[newbie] Reinstallation Help Required
Hi Folks I have finally got my mitts on a replacement 80gb Hdd for this linux machine, MDK10. However, before I splash ahead I'd like some advice and stuff 1. It's going to be dual boot so I'd need to install the Win98se first (in a 20gb partition) and then install Mdk telling it to leave the 98 partition right? This will assume that Mdk will sort it's own partitions up right. I'd like to keep the personal files on another partition, is that feasable or is it worth just leaving MDK to get on with it! 2. Samba. Assuming I want to have a samba shared area do I need to create that as a seperate drive?? 3. For keeping all my mail folders and everything is it OK to install the new OS then move the info from the old hard drive to the right place on the new hard drive?? Or do I have to do something else. I know when I last backed up the mail folders k3b changed all the dots to underscores :( Windows had problems recognising some files and that went a bit haywire for a bit. 4. is there anything else anyone here things I should do before the transfer?? Cheers, Elwyn Awaiting your help before I proceed :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Dual Booting..
Hi Folks I've had a look around but I can only see options for setting up a dual boot system from scratch. I'd like to be able to just add windows to this machine I've got a 25gb Hdd in this machine, with linux but I'd like to put 10gb or so aside to put Windows 98 on... I know it's pushing it fine, but it's only for games (hangs head) so I can play them networked... I'm going to give CrossOffice a go for one of them TIA Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Moving System / Upgrading.... Help!
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 03:34, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 11:05 am, SME Server Admin wrote: Aftenoon :) The time has come. I am finally in a position (technically) to upgrade this computer (Mandrake 10 on a P2-300mhz PC (384mb ram, 25gb Hdd, CRRW) to the chassis of an AMD1300 (384mb ram, the rest transfers over). Just need a bit of guidance and advise before I continue... Please :) I always say, make sure you can boot into the old system if something goes wrong and then just let 'er rip. Nothing like doing to improve the learning. You really should be able to put the drive in the new motherboard and boot it up. Linux is really good about adjusting to new hardware. You may have to tweak a few things that load out of /etc/modprobe.conf (lan cards, soiund cards, etc.), but most of the motherboard stuff should be recognized and the appropriate drivers be installed automatically. Thanks :) Most of it has gone through OK. When it shuts down it tries to unmount the old network card, which isn't installed anyway, and I can't find it in the configs :( Normally I would be happy to leave it at that... But a machine I was going to use for games has, er, keeled over. Awaiting advice from here Tried backing up my mail directory and K3b made all the leading dots to be underscores?! Huh? Do I need to put anything special in to K3b to get it leave the dots in, or is that an impossibility?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting..
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 18:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 18:38, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks I've had a look around but I can only see options for setting up a dual boot system from scratch. I'd like to be able to just add windows to this machine I've got a 25gb Hdd in this machine, with linux but I'd like to put 10gb or so aside to put Windows 98 on... I know it's pushing it fine, but it's only for games (hangs head) so I can play them networked... I'm going to give CrossOffice a go for one of them TIA Elwyn If I recall correctly Win98 insists on installing on the first partition on the drive, so unless partition 1 is currently unused you may have a problem. If you can get Win98 installed, then booting from CD1 in rescue mode will get you into Linux again so a Lilo entry can be created. derek Ok, Thanks for that... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FSTab
Thank you very much for the explanation... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] FSTab
Hi Folks I'm doing a bit of, er, housekeeping. Can someone tell me of the following entries which are not needed. /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 //sentinel/Primary /mnt/Primary smbfs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.sentinel.admin 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I can remove the Sentinel option and I've somehow got an icon on the desktop for a network drive or usb drive or something called Remote Share which I think is to do with the Sentinel link. I've 1 hard drive and 1 cdrw in this, no other usb devices yet. Cheers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FSTab
On Monday 18 Oct 2004 16:04, SME Server Admin wrote: //sentinel/Primary /mnt/Primary smbfs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.sentinel.admin 0 0 I've removed that and it's taken that icon off the desktop... But not sure about the others so have left them... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Moving System / Upgrading.... Help!
Aftenoon :) The time has come. I am finally in a position (technically) to upgrade this computer (Mandrake 10 on a P2-300mhz PC (384mb ram, 25gb Hdd, CRRW) to the chassis of an AMD1300 (384mb ram, the rest transfers over). Just need a bit of guidance and advise before I continue... Please :) Part 1. Now. I heavily use Kontact, Konqueror, Kopete, and occasionally Mozilla. I'm working at backing up and moving as much as possible into a storage area (hard drive or CD) while I do the change. What else have I missed? All personal files will be moved over to storage anyway that I can. But I don't want to lose any email. Obviously the filters will change anyway, and I'll have to setup spamassassin again! Part 2. Spec. The following spec is the new machine. Can anyone see any problems that may present itself ahead of time. It's about a year old, but all should be recognisable hardware by now (Please!) The information was stripped from Belarc Advisor. The host hardware is currently looking after a soon to demise XP installation. Processor 1.30 gigahertz AMD Duron 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 64 kilobyte secondary memory cache Main Circuit Board Board: Matsonic MS8308E Bus Clock: 66 megahertz BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 062710 07/15/9 Bus Adapters SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller Multimedia MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device SiS 7018 Audio Driver Standard Game Port Controllers Primary IDE Channel [Controller] Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] SiS PCI IDE Controller Display NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 [Display adapter] SiS 300/305/630/540/730 [Display adapter] Relisys RE767 [Monitor] (14.6vis, February 1997) Communications SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter Network IP Address: 192.168.0.7 / 24 Other Devices USB Human Interface Device Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard Microsoft PS/2 Mouse USB Root Hub USB Root Hub I don't think there will be much of a problem with that. The onboard video is not being used, the other onboard things are what are worrying me because it's all on the motherboard :( Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Stolen document
-- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n) Found virus WORM_NETSKY.P in file data.rtf .scr (in document342.zip) The file is deleted. - I cannot believe that. -- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n) document342.zip is removed from here because it contains a virus. - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Databases
Hiya Folks I'm after a basic database program for Mandrake 10. It only needs about 5-10 fields but records wise could stretch on to several thousand records, and needs to allow imports from CSV files? Only for personal use... I've got Cross Office running MS Office 97 for access but it's slow and I'd like a proper Linux version! Suggestions please? TIA Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Databases
On Tuesday 28 Sep 2004 01:19, SME Server Admin wrote: Thanks Björn Lundin and John Layt for your suggestions, I'll be looking into this now over the commming weeks to get it all running. Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] IRC Client
Hi Folks I currently use X-Chat to sit on an IRC channel usually 24/7 (as this machine is always on) and there are a few minor things I thought someone here could help me with :) I'd like it to be able to flash in the taskbar when someone says something. If not can someone suggest another program instead please? I'm getting on well with X-Chat and this would be a good addition :) Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Friday 17 Sep 2004 20:54, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:13:45 +0100 SME Server Admin disseminated the following: I'd like it to be able to flash in the taskbar when someone says something. If not can someone suggest another program instead please? I'm getting on well with X-Chat and this would be a good addition :) This may be what you are looking for: urpmi xchat-systray-plugin Thanks Joe I've tried doing the urpmi thingy but it didn't recognise the package. I'll go off and dig it upoff the net and do it that way... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote: I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech support didn't scream in horror when I asked!). They don't supply a modem. Can anyone recommend one which will definitely work with Mandrake 10 (and with Win 98SE, as I'm now dual booting)? Preferably an external one, as I'm not confident with screwdrivers! Or, are there any I should definitely avoid? Margot Netgear DM602 :) It is what I have here. It is an ADSL Modem and Router, easy to setup and above all, its a router, so you don't have to worry about hackers!!! :) I can reccomend this 100 percent! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Scream!
