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

2000-11-30 Thread root
"J.A. Magallon" wrote: 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

RE: [expert] fsck'ing reiserfs

2000-11-30 Thread Zelck, Guy
Hi, Reiserfs doesn't need fsck'ing. They made a special fsck'ish tool that was only needed for very bad situations but was otherwise discouraged to use. So the old non-reiser fsck complained when it was presented with a reiser fs to check. On my LM6.0 sytem I also installed reiserfs myself and

[expert] Macmillain lemon -- footnote

2000-11-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: My thanks to all of you who offered to help by sending me a copy of LM7.2 with KDE 2.0 Final. I genuinely appreciate it. Fortunately, no need for that. When I ordered LM7.2 Complete from Macmillain, I already knew about the Walmart fiasco and, as insurance, I also ordered the

Re: [expert] no appletalk support in 7.2 kernel?

2000-11-30 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thursday 30 November 2000 02:56, you wrote: hi mandrake-experts-mailinglist, is there no support for appletalk in the 7.2 kernel. it should be since kernel 2.x.x (?). when starting netatalk (netatalk-1.4.99-0.20001108mdk.i586.rpm) i get the error-message (within webmin, in console it's

RE: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-11-30 Thread gcobb
I tried resolving the address for 63.98.105.3. Not only could I not do a trace route, there was no ping response. Nothing either exists for that IP or he has a firewall eating (not dropping) ICMP packets. I tried doing a trace route on *.2, *.4 and DNS lookups for several other various IPs on

Re: [expert] fsck'ing reiserfs

2000-11-30 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 29 Nov, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2000 15:11, you wrote: Last week I converted one of my partitions to use reiserfs. I'm on 7.1 and it doesn't have... e... "stadard support" for reiserfs. So I'm wondering, besides changing the fstab to use reiserfs, what elle needs to

Re: [expert] problem burning CDs with cdrecord

2000-11-30 Thread Michael Powell PhD
From the quill of Michael Powell, PhD. on Wednesday 29 November 2000 01:59 pm, wrote: This is the correct command to use cdrecord cdrecord --scanbuss to be sure everything is in tack. cdrecord -eject -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 (from the scan bus) Mandrake72.ext.iso notice no ( -) before speed!

Re: [expert] 7.2 upgrade problems

2000-11-30 Thread Lars Nordin
I had the same problems; I ended up having to run XFdrake to configure X; rebuilding the symbolic links in /etc/rc5.d/ for "network" and "portmap" - this was why NFS was failing to start on my system no lo0 or eth0 devices! Be warned if you try to upgrade kdebase that you will get a cpio unlink

Re: [expert] Hack Kernel - which version is it?

2000-11-30 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
pgeorges wrote: "Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes" a écrit : Hello Could someone tell me the exact version of the hack kernl that comes with 7.2? hackkernel-2.4.0-0.31mdk.i586.rpm Thanks a lot. But I was thinking of the kernel number defined by kernel.org. something like

[expert] Help with X 4.0.1

2000-11-30 Thread Juliano Soares dos Santos
Someone: Help me with X in MDK 7.2, please!! When I start X, my screen shows some colored squares and then the monitor turns down (like standby, with blinking light). After that nothing more works (Ctrl+Alt+Fx or Ctrl+Alt+Del). I got a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI that works fine with Debian Woody and

Re: [expert] Help with X 4.0.1

2000-11-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 November 2000 04:31 pm, Juliano Soares dos Santos wrote: Someone: Help me with X in MDK 7.2, please!! When I start X, my screen shows some colored squares and then the monitor turns down (like standby, with blinking light). After that nothing more works (Ctrl+Alt+Fx or

Re: [expert] reiserfs

2000-11-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach pablito am Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:14:32AM -0800: so you don't have to use that hdreiser.img file. that's good. I don't have that much space on the hard disk and can only get one of the mandrake cds copied onto it. The hdreiser.img file is 1.44mb small. You don't have that "much"

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach skidley am Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:26:09PM -0400: It's not that I don't like the kernel enhancements and bugfixes done by the mdk people it's just I don't like the kernel being in .rpm form I prefer a tarball so I know what I'm getting I wouldn't think of installing a kernel in an

Re: [expert] LM7.2 Macmillain Beta -- details

2000-11-30 Thread Anthony Russello
I always keep all the boxes and manuals for everything. Always good to lok back on if something goes wrong. who keeps the box and manuals ? :-) On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:29:33PM -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Here are the details of the 4-CD Macmillain version that

