Someone disagree with this, because this is specifically a Unix command, but
give it a go anyway, it might work under Linux;
stty erase backspace key
- Original Message -
From: lalala lalala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 11:27 PM
Subject:
Unfortunately it's not the removal that I have a problem with. During clean
installs of Mandrake, I cannot get the installer to create a boot disk or
LILO, yet in Red Hat I can create both. My first theory was to get the boot
floppy from Red Hat, and use it to get into Mandrake, then use 'that
I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and recently updated all current patches and
now when I boot up I get the command
prompt instead of the GUI screen (setup originally to boot up to
Xwindows).How to do get the the GDE,Gnome screen back?
B.Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry about this but I've looked every where but can't seem to find an answer to my
most basic question...
I just downloaded Staroffice. Now what? How do I get that Tar file to install?
Please explain this to me (while considering my
knowledge to be no more than a highly intoxicated chimp).
Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
There are one, perhaps two manufacturers who have one model each of PCI
modems which are NOT winmodems. The rest are those devices ISPs hate, and
linux does not and will not support.
If your modem is Action-Tec, there is a chance,
What's up with Netscape? Is there an improved version on the horizon?
Seve
Well its got a lucent technologies chipset. I got it config'd but when i
querys the modem it says its busy any ideas?
You can send email, so I'm guessing that you can get on the NET. Go to the
HD manufacturers site, and see if they provide a set-up utility. If not,
check their support page (most have one), and if they provide free email
tech support, tell them all that happened, and they may be able to tell you
The last two messages on my machine are as follows:
System Halted ( this is an approximation)
Power Down ( This is exact)
There is a slight pause between the two messages on my 486 style AMD 5x-133
system ( kind of old, but still works ).
Ernie
- Original Message -
From: bay56 [EMAIL
pete moss wrote:
well, it wont work correctly if you dont have XF86Config setup
properly. re-read /usr/doc/imwheel*/README and make the changes he
recommends. the relevant info is at the top of the file. i used method
#1 and it work perfectly for me in every X app.
:P
I installed
Jaguar wrote:
Not sure if anyone has tried or wants to try...but Mosaic has a Linux version,
as another option for a browser.
_
That version of Mosaic is so old I don't think it even supports cookies.
Jeanette
Everything works great under Mandrake 6.0, but I can't find out how to start
a dial up connection without starting X and running netcfg. Can I do this
from the command line?
Thanks!
***There's a fine line between an attitude problem and thinking clearly***
Either from a console display, or from the KDE konsole window available in
the panel, enter the following commands (logged on as a user - not su):
cd [path to file]
{should be something like /home/your personal folder/folder containing
the tar file for StarOffice}
you need to be logged
Civileme wrote:
You folk are gonna run me out of a good email handlerg
Well, Grail is written in Python and is a stagnant project looking for a
sponsor.
Konqueror coming up in KDE 2.0 is downright encouraging, but who knows?
IE is an accident asking to happen to your computer (well
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, B.Williams wrote:
I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and recently updated all current patches and
now when I boot up I get the command
prompt instead of the GUI screen (setup originally to boot up to
Xwindows).How to do get the the GDE,Gnome screen back?
B.Williams
[EMAIL
http://www.netscape.com/download/download_1_702_411_1_4.7.html
At 05:40 PM 10/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
Hello List,
I am sending this to the list in the hope that someone can point me to a
128bit encryption enabled version of netscape that I can run on my
Linux-Mandrake. I would appreeeciate any
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Sorry about this but I've looked every where but can't seem to find an answer to my
most basic question...
I just downloaded Staroffice. Now what? How do I get that Tar file to install?
Please explain this to me (while considering my
knowledge
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Sorry about this but I've looked every where but can't seem to find an answer to my
most basic question...
I just downloaded Staroffice. Now what? How do I get that Tar file to install?
Please explain this to me (while considering my
knowledge
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Hi i was wondering how to get linux to recognize my modem it is definetly
not a winmodem because it recognizes it as a pci device any
help with this will be greatly appreciated
Mike
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Down towards the
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Eosnet Team wrote:
Any word on when (if not already) there will be a 4.7 for linux?
Already happened...
LLaP
bero
Hi !
I just got Linux (Mandrake 6.0/KDE) running on my home-PC.
Purpose = to do some simple Perl/PHP scripting and test before
shipping it to our Intranetserver at my work (which is run by
professional Solaris gurus:-).