On Friday 13 Aug 2004 09:32, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Your never to old for games. Yes :) Indeed :) Despite this I am S glad I've moved to Linux though, it has taken a lot of headache out of somethings that Windows does which i don't like :( Also, I've found the files. I was playing around with Midnight Commander and found that the files were not gone afterall. I had mounted the folder on from the XP machine on the Linux machine using LinNeighborhood. Then moved the files over. They had not appeared on the XP machine. It turns out that a folder was created in the /mnt/XP/ folder and the files moved there! I've now managed to get them over, and I think it's time I sorted out some of the links and file shares across the network. Now a happier bunny. Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux / LAN Help
On Friday 13 Aug 2004 20:05, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Slowly getting my office up and running on Linux. Using Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack. MDK 10.0 is loaded and running well on my PC and laptop. I have established LAN connections and can see three of the four computers in my office. I can see the pc with XP on it. However the other pc that has 98 (used for storage) on it, I cannot see. I have set my linux machines to smb and nfs. Is there something else I'm missing. My router and hub are Linksys. Also, to move or copy files from one machine to another is there anything that I need to do as well, ie permissions or configuring routes,,,please advise. Thanks in advance. bj TGIF Right. I have been in a similar situation. I have had trouble getting 98 to access XP and for that I needed to create an ID on the XP machine matching the login details of the 98 machine. To access Linux 98, Linux XP, Linux SME Web Server I've used LinNeighborhood. Unfortunatly my file server has gone off on other vital duties and my large file space is on XP which is annoying me. With your setup can your 98 machine access your Linux machine's SMB area for file storage :) With the problem you've mentioned, can your XP machine see your 98 machine? Can your Linux machine see your XP machine? Are you using static IP or DHCP, what network parts have you got installed on your 98 machine. Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Scream!
On Thursday 12 Aug 2004 13:49, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:26, SME Server Admin wrote: There are some days I want to scream at this setup! I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP They'd both been rebooted recently, and setup the shares again in LinNeighbourhood. Fine. Linux saw the XP drives, so I copied a file Why go to that trouble you should have a windows partition on 10.0 check /mnt usually its /mnt/windows but it could be somthing else. Its a read only partition but you can copy anything over to linux. After you get everything copied then delete windows(g). This machine is only Linux. Windows on the other machine, and the other machine is for a few games and some other bits of software that is not portable to Linux. I think the XP machine will go back to being 98 because I really don't like the way it changes its own settings on its own whim :( Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Scream!
Alas. If I could run my games and Ameol on the linux machine I would happily move over. Alas not. I'm feeling better today, a bit more relaxed... Perhaps the caffine is helping me relax more :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: [kdepim-users] Teaching Spamassassin
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 13:47, SME Server Admin wrote: 1. What does your local.cf look like in /etc/mail/spamassassin? # This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin. # # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be # tweaked. # ### # # rewrite_subject 0 # report_safe 1 # trusted_networks 212.17.35. auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666 2. Are you using bayes? Thought So, but doesnt look like it does it :( 3. Do you have auto_learn turned on? Thought So, but doesnt look like it does it :( 4. What rule sets are you using in /etc/mail/spamassassin? 5. Are you using network checks, razor, pyzor, DCC, SURBL's? From the looks of it from http://www.yrex.com/spam/spamconfig.php I seem to be lacking some information. I'm going to try and modify the above mentioned file and see if that works. If Auto Learn is switched, does this mean I do not need to use shell to tell it to learn ?? 6. How are you calling spamassassin? Do you have filters setup in Kmail? Yep, one to run all through spamassassin and the other to filter it Are you running spamd? Err, Don't think so. What's that? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 03:26, Chris wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 03:44 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Now, I've got SpamAssassin working and it seems to handle the spam at the moment, but I need to get this learn bit sorted, so would appreaciate some assitance in getting this working as soon as possible please! As far as I can see it is capturing about 1/4 of the spam coming in. Elwyn Couple of questions: 1. What does your local.cf look like in /etc/mail/spamassassin? 2. Are you using bayes? 3. Do you have auto_learn turned on? 4. What rule sets are you using in /etc/mail/spamassassin? 5. Are you using network checks, razor, pyzor, DCC, SURBL's? 6. How are you calling spamassassin? Do you have filters setup in Kmail? Are you running spamd? Hmm, right, er, most of those questions will take a while to find out. However, I initally was pointed out the following URL and followed it's information. http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Scream!
There are some days I want to scream at this setup! I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP They'd both been rebooted recently, and setup the shares again in LinNeighbourhood. Fine. Linux saw the XP drives, so I copied a file over, checked, it was there. So I moved 400mb of documents and some mp3s to go for backing up. The 400mb files didnt make it Linux XP but the other files did ?!! Since tried another copy and it worked fine. Scream! I've had enough. I'm going to bed... And I'm going to deprive these machiens of power tonight as punishment. As it is even now Kontact locks the machine up when running spam assassin to capture 1/4 of the spam coming in. Thanks G** I don't work with computers for a living!!! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Teaching Spamassassin
Hiya Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The actually directory is: Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam Now, I've been into shell and done as it asked, ie type in the following string. The first one was without a dot before Mail and the second was with it in. It's not working. This is in Kontact by the way. Can anyone help? TIA Elwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/Elwyn/Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/Elwyn/.Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
Trying here just in case :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50 From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:40, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Right, before you ask, I havn't updated anything yet. I can't view ANY email at all in the mail part of Kontact. Either in the view pane underneath the list of emails or if I double click to open up the email. I can however see them if I do a reply or a forward. This happened last night, don't know what caused it and I rebooted and it went away. I had tried reopening Kontact a few times but it didnt help. So, at the moment I can only read emails by trying to reply to them :( Suggestions please? I'd like, if at all possible, to get out of this problem /without/ having to reinstall everything! I've even tried extra coffee and it doesn't help! Help! Elwyn Right. In Configure Kmail: Kontact and Appearance Fonts: I've got this set to a custom just to get the text larger, but even if I uncheck use custom fonts then the problem remains. And that's been like that for several months! Colours tab is standard Layout tab has the following items checked, although changing anything here doesnt make a blind yot of difference! Show HTML status bar Folder List: Long Folder List Message Preview Pane: Show the message preview pane below the message list Message Structure Viewer: show only for non plaintext messages Message Structure Viewer Placement: below the message pane Elwyn ___ KDE PIM users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 16:19, SME Server Admin wrote: Trying here just in case :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50 From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:40, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Right, before you ask, I havn't updated anything yet. I can't view ANY email at all in the mail part of Kontact. Either in the view pane underneath the list of emails or if I double click to open up the email. I can however see them if I do a reply or a forward. This happened last night, don't know what caused it and I rebooted and it went away. I had tried reopening Kontact a few times but it didnt help. So, at the moment I can only read emails by trying to reply to them :( Suggestions please? I'd like, if at all possible, to get out of this problem /without/ having to reinstall everything! I've even tried extra coffee and it doesn't help! Help! Elwyn Right. In Configure Kmail: Kontact and Appearance Fonts: I've got this set to a custom just to get the text larger, but even if I uncheck use custom fonts then the problem remains. And that's been like that for several months! Colours tab is standard Layout tab has the following items checked, although changing anything here doesnt make a blind yot of difference! Show HTML status bar Folder List: Long Folder List Message Preview Pane: Show the message preview pane below the message list Message Structure Viewer: show only for non plaintext messages Message Structure Viewer Placement: below the message pane Elwyn Although the news part works fine! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 16:19, SME Server Admin wrote: Trying here just in case :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50 From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:40, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Right, before you ask, I havn't updated anything yet. I can't view ANY email at all in the mail part of Kontact. Either in the view pane underneath the list of emails or if I double click to open up the email. I can however see them if I do a reply or a forward. This happened last night, don't know what caused it and I rebooted and it went away. I had tried reopening Kontact a few times but it didnt help. So, at the moment I can only read emails by trying to reply to them :( Suggestions please? I'd like, if at all possible, to get out of this problem /without/ having to reinstall everything! I've even tried extra coffee and it doesn't help! Help! Elwyn Right. In Configure Kmail: Kontact and Appearance Fonts: I've got this set to a custom just to get the text larger, but even if I uncheck use custom fonts then the problem remains. And that's been like that for several months! Colours tab is standard Layout tab has the following items checked, although changing anything here doesnt make a blind yot of difference! Show HTML status bar Folder List: Long Folder List Message Preview Pane: Show the message preview pane below the message list Message Structure Viewer: show only for non plaintext messages Message Structure Viewer Placement: below the message pane Elwyn Hmm. Rebooted for the nth time and it works now :( Grr Any Suggestions?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
Right. I seem to be getting somewhere. I have no idea why this is happening, but the Message Body is closing up between the message list and the message structure leaving just a thick grey line with 6 dots in the middle. When the MB is back, with the ML at the top and MS at the bottom this grey line is half the thickness with three little dots in the centre of this line top and bottom. Can anybody decode this for me please? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updating
Hi Folks Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place I've found to get the updates from. What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through the shell with urpmi? Ta Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Updating
On Sunday 01 Aug 2004 19:37, Björn Lundin wrote: SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place I've found to get the updates from. What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through the shell with urpmi? Ta Elwyn Search for a thread James Sparenberg wrote ~ a month ago, where he describes in detail how to maek it work through urpmi. I think using wget url/* was involved + generating a hdlist + adding the download directory as an urpmi source. But look in the archives... I did it, and had some minor glitches, that I solved, but others have had total success. /Björn Ta :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with konqueror.
