[expert] Mdk 9.1 / Promise RAID FastTrak 376

2003-10-02 Thread David Oberbeck
Hello all, We are trying to install Mdk 9.1 on a MSI motherboard with a Promise FastTrak 376 (aka 20376 controller). After googling about for a while, we found that there is a lot of noise out there... so by any chance does anybody on this list have: (a) succinct, and (b)

Re: [expert] VPN Client for Linux

2002-10-06 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, It is my understanding that Free/SWAN works with Checkpoint, although I personally have not used it. Check out: http://www.freeswan.org/ and there are a number of mailing lists archives from that URL. I'm sure someone over there will be an excellent source to post this

Re: [expert] mt command

2002-10-05 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, The package on this 8.1 system is: mt-st-0.6-2mdk This contains the commands you need to talk with SCSI Tape drives manually (e.g. from the command line). You will probably need these even if you use something like BRU, which uses a GUI on top of the command line

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0: Soundblaster Live! Bass and treble control

2002-10-03 Thread David Oberbeck
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 13:31, Patrick Mayer Wrote Thusly: Hello, I am trying to change the bass and treble level on my SB Live without much success... I've tried using kmix and aumix: both show the appropriate sliders but moving them does not change anything: I still get the same thin

Re: [expert] Emacs colors

2002-10-02 Thread David Oberbeck
Vox, You're very welcome. DGO On Tuesday 01 October 2002 22:28, Vox Wrote Thusly: David Oberbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephano, Check out: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ColorTheme There are an awful lot of color customizations that you can do

Re: [expert] Emacs colors

2002-10-01 Thread David Oberbeck
Stephano, Check out: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ColorTheme There are an awful lot of color customizations that you can do to Emacs... and this site will point out (a) what they are, (b) some other people's themes, and (c) how to painlessly do this. HTH, DGO

Re: [expert] MS Exchange Server

2002-09-04 Thread David Oberbeck
Brian, See http://www.ximian.org/products/connector/ HTH, DGO On Wednesday 04 September 2002 13:04, Brian York Wrote Thusly: At work our email system is the Microsoft Exchange server and if you use out look it works fine. Is there any program for linux that I can use to

Re: [expert] Compaq DL360 / Installer Swap Problem, adder

2002-08-10 Thread David Oberbeck
Todd, On Friday 09 August 2002 15:20, Todd Lyons Wrote Thusly: David Oberbeck wrote on Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:06:50PM -0600 : I am trying to install Mdk 8.2 ProSuite Edition on a Compaq DL360 with Smart Array 5i RAID controller. I must run linux ide=nodma to get the installer up. So

Re: [expert] Compaq DL360 / Installer Swap Problem, adder

2002-08-10 Thread David Oberbeck
not clear what's useful information and what's not. David Oberbeck wrote on Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:56:23AM -0600 : linux ide=nodma devfs=nomount I've never had to use ide=nodma, however, I didn't have any ide devices either. Without the ide=nodma stanza the installer never gets to the second

Re: [expert] Compaq DL360 / Installer Swap Problem, adder

2002-08-10 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings again, On Saturday 10 August 2002 14:26, David Oberbeck Wrote Thusly: Todd, Again, many thanks for your response. Tried what you suggested, (unhappy) results below. snip I'm following up on my own post. The problem is solved, but not the way that is going to go over

[expert] Compaq DL360 / Installer Swap Problem

2002-08-08 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings to the List, I am trying to install Mdk 8.2 ProSuite Edition on a Compaq DL360 with Smart Array 5i RAID controller. I must run linux ide=nodma to get the installer up. So far, so good. I do the disk partitioning, then go to format the partitions. I then get an error in a dialog

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Oberbeck
On Saturday 27 July 2002 14:18, David Guntner Wrote Thusly: civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} and {time} Question: Based on this, is my system likely to have been compromised or

Re: [expert] OS's in space

2002-07-23 Thread David Oberbeck
Real World parallel, and the right solution: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4487 David On Tuesday 23 July 2002 16:21, James Sparenberg Wrote Thusly: Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situation: the shields were down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life

