Re: [newbie-it] ancora di driver nvidia
Alle 23:21, martedì 17 settembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: Alle 11:47, martedì 17 settembre 2002, piero ha scritto: NVIDIA_GLX 1.0_1251.2mdk NVIDIA_kernel 2.4.8-26mdk se usi il kernel originale mandrake, cerca i driver per QUELLA versione di kernel, io consigli sempre di usare i sorgenti e ricompilarli per il proprio kernel, non è necessario riscaricare ad ogni modifica... ho paura che le versioni non siano per il tuo kernel.. grazie a tutta la mail list per la pazienza piero scusa miKe ma i file che ho riportato sono quelli che ho trovato nella distribuzione. Cmq ho scaricato l'ultima versione per la 8.1 e il glx lo ho ricompilato da un srpm, per sicurezza ho usato anche nvchooser che mi ha dato gli stessi risultati a cui ero arrivato io cmq grazie atutti per il supporto. Per curiosità, dovesse succere un problema, ripristinando il file xf86 config con un copia di backup dovrei ritornate alla situazione precedente o no? ciao piero
Re: [newbie-it] Gli scherzi dei CDrom
Alle 21:02, martedì 17 settembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Gli scherzi dei CDrom, Giorgio Griffon hai scritto: [...] In seguito al lancio di uno script (NB: il disgraziato che me l'ha fornito e' in lista, si cosparga in capo di cenere e venga a me in ginocchio! Lui e i suoi esperimenti :-) ) :-) Lo script incriminato serve a montare automaticamente le MIE partizioni FAT: senza dover scrivere ogni volta mount questa qui, mount quella lì, le monta tutte e buona notte. Naturalmente è predisposto sulla base dei nomi che le partizioni hanno nel MIO fstab; io te l'avevo mandato solo perché ci guardassi dentro, non per lanciarlo così com'era. Permetti... ma dopo anni passati a _non_ lanciare assolutamente gli allegati, adesso mi sfogo... ;-) (btw: ho un file - binario, credo - .exe per Win$ che vorrei vedere... dovrebbe essere una delle solita boiate che circolano in rete, ma sono curiosa. C'e' un modo per lanciarlo?) La sintassi è una banalità unica, perché, dopo aver specificato la shell da usare, c'è una serie di righe ognuna delle quali riporta pari pari il comando che verrebbe dato in un terminale per montare una singola partizione; visto, visto... tanto banale che nn ha nemmeno i riferimenti ai CD... ;-) non c'è nessun riferimento a dispositivi diversi da hda, per cui non capisco come abbiano fatto ad incasinarsi i CD rom, Appunto, come dicevo io! E' questo il bello del misfatto! e anche se si fossero incasinati il montaggio dovrebbe valere solo fino a che non riavvii il computer. Piuttosto, cosa ci fa nel tuo fstab il riferimento a hdb per il lettore CD? Lì ci va hdd! Nossignore: nei collegamenti quadrupli dei miei dispositivi, il lettore CD e' lo slave del disco primario, quindi hdb. Hdd e' lo slave del secondario, che nel mio caso corrisponde al vecchio HD da (ecco! Vi vedo che ridete!) 245 Mb. Di più non so dire, casomai ti mando il mio fstab in separata sede. Ummm... sabato/domenica ci lavoro su, poi ti dico. Il programmino ciao puoi farlo andare tranquillamente, è un programma che serve a salutare. Ho visto. Ottimo, prima o poi m'insegni... :-) -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] Gli scherzi dei CDrom
Alle 21:07, lunedì 16 settembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Gli scherzi dei CDrom, paolo brusasco hai scritto: non ti arrabbiare con la lista. ognuno fa il suo meglio. non ho seguito la storia. non prendertela se dico banalità od errori perchè sono suscettibile. potrebbe essere un errore dei parametri di boot. secondo me devi capire fisicamente quale è il masterizzatore. normalmente se hai l'hard disk come hda l'altro dispositivo collegato allo stesso cavo ide e' hdb. i dispositivi collegati all'altro cavo sono hdc ed hdd. Come dicevo, i collegamenti mi danno hdb come Cdrom e hdc come masterizzatore. Il centro di controllo segna il montaggio del cd su hdb (monta su mnt/cdrom), e del must su scd0 (monta su mnt/cdrom2). Fin qui e' quello che volevo trovare. Ma sotto mnt/cdrom2 c'e' il contenuto del CD... e non posso accedere a cdrom! Pero' mi sorge un dubbio: vista la mia imbranataggine, noto che nel centro di controllo non ho la voce hardware... forse guardo nel posto sbagliato? Ah... Il mandrake control center... aspetta un po'... oddio, me ne da' quattro!!! A coppiette di due, uguali... uno su hdc (must, e mi va bene)... il secondo su hdb (CD, e anche questo mi va bene)... un CD su scd0 (e qui forse nasce il casino)... un must su scd1... forse e' l'emulazione scsi che crea il finimondo... provo a modificare il fstab. Adesso ho: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 E ancora non funzia... -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] Gli scherzi dei CDrom
Alle 22:52, lunedì 16 settembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Gli scherzi dei CDrom, Fabio Manunza hai scritto: Sembrerebbe che il sistema veda ora il masterizzatore in 0,0 ed il cdrom in 0,1 ; guarda che ti dice cdrecord -scanbus al riguardo ; so che la cosa mi dovrebbe dire qualcosa (ma e' passato troppo tempo da quando ho letto il manuale, e non riesco piu' a trovare la pagina che avevo stampato al riguardo...), se qualche indovino sa interpretare i segni del mio pinguino :-) [arwan@localhost arwan]$ cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,0,0 0) 'ASUS' 'CD-S400 ' '2.20' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'LG ' 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Qui mi sembra tutto a posto... eventualmente prova a ripristinare i link simbolici cdrom e cdrom2 riferendoti a fstab (ovvero facendoli puntare a scd0 e hdb); dovrebbe tornare tutto a posto. Ma mi sembrano gia' come li voglio io... -- Arwan
[newbie] Re: Question - offlist
Yep, you can add me and my wife to your count. Miark And for any do gooder liberals out there I will save you the bother, Yep I guess that I am just a redneck a$$hole, My wife just added she is to. Marc 9/17/02 9:05:20 PM, Richard Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iggy wrote: don't try to defend yourself in america. i'm being charged with assault for striking an attacker with a closed fist. i'm handicapped, and expected to invite them to tea! i'f no timely reply, you know that i'm sitting in a stuffy cubicle in county jail... oh, well. -iggy On Monday 16 September 2002 02:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Sep 2002 6:03 pm, you wrote: On Monday 16 September 2002 12:04 pm, you wrote: On Monday 16 Sep 2002 4:50 pm, you wrote: Here in NZ you are responsible for somebody who injures themselves while tresspassing onto your property (even with Private Property, Keep Out and/or No Tresspassing signs plastered everywhere). Same here in the UK. Anne Not being critical here, so if a many-time over thief/criminal trespasses onto your property, and while attempting to break into your home and do you and yours violent harm, injures themselves, then you are responsible? I hope thats not true... :-( As I understand it, yes it is true. Of course, you could sue him for damages to you and your kin, but he could and probably would sue you for his injury. As far as I can see he would almost certainly get them too. Anne Depends which State, I'm sure I have seen a case here where a guy shot an intruder in his property no problem (Dallas area, TX). I must say I agree, if someone breaks into YOUR home you should be able to use any force (upto deadly) to defend yourself and the family. Don't get me started on the case of the farmer in the UK! Richard. PS getting way off topic fear :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools
You can try eDonkey, www.edonkey2000.com I've tried the GUI on both Mandrake 9 beta 4 and RC-2, and it works fine. First time connecting is a bit slow though, you may have to add some servers in the beginning. You can find a list at www.sharereactor.com. After that, it works fine. eDonkey is especially usefull for downloading large files, like ISO's or movies or something. Don't forget to read the info on the eDonkey website about how to get the GUI connected to the core, you have to set a username and password for that. Good luck. Regards, Joost Op di 17-09-2002, om 21:58 schreef iggy: hi, all. was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? side note... i mainly work in kde, for what it's worth. 9.0 rc2 thanks in advance -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools
The serverlist can be found here: http://www-werkstatt.de/ocb/serverlist.html.gz or here: http://homepage.swissonline.net/ocbMaurice/TDN/dpnnmgtcvq/serverlist.html.gz The client can be downloaded from http://www.edonkey2000.com/files/ed2k_linux_gui_0.1alpha.tar.gz FAQ's are here: http://users.aber.ac.uk/tpm01/ed2k_tools/faq.html Regards, Joost Op wo 18-09-2002, om 09:02 schreef J.M. cogels: You can try eDonkey, www.edonkey2000.com I've tried the GUI on both Mandrake 9 beta 4 and RC-2, and it works fine. First time connecting is a bit slow though, you may have to add some servers in the beginning. You can find a list at www.sharereactor.com. After that, it works fine. eDonkey is especially usefull for downloading large files, like ISO's or movies or something. Don't forget to read the info on the eDonkey website about how to get the GUI connected to the core, you have to set a username and password for that. Good luck. Regards, Joost Op di 17-09-2002, om 21:58 schreef iggy: hi, all. was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? side note... i mainly work in kde, for what it's worth. 9.0 rc2 thanks in advance -iggy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] configuring parport modules
