[expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

2000-01-24 Thread alann
Over the past days I've seen a LOT of things cross here about 7.0. I have a wonderful working 6.1 system now, and Linux Mandrake is my MAIN OS.. I'm seeking an honest answer here. Should I upgrade, or are there a lot of things ( bugs ) creeping around.. Some of the main things I've got

Re: [expert] Air PS/2 Mouse Bug in GUI Install and Workaround

2000-01-24 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Axalonfor what specific reason is that? Robot answer code name :). -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Chmouel

Re: [expert] Air PS/2 Mouse Bug in GUI Install and Workaround

2000-01-24 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Axalonfor what specific reason is that? Those are the "base" rpms hard coded into the install to always be installed. oh bad chmouel he don't follow all threads of Mailing list :\. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/

Re: [expert] Kppp in Air

2000-01-24 Thread hamkas
thanxs... i also have the same problem with KPPP...

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7 and Apache , PHP and MySQL

2000-01-24 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Bom dia! Yes, the PHP is compiled with built-in MySQL support, and Postgresql support via mod_php3-pgsql. However, Mandrake 7 ships only with MySQL-GPL, due to license restrictions. I just finished recompiling the new Apache 1.3.11, php 3.0.14 and MySQL 3.2.30 for Mandrake 7. The RPMS are

[expert] Axalon - Half An Apology....

2000-01-24 Thread Phil Edwards
Axalon: Some weeks ago, I posted to the list complaining that IP aliasing wouldn't work in LM 6.1, even with the updated "initscripts" RPM installed. I've since found out why - I'd reconfigured my kernel so that the driver for my network card was compiled in, rather than having it as a loadable

Re: [expert] Please Fix

2000-01-24 Thread Marco Ciampa
On sab, 22 gen 2000, Darryl White wrote: I don't know about everyone else, but I have received numerous anti-spam replies from you. (I have never sent you a message until now) Please take time to change how your filters are executed. You are creating spam on the list. Very sorry! I'm a real

[expert] Serial Mouse

2000-01-24 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Hello. I'm having SEVERE troubles on getting my serial mouse working under Mandrake 7.0 I have a set of 12 PC's (With SiS motherboards 8o) using Mandrake 6.1 on my network. With 2 of them the install couldn't get the serial mouse. They detect a PS/2 port (which is off)

Re: [expert] network is unreachable

2000-01-24 Thread Rich Clark
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, WH Bouterse wrote: What killed my network? L-M 7.0/with sprinlkings of Cooker Before reboot networking, remote access, internet, etc, all working find including ipmasq. A reboot brings; Now 'nslookup' for 'anyplace' gives "can't find server name for

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.0 printer weirdness?

2000-01-24 Thread Jeff Stewart
I've found a fix for this, although it's probably not the "Best way" (tm) to do it. After comparing an lm6.1 machine (that works w/ an SMB printer), and the lm7.0 (that doesn't), I found that /var/spool/lpd/lp/.config was mode 644 on the 6.1 machine. Obviously not good. The .config on the 7.0

Re: [expert] Serial Mouse

2000-01-24 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Leonardo T. de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 5:46 AM Subject: [expert] Serial Mouse Hello. I'm having SEVERE troubles on getting my serial mouse working under Mandrake 7.0 I have a

Re: [expert] Serial Mouse

2000-01-24 Thread Pixel
"Leonardo T. de Carvalho" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I'm having SEVERE troubles on getting my serial mouse working under Mandrake 7.0 I have a set of 12 PC's (With SiS motherboards 8o) using Mandrake 6.1 on my network. With 2 of them the install couldn't get the

[expert] Anyone got VMWare running on LM 6.1 with AMD processors?

2000-01-24 Thread Phil Rhoades
I have been battling with VMWare on a newly installed LM 6.1 box: - Gigabyte MB - 400 MHz AMD processor - 256 Mb RAM - ATI Mach64 Rage IIc graphics card - Accton PCI NIC (Tulip) I get to the stage of installing an NT4 WS guest system and keep getting "time/date" error

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

2000-01-24 Thread webmedic
I can't speak for others but I did an upgrade of my 6.1 system that I use for just this purpose and it left me with a few little bugs like telling me I only had 64megs of ram instead of 160. Other than that it did pretty good. After this I just saved my samba.conf and did a fresh install. Then

Re: [expert] X on a Presario 1277 laptop

2000-01-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote: Then it is NOT the discontinued Presario 1200 series. OK the Trident Chipset there probably needs Option "noaccel" in the Devices section of /etc/X11/XF86Config which mentions the Trident device Thanks...will report back when I find out..

