Re: [expert] Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake

2002-01-09 Thread J. Grant
It does have better IP6 support than Linux though.. I heard... and it does NOT have the /proc filesystem for checking whats going on in your linux system. I dont think they have as advanced FS support either.. IMO Probably over 70% of software on a BSD install is GNU though, also you can

Re: [expert] LM 8.1: Really, really removing gcc

2002-01-09 Thread J. Grant
D. R. Evans wrote: About a month agt, I used the Software Manager to de-install gcc as it came with LM 8.1, and then manually installed gcc-2.95.3 from the GNU site. I noticed the other day, though, that the software manager still says that original gcc is installed. I removed it

[expert] Which graphics card to get?

2002-01-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! I want to get myself a new graphics card but am uncertain about which one I should get. I think it'll either be a Matrox Millennium G450 DH/G550 or a ATI Radeon 7200. I want to have a high (100Hz@1152x864) refresh rate, good video playback speed (in MPlayer/xine) and good support

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable OT

2002-01-09 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:41:00 -0600 mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: major snippage But let's be candid and and admit we are all waiting for a distro with everything that's just right, otherwise we would not upgrade. == Yes..., and I'd like

Re: [expert] Which graphics card to get?

2002-01-09 Thread tal amir
Hi! I want to get myself a new graphics card but am uncertain about which one I should get. I think it'll either be a Matrox Millennium G450 DH/G550 or a ATI Radeon 7200. I want to have a high (100Hz@1152x864) refresh rate, good video playback speed (in MPlayer/xine) and good support

[expert] which gcc for kde3

2002-01-09 Thread Nick Thompson
What is the recommended version of gcc compiler for building KDE3? I seem to remember that one aim of KDE3 was to build with gcc3.0.x, but is it actually recommended? Also, do we know yet which version of gcc/g++ will be addressing the slow runtime library linking issues in C++? (I see gcc3.1

Re: [expert] Which graphics card to get?

2002-01-09 Thread tal amir
well, personaly, i love my NVIDIA Geforce2. its supporting everything you mentioned, plus d3 acceleration, and 8.1 handels it just fine. tal. Hi! I want to get myself a new graphics card but am uncertain about which one I should get. I think it'll either be a Matrox Millennium G450

RE: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-09 Thread Robin
Excuse my ignorance here, is STFW short for Search The F..king Web or typo for Shut The F..k Up or some other meaning. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of J. Craig Woods Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 3:36 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-09 Thread Marc
Yeah, Fuck you too. On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:50 am, you wrote: Excuse my ignorance here, is STFW short for Search The F..king Web or typo for Shut The F..k Up or some other meaning. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf

Re: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-09 Thread tal amir
guys, no need to get dirty here... - RELAX ! will ya ? Yeah, Fuck you too. On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:50 am, you wrote: Excuse my ignorance here, is STFW short for Search The F..king Web or typo for Shut The F..k Up or some other meaning. Robin -Original Message-

Re: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-09 Thread Ed Tharp
well, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED], you just made the bozo list of quite a few folks that would have helped you, had you really had a problem, that now will never see another post from you, unless someone else quotes it. On Wednesday 09 January 2002 06:35, you wrote: Yeah, Fuck you too. On

Re: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-09 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
HEY, MASTER-LIST!!! Put these guys out of here, please! On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Marc wrote: Yeah, Fuck you too. On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:50 am, you wrote: Excuse my ignorance here, is STFW short for Search The F..king Web or typo for Shut The F..k Up or some other

Re[2]: [expert] DHCP configuration to improve detection on dynamic IP

2002-01-09 Thread Onur Kucuk
Wednesday, January 09, 2002, 6:39:31 AM, you wrote: SL Hi Dave, SL Thanks for your response. SL At 08:12 AM 1/8/2002 -0600, you wrote: Forgive me for sounding obtuse, but I am not sure what you are asking. Perhaps you could rephrase the question? SL I need to accelerate the detection of the

Re: [expert] Please help -Still in trouble with Asus A7V266-E can' t load system

2002-01-09 Thread Brett Buckingham
evaristo wrote: Hi, I'm still in trouble with my Asus a7V266-e. No way to load L.M. 8.1 even if I had installed in an disk over the Primary Master integrated Promise ata 100 controler, that is see, by installation, as hda even if I got an other hd installed over the normal controler

RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1

2002-01-09 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Is there a reason you can't boot with lilo. My desktop system Multiboots. Win 98, Win 2k, and three linux's. Lilo works fine. I use Mandrake's Graphical boot screen. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: J. Craig Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January

Re: [expert] Which graphics card to get?