Hi guys, I just add to my PC new I/O parallel and serial port. For serial port it well configured on ttyS2 and ttyS3, but for parallel I face problem with parport modules (according to its manual), because it haven't installed to my linux. I found partport_pc.c in /usr/src/linux/drivers/ and try to configure it but got failed. I am using Mandrake 8.1, what should I do so I can compile from parport_pc.c to be parport_pc.o? Here are files that available at /usr/src/linux/drivers ChangeLog init.c parport_atari.c parport_serial.c TODO-parport Config.in Makefile parport_cs.c parport_sunbpp.c daisy.c multiface.h parport_gsc.cprobe.c ieee1284.cparport_amiga.c parport_mfc3.c procfs.c Thank's guys ch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting to Gnome 2
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 01:30, Todd Slater wrote: Is there a painless way to move up to Gnome 2? I'm currently running 8.2. If you don't want to move to 9.0, the Mandrake Club has RPMs for 8.2. It's not quite painless - slight sting in the wallet region - but the packager has done an excellent job. (Unlike KDE, the installation of a new version of Gnome is a bit of a shambles, with packages everywhere). If you are _really_ daring you could try Garnome, which builds Gnome 2 from scratch via some cunningly-devised scripts. I could never get it to work 100 per cent, though: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Question
Not being critical here, so if a many-time over thief/criminal trespasses onto your property, and while attempting to break into your home and do you and yours violent harm, injures themselves, then you are responsible? I hope thats not true... :-( As I understand it, yes it is true. Of course, you could sue him for damages to you and your kin, but he could and probably would sue you for his injury. As far as I can see he would almost certainly get them too. Anne Depends which State U.K. I'm sure I have seen a case here where a guy shot an intruder in his property no problem (Dallas area, TX). I must say I agree, if someone breaks into YOUR home you should be able to use any force (upto deadly) to defend yourself and the family. Don't get me started on the case of the farmer in the UK! I wonder if that's the farmer a few miles from here? :-) OK - no interest to anyone else, so don't bother to answer. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] startup file with kde
Hello, Is it possible to run a script at the kde startup ? I read on the internet that kde had no .xinitrc file. So, how can I do ? Thank you, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 3:30 am, you wrote: Well, I'm finally getting around to writing a little rant about why IE isn't the best browser so I can show it to my visitors who use IE before I let them see my pages. I would like to keep it short and sweet, and thought I'd open it up to suggestions from you folks. Here's what I have so far: Before I can let you look at [page], I feel that I should warn you that Internet Explorer is not the best browser. In fact, it's probably not even the third best browser. In addition to its well-documented security problems, IE just wasn't designed with the end-user in mind; it lacks many of the features of its competitors. Luckily, there are alternatives to Internet Explorer. Try any of these browsers for one week and I guarantee you'll only keep IE around for those few sites you really need to use and whose webmasters are assholes who only know how to design for IE. Mozilla Opera Netscape Galeon (linux) Chimera (Mac) [bold] I understand that Internet Explorer is a lousy browser that enjoys its dominance not due to its features or functionality, but rather due to Microsoft's illegal monopolistic practices. Furthermore, I realize the security risks involved with using Internet Explorer. [/bold] AcceptDecline Hee hee! Todd - just my opinion, ignore if you will. Generally people take an attack on their habits as an attack on themselves, so if you don't want to alienate your visitors, be careful. I think many would go away rather than carry on after this page. Personally I would go along the 'only trying to help you' line, something like 'in view of IE's known security problems I would recommend that you try the following browsers, all of which have at least as much functionality without the problems'. Whether you do this or not, why not put all the supported platforms after the names - after all this is strange and new to most people. They probably don't know that the first three work equally well in Windows and Linux (I don't know if there are Mac versions?) HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools
Get MLDonkey (http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/mldonkey/). It's a much better client and GUI than the official ones. It's much faster and it allows you to connect to multiple servers. Once that's set up, go over to TheDonkeyNetwork (http://www.thedonkeynetwork.com/) for more info and to get some serverlists. On 18 Sep 2002 09:13:32 +0200, J.M. cogels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The serverlist can be found here: http://www-werkstatt.de/ocb/serverlist.html.gz or here: http://homepage.swissonline.net/ocbMaurice/TDN/dpnnmgtcvq/serverlist.html.gz The client can be downloaded from http://www.edonkey2000.com/files/ed2k_linux_gui_0.1alpha.tar.gz FAQ's are here: http://users.aber.ac.uk/tpm01/ed2k_tools/faq.html Regards, Joost Op wo 18-09-2002, om 09:02 schreef J.M. cogels: You can try eDonkey, www.edonkey2000.com I've tried the GUI on both Mandrake 9 beta 4 and RC-2, and it works fine. First time connecting is a bit slow though, you may have to add some servers in the beginning. You can find a list at www.sharereactor.com. After that, it works fine. eDonkey is especially usefull for downloading large files, like ISO's or movies or something. Don't forget to read the info on the eDonkey website about how to get the GUI connected to the core, you have to set a username and password for that. Good luck. Regards, Joost Op di 17-09-2002, om 21:58 schreef iggy: hi, all. was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? side note... i mainly work in kde, for what it's worth. 9.0 rc2 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Question -back on list sometime in the past
the way we handle this sort of problem where I come form is something I used to call playing Mafia. when there no problems, we make lifelong bonds with friends we can truly trust, and they can trust us completely. then we make a pack that says you watch my (and my flock's) back, and I will watch you and yours, no matter what, beyond death. and then we live up to that. the real trick is to know whom will be worth that sort of effort. the joy of it is, if you screw me over, and I end up behind bars, I will still screw you over in return, and I will have a perfect alibi, since I was behind bars. same goes if you kill me in a gunfight, you gonna still get killed (by me, even tho I am dead). we also have a saying that revenge is best eaten cold On Wednesday 18 September 2002 02:31 am, you wrote: Yep, you can add me and my wife to your count. Miark And for any do gooder liberals out there I will save you the bother, Yep I guess that I am just a redneck a$$hole, My wife just added she is to. Marc 9/17/02 9:05:20 PM, Richard Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iggy wrote: don't try to defend yourself in america. i'm being charged with assault for striking an attacker with a closed fist. i'm handicapped, and expected to invite them to tea! i'f no timely reply, you know that i'm sitting in a stuffy cubicle in county jail... oh, well. -iggy On Monday 16 September 2002 02:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Sep 2002 6:03 pm, you wrote: On Monday 16 September 2002 12:04 pm, you wrote: On Monday 16 Sep 2002 4:50 pm, you wrote: Here in NZ you are responsible for somebody who injures themselves while tresspassing onto your property (even with Private Property, Keep Out and/or No Tresspassing signs plastered everywhere). Same here in the UK. Anne Not being critical here, so if a many-time over thief/criminal trespasses onto your property, and while attempting to break into your home and do you and yours violent harm, injures themselves, then you are responsible? I hope thats not true... :-( As I understand it, yes it is true. Of course, you could sue him for damages to you and your kin, but he could and probably would sue you for his injury. As far as I can see he would almost certainly get them too. Anne Depends which State, I'm sure I have seen a case here where a guy shot an intruder in his property no problem (Dallas area, TX). I must say I agree, if someone breaks into YOUR home you should be able to use any force (upto deadly) to defend yourself and the family. Don't get me started on the case of the farmer in the UK! Richard. PS getting way off topic fear :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux Mandrake FireWall to restrict NT users to use internet.