Re: [expert] Macmillain lemon -- footnote

2000-11-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 30 November 2000 11:05 am, Andrew R. Post wrote: Why does Mandrake continue to use Macmillan? They did the same thing with Mandrake 6.0. They need a distributor that doesn't make them look bad. Sometime ago I email'd [EMAIL PROTECTED] and suggested they provide a

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-11-30 Thread Anthony Russello
I'm not getting attacked from this alter.net IP, but I am being constantly scanned on consecutive ports usually ranging in the 21xx or 24xx range. My firewall (a windows based firewall/proxy ap on an NT4 server) blocks both of these ranges, so all I see are requests on port 21xx and each is

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-11-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
You mean you are scanned thru the ports in the 2100 range and/or the 2400 range? Huh. At first, I thought you meant ports 21-24, which would make obvious sense but I am not clear on the intent for checking out the 2100s or 2400s. I have been running different types of scans against 63.98.105.3

[expert] Network install using PCMCIA NIC

2000-11-30 Thread Edward Mcdaniel
I'm trying to install via NFS or FTP over a PCMCIA ethernet (which I know works if I install from the HD). If I boot PCMCIA.IMG, the module loads and tries to start the network, but ifup fails because the file is not there. If I boot NETWORK.IMG, I never get a chance to load PCMCIA support

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-11-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
You mean you are scanned thru the ports in the 2100 range and/or the 2400 range? Huh. At first, I thought you meant ports 21-24, which would make obvious sense but I am not clear on the intent for checking out the 2100s or 2400s. I have been running different types of scans against 63.98.105.3

[expert] Printing from kmail

2000-11-30 Thread Ted Wager
Hi.. Have just installed 7.2..The only problem on install was it skipped the create bootdisk and did not allow me to tell it I did not give me the bootloader option but installed grub on /dev/hda1..Anyway I am very pleased with the distroI am writing to ask if anyone else has a print

[expert] 7.2 Install causes segfault

2000-11-30 Thread Helsby, James
I have been trying to install Mandrake 7.2 on one of my systems. But every time, I run into the same snag. The system will install just fine, even the boot-loader will be installed correctly. But, the system will seg-fault on the ramdisk image. It will get as far as to try to match up the

Re: [expert] 7.2 Install causes segfault

2000-11-30 Thread Anthony Russello
I'm using a Duron, and though CPU detection is incorrect in that it detects the CPU as an AMD Athlon, it still works fine I have no idea why it's detecting a P3 for you though, that's bizarre. Just thought i would confirm that it does work with Duron chips. Wow, that's one heck of a system

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Larry Tobos
In my case, Winblows gets the correct amount of memory... Forcing the detection in Lilo as suggested had the impact of freezing the system, until I reverted it ... The problem is hardware related: the kernel does not see the memory, even if it is there. I bet my problem is the VIA chipset

Re: [expert] Hack Kernel - which version is it?

2000-11-30 Thread Larry Sword
"Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes" wrote: pgeorges wrote: > > "Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes" a crit : > > > > Hello > > Could someone tell me the exact version of the hack kernl that comes > > with 7.2? > > hackkernel-2.4.0-0.31mdk.i586.rpm Thanks a lot. But I was thinking of the kernel number defined by

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-11-30 Thread Anthony Russello
You mean you are scanned thru the ports in the 2100 range and/or the 2400 range? Huh. At first, I thought you meant ports 21-24, which would make obvious sense but I am not clear on the intent for checking out the 2100s or 2400s. 2100's and 2400's ranges. I have been running different

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-30 Thread Larry Marshall
holds true for normal packages, but also for the kernel RPM. There isn't any mystic involved in a kernel RPM, so a rpm -qpi kernel.rpm will tell you exactly where everything is going to end. Now with tarballs I often have a hard time figuring out where everything is placed after a make

Re: [expert] reiserfs

2000-11-30 Thread pablito
Not the hdreiser image file! space on the hard disk big enough to copy two cds onto it. actually I could make space but I have stuff sitting on it that I'd have to put somewhere else. The hdreiser boot image doesn't work with my CDs. The same problem applies to installing from cooker. I'm

[expert] Slow FTP login?

