Hello,
Linux doesn't support WinModem will never support.
Rgs,
Way
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Hi all of the list,
I am new in this list and I am from argentina, so sorry for my english.
My question is the following:
I have a winmodem (HFlex) and I know that it is impossible to use
Hi
A drive is limited to having 4 primary partitions. Windows gets around
this by placing a lot of drive letters in a single primary extended
partition.
When Mandrake installs, it creates four primary partitions on its own:
The boot, root, home and swap partitions. All four of these partitions
Hello
Go to site Winmodems are not modems, maybe thet can help you.
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Micke
On Tue, 29 February 2000, KokWay Heng wrote:
Hello,
Linux doesn't support WinModem will never support.
Rgs,
Way
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Hi all of the
Kit wrote:
I have an old MOUSE SYSTEMS serial ISA card...
with jumpers for setting IRQs and COM ports...
so I assume...I can use this card to install a external modem...
is this correct?
if so, HOW do I do this for
US Robotics 33.6 sportster
external modem
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On Feb 29 Russell Simmons wrote:
I'm not so crazy about n.s.'s mail, and i would like to try Pine to send
and retrieve mail on my Linux partition. I am using MD 6.0. Is there
an rpm for pine on the distro? If not, could someone tell me the steps
I would need to take to get and use Pine?
It's perfectly possible. I usually make a fat16/32 partition with fdisk under
dos, and leave the rest of the drive alone (you might consider making a small 16
MB partition at the very beginning of the disk as boot-partition, then later
convert it with the partition editor in the mandrake
I have a ABIT BP6 motherboard
with 2 ATA33 controlers (unused except a DVD drive)
and 2 ATA66 controlers (each with a large disk) (these 2 extra controlers are handled
by a hpt366 chipset)
I installed Mandrake70gpl without any problems (as far as I could see :-)) in addition
to a win98 system.
Are you using a proxy server?
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"Paul Eppley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27/02/2000 03:59:45
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Subject: [newbie] DNS problems
I have my dial-up connection
I would hazard a guess that perhaps free IRQ's may be the issue.
You may have to play around with your computers bios (if the BP6
is as flexible as the BX6-R2 there are heaps of options).
Then again I may be completely wrong :-)
Michael Perry.
RD. Dep. Netafim Magal.
Linux -- the Ultimate
I might have kind of a similair problem
I have the abit BE6 mainboard.
with also ata33 controllers, got on the first an Samsung harddisk
on the second my cd-rom and cd-writer
and 2 ata66 contollers with a Western digital harddisk connected to it
but when I use the workaround to get my ata66
use lnx4win (on the 70-2 iso) everything goes on your win98 system
- Original Message -
From: "Pieter Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 5:48 AM
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake and Windows on the same drive
Hi
A drive is limited to having 4
make a boot disk with the raid drivers and boot fron that. then you can rub
the installation image from the cdrom once booted.
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From: Bill Beauchemin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 5:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie]
go to www.emuse.net and download your choice of manuals in the Docs section.
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake
"Lisa J. Harris" wrote:
same problem , same AMD450 since it appears to be OK on
rebooting I have not yet attempted to find out why!!!
- Original Message -
From:
Dave O'Braden
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:25
PM
Subject: [newbie] Shutdown errors.
I have
Should I mentionned that with win98 I have no problems at all,
I can see all my peripherals
so I am not that encline to change interrupts just for Linux sake...
BTW my computer is not hanging at all, it just doesnt see the extra
EIDE66 drives from linux. It really looks like once it has seen
same problem , I have same AMD450 on Tyan1590s board ,2 Hds (one Win, one
70-2) using AT connector for power. On shutdown only trouble begins after
sys halted, reboot cures so is no big deal, it might be nice to know why
though!!!
- Original Message -
From: "Dave O'Braden" [EMAIL
Winmodems are junk. I wouldn't recommend using one in a Windows box
either. ISP's don't like them, cuz evertime I've called tech support,
they ask "now, is this a winmodem?", "no? good, now I can help you."