On Tuesday 27 Jul 2004 13:14, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 02:45, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:22, SME Server Admin wrote: Press F5 when you put a new disc in? Elwyn Thanks that works. What does F5 do I never had to do that before? It refreshes the Konq window - so apparently you were seeing cached data in the Konq window - hence why I always tune my EIDE drives, and rarely use Konq (Rox works, Nautilus works sometimes for large data caches, MC works great, the cli even better) Thanks when I get over some other problems I intend to investigate mc and cli works but not better much slower and more typing. It refreshes most things. Works on Windows so wasnt really surprised it worked here as well :) In Windows I was also used to Shift-Click a link to open in new window, and in Konq it's Ctrl-Click :) Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 20:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:25, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email. At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking for something I can use that will handle it for me, one that can learn if that's possible? TIA Elwyn If you're really wanting to filter spam, why aren't you using your local postfix setup with procmail? stephen kuhn - proprietor Um, er, um, I dunno... What do those things do? Kontact does very well what I need for it now I have found SA. I don't want to make things tooo complicted Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 05:22, Rob Blomquist wrote: FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf? I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can figure out what you are asking. Rob Ahh, a man with more understanding of these things than I ;) At the moment I'm building up a collection of spammissed and then will do the next set of instructions :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact
Hiya Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing, there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without fruition! Could some kind soul explain what Expire Email is please? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 11:23, Poogle wrote: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml Ahh thank you :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 21:19, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: I believe you set a date that restricts the length of time Kmail stores a email in a folder before an automated deletion process takes place. Must be in the settings someplace but as I don't use Kmail can't help there. Hence it expires (i.e. ceases to exist, kicks the deleted bucket, runs out of time...) On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:19:04 +0100 SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing, there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without fruition! Could some kind soul explain what Expire Email is please? Elwyn Gotcha! THanks :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote: At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and have been unable to find it again. Can anyone here point me to it? Thanks Marc A quick session on Google revealed the following: http://www.claymania.com/unix-viruses.html http://zdnet.com.com/5208-1105-0.html?forumID=1threadID=3583messageID=74251start=60 http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5785842995.html http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/200209/linux_malware.xml Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 16:13, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 01:25 am, SME Server Admin wrote: | Hiya | | I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email. | | At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking | for something I can use that will handle it for me, one that can learn if | that's possible? | | TIA | | Elwyn There are several, but quite a few of us use SpamAssassin. SA takes a bit of teaching, but once you parse a couple of thousand messages it gets extremely good at filtering out the junk. It is on your disks, and probably already installed. To begin your adventure go here: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticle; artid=15 http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/spam.html http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html http://www.rulesemporium.com/ Thanks, gone for a look :) I may be gone some time. Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 18:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewar ticleartid=15 http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/spam.html snip These two refrences do not resolve on the server. The Columbia Link has gone, but the other is there hidden away... I think I've bookmarked it here somewhere.. Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for the brother of FrontPage for Linux
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 21:16, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program similar to FrontPage for Linux. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul What about Quanta Plus?? It's probably already installed :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] difficulty reconfiguring Kwallet under mdk 10.0
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 22:52, g2 wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2004 08:41 am, Peter Watson wrote: Run /usr/bin/kwalletmanager then open kwallet from the icon in the system tray and you will be able to access the configuration settings and un-enable kwallet. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland I've done that , Kwallet now runs all the time, but Kwallet still wants a password before firing up :( Is there a way to get Kwallet to open up and run without asking for a password? I've tried changing it to nothing and it won't take it :( ?? Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 12:07, Bryan Phinney wrote: arts is the default sound system in KDE. You can, however, turn arts completely off and use OSS directly, you just won't get sounds in KDE or if you do get sounds, they won't coexist with other items such as xmms. To disable arts, disable it in Configuration, KDE, Sound System by turning system sounds off. However, as a first step, let me recommend that you add the PLF repository, or Charles' repository to urpmi and install xmms and xmms-arts plugin from those sites to make sure that you have the newest versions. Also, you might consider switching your hardware sound drivers from OSS to ALSA which is a newer architecture and might be better supported under newer versions of Mandrake. Thank you very much for all your help :) I've been having some other problems with my Mandrake 10 installation for music, and this is the 2nd reinstall... I've disabled sound and for once Xmms has now managed to and is playing MP3s :) Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] XawScreen
Hiya Is there a log file entry somewhere for XawScreen? I'm trying out a TV card and it keeps crashing. Or rather, all it does it starts to load then just vanishes??? Running Mandrake 10 Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom4 woes
On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 14:32, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I am stumped as to how to get around the insert cdrom4 message when I try to install some softwares with rpmdrake. There is a 4 CD pack for members of Mandrake's website... Otherwise everyone else has a 3 CD pack HTH Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10
Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? At the moment I've got the encoding setup to oggenc because all the others wont work :( Others tried are: gogo, mp3encode, xingmp3enc, l3enc, lame, bladeenc For mp3encode for example I've got the following settings Encoder Command Line: -p 2 -l 3 -b %b %w %m Encoder File Format: ~/mp3/%A/%d/%t_%n.ogg If it's encoding to MP3 surely the extention of the file format should be mp3 not ogg? The error message I get is Invalid Encoder Executable Check your encoder config Which is where I am stuck. Help! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10
On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 18:47, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:10:20PM +0100, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? MandrakeSoft can't package mp3 encoders due to licensing restrictions, so you'll have to download and install an mp3 encoder like lame. If you add plf to your urpmi sources I think you can get lame and other mp3 encoders. Ahh, I see :) Thanks for telling me... If you don't need the tunes for a portable player, I'd recommend sticking with ogg anyway; it's better and free. Todd Ok. Winamp can cope with OGG can't it?!? Down the line I'm planning on getting an iRiver HP 120/130/140 whatever and that does OGG Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] X-Chat
Could anyone tell me where X-Chat keeps its logs. I know I've got them switched on but I don't know where they are stored. Anyone?? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X-Chat
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 15:43, Dan Gordon wrote: /home/username/.xchat2/xchatlogs Ahh yes, thanks found it :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10 and a Scanner
Hiya I've a flatbed parallel port scanner that I'd like to use with Mandrake 10 that I've got installed here. Installing it shouldn't be a problem, but if there is you'd know about it here :) Any suggestions?! I was wondering what sort of programs anyone here would reccomend for getting the best out of it? On Windows I've got the choice to change the resolution and the like, so I'd be looking for the linux equivilant. Any help/ideas/suggestions please? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Keys not working
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 19:08, chris wrote: On Thursday 03 June 2004 23:30, SME Admin wrote: On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 19:34, chris wrote: I recently installed 10.0 Official, and I now find that the Delete key often doesn't work, and neither does the auto-repeat function. I cannot discern a pattern to this: sometime I boot up and they work, the next time they don't. Sometimes they will work as root, but not as myself. This affects both the console 'windows' as well as Kde functions. Chris Have you tried another keyboard in case it is a faulty keyboard? I confess I hadn't thought of that! It seems unlikely, partly as it's a quality Cherry keyboard that isn't too old, but the problem affects both the Delete and Del keys, and the auto-repeat affects all keys. But something to look in to. Chris Do not rule it out :( I have had such a thing. Turned out to not want to work every time it was cool wherever the computer was! How picky can you get! Oh, and it was running Windows as well :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Keys not working
