Re: [expert] GnuPG - pass phrase solved

2001-07-13 Thread Nathan Callahan
LOL, if only more people would do that! Of course some of us could do well by reading our own posts before we send them, or reading other peoples posts before we reply... Oops that's just me :-) On Friday, July 13, 2001, at 07:05 PM, Phil wrote: Hello All, I solved the problem and I did

Re: [expert] Multiple network cards in a Mandrake firewall/switch combination

2001-07-12 Thread Nathan Callahan
even used a cross over cable from the workstation to the server, but I still can not ping the eth2 card Darcy Nathan Callahan wrote: There is another option. You could set the machine up as an ethernet bridge as I am doing here so that I can use my powerbook on our local coax network

Re: [expert] Multiple network cards in a Mandrake firewall/switch combination

2001-07-12 Thread Nathan Callahan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nathan Callahan Sent: 12 July 2001 12:12 To: Darcy Brodie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple network cards in a Mandrake firewall/switch combination Hi... This is probably all my fault

[expert] Software Manager Problem

2001-07-11 Thread Nathan Callahan
Hi All, I just got LM 8.0 Powerpack. I've been trying to add the CDs as extra sources in Software Manager, but it always seems to fail to read the second disk that I put in, and the drive becomes unusable until I reboot (i/o error is the message that I seem to remember) . I'm running a

Re: [expert] Multiple network cards in a Mandrake firewall/switch combination

2001-07-10 Thread Nathan Callahan
if this doesn't help you a bit, I think it's pretty cool and felt like showing it off anyway :-) Plus, it may help someone else. Regards, Nathan Callahan On Tuesday, July 10, 2001, at 04:18 PM, Darcy Brodie wrote: and in his usual, amazingly helpful style... civileme wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2001

[expert] SBLive! (lots of them)

2001-07-09 Thread Nathan Callahan
I seem to have some weird stuff going on with the sound on my machine at the moment. I have 1 Soundblaster Live! installed in my machine. In an effort to get midi going, I have tried running alsaconf from the command line as suggested earlier on this list, I have also tried reconfiguring the

Re: [expert] script help ...

2001-07-05 Thread Nathan Callahan
HI, If you want the same answer to all questions for a particular command, there is an amazing little utility by the name of yes By default it echos an endless stream of y characters. If you pass it anything as an argument, then that is what is echoed endlessly instead. You can almost

Re: [expert] dual Athlon CPU not recognised under Mandrake 7.2?

2001-07-04 Thread Nathan Callahan
On Wednesday, July 4, 2001, at 07:10 PM, Peter Varnai wrote: Dear Experts, I installed Mandrake 7.2 on a test machine: Tyan thunder k7 board + 2 Athlon 1200 MHz Mandrake 7.2 a) Bastard :-) If you can't get it to work, send it here and I will. /proc/cpuinfo: only CPU 0 recognised

Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv

2001-07-01 Thread Nathan Callahan
Hi, Have to go shortly so I can't take the time to look up things. I recall that in order to get the bttv chip working, you need to pass the module some parameters. The readme in the documentation subdir of the kernel sources is kind of handy. On Monday, July 2, 2001, at 07:52 AM, JR

Re: [expert] Network sniffing, how?

2001-06-26 Thread Nathan Callahan
On Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at 11:57 PM, Craig Sprout wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, How do I sniff the packets coming thru my network connection? At home, I have a cable modem and last night I noticed some activity on it, though I know I'm not doing anything using the network.

[expert] MandrakeFreq + Mandrake Update

2001-06-25 Thread Nathan Callahan
Probably not the forum for this. But does anyone know if the MandrakeFreq files are available for download individually in a form that you can point Mandrake Update at? I have had nothing but trouble with cooker RPMs and this seems like a nice safe way keep somewhat up to date, but 2 whole

Re: [expert] icons disappered

2001-06-23 Thread Nathan Callahan
You could try the update-menus script. It fixed a similar problem for me, once after installing a new version of KDE, and again after installing some software. This was back when I was still running 7.2 though. On Saturday, June 23, 2001, at 02:32 PM, Alden Torres wrote: almost all my

Re: [expert] GCC 3.0 - Question on GPL

2001-06-21 Thread Nathan Callahan
code made with GCC3.0 under any license that you feel like; although, if the libraries are under the LGPL as has been suggested (I can't find any reference to this, just an exception) then there are a few minor restrictions that you must be aware of. Regards, Nathan Callahan

Re: [expert] How do I set up a joystick?

2001-06-17 Thread Nathan Callahan
If this is a USB sidewider that you are talking about, try modprobe joydev. Also: rm /dev/js0 ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0 might make life a bit easier. Hope this helps. By the way, can anyone tell me how to calibrate said joystck? On Sunday, June 17, 2001, at 02:58 PM, Ken Arromdee

Re: [expert] spelling

2001-06-14 Thread Nathan Callahan
Hi, I can't quite remember what the rpms are called, but the LM cds have ispell dictionaries for UK english, as well as a there being a UK english locale included in the en qt locale. Once these are installed, you should be able to go to Personalis(z)ation-Country Language in the KDE

Re: [expert] cvs and X forwarding

2001-06-13 Thread Nathan Callahan
Hi, My guess is that you are not starting ssh with the -X flag. This X11 forwarding. Possible other problems, the DISPLAY environment variable is not correctly set (although it should be in an xterm). If this is the case, assuming that you only have one X11 server running on one monitor,

Re: [expert] Poor OpenGL performance in LM 8.0

2001-06-13 Thread Nathan Callahan
Don't know what causing tuxracer to not report FPS correctly, but I think know what the problem with the Radeon is. The XF86 version that comes with LM8 does not support DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) on the radeon. You will have to obtain a new version of XF86 either from the DRI

Re: [expert] Terminal screen unusable

2001-06-07 Thread Nathan Callahan
Don't really know what could cause it, I do know a workaround for a similar problem that I hat under MD7.2 If you log in blind to the virtual terminal and reset is (by typing reset) it may fix the problem. Regards, Nathan Callahan On Thursday, June 7, 2001, at 03:02 PM, M L Cates

Re: [expert] samba/cups

2001-06-05 Thread Nathan Callahan
Laserwriter works well) and redirect the input via Ghostscript to the windows drivers using Redmon. If this last thing is what you need, I can find out more details for you. Regards, Nathan Callahan On Tuesday, June 5, 2001, at 12:59 AM, mike wrote: Where is some new documentation of how

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Nathan Callahan
if you need the box to be transparent (like a switch) and probably only if the machines on either side don't know that they are on different networks. Regards, Nathan Callahan On Wednesday, June 6, 2001, at 09:33 AM, Doug Gough wrote: I'm not able to get my LM8.0 box to work as a router

[expert] Routing / NAT problem

2001-06-04 Thread Nathan Callahan
at the moment, it will be done in the near future. If anyone has a good clue on this one, please tell me. Nathan Callahan

Re: [expert] Routing / NAT problem

2001-06-04 Thread Nathan Callahan
or just attempt to send them back to you (or /dev/null). Sorry, I know I'm not being real helpful, more curious than anything, Randy Kramer Nathan Callahan wrote: I've got a problem which must be solved by tomorrow. I need to be able to take all packets bound for a particular local subnet (eg

Re: [expert] IP Masquerading Problems

2001-06-01 Thread Nathan Callahan
those routes. Or you could use the route command, but I know that I try to avoid it :-) Nathan Callahan On Friday, June 1, 2001, at 01:47 PM, Abiel Reinhart wrote: After reformatting my system and upgrading to Linux Mandrake 8.0 from 7.2, I am unable to get IP masquerading to function. I