Re: [expert] Modem connect speed

2000-03-30 Thread Ted Wager
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [expert] find a file

2000-03-30 Thread Rial Juan
Besides, if your box runs 24/24, updatedb gets executed every night at 04:02 am. Unless you were un-smart (gee, I'm turning euphemistic!) enough to disable cron, that is. On Mar 29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you do not perform an updatedb command periodically, the database for the locate

Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help

2000-03-30 Thread Rial Juan
Hmm... Let me see if I'm guessing correct here... You have no compiler, so you just went to the gcc homepage, and downloaded the source. In the INSTALL file it says to run ./configure and make, so you did. But it didn't work. Right? Well, in order to compile _any_ sourcecode, you need a

Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help

2000-03-30 Thread Patrick
ok you can tell me how install and make please.for example gcc2.72.Thank you for your help -Message d'origine- De : Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : jeudi 30 mars 2000 04:06 Objet : Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for

Re: [expert] Best audio/video cards for Linux??

2000-03-30 Thread Rial Juan
Nope, at least not with SMP. You must be referring to the old and now obsolete comment found on freshmeat, dating from the early days when the emu10k1 driver still had no SMP support. I'm running a SB Live on a dual celeron board (Abit BP6) in SMP mode and have no problems whatsoever. I don't

Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help

2000-03-30 Thread Patrick
ok, you know where can i find a compile of gcc.Thank you -Message d'origine- De : Rial Juan [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : jeudi 30 mars 2000 09:50 Objet : Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help Hmm... Let me see if I'm guessing

Re: [expert] IDE CD-RW

2000-03-30 Thread RRPotratz
www.whitem.demon.co.uk/oldsite/idescsi_idx.htmThis has been verry helpful. also try www.mandrakeuser.org. On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hi: Where can I get detailed information on configuring and using an IDE CD-RW under linux?

Re: [expert] Sharing PPP connection through a Mac...

2000-03-30 Thread Nick Kay
At 13:47 30/03/00 +0200, you wrote: I have my Linux box networked with my Mac, on an AppleTalk network. On the Mac, I have an ISDN adapter, and would like to be able to share the connection from the Linux box. Is this possible over the AppleTalk network? The adapter comes with a software

Re: [expert] RE: mdk7.0 install failure

2000-03-30 Thread Michael Holt
Bill Barnes wrote: 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.

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-30 Thread Michael Holt
Mage Grimau wrote: 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

[expert] login not possible from dos-network-bootdisk on linux-samba

2000-03-30 Thread Harald Wolf
Hi, i have a linux-samba server installat and configured "enable plain password.." this works fine if i connect with my nt-workstation pc. now i have created a win95-boot-disk with ndis-network-drivers (from DriveImage Pro CD). I can not login on the linux-box "wrong password" on other

[expert] L-M 7.0 and NT

2000-03-30 Thread WH Bouterse
Has anyone successfully repartitioned NTFS and installed LM 7.0 ? My version of PM 5.0 has the 'convert NTFS to vfat' and 'resize' greyed out, and I was wondering if diskdrake can do the job. William Bouterse Alaska

Re: [expert] find a file

2000-03-30 Thread Lane Lester
Tom Berkley said: 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

Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount

2000-03-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: A good argument AGAINST using SuperMount, IMNSHO. Well, for the most part I like supermount. Yes, it has a few issues, but I do like it. I don't use it on the server, but I do use it on my development machine because I do swap CD's quite often and it does

Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help

2000-03-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: ok you can tell me how install and make please.for example gcc2.72.Thank you for your help Mount your Mandrake cdrom, go to your mount point, SU to root, type "rpm -ivh gcc*" and also see if you have glibc stuff installed by doing an "rpm -qa | grep glibc." I

Re: [expert] mdk7.0 install failure

2000-03-30 Thread Bug Hunter
We tried a LinkSys that indicated it would work under Linux (nc 100, version 2) and it was an utter bust. We had to go to a DLink D5300TX board. It failed under RedHat also. On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Best advice: Find one that specifically works under Linux.

