[newbie] wireless connection
Hello all, was wondering if anybody has any ideas on this... I'm trying to get a wireless connection to another house near mine. I have a dial up account and my neighbor has a broadband business account and would allow me to use it. I currently use Smoothwall as a gateway-firewall but I'm going to have to install a desktop pci wireless card with an external antenna and Smoothwall doesnt have wireless support for cards. Is there any gateway-firewalls out there that support this. Wish list: Easy configuration and adminitration ( I'm a newbie :-) Free (very low budjet) I should also say we both run linux (MDK) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WM's in general
Not sure if this is what you are talking about but, I boot to run level3 and use this little session selector. I like it better than kdm or gdm. Its on the MDK8.2 cd's not sure about later versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]$ Xtart WELCOME to Sessions Selector 1 KDE 2 gnome 3 WindowMaker 4 Enlightenment 5 blackbox 6 XFce 7 IceWM 8 Sawfish Which do you choose? (number) mike On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:51 am, you wrote: When drak first time comes up it gives you the option (in KDE anyway) to choose which WM to run on top of KDE itself. Like Enlightenment. NOw I chose that option once, couldn't figure out how to undo it. Silly me. Now someone posted about doing this in Gnome. Isn't there an easier way? How about KDE? Or doing this on E itself? Ideas...? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WM's in general
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 07:44 pm, you wrote: I used Civileme's 'Xtart', too...for a while. Whether it's a matter of environment deficiencies or what...under different managers some programs won't run or come up properly. If I remember correctly, Blackbox won't allow me to exit, so I end up crashing it with CTR-ALT-BackSpace. Is there suppose to be some limitations within each of these due to environment differences from switching from one to the other? I love little applet, but the results have been frustrating at times. T Originally I wanted to explore most of the wm's easily and Xtart was recommended. But I did not explore as much as I wanted too... :-) In Blackbox if you right click desktop session windowmanagers exit should get you out it. I am not sure why programs run on some and not on others, but I am pretty green to most this anyways (but haven' a blast! learning) mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with sis900 onboard ethernet
Hi Richard, I have the same board k7s5a with onboard sound and network. I have MDK8.2 installed and it configured my nic on install but I had troubles with sound. Thanks! to your link I'm going to attempt to get my sound working again. Anyways I'm a newbie so can't help much but heres some info from my system. Also all I have in my /etc/modules is the same as you scsi_hostadapter, but did notice the nic was in my /etc/modules.conf as below shows.I did notice that the HOWTO's and mine were IRQ 5 and your dmesg say's IRQ 11 I'm not sure if that makes a difference as long as there is not a conflict somewhere. (This is from dmesg) is900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:03.0 eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1. eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 5, 00:07:95:27:f8:d4. (Further down in dmesg) eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex (This is what Harddrake shows) Vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Model: SiS900 10/100 Ethernet Kernel Module: sis900 Bus Type: PCI (This is what ethtool shows) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]# ethtool -i eth0 driver: sis900 version: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 firmware-version: bus-info: 00:03.0 (This is what is in my /etc/modules.config) alias eth0 sis900 Mike On Wednesday 26 February 2003 07:50 pm, you wrote: Greetings, I am trying to get my SiS900 10/100 onboard ethernet to work with ML 9.0. I came across a howto at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/K7s5a-HOWTO and typed 'dmesg | less' as they suggested. I get three lines for eth0 as follows: eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 1. eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 11, 00:0a:e6:4d:21:62 My question is this. If the PHY transceiver is unknown (I assume this is the network chip) then how can ML identify it two lines later? The howto also states that I can add sis900.o to etc/modules if everything goes ok. When I look at etc/modules the only item in there is scsi_hostadapter. I suppose the short question is really do I have a good chip on this mb or not? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)
Hello all, I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works screen has some small vertical lines and I think cmos batt weak. Has dos 3.x on it and it has a floppy drive3.5. Anyways I was looking around for a small linix to put on it. Any recommendations? It is purely a learning experience for me not really going to do anything with it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)
Thanks for the responses. After reading a little bit I'm beginning to see what you mean, The processor and especially the ram (which I know I wont be able to upgrade) as Simon pointed out, are big issues. Although the ELKS link makes interesting reading. I'll poke around with it for a while, I can always donate it back for for somebody else to play with :-) On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:36 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 01 February 2003 08:58 am, MG wrote: Hello all, I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works screen has some small vertical lines and I think cmos batt weak. Has dos 3.x on it and it has a floppy drive3.5. Anyways I was looking around for a small linix to put on it. Any recommendations? It is purely a learning experience for me not really going to do anything with it. For real linux you need at least a 386 processor, and those were made in the 20Mhz and up range. BUT http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/~harkal/ELKS/images/ download the file images-0.1.0.zip unzip it copy to floppy and try it out Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Geforce Driver
