[newbie] my adsl/router problems fixed. Thanks

[Mr.E.]

I had similar problem as some other users. Was able to connect to Bellsouth DSL 
service with just my NIC card, but when I added new Linksys Router, I couldn't get 
online.

Thanks to users who pointed out that I should set default gateway to the Router's ip 
address 192.168.1.1

also, I set my PC's IP address to 192.168.1.2 (instead of leaving it at 10.0.0.1 or 
something) as someone elso suggested.  Then plugged in the domain name server IP's.

Back online! thanks.




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[newbie] do I need AMD Kernel

[Mr.E.]

I have an AMD Athlon Thunderbird processor.

Do I need to install an Athlon kernel, or just leave everything  (Mandrake 8.1) as is?

Saw this in an issue of Penguin Shell and didn't know if applied to all Linux distros 
or not:

Athlon Kernel]
If you're running an Athlon machine, up2date will update your kernel to i386. Instead 
of updating it with up2date, download the 2.4.9-7.athlon.rpm and rpm -ivh it. Grub 
will see the old kernel as default so you just need to reset that and you're golden.

- Ernie Schroder





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[newbie] NVidia and Shutdown problem

[Mr.E.]

I don't know if the two are related, but
I installed the Nvidia rpm's from MandrakeUser then did XFdrake (all steps done from 
console with no X running).

then did a  Shutdown now  so I can come back with a cold re-boot.

BUT, the system wouldn't shut down all the way.

I got a going to single user message, with a prompt that was sh or ssh 2.23 (I 
think) where I tried the Shutdown now again, but no luck.. back to that weird 
message and prompt.

Finally issued a Ctrl-Alt-Delete... and system then Rebooted.

Any reasons why this would occur




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[newbie] Emergency Recover (Anuerin)

[Mr.E.]

Thanks Anuerin. I found the docs for Emergency Recover when your linux system 
hangs/freezes:

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/arecov.html

The last resort Sequence is 

  alt+prntscreen+R
  alt+prntscreen+S
  alt+prntscreen+E
  alt+prntscreen+I
  alt+prntscreen+U
  alt+prntscreen+B

R aising 
S kinny
E lephants
I s
U tterly
B oring

-Original Message-
From: Anuerin G.  Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 08:33:41 +
Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers (SUCCESS)


  someone posted about the 2nd-to-the-last resort of rebooting a system (reset is the 
last). its something like

  alt+prntscreen+R
  alt+prntscreen+E
  alt+prntscreen+S
  alt+prntscreen+B


  or something like that (please correct me if im wrong). they said it would write the 
necessary data from memory to harddisk and perform a reboot (or was it a shutdown?). i 
have never found any docs about this but it works (if i hit the right combination of 
course ;-)





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