the http://lists.samba.org/listinfo/wireless list, but I still don't see the final conclusion that shows how it's done. [Mind you, I was able to get the PCMCIA + PCI adapter all to work in 7.2, with the lucent drivers. Matter of fact, I'm using another machine configured w/7.2+orinoco to write this.] Now, with Mdk8, these seem to be the results others besides just me are experiencing: 1. Orinoco_cs/doesn't install because of unresolved syms. 2. Lucent's drivers don't even compile under the new kernel. 3. wvlan_cs -almost- works. I'm assuming that #3, the driver that ships with Mandrake, is the way to go, correct? I've set it up to the best of my understanding, in a very simple network, but something's wrong. Pings to the AP or outside give 'destination unreachable' errors. Iwconfig states that I've got a link (at least it reports link quality figures, so I'm guessing it found the access point). I've got the ESSID set to the network name and all that. I don't use encryption on this network, so that's not the issue. Managed mode, no tricky ad-hoc stuff. I can insert/eject the card all day long and get the good beeps, etc. But, I'm stuck here: my logfile's full of messages that say NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out wvlan_cs: eth0 Tx timed out! resetting card wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is some address wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x60006 (vendor 1) - Firmware capabilites 1-1-1-1-1 I know that others have seen this problem, from reading the lists. So, what's the magic incantation I'm missing? I assume someone has gotten the Orinoco to work under Mandrake 8. How? Can someone please summarize (Skip Montanaro?) ? thanks, jeff
Re: [newbie] File sharing with windows question
Hi, It would be very difficult, without the use of Samba. In fact, it is almost impossible. You'll definately need Samba to do it. I can help you set it up if you like. Regards, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:53 AM Subject: [newbie] File sharing with windows question Can two windows98 machine file share thru a linux gateway with tiny firewall without samba? My family's two windows machines can't share. The names of these computers and the gateway show up in network neighborhood, but no files. If I try to map them, I get an error about not finding the machines. Or do I need to try and get samba configured? (someone got a good newbie site/link on this subject?) -s Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
[newbie] Who turned out the lights?
Hi! A few weeks ago, I downloaded and installed the KDE 2.1.1 packages for Mandrake Linux 7.2 (beforehand I upgraded to XFree 4.0.3). Now, whenever I boot up using vga=0x314 or 0x315 (or any other VESA mode that I've tried) in /etc/lilo.conf, all the KDE components on the screen (starting with the KDE login screen) have a very dark background -- so dark that I can just barely read the text (the text is black too :). I've found that switching to a virtual console (CTRL+ALT+F1) and switching back to the X screen (CTRL+ALT+F7 or ALT+F7) magically fixes the situation, until the next time I boot into Linux. But why does this happen in the first place and how do I fix it, permanently? Thanks, George Petri
Re: [newbie] Who turned out the lights?
Hi, I have had a similar situation like this on my laptop. It seems that it is linked to the framebuffer that you use to boot up, and the default colour depth that X-window runs in. I would suggest, that as a test, you change your vga= in lilo.conf to vga=normal. Save the file, and then run lilo. Then, change the default colour depth in /etc/XF86Config to 8, and then reboot your machine (init 6). If the colour depth displays ok, at 8 bit, without having to chvt each time, then it means that most likely, it is a problem with your graphics display. The fact that it restores the colour depth after you have switched to a VT and back again, suggests that your refresh rate for your monitor maybe inaccurate. But that is only a guess! If I can be of any further assistance, please let me know. Kind Regards, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 6:22 PM Subject: [newbie] Who turned out the lights? Hi! A few weeks ago, I downloaded and installed the KDE 2.1.1 packages for Mandrake Linux 7.2 (beforehand I upgraded to XFree 4.0.3). Now, whenever I boot up using vga=0x314 or 0x315 (or any other VESA mode that I've tried) in /etc/lilo.conf, all the KDE components on the screen (starting with the KDE login screen) have a very dark background -- so dark that I can just barely read the text (the text is black too :). I've found that switching to a virtual console (CTRL+ALT+F1) and switching back to the X screen (CTRL+ALT+F7 or ALT+F7) magically fixes the situation, until the next time I boot into Linux. But why does this happen in the first place and how do I fix it, permanently? Thanks, George Petri Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
[newbie] telstra adsl
Is anyone connecting to telstra's ADSL service to a Win2000 box and running Linux off that? I want to connect using the Win2000 box, but have a net connection from my Linux box running Mandrake 8 Possible out of the (Mandrake) box? Or is this something for the [expert] list? ;-) Or should I do it the other way round? ciao TIA Ben
RE: [newbie] telstra adsl
you should just be able to setup the window2000 box to share its connection, (when connected, open the connection properties and select share this connection) Then in your linux box, set it to use the telstra dns, and set its gateway to the ip of the win2000 ethernet card... you should be pretty much up and running then,,, I had a similiar thing going recently,, I shared my connection on my win2000 laptop to my linux box so I could update all the packages on it,, worked great... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ben Sent: Monday, 4 June 2001 5:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] telstra adsl Is anyone connecting to telstra's ADSL service to a Win2000 box and running Linux off that? I want to connect using the Win2000 box, but have a net connection from my Linux box running Mandrake 8 Possible out of the (Mandrake) box? Or is this something for the [expert] list? ;-) Or should I do it the other way round? ciao TIA Ben
RE: [newbie] telstra adsl
well first get normal networking happening on the linux box, you should have a network cart in both the windoze and linux box's.. connect them using a hub or a crossover cable (cheaper then a hub) you then set the ethernet card in the windows 2000 box to 192.168.0.1 (I think it might do it for you when you share the connection) set the linux box's IP to 192.168.0.2 or similiar... you should be able to ping each machine from the other... once that is done,, you need only set the gateway on the linux box to the ethernet IP of the windows box.. (in this case 192.168.0.1) and set the dns up to use telstrs name servers,,, as for which connection to share,, if you have two, one is most likely the ADSL and the other the internal network,,, you need only set the ADSL connection up for sharing... hope this helps regards Frank. -Original Message- From: ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 4 June 2001 5:28 PM To: Franki Subject: RE: [newbie] telstra adsl At 05:07 PM 6/4/2001 +0800, you wrote: you should just be able to setup the window2000 box to share its connection, (when connected, open the connection properties and select share this connection) When it was setup, there was 2 connections. So I share on both? Then in your linux box, set it to use the telstra dns, and set its gateway to the ip of the win2000 ethernet card... What hardware do I need in the Linux Box to get this to happen (network cards, routers, cables etc?) you should be pretty much up and running then,,, Lets hope so! Thanks for your help ;-) Ben
[newbie] when is lm 8.1 coming out ?
when is lm 8.1 coming out ?