2002-01-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »tal amir« am 2002-01-10 um 00:14:52 +0200 : well, personaly, i love my NVIDIA Geforce2. its supporting everything you mentioned, plus d3 acceleration, and 8.1 handels it just fine. I currently have a Geforce2 MX. Using the closed source nvidia drivers, I only get 75 Hz @

[expert] The MCC/GUI argument

2002-01-09 Thread M1k3
I've been lurking and studying this thread since it started. As a seasoned Unix sysadmin (12+ years) I can't say this enough: CLI-phobic users are the sole reason for a system administrator's existence. Period. The unrestrained snobbish rudeness of a couple of the people who have been

Re: [expert] DHCP configuration to improve detection on dynamic IP

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 22:39, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for your response. At 08:12 AM 1/8/2002 -0600, you wrote: Forgive me for sounding obtuse, but I am not sure what you are asking. Perhaps you could rephrase the question? I need to accelerate the detection of the dynamic

[expert] Samba

2002-01-09 Thread tal amir
guys, samba server : samba-2.2.1a-15mdk, this is mandrake 8.1 . (both clientserver) this is the smb.conf (server): --- # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MDKGROUP

[expert] Re: Samba

2002-01-09 Thread tal amir
didnt work ;-( On 2002 January? 9 ,Wednesday 15:58, tal amir wrote: mount -t smbfs -o username=root,password=root_passwd ?//192.168.0.2/backup /mnt/backup/ How about mount -t smbfs -o rw,username=root,password=root_passwd ... Herouth -- --- _|_|_

[expert] Access server

2002-01-09 Thread Alexander Arzberger
Which packages do I need to install / configure an access server (receiving modem calls and giving access to network)? Thanks -- Alexander H.J. Arzberger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Samba

2002-01-09 Thread tal amir
server : [root@backup tal]# chmod o+x backup/ [root@backup tal]# samba restart Shutting down SMB services:[ OK ] Shutting down NMB services:[ OK ] Starting SMB services: [ OK ] Starting NMB

RE: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-09 Thread Robin
My apology if I rubbed it in too much Marc. By the way, this is first hand practical experience, I have only been able to get RageFury TV-out to work with frame buffer, and it does not look too well. You may want to avoid that card, unless you want to switch to Windows when using TV-out, which

Re: [expert] Samba

2002-01-09 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 03:58 PM 1/9/2002 +0200, tal amir wrote: guys, samba server : samba-2.2.1a-15mdk, this is mandrake 8.1 . (both clientserver) this is the smb.conf (server): the mount command : mount -t smbfs -o username=root,password=root_passwd //192.168.0.2/backup /mnt/backup/ the volume mounts ok,

Re: [expert] The MCC/GUI argument

2002-01-09 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 01:52 PM 1/9/2002 +, M1k3 wrote: As a seasoned Unix sysadmin (12+ years) I can't say this enough: CLI-phobic users are the sole reason for a system administrator's existence. Period. You can't possibly really believe this statement, can you? It is such a gross oversimplification that

Re: [expert] Samba

2002-01-09 Thread tal amir
[root@whatsup /]# mount -t smbfs -o rw,username=name,password=pass //192.168.0.2/backup /mnt/backup/ [root@whatsup /]# cd /mnt/backup/ [root@whatsup backup]# mkdir 1 mkdir: cannot create directory `1': Permission denied [root@whatsup backup]# Wednesday, January 09, 2002, 3:58:25 PM, you