Hi Mandrake Users, I'm planning to implement some kind of Linux-Mandrake FireWall so that I could restrict my NT users from accessing the internet. What I had in mind was that my NT Users would have to use their same NT user details and get charged for it or either get it for free depending on their positions. With many thanks in advance, Karotu
RE: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
I would word that better, makes you sound like a fanatic.. perhaps something along these lines. You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer (tm) Before you proceed onto the site, I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't tell you of the Security flaws inherent in Internet Explorer, so far more then 20 different methods of stealing your data or damaging your computers OS have been found and documented for people using Internet Explorer. Not only that, but Microsoft is encouraging the use of their proprietry methods which should it proceed as they plan, would result in an internet that is reliant upon you buying Microsoft products whenever they decide you should. As an alternative that is truely open in standards and totally free, pleaes consider Mozilla. mozilla.org hows that sound?? :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 10:31 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page Well, I'm finally getting around to writing a little rant about why IE isn't the best browser so I can show it to my visitors who use IE before I let them see my pages. I would like to keep it short and sweet, and thought I'd open it up to suggestions from you folks. Here's what I have so far: Before I can let you look at [page], I feel that I should warn you that Internet Explorer is not the best browser. In fact, it's probably not even the third best browser. In addition to its well-documented security problems, IE just wasn't designed with the end-user in mind; it lacks many of the features of its competitors. Luckily, there are alternatives to Internet Explorer. Try any of these browsers for one week and I guarantee you'll only keep IE around for those few sites you really need to use and whose webmasters are assholes who only know how to design for IE. Mozilla Opera Netscape Galeon (linux) Chimera (Mac) [bold] I understand that Internet Explorer is a lousy browser that enjoys its dominance not due to its features or functionality, but rather due to Microsoft's illegal monopolistic practices. Furthermore, I realize the security risks involved with using Internet Explorer. [/bold] Accept Decline Hee hee! -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. (Carl Rogers) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux virus wall
setup a third mail server, that does nothing but receive mail, scan it and passes it on to one of the other mail servers... I suggest postfix, amavisd, and the free Trend filescan. (search the amavisd archives, I have posted the info on that at least a dozen times.) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Belkie, Dan Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 11:07 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Linux virus wall Can anyone recomend a good (Prefer Free) virus wall? Somthing like trend micros virus wall? What I need this software to do is accept email, scan it and then forward it onto the mail server if its ok. I have 2 seperate mail servers. 1 qmail and 1 exchange both on the inside of the lan. So the software cant run on the mail server it self. Any ideas? Thanks Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
your forgetting that M$ office preloads libs when you start your PC, just like IE so it makes office start faster... they would have you believe its because of the special people they are :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Damian G Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO I timed OO and it opened in 20 secs. Using 900mhz Duron and a 40gig 7200rpm uhm we were talking about old ( i.e. Pentium 233 ) machines.. :o) Maxtor hd. Not super fast but not any worse than MSword. Oh, this is on 9.0rc1. ML 9.0 seems to be faster than 8.2 anyhoo, just an impression but it does feel faster. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Updating Beta4 to final release 9.
Hi guys, Do you think it will be a problem to upgrade beta4 of mdk9 to the final release when its out?? I mean when I download the CD's boot from one and select upgrade, am I in for issues just thought I'd ask. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: [gpl] Input/output error - Alcatel Speedtouch USB hangs up and cannot re-connect
Hi, There was a thread here the other day regarding a problem similar to this. The subject was pipex xtreme or something like that. Richard Morrell mentioned something about BT not doing something at their end of the line. Sorry, can't remember exactly what :-( Search the archives, I don't know where they are either though? HTH, Jord Quoting Malcolm Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Recently Smoothie has been dropping connection almost every day. Below are excerpts from the log files. Any suggestions would be welcome Malcolm My environment: I have a small office running on Smoothie GPL 0.99 patched up to #12. (patch 13 gave me hassles, so I rebuilt up to 12) Smoothie supports 5 workstations that use HTTP and a server that sends SMTP mail / collects POP3 mail. Hardware: Pentium II PC, 32Mb Ram, 2GB hard drive, Alcatel Speedtouch USB. For 3 months smoothie behaved itself. Then it started freezing 2-3 days. I rebuilt from scratch. It continued to freeze. When I plugged in a keyboard monitor, it only froze 1/week. Had a feeling it had to do with power settings - suspend/standby. Checked APM settings in BIOS - disabled all suspend/standby. After 3 weeks, it started dropping connection almost every night, and does not reconnect. I have to manually connect from the web interface every morning. Sample of logs 14/09/02: PPP section of log == 19:01:54 pppd No response to 3 echo-requests 19:01:54 pppd Serial link appears to be disconnected. 19:01:54 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:54 pppd Connect time 3547.5 minutes. 19:01:54 pppd Sent 29896654 bytes, received 41627433 bytes. 19:01:54 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:54 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:54 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:54 pppd write: warning: Input/output error (5) 19:01:54 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:54 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:55 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:55 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:55 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:55 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:55 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:55 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:55 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:55 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:56 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:56 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:56 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:56 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:56 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:56 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:56 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:56 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:56 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:56 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:56 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:56 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:56 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:56 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:56 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:56 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:57 pppd Connection terminated. Smoothwall section of Log: == 19:01:55 smoothwall PPP has gone down on ppp0 - ___ gpl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.smoothwallusers.org/mailman/listinfo/gpl SmoothWall Stash - Buy Our Stuff! http://cafepress.com/smoothwall -- Jordan Elver Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]
At some point, somebody wrote:
I *will* claim that (too) many Americans are hyper-sensitive to *any*
criticism of their country.
Actually, just about all the Americans I know personally take criticism
of their country surprisingly mildly. As one commented wryly (on
anti-American demonstrations), I see a lot of people burning American
flags, but I don't see anyone burning Green Cards.
Coming back to the subject of Linux (just for a change), am I right in
observing that while in Europe Linux is perceived as left-libertarian
thing, in North America it's seen as a right-libertarian thing (to the
extent it's seen in political terms at all, that is)?
\begin{troll}
BTW, I hear the more extreme Bonapartists in MandrakeSoft are splitting
off to start their own distribution, called Linoux Dirigiste. \end{troll}
Sir Robin
--
So I repeat myself? I am great, I contain tautologies.
Robin Turner
IDMYO
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Ankara
Turkey
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RE: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
Use it as you will, I've licensed it as GPL :-) sorry I didn't spell check it first.. :-) Also, I would suggest some links pointing to howto pages, rather then putting the info in the warning.. (to much info for a newbie in one go..) I probably should have mentioned the 20+ virus's that target flaws in IE as well.. oh well, that could be next months disclaimer. :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: Dan LaBine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page I Like It! But you spelled truly and please incorrectly! (Grin! Grin!). Mind if I use it? One other suggestion, you might consider adding a step-by-step Howto to add Java and Flash to Mozilla, otherwise, users might switch back to IE. Just a suggestion. Lanman On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 07:49, Franki wrote: I would word that better, makes you sound like a fanatic.. perhaps something along these lines. You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer (tm) Before you proceed onto the site, I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't tell you of the Security flaws inherent in Internet Explorer, so far more then 20 different methods of stealing your data or damaging your computers OS have been found and documented for people using Internet Explorer. Not only that, but Microsoft is encouraging the use of their proprietry methods which should it proceed as they plan, would result in an internet that is reliant upon you buying Microsoft products whenever they decide you should. As an alternative that is truely open in standards and totally free, pleaes consider Mozilla. mozilla.org hows that sound?? :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 10:31 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page Well, I'm finally getting around to writing a little rant about why IE isn't the best browser so I can show it to my visitors who use IE before I let them see my pages. I would like to keep it short and sweet, and thought I'd open it up to suggestions from you folks. Here's what I have so far: Before I can let you look at [page], I feel that I should warn you that Internet Explorer is not the best browser. In fact, it's probably not even the third best browser. In addition to its well-documented security problems, IE just wasn't designed with the end-user in mind; it lacks many of the features of its competitors. Luckily, there are alternatives to Internet Explorer. Try any of these browsers for one week and I guarantee you'll only keep IE around for those few sites you really need to use and whose webmasters are assholes who only know how to design for IE. Mozilla Opera Netscape Galeon (linux) Chimera (Mac) [bold] I understand that Internet Explorer is a lousy browser that enjoys its dominance not due to its features or functionality, but rather due to Microsoft's illegal monopolistic practices. Furthermore, I realize the security risks involved with using Internet Explorer. [/bold] AcceptDecline Hee hee! -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. (Carl Rogers) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
Title: RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO Sorry, missed that part of the thread. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Damian G Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO I timed OO and it opened in 20 secs. Using 900mhz Duron and a 40gig 7200rpm uhm we were talking about old ( i.e. Pentium 233 ) machines.. :o) Maxtor hd. Not super fast but not any worse than MSword. Oh, this is on 9.0rc1. ML 9.0 seems to be faster than 8.2 anyhoo, just an impression but it does feel faster. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems?
Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]
robin wrote:
At some point, somebody wrote:
I *will* claim that (too) many Americans are hyper-sensitive to *any*
criticism of their country.
Actually, just about all the Americans I know personally take
criticism of their country surprisingly mildly. As one commented
wryly (on anti-American demonstrations), I see a lot of people
burning American flags, but I don't see anyone burning Green Cards.
Coming back to the subject of Linux (just for a change), am I right in
observing that while in Europe Linux is perceived as left-libertarian
thing, in North America it's seen as a right-libertarian thing (to the
extent it's seen in political terms at all, that is)?
\begin{troll}
BTW, I hear the more extreme Bonapartists in MandrakeSoft are
splitting off to start their own distribution, called Linoux
Dirigiste. \end{troll}
Sir Robin
As far as the UK is concerned I don't think there is any such
political perception at all. It's seem , that is where it is known
at all, which is not extensively, as a poor man's windblows,
better suited to computer nuts.
