Re: [newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jaybird X wrote: My HP 722C won't even flinch on any of the HP prfiles in printtool. They cover the 5xx, 6xx, and 8xx series machines though. Is there a reason this model isn't supported? Yes, the HP 722C is a GDI printer (AKA Windoze printer)... LLaP bero -- Tired of

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] 6.1 ftp isntall via pcmcia net card]

1999-09-20 Thread Chris Herrnberger
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Chris Herrnberger wrote: That's what I thought. Guess the images are buggy. So what's the mechanism on this list to report bugs to get the images updated. We're reading the list - where did you get the images? two sources;

Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help

1999-09-20 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help Now that you mention it, I believe that the free license I received was for single user -- I only have it installed

[newbie] CDROM on ide3 controller?

1999-09-20 Thread Richardson, Tony
A friend has an IDE CDROM drive on the fourth (ide3) controller. (Two controllers on motherboard, two more provided by soundblaster card.) During installation we specified: linux ide3=base,ctr,irq (using number in place of base, ctr, and irq - I just don't have the numbers in front of me).

Re: [newbie] init=?

1999-09-20 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to put this. I've buggered something up and am

Re: [[newbie] init=?]

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Jim Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to put this. I've buggered something up

Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)

1999-09-20 Thread Simon Norris
And to further your pursuit, check out www.98lite.net . They offer a utility that trims win98 to realistic, even Linux proportions. - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wanted -

Re: [newbie] iso

1999-09-20 Thread Darin
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Dan Brown wrote: Doesn't have to be that fast, i used to download the isos with my X2. 120megs every 8 hours, it does take awhile mind you, and it really sucks when it goes wrong, but when it works it'll make you beam :) Thats what I

Re: [newbie] FTP Server

1999-09-20 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does a Linux-Mandrake 6.0 server installation automatically set up an FTP server? I have tried to FTP connect to Linux, from my WinNT box, using MS IE as my FTP client. It won't work. I have tried both anonymous and real account details. (sorry, haven't

Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)

1999-09-20 Thread Paul Cruz
How about installing StarOffice? Its got filters for major wordprocessors. www.stardivision.com You'll like it. -Original Message- From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 6:09 PM Subject: [newbie] Wanted -

Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)

1999-09-20 Thread Ripcrd6
600 MB is plenty of room for Win 95 and Office 97 full install. It takes about 200-300 MB, but it will fit. If you don't need Access or Pwrpoint, don't install them and save space.You probably won't have room for IE 5 either. Use an older version of any browser. Either work on docs

[newbie] HP 712C Printer....

1999-09-20 Thread Matt G. Ellis
I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?"

Re: [newbie] Id mo

1999-09-20 Thread Gustavo Viola
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." snip grep 'mo' /etc/inittab Thanks Axalon. Out of

Re: [newbie] HP 712C Printer....

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matt G. Ellis wrote: I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?" Yes, but AFAIK there is currently some project going to get winprinters to work on Linux. Maybe someone else knows more about this... LLaP bero --

Re: [newbie] How do I quit X when it starts automatically?

1999-09-20 Thread Brian Erikson
Ty Mixon wrote: What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want to work in a console use CTRL+ALT+F123456 to get to a console. Best of both worlds that way. Ty, What do you do to go back to X/KDE? Brian in Fremont

Re: [newbie] HP 712C Printer....

1999-09-20 Thread Ripcrd6
Yes, the entire 700 series. Brian -Original Message- From: Matt G. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?"

[newbie] problem with floppy access

1999-09-20 Thread David van Balen
I got star office and wp8 to install fine, but when I try to get them to save to my floppy drive I get a permission denied message and have to save to hdd first and then transfer it to my floppy. does anyone know how to fix this? David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] How do I quit X when it starts automatically?

1999-09-20 Thread Jim Howarth
By hitting ALT+F7 you should get back to X. This is assuming that tty7 isn't being used by another app. Ie. I redirect all output from Seti@Home to tty7 so I would hit ALT-F8 to get to X when X is running. Jim Ty Mixon wrote: What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want

Re: [newbie] the programming language

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: Sorry for the overly simple question... but can anyone tell me what language Linux was written in? Thanks in advance and don't laugh too long and hard! Mostly in GNU C, C++, AFAIK, with some Perl and QT and such thrown in for good measure. John

[newbie] Thanx for tha help!

1999-09-20 Thread Donny
Hey, i forget who it was, but thanks for the awesum idea of using windowz TT fonts to make netscape look awesum. THANKS ALOT! Now i can actually show off KDE as looking BETTER than WIN98.

Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: %_i've reinstalled linux again 7th time and it still does not work. this time i get a timeout to login although it connects tolocal linux machine using ip address it will not complete a ftp session. I think its got something to do with the domain.. I

Re: [newbie] iso

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between an iso distro and a "regular" one? I'm assuming it has to do with what kind of hardware you've got but beyond that I haven't a clue. ISO distro is a CDROM "image" file that can be burned onto a CDROM.

[newbie] Internet Explorer

1999-09-20 Thread Donny
Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Thanx for tha help! TT Fonts

1999-09-20 Thread Scott Miller
Donny wrote: Hey, i forget who it was, but thanks for the awesum idea of using windowz TT fonts to make netscape look awesum. THANKS ALOT! Now i can actually show off KDE as looking BETTER than WIN98. Glad it worked for you. When Linux supports TT Font printing, it will really be great!

[newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working

1999-09-20 Thread Scott Miller
After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how to get this working, let me know. I can send you the modified files.

[newbie] Netscape

1999-09-20 Thread micron
After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Thanks, micron

RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer

1999-09-20 Thread Donny
ok, thanx... wenz the version of IE for linux gonna be availible? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bernhard Rosenkraenzer Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer On Mon, 20

Re: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Jaybird X [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My HP 722C won't even flinch on any of the HP prfiles in printtool. They cover the 5xx, 6xx, and 8xx series machines though. Is there a reason this model isn't supported? === Winprinter. I'm not sure there's a workaround yet.

Re: [newbie] Re-Install Problems

1999-09-20 Thread Ripcrd6
Were you using a compressed drive? Did the drive require some sort of overlay software like E-Z Drive? Probably not if it was only 500MB. But you might be using overlay software with the large HD. Brian -Original Message- From: Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I was trying to install

Re: [[newbie] HP 712C Printer....]

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Matt G. Ellis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?" == I believe the entire 7xx series falls into that category :o( Mike ++ Michael Scottaline

Re: [Re: [newbie] How do I quit X when it starts automatically?]

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Brian Erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ty Mixon wrote: What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want to work in a console use CTRL+ALT+F123456 to get to a console. Best of both worlds that way. Ty, What do you do to go back to X/KDE? Brian in Fremont

Re: [[newbie] Internet Explorer]

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? Thanks! == No such animal AFAIK. Too bad. It's one of the better M$ products :o( Mike

RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]

1999-09-20 Thread Bill Moshier
Try checking out : http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ It's only black and white printing, last I looked. Bill -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]

[newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network

1999-09-20 Thread Ripcrd6
I finally started working on networking my machines. I have one here at work I started setting up during lunch. This PC will be a dual boot Windows 95 and Mu Linux, the other two machines are a 100% Mandrake box and a Windows 95 box that may later be dual boot or 100% Linux. I'm following

[newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?

1999-09-20 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They won't even answer their phones. Seve

Re: [newbie] Netscape

1999-09-20 Thread Hidong Kim
micron wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Thanks, micron Hi, Micron, If you have actually

Re: [[newbie] Netscape]

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
"micron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Thanks, micron

Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)

1999-09-20 Thread Singer XJ Wang
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS

Re: [newbie] problem with floppy access

1999-09-20 Thread David van Balen
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Richard Adams wrote: I'll try this when I get home. However, I thought that LM6.1 was supposed to let regular users mount drives. I also know that the floppy is mounted since I can access it from kde's file browser with no trouble. I'm using /mnt/floppy as the path to my

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

1999-09-20 Thread Ripcrd6
Why don't you send email to Microsoft and ask them. I'm sure they will laugh and laugh and laugh. Just try Netscape or Lynx and soon we will have Opera and Mozilla. Other than that, don't hold your breath. Brian -Original Message- From: Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED] ok, thanx... wenz

RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]

1999-09-20 Thread Martin White
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Moshier Sent: 20 September 1999 22:07 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.] Try checking out : http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ It's only black and white

[newbie] FTP - Install SUCCESS !!!

1999-09-20 Thread Sean Pritchard
Greetinz NEWBEEZ, FTP install working just fine - 25% Complete after 40 minutes. Here's a tip: 1. Select an FTP site that has the distro only. Too many people fighting for connections to download the iso. 2. Pick a ftp site located in a highly populated area of the world where most people

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

1999-09-20 Thread Sean Pritchard
Wait a minute Fellow Newbies! I thought that one reason we started converting to Linux was to break away from MS systems and Apps? If we start putting in requests for MS Apps, MS will bungle up the beauty of this OS and it's community. I am not a purist, but in look at it this way. If I own a

Re: [newbie] init=?

