[expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

I'm planning to upgrade my motherboard/CPU combo to an Athlon XP system. I'm not looking for overclocking or onboard sound & video (all the networking, sound and graphics will be using existing boards), just a solid, reliable motherboard that works well with Mandrake 9.0 Any recommendations?

[expert] Changing Konqueror default web page

This is probably a stupid question, but I have tried to change Konqueror's default home page via Settings -> Configure Konqueror, as well as the KDE options, but nothing seems to work (I'd like the browser to come up blank). Mozilla makes this much easier, but loads slower... Thanks, Dan Wa

Re: [expert] IDE cd-rom burners

Ro You should have hdc=ide-scsi in your grub menu.lst entries or in the append="" statements in lilo.conf (then run lilo) for scsi emulation to work at boot. Then, as root, you can run cdrecord --scanbus to detect the drive's connection. GCombust has detection buttons and K3b seems to do th

[expert] IDE cd-rom burners

I'm trying to configure my LM 9.0 to work with an IDE CD-ROM burner. Hardrake2 lists the burder as /dev/hdc under CD/DVD burners. However, eroaster won't work with that. I've loaded the ide-scsi kernel module, but I'm not sure what to do next. My /dev directory contains no /dev/sc* or /dev/pg

Re: [expert] How to disable error bell in konsole?

In konsole > Settings > Bell, choose None or Visible Bell and save with Settings > Save Settings. Right-click for Settings or Show Menubar. Thanks, now I feel stupid for asking the question :) At least you didn't say RTFM. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://w

[expert] How to disable error bell in konsole?

Hi, I'd like to turn off the beep that happens in konsole when an error occurs, e.g. hitting too many times. I've tried configuring konsole through the KDE control panel, as well as the sounds options, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Fdisk errors

I have a small webserver running LM 8.2, latest updates, kernel 2.4.18-8.1mdk. Recently it crashed, and when I brought it home I noticed fsck gave me a "unconnected directory inode" on the / partition. I ended up having to run fsck several times to fix a series of inodes like this (about 10) m

[expert] Hostname for virtual hosts

Hello, I have virtual hosts set up on a Mandrake server. I can access the different IP numbers by hostname, but when I log in to any of the hosts, they all show the hostname as the one assigned to the first IP number. Is there a way for hostname to be set to whatever domain name you're logg

[expert] Virtual hosting

onto yyy.com they see themselves as being on xxx.com. Should I be leaving /etc/sysconfig/network with not hostname and domainname? How will I set up the different domain names to appear as different hosts depending on where the user logs on? Thanks in advance, Dan A

[expert] CD-ROM automounting problems

I just installed LM 8.1 with the updates from the mandrake server on a new workstation. I'm having problem with the automounter on the CD-ROM The drive is an IDE DVD-ROM that worked OK when I installed Linux. Upon booting, the /dev directory always shows a broken sym link /dev/cdrom -> ../cdr

[expert] Installing Mandrake on an old notebook

I've got an old Toshiba portege that lacks both a network adapter and a CD-ROM drive. I'm considering putting LM on. Which option do people think will be easiest with Mandrake? 1) Installing it via PLIP through the parallel port? 2) Getting a network card for the PCMCIA slot 3) Finding a "ti

[expert] Need help with iptables and LM 8.0

I'm trying to build some firewalls on a LM 8.0 box with kernel 2.4.7-12.3 and iptables 1.2.2. I'm trying to convert some rules I had on a 2.2 box written with ipchains, based on what I read in O'Reilly's "Building Internet Firewalls". What I can't fathom is why I can type in some rules at a r

[expert] Kernel update for LM 8.0

Hello, I have a webserver and a desktop machine both running LM 8.0. I've been reading about some of the kernel problems before 2.4.12, and I'm thinking about upgrading. I recently tried to build the 2.4.13 kernel on my desktop machine, and when I rebooted a number of services (such as Apache

RE: [expert] Help with Apache virtual hosting

Bingo! I forgot to put the "www" in the ServerName directives; I was typing 'www.english.org' and 'www.spanish.org', which failed, but leaving out the 'www' works. Thanks! -- On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:19:18 Richard Kuryk wrote: >When you type the url in the browser are you using spanish.org

[expert] Help with Apache virtual hosting

First, thanks to all those folks who answered my question about modems. I'm setting a small web/email server using LM 8.0 with virtual IP addresses for different domains. However, one site has to be in two languages, where one URI points to an English subdirectory, and the other URI points to

[expert] Modem question

Hello all, I'm looking for an inexpensive, reliable PCI hardware modem that works with Linux. Most of what I see at computer shows are Winmodems. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'd appreciated it. Thanks, Dan Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S. http://cl

[expert] Need help with postfix virtual domains

Hello all, I have a small server with virtual IP address, call them mainhost.com first.org second.org mainhost.com has an MX record in DNS; the other two don't. When I set them up a couple of years ago, I used qmail and was able to send/received from local user accounts under all three domain

[expert] Help with postfix and virtual hosts

Hello all, a couple of years ago I set up a small server with a few virtual IP address, sort of like: mainone.com -- has a MX record in DNS alternate.org -- has no MX record in DNS. I had set up qmail with virtual hosting and was able to send and receive email from accounts at "alternate.org" w