[newbie] Looking for App...
Hi All Am looking for a simple web based app that can track hardware/hardware systems. Would anyone have any ideas on this please? Thanks in advance, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] command line tool for updates
Hi All, After receiving a notice of patches from mondrakeonline, is there a commandline tool to remotely get and install these patches? Thank for your time, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] No Sound in Kobo Deluxe in KDE M10 Official 2nd Post
Hello All, I am wondering why I don't have sound in this particular game. Sound works on this Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop using the snd-es1968 driver for the ES1978 Maestro 2E built-in sound card in KDE my gui of choice and in other games. I did, on install, use the Alt1 kernel so I am using the kernel.h-2.4.25-2mdk as with the 2.6 kernel I can get sound *or* pcmcia networking. I get one or the other but never did I ever get both. Hopefully someone could shed light on this. Regards, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Returning Newbie
On November 25, 2004 17:48, Scott Manning wrote: Hi ppl, Been about 5 years since my last foray into Linux...heaps has change..2 q's if I may; Dumb question 1. What directory are the How-to pages in again? Not so dumb question 2. USB? Is it plug and play as in Win or does it need to be mounted like other drives (ie when using a thumb drive) Not so dumb question 3. Can anyone point me to a FAQ on setting up an a USB ADSL modem? Kconfigure only allows for ehternet connected dls modems... Thanks Very Much Scotty Hi Scott, I did a google search using the following keywords: mandrake usb adsl modem setup and found lots of stuff. Hope this helps, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] No Sound in Kobo Deluxe in KDE M10 Official
Hello All, I am wondering why I don't have sound in this particular game. Sound works on this Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop using the snd-es1968 driver for the ES1978 Maestro 2E built-in sound card in KDE my gui of choice and in other games. I did, on iinstall, use the Alt1 kernel so I am using the kernel.h-2.4.25-2mdk as with the 2.6 kernel I can get sound *or* pcmcia networking. I get one or the other but never did I ever get both. Hopefully someone could shed light on this. Regards, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lost Mandrake Omline Service Update Icon
On November 19, 2004 05:01, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Nov 2004 02:57, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, How do I restore this icon in the system tray? I used to be able to determine when updates were available by the icon changing colors. Now I don't have an icon. Not sure what I did to lose it but it is not there anymore and I would like it back. Could anyone share as to how to bring it back please? Isn't there a wizard in Mandrake Control Center? I thought I had seen one, with a tick box for the tray icon. Anne All is well. Apparently the icon showed up all by itself after a reboot I had to do. Thank you Anne for your reply. Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Lost Mandrake Omline Service Update Icon
Hi All, How do I restore this icon in the system tray? I used to be able to determine when updates were available by the icon changing colors. Now I don't have an icon. Not sure what I did to lose it but it is not there anymore and I would like it back. Could anyone share as to how to bring it back please? Thank you, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Monitoring Programs
Hi All, Would like to know if there are monitoring programs that monitor the following: server processes, memory, bandwidth, routers, servers, hosts. What do you use for this? Thank you , Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] No Sound with Kobo Deluxe
Hi All, Am running a Dell Inspiron 7500 with M10PP. Seems that although sound works in kde and in say Frozen Bubble but not in Kobo Deluxe. I have a my sound set to snd-es1968 with alsa as this seems to be the all round way to get sound working in all apps with the noted exception of KD. Would anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks in advance, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Verbatim USB Drive 512MB
Hi All, I can't seem to get the USB drive/stick to be writable. the fstab entry for this is: none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,exec,--,umask=000,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,dev,codepage=850,suid,kudzu 0 0 The umask is set to 000 but when I try to write as a user or as root I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] removable]# pwd /mnt/removable [EMAIL PROTECTED] removable]# cp /etc/fstab . cp: cannot create regular file `./fstab': Read-only file system Why is this? It's awfully frustrating especially since it was recognized and configure during the boot process. Any insight would definatley relieve my stress level Thank you Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 05:55, Lee Wiggers wrote: Can't find the on board 10/100 ethernet driver. Used the same mb on 9.2 so I know it's here someplace. Anyone save me from the trek through the multitude? Lee Try tg3. I have the same m/bd so any questions feel free to ask. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
What's the output of lspci? Does it show a Broadcom ethernet device? Also watch when the system boots. On first boot before the bootloader you should see a screen listing the devices on the pci bus. There should be a network contoler listed with its interupt (IRQ). If you don't see a network controller then it may be disabled, check the cmos setup to ensure it is enabled (on my A7V8X it can not be disabled in the setup). do you run windows (ugh), if so, does the ethernet controller work? On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 07:34, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 06:22:09 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:18:17 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 05:55, Lee Wiggers wrote: Can't find the on board 10/100 ethernet driver. Used the same mb on 9.2 so I know it's here someplace. Anyone save me from the trek through the multitude? Lee Try tg3. I have the same m/bd so any questions feel free to ask. Tried tg3 and the installer asks for additional parameters. Any thoughts, or how do I force it? Lee Surfing led me to understand that: 1.BCM4401 nic with 2.6 kernel requires b44 driver. 2.Distros other than mdk all have 2.6 w/b44 driver. Conclusion: Mdk makes you stronger. And since my only prob is net access, and I didn't put in a floppy, simple logistics are going to piss me off too. I feel another good day coming on. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus A7V8X
good luckMy install of mandrake 10 commercial was a breezeall the hardware on the A7V8X recognised first time. However there does seem to be an issue using the board with a Hauppague pvr 350 - get a total system lock when I try and tune any channels (under both MK 10 Win XP Pro)... On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 09:00, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:06:30 +0100 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the output of lspci? Does it show a Broadcom ethernet device? Yes Also watch when the system boots. On first boot before the bootloader you should see a screen listing the devices on the pci bus. There should be a network contoler listed with its interupt (IRQ). If you don't see a network controller then it may be disabled, check the cmos setup to ensure it is enabled (on my A7V8X it can not be disabled in the setup). do you run windows (ugh), if so, does the ethernet controller work? Yep, ran win2k for over a year before a bad fan fried the cpu last weekend. I just replaced the cpu with a 2.7g screamer and put a real operating system on the drive. I'm dl'ing 10 community now. The driver was discussed in cooker a while back, so it's probably in there. That's just as easy as installing a floppy in the computer. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning: SOLVED
Hey Marv, I haven't followed the thread so don't know what help you have been given. However the follwing website may help for the future: http://www.shaneo.com/bootdisks Regards, Phil On July 18, 2004 20:02, Marv Boyes wrote: Everything's cool. ;) You see, the _real_ reason I panicked is that I was certain I didn't have a WinMe (the version, BTW-- sorry I didn't specify) boot floppy anywhere. Or if I did, there was no telling in which cardboard box of other woefully obsolete stuff it ended up in. As it turns out, there was a dusty old boot floppy in a box of diskettes in my bottom desk drawer. Sometimes it pays to be a pack rat. Thanks for your help everyone. Here's hoping I don't post another Windows-related question in here for a very long time. ;) Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 05:44 pm, Marv Boyes wrote: Is there any hope of fixing this, so that I can boot Windows-- as installed --on that drive? Or am I facing a reinstall here? Any help would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. You didn't mention which version of windows you are running. WinXP, 2K, NT - Boot from the Windows CD, Choose Rescue mode and go to console. Type fixmbr and allow it to recreate the windows bootloader. Remove CD and restart. Win98, ME, and other 16 bit versions, Boot from the CD or boot floppy, get to a command prompt and type fdisk /mbr (IIRC) and that should recreate the windows boot sector on the hard drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com 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 Upgrade Sites?
Hi All, Just installed M10C this morning at 6:30. I have been trying since then to upgrade using the gui tool. However, every site I choose doesn't work and craps out. I have tried all the american ones and the french ones as well. Anyone have any idea as to where I should be going? Thanks in advance, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Upgrade Sites?
On April 18, 2004 14:06, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2004 17:25, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, Just installed M10C this morning at 6:30. I have been trying since then to upgrade using the gui tool. However, every site I choose doesn't work and craps out. I have tried all the american ones and the french ones as well. Anyone have any idea as to where I should be going? Thanks in advance, Last I looked, you can go here : http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and choose proxad. Seems to work OK now. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Roger that! Thanks all! Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?
On April 11, 2004 02:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 15:19, Marc Resnick wrote: Phil Savoie wrote: On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Hi Todd, Try cat /etc/redhat-release regards, Phil Errr...Phil... Generally you'd find the redhat-release in a Red Hat system ;- You will, however, find a soft-link to the /etc/mandrake-release as listed as redhat-release - just a bit of leftovers from Mandrake being an offshoot of Redhat, mate. Open a term and cd into your /etc/ dir and you'll find it there. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan Isn't life grand? I know. Just thought I would throw that out there and see if I got any bites. Funny thing though I got an auto-reply from list saying my message was not able to be delivered to the list. I know I subscribed so I was surprised when I saw the reply above. Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?
On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Hi Todd, Try cat /etc/redhat-release regards, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] tulip ethernet card woes...
