Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message

1999-03-13 Thread Steve Philp
Andre Baron wrote: At 00:01 12/03/99 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 3/11/99 8:50:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have imagined that /dev would cause problems (a simple cp in /dev will quickly fill your destination directory... that /dev/zero file

Re: [newbie] Updated KDE Apps.

1999-03-13 Thread Steve Philp
Pankil Richards wrote: Steve Philp wrote: I've installed Mandrake 5.3 (the latest release), and have Korganizer 1.0. Sorry for making you repeat yourself, but did you do the install from the Mandrake CD or did you download Mandrake? On their FTP site the apps are listed as the most

Re: [newbie] linux compatible modems, and home networking?

1999-03-13 Thread Steve Philp
Kuraiken wrote: hello people, i just started using linux like a month ago, and i just noticed i got a damn winmodem heh. please reply with the modem you use for linux, pleeasee, also i just wanted to know if their is a way to network 2 linux computers together through the parallel

Re: [newbie] Command line path display?

1999-03-13 Thread Lawrence Sayre
Steve Philp wrote: Lawrence Sayre wrote: My command line path only shows the directory I'm in, and not all of the directories below it. How can I set this for complete path information? To change it for all users: Edit /etc/profile, changing this line:

Re: [newbie] linux compatible modems, and home networking?

1999-03-13 Thread Kuraiken
As for parrallel port...I'll leave that to the gurus on the list (am I right in saying you need to use PLIP?) :-) With the price of a pair of NE2k cards being around $20-30, why even bother with PLIP? SOHO Basics (made by Accton) are probably the cheapest Taiwanese hardware pieces I've

Re: [newbie] TNT Card

1999-03-13 Thread ShaoK14
you need the latest xfree86 server: 3.3.3.1. Mandrake 5.2 comes with 3.3.2. go to www.xfree86.com

Re: [newbie] Linux at ZDU/ZDNET

1999-03-13 Thread Sam Bonham
Good tip-offs Steve, I try to avoid all the twisted freaks. Steve Philp wrote: Sam Bonham wrote: SOFTWARE: Red Hat Linux v 5.2 (or later ) Korn Shell What sort of twisted freak would teach the Korn shell instead of Linux's default Bash

Re: [newbie] TNT Card

1999-03-13 Thread Quinton Jones Jr
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:51:12 -0500, Dredd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Riva TNT video card. How do i get it to work?? I have tried using everything and nothing seems to run this thing and i wind up using standard vga which is terrible. I want the resolution to be at least 1024x

Re: [newbie] linux compatible modems, and home networking?

1999-03-13 Thread SciFyKid
In a message dated 3/13/99, 2:08:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hello people, i just started using linux like a month ago, and i just noticed i got a damn winmodem heh. please reply with the modem you use for

Re: [newbie] modem problems

1999-03-13 Thread Michael Doyle
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, you wrote: I got my modem configured fine, but when I start to connect, it gets stuck on "setting speaker volume." What causes this and how can I fix this. G'day Try the following commands to the modem. ATX3 ATW0 (thats W zero) This might sound strange I had the same

Re: [newbie] Command line path display?

1999-03-13 Thread Steve Philp
Lawrence Sayre wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Also, after making the change to whichever file, did you logout and log back in? You can try the PS1 stuff right from the command line for instant tests. I made the change to /etc/profile. It did nothing (\w was the same as \W). I tried