On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 19:34, chris wrote: I recently installed 10.0 Official, and I now find that the Delete key often doesn't work, and neither does the auto-repeat function. I cannot discern a pattern to this: sometime I boot up and they work, the next time they don't. Sometimes they will work as root, but not as myself. This affects both the console 'windows' as well as Kde functions. Chris Have you tried another keyboard in case it is a faulty keyboard? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kontact problems
Right, well, I've got somewhere! I managed to mangle the whole mail system, but hey, saved me having to delete them. One day I'll get some of them back, when I work out what I did... Anyway. If I tell it not to delete messages from the server then there is no problem! Can anyone add that to the equation and help me/us?? Elwyn On Saturday 15 May 2004 02:33, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Elwyn, I've got several mail accounts setup in Kontact but am having a few problems with collecting email. I'm on ADSL via a router, so any machine that is on the network is on the internet. I'm using Mandrake 10 and Kontact for email, news, etc. Most times whenever I check email I get an error message that says Could not login to pop.freeuk.com The server terminated the connection immediately As I have several accounts, i get one of these error boxes per account that it fails to check. It doesn't happen all the time, but quite a lot these days. For example if I check email when it logs in, I get it, but 30 seconds later it could be fine, or not, depending on how it feels. I can't find any pattern other than that message. I don't know how to fix it, I don't know where it is getting its information from but during this time I am connected to IRC, MSN, ICQ and www ok, so the connection is there and up. I'm having exactly the same problem, but it is EVERYTIME. With 17 accounts it's rather annoying. Still looking though. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.2 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 = Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu 94C29CF3 === 11:32:53 up 7:00, 0 users, load average: 1.24, 1.31, 1.21 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kontact problems
Hi Folks I've got several mail accounts setup in Kontact but am having a few problems with collecting email. I'm on ADSL via a router, so any machine that is on the network is on the internet. I'm using Mandrake 10 and Kontact for email, news, etc. Most times whenever I check email I get an error message that says Could not login to pop.freeuk.com The server terminated the connection immediately As I have several accounts, i get one of these error boxes per account that it fails to check. It doesn't happen all the time, but quite a lot these days. For example if I check email when it logs in, I get it, but 30 seconds later it could be fine, or not, depending on how it feels. I can't find any pattern other than that message. I don't know how to fix it, I don't know where it is getting its information from but during this time I am connected to IRC, MSN, ICQ and www ok, so the connection is there and up. Help! Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LILO
Hello: The email below is not written in Spanish, it looks more like Portuguese to me. It is confirmed by the persons email address, which points to Brazil. Reagards, Dexter On Qui, 17 Jan 2002 12:18:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ajuda Plase!!! Uso o Mandrake 7.2 e deixei uma partição vaga para o windows, qd instalei o windows, não consegui reconfigurar meu lilo pois ele dá erro na hora de escrever a partiÇão do rwindows. Aparece dizendo que a partição não tem uma entrada válida no setor de boot da partição. A do Linux é /dev/hda1 e a do windows é (ou deveria ser) /dev/hda5 (pois o linux monta a partição dos neste end. e eu acesso ela normalmente). Pq então o lilo não configura corretamente o boot? Ou, como posso fazer para configurar isto corretamente? Se for erro meu ou se alguém puder me ajudar desde já agradeço. J. Castro Jr. iBEST - Internet com alta qualidade de conexão. GANHE ACESSO GRATUITO à Internet do iBEST em http://discador.ibest.com.br -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = 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] Downloading proper Nvidia driver file
Hello: Recently my video card died, and I replaced it with a 32Mb DDR Nvidia Ge Force 2GTS. My hard drive is partitioned, so installing the proper drivers for my windows portion was uneventful. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about my linux partition. When I boot up in linux, I can only get the console (terminal) mode, in runlevel 3. So I need to install the drivers in linux as well. I visited the nvidia site and according to their instructions I need to download two files. One is the glx file and the other is an .rpm kernel file which corresponds to my system. Question is, it is not clear to me, which is the correct file. I have installed Mandrake 8.0 with kernel 2.4.3 (i.e. the standard installation of mandrake power pack edition). The options in the nvidia site are: the UP kernel, the enterprise kernel, or the smp kernel. Any ideas which is the file I should d/l, or at least how to find out? Also, I don't play video games in my system, is there by any chance some kind of generic driver I can install, which was included with the original powerpak package? Thanks in advance. Regards, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading proper Nvidia driver file
James: Thanks, worked like a charm. Dexter - Original Message - From: James Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading proper Nvidia driver file Fromt that terminal window, just type kudzu. It should just tell you it will configure your new card. It should give you a generic driver. - Original Message - From: Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Downloading proper Nvidia driver file Hello: Recently my video card died, and I replaced it with a 32Mb DDR Nvidia Ge Force 2GTS. My hard drive is partitioned, so installing the proper drivers for my windows portion was uneventful. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about my linux partition. When I boot up in linux, I can only get the console (terminal) mode, in runlevel 3. So I need to install the drivers in linux as well. I visited the nvidia site and according to their instructions I need to download two files. One is the glx file and the other is an .rpm kernel file which corresponds to my system. Question is, it is not clear to me, which is the correct file. I have installed Mandrake 8.0 with kernel 2.4.3 (i.e. the standard installation of mandrake power pack edition). The options in the nvidia site are: the UP kernel, the enterprise kernel, or the smp kernel. Any ideas which is the file I should d/l, or at least how to find out? Also, I don't play video games in my system, is there by any chance some kind of generic driver I can install, which was included with the original powerpak package? Thanks in advance. Regards, Dexter -- -- 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] Samba question - making shares invisible
Hello: Have you tried the veto files command? I have not used it, but the book I have has a description for it, which you might find helpful: veto files: Contains a list of file and directory names that are marked by Samba as not visible and cannot be accessed by users. Entires in the list are separated by the / character, and the ? and * wildcard characters can be used. For example, to veto access to Windows executables files on a file share use veto files = /*.exe/*.com/*.bat/. If the case-sensitive parameter is false, Samba will veto files regard to case. Hopefully, this command can help you solve your problem. Good luck... Dexter On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Julian Opificius wrote: I've pored over man on the Samba web-site, and yes, you remember correctly ;-) It's true that though browseable = no hides a share from everyone, you can still map to it, but then how does one know it's there? That's cryptic and unreasonably clumsy for non-expert users (which includes me), who have other things to remember, like where we've put the car keys. Seems like it's all or nothing, which is not really very clever at all. What we need is a hide unavailable shares = true/false switch for smb.conf or something like that. Thanks for the response, Dave. Any Samba programmers out there listening, or other wizards? Julian. At 07:56 AM 12/14/01 -0600, Dave Sherman replied: On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:14, Julian Opificius wrote: With dexterous use of chmod and the smbpasswd file I can control access to various shares, but how do I prevent shares from even appearing for logins who are not permitted to access them? I'd rather those shares not even appear, so as to provide a simplified interface to some users (i.e. my kids). If I remember correctly, under a share definition just add: browseable = no This will make it invisible, but you can still map a network drive to it. However, this makes it invisible to everyone, not just selected users. I would seggest 'man smb.conf' for further information. Dave = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What driver to get
Hello: I have been trying to install pilot-link into my lm8.0 system. After installing the appropriate files from the distro cd's, I keep getting an error saying it could not find the device. I have a PalmIII, whose cradle is connected to my pc via a serial to usb interface. I read what little documentation came with Pilot-link, and again, each time I execute the command pilot-xfer -l I get a device not found error. I set up a link between usb0 and /dev/pilot with no luck. I was told the necessary drivers might not be installed. If so, how would I go about finding out if they are installed. If they are installed, what then am I doing wrong? In the event they are not installed, can somebody point me in the direction on how to install the drivers? Specifically, some sort of document with instructions and also, how would I go about finding out the names of the drivers needed? Thanks in advance. Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] reloading .bashrc without logging out?
