Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-18 Thread Marco Romeny
I've had exactly the same problem. (just for the record, so the problemcount can increment) Also, when I finally got it to work (by installing w/o the pcmcia card - yup, I had to do a cd-install), my orinoco silver card hangs the kernel without emitting any recoveable logmessages upon first use

Re: [expert] Unable to get GD to function with PHP4/Apache2

2002-10-16 Thread Marco Romeny
It looks like you are ' include()'-ing the generation-scripts, If you have your index.php (or whatever) with images, you should use something like 'img src=gd-image.php?bla=ha /' and in your gd-image.php you need to set the right mime-type first: header(Content-Type: image/jpeg); But this is

Re: [expert] [Fwd: MDK 9.0 crashes at boot]

2002-10-15 Thread Marco Romeny
maybe instead of just typing rescue, try rescue devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi nopentium noAPIC or some variants of it. seems like nopentium and noAPIC is some good candidates. personally I'd start with just rescue nopentium noAPIC not tried, might be wrong, break everything etc. someone correct me

[expert] rpm db4?

2002-09-28 Thread Marco Romeny
damnit! whatever I do with rpm it gives me: rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery. error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv-open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30981) rpm --rebuilddb gives the same result OF COURSE. it

Re: [expert] rpm db4?

2002-09-28 Thread Marco Romeny
rtfm. I solved it. 'remove /var/lib/rpm/__db*' http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ - Original Message - From: Marco Romeny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 15:45 Subject: [expert] rpm db4? damnit! whatever I do with rpm it gives me

Re: [expert] j2sdk just a little help ...

2002-09-27 Thread Marco Romeny
hmm... my j2sdk when queried with: rpm -q --scripts j2sdk only tells me that in fixes symbolic links for the manuals. then it might be an older release I have, j2sdk-1.4.0-fcs. the 'which java' points you to the kaffe-links, which is a os jvm. it is required for mandrake- wizards I think.

Re: [expert] j2sdk just a little help ...

2002-09-26 Thread Marco Romeny
unfortunately it installs in its own directory. try rpm -ql j2sdk to find the base directory on mine it's /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0 so, in my case I would do: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0 export PATH=JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH recommended to put those lines in your .bashrc or /etc/bashrc (or