John
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John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(Fwd) Re: (Fwd) Re: [newbie] ISA NE2000 NIC woes
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 04:56 pm, you wrote: I'm wrasslin' with my thinnet ethernet setup. I have a 16 bit ISA ethernet card with BNC (thinnet) connector that worked great on my old Novell setup. Well, actually I have two identical ones, but more on that in a minute. They are pretty standard NE2000 cards, with a dp8390-1A chip. I've set the jumpers (they are old cards, not PnP) to io=0300 and irq=3. I've disabled the motherboard's ethernet port in BIOS. I've edited module.config to read alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x300 irq=3 and remarked out the motherboard's eth0 line During boot there are no error messages, and dmesg shows that the card is seen during boot and the ne module is loading with the correct io and irq. Typing cat /proc/interrupts shows IRQ3 for eth0 However, there's a 0 in the second column of that list, if that means anything? Typing cat/proc/ioports shows eth0 at 0300, as it should be. ping 127.0.0.1 works fine, as does ping 195.168.0.1. the address I've assigned. But ping from 195.168.0.1 to a workstation on the network (195.168.0.2) and it fails to get through. Nor does a ping to 195.168.0.1 from 195.168.0.2 get a response. Note, this is a thinnet installation, like beads on a string, like so: WindersWksta1---LinuxBox--Winderswksta2 Using, of course, the usual T connectors and coax for the connections, properly terminated at each end. The same wiring and connectors have worked fine for years between the WindersWkstas running NT and a Novell Netware server where LinuxBox is now, and after the server died as a Windows network between them. WindersWksta1 can ping WindersWksta2 just fine, and vice versa, so I don't think it can be a cable problem. I've swapped the T connector to the NIC with another one, also tried both cards, using the same IO and IRQ settings to further check for hardware problems with connector or card, but the results are the same. Anyone have any ideas? Dennis Fowler what does ifconfig say? After doing a ping 195.168.0.2 for a few seconds this is what it said for eth0: eth 0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:44:01:1E:36 inet addr:195.168.0.1 Bcast:195.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 METRIC:1 RX Packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:32 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:8965 (8.7 kb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 Dennis Fowler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot
On Tuesday September 17 2002 07:03 pm, Bob Read wrote: Tom: Updating lilo doesn't solve the problem, but experimenting with it proves that the problem is after it. Well, there's several files on the floppy, and like booting from the HDD (/boot) all need to present/not corrupted. floppy$ l boot.msg* initrd.img* ldlinux.sys* syslinux.cfg* vmlinuz* I thought it might be a first thing to try as I suspected your initrd.img or some other img/link(S) might have been mangled. You'd be able to uncompress the kernel, but not boot from it. Using failsafe -- or simply changing the linux section of lilo from append=devfs-mount quiet to append=devfs-nomount causes different scripts to run, and either of them will work and leave everything appearing to work ok. Removing 'quiet' doesn't do anything but let you see the boot messages that quiet hides. But that's just bypassing the problem, not solving it. Since re-installing lilo wasn't the problem, boot from the floppy again and and re-install the kernel from the CD 1. You'll need to use 'rpm -ivh --force kernel.rpm' That will not only re-install the kernel, but it'll also RR (ie, the --force option) the initrd, vmlinuz, and other images and links in /boot. To be safe, run 'lilo' again. See if that doesn't fix it (?) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
Title: RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO I found it here: Looks like 7.0 anyhoo, ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/ HTH, Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Gilbert Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO THANKS EVERYBODY who responded to this question, BUT... I still have some significant problems... (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only. (2) HOW can I install it from a 3.5 floppy? This is my only choice. Please HELP!
RE: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 12:49, Franki wrote: I would word that better, makes you sound like a fanatic.. perhaps something along these lines. You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer (tm) Before you proceed onto the site, I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't tell you of the Security flaws inherent in Internet Explorer, so far more then 20 different methods of stealing your data or damaging your computers OS have been found and documented for people using Internet Explorer. Not only that, but Microsoft is encouraging the use of their proprietry methods which should it proceed as they plan, would result in an internet that is reliant upon you buying Microsoft products whenever they decide you should. As an alternative that is truely open in standards and totally free, pleaes consider Mozilla. mozilla.org The page which lists the N vulnerabilities (N=19 at the time of writing) is: http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/ Rather than '... 20 different methods ...', I would say 'So far dozens of security flaws in Internet Explorer have been found which allow a malicious person to take control of your computer, steal data therein or damage its operating system; almost 20 of those flaws are currently unpatched' with the last 2 words linking to the URL above. Last paragraph: Alternative browsers include Mozilla or Opera (Linux), Mozilla, Galeon or Opera (Linux) and Onmiweb*, Chimera** or iCab*** (MacOS). [People could argue forever about what 'open standards' mean, so I'd leave it out. Note that Opera and Mozilla are also available on MacOS but are considered 'clunky': also, that IE is a totally different beast on MacOS, being developed separately from IE for Windows and containing valuable facilities that are not in _any_ other browser]. * http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/ ** http://chimera.mozdev.org/ *** http://www.icab.de/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] 8.2 hangs on pcmcia start up at boot
I've got a fresh install of 8.2 on my laptop, and it hangs on boot when it is starting up the pcmcia for the computer. Anyone else had this problem before with mandrake, and know of a good fix? I recall a similar problem from a different distro that I encountered when upgrading kernels that was solved by finding a different set of pcmcia modules to use instead, but this is a fresh install, so I can't switch back to the old kernel. Any suggestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] When the final version be released?
On Tuesday September 17 2002 09:28 pm, shane wrote: On Tuesday 17 September 2002 5:01 pm, Kyle did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I heard it was supposed to be released yesterday(Monday). I didn't see any new about it on the site. Thanks. news on the club site posted monday says next few days and i have heard the 19th as a positive date. consultation of the ruins says the 19th or 20th both look good. the i-ching however says next monday. ;-) Yep, only mention on the cooker list has been 'mid to the end of [this] week.' I'm not so sure now tho. There's been only some updates for the last two days, but today there's many, some fairly major ones, including a new kerenl. My guess is this weekend to mid next week. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]
On Tuesday September 17 2002 04:54 pm, et wrote: snip I think all this pro-/anti-American stuff is a smokescreen to prevent people noticing that we are using a French distribution. M. Robin by jove. Bonapartists...damn I wish I had percieved such Actually, recently on the cooker list, someone called Mandrake a French distro. It was quickly pointed out by a few of Mdk's developers that the majority of Mdk's business and users are in the USA, so it could just as well be called an American distro. IMO, just about all Linux distros are International, and as such political (or religious) hyperbole is best left out of discussions. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Laughing at myself...
Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, I'm Stupid. That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you? You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, Excuse me...oops...never mind, didn't see your sign. It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My neighbor comes over and says,Hey, you moving? Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign. A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big ol' stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope. Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign. I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel.There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one way to test it. All right, Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you. Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it. Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I SWEAR he said, Tire go flat? I couldn't resist. I said, Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign. We were trying to sell our car about a year ago. A guy came over to the house and drove the car around for about 45 minutes. We get back to the house, he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust pipe, then says, Darn that's hot! See, if he'd been wearing his sign, I could have stopped him. I learned to drive an 18-wheeler in my days of adventure. Wouldn't you know, I misjudged the height of a bridge. The truck got stuck and I couldn't get it out, no matter how I tried. I radioed in for help and eventually a local cop shows up to take the report. He went through his basic questioning ..okay...no problem. I thought for sure he was clear of needing a sign...until he asked, So, is your truck stuck? I couldn't help myself! I looked at him, looked back at the rig and then back to him and said, No, I'm delivering a bridge...here's your sign. I stayed late at work one night and a co-worker looked at me and said, Are you still here? I replied, No. I left about 10 minutes ago. Here's your sign. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 02:14 pm, robin wrote:
At some point, somebody wrote:
I *will* claim that (too) many Americans are hyper-sensitive to *any*
criticism of their country.
Actually, just about all the Americans I know personally take criticism
of their country surprisingly mildly. As one commented wryly (on
anti-American demonstrations), I see a lot of people burning American
flags, but I don't see anyone burning Green Cards.
Well put.
Coming back to the subject of Linux (just for a change), am I right in
observing that while in Europe Linux is perceived as left-libertarian
thing, in North America it's seen as a right-libertarian thing (to the
extent it's seen in political terms at all, that is)?
