[expert] ifup in LM 8.0

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

Re: [expert] mapping ports to processes

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: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Mandrake boot

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

Re: [expert] high-resolution console

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

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.

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

Re: [expert] addition to hosts.deny?

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:224.0.0.0 -

Re: [expert] Palm IIIxe

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

Re: [expert] Unsuccessful Ping

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,

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

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 changed

[expert] Wireless LAN on Linux

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

Re: [expert] Wireless LAN on Linux

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

Re: [expert] Wireless LAN on Linux

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

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] Palm IIIxe

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] Stop X11 and KDM from listening

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

Does anyone know which softwares exists on linux so a linux box can connect to a VPN? Thanks, Luis

Re: [expert] Naming a CD mkisofs

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 of

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

: 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 used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:687708 489396

Re: [expert] No carrier - anyone?

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 ppp0

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

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

[expert] Memory problems

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] Memory problems

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 lot of physical memory. I have about 672MB

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.2 Install question

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 7.2

Re: [expert] Gnome+Enlightment=blank desktop

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

[expert] ifup on 7.2

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

Re: [expert] Sniffer for Linux

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

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

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 simple perl