Perhaps this would be helpful
>From the Mandrake/i586/images directory's README:
other.img:
install that needs "less popular" drivers, mostly NET and
SCSI drivers; try this one if your default boot image seems
to not provide the driver you need
Oren,
Your best bet may be to try a LUG in the area, as from what I
understand, ISDN setup varies by location.
A LUG site for Israel is here:
http://www.iglu.org.il/IGLU/
And, the ppp HOWTO is here:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/index.html
Depending on your ISP's setup, you can use p
If you haven't already, I suggest trying XFree86 3.3.6.
I had to use that release for my Toshiba Tecra 8100 to work with its
docking station.
Also, you may want to cat /proc/interrupts to see if there is any IRQ
sharing going on w/ the ps2 mouse interface that you can adjust.
If you've tried bo
Charles,
Unfortunately MandrakeUpdate does use wget to do file transfers.
Are there any similar tools that can get through that proxy? If so, a
kludge would be to put one of them in place of wget on your system, and
maybe write a shell script wrapper to call it with the right options.
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I had this problem before and somehow or other it solved itself.
>
> sher@localhost sher]$ rpm -q galeon
> galeon-0.11.3-1mdk
> [sher@localhost sher]$ rpm -q mozilla
> mozilla-0.9.2-7mdk
> [sher@localhost sher]$
>
> Galeon won't sta
Alternatively, you can use uptimed.
It's page is here:
http://cx.capsi.com/code-uptimed.html
Apparently it's in mdk8 contrib, too:
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake//8.0/contrib/i586//uptimed-0.1.6-1mdk.i586.html
-pete
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Gregor Maier
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Brandon Caudle wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Peter Kok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Brandon Caudle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] linux distribution
>
>
> > Dear Brandon Caudle
> >
> > Sorry I don't ca
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Also, note that there was a CERT advisory today noting that OpenLDAP >
> 2.0.8 is vulnerable to some fairly nasty exploits.
That should be OpenLDAP < 2.0.8 (or < 1.2.12 for the historic series), so,
2.0.8 and higher are fixed.
The CERT advisory i
Julia,
The OpenLDAP site has a nice admin manual at their site -
http://www.openldap.org/
Specifically, this chapter would appear to answer your question:
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/schema.html
Also, note that there was a CERT advisory today noting that OpenLDAP >
2.0.8 is vulnerable to
In snd's source tarball, there's a README.snd that has the following
answer:
Guile:
If you get a complaint along the lines of "ice-9/boot-9.scm not found",
it means you're running a version of Snd that has Guile loaded, but
Guile isn't installed locally. You need to install Guile. If Guile
is i
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, David M.Kufta wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I just recieved in the post my 8.0 PowerPack which was so graciously given to
> me for helping with crash testing for 8.0
> When attempting to install from bootable CDROM, which is a creative
> cd
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me please -
> A number of my downloads gave the wrong md5sum recently.
> Is there anything I can do to get better results?
I find that using a command-line ftp client and explicitly specifying
binary mode works every
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, civileme wrote:
>
> Anyway, we are advocates of standards. There are precisely two distros where
> the menus are as identical as possible across window managers, and ours is
> one of them.
When a friend asked me to help him get WindowMaker set up on Red Hat, I
was very gl
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Lyric wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Now I know that Aureal originally only released a set of beta drivers, but
> I was wondering if anyone has picked up what they left off...
>
http://aureal.sourceforge.net/ is the current project to pick up where
Aureal left off. Since it's
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, DStevenson wrote:
> I put the xhost 192.168.0.10 into the file as you suggested, no change in
> problem. I put it before the xsession command.
>
> What files are associated with the xhost system? The program xsane returns
> the message 'Gtk cannot open display on xyz'. The
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
>
> This may seem like a trivial question, but it's been driving me crazy. I
> have to reinstall LM 8.0, and, for the life of me, I can't find any
> option to INSTALL EVERYTHING. One click of the mouse and you just
> install everythi
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That works fine under Linux Mandrake, as well, but her
> K6-2's motherboard (Asus A7V) did not recognize the full size of the drive
> out of the box.
Correction - the motherboard is P5A, not A7V. You'd just break pins
trying to use a K6-2 in an
My vendor of choice is ucdweb- http://www.ucdweb.com/ They've been a
very reliable vendor for me - first experience was February 1998, buying
drives for a database server's RAID. 4 IBM 4GB SCSI disks - all of which
are alive and kicking over 3 years later. :) By comparison, the majority
of th
I've got a copy from Debian's non-free.
The about box says: "XV IS SHAREWARE FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY", i.e., not
free software. I think once ee got decent, it pretty much became a
replacement.
-pete
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Thomas Sourmail wrote:
> > I bought Linux-Mandrake
52-mdk.i586.rpm here:
/distributions/mandrake/updates/8.0/RPMS
There are a couple libgtk+ updates, also:
libgtk+1.2-1.2.10-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
Hope this helps!