Does anyone know of any issues surrounding use of the tulip ethernet card driver under the default 2.6 kernel in Mandrake 10? The ethernet card has worked fine with the tulip driver under 9.2. I'm using drakconnect and it is at the select network interface to configure stage that Drakconnect refuses to detect the ethernet card at all (It does show the integrated Broadcom NIC on the motherboard). If the tulip driver is chosen manually, drakconnect refuses to accept it and returns me to the select network interface to configure stage again. As a test I installed a 2.4 kernel, and drakconnect works just fine and allows me to configure my card but of course I want 2.6! any help appreciated... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] M10C IRQ 11 and PCMCIA
Hi All, Awhile back I had asked this question and didn't really recieve any response that I can remember. My setup is an Inspiron 7500 Dell Laptop using a Netgear FA-511 cardbus PCMCIA adapter. Normally when I install I do a network install so I am perplexed by what is happening. After the net install using the Netgear card in the pcmcia slot, on reboot, the cards lights are on indicating a connection. On further inspection there is no dhcp setting set even though I set this on install. In the wizzard, it shows the same driver that was used in previous versions of Mandrake; i.e., 9.1, 9, 8.2 etc, and it worked great on those distros! If I unplug the the card and plug it back in again nothing happens -- no lights etc. Also, on boot up I see a disabling IRQ 11 message around when the pcmcia/eth0 setup occurs. I have never seen this message in M9.2 and earlier. Could anyone please help me determine the the heck is going on as to why the pcmcia service/eth0 device is not playing nice? Thanks in advance, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Xnest and Solaris
Hi All, I have been tasked with a project to come up with 2 day intro to unix course. I would like to use xnest and solaris/mandrake/redhat screenshots. However, xnest does work beautifully linux to linux but not in Solaris. What happens is after typing in: Xnest -query sparky :1 I get the gui login screen but then upon logging in, the Solaris box running CDE *appears* to log in but then reverts back to the gui login screen. I am hoping that someone out there would be able to toss out some ideas on how to fix this. Thanks in advance, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] user menu items not available
On January 25, 2004 07:05, Margot wrote: ronald wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:49:53 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what I need to know is how to transfer this list of applications to the 'user' version of menudrake, so I can add them to the user menu. hey Margot, if you start menudrake as user there is an option to Use system administrator settings in the actions change-style tab HTH. ronald Thanks for the thought, but the 'system administrator' style has even less on it than the 'all applications' style that I've been using! Hi Margot, Hopefully you can get a terminal going after logging in as a user. In that terminal you can run su - type in the root password when asked. Then type menudrake. As the menudrake program starts you will be asked to choose from from root menu and system menu (users). Choose system. Let the program build/sort the menu then save. Inside the the menudrake program you will see at the top right 2 radio buttons indicating system/root choose root this time then again let the program build/sort menus then save. Ignore the errors about DCOP server in term window where you started the menudrake program. Once this is done, your menus should be fine. Hope this helps and I apologize for not going into more detail in my previous post. Regards, Phil Savoie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Remote Desktop
Hi All, I would like to know if there is a way for my M9.2 box to be able to bring over a Solaris desktop. Much like xwin32. What I would like to be able to do is run a program and have the Solaris login screen where I would be able to use the box as if I were in front of it. Is there such an animal out there? Thanks Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remote Desktop
On January 25, 2004 19:47, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2004 07:35 pm, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, I would like to know if there is a way for my M9.2 box to be able to bring over a Solaris desktop. Much like xwin32. What I would like to be able to do is run a program and have the Solaris login screen where I would be able to use the box as if I were in front of it. Is there such an animal out there? Do you know about vnc? Mandrake includes it and you would have to set up the server on the solaris box, but then you would be able to connect and utilize your desktop as if you were sitting in front of it. I'm assuming that vncserver can be installed on Solaris. Roger that and thany for responding! I have done that. However, all I get is a terminal not the whole CDE enchilada. I know in Solaris at the login screen I can choose an option to display remote machines. Is there such an option with Mandrake? Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] user menu items not available
Hi Margot, What I have done in the past that works for me is in a terminal window, run menudrake. Let it build/sort the menu then save it. Phil On Saturday 24 January 2004 10:20, Margot wrote: Some of the packages I've installed are not available on the user menu in KDE. I know about the 'menu bug', and I've downloaded all the necessary updates, but some things are still missing. When I go into menudrake as root, the panel for Available Applications contains all the missing packages. However, when I go into menudrake as user, the Available Applications panel is empty. I can call up the applications if I open a terminal, but I'd rather have them on the user menu so I don't have to remember the commands! How do I get these Available Applications moved over to the user menu rather than just root? I've tried 'update-menus -v' as both root and user, but it makes no difference. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:01, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 18:24, Phil Savoie wrote: Subject: Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel Date: January 11, 2004 13:15 From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Phil Savoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 11 January 2004 17:59, Phil Savoie wrote: Well, I took a look and v4lin or any combination thereof wasn't found. According to http://bytesex.org/v4l/build.html the 2.5x kernels has what I need to get this going. I appreciate and thank Anne for her suggestion, however, if the program wasn't found I think I still may need to upgrade the kernel. Anybody willing to lend a hand? Thanks again and regards, Phil, I don't know what's happening, but something is. I had v4lin installed with 9.1 until I trashed my install a couple of weeks ago. I re-installed 9.1, and your post reminded me that I hadn't installed v4lin again. I agree with you - it's not listed at the moment - or if it is I can't find it. Phil - it seems that v4l was installed all the time. Look at this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmq v4l The following packages contain v4l: gv4l gstreamer-v4l gstreamer-v4l2 Try installing these packages. Anne Hi Anne, I too have those packages installed but have no /dev/video or any indication that Mandrake sees the device. The driver won't install on the current stock kernel. I'm at work now so I'll have to think about the path I want to follow to sort this out when I get home. I really do appreciate your input and suggestions. Thank you so much. Warm Regards, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Would like to update kernel
Hi All, I would like to update the kernel to a 25 level as I would like support for my quick cam vc. I have found the webpage for the drivers but I require a kernel that supports video for linux. I am a total newbie at this and was hoping someone could kindly help me through this. I have read the man page on urpmi but as I have never done this before am real hesitant as I don't want to blow away my current config which is working real good now. You have been very kind with help offered on sound issues in the past and am now hoping to learn how this is done as well. Thank you in advance, Phil Savoie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel
On January 11, 2004 11:17, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 15:50, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, I would like to update the kernel to a 25 level as I would like support for my quick cam vc. I have found the webpage for the drivers but I require a kernel that supports video for linux. I am a total newbie at this and was hoping someone could kindly help me through this. I have read the man page on urpmi but as I have never done this before am real hesitant as I don't want to blow away my current config which is working real good now. You have been very kind with help offered on sound issues in the past and am now hoping to learn how this is done as well. Hi, Phil. Don't be put off by urpmi - use the gui. Mandrake Control Center Software Management (in 9.1 - it will be something similar in 9.2). It will list all the apps that it knows are available to you, which will be the ones on your disks. You can get more by using other sources - this is easiest done by googling for 'easy urpmi' and following the instructions. In the installable list, look for the package (I think it is called v4lin) and it will automatically take care of any dependencies. Anne Well, I took a look and v4lin or any combination thereof wasn't found. According to http://bytesex.org/v4l/build.html the 2.5x kernels has what I need to get this going. I appreciate and thank Anne for her suggestion, however, if the program wasn't found I think I still may need to upgrade the kernel. Anybody willing to lend a hand? Thanks again and regards, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel
Subject: Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel Date: January 11, 2004 13:15 From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Phil Savoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 11 January 2004 17:59, Phil Savoie wrote: Well, I took a look and v4lin or any combination thereof wasn't found. According to http://bytesex.org/v4l/build.html the 2.5x kernels has what I need to get this going. I appreciate and thank Anne for her suggestion, however, if the program wasn't found I think I still may need to upgrade the kernel. Anybody willing to lend a hand? Thanks again and regards, Phil, I don't know what's happening, but something is. I had v4lin installed with 9.1 until I trashed my install a couple of weeks ago. I re-installed 9.1, and your post reminded me that I hadn't installed v4lin again. I agree with you - it's not listed at the moment - or if it is I can't find it. Anyone know anything? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel
On January 11, 2004 12:42, et wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 04:55 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 3:50 pm, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, I would like to update the kernel to a 25 level as I would like support for my quick cam vc. I have found the webpage for the drivers but I require a kernel that supports video for linux. I am a total newbie at this and was hoping someone could kindly help me through this. I have read the man page on urpmi but as I have never done this before am real hesitant as I don't want to blow away my current config which is working real good now. You have been very kind with help offered on sound issues in the past and am now hoping to learn how this is done as well. Thank you in advance, Phil Savoie Is kernel-2.4.22.26 good enough? If so these two pages should give you what you need: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004: 00 1 This is the latest kernel produced by Mandrake. If you need a later one you'll need to look elsewhere, and others can advise you where. v4l can/will be loaded into a mandrake kernel if you have a v4l device found during install, or when installing xawtv (and other assorted programs) using bttv modules. Roger that! Thank you Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CyrixInstead Processor 266Mhz