1999-09-20 Thread terry
the file is called /etc/inittab... there should be a line like: id:5:initdefault you can change the 5 to a 3 for multiuser - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] init=? On

Re: [newbie] Netscape

1999-09-20 Thread Ripcrd6
Did you set up DNS? Try typing in a IP address like: http://209.15.9.72/ It's just one I found that works. Brian -Original Message- From: micron [EMAIL PROTECTED] After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com

RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer

1999-09-20 Thread Martin White
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean Pritchard Sent: 20 September 1999 23:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer Wait a minute Fellow Newbies! I thought that one reason we started converting to Linux

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

1999-09-20 Thread Steve Philp
Donny wrote: ok, thanx... wenz the version of IE for linux gonna be availible? Ummm... never?? Seriously, what advantage would Microsoft gain by porting their browser to an operating system that runs on the same platform their "operating system" uses? -Original Message- From:

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

1999-09-20 Thread Don
In reply to sean's resopnse: Hay man, Although linux is great, it still wont take down MS for many years to come. I dont think one OS os better than the other. I use each for different things... Linux is great to compete with MS, and give people a choice. But were still gonna have to live with

Re: [newbie] Re-Install Problems

1999-09-20 Thread Steve Philp
Bob wrote: Hello, 4VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) 4hdb: lost interrupt 4hdb: drive_comp : ststua=0x58 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest Error} 4hdb: status error : ststua=0x58 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest Error} 4hdb: drive not ready for command 4hdc: drive_comp :

Re: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?

1999-09-20 Thread Steve Philp
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They won't even answer their phones. Not alot of help, but the pages seem to work fine from here. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network

1999-09-20 Thread Steve Philp
Ripcrd6 wrote: I finally started working on networking my machines. I have one here at work I started setting up during lunch. This PC will be a dual boot Windows 95 and Mu Linux, the other two machines are a 100% Mandrake box and a Windows 95 box that may later be dual boot or 100%

Re: [[newbie] init]

1999-09-20 Thread David M. Kufta
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Michael Scottaline wrote: Jim Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know

Re: [newbie] Video Config in Linux *Help!*

1999-09-20 Thread Guillermo Belli
At 24 bpp I had problems only with netscape, now I'm with 16 bpp ,it's faster and netscape looks as it should look. El dom, 19 sep 1999, escribiste: Thanks! That got it! But my graphics still don't look as good as I expected. I selected 24bit color and 800x600 and graphics still have

Re: [newbie] Modem Config

1999-09-20 Thread Gustavo Viola
I have a USR Courier internal. It would not work under Linux if jumpered for PnP. To have it properly installed, I: 1) logged in Windows, checked under "System Settings" which COM and IRQ Win98 was using through PnP; 2) jumpered the modem for the proper COM and IRQ, disabling PnP. 3) under

Re: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They won't even answer their phones. Seve PS...it should be reachable via www.4front-tech.com as they are owned by 4front

Re: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how to get this working, let me know. I

Re: [newbie] Netscape

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Do you have your ISP's name servers in your

Re: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They won't even answer their phones. Seve Dunno. It works for me here... Either run a "traceroute" to them and find out if there are

[newbie] Telnet Broken After Update!?!?

1999-09-20 Thread Kurt
Simple and to the point here. After initial install of Linux-Mandrake, Telnet worked fine. However, after updating it via Mandrake-Updates, it appears broken and won't provide a user login and password screen... only tells me that the escape character is ^] Why would I need an escape character

Re: [Re: [newbie] How do I quit X when it starts automatically?]

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Brian Erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ty Mixon wrote: What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want to work in a console use CTRL+ALT+F123456 to get to a console. Best of both worlds that way. Ty, What do you do to go back

Re: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?

1999-09-20 Thread Jeanette Russo
I don't know its working now Jeanette - Original Message - From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding? I've been trying to get on Opensound's website

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network

1999-09-20 Thread Dan Brown
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll probably need NetBEUI on the clients if you're going to be running Samba on the Linux server. If you're not interested in Samba, you could stick with straight TCP/IP for all machines. How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT

[newbie] need to increase my /root

1999-09-20 Thread Jeanette Russo
I think I made /root too small and /home too big. Can I use PM 4 to resize ext2 partitions without messing things up I really don't want to reinstall all this software. I have a small /boot that I am not going to resize and a small /dos partition also plus swap of course. TIA Jeanette

Re: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working

1999-09-20 Thread Jeanette Russo
I would like to give it a shot I have a cyberpower also. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Scott Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:30 PM Subject: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working After downloading, installing

Re: [newbie] Compiling Kernel under 6.1

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi all, im not sure if this is the proper place for this question but i hope someone can help me out. I recently installed Mandrake 6.1 (no not the beta) on my computer. and it works fine except for one thing. I recompiled my kernel and when i tried to

Re: [newbie] Telnet Broken After Update!?!?

