Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:23 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:58:57 -0700 Dave Anselmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: [...] ELX WELCOME'S YOU BFD! If I had a nickel for every one of my typos, I'd be retired by now. If your typos are in a

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Vern W Heesch
] Registered Linux user # 135678 since 1994 Amateur Radio Packeteer since 1988 - Original Message - From: Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 2:48 PM Subject: Re: elx [snip] I am in agreement with Dave. Typo's are unacceptable

Re: elx

2001-12-30 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Sunday 30 December 2001 03:22 pm, you wrote: [ snips ] On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:10:46 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:48 pm, you wrote: If your typos are in a product you're selling, I won't buy it. If you can't proofread, how good are you

Re: where's is at...

2001-12-27 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Thursday 27 December 2001 04:13 pm, you wrote: I seen a 'tip' or way to have kmail automagically check for mail upon startup... Ill advised...? Not suggested...? If it aint a bad idea, anyone seen it and remember where it was in the near 1,000 pages of the SxS? TIA add --check to the

Re: Question

2001-12-27 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Thursday 27 December 2001 09:58 pm, you wrote: Very obviously a newby, waiting for parts to finish his new Box. Am going to start with Mandrake 8.1. Am printing-out the manuals now. I've been lurking for some time, and am learning some of the linux lingo. But, SxS.Sox vs Sonics? Be

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-18 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 06:41 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:49:53 -0800 Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again David, with your help I almost there! Vern, When you get this all ironed out... why not write up a detailed step-by-step for the rest of us to follow

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-04 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Monday 03 December 2001 06:06 pm, you wrote: Vern W Heesch wrote: [snip] Here is what I have the Access Point as: ESSID = linksys1 Channel = 1 Access Point Name = myap1 Fragmentation RTS Thresholds = 2346 Authentication Type = both Open System and Shared key WEP key

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-03 Thread Vern W Heesch
[snip] OK, couple of things: 1. you need to edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. Read the file, but at the very least you'll need to be sure you have something for: ESSID (that's your network name) KEY (the crypto key to enter the network -- shame on them if they don't use one) check your

Re: accessing the net

2001-12-03 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Monday 03 December 2001 09:46 pm, you wrote: David A. Bandel wrote: Keith Antoine wrote: Can a telco block linux access on cable ?? I cannot get out using Suse but I was online earlier today, a friens als has tried in suse and mandrake and cannot get out We can both get out on

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-02 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:48 pm, you wrote: Vern W Heesch wrote: I am in need of help with setting up the WPC11 pcmcia card for my laptop. I have qwest DSL with a dynamic ip. The laptop is running OpenLinux 3.1. I tried to follow the step by step, but I must be missing something

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-02 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Sunday 02 December 2001 04:52 pm, you wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:17:31PM -0800, Vern W Heesch wrote: ... What is in the /var/log/messages file when you insert the card? Bill /var/log/messages showed: cardmgr[1994]: executing: 'modprobe -r wvlan_cs' kernel: wavelan_cs: unloading

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-02 Thread Vern W Heesch
Any ideas? Something's strange with your system. My IBM ThinkPad's running a vanilla installation of OL 3.1 Workstation, and the only references I see to wvlan_cs in the /etc/pcmcia are commented out in the config.opts file, and a note in the wireless.opts file. There's no wvlan_cs module

Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-11-30 Thread Vern W Heesch
I am in need of help with setting up the WPC11 pcmcia card for my laptop. I have qwest DSL with a dynamic ip. The laptop is running OpenLinux 3.1. I tried to follow the step by step, but I must be missing something. After loading pcmcia-cs-3.1.30 I now get power to the card but no 'activity'

Re: Web Server Working?