On January 6, 2004 05:37, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 07:46, _nasturtium wrote: I would suggest, however, that you not upgrade. IMHO it's not worth the time and effort - you would probably need more than the installed 32MB (maybe a larger HD too), and considering you can buy a boxed Celeron 2.0 Ghz (just a random example) for under $70, it seems a rather expensive exercise. Good point, the memory one. 64MB is, IIRC, the minimum requirement, and that's pushing it a bit. Anne Roger that! I already have the max the motherboard can take for memory as far as I could tell from emachine docs I could find -- 256mb and the hd is already upgraded to 20gb. So if I could find the docs for the motherboard... a couple of bucks thrown at ebay should do it. Once again I thank you for your responses and send warm regards, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CyrixInstead Processor 266Mhz
On January 5, 2004 14:58, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 05 January 2004 19:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 05 January 2004 11:38 am, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, I have this machine with subject specs read off the hardware Browser which is currently running RedHat 8.0. Under model name it is showing that it is an M II 3.5x Core/Bus Clock. (Brand name E-Machine i366e) This system does not boot with RH 9 and it's default kernel. What I am wondering about is if M9.2 would be compatible with this and work. I am currently using this box as a web and dial-in server and am real hesitant about changing the OS in a working box. The old adage if it ain't broke then don't fix it comes to mind. However, with RedHat's EOL of RedHat 8 and it's up2date program for same, I would feel more comfortable with an OS I could update easily. All help/advice would be appreciated. Thank you, Phil Savoie I believe it's a i586/i686 issue. RH is compiled for i386. Mandrake for i586, with only a few libs where it shows some benefit, compiled for i686 (look in Mandrake's /lib/i686/). Problem is Cyrix, even the newer VIA-C(yrix)3 processors report themselves as i686, but are only marginally i586 compliant, and even retain some i486 legacy. I believe this mismatch is solved in 9.2, but check the eratta http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3 IIRC, 9.0 was the last to be fooled by Cyrix cpu's. I couldn't get either 9.0 or 9.1 onto a Cyrix/IBM 266 box. I found a used amd cpu to replace it, and everything was fine after that. Anne Hello Anne and Tom, Thank you both for your responses. I guess if I want this box to be current in the form of os, then I will have to upgrade the cpu. Anne, I have no documentation for this machine and was wondering if you can remember what type of socket the cpu uses. I was at the emachine site and was not able to find any documentation as in user guide for this etower 366c other than basic specs. Warm regards, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT -Frozen Bubble
On December 30, 2003 16:33, Patrick Dempster wrote: Phil Savoie said: Has anyone noticed that Frozen Bubble crashes with Mandrake 9.2? It does this everytime I start it. I have a radeon 9000 video card. It wouldn't be a big deal except it is one of my and my wifes favorite games. If there is any more info needed please let me know. Have you tried starting it up in a konsole window with the nosound option? [EMAIL PROTECTED] patrick]$frozen-bubble --nosound Talk to you soon, Take care, Paddy If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature. If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. Linux user #140084 | http://counter.li.org/ Hi Paddy et al, That was it! Thank you very much! Something about the sound card which is on-board and works with everything else -- go figure. The error message is as follows: [SDL Init] ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy [Graphics...] [Levels] Ready. Now all I have to do is figure out what it *really* means and then try to fix it. Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT -Frozen Bubble
On December 30, 2003 17:50, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 30 December 2003 2:57 pm, Phil Savoie wrote: snip Hi Paddy et al, That was it! Thank you very much! Something about the sound card which is on-board and works with everything else -- go figure. The error message is as follows: [SDL Init] ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy [Graphics...] [Levels] Ready. Now all I have to do is figure out what it *really* means and then try to fix it. Phil Have you tried starting from a terminal with: soundwrapper frozen-bubble If you're running KDE as a desktop it's likely that artsd is getting in your way. Especially since I think the developer of the game is GNOME user. g Just a thought, I don't know if it will even start that way. May be worth a try. Are there even sound files that the game is supposed to use? Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 15:46:53 up 10 days, 1:36, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.07 Win98 error 002: Insufficient diskspace. You need at least 300 GB free memory. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/8gFOZqvqlrLPr5YRAispAKCmyiQL4ozRovzQN8uS1K8KOWCwCgCdFdb4 rjd9687lYjLYHzsEjgkk9O0= =jlU7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Charlie, The soundwrapper idea was a winner!! Thank you very much, eh? Noticed from your sig that you are from Edmonton. I am in Ottawa. My wife is extremely happy and is now noisily shoo-shooing me away so she can get her fix. Warm regards to you and all who have helped with replies. Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kdeinit - configuring?
Hi Does anybody know where I go in 9.2 to turn off a kdeinit service? Mine starts a 'laptopdaemon' and I don't have a laptop. I believe it is responsible for making my screen go blank every 60 seconds or so and requiring me to use my password to get back in again. _very_ irritating. :-( Thanks -- pn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 22 November 2003 07:04 pm, Phil Newcombe wrote: I haven't had any mail from this list since Nov 17. -- pn Phil: Sympa seems to have had a nervous breakdown and dumped a lot of us. Your best bet is to resubscribe with an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject subscribe newbie. Sympa will answer back; respond to that and all should be well. -- cmg Thank you - I've done that and all is well. -- pn 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] mirror speed checker
Tango Echo wrote: --- Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Phil Newcombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- clipped everything - I was in 9.2 when I copied the script to a win dir. It looks as if the copying or cutting and pasting juggled the lines up a bit - could be because the tr part was on the wrong line the shell got the wrong instructions. A reworked copy is pasted below and you can find the orig here : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1997/debian-user-199711/msg01752.html ### #!/bin/sh Hmm, I'm still getting errors. Actually I'm getting more now =P ... Here's an output: I have no idea if this is useful information or not but this is the output I receive when running the orginal debian script unmodified: sh debchek README.mirrors Testing 0 debian mirror sites for speed and reliability. Tests done : . Fastest mirrors are: mv: cannot stat `mirrors_by_speed': No such file or directory sort: open failed: mirrors_by_speed~: No such file or directory debchek: line 92: ors_by_speed~: command not found sort: open failed: mirrors_by_speed~: No such file or directory It looks like those files won't be created if the script can't run but line 92 looks just wrong so maybe one of our mail clients is truncating lines or messing up the file somehow. I'm posting all this from windoze (long story) and windoze and linux use a different default line ending in text files (crlf opposed to just cr) so maybe if you're looking at it in Mandrake the lines might be getting juggled because of that. Try looking at the original post : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1997/debian-user-199711/msg01752.html and see if anything looks obviously out of sync. (the backslashes at the end of some lines are escape characters that tell the shell that this is actually one long line but has been broken up for readability or to fit on the screen or page better.) I've just posted the scripts here : http://www3.telus.net/bikim/chkmirror/ _01 is mine, _orig is the original, and _v2 is the authors next version. -- pn I really wish I knew more about bash scripting... I looked thru the most recent mandrake script you provided and it almost appears that there is a misplaced ' or ` character... I dunno, that's just how it appeared to me. Let me know if I can be of any more help to you in addition to testing the scripts here. Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree 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] Ripe for plucking ?
John Wilson wrote: On November 13, 2003 12:53 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Quote from The Globe and Mail about the Novell takeover of S.u.S.E. : quote There could also be some other moves. Other giants might be thinking Linux too. The financially troubled Mandrake Linux is ripe for plucking, especially by a company such as Hewlett-Packard Co., which a few weeks ago delayed release of its next version of HP-UX, a version of UNIX, by as much as a year. And then there's Xandros Linux, which just yesterday released a new version, this one offering compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs, including MS Office and MS networks. By the time the dust settles, the Linux shocks will emerge as the most serious challenge Microsoft has ever faced. The earth clearly hasn't finished moving. /quote Kaj Haulrich. Provided that the bulk of the management, developers and community remains in place and provided that the desktop focus stays I don't see a problem with this. That said, I'm doubtful it will happen. Though, of course, I thought the same thing about HP snapping up that loser Compaq. In many ways it does make sense. IBM, after being snake bit by M$, isn't putting it's eggs in one basket. Hence the bankrolling of RedHat and the kinda backdoor financing of Novell's pick on SuSE. HP would, then, seem logical. If such a thing comes to pass there would be reason for M$ to be worried. Two of it's main FUD attacks will be gone. One that there is no support from a major vendor and the second that open source is designed to drive profit driven companies out of business. The other thing is the sense of inevitability as Linux moves into the server and corporate mainstream. SuSE and Mandrake both lack the resources that Red Hat has to compete in that space. That doesn' t mean that they aren't good competitors it's just that Red Hat has a pocket full of thousand dollar bills while they're sitting there with 20s. Something good will come of all this if these big companies don't forget the strength of Linux is in communities and the developers. If not, well, we'll have to wait and see. ttfn John Starting to sound a little like Unix - ours is better than theirs and who owns what? 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] mirror speed checker
Tango Echo wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Phil Newcombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] mirror speed checker
Hi all.
Here's a bash script I found looking for something
that would poll
(ping) Mandrake mirrors and return the result rated
by speed like
apt-netselect does in Debian. I hacked it up a bit
to make it
work with
the mirror list (README_mirrors) and I'm no guru
so.
I probably should've tested it before my orginal post
to this thread. Oh well. I've run into a problem.
This is what I get when I run the script:
tmp]$ sh cheker README.mirrors
Testing tr: invalid option -- n
Try `tr --help' for more information.
cheker: line 69: syntax error near unexpected token
`newline'
cheker: line 69: `then grep rtt
$tmpdir/ping$$_$h | cut -d/ -f 5 | tr \n'
This is rather confusing since tr has the valid option
of \n. Here's a copy of the script below,
TIA,
Tango
Thanks for trying it out. It worked fine for me on my 9.2 box - some
minor erroneous ping results but otherwise very helpful. I'm sorry,
like I said, I'm no guru. I had to change a couple of the grep lines
because, I think, they referred to ping message lines from a different
ping than mine. Try pinging something and look at the messages it
returns. It should say something like 'round trip time'. I think that
is what 'rtt' refers to here. Then you have to change the grep
expression to match. If your grep doesn't have a match for 'rtt' it'll
probably just die because it seems as each command must complete without
error or the following commands make no sense. Upon closer inspection I
think I posted the original version and not the one I used. I'll boot
up Mandrake to see and get back to you.