And they're never called Winmodems on the box of that nice new system
you just
Its not your cable modem! Linux does not recognize your NIC card.
-Original Message-
From: frank gallo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 8:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Help with @home cable
Hi i'm using mandrake 7.0
I can't get the
I need to do some more extreme filtering (described below) of my mail. I
know that exim will do the job, and I've compile and installed it.
However, the configuration is more complex that I wished, and I'm
wondering if there's a package or something that will make it easier to
set up. Or maybe
John,
"It will not work" is a bit vague. What happens? Keyboard stops responding.
Monitor switches off? All the lights go out?
What...
Please post the output from the 'make install' command. If it's something
like
Target install does not exist
then you need to re-read the docs which came
In order of "look here first"
man
apropos
man again
Essential Systems Administration (has an Aardvark on the front)
Using Linux
man yet again
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"Lisa J. Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/02/2000 04:37:33
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Audrey this is why:
all other slots, be it PCI or ISA are taken up...
I have a logitech marble mouse connected to com1 ...03f8-03ff IRQ 4
and on the same card, is a 25 pin female plug
then,
I have a BestData VW-PCI 56k winmodem hooked up to com2 IRQ 9,
in windows, and IRQ3 in DOS
I do have two
I don'tknow about Mandrake 7.0 but under 6.5 a call to /sbin/sndconfig as
root sorts a lot of cards out. Have you tried that?
The odd thing is the playing half of the sample. Is it playing it at double
sample rate or anything?
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Shawn Somers AKA Razer
Well, do you get a connection to your ISP? Can you view any website with
Netscape.
Can you ping any sites and get a return on them?
Is your box configured to use the correct IP addresses for your ISP's DNS?
What errors do you get - specifically.
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
At last - someone who posts some diagnostics with their problem!
One problem though. It's in Starwriter format. What about us who don't use
Starwriter! Can you not post the relevant part of /var/log/messagesin plain
text format?
DO NOT POST ALL OF /VAR/LOG/MESSAGES! IT'LL BE HUGE AND PEOPLE
I wouldn't know Alan - being a lowly 56.6k owner I'm not going to download
the 7.0 ISO to upgrade! I'm stuck here at 6.5 What you say make
absolute sense though - we can't compare like with like in here, because
chances are, no-one else has the same hardware, software level and setup as
I just got my 8830 chipset sound ( MX300) working. It is really easy ONCE you have
the right things installed.
Install using RPMdrake the following (search for them):
gcc
kernel source
make
then go to http://linux.aureal.com for the drivers. follow directions and it works
great.
FlipZ
Having allocated disk space for the /home slice, I have about three GBs
left on the disk on which I aim to install Mandrake. Should I allocate a 2
GB partition for the /root slice and a 1 GB partition for the /usr slice, or
should I allocate a 1 GB partition for the /root slice and a 2
Hi Kit!
I don't understand why you need both the PCI modem
and the USR external one.
If you mobo is standard you should have 2 serial ports + 1 parallel
available onboard and be able just to trash the PCI modem
and use the 2nd serial port for the USR.
Should be no probs using the external modem
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Hey,
Does anyone have a scanned image of the cd-cover for Mandrake 7.0, or know
where I can get one?
I'd really like it if my CD's looked better(since I downed the free
ISO-image).
Thomas
I'd personally use 2 gb for /usr and 1 gb for /root, if I were partitioning
up in this way
I'd expect /usr to need more disk-space than /root, after all, /root is
just a userid like any other, but with magical powers! :)
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"Lothar Mandrake" [EMAIL
Emilio Wrote:
Hi, I think you can't write on a vfat mounted partition in linux but you
can try to do it, in one opportunity I couldn't do it.
Good luck
Date sent: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:12:57 -0500
From: Russell Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Hello, i will try to help you. I think the main problem is on the hard
disk partition, may be you have made a wrong type of partition.
For example the best way to check it is with the fdisk utility that you
must have with your MSDOS (for example). First you have to check
if the partition in
steve wrote:
In order of "look here first"
man
Is there a "path" for man pages? My impression is that some pages get
installed where man can't find them.
