[expert] Where are the Cooker GPG keys

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Bennee
After a 2 months without a working machine I've come to update my cooker install. It however keeps complaining of bad GPG keys. I currently have the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpms]# gpg --list-keys /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg pub 1024D/9B4A4024 2000-01-06 MandrakeSoft

[expert] Equivilent to Debians net-install iso?

2003-06-06 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, Following the heat death of my server and desktop I'm in the process of building new machines. I run debian on my servers and used a nice bootable ISO that quickly installs a minimum networkable system and I can just apt-get the rest. Does anyone know of an equivilent bare bones bootable ISO

[expert] Installing Mandrake on a Laptop with nothing but wireless network + floppy

2003-03-26 Thread Alex Bennee
I've just got my hands on an old laptop with a wireless Orinoco card and a floppy drive. I can get it to boot via tomsrtboot and hapilly partition up the disk. So my question: Is it possible with just floppies to do a wireless network install of 9.1 without setting up your own nfs server? Alla

RE: [expert] mandrake source kernel

2002-12-17 Thread Alex Bennee
MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Alex Bennee
then there's too much room for error when publishing an RPM. Shouldn't the requirements/deps for building the src rpm generate an a warning before it starts building. Alternativly you can install the source rpm and do a rpm -bp specfile.spec and build from the tarball as per normal. -- Alex

Re: [expert] Find command

2002-12-11 Thread Alex Bennee
://www.bennee.com/~alex/wiki/index.php/One%20Line%20Scripts) -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-06 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 17:21, Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, Until today my box (MDK 9.0) had been running fine. Now it locks up hard at random points during the day requiring a power-cylcle to get it out of this state. I suspect that apmd may be the culprit but its hard to tell as I get

RE: [expert] NFS permissions

2002-12-05 Thread Alex Bennee
] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-04 Thread Alex Bennee
soon. James On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 08:50, Alex Bennee wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:05, Alex Bennee wrote: snip bit can cause the machine to lock up completely and mess with X windows Ctrl-Alt-BS. I'll re-run memtest tonight and see if the results are consistent in failing

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-04 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:45, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 03:33, Alex Bennee wrote: Can't get the memtest tools to compile under Mandrake, failing to link to the maths library for some reason (and the make needs to be run as root which is bad). Can't remember

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-03 Thread Alex Bennee
at building the badmem tools and kernel patch but to no avail. Has anybody got experience with the badmem patches on Mandrake? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-03 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:05, Alex Bennee wrote: snip bit can cause the machine to lock up completely and mess with X windows Ctrl-Alt-BS. I'll re-run memtest tonight and see if the results are consistent in failing. I know i've got a memory problem but the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is not related

Re: [expert] grip

2002-12-02 Thread Alex Bennee
Oggs by default as well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

[expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-02 Thread Alex Bennee
-jacking going on? Who's trapping it and killing my system? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] traffic control

2002-11-27 Thread Alex Bennee
you have any pointers to replacing patches for rebuilding src rpms? I've been meaning to try deviks connbytes patch but I wanted to do it in the context of the MDK RPM's without manually extracting source and patches and building from scratch. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above

[expert] Reproducing supermount errors at will

2002-11-19 Thread Alex Bennee
dmesg gives no hints. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Avifile player

2002-11-12 Thread Alex Bennee
and let it sort it all out for you. Alternatively you can install all 3 packages at once rpm -i pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion or policy of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Quick fixes for problems in 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Alex Bennee
found this page.) http://www.pythonzero.org/ The anti-alias defaults fixed the occasional half-line fault I was seeing on my display (I guess you could call it smudging). I hope Mandrake tweak the default for 9.1. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion

Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-06 Thread Alex Bennee
supermount hackers want to work with me to find a better cure. According to the thread http://www.mail-archive.com/expert;linux-mandrake.com/msg59783.html there is not much point reporting it to lkml. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion

Re: [expert] Created rml's preempt patch for Dolphin (9.0)

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:11, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 06:32, Alex Bennee wrote: snip Does anyone know if Mandrake are intending to add this patch to their 2.4 kernels at a later date? There are preempt-enabled kernels in testing at Mandrake Club, not sure about MDK's

[expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Bennee
me much. Any ideas? Where does the the sr0 come from, my CD-Burner is a different drive? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion or policy of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] Problems with ethernet on startup?

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Bennee
Has anyone else been experiencing problems with ethernet on boot? Basically I have been unable to get DHCP based configuration working, probably because the network card doesn't start cleanly. I can resolve the problem by doing a: mii-tool -r -v mii-tool -R and waiting 60 seconds or so.

Re: [expert] Problems with ethernet on startup?

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 12:48, Mikko Lipasti wrote: Hello Alex, What's the device at the other end of the RJ45 cable? According to mii-tool manpage, some passive devices (such as one-speed hubs) don't understand anything about auto-negotiating, which might confuse the nic or the driver. I'd

[expert] Created rml's preempt patch for Dolphin (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I was getting annoyed with xmms skipping badly when ever I was doing anything heavy with my machine (kernel compile or copying from CDROM). I suspect heavy I/O load. I've applied Robert Loves preemptable kernel patch to the stock Dolphin (9.0) kernel (2.4.19-16mdk). The only differences