Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-30 Thread Ron Stodden
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Harvey B. Herman wrote: > I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a > server, it performed flawlessly for months at a time. I decided to > upgrade to Mandrake 7.0; don't ask me why. Now, when I try to logon and > start ppp, it says it can't authenticat

Re: [expert] Mount broken for cdrom

2000-01-30 Thread Ron Stodden
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: > Using scsi emulation, I usually mount my cdrw on /dev/sr0. > > Here's my /etc/fstab entry: > > /dev/sr0/mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 > > Now I can't mount; when I try, it just hangs there. Trying kill -9 on the

Re: [expert] Vmware on LM6.1 SMP

2000-01-30 Thread Stephen Boulet
This is what I did. I downloaded the source (not the source rpm!) from kernel.org, but I used the .config from the Mandrake kernel source rpm that I'd previously saved. I used that as a basis for a kernel that I compiled myself for my dual celeron board. Works fine. -- Stephen On Sun, 30 Jan 20

Re: [expert] Win TV/radio

2000-01-30 Thread Svante Signell
Take a look at xawtv: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html This one should work both in kde and gnome. Haven't got radio working yet though (Hauppauge WinTV Theater) Svante Traci Collins writes: > Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: > > > > This may be out of this area's scope. Howeve

Re: [expert] Home LAN: RJ45, phone or AC ?

2000-01-30 Thread Audrey Beck
>>Posted for Dan Woods<< > At 04:56 PM 1/26/00 -0600, Audrey Beck wrote: > > > >>>Posted for Dan Woods<< > > Subject: Home LAN: RJ45, phone or AC ? > > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:56:22 -0700 > > From: Dan Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Organization: U of Calgary > > Newsgroups

[expert] gnome-terminal

2000-01-30 Thread Werner E. Niebel
Hi there, Just out of curiosity, has anyone tried the --display flag in gnome-terminal on Mandrake 7.0 ... Im trying to specify this on the command line... It worked fine in Mandrake 6.1 and since installing Mandrake 7.0 it doesnt work... It seems to use the shell environment variable regardless

[expert] mysterious netscape-communicator network access on startup

2000-01-30 Thread Kevin Venkiteswaran
Hello. Running LM6.1, with netscape-communicator-4.70-1mdk and netscape-common-4.70-1mdk (installed from RPMs). When i load Netscape, it makes some sort of network (to the internet) access (for ppp0 monitor shows activity). However, nothing shows up when running 'netstat -n -t tcp'. When my c

[expert] Kernel Panic Using SMP and Mandrake 7.0

2000-01-30 Thread Allen Denton
I am using Mandrake 7.0 and have an Abit MB and two 366 celerons overclocked to 550. When I install mandrake everything goes good. When I use the Linux config. from LILO it crashes with a kernel panic. When I use the Linux-up config it runs fine. I have tried without having the cerlerons overclock

Re: [expert] Misbehaving "ls" error in console -- almost solved!

2000-01-30 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Benjamin Sher wrote: > My only problem is when I type "ls" by itself. Then I get the following > strange data: > > [home/sher]$ls > bash: 34mDesktop: command not found > bash: command not found > bash: lynx_bookmarks.html: command not found > bash: command not found > bash: 34mwp80 command

RE: [expert] Re: Filter on MAC

2000-01-30 Thread Fred Frigerio
bootp was based on MAC addresses to give IP's and dhcpd keeps track of assigned IP's based on MAC addresses. > -Original Message- > From: Bois, Mathieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 8:20 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [expert] Re: Filter on MAC

Re: [expert] What is going on?

2000-01-30 Thread webmedic
At least you didn't pay for a kenwood true speed to find it out. Those things are expensive but they fly. Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > webmedicthis was a 24x Panasonic CR-585-B manufactured for > Hewlett Packard in November of 1997. I got it at a close-out > house on the net about a year ago a

Re: [expert] Vmware on LM6.1 SMP

2000-01-30 Thread Warren Doney
Known bug. It works with the kernel from 7.0 (not the SMP one), you might want to try the 7.0 SMP kernel, or roll your own from unpatched src. Both are avalable on the mirrors (see mandrake.org for a close one). -WBD - Original Message - From: "Rex Petrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL

[expert] HPT366 Boot help, I've been through the archives blah blah blah... but there seems to be no answer to my problem.

2000-01-30 Thread David Stringer
I've been through the archives and I know that this subject has been beat to death, but I have an issue with getting my HPT366 controller on a Abit BE6 motherboard to boot my Quantam 18.2 gb hardrive.   This is the message that I have posted on several news groups, can anyone PLEASE tell me

Re: [expert] What is going on?

2000-01-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
webmedicthis was a 24x Panasonic CR-585-B manufactured for Hewlett Packard in November of 1997. I got it at a close-out house on the net about a year ago as new merchandise. Guess it wasn't such a good buy after all. :-( Alan webmedic wrote: > > this mostly occurs with older cdroms and f

Re: [expert] Printing to windows 98

2000-01-30 Thread Civileme
Monte Milanuk wrote: > The problem is with the printer. The HP 7xx series was released > using a proprietary printer driver that _has_ not been released > to the public as of yet. > There has been some effort at reverse-engineering it, but it has > thus far only yielded a 300dpi b&w last I check

Re: [expert] Plugger 3.2 for Netscape

2000-01-30 Thread Andrew Post
That's probably being generated by the applications that plugger's running. Netscape picks up the stdout and stderr of plugins and displays them. There are two possible solutions: 1) Maybe there's a switch for the offending application to silence it 2) Turn off messages to stdout or stderr via Ne

Re: [expert] Sever Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Guillermofirst off I'm partially of German extraction and the neatness and compartmentilazation afforded by seperate swap partitions for each installation appeals to my inborn sense of esthetics. Secondly, I have no space problems, so I don't really care if someone else thinks that it is wast

Re: [expert] ntfs & LM-7.0

2000-01-30 Thread Derrick Judge
Linux can read ntfs, but it isn't 100%. I have had problems with it, like permissions changing by themselves stuff like that. derrick - Original Message - From: Sergio Korlowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 10:32 AM Subject: [expert] ntfs &

Re: [expert] Printing to windows 98

2000-01-30 Thread Monte Milanuk
The problem is with the printer. The HP 7xx series was released using a proprietary printer driver that _has_ not been released to the public as of yet. There has been some effort at reverse-engineering it, but it has thus far only yielded a 300dpi b&w last I checked. You can look it up at the

Re: [expert] What is going on?

2000-01-30 Thread Civileme
Alan Shoemaker wrote: > Alan Shoemaker wrote: > [snip] > > > > Finally I attempted an Air (7.0) install on my wife's machine > > over her Venus (6.0) installation. It failed at the point of > > initializing the cdrom. I made a boot disc to use the text > > install and it failed too, at initiali

[expert] Misbehaving "ls" error in console -- almost solved!

2000-01-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Matt and friends: I have isolated the problem, thanks to Matt Stegman's latest suggestion: When I type in the console ( but NOT in xterm): \ls (backspace plus "ls") I get a correct listing of all my files and directories Same when I type alias ls. A full listing of files and directories

Re: [expert] What is going on?

2000-01-30 Thread webmedic
this mostly occurs with older cdroms and for some reason with kenwood true speed cdroms. Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > Alan Shoemaker wrote: > [snip] > > > > Finally I attempted an Air (7.0) install on my wife's machine > > over her Venus (6.0) installation. It failed at the point of > > initializi

Re: [expert] problems with modules

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, you wrote: > i recently compilied and installed 2.2.14 kernel due because i have >no > sound so i downloaded the the kernel sourse as well as th cmi8338 > source code everything i think went well anyway i got to do what > was > said in the driver readme file

[expert] Fwd: (Forwarded from KDE list)

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 09:15:24 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> First of all, sorry about cross posting, but the Mandrake list doesn't seem to be receiving my mail this weekend and I would really like to solve thes

Re: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mattthe "back" button is the column of colored circles on the left side of your screen. Alan "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: > > > Finally gave up and went with RedHat 6.1. > > > > Maybe when LM7.1+ comes out I'll take another look... > > > > Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I w

Re: [expert] Sever Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
tommiyI'm sorry but I don't have any ready solutions for your present problems. What I do have are some suggestions as to how to prevent such problems in the future. Anyway here's what I do. I have one primary partition and one extended partition on my 9.1 gig scsi hard drive. The primary

Re: [expert] ntfs & LM-7.0

2000-01-30 Thread Timothy Wilson
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: > I am using dual boot on one pc, Main OS Linux, secondary Win98... > > well, just upgraded to Win2000-Pro and switched from FAT32 to NTFS > > obviously the files are not being seen by linux, what should I use > > now in fstab, just replace the vfat

Re: [expert] What is going on?

2000-01-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: [snip] > > Finally I attempted an Air (7.0) install on my wife's machine > over her Venus (6.0) installation. It failed at the point of > initializing the cdrom. I made a boot disc to use the text > install and it failed too, at initializing the cdrom. I then > installed

[expert] RE:

2000-01-30 Thread Lyle
You need to double check the IRQ setting. Win95/98 will fudge and still work if that setting is wrong. Linux is not so forgiving. If your system has a bios setting to hard set the comm port that would be better. I have seen screwy things like this solved by hard setting the comm ports. The me

Re: [expert] Telnet into another Linux box.

2000-01-30 Thread Bug Hunter
Actually, inetd will run telnetd upon demand. If you are on the internet, you need to make your box more secure by editing /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow in /etc/hosts.deny, put ALL : ALL in /etc/hosts.allow, put ALL : xxx.xxx.xxx. where xxx.xxx.xxx is the network you are on. F

[expert] XFree86-3.3.6

2000-01-30 Thread Mike Fieschko
>>> "Robert" == Robert J Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> I'm trying to upgrade my X server to 3.3.6.. When I do Robert> rpm -Uvh XFree-3.3.6.rpm it complains that xinitrc >= Robert> 2.4.4-10mdk is needed... Robert> When I try to update xinitrc it tells me that XFree8

Re: [expert] What is going on?

2000-01-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: [snip] > > Finally I attempted an Air (7.0) install on my wife's machine > over her Venus (6.0) installation. It failed at the point of > initializing the cdrom. I made a boot disc to use the text > install and it failed too, at initializing the cdrom. I then > installed

Re: [expert] XFree86-3.3.6

2000-01-30 Thread Gary Simmons
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Robert J Bartels wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade my X server to 3.3.6.. > > When I do rpm -Uvh XFree-3.3.6.rpm it complains that > xinitrc >= 2.4.4-10mdk is needed... > > When I try to update xinitrc it tells me that XFree86 >= 3.3.5-12mdk is > needed by > xinitrc-2.4.4-10m

Re: [expert] XFree86-3.3.6

2000-01-30 Thread Barry Marler
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Robert J Bartels wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade my X server to 3.3.6.. > > When I do rpm -Uvh XFree-3.3.6.rpm it complains that > xinitrc >= 2.4.4-10mdk is needed... > > When I try to update xinitrc it tells me that XFree86 >= 3.3.5-12mdk is > needed by > xinitrc-2.4.4-10m

[expert] Vmware on LM6.1 SMP

2000-01-30 Thread Rex Petrey
Is anyone running VMware on LM6.1SMP? I get the following error when I install: "The directory of kernel headers (version 2.2.9-19mdk) does not match your running kernel (version 2.2.9-19mdksmp). Consequently, even if the compilation of the module was successful, the module would not load into

Re: [expert] Sever Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-30 Thread Guillermo Belli
El vie, 28 ene 2000, escribiste: The extended partition takes up the rest of the > drive and contains 6 partitions. It has in order a 15 meg ext2, > a 128 meg swap, a 2.6 gig ext2, a 15 meg ext2, a 128 meg swap, > and a 2.6 gig ext2. The primary partition is sda1 and the > extended partition con

Re: [expert] Win TV/radio

2000-01-30 Thread Traci Collins
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: > > This may be out of this area's scope. However, I have a WinTV/Radio card > (Hauppauge) and the TV works great in Linux MDK 6.1 and KDE. I was wandering > if anyone knows how to get the radio to work in linux? > > Brian D. Klar - CVE > OTS > WPAFB > (937)257-

[expert] problems with modules

2000-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Dolan
i recently compilied and installed 2.2.14 kernel due because i have no sound so i downloaded the the kernel sourse as well as th cmi8338 source code everything i think went well anyway i got to do what was said in the driver readme file so i did: modprobe -a \* -displays

Re: [expert] gnupg

2000-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Vincent Danen wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jack Coates wrote: > > > Are you giving it a file to go into? > > > > gpg --export > mykey.asc > > I didn't think that would make a difference, but I tried it. Sorry for You have to wrap it into an ascii armor: gpg -a --export > mykey wobo -- G

[expert] ntfs & LM-7.0

2000-01-30 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
I am using dual boot on one pc, Main OS Linux, secondary Win98... well, just upgraded to Win2000-Pro and switched from FAT32 to NTFS obviously the files are not being seen by linux, what should I use now in fstab, just replace the vfat for auto? or does linux recognizes ntfs ? what should I tr

AW: [expert] Telnet into another Linux box.

2000-01-30 Thread Joachim Staeck
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Sevatio Octavio Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Januar 2000 23:08 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [expert] Telnet into another Linux box. >In order to telnet into another box, what daemon is that box suppose

[expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-30 Thread Harvey B. Herman
I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a server, it performed flawlessly for months at a time. I decided to upgrade to Mandrake 7.0; don't ask me why. Now, when I try to logon and start ppp, it says it can't authenticate the remote machine. I worked around by logging into

No Subject

2000-01-30 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
First of all, sorry about cross posting, but the Mandrake list doesn't seem to be receiving my mail this weekend and I would really like to solve these problems. I'm running Mandrake/Helios/kde-1.1.2 on a K6-2/300, dual booting with Win95. When I log, in runlevel 5, startx gives me the follow

[expert] 7.0 dell inspiron problems..

2000-01-30 Thread Robert j Bartels
Well I never seem to see my posts on this list... I've resubscribed a few times now... I guess it makes it to the digest list ... They must be running mandrake7.0 on the list serv... Anyway here's my take.. I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 with a 3com 3c575c nic.. I finally figured out that the corr

Re: [expert] Telnet into another Linux box.

2000-01-30 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
On Fre, 28 Jan 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: >In order to telnet into another box, what daemon is that box supposed to be running? > For normal telnet (not ssh etc.) you can run the inetd super server. Remember to commet out the unwanted services in /etc/inetd.conf. For the access permissions look

[expert] Problem building sawmill RPM with gnome support.

2000-01-30 Thread Vincent Danen
I'm trying to build an RPM for sawmill, which includes support for gnome capplets. The appropriate library seems to be in the control-center RPM, which is fine, but gnome-config doesn't see the capplets library on Mandrake 7.0 for some reason. This is what gnome-config gives me: Usage: gnome-co

[expert] Mount broken for cdrom

2000-01-30 Thread Stephen Boulet
Using scsi emulation, I usually mount my cdrw on /dev/sr0. Here's my /etc/fstab entry: /dev/sr0/mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 Now I can't mount; when I try, it just hangs there. Trying kill -9 on the process doesn't kill it either. Any help appreciated. -

Re: [expert] QuickTime for Linux -- Petition

2000-01-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
BenI'd gladly sign a petition for them NOT to port it to Linux. Alan Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > If you would like to see Quicktime for Linux, please consider signing a > petition that will be presented to Apple. Here is the URL: > > http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid

[expert] Journaling (EXT3;ResierFS)

2000-01-30 Thread William Ahern
Could somebody point me to some resources on building a system resting ext3 or reiserfs? I'm not too interested on some sort of hybrid system that boots ext2 and mounts another partition for ext3. i'd like to keep it simple as i don't have an alterior need to create seperate partitions... plus i'd

Re: [expert] Printing to windows 98

2000-01-30 Thread fpons
Ray Carlino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Here are the files you asked for. > This is the error sent to my e-mail > > This is a print from the text editor:Your printer job (filewdkCNn) was not printed >because it was not linked to

Re: [expert] network is unreachable

2000-01-30 Thread WH Bouterse
Thanks to Axalone and Michael for their replies! I will gladly hang my head in disgust if the obvious could be pointed out to me. Could a rpm -Uvh have done this, in a moment of unrestrained "late-nighteness"? to recap: > What killed my network? > > L-M 7.0/with sprinlkings of Cooker > > Before

Re: [expert] Misbehaving "ls" in console -- update!

2000-01-30 Thread Fabien Deschodt
Hi Benjamin, Try the following command: type ls The type command will tell you what bash actually run when you type ls. Fabien Deschodt > When I type "ls" in the console (NOT in xterm), I get the following > data: > > [home/sher]$ls > bash: 34mDesktop: command not found > bash: command not

[expert] QuickTime for Linux -- Petition

2000-01-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: If you would like to see Quicktime for Linux, please consider signing a petition that will be presented to Apple. Here is the URL: http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=1&aid=6670 Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

Re[2]: [expert] getting "set prompt=$p$g" functionality in bash

2000-01-30 Thread Wang Jian
Friday, January 28, 2000, 11:05:27 AM, you wrote: AT> you guys are awesome... thanks for the responses everyone AT> so AT> export AT> in linux is analogous to AT> set AT> in dos?... AT> if it's more complicated than that just let me know and i'll go to the AT> docs. when

[expert] problems with titlebars icons

2000-01-30 Thread Elizabeth Dolan
i have a annoying problem with the titlebar shortcuts within a window the buttons that go back or forward through the windowsis not there but in fact has a scambled mess does anyone know how to kix this problem thank you

[expert] Plugger 3.2 for Netscape

2000-01-30 Thread Frank Arnold
I just downloaded this thing to use on a music site. Netscape 4.61 on Mandrake 6.0 It plays OK but has a very annoying announce window that pops up regularly. Anyone know how to turn off that window? Frank Arnold

[expert] RAID/fdisk question

2000-01-30 Thread Tabe Kooistra
Hello to you all. I would realy appreciate it if somebody with the appropiate knowledge would take a look at my problem. I have a raid enabled kernel, raid is initialised at boot time, the utils are there etc. raid is not configured/setup. I want a RAID-1 instalation. My linux is installed at /

Re: [expert] Telnet into another Linux box.

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, you wrote: > In order to telnet into another box, what daemon is that box supposed to be running? > inetd and (I think) telnetd. John

Re: [expert] polish diactrical characters in AIR

2000-01-30 Thread Davor Cengija
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Marek Suwalski wrote: >Hi all, > >I have problem with configure polish diactrical characters in console LM >7.0. >In 6.1 all characters will be configured with first instalation. >Anyone help me ? Heh... Polish diacritics are very same to Croatian, I hope. Ca

Re: [expert] Re: Misbehaving "ls" in console -- update

2000-01-30 Thread tommiy
Actually I mean term/nxterm. I don't use KDE at all I find it too windows like. There is a multitude of problems here associated with doing an upgrade from 6.1. I'm not sure but it appears that 7 may have upgraded what was on the box without any interdependancies. Things are a mess. I think I'm i

Re: [expert] Sever Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-30 Thread tommiy
Well in the end i did what I should never need to dostarted from scratch with nothing. In the end I had to redo the entrie kernel RPM and put back in the patches for the IDE controllers that the normal kernel doesn't know aboutone of the features that I selected mandrake for that they