I posted the problem below to a Perl group since I thought it was Perl
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > I had the same problem !
> >
> > Disk Druid absolutely want to install the / partition on the primary
HD :(
> > The only way to make the / partition is to use fdisk instead of
disk druid
> > during the
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Axalon,
Saturday, October 02, 1999, 4:58:11 AM, you wrote:
I can't compile pgcc1.1.3.src.rpm.
Seem to be something wrong on my system ( Mandrake 6.1 )
---
In file included ...limits.h:117
from
Alan,
A 128-big encryption enabled version is available on the netscape site. I run
it myself.
Paul
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote:
"David M. Kufta" wrote:
Hello List,
I am sending this to the list in the hope that someone can point me to a
128bit encryption enabled version of
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote:
PS. that srpm really really sucked before i got ahold of it.
Gee...nothing like a little bit of humility, is there, Ax??? ;-)
(Just Kiddin'!!! G)
John
sorry didn't mean to come off like an a*s. I think the
Some one have try to install this driver in MDK 6.1 with SB AWE 64 ?
Thanks
Lamberto
I have installed the MDK 6.1 and when I try to use Apache + PHP
i have recived the error :
Fatal Error : midgard module not found in - on line 0
Someone have try with best results ? Suggest ?
Thanks
Lamberto
Axalon,
For the life of me, I can't locate your Device3Dfx in the cooker/contrib
section. What's the exact name of the srpm?
Thanks
Paul Hoy
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote:
You'll find a precompiled mandrake adopted Device3Dfx, in the cooker
contrib section on your favorite mirrors.
Ax,
Oops .. just found it. Sorry.
Thanks
Paul Hoy
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote:
You'll find a precompiled mandrake adopted Device3Dfx, in the cooker
contrib section on your favorite mirrors.
http://www.linux-mandrake/cooker
PS. that srpm really really sucked before i got ahold of
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Bjorn Fahller wrote:
I have a feeling this is a FAQ, but I haven't been able to find it.
I have a machine in a closet, with RedHat 5.2 installed. The machine
lacks diskette station and CD-ROM player. It is, however, networked, and
accesses the machine I'm typing on,
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, pete moss wrote:
in gnome on 6.0, i could click the right mouse button to bring up a menu
to do a few things, including rescan the desktop. now i am using 6.1
and the right mouse button brings up the application menus for
enlightenment. does anyone know how i can get
Talking about modems this is a key issue to Linux become mainstream. But why
winmodems cannot be implemented in Linux? My college professor told me "all
hardware can be done in software and viceversa". If anyone can make an X86,
Mac, etc emulator, why a little piece of softrware can challange all
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Mulvaney, Jerry wrote:
Everything works great under Mandrake 6.0, but I can't find out how to start
a dial up connection without starting X and running netcfg. Can I do this
from the command line?
Thanks!
***There's a fine line between an attitude problem and
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/cooker/contrib/RPMS/Device3Dfx-2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, root wrote:
Axalon,
For the life of me, I can't locate your Device3Dfx in the cooker/contrib
section. What's the exact name of the srpm?
Thanks
Paul Hoy
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Sorry about this but I've looked every where but can't seem to find an answer to my
most basic question...
I just downloaded Staroffice. Now what? How do I get that Tar file to install?
Please explain this to me (while considering my
knowledge to be no
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Well its got a lucent technologies chipset. I got it config'd but when i
querys the modem it says its busy any ideas?
Is it a PCI modem? If so, you're probably trying to use a
WinModem or HSP modem. Neither one will work under Linux.
I'm especially certain
Hello list.
A friend of mine tried to install Mandrake 6.1 Cassini on his PC. He has
used lnx4win. During setup, his network card was not recognized, and he
has problems to install it later.
He uses a 3Com 3C509 card, IRQ 10.
Any idea of what's wrong ?
Thanks...
OK, I see many many posts trying to get things working. Perhaps it is
time to put together a list or six lists of hardware NOT to purchase if
you are considering installing Linux-Mandrake. I can give you a start
from my own experience.
1. Motherboards with chipsets that say VXPro, VXPro+,
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Hello list.
A friend of mine tried to install Mandrake 6.1 Cassini on his PC. He has
used lnx4win. During setup, his network card was not recognized, and he
has problems to install it later.
