[expert] Installing Driver Fro Adaptec AHA-1542CP

2000-11-28 Thread root
Hi, Can anyone advise how I might install the driver for my ancient Adaptec AHA-1542CP (ISA). The card does not seem to be detected at boot during the hardware detection phase, I have tried scanning for it using HardDrake but HardDrake locks up (hard reboot required) when set to detect

[expert] Samba +fox

2000-11-28 Thread Dovydas Kulvinskas
Hello, Where i should put yes to make fox shared database files working with fox clients using samba server? If other option mark others. Thank you. Dovydas Locking Options Help blocking locks Help kernel oplocks Help locking Help ole locking

[expert] Config tools in TEXT mode??

2000-11-28 Thread Alen Salamun
Hi! I have found out that there is no text config tool available in 7.2? If I want to use draxservices or something like that I have to install many many X packagesWhere is "setup" tool (redhat) or something simmilar?? Also some "text" version of MandrakeUpdate would be GREAT! bye,

Re: [expert] Grub install

2000-11-28 Thread Bruno Damour
Hello, How du i install grub as bootmanager (i have just installet wintendo and lost it) - running "grub-install /dev/hda" doesent seam to work. cd /boot/grub chmod +x install.sh ./install That did the trick for me ;) (LM 7.2 or 7.1) Good luck ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars

[expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Hector Facundo Arena
HI guys, I'm trying to install Aurora from the main CD of Mandrake 7.2 but I don't know where to start... the documentation isn't good. I've installed the RPM. ¿Now what? Thanks for all... Hector Facundo Arena [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.arena.org.ar Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com:

Re: [expert] Installing Driver Fro Adaptec AHA-1542CP

2000-11-28 Thread J.A. Magallon
root said at Ò[expert] Installing Driver Fro Adaptec AHA-1542CPÓ. [2000-11-28 11:57] Hi, Can anyone advise how I might install the driver for my ancient Adaptec AHA-1542CP (ISA). The card does not seem to be detected at boot during the hardware detection phase, I have tried scanning

Re: [expert] Config tools in TEXT mode??

2000-11-28 Thread Hector Facundo Arena
I totally agree with you. If your graphic mode won't work... forget using the configuration tools to manage your system. Hector Facundo Arena [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.arena.org.ar Alen Salamun escribió: Hi! I have found out that there is no text config tool available in 7.2? If I want to

Re: [expert] LM7.2 and a promise FASTTRAK66 questions.

2000-11-28 Thread Buchan Milne
These controllers aren't really hardware RAID anyway, see the post on mandrakeforum.com from Andre Hedrick. It seems it would be best to use sofware RAID using the udma66 controller anyway. You will have to make a raid device, which means that you need to format the new filesystem, so it might be

[expert] make mrproper did me...

2000-11-28 Thread Perry Moon
Hi Everyone, I am looking for a bit of help, and please forgive me if this is a dumb question. I compiled a Mandrake flavored kernel for a blind friend of mine in Ohio that contained a patch to enable speech output from the gitgo to his synth. It was a success. Anyways, during the process of

[expert] linux on dell

2000-11-28 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I have just ordered a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop, and was curious if anyone knew what problems (if any) I will run into installing Mandrake 7.1 or .2 on it. This laptop has the external floppy drive (parallel port), will that be a problem with linux? I opted not to order the network card from dell

Re: [expert] ApplixWare

2000-11-28 Thread BillK
have a look at win4lin. Someone may know if it handles wpoffice, but should do so. Does work with msoffice, and is much faster than vmware - also can trial to see if its what you want. BillK Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] ApplixWare

2000-11-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 04:51:39PM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: Does anyone have any experience with this beast? I'm getting sick and tired of WPO2000 for Linux crashing on me all the time and am looking for an alternative. StarOffice doesn't cut it because it's too bulky and it doesn't

[expert] Dhcp

2000-11-28 Thread iraje
How do I find "DHCP" at the Mandrake7.2 (Thank you for using Linux-Mandrake. To have an answer to your question,there is two ways to get it :- the first is to buy a product : to find the nearest reseller use thisWEB address : http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fsinglecd.php3. With

Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Hector Facundo Arena
Mmm no. nothing happens... the same old-style bootup mode... Am I missing something? Hector Facundo Arena. skidley escribió: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Hector Facundo Arena wrote: HI guys, I'm trying to install Aurora from the main CD of Mandrake 7.2 but I don't know where to