Hello: yup type: source .bashrc Good luck. Dexter - Original Message - From: tek1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:54 AM Subject: [newbie] reloading .bashrc without logging out? is there a way to do this, so that environment variables newly defined in .bashrc will take effect without logging out and back in? thanks... 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] Security Level
Hello: Was fiddling about in my system (lm8.0) when I ran into the urpmi.log. Reading the file, I get, from time to time, and error message stating it could not find my secure level and to run msec. Well, as far as I can tell, I do have a security.conf file located in directory /etc/security/msec and as far as I can tell, the proper checks are being done, based on the files present in my /var/log/security directory. As a result, I have two questions: 1. Why am I getting this error message? 2. What security level should I be running, or at least, what considerations should I take into account when deciding what security level to run? Thanks in advance, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
Hello: Not sure this will answer your question, but I used to have the same problem, where I would have to type ifconfig eth0 down before being able to access the internet. A friend of mine asked me to type the command route and it turned out both my modem connection and eth0 were set up as default. Once I reconfigured my system to use the modem only as default, I did not have to go through the ifconfig eth0 down/ifconfig eth0 up process again. Hope it helps. Dexter On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Nicolas gomez wrote: Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online I do not know what else do Thanks Bytes -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi. If you are running a networked setup, you may have to (as some of have had to do) a: ifconfig eth0 down (as root/su) If I don't do this first, I have the same symptoms you do. Afterwards, I can restart my network with: ifconfig eth0 up Hope this helps! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Pine/Postfix/Sendmail
Hello: Thanks for the advice regarding the installation of Pine in my system. I have the program up and running at the moment, but with a couple of quirks, which I would like to discuss. 1. I am running pine 4.30 under lm8.0, using a PIII 800mhz chip with 384megs of RAM. 2. Is there some kind of relationship between postfix and sendmail? For some reason, both programs/scripts are installed in my system. As it is, I thought I was only using postfix and I was gettting ready to remove sendmail, but shied away when there were several references to postfix in man sendmail. So do I need to keep sendmail or can I remove it? 3. Currently, I am executing the following commands: fetchmail (from user) postfix start (from root) pine (from user) Is the sequence correct, or for that matter, does the sequence matter? 4. Now the really squirely part. The return address on emails I send out, is really, really messed up. How can I fix it? It should read [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead it reads dsimon9@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The casa-coqui.com domain is parked at earthlink, and I am using an alias at their web site to re-direct emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To make matters a bit more interesting, the only way I can get emails to be delivered properly to Pine is by setting personal-name in its' config file to dsimon9@localhost. I was looking through the main.cf file, and there are a couple of settings (myhostname and mydomain), which might address the issue, but these are universal settings (or so I think). If these are the proper settings, to what value should they be set? In my user's .fetchmailrc file, I have the setting set postmaster dsimon9. Thanks in advance for the help. Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pine/Postfix/Sendmail - Franki
Hello: I made the changes to mydomain and myhostname in the INTERNET HOST AND DOMAIN NAMES in the main.cf file, with no apparent improvement in my return email address when I compose a message. Any other suggestions? Thanks... myhostname = casa-coqui.com mydomain = casa-coqui.com Dexter On Monday 29 October 2001 08:35, you wrote: postfix creates a sendmail binary in /usr/sbin/sendmail for backwards compatability with sendmail.. So that any scripts that look for sendmail can still use it.. as for your startup sequence, since they are started so closly together, it shouldn't be a problem, but I would start postfix first..service postfix start As for your last problem, in postfix, you need to set mydomain and myhostname in /etc/postfix/main.cf rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Admin Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Pine/Postfix/Sendmail Hello: Thanks for the advice regarding the installation of Pine in my system. I have the program up and running at the moment, but with a couple of quirks, which I would like to discuss. 1. I am running pine 4.30 under lm8.0, using a PIII 800mhz chip with 384megs of RAM. 2. Is there some kind of relationship between postfix and sendmail? For some reason, both programs/scripts are installed in my system. As it is, I thought I was only using postfix and I was gettting ready to remove sendmail, but shied away when there were several references to postfix in man sendmail. So do I need to keep sendmail or can I remove it? 3. Currently, I am executing the following commands: fetchmail (from user) postfix start (from root) pine (from user) Is the sequence correct, or for that matter, does the sequence matter? 4. Now the really squirely part. The return address on emails I send out, is really, really messed up. How can I fix it? It should read [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead it reads dsimon9@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The casa-coqui.com domain is parked at earthlink, and I am using an alias at their web site to re-direct emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To make matters a bit more interesting, the only way I can get emails to be delivered properly to Pine is by setting personal-name in its' config file to dsimon9@localhost. I was looking through the main.cf file, and there are a couple of settings (myhostname and mydomain), which might address the issue, but these are universal settings (or so I think). If these are the proper settings, to what value should they be set? In my user's .fetchmailrc file, I have the setting set postmaster dsimon9. Thanks in advance for the help. Dexter Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Pine
Hello: Trying to get Pine to work in my system (running pine 4.30 under lm8.0). So far, I am able to send messages, but I cannot figure out how to retrieve messages. I have read man pine as well as gone to their web site, and either I am missing something, or the issue of retrieving messages is not addressed. Can somebody explaim to me what I have to do in order to be able to retrieve messages, or at least point me in the right direction? Thanks... Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail and spell check
Hello: I am using 2.1.1 and spell check is an option. To set it up, click on the icon to start a new email message. On the new email select Settings/Configure Toolbars. It should be there. Good luck. Dexter On Wednesday 24 October 2001 19:07, you wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2001 08:01 pm, s wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2001 07:51 pm, David Reynolds wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2001 05:42 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2001 05:34 pm, Mark D'voo wrote: Is there an option in kmail for spell check? I don't think it'll do it automatically, but you can spell check it before you send it. If you don't see the little ABC icon in your composer toolbar - right click it and choose configure toolbar. There you can add the spell checking button. -s Didn't see this in the Toolbar possibilities for Kmail 2.1.1. Is there a newer rpm out there? David Reynolds ummm, nope - well maybe in cooker. But you have to have the composer window open - like you were writing or replying. 2.1.1 is the version I have, came with 8.1. It's called spelling and has an icon consisting of an ABC with a check mark. It's there, I promise. :-) -s Ooops. I have 2.2.1. But I seem to recall it being there in 2.1 too, maybe not tho. :-| -s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File/Printer Sharing with Windows