Re: [expert] Anyone got VMWare running on LM 6.1 with AMD processors?

2000-01-24 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 12:21 AM 01/25/2000 +, Phil Rhoades wrote: I have been battling with VMWare on a newly installed LM 6.1 box: - Gigabyte MB - 400 MHz AMD processor - 256 Mb RAM - ATI Mach64 Rage IIc graphics card - Accton PCI NIC (Tulip) I get to the stage of installing an NT4 WS

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? = NO!!!

2000-01-24 Thread michael chopek
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, alann scribed: = Over the past days I've seen a LOT of things cross here about 7.0. = = I have a wonderful working 6.1 system now, and Linux Mandrake is my MAIN = OS.. I'm seeking an honest answer here. Should I upgrade, or are there a lot of things ( = bugs ) creeping

Re: [expert] network is unreachable

2000-01-24 Thread Michael Doyle
G'day, - Original Message - From: "Rich Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [expert] network is unreachable On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, WH Bouterse wrote: What killed my network? Don't know what killed it but try the

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

2000-01-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alanif you need to ask you probably shouldn't. With that said, I've got to say that I'm happy I upgraded. Actually, I've never upgraded as I always do a full install of a new distro. I believe that's one factor that helps to eliminate at least some of the problems. And I never install a

[expert] 7.0 Air = XFS Dead Twice in 1 Week!

2000-01-24 Thread michael chopek
Hi folks; I wrote Friday for the exact same thing, the XFS has died. Upon turning my machine on this morning I was greeted by the same bullshit error message...twice in one week now. "FontTrans SocketUnix Connect: can't connect: errno11 falied to set default font path. Fatal server error:

Re: [expert] Anyone got VMWare running on LM 6.1 with AMD processors?

2000-01-24 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 10:56 AM 01/24/2000 -0500, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: At 12:21 AM 01/25/2000 +, Phil Rhoades wrote: I have been battling with VMWare on a newly installed LM 6.1 box: - Gigabyte MB - 400 MHz AMD processor - 256 Mb RAM - ATI Mach64 Rage IIc graphics card - Accton

Re: [expert] Installing 7.0 via PCMCIA TR on Thinkpad 770 -- success

2000-01-24 Thread tedmcd
Axalon, the process you described below worked fine. Thanks for the help. zcat /mnt/floppy/pcmcia.rdz ~/tmp/pcmcia.rd mount ~/tmp/pcmcia.rd /mnt/disk -o loop $EDITOR /mnt/disk//etc/pcmcia/config.opts umount /mnt/disk cat ~/tmp/pcmcia.rd | gzip -9 /mnt/floppy/pcmcia.rdz

Re: [expert] network is unreachable

2000-01-24 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, WH Bouterse wrote: What killed my network? L-M 7.0/with sprinlkings of Cooker Before reboot networking, remote access, internet, etc, all working find including ipmasq. A reboot brings; Now 'nslookup' for 'anyplace' gives "can't find server name for address

[expert] Network problems

2000-01-24 Thread Robert J Bartels
I have a Dell Inspiron 7000... I just installed the new Mandrake Air, everything works great cept the networking. I have a 3com 10/100 card (no modem) I think its a 3c575. When I installed the system ISMOD crashed when detecting the card so I skipped the network installation. It DID give the

[expert] EIDE Controller

2000-01-24 Thread John Connell
Due to the recent addition to my box of a CD R-W and another HDD, I need to install another EIDE controller. Is there a specific model I should buy for LM? Also in configuring the new setup which device should plug into which IDE controller? Running LM 7.0 96MB RAM 13GB UATA 13GB UATA 4GB UATA

RE: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? = NO!!!