Re: [expert] linux on dell

2000-11-28 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 28 Nov, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: I have just ordered a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop, and was curious if anyone knew what problems (if any) I will run into installing Mandrake 7.1 or .2 on it. This laptop has the external floppy drive (parallel port), will that be a problem with

Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread skidley
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Hector Facundo Arena wrote: HI guys, I'm trying to install Aurora from the main CD of Mandrake 7.2 but I don't know where to start... the documentation isn't good. I've installed the RPM. ¿Now what? Thanks for all... Hector Facundo Arena [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 28-Nov-00 by Hector Facundo Arena: Mmm no. nothing happens... the same old-style bootup mode... Am I missing something? Hector Facundo Arena. Have you set a frambuffered video mode? Please refer to the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/ for a listing of modes.

Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Barry
You need to add the line vga=788 to your lilo.conf file and then run /sbin/lilo The when you reboot it should run Aurora. See my example of my lilo.conf file below. image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append=" hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy" vga=788

Re: [expert] make mrproper did me...

2000-11-28 Thread David Mihm
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Perry Moon wrote: I am looking for a bit of help, and please forgive me if this is a dumb question. I compiled a Mandrake flavored kernel for a blind friend of mine in Ohio that contained a patch to enable speech output from the gitgo to his synth. It was a success.

Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Buchan Milne
You might need to set frame-buffer for your kernel. You should be able to do this with drakboot, I think you need the option "vga=782" (not sure about the mode number) Buchan Hector Facundo Arena wrote: Mmm no. nothing happens... the same old-style bootup mode... Am I missing

Re: [expert] Who Is List Maintainer?(time for Sympa retirement?)

2000-11-28 Thread David Mihm
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, bill wrote: Keep up the fine cutting edge work folks but PLEASE could someone address this issue, or tell us how to stop it on our machines if the List is not able to track down the global problem? If you use procmail (which everyone should (: ) you can enter the

Re: [expert] make mrproper did me...

2000-11-28 Thread Perry Moon
Thank you, I will let you know how it goes. P.S. the reason for the make mrproper was to allow the application of the kernel patch to support speech synthasizers. It was not something I am accustomed to doing in the past when I compiled my own kernels for SuSE before I switched to Mandrake 7.1

RE: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I seem to recall having to enable the service with ntsysv (or some equiv- alent) -Original Message- From: Anton Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation Submitted 28-Nov-00 by Hector

[expert] DHCPd crashes IP

2000-11-28 Thread Herman Borrelli
Hello all, i'm in the process of upgrade my Office server to Mandrake 7.2. The server is running fine as a workstation at this moment. The problem is that when I start DHCPd my IP stack seems to freeze. I can ping my local address (192.168.0.94) but I cannot ping any PC on my network.

Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Ron Stodden
Hector Facundo Arena wrote: HI guys, I'm trying to install Aurora from the main CD of Mandrake 7.2 but I don't know where to start... the documentation isn't good. I've installed the RPM. ¿Now what? You must arrange for lilo to boot in video frame buffer mode. Put, say, vga=0x317 in

[expert] Who Is List Maintainer?(time for Sympa retirement?)

2000-11-28 Thread bill
I have subscribed to Mandrake Lists for about three years now. I am a Mandrake user/beta-tester since 5.2 days. However the Sympa List used by Mandrake seems to have more multiple messages than any Lists I have ever used. Why is this? If it was only myself I would claim total ignorance which

[expert] No NET with 7.2?

2000-11-28 Thread Andrew Vogel
I'm trying to get networking working under 7.2. It used to work under 7.1, but now, when I try and connect it just hangs forever at the "connecting to ..." message. HELP! === Andrew Vogel: Program Manager at the University

Re: [expert] make mrproper did me...

2000-11-28 Thread Perry Moon
Hi, No, this did not solve the problem. It seems that for whatever reason, my running an SMP kernel is a problem. I can not get the headers to match up to SMP. VM's config script says the following. The kernel defined by this directory of header files is uniprocessor, while yourrunning kernel

[expert] khotkeys in Mandrake 7.2?

2000-11-28 Thread PBone
Does anyone know how to get keyboard shortcuts to launch programes in KDE2.0 in Mandrake 7.2. Apparently a process "khotkeys" is running but while in KDE 1.2 there was a module in kcontrol to control it there is no such module in KDE2. On the KDE Users list it was mentioned that you can

Re: [expert] AGPGART and auto insmod at startup ???

