RE: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

2000-04-07 Thread Bill Barnes
Hi Jay: I posted this very same question about 3 weeks ago (no answer at all) and, as well, to Linuxcare a week ago as an installation incident requiring support. No help so far. Yesterday I installed SuSE 6.2 with the same results, posted a query and got good answers back in about 3 hours.

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Mage Grimau
However, if I use Ctrl-Alt-F2 instead of F1, when I return everything works right. --- Mage Grimau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ctrl-Alt-F7 returns me to X, but none of the buttons or icons work. I can > move windows around, but I can't do anything in them. > > --- Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Mage Grimau
Ctrl-Alt-F7 returns me to X, but none of the buttons or icons work. I can move windows around, but I can't do anything in them. --- Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ctrl-Alt-F7 (works here on two different boxes) > > Tom > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Civileme wrote: > > > > > [snip] > >

Re: [expert] How much "superuser" percentage to reserve??

2000-04-07 Thread Marcos Dione
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: > Hi got a off the wall question here, I am wondering > if when formatting a ext2 zip disk, if it is ok to > reserve only 1% of it for the "superuser" > instead of the default 5%? I would do 0%... cause you always get out of space in something smaller than

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Tom Berkley
Ctrl-Alt-F7 (works here on two different boxes) Tom Ron Johnson wrote: > Civileme wrote: > > > [snip] > > use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the > > console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely > > to break X. > > Once I've pressed ctrl-alt

Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]

2000-04-07 Thread Tom Berkley
Yes, mine works fine. Dell I7K and dual celeron both work ok. Do you have a symlink from a user pointing to root's address book. If you do, get rid of it and make a copy. Netscape (not certain here, suspect strongly this) does not like it when several users try to use the same files and will crash

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Michael Holt
What kind of problems?  I've heard their OS version of linux wasn't doing to hot, but I was hearing that WINE is working out pretty good.  I had doubts at first because anything that's emulated *should* be slower than the real thing, but again, I've been hearing the opposite. Mike Jeanette Russo

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Michael Holt
It's about $149 at CompUSA here in Kirkland, WA. I'm waiting for Sunday when the ads come out though, to see if they run a sale. Mike MandrakeBSD wrote: > how much does corel office cost? > > regards > > - Original Message - > From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Se

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Michael Holt
Please excuse my faux pas, I was using the Netscape 6 release and hadn't quite got the feel for the settings. Mike Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:15:33PM -0700, Michael Holt wrote: > > Michael, would you please turn off HTML mode, at least for this > list. Thanks. > > -- >

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Vic
ctrl-alt-F7 gets you back On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson mewed: > Civileme wrote: > > > [snip] > > use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the > > console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely > > to break X. > > Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1,

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-07 Thread Alan N.
Trevor Farrell wrote: > > "Alan N." wrote: > > > Richard Bonebrake wrote: > > > > > > I am trying to get my home network working with ip > > > masq. I have this > > > working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I > > > normally connect with > > > OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my

Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

2000-04-07 Thread Sridhar Govindarajulu
I recently installed a linksys fast ehternet 10/100 card on my system. I had to use compile the driver(tulip.c) from the diskette to make my card work. I configured as a module. Sridhar - Original Message - From: "Jayson S Baird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday,

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Matt Stegman
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Civileme wrote: > use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5  f1 brings you to the > console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely > to break X. Not true. ESPECIALLY if you login through xdm, kdm, or gdm. Yes, X is running on top of virtual term

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote: > Civileme wrote: > > > [snip] > > use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the > > console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely > > to break X. > > Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ?