Hello: I believe Samba is the answer to your question. There are how-to's around explaining its' installation, but I ended up buying a book in the subject. It walked me step by step on configuring Samba properly, and more importantly, it had some very good trouble shooting advice. It also described many, if not all the options available. Among them, its' ability to allow a linux client to send a print request to a winbox. Now, in my case, I have my printers connected to my linbox, but I will quote from the book: It is also possible to use UNIX client machines to access printer shares installed on windows servers. This is achieved by adding a printer definition to the /etc/printcap file and configuring it to send all output through the smbclient program. All this work is done through a shell script that comes with Samba called smbclient. So there is hope. If you are interested, the name of the book is Special Edition Using Samba by Richard Sharpe with Tim Potter and Jim Morris, published by QUE. ISBN: 0-7897-2319-0. Good luck. Dexter - Original Message - From: Ron Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: [newbie] File/Printer Sharing with Windows I need to be able to have two-way file access with Windows machines on the same network as my Linux box. I also must be able to print from my Linux box to a printer connected to a Windows machine on the network. Someone suggested I look at Samba, but I'm having trouble finding how to install it. I'm pretty much a total newbie on Linux, so maybe some general help in this area would be helpful. What I have read about Samba so far seems to say that it is used for sharing files coming in and printers that are attached to the Linux machine, but I need two-way file sharing and the only printer is connected to a Windows machine and can not be moved. Will Samba do what I want or do I need to look elsewhere? Setup: two machines running Windows ME and one machine running Mandrake Linux 8.0 (the Power Pack boxed set if that matters), on a standard ethernet network connected through a NetGear RT314 router. The printer, a HP LaserJet 5p, is connected directly to one of the Windows machines and is shared for all machines on the network to use. All machines are also connected to the Internet through the router, which is connected to a 3Com 'tailfin' cable modem on a 768K/128K pipe. The Internet connection works fine under Linux, so I believe the network is setup and operating correctly on the Linux machine. Thanks for any help, Ron 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] Bastille adventure
Hello: Setting up the bastille firewall is turning into an adventure. Although I pretty much having it do what I want, there are some nagging issues I am hoping somebody can assist me. 1. Background info: Running LM8.0 in a dell 4100 series pc using an 800 mhz pIII processor with 384meg of RAM. 2. Most annoying: I keep loosing my lan connection to my win box. I will have everything running (meaning my lan, the firewall, and my internet connection) pretty good. I will then walk away from the computer, and come back, say an hour later. When I return, I can no longer access the c drive in my win box. If I try, I get a input/output error. To get it back, I must shut down the firewall, unmount and remount the c drive and restart the firewall (by firewall I mean Bastille). FWIW, I don't loose my samba connection. I suspect the firewall, because if the firewall is down, and I leave for 2 hours or more, the network is just fine when I return. I have checked the bastille-firewall.cfg file and I don't see anything involving some kind of network time out variable. Could it be related to one of the icmp variables? 3. Not so annoying: Thekernel modules to masquerade option in InteractiveBastille has the default setting of ftp raudio vdolive. To the list I added irc. When I load bastille-firewall I get the error messages could not find ip_nat_raudio and ip_nat_vdolive. I searched in my system for both files (used the command find / ip_nat_raudio* -print) and I could not find them. Any ideas where they might be? Either in my system or on some web page? I assume ip_nat_raudio is for realplayer. I have been able to do a workaround by dedicating a couple of ports to real player. Imho, it is not the best solution, but it should do until I am able to find the nat file for it. I have no idea what is vdolive? Again, if somebody can suggest where I might find it, I would appreciate it. 4. Not annoying but still: I use IRC and in order for the servers to identify my client, I must leave port 113 open. Is there a way where I can shut down the port after the server has identified my client? I had to install identd in my system for the i.d. process to work properly. Thanks in advance Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] File size limit exceeded fixed, now I can't change permissions
Hello: Thank you all. I went ahead and changed the setting in interactivebastille. Not sure what had to be done next, but I ended up having to reboot in order get the change to kick in. Is it suppose to work this way? In any case, the issue is not an issue any longer. But something else has come up, which I think is also due to the firewall. Before installing the firewall I was able to access the hard drive on my winbox (I have a two pc lan. One pc is a dedicated winbox, the other is a dual boot winbox/linux. I am referring to the dedicated winbox). After the installation I cannot access it as a standard user. I can reach it as root, but more interestingly(troublesome), even as root I can't change the permissions for it. Any suggestions??? Thanks again... Dexter On Tuesday 02 October 2001 16:38, Peter Watson wrote: On Tuesday 02 October 2001 20:25 pm, Admin wrote: Hello: Yesterday, I installed Bastille and as far as I could tell everything was configured properly. I installed the program while in a user's directory (not root) but as root in a terminal (hope it makes sense). Well, in any case, I typed exit at the terminal to get back into user, but when I tried to regain roots I got this error message: File Size Limit Exceeded. Any ideas what the problem might be and/or possibly the fix? I checked the partitions by typing df and as far as I can tell, I have plenty of room left (I have pasted a copy of the output below): FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 2.3G 1.2G 938M 58% / /dev/hda7 1.5G 31M 1.4G 2% /home /dev/hda1 33G 3.4G 29G 10% /mnt/windows I can still log out and log in as root, but I rather not have to do it. I normally will type su at the terminal when I need to perform root functions. Thanks Regards, Dexter Paul Rodriguez recently said in response to a similer query:-- The file size limit you are experiencing is a result of an option you set Would you like to put limits on system resource usage? In the past I have had to choose no in order to avoid the issue you are experiencing. Perhaps you should rerun interactive bastille and change this option Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] iptables
Hello: Toda my linux box would act as the internet gateway to the lan. In the process, I found out mandrake also installed iptables. I now understand a firewall must be installed for masquerading, don't know why, but it has to. Now, I have been trying to figure out how to use iptables and I am truly confused. What in the world is a chain? I read the man file and the how-to, but either I am being a bit dense, or the subject matter is difficult. I have used firewalls in windows, specifically, conseal, but I am in need of help. I found a script called iptables in my etc/init.d directory. Is this script suppose to be moved to the etc/sysconfig directory? I have read from this list, about a program called bastille. Would bastille be an easier program to use and would I have to remove iptables before installing bastille? If so, how do you go about removing iptables without affecting your masquerade? In a way iptables seems to be what I am looking for, which is a firewall executed from the terminal mode, but I would also like to have the ability of seeing who/what is probing my system. Does iptables has this ability? Thanks in advance. Regards, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disconnect every 24 hours
Hello: I have a peculiar problem. I leave my pc pretty much connected to the internet 24/7. Since installing LM8.0, it will disconnect every 24 hours, almost to the second. To get around it, I have configured my dial-up to re-dial when disconnected. At first I suspect there is something in the cron files, which is causing this event. There is one directory called cron.daily. I have looked into the different files in this daily directory, but I don't recognize anything, which would make me think cron is forcing a disconnect every 24 hours. Any ideas as to what might be causing this event? Thanks... Regards, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] fetchmail