--
pn
###
#!/bin/sh
# sort_mirrors_by_speed by A.Mennucci Nov 97
#
# this program is subject to the
# GNU general public license
#
# this program will scan the file in $1 using
# grep \.[a-zA-Z]*: $1 | awk '{print $1}'
# to find mirror site host names.
#
# the string before the : character is considered
to be a
# mirror site host name
#
# Mirror sites are pinged and statistics are
collected and sorted #
if [ $1 = -h -o $1 = --help ] ; then
echo Usage: $0 mirrorfile
echo Argument must be the file README.mirrors
echo containing a list of debian mirrors.
echo This program will ping all mirrors with 4
packets
echo to test their speed and reliability, and then
will echo sort the result, put it in file
mirrors_by_speed and show the
best.
exit 0
fi
tmpdir=~/tmp
# warning: using the directory /tmp and running this
script
# as root is a potential security problem
if ! [ -w $tmpdir ] ; then
echo $0 ERROR dir $tmpdir is not writable
echo please create it if it does not exist
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -r $1 -o $1 = ] ; then
echo $0 ERROR Give as argument the file
README.mirrors
echo containing a list of debian mirrors
exit 1
fi
if [ -r mirrors_by_speed ] ; then
echo $0 ERROR the file mirrors_by_speed already
exists
exit 1
fi
#touch $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed
n=0
echo -n Testing
grep [a-zA-Z] $1 | awk '{print $1}' | wc --lines |
tr \n echo debian mirror sites for speed and
reliability. echo -n Tests done :
#for i in ` grep [a-zA-Z]*: $1 | awk '{print $1}' `
;
for i in `grep [a-z]* $1 | cut -d/ -f 1 | awk
'{print $1}' ` ; do
n=`expr $n + 1 `
(
h=$n
#echo TEST $h for $i
#if ping -c 6 `echo $i | cut -d: -f 1`
$tmpdir/ping$$_$h;
if ping -c 6 `echo $i` $tmpdir/ping$$_$h;
then grep rtt $tmpdir/ping$$_$h | cut -d/ -f 5
| tr \n
$tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
echo -n ms AVERAGE ,
$tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
grep received $tmpdir/ping$$_$h | cut -d, -f 3
| tr \n ,
$tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
echo SITE $i $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
#cat $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
cat $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
mirrors_by_speed
rm $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
fi
rm $tmpdir/ping$$_$h
echo -n $h
)
# we do not want to flood the net; we test 30 sites
at a time
# then we wait 8 seconds so that most of the pings
will be done
if [ `expr $n % 30 ` = 0 ] ; then sleep 8 ; fi
done
wait
echo .
echo Fastest mirrors are:
mv mirrors_by_speed mirrors_by_speed~
sort -n mirrors_by_speed~ mirrors_by_speed
head mirrors_by_speed
# end of scriptd~
sort -n mirrors_by_speed~ mirrors_by_speed
head mirrors_by_speed
# end of scriptript
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Re: [newbie] mirror speed checker
Phil Newcombe wrote:
Thanks for trying it out. It worked fine for me on my 9.2 box - some
minor erroneous ping results but otherwise very helpful. I'm sorry,
like I said, I'm no guru. I had to change a couple of the grep lines
because, I think, they referred to ping message lines from a different
ping than mine. Try pinging something and look at the messages it
returns. It should say something like 'round trip time'. I think
that is what 'rtt' refers to here. Then you have to change the grep
expression to match. If your grep doesn't have a match for 'rtt'
it'll probably just die because it seems as each command must complete
without error or the following commands make no sense. Upon closer
inspection I think I posted the original version and not the one I
used. I'll boot up Mandrake to see and get back to you.
--
pn
OK it's the right script but the wrong ping. I'll try to figure out
what you need from your previous post.
--
pn
###
#!/bin/sh
# sort_mirrors_by_speed by A.Mennucci Nov 97
#
# this program is subject to the
# GNU general public license
#
# this program will scan the file in $1 using
# grep \.[a-zA-Z]*: $1 | awk '{print $1}'
# to find mirror site host names.
#
# the string before the : character is considered
to be a
# mirror site host name
#
# Mirror sites are pinged and statistics are
collected and sorted #
if [ $1 = -h -o $1 = --help ] ; then
echo Usage: $0 mirrorfile
echo Argument must be the file README.mirrors
echo containing a list of debian mirrors.
echo This program will ping all mirrors with 4
packets
echo to test their speed and reliability, and then
will echo sort the result, put it in file
mirrors_by_speed and show the best.
exit 0
fi
tmpdir=~/tmp
# warning: using the directory /tmp and running this
script
# as root is a potential security problem
if ! [ -w $tmpdir ] ; then
echo $0 ERROR dir $tmpdir is not writable
echo please create it if it does not exist
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -r $1 -o $1 = ] ; then
echo $0 ERROR Give as argument the file
README.mirrors
echo containing a list of debian mirrors
exit 1
fi
if [ -r mirrors_by_speed ] ; then
echo $0 ERROR the file mirrors_by_speed already
exists
exit 1
fi
#touch $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed
n=0
echo -n Testing
grep [a-zA-Z] $1 | awk '{print $1}' | wc --lines |
tr \n echo debian mirror sites for speed and
reliability. echo -n Tests done :
#for i in ` grep [a-zA-Z]*: $1 | awk '{print $1}' `
;
for i in `grep [a-z]* $1 | cut -d/ -f 1 | awk
'{print $1}' ` ; do
n=`expr $n + 1 `
(
h=$n
#echo TEST $h for $i
#if ping -c 6 `echo $i | cut -d: -f 1`
$tmpdir/ping$$_$h;
if ping -c 6 `echo $i` $tmpdir/ping$$_$h;
then grep rtt $tmpdir/ping$$_$h | cut -d/ -f 5
| tr \n$tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
echo -n ms AVERAGE ,
$tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
grep received $tmpdir/ping$$_$h | cut -d, -f 3
| tr \n , $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
echo SITE $i $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
#cat $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
cat $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
mirrors_by_speed
rm $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
fi
rm $tmpdir/ping$$_$h
echo -n $h
)
# we do not want to flood the net; we test 30 sites
at a time
# then we wait 8 seconds so that most of the pings
will be done
if [ `expr $n % 30 ` = 0 ] ; then sleep 8 ; fi
done
wait
echo .
echo Fastest mirrors are:
mv mirrors_by_speed mirrors_by_speed~
sort -n mirrors_by_speed~ mirrors_by_speed
head mirrors_by_speed
# end of scriptd~
sort -n mirrors_by_speed~ mirrors_by_speed
head mirrors_by_speed
# end of scriptript
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Re: [newbie] Installing 'un-official' mdk rpm's
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 3:08 am, Phil Newcombe wrote: Hi all Thanks for the help on rpmdrake. Now I have another question. What's the best way of installing an un-official mandrake rpm. I am trying to get gaim to work with msn now that they have apparently tinkered with the protocol. The gaim website says it should work with a version 7.1. They have a dl link that has a 7.2 mdk rpm at the top of the list so I grabbed that but now it won't install because of dep problems. Can I use urpmi, rpm, rpmdrake or anything else to install this? Either command line or gui? -- pn If you want gaim to work with msn, then Texstar has gaim-0.71 for Mandrake 9.1, and Charles Edwards has gaim-0.71 for Mandrake 9.2/Cooker http://www.eslrahc.com/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/ Texstar is urpmi enabled. For Charles' package just click on it using konqueror and the magic of gurpmi will take over. derek Thanks - I'll try that as soon as my daughter lets me on the computer. ;-) -- pn 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] mirror speed checker
Hi all.
Here's a bash script I found looking for something that would poll
(ping) Mandrake mirrors and return the result rated by speed like
apt-netselect does in Debian. I hacked it up a bit to make it work with
the mirror list (README_mirrors) and I'm no guru so.
The author has a version 2 that is easy to find on google but this one
worked for me. The mirror list is below the script (130 lines) - I
copied the Mandrake web page and cut it up in a text editor (in Mandrake
9.2 :-) ).
--
pn
###
#!/bin/sh
# sort_mirrors_by_speed by A.Mennucci Nov 97
#
# this program is subject to the
# GNU general public license
#
# this program will scan the file in $1 using
# grep \.[a-zA-Z]*: $1 | awk '{print $1}'
# to find mirror site host names.
#
# the string before the : character is considered to be a
# mirror site host name
#
# Mirror sites are pinged and statistics are collected and sorted
#
if [ $1 = -h -o $1 = --help ] ; then
echo Usage: $0 mirrorfile
echo Argument must be the file README.mirrors
echo containing a list of debian mirrors.
echo This program will ping all mirrors with 4 packets
echo to test their speed and reliability, and then will
echo sort the result, put it in file mirrors_by_speed and show the
best.
exit 0
fi
tmpdir=~/tmp
# warning: using the directory /tmp and running this script
# as root is a potential security problem
if ! [ -w $tmpdir ] ; then
echo $0 ERROR dir $tmpdir is not writable
echo please create it if it does not exist
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -r $1 -o $1 = ] ; then
echo $0 ERROR Give as argument the file README.mirrors
echo containing a list of debian mirrors
exit 1
fi
if [ -r mirrors_by_speed ] ; then
echo $0 ERROR the file mirrors_by_speed already exists
exit 1
fi
#touch $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed
n=0
echo -n Testing
grep [a-zA-Z] $1 | awk '{print $1}' | wc --lines | tr \n
echo debian mirror sites for speed and reliability.
echo -n Tests done :
#for i in ` grep [a-zA-Z]*: $1 | awk '{print $1}' ` ;
for i in `grep [a-z]* $1 | cut -d/ -f 1 | awk '{print $1}' ` ;
do
n=`expr $n + 1 `
(
h=$n
#echo TEST $h for $i
#if ping -c 6 `echo $i | cut -d: -f 1` $tmpdir/ping$$_$h;
if ping -c 6 `echo $i` $tmpdir/ping$$_$h;
then grep rtt $tmpdir/ping$$_$h | cut -d/ -f 5 | tr \n
$tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
echo -n ms AVERAGE , $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
grep received $tmpdir/ping$$_$h | cut -d, -f 3 | tr \n ,
$tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
echo SITE $i $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
#cat $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
cat $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h mirrors_by_speed
rm $tmpdir/mirrors_by_speed_$h
fi
rm $tmpdir/ping$$_$h
echo -n $h
)
# we do not want to flood the net; we test 30 sites at a time
# then we wait 8 seconds so that most of the pings will be done
if [ `expr $n % 30 ` = 0 ] ; then sleep 8 ; fi
done
wait
echo .
echo Fastest mirrors are:
mv mirrors_by_speed mirrors_by_speed~
sort -n mirrors_by_speed~ mirrors_by_speed
head mirrors_by_speed
# end of script
README.mirrors #
ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/Mandrake-linux/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/9.2/i586/
mirror.fis.unb.br/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
gulus.usherb.ca/pub/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/i586/
mandrake.contactel.cz/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.darenet.dk/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/9.2/i586/
klid.dk/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
www.klid.dk/sw/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/os/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/
linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
med.univ-angers.fr/pub/mirror/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/9.2/i586/
ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
ftp.mki.fh-duesseldorf.de/Mirror/Mandrake/9.2/i586/
Re: [newbie] OT Windows crashes BMW's?