I'm dubious that any connection can be made between a person's one's
political philosophy and their choice of operating system. North America is a
big place. It includes many nations, peoples, languages and remarkably
diverse cultures, ranging from tiny Intuit villages to such highly structured
environments as New York City. About the only safe generalization is that all
of us are from the same continent.
\begin{troll}
BTW, I hear the more extreme Bonapartists in MandrakeSoft are splitting
off to start their own distribution, called Linoux Dirigiste. \end{troll}
It'll have very ornate packaging, but shuts down on Bastille Day for four
weeks to go on holiday. :^)
Sir Robin
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[newbie] DVD playing stutters
Title: DVD playing stutters I've been poking at playing DVD's for some time now, and am again out of ideas. On Mandrake 8.2, running on a Celeron 1.2GHz with 512MB and a 4x DVD-ROM and savage24 motherboard with in-guilt sound and video. I've installed xine, ogle, mplayer and videolan -- all play DVDs for a few minutes, but the picture and sound get out of sync, or skip, or quit altogether after as little as 2 minutes and as many as 10. If I download an avi (DivX) from kazaa, and watch it in mplayer, I'm fine -- when I attempt to watch the same movie from my own DVD in mplayer I get the problem. I've figured our how to check, and the IDE-DVD player is set up for DMA. My next test will be to rip the files off the DVD and plop them on the harddrive to see if they play any better from there. What else should I be checking? --Matthew
Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:25 am, Alastair Scott wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 12:49, Franki wrote: snip The page which lists the N vulnerabilities (N=19 at the time of writing) is: http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/ Rather than '... 20 different methods ...', I would say 'So far dozens of security flaws in Internet Explorer have been found which allow a malicious person to take control of your computer, steal data therein or damage its operating system; almost 20 of those flaws are currently unpatched' with the last 2 words linking to the URL above. snip Alastair Alastair: Wait a couple of days, and you'll get your 20. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution - Empty trash on exit
Hi, I have selected the 'Empty trash on exit' option in Evolution (version 1.0.8), but it doesn't work. I'm running Mandrake 9 RC-2 now, but had the same problem with beta 4. Is this a problem with Mandrake or Evolution? Regards, Joost Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [gpl] Input/output error - Alcatel Speedtouch USB hangs up and cannot re-connect
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:10 am, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, There was a thread here the other day regarding a problem similar to this. The subject was pipex xtreme or something like that. Richard Morrell mentioned something about BT not doing something at their end of the line. Sorry, can't remember exactly what :-( Search the archives, I don't know where they are either though? HTH, Jord Jord: You can access the mail list archives at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE error on KDE startup
Hi I get a message of some sort of internal error of KDE during startup Also it says to me that I need to make sure the dcopserver is up and running any hints what it means? or what I need to do? Im using KDE 2.2 (or the one that shipped with MD8.2) Klemm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrade of Samba - help!
Do you mean NIS (Name Information Server) or NFS (Network File System) if NIS, then sorry I do not know, never used it. If you mean NFS, then yes. NFS can be a pain if shares are mounted when you shut down. You have to unmount the share before shutting down. 8.2 is better than 8.1 was, in that if you wait long enough it will time out and shutdown anyway. I find the best solution is to set 'noauto' in the /etc/fstab file for the NFS shares and mount them explicitly when I need them. As for your Samba issue. There is an additional RPM for Winbind. Did you install it? You should have been able to define Rangers site as a urpmi source. Did you get an error when you typed urpmi.addmedia --update Ranger-8.2 http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2 with hdlist.cz in a root terminal? (that is all one line) then to install samba with winbind all you have to do is type urpmi samba-server samba-client samba-winbind Any dependencies will be found and installed automatically. (I do not use winbind myself) HTH derek On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 5:33 am, Robert W. Dempsey wrote: Derek, Thank you for your help. I reinstalled Mandrake 8.2 without Samba and I still could not upgrade. It seems that there are some dependencies that I am not aware of. It gives me a few errors. However, a more pressing PROBLEM is this: after I install all is well. after an initial logon, when I try to reboot or shut down the server, I get an error like Unmount NIS filesystem [FAILED] and the server hangs. My hardware configuration is as follows: 3 Ultra 160 17.55GB Fujitsu SCSI Drives Adaptec 2110S RAID Card RAID 5 Configuration Any ideas why the unmount fails? I don't have this problem on a test server with an IDE drive. The SCSI drives are terminated correctly and all of the drives are new, as is the RAID card. I don't believe that there is any hardware conflicts at all. I appreciate your help. Have a great day. Sincerely, Robert Dempsey Atlantic Dominion Solutions Derek Jennings wrote: Ranger has prepared some excellent updated RPMs for Samba which you can find here http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/ follow the instructions for urpmi access and you can install them using Mandrake Software Manager BTW: What was wrong with the Samba on the CDs? derek On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 3:53 pm, tek1 wrote: have you tried going to samba.org (or rpmfind.net), downloading the latest .rpm, and installing it using mandrake's package manager? At 10:17 02/09/17 -0400, you wrote: Hello, I am new to Mandrake Linux, and am hoping that someone can help me to upgrade to the newest version of Samba on my Mandrake 8.2 box. I appreciate your help, and thank you in advance. - Robert Dempsey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:15, Damian G wrote: As i stated in an earlier post, i still have not attempted to load OpenOffice in my 233mhz/32MB Ram machine. however Word97 runs very acceptably on it. There are a couple of preloading applications around for OOo: http://ooqstart.sourceforge.net/ (Gnome) http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/index.php?content=oooqs (KDE) http://evolvedoo.sourceforge.net/ (both) Hancom Office is fast though ugly: http://en.hancom.com/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Updating Beta4 to final release 9.
Resent to the list due to my brain lock. :-) On Wednesday 18 September 2002 6:08 am, Franki wrote: Hi guys, Do you think it will be a problem to upgrade beta4 of mdk9 to the final release when its out?? I mean when I download the CD's boot from one and select upgrade, am I in for issues just thought I'd ask. rgds Frank Probably. :-) I have never had an upgrade that didn't have issues, have you? On the other hand upgrade install from beta2 to RC2 was a very minor pain. It took almost no time either since I was cooker current when I did it. If you do it that way the release will probably be 'behind' the cooker install in some app versions since cooker won't be frozen any longer. Just an opinion. Addendum: Franki please turn off your Reply To: for mailing lists. I (and probably many others) have dedicated folders, and filters, for the various lists we subscribe to, and mostly just hit the reply button to respond to a post. Your's always get sent direct and I never look at the addressing since my reply/compose settings are for the mailing list. Then I wonder why I never see my responses on the list, but it's because of the 'Reply-to' setting. As well as my never remembering to look. My bad. Partial headers from the message I intended to respond to: Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:08:27 +0800 From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Updating Beta4 to final release 9. In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: multipart/mixed; Thank you. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. -- Kin Hubbard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 6:25 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:15, Damian G wrote: As i stated in an earlier post, i still have not attempted to load OpenOffice in my 233mhz/32MB Ram machine. however Word97 runs very acceptably on it. There are a couple of preloading applications around for OOo: http://ooqstart.sourceforge.net/ (Gnome) http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/index.php?content=oooqs (KDE) http://evolvedoo.sourceforge.net/ (both) Hancom Office is fast though ugly: http://en.hancom.com/ Alastair I think the original issue was not How quickly does OO load on a low end machine, but Will OO run acceptably on a low end machine The answer to that question is IMO no. I have OO on my 233MHz laptop, and it is so slow following mouse and keyboard input as to be all but unusable. By contrast Abiword and Gnumeric are nimble and a pleasure to use. On my 850MHz desktop OO works just fine. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get rid of menu bar
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 9:11 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 10:19 pm, you wrote: I have a box with Mandrake 8.1 and KDE 2.2.1. I enabled the desktop menu, decided I didn't like it, and now can't get rid of it. Any ideas of how I can get the pesky thing to disapear (I've tried disabling it from itself, through KDE control centre and even hunted through the config files to see if I could find anything). Sir Robin Doesn't it turn off with Configuration KDE LookNFell Desktop ? There's a setting on the first tab that on my box turns it on and off. No - it goes off for a second, then comes back on. It's more irritating than that bloddy Microsoft paperclip! Funny, when I tried it it went off and stayed off. Teaching your granny and all that, but have you tried turning it off, then logging out and back in, to make it forget? Might be a stupid idea, but harmless, I think Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [gpl] Input/output error - Alcatel Speedtouch USB hangs up and cannot re-connect
Thanks, but I think I copied this message to the wrong list! Doh! Cheers, Jord On Wednesday 18 September 2002 3:50 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:10 am, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, There was a thread here the other day regarding a problem similar to this. The subject was pipex xtreme or something like that. Richard Morrell mentioned something about BT not doing something at their end of the line. Sorry, can't remember exactly what :-( Search the archives, I don't know where they are either though? HTH, Jord Jord: You can access the mail list archives at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -- cmg -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Windows - Where do you want to go today? MacOS - Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux - Are you coming, or what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get rid of menu bar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:50 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Funny, when I tried it it went off and stayed off. Teaching your granny and all that, but have you tried turning it off, then logging out and back in, to make it forget? Might be a stupid idea, but harmless, I think the menu bar is a save settings on exit issue? odd. - -- I don't know who said that, but I usually credit Shakespeare. That guy said damn near everything. -me shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9iMCpBwq+ZwvIN/oRAhkWAJ9/Zsl6NWdfVKPkvRmNlEls/l3TVwCcCTez e7gOTEG3DYfd9G7O3vNH+64= =Y8Lk -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
