I am using MDK 8.1 with kernel 2.4.17 on an nfs server, and RH 7.2 on a
client system.
I have tried setting up the nfs server. During the initial
install, I included nfs support, and have built the kernel with support for
both nfs server and client.
I am starting up nfs with '/etc/init.d/nfs
I am using autofs4 for automounting under MDK 8.1. I have a directory,
/mount, which I use for automounting. It works fine for my DVD drive, CDRW
drive, a local windows partition, and a remote windows share via smbmount.
However, I cannot seem to get my floppy to automount. For instance, if I
I am hoping that someone can help me out with an automount / autofs problem.
I use autofs4, which works just fine for my dvd drive, cdrw drive, an old
windows partition on my HD, and an smbmount of a windows partition on another
machine on my lan.
However, it just doesn't seem to work for my
I have noticed that with KMail, periodically when trying to send mail, I will
get an error message that KMail cannot connect to my smtp server
(mail.attbi.com). This only started after the my @home service, provided
locally via ATT, was terminated and I was switched to att broadband over my
I am currently running 7.2 with 2.4.4 kernel. I passed on upgrading to 8.0
because I am (mostly) happy with my current system, and didn't want to risk
breaking things. However, 8.1 seems to include many things I have been
waiting for (KOffice 1.1 - maybe KWord won't crash every time I close
Has anyone installed kde 2.2 via the MDK rpms? The Readme on the KDE website
suggests using urpm, although I have always used rpm in the past. Any
input/thoughts/experiences?
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
how to clarify this situation?
Thanks.
Neal
On Friday 06 July 2001 11:34, Ron Stodden wrote:
Neal Lippman wrote:
I have just wasted many hours trying to figure out why my CDRW,
configured for scsi emulation, would not let me mount a cd for reading,
...
What device are you using to mount
Does anyone know how to set things up so that modules are automatically
loaded when needed? My understanding was that kmod was supposed to do this,
but I don't see it running on ps even though I did request it when
configuring my kernel compilation.
I have just wasted many hours trying to
Has anyone been successful in getting Quanta (HTML editor) working?
My config is: MDK 7.2 installed from the ISO images on the web site, upgraded
to kernel 2.4.4. I have also upgraded to KDE 2.1.1 using rpms d/l'd a few
months ago from the various Mandrake-related mirror sites.
When I run
I am wondering what people are finding to be the best option for an address
book. I am running a pretty standard Linux Mandrake 7.2 system, with KDE 2.1.
I need to do pretty much the standard thing with an address book: I need to
store names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, web
Looking for input on desktop environment.
I am presently running MDK 7.2 with a custom 2.4.4 kernel. I use KDE 2.1,
which seems to be working pretty well for me. The major drawback I have is
that of not having a great email/addressbook/syncing to Visor client.
I have been looking at a switch
My standard MDK 7.2 install created the following users in /etc/passwd
(excluding user accounts that I have created):
root
bin
daemon
adm
lp
sync
shutdown
halt
mail
news
uucp
operator
games
named
sympa
gopher
ftp
nobody
xfs
htdig
gdm
mysql
However, I see that I am actually running processes
I was hoping that someone could set me straight with an issue regarding
loadable kernel modules. This issue arises as I have switched over to using a
HandSpring Visor from a Palm IIIxe, but relates really more towards a more
general question on loadable kernel modules. It comes out of the
I am trying to sort out some USB-related stuff, specifically related to the
modules for syncing my Visor. I have all that stuff working, but it is a pain
to have to load the modules after each boot so I can sync.
I notice that in /etc/init.d there is a script called usb that starts up
usb
I am hoping someone can help me figure out to to properly handle file
permissions. Let me outline
the situation I am trying to set up.
I have just gotten a HandSpring Visor, which connects via a USB port. (This
is not a question on
USB, or using JPilot, I already have all that stuff up and
I am wondering if someone out there who is a bash expert can help me with a
problem with the way that bash startup files are handled.
My problem stems from creating an alias for the ls command in my
~/.bashrc, but finding that whenever I open an xterm console, that
alias does not seem to take
someone mentioned that Netscape
insists on loading its homepage, and if it can't load it when it is started
then it will die/automatically-exit. I know Konqueror doubles as a
web-browser, is it possible that it's trying to load something or access
something that isn't accessible?
?,
j
--- Neal
I should also note that if I execute konqueror from a console, it works
just fine.