2001-11-22 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Thursday 22 November 2001 09:24 am, you wrote: Can anyone out there hit my web site, http://www.kurwerks.com? Thanks, K I get Unknown Host Vern ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

linux to linux networking

2001-11-03 Thread Vern W Heesch
I have two linux boxes connected through a hub and can't figure out how to network them together so that files and printers can be shared. I read the howto's but got really confused. Unless I am missing something very simple, it seems setting up samba to share with windows was easier than

Linux and NTFS

2001-10-31 Thread Vern W Heesch
I was trying to install Caldera Workstation 3.1.1 but it won't work. I discovered that the drive partition I wanted to install is NTFS. Lizzard does not seem to even recognize the NTFS. Does lizzard not know how to handle NTFS? Any ideas how to get around this? It looks as though windows XP is

Re: linux and laptops

2001-10-29 Thread Vern W Heesch
Thanks On Sunday 28 October 2001 11:01 am, you wrote: Today Vern W Heesch was heard saying: -I just got a Sony vaio P3 laptop that came with windowsXP. It is my first -laptop. Has anyone had experience with putting linux on laptops? I would like -to make it a dual boot with Workstation 3.1

Re: linux and laptops

2001-10-29 Thread Vern W Heesch
I've installed both COL 2.4 and SuSE 7.2 on an IBM Thinkpad. Both installs went very well. You're biggest (and initial) concern will be to partition and get a loader (grub I assume) in place without losing the Windows setup or destroying something. To do this on my Thinkpad, I initially

linux and laptops

2001-10-28 Thread Vern W Heesch
I just got a Sony vaio P3 laptop that came with windowsXP. It is my first laptop. Has anyone had experience with putting linux on laptops? I would like to make it a dual boot with Workstation 3.1. Is this possible? Does linux work well on laptops? Any hints, tips and advise would be greatly

Re: WTC

2001-09-14 Thread Vern W Heesch
I don't have S.O., but please send it to me. Thanks!! On Friday 14 September 2001 11:17 am, you wrote: I have received a 40+ picture slide show of many events during the attack. Most of the pictures are excellent. If anyone would like me to send it to you, or if someone wants to put it

Re: WTC

2001-09-14 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Friday 14 September 2001 12:01 pm, you wrote: On Friday 14 September 2001 14:36 pm, Vern W Heesch wrote: I don't have S.O., but please send it to me. Thanks!! Ok, promise you'll attempt to use it with other KDE apps and if you get it to go, let us know. It is in .ppt (PowerPoint

help with zip drive

2001-08-25 Thread Vern W Heesch
I am running Caldera eW3.1 and have an internal atapi zip drive on hdd4. The problem is that I can't mount it. I have tried as user and root but it gives me an error saying mount /dev/hdd4 is not a valid block device. I did lsmod and it does show ide-floppy. In /etc/fstab I have /dev/hdd4

Re: help with zip drive (solved - sort of)

2001-08-25 Thread Vern W Heesch
Mike Andrew wrote: On Sunday 26 August 2001 05:53, Vern W Heesch wrote: I am running Caldera eW3.1 and have an internal atapi zip drive on hdd4. The problem is that I can't mount it. I have tried as user and root but it gives me an error saying mount /dev/hdd4 is not a valid block

Re: Help with PDF files

2001-07-17 Thread Vern W Heesch
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus i fail to see why anyone would want to convert from text to ps to pdf. Why not use the already existant text2pdf utility: http://freshmeat.net/projects/txt2pdf/ Quote from website:

Re: Help with PDF files

2001-07-17 Thread Vern W Heesch
Net Llama wrote: --- Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus i fail to see why anyone would want to convert from text to ps to pdf. Why not use the already existant text2pdf

Re: Help with PDF files

2001-07-17 Thread Vern W Heesch
Bruce Marshall wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2001 15:56, Vern W Heesch wrote: Net Llama wrote: --- Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus i fail to see why anyone would

Help with PDF files

2001-07-16 Thread Vern W Heesch
I have been playing with converting text files to ps format using a2ps, then to pdf format using ps2pdf. For the most part it seems to work. However, I cannot figure out how to maintain the format or font sizes of the original document. I have read about everything I could get my hands on but

Re: Stale lock file?

2001-07-08 Thread Vern W Heesch
Kurt Wall wrote: Vern W Heesch offered this little gem: % I am running eW3.1 (beta) and am having a problem with the floppy. If I % try to mount it from the terminal it tells me it is already mounted. I % can cd to /mnt/floppy and see the files. If I click on the floppy icon % on my desktop