I wonder if you have compared how fast OO opens in linux the second time? On Wednesday 18 September 2002 12:15 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:05:06 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your forgetting that M$ office preloads libs when you start your PC, just like IE so it makes office start faster... they would have you believe its because of the special people they are :-) rgds Franki Actually, Franki, i have to disagree with that common belief that the ONLY reason for MS office to start faster is because it's half-preloaded. I'm sorry, but it just doesn't seem true. I agree that this is the case fon Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, but not for office. this is my argument: Download and install codeweaver's ( or winehq's if you like it ) Wine. install it and tweak it untill you can get a small .exe (let's say notepad) in less than 5 seconds. a good way to do this is disable load windows registry keys, load global registry keys and set only one directory for fonts, instead of four paths that the config seems to request. Also, configure just a few drives, say, one for storing the exe files, and call that a c:\ .. then a floppy disk and a CD drive. you should need no more. after that, go into your windows partition and launch Word (word 97 seems to be the only one that works with these versions of wine, so it'll have to be that). Linux doesn't preload Microsoft Office, does it? :o) However, MS Office under wine still starts up in less than 10 seconds ( and even less if i leave out the time that Wine needs for starting itself, reading fonts and stuff... ) while OO can take up to 45 the computer i used for this test. ( a PII 400) As i stated in an earlier post, i still have not attempted to load OpenOffice in my 233mhz/32MB Ram machine. however Word97 runs very acceptably on it. About IE and OE, the preloading story seems to be very true. and you can feel it especially on low-memory systems. when you have only 32MB of RAM, all that libs and half-programs simply do not fit into memory, so right after windows boots up, it thrashes the harddrive to death. And, stupidly, all that preloading goes right into the swap for the OS to work. So when you start up IE or OE .. all the preloaded applications have to read the preloaded stuff from disk anyway. there's when you notice what IE6 and OE6 really are. they are just like a big old fat Mozilla 0.0.1 slow as a fat girl playing dodge-ball Damian PS: This is a note for anyone reading this post: I really don't feel like starting a OO vs. MSO war. I think i provided enough info for anybody to try this test for themselves, so i suggest every reader of this post to try this. It really opens your eyes a bit. Don't let the M$ is evil concept blur your intelligence. Be objective about this kind of stuff. I wonder if you have compared how fast OO opens in linux the second time? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re DSL in mandrake
I ended up reinstalling mandrake anyways and i configured the dsl while installing the OS. Works good. Thanks for your help though. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get rid of menu bar
Just right-click on the desktop, left-click on disable desktop menu. (Only a single on each) Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 15:42, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Alastair: Wait a couple of days, and you'll get your 20. -- cmg I was internally debating this timescale and thought it was probably right. Although nothing has turned up relating to IE specifically there've been 4 alerts on the [bugtraq] list today concerning Microsoft products. Including this (at face value) absolutely horrendous one: Windows NT/2000/XP do not check execution rights correctly before allowing 16-bit executables to load. This makes it possible to load and execute 16-bit files without execute permission. For example, the command line COMMAND /c 16BitApp.exe will always run the application 16BitApp.exe regardless of execute permission. So someone could bring in CRASH.EXE on a floppy disk and subvert access control lists and all the other expensive-consultant-set-up Windows paraphernalia :) Suppose Linux was: - occupying 95% of the market; - widely disliked. Would such elementary holes be opened up with the same regularity as is happening with Microsoft products? I have the uneasy feeling that the answer would be yes. Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Fwd: [Cooker] rc3
For those who have asked. Nice to see extra time taken to get things _right_. It looked as though RC2 was going to be the last one before the spotted handkerchief was dropped, but a number of kernel problems turned up. I have no burning desire to find more showstoppers; I'm completely flaked out after four betas and soon-to-be-three Release Clients ;) Alastair -Forwarded Message- From: Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] rc3 Date: 18 Sep 2002 22:30:33 +0200 Soon on mirrors: 729313280 MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-CD1.i586.iso 734199808 MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-CD2.i586.iso 417058816 MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-CD3.i586.iso This must be nearly the 9.0 final. 9.0 should be finalized by the end of the week. 2 or 3 days for marketting to finish the official announce, and it should be released next week. Find critical bugs if you are enjoying this testing period and want more. -- Warly signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Upgrade of Samba - help!
Derek, Thank you again. I had gotten the server to the point where I could shut it down with no problem (I believe that I shut off or didn't install NFS). I will try your way though, as I need to get this server going on my RAID 5 array. I also had winbind working correctly except for the fact that I couldn't enumerate users or groups. The main reason that I am asking about all of this is because I was able to get a RedHat 7.3 server integrated into my Win2K domain - fully - using the latest version of Samba and Winbind. I am unable to do it with previous versions of these two programs. Also, Mandrake 8.2 is the only Linux OS that I can install on my RAID 5 setup (Adaptec 2110S - Fujitsu Ultra 160 SCSI Drives) and I like the admin tools better than RedHat (not that RH isn't good too). I will try what you have suggested, and read more of the documentation. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Robert Dempsey Derek Jennings wrote: Do you mean NIS (Name Information Server) or NFS (Network File System) if NIS, then sorry I do not know, never used it. If you mean NFS, then yes. NFS can be a pain if shares are mounted when you shut down. You have to unmount the share before shutting down. 8.2 is better than 8.1 was, in that if you wait long enough it will time out and shutdown anyway. I find the best solution is to set 'noauto' in the /etc/fstab file for the NFS shares and mount them explicitly when I need them. As for your Samba issue. There is an additional RPM for Winbind. Did you install it? You should have been able to define Rangers site as a urpmi source. Did you get an error when you typed urpmi.addmedia --update Ranger-8.2 http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2 with hdlist.cz in a root terminal? (that is all one line) then to install samba with winbind all you have to do is type urpmi samba-server samba-client samba-winbind Any dependencies will be found and installed automatically. (I do not use winbind myself) HTH derek On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 5:33 am, Robert W. Dempsey wrote: Derek, Thank you for your help. I reinstalled Mandrake 8.2 without Samba and I still could not upgrade. It seems that there are some dependencies that I am not aware of. It gives me a few errors. However, a more pressing PROBLEM is this: after I install all is well. after an initial logon, when I try to reboot or shut down the server, I get an error like Unmount NIS filesystem [FAILED] and the server hangs. My hardware configuration is as follows: 3 Ultra 160 17.55GB Fujitsu SCSI Drives Adaptec 2110S RAID Card RAID 5 Configuration Any ideas why the unmount fails? I don't have this problem on a test server with an IDE drive. The SCSI drives are terminated correctly and all of the drives are new, as is the RAID card. I don't believe that there is any hardware conflicts at all. I appreciate your help. Have a great day. Sincerely, Robert Dempsey Atlantic Dominion Solutions Derek Jennings wrote: Ranger has prepared some excellent updated RPMs for Samba which you can find here http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/ follow the instructions for urpmi access and you can install them using Mandrake Software Manager BTW: What was wrong with the Samba on the CDs? derek On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 3:53 pm, tek1 wrote: have you tried going to samba.org (or rpmfind.net), downloading the latest .rpm, and installing it using mandrake's package manager? At 10:17 02/09/17 -0400, you wrote: Hello, I am new to Mandrake Linux, and am hoping that someone can help me to upgrade to the newest version of Samba on my Mandrake 8.2 box. I appreciate your help, and thank you in advance. - Robert Dempsey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get rid of menu bar
Robin I'm sending a copy to you directly because my earlier post to newbie bounced. Have you tried simply right-clicking on the desktop, then left-clicking on disable Desktop Menu on the pop-up menu that appears? (only a single click in each case) I tried it and it works, but if you double click on Disable... it gives the very symptom you describe. The menu disappears, then comes back in seconds. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux on School Network
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 5:25 pm, Brian Koppe wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a Mandrake Linux 8.1 server that my friend had set up running on my school's network, but unfortunately it is not getting an IP address. I've taken the network card and plugged it into my Windows box, activated it on the network, and placed it back in the server box, so I know that's not it (we're required to accept terms of use before it allows our cards to access the internet). I've also re-run the network configuration tool in the Mandrake Control Center and it still won't get an IP. Any ideas? What other information do you need to help? We don't know what else to try from here. Thanks. Brian I had the same problem a while back. I think all I did was enter the IP address and hostname into /etc/hosts. Note: you must leave the localhost IP address in that file as well - just add the new one(s) below it. Sharrea -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:49:25 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would word that better, makes you sound like a fanatic.. perhaps something along these lines. You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer (tm) Before you proceed onto the site, I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't tell you of the Security flaws inherent in Internet Explorer, so far more then 20 different methods of stealing your data or damaging your computers OS have been found and documented for people using Internet Explorer. Not only that, but Microsoft is encouraging the use of their proprietry methods which should it proceed as they plan, would result in an internet that is reliant upon you buying Microsoft products whenever they decide you should. As an alternative that is truely open in standards and totally free, pleaes consider Mozilla. mozilla.org hows that sound?? :-) rgds Franki Oh, certainly less fanatical! ;-) -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. (Oscar Wilde) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