[expert] recording audio from sound card at specified time

2002-01-09 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, I generally use the impressive krecord program to capture audio from my sound card. It works great, but as a GUI it is geared to user interaction. What I need to do is capture some audio at a set time (as a cron job, or at task) for a specified period. I can handle putting a script

[expert] Re: Samba

2002-01-09 Thread tal amir
know what ? i am an ass hole ;-) before : drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Dec 8 19:03 backup/ [root@backup tal]# chmod 777 backup/ after : drwxrwxrwx2 root root 4096 Dec 8 19:03 backup/ this is what happends if you dont get enough sleep when you should please dont

[expert] Help! IPX/Netware!

2002-01-09 Thread Matt . Carpenter
I am running Mandrake 8.1 and attempting to attach to a Netware server using IPX. When I use slist, I continually get the message: slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open I got this to work once after much headache... then it just stopped again. My interface is getting an IPX address and

Re: [expert] Which graphics card to get?

2002-01-09 Thread Mark D'voo
i've heard lots of good stuff about matrox cards especially for playing movies under mplayer. Back when I had problems with mplayer the authors told me to get rid of my geforce and get a matrox. I personally like my geforce (although the drivers aren't superb), I know that the matrox drivers

Re: [expert] Network setup with MCC.

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:49 pm, you wrote: Ric Tibbetts wrote: Content snipped Just for the record: I still get stuck from time to time too, and bring my questions here. It's a great forum! I just personally feel that any question starting with, or containing the phrase: When I

Re: [expert] recording audio from sound card at specified time

2002-01-09 Thread Matt . Carpenter
Have you been able to get krecord to work through KDE2? I used it with KDE1 and had great results... but when I made the switch I didn't get it to work (I only spent a coupld hours one night). I've been looking for something else which would do the trick but haven't had the time and it hasn't

[expert] SystemMonitor KDE Applet

2002-01-09 Thread Matt . Carpenter
Where is the KDE2 Applet known as System Monitor? This is a monitor which sits in the Kicker panel (or some child bar) and tells you CPU, Memory, and Swap usage realtime. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] The MCC/GUI argument

2002-01-09 Thread M1k3
J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At 01:52 PM 1/9/2002 +, M1k3 wrote: As a seasoned Unix sysadmin (12+ years) I can't say this enough: CLI-phobic users are the sole reason for a system administrator's existence. Period. You can't possibly really believe this statement, can

Re: [expert] DHCP configuration to improve detection on dynamic IP

2002-01-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Dave, At 08:02 AM 1/9/2002 -0600, you wrote: Because DHCP depends on a server to supply the information, you are rather at the mercy of your ISP as to how quickly they give you an IP address. Yes. I agree. The reason why I continue pursuing this case is on the same PC Win2K can detect my

Re: [expert] recording audio from sound card at specified time

2002-01-09 Thread Nick Thompson
I've only ever used it on kde2. Search on apps.kde.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you been able to get krecord to work through KDE2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] supermount from hell... there is a new supermount module working?

2002-01-09 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
hello! I'm aware of the bugs with supermount and LM8.x. But I think that I found a side effect on that bug. I'm using a LM8.1 server as mail server (Postfix) and as a webmail server (using Neomail as a front-end for Postfix). By the way I was using LM Corporate Server in that machine and did

Re: [expert] DHCP configuration to improve detection ondynamic IP

2002-01-09 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
A wild guess, since I don't use DHCP: It seems that the problem is at the DHCP server in the ISP, since Win machines detect the name server immediately and Linux don't maybe (as I said, it's just a guess :-) the DHCP server gives the names as win network name, not as a FQDN. I read in older

Re: [expert] Which graphics card to get?

2002-01-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »[EMAIL PROTECTED]« am 2002-01-09 um 10:53:16 -0500 : I haven't checked around, though. If I find a Matrox card to do the same thing for a decent price... I might try it even if I haven't heard decent price: Here in Germany, a Matrox Marvel G450 eTV (Bulk, TV-Out, Video-In, Tuner)

[expert] Any gurus on PDF printing?