[newbie] Using VNC
Just a quick question regarding VNC Viewer. I've been using VNC for a while under NT4. Having gotten into linux I'm now using it to get to my NT Boxes. What I have found is that I don't be able to send the CONTROL-ALT-DELETE as per the Windows interface. Is there a way I can do this? Brett.
Re: [newbie] File sharing with windows question
Oooo, yes please. I would like. :-) I have installed the mdk samba server, client and common files on the gateway, and samba client on my workstation. I tried setting the ip #s up in Samba conf using webadmin. (But that didn't do anything.) But that's about as far I got. I'm afraid I hadn't paid much attention to the whole subject of samba before, thinking I would never need it. So I am a lost and confused newbie. TIA, -s On Monday 04 June 2001 03:26 am, you wrote: Hi, It would be very difficult, without the use of Samba. In fact, it is almost impossible. You'll definately need Samba to do it. I can help you set it up if you like. Regards, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:53 AM Subject: [newbie] File sharing with windows question Can two windows98 machine file share thru a linux gateway with tiny firewall without samba? My family's two windows machines can't share. The names of these computers and the gateway show up in network neighborhood, but no files. If I try to map them, I get an error about not finding the machines. Or do I need to try and get samba configured? (someone got a good newbie site/link on this subject?) -s
Re: [newbie] Lilo
On Sunday 03 June 2001 09:38, OOzy Pal wrote: I have dual boot. Mandrake starts and quickly goes to Linux. I tried to edit /etc/lilo.conf but not help. Which file has the timeout. Then I tried to go Mandrake Control Center|Boot to configure the the bootloader but I get an error lilo failed no images or default image... (or so) Oozy, after you change lilo.conf, you have to run lilo from the command line so it can write the updated information to the boot sector. If you don't do that, it won't pay any attention to the file. John
Re: [newbie] New LM 8.0 Box, not much joy! Help!!
Please, what is the Linux command to power down and off? Many thanks, Mick = Try:Shutdown -h now HTH, Mike -- Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there. --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] Lan Browsing
Anyone get lan browsing to work under LM8? I don't remember seeing this feature in 7.2 , it would be nice if it worked... it seems like it would be like Network Neighborhood. thanks! -- ---Anthony Hologounis--- If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it - Albert Einstein
[newbie] System hungs up after installation.
The system is a Pentium III 450, 96MBytes of RAM, Trident 975 AGP video board, Adaptec 1520 SCSI interface, CW-7502 CD-R drive, and Hp Deskjet 840C USB. The installation goes fine, even the printer is correctly detected. The system reboots after the installation, which is normal, and it gets stuck in Aurora in the Finding module dependencies icon. Trying to boot using the failsafe mode, I noticed that the Finding module dependencies phase is too fast (the HD doesn´t even blink). If I press Ctrl-D, the system informs me that it will change to running level 5 and try to load the USB modules. Then it gets stuck forever, although it echo whichever characters I send using the keyboard. By the way, Linux is installed in a 30 Gbytes Quantum Fireball HD in the fifth partition and the swap partition is the sixth. Does anyone have any idea of what is going on ? Thanks in advance, Fuzzy
Re: [newbie] How to Compile Kernel
Well here's the deal. Start out with this web page. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html It tells you that you can go through and create your own .config file but I suggest you use the make xconfig. I didn't want to do it that way to start, but having tried to do it manually so many times and getting so many errors that it wouldn't finish, I resorted to that. I still get errors some times, but often it's just that it had a problem writing to /etc/lilo.conf. At which point I just delete the last part of the file, and ran the kernel commands again. If I get no errors, I try and boot the kernel. After you try booting, you may get some errors. Investigate those before you go and try and fix the kernel. For example, I get two errors when I boot now. One of them is USB, which I disabled in the kernel. I'm not going to use it, so get rid of it! And the other is that it can't load the module for es1371, which is for my sound card. I rebuilt a kernel and tried tones of stuff before I actually tried something that required sound. Suddenly I was hearing sound! So it may say that it had a problem with loading it, but for some reason or another actually did load it! So try the instructions from that web page. I downloaded the latest 2.4.5 kernel, and conpiled that to come up with: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ uname -a Linux r2d2 2.4.5-R2D2-20mdk #6 SMP Mon Jun 4 00:04:14 EDT 2001 i686 unknown In the Makefile I added -R2D2-20mdk since my machine's name is R2D2 so I knew which one I was actually loading when I boot, as well as what the vmlinux-(BLAH BLAH BLAH) would look like as well. After I've booted it and everything works, even sound, I went in DrakConf and made my new kernel the default kernel to be loaded. Now everything's going smooth. Hope those instructions help you, and in selecting options for your kernel, get rid of things you don't have, and won't use. IF you don't SCSI devices, disable that drive. If you're going to be dealing with a cross platform network, get rid of AppleTalk. Or the AM/FM Radio options and more. Makes the kernel smaller, makes the machine boot faster as well. Good luck! tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Tim - | | I downloaded the recent src but the explanation in the README was a little | cryptic at the end. I read the chapter in the Reference Manual for LM and | it is a lot more specific for someone with my level of experience with | kernel configuration. | | I'll let you know how it goes... | | Thanks - | | Ed | | | Ed Kasky | Los Angeles, CA | Just another day in paradise... }B-) --
Re: [newbie] usb modem configurating
Good luck is right! 90% USB Modems are WinModems. I found this out two months ago when I was trying to give a USB modem I have to a friend to use with a dual boot Mandrake/Windows machine. IN trying to make sure it would work on my machine, I found out it was a WinModem! So it didn't work. However, the real reason I'm replying here, since the other guy said pretty much what I said above, is that you may need to recompile the new kernel to get the USB modem to work. I've spent the past 36 hours straight recompiling the kernel for my Mandrake workstation at home. One of the things I noticed with the new kernel, 2.4.5, is that there is an option that you can add to the kernel for USB Modems. I can't remember if it was turned on by default, since I disabled USB support in the kernel earlier in the configuration. You may want to try that with trying to get the modem to work. IF you're successful, let the list know. I know several of us would like to, and/or have tried to get a USB modem working with Linux. USB Modems are super fast in making connections, and are very sound! Maybe they're real reliable because they are infact software modems. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Hello | | I am not be able to configure my usb modem. I'm using Mandrake 7.2 | | Anybody can help me? | | Thanks in advance, | --
[newbie] netgroup support is disabled
I am trying to set up a mandrake 7.2 box to use netgroup for authentication in hosts.allow , etc... I get this message in /var/log/messages: Jun 1 06:58:00 fox xinetd[585]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: netgroup support is disabled OR Jun 1 11:00:09 fox portmap[378]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: netgroup support is disabled I have a feeling that this is contributing to another problem. In /etc/exports I want to share to my netgroup as well. ypcat netgroup -k shows that I have a valid bind (hosts passwd as well) file: #/etc/exports /home @mynetgroup(rw) exportfs shows the group... # exportfs /home @mynetgroup but machines in the group are denied unless explicitly given rights as in /home my.host.here.edu(rw) ideas? Thanks in advance! -- Brock Murch System Administrator / Programmer X-Band Data Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Cant mount floppy or CDROM
