Re: [newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem

1998-12-28 Thread Khalid J. Shahen
Hi there, I've read your message, and all I can say is ..."Dear Friend Drop this LINUX Shit" and switch to FreeBSDdon't waste your time??? Khalid Idris S Hamid wrote: Dear folks: I originally sent this message on Christmas Day so I guess nobody had the time to pay any attention to it.

Re: [newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem

1998-12-28 Thread RĂ©mi LETOT
make xconfig; make config; make menuconfig; make mrproper. When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not being found; Can you tell us whitch targets? Always give the full error message. 2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into the

[newbie] pppd again!

1998-12-28 Thread Ham
Hi there! Iam presently trying to configure my internet connection under Mandrake. I successfully installed pppd but I still get an error. "pppd died". I check readme file but it doesn't help me. Here is the message i get in the /var/log message file: Dec 28 15:28:26 yck kernel: PPP: ppp line

[newbie] iso CD image

1998-12-28 Thread Bruce Endries
Amidst all the problems you guys are handling, I thought I would just let you know that I downloaded the Mandrake distribution CD-ROM image from ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr, wrote it to a CD, and successfully installed Mandrake on the first try. This is a great idea, and I hope you continue it as

Re: [newbie] pppd again!

1998-12-28 Thread Gael Duval
Ham wrote: Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 here is the problem. Anyways, you mentionned it worked properly with the root id. Is it true? Can you give the same log when running pppd as

Re: [newbie] iso CD image

1998-12-28 Thread William Oswald
I enthusiastically agree! At 04:33 PM 12/28/98 -05:0, you wrote: Amidst all the problems you guys are handling, I thought I would just let you know that I downloaded the Mandrake distribution CD-ROM image from ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr, wrote it to a CD, and successfully installed Mandrake on the

Re: [newbie] iso CD image

1998-12-28 Thread Gael Duval
Bruce Endries wrote: Amidst all the problems you guys are handling, I thought I would just let you know that I downloaded the Mandrake distribution CD-ROM image from ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr, wrote it to a CD, and successfully installed Mandrake on the first try. This is a great idea, and I

Re[2]: [newbie] iso CD image

1998-12-28 Thread Jason E.J. Manaigre
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 17:35:53 -0500 William Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry I kinda barged in before with that Diamond Stealth question, Mandrake does seem quite nice, keep up the good work people... I should have kept my old video card around tho..G I enthusiastically agree!

Re: [newbie] iso CD image

1998-12-28 Thread William Oswald
It's very popular and we will continue to do that, although we know it's not accessible for people with a modem :-( Greets, Gael. In fact, I used a 56K bps modem. It took about 48 hours. Under Win95, I used CuteFTP, which is capable of resuming interrupted downloads. I had to resume once.

Re: [newbie] pppd again!

1998-12-28 Thread Ham
At 23:16 98-12-28 +0100, you wrote: Ham wrote: Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Dec 28 15:29:43 yck pppd[1758]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 What can be the cause of this error? here is the problem. Anyways, you mentionned it worked properly with

Re: [newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem

1998-12-28 Thread Idris S Hamid
Thanks for the response. I just got Fabio's message (my ISP's mail delivery service has been down) as I was sending this off and I will try his ideas as well. RXmi LETOT wrote: make xconfig; make config; make menuconfig; make mrproper. When I try to run these commands I get