2002-01-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On my 8.1 system I have two PDF printers defined. The first is the pseudo printer defined by KDE which uses ps2pdf to generate PDF files. With this printer I have had disappointing results when printing complex spreadsheets from StarOffice6.0 with the resulting pdf files being unreadable by

[expert] Cooker

2002-01-09 Thread Timothy R. Butler
I've been attempting to update to the Cooker KDE RPM's for several days, but it seems that kdebase has continued to show that it is 99 megs in size even though that is clearly incorrect (it refused to download). I've be trying the ciril.fr and suset.se mirrors, and I have refreshed URPMI. Any

Re: [expert] Which graphics card to get?

2002-01-09 Thread Matt . Carpenter
Matrox has always been one of the best video card vendors IMHO. I've always been very pleased with their cards. That said, I think my next card will be an ATI All-In-Wonder, because I know of people who have used it to do video capture with Linux and have been pleased. I haven't checked around,

Re: [expert] Re: Samba

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Hawkins
BANG! Yer ded. The hardest problems to solve are often in plain sight. If we shot everyone who got caught by permissions, there wouldn't be anybody posting on this list. K tal amir wrote: know what ? i am an ass hole ;-) before : drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Dec 8 19:03

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable OT

2002-01-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Michael Scottaline wrote: Yes..., and I'd like rainwater to be beer ;-) Mike If that happens in your area, please e-mail directions... grin --

Re: [expert] recording audio from sound card at specified time

2002-01-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:33:58 +, Nick wrote: Hi, I generally use the impressive krecord program to capture audio from my sound card. It works great, but as a GUI it is geared to user interaction. What I need to do is capture some audio at a set time (as a cron job, or at task) for a

Re: [expert] I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-09 Thread Ron Heron
Yes. --- Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Heron wrote: Also, take a look at the Matrox site. They actually provide software! The Matrox PowerDesk is an excellent utility for setting up displays and muli-displays in linux, plus they have their own, easy to install XFree86

Re: [expert] Cooker

2002-01-09 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 19:29, Timothy R. Butler wrote: I've been attempting to update to the Cooker KDE RPM's for several days, but it seems that kdebase has continued to show that it is 99 megs in size even though that is clearly incorrect (it refused to download). I've be trying the

Re: [expert] Re: Samba

2002-01-09 Thread tal amir
thank god for that ;-) BANG! Yer ded. The hardest problems to solve are often in plain sight. If we shot everyone who got caught by permissions, there wouldn't be anybody posting on this list. K tal amir wrote: know what ? i am an ass hole ;-) before : drwxr-xr-x2 root root

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-09 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Ron Marriage wrote: I agree, I order the power packs and always find them easy to install, no problem. I also feel better about myself. I don't support with code, so do so with dollars. Ron I enthusiastically agree here. For multiple reasons: 1. In

Re: [expert] Network setup with MCC.

2002-01-09 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ken Thompson wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:49 pm, you wrote: Ric Tibbetts wrote: Content snipped Just for the record: I still get stuck from time to time too, and bring my questions here. It's a great forum! I just personally feel that any question starting with, or containing

Re: [expert] Which graphics card to get?

2002-01-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:30:46 +0100 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I want to get myself a new graphics card but am uncertain about which one I should get. I think it'll either be a Matrox Millennium G450 DH/G550 or a ATI Radeon 7200. I want to have a high (100Hz@1152x864)

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-09 Thread Mark D'voo
On Thursday 10 January 2002 12:29 am, you wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: Ron Marriage wrote: I agree, I order the power packs and always find them easy to install, no problem. I also feel better about myself. I don't support with code, so do so with dollars. Ron I

Re: [expert] Log in remotely without logging in locally

2002-01-09 Thread Tobias Marx
hi, have a look here: http://www.ltsp.org/index.php the linux terminal server project. looks very promising. is version 3.0 and supports mandrake. have fun, Tobias Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] IBM EtherJet Ethernet PC Card working?

