[newbie] PCMCIA
I don't know if anyone recalls this problem, but I have an IRQ conflict with my PCMCIA card, USB, and YENTA (whatever that is). They all appear to be on IRQ 10. I'm trying to get the PCMCIA card working but I can't figure out how to change the IRQ of the PCMCIA from BIOS. The BIOS is from Dell, I'm running a Latitude LS400 and I upgraded the BIOS last night with bootable floppy from Dell. If anybody knows how to change IRQ settings in a Dell BIOS I'd really appreciate it. Again thanks for the help in figuring out what the problem actually was. -Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card
OK, it's good to know what the issue is. It seems that I have a peculiar BIOS. I can't see any section on it regarding IRQ settings. I'm running a Dell Latitude LS400. Does anyone know how to find the settings? I'm sorry this isn't exactly a MDK related question and I know most BIOSes are different but I figure someone has a Dell and has done this before. Thanks for all the help especially Derek. Thanks -Noah On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:52, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 01:30, Noah A Hicks wrote: Well I've booted with the card in and I heard no double beep. I did see a message that said: starting pcmcia cardmgr[864]: socket0: CardBus hotplug device Are you sure your laptop supports cardbus? 2 of mine (newer ones) don't though they do support 32 bits cards whereas an older Compaq works fine:o( What you'll be looking for in dmesg is a reference to a PCI network-card you don't physically have. That'l be your card(bus). Good luck, HarM 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] laptop cd drive mount
Today after not using it for several months I attempted to plug my cd drive in my laptop. I could hear the drive spin up but the it wasn't mounted. So I rebooted thinking that would automatically mount it but still no joy. Is there any way to do get my computer to know that it has a cd drive? This is the current result of the mount command: [noah@localhost noah]$ mount /dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43) [noah@localhost noah]$ Any pointers? Thanks -Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
Well I applied the method you described and no joy. Going to the URL: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ Gives me the message: Unable to load Netscape plugin for www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/' I get this message in the Macromedia Flash Player box under the macromedia player. Since this works in Mozzila I assumed it would work in Konqueror using the method you gave. Any ideas? Could this be because I'm using 9.0 Beta 4? Thanks -Noah On Tuesday 12 November 2002 05:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 13:47, Jose wrote: On Monday 11 November 2002 02:29 am, Noah Hicks wrote: how does one install and enable the flash plugin for Konqueror? It was very easy to do in Mozilla but I prefer to use Konqueror. Hopefully someone will answer that question. I have been using Phoenix which is Mozilla Lite, but would love to go back to Konqueror. -- Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Mandrake, Redhat and SuSE user Children - the most commonly transmitted sexual disease Didn't we already cover this issue yesterday - or early this morning? Open up KONQUEROR, choose SETTINGS, then CONFIGURE KONQUEROR, then scroll down the left side to the BOTTOM where you find NETSCAPE PLUGINS, click that icon, then in the right side, you get an option to SCAN FOR NEW PLUGINS (and also check the little box that says to scan at start of Konqueror) - and VOILA! You should be happening! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
Well I'm not having a problem with the flash version. The problem for me seems to be that Konqueror is not using the plugin. I am pretty sure I did what I was supposed to: untared the files, put them in ~/.mozilla/plugins, put that dir in the Konq settings, scanned for new pugins, and still no joy. What's up? Does it matter where I put the files? As long as I tell Konqueror where to scan it should pick up the libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class file shouldn't it work? As far as I can tell Konqueror can't read any part of a website that has a *.swf. Thanks for pointers -Noah On Tuesday 12 November 2002 11:55, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 5:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 3:11 pm, you wrote: In Control Center | Web browsing | Plugins, edit the top line to read $HOME/.mozilla/plugins Click on Enable plugins globally, and then click on Scan for new plugins. I leave Scan for plugins at KDE startup unchecked. Done, go to Google and search 'flash test'. You can then go to several sites to test your new flash with Konqueror. Interesting. I tried the site, and the first one I tried said: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION OF THE FLASH PLAYER INSTALLED This site requires the Macromedia Flash 6 plug-in. This is a free plug-in which allows you to view animated content on the web. The download is quick and it is easy to install. Click here to download the Flash 6 plug-in. When I did it offered my v.5, which is installed! The others work OK though, so no worries. I'm still wondering why I can't see any of the tabs or buttons on Amazon's site in Mozilla but they're fine in Galleon. Anne Flash 6 is available for Linux as a beta see here http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3760 Alternatively Flash6 for Windows works just great with Codeweavers Crossover plugin derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] flash in Konqueror
Anne Any productive discussion is fine with me whatever the topic. Your problem is somewhat different then mine. The whole browser freezes? Mine will load the site just not the flash portion. I guess this is pretty mysterious bcause nobody seems to know what the solution is. Does KDE have a list of any kind for Konqueror? -Noah On Tuesday 12 November 2002 13:38, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:26 pm, you wrote: Well I'm not having a problem with the flash version. The problem for me seems to be that Konqueror is not using the plugin. Sorry for hijacking your thread. You could be right - Mozilla and Galleon perform fine, but Konq freezes every time I try to load any of the test sites. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] flash in Konqueror
how does one install and enable the flash plugin for Konqueror? It was very easy to do in Mozilla but I prefer to use Konqueror. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows CE device
