[expert] ifup in LM 8.0

2001-05-27 Thread Luis Chardon
Hi,   I recently installed mandrake 8.0 on my box. After I configured the ppp dialup connection using linuxconf, I do an ifup ppp0 and it does not connect. After I do the command, it hangs up for some 15 seconds and then returns an error code 6, which on the pppd man page says that it is unab

Re: [expert] mapping ports to processes

2001-03-01 Thread Luis Chardon
On Linux you can use fuser to see which process is using a specified tcp/udp port like this: fuser -n tcp 80 and it would show you the pid(s) of the process(es) using the port. You would have to run it as root. Luis - Original Message - From: "Guy McArthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMA

Re: [expert] Mandrake boot

2001-02-13 Thread Luis Chardon
what I have done in those cases that I don't have a boot floppy, I boot from CD and specify "Upgrade" and just instal ONE package. Then follow up all the lilo/grub configuration and after it finishes, voila! the boot loader is back!!! Luis - Original Message - From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [expert] high-resolution console

2001-02-09 Thread Luis Chardon
You can find more information on the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesa.txt (if you have kernel-doc installed). Basically you can play with the vga=### parameter and give it a higher number until you can get the desidered resolution and the desire depth. You can test it at boot time using

Re: [expert] Desktop over telnet

2001-02-06 Thread Luis Chardon
You can do a export DISPLAY=yourmachine:0.0 and then run any X applications. If your machine is a windows machine, you can use a program called xwin32 or reflection X which emulates a Xwindows server and lets you export the display to your Windows Desktop. Luis

Re: [expert] I cannot print in a remote samba server with cups.

2001-02-04 Thread Luis Chardon
I had the same problems. Everytime I printed something from a Winblows machine, samba would crash. Instead I installed TCP/IP Printing on my Winblows client and then configured my Linux box to allow remote lpd by adding the following line to /etc/inetd.conf: printer stream tcp nowait lp /usr/lib

Re: [expert] addition to hosts.deny?

2001-02-03 Thread Luis Chardon
I think you would have to write it as NET/MASK. Luis On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi LIst, > > I was wondering if anyone has either done this or knows if it's legal to be > done. I want to list an entire net block in the hosts.deny file on my machine. > > EX: > > ALL:224.0.0.

Re: [expert] Unsuccessful Ping

2001-02-01 Thread Luis Chardon
I have a script for checking an unsuccesful ping, and I use the return value: ping -c 1 www.yahoo.com 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then An error has occured else Ping went OK fi See, ping has a return code 0 for a successfull ping, and 1 or 2 for an error, dependi

Re: [expert] Palm IIIxe

2001-02-01 Thread Luis Chardon
When I first started configuring my Palm, I did some troubleshooting by putting the palm on the cradle, doing a cat /dev/ttyS0 and then pressing the sync button on the cradle. When everything is ok, you'll start to see a lot of garbage on the cat output. I also had a problem because another proce

Re: [expert] Any way to disable Internet Connection Sharing?

2001-01-28 Thread Luis Chardon
; These are two major bugs with it, and I wish I knew about them before I had ever >turned on this feature, seeing as it's apparently impossible to turn it off. > > Please, if anyone knows how to turn it off, I would be extremely grateful if they >would share this secret! >

Re: [expert] Any way to disable Internet Connection Sharing?

2001-01-28 Thread Luis Chardon
On 7.2 I did my configuration with drakgw, and then it allowed me to turn connection sharing on and off. Luis On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Paul Hoepfner-Homme wrote: > Does anyone know how to disable the Internet Connection Sharing feature of Linux >Mandrake 7.2? I turned it on, it apparently change

Re: [expert] Palm IIIxe

2001-01-27 Thread Luis Chardon
I have my IIIc working fine both using jpilot and mal-sync at 115200 This is the output for setserial /dev/pilot if it helps you in any way: /dev/pilot, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 Luis On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Greg A. Bur wrote: > I have been trying for nearly a month now to get my Palm

Re: [expert] Wireless LAN on Linux

2001-01-27 Thread Luis Chardon
So it really works fine when mixing different vendors? It seems that the standard is working pretty well. Luis > I've already got an Apple Airport base station (For my wife's ibook, $299 > BTW) so I purchased an Orinoco (Lucent) Wavelan Silver card for my laptop > which runs L-M 7.2 and Win ME.

Re: [expert] Wireless LAN on Linux

2001-01-27 Thread Luis Chardon
Are you using it on Linux? I recently tried a Cisco 340 under linux and win2k and it worked fine. It gave me full 11Mbps around the whole building even around some production lines which can give a lot of interference. Luis On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001,

Re: [expert] Wireless LAN on Linux

2001-01-27 Thread Luis Chardon
Well I have my linux box setup as a router for connection sharing and I want to share connection for 2 laptops and the Linux box, and wireless seams to be the best solution, since I want to use it all around the house. Also, if I get cable modem or DSL, I can still use the current infrastructure,

[expert] Wireless LAN on Linux

2001-01-27 Thread Luis Chardon
I recently got the idea to setup a 11Mbps wireless lan at home and I wanted to get something that I can use both on winblows and Linux, for less than $500. I was looking in the pcmcia-cs's SUPPORTED.CARDS file and I was wandering if any of you are using any of these cards under Linux. I have alre

Re: [expert] Stop X11 and KDM from listening

2001-01-10 Thread Luis Chardon
I think kdm is listening for a request for a remote XDMCP connection for a remote login session. Luis On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, duane voth wrote: > Bryan Brown wrote: > > > I did a nmap scan and noticed that X11 is listening on > > port 6000 and kdm is listening on port 1024. Are these > > daemons

[expert] VPN

2001-01-07 Thread Luis Chardon
Does anyone know which softwares exists on linux so a linux box can connect to a VPN? Thanks, Luis

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Memory problems

2001-01-06 Thread Luis Chardon
ote: > On Friday 05 January 2001 16:02, you wrote: > > Luis Chardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah, that might be it. Is there a way to flush it besides "sync"? > > > > > > Here is the output: > > > > > > total

Re: [expert] Naming a CD mkisofs

2001-01-06 Thread Luis Chardon
Hi, I use the "-V labelname" option with mkisofs. Luis On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Todd Marshall wrote: > In response to previous posts, you can use the -J option to preserve long > filenames using the joillete CD Directory... > > However, I had a question how one would NAME a CD... > I made a backup

Re: [expert] Memory problems

2001-01-04 Thread Luis Chardon
401584 0 401584 Call me paranoid but I don't like seing around 200M in buffers :) Luis On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: > Luis Chardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have noticed that my linux box is using a whole l

[expert] Memory problems

2001-01-04 Thread Luis Chardon
Hi, I have noticed that my linux box is using a whole lot of physical memory. I have about 672MB on my box and even if I go to runlevel 1 and unload all the modules and unmount all the filesystems, it still is using almost all the memory. This is happening from Mandrake 7.1 and still happens on

Re: [expert] connecting to win98 share - Arkeia problem?

2001-01-04 Thread Luis Chardon
I always use smbmount //winmachine//share /mountpoint -o username=username,password=password,workgroup=workgroup_or_domain_or_machinename Luis On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Andrew Judge wrote: > Is there another way to connect to a win98 share w/ 7.2? I was running a > script to backup the smbfs and

Re: [expert] No carrier - anyone?

2001-01-04 Thread Luis Chardon
Hi, sometimes after I do a ifdown ppp0 this happens to me, and I see a ppp-watch process running that is respawning the connection. You can check for that and try to kill it. Luis On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Viktor Lakics wrote: > Hi Pj, > > I tried your idea, and now I am stuck...After doing ifup pp

Re: [expert] Gnome+Enlightment=blank desktop

2000-11-07 Thread Luis Chardon
That happened to me once. First I didn't have Midnight Commander installed and it seems that Gnome uses it for the desktop, or a mc package. After I installed mc and that other package that I don't remember it's name, I got ICONS! Luis - Original Message - From: "Turgut Kalfaoglu" <[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.2 Install question

2000-11-07 Thread Luis Chardon
Actuall, when I installed in expert mode I got 3 buttons including the Xfree4.0.1 one Luis - Original Message - From: "Francois Pons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Tim Litwiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake

[expert] ifup on 7.2

2000-11-05 Thread Luis Chardon
I just installed 7.2 and after I configure my dialup connection using linuxconf when I do a ifup ppp0, the script gets in a loop. After I check the /var/log/messages, I see that there is an modprobe error saying that it couldn't find module char-major-108. I can connect using kppp, and I cou

Re: [expert] Perl scripts won't work???

2000-10-24 Thread Luis Chardon
I would definetly check wether the perl path is correct. Luis On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Jim Holthaus wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, junkmail wrote: > > > > Hey, so I'm having a weird problem maybe someone can help me with. > > I have a simpl

Re: [expert] Sniffer for Linux

2000-10-24 Thread Luis Chardon
Sniffit On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Cecil Watson wrote: > Ethereal. > http://freshmeat.net/projects/ethereal/?highlight=ethereal > > _ Bizquick wrote: > > > I am looking for a good sniffer for my network. Any good recomendations? > > > > J > > ___