In the menu configuration, what is run via the konqueror menu item is
kfmclient openProfile webbrowser. I assume that kfmclient is something that
chains to konqueror as appropriate, but I don't know why it
Any help appreciated. I am using konquerer under KDE 2.1 (the MDK rpms). THe
underlying system is MDK 7.2 with a self-compiled 2.4.4 kernel.
I am unable to get konquerer to run. At first, it would run when I selected
it from the panel or the K menu, but if I right-clicked on a link and
] Palm Pilot
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:23:31 +0200
From: Kang-Ling Weng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Robert Goshko [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: MandrakeExpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am Dienstag 24 April 2001 03:07 schrieb Robert Goshko:
On 23 Apr 2001 19:45:19 -0400, Neal Lippman wrote:
What
Does anyone have any insights to offer on gnome vs KDE? I have been working
mostly with KDE which I am reasonably happy with. However, I find that I must
keep the gnone libs installed also, to use things like gnucash, etc.
Everytime I try to swtich to gnome I find some bug or something that
What are people using to sync/work with a palm pilot from Linux?
Thus far, I have been very disappointed with the available software:
JPilot cannot seem to sync; it hangs part way through and then fails.
KPilot can sync, but the program is so buggy as to be unusable. For
Any users of StarOffice out there who can comment on it? I can really use
something compatible with MS Word 2000; KWord just cannot cut it at this
point and there really is no choice but to be compatible with the MS world
from time to time, when I have to bring work home.
Neal
I am having trouble getting KDE 2.1 installed.
My system is a baseline MDK 7.2 install, upgraded to 2.4.2 kernel which I
compiled.
I downloaded the Mandrake KDE 2.1 rpms from ftp.sourceforge.net, and have the
following rpms in my kde-2.1 directory:
arts-2.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
Recently, I recall seeing some postings regarding supermount failing after
upgrading the kernel to the 2.4.x series. I posted here, as did others, a few
months ago regarding that; basically, there is code in
/etc/rc.d/mandrake-everytime which disables the supermount keywords in
/etc/fstab
I haven't tried that particular printserver, but I am using cups with a
Linksys 3-port printserver. The Linksys unit has a built-in lpr server.
Configuring it under cups was just a matter of using the MDK configuration
tool to add a new printer. I added a "remote" printer, specified the
There have been a number of articles over the past year or two on the boot-up
sequence used by redhat-like systems, which includes Mandrake. Look in online
sites like www.linuxjournal.com, www.linuxgazette.com, etc. Also see Linux
Journal and Linux Magazine back issues.
There are also some
Two questions on installing KDE 2.1:
Firstly, I STILL cannot find it in the download sites provided on KDE's
website. Where are people getting it from?
Secondly, the KDE web site states that qt-2.2.4 is required, but it will
probably work with qt-2.2.3. On my system, `rpm -q qt` tells me I
There is a book from O'Reilly called "Linux Device Drivers" which i have not
read, but which is supposed to be the definitive reference in this regard. I
am sure the currently published version does not cover kernel 2.4 issues.
There is also "Understanding the Linux Kernel" a recent O"Reilly
A few weeks (?months) ago, I recall reading an announcement on, I think,
slashdot, about a company that was producing a quicken-like financial
management / checkbook program for Linux. While not a quicken clone per se,
looking at their website strongly suggested it was going to be a quicken
I have an HP laserjet 5L. It configured easily under cups, and has worked
fine under both Linux and (sorry) Windows. I have it connected to a Linksys
printserver on my LAN, which has a built in LPR server. It was actually
easier to configure under Linux than windows. Presumably CUPS configured
ry X 3.3.6 RPM you've got.
4. rpm -Uvh the 4.0.2 RPMs
5. change the symlink /etc/X11/X to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
Hope any of this might help you
Jesper
* On Monday, February 26, Neal Lippman wrote:
Having trouble getting X 4.0.2 to work. Current system is MDK 7.2,
upgrade
I am wondering if anyone can provide help on installing XFree 4.0.2.
I have d/l'd the cooker rpms: I have what I believe to be a complete set of
the 13 rpms, minus the glide rpm which I understand does not work well with
my nVidia GeForce II MX card.
After d/l'ing all 13 rpms, I tried 'rpm
There have been previous postings to this list regarding menudrake problems.