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
Civileme wrote: > [snip] > use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the > console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely > to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do I get back to X ? Ron -- +---

Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]

2000-04-07 Thread Craig Woods
Tom, A "cat" as you know, shows me what we both know: "pab.na2" is indeed the file Netscape uses to store our address info. This file allows us to address our mail when using the Netscape email client. I have this file, and I believe I have it saved to the right directory, "/root/.netscape" Now m

Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-07 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
I had the same problem with an isp that assigned me an invalid hostname on connection. If I opened an xterm before I dialed and then once connected used the xterm to set my hostname back to what it was then everything "unfroze." Wierd I know. Civileme wrote: > > Stephen F. Bosch wrote: > > > >

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
> Sun has released a preview of 5.2 (~80-100 MB and available for Windoze and Linux). Yes and it chokes on large complex msword docs. I wonder how good CorelOffice2000 is? Last time I used corel wp to import a word doc it choked too, but that was a much older version. -- ===

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-07 Thread Chunnuan Chen
I don't know if someone has suggested this, if so, please skip it. Can you dump the relevant lines for the startup of your system from /var/log/messages? Usually these lines show (in order) what processes get started when you boot your machine. We may be able to find some useful info from the line

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified

2000-04-07 Thread Dave Brown
Your thinking of the LPI (www.lpi.org). They just started their certification program. The tests are built and ready to go. --Dave Michael Holt typethed the following... >There is a group working on a cross-platform certification at this >time. I can't remember the name, and I don't know w

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread MandrakeBSD
how much does corel office cost? regards - Original Message - From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux > I am running Corel office now and really like the fact that they are running it > u

Re: [expert] Tulip NIC problem

2000-04-07 Thread Civileme
Jayson S Baird wrote: > When using Mandrake 7.0 after install, it fails to access the > network. ifconfig reads that my mask, IP and broadcast addresses are > correct and my default route is set correctly through route. The light on > my hub fails to light up though. My card works in RedHat 6-6.2

Re: [expert] i810 chipset

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Get the new kernel from cooker, and the new XFree from cooker as well. It works great. You must assign the amount of memory used for the graphic card, since it uses your main RAM. You must also edit your lilo.conf. For example, if you have 64 megs and want to assign 2 megs to video, add: append=

Re: [expert] Any linux user on PPPoE

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Orlando Lewis wrote: > support for linux. I have contacted Mindspring and have been told that they > also use PPPOe connections but that they provide external modems with rj45 > outputs. However I have been told that you have to authenticate the > connection with some sort

Re: [expert] Any linux user on PPPoE

2000-04-07 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Orlando Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:44:55 -0400 For PPPoE information, you can check out information at the following site: http://www.suse.de/~bk/PPPoE-project.html There are apparently several PPPoE clients available... George

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-07 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Geez, man! Read the post. I answered that question in the VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH of the same posting!! Here is my original post: -- Sure. Whatever. You can create 'em ahead of time, create 'em on the first insta

[expert] i810 chipset

2000-04-07 Thread mdk
is there X support for vga integrated into i810 chipset? thanx   [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.wirewalk.com  

Re: [expert] Cirrus Logic 5464

2000-04-07 Thread Brett A. Rogers
any ideas on how to tell linux that the card has 4mb of memory on it?

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-07 Thread Edward
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: > On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is > reported to have said: > > >IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create > >all the /boot paritions on the first install. > > How do I know if I have this probl

[expert] Any linux user on PPPoE

2000-04-07 Thread Orlando Lewis
I am in desperate need of your help guys or gal. I currently am a BellSouth ADSL customer and an suffering from terrible upload speeds 1kbs (my dialup modem is 3.2) however the download is 1.4mbs. BellSouth has me connected to a bridged circuit and I am using the Alcatel 1000 external modem and

Re: [expert] syslog stopped working?