2000-01-24 Thread Andrew Post
Weird, about the cut and paste to/from Netscape. Mandrake 6.0 was the first distro I've actually used where that worked. SuSE 6.0 certainly didn't. Are there special compiler options that need to be enabled? Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? = NO!!!

2000-01-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
-michaelI just cut your signature out of the message I'm responding to an pasted it at he beginning here. I'm in Kedit and am going to paste this into my reply in netscape when I'm done. So far I really like using my floppy, cd and zip in supermount and have experienced no problems with the

Re: [expert] 7.0 Air = XFS Dead Twice in 1 Week!

2000-01-24 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, michael chopek wrote: Hi folks; I wrote Friday for the exact same thing, the XFS has died. [..] Upon looking in /var/log/messages as Axalon suggested...you see the following.. xfs: xfs startup successful xfs: fatal font server error xfs: can not establish any

[expert] 7.0: How to download crypto SW outside install menus.

2000-01-24 Thread Svante Signell
One of the menus of the upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0 concerns crypto code. Since for unknown reasons the network card did not work during the install (it works otherwise!!) I could not download crypto software. After the upgrade I tried to start drakxtools but did not find anything useful there. Which

[expert] Laptop installation problems, part 2

2000-01-24 Thread Stout, Wayne
Greetings, everyone. I'm still unable to boot into Mandrake 6.1 on my laptop. I've tried some of the suggestions that were given to me when I first asked about this a couple of weeks ago. To rehash: Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg ram, 4.3 gig drive, dual boot with Win98SE. I've

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? = NO!!!

2000-01-24 Thread michael chopek
Hi Alan; On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker scribed: = -michaelI just cut your signature out of the message I'm = responding to an pasted it at he beginning here. I'm in Kedit = and am going to paste this into my reply in netscape when I'm = done. Well *for me* it just does not work..

[expert] netscape 128 bit encryption

2000-01-24 Thread root
Hi, Can anyone tell me again where I can get that program that automatically updated netscape to 128 bit encryption? Someone posted about it a while ago and I need it now but can't remember where to find it. Also I'll try get it into the netscape FAQ soon so we can always find it :)

[expert] wu-ftpd

2000-01-24 Thread Michael Doyle
G'day, I'm getting the following error trying to login as "anonymous", whe my email address is sent as password??? 220 landofau.tzo.org FTP server (Version wu-2.5.0(1) Tue Jun 8 08:55:12 EDT 1999) ready. USER anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. PASS

Re: [expert] Anyone got VMWare running on LM 6.1 with AMD processors?

2000-01-24 Thread Phil Rhoades
Dan, I have been battling with VMWare on a newly installed LM 6.1 box: - Gigabyte MB - 400 MHz AMD processor - 256 Mb RAM - ATI Mach64 Rage IIc graphics card - Accton PCI NIC (Tulip) I get to the stage of installing an NT4 WS guest system and keep getting "time/date"

[expert] Console mouse not OK in 7.0

2000-01-24 Thread Svante Signell
After upgrade to 7.0 the console mouse (gpm -t imps2) does not work any longer. What is wrong? Svante S.

Re: [expert] KDM login

2000-01-24 Thread timothylewis
No problem, Axalon... In /etc/X11/prefdm, I changed every occurrence of gdm and kdm such that gdm was always evaluated first: prefdm contents #!/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin # We need to source this so that the login screens get translated .

[expert] Tulip(PNIC) Driver revisited

2000-01-24 Thread whyzzi
Pulled Directly from the home page: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html Errata Due inaccurate documentation, autonegotiation cannot be enabled on the PNIC chip. Thanks Again, Everyone! Peter Verhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment

2000-01-24 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, S. Newhouse wrote: Hello, One of our machines is a Dell with the Turtle Beach Montego sound card. I was happy to see that Aureal wrote drivers for it (from their web site), but then I found out that the drivers worked only for the RedHat kernels in 6.0 and 6.1. I

Re: [expert] netscape 128 bit encryption

2000-01-24 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
root wrote: Can anyone tell me again where I can get that program that automatically updated netscape to 128 bit encryption? Someone posted about it a while ago and I need it now but can't remember where to find it. Look at: http://www.fortify.net -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL