Following up on my own mail to give one more detail:
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:54 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
3. I tried to install a second instance of Air on a different
partition for tests. First I tried to install from a burned copy
of the original installation cd. I got the same
I have problem when dialing to ISP.
My linux box is P5/133MHz/64MB/6GBHDD, Mandrake 7.0 standard distr.
ISP is using CISCO Access Server with char/chap authentication schema.
When connecting the ppp stops with error that other end of ppp link
is requiring authenticating itself, but locally ther
John Aldrich wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2035, you wrote:
I having trouble installing 2 cd rom drives. one is as cd-wr from Ricoh
Anyone had done this before?
Both ATAPI? or is one SCSI or both SCSI? I think we need a
bit more info. However, what you MIGHT want to do (assuming
BOTH are
This is a resend of a message originally sent on
mercredi 29 mars 2000 9:08:13
On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have
said:
Your hdparm is too "aggressive." Your hard drive/controller can't deal with
that level of HD access "optimization." It may be the default
Mage Grimau wrote:
I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and
linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or
the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed
Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to
reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has no boot
record" and quits
This is a resend of a message originally sent on
mercredi 29 mars 2000 9:08:13
On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have
said:
Your hdparm is too "aggressive." Your hard drive/controller can't deal with
that level of HD access "optimization." It may be the default
ISP is using CISCO Access Server with char/chap authentication schema.
When connecting the ppp stops with error that other end of ppp link
is requiring authenticating itself, but locally ther is no information
to proceed such task.
Does anybody know how to discard reverse authorization?
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
OK guys (and gals),
I did a fresh install of 7.0-2 using the recommended settings.
Hardware is as follows:
AMD K6-2 350
64M RAM
10G 30G Maxtor HD's
Motorola BitsurferPro ISDN modem
Diamond Stealth III (s540) video card
no-name 19"
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Theo Brinkman wrote:
Just a check for the obvious from me, I had a similar problem. Make
sure that lpr is running. If I remember right, none of the 'security
levels' have lpr running by default.
Did you mean lpd?
On a related note, I'm still trying to
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Dennis Robertson wrote:
Hello List,
Has anyone managed to get the SiS 6326 chip to work with version 4 of
XFree86?
I installed v4 without drama but, no matter what I do, I cannot get a
normal mouse pointer; rather, I have the big white square that has
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
.
.
.
4. I did not have a really good experience with the Mandrake 7.0
installation process; this is really a number of related items:
a) The disk partitioner was very pretty, but it was perfectly happy to
allow me to create *overlapping* partitions; in
Get rid of the default gateway on your network card, which solves the
problem
Regards
Fred de Klein
tel: 01908 656106 (w)
0780 8254445(mob)
http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it
-Original Message-
From: Edward Pilipczuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Yes, Windows (any version) will overwrite the MBR on install, you just
install Windows first or reinstall lilo after installing another OS and
problem will be solved.
Michael Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: "Trevor Farrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Hi,
every time my linux booting, there are error:
"/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq not found". How do I 'create' such file ?
thanks,
isa
Hi..
I have a Hayes Accura 56k external modem, when I connect to the www or pick up
email, I chaec on the details in the kppp dialler and the connection speed
never goes above 6kb, in fact it seldom reaches this .Is there any way to tweak
the startup scripts or have I just got a slow ISP.I
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
I have problem when dialing to ISP.
My linux box is P5/133MHz/64MB/6GBHDD, Mandrake 7.0 standard distr.
ISP is using CISCO Access Server with char/chap authentication schema.
When connecting the ppp stops with error that other end of ppp link
is requiring
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Both ATAPI? or is one SCSI or both SCSI? I think we need a
bit more info. However, what you MIGHT want to do (assuming
BOTH are ATAPI/IDE) is make sure that you have the line:
append='hdX=ide-scsi' (where X=drive that the CDRW is on)
in your
Video for Linux is included in kernel 2.2.13 (Mdk 6.1). If you have a
Happauge card there is a section on their driver pages describing how to.
You only need to insmod tuner, bttv, ic2, and mp3400.
*Note - the mp3400 isnt on their page, but my audio wouldn't work without
it. (Awe64)
This comes
hi,
i wanted to compile gcc2.72.i launch firstly the script './configure.then i
lauch 'make' .nothing goes. On short i don't understand nothing. Everyone
can tell me how do.Thank you for your help
__
Si votre email
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:17:28PM +0200, Kirk McElhearn wrote:
- This is a resend of a message originally sent on
- mercredi 29 mars 2000 9:08:13
-
- On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have
- said:
-
- Your hdparm is too "aggressive." Your hard drive/controller
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
I have managed to my computer to boot by removing the Zip drive. I first
tried changing it from master to slave, but that did nothing.
Ok. Is the ZIP drive on the same controller as the hard
drive that has Linux? Are there multiple drives?
What's wierd is
Hello all:
Installation of Mandrake 6.1 runs to completion.
An install mdk7.0 using \dosutils\autoboot.bat hangs after the display of
'Initializing CDROM'.
An install with the mdk7 boot diskette fails with following message:
in second stage install
_X11TranSocketUNIXConnect:
On 29/03/00 18:44, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have
said:
I have managed to my computer to boot by removing the Zip drive. I first
tried changing it from master to slave, but that did nothing.
Ok. Is the ZIP drive on the same controller as the hard
drive that has Linux?
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Scott Sprunger wrote:
debug: Unable to open /home/ssprun1/.ssh2/identification
root@p6333's password:
debug: Ssh2/ssh2.c:304/client_authenticated: client_authenticated
debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
Mar 23 23:05:48 p6333 sshd2[1213]:
thanks, I hadn't noticed that file in the /usr/src/linux directory
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
The System.map file is theoretically used only for "debugging" type
stuff but the original user's report makes me wonder if it does
something more critical.
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:
I have an efficient networks external DSL USB modem. Anybody have any info on
progress on a driver for these types of USB devices? TIA!
Ron
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MailCity. Secure Email Anywhere, Anytime!
http://www.mailcity.lycos.com
hi! just yesterday I got fb working on my machine. but there's a
curious thing: the booting logo seems like a strainer: a lot of pixels are
hust black, and if you recognize what's showing... well, I could give you
a prize!
so, any hint?
PD: I got a patch that allows you to use
Am Mit, 29 Mär 2000 schrieben Sie:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 14:35 +0200, Burkhard Zombronner wrote:
I am facing a problem on installing Mandrake 7.0 from iso-image:
On starting installation the ncr895 is detected correctly and the menu starts
and i am able to select language, keyboard
I think you may have missed this previously. If you have a bp6 mobo,
check the bios version during boot and if the last two letters are not
nj or qq then it would be a good idea to update your bios. My nj bios
works perfectly. I have seen messages about the PW (?) bios having bugs.
So download
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, lorne schachter wrote:
I've installed 7.0 on a reformatted partition and when I try to compile
some programs, I'm missing curses.h and term.h. Should I have selected
development on the initial menu?
yes, or... install manualy the needed pkgs. here, seems to be
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Wayne Stout wrote:
Greetings, everyone.
I was going through my system the other day trying to free up some disk
space, and I noticed that I have both gcc and ecgs installed. My
question is, do I need both of them? If not, which one is the best one
to keep?
One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a
partition (~100 MB) and name it's mount point "/boot". You would have another
(larger) partition with the mount point "/". Be sure to create a bootdisk for
your system when the option appears. Then, during the LILO
Ted Wager wrote:
Hi..
I have a Hayes Accura 56k external modem, when I connect to the www or pick up
email, I chaec on the details in the kppp dialler and the connection speed
never goes above 6kb, in fact it seldom reaches this .Is there any way to tweak
the startup scripts or have I just
On 29/03/00 18:48, Charles Curley [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have
said:
What do you mean, "reformatting"? If you did a low level format of an IDE
hard drive, you may have destroyed it. The drive will appear to accept
writes, and will retain data for a while, but not for long, say 0-25
Ted Wager wrote:
Hi..
I have a Hayes Accura 56k external modem, when I connect to the www or pick up
email, I chaec on the details in the kppp dialler and the connection speed
never goes above 6kb, in fact it seldom reaches this .Is there any way to tweak
the startup scripts or have I just
Thanks for the tip. And I specifically bought a "hardware" modem.
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Bill Barnes wrote:
US Robotics 56K Voice PCI*
*couldn't connect in Mandrake 6.1, doubt that it will in 7.0
The problem is that modem is actually a Winmodem =) 3Com
Thanks for the advice, I'll use it if I have a problem What I did do was
reinstall 6.1
from scratch and then put 7.0 on top of it. Things worked like a champ, so
right now,
I'm happy.
Lorne
Marcos Dione wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, lorne schachter wrote:
I've installed
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 20:55 +0200, Burkhard Zombronner wrote:
problem is nearly solved!
I tried another Symbios pci scsi controller 815 and had the same trouble as
before, so Idid guess it may be configuration or driver problem from mandrake
7.0. My next try was to download mandrake
Once upon a time Vern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am presently running kernel 2.2.14-1mdklinus, how do I
install 2.2.14-15mdk? And what is the difference? It looks
like almost everyone is using the 2.2.14-15mdk by the headers
in the emails.
Thanks in advance!
Vern
Once upon a time zed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
What do I need to do to get DNS working in 7.02? I have
tried but to no avail. Spent 3 days down because of it and
ended up reinstalling fresh 6.1 and going from there. In
6.1 the setup clearly lets you setup DNS. Where is it on
Marcos Dione wrote:
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Scott Sprunger wrote:
debug: Unable to open /home/ssprun1/.ssh2/identification
root@p6333's password:
debug: Ssh2/ssh2.c:304/client_authenticated: client_authenticated
debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
Mar 23
Bill Barnes wrote:
Thanks for the tip. And I specifically bought a "hardware" modem.
Does it work in DOS only?
I bought one of these modems and was even told by 3Com that it was a hardware
modem, but close physical inspection revealed that there wasn't actually a
controller on the card.
First, unfortunately most isp's are like that, but they should at least be
able to give you a dns number to use.
Second, go to this page:
http://help.jps.net/unsupported/mandrake
and follow the directions EXPLICITLY (even has pictures!), you shouldn't
have any problems from there.
Michael Holt
I thought that I had installed t, but now I'm not certain
that I had it in. I tried setting up a box herein the
office and I had similar problems. I'm downloading redhat
6.2 right now, and plan to give it a whirl whorl???. Damn,
I can almost drive linux, but I still can't spell!
Anyway On the
Hi:
Where can I get detailed information on configuring and using an IDE CD-RW
under linux?
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a
partition (~100 MB) and name it's mount point "/boot".
Umm... Ok. I'll bite. Why so large? It's only going to hold the kernel and
system map, etc. That's a grand total of under a meg.
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bill Barnes wrote:
Thanks for the tip. And I specifically bought a "hardware" modem.
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Bill Barnes wrote:
US Robotics 56K Voice PCI*
*couldn't connect in Mandrake 6.1, doubt that it will in 7.0
The
First, you do *not* want to compile gcc. compiling a compiler is
definately for experts only.
You probably just need to install gcc and make (development packages).
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| hi,
| i wanted to compile gcc2.72.i launch firstly the script './configure.then i
| lauch
John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a
partition (~100 MB) and name it's mount point "/boot".
Umm... Ok. I'll bite. Why so large? It's only going to hold the kernel and
system map, etc. That's a
Mage Grimau said:
Anyone know how to configure kppp to work with
Mindspring?
Well, let's see what I have:
Dial tab:
Authentication: PAP
(Store password checked)
IP tab:
Dynamic IP Address (checked)
DNS tab:
(add these IP addresses)
207.69.188.185
207.69.188.186
Gateway tab:
Default
Thanks.
They wouldn't tell me the DNS over the phone, but I
was able to find it on their tech support pages.
--- Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First, unfortunately most isp's are like that, but
they should at least be
able to give you a dns number to use.
Second, go to this page:
If you do not perform an updatedb command periodically, the database for
the locate command will not be very thorough in its regurgitation. I
find the locate command works so fast that its worth the wait for the
updatedb command to run and then use the locate command instead of find.
Tom
Russ
Once upon a time Guillermo Belli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi all:
I just downloaded the XFree 4 and related RPMs from rpmfind.net. I made a test
install, and KDE did not start. Then I reinstalled 3.3.5, and KDE remained
dead. Has anyone managed to install XFree 4 and get
This command:rpm -qf /usr/include curses.h
Gives these results:
filesystem-1.3.5-1mdk
ibtk-0.0.14_pre2-4mdk
kdesupport-1.1.2-11mdk
Epplets-0.5-2mdk
gatos-0.0.5_pre-4mdk
glibc-devel-2.1.2-9mdk
kdelibs-devel-1.1.2-14mdk
It means that one of the files that you are looking for is part of the
above
To use one of these puppies under Linux, enable SCSI emulation.
