Re: [expert] Setting up a remote printer - please help!

2000-11-27 Thread S. Newhouse
it with CUPS one can read on http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups3.html#lpdsrv Till "S. Newhouse" wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_975035451-25285-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfe

[expert] network on laptop

2000-11-24 Thread S. Newhouse
What are the outputs of the two commands ifconfig and route Matthias Höppner writes: Hey, after varies test with no name cards I got a FIBERLINE PCMCIA fast Ethernet card. It's now known by the system and work properly BUT I can only reach computers from the local network. I had

[expert] Setting up a remote printer - please help!

2000-11-23 Thread S. Newhouse
Assume host1 is the name where the printer is located, and host2 is the name of the box in which you are trying to configure remote printing. Assume printing on host1 works and its /etc/printcap looks like # # Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing! # Be

[expert] realplay problems with www.cnn.com

2000-11-21 Thread S. Newhouse
Anyone able to get realplay to work with www.cnn.com ? At the page where it asks you to choose your streaming format, I don't get any chance to make the choice. My mouse won't click on the format choices. This does not happen in Windows. Any ideas? TIA, -sen Keep in touch

Re: [expert] Netzero problems

2000-11-21 Thread S. Newhouse
I used RASSPY. That is why I get as far as logging into the network. The problem seems to be related to authorization either at my end (most likely) or their end. -sen xaos writes: in order to use netzero with linux you need to know the encrypted username and password the windoze proggie

Re: [expert] Netzero problems

2000-11-21 Thread S. Newhouse
The program is rasspy.exe You can get it at http://rasspy.gq.nu/ You just unzip the package and put rasspy.exe into the Netzero directory. Then, you go to that directory in an MSDOS window and type rasspy.exe cmd=nzstart.exe Netzero will start, but the encripted userid and password will

[expert] Netzero problems

2000-11-20 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I have been trying to get Netzero to work with my laptop and kppp. I get to the part where it tries to log into the network and then dies with something like "peer not authorized to use IP address xx.xx.xx.xx" where xx.xx.xx.xx is some IP address. I think the IP address is the one

[expert] lnx4win problem

2000-06-07 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I just installed lnx4win on a new laptop, but it won't boot. It gets through the process until it tries to mount the root filesystem. Then it says that it cannot mount the root fs and hangs. The exact errors are: request_module[block-major-7]; Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open

Re: [expert] cdrecord CD-RW problems

2000-04-25 Thread S. Newhouse
Civileme writes: Ummm--don't you have to blank CDRWs before writing to them? Civileme OK, Here is the output of trying to blank the CDRW: [root@chaos Stalag]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -blank=all Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 JTOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM

[expert] cdrecord CD-RW problems

2000-04-24 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I am using Mandrake-7.02. I am trying to use cdrecord to write on an ide CD-RW drive. I can write to CD-R just fine, but it doesn't work with any CD-RW media. I have no problems with real scsi drives. I downloaded the new cdrecord src for RedHat, recompiled and it does not help.

[expert] cdrecord woes

2000-03-02 Thread S. Newhouse
Well, after following this thread for awhile, I decided to test certain things on my ide CD-RW cdrom. 1. I have not had much luck with xcdroast, so I have only been using cdrecord. 2. I have no trouble burning CD-R cdroms. 3. With CD-RW, cdrecord bombs out on attempts to write a brand new

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-01 Thread S. Newhouse
Sorry, but this answer is just wrong. The scsi support is loaded as a module right after boot time. I have installed several versions of Mandrake on sytems with only scsi disks. They work just fine without rebuilding the kernel. The 'LI' prompt can occur for many reasons. If you can't

[expert] burning CDs

2000-02-17 Thread S. Newhouse
John Aldrich writes: I have a 4x4x16 CDRW. I burned a whole bunch of Mandrake 7.02 CDs and gave 'em out. Now I'm starting to get reports back that they don't work. I used XCDRoast to burn 'em and I verified most of 'em, and there were no errors reported when burning or when checking.

[expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic

2000-02-16 Thread S. Newhouse
Don't know how you could do it? What do you need it for? If you want your private network to access the internet through the public one, you should route from your internal addresses to the public one. E.g. if host1 is 203.53.100.1 and host2 is 192.168.2.1, both having eth0 as their

[expert] ip_masq problems

2000-02-16 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I just started using ipchains and ip_masquerade. Cool idea, but it has not been very stable on my linux boxes. Setup: host1 = PII-300 on internet with T1 connection running ipchains and ip_masquerade, with 10 MB ethernet card host2 = PIII-600 on private net

RE: [expert] Real Audio.

2000-02-16 Thread S. Newhouse
John Aldrich writes: On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, you wrote: There's no G2 Alpha on the Netscape plugin site because there's no G2 plugin. All that's available currently is the standalone player. It seems to work, but don't touch the builtin volume control: on my machine it crashes

Re: [expert] ip_masq problems

2000-02-16 Thread S. Newhouse
checked my MAC address and found the dang filter. This was a static IP Cable-Modem situation This may not be your paticular problem but it certainly has been for myself and others! BTW my ipmasq/ipchains are working great right now. Good Luck William Bouterse Juneau Alaska

RE: [expert] ATI Rage 128 X Setup

2000-02-15 Thread S. Newhouse
I'd love to see your setup file. OK, here it is. Works fine with kde. -sen # File generated by XConfigurator. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. #

[expert] real player and squid

2000-02-13 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, Anyone been able to use realplay with squid as a proxy to the internet? I can get netscape from internal machines to work just fine for browsing, etc, but not for realplay.I tried setting the options to use the web proxy but that does not work. TIA, -sen

[expert] ATI Rage 128 X Setup

2000-02-13 Thread S. Newhouse
I have one that only works in 640x480 and 800x600 mode. This is with a Trinitron 17 inch monitor (Gateway 1776) Let me know if you want it. -sen Russ Johnson writes: Has anyone successfully gotten X to work with an ATI Rage Fury with the Rage 128 chipset? I've re-read the readme, the

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

2000-02-08 Thread S. Newhouse
Maybe this is the same as Scenario 4, but at times netscape produces a zombie process. I can't kill it unless I reboot. -sen Axalon Bloodstone writes: On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Rich Clark wrote: On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Does it happen with a particular

[expert] netscape mail username

2000-02-08 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I keep getting the following error message from Netscape 4.7. Netscape is unable to use the mail server because you have not provided a username. Please provide one in the preferences and try again. I keep trying to fill in the forms in the preferences, but to no avail.

[expert] mail and netscape

2000-02-07 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I am running mandrake 6.1. When I try to send a mail message using Netscape's messenger, I get this error message Netscape's connection was refused by the server. I have no problem sending mail with /bin/mail or xemacs. Any ideas? TIA, -sen

[expert] socks fixed ?

2000-02-07 Thread S. Newhouse
Apparently socks was broken in 6.1. Is it fixed in 7.0? Thanks, -sen

[expert] kermit permissions

2000-02-03 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, From time to time I need to use kermit for dial up connections. It works fine as root, but gives me uucp permission problems setting /dev/cua0 as a normal user. Anyone know where the files are and if it is not too big a security risk to change the permissions on the appropriate files

[expert] Sudden startx Failure

2000-02-01 Thread S. Newhouse
You could put xhost + localhost in your startup script. -sen Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. writes: I'm running Helios on a K6-2/300, dual booting with Win95. When I logged on this morning, in runlevel 5, startx gave me the following messages (with the process hanging on the gray screen):

Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment

2000-01-31 Thread S. Newhouse
: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 2:20 PM On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, S. Newhouse wrote: Hello, One of our machines is a Dell with the Turtle Beach Montego sound card

[expert] Aureal disappointment

2000-01-23 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, One of our machines is a Dell with the Turtle Beach Montego sound card. I was happy to see that Aureal wrote drivers for it (from their web site), but then I found out that the drivers worked only for the RedHat kernels in 6.0 and 6.1. I tried to install them in Mandrake and (of

[expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)

2000-01-10 Thread S. Newhouse
Andrew Mitchell writes: I've got an old 486 here that my friend wants to use as a firewall/proxy, but I can't install either mandrake or redhat on it due to the lack of ram (8mb) and it being a 486. On both, it stops at loading 2nd stage ramdisk. It's quite screwed, at least for windoze

[expert] Video Card Setup Help Needed

2000-01-10 Thread S. Newhouse
What video card are you trying to use? The only one I have had trouble with is the ATI All in Wonder 128. -sen Matrox, Diamond, n Sevatio Octavio writes: Okay, this is getting ridiculous. Perhaps one of you can give me some insights for this problem. I have a 400PII with an ASUS

Re: [expert] socks and Netscape

1999-12-07 Thread S. Newhouse
Shane Owenby writes: On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 08:57:50PM -0500, S. Newhouse wrote: Hi, Ever since upgrading to Mandrake-6.1 from RH-5.1 on my internet connected box, I can't use socks5 with netscape to allow other local hosts to browse the internet. Anyone here using

[expert] Netscape bookmarks error

1999-12-04 Thread S. Newhouse
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake-6.1 on an Intel PII-300 system. For the first few weeks, Netscape ran normally. Now I am regularly getting the error: "bookmarks have changed on disk and are being reloaded" This happens even when the system is idle and netscape has not been used

Re: [expert] Problems with INETD services...

1999-12-04 Thread S. Newhouse
install the rpms: telnet-0.12-10mdk.i586.rpm telnet-server-0.12-10mdk.i586.rpm and ftp-0.10-3mdk.i586.rpm -sen Anthony Speagle writes: I installed as "Server"the services are therebut Telnet just drops the connection before any login attempt can be made...FTP says "invalid

[expert] socks and Netscape

1999-12-04 Thread S. Newhouse
Hi, Ever since upgrading to Mandrake-6.1 from RH-5.1 on my internet connected box, I can't use socks5 with netscape to allow other local hosts to browse the internet. Anyone here using socks5 with Mandrake-6.1? If so, what did you do to configure it? TIA, -sen

[expert] SO51a - Partition problem?

1999-11-29 Thread S. Newhouse
Benjamin Sher writes: Dear Ron: Thanks for writing. I think the partition issue is probably the key to solving this problem, and I appreciate your comments. I installed the SO binary in /home/sher, then su - to root, then back to /home/sher/SO to untar the file. This created

[expert] reread /etc/fstab without reboot

1999-11-16 Thread S. Newhouse
mount -a -sen Lang Zhi writes: Hi, how to reread /etc/fstab without rebooting the system ? thanks -lz __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-16 Thread S. Newhouse
Why is a switch (or bridge) a bad idea? -sen A switch is really nothing more than a bridge anyway. Everyone decided that bridges are bad, so the marketing folks renamed them and repositioned them in the market. Stephen Carville wrote: A switched hub is a multiport bridge.

[expert] Looking for module for Turtle Beach Mentego A3D sound card.

1999-11-13 Thread S. Newhouse
It does not exist. You can find a beta version of a driver (Vortex chipset driver) at www.opensound.com. At this time it only supports playback and it costs $10 (not much if you want to support opensound IMHO) unless you want to keep restarting the evaluation version. But the playback is quite

RE: [expert] Looking for module for Turtle Beach Mentego A3D sound card.

1999-11-13 Thread S. Newhouse
or where else I can get the same thing. ? Thanks again Sen. Appreciate any suggestions. Rgds, Nixien -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of S. Newhouse Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 3:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: [expert] cdr

1999-11-11 Thread S. Newhouse
Forgot to read the part about the cdr use alone. See my other post about cd-rw. To find out where your cdrom drive is: type dmesg | grep hd Your output will show where your cdrom drive is. E.g., on my system, I get [root@chaos sen]# dmesg | grep hd ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA

Re: [expert] cdr

1999-11-11 Thread S. Newhouse
John Aldrich writes: On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote: What is the exact line to add to lilo to get a cdr to work and is there any thing else I need to do to actualy burn cd with it? Also I've only got this one cdrom in my system so how do i use it as a burner and regular cdrom at the

[expert] cdr

1999-11-11 Thread S. Newhouse
webmedic writes: What is the exact line to add to lilo to get a cdr to work and is there any thing else I need to do to actualy burn cd with it? Also I've only got this one cdrom in my system so how do i use it as a burner and regular cdrom at the same time. an example of lilo.conf

Re: [expert] multiple nics

1999-11-11 Thread S. Newhouse
Ramon Gandia writes: On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Pat Mc wrote: Having some trouble setting up multiple nics on my 486. I'm using ne clones with Mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.0.36. The cards work fine individually, but with both configured I can only get one to work at a time. I have tried netconf

[expert] color problems with kwintv

1999-11-10 Thread S. Newhouse
Well, upgraded to bttv-0.6.4h and, got beautiful color. -sen S. Newhouse writes: Hi, I just installed a Hauppauge Win/TV card in my mandrake-6.1 system with a Diamond 770L video card. I am using bttv-6.0.4 and kwintv-0.7.4. There is no color. Before, when running on RH-5.2

[expert] color problems with kwintv

1999-11-09 Thread S. Newhouse
Hi, I just installed a Hauppauge Win/TV card in my mandrake-6.1 system with a Diamond 770L video card. I am using bttv-6.0.4 and kwintv-0.7.4. There is no color. Before, when running on RH-5.2 with bttv-0.5.18, and a Matrox MII video card the color was fine. Any ideas? TIA, -sen

Re: [expert] Ethernet Network issues

1999-11-07 Thread S. Newhouse
Tadghe Djin writes: On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: What are the outputs of ifconfig route on two of the boxes connected via the hub? -sen ifconfig's output [root@victory scsi]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:28:D9:EE

[expert] Ethernet Network issues

1999-11-06 Thread S. Newhouse
What are the outputs of ifconfig route on two of the boxes connected via the hub? -sen Tadghe Djin writes: Good Evening. I've been trying to setup a Ethernet Network for the last Month and am having a bit of rather strange trouble. The Basics: I'm not new to either

[expert] X and 3Com905B

1999-11-03 Thread S. Newhouse
Hi, I noticed some problems with X-windows and the 3Com905C card. I am using KDE and a Dell XPS600T, with the stock Mandrake 6.1. 1. The card is not recognized at installation. 2. I loaded the shipped 3c90x.o module after installation, but it would not stay alive. It come up and then go

[expert] Star Office 5.1 weirdness

1999-10-29 Thread S. Newhouse
Mine works! Things to check: 1. When you installed it as root, did you use the setup /net command? 2. After it was installed, as a normal user, did you once again run setup? This puts the right stuff in the user's home directory. -sen Hi I have just installed the SO 5.1 on

[expert] dvips,Postscript Printer bug

1999-10-28 Thread S. Newhouse
I am running Mandrake 6.1, with a Postscript printer. and when I print a file made with dvips, the printed area is shifted up about 1 inch. This did not happen with my old RedHat-5.1. Anyone else see this or know a fix? TIA, -sen

[expert] ide CDRW without SCSI adapter ?

1999-10-28 Thread S. Newhouse
Anyone know if one needs to have a scsi adapter installed in one's system in order to run cdrecord and/or xcdroast with an ATAPI CD-RW? TIA, -sen

[expert] dvips,Postscript Printer bug

1999-10-28 Thread S. Newhouse
S. Newhouse writes: I am running Mandrake 6.1, with a Postscript printer. and when I print a file made with dvips, the printed area is shifted up about 1 inch. This did not happen with my old RedHat-5.1. Anyone else see this or know a fix? TIA, -sen Turns out that this seems

[expert] STILL Can't network because of ARP

1999-10-27 Thread S. Newhouse
I would get rid of the ISA card and buy a new PCI card. You don't have to manually set the interrupts on the PCI cards. I used to use ISA cards just fine, but with the new BIOSes on several systems and new versions of Linux, I had problems. I now use the linksys and D-link PCI 10/100 cards

RE: [expert] problems with xcdroast

1999-10-26 Thread S. Newhouse
If you type cdrecord -scanbus what is the output? I can't get cdrecord to see my atapi cdrw. Here is what lsmod looks like: sg 15660 0 ide-scsi7520 0 scsi_debug 4988 0 So, I have the scsi emulator installed. TIA, -sen Klar

Re: [expert] RealPlayer G2 on WINE?