2002-01-09 Thread Kathy Montgomery
Anyone able to get an IBM EtherJet PC Card working with Mandrake 8.1 and pcmcia-cs 3.1.31? I've read several different things on different web sites, and perhaps the first part of the problem is finding out exactly what solution I should be using for my specific card. I tried looking into a

[expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
My son-inlaw is getting AOL DSL next month and I was like to know if it's possible to connect a linux box (LM8.1) that I setup for my grandkid to his WinME so they will have access to the NET. If so how or can someone point me in the right direction for reference meterial? -- Thank you.

[expert] upgrading rpm packages

2002-01-09 Thread richard
Hi all trying to upgrade abiword as it crashes with docs greater than 4 pages. Having a prob installing glib, tried rpm -F, rmp -i --nodeps but its getting caught on a conflict.. abiword-fonts also hits an earlier version and rpm -UVH does nothing. # rpm -ivh glib-1.2.10-ximian.2.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Gary A. Garibaldi« am 2002-01-09 um 11:58:57 -0800 : My son-inlaw is getting AOL DSL next month and I was like to know if it's My apologies :( possible to connect a linux box (LM8.1) that I setup for my grandkid to his WinME so they will have access to the NET. If so how or can

Re: [expert] DHCP configuration to improve detection on dynamic IP

2002-01-09 Thread richard
One idea , that I'll get flamed for, but has worked on the isp i use Use the last address given, causes the server to throw wobblies and issue a new lease.Of couse if its micro rubbish on it it will probally crash, maybe not so bad an idea ! :) BG Richard On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 14:02, Dave

[expert] Help urgent

2002-01-09 Thread richard
Hi all, gotta problem, in trying to upgrade abiword, to a version which dos'nt crash when more than 4 pages in a doc, I have really srcrewed gnome.. Galeon, nice browser, wont start, evolution 1.0 lost all mail and crashes, icons gone from desktop.. Is there a way of downloading a safe verion

[expert] Packages missing from instal options in 8.1

2002-01-09 Thread Tom McLaughlin
I just tried to do an 8.1 installation on my new computer and found that even though I did an expert instal and made sure the 2nd and 3rd cds where checked (and I did need to change cds during the instal phase) a number of packages where no available for me to select during the individual package

[expert] samba printer config help

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Nowack
I configured a new HP OfficeJet G55 Series printer using the MCC config wizard. I chose the printer from the list and printed the test page successfully. I then started webmin and defined the samba printer share, made it writeable, printable, and useable by everyone. I then went to my Win2000

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Michael Leone
On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 16:31, Ken Hawkins wrote: Virtually every person I know who has tried to use WinBlows Internet connection sharing has had problems with the machine slowing down severly and freezing, usually less than a few hours. You (or you son-in-law) should seriously consider a

[expert] SIS630 mobo chipset...

2002-01-09 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! Does any of you have that mobo chipset in your laptop? It's got linux drivers for it at the following address (vga and lan): http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm If you've got a laptop with it: how is it performing? Is the video card able of playing 3D games as well?? Is it

Re: [expert] Packages missing from instal options in 8.1

2002-01-09 Thread John Wheat
At 04:59 PM 1/9/2002 -0500, you wrote: I just tried to do an 8.1 installation on my new computer and found that even though I did an expert instal and made sure the 2nd and 3rd cds where checked (and I did need to change cds during the instal phase) a number of packages where no available for me

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Ken Hawkins« am 2002-01-09 um 13:31:17 -0800 : son-in-law) should seriously consider a modem/router/firewall in one box solution. 3Com and others make just such a unit. These will generally Are there really hardware routers out there that will do the AOL crap? Or has the US AOL

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Charles A Edwards« am 2002-01-09 um 16:33:38 -0500 : Use DHCP. Well, but this requires setting up NAT at the Windows box, no? And are there DHCP servers for the WindowsME gaming box out there? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to