safest bet is the IA32, thats what I used on my system which is a Athlon 1.5 XP, but view the readme first before downloading, I think the differences are 32bit and 64 bit processors but not sure. I am a newbie my self. The readme was not to hard to follow for me, and I dont follow so good! LOL (IA32=pentium[mmx,ll.lll.lV],athlon) (IA64=Itanium or Itanium II processors) (AMD64=AMD's Hammer chips) version: 1.0-4191 release:12/11/2002 I used the src rpms because wasn't all that sure which rpm to use I'm running MDK8.2 on a Athlon 1.5 on an ECS board with a Geforce4 agp. I pretty much followed the Readme at: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/README on building and installing the kernel and glx drivers, then editing the XF86Config or on my system XF86Config-4 file. also instructions on useing tar also. I did all in console with the X server not running as they instructed and worked out nice. A forum to check also is: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=84fb0e3b9b9d47c645e96cad87e4f9e4forumid=14 Mike On Saturday 25 January 2003 01:00 pm, you wrote: Hi All, I would like to install the drivers form my Nvidia Geforce 2 card but I think I may need a little help before I totally foul things up. I assume I need the AMD64 driver (AMD Athalon 1ghz) Do I need both: GLX Tar File Kermel Mode Tar File How do I know which version of XFree I am running? (MD 9.0 with all updates) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5
Not sure if this is the problem or not but they mentioned in the release notes not to install on an exsiting directory or a mozilla directory. I put mine in /usr/lib/phoenix and mozilla in /usr/lib/mozilla Mike On Sunday 05 January 2003 07:20 pm, you wrote: Ok, I installed Phoenix to try it out and got everything working. I have been using it for a week or so to get use to it. I just tried to run Mozilla (from the desktop, user command line, root, and from the mozilla directory) and I get Phoenix. Phoenix has its own set of directories. Its as if the mozilla executable was replaced by Phoenix. I know that Phoenix uses the mozilla engine. Is there something that I am missing here? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] eth0 config
Hello all, I installed a command line tool called ethtool I was curious about what speed my nic was set at, its an onboard device SIS900 and I'm not sure where the configuration file is at. Anyways when I run the command ethtool eth0 it says... [root@avatar mike]# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: No data available but it shows me driver info... [root@avatar mike]# ethtool -i eth0 driver: sis900 version: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 firmware-version: bus-info: 00:03.0 I'm set up with my workstation connected to a hub which is connected to a firewall/gateway box which is connected to a modem. My hub I believe does 10mps, I picked up a used switch linskys 10/100mps I have 10/100 nics in both boxs. I would like to see the difference it makes, and learn about it. Like to be able to change and measure settings. Questions= Where in MDK is eth0 settings at? Has anyone used ethtool ? or is there a better tool? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] script help
Hey Mark, I was just using ./HW as in: [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW What I gathered was if the script was in a directory, that was in my PATH, I could just use the name of the script instead of the whole path. I looked in my /home/mike/.bash_profile file and it said: [mike@avatar mike]$ cat .bash_profile # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin Perhaps /home/mike/bin is not in the path of PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin ? Mike On Wednesday 01 January 2003 03:36 pm, you wrote: MG wrote: Hi all, This question is not really Mandrake specific although I am using Mandrake8.2 (and like it alot!)...anyways trying to learn the bash shell. I wrote a small script (the Hello World script) and named it HW. I did a chmod 755 to it, so all could read and execute it. I made a /bin directoy in my home directoy and put the script there. But my problem is I can only execute it when I am in the directoy of the script. I have a permission problem(I think), but cant seem to find it. Any help would be appreciated. Here is where scipt is at: /home/mike/bin/practice_script/ [mike@avatar practice_script]$ ls -al total 12 drwxr-xr-x2 mike mike 4096 Dec 28 09:51 ./ drwxr-xr-x3 mike mike 4096 Dec 28 21:24 ../ -rwxr-xr-x1 mike mike 52 Dec 28 09:51 HW* -rw-r--r--1 mike mike0 Dec 28 09:49 HW~ If I execute the script any where but /practice_script/ I get this [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW bash: ./HW: No such file or directory Thanks, Mike Mike, When you call it from anywhere else except the directory where it's located how are you calling it? for instance...if yo're in /home/mike and you want to call the script you would call it this way: bin/practice_script/HW [enter] Is this how you're doing it? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] script help
Thanks Chuck! It works, I believe I understand now, thats why I got a No such file or directory it could not see it in the folder I made. again appreciate the guidance. Mike On Wednesday 01 January 2003 04:54 pm, you wrote: Here's the rub, by type ./HW you are telling bash to run it in the current directory. Also, path's are NOT recursive, so when you put it inside a second folder inside the ~/bin directory, it will not see it. Put the HW script directly into your ~/bin directory, then then type just HW (NOT ./HW) Chuck On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:10, MG wrote: Hey Mark, I was just using ./HW as in: [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW What I gathered was if the script was in a directory, that was in my PATH, I could just use the name of the script instead of the whole path. I looked in my /home/mike/.bash_profile file and it said: [mike@avatar mike]$ cat .bash_profile # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin Perhaps /home/mike/bin is not in the path of PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin ? Mike On Wednesday 01 January 2003 03:36 pm, you wrote: MG wrote: Hi all, This question is not really Mandrake specific although I am using Mandrake8.2 (and like it alot!)...anyways trying to learn the bash shell. I wrote a small script (the Hello World script) and named it HW. I did a chmod 755 to it, so all could read and execute it. I made a /bin directoy in my home directoy and put the script there. But my problem is I can only execute it when I am in the directoy of the script. I have a permission problem(I think), but cant seem to find it. Any help would be appreciated. Here is where scipt is at: /home/mike/bin/practice_script/ [mike@avatar practice_script]$ ls -al total 12 drwxr-xr-x2 mike mike 4096 Dec 28 09:51 ./ drwxr-xr-x3 mike mike 4096 Dec 28 21:24 ../ -rwxr-xr-x1 mike mike 52 Dec 28 09:51 HW* -rw-r--r--1 mike mike0 Dec 28 09:49 HW~ If I execute the script any where but /practice_script/ I get this [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW bash: ./HW: No such file or directory Thanks, Mike Mike, When you call it from anywhere else except the directory where it's located how are you calling it? for instance...if yo're in /home/mike and you want to call the script you would call it this way: bin/practice_script/HW [enter] Is this how you're doing it? Mark 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