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Emilio,
You *CAN* write to a VFAT partitoin from within Linux. That's not
usually the problem. The major problem normally seem to be that root can
write to VFAT partitions, but other "normal" users can't. It's all down to
the manner in which you mount your DOS partitions. You need to
There's a place where all man pages should live, but I can't say what it is
- I'm at work and have no access.
However, I would suspect that installtions which put man pages anywhere
other than in this directory are broken! Try 'man man' which will tell you
where these pages should live. You
I replaced Corel Linux with Mandrake 7.0 on my office system. Corel's
LILO is still in the MBR, and I'd like to replace it with Mandrake's.
However, I need for it to continue to offer Win 98 as a boot option.
I presume that Mandrake's LILO provides a menu of choices, as does
Corel's.
If the
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If you replaced corel with mandrake...then upon finishing the
install...it should of gave you the option
installing lilo...thenso it should already have been replaced...but
to make sure...
boot your new mandrake Linux...and go into drakconfig...and pullup
linuxconfig..
.inside that, is a way
I get a boot error after configuring the system on a new install. My system is
a Compaq Presario 4112 with a P200 for the CPU. It is maxxed out with 72 Megs
of memory. It has a 1.6 Gig HDD. Previously I had it configured to boot
FreeBSD, but I decided to try MDK 7.0.
I went thru the
This happens with some chipsets (eg. VIA MVP3) when linux tries to
automatically shut the power off. It's not a big issue, so just press the off
button after those things appear.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote:
I am running Mandrake 7.0 and everything works fine
until I logout and shutdown.
Try adding the line
imwheel -k
to your .xinitrc file. Put that line before the other line that's already
there. If there's more than one line in it, put it before the last one.
On Feb 29 Eunice Thompson wrote:
I'd like to have my wheel mouse start when I startx. Usually I've been
opening
Uhh, sure Steve ment /etc/lilo.conf, right Steve? ;-)
On Feb 29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Start linux with either "linux mem=128M" or
As root, edit /etc/config
and code a line like the following in each stanza:
append="mem=128M"
Now run /sbin/lilo and next time you
Lane Lester wrote:
steve wrote:
In order of "look here first"
man
Is there a "path" for man pages? My impression is that some pages get
installed where man can't find them.
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Hi Lane,
Great question .. lead me to
The man pages should be found, but if you want to check where a package (let's
say emacs) has installed its documentation files, you can use
rpm -qdl emacs
and it will list you alle the docs provided with the package.
If you see that there is a man page that you can't access just by
[newbie]unsubscribe
Can you play wave files and midi files? For some reason, I can only play
mp3s on mine.
- Original Message -
From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] aureal sound help
I just got mine to work yesterday. Here
Anyone know where you can download some good linux books or docs.
Preferably in PDF or PS format. I am mostly interested in Mandrake Linux,
but anything would be worth have a look at.
Merle Pittman
TEL: (709) 724-7598
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to install the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (mrtg-2.8.9-2mdk RPM for
i586). I don't have this file and haven't a clue what it is or where to get it.
Dave
PS Any leads to other network activity graphers would also be welcome. I'm
mainly interested in graphing eth1's (cable modem) kbps
OK,
Just a note about my VMWare situation. If you remember from my previous
email I had some problems with a version conflict between my C Headers and
my booting kernel. What I did was simply goto the CDROM and force a
reinstall of the kernel-2.2.14-15mdk.i586.rpm package. This contains all
Ack. I forgot how to get rid of the cute little penguin graphic at
login! Anyone remember?
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this trash. I really dont care. My inbox is full with your bull-shit.
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Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Hello,
I do have problems too.
Here is a post I sent to some news groups yesterday about it :
==
Subject : Aureal vortex2 (8830) sound driver for Linux installation
Contents :
Hello,
I have a Dell Dimension PC with a Turtle
Hello again Mark,
Here is the result of my "make install" :
= BEGINNING ==
mv -f /etc/conf.modules /etc/conf.modules.old
gawk -f mod_conf /etc/conf.modules.old /etc/conf.modules
echo "alias sound au8830" /etc/conf.modules
echo "alias midi au8830" /etc/conf.modules
mkdir -p
Here, I can't play anything at all !