2000-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 13:34 -0300, Marcos Dione wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > Yes, I have seen this before. Every now and then the logging in > > /var/log/messages stops completely after the daily cron at 04:02 > > in the morning. This happens in irregular intervals

RE: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-07 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
In Kppp setup, uncheck Autoconfigure Hostname check box Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X ap

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-07 Thread Lane Lester
Civileme said: > Deleting the line changes the X behavior--basically breaking it. Evidently not irreparably, since startx starts X. > I finally reproduced the problem. > > High security > > user login > > su'ed in a Konsole > > Set /etc/inittab line to > > id:3:initdefault: >

RE: [expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)

2000-04-07 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, RNDr. Peter FREIMANN wrote: > > now GNOME is back up to snuff. I miss the helix-GNOME tho.. any word on > > proper Mandrake RPMs for it yet? > > check helixcode ftp mirrors - there are native Mandrake 586 RPM's dated > April 7th ... wOOhOO! Thanks for the info! =) -- [E

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified

2000-04-07 Thread ArMiSiS AiEoLn
Thanx Much dave On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: > ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: > > > > Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified > > > > dave > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-07 Thread Pat Mc
"Alan N." wrote: > Richard Bonebrake wrote: > > > > I am trying to get my home network working with ip > > masq. I have this > > working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I > > normally connect with > > OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my > > ISP. I do my Palm pilot > > through my

Re: [expert] Cirrus Logic 5464

2000-04-07 Thread Civileme
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > I am having trouble with X freezing after I maximize the konsole. There are a few >other times that it freezes, usually having to do with maximizing a window or >something, but without fail if I maximize the konsole window...dead. I can telnet in >to it fine

[expert] Tulip NIC problem

2000-04-07 Thread Jayson S Baird
When using Mandrake 7.0 after install, it fails to access the network. ifconfig reads that my mask, IP and broadcast addresses are correct and my default route is set correctly through route. The light on my hub fails to light up though. My card works in RedHat 6-6.2 and just for some reason doesn

[expert] Ack, HTML! --Apologies

2000-04-07 Thread Civileme
Egad, tis embarassing to read HTML in one's own message. I have set this fuzzy Netscape_6 mailer to all plain text, not "Ask me what to do if message contains HTML" and restored my filter to trash HTML mail.  It seems it is sending in HTML if I just compose a message--let's see if this one is i

Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-07 Thread Civileme
Stephen F. Bosch wrote: > > Okay, my turn to ask questions: > > I am setting up a machine for someone else who will only have dialup > access to the internet. I have managed to configure the modem without > any trouble; kppp can dial in, connect, and authenticate, and I can even > > surf and pi

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Civileme
Trevor Farrell wrote: > > In the ongoing tradition of "weird & wacky" Ver 7.0-2 problems: > > If I log into KDE as usual, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console > all goes well, until I Alt-F7 to get back to KDE. > > All I get is a black screen. The only keyboard combo that does anything > t

RE: [expert] MTU length on dialup ISP's

2000-04-07 Thread james.fogg
Just my $0.02 worth... Coming from the WAN / telecommunications world, perhaps I can shed some light here. The rule of thumb is that the MTU should be as large as possible (NOTE1), with possible defined as no larger than the smallest MTU to be encountered on any link (NOTE2), end to end. The MTU

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified

2000-04-07 Thread Civileme
ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: > > Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified > > dave > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > LINUX - Why? > Cause I dont do windows > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]

2000-04-07 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Tom Berkley wrote: > > Mode 4 is UDMA 66 > Mode 2 is UDMA 33 > What UDMA 66 controller is in your box? No, not exactly... UDMA 4 is UDMA 66 UDMA 2 is UDMA 33. What he is referring to is PIO Mode 4, which is most decidedly not UDMA. -Stephen- > > Well, after 2 days of hair-pulling, I finally

RE: [expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)

2000-04-07 Thread RNDr. Peter FREIMANN
> now GNOME is back up to snuff. I miss the helix-GNOME tho.. any word on > proper Mandrake RPMs for it yet? > check helixcode ftp mirrors - there are native Mandrake 586 RPM's dated April 7th ... p.f. - RNDr. Peter FREIMANN, ICQ# 1181033 tel: 0602-464-8

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Daniel Woods
> Ray wrote: > > > > You can use the word free all you want and I hope someday that all software is > > free but staroffice is a slow bloated software package. I like the speed with > > my smp machine only. > > StarOffice runs fine on my AMD K6/2 400 =) No SMP here... > > It's no more bloated