On Sunday 03 June 2001 10:24, Eric Lauritzen wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 installed. I installed from the CDs and booted from floppy. But now that I'm running Mandrake, I can't seem to mount any of my two CD drives or my floppy drive. But I keep getting the error: mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device but /dev/cdrom shows up under KDE Information block devices Could someone help me figure this out? Eric, does /dev/cdrom point to /dev/hdsomething like this? [john@localhost john]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 May 30 21:31 /dev/cdrom - hdc [john@localhost john]$ ls -l /dev/hdc brw---1 john cdrom 22, 0 Apr 14 21:06 /dev/hdc [john@localhost john]$ You know you have to have a disk in when you mount it, or you will get that error. Also, the disk must have stuff on it. Does /dev/cdrom point to the right hdsomething. I presume the CDROM is an IDE drive? I can't comment on the floppy, I haven't even tried to use mine from Linux. John
RE: [newbie] telstra adsl
or you could buy a linksys router brandon caudle From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rules Address for MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED], ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] telstra adsl Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:31:25 +0800 well first get normal networking happening on the linux box, you should have a network cart in both the windoze and linux box's.. connect them using a hub or a crossover cable (cheaper then a hub) you then set the ethernet card in the windows 2000 box to 192.168.0.1 (I think it might do it for you when you share the connection) set the linux box's IP to 192.168.0.2 or similiar... you should be able to ping each machine from the other... once that is done,, you need only set the gateway on the linux box to the ethernet IP of the windows box.. (in this case 192.168.0.1) and set the dns up to use telstrs name servers,,, as for which connection to share,, if you have two, one is most likely the ADSL and the other the internal network,,, you need only set the ADSL connection up for sharing... hope this helps regards Frank. -Original Message- From: ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 4 June 2001 5:28 PM To: Franki Subject: RE: [newbie] telstra adsl At 05:07 PM 6/4/2001 +0800, you wrote: you should just be able to setup the window2000 box to share its connection, (when connected, open the connection properties and select share this connection) When it was setup, there was 2 connections. So I share on both? Then in your linux box, set it to use the telstra dns, and set its gateway to the ip of the win2000 ethernet card... What hardware do I need in the Linux Box to get this to happen (network cards, routers, cables etc?) you should be pretty much up and running then,,, Lets hope so! Thanks for your help ;-) Ben _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] How to Compile Kernel
download the kernel from kernel.org place it /tmp or where ever go to the directory you placed it in say /tmp [timh@r2d2 timh]$ gzip -cd linux-2.4.5.tar.gz | tar xvf - [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cd linux [timh@r2d2 timh]$ make mrproper [timh@r2d2 timh]$ make xconfig now configure with the options you want save and exit [timh@r2d2 timh]$ make dep [timh@r2d2 timh]$ make bzImage [timh@r2d2 timh]$ make modules [timh@r2d2 timh]$ make modules_install then you have to copy the bzImage you created in /tmp/linux/arch/(i think) i386/boot to /boot then edit /etc/lilo.conf to see the other image DONT remove the other kernel incase this one doesn;t work properly [timh@r2d2 timh]$ /sbin/lilo then reboot brandon caudle From: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to Compile Kernel Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 08:39:34 -0400 Well here's the deal. Start out with this web page. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html It tells you that you can go through and create your own .config file but I suggest you use the make xconfig. I didn't want to do it that way to start, but having tried to do it manually so many times and getting so many errors that it wouldn't finish, I resorted to that. I still get errors some times, but often it's just that it had a problem writing to /etc/lilo.conf. At which point I just delete the last part of the file, and ran the kernel commands again. If I get no errors, I try and boot the kernel. After you try booting, you may get some errors. Investigate those before you go and try and fix the kernel. For example, I get two errors when I boot now. One of them is USB, which I disabled in the kernel. I'm not going to use it, so get rid of it! And the other is that it can't load the module for es1371, which is for my sound card. I rebuilt a kernel and tried tones of stuff before I actually tried something that required sound. Suddenly I was hearing sound! So it may say that it had a problem with loading it, but for some reason or another actually did load it! So try the instructions from that web page. I downloaded the latest 2.4.5 kernel, and conpiled that to come up with: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ uname -a Linux r2d2 2.4.5-R2D2-20mdk #6 SMP Mon Jun 4 00:04:14 EDT 2001 i686 unknown In the Makefile I added -R2D2-20mdk since my machine's name is R2D2 so I knew which one I was actually loading when I boot, as well as what the vmlinux-(BLAH BLAH BLAH) would look like as well. After I've booted it and everything works, even sound, I went in DrakConf and made my new kernel the default kernel to be loaded. Now everything's going smooth. Hope those instructions help you, and in selecting options for your kernel, get rid of things you don't have, and won't use. IF you don't SCSI devices, disable that drive. If you're going to be dealing with a cross platform network, get rid of AppleTalk. Or the AM/FM Radio options and more. Makes the kernel smaller, makes the machine boot faster as well. Good luck! tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Tim - | | I downloaded the recent src but the explanation in the README was a little | cryptic at the end. I read the chapter in the Reference Manual for LM and | it is a lot more specific for someone with my level of experience with | kernel configuration. | | I'll let you know how it goes... | | Thanks - | | Ed | | | Ed Kasky | Los Angeles, CA | Just another day in paradise... }B-) -- _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
RE: [newbie] OT: Network Hub Question
Can i start by saying thanks everyone that replied to this post, your replies have been very helpful. I didn't realise that an unmanaged hub can be used to connect a server to the workstations. Can i just recap then, I can use an-managed hub to join a server to 2 workstations without any problems. I will stick with the hub as the major criteria is price. the server isn't actually going to do anything, its basically for a few of us at work to play with while doing (whisper) windows 2000 MCSE course (/whisper), so really performance doesn't really matter. Thanks again to everyone who replied, much appreciated. Jamie From: Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jamie Kerwick' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] OT: Network Hub Question Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 05:48:06 -0400 Managed versus unmanaged has little to do with being connected to a server. A managed hub provides an admin with fairly advanced reporting, diagnostic and chatter correction capabilities (among a few other things). This in turn differs from a switch (which may also come, managed or unmanaged). A small switch when combined with Fast Ethernet cards will give you optimal performance. It need not be managed. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jamie Kerwick Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT: Network Hub Question We are looking at setting up a test small network at work , and are wanting a cheapish hub. I was looking at getting a Netgear DS108. Which i also have at home (its work great peer-to-peer). The real question i want to know is will this hub work when connected to a server (ie managed as apposed to the unmanaged setup i have at home). The idea is the small network will have a test win2000 server on it, then adding Linux boxes to it _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Cant mount floppy or CDROM
