[expert] Netmos 9805 PCI Parallel Card

2003-01-22 Thread John Rye
Hi folks, I'm trying again, now that I've had some hair re-growth Anyone had experience with these devices? I have need of a second //port on my beast (AthlonXP 1.8 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/L Mobo running stock Mandrake 9.0) to run my ancient but reliable Epson GT-4000 scanner (with ADF unit).

Re: [expert] Netmos 9805 PCI Parallel Card

2003-01-22 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:56:54 -0500 Cokey de Percin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Cokey - that got it - yipes what an exercise. Now all I have to do is get xsane to run as user Cheers John On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 07:01, John Rye wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying again, now that I've had

Re: [expert] Botched Install; How to Reinstall MDK8.1

2001-12-18 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:32:25 -0800 Paul Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish it was that easy ... I forgot to mention that the computer is brand new. The CDs have only been used maybe 6 times. It is a Aopen 56X IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive. During past couple of weeks I've attempted to install

Re: [expert] not a good experience with LM8.1!

2001-10-04 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:14:37 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 October 2001 02:55 pm, John Rye wrote: On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 07:32:06 Orkunt Sabuncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I tried to install LM 8.1

Re: [expert] UPS, PowerChute or NUT

2001-07-20 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:42:37 -0700 (PDT) mick tooher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I try to cu to this port I get cu -l /dev/modem cu: creat (/var/lock/TMP000c8b): Permission denied cu: /dev/modem: Line in use Does the UPC software 'stipulate' that /dev/ttyS0 is to be used?? Do you in

Re: [expert] IPTables Question

2001-06-06 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:35:42 -0700 (MST) Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If not, you want to learn the concepts - some other Rusty has a 'Rusty's three rules' (or something like that - I posted about his thing last month or this month) is good (do a search using your favorite search

Re: [expert] email form to staroffice apps

2001-05-24 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 24 May 2001 14:26:56 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use CSV (Comma-Separated-Values) file type for speadsheet or database data. Works for me - it's a 'standard' method of text-based of data transfer Cheers John I am a student at a Southern California University. I need to know

[expert] Netscape 4.77 problems

2001-05-23 Thread John Rye
Hi all, I'm getting peculiar problems with Netscape 4.77 which are becoming quite frustrating. It seems that when exiting, the lockfile in ./netscape is not being cleared and have to manually removed after each use. If the lock isn't removed the program 'crashes' with a 'bus error' message -

[newbie] Network printing problem

2001-05-18 Thread John Rye
This is a cross-post. I've set up a local network of 2 1/2 machines (well one is only half working til I find some monitor specs grin), and I have no trouble transferring data and using a common dialup connection. My problem is getting printing to work. I can print from any of the machines if

[expert] Monitor Test Utilities

2001-05-17 Thread John Rye
Hi all, I have here an old (circa '95) 15 analog monitor which is labelled as being a Data General Multisync SVGA. The DG part number from the rear of the monitor is: 7033D. I have searched all over looking for the specs for this device but without success. I know that DG is a vestige of the

Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?

2001-05-16 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 16 May 2001 07:49:31 -0400 (EDT) Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only one way to remove that file Mark, as follows: as root, 'shutdown -r now enter Insert Windows 98 CD. wait for the reboot and install Win98 BIG FAT SILLY GRIN! That file is your memory... If you look at

Re: [expert] Optimising MTU/MRU packet sizes

2001-05-05 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 4 May 2001 18:14:01 -0400 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jose. You can set MTU options as a PPP parameter. Yes - was aware of this. There is no dynamic utility to change or check this that I know of. You'll need to try one setting, dial, and check the results. It

Fw: Re: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 1 May 2001 03:14:11 -0500 Tutty, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Could anyone let me know what the most common causes for the above error in kppp is except for removing 'lock' from /etc/ppp/options? Edit your /etc/pp/options to include the following: == idle 300

[newbie] Just Couldn't Resist!!

2001-04-24 Thread John Rye
FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK Researchers Shocked Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email

Re: [expert] LM8 XFdrake locks up system.