Brent Timmer wrote:
Can you play wave files and midi files? For some reason, I can only play
mp3s on mine.
- Original Message -
From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie]
I upgraded my Mandrake 6.0 with 7.0
The system appears to run 10-20x slower. Even the mouse jerks across the
screen slower.
I have compared the processes running to another existing 6.0 system, but I
can't see anything obvious to slow the 7.0 down.
I deleted a lot of tasks which are started
That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems CAN be made to work under
Linux. I have one and I got it to run correctly.
Elvis
- Original Message -
From: John Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] how to use a
I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my computer without any problem. And I
have run sndconfig to setup my (very) old SB16 sound card and it is running
nicely. The problem is that every time I log on (either as root or user), the
sound volume is always at maximum level and I have to reduce it
i had that problem till I installed the kernel source. Open uo RPM Drak and
search fro kernel. you will find the one you want. it will say source. then
let it install all the dependencies it recommends.
then run make install and should work like a charm
Mark
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you
Havent tried, i can play real audio streaming from the web !
that and mp3 is all i need. I got napster working and im ready to go
Mark
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Can you play wave files and midi files? For some reason, I can only play
mp3s on mine.
- Original Message -
You'll find it at http://www.tuxfinder.com
dave wrote :
I'm trying to install the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (mrtg-2.8.9-2mdk RPM for
i586). I don't have this file and haven't a clue what it is or where to get it.
Dave
PS Any leads to other network activity graphers would also be
How does one use this "autoboot.bat" file? The problem described below is
what I experienced when trying to upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0 with the $1.95 CD I
got from Linux Central. I don't understand how to apply the solution
provided below.
Autoboot users
what: can't load second stage ramdisk,
Hi,
I tried to put the line append="mem=128M" into my lilo.conf but i've yet an
append="hdc=ide-scsi". And 2 appends in the same stanza generate an error
message.
How can I solve that ?
or how can I install the first solution : "linux mem=128M" ??
Thks for your help (I'm really newbie :-))
www.emuse.net in docs section on front page
- Original Message -
From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:19 PM
Subject: [newbie] linux books
Anyone know where you can download some good linux books or docs.
Preferably in PDF or
Then learn to unsubscribe instead of whining like a spoilt child , you are
on the list because you chose that option even if you were sleepwalking at
the time.
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From: "Antonio Lino" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 5:38 PM
dave wrote:
I'm trying to install the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (mrtg-2.8.9-2mdk RPM for
i586). I don't have this file and haven't a clue what it is or where to get it.
Dave
PS Any leads to other network activity graphers would also be welcome. I'm
mainly interested in graphing
how did you get it to work...?
and will a modem with TurboCom ViP dos mode work?
it's a BestData VW-PCI 56k modem
Elvis Dieguez wrote:
That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems CAN be made to work under
Linux. I have one and I got it to run correctly.
Elvis
- Original Message
This isn't really a big problem, but just more on the annoying side. Whenver I
log in as a regular user, and then open up an xterm, su to root, and then try
to run a GUI application as root, I always get this error:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to
Hi
I want to monitor the trafic and the hosts on my network.
So far I understood that I had to work with snmp tools and daemons.
The problem is that I can't get things running when just reading the man and
howto pages.
Can anyone tell me where I can find BASIC informations about snmp and network
If you want to work efficiently with rpm, I'd suggest you to read
"maximum rpm"
available at http://www.rpm.org
Thanks! I downloaded the pdf.
--
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Getting where I want to be with Linux...
Elvis Dieguez wrote:
That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems CAN be made to work under
Linux. I have one and I got it to run correctly.
Elvis
What? Who wrote the software? Please post a link to where you
downloaded the drivers.
- Original Message -
From: John Catral
Hey, Its me again, this time I have a question
about Networking using SAMBA:
My problem is that my other Windows 98 machine
finds this machine, but when i try to connect to it, it says to enter a
password, but when I try to set a password