[expert] Too Many Network Configuration Files

2002-01-09 Thread Felix Miata
/etc/sysconf/network /etc/sysconf/draknet.netc /etc/sysconf/network-scripts/drakenet_conf all contain GATEWAY=192.168.0.154 lines, and while ppp is up for modem connection to internet, 'route -n' includes a 192.168.0.154 line, that is invalid as long as that machine isn't up. This is preventing

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Hawkins
Sorry, I inverted the conversion factor from Canadian pesos to U$D's Plus I live far in the northwest of BC in Canada, jest spittin' distance to the Alaska, so everything costs more due to shipping and lack of competition. The irony of the situation is: 1) we have had speed cable internet

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:51:43 +0100 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So sprach »Charles A Edwards« am 2002-01-09 um 16:33:38 -0500 : Use DHCP. Well, but this requires setting up NAT at the Windows box, no? And are there DHCP servers for the WindowsME gaming box out there? No,

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Michael Leone wrote: On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 16:31, Ken Hawkins wrote: Virtually every person I know who has tried to use WinBlows Internet connection sharing has had problems with the machine slowing down severly and freezing, usually less than a few hours. You (or you son-in-law) should

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Hawkins
I use an old 486, 2 nic's and EigerStein (Linux router/firewall on 1 floppy). I have an APC surgearrest with RJ11 jack to prevent power spikes from doing damage. Total investment for excellent network protection: $50 for the APC, $69 for the 10/100 5 port hub. Everything else scrounged very

Re: [expert] Network setup with MCC.

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Thompson
much snipping To answer your original question: I am not aware of a way in MCC to add NFS control. Nor is there a way to do NIS configuration, DNS configuration, Sendmail (or postfix) configuration, nor add user accounts, or samba configuration, etc... I think MCC is a good begining on a

LinkSys problems -- Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 09 Jan 2002 17:23:51 -0500, Michael wrote: The LinkSys version of the DSL switch/router is about $170USD here in Philly. You must live in an expensive area. :-) I've recently uncovered some nasty problems with my LinkSys router; and a recent purchase of what they sell as a *hub* turns out

[expert] test please ignore

2002-01-09 Thread richard
test only please ignore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Network setup with MCC.

2002-01-09 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ken Thompson wrote: much snipping To answer your original question: I am not aware of a way in MCC to add NFS control. Nor is there a way to do NIS configuration, DNS configuration, Sendmail (or postfix) configuration, nor add user accounts, or samba configuration, etc... I think

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Randy Kramer wrote: Another choice is to pick up a good $20 computer (IIRC, you need at least a 386, with 640kb of RAM and a 720 or better floppy -- no hard drive, actually, I think the most recent versions of the software need a 1.2 or 1.44 mB floppy -- bloatware ;-), add two NICs that have

Re: LinkSys problems -- Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Pierre Fortin wrote: I've recently uncovered some nasty problems with my LinkSys router; and a recent purchase of what they sell as a *hub* turns out to really be a *switch* (I wanted a *hub* for a very specific purpose)... Pierre, I'm curious, a switch is almost always better than a hub --

[expert] Fetchmail on mdk8.1

2002-01-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Has anyone noticed problems with fetchmail going to sleep after a week or so? Running fetchmail gives the woken up message, but no mail. Stopping and restarting it and the next poll (its on a dialup with mail queued at the ISP, but is not consistant with link avaiability) picks up a **LOT** of

Re: LinkSys problems -- Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 19:43:43 -0500, Randy wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: I've recently uncovered some nasty problems with my LinkSys router; and a recent purchase of what they sell as a *hub* turns out to really be a *switch* (I wanted a *hub* for a very specific purpose)... Pierre, I'm

Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

2002-01-09 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:08:42 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Ric Tibbetts wrote: James may be on his way to becoming a hero for this one! Great job!! Ric Man! now i can't wait to get home and try it out on my copy of Mozilla!