Hello: I understand fetchmail is an email retrieval system, which will obtain emails from a remote email server and distribute them to the local network. Currently, I have a two pc lan, where my second pc is a win98 box. Does anybody know if fetchmail will work with outlook express? Meaning, is it possible to configure fetchmail so it will go to the proper email server, d/l the emails and if necessary send the appropriate emails to my outlook express client in my win98 box? Thanks... Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuring Internet Sharing
Hello: When I attempt to set up interconnect sharing while using the Mandrake control Center, I get the following error message: config file content could not be interpreted. The error message seems to be self -explanatory, but does anybody know of a fix to get over this obstacle? Thanks... Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SWAT
Hello: I just installed swat. Have you made sure the proper entries were made in the xinitd.conf and services file? Regards, Dexter On Wednesday 26 September 2001 20:20, you wrote: Hi gang When trying to start SWAT I get the log on screen asking for a username and password. However nothing I enter allows me access. I have tried as root and as a user, but to no avail. Is there a trick to this. Thanks and regards Mark A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't boot up
Hello: The past couple of days I have been configuring my local area network consisting of one win98se and one lm8.0. Last night everything looked pretty good. Linux could see win98 and vicer versa. Samba seemed to be working fine and I was a happy camper. This morning the system was acting a bit strange, each machine could see the other, but I could not view any of the directories. From win I could not see the linux directories and vice versa. So I decided to reboot the system. Well, it won't reboot. In the process the linux box freezes up when loading the random number generator. Any suggestions or fixes? Thanks Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] E-mail importer
Hello: Does anybody know of a utility which will import the email addresses in Outlook Express into the KDE mail client? Thank you Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MODEM
Hello: I am using an internal USRobotics modem model 5610A. Dexter On Sunday 16 September 2001 18:10, you wrote: I would appreciate any suggestions as to a suitable modem for a dual boot setup. Using Windows 98 and Mandrake 8. Thank you Ivor Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] disk scan/ disk defrag
Hello: This might be a silly question, but I installed LM8.0 on a disk partition, which it shares with windows 98se. As per instructions, I went ahead and did a disk scan and defrag on the hdd prior to installing linux. Now that I have installed LM, is it still safe to run diskmanager and defrag on the hdd? If it is, will it do the entire drive or only the win partition? Thanks. Regards, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]Dialling out problem
Hello: Thank you everybody for the quick response. The ifconfig eth0 down has solved my immediate problem, but it does not address my overall issue. Which is fine, since at the time I just wanted to get back to square one and start over. I have two pc's at home. Both of them run windoze 98se, and they are both configured via a LAN for file and printer sharing. In one of my two pc's I have partitioned my hdd and installed LM8.0. I have been hearing of Linux for at least a couple of years and had wanted to give it a shot. I am now trying to configure the Linux partition to re-establish my LAN. So bascially, I am talking about one Win98se box (Linksys nic), connected, via a Linksys switch, to my linux box(Linksys nic). For the most part I use my linux pc as my main interface to the internet (a whopping 28.8 connection speed via modem). Whether each box accesses the internet separately or they both use my connection via the unix box iis immaterial to me. Whichever method seems the most practical will be the method I will use. The other pc is used mostly by my wife to check email and for work. I also use it as a place to keep my back up files. So my main interest would be to have the two pc's connected for file and printer sharing (both printers are currently attached to the linux box). I read the documentation and concluded the Samba software was the answer to my questions. Let me digress for a line or two. While installing LM it looked to me like the nic was recognized and it was using the tulip driver. I obtained the information from the Mandrake Control Center (MCC). I Assumed (which in retrospect, might have been a mistake), since LM recognized my nic that I was set to run in Samba. Well, I read the instructions for Samba. I installed the proper files from the LM8.0 cd rom, I made the recommended changes in the smb.conf file, and then executed the smb command (./smb start). When the command was executed, two lines showed up on my terminal each ended with the word ok. So I was all excited about it. I be the big kahuna, I know what I am doing. Well, the celebration was short lived. I went to the windoze box and network neighborhood would not recognize the existence of my linux. I check the back of my linux box. The nic has 4 led in the back. When it is working properly (in windows), three of the 4 lights will be on at all times, and the fourth one will light up when the machine is active in the lan. When I checked the light status, only two of the lights were on. I have tried several things and none have worked. I realize I need to set up a p/w for the satellite windows box, but when I log into windows, it does not ask for a password. And is that the password the samba is seeking when trying to connect to the windows box? I also realize the need to set up a user in the linux box which matches the name of the windows system. I am just a bit fuzzy as how to go about it. My windows box is named Jean. So does it mean, I must set up a p/w in the Jean machine when it first boots up, set a user in linux by the name of Jean, assign it a p/w, and then have both p/w to be the same? Am I clear on this, or am I off base? I also thought maybe my nic was not configured. That is when I went into MCC and tried to configure it. As I retraced my steps, I now realize I was configuring it to be my internet connection, which was a blatant mistake on my part. To make matters worse, I set it up with a static ip of 192.168.1.127(which I suspect threw my internet connection for a loop). Fortunately, I was saved from myself by the ifconfig command. But now, what do I do to finish setting up my LAN? Poking around MCC, I noticed there is an expert way to configure the nic. There it asks what protocol to use, static ip, uchp, and there was a third choice I can't remember. Should I go ahead and set it up for uchp, or static? And then what? Should I give up trying to set this up via MCC (Mandrake Control Center) and do it via the terminal mode? I think I have covered most of it. If you need any further information, I will be more than glad to provide it. Thanks in advance. Regards, Dexter AKA coqui- in #shelter on EFnet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems configuring network card
Hello: Got a problem. I was trying to configure my nic using the Mandrake Control Center - Connection. I entered the information as best I thought. I am pretty new at Linux and admitedly some of it was guess work. After I finished configuring it I rebooted the system. When I tried to re-establish my connection to the internet via my modem the connection was established without any problems. But now none of my internet applicatons are able to access internet locations. My email program is timing out, can't access IRC, and web browser also times out. I am able to gain full access again, if and only if I physically remove the nic from the slot in the computer. I suspect, once the modem connects with the isp, the pc is trying to access the internet via the nic instead of the modem. It is a theory and the only one I have. With the nic installed, I have tried going back to Mandrake's control center, but when I click on the connection icon, it times out after 15 seconds. So I can't go back and reconfigure the nic. Can somebody guide me on how to get back to where I was before I tried to configure my nic? I am very new at this. I have read some of the documentation on configuring network cards, and establishing lan's (my ultimate goal) but find many of it to deal in generalities. I have had the system for maybe a couple of weeks and still feel like I am walking blind through a mind field. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD Player
Hello: Wondering, just installed LM 8.0 about a week ago or so. What programs are available to listen to music played in the CD-ROM? I found cdp, a terminal based program. Seems to work fine, but was curious what other programs were available? At the moment, I am looking for programs included in the LM8 package. Thank you. Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie having problems with modem...
