Re: [expert] ADSL setup - first attempt (help !!!)

2002-03-20 Thread Wim
Hello, Which version do you use? I had some problems on RH7.1... I downloaded the latest version of rp-pppoe from roaring penguin and atfer the installation, everything woked fine! Do you have a default gateway towards ppp0? Success! Wim Ashley Moore wrote: >hi, > >i've been trying to get M

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread David Guntner
Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Well, I'd suspect overheating too since the ram checks out. > Install lm_sensors and gkrellm if they aren't already, and constantly > monitor your cpu temp. FWIW, I found those on the CDs (thanks for mentioning them) and installed them. N

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread David Guntner
Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 13:13, David Guntner wrote: >> >> Those sound useful. :-) Are they on one of the CDs, or do they >> have to be downloaded from somewhere? Currently, the only way I can >> check my CPU temp is to reboot and then go into the B

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread David Guntner
ai4a grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > David Guntner wrote: > > > > I think whatever this program needs is not available with the motherboard > > that I'm using. I typed "sensors," and then when I ran it a second time > > after I did a "modprobe i2c-proc" in response to the first attempt's > > c

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread David Guntner
Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Well, I'd suspect overheating too since the ram checks out. > Install lm_sensors and gkrellm if they aren't already, and constantly > monitor your cpu temp. Those sound useful. :-) Are they on one of the CDs, or do they have to be downloaded fr

[expert] Mail loop?

2002-03-20 Thread David Guntner
I just got several messages bounced back to me from the mailing list, saying something about a mail loop. Since the list appears to be working, I resent those messages (since I don't know at this point which ones actually made it through before and which ones didn't). I apologize for any dup

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread David Guntner
civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Do you have an external connection and an ssh server? > > Let's see whether it is a keyboard lockup or something else. Oh, it's the system alright. I've got two computers here, one a Win98SE box, and one my ML 8.1 box. I do have a ssh daemon running

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread David Guntner
James grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Just had a friend walk in so I asked him... He had the same problem > and it was because the CPU fan had gotten worn down and wasn't cooling > the CPU as well as it used to (plus a lot of the k-6 fans were flaky > to start) His suggestion is to (his word

[expert] configurators won't run

2002-03-20 Thread David
I'm running MD8.2. After the install, all was well. Now, I must of done something to some libraries or something. I cannot run any conf apps including: drakconf, userconf, userdrake, harddrake, timeconfig, and drakfloppy. After running linuxconf I get the following: "MIssing confi

[expert] ADSL setup - first attempt (help !!!)

2002-03-20 Thread Ashley Moore
hi, i've been trying to get Mdk 8.1 to connect to the internet via ADSL for the last 2 days on a friends computer with no luck. i installed Mdk 8.1 from the Powerpack boxed set on an old AMD-233 with 64 MB RAM and 2Gb Hdd. the telco (TELUS in BC,canada) installed the line and modem before he had

[expert] Vodoo3 in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Andrew George
Hi, I've done a vanilla MDK 8.2 install and everything seems to run as expected, except when I try to run a 3d accelerated app (tuxracer, nethack-FE, etc) the x server goes into reset. Can't find an error message ion the X log so I'm not sure if I'm missing something or if XFree4.2 just doesn't

[expert] smoking grass revisted

2002-03-20 Thread Craig Woods
Yes, the lower case" t" in runing hdparm gives you specific info on disc reads but in knowing what the upper case "T" does will also help. I once had a problem with my disc speed, and until I ran the "T" switch, I could not see it was really a problem with my FSB speed. Turns out the mobo was not

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:42, civileme wrote: > actually hdparm -t /dev/hdx is more informative. The capital T > basically measures the bandwidth of your memory. > > And if you are using software RAID, then it is less than informative. > It works OK for RAID1 and 4 but not so well for 0 or 5,

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread James
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:53:00 -0500 (EST) JOHN HEMMER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, James wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:36:36 -0800 (PST) > > "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 19

Re: [expert] rpm database

2002-03-20 Thread RC on MandrakeExpert
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 18:50:01 +0100 (MET) > Lars Roland Kristiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi I have just installed the rpm called locals - now my rpm database i > > f***ed - It will make core dumped if i use rpm --rebuilddb, is there > > anyway i can manualy edit the database or any ot

RE: [expert] Is there a rpm for oracle in php 4.0.6 for Mandrake?