[expert] Printing from DVI viewer

2000-03-30 Thread Jim Ockers
Is anyone experiencing problems printing from DVI viewer? I tried printing some manuals/documents to an HP DeskJet 540 and DVI viewer did one of the two: (1) did not print (2) would only print if I specified a segment of pages, typically 6-7 pages max I've had the same experience at work with

[expert] Parallel ZIP under Mandrake 7.02?

2000-03-30 Thread Andrew Vogel
Last night, I completely WIPED my hard drives and installed (not upgraded) Linux-Mandrake 7.0. There are several benefits to doing a fresh install -- first, I was able to more intellegently partition the system, but most importantly, things like DrakConf and DiskDrake now work (they didn't work

Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help

2000-03-30 Thread Patrick
someone advice me in a french list to do the following thing: ./configure --prefix=/opt make LANGUAGES=c make stage1 make CC="stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-O2" make stage2 make CC="stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-O2" make compare make install CC="stage2/xgcc -Bstage2/" CFLAGS="-O2" i launch

Re: [expert] L-M 7.0 and NT

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Woods
I am not sure about PM but Sys Com has problems repartitioning NTFS. Be advised if you get LM 7.0 on a partition, along with NTFS on another partition, you will need to re-complile the kernal in order to mount the NTFS partition in Linux. The kernal installed by LM 7.0 does not support mounting

Re: [expert] Parallel ZIP under Mandrake 7.02?

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:04:04AM -0500, Andrew Vogel wrote: - Last night, I completely WIPED my hard drives and installed (not upgraded) - Linux-Mandrake 7.0. There are several benefits to doing a fresh install -- - first, I was able to more intellegently partition the system, but most -

Re: [expert] Parallel ZIP under Mandrake 7.02?

2000-03-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: During the install, it asked if I wanted to install supermount, which is supposed to handle ZIP drives (and others...). I've got a parallel ZIP attached to the computer, so I installed supermount, but my ZIP is not being recognized. What to do? Have you

Re: [expert] L-M 7.0 and NT

2000-03-30 Thread Marcos Dione
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, WH Bouterse wrote: My version of PM 5.0 has the 'convert NTFS to vfat' and 'resize' greyed out, and I was wondering if diskdrake can do the job. uh_ a demo version_ anyway, no, diskdrake cannot (yet) resize NTFS partitions... advise: do a backup and repart with

Re: [expert] L-M 7.0 and NT

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:19:13AM -0900, WH Bouterse wrote: - Has anyone successfully repartitioned NTFS - and installed LM 7.0 ? - - My version of PM 5.0 has the 'convert NTFS to vfat' - and 'resize' greyed out, and I was wondering if diskdrake - can do the job. I would be very surprised if

[expert] (k)ppp

2000-03-30 Thread Marcos Dione
hi, I'm curious about two things: a) when you install from cd and you reach the "network connection" stepp, and you choose "modem" or the like... where the things are written? and b) have anybody succesfully setup a common kppp configuration beetwen users? I mean, all

[expert] Weird and weirder...

2000-03-30 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Back again to that P-90 set... I tryied other way. Copied an entire working system (again : a K6-2 400 with 2 1 Gb disks... That INSTALLED THE ENTIRE MANDRAKE 7) from the 2 disks, re-installed... And , of course, DOESN'T WORK. Funny. No WM's working. But Licq,

Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help

2000-03-30 Thread John Aldrich
Why are you trying to COMPILE the compiler? Just install the RPMs and you're good to go! John

[expert] Read-Write Access to OS/2 HPFS Partitions

2000-03-30 Thread George Czerw
Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherently supports reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions. Can anyone confirm or deny that Mandrake implemented this "feature"? I'm using the LM 7.0-2 version (kernel 2.2.14-15mdk), and have no trouble mounting and reading from

[expert] Weird and weirder... addendum

2000-03-30 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Obs : The WM's work! All of them...

[expert] Once more a printer-question ...