Todd Slater wrote: This was a good chuckle. USA Today has a piece about problems with the computers in certain BMW's--a cd player that spits cd's at passengers, engines that shut down while running at highway speeds etc. Now, didn't BMW choose Microsoft for that system? Oh, and if you want to fix your beamer, you have to sign an NDA!! (Is that BMW or M$ talking?) http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2003-11-11-carrepairs_x.htm http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/mar02/03-04BMWpr.asp Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com And how long will it be before all these car owners will have to pay a yearly license fee to M$? or What happens if you swap engines? I don't get these business egg-heads - the _proven_ most reliable operating system on the planet is *Free* and they choose to go with the _proven_ most bug-ridden software available and pay through the nose for it!!! Brother... -- pn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing 'un-official' mdk rpm's
Hi all Thanks for the help on rpmdrake. Now I have another question. What's the best way of installing an un-official mandrake rpm. I am trying to get gaim to work with msn now that they have apparently tinkered with the protocol. The gaim website says it should work with a version 7.1. They have a dl link that has a 7.2 mdk rpm at the top of the list so I grabbed that but now it won't install because of dep problems. Can I use urpmi, rpm, rpmdrake or anything else to install this? Either command line or gui? -- pn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] found on the forums
aronsmith wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 07:32 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2003 09:36 pm, aronsmith wrote: Cash poor companies have done dumber things And many of them continued to become even more cash poor before they disappeared. That's not something that I want to see happen here. -- cmg Agreed I like Mandrake! Hey, maybe it's the marketing guy who's running it. It seems like something only a 'marketing guy' would come up with. -- pn 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] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....
Thinker wrote: Any idea as to how long we will have to wait for the ISO's? Is there another way to download and fully install 9.2 without the ISO's, like a Net_install? -Thanks, -=Thinker I just installed 9.2 from an ftp mirror after dl'ing the network install floppy image and 'rawrite'ing it (rawritewin doesn't seem to work, at least on W98). Slick as a rotten banana - worked like a charm. (I looked up the uri for the mirror on the mandrake 9.2 dl page before I started.) -- phil n 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] rpmdrake
Hi all, Why don't I see all packages with rpmdrake? I think it's setup properly with ftp mirrors for main, contrib , etc but when I look for a package that I Know is on one of the mirrors (Python) it doesn't show up anywhere in rpmdrake. Thanks -- pn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake
Thank you - I'm checking it out now. -- pn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Track network card id?
During Proxies configuration (during install) I am given the option of tracking network card id. It says this is useful for laptops. What does this option do and how does it work? Thanks, Phil R Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /images/usb.imb - ISO? [solved]
I had asked: I have a Thinkpad X20 with USB CD-ROM and *no* floppy drive. Mandrake 8.2 ISO CD 1 boots fine, but doesn't come with drivers for continuing with the USB CD-ROM drive. On my desktop machine I used the included rawwritewin.exe to create a floppy with the usb.img file. No system files seemed to appear on the floppy. When I attempt to burn a bootable CD it prompts me for a system floppy... I insert this one and it does not recognize it as valid. How can I turn this floppy image into an ISO image for my CD? My Windows CD-Writer was braindead... probably thought it wasn't a bootable floppy because it lacked COMMAND.COM... :-( Had a friend with linux burn the floppy img file into a bootable CD. Installation worked like a charm. See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/cd-roms.html for instructions on turning the floppy .img file into an El Torito CD. Phil R Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 14:24 pm, you wrote: The latest version of StarOffice is 5.2. You can download it for free from www.sun.com That version also comes with the latest powerpack edition. Unfortunately I've had no luck at all installing Star Office on my system. Something in the Start Office setup locks my PC up completely, I've given up on it for now. I don't yet have a reliable method of backing up and having to power down to get the thing running again is too chancy. Phil.
[newbie] Search for text in a directory
Hi there, how can a search for a specific text string in all files inside a directory/directory tree? Thanks Phil. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 17-May-01
[newbie] More hardisk space
Hello all, I used to use Novell Netware and I could used to be able to merge two disk volumes (disk partions±) together, to create a large volume (i.e. 10gb on HD1 + 20Gb on HD2) could give me a 30Gb volume. Is it possible to do the same with Linux? What I mean I create a directory called /work and then I mount two 40gb discs in this partition to give me 80Gb of space in the /work directory, or something similar. Also, how can I turn a directory / file stucture into an ISO image. Also, is it possible to mount to ISO images in the same directory. For example I create the directory /Mandrake and the I mount the two ISO images for LM8 in the SAME directory? Thanks All. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 17-May-01
[newbie] Webmin
I have just installed LM8 and webmin, but I can't connect to the server http://localhost:1 Does anyone have any ideas ? BTW. I do have Webmin up and running on SuSE 7, but I am new to Mandrake and don't know the ins and outs yet. Phil.
[newbie] System startup
How can I disable the graphical startup system in the configuration files. Sometimes I need to see what is happening. thanks Phil.
[newbie] Disable X at start
How can I stop the automatic startup for X at startup. Regards Phil.
[newbie] Install Mandrake 7.2 over 8.0
I am currently downloading Mandrake 8. I have Mandrake 7.2 installed dual boot using Lilo with Win2K default... can I simply install Mandrake 8 over 7.2 and maintain Lilo.cnf or will it overwrite this file Phil Laing Port Macquarie, NSW Australia
Re: [newbie] OS idenity,Dhcp Eth0 and more!!
Yes when i still bring do ifup eth0 i still get IP info via dhcpcd failed At 08:29 PM 4/15/2001, you wrote: Phil, Have you tried the below page? I have DSL myself, so I can't vouch for its accuracy. However, I have found mandrakeuser.org to be reliable for finding help in other areas. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/ccable.html Dave On Sunday 15 April 2001 21:23, thus spake phil: Any comments thanks in advance?? When i run ifup eth0 I get an error message unable to get ip info via dhcpcd. I have went thru netconf a dozen times.If i am using dhcp then no need to enter the Ip address or any of the other things DNS etc. Correct? FYI: Linux for Windows (7.2 Mandrake) on a Hp 600mhz ceoron 256mb ram, realtek networkcard trying to get online via Cable modem Road Runner acess. I have read everthing online(well almost) And Tried almost Everything. concerning Road Runner Cable service,Apparently I am not the only Linux user that has tried to get online thru Road Runner? Does anyone know anything about if my eth0 card is Bind to the dhcp,could that be the prob? From what I have read I really think that Road runner would prefer that I stick with Windows. from further reading http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.html http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/IDFAQ/TCP_fingerprinting.htm Even though with DHCP the OS should not matter right?IN THEORY. Could Road runner be preventing me from getting online thru there service?THey are able to Idenify Your OS Is Linux considered the Hackers OS? to some people Although that is not my intentions! I enjoy trying to get Linux to run, And after all this Windows Quite boring. I might as well sign up for AOLaargh LOL PS please dont flame me. -- "...[W]e preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." (1 Cor 1:23-24)
[newbie]OS idenity,Dhcp Eth0 and more!!
Any comments thanks in advance?? When i run ifup eth0 I get an error message unable to get ip info via dhcpcd. I have went thru netconf a dozen times.If i am using dhcp then no need to enter the Ip address or any of the other things DNS etc. Correct? FYI: Linux for Windows (7.2 Mandrake) on a Hp 600mhz ceoron 256mb ram, realtek networkcard trying to get online via Cable modem Road Runner acess. I have read everthing online(well almost) And Tried almost Everything. concerning Road Runner Cable service,Apparently I am not the only Linux user that has tried to get online thru Road Runner? Does anyone know anything about if my eth0 card is Bind to the dhcp,could that be the prob? From what I have read I really think that Road runner would prefer that I stick with Windows. from further reading http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.html http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/IDFAQ/TCP_fingerprinting.htm Even though with DHCP the OS should not matter right?IN THEORY. Could Road runner be preventing me from getting online thru there service?THey are able to Idenify Your OS Is Linux considered the Hackers OS? to some people Although that is not my intentions! I enjoy trying to get Linux to run, And after all this Windows Quite boring. I might as well sign up for AOL aargh LOLPS please dont flame me.
[newbie] [Newbie]XPDF
Any suggestions where to get XPDF , thanks in advance phil
[newbie] packages how to open?
how do you open after i download on windows I reboot to Linux and then go to /mount/windowsand then transfer the file to Linux then cannot open the package Is there something similar to .exe in windowz?
[newbie] [Newbie] Linux for Windows??