2002-03-20 Thread Yu-Hsin Chen
I'm looking for rpm so I can avoid compile php from scratch. Seems like I don't have much choice now. Yu-Hsin -Original Message- From: Ikhlasul Amal Sent: Wed 3/20/2002 6:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:Re: [expert] Is there a rpm for oracle in php 4.0.6 fo

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
Brian Parish wrote: >On my system I get: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec > >Is this good, bad, or average? > >cheers >Brian > >On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 12:42, civileme wrote: > >>J. Craig Woods wrote: >> >>>David wrote: >>> Hello experts, Last evenin

Re: [expert] SPAM, Who, Me??????

2002-03-20 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:17:02 -0700 Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Praedor, do you have a step by step of how you set it up and got it work? because the last time I tried it it took me 3 days to recover from all the brain damage it caused me. it wasn't

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread Lorne Shantz
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 07:56 pm, you wrote: > On my system I get: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec > > Is this good, bad, or average? I'm guessing it is good. I get only Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.22 seconds = 12.26 MB/sec I'm using a 200mhz

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread Brian Parish
I'm sure that Tom will explain his reasoning on the bios temp thing, but as he's probably asleep right now, let me butt in. I suspect that the difference between using sensors and rebooting then looking at the bios is just timing. i.e. Using sensors you can see the temp while the cpu is under lo

Re: [expert] AHA-2940UW under mandrake 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Lorne Shantz
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 05:43 am, you wrote: > Hallo > i were try to isntall new mandrake 8.2. > I never use other linux at that machine and i got this problem. > I have only SCSI devices, so boot comes up, then he try to detect scsi. > he identify my 2940 as 7881 and then become black screen,

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread Brian Parish
On my system I get: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec Is this good, bad, or average? cheers Brian On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 12:42, civileme wrote: > J. Craig Woods wrote: > > >David wrote: > > > >>Hello experts, > >> > >>Last evening I installed MD8.2, and reforma

Re: [expert] Printing borked in 8.2/update

2002-03-20 Thread Rob
Update, LPRng will work fine with apsfilter if I start it manually. It just doesnt want to start on bootup. Once I start it, its AOK. Rob. civileme wrote: > > Rob wrote: > > >I tried using the printer config menu from the control system menu. It > >detects my printer and everything, and the

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
J. Craig Woods wrote: >David wrote: > >>Hello experts, >> >>Last evening I installed MD8.2, and reformatted my / and /usr >>partitions as xfs. Now, just about everything seems to be running slower >>than MD8.1 on ext3 partitions. >> >>Did I smoke too much grass in my younger years or is this

Re: [expert] Is there a rpm for oracle in php 4.0.6 for Mandrake?

2002-03-20 Thread Ikhlasul Amal
[Wed, 20 Mar 2002, 12:43:49 -0500 0.8K] Yu-Hsin Chen wrote (edited): % I'm trying to have php work with oracle on my Mandrake 8.0. % % I have reinstalled php 4.0.6-3.2mdk using software manager. I can % only fine php-mysql and php-pgsql packages with mdk. Is there a % package that will work wit

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread J. Craig Woods
David wrote: > > Hello experts, > > Last evening I installed MD8.2, and reformatted my / and /usr > partitions as xfs. Now, just about everything seems to be running slower > than MD8.1 on ext3 partitions. > > Did I smoke too much grass in my younger years or is this a reality? > > Is ther

[expert] quotas ?

2002-03-20 Thread rodrigo
Dear Experts ... I have exported a File System from a Sun WS to my linux computer ... On the remote machine, the "quota" feature is enabled for this file system ... How I can set up the same quotas on my local machine ? Does exist special options when I mount the filesystem...? The mount opti

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-20 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 04:43, you wrote: > Yes I agree with Ed , western Digital Hard Disks have problem Sharing > IDE CABLE , this question may destroy your disks. Got another "go figure" with a Western Digitalis . On one box, I have to set the drive as Master, on another, the *same* driv

[expert] problems with DNS

2002-03-20 Thread Doug Gough
Or maybe not.Here's what's happening. - I set up bind on my LM8.1 box as a caching nameserver - I issue the command "dig -x 127.0.0.1" and hit return. In a moment it comes back with a message that indicates that named is working correctly. - I issue the command "dig blahblahblah.com" and in a

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread Lee Burnside
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, ai4a wrote: > David Guntner wrote: > > > > Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > > > Type 'sensors' in a term. You should see somethin like > > > SYS Temp: +28.8°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) > > > CPU Temp: +44.0°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis

Re: [expert] Hostname - alias

2002-03-20 Thread Ken Thompson
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 01:25 pm, you wrote: > OK, I have always been stuck with either localhost or whatever name my dhcp > server gives me (today I am d152-159). I would LIKE to give myself an > alias of my choice but every time I've made any moves in that direction, it > borks my system. K

Re: [expert] AHA-2940UW under mandrake 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
Charvát Tomáš wrote: >Hallo >i were try to isntall new mandrake 8.2. >I never use other linux at that machine and i got this problem. >I have only SCSI devices, so boot comes up, then he try to detect scsi. >he identify my 2940 as 7881 and then become black screen, numlock not work, >its dead. >

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2002-03-20 Thread David
Hello experts, Last evening I installed MD8.2, and reformatted my / and /usr partitions as xfs. Now, just about everything seems to be running slower than MD8.1 on ext3 partitions. Did I smoke too much grass in my younger years or is this a reality? Is there something I mayb

Re: [expert] Hostname - alias

2002-03-20 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 14:25, Praedor Tempus wrote: > OK, I have always been stuck with either localhost or whatever name my dhcp > server gives me (today I am d152-159). I would LIKE to give myself an alias > of my choice but every time I've made any moves in that direction, it borks > my syst

Re: [expert] Hostname - alias

2002-03-20 Thread Ikhlasul Amal
[Wed, 20 Mar 2002, 13:25:17 -0700 1.2K] Praedor Tempus wrote (edited): % All I did was set my alias using linuxconf! An ALIAS dorks networking % and the system?! % Doing a "man hostname" doesn't give me anything useful. I try % "hostname -a " and it returns nothing but a blank % line. I edit /e

RE: Re: [expert] Printing borked in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread rob2
>> >Sorry, fellow, there are three printing systems >offered, LPRng, CUPS, >and PDQ. lpd is OUT. Putting it in is likely to >break things. > >It sounds more like there was a corrupted file >during install than >anything else. We have tested printing thoroughly >with 8.2. Did you try > ># p

Re: [expert] How to install 8.2 with USB devices

2002-03-20 Thread FemmeFatale
I have a keyboard & mouse, both usb. The mouse is plugged into the keyboard, the KB is plugged into the tower. I posted this on the Newbie list, but not many helpful answers. :) Thought I'd ask the "Experts" here. :) What basically happens is that if I boot the CD, i get that screen " Hit F1

[expert] AHA-2940UW under mandrake 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Charvát Tomáš
Hallo i were try to isntall new mandrake 8.2. I never use other linux at that machine and i got this problem. I have only SCSI devices, so boot comes up, then he try to detect scsi. he identify my 2940 as 7881 and then become black screen, numlock not work, its dead. when i try other drivers from

[expert] Core Dump at powerdown using 8.2 rc1

2002-03-20 Thread Roger
Hi, Just before my system should power down I receive a core dump on my console. This seems to repeat over and over until I shut the power off. I am too dumb to know if this is also written to my hard drive, but here is the last few lines of my syslog: Mar 18 20:59:32 rabbit alsa: succeeded

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread ai4a
David Guntner wrote: > > Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > Type 'sensors' in a term. You should see somethin like > > SYS Temp: +28.8°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) > > CPU Temp: +44.0°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) > > SBr Temp: +23.2°C (limit = +60

Re: [expert] Printing borked in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
Rob wrote: >I tried using the printer config menu from the control system menu. It >detects my printer and everything, and then just hangs, never completing >its operation by actually setting up the printer. I have a Lexmark >Optra that I want to set up as a vanilla Postscript printer. > >So (F

[expert] Hostname - alias

2002-03-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I have always been stuck with either localhost or whatever name my dhcp server gives me (today I am d152-159). I would LIKE to give myself an alias of my choice but every time I've made any moves in that direction, it borks my system. KDE chokes and cannot connect to itself anymore, no ne

Re: [expert] ORBZ spam blockers shutting down

2002-03-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:11:43 -0500 "Bob Puff@NLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, this is really sad news. ORBZ, the open mail relay checking > system, is shutting down. > > http://derf.cc/orbz_shutdown.txt I thought it was down for some time now... I even noted this on my http://pfortin.co

[expert] ORBZ spam blockers shutting down

2002-03-20 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow, this is really sad news. ORBZ, the open mail relay checking system, is shutting down. http://derf.cc/orbz_shutdown.txt Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread Larry Sword
JOHN HEMMER wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, James wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:36:36 -0800 (PST) > > "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 13:13, David Guntner wrote: > > > >> > > > >> I wen

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread David Guntner
Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Type 'sensors' in a term. You should see somethin like > SYS Temp: +28.8°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) > CPU Temp: +44.0°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) > SBr Temp: +23.2°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) > There

[expert] Is there a rpm for oracle in php 4.0.6 for Mandrake?