Eric, does /dev/cdrom point to /dev/hdsomething like this? [john@localhost john]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 May 30 21:31 /dev/cdrom - hdc [john@localhost john]$ ls -l /dev/hdc brw---1 john cdrom 22, 0 Apr 14 21:06 /dev/hdc [john@localhost john]$ When I run those commands it looks exactly like yours. Both drives are recognized during the bootup process - I can see them if I do a dmesg. You know you have to have a disk in when you mount it, or you will get that error. Also, the disk must have stuff on it. I haven't tried to mount an empty drive or read a blank CD. All the CDs I've tried to mount contain data. It happens if I try to look at the Mandrake CDs. Does /dev/cdrom point to the right hdsomething. I presume the CDROM is an IDE drive? As long as hdc, which is how it shows up in dmesg, is my CD drive, then yes. That's what I was checking above? or do I look somewhere else to make sure? Both CDs show up in Block Devices. Thanks for the reply, Eric
Re: [newbie] Linux Docs for the Totally Ignorant
hy, why dont you post your documentation on a website? sent it me, ll post it on mine. if you want. regards On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, - wrote: I'm getting so many requests in response to my Linux for the Totally Ignorant that I'm unable to answer each one directly. So, I hope it doesn't break protocol when I send a few samples on this list. Look for them in ___for the Totally Ignorant. Don't expect nice pretty pages, I don't have time to do artwork. Maybe someone else can rework them. If so, I'd appreciate a copy. Keep in mind that I'm no expert in Linux, in fact, I have a lot of questions to ask about routine things. It's just that I got so mad at the lousy documentation for beginners that I decided to try writing some myself (I don't mean 'lousy' documents). There's an old axiom---if you want to learn, try teaching. (or is it the other way around?)
Re: [newbie] Electric Circuits
Try DIA or KIVIO. The first one is part of GNOME office, the second one of KOffice. Ciao, Eric Indiogine On Saturday 02 June 2001 19:10, OOzy Pal wrote: Hi Anybody knows any programs to draw electric circuits? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] LAN Cable connection set up
I am trying to install NetGear ethernet card to use with my cable modem (RoadRunner service, dynamically assigns IP addresses) which is recognized and uses the tulip driver on Mandrake 8.0. It seems like the detection using the Mandrake Internet Configuration, goes fine. It detects an ethernet card and sets up LAN with no error messages. Under host I tried rr.twmi.com and the default localhost.localdomain, neither work, but I don't really know what host they are looking for. Neither worked though, my Win2K system works fine and with ipconfig tells me that the default host is rr.twmi.com (that's where I got it from). After the internet set up, the applet has the connect to internet button which when I click tries (for about 20-30 seconds) to connect but with no luck. I did select auto dhcp, when setting up. A few times the applet actually showed that something was send, but no bytes received??? I am also not sure that anything was ever send, since there is no way for me to verify and the applet might have a different deffinition of send and consider no error as send??? Am I missing some steps here? I did go through the archive and found that I need to run the 'dhcpcd -d -n -h COxxx-A eth0' command. What is COxx-A are the x's need to be subsituted, or is this a litteral meaning? Thanks in advance to anyone that replies. Ilya Sterin _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0
It was Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:08:16 -0700 (PDT) when Jesse C. Chang wrote: Has anyone done this? Were there any problems encountered, such as when upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2? I want to upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0, but I'm wondering if it will be a headache to do without having to wipe my hard drive and install from scratch. I upgraded one machine. I had to format / and /usr in order to get X going. That is why my main machine is still on 7.2... Paul -- There is time for everything. -Thomas A. Edison http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] licq won't work -adsl router-
Hi! I've got a problem. Since i have adsl licq won't work fine. It desconnect and reconnect again several times. I've got an Efficcient Networks Speedstream 5660 router. It's working in multiuser mode. I know it isn't a linux question but... can anyone help me configuring napt? (I think the problem is there...). Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] Registered users
If Linux is a free operating system under the GNU/GPL License, etc., etc., why do people insist in showing the rest that they are registered users? Coming, as I do, from the[often fanatic] Apple Macintosh environment, it scares me to see how the Linux paranoia increases as its amount of users does. IMHO, of course. --Pablo García Durán
Re: [newbie] XFree 4.0.6 looks worse with KDE
Eric Lauritzen wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2001 14:09, you wrote: Well, I installed XFree 4.x and I must admit that the graphics aren't as crisp. Personally, I think XFree 3.3.6 looked better. Any way to fix this? When I was doing my upgrade (I needed to add the development stuff so I could compile a kernal) I played with the Xfree4 option and noticed that whenever I tested it it didn't look right - looked kind of dim or dark. Perhaps you'll have to rerun the installation - select upgrade rather than install and choose expert. This won't mess with any of your data, configuration, and you'll have the chance to go back to the earlier XFree version. -Eric Eric, I deselected Xfree 4.x and changed it to XFree 3.x, rebooted the computer. Now everything looks good. It must be my video card. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility
Re: [newbie] network problems
As I suspected (since this card was already working under W95, NT, and even FreeBSD for some time on the same PC), this wasn't a hardware issue. I finally did a format and re-install (the update didn't work) to kill this stupid problem. I was really hoping there was a better way, and that I could learn something about how to deal with these sorts of issues in Linux. I've got years of experience in DOS/Windoze, and want to branch out (believe me, you don't know how good it sounds to have an OS that can be managed and recovered from a command line!), but the learning curve is looking mostly like a wall at this point. Now I'm off on my next quest -- getting FreeBSD back on the PC -- had to wipe it to try getting X to work. Turns out the CD has trouble reading key files during the install, so now I can copy them to a Linux partition, boot from floppy, and install using the files on the hard drive. Then I'll go for getting NT on again. Phew!! Thanks for the suggestions. etharp wrote: I hope this doesn't sound to stupid, i don't have this card, but since you set it with the floppy, have you tried resetting the bios to one of the other settings like auto? (me no guru-just turky wantting to learn) On Monday 04 June 2001 13:39, you wrote: etharp -- yes, in the BIOS I have PnP OS set to No, and Resources are configured Manually, w/ IRQ10 set to LEGACY ISA. I ran the nic diags util (off a DOS floppy) just to check, and the settings are correct -- no PnP support, set to I 10 / P 300 (BTW, the nic is an ISA). mshinet -- not sure I completely understand you. I tried lsmod and got: ModuleSizeUsed by autofs92320(autoclean) (unused) supermount 324964(autoclean cat /proc/pci gives: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C597 [Apollo VP3] (rev 4). Master Capable. Latency=32. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe800 [0xebff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP] (rev 71). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev 16). Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 4). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed00 [0xed07]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe7ff]. The output from dmesg is attached, but I could see nothing to indicate a problem with either the resources or the network. mshinet wrote: lsmod can see moules dmesg|more cat /proc/pci see the modules added already?? and irq had confict with other?? - Original Message - From: David Beahm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 5:01 AM Subject: [newbie] network problems Easy + Automatic = EMATIC E-commerce enable your web site AND sell your product on ours. Accept credit cards with no merchant account. Free email and hosting. Do it all yourself at www.ematic.com.