2000-03-30 Thread vschlecht
First of all thanks to everyone who responded to my question for a printer recommendation, yet here's another one : After looking around in a few shops I decided definitely against a HP 610C (I want seperate colour/black ink cartridges), but took the BJC 2000 and HP DJ 815C into consideration -

[expert] NIS problems

2000-03-30 Thread Antoniou, Stylianos
Hi there, I am setting up a small subnet with Mandrake 7 (glibc-2.1.2, ypserv-Version: 1.3.9-2mdk and ypbind-Version: 3.3-23mdk ) and I am trying to configure NIS. I read the HOWTO and the part about NIS in the Network Administrator's Guide of the Linux Documentation Project but still it doesn't

Re: [expert] Parallel ZIP under Mandrake 7.02?

2000-03-30 Thread Lee Binkley
Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:04:04AM -0500, Andrew Vogel wrote: - Last night, I completely WIPED my hard drives and installed (not upgraded) - Linux-Mandrake 7.0. There are several benefits to doing a fresh install -- - first, I was able to more intellegently partition

Re: [expert] (k)ppp

2000-03-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: hi, I'm curious about two things: a) when you install from cd and you reach the "network connection" stepp, and you choose "modem" or the like... where the things are written? Various places. For example, the DNS servers are set up in /etc/resolv.conf.

Re: [expert] parallel port modules didn't compile... where are they?

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Berkley
If you're using make xconfig for the kernel configuration, there are two different pages where the parallel port must set to yes. I do not remember where they are located but there are definitely two pages to look for. Tom John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote: I am/was

[expert] turn of sound from keyboard DING DING

2000-03-30 Thread Harald Wolf
Hi, i have configured the soundcard on my notebook. It works fine ! But now it nerves me that every wrong keyboard input produces a DING ...when i press Backspace on a empty command-line DING how can i turn of this DING on every little move without disabeling the sound ?

Re: [expert] NIS problems

2000-03-30 Thread Marcos Dione
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Antoniou, Stylianos wrote: First question: What is that @/usr/bin/gawk file? either or its a way of saying "can't find /usr/bin/gawk" or is a type in the makefile... IIRC, I had the same problem, and fixing the makefile make it work... Now, I restart ypbind ( I

Re: [expert] turn of sound from keyboard DING DING

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Berkley
Well, you could go to the kde control center, look under the sound tab and then the bell page and turn off the bell sounds. However, you would not have a warning that lets you know when you do something wrong or at least something the system does not understand. Better to get proficient at using

Re: [expert] compaq 7599 810 intel motherboard

2000-03-30 Thread Marcos Dione
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, vern wrote: mdk kernel (2.2.14 series). I'm returning my Mdk 7.0 and applying the $50+ toward a real video card! Who knows next year I may add audio to my machine. yes, I think that's the best way... here we have a 90-compaq-with-this-chipset lab and we're

Re: [expert] L-M 7.0 and NT

2000-03-30 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Can you just resize the partition and then reformat the unused space? I'm using PM 4 and the only file system I really have trouble with is the BeOS file system. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "WH Bouterse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [expert] Weird and weirder... addendum

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
"Leonardo T. de Carvalho" wrote: Obs : The WM's work! All of them... So what was wrong? -Stephen-

Re: [expert] parallel port modules didn't compile... where are they?

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Tom Berkley wrote: If you're using make xconfig for the kernel configuration, there are two different pages where the parallel port must set to yes. I do not remember where they are located but there are definitely two pages to look for. Thanks -- and yes, you are right. I figured this out

[expert] DSL -- internetconnect

2000-03-30 Thread duncan
Hi all, I have just finished a 7.0 server install in San Francisco via phone from Sydney (not a fun experience). The server is used as a fileserver, firewall and internet connection via normal phone line for a small 10 person office. The good news is I have it working quite nicely and can

[expert] Analog Audio input - MP3 in Realtime?