[expert] kernel update question

2002-01-09 Thread Steve
I am currently running Mandrake 8.1 on my Tyan Tiger MP (Dual Athlon) box, and I would like to update my SMP kernel to the one included in the latest Cooker build. Anyway what is the process for going about installing the kernel from Cooker? What rpm files do I need, and how do I go about

Re: [expert] Fetchmail on mdk8.1

2002-01-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 10 Jan 2002 08:50:43 +0800, William wrote: Has anyone noticed problems with fetchmail going to sleep after a week or so? Running fetchmail gives the woken up message, but no mail. Stopping and restarting it and the next poll (its on a dialup with mail queued at the ISP, but is not

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-09 Thread Jesus Arocho
Not necessarily true. I spent 5 and then an additional 20 on an order to Mandrake (with the honest intention of supporting the group) and had problems with the installation: a. several times the installer returned a message indicating problems with the install CD (probably just a

Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

2002-01-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:24:05 -0500, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:08:42 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Ric Tibbetts wrote: James may be on his way to becoming a hero for this one! Great job!! Ric Man! now i

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-09 Thread Jesus Arocho
Great idea! I will follow the recommendation. On Wednesday 09 January 2002 12:51, you wrote: Ron Marriage wrote: I agree, I order the power packs and always find them easy to install, no problem. I also feel better about myself. I don't support with code, so do so with dollars.

Re: [expert] upgrading rpm packages

2002-01-09 Thread James Sparenberg
This doesn't always work but I've found a short way around the crash. at the command line type abiword [filename] Seems that if they start together crashes are less likely. Second don't save the doc as an abw... Don't know why but txt and rtf files work better than the native format.

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread James Sparenberg
Ok Did a little research on the AOL site. Seems that they use the same kind of systems and modems as the telco's. ie They are simply reselling the telco dsl just like covad and others did, but with the added feature of AOL network. Given that. and since it seems they are using the same

Re: [expert] DSL Connection

2002-01-09 Thread James Sparenberg
OOOPS forgot one thing. The modems they use are USB based so if you don't have USB on the linux box it definitely won't work. However my cable modem is supposed to be usb and it also has a port for ethernet... I use the ethernet it's more reliable. James On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:50:40 +0100

Re: [expert] upgrading rpm packages

2002-01-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Gave up on the mandrake and cooker rpms - in my case would not print past page 4 (just repeated page 3) or crashed when trying to load a file saved by the prev version. Downloaded the latest generic rpm's from abiword themsleves yesterday and installed. Fixed those probs - but spell and fonts

Re: [expert] samba printer config help

2002-01-09 Thread Ken Nowack
Scratch all that. Odd thing. If I added the printer as \\Tequila\OfficeJet it gave me access denied. If I used \\Tequila\Printers\OfficeJet it works. Just took me a bit to figure it out Thanks anyway, Ken __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video

[expert] NIC Configuration from CLI

2002-01-09 Thread John
I am runnig the Mandrake Single Network Firewall (works great btw) and had two seperate NIC's setup for my internal network, one on a 192.168.1 and the other on 172.16.0. I thought I may have been having problems with these two co-existing and suppressed the 172.16 net NIC. I have since tried

Once upon a time it was ...Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

2002-01-09 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Pierre Fortin wrote: Hi there! Great Idea! ;-) Just one question is it possible to share *everything* ( I mean the pine directory and sub-directory system *along* with sylpheed *without* messing everything up?) Pine is my

Re: Once upon a time it was ...Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

2002-01-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 03:21:51 -0200 (BRST), Ricardo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Pierre Fortin wrote: Hi there! Great Idea! ;-) Just one question is it possible to share *everything* ( I mean the pine directory and sub-directory

Re: [expert] Man page for diff

2002-01-09 Thread pesarif
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 04:07, Davor Cengija wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote: Hi! Does anyone know where the manpage for the diff command is? It was there in Mandrake 7.2, but in Mandrake 8.0, it's gone :( All my other manpages seem to work e.g. ls, gcc. I hate info pages so

Re: [expert] SystemMonitor KDE Applet

2002-01-09 Thread pesarif
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 03:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the KDE2 Applet known as System Monitor? This is a monitor which sits in the Kicker panel (or some child bar) and tells you CPU, Memory, and Swap usage realtime. It's in the kdeaddons package, which btw, includes Archive Web Page