Menudrake IS to make changes to your menu. I can only speak for KDE, which is
what I run, but I have found that after making changes with MenuDrake, I need
to log out and log back in again for the changes to take
it off the quote, but I'm running 2.1b2 on this
system and it is definitely beta, particularly in the multimedia areas
(like basic sound playing). The implementation of the arts deamon needs
work before 2.1 is done.
Neal Lippman wrote:
(As an aside, kudos still go to Linux. I ran DrakConf
better on the network.
On Sunday 18 February 2001 13:09, Michael O'Henly wrote:
On Saturday 17 February 2001 20:47, Neal Lippman wrote:
1. Very frequently, I have program crashes, more so that I would have
expected for "released software." This occurs in KWord, Konquerer (le
The bottom line is that it is essentially impossible to COMPLETELY secure any
pc to which you have physical access. It should be possible to do a
reasonably good job, if you are very careful, about securing a computer that
others DO NOT have physical access to, by shutting off the appropriate
One thing I noticed when I did my 2.4.1 compile, is that in the section on
USB support, there were a number of places to include / not include support
for a variety of USB devices. For instance, there was an item to select if
you were planning to use a USB printer. Presumably, without checking
AHA! Thanks for the tip. I have also noticed this, and never understood why
it happens. I, of course, solved the problem by just never booting windows
anymore...
On Sunday 18 February 2001 22:12, Altoine B. wrote:
Joseph Red wrote:
Kuldeep Shah wrote:
I am having dual operating
One thing I have noticed is that the "quality" of my display, by which I mean
the sharpness of text on the screen and the quality of the fonts, just
doesn't seem as good under X as it does under Windows booted on the same
system. (For reference, I am using KDE 2.0, mdk 7.2 with kernel upgraded
I have been using KOffice for a couple of weeks now, since installing MDK
7.2. I am running the 2.4.1 kernel. I have been surprised at the bugginess of
KOffice / KDE 2.0. I don't think this is due to the upgraded kernel, because
I was seeing similar behavoir under 2.2.17-21mdk which came on
On Wednesday 14 February 2001 07:35, Kevin Tambascio wrote:
xinetd uses /etc/xinetd.conf, and /etc/xinetd.d/*
-Kevin
At 05:33 AM 02.14.2001, you wrote:
Hi , I've posted this question before , but no takers.
inetd uses /etc/services
which file does xinetd use ?
thanks
Richard
On Wednesday 14 February 2001 16:24, William Schwartz wrote:
I'm currently running a stock 7.2 mandrake and was wondering if there's
a list of recommended rpm's to upgrade to start using the 2.4.1 kernel.
thanks,
Bill
I was able to get to 2.4.1 by d/l'ing the source from www.kernel.org
I am still mentally gyrating over intalling XFree 4.0.2. My system is MDK
7.2, but I am running the 2.4.1 kernel (compiled from the source tars, not
taken from the cooker rpms).
Any thoughts on whether I am better off d/l'ing the tars from xfree.org, or
using the cooker rpms from mandrake
Your
problem is that windows always assumes it is the only software in the world, so
when you install windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2k) it will overwrite your master boot
record with its own boot loader, which doesn't know anything about linux type
partitions. That is why it is easier, in
I tried the Ximian Gnome install too; it was hard to do because the d/l of
the files using their automated installer kept hanging and needing to be
restarted. Once I had everything d/l'd and installed, I made the ?mistake of
telling it to keep my current login manager (kdm); when I tried to
Up until a few minutes ago, when I booted my system, kdm would give me an
option of several windows managers at login time, including KDE (my default)
and gnome.
I just installed Helix gnome via the automated installer, and selected the
option to keep my current login manager (eg kdm). Now,
Please see my earlier response, which explains why this is happening. THe
code quoted below is what is removing supermount from your fstab, because
the supermount module is not being found in
/lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/supermount/supermount.o.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
You can configure either to include the additional boot parametes.
In lilo, you would edit /etc/lilo.conf, and to the section that boots linux,
add the command "append ide2=0x9400,0x9002 ide3=0x8800,0x8402"
and then rerun /sbin/lilo to load the lilo.conf data to the mbr. The append
command
I have posted a few times on this already. Basically, the file
mandrake_everytime in /etc/rc.d is a script that is run on each bootup. In
that script, there is a section that checks for the existance of supermount,
and if it cannot find the supermount.o module in the appropriate place for
the
Several options (you may wish to implement them all for maximum security,
depending on your needs).