Anyone have any suggestions about this version?Its mandrake 7.2 but it is a folder in windows.seems to work well but i cannot get on-line. Have a HP 600mhz celeron Network card trying to get on-line thru Road Runner cable modem. phil
[newbie] [Newbie] DHCP
Can anyone tell me what /etc/dhcp file is supposed to contain? right now mine has Dhcpcd executable,The gear symbol LOL at boot up my system is failing to determine IP info for eth0(NIC) via Dhcpcd? Oh yes I am trying to access the net via a roadrunner cable modem. and my NIC is recognized by harddrake. If i try to ping i get unreachable!!
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] DHCP
NO its ever changing?Dynamic At 09:16 AM 4/3/2001 -0500, you wrote: Don't you have a static IP? - Original Message - From: "phil" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:15 AM Subject: [newbie] [Newbie] DHCP Can anyone tell me what /etc/dhcp file is supposed to contain? right now mine has Dhcpcd executable,The gear symbol LOL at boot up my system is failing to determine IP info for eth0(NIC) via Dhcpcd? Oh yes I am trying to access the net via a roadrunner cable modem. and my NIC is recognized by harddrake. If i try to ping i get unreachable!!
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] DHCP
Thanks very much Im aware of all this.windowz and Linux Same Box Same NIC So THat s should not be the prob,thanks At 07:33 AM 4/3/2001 -0700, you wrote: phil wrote: Oh yes I am trying to access the net via a roadrunner cable modem. and my NIC is recognized by harddrake. Depending on your location, you'll find that the following may or may not apply for roadrunner: 1) they use the MAC address in the negotiation. So if you used a Windows machine with a network card, you will have to use the same network card in your Linux box. 2) they sometimes assign you a hostname and that hostname/MAC address combo is used to authenticate who you are. If you had to enter a hostname for Windows, you will have to assign that same hostname to your Linux box. I'd assume that you would have already done this, so it probably does not apply to you. Smile, at least you don't have PPPoE. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | PPPoE: the internet for people who| | http://www.mrball.net | don't want the Internet. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --Aaron Lehmann |
Re: [newbie] LINKSYS ETHERFAST NIC?
Well its tulip but i never did get it to work, instead got a realtk 8139 it works! At 10:41 AM 4/3/2001 -0500, you wrote: Does anyone have a pre-compiled driver for a Linksys etherfast NIC?
Re: [newbie]PDF
Yes this is the same card in one box with win and Linux.Win gets on no prob. actually This isn't to confusing im following you. I think my problem is Dhcp. Also i will try your suggestion about the etc/dhcp file thanks At 05:37 AM 4/3/2001 -0400, you wrote: Phil; I caught both your emails, so I put them together in this reply, because I have questions for you about both of them. This second Realtek nic,...are you saying that you've used it inWindows to connect thru the cablemodem to your ISP, and it worked? Or are you saying that you've used it in Windows for something else, and it worked? If it worked to connect you in Windows (to your ISP that is) then the NIC is not your problem. Whether in Linux or Windows, the principles of TCP/IP are the same. Therefore, your problem is somewhere in Linux. You're probably using DHCP in Windows to get a dynamic IP number from your ISP each time you connect. If you can't do the same in Linux, then DHCP isn't runnin,or isn't running properly in Linux. If you're NOT using the NIC in Windows to connect to your ISP, but maybe to connect a second PC to this one, then I'd say that you should use this first NIC to connect to your ISP, and get another one to connect to the other PC. I know this is confusing, but I'm trying to be specific with insufficient info. By the way, /etc/dhcp , contains the DHCP Daemon (think executable file) that runs your DHCP "service". In other words, it's fine. But check the permissions on it. If you can't execute it when needed, your not going to get anywhere on the Internet. Change to root, and check the permissions on that file. Make sure that all the "Read" and "Execute" boxes are checked off. If it can't start, it can't get an IP number from your ISP. Have fun, Gotta go. L8R, Dan - Original Message - From: "phil" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 1:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]PDF Thanks for the reply ,this is great i am starting to love this Linux. Yes i am aware of the Mac address And I am on my 2nd NIC that has realtk 8139, so it is Linux compatable.But it works fine in windows so i thought the Mac should not matter ? Linux recognizes the NIC, And I have DHCP up and installed ,during bootup of linux all the network checks "Passed" .And i even saw activity on the cable modem. but no response.Then something about $SOCKS_NS. But now i am about to boot back to linux and make more checks! Can anyone tell me what /etc/dhcp file is supposed to contain? right now mine has Dhcpcd executable,The gear symbol LOL at boot up my system is failing to determine IP info for eth0(NIC) via Dhcpcd? Oh yes I am trying to access the net via a roadrunner cable modem. and my NIC is recognized by harddrake. If i try to ping i get unreachable!!
[newbie]Linux Isp
Anyone know of any Linux friendly ISP?I get the Impression My ISP is not. Cable access Roadrunner Time warner!
Re: [newbie] my time is broken and I can't fix it PLEASE RESPOND
Try the BIOS? At 09:46 AM 4/3/2001 +, you wrote: I'm in Central time I can't make my machine set the rimt right that sucks and pisses me off I want my time right
Re: [newbie]Linux Isp
LA county San Fernando Valley Thanks for the reply ,I am at the point where I suspect it is my Isp Since I get DHCP working and see activity on the cable modem. but then failed??? I will check out those Isp's u suggested. At 09:58 PM 4/2/2001 -0700, you wrote: phil wrote: Anyone know of any Linux friendly ISP?I get the Impression My ISP is not. Cable access Roadrunner Time warner! What part of socal are you in? Orange County or LA County? Right now speakeasy.net walks on water and heals little children when it comes to DSL. If you're looking for dialup, my current ISP has been good (usinter.net) as well as good DSL for me (but they only do Verizon local loop). -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | PPPoE: the internet for people who| | http://www.mrball.net | don't want the Internet. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --Aaron Lehmann |
[newbie]PDF
Can Linux handle PDF?
Re: [newbie]PDF
Thanks for the reply ,this is great i am starting to love this Linux. Yes i am aware of the Mac address And I am on my 2nd NIC that has realtk 8139, so it is Linux compatable.But it works fine in windows so i thought the Mac should not matter ? Linux recognizes the NIC, And I have DHCP up and installed ,during bootup of linux all the network checks "Passed" .And i even saw activity on the cable modem. but no response.Then something about $SOCKS_NS. But now i am about to boot back to linux and make more checks! At 01:34 AM 4/3/2001 -0400, you wrote: Phil; Yes Linux can handle PDF files. You should have "xpdf" installed on your system, but if not, you can also download Adobe's Acrobat Reader for Linux from their site (www.adobe.com) . About your cablemodem and your ISP, by any chance, have you changed your network card that connects to your cablemodem? Depending on your ISP and your cablemodem, user authentication is sometimes provided by the MAC address of your network card, and sometimes by the MAC address of your cablemodem. If you've changed your NIC, the new one will have a different MAC address, and therefore won't authenticate you to your ISP. Linux shouldn't even enter into the picture. But you never know. Just thought I'd throw this into the mix. Hope the info helps. Dan LaBine - Original Message - From: "phil" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 1:15 AM Subject: [newbie]PDF Can Linux handle PDF?
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Getting online
Thanks for the reply , sorry i forgot to mention i am using Cable. At 02:07 AM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: Dear Phil: I think the message means that you have been disconnected from the Internet. I imagine you are using broadband (ADSL or Cable). You need to first do a cold reboot (shut down, disconnect your power cord from the wall and disconnect the power cord to your modem), reconnect, wait 15 seconds, turn your system back on. This should reinitialize your modem and you should be online. If not, contact your Internet Provider. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Getting online
thanks for the reply I will check this,also i forgot mention i am using cable modem At 04:46 AM 3/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone help me with this error message: "warning the following hosts are unknown. home.netscape.com,home6.netscape.com and internic.net this means that some or all hosts will be unreachable. Perhaps there is a problem with your name server If your site must use a non-root name server you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server it may (or may not be nescessary) to set this variable or the socks host preference,to the IP adress of the host in question rather than its name. consult your system administrator." == Have you properly set up /etc/resolv.conf ? Mike -- "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there." --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] [Newbie] Getting online
Anyone help me with this error message: "warning the following hosts are unknown. home.netscape.com,home6.netscape.com and internic.net this means that some or all hosts will be unreachable. Perhaps there is a problem with your name server If your site must use a non-root name server you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server it may (or may not be nescessary) to set this variable or the socks host preference,to the IP adress of the host in question rather than its name. consult your system administrator."
Re: [newbie] Whats the user and pass to DL at ...
That happens when the site gets busy. Keep trying, there's no l/p On Friday 02 February 2001 11:58 pm, you wrote: At 18:22 02.02.2001 -0500, you wrote: I tried to DL some files from http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=kfirewall and it ask me for user and pass, How I can I obtain a user and pass? -- "Bloated confidence can impair the reality of the situation" Tony i downloaded several things from rpmfind.net and i was never asked for user/pass..hmm...but maybe i already set them in my browsers prefs try : anonymous/your email adress in fact.u can take any email adress..;) --quay
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and upgrade RAM problem
I just built another linux box for my mother ;o) I bought the parts they kicked me down a free 32MB of PC-100 ram Now, her A7V box uses the PC-133 Ram and this free stick is PC-100, I decided I want the 32MB stick for MY asus P5A-B SS7 AT (form) mainboard I have 128MB in my P5A-B currently, so I put that stick in and the memory says 163840k acording to my bios. Then I try to boot and I get kernel panic. (no init levels left) I tried linux init 3 mem=160M linux linux init 3 linux mem=160M I ended up taking the chip out. Also as a side note: I notice that windows98 craps out with that chip in there too. it won't start in any mode at all I noticed in all these other discussions that someone said to put this in the /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo append=" mem=127M hdd=ide-scsi" first off, my original install[s] and update[s] and upgrade[s] all detected the 128MB no problem and I didn't have that line in the lilo.conf second, did someone make a typo in the above saying 127M instead of 128M? third, I wonder if i add 128 + 32 = 160 and then my /etc/lilo.conf should look like this: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdc14 append=" hdd=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux160 root=/dev/hdc14 append=" mem=160M hdd=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdc14 append=" hdd=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdc14 append=" hdd=ide-scsi failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win_98 table=/dev/hda other=/dev/hdc1 label=dos_98 table=/dev/hdc map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 and last: what EXACT steps do I need to do to add this extra ram? thanks for your time.