2000-11-28 Thread skidley
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, David Mihm wrote: On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, stef brette wrote: After modifiing /etc/grub/menu.lst all is fine BUT the module agpgart.o, apparently responsible for initializing /dev/agpgart, isnot loaded . Hence X cannot start. [snip] Does anyone know which

Re: [expert] User management utility

2000-11-28 Thread Anthony Russello
If the spread sheet is an excel spreadsheet, then just export the column to a text file. Then an easy to write script, or simple copy/pasting would be usable to create the user accounts Hello, Does anyone knows an utility that could parse a text file to create users and passwords

Re: [expert] WordPerfect won't print to CUPS

2000-11-28 Thread Till Kamppeter
This program is really one of the most strange things concerning printing and the trick you must apply for making it printing in colour on every arbitrary printer is VERY FAR from newbie friendly (even experts have problems with printing with WP, we are on the expert list here). The problem is

[expert] Pine mail is not dangerous !!!

2000-11-28 Thread bill
Running a home-office mail server can be difficult for the uninitiated like myself, likewise attempting to utilized non-GUI style mailers. However I am puzzled by the "deleted dangerous file" notice from one submitee to this List. I have noticed some ISP's and commercial Mail Servers don't like

Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Hector Facundo Arena
Hi all, It's getting better. Now Aurora Works fine but when the system gets in X mode, it shows everything bad (windows with a cut in the middle, etc). Why this happen? Is X using the framebuffer too? Thanks for all, Hector Facundo Arena skidley escribió: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Hector Facundo

Re: [expert] Pine mail is not dangerous !!!

2000-11-28 Thread Pj
I've been on this list well over a year. About 3 times a year the list mail server takes a vacation. When it does we get multiple copies of mail as well as missed messages. It will be corrected in time. Time takes time to pass, please be patient. Pj Keep in touch with

[expert] KDM -- Sawfish desktop dead!

2000-11-28 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I decided, just for the fun of it, to try out all the desktops in KDM. Everything works fine except for Sawfish (I didn't know it was a desktop. I thought it was a Gnome window manager). I get a light purple screen when I select Sawfish. Then everything freezes. I right click and

Re: [expert] ApplixWare

2000-11-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Nov 28, 2000 at 07:22:41AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: Does anyone have any experience with this beast? I'm getting sick and tired of WPO2000 for Linux crashing on me all the time and am looking [...] I've had generally excellent results with Applixware 4.4.0. With 5.0, I am

[expert] WP8 and CUPS now WORKING

2000-11-28 Thread bill
Thanks to Tills valiant extra efforts WP8 is now working for me with CUPS and LM 7.2. It is very strange but a Techtronix Phaser 140 was The Only Postscript enabled Printer driver which was also Color able play nice with WP8, LM 7.2 my HP 855C, (Also other printers, Epson etc, have had luck)

Re: [expert] make mrproper did me...

2000-11-28 Thread Perry Moon
Mike, Thank you for the help! It seems to have helped, but now I get the following message and then the script aborts.. There is probably a light difference of kernel configuration between the set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to rebuild a kernel based on

[expert] Visual lilo

2000-11-28 Thread faisal
Is there any visual lilo in mandrake "i mean with graphic stuff" all i get is text baised lilo grub Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] copying bootable CD

2000-11-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Can someone help me interpret the mkisofs manpage? I need to copy a LM7.1 install CD. What do I put on the mkisofs commandline to make the iso file bootable? There seem to be several options and all require that I point to a bootfile. Anyone know where that is and how I make it all happen?

Re: [expert] ApplixWare

2000-11-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:34:49PM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Nov 28, 2000 at 07:22:41AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: Does anyone have any experience with this beast? I'm getting sick and tired of WPO2000 for Linux crashing on me all the time and am looking [...] I've had

[expert] Printerdrake can't deal with not CUPS

2000-11-28 Thread praedor
I got fed up with the problems of getting CUPS working and have dumped it and gone back to LPRng. I then tried to setup my printer by running printerdrake, but when it starts, it tries to start CUPS. Surely it isn't dependent upon CUPS being installed? Please tell me it wasn't re-written to

[expert] I'VE BEEN HACKED!!! Need upgraded wu-ftp for 7.1

2000-11-28 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi gang, Last night, my webserver machine (Mandrake 7.1) was "defaced". The hacker got root access, and uploaded a script that went into every virtual host and replaced the index.htm(l) file with his own file. His "defacement" included his email, and a link to his site:

[expert] XFree 3.3.6 to 4.0x. How?