2002-03-20 Thread Yu-Hsin Chen
I'm trying to have php work with oracle on my Mandrake 8.0. I have reinstalled php 4.0.6-3.2mdk using software manager. I can only fine php-mysql and php-pgsql packages with mdk. Is there a package that will work with oracle? My apache right now is 1.3.22-1.2mdk. Yu-Hsin Chen Want to buy

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-20 Thread Ken Thompson
I'll have to admit to having a temper tantrum about that time and didn't do a total and complete swap out. Winderz always get's me ire up . On Wednesday 20 March 2002 05:29 am, you wrote: > really, no matter what slot the nic is in and was the vid AGP or PCI and > what slot was it in? > > On

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread JOHN HEMMER
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, James wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:36:36 -0800 (PST) > "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 13:13, David Guntner wrote: > > >> > > >> I went to AMD's site, and while I could find

Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-03-20 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
I haven't the opportunity to meet a dual mobo AMD yet. However I've been so dissapointed with last Asus mobo in general that I wouldn't recommed it. I suggest you a MSI or a Soyo solution (when available, after feedback of course). Tyan has problems too, but it was the first one, so maybe peopl

[expert] Printing borked in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Rob
I tried using the printer config menu from the control system menu. It detects my printer and everything, and then just hangs, never completing its operation by actually setting up the printer. I have a Lexmark Optra that I want to set up as a vanilla Postscript printer. So (Forgive me on this

Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-03-20 Thread Simon A Watts
I would be interested if anybody has a solution to this as well. This configuration (2xAthMP & Asus A7M-D) is exactly what I am considering building in the next week or so. One thing I did read a while ago was a bug with AMD's handling of the AGP; something to do with 4kB/4MB mapping? The "usua

[expert] quotas ?

2002-03-20 Thread rodrigo
Dear Experts ... I have exported a File System from a Sun WS to my linux computer ... On the remote machine, the "quota" feature is enabled for this file system ... How I can set up the same quotas on my local machine ? Does exist special options when I mount the filesystem...? The mount opti

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 10:36 pm, David Guntner wrote: > Unfortunately, krellm doesn't seem to display my CPU temprature, so > I'm not sure how I'm going to monitor it. BTW, just so you're > aware of it, my Linux machine (ML 8.1) is *never* powered off > unless I'm having to get inside the case

Re: [expert] Harddrake doesn't work in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Lorne Shantz
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 06:53 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:59:36 -0600 > > Lorne Shantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |Weird. It must be somehow related to the hardware.??? I'm using an > |older Intel mb and cpu with 128mb ram. Nothing fancy and I am > |running 8.2rc1 with no issue li

[expert] Full - duplex Real Tek 8139

2002-03-20 Thread Marcelo Alexandre Prudente de Souza
Hello, I need to desing a net for tests. In this net I must guarantee that my network card work as Full-duplex mode at 10BaseT My networking card is realtek 8139, my SO Mandrake 8.1 Anybody has a ideia how can I set up these parameter? And how can I measure this parameter? Thank's Marcelo.

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-20 Thread ed tharp
really, no matter what slot the nic is in and was the vid AGP or PCI and what slot was it in? On Tuesday 19 March 2002 20:25, you wrote: > Just the one drive on tha first channel, CD & ZIP on second channel. > I think I just have a flaky MoBo, even the new one won't run 98SE with the > NIC and t

Re: [expert] Harddrake doesn't work in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Christian Dysthe
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:59:36 -0600 Lorne Shantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |Weird. It must be somehow related to the hardware.??? I'm using an |older Intel mb and cpu with 128mb ram. Nothing fancy and I am |running 8.2rc1 with no issue like you are seeing. I dunno man. Good |luck... Especially

Re: [expert] SSH Tunelling

2002-03-20 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
Tom Badran wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >I have two ssh tunnels that are run in my .bashrc file so that i can have >secure pop/smtp. > >The system works great, but it does have one setback, each time i open a new >terminal (which obviously runs bash) i get more and m

[expert] extending XINE on 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Stephen Ogden
After installing one of the 8.2 betas I attempted to install some addons for xine - so I could watch encrypted dvd's, however the files could not find xine-config, and I wondered what could be done about this? I am assuming the same will be the case in 8.2 (currently on it's way down) - could a