I don't think the answer would be yes... 60+ percent of the worlds web servers are running the open source GPL apache.. It gets far far less bug hits then M$'s IIS. Thats just one example.. sendmail used to be a pig for security issues.. now that its matured alot, there are alot less issues.. and the majority of the net runs sendmail. its not as secure as Postfix or Qmail. (and probably Exim) but it hasn't had all that many problems of late. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alastair Scott Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 4:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 15:42, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Alastair: Wait a couple of days, and you'll get your 20. -- cmg I was internally debating this timescale and thought it was probably right. Although nothing has turned up relating to IE specifically there've been 4 alerts on the [bugtraq] list today concerning Microsoft products. Including this (at face value) absolutely horrendous one: Windows NT/2000/XP do not check execution rights correctly before allowing 16-bit executables to load. This makes it possible to load and execute 16-bit files without execute permission. For example, the command line COMMAND /c 16BitApp.exe will always run the application 16BitApp.exe regardless of execute permission. So someone could bring in CRASH.EXE on a floppy disk and subvert access control lists and all the other expensive-consultant-set-up Windows paraphernalia :) Suppose Linux was: - occupying 95% of the market; - widely disliked. Would such elementary holes be opened up with the same regularity as is happening with Microsoft products? I have the uneasy feeling that the answer would be yes. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
I'm new to Mandrake and fairly new to Linux (ran Slackware for a few months back around 3.5-4.0 on a P166) Now I have a new machine, 1.3g celeron, 384m RAM and two 40g hard drives. I have been installing and toying with many distros but Mandrake is the first that has my interest for more than a day or two. I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it to look at from here in Linux? I created a /windows directory (as root) and tried. [root@whitetrash scott]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /windows mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, or too many mounted file systems (gee, I still remember how to cut and paste in Linux :) AFAIK Mandrake is mounting 3 partitions for Linux on hdb (at least when I installed it, I defined 3). I *THINK* lilo is installed on /dev/hda (and not in MBR). Should I be able to mount my Windows NTFS? The Windows HD actually has nothing on it but Windows and I will probably ditch it when I settle on a final distro of Linux, but now that I can't mount it, I'm curious what my problem might be? I've installed Windows several times (I keep wiping it out during Linux install goofs:) and it SAYS it's using NTFS during the install. Looking at the man page for mount I think I have the syntax correct and I found nothing in this lists FAQ (although I'm not very good at searching it). TIA... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
Scott, As far as I know, there is no way to access an NTFS partition if it is on the same box as your Linux distro. The only way to access this drive would be to have it on another computer, and share it out, assigning appropriate share permissions (which MS feels is all to everyone by default). Good luck. I am a newbie to this too and enjoy Mandrake. Have a good one. - Robert Dempsey Scott Felton wrote: I'm new to Mandrake and fairly new to Linux (ran Slackware for a few months back around 3.5-4.0 on a P166) Now I have a new machine, 1.3g celeron, 384m RAM and two 40g hard drives. I have been installing and toying with many distros but Mandrake is the first that has my interest for more than a day or two. I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it to look at from here in Linux? I created a /windows directory (as root) and tried. [root@whitetrash scott]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /windows mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, or too many mounted file systems (gee, I still remember how to cut and paste in Linux :) AFAIK Mandrake is mounting 3 partitions for Linux on hdb (at least when I installed it, I defined 3). I *THINK* lilo is installed on /dev/hda (and not in MBR). Should I be able to mount my Windows NTFS? The Windows HD actually has nothing on it but Windows and I will probably ditch it when I settle on a final distro of Linux, but now that I can't mount it, I'm curious what my problem might be? I've installed Windows several times (I keep wiping it out during Linux install goofs:) and it SAYS it's using NTFS during the install. Looking at the man page for mount I think I have the syntax correct and I found nothing in this lists FAQ (although I'm not very good at searching it). TIA... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
easiest, with GUI; as root, in a text console, without the quotes, diskdrake will bring up the same as you saw using the install, if you used expert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
As far as I am aware.. and I haven't tried it any time recently, If your kernel is compiled with support for it. (and I am guessing that mandrake is. but I don't know that as a fact) you should be able to mount NTFS as read only... support for read/write is not so good and could corrupt your drive. A good info page on NTFS in general with a focus on linux is: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ hope that helps. rgds franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of et Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition easiest, with GUI; as root, in a text console, without the quotes, diskdrake will bring up the same as you saw using the install, if you used expert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Way OT: Now ET proves @$$hole claim
9/15/02 10:16:50 PM, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 15 September 2002 10:26 pm, you wrote: et wrote: Capital investment would be the main reason. not everyone is born wealth enough to go to college, much less be able to survive and put down the Capital to start a business. Not everyone is so low on scruples that they would be willing to float a check, and a big one to start a company. Some folks even go so far as to believe that if you can't do it legal you should not do it, and last I heard, it is still against the law to kite checks. OOHH I am soo sorry you have spent way to much time in school (probably a liberal school at that) and much too much time listening to the media, it has twisted your mind into beleaving all the BS they have fed you. Sorry but a large amount of capital is not needed to start a business and a college education is not needed eather. I am not a college grad, and have had my own business. I am sorry that you read into that that i thought only college educated folks should go into business... that was not my intent. altho I guess we could both consider not buying into a lot of what we hear. About 15 years ago I decided I had about all I could take of coperate America. One saturday morning I got up early took a drive into Chicago, went to a industrial supply dealer, purchased a milling machine with a Visa card, also picked up a $150 band saw, rented a U Haul truck Hauled all the stuff back home and stuck it in my 2 car garage, in a residential neighbor hood. Guess I am one of those law breakers that you aree talking about after all I did not have the proper zoneing to run a buisness there. OOHH NO I also bid not bother to get a business license. so just hwere do you draw the line with following the law... I draw the line where what I consider common sense tells me to draw it. I tend to lean on Gods 10 commandments to make that sort of decision. should everyone be just like you? Only if they want to be. This was a reply to the first paragraph where you implied that it was impossible to start a business without a college education or a large amount of investment capitol. do you truly believe that you are capable of deciding what laws are for each person? No but I am capable of deciding what laws are to insane or stupid for me to worry about , and as best as I can tell what I do on my own property with my own property that has no negative effect on other people is my own business and any law that says otherwise has just gone to far. If somebody else belives otherwise they can tangle their lives up with as much paperwork as they so desire. are you capible of decideing who should be allowed to give birth, cause I am pretty sure the world needs someone like that... keep the poor and un-employeed from reproducing and as some one elso pointed Did I imply any of that? If so that was not my wish to do so. What I did say was that A large bank roll and college education are in no way mandatory for starting a business or having it be successfull And then went on to prove that from my personal experance. I also implied that people that really beleave there are no good jobs or employers to be found can get out and start their own business and that lack of large amounts of capitol or education is a poor excuse not to. out the poor are more likely to become un-employyed and take food from the Bosses mouth rather than start a company and produce jobs from thin air, as employeers do now, since according to some folks here, it is not customers or need that creates jobs and employment, it is the bosses that do that. if we could prevent the poor (and stupid, as well as the ignorant) from reproducing we could have so much more for thus of us who are employers to eat. Really I call what you claim as your company a shade tree, not a company. Companies have LIc. and Insurance and have to obey the same laws as every other company. I was not aware of the enron rule, where really smart people get to make up the rules they intend to follow and leave the rest of the laws and rules for us poor folks. At any rate I wired up and leveled all the stuff along with my old miller welder and the following Monday I went into business! Oh did I mention that some years I had been thrown out of high school half way through my freshman year and never went back. Guess me and the public education system just did not see eye to eye. I felt that I was wasting my time in school and they felt they were wasting their time on me. I feel that I learned much more practical knowlage out of school than I ever could have in school Yep thats right started a business with next to no money and not a lot of education. again you started working under a tree, Working under a tree? No I started working in MY 2 car garage. Is there something wrong with starting out small with
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
Try this login as root then enter the command : modprobe ntfs then look for your ntfs partition reside on /dev/hda?. To check just run fdisk /dev/hda then press p to show all your partition in your harddrive. Then quit without changing anything (press q). After that you can mount that , for instance if your ntfs partition reside on /dev/hda2 mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/your_ntfs_mount_point. or edit your /etc/fstab file. I have it working without problem .:-) regards - Original Message - From: Scott Felton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:13 AM Subject: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition I'm new to Mandrake and fairly new to Linux (ran Slackware for a few months back around 3.5-4.0 on a P166) Now I have a new machine, 1.3g celeron, 384m RAM and two 40g hard drives. I have been installing and toying with many distros but Mandrake is the first that has my interest for more than a day or two. I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it to look at from here in Linux? I created a /windows directory (as root) and tried. [root@whitetrash scott]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /windows mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, or too many mounted file systems (gee, I still remember how to cut and paste in Linux :) AFAIK Mandrake is mounting 3 partitions for Linux on hdb (at least when I installed it, I defined 3). I *THINK* lilo is installed on /dev/hda (and not in MBR). Should I be able to mount my Windows NTFS? The Windows HD actually has nothing on it but Windows and I will probably ditch it when I settle on a final distro of Linux, but now that I can't mount it, I'm curious what my problem might be? I've installed Windows several times (I keep wiping it out during Linux install goofs:) and it SAYS it's using NTFS during the install. Looking at the man page for mount I think I have the syntax correct and I found nothing in this lists FAQ (although I'm not very good at searching it). TIA... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