1999-09-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Simple and to the point here. After initial install of Linux-Mandrake, Telnet worked fine. However, after updating it via Mandrake-Updates, it appears broken and won't provide a user login and password screen... only tells me that the escape character is ^]

Re: [newbie] Netscape

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Doyle
G'day, Try this, As root edit /etc/ppp/options and remove lock. On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown"

RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]

1999-09-20 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Martin White wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Moshier Sent: 20 September 1999 22:07 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.] Try checking out :

Re: [newbie] Telnet Broken After Update!?!?

1999-09-20 Thread Steve Philp
Kurt wrote: Simple and to the point here. After initial install of Linux-Mandrake, Telnet worked fine. However, after updating it via Mandrake-Updates, it appears broken and won't provide a user login and password screen... only tells me that the escape character is ^] Why would I need

Re: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working

1999-09-20 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how to get

Re: [newbie] init

1999-09-20 Thread Jim Howarth
Sorry, I wasn't in front of the machine in question at the time of the message. It is "Kernel Panic: no init found" My inittab has the proper entry and to my lilo config is fine i'm assuming. (attached) Any ideas? On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I

Re: [newbie] need to increase my /root

1999-09-20 Thread Dan Brown
From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I made /root too small and /home too big. Can I use PM 4 to resize ext2 partitions without messing things up I really don't want to reinstall Yes, this should work fine--at least, it's worked for me several times. Be sure to re-run lilo.

Re: [[newbie] HP 712C Printer....]

1999-09-20 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On 20 Sep 1999, Michael Scottaline wrote: "Matt G. Ellis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?" == I believe the entire 7xx series falls into that category :o( Mike ++

Re: [newbie] HP 712C Printer....

1999-09-20 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matt G. Ellis wrote: I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?" Yes, but AFAIK there is currently some project going to get winprinters to work on Linux. Maybe

RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer

1999-09-20 Thread Ken Wilson
Donny, If you've been paying attention, the IE for Linux will be available about the 32nd of Never. At least that is the general concensus. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original

RE: [[newbie] Internet Explorer]

1999-09-20 Thread Ken Wilson
Except that it won't support server push technology, or at least still didn't last time I looked. Netscape does support server push. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message-

Re: [newbie] Id mo

1999-09-20 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." snip

Re: [newbie] Compiling Kernel under 6.1

1999-09-20 Thread Ethan Daugherty
Silly question, I know, but when you recompiled your kernel, did you build-in support for your SCSI card? If not, that's the problem If so, I'd double-check that it's not trying to load SCSI support as a module anyway. From my (very) limited experience compiling new kernels, you have the

Re: [newbie] Netscape

1999-09-20 Thread Ethan Daugherty
well since everyone is talking about netscape i have a question for you. Does anyone know why my button icons, and the little netscape comet thing all appear in black and white? its netscape 4.61 and im running in 24bit color mode. thanks Ethan

Re: [newbie] was: Thanx for tha help! now: TT Fonts - jrt

1999-09-20 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, John Turbvull wrote: Scott Miller wrote: Donny wrote: Hey, i forget who it was, but thanks for the awesum idea of using windowz TT fonts to make netscape look awesum. snip Glad it worked for you. When Linux supports TT Font printing, it will really be

Re: [newbie] Netscape

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Doyle
Steve, Well I am Irish, you know :-)) On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: G'day, Try this, As root edit /etc/ppp/options and remove lock. On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says

Re: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working

1999-09-20 Thread Scott Miller
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how to get this working, let me

[newbie] Is It Possible That Redhat/Mandrake does not contain a driver or workaround for my soundcard?

1999-09-20 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I've tried every setting combination with several different ESS and Soundblaster drivers to no avail. Is it possible that Redhat/Mandrake does not contain the driver or workaround for my ESS1888 soundcard? Does anyone have a Compaq 4700series with the ESS1888 soundcard that's using Linux?

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network

1999-09-20 Thread Dan Brown
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT server. The You mean require? Either, actually--it almost sounded like you were saying that Samba was netbeui, or some such thing. My apologies. I've been dealing with NetBEUI/TCP/IP

[newbie] LICQ and Madrake 6.0 HELP!