2000-11-28 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I have an already installed 7.2 setup from a clean installation. I'd like to use the 4.0x server now that the 3.x is installed. I've tried using Liveupdate to do this, but when I do, I get "desaturated icons". The icons appear but the color levels just on the icons is almost black... normally

[expert] Thanks, Till!

2000-11-28 Thread Tom Snell
Just a big thanks to Till Kamppeter for all his efforts in helping LM users get up and running with CUPS. I'd downloaded Easy Software's CUPS/PrintPro trial package months ago, and was really impressed with the quality. But after installing the LM 7.2 version, all I got out of the test page

RE: [expert] LM7.2 and a promise FASTTRAK66 questions.

2000-11-28 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Promise has a driver for both Redhat 6.2 and 7.0 available on their site but no other version; here's a copy of the 'readme' file included with it: FastTrak66/100 Redhat Linux 6.2 and 7.0 Readme This bootable SCSI Module only supports Redhat 6.2 and 7.0. If you choose to use any other Kernel or

Re: [expert] I'VE BEEN HACKED!!! Need upgraded wu-ftp for 7.1

2000-11-28 Thread Tyler Longren
Get the source from http://www.wuftpd.org. That's how I upgraded from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 :) Tyler On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:07:34 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Bob Puff@NLE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Can't get VMware to configure on my system.

2000-11-28 Thread Perry Moon
Hello, Could someone who is running an SMP kernel under mandrake 7.1 please email me a copy of your unmodified .config file from you /usr/src/linux directory. I am gonna try one more time to rebuild the dependancies and C header files to match my SMP kernel. I have still had no luck getting

[expert] problem burning CDs with cdrecord

2000-11-28 Thread Kyle
I have a 4x4x32 Acer (Ritek is the real manufacturer) CD-ROM R/RW drive. This appears to have been correctly installed. cdrecord -scanbus gives me back what I would expect. I have just installed 7.2 to learn it. Any help with this is deeply appreciated. However, I cannot seem to burn

Re: [expert] Visual lilo

2000-11-28 Thread Scott Tyson
Lilo has a visual login menu when you boot but I don't think it has one for configuration. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/29/2000 at 5:16 AM faisal scribbled: Is there any visual lilo in mandrake "i mean with graphic stuff" all i get is text baised lilo grub Keep in touch

[expert] Sound Problems in Games

2000-11-28 Thread Jarabe De Palo
I am having sound problems in games. Im running Mandrake 7.2 on a SB64 ISA. XMMS works perfectly in both oss mode and eSound. But when I play games like Unreal Tournament or BZFlag i have no sound. Lets just say that the sound doesnt work in any game. ;-) Anyone out there that can

[expert] gcc version?

2000-11-28 Thread Sarang Lakare
What gcc version is shipped with LM 7.2? When I say gcc --version, it shows me 2.95.3! while the latest stable is 2.95.2 (correct me if i am wrong) also, if i check under /usr/bin, the actual gcc executable is gcc-2.95.2 What is all this? -- -- Sarang Lakare

Re: [expert] copying bootable CD

2000-11-28 Thread Scott Tyson
You should be able to do a cd to cd burn of the 7.1 disk and it will be bootable (as long as the original is bootable). *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/28/2000 at 9:51 PM Larry Marshall scribbled: Can someone help me interpret the mkisofs manpage? I need to copy a LM7.1

Re: [expert] I'VE BEEN HACKED!!! Need upgraded wu-ftp for 7.1

2000-11-28 Thread Scott Tyson
When I ran an FTP server last year I avoided wu-ftp like the plague. I found proftpd much faster and it has less holes. It also was easier (for me) to configure. As always, YMMV http://www.proftpd.net/ *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/28/2000 at 10:07 PM Bob Puff@NLE

[expert] Mandrake logo?

2000-11-28 Thread Sarang Lakare
Why isn't "Linux Mandrake" mentioned anywhere on the login screen? Its so strage coz one expects to show-off that the machine is running Linux Mandrake.. or in other words, the login screen should atleast tell what OS the machine is running! I am sure someone can come up with a very nice

[expert] xfs trouble -

2000-11-28 Thread ninjaz
Ever since importing the Windows truetype fonts on my Linux Mandrake 7.2 system, I've been having trouble with xfs. I used the strong truetype checking option to help avoid problems, but when xfs is started as the xfs user it gives the following error and dies. This is what I get when I run xfs