Re: [newbie] network problems
As I suspected (since this card was already working under W95, NT, and even FreeBSD for some time on the same PC), this wasn't a hardware issue. I finally did a format and re-install (the update didn't work) to kill this stupid problem. I was really hoping there was a better way, and that I could learn something about how to deal with these sorts of issues in Linux. I've got years of experience in DOS/Windoze, and want to branch out (believe me, you don't know how good it sounds to have an OS that can be managed and recovered from a command line!), but the learning curve is looking mostly like a wall at this point. Now I'm off on my next quest -- getting FreeBSD back on the PC -- had to wipe it to try getting X to work. Turns out the CD has trouble reading key files during the install, so now I can copy them to a Linux partition, boot from floppy, and install using the files on the hard drive. Then I'll go for getting NT on again. Phew!! Thanks for the suggestions. etharp wrote: I hope this doesn't sound to stupid, i don't have this card, but since you set it with the floppy, have you tried resetting the bios to one of the other settings like auto? (me no guru-just turky wantting to learn) On Monday 04 June 2001 13:39, you wrote: etharp -- yes, in the BIOS I have PnP OS set to No, and Resources are configured Manually, w/ IRQ10 set to LEGACY ISA. I ran the nic diags util (off a DOS floppy) just to check, and the settings are correct -- no PnP support, set to I 10 / P 300 (BTW, the nic is an ISA). mshinet -- not sure I completely understand you. I tried lsmod and got: ModuleSizeUsed by autofs92320(autoclean) (unused) supermount 324964(autoclean cat /proc/pci gives: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C597 [Apollo VP3] (rev 4). Master Capable. Latency=32. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe800 [0xebff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP] (rev 71). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev 16). Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 4). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed00 [0xed07]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe7ff]. The output from dmesg is attached, but I could see nothing to indicate a problem with either the resources or the network. mshinet wrote: lsmod can see moules dmesg|more cat /proc/pci see the modules added already?? and irq had confict with other?? - Original Message - From: David Beahm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 5:01 AM Subject: [newbie] network problems HW: Epox mbd, w/ resources set manually, AMD K6-2/350, 256MB SDRAM 3Com 3c509, port=300, irq=10 Everything worked ok under Windows. Just installed Mandrake 8.0 Standard Edition, and everything appears fine except the network (internal LAN). On one level it appears to be configured, but on another level something is wrong. When I try to ping anything (including myself) I get: Network is unreachable (I can ping the loopback (127.0.0.1), but that's pointless). The clearest indicator I've found in my searching is during interactive bootup: /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o.gz invalid parm_io and /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o.gz insmod eth0 failed When I use draknet I get stuck in an infinite loop where it asks me what card to try, then fails to locate it and asks again. I checked the resources, and there aren't any conflicts. And to dispell any doubts, the case is open -- the card is a 3Com Etherlink III 3C509b. Running netconf, the settings are: Host name + domain:me.ohmy.com Enabled on Config mode: Manual Primary name + domain:me.ohmy.com IP address:153.6.76.76 Netmask:255.255.0.0 Net device:eth0 Kernal module:3c509 I/O port:300 Irq:10 Looking thru the archives, I saw ifconfig used, so I tried it. #ifconfig lo Link encap: Local Loopback inet addr: 127.0.0.0netmask: 255.0.0.0 ... #ifconfig eth0 eth0:
Re: [newbie] Registered users
If Linux is a free operating system under the GNU/GPL License, etc., etc., why do people insist in showing the rest that they are registered users? For the reason that, as a freely redistributable operating system, the scale of its use can't be determined by sales figures alone; the less Linux is perceived as the specialist preoccupation of a handful of hackers, the more hardware manufacturers, for example, will be inclined to extend their official support. Michael
Re: [newbie] Registered users
On Monday 04 June 2001 04:03 pm, you wrote: If Linux is a free operating system under the GNU/GPL License, etc., etc., why do people insist in showing the rest that they are registered users? Coming, as I do, from the [often fanatic] Apple Macintosh environment, it scares me to see how the Linux paranoia increases as its amount of users does. What paranoia is that??? IMHO, of course. -- Pablo García Durán
Re: [newbie] Unable to access CDWriter CD-Rom drives
Donald Jr Saxton wrote: Hello All, I'm unable to access my CD-Rom CD-Writer drives. When trying to access them in Konqueror. They have padlocks on them. I also receive the following error message: Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom2. You do not have access rights to this location. This occurs even if I'm logged in as root. Any help you can give would be appreciated. Thanks Don Donthe padlock is a feature of 'automount'. If you insert a CD in the drive then the padlock will dissapear (after you refresh Konqueror's display) and you'll be able to access the CD's contents. -- Alan
[newbie] I can install my cdrom Backpack
Hello, I am new in it, but I want to learn, I installed Mandrake 8.0 in my PC ( Pentium II 233, 128MB memory HD 8 Gb) everything is working ok, but my backpack cdrom no, I was reading how to and the cdrom backpack is includen in the kernel 2.4.3, I was looking the make xconfig and I could confirm it. what is wrong ? thank you gabo
[newbie] RPM 4
I´ve installed LM7.0 in my computer... It runs fine (except that my sound card doesn´t work because it is integrated to the motherboard, and the drivers are for Windows only (It´s an Intel Motherboard)... Well, that´s not the problem... the problem is that I have a software modem... I had the fortune to find one with a Motorola chipset, because I knew that Motorola had drivers for my modem (SM56), but now that I download it and try to uncompress it it says that my RPM manager only accepts files up to third version... and the drivers are in RPM 4... The worst thing is that I downloaded an upgrade for RPM 3, AND IT IS IN RPM4, so I also cannot upgrade to RPM4... Is there any link to any RPM manager for version 4??? El Ciro
[newbie] Sound
I have MD8 on a machine with two sound cards, a SB16 and a Hoontech multi channel card. I wish for it to use the SB16 as I'm sure the hoontech will be unsupported. They're both showing up in the sound section, but no sound seem to be coming out. How do I ensure it's going through just the SB16 and ignore the hoontech? Regards,Brett
Re: [newbie] $$