He uses a 3Com 3C509 card, IRQ 10.
Any idea of what's wrong ?
You bet it will
I challenge you to notice the difference in the performance. Most 56K HSP
devices have to be slowed to V.34 performance before they become reliable
unless you have a P-III 500 with 128Mb RAM and don't run anything else while
using your modem.
It is no fun to be using a modem
I have the same problem. I hope someone nows of a fix.
Richard
Sean King wrote:
I am having the strangest error with kde under mandrake 6.1. I just up
graded my system from 6.0 to 6.1 and now every time that i log in I get
all the icons that I deleted from the desktop file back in
Froma Windows pro, but Linux
stupid...:)
I have a few systems here..and as yet I don't have
a working network. I wouold like to know if there is an easy way to
transfer a Linux program (D/L'ed from the Net on Win98) from my PC to my Linux
system...I can connect the hard-drive ( I have that
I have my linux computer on an company Win95/98/NT LAN. I need to give the
computer a name for Samba. Since I do not know the file names that I need to
modify in order change this, I use linuxconf.
Under Networking, Basic host information, I have the host name as "kevin".
What should be the
Jaguar wrote:
From a Windows pro, but Linux stupid...:)
I have a few systems here..and as yet I don't have a working network.
I wouold like to know if there is an easy way to transfer a Linux
program (D/L'ed from the Net on Win98) from my PC to my Linux
system...I can connect the
Jeanette Russo wrote:
Jaguar wrote:
Not sure if anyone has tried or wants to try...but Mosaic has a Linux version,
as another option for a browser.
_
That version of Mosaic is so old I don't think it even supports cookies.
And you'll need Motif (don't know if Lesstif will work)
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Mulvaney, Jerry wrote:
Everything works great under Mandrake 6.0, but I can't find out how to start
a dial up connection without starting X and running netcfg. Can I do this
from the command line?
Thanks!
***There's a fine line
Tom Brinkman wrote:
/dev/hdb: [8.4g WD Caviar, Mdk 6.0 and swap are on the first 3g's.
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.01 seconds =126.73 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 12.62 seconds = 5.07 MB/sec
Looks sane...
hdparm v:
/dev/hdb:
multcount= 0 (off)
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Well its got a lucent technologies chipset. I got it config'd but when i
querys the modem it says its busy any ideas?
Ummm. . .most lucent tech chipset based modems are winmodems. . .the ones you
buy at your local parts rehailer for 29.95. . .
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
OK, I see many many posts trying to get things working. Perhaps it is
BIG snip, but worth saving to a file.
I am sure there are lots of additions to be made. Anyone? Also, if
I have treated anything unfairly, please let me know. I am trying to
put
Will Linux accept my AOpen 56k modem?
Thanks,
Chris
Cook
I'm not sure what you would install on 98 so that you could write to you
linux machine, but Sharity (I think the URL is
www.obdev.at/Products/Sharity) will let you see your win98 drive from
linux and get files off it (it'll create a directory on your linux system
that acts somewhat like network
Lorenzo Jimenez wrote:
Talking about modems this is a key issue to Linux become mainstream. But why
winmodems cannot be implemented in Linux? My college professor told me "all
hardware can be done in software and viceversa". If anyone can make an X86,
Mac, etc emulator, why a little piece
Il ven, 01 ott 1999, hai scritto:
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, allxsan wrote:
Please, help me :-)
I can't compile pgcc1.1.3.src.rpm.
Seem to be something wrong on my system ( Mandrake 6.1 )
---
In file included ...limits.h:117
from include/limits.h:117
Alan,
I set it up according to the Readme. Everything is in the XF86
configuration file that supposed to be. When I startx with KDE open
xterm type imwheel -k it says its running. I Open some windows in KFM
and try to scroll them and I get a menu like the right click menu. If I
keep going it
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
From a Windows pro, but Linux stupid...:)
I have a few systems here..and as yet I don't have a working network. I wouold like
to know if there is an easy way to transfer a Linux program (D/L'ed from the Net on
Win98) from my PC to my Linux system...I can
yes! thanks! now, can you tell me why gnome-terminal locks up my
system? :)
:P
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, pete moss wrote:
in gnome on 6.0, i could click the right mouse button to bring up a menu
to do a few things, including rescan the desktop. now i am using 6.1
I seemed to have this problem under 6.0. Does Mandrake run any particular
script when loading KDE that checks if the Mandrake default icons are in
Desktop, and place them there if they aren't?