2001-04-24 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:53:07 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All AZZA PT-5i Main board (intel TX) Gen Intel P233 Realteck 8139 Lan S3 Virge Video. This system ran 7.1 7.2 with no problems at all, however 8.0 will not configure

Re: [expert] Sylpheed running away with resources

2001-04-12 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:52:08 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, I'm running Cups on Mandrake 7.2 and Sylpheed 4.61. I don't have the same conditions. I'd suggest either downgrading to 4.61 or maybe the problem doesn't exist with 4.63. 4.61 is very stable however and

[expert] Sylpheed running away with resources

2001-04-11 Thread John Rye
CC: Till Kamppeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Sylpheed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting problem. Tonight I downloaded from the Cups site; cups-1.1.6-source.tar.gz and proceeded to to compile and install it on my Mandrake 7.1 system. Cups compiled without difficulty other than warnings from the

Re: [expert] Building an install floppy

2001-03-26 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:09:27 -0600 "David C. Hoos, Sr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've received two replies to my question, both of which told me how to build a BOOT floppy, when what I asked was how to make an INSTALL floppy. Perhaps my intention was unclear, but in my mind, an install

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-20 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:56:43 + "C. CLOSE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Thanks to Benjamin for the tip on XFCE it's quick and clean but I snip Has anyone else seen this behaviour??? Can it be fixed?? Colin, Just a comment on Marks' reply about CPU cycles. I think he'd

[expert] RPM Updating

2001-03-08 Thread John Rye
Sometime ago there was a series of posting regarding upgradeing/updating RPM to current versioning (4.???). I haven't been able to locate those posting. Could someone point me in the right direction, I remember there was a progression involved. I'm currently running L-M7.1 and rpm-3.0.4 and

Re: [expert] Off Topic - email etiquette

2001-02-07 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:10:30 +0100, Christian A Strmmen [Number1/NumeroUno] said: I know this is off topic for this list, but I once read an email here with a link to a page about email-etiquette. How to quote properly, why html in emails is a bad thing and so on. If the

Re: [expert] Script empties file?!

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:19:17 -0800, Cecil Watson said: I'm trying to help a friend with a problem. He has some scripts on a webserver, the problem is when ever the script runs and it needs to write to a file, it deletes the content of the file(s). Anyone got any ideas?! Thanks

Re: [expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-10 Thread John Rye
On 10 Jan 2001 18:13:22 -, chronos . said: Hi all, Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen we see anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? Like for instance get the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to block that specific

[expert] Detection of skymedia SM200D card

2000-12-28 Thread John Rye
Mandrake 7.0 2.2.14-15mdk - stock standard, no mods, vanilla variety! Epoyx M3VCA Mobo, Celeron 566 Coppermine III 128M Ram GEFORCE 256 DDR, 3COM 3c905 NIC SB Live 56K modem Skymedia SM200D Ethernet Satellite Receiver Card -- der Problem! The card is NOT detected by Lothar under 7.0(Air) The

Re: [expert] Modem speed

2000-12-08 Thread John Rye
Ron Stodden wrote: Tom Berkley wrote: I agree that html mail is a pain in the eyeball, but netscape has never crashed for me responding to html formatted email. My Netscape (from 7.2) crashes only with a reply attempt to that particular HTML message. This happens before the compose

Re: [expert] soundcard problem...conflicting irq?

2000-11-25 Thread John Rye
praedor wrote: Hmpf. It's the only thing I can think of that would be a cause of the NEW problem...which only actually appeared at some point after an upgrade to 7.2 but it CAN'T be Mandrake 7.2, because... I have an AudioPCI es1371 card and a PCI 3com 3C900B card presently sharing an

Re: [expert] Use of make oldconfig while compiling a new kernel.

2000-11-24 Thread John Rye
Mark Weaver wrote: What is "mr proper"? Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Mon, 20

Re: [expert] Use of make oldconfig while compiling a new kernel.

2000-11-24 Thread John Rye
Scott Walker wrote: vmlinuz = compressed with gzip bzImage = compressed with bzip2 - smallest foot print, but slower to load... So, there is an option 'somewhere' to select the gzip or bzip2 footprint? Can you show me the commandline? or point me to where I find those compiler options?