2000-03-30 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Hi All, I'm in search of software that will convert my Audio-input to MP3 in real-time. I already have the faster-than-real-time encoders; Gogo Lame. The only program that I know of right now is Musicmatch for Windurs. An equivalent linux program would be great! Seve

Re: [expert] Read-Write Access to OS/2 HPFS Partitions

2000-03-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Are you specifying all the mount options? Does it specify ro in the fstab entry, perhaps? On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherently | supports reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions. Can | anyone confirm or deny that

Re: [expert] mdk7.0 install failure

2000-03-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Yikes! You ought to complain to the company. Thanks for the warning; I'll stop unhesitatingly recommending them. (I have the EtherFast combo PCMCIA. Works great. FWIW.) On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: | We tried a LinkSys that indicated it would work under Linux (nc 100, | version 2) and

Re: [expert] Printing from DVI viewer

2000-03-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
dvips [options] | lpr -e- [options]; eg, for me: printdvi:aliased to dvilj -e- !* | lpr On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Is anyone experiencing problems printing from DVI viewer? I tried printing some | manuals/documents to an HP DeskJet 540 and DVI viewer did one of the two: | |

Re: [expert] DSL -- internetconnect

2000-03-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 12:43 PM 3/31/00 +1000, duncan wrote: Hi all, I have just finished a 7.0 server install in San Francisco via phone from Sydney (not a fun experience). The server is used as a fileserver, firewall and internet connection via normal phone line for a small 10 person office. The good news is I

Re: [expert] DSL -- internetconnect

2000-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
duncan wrote: Hi all, [snip] I have installed 2 network cards, one for internal and one for external dsl connection. I have not got much of a clue about DSL as it is not availible in Australia. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to configure this connection? Duncan,

Re: [expert] DSL -- internetconnect

2000-03-30 Thread duncan
I called the ISP they use pptp. Wish I spoke french as the pptp docs are in french. /usr/doc/pptp-adsl-fr-1.0.2/ADSL.html Dont supose anyone can point me in the direction of a translation? Dunc Dan Swartzendruber wrote: At 12:43 PM 3/31/00 +1000, duncan wrote: Hi all, I have just

RE: [expert] mdk7.0 install failure

2000-03-30 Thread Bill Barnes
Someplace in this thread I asked if eLinux.com might not be a reliable vendor for Linux hardware. Take a look at the list of modems in their catalog: USR PCI modems! How many places have I read that PCI modems do not work and, further, recommendations to avoid 3COM/US Robotics. So, whom to

Re: [expert] IDE CD-RW

2000-03-30 Thread Leopold Palomo
RRPotratz ha escrit: www.whitem.demon.co.uk/oldsite/idescsi_idx.htmThis has been verry helpful. also try www.mandrakeuser.org. On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hi: Where can I get detailed information on configuring and using an IDE CD-RW under linux? I think that one easy way to

Re: [expert] kfm hang up only with mandrake

2000-03-30 Thread Leopold Palomo
Thank's a lot Civileme, it really works ok now. But I don't understant why the same distribution works in some machines but in mine no. I have instaled "the same" cd in others and I haven't have the problem. Maybe the kfm maintainer would try to see it. I don't know. Otherwise you have resold a

Re: [expert] login not possible from dos-network-bootdisk on linux-samba

2000-03-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, for win95b, you definately need the encrypted passwords, and once you have those you have to smbpasswd as root to set up valid passwords for the users you want in. (I happen to have just gotten this working less than 30 minutes ago myself so it's really fresh on my mind.) If you are

RE: [expert] mdk7.0 install failure

2000-03-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I'm sure that nobody addressed the failure to install 'cause nobody knows what's going on . . . If you bought a supported version (MandrakeSoft o Macmillan) it's the sort of question you can get support for, FWIW. I, personally, like FBSD, except that it's almost always behind my hardware a

Re: [expert] DSL -- internetconnect

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
duncan wrote: Hi all, I have just finished a 7.0 server install in San Francisco via phone from Sydney (not a fun experience). The server is used as a fileserver, firewall and internet connection via normal phone line for a small 10 person office. The good news is I have it working

Re: [expert] (k)ppp

2000-03-30 Thread M.Jerger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hi, and b) have anybody succesfully setup a common kppp configuration beetwen users? I mean, all the users share the same settings, including conections. No problem at all, still copy your kppp config (~/..kde/share/config/kppprc) and other kppp stuff