[newbie] Re: Mandrake sucks! - Huh? mandrake doesn't suck-IMO, it has problems though.
On Sunday 28 January 2001 07:38 pm, you wrote: I presume that since you posted on the newbie forum that you are a newbie, at least to Mandrake. I have a caldera box, and I have been using mandrake since v6.2 yeah, I am still new. Frankly this kind of question on the expert forum would have been a joke-IMO. Not to mention the fact, I was on both forums and the inbound email exceeded my ISP limits and bounced mail (200 ea messages and unlimited size-I had too many messages), carefull if you might think about judging someone, you don't know what their circumstances are, I am also on 5 different IPSEC lists and a few other misc programming lists. I get about 100-150 pieces of mail in ea. 8 hours. Why don't you give it another try by reinstalling and choose the 'recommended' option and use the DiskDrak partitioner (expert). Sorry that can't be done, because 1. The First thing that is asked is keyboard, then which partitions do you want. Wipe DIsk, use existing, or expert. I ALWAYS use expert. Choice of using anything other than DiskDrake is not available, choice of NOT formatting partitions is also not available. Choice if installation class is NOT available, choice of what the system is used for is NOT available. Note: even so, I have no problem with this formatting because I always back up my /home - /root to a winblows partition before I start tweeking on the system. SO, all I have to do is re-copy my .bashrc, bookmarks, firewall scripts etc back over. It's relatively painless. Cept I hate the fact that ipchains is never installed. The thing I DO have a problem with is the fact that I am NEVER prompted with the following menus: Please choose one of the following classes of installation: Recommended Customized Expert Furthermore I am NEVER prompted with: What is your system used for: Workstation Server Development Clear out all the current Mandrake partiitions and start anew, about 100 MB for 'swap' and 1.5GB (min) for /.If your Mandrake is 7.2 ( 2 CD), use perhaps 2 GB for / Um, that's all great advice, in fact if this was version 7.1 that would be perfect advice. In this case, it does not apply. I gave quite a bit MORE space to Linux. (athough maybe my /home is a tad bit too small and I may add another 2G from windows to it, still, over time, I have decided my partitions are as follows: [root@localhost /root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc145.1G 2.5G 2.4G 51% / /dev/hdc3 65M 1.0M 60M 2% /boot /dev/hdc13242M 119M 110M 52% /home /dev/hda1 2.0G 989M 1.0G 48% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdc1 2.0G 373M 1.6G 18% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hda5 2.0G 390M 1.6G 19% /mnt/win_d /dev/hdc5 2.0G 1018M 1.0G 50% /mnt/win_d2 /dev/hda6 2.0G 683M 1.3G 33% /mnt/win_e /dev/hdc6 2.0G 945M 1.1G 46% /mnt/win_e2 /dev/hda7 1.8G 1.6G 276M 85% /mnt/win_f /dev/hdc7 2.0G 729M 1.3G 36% /mnt/win_f2 /dev/hdc8 2.0G 287M 1.7G 14% /mnt/win_g /dev/hdc9 2.0G 938M 1.1G 46% /mnt/win_h /dev/hdc12290M 103M 172M 37% /root /dev/hdc11233M 951k 220M 0% /tmp [root@localhost /root]# there's 260MB allocated to "SWAP" I calculated it like this 2*128MB of system ram = 256 rounded up to an even 260. I'm just a newbie to Linux too so I can't help much in troubleshooting. All I can say is use care during the installation. I've tried everything in the Book that comes with the "COMPLETE" version 7.2 There's only 1 class install, the one Mandrake itself picks. Now then, I have just built a NEW A7V + K7 800MHz + 128MB PC-133 ram, and the install is the same, no choices at all. trying: linux expert ide1=noautotune linux expert expert ide1=noautotune bla bla bla bla bla... it doesn't EVER prompt me with those cool screens that were available in Mandrake 7.1 !! Another thing that isn't prompted is do you want to wipe your /tmp on boot option y/n= I have my /tmp on a seperate 233MB partiton and YES i want it wiped!!! another thing that isn't prompted is do you want to install a printer? another thing that isn't prompted is the choice of EACH package (over 1000) (it was available in Mandrake 7.1, it isn't in 7.2!) okay, another thing, the development stuff is either uncompatable or screwed up. No Kdevelop, no KdeStudio, a bunch of libraries are missing, the QT and KDE paths have to be manually set or you can't compile anything. ON the plus side, I like the fact that most of those webserver[s] and exploitable stuff isn't installed by default. I like having to manually add it. Actually, I prefer 7.0 to 7.2...easier installation. Good luck. I didn't like 7.0 It had a lot of bugs. 7.1 was great! but I had to have that konqueror. another thing I hate, is searching for help on
Re: [newbie] How to install ppp ???
Hi, Dave. As a relative newcomer to Linux, only about a year ago, :) , I am still learning everyday. For example, switching from a CD-R to a CD-RW caused me a number of days searching for info as to why I could no longer access my CD-Rom drive. You will find this a very supportive list, and the response time is incredibly fast. Welcome to Linux! You'll be glad you arrived, as I am. :) Phil Murphy Registered Linux user 197338 Yamaha XS1100 SG - Original Message - From: Dave Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Emiliano Ogando [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to install ppp ??? How can i install ppp This is interesting. Did your copy also come from Wal-Mart? I have a boxed version of 7.2 Complete which, I'm told, may not be so complete. Among other things, it's KDE 2.0 is not the final version but a Beta. Apparently, a disk is now on it's way to amend. Thing is, I also got the message that it couldn't find the ppp daemon (pppd) and that I should install it. I dug out RpmDrake and found the files related to pppd (there were 2, I think) and prepared to install them along with Enlightenment and the parts of Gnome that weren't installed initially. It kept telling me that it couldn't communicate with the CD ROM (though it's actually a CD-RW and there are 2 of them in Device Manager though only one on my machine.. in addition to a CD-ROM which appears as it should in Device Manager). That's another issue to swim through. I may also have a Winmodem. Rats. In this version of LM 7.2, the KDE is in Beta as I say. I have 2 users set up: "dave" and "root". The kicker in root works fine and looks just as it did in the screen shots on the web tutorials. However, there is no kicker loaded (and a message telling me so) in dave. (Side note: When does a single user of a machine use root and, in this case, dave?) Apparently, this is one of the issues that the update disk they're sending will solve. More frustratingly, one of many, many points of difference between the software and the manual included with it is illustrated on page 64 of the manual. In that illustration, the text in the window (of available packages from which to choose to install) shows KDE and quite a number of others which are not evident in my installation screen and the ones both (the manual and my software version) share in common are in a different order. The first two times I installed Linux (never used it before Friday night), I selected all the available options but 2; one on personal finances and another for Palm Pilot device interfaces, neither of which I have. g About 75% of the data in this 4 minute install came from the first disk with the remainder coming from the second (of the 4 in the package). Below that window is a button to install all components. That choice does install KDE and Gnome (but only 2 other desktop environments, not Enlightenment, BlackBox or any others that looked interesting in the tutorials on the website). Strangely, all but the last 10 seconds of data of a 6 minute install came from the first disk. If the manual said a particular choice detailed there might not be a choice for either recommended or custom modes, it was not not available in this package's custom instalation. Even if the manual warned only that it may not be an available choice in recommended mode installations, it was not available in the custom mode of this early 7.2 version of LM. In fact, there were only 2 choices: 300MB minimal and custom installations. There are many other differences, too. What I'm going to do is to just play with what I have for now. As soon as I can get a fully functional copy of less dubious integrity, I'll work more diligently to make my hardware work. With this arrangement, I am thinking it futile. Maybe what I'll do to pacify myself in the meanwhile is to buy a modem (to replace my 33.6 winmodem) that is possibly capable of faster download speeds, set up my download manager in Win98 and download the ISO images for the disks from the web. I am glad to have the manual and the books and so forth on the other 2 disks but darn-it, it sure would be nice to have a copy that works. I am glad to have gotten this far in one weekend, though. I delayed Linux for close to 2 years, unsure that I'd be able to "do" it. I've read the Re Hat newslist from time to time and it appeared as though people, much brighter than I about computers, struggled to install and configure it. Universally, people seem broadly satisfied with the system and so I figure it'll be worth the effort. I was surprised at how easily I could run a dual OS drive, the choice made with Grub at boot. I did have some partitioning to do both before (with Partition Magic) and during installation but they went without a hitch. I see no evidence in Windows that
[newbie] I found it! CD-RW problem solved
I was composing a long letter to the list asking for help, listing all the steps I had done. (I'll include it anyways as it may help someone else in the same boat) Just before posting, I noticed that the instructions for creating the link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0 differed on www.mandrakeuser.org from what I had read in all the previous locations. The command that finally worked was: ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom Whereas the command that had not worked was: cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s scd0 cdrom The only difference I can see in the commands is the -sf rather than -s, although the second command requests confirmation. Any ideas here, or are they the same? Is this CD-RW problem something that can be automated since LM does pick up that my hdc is a cd-rw? Once again, thanks to the list for all the info that is of so much help. THe following is the text I was going to send: I have been using Mandrake since 7.0, and have upgraded to 7.1, and recently to 7.2, and have been thoroughly impressed with Linux. I have also tried Peanut, Phatlinux, Red Hat, Caldera, and some mini-distros. Here is my problem. I just traded in my cd-rom for a cd-rw, :) , but am not able to access it in LInux. I have been reading all the HOW-TO's and FAQ's, and have been following the threads on this list. I have been able to get LM to recognize my LG CD-RW as a scsi device: cdrecord -scanbus Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'LG ' 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * I have the following ines in /etc/modules.conf: alias net-pf-4 ipx pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330 options ide-cd ignore=hdc# tell the ide-cd module to ignore hdc alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0 I had added the recommended 3 additional lines, but then my cdrom was not recognized. I had appended them to the bottom of the file: #pre-install ide-scsi modprobe imm# uncomment for some ZIP drives only pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd before ide-scsi cat /etc/fstab returns: /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 ls -l /dev/scd* returns: brw-rw1 pmurphy cdwriter 11, 0 Sep 27 03:31 /dev/scd0 brw-rw1 pmurphy cdwriter 11, 1 Sep 27 03:31 /dev/scd1 brw-rw1 pmurphy cdwriter 11, 2 Sep 27 03:31 /dev/scd2 brw-rw1 pmurphy cdwriter 11, 3 Sep 27 03:31 /dev/scd3 brw-rw1 pmurphy cdwriter 11, 4 Sep 27 03:31 /dev/scd4 brw-rw1 pmurphy cdwriter 11, 5 Sep 27 03:31 /dev/scd5 brw-rw1 pmurphy cdwriter 11, 6 Sep 27 03:31 /dev/scd6 brw-rw1 pmurphy cdwriter 11, 7 Sep 27 03:31 /dev/scd7 -- Phil Murphy Nanaimo, BC, Canada Registered Linux User 197338 1980 Yamaha XS1100SG
