[newbie] Nvidia Drivers
Hi, I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and wanted to use the latest drivers for Linux that are posted on Nvidia's web site for my Gforce Annihilator Pro card. I downloaded the RPM and when I double click it, I get a list of files. One of these files is called install, if I double click that I get a text message saying "Run this to install the package". Not too sure how to do this or what to do next. Can anyone give me some guidance? Thanks, j0e
Re: [newbie] DSL
I have been very busy at work and have not had time to even turn on my home system. I will try your suggestions this weekend and let you know. I appreciate the follow up. Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: Glenn Johnson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:22 PM Subject: [newbie] DSL Joe Lore, just wondering how you've made out with your DSL connection. Glenn... Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #175132 Powered by Linux-Mandrake 7.1
[newbie] BA Infospeed and Linux
I am at a loss. I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and use BellAtlantics Infospeed DSL. I have followed all the steps at the Roaring Penguin site and at http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/prog/linux/pppoe.html and I still cannot get it to work. I believe the Ethernet cards are setup ok because when I run ifconfig and use et0 - eth3 I get the proper results, but then I set anyone of those as my default Ethernet card for pppoe and run adsl-start it times out every time. I see not 1 single flash on the Westell modems activity light either. Has anyone had any luck with this? Thanks for any help. Joe
Re: [newbie] Bell Atlantic Infospeed DSL
Hi, Well I do believe that it is being initialized at boot up and I am not sure how to stop it. Also how do I check to see if it has an IP address? Joe - Original Message - From: "Glenn Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 6:34 PM Subject: [newbie] Bell Atlantic Infospeed DSL Joe, I'm using BA Infospeed also, and aside from stumbling on the first few attempts to set it up, I basically have had no trouble. I too use the Roaring Penguin software. You need to make sure that your net card is not initialized at boot time, and that it has no IP address asigned to it. Run the roe setup program, and answer all the q's. Make sure you answer 'server' at the point where you actually have that option. Finish up the install and reboot your system. Try to log on. If you can't get on or you can get on but can't route, you need to make sure that the nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. If they aren't listed in these 2 files, add them, save the changes, and reboot again. Try to log on again. This is usually what I need to do to get my internet connection working. Add a couple aliases in your .bashrc file for the adsl-start, adsl-stop, and adsl-status commands. This beats typing those commands all the time. I used the following: aa=adsl-start ab=adsl-stop ac-adsl-status Not very imaginative, but they work! Let me know how you make out. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #175132 Powered by Linux-Mandrake 7.1
[newbie] Grub questions
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and have a few questions about the boot loader, grub. How do I get Windows to be my default OS in the list. Also, what is the command to get fdisk to remove grub from my boot sector? I will be putting Linux on a different hard drive soon and will need to do this at some time. Thanks for any help. Joe
RE: [newbie] Booting from CD at install?
Not true at all. I did the CD-ROM drive boot / install and it worked fine. I can now boot into either Windows or Linux using the Grub menu. Joe -Original Message- From: John Gist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Booting from CD at install? Getting ready to do my first ever Linux install. I have the 7.0 boxed set. My CD drive is bootable. The computer has Windows on a 6.4 gig hard drive that is all one partition. I want to keep Windows and set up dual boot with Linux. In a book on Linux/Mandrake I purchased at the book store is a statement that sounds as if booting from the CD will erase the drive. If this is true I will use a floppy instead. Thanks John
[newbie] FW: modem says it's busy
Hi, I'm new to the list. I've got background running Solaris on a Sparcstation and I've done installations of Red Hat and Corel Linux but I'm still finding my way around Linux on an Intel box (and I'm lost). I've just gotten a new machine. My old machine had a Winmodem in it so I never had the opportunity to get Linux Internet aware. But the new machine has a Diamond Supramodem 56i and I've just installed Mandrake Linux on it. I've set up a dialup connection but can't get the modem to do its thing. The modem is on ttyS2 (com3 which it is when I'm in Windows). If I set up the modem on any other device it's simply not seen but on this device it returns "busy." Can anyone tell me how to fix this? BTW, the machine is a AMD K6-500 and everything else seems to be working quite well, though I haven't set up sound yet. Would sure like to get it Internet aware. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] ATA-66 support
I am currently running with 2.2.14 and am getting ATA66 performace. Joe - Original Message - From: "Roland Hightower" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 6:52 PM Subject: [newbie] ATA-66 support Which kernel supports ata66 and where can I find the tar.gz files and the rpm files?The reason I need the tar files is so I can compile it for ham radio support. Thanks, Roland/kd5rh
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's a massive search going on. What's up with this? -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know?
Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error
Yes I believe the issue is that ESD is not running. How do we check this and then get it to load at boot? Thanks, Joe - Original Message - From: Federico Silva To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error Hi, am having the same problem. Can use the CDPlayer ok but when it comes to system beeps and blurps it won't. I can't get xmms to reproduce any mp3 either. I had Debian installed and it worked OK, i had to configure it all by hand, recompile the kernel and all but it worked. As mandrake did the trick for me and it is a little differentfrom Debian I don't know whta to do. My problem with Debian was thatall the libs are opld and the newer programs couldn't work and my Internet link is so slow :( that an on-line update is not an option. Any help is much welcome as my girlfriend did like KDE very much more than windoze but she does want to hear it beep and blurp :) ... -f. -Original Message-From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: viernes 23 de junio de 2000 12:12To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error I never saw a copy of my last message so please forgive if you got this twice. Hi,Thanks to all the help I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.1.I am having one small issue though. I have a Sound Blaster Live and thedriver loads ok, I am able to play CD's and I get the test sound when I goto the configurator.I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I try to enable systemsounds I get an error like:There was an error with the audio server (Esound) (is this the ESD?) system sounds have beendisabled.What causing this?Thanks again for the help.Joe
Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error
Yes I believe the issue is that ESD is not running. How do we check this and then get it to load at boot? Thanks, Joe - Original Message - From: Federico Silva To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error Hi, am having the same problem. Can use the CDPlayer ok but when it comes to system beeps and blurps it won't. I can't get xmms to reproduce any mp3 either. I had Debian installed and it worked OK, i had to configure it all by hand, recompile the kernel and all but it worked. As mandrake did the trick for me and it is a little differentfrom Debian I don't know whta to do. My problem with Debian was thatall the libs are opld and the newer programs couldn't work and my Internet link is so slow :( that an on-line update is not an option. Any help is much welcome as my girlfriend did like KDE very much more than windoze but she does want to hear it beep and blurp :) ... -f. -Original Message-From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: viernes 23 de junio de 2000 12:12To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error I never saw a copy of my last message so please forgive if you got this twice. Hi,Thanks to all the help I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.1.I am having one small issue though. I have a Sound Blaster Live and thedriver loads ok, I am able to play CD's and I get the test sound when I goto the configurator.I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I try to enable systemsounds I get an error like:There was an error with the audio server (Esound) (is this the ESD?) system sounds have beendisabled.What causing this?Thanks again for the help.Joe
[newbie] Esound server error.
Hi, Thanks to all the help I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.1. I am having one small issue though. I have a Sound Blaster Live and the driver loads ok, I am able to play CD's and I get the test sound when I go to the configurator. I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I try to enable system sounds I get an error like: There was an error with the audio server (Esound) system sounds have been disabled. What causing this? Thanks again for the help. Joe
[newbie] LAN connectivity
HI, I am using Mandrake 7.1 and I am having trouble getting connectivity to the net through my LAN. I currently use a Win 98 SE box with internet sharing to provide net to the entire LAN, however, when I provide the IP for that box as the default gateway it just simply does not work. Has anyone successfully done this, if so what should I be using where for settings, if not can anyone give me some tips on where to begin. Thanks Joe
RE: [newbie] LAN connectivity
I saw the potion to set proxies in the install but now I cannot seem to find them. Where can I set the proxies? Thanks Joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fran Parker Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN connectivity Hi Joe, Linux is so much better at sharing internet connections than windows...why not use the Linux box for that? If you need to use the Win98SE ... you will probably have to use proxies. So much cleaner with ipchains. No proxies server...just pass/allow and deny as needed. Much easier, at least I think so. There is an ipchains howto out there that explains it, if you are interested in switching. But if not, you will have to figure out the different proxies and set up proxies for your connection. There may be one other problem...I think the Win98SE internet sharing is only between Win98SE machines. I think I remember hearing that if you had a Win95/98 or Win3.x on your network that they would have to be upgraded or not be able to share the network with the Win98SE machine. They may have fixed this, but I believe that is how it is. When I was in Win98, I opted for Proxyserver by AnalogX, very cool program. And since we had several email addresses, we used older version of Wingate (single user was free). Linux box, Win95, and a Win3.x were configured to use the proxies as laid out in Wingate and Proxyserver. It was all free. So much easier now with ipchains...and it doesn't cost anything either. Just a few thoughts on it...but remember, I too am a newbie. Bambi Joe Lore wrote: HI, I am using Mandrake 7.1 and I am having trouble getting connectivity to the net through my LAN. I currently use a Win 98 SE box with internet sharing to provide net to the entire LAN, however, when I provide the IP for that box as the default gateway it just simply does not work. Has anyone successfully done this, if so what should I be using where for settings, if not can anyone give me some tips on where to begin. Thanks Joe
[newbie] SB Live issues, still
Hi, I got the latest drivers available from the SB Linux developers page but still am not able to get it to work. I followed the instructions as close as I could, however, being a "newbie" comments like "unload all sound drivers including soundscape" mean zip to me. Still when I use the Hardware Configurator it says it found an old Sound Blaster live configuration and in the resources windows there are all -1 and they cannot be changed. Thanks for any help. Joe
[newbie] 2 Consistent Problems
Ok, this is getting confusing so I will just post the issues in this one mailing and hope I get some good answers. I am having 2 problems with my Mandrake 7.1 install (these were the ISO images available online). #1) On bootup the Emu10k1 driver fails. I followed the detailed instructions given at the newbielinux website on installing the latest driver and when I do the modrpobe I get this: # modprobe emu10k1 /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: init_module: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/emu10k1.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: insmod emu10k1 failed I saw that Creative actualy has new drivers but are designed for Kernel 2.2.5 and I have a previous one. Should I upgrade the Kernel to support the Creative Drivers? If not what can I do at this point to use the emu10k1 one? #2) I am not able to get my ethernet card working. At least I think that is the problem. I see eth0 successfully initialize on boot up but when I do a "netstat -ni" all I see is lo. I am not able to ping anything, even the ethernet address of a directly connected box. It was suggested that I check to see if the loopback address was removed, I have not checked this yet. Not sure where to go with this one at all. Thanks for any help! Joe