I really like using WindowMaker, partly because it doesn't use windows
styled desktop icons, but there
login as user
execute 'X ' (no quotes)
change back to the terminal you started X on ctrl-alt-F#
execute 'export DISPLAY=:0' (again no quotes)
execute 'strace -o ~/gnome-terminal.out gnome-terminal' (yep you guessed
it no quotes here either)
wait for any harddriver churnings to stop and count to
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Will Linux accept my AOpen 56k modem?
Thanks,
Chris Cook
Check here:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/19991002a.html
Looks like their ISA's prob'ly are, PCI's prob'ly aren't
--
.. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
%_Will Linux accept my AOpen 56k modem?
Thanks,
Chris Cook
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On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote:
3. HSP devices, including the modem-like signal conditioners. Some of
these are on board like the PCTel on the PCChips M748MR. To be safe,
make sure that if you intend to use a modem that the manufacturer says
it will work with DOS, or buy an EXTERNAL modem.
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeanette Alan, I set it up according to the Readme. Everything
Jeanette is in the XF86 configuration file that supposed to be.
Jeanette When I startx with KDE open xterm type imwheel -k it
Jeanette says its running. I Open
Greetings all.
I currently use a dual booting system with Win95 and Mandrake 6, hda
Windows, hdb Linux. I have decided that I no longer wish to have my system
defiled by Windows and would like my main machine Linux only. I am
intending to remove the windows hard drive and use it for other,
Well, that was an eye-opener
AOpen has 4 56K v.90 modems listed for PCI and two are called software
modems while the other two are called controller-less modems. Reading on
carefully, I get the picture--two are called HSP and two are called
winmodems. They use differing Rockwell Chipsets..
1) how do I enable backspace? and whatever the command
maybe, do I need to do this everytime (as root) I log
in?
2) Everytime I search for an RPM, I get a msg saying
"Kprocess error: can't dpkg". What does this mean and
how can I fix it?
=
The AOpen modem I have is a FM-56-ITU, and it is
ISA. When I tried to configure it on com port 4, using ttys3 it said that the
modem didnt respond. Do you know what i should do?
Thanks,
Chris Cook
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Brian J. Babiuk wrote:
snip
Packard Bell computers of any
vintage. snip I have never experienced anything
more likely to drop its MBR or a few clusters off the disk than these
babies.
--I agree! Packard Bell, the Star Office of Computers g
ROTFLMAO!!!
David P.
John Aldrich wrote:
As for Seagate...just FYI, my primary hard drive is a Seagate IDE
(Actually a relabled Conner G) but it's only an 850 meg. The other
hard drive in my system is a full-height 5.25" Seagate 9.5 Gig (8.5
after formatting) SCSI drive. I assume your admonition against
Seagate
What about posting this to the MandrakeUser.org site? I haven't
looked at the requirements, but this site seems to be growing into a
newbie info haven.
Ty
--
Ty Mixon
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ:26147713
Original Message
On 10/4/99, 8:20:52 PM, Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware:
[snip]
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me,
one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other with bearings
eating
reading this made me realize that i have no idea about how to do system
optimization. i will definately look into this 'hdparm'. do you know
of any howtos or such on system opt? it would be interesting if someone
gave a list of what you need to do to get your system in tip-top shape.
:P
This information would be very handy. IF someone had the time and effort
and web space some kind of database that keeps track of parts and parts
combinations that are successful, or unsuccessful might also be good. I
know when I built my machine I was only interested in getting parts that
would
Well the very first thing is to kill the HTML. Your message was six
monitors wide.
chris wrote:
The AOpen modem I have is a FM-56-ITU, and it is ISA. When I tried to
configure it on com port 4, using ttys3 it said that the modem didnt
respond. Do you know what i should do?
Thanks,
Mike Easter wrote:
Hi i was wondering how to get linux to recognize my modem it is definetly
not a winmodem because it recognizes it as a pci device any
help with this will be greatly appreciated
Mike, this isn't about your modem problem per se, but I'd
like to ask you a question if I
Ty Mixon wrote:
Original Message
On 10/4/99, 8:20:52 PM, Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware:
[snip]
Maxtors I heard someone else mention. I have had two drop dead on me,
one
with thermal shutdowns for no good reason, and the other
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