1999-09-20 Thread Matt G. Ellis
Okay, i downloaded and unpacked the Source for LICQ .7 I can compile the program itself fine, my problem is getting the required qt-gui to compile. It said i needed QT2.00 and I only have QT1.44, i downloaded the 2.00 rpms from rpmfind.net and installed them but that didn't help. If anyone has

Re: [newbie] Netscape

1999-09-20 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Ethan Daugherty wrote: well since everyone is talking about netscape i have a question for you. Does anyone know why my button icons, and the little netscape comet thing all appear in black and white? its netscape 4.61 and im running in 24bit color mode. thanks

Re: [newbie] Is It Possible That Redhat/Mandrake does not contain a driver or workaround for my soundcard?

1999-09-20 Thread hamkas
have u ried the ALSA sound system? they might have ur the drivers u need... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) on 09/21/99 11:43:32 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Hamka B Hj Suleiman/SKO/PCSB/Petronas) Subject: [newbie] Is It Possible That

Re: [newbie] Telnet Broken After Update!?!?

1999-09-20 Thread Kurt
Thanks a bundle Philip! :o) I'll grab the server portion of things... as long as it serves beer ** burp ** 'Chuse Me! I adhere to the RTFM rule, but "Using Linux, Third Edition" by Tackett and Gunter didn't seem to help on this particular issue. Thanks Again!! Kurt

[newbie] FRONTPAGE 2000 with V 6.1

1999-09-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi ! I wanted to install the FP2000 extensions on my newly installed Helios. Everything went fine, except that I donĀ“t know if it is a good idea to run the file "change_server.sh" that is provided by MS. On the infopage after installation there is this sentence: "...Also included are special

Re: [newbie] LICQ and Madrake 6.0 HELP!

1999-09-20 Thread Kurt
Hi Matt! I have LICQ working on my mandrake 6.0 system, and it works wonderfully! I believe I have installed the version before version 7. I would suggest that, with ICQ clients, you ALWAYS allow yourself to lag behind one version and always install the next older version than the current one.

Re: [Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar]

1999-09-20 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Richard Adams wrote: The above is correct, however just tellig someone to untar the file without telling him or even warn him what he is doing is going a little to far. tar files can will and have done damage to my system when i was a green newbie

Re: [newbie] Modem

1999-09-20 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: As a hack, you can add the command you want to run to the end of the rc.local file, located at /etc/rc.d/rc.local. This is where I load some modules in since the modules don't want to load in the correct order... (it attempts to load sound.o before uart.o,

Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user

1999-09-20 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: %_i've reinstalled linux again 7th time and it still does not work. this time i get a timeout to login although it connects tolocal linux machine using ip address it will not complete a ftp session. I think its got something to do with the domain.. I

[newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)

1999-09-20 Thread Aaron deRozario
Greetings all Over the last couple of days I have been reading plenty of HOW-TO's, and a few mini-HOWTO's on networking with Linux. In fact I've encountered more weird acronyms and strange buxx words in the last 2 days than in the rest of my life put together. However I am learning a

[newbie] RPM and KDE

1999-09-20 Thread Mark Hall
Hi, I tried to install an RPM package, using the graphical RPM tool inside the KDE desktop. The package seemed to install ( it was the Linux HOWTO package), but when I look for the files in the expected directory, they were not there. I then dropped back down to a command line and did an RPM

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] 6.1 ftp isntall via pcmcia net card]

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Chris Herrnberger wrote: That's what I thought. Guess the images are buggy. So what's the mechanism on this list to report bugs to get the images updated. We're reading the list - where did you get the images? LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000?

[newbie] ISDN TA

1999-09-20 Thread Mark Hall
Hi, Has anyone sucessfully managed to get an Internet connection set up using a Hayes Accura ISDN TA? Are there any particular problems to look out for with an ISDN connection? Looking for any pointers, before I (foolishly) rush in. Regards Mark

Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, terry wrote: i've reinstalled linux again 7th time and it still does not work. this time i get a timeout to login although it connects tolocal linux machine using ip address it will not complete a ftp session. ftp does reverse lookups... Make sure the IP of the

Re: [newbie] iso

1999-09-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, David van Balen wrote: Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between an iso distro and a "regular" one? With the ISO version, you just do cdrecord dev=wherever,your,drive,is speed=x Mandrake61.iso to put it on CD. With the regular version, you download all the

[newbie] FTP Server

1999-09-20 Thread Mark Hall
Does a Linux-Mandrake 6.0 server installation automatically set up an FTP server? I have tried to FTP connect to Linux, from my WinNT box, using MS IE as my FTP client. It won't work. I have tried both anonymous and real account details. (sorry, haven't got the exact error msg here). Where

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