[expert] Mdk 8.2 / XFree86 / Thinkpad A31p

2002-07-21 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, Just purchased an IBM Thinkpad A31p - a wonderful machine; very fast, outstanding display and keyboard, large disk (60GB). I have almost everything working (was surprisingly painless)... Mdk 8.2 almost works out of the box - problems are with video; XFree86 4.2.0 does not

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-24 Thread David Oberbeck
. One for the weird books... AFN, DGO On Saturday 23 February 2002 19:14, skidley Wrote Thusly: On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, H.McM wrote: Me neither... David Oberbeck wrote: Burning a 650 iso onto a 700 MB disk makes it unbootable... Hmm, not for me! Randy Kramer Me three

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-22 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, It should do this by default. To write I use cdrecord 1.10, and the command line is: cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=3,0 whatever.iso Your address may be different; but the rest should be the same. Two things: 1. You should not need the 'pad' option.

Re: [expert] Telnet UGH But needed!

2002-02-06 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, There were some threads on this list a while back about telnet which may or may not be related to your problem (but probably is). The problems I found relate to the Kerberos authentication attempts - and, to put bluntly, these attempts righteously piss off emulators, routers,

[expert] Mdk 7.1 / Sparc Updates?

2002-01-25 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings all, Does anyone know of a mirror with the 7.1 Sparc updates? All of the mirror sites that I have been able to find have the directory .../updates/7.1/sparc/RPMS but they are blank... is this a case of bit-rot? Regards, David -- Entropy Requires No Maintenance

[expert] wu-ftp Updates?

2001-11-30 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings all, Just walked through a number of Mdk mirrors - none of them seem to have the wu-ftp ( wu-ftpd-2.6.1-8.7mdk.i586.rpm ) update that was announced this AM ( Advisory ID: MDKSA-2001:090 ). I would have thought that about 8 hours would be enough for the mirrors to update... Has

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Oberbeck
Hi, As John mentioned, this is indeed a function of BIOS. I have a IBM A21p with Mdk 7.2 on it, and do presentations with StarOffice on a regular basis. To get external video going you press Fn-F7 repeatedly until the output ends up the way you need it. This will cycle through

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, The A20p / A21p have a S-video input and output connectors on the front right-hand side. I personally don't use them, but they *do* work, see http://mobilix.org/video_linux.html#ToC1 Again, the resolution problem is going to bite you; suggest sticking with a monitor

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Oberbeck
Oh, and one more url: http://www.linuxvideo.org/ http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ HTH, DGO On Thursday 29 November 2001 14:00, David Oberbeck wrote: Greetings, The A20p / A21p have a S-video input and output connectors on the front right-hand side. I personally

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, Well, y'all, gather around: It's time for me to take a deep breath and recite a festival of pain adventure I have had... Well, to make a long story (only somewhat) shorter: To change resolution you must use the keypad + and keypad -, not the + above the = (on US keyboards).

Re: [expert] telnet

2001-11-15 Thread David Oberbeck
Michael, Actually, on a previous thread there were a (large) number of reasons, including printers, emulators, switches, routers... a whole bestiary of equipment which does not speak ssh but telnet. Not to mention a plethora of platorms, and the conditions under which an unencrypted telnet

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread David Oberbeck
/advisories/OW-003-ssh-traffic-analysis.txt Alas, this may be wasted time and bandwith - and also something about pigs and singing comes to mind. Regards, David On Wednesday 14 November 2001 13:30, skidley wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, David Oberbeck wrote: Why does anyone use telnet anymore

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread David Oberbeck
, that Mr. Williams. Methinks that we - unfortunately - have had plenty of experience in dealing with them and being vexed! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Oberbeck |Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:47 PM |To: skidley

Re: [expert] Star Office 6.0 beta

2001-11-13 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, You might want to try the StarOffice 6 support newsgroups at starnews.sun.com Point your favorite news reader at that server address and see what they have to say about this. HTH Regards, David On Tuesday 13 November 2001 12:55, you wrote: I am now having

[expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-13 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings all, I'm having problems with telnet-client-krb5 (version 1.2.2-11mdk). The new telnet fails when attempting to connect to Solaris 7 servers. The version of telnet supplied with 7.2 works as expected, the one with 8.1 does not. It appears that this telnet is annoying the

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-13 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, Well, I'm answering my own question... The solution is to upgrade to version 1.2.2-15 mkd, available from rpmfind; 1.2.2-13 seems to be honked. Hope this helps someone else as well. AFN, DGO On Tuesday 13 November 2001 19:33, David Oberbeck wrote: Greetings all

Re: [expert] stable kernel version ????????

2001-10-24 Thread David Oberbeck
:16 AM -0600 David Oberbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I discovered that the kernel will still not compile, somehow the configuration header files are still fscked up. Well, to be more precise - as you mentioned - the kernel compiles, but the module compilation fails

Re: [expert] stable kernel version ????????

2001-10-24 Thread David Oberbeck
Richard, On Wednesday 24 October 2001 01:51, you wrote: Hi Experts, What is the last stable 2.4 kernel that supermount, telnet server, and iptables function properly on. I have problems with the distro kernel in 8.1 (2.4.8-26mdk). cant get the telnet server to be seen, This is done by

Re: [expert] stable kernel version ????????

2001-10-24 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, The compilers return the following: $ kgcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/egcs-2.91.66/specs gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release / Mandrake Linux 8.1) $ gcc -v Reading specs from

Re: [expert] rpmfind.net

2001-10-23 Thread David Oberbeck
Or the french mirror: http://fr.rpmfind.net/ HTH, DGO On Tuesday 23 October 2001 13:17, you wrote: On Sun, 2001-10-21 at 13:38, David Boles wrote: Does anyone know what is wrong with this site? Try http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net Much more stable. -- Entropy Requires No

Re: [expert] anybody selling 8.1 yet?

2001-10-22 Thread David Oberbeck
Hi, IIRC there was a problem with getting their disks pressed... usually they did this in France, but decided to do this here. Oh, found a link about this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/12/1216231mode=thread Regards, David On Monday 22 October 2001 16:00, you

[expert] Changing Annoying Yellow Links In Konqueror

2001-10-22 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings all, This may be an RTFM question, but I have not found the FM in question yet... Anyway, how do I remove the yellow links that appear in Konqueror? This seems to be some kind of default, and only appears on some sites... The problem is that links are basically invisible if

Re: [expert] anybody selling 8.1 yet?

2001-10-22 Thread David Oberbeck
Hi Steve, I assumed that Chris was asking about the commercial version, e.g. a Power Pack edition with commercial stuff on it (e.g. Real Player, ViaVoice, etc). I think the 3 disk set from Cheap Bytes is the same as the download version (the free and / or GPL compliant software), e.g. the

Re: [expert] Graphics Apps for Linux

2001-08-15 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, For 3D Studio replacement check out Blender: http://www.blender.nl/ HTH, DGO On Wednesday 15 August 2001 20:24, you wrote: Hey everybody, I've got a friend running a graphic design business and he does a lot of 3D illustration as well as 2D illustration.

Re: [expert] Why I can't see all packets on my network segment?

2001-08-08 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, Is your network using hubs or a switches? If you are using a hub, this is a simple ethernet repeater, all packets are visible to all systems connected to that hub (even other hubs if they are all connected together). If you are using a switch, it is much more intelligent,

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Why I can't see all packets on my network segment?

2001-08-08 Thread David Oberbeck
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 08:50, Rusty Carruth wrote: David Oberbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Is your network using hubs or a switches? Um, not meaning to be rude, but: He already said that his computer is plugged into a hub. However, I was wondering what THAT hub

Re: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-18 Thread David Oberbeck
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 17:38, Bill Beauchemin wrote: Greetings, The previous respondents and Mr. Beauchemin brings up some good points... however, at the risk of starting a (pointless) flame war, the reality is that most people do not want to spend a great deal of time reading HOWTOs and