-pete
On 29 Jun 2001, Laura Conrad wrote:
> >>>>> &quo
$ urpmf Gtk.pm
perl-GTK:/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/Gtk.pm
When it's installed, it looks like:
rpm -qa | grep -i gtk
<--snip-->
perl-GTK-0.7005-3mdk
perl-GTK-Gnome-0.7005-3mdk
The .pm and @INC stuff shows it's a perl program having the problem. And,
those module tend to have capi
Joe,
The Official GPL FAQ is here:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html
There is an entry for specifically covering your question:
"Q: I use the C or C++ programming language, and I compile with GCC. Must
I release software I write in the language under the same license as GCC?
A: Use of
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Michael Leone wrote:
>
> > 6) Lynx (this is obviously a worst-case scenario, as Lynx is a
> > text-based browser).
>
> Dunno about "worst"; I know some folks (very few, to be sure) who use it. Of
> course, they always complain when they go to some site with graphics, or
> Fla
there's lots of good info google found:
A couple walk-through articles -
http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=11&aid=9814
http://freeos.com/articles/3799/
http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features192.html
The official site (as found on http://freshmeat.net/ )-
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo
Regarding nautilus elbowing out access to the desktop in Window Maker upon
accessing GNOME Help, I was able to resolve the situation by doing this:
Run this gnome configuration tool (you can do this from Window Maker):
gnome-panel-properties-capplet
In Document Handlers -> URL Handlers, modify
Check out your /etc/cups/printers.conf
Info YourPrinter
Location
DeviceURI smb://winusername:winpassword@WinPrintServer/WinPrinter
The win* entries in DeviceURI should contain your Windows networking
username, password, printserver and printer name.
Also, it's likely you'll need to put your w
I've got Mandrake 8.0 here. At install time, I selected Nautilus as the
file manager. I had never tried it before, but thought it would be cool
to check out.
Now, the problem I'm having is while using my favorite window manager,
Window Maker, and choose the help option in any GNOME program (eg
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> I bought a nice 40 gig drive a while back (although it
> is NOT the boot disk), made one big partition, and its
> happy:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 2190632819352 126 39% /
>
I've got an intereseting one, where after reading fonts in from Windows,
Galeon has serious issues with font spacing. I.e., the words will run
outside surrounding table borders and such. One site this is very
noticeable on is LinuxToday - http://www.linuxtoday.com/
Anyone seen this?
I tried rm
2.4.4 is the latest in the new stable series.
The development series has an odd minor number. In the case of 2.4.4, 2
is the major number, 4 is the minor and the .4 is the point release
number.
Eg., 2.3.x and 2.5.x would be development (kernel developer/brave
soul-oriented).
The 2.2.x is the o
I find strace helpful in such situations.
i.e., in a terminal:
strace konqueror > /tmp/konqueror.trace 2>&1
Using this method, I was able to track down a problem with Galeon (it
would load then hang) to something to do with history.xml After deleting
.galeon/history.xml, Galeon started working
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Gavin wrote:
> it suggested I try using it to see how secure the passwords my friends
> employees are using.
Btw, you need to get explicit permission from the owner of the machines
before undertaking any sort of security audit. Not doing so can result in
prison time and hug
According to those messages, the bttv driver is already being loaded.
Do you see the bttv module loaded when doing lsmod?
Also, how about modprobe bttv?
Or modprobe /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/bttv.o (specifying the full
path?)
When trying to get a Hauppauge WinTV 401 working on 7.2, the dri
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Gavin wrote:
> I would like to know if you or anyone else in the expert group have ever
> used the progeam called JOHN THE RIPPER to I want to install it and do some
> security checks (passwords for other users) . If you have used it before
> could you please give me the
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Walter Luffman wrote:
> Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital, IBM,
> Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These makers
> have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right?
>
> Okay, who has horror sto
My favorite method of copying partitions on systems on Linux is cp -ax
(the -x switch tells cp to stay on the current filesystem)
Eg.,
with / mounted as /, and the new one mounted as /newroot, you can say:
cd /
cp -ax . newroot
Make sure to tell lilo and fstab about the change, of course.
Als
I believe the source of this Western Digital thing is Andre Hedric's
discovery:
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0001.3/1207.html
"WDC drives blow off the CRC check of UDMA.This is BAD and STUPID.
Several of the OEM chipset makers have allowed this crap to exist.
ATA-2
Brian,
This is the line I've put in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1 /windows ntfs uid=0,gid=266,umask=006 0 0
the uid=0,gid=266 means that all files are owned by user 0 (root) and
group 266 (which I've created in /etc/group for windows, putting whichever
users I want to have access in)
umask of 006 me
Ever since importing the Windows truetype fonts on my Linux Mandrake 7.2
system, I've been having trouble with xfs.
I used the strong truetype checking option to help avoid problems, but
when xfs is started as the xfs user it gives the following error and dies.
This is what I get when I run xfs
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