[expert] Mandrake 7.0 as a ppp Server

2000-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all, Can anyone point me to the steps required to setup Mandrake 7.0 as a ppp server? My box is already setup as a gateway with ipmasq for local lan. I only need to set it up for 1 modem/line. The dial in machine is a laptop running Win98SE It must me assigned a private ip address and use

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Vic
I used to live in Manhattan KS now I live in Wichita On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Pj mewed: > Where is Manhattan, Ks. I'm not to fer from ya.. Pj -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets

Re: [expert] MTU length on dialup ISP's

2000-04-07 Thread Civileme
The last time I used windows over a 56K modem (software type), I found an even smaller MRU to be useful.  MTU doesn't have as much effect on performance as MRU.  BAscially the scenario is this line error(rare) --> dropped frame --> discarded packet to be retransmitted Software tied up(freq

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-07 Thread Civileme
Richard Bonebrake wrote: > > I am trying to get my home network working with ip > masq. I have this > working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I > normally connect with > OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my > ISP. I do my Palm pilot > through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to

[expert] vid card

2000-04-07 Thread Brett A. Rogers
I am having trouble with X freezing after I maximize the konsole. There are a few other times that it freezes, usually having to do with maximizing a window or something, but without fail if I maximize the konsole window...dead. I can telnet in to it fine and restart that way, and it works fine. I

[expert] RE: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT

2000-04-07 Thread Bois, Mathieu
Thnak you for all your answers, but it doesn't work... Fortunately (thanks to the other thread on this mailing list on LT winmodem and limodems.org/), I've seen the http://home.snafu.de/wehe/modem_linux.html page and my modem seems to be workable... I had absolutely no time today for testing it,

Re: [expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)

2000-04-07 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Volker Schlecht wrote: > > I just reinstalled Mandrake 7.0-2 to clean up the GNOME desktop and some > > other things I messed up. Now GNOME is horrendously slow! Everything > > takes about 10x as long as it used to and I don't think I did anything > > differently between now

Re: [expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)

2000-04-07 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: > I just reinstalled Mandrake 7.0-2 to clean up the GNOME desktop and some > other things I messed up. Now GNOME is horrendously slow! Everything > takes about 10x as long as it used to and I don't think I did anything > differently between now and when

Re: [expert] Setting up Mandrake 7 as a PPP Server

2000-04-07 Thread Tom Berkley
quick way is to use kppp to setup your isp login. if you want a demand dialer for ppp to maintain the network, look in the expert archive (this list archive). there was a previously described solution. tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I need to setup a ppp server on Mandrake 7. > > The

Re: [expert] syslog stopped working?

2000-04-07 Thread Marcos Dione
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Yes, I have seen this before. Every now and then the logging in > /var/log/messages stops completely after the daily cron at 04:02 > in the morning. This happens in irregular intervals and I > observed this with MDK 5.3, 6.1 and 7.0 uh... log

[expert] TEXT-ONLY, please!!

2000-04-07 Thread John Aldrich
I've noticed several people (mostly new to this list, I think) posting in Netscape HTML email and Outlook Express 5 HTML email. While the OE5 email is easier to read because it doesn't have all the HTML code showing, it's damned small here! Please, people... Nettiquette demands PLAIN, ASCII TEXT!

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Ray wrote: > > You can use the word free all you want and I hope someday that all software is > free but staroffice is a slow bloated software package. I like the speed with > my smp machine only. StarOffice runs fine on my AMD K6/2 400 =) No SMP here... It's no more bloated than MS Office, and

Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]

2000-04-07 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Tom Berkley wrote: > > Mode 4 is UDMA 66 > Mode 2 is UDMA 33 > What UDMA 66 controller is in your box? Not necessarily: UDMA 66 is _UDMA_ mode 4, but you also had _PIO_ modes 0,1,2,3 and 4 (before any UDMA was available). Is it absolutely sure in this case, that the CDROM supports _UDMA_ ??

