Re: [expert] joysticks?

1999-09-07 Thread Andreas Spengler
Hi there, On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jason Bodnar wrote: > Has anybody gotten a joystick to work successfully with mandrake? I have a > Gravis GamePad Pro. I downloaded the latest joystick drivers and compiled them. > > I the did: > > $ insmod joystick > > which worked fine. Then I did: > > $ insmo

Re: [expert] Mandrake 6.1b first impression

1999-09-07 Thread Joel VanderWerf
Mubashir wrote: > ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/netscape/ Is this right? I get "unable to locate". -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Large file transfers

1999-09-07 Thread Ron Stodden
Wayne Baltimore wrote: > Does anyone have a new direction for me to try? To bypass the problem use the command line wget -c to ftp with, from either ftp or html sites. You can drag and drop the URL on to a command line window. It is a number of times quicker than any browser ftp, is

[expert] squid problems

1999-09-07 Thread hamkas
hi, i've got my proxy server up and running. To go on the net, i have to pass tru another proxy server. now how do i set it up correctly? i've put cache_host parent 80 3130 no-query defaultin my squid.conf but when i try it out, i'll see it connecting, connected and then w

[expert] PROCESS ID

1999-09-07 Thread Jim Van Etten
I have rebooted my server twice now and it has falled to start a process. When I try to start it manually it says it is already running and gives a process ID. However when I try to kill the process or do a manual stop it says the process does not exist. It seems that the process has been locked a

[expert] joysticks?

1999-09-07 Thread Jason Bodnar
Has anybody gotten a joystick to work successfully with mandrake? I have a Gravis GamePad Pro. I downloaded the latest joystick drivers and compiled them. I the did: $ insmod joystick which worked fine. Then I did: $ insmod joy-gravis joy-gravis: no joysticks found joy-gravis: init module devi

Re: [expert] What rpms for kernel compile

1999-09-07 Thread Mark Polsen
Aaron, If you want to compile a kernel as an rpm binary then you only need to get the source rpm. You need to look in the SRPMS directory on one of the mirrors. I think one of the latest is kernel-2.2.13-3mdk.src.rpm Mark

Re: [expert] What rpms for kernel compile

1999-09-07 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
If you want to compile a custom kernel, you're better to download the source directly from www.kernel.org. The Mandrake source rpms have a lot of extra patches included and you might pull out your hair while compiling it ;-) Get the latest kernel in .tar.bz2 format, do: bunzip2 kernel* tar xvf k

[expert] What rpms for kernel compile

1999-09-07 Thread Aaron W.
I am running mdk 6.0 and have updated my kernel to 2.2.9-27mdk. I want to compile a more customized kernel so I went to download the source and there are several rpms for the kernel. I know I need the source and headers rpm but do I need the rest of them, like boot, smp, fb, ibcs and pcmcia. I

Re: [expert] User Web Pages

1999-09-07 Thread Bug Hunter
hmm. what security risks? Forgive me if I'm really stupid. We allow no anonymous ftp. we allow no ftp at all not from our local net. We allow no telnet. we allow no ssh. we allow no shell. we allow no talk. only that user can write into that directory. let me know. thanks. bug On

Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread Darin
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > Hmm... That's interesting. Maybe it's the IDE drive(s) I've > tried that it doesn't like both are Conner/Seagate 850 > meg. I wonder if it could be something in those drives it > doesn't like? Maybe it's the motherboard itself that's > buggy? Or the Micronics

Re: [expert] Large file transfers

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
Hmmm...Ok. I'm out of ideas hereunless it IS a memory-related problem and it's just not having enough "real" ram What nic do you have in the dual-ppro boxes? - Original Message - From: Wayne Baltimore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 4:

Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
> John, > I'm running an Intel PR440FX "Providence" motherboard with dual P-Pro > 180/256 overclocked to 233. The motherboard has Adaptec AIC-7880, Intel > EtherExpress Pro 10/100, CS4236 sound all on the motherboard. I have 2 Quantum > xp3250 7200rpm SCSI drives, I also have a Seagate 4.3

Re: [expert] User Web Pages

1999-09-07 Thread Ron Smith
Man, what a great bunch of experts!! My thanks goes out to James Keller, Ramon Gandia, Mark Polsen, Mark Cinelli, Bug Hunter, Manuel Amador, and Axalon Bloodstone for their walk throughs, hints, URL's, etc. Bug, your modification to adduser is one I will look at if for nothing more than the educ

Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread Darin
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > FWIW, my single ppro 200/512 systes with an Asus mainboard, 440FX chipset > > with > > smp disabled is not showing any lockups whatsoever. I am currently running > > all SCSI, but if anyone sees value, I'll throw in an IDE devic

RE: [expert] Large file transfers

1999-09-07 Thread Wayne Baltimore
Sorry about the HTML, I'll keep an eye on that in the future. The box is a DELL with an Intel PPRO 180, 64Mb of Ram, and a 125Mb swap file. I used two other machines to test against it a Dual processor PPRO 180 running RedHat 5.2 and a Dual PPRO 166 running UnixWare, both with 256Mb or more of

Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > FWIW, my single ppro 200/512 systes with an Asus mainboard, 440FX chipset > with > smp disabled is not showing any lockups whatsoever. I am currently running > all SCSI, but if anyone sees value, I'll throw in an IDE device or two and > see what happens. > Well,

Re: [expert] User Web Pages

1999-09-07 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Manuel Amador wrote: > > No, it's not. You wouldn't grant write access to the Apache home directory to > a person. That's why the UserDir exists. Otherwise, CGI scripts could do > real harm to the Apache home directory, which is not intended for anyone > except the webm