1999-10-25 Thread S. Newhouse
Dovydas Kulvinskas writes: Linux G2 version runs just fine for me. Dovydas Where did you get it? TIA, -sen

[expert] Can't network because of ARP

1999-10-25 Thread S. Newhouse
You need to send the output of the commands ifconfig route lsmod on both machines to get more help. -sen Marco Fioretti writes: Hello, I just installed Mandrake 6.1 on both my desktop (D) and laptop( L). Now I'm trying to connect the two via Ethernet, but, even after

RE: [expert] Problems with Dell Dimension

1999-10-21 Thread S. Newhouse
Thomas J. Hamman writes: On 21-Oct-99 S. Newhouse wrote: 2. The installation did not recognize the 3COM905C ethernet card. After rebooting, modprobe did find the driver, so it can be used, but, again, this should not happen. Interesting, Mandrake 6.0's installation did

RE: [expert] Problems with Dell Dimension

1999-10-21 Thread S. Newhouse
Singer XJ Wang writes: Dell Demsion, do they acutally use Standard 3COM nics or those 1" PCI pusdo things? I did not look at the card. I presume it is a standard card. -sen On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, S. Newhouse wrote: Thomas J. Hamman writes: On 21-Oct-99 S. Newhouse

Re: [expert] TV PCI

1999-10-20 Thread S. Newhouse
Check your mixer. Is the input set to line? -sen John Connell writes: Marion Krahn wrote: Hi, try "modprobe msp3400" as root and start kwintv again. This module will bring you support for your stereo TV-tuner. By Marion Did it -- nada, a few little crackles out of

[expert] Problems with Dell Dimension

1999-10-20 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I just installed Mandrake 6.1 on a Dell Dimension PIII-600 which had Win98 pre-installed and an Adaptec 2940U2 scsi card. There were a couple of problems. 1. The system would not boot off the cdrom (set the BIOS to boot off the cdrom, but that did not matter). I had to make a

[expert] what gives with bookmarks?

1999-10-13 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I have netscape-4.61mdk installed (in mandrake-6.1) and I cannot save bookmarks. I have tried replacing ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html and just simply adding new bookmarks. When netscape is closed and opened, the installation default bookmarks get loaded. Where is this file, and what can

[expert] what gives with bookmarks?

1999-10-13 Thread S. Newhouse
OK, fixed it! Had an old .netscape directory from Solaris 2.7. After this was removed thinks work fine. -sen Hello, I have netscape-4.61mdk installed (in mandrake-6.1) and I cannot save bookmarks. I have tried replacing ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html and just simply adding new

[expert] Alt-key in Netscape

1999-10-11 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, Why is it that the default installation of Netscape-4.61mdk disables the key sequence Alt-L for "open page?" This does not happen with RedHat's netscape. Anyone know how to fix this? TIA, -sen

Re: [expert] X and 3Com

1999-01-02 Thread S. Newhouse
using the Small NIC? the card looks between 1 1/2 to 2" square and fits into a wierd slot or is it intergrated? If it is the above two, no luck cuase its somewhat wierd in design. On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, S. Newhouse wrote: Hi, I noticed some problems with X-windows and the 3Co

Re: [expert] X Server and Accelerated X

1999-01-02 Thread S. Newhouse
For a keyboard issue, I would try to use xkeycaps to set your keyboard as you wish. You can download it from ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/ I think there also is a Mandrake specific one on one of the cd's shipped in the commercial version. -sen R_Yeo wrote: Hi,