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-07 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Glyn Millington wrote: > Having removed the "append" line in lilo.conf I'm back where I > was with 23M of RAM reported at the log-in screen. > The diagnosis that the on-board video card is grabbing 8MB sounds > right. > I append my lilo.conf file - any one see anything sinister about > it? This

Re: [expert] HereticII & QuakeIII

2000-04-07 Thread Theo Brinkman
Thanks! Now H2 runs at a playable speed. :) But it doesn't seem to be using the nicer features of my Voodoo2. (anti-aliasing & such) Is this a 'state-of-the-driver' problem, or do I need to reconfigure/recompile something. (Or am I missing some settings in the game?) - Theo Magnus

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: > On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is > reported to have said: > > >IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create > >all the /boot paritions on the first install. > > How do I know if I have this problem...? > Wil

Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Okay, my turn to ask questions: > > I am setting up a machine for someone else who will only have dialup > access to the internet. I have managed to configure the modem without > any trouble; kppp can dial in, connect, and authenticate, and I can even > > surf a

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: > In the ongoing tradition of "weird & wacky" Ver 7.0-2 problems: > > If I log into KDE as usual, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console > all goes well, until I Alt-F7 to get back to KDE. > > All I get is a black screen. The only keyboard combo that does anyth

Re: [expert] gnucash

2000-04-07 Thread tboldt
Steve Fox wrote: > tboldt wrote: > > libguile.so.4 > > Just create a symlink 'ln -s /usr/lib/libguile.so.5 > /usr/lib/libguile.so.4' and then 'rpm --nodeps gnucash*rpm' > > It worked fine for me. > > -- > > Steve Fox > http://k-lug.com Did as you suggested - works fine. Thanks also to the person

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Have you tried typing lilo to effect your changes? > The problem the person had turned out to be shared memory for VGA. John

Re: [expert] Any Sparc/Linux users out there

2000-04-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > > We've got a Sparc5 that wouldn't install Linux. RedHat (up > > through 6.1) said it wasn't supported. We downloaded the > > ISO for RedHat 6.2 and it installed fine, except we had to > > use the "text expert" install. Unfortunately, I do

[expert] Setting up Mandrake 7 as a PPP Server

2000-04-07 Thread olivierg
Hello, I need to setup a ppp server on Mandrake 7. The goal is to provide internet access to a single dialup user (myself). My mandrake box is already setup as a gateway with ipmasquerading for the local lan. I often need to access the net from my laptop, when visiting clients and such. The la

Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]

2000-04-07 Thread Tom Berkley
Mode 4 is UDMA 66 Mode 2 is UDMA 33 What UDMA 66 controller is in your box? Tom E T wrote: > > > Mandrake 7.0.2 just refuses to be installed on my system (booting > > > from a CD-ROM). > > > > > > I tried several times (including the "most default" installation), > > > but it keeps crashing in

Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT

2000-04-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Help ! > > I'm unable to make Mandrake recognize the modem on this laptop. It is an > integrated modem (windows98 says it is V90, irq4, ioports 1880-1887 and > 1400-14ff) > > Lothar takes a long time to look for one, but finally doesn't find it. > > I can't see

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Bug Hunter
Agreed. And since this is release 1.0, I would wait until 1.1 or 1.2 before using. The VERY GOOD THING about this is the amount of fixing that will occur on WINE due to this. I expect WINE will firm up very rapidly now. Much faster than before. Linux will assuredly benefit from this. S

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:15:33PM -0700, Michael Holt wrote: Michael, would you please turn off HTML mode, at least for this list. Thanks. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:24:01PM -0600, Richard Bonebrake wrote: -> I am trying to get my home network working with ip -> masq. I have this -> working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I -> normally connect with -> OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my -> ISP. I do my Palm pilot ->

Re: [expert] MTU length on dialup ISP's

2000-04-07 Thread Andrew Post
I think that it's far from obvious that reducing the MTU really does improve performance. I have a 56K modem over a PPP connection (avg connection speed ~ 45K), and I didn't notice any performance change with an MTU of 576. I kept the change to 576 because I ran across a few buggy websites (www.ad

[expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]

2000-04-07 Thread E T
> > Mandrake 7.0.2 just refuses to be installed on my system (booting > > from a CD-ROM). > > > > I tried several times (including the "most default" installation), > > but it keeps crashing in the middle of installing the packages. > > > > Here's the post-mortem: > > > > Unable to handle kern

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Ray
You can use the word free all you want and I hope someday that all software is free but staroffice is a slow bloated software package. I like the speed with my smp machine only. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Hello, > > I belive that Star Office is better than any alternatives. It id free an

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Ray
I am running Corel office now and really like the fact that they are running it using wine. Now Linux has a full office suite that has office 97-2000 filters. The fonts look great and the speed is very good. Give it a try. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > I went to the same show but in Chicag

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Jeanette Russo
I went to the same show but in Chicago, the Suite does look good but it runs on WINE.  I am already seeing a lot of posts in their newsgroups about the problems stemming from their decision to do their Linux office suite running on WINE. Jeanette   - Original Message - From:

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-07 Thread Dan Westlake
I don't know why but on some systems you have to go one less than the number. Since below your total is (23 at boot plus 8 meg for video) 31 then try append="mem=31M" and rerun lilo. Then reboot. Regards Dan - Original Message - > > The crash came at re-boot time (after adjusting /etc/l

Re: [expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)

2000-04-07 Thread Volker Schlecht
Hi,. > I just reinstalled Mandrake 7.0-2 to clean up the GNOME desktop and some > other things I messed up. Now GNOME is horrendously slow! Everything > takes about 10x as long as it used to and I don't think I did anything > differently between now and when I installed it before... any ideas

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-07 Thread Nick Kay
At 10:53 07/04/00 +0200, you wrote: >Hi ! > >> Firewall - quick and easy for Mandrake or Redhat linux: >> Start netcfg and go to the routing tab and turn on network packet >> forwarding by highlighting the box. >> Then add the following lines to the /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall file: >> >> /sbin/depmod

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-07 Thread Deim Ágoston
Hi ! > Firewall - quick and easy for Mandrake or Redhat linux: > Start netcfg and go to the routing tab and turn on network packet > forwarding by highlighting the box. > Then add the following lines to the /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall file: > > /sbin/depmod -a > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp > /sbin/mod

[expert] Barely Related But Funny

2000-04-07 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Bill Gates version of Doom. See the video clip. http://www.atella.com/seveman/bill.avi Seve

[expert] Re: Old chestnut

2000-04-07 Thread Glyn Millington
Thanks for all the help on my "missing memory" Seems the onboard video is grabbing a handful! TVM Glyn -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder*

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-07 Thread Glyn Millington
The crash came at re-boot time (after adjusting /etc/lilo.conf and running Lilo). The BIOS reports a full 32M. Having removed the "append" line in lilo.conf I'm back where I was with 23M of RAM reported at the log-in screen. The diagnosis that the on-board video card is grabbing 8MB sounds righ

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Mustafa BASER
Hello, I belive that Star Office is better than any alternatives. It id free and compatible with MsOffice but better.

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified

2000-04-07 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: > No no no, I miss spoke, I meant to say How to I earn Mandrake Linux > Certification. Don't waste your time with a distribution-specific certification -- go and get a Unix administration certificate and diploma, this will leave you flexible but still very marketable. -Ste

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-07 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create >all the /boot paritions on the first install. How do I know if I have this problem...? Kirk vice versa

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-07 Thread Glyn Millington
Not only is it possible, it is in fact the case here! Should have remembered that this is the set-up - I'm going to add more memory soon, and it's not bad even now, but the inconsistency was worrying. Thanks to all for help with this. Glyn M. On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 08:27:59AM -0700, thus sp

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Pj
Where is Manhattan, Ks. I'm not to fer from ya.. Pj