I checked with the hardware compatibility lists throughout the web before I made the plunge. I did have to buy another modem, but I knew that going in because of the list. While it is late advice, you may find a work around on the lists. On Monday 04 June 2001 00:28, Eric Lauritzen wrote: That's OK -- a giant penguin will not kick your door down in the middle of the night. It's a helluva deal. But there some very good reasons for buying one of the store sets. I agree that all the included software is a good deal - much easier than downloading one by one. My only dissapointment, after paying for the Power Pack at CompUSA and registering, is that support has not been able to help me with any of the many problems I've had with Mandrake 8.0. As I've explained in the post you responded to I've gotten no valuable answers at Mandrake Expert to any of my posts. Phone support has not helped me either - see the details below. I did't say all that just to gripe, and while I am being critical, I don't think it's in an unfair way. I wouldn't want someone to think that by paying extra for the tech support, any difficulties they have will be remedied quickly over the phone or Web. That's not the case. It may be the case for some problems, but not necessarily yours, and definately not mine! I'm not really even that disappointed that Mandrake barely works on my machine - that's just bad luck. But when I call tech support, and they tell me, while I'm on long distance from Hawaii, that they have to back out of DOS and reboot, then I'm disappointed. What are they doing on DOS? And if they aren't ready to assist, why do they answer the phone? If they work for the makers of the best free software in the world why cant any of them receive email so I could email them my system information rather than spell it out over long distance? For that matter, why couldn't they just access their own damn Mandrake Expert web page where I took the time to fill it in when I registered? So many LInux users bitch about Microsoft because they release products before they are ready. If Mandrake can't run a decent tech support service, they shouldn't run one at all, shouldn't charge for it, and they shouldn't advertise it. But they explained more than once to me that they weren't set up completely yet, however the retail version has been on the shelves how long? I'm probably burning bridges on this list, but I'm just being objective. I'm out $80 unless I buy a computer that Mandrake will run on. It sure as hell doesn't work on this one. No one, whether it's on this list, the local lug, the newsgroup, or the support I've paid for can help me. That's not to say anything bad about anyone on the list or the newsgroup - this is a voluntary list and my problem is obviously very difficult, otherwise I'm sure it would be solved by now. And it's not to say anything about Mandrake as a distribution - it came highly recommended and I'm sure most users are pleased with it. I would be too if it worked. I guess I'm just saying to anyone considering buying it - try it free or cheap first - and if you like it, or any other software/distribution for that matter, donate generously. I'm pretty frustrated because I've run out of options, so sorry if I pissed anyone off. Eric On Sunday 03 June 2001 17:12, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Eric/Jose: Yes, the ebay CD's are copies that originated at the Mandrake site. That's OK -- a giant penguin will not kick your door down in the middle of the night. It's a helluva deal. But there some very good reasons for buying one of the store sets. First, you get a bunch of extra applications that are not on the 2 CD set. If you're stuck with a plain old 56K (or less modem), it's going to take a long, long, long time to download those apps. Second, you get the source. Third, Mandrake puts a lot of time and effort into building these distributions, supporting their web site, etc. It is not a volunteer operation -- they have a sizable payroll. That ain't cheap. Buying one of the packages is one way of helping to support this effort. (You can also make a direct donation -- see the Mandrake site for details.) -- Carroll Eric Lauritzen wrote: Question for the list: Are the disks on ebay copies of downloaded CDs do you suppose? Can you sell copies of a distribution that you get for free? I know you can build your own distro if you know how, but is it legal to sell copies of a distro? As for the question of buying the powerpack for $80 I wouldn't let the support be a factor. I've had multiple problems and the phone support hasn't been able to offer me anything that helped. The last time I called the guy tells me he's in a Microsoft OS and has to reboot before he can help me - this on my long distance from hawaii time. After he couldn't help me he told me he'd call back - never did
[newbie] Re: New LM 8.0, Not much joy!
Hi again List, I think the root of my problem is this clock timer error. It reads: Clock timer configuration lost: Probably a VIA 686a motherboard: Restoring chip configuration. This error writes itself across the screen every few seconds. No matter where I am. Logged in as root or user, or not at all. Even during trying to run XFdrake. I am beginng to think I should try to install all over again. By the way, my bios is set to boot into the cdrom drive first, but when I try to get the install to start all over again, it just keeps booting into the hard drive. I wonder what's the best way round that. Maybe mount the cdrom from the prompt? Thank you all for replying about how to shut down Linux from the prompt. I have now become an expert at shutting down! I think this is the devious thing about Linux, it throws you a bunch of errors and curve balls at first and forces you to learn a few prompt commands! I suppose it can't hurt! Mick
Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia
OOPs, ment for this to go to the list, I keep forgetting the reply is set to originator. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:22:48 -0500 From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pablo García Durán [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 04 June 2001 07:34 pm, you wrote: Comes from Registered users... As an experienced Mac-user, it took me months to become skeptic about OS-evangelism. The first Macintosh (1984) was designed to be silent, small and discrete. The computer for everyone tried not to look nor behave like a traditional computer. It was intended to be another domestic appliance, like a food mixer or a vacuum cleaner, to help with everyday tasks (the power to be your best). Then someone thought they would earn more money (it's always about that) selling a myth instead of a very good computer, and there you got the apples: 9% of the whole market. As a Linux observer, I am suspicious I'm in front of another fashionable operating system. Suddenly, 3 or 4 Linux-only magazines appear at my newsagent's, and every Windows magazine will open a Linux section. Who cares how many Linux users? You will find many more Macintoshes involved in profitable tasks and they still don't get the industry support they deserve. Try not to think how it should be but how it is. -- Pablo Garc� Dur� Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: who cares? The hardware makers whoes bottom line says it's only worth providing drivers if there is a large enough base of support to make it profitable. And the people who have become sick and tired of being ripped off for so so software that crashes at the drop of a hat and yet you have to pay $200 plus for it and another $100 plus for the next upgrade. Change comes from not accepting what is, and striving for what should be. It is time for a choice and the only way to have a choice is to stand up and be counted, whether by appending registered linux user or e-mail to vendors asking for proper support. You never know till you try. -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842 --- -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] IPChains Rules help
--- Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My firewall won't allow me to connect to my news server or ICQ, can someone help me out with rules I can add to let news and ICQ connect? I'm assuming your still using kernel 2.x with IPChains, but if I'm wrong you may have better luck with IP Tables and kernel 2.4.x. A great tutorial that had my icq up and running quickly came from Mandrakeuser.org. It's for IPChains: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cipc.html this tutorial won't get the best firewall running but it will show you how to get your ICQ working with IPChains. But if your using MDK 8.0 and kernel 2.4 you may want to try IP Tables for your firewall. http://pinehead.com/articles.php?view=371 http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/iptables_basics.html http://netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/ These are great links for ip tables tutorials and explanations. IP Tables doesn't have all the available modules yet but it is definately the future of firewalling in linux (at least thats what I've read) If you can't find what you need maybe posting your script rules to the list would help and someone could point out the problem. Good Luck. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Re: New LM 8.0, Not much joy!