With these quotes on education, you may ENJOY reading John Taylor Gatto, former 31 year New York City teacher, teacher of the year for the state his last two years, last 3 years for the city, then he resigned via a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, saying he could no longer harm children, the educational system needs major reform to truly educate. His books are facinating. www.johntaylorgatto.com On Wednesday 18 September 2002 05:23 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:49:25 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would word that better, makes you sound like a fanatic.. perhaps something along these lines. You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer (tm) Before you proceed onto the site, I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't tell you of the Security flaws inherent in Internet Explorer, so far more then 20 different methods of stealing your data or damaging your computers OS have been found and documented for people using Internet Explorer. Not only that, but Microsoft is encouraging the use of their proprietry methods which should it proceed as they plan, would result in an internet that is reliant upon you buying Microsoft products whenever they decide you should. As an alternative that is truely open in standards and totally free, pleaes consider Mozilla. mozilla.org hows that sound?? :-) rgds Franki Oh, certainly less fanatical! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 9:15 am, Damian G did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: PS: This is a note for anyone reading this post: I really don't feel like starting a OO vs. MSO war. I think i provided enough info for anybody to try this test for themselves, so i suggest every reader of this post to try this. It really opens your eyes a bit. Don't let the M$ is evil concept blur your intelligence. Be objective about this kind of stuff. i have to say that while MS is evil, office is (or at least 97 was, haven't used the newer ones) one of the things they do well. i am very glad to hear about crossover office because it means the only savig grace to bills empire can run in linux. still they took that saving grace and fscked it up with their file formats. the size of the files alone should explain that! agreed. on the other foot, most people will never need more than what OO gives. i completely agreed. know we could have used it in the school i used to work for. 36 teachers each running office? you have any idea what that costs a school that has to run hand me down computers? shane, i was just comparing speed and performance on slow computers. There's no question whatsoever about OO's usability. (i have switched to it) there's no question whatsoever about how expensive MS can be, either. All i was trying to do was to state that, under certain conditions, OO.org is a trade-off. Waiting over a minute for startup, having your word processor playing catch-up with your typing and waiting 5 seconds for a right-click menu to pop up is not my idea of a 'usable program'. some years ago i bought a book to learn some modeling in discreet's 3D MAX program. in one of the first chapters, the author made some statememts about system requirements for 3D modeling. It was something like: There's no point for me trying to recommend a processor or type of computer, as probably by the time you read this, my recomendation will be obsolete already. but there's an easy way to find out if your computer is good enough for you, or not: If your workflow stalls because you are waiting for the computer to finish it's job, and you realize that your knowledge and ideas could be flowing faster but your computer is delaying you, then you need a faster computer. On the other foot ( as you say ;o)) OpenOffice is not the only word processor available to Linux. Abiword and Gnumeric could also be enough for an average user, and probably work very well on low-end computers. Time and MDK9 will tell. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
I wonder if you have compared how fast OO opens in linux the second time? hm.. actually, i haven't... you are right, it does start faster.. but still i think there's no comparison.. the difference is not that great. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
I had the exact same issue on my comp with XP, and I read up on it a bit... For starters, the others offered useful comments. However, I read that Microsoft made some changes to the NTFS used in XP since its rendition in Win2k. So what you are dealing with is an NTFS v2.0 of sorts... which is sadly not easily mountable in linux, while the first NTFS (v1 if you will), is mountable. This is why you received the error that said wrong fs type. I fixed this problem when I reinstalled windows a month ago by simply formatting my windows drive with FAT32 instead of NTFS. You lose the special NTFS security provisions, but you can easily read/write to the partition in linux. So since you just installed winXP, you might want to reinstall it, putting it on a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS. -- Nathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Felton Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition I'm new to Mandrake and fairly new to Linux (ran Slackware for a few months back around 3.5-4.0 on a P166) Now I have a new machine, 1.3g celeron, 384m RAM and two 40g hard drives. I have been installing and toying with many distros but Mandrake is the first that has my interest for more than a day or two. I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it to look at from here in Linux? I created a /windows directory (as root) and tried. ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 20:13, Scott Felton wrote: I'm new to Mandrake and fairly new to Linux (ran Slackware for a few months back around 3.5-4.0 on a P166) Now I have a new machine, 1.3g celeron, 384m RAM and two 40g hard drives. I have been installing and toying with many distros but Mandrake is the first that has my interest for more than a day or two. I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it to look at from here in Linux? I created a /windows directory (as root) and tried. [root@whitetrash scott]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /windows try: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows Mandrake puts mount points in /mnt, so it may be /mnt/windows. I use /mnt/winnt. /dev/hda is the disk, /dev/hda1 is a partition. you want to mount a partition. BTW, it WILL be read-only. Read-write access is experimental, don't use it. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, or too many mounted file systems (gee, I still remember how to cut and paste in Linux :) AFAIK Mandrake is mounting 3 partitions for Linux on hdb (at least when I installed it, I defined 3). I *THINK* lilo is installed on /dev/hda (and not in MBR). Should I be able to mount my Windows NTFS? The Windows HD actually has nothing on it but Windows and I will probably ditch it when I settle on a final distro of Linux, but now that I can't mount it, I'm curious what my problem might be? I've installed Windows several times (I keep wiping it out during Linux install goofs:) and it SAYS it's using NTFS during the install. Looking at the man page for mount I think I have the syntax correct and I found nothing in this lists FAQ (although I'm not very good at searching it). TIA... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0 RC2
For what it is worth I installed rc2 on a dell GXa at work and it was the first Mandrake release that detected the video and installed it correctly on the install. Looks like it is going to be a great release. Roly -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:43:31 -0500 Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With these quotes on education, you may ENJOY reading John Taylor Gatto, former 31 year New York City teacher, teacher of the year for the state his last two years, last 3 years for the city, then he resigned via a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, saying he could no longer harm children, the educational system needs major reform to truly educate. His books are facinating. www.johntaylorgatto.com I've not read his books, but I'm familiar with the un-schooling/de-schooling concept, which I'm very seriously considering for my daughter. I'm particularly fond of Roger Schank and Peter McLaren. I suppose Ivan Illich is the one who turned me on to the deschooling aspect. It turns out I have JTG's Dumbing us Down on my amazon.com wishlist. Regards, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] msec question
I've been using wvdial on my LM8.1 box to connect to my ISP. I've not been able to get a normal user account to be able to use wvdial. I keep on getting the error message Device or resource busy. I can use it fine if I su to root first. I've tried setting the permissions of the device to rwxrwxrwx, but the permissions always are changed to rwxr-xr-x when i use wvdial. I am pretty sure that msec is changing the permissions of the device when pppd is started. Any idea what changes I need to make to get wvdial to work for a normal user? Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel Panic Errors
Hello - I am unable to resolve this issue and time is of the essence!
Hardware - 1, Adaptec 2110S RAID Controller Revision 380E
3, Fujitsu MAN3184MP Ultra 160 10K RPM SCSI Drives
1, Intel PIII 933 MHz
2, 256MB Sticks Generic PC133 SDRAM
Configuration - RAID 5, Capacity: 35044 MB, Block Size: 512 Bytes,
Stripe Size: 64Kb
RAID Card: Termination On, SCSI ID:7
Drives: SCSI IDs 1-2-3
Terminator on: 0 (the end of the cable)
Error Messages:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
crc error6Freeing initrd memory: 2556k freed
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03
1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5c1d8bca
printing eip:
c01099af
*pde =
Oops:
CPU:0
EIP:0010:[c01099af] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010002
eax: dfd5bf58
(these all had numerical and
alpabetical values)
Stack: lots of numbers
Call Trace: numbers in brackets and
Code: f6 43 07 20 8b 7d 08 be 01 00 00 00 75 01 fb 0b 73 04 ff 75
0Kernel Panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
In interrupt handler - not synching
After this the machine locks up. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you all in advance.
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RE: [newbie] msec question
as I understand it, one of the current limitations of wvdial is that it needs root when its used standalone... you need to look into sudo to get it working as a user. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Les Henderson Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] msec question I've been using wvdial on my LM8.1 box to connect to my ISP. I've not been able to get a normal user account to be able to use wvdial. I keep on getting the error message Device or resource busy. I can use it fine if I su to root first. I've tried setting the permissions of the device to rwxrwxrwx, but the permissions always are changed to rwxr-xr-x when i use wvdial. I am pretty sure that msec is changing the permissions of the device when pppd is started. Any idea what changes I need to make to get wvdial to work for a normal user? Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] msec question
My Inbox Happily Received This From Les Henderson Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:00:41 -0500 (CDT) I've been using wvdial on my LM8.1 box to connect to my ISP. I've not been able to get a normal user account to be able to use wvdial. I keep on getting the error message Device or resource busy. I can use it fine if I su to root first. I've tried setting the permissions of the device to rwxrwxrwx, but the permissions always are changed to rwxr-xr-x when i use wvdial. I am pretty sure that msec is changing the permissions of the device when pppd is started. Any idea what changes I need to make to get wvdial to work for a normal user? for me, i just chmod +s /usr/bin/wvdial but that's the most stupid solution!!! and a very insecure thing -- -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibilities. msg104456/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Kemulator mdk8.2
Has anyone successfully compiled Kemulator using 8.2.? When I run the ./configure script I get: configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH. Any help would be great! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