1. Use ipchains (now iptables in 2.4.1) to set up your linux system as a
firewall. YOu can use ipchains to specifically specify that incoming
connections to port 21 (FTP server) can only be
On Monday 05 February 2001 17:53, you wrote:
I want to install the new 2.4 kernel on my Mandrake 7.2 laptop,running
grub. Do I just use the rpm for the kernel and the 2.4cs rpm? What changes
do I make and to what files so I can boot both kernels? I think I tried
this once before and could not
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 02:28, you wrote:
Tom Massey wrote:
Neal Lippman wrote:
I DID NOT compile frame buffer support in (because none
of the allowed drivers matched my video card) but I note that in the
default MDK install, there are frame buffer devices in /dev so maybe I
001 08:38, you wrote:
On Sunday 04 February 2001 07:41 pm, Neal Lippman wrote:
I looked at fstab, and found that all of the supermount entries were
GONE. The timestamp on the file indicated it was edited today, but I
know I didn't touch it. Strange.
So I tried "supermount -i en
I am also having problems getting 2.4.1 to boot, and trying has been trashing
my system to boot (no pun intended). I've already posted how trying to boot
lost my supermount entries in /etc/fstab (which I've figured out; see
separate post) and also my ability to mount windows (vfat) file
Well, I've been working for some time at getting a compile of 2.4.1 up and
running, and after a good deal of mucking around, I've figured out the
following.
When I installed LM 7.2 originally, the grub boot line for the linux kernel
included the option "vga=788", so I (of course) blindly
I have a rather strange problem with supermount. Here's what happened.
Supermount seemed to be working find for both of my installed CD drives:
/dev/hdc is a Pioneer DVD 105S and /dev/hdd is an HP CDRW drive. I am pretty
sure the last time I put a CD into either drive, it supermounted just
I am working on compiling the 2.4.1 source. The director /usr/src is root
owner and root group, and only root has write access to this directory. I am
thinking about changing the group to something like "kernel" (a new group I
would define) and giving group full access, and then putting my
Assuming you are trying to get rid of Sygate, what you would do is to use
the Linux system as the gateway computer - the Linux system would, ideally,
have two nics, one connected to your internal LAN and the other to your
outside connection, whether cable modem, DSL, dial-up, etc.
On the Linux
I have just been doing a "make xconfig" for the 2.4.1 kernel (I have MDK 7.2
installed with the default 2.2.18-mdk kernel running).
I have to cd devices: at /dev/hdc is a Pioneer DVD-105S DVD drive, and at
/dev/hdd is an HP CDRW drive. When I installed MDK, it was smart enough to
automatically
I have a question for the Xperts (sorry, bad joke) on switching monitors
under X. I keep reading about the important of properly configuring X for
your monitor because setting up the wrong refresh rates, etc, in the x
configuration files can "fry" your monitor.
I don't know how seriously to take
Very weird. I haven't used gnome, other than to log in to it once to see
what it was like, so I don't know; I certainly have seen the weird behavoir
with KDE though.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ken lierman
Sent: Tuesday, January
Any tips for installing the 2.4 kernel? I have just done a fresh 7.2
install, and was planning to d/l the rpms for 2.4 from mandrakeuser.org. I
notice, however, that 7.2 includes some apparent patches, such as a module
for usb support which I presume will be unnecessary with the 2.4 kernel. Has
I've only been using kmail for a few days now, and at least once/night it
crashes. Is that typical behavoir? If so, any pointers on what is going on?
I've actually installed the complete system 3 times as I play wiht install
parameters before finally getting what I wanted on the current install,
Thanks to all who responded to my last posting on X.
I have tried reinstalling LM 7.2 several times, and at no time does it
prompt me to select whether I want XFree 3.3.x or 4.0.x. I suspect that part
of the problem (or maybe the whole problem) is that my video card is a
Hercules Geforce II MX,
I just did my first install of LM 7.2 from d/l'd iso images. I was surprised
in that I seem to be running XFree 3.3.x rather than 4.0.1 which I expected
to see.
Do I need to do an expert install to get 4.0.1? I had assumed that would be
the default, but maybe not.
Neal
I am wondering what advice and/or thoughts people might have regarding disk
partitioning for a brand new install. I have just finished assembling the
hardware, and have a fully blank and unformatted 45GB disk, and I'd like to
plan out my partitions before starting on the install.
I was figuring
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