Talk about Linux throwing errors, have you tried Windows? I'm preatty sure you did. I've worked with Windows environment (NT) for years as a developer, and it's pure sh#@. And NT is supposed to be more stable then Windows, I feel sorry for the home users. Linux is very straight forward and if you have all the right hardware, should not give you any major problems. I've never had Linux crash on me, even after I screwed up lots of configuration data. I am sure it does crash, for one reason or another, but you must understand that Linux hardware support is ofcourse short of Windows. I develop open source software, but most people are in it for the money. Bottom line, if you look at linux hardware compatibility list, build your pc, and then install Linux you shouldn't expect too many problems, especially with LM 8.0. Great version. I've been a user of OpenLinux (Caldera Systems) for years, since their distro was the most stable as far as installation and configuration is concerned, since I had problems with LM 8.0. I now installed 8.0 with no problems, first try, I even left while the insallation was going on. Everything works (except my network card) but that's a separate issue. Enjoy! Ilya Sterin From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: New LM 8.0, Not much joy! Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:29:48 -0700 Hi again List, I think the root of my problem is this clock timer error. It reads: Clock timer configuration lost: Probably a VIA 686a motherboard: Restoring chip configuration. This error writes itself across the screen every few seconds. No matter where I am. Logged in as root or user, or not at all. Even during trying to run XFdrake. I am beginng to think I should try to install all over again. By the way, my bios is set to boot into the cdrom drive first, but when I try to get the install to start all over again, it just keeps booting into the hard drive. I wonder what's the best way round that. Maybe mount the cdrom from the prompt? Thank you all for replying about how to shut down Linux from the prompt. I have now become an expert at shutting down! I think this is the devious thing about Linux, it throws you a bunch of errors and curve balls at first and forces you to learn a few prompt commands! I suppose it can't hurt! Mick _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
[newbie] configuring USB mouse
Is there any good tool to configure my new usb mouse on X-Windows ? thank you. -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pupeno.com.ar
Re: [newbie] configuring USB mouse
Pupeno wrote: Is there any good tool to configure my new usb mouse on X-Windows ? thank you. mouseconfig -- Alan
[newbie] Wine
Hi Which is better to run wine with Windows already installed or or without Windows installed? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Penguin Paranoia
Comes from "Registered users"...
As an experienced Mac-user, ittook me months
to become skeptic about OS-evangelism. The first Macintosh (1984) was designed
to be silent, small and discrete. The computer for everyone tried not to look
nor behave like a traditional computer. It was intended to be another domestic
appliance, like a food mixer or a vacuum cleaner, to help with everyday tasks
("the power to be your best"). Then someone
thought they would earn more money (it's always about that) selling a myth
instead of a very good computer, and there you
got the apples: 9% of the whole market.
As a Linux observer, I am suspicious I'm in front
of another "fashionable" operating system. Suddenly, 3 or 4 Linux-only magazines
appear at my newsagent's, and every Windows magazine will open a Linux
section.
It's not that I don't like the idea. The theory and
practiseoffree software is great. But Linux is not ready yet for the
vast amount of users. How many of us have dual-booting machines? Take a look at
this mailing list. There's simply a lot of things you can't getfrom Linux
ina Windows-dominated world. We all love spending our spare time with
computers. But that's not the real world (yet). We cannot spend hours at the
office just wondering why my LaserJet won't work or where the CD-ROM
is.
I would encourage developers to follow the way, but
do not sell Tux as a SOHO alternative yet because you will only get frustrated
users willing to pay for their systems to work.
Who cares how many Linux users? You will find many
more Macintoshes involved in profitable tasks and they still don't get the
industry support they deserve. Try not to think how it should be but how it
is.
--Pablo García
Durán
Re: [newbie] Divx
I use AviPlay to play my DivX's. It is simple ti compile and even easier to use. On Monday 04 June 2001 01:50, Magnus Stenemo wrote: How do I get mplayer to work in Mandrake 8.0? Or is there an other divxplayer?? running XFree 4 //Magnus -- Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: [newbie] when is lm 8.1 coming out ?
8.0 is buggy enough to brin,g out a 8.1 , i'm using redhat 7.1 now b'cose half of the lm 8.0 included stuff doesnt work properly or doesn't work at all. -- Doorgestuurd bericht -- Subject: [newbie] when is lm 8.1 coming out ? Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:53:17 -0100 From: bart deglorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when is lm 8.1 coming out ? ---
[newbie] upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0
Has anyone done this? Were there any problems encountered, such as when upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2? I want to upgrade from 7.1 to 8.0, but I'm wondering if it will be a headache to do without having to wipe my hard drive and install from scratch. Thanks, Jesse
Re: [newbie] RPM 4
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 02:44, Ciro Durán wrote: I´ve installed LM7.0 in my computer... It runs fine (except that my sound card doesn´t work because it is integrated to the motherboard, and the drivers are for Windows only (It´s an Intel Motherboard)... Well, that´s not the problem... the problem is that I have a software modem...I had the fortune to find one with a Motorola chipset, because I knew that Motorola had drivers for my modem (SM56), but now that I download it and try to uncompress it it says that my RPM manager only accepts files up to third version... and the drivers are in RPM 4... The worst thing is that I downloaded an upgrade for RPM 3, AND IT IS IN RPM4, so I also cannot upgrade to RPM4... Is there any link to any RPM manager for version 4??? El Ciro Sorry, RPM4 also depends on glibc2.2 which you do NOT have. To install glibc2.2 on that system would break it. I suggest you instead install mandrake 8.0 and it is likely that your sound card will be suported and certainly there will be resources enough to support your winmodem driver. Civileme And, yes, we took steps in 8.0 to change library naming policies so this sort of problem never occurs again. Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
[newbie] IPChains Rules help
My firewall won't allow me to connect to my news server or ICQ, can someone help me out with rules I can add to let news and ICQ connect?