Re: [expert] User Web Pages

1999-09-07 Thread Rudd-O
No, it's not. You wouldn't grant write access to the Apache home directory to a person. That's why the UserDir exists. Otherwise, CGI scripts could do real harm to the Apache home directory, which is not intended for anyone except the webmaster/site admin to touch. If you have a problem ch

Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
FWIW, my single ppro 200/512 systes with an Asus mainboard, 440FX chipset with smp disabled is not showing any lockups whatsoever. I am currently running all SCSI, but if anyone sees value, I'll throw in an IDE device or two and see what happens. On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jason Antonacci wrote: > I a

Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > I'm still having problems, even after compiling my own > kernel from the 2.2.12 sources. What's the problem with 2.2.12? > A couple people have > mentioned to me that EGCS is "known" to have problems > compiling kernels. Have you folks experienced this?

Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jason Antonacci wrote: > > > I am experiencing the same problem w/ a similar PPro box using SCSI and IDE > > drives. The system specs are slightly less though. The 2.2.9-11 SMP Kernel > > stops after a PCI bus scan which dumps a table to the

Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > I am experiencing the same problem w/ a similar PPro box using SCSI and IDE > drives. The system specs are slightly less though. The 2.2.9-11 SMP Kernel > stops after a PCI bus scan which dumps a table to the screen. The other > kernel for single processors is

Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jason Antonacci wrote: > I am experiencing the same problem w/ a similar PPro box using SCSI and IDE > drives. The system specs are slightly less though. The 2.2.9-11 SMP Kernel > stops after a PCI bus scan which dumps a table to the screen. 2.2.9-11 has some known bugs...

Re: [expert] Lilo

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > Heres a question. Somehow my /boot/map file is corrupted or wrong. Now lilo > wont boot any of my os'es. I run a scsi system and have seemed to have not made > a rescue disket. How can I fix this? > Did you install from a CD? if so, boot from a DOS floppy whi

[expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

1999-09-07 Thread Jason Antonacci
I am experiencing the same problem w/ a similar PPro box using SCSI and IDE drives. The system specs are slightly less though. The 2.2.9-11 SMP Kernel stops after a PCI bus scan which dumps a table to the screen. The other kernel for single processors is OK. WHY? I didn't bother to run the RP

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.2.12 RPM?

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > how do you install an RPM kernel? > rpm -i The reason you'd use rpm -i instead of rpm -u is that if you install it ALONGSIDE your existing kernel, if there's a problem you can always delete the "new" kernel and switch back to the old one. John

[expert] Lilo

1999-09-07 Thread Gavin Grabias
Heres a question. Somehow my /boot/map file is corrupted or wrong. Now lilo wont boot any of my os'es. I run a scsi system and have seemed to have not made a rescue disket. How can I fix this? -- Regards, Gavin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *

[expert] problems with gnome / netscape

1999-09-07 Thread jp elsner
hi,, i just downloaded all gnome packets + fnlib, imlib, gtk+ from the cooker and updated my mandrake 6.0. well, it's not very stable anymore. :-( gnomecc segfaults when called with accessed thru "config background image". the gnome-nameserver (wha t the hack is that?) keeps crashing randomly

Re: [expert] Large file transfers

1999-09-07 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
I'll give this a shot tonight on my Mandrake 6.0 box which has a 3C905b-TX card. What kind of box were you transferring from? On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wayne Baltimore wrote: > I installed Mandrake 6 which seemed to work fine until I tried to ftp a > 128Mb file from another server to the new install

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.2.12 RPM?

1999-09-07 Thread Ji-Haw, Foo
how do you install an RPM kernel? regards, Foo Ji-Haw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) T-Nova raum 6067 extension 3166 - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [expert

Re: [expert] Large file transfers

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > >%_I installed Mandrake 6 which seemed to work fine until I tried to ftp a > 128Mb file from another server to the new install box where networking > locked up. Tried rcp and ftp client and had the same problems, small files > transfer fine large ones lock networ

RE: [expert] using laptop as dumb terminal?

1999-09-07 Thread Tima Vaisburd
Title: RE: [expert] using laptop as dumb terminal? Hi, duncan hall wrote: > > Thanks, > > Using a serial port would be fine. > > Unfortunately using a crossover cable and the network card is not possible. > > Can someone point me in the right direction for some documentation and or > pro

[expert] Large file transfers

1999-09-07 Thread Wayne Baltimore
I installed Mandrake 6 which seemed to work fine until I tried to ftp a 128Mb file from another server to the new install box where networking locked up.  Tried rcp and ftp client and had the same problems, small files transfer fine large ones lock networking.  The FTP of large files works

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.2.12 RPM?

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > > > Anyone know where I can find an RPM of kernel 2.2.12? I compiled my > > own yesterday, but I'm having some problems that I'm hoping will go > > away by using a pre-compiled kernel. > > Get 2.2.13-2mdk from cooker or

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.2.12 RPM?

1999-09-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > Anyone know where I can find an RPM of kernel 2.2.12? I compiled my > own yesterday, but I'm having some problems that I'm hoping will go > away by using a pre-compiled kernel. Get 2.2.13-2mdk from cooker or cassini (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker

[expert] Kernel 2.2.12 RPM?

1999-09-07 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone know where I can find an RPM of kernel 2.2.12? I compiled my own yesterday, but I'm having some problems that I'm hoping will go away by using a pre-compiled kernel. Primarily, my on-board sound won't work anymore (it DID work in 2.2.9-27mdk) and I'm having some other "wierdness" go on wit