See the cd-writer HOWTO.
Short story:
/etc/lilo: append="hdc=ide-scsi"
- or -
build a kernel with ide-scsi support built in.
rm /dev/cdrom
ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0
Now use cdrecord with unit 0,0.
[This assumes you have
Best advice: Find one that specifically works under Linux.
(LinkSys, for example, though I'm not sure if they make non-PCMCIA
modems or not.)
I knew it would work under Linux 'cause it says so right there on the
box. And sho 'nuff, it does.
Linux is big enough now that there's really no need
Ok,thanks for the update. I went ahead and reported this one, too.
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
| .
| ..
| ..
|
|
| 4. I did not have a really good experience with the Mandrake 7.0
| installation process; this is really a number of related items:
|
|
100M? You can easily use 1/10 of that for /boot.
Heck, I use just 64M for /.
(I have /usr, /tmp, /var, /home, and /usr/local in separate partitions,
though.)
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a
| partition (~100 MB) and
Figures, I'm fortunate to have an ISP that runs BSD on there servers, so
they have pretty good support for Linux; I've run into several dummies
though, that can't tell you the first thing! It's a wonder so many still
manage to stay in business.
Michael Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original
From what I've heard, XFree 4.0 is beta; in other words, if you don't need
it, wait for the regular release.
- Original Message -
From: "Ayman Haidar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] XFree 4
Once upon a time
You have a point, I merely was following advice from the documentation packaged
with SuSE 6.1. I've never tried less space.
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a
Please pardon the re-posting of this long list.
I appreciate the responses to my reference to a modem failure.
Stephan, Looks like you hit it. The modem is not found by MSD.
The solution here is to buy only from vendors that understand the Linux
hardware requirements. eLinux.com?
My larger
Dennis Robertson wrote:
Hello List,
Has anyone managed to get the SiS 6326 chip to work with version 4 of
XFree86?
I installed v4 without drama but, no matter what I do, I cannot get a
normal mouse pointer; rather, I have the big white square that has
featured prominently on the newbie
Trevor Farrell wrote:
Mage Grimau wrote:
I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and
linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or
the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed
Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to
reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has
--- Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, Windows (any version) will overwrite the MBR on
install, you just
install Windows first or reinstall lilo after
installing another OS and
problem will be solved.
Michael Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From:
John Aldrich wrote:
I'm in the same boat... if you find out, please let me know!
John
Okay -- here is the problem:
The compile configuration entries that are relevant to printing are spread out
throughout the config file.
One is under "General Setup" (look for "parallel port
"Leonardo T. de Carvalho" wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Dennis Robertson wrote:
Hello List,
Has anyone managed to get the SiS 6326 chip to work with version 4 of
XFree86?
I installed v4 without drama but, no matter what I do, I cannot get a
normal mouse pointer;
Trevor Farrell wrote:
Dennis Robertson wrote:
Hello List,
Has anyone managed to get the SiS 6326 chip to work with version 4 of
XFree86?
I installed v4 without drama but, no matter what I do, I cannot get a
normal mouse pointer; rather, I have the big white square that has
Aren't there problems with SBLive and
1) smp
2) unreal tournament
3) both at the same time? ;)
-- Stephen
Vern,
For a good price/performance you may want to look into the
Creative Labs Blaster Banshee (PCI). I believe they can be
had for 60$ US and the 2D and 3D support in Linux is
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, lorne schachter wrote:
I've installed 7.0 on a reformatted partition and when I try to compile
some programs, I'm missing curses.h and term.h. Should I have selected
development on the initial menu?
Not necessarily, but you'll want ncurses or ncurses-devel (not sure if
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
Hmmm... that's exactly what mine looked like. And when I had nothing in
the drive, it sounded like it kept seeking for something and slowed the
entire system down... wierd.
A
I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16
partitions (Win98 NT tend to screw up each other's
"Program Files" directories when on the same
partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all
happy (except Win98 seems to like corrupting its own
space frequently, but I already knew
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