Re: [newbie] Windows Font Installer takes a very long time to install fonts in LM8
I also purchased a LM8 Powerpack. The problem is still there. First you need to upgrage Drakfont from cooker and then you can install the fonts without any problem. Ciao, Eric Indiogine On Friday 01 June 2001 16:43, Romanator wrote: Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: There is a bug in the version that is on the CD. You need to upgrade DrakFont (sp?) from cooker to the latest version and then run it again. Eric Indiogine On Monday 28 May 2001 18:45, Romanator wrote: Hi all, I was trying to install the Windows fonts in Mandrake Control Center. I have been waiting 15 minutes and it is still installing. Is this normal? I just purchased LM8 Powerpack. Has this been addressed? I was a slightly earlier release. Also, what is the name of the upgrade from the cooker?
[newbie] Linux Docs for the Totally Ignorant
I'm getting so many requests in response to my Linux for the Totally Ignorant that I'm unable to answer each one directly. So, I hope it doesn't break protocol when I send a few samples on this list. Look for them in ___for the Totally Ignorant. Don't expect nice pretty pages, I don't have time to do artwork. Maybe someone else can rework them. If so, I'd appreciate a copy. Keep in mind that I'm no expert in Linux, in fact, I have a lot of questions to ask about routine things. It's just that I got so mad at the lousy documentation for beginners that I decided to try writing some myself (I don't mean 'lousy' documents). There's an old axiom---if you want to learn, try teaching. (or is it the other way around?)
[newbie] wrong rpm !
Hi! What can i do if i've upgraded to rpm-4.0-33 and i get an error when trying to run it (segmentation fault) ?! Ah! It was from cooker... O8-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] refreshing menus
On Sunday 03 June 2001 21:01, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Pablo García Durán wrote: I just installed new applications using RPM, but I cannot see them. I went to Control Center but this didn't help. What should I do? Thank you! -- Pablo García Durán Pablounless the rpms are prepared by MandrakeSoft they usually don't have the capability of inserting menu enries into mdk menus. Use K(menu)-Configure Panel-Menu Editor to add menu entries for this type of software. You can also just create an entry in /etc/menu Take a look at man menufile for details or take a peek at some of the entries that are already in /usr/lib/menu -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
[newbie] Unable to access CDWriter CD-Rom drives
Hello All, I'm unable to access my CD-Rom CD-Writer drives. When trying to access them in Konqueror. They have padlocks on them. I also receive the following error message: Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom2. You do not have access rights to this location. This occurs even if I'm logged in as root. Any help you can give would be appreciated. Thanks Don _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] network problems
etharp -- yes, in the BIOS I have PnP OS set to No, and Resources are configured Manually, w/ IRQ10 set to LEGACY ISA. I ran the nic diags util (off a DOS floppy) just to check, and the settings are correct -- no PnP support, set to I 10 / P 300 (BTW, the nic is an ISA). mshinet -- not sure I completely understand you. I tried lsmod and got: Module Size Used by autofs 9232 0 (autoclean) (unused) supermount 32496 4 (autoclean cat /proc/pci gives: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C597 [Apollo VP3] (rev 4). Master Capable. Latency=32. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe800 [0xebff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP] (rev 71). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev 16). Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 4). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed00 [0xed07]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe7ff]. The output from dmesg is attached, but I could see nothing to indicate a problem with either the resources or the network. mshinet wrote: lsmod can see moules dmesg|more cat /proc/pci see the modules added already?? and irq had confict with other?? - Original Message - From: "David Beahm" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 5:01 AM Subject: [newbie] network problems HW: Epox mbd, w/ resources set manually, AMD K6-2/350, 256MB SDRAM 3Com 3c509, port=300, irq=10 Everything worked ok under Windows. Just installed Mandrake 8.0 Standard Edition, and everything appears fine except the network (internal LAN). On one level it appears to be configured, but on another level something is wrong. When I try to ping anything (including myself) I get: Network is unreachable (I can ping the loopback (127.0.0.1), but that's pointless). The clearest indicator I've found in my searching is during interactive bootup: /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o.gz invalid parm_io and /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o.gz insmod eth0 failed When I use draknet I get stuck in an infinite loop where it asks me what card to try, then fails to locate it and asks again. I checked the resources, and there aren't any conflicts. And to dispell any doubts, the case is open -- the card is a 3Com Etherlink III 3C509b. Running netconf, the settings are: Host name + domain: me.ohmy.com Enabled on Config mode: Manual Primary name + domain: me.ohmy.com IP address: 153.6.76.76 Netmask: 255.255.0.0 Net device: eth0 Kernal module: 3c509 I/O port: 300 Irq: 10 Looking thru the archives, I saw ifconfig used, so I tried it. #ifconfig lo Link encap: Local Loopback inet addr: 127.0.0.0 netmask: 255.0.0.0 ... #ifconfig eth0 eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found All attempts to configure eth0 (not that I know what I'm doing) result in: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device address: Host name lookup failure Got a clue I could use? TIA. PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C597 [Apollo VP3] (rev 4). Master Capable. Latency=32. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe800 [0xebff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP] (rev 71). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev 16). Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 4). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed00 [0xed07]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe7ff]. Linux version 2.4.3-20mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.0)) #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 000a (usable) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1000 (usable) BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 65536 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1):
Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up
Why do I need a router or a computer server. I am not trying to run a network, but rather get on the internet. Yes I do use a ethernet switch to connect two pc's, but that has nothing to do with it, since only one is on at the same time. The switch or not the switch (even when the cable modem is connected directly to the NIC) it doesn't work. Routers are used to distribute bandwidth between computers on the network. What are the two NICs for? Ilya Sterin From: Tuan tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ilya Sterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:52:31 -0700 (PDT) You need a Router or a computer server. If you want to put a linux computer act like a server, you may need to put 2 NIC (eth0 eth1). 1 (eth0) should connect to cable modem and the other connect to the hub. Set others computer to dynamic IP. --- Ilya Sterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install NetGear ethernet card to use with my cable modem (RoadRunner service, dynamically assigns IP addresses) which is recognized and uses the tulip driver on Mandrake 8.0. It seems like the detection using the Mandrake Internet Configuration, goes fine. It detects an ethernet card and sets up LAN with no error messages. Under host I tried rr.twmi.com and the default localhost.localdomain, neither work, but I don't really know what host they are looking for. Neither worked though, my Win2K system works fine and with ipconfig tells me that the default host is rr.twmi.com (that's where I got it from). After the internet set up, the applet has the connect to internet button which when I click tries (for about 20-30 seconds) to connect but with no luck. I did select auto dhcp, when setting up. A few times the applet actually showed that something was send, but no bytes received??? I am also not sure that anything was ever send, since there is no way for me to verify and the applet might have a different deffinition of send and consider no error as send??? Am I missing some steps here? I did go through the archive and found that I need to run the 'dhcpcd -d -n -h COxxx-A eth0' command. What is COxx-A are the x's need to be subsituted, or is this a litteral meaning? Thanks in advance to anyone that replies. Ilya Sterin _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