2000-11-30 Thread Peter Loron
I have LM 7.2 beta 3, running wu-ftpd-2.6.1-7mdk and xinetd 2.1.8.9pre12-2mdk. When I connect to the machine with FTP, it takes several seconds for the connection to finally be set up. Once connected, it's very fast. On a previous incarnation of the machine running LM6.2, FTP would connect almost

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Thursday 30 November 2000 21:39, you wrote: In my case, Winblows gets the correct amount of memory... Forcing the detection in Lilo as suggested had the impact of freezing the system, until I reverted it ... The problem is hardware related: the kernel does not see the memory, even if it

Re: [expert] Compile Help.....

2000-11-30 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 30 Nov, ATL Oledog wrote: Trying to compile kernel. What could this mean? And how do i fix it? [root@trinity linux]# make bzImage make: *** No rule to make target `include/linux/autoconf.h', needed by `include/config/MARKER'. Stop. [root@trinity linux]# Looks like you didn't

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-30 Thread Alex Yung
rpm --root $HOME ... allows you to put it anywhere you want. If you intend to do everything as user, you probably should consider adding "--dbpath" option so that you don't mix your system rpm database. Larry Marshall wrote: Alexander...maybe it's just my ignorance when it comes to rpms but

[expert] How to disable graphical login?

2000-11-30 Thread Svante Signell
After upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 the graphical login is even slower to start :( What package is running the graphical shell? Got rid of gdm, but kdm is still there. The problem is that kdm is in kdebase and not easily removed. How to disable? I'd like to configure from scratch again. (Don't like

[expert] Best scsi single chan controller?

2000-11-30 Thread Eric Peters
In your opinion what would be the best choice for a scsi controller for a tape drive, or who has the best drivers so far? Cheers, Eric Peters Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-30 Thread Larry Marshall
rpm --root $HOME ... allows you to put it anywhere you want. If you intend to do everything as user, Thanks Alex, this is one that I missed and it sure changes my view of rpms. you probably should consider adding "--dbpath" option so that you don't mix your system rpm database. Mostly

RE: [expert] Best scsi single chan controller?

2000-11-30 Thread Helsby, James
Use an Adaptec controller. Probably a 19160 or something slower. Best driver compatibility, and best speed, and probably some of the best prices. -Original Message- From: Eric Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:14 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

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

2000-11-30 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:28:50 root wrote: Thanks for your reply. I tried this but unfortunately isapnp does not scan the address I am using or in fact any of the other adrresses that my card can use(I guess my card is pre-proper isapnp). Your reply was a I don't know if that makes a

[expert] MAJORDOMO ABORT (majordomo) help!!!

2000-11-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list, is there anyone here that has setup Majordomo that could possibly tell me what this error message from domo means? I've been trying to get domo working for almost 3 weeks now, and it just doesn't seem to want to cooperate. I've never before seen a program more stuborn than majordomo.

[expert] Networking problems

2000-11-30 Thread Svante Signell
After upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 networking in non-functional. Any pointers? Everything is a mess, the upgrade did not complete either. Maybe it's time to switch to another distribution, I am using debian and RH on other boxes? This graphical/framebuffer thing is maybe good for newbies, but I feel

Re: [expert] How to disable graphical login?

2000-11-30 Thread EagleIce
If you want to use a standard text-mode login prompt only the you can edit /etc/inittab should be line 18 where you probably have id:5:initdefault, change the 5 to 3 (Full multiuser mode) save and the next time you boot up the system it will stop at the text-mode login prompt. ei On

Re: [expert] Best SCSI Single Channel Controller?

2000-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
Helsby, James wrote: From: Eric Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] In your opinion what would be the best choice for a scsi controller for a tape drive, or who has the best drivers so far? Use an Adaptec controller. Probably a 19160 or something slower. Best driver compatibility, and

RE: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Abraham Pinzur
I'm a newbie just getting started with Linux, but if preponderance of evidence is helpful at all, I also have a VIA chipset, and Mandrake 7 hasn't found my RAM above 64MB... - Av - -- Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav -Original Message-

[expert] Test

2000-11-30 Thread Don
Don't see any of my post on the expert list anymore Don -- 73 de KK6WJ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Test

2000-11-30 Thread Clayton Nielsen
There's one now. On November 30, 2000 06:01 pm, you wrote: Don't see any of my post on the expert list anymore Don Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description:

Re: [expert] Test

2000-11-30 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Friday 01 December 2000 02:01, you wrote: Don't see any of my post on the expert list anymore Don Same here, and not on the newbie list either... I have gotten answers, so they do arrive, but I don't get them myself. -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet -

RE: [expert] Security

2000-11-30 Thread SIR admin
i have noticed quite a few attempts to FTP to my machine. which is very unusual. i'd be willing to compare logs. matthew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bill Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Anthony Russello
I have a VIA chipset, and though it only detects 64 MB when installing, I can easily specify that it has the 224 that is in it. After specifying, it works without a hitch. Please note that I've only ever specified it during install time. I'm a newbie just getting started with Linux, but if

Re: [expert] Best SCSI Single Channel Controller?

2000-11-30 Thread Anthony Russello
Try initio SCSI cards. They have Linux drivers, their cards are bootable, and their prices are reasonable. I'm using one such card at work, and it's great. I only bought this piece of garbage adaptec non bootable 78xx series card because it was so dirt cheap I couldn't resist.

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

2000-11-30 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, I've found in the past that Mandrake has shipped the kernel source and headers configured for the uni-processor kernel. Then, when you go to use vmware on an smp system you get errors installing it about mismatched headers. What you need to do is get the .config from

[expert] Re: Graaandes amigos!

2000-11-30 Thread SpiderMan
Quero todos os senhores no camping... Fl Esse material que o M quer ler tema ver com aqueles papos de viajem astral. No momento ele se encontra em algum lugar do meu HD que no tenho certeza exatamente aonde fica. Por isso peo ao R que mande para vc e para o M, assim fica mais

Re: [expert] Networking problems

2000-11-30 Thread Lars Nordin
Like I posted before check the links in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d or /etc/rc.5d/ for the script "network" in /etc/rc.d/init.d. I had the same problem upgrading. I was able to get the network running again by simply running "ln -s /etc/rc.d/network/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/SXXnetwork" where 'XX' is some two

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
I have a Via chip too.. and every version of mandrake found all 1.5 GB of RAM on it!.. Maybe u guys have one chipset thats broken.. write to the kernel mailing list to get it fixed! -sarang On Thursday 30 November 2000 18:35, you wrote: I'm a newbie just getting started with Linux, but if

[expert] looking for suggestions on PRO email server

2000-11-30 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, I am going to need to serve 40 - 50 thousand email accounts. I need the user to be able to change his own password with some sort of web based interface, hotmail-like functionality would be a nice bonus but not crucial. Low maintenance is the key. Money is not really a problem so I'm

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Pj
Sorry, I have to disagree. For our new users I'd like to reiterate that the three most common reasons that Linux does NOT recognize the correct amount of memory are: dirty RAM, mis-matched RAM (different manufacturers) and shared RAM. Shared RAM can be corrected with a one line script. Dirty

Re: [expert] looking for suggestions on PRO email server

2000-11-30 Thread Greg A.Bur
Try NeoMail. You can get it from freshmeat. http://neomail.sourceforge.net/ It's only a frontend for users but it works well with postfix. On Thursday 30 November 2000 22:45, you wrote: Hi, I am going to need to serve 40 - 50 thousand email accounts. I need the user to be able to

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Anthony Russello
Someone bythe name of PJ just sent me a private email indicating that unmatched RAM may be incorrectly detected. Mine is unmatched. I have a Via chip too.. and every version of mandrake found all 1.5 GB of RAM on it!.. Maybe u guys have one chipset thats broken.. write to the kernel mailing

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Tom Berkley
I have one stick of atlas precision 128MB ram in this computer and some installations of linux do recognize more than 64MB of it and some do not. Its not shared, nor dirty, nor mismatched Hmm I have to conclude that the following may be some good info but definitely does not measure up to

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Pj
Tom, Just for the sake of a good discussion, I said "common reasons." There are of course exceptions. The board and RAM I just replaced is a good example. The RAM was recognized in both Windows and Linux, yet 90MB of the 160MB were bad. It was sporadic. When it worked it was great but when it

Re: [expert] khotkeys in Mandrake 7.2?

2000-11-30 Thread PBone
Perhaps my original message was misleading. I know that khotkeys is installed and I know how to bind hotkeys to the preset window manager functions. I want to know how do you, for example, make control-shift-n launch netscape. Someone on the KDE list replied that I used the kmenueditor but I