Re: [expert] [Fwd: Updating ML and Kernel]

2000-10-07 Thread John Rye
mrweb wrote: Any help with this will be appreciated. Thanks! mrweb Subject: Updating ML and Kernel Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 10:38:06 -0700 From: mrweb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: web/tech/ To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Netscape bus errors

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
Praedor Tempus wrote: I have been stuck at Netscape Communicator (mandrake) 4.73. I have tried upgrading first to 4.74, then the new 4.75. I have tried compiling the mandrake src.rpm. Doesn't matter. Whenever I try to access my pop email account or access another web-based email

Re: [expert] UMP midi plugin for Netscape

2000-09-15 Thread John Rye
Charles Curley wrote: Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi plugin for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the library and timidity. I can go to the test page (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on the "click

Re: [expert] OT: w98 equiv to this list

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Email me privately Doug - I have a fix... Cheers Doug McGarrett wrote: Does anyone here know of a Windows 98 equivalent to this mailing list? I need one question answered, but if someone here was willing to do so, I'd be very happy not to have to mess with a Windows list. Question:

Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: "D. R. Evans" wrote: If I kill the script-based bit, then I never get to the PAP. BOTH are necessary, which does seem faintly ridiculous. But perhaps not without precedent; this is, after all, USWest. (Maybe this whole thing has something to do with the

Re: [expert] Annoying Samba text conversion

2000-09-09 Thread John Rye
Greg Stewart wrote: The text file structure in Unix is slightly different from that in windows. You'll noticed, occassionally, that if you open some Unix-created text files in Windows notepad/word you may see little blocks at line's end. I'm not sure that the "carriage return" is

Re: [expert] cdrom boot

2000-08-25 Thread John Rye
Tony McGee wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Mike Rambo pushed some tiny letters in this order: Alan N wrote: lorne schachter wrote: I've got two copies of the Mandrake 7.1 CD, one from Maximum Linux mag and one from Linux Labs. In either case, when I try to boot from them,

Re: [expert] OLDER HP printers Full permission to VFAT partitions

2000-08-03 Thread John Rye
Vic wrote: I have an old HP DeskJet, no numbers or anything after it, just Deskjet, since its an older one, and has both parallel and serial hookups, would it work in Linux? It is a black and white printer. No good reason why not - if all else fails you can even configure it as an HP

Re: [expert] Dial on Demand

2000-07-15 Thread John Rye
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: I was wondering. What happens to the connection when the app initiating the connection is closed or dies? Hey Mark, It will connect, probably not transfer any traffic, then disconnect after the idle timeout occurs. Also, for some reason when I tried to start

Re: [expert] Dial on Demand

2000-07-15 Thread John Rye
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: I think this user has the same problem as I have, that there are NO prompts from the ISP's interface which waits until pppd sends some LCP packets before continuing the handshake. My reading indicates that the PPP session should commence to send the LCP packets

Re: [expert] Dial on Demand

2000-07-15 Thread John Rye
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: I think this user has the same problem as I have, that there are NO prompts from the ISP's interface which waits until pppd sends some LCP packets before continuing the handshake. My reading indicates that the PPP session should commence to send the LCP

[expert] Printing et al

2000-05-24 Thread John Rye
Hi all After several weeks GRIN of reinstalling the reinstall from the previous several reinstalls from scratch I finally have Linux 6.1 (I think) running..Well sort of... I have have a couple of problems which have stumped me. I am able to print test pages from printtool but for some reason

[expert] lpr Config.....

2000-04-26 Thread John Rye
May I have a pointer please... Printer is HP Laserjet 4P hanging on lp0. Printing is normal from Star Office and similar applications BUT I try a simple lpr filename usually a readme from the Konsole and the left side of the page is noted by it's abscense. Text looks normal but about

Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets

2000-04-16 Thread John Rye
At 02:46 04 04 2000 -0800, you wrote: -- Anyone remember TurboDOS? How about Formula/Formula II or Final Word? Or the OKIData 3300 74Mb HDD which was successfully placed on a micro in 1977. 100lbs of platters in 14" format fitting nicely into a rack And a bargain at $6000! Bouncing

Re: [expert] CD-RW UDF?

2000-04-16 Thread John Rye
At 11:14 16 04 2000 +0200, you wrote: vern wrote: the CDROM,CD-R HOWTO's. That left me with another question or two. I can read CD's CD-R's, but no CD-RW's does that mean that they are automatically in the UDF format?? Or are they Then Alen wrote: Why couldn't you read RW's?? I read them

[expert] Printing et al

2000-03-31 Thread John Rye
Hi all After several weeks GRIN of reinstalling the reinstall from the previous several reinstalls from scratch I finally have Linux 6.1 (I think) running..Well sort of... I have have a couple of problems which have stumped me. I am able to print test pages from printtool but for some reason