Techno Your absolutely right. However, I presumed that actually being able to utilize what ever protocols M$ has put in WinCE to do things like mail/contact syncing was part if their intilectual property. So I was just hoping that some kind of simple work around, maybe a quasi ftp, had been thought up. I certainly don't have the skills to do this but it seems to me that someone would have done this. -Noah On Saturday 09 November 2002 09:37, Technoslick wrote: Do I assume correctly that you are looking to synchronize data between your handheld Win CE device and a Linux computer, not just copy files back and forth with Linux? I, too, hope to find that someone has created a conduit for this purpose. I would like to be able to do the same in Evolution as I can with my Palm device. Actually, I would love to convert my Win CE device to running Linux, but I haven't found anyone that has done this to give me advice, nor has my research given me any warm fuzzies that once done there's any practical application (where are the apps?) If you hear of anything, or find anything that helps, please feel free to let me know. I'll do the same for you (conduit/synchronization). T - Original Message - From: Noah Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:37 PM Subject: [newbie] Windows CE device Hey all Is there any way to do any sort of data transfer between a Windows CE device and a linux computer? I was just hoping to be able to transfer text files from one device to the other. I have a hunch that I'm talking about the impossible, but I thought I would ask. -Noah --- - 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] Windows CE device
Hey all Is there any way to do any sort of data transfer between a Windows CE device and a linux computer? I was just hoping to be able to transfer text files from one device to the other. I have a hunch that I'm talking about the impossible, but I thought I would ask. -Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anacron
Ok thanks Derek, that helps my understanding alot. I got that line in crontab. It shouldn't be as much of a problem. I wonder if anyone could make this program run in smaller parts over the course of a whole day. Wouldn't that make it much more inconspicuous on the system? oh well thanks for the tips -Noah On Tuesday 05 November 2002 14:16, Derek Jennings wrote: You can see the daily jobs in /etc/cron.daily Whenever you install an RPM which needs 'maintenance' a file gets dropped in here for the daily processing. For example logrotate will compress your old logs and delete the oldest entries. It will cause a bit of hard drive activity, but not a vast amount (unless you have big logs) The weekly job slocate.cron will cause a lot of harddrive activity, because it compiles a database of every file on your hard drive for use by the slocate command. (If you have it installed) The daily msec job is checking on the file permissions of all your system files, so that could cause a bit of activity. If you find the daily job annoying, why not set it to run at a more convenient time? It is only a matter of editing the /etc/crontab file. For instance in this line 56 10 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily All the scripts in location /etc/cron.daily are scheduled to run at 10:56 every day If you want a nice GUI to setup cron jobs, then there is one in webmin. derek On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:15 pm, Noah Hicks wrote: Well the only problem I'm having is that when it's running, it slows the system down. There's a lot of HD activity and the programs I'm running slow down significatly. This can last for a good 3-4 min. I find it kind of irritating. Seems like it only does it once a day though. I'm just running a laptop for webbrowsing, word processing and data analysis with a few simple console apps. How high do my security settings need to be? Thanks for helping me figure this out -Noah BTW is there something wrong with the list server? I got your reply but I didn't get my own message. On Tuesday 05 November 2002 11:24, Derek Jennings wrote: If you stop anacron/cron then your system will not be able to perform essential maintenance. Your log files will fill up up to infinity, your temporary files will not be erased, and your system will not perform any security checks. What is the problem with having it running? derek On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:20 am, Noah Hicks wrote: I need to know how to get anacron to stop running as often as it seems to be. I have found the task file in the /etc dir but I can't see how to modify it and the man page is hard for me to understand. Could anyone tell me how to do this? Unless there is some task I need it to do, I would like to get it to cease completely. Can I just remove the cron.daily and cron.weekly files? This is what I have now: [noahlocalhost etc]$ cat anacrontab # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron # See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # These entries are useful for a Mandrake system. 1 5 cron.daily run-parts /etc/cron.daily 7 10 cron.weekly run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 30 15 cron.monthlyrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] flash in konqueror
Could anyone tell me how to enable a flash plugin in Konqueror? I had no problem in Mozilla but I can't figure out how to do it in Konqueror. Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OO program fonts
Any one know how to change the program fonts in Openoffice.org? I read how to do it somewhere a long time ago but I can't remember where. Presently the fonts look like they went through a blender. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kernel configuration
This must be a stupid question but I am going to ask it anyway. Is it not true that to configure your kernel your supposed to run make menuconfig? Why isn't this working? [root@localhost noah]# make menuconfig make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop. [root@localhost noah]# Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel configuration
Thanks a lot. That clears things up. On more question if anyone cares do discuss. I see that there are two similar sub dir: [rootlocalhost src]# ls linux linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ RPM/ Both /linux and /linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ seem to have the same substructure. Is the linux-2.4.19-5mdk/ dir a mandrake specific kernel? Just wondering Noah On Saturday 12 October 2002 10:14, Todd Flinders wrote: You're not in the correct directory. You need to be in the directory that holds the Makefile. cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:38 am, Noah Hicks wrote: This must be a stupid question but I am going to ask it anyway. Is it not true that to configure your kernel your supposed to run make menuconfig? Why isn't this working? [rootlocalhost noah]# make menuconfig make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop. [rootlocalhost noah]# Thanks Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