Lurker: LURKER, here. Just to let you know in WindBlows you use 'PNP' in Linux TURN it OFF. That fixed mine. After reading the instructions (go figure, I can't remember the last time I ever read instructions), I did disable PNP from the BIOS. Still, after receiving your response, I double checked, and the darn thing is still disabled. It would have been and easy fix. Oh well. Right now, it looks like I will be buying a new modem, any suggestions of brand name/model number would be appreciated. Thanks, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Getting closer to a working modem
Hello: Well, some progress on my attempts to get the modem up and going. I switched to XON/XOFF and can now reach the point where the o/s attempts to initialize the modem, but then nothing happens. If I log the answer obtained from the modem, it looks something like: M}W[_mm The initialization string is ATZ. I tried adding ^M to it, but it did not have any effect. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting closer to a working modem - For Carroll
Carroll: Admin wrote: Hello: Well, some progress on my attempts to get the modem up and going. I switched to XON/XOFF and can now reach the point where the o/s attempts to initialize the modem, but then nothing happens. If I log the answer obtained from the modem, it looks something like: M}W[_mm The initialization string is ATZ. I tried adding ^M to it, but it did not have any effect. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dexter Dexter: What modem are you trying to connect using what version of Mandrake? And how are you trying to do it? (CrystalBall is still in early alpha stage -- look for it in Mandrake 10.1.) Carroll Carroll: I am trying to get a 3Com(us robotics) model 5610 to work under Mandrake version 8.0. Below is a copy from an earlier posting today. Since the posting below, I have been able to get LM to try and initialize the modem, but the process is not working properly. Dexter I think I am getting closer to solving my problem, but I am not there yet. I went out and bought a 3Com 5610 modem. It is linux compatible, as stated on the box and in the literature inside the box and the only modem I found in the three stores I visited which made such a claim. It also states and I quote All 2.3 and higher Linux kernels contain the 3Com Linux modem drivers. And as long as the kernel's plug and play (and I assume it is not referring to the BIOS plug and play) is enabled, it should install without any problems. I just installed LM 8.0. Well, I went ahead and physically installed the modem, turn the pc on and let LM do its' magic. The results were mixed. It did recognize the modem and it is now listed under hardware under the proper manufacturer and model number, but it has unknown under the kernel module setting. I clicked on the configure, and again it has the proper brand name and model number, but if I click the OK tab it tells me it can't configure a winmodem. Go figure. I went ahead and tried to connect to my ISP to see what would happen. Here I have some good news and some bad news to report. The good news: instead of getting the modem is busy error message I had the modem is ready message. Very encouraging. The bad news: the modem is ready message is quickly followed by a modem not responding error message. I tried using the different serial ports, but did not have any luck. Then I followed a set of instructions to check for modem installation and written by the folks at 3Com. Here is what they say: 1. launch terminal shell 2. cd /dev enter 3. rm modem enter 4. ln -s ttySXenter 5. type minicom enter 6. if modem initializes, type AT enter and if everything is ok, i should get an OK. Well, I followed the instructions and i did not get the ok. Any suggestions as to what might be going on now? I am thinking a possible irq conflict, but I don't know how to check for irq's. I have not reached the chapter yet. ;). If I go to /dev I can see a file by the name of modem ttyS1. Not sure what it means, but it seems like the modem is on serial port 2. I have an additional device in serial port one (as assigned in windows) which LM does not recognize and at this time it does not matter, but could it be creating some sort of conflict. One more thing, I keep reading of a program called Kppp. I can't find in my system to safe my life. I have checked under installed s/w and under installable s/w, and I get zip, nada, ought, zippity doo da, for a response. Any suggestions??? Again, I appreciate the response I have received so far. I feel like I am getting closer, but still feel like a ship in the midst of a fog and for some reason, I also get the feeling there is an iceberg out there with my name on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Newbie still having problems with modem
Hello: I think I am getting closer to solving my problem, but I am not there yet. I went out and bought a 3Com 5610 modem. It is linux compatible, as stated on the box and in the literature inside the box and the only modem I found in the three stores I visited which made such a claim. It also states and I quote All 2.3 and higher Linux kernels contain the 3Com Linux modem drivers. And as long as the kernel's plug and play (and I assume it is not referring to the BIOS plug and play) is enabled, it should install without any problems. I just installed LM 8.0. Well, I went ahead and physically installed the modem, turn the pc on and let LM do its' magic. The results were mixed. It did recognize the modem and it is now listed under hardware under the proper manufacturer and model number, but it has unknown under the kernel module setting. I clicked on the configure, and again it has the proper brand name and model number, but if I click the OK tab it tells me it can't configure a winmodem. Go figure. I went ahead and tried to connect to my ISP to see what would happen. Here I have some good news and some bad news to report. The good news: instead of getting the modem is busy error message I had the modem is ready message. Very encouraging. The bad news: the modem is ready message is quickly followed by a modem not responding error message. I tried using the different serial ports, but did not have any luck. Then I followed a set of instructions to check for modem installation and written by the folks at 3Com. Here is what they say: 1. launch terminal shell 2. cd /dev enter 3. rm modem enter 4. ln -s ttySXenter 5. type minicom enter 6. if modem initializes, type AT enter and if everything is ok, i should get an OK. Well, I followed the instructions and i did not get the ok. Any suggestions as to what might be going on now? I am thinking a possible irq conflict, but I don't know how to check for irq's. I have not reached the chapter yet. ;). If I go to /dev I can see a file by the name of modem ttyS1. Not sure what it means, but it seems like the modem is on serial port 2. I have an additional device in serial port one (as assigned in windows) which LM does not recognize and at this time it does not matter, but could it be creating some sort of conflict. One more thing, I keep reading of a program called Kppp. I can't find in my system to safe my life. I have checked under installed s/w and under installable s/w, and I get zip, nada, ought, zippity doo da, for a response. Any suggestions??? Again, I appreciate the response I have received so far. I feel like I am getting closer, but still feel like a ship in the midst of a fog and for some reason, I also get the feeling there is an iceberg out there with my name on it. Regards, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Newbie having problems with modem...
Hello: Let me introduce myself. My name is Dexter, and just today I installed linux on a partitioned hdd and I am looking forward to spending some good quality time with this group list. I own a Dell 4100 series pc, running on an 800mhz PIII, with about 380 megs of ram, 40 gig hdd, a linksys nic, a scanner, two printers, a power backup system, and a Conexant/Rockwell modem. The modem is not a winmodem. Ok, now for some background as to what happened. I am pretty new at unix/linux. One big reason I decided to install linux was to learn more about the o/s. I have had shell accounts in the past, but have never been involved in any heavy duty unix/linux stuff. So basically, I can move files around, I am pretty good at deleting files, and have very very little experience tarring/untarring and setting up kernels and what not. In any case, I went ahead and installed the system. It all seemed to go well. I had to play around a bit before it recognized both my printers, but it was not a big deal and I have yet to try and get the network up and running (I will tackle the network later). But I am having a problem getting the o/s and the modem to coexist. I went through the internet connection wizard and placed all the proper information (or so I think, everything is subject to change without notice), but when I try to connect all I get is a message stating: Modem is Busy. Well, far as I know, the modem is not busy and it works fine in windoze. I tried using all the different com ports, including the something/modem allocation (it is configured for com2 in win98), with no luck. Under properties, the modem is described as a HFCModem MDP3900V-U PCI Enumerator modem (don't know what it all means, but there it is anyway). I tried running minicom (as suggested by a person in #mandrake in irc), but I basically had the same result. I tried removing the nic, thinking maybe there is a conflict going on between the two (the wizard at first thinks I am accessing the net via the network), but again no luck. I went to the conexant web site, but they don't have any linux drivers available for their modems. I visited the #mandrake channel in IRC and one of their helpers suggested running ppp-on, but the copy I obtained is in the tar format, and I don't feel confident about messing with it at this point in time. I also sent a message to the support group at Mandrake, but I suspect it might be a couple of days before I hear from them. So, I am hoping somebody in this group list can help me out. I have a few theories running in my head, actually more like intuitions. One theory would be that Mandrake cannot support the conexant/rockwell modem. It would surprise me, considering they are one of the major manufacturers of modems around. If indeed conexant is not supported, can somebody send me the brandname and model number of a modem supported by Mandrake? Another possibility might be a bad switch setting. If interested, I could copy the settings for all the parameters, but I rather wait and do it only if necessary. Taking up enough bandwidth as it is. My modem strings seem ok, but it has been a while since I played with such things, so an erroneous setting is a possibility. Of course the best scenario would be somebody somewhere who has had the same experience I am, and having a fix for it. So if you know the answer, don't be shy. ;) Also, and depending on how comfortable people might feel about it, I could call you and try to trouble shoot it over the phone. I live in the United States, and would like to keep the call within the lower 48 if possible. :) I can also be found in IRC, specifically in the Efnet network in the channel #shelter under the nickname of Coqui. I normally have a client there 24/7. I have most everything else up and running and I want to get the modem up and going, to see what it can do. In any case, any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, Dexter AKA Coqui- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice Word 97/2000 format
for some reason...you might have installed it wrong perhaps I would fully un-install it(star office)...and then re-install. and unless...you wish to allow each single account on your machine to use the one install, then I would install it ONLY in your \home\username directory...not in root. I never had that problem...never heard of anyone else either... so I assume you installed it, or mandrake wrong. also make sure you update the menus accordingly...both system and users. Jacob Maurer wrote: My setup - Duron 700 with Epox 8TAK2 mother board 128 megs Ram NVidia/Jaton TNT2 16 meg video Soundblaster 128 Winmodem Mandrake 8 StarOffice 5.2 I'm new to Linux, so I'm trying out Mandrake, supposively the easiest to learn on. When I try to save any document in StarOffice (the wordprocessor ) in Word 97/2000 format, the entire program freezes. Linux runs, but the program simply stops (screen still there, but nothing happening. Sun corporation hasn't heard of this problem, and I can't find any reference to it anywhere else. Any thoughts? Thanks, Jacob -- Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com -- * http://www.myispnet.net *** Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]ALT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