Re: [newbie] Kodak cameras
On Saturday 13 January 2001 19:06, you wrote: cut I can't get a connection on usb either, and when I try on the serial port I get a message "missing serial device permissions--check permissions (see manual)". Does anyone know how I would set the serial device permissions? Thanks for any help, There is probably a better way however I run gphoto as root. -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Time management
Hello, I'm looking for a tool to track my internet connection time. I want an accumulated total time. The task seems simple enough so surly a tool already exists. And, if one doesn't then I could probably write my own if I knew how to access kppp's connection time variable. -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] menu system problem
On Thursday 11 January 2001 09:56, you wrote: Is there a way to fix multiple entriesin the Kmenu system? after an attempt of installing an app called: "rmagic" for analog (which also used CPAN to install some needed modules) I now have multiple entries of everything in my kmenu... there's 4 entries of each app...how can I fix this? as root type update-menus -v -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Kodak cameras
On Saturday 13 January 2001 04:29, you wrote: Has anyone set up a Kodak DC3400 to work in gphoto or whatever in linux. Or is there a site set up to check on drivers for digital cameras. Kodak support is ok but this camera isn't listed in gphoto. TIA for any help. I selected the DC 280 from the dropdown list. Not many of the functions of the DC 3400 work but I can download pictures. Now if only I could get the camera to work with the usb port instead of the serial port! -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Clearing a print job
Hello, While trying to set-up my printer under Gimp the printer runs amok if I select a printer, or an option, from the list that is not compatible with my own (Epson colour 680). My question is, how do I clear the print job without having to reboot? This works but it soon becomes a real pain. Even after I have cancelled the print job under Kups and deleted the files in /var/spool/cups the printer continues to print meaningless characters until the system is rebooted. An updated Gimp printer database would be a step in the right direction. -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Kodak DC3400 camera
I recently bought a Kodak DC3400 digital camera which works well under Windows but, not surprisingly, I haven't been able to use it with Linux and gphoto. I tried selecting several different cameras from the list in gphoto but nothing seems to work. Has anyone had any success with this camera? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] How may I use two mice?
I want to use two mice at once (one is a touchpad in my keyboard). Currently, DrakConf reports them as: Device: /dev/psaux Bus Type: PS/2 and Device: /dev/ttyS0 Bus Type: Serial My XF86Config-4 currently says: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection This results in the serial mouse working. How may I use both mice? Thanks, Phil R Lawrence
[newbie] kdevelop 1.3 not working
Hello, I have kdevelop-1.3-linux-i386 which is a precompiled version that uses a shell script to start it. Kdevelop starts but fails to build any project types. During the create project phase I'm told that there is an error in configure.in and that the qt 2.2.1 libraries have not been found (I have qt 2.2.2). If I try to run the created project an error dialog says "makefile is not found". I suspect that the problem due to an incompatibility between the system used to build the precompiled version and Mandrake 7.2, but I could be wrong. Can anyone offer any suggestions? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] IMAP clients?
I'm wondering what other IMAP mail clients there are besides Netscape for Mandrake. I poked around deja a bit... BTW, is there a good way to search all the documentation that camoes installed on mandrake? Like one can search all perldoc for a keyword? Thanks, Phil R Lawrence
[newbie] Adding SCSI
Ok, this is driving me nuts. How do I add a SCSI card to an existing 7.2 install? I'm trying to add an Adaptec 1542c but also have a 1522a that I can try. The system simply does not recognize the card. I've even tryd compiling a kernel that has the aha1542 module in it but no go. I need to add this card so I can attach an external scsi tape drive to the system. - Phil Garrett Systems Analyst Home Sales Co. / Hill Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
[newbie] Strange RPM problems
Ok, long story short. I'm trying to add an Adaptec 1542c SCSI card to an existing mdk7.2 system. I want to recompile the kernel to include SCSI support. I go to install the kernel-sources rpm and am told I need to install dev86. I rpm -i dev86, it runs for about 30-40 seconds. I then get the messages VM: killing process rpm. killed. rpm -q dev86 says it is not installed. Huh? Any ideas on whats happening? - Phil Garrett Systems Analyst Home Sales Co. / Hill Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: [newbie] Is there a quick an easy t-file for setting up my Linux box on the network?
On Thursday 30 November 2000 06:01 pm, you wrote: Can anyone direct me towards to the quickest way to figure out how to get my linux box to see my WinNT shares? Samba http://www.samba.org -- Phil Connor Emory Booty Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 189889
[newbie] Linux Mandrake Version 7.2
I have installed Linux Mandrake Version 7.2 but I cannot use my cd rw drive. Also, I have downloaded drivers for my sound chip and modem but do not know how to install them! Thanks for your help Phil Farnham
[newbie] Linux Mandrake Version 7
I have installed Linux Mandrake Version 7 but I cannot use my cd rw drive. Also, I have downloaded drivers for my sound chip and modem but do not know how to install them! Thanks for your help Phil Farnham
[newbie] Linux Mandrake Version 7.2 install
I have spent a week downloading Linux Mandrake Version 7.2.iso which I haveduly used to create a bootable cd-rom. I have tried it on 2 AMD 500 machines and a Celeron 600 without success. On one of the AMDs it just locks up part way through the white letters onblack screen boot.On the other AMD it gets as far as initialising CD ROM and then locks upOn the Celeron it did not get as far as this until I made the cd the masterdrive and then it gets as far as Initialising CD ROM before freezing withthe message:Kernel panic VFS; unable to mount root fs on 1:03I had previously installed version 7 on the Celeron.This was successful apart from the cd drive not being recognised and desktop loading up slowly and I (mistakenly) thought that upgrading to version 7.2 would solve these problems! Please help Phil Farnham
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake Version 7
Thank you Paul I cannot read a cd but can open the trray. When booting up from the cd it is obviously recognised but when Linux is loaded and I try and click on any cd icon I can find there is no response - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake Version 7 On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Phil Farnham wrote: I have installed Linux Mandrake Version 7 but I cannot use my cd rw drive. What is the problem? - you can't read a cd on it - you can't write a cd on it - you can't open the tray - ? Also, I have downloaded drivers for my sound chip and modem but do not know how to install them! Can;t help you with this... Paul -- I was a heathen. Then I saw the light. Now I am a pagan. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Majordomo install
On Tuesday 28 November 2000 18:27, you wrote: I realise that this list is for Mandrake questions... but has anyone gotten the tarball of Majordomo 1.94.5 to work on either 7.1 or 7.2 ? I can't get it to work...and I had it working...on 7.02 with a rpm. Need answer quickly What's wrong with useing sympa http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/sympa-2.7.3-7mdk.i586.rpm -- Phil Connor Emory Booty Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 189889
Re: [newbie] re sendmail simple question (I think :)Thanx all!!!
On Monday 27 November 2000 09:19 am, you wrote: I would like to just take to time to say thanks to all the people who have helped me out. Especially Phil. Best Regards to everyone and again thanx. Your Welcome! -- Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 189889
Re: [newbie] re sendmail simple question (I think :)
On Friday 24 November 2000 03:29 pm, you wrote: P.s. the funny thing is whatever I put in th relay_allow file does not show up anywhere in the webmin system even after restarting the sendmail system. open webmin and go to sendmail look in the upper right corner of that page and you should see a listing call "Module Config" once you've click'd this look at the listing called "full path to sendmail aliases file" most times this is set to automatic. if automatic is selected and it still does not see the files then add the full path there /etc/mail that's where all mine are. You should'nt have to touch the rest of the entrys in the list unless they are all in differant directorys -- Phil Connor Emory Booty Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 189889
Re: [newbie] re sendmail simple question (I think :)
On Friday 17 November 2000 12:28 am, you wrote: I'm using outlook express on a winblows machine from a remote location to pick up. and no I have not set up masquerading Your problem is going to be 1 of 3 places "relay" is incorrect, "local" shows nothing besides "localhost" and or "masquerading" was incorrectly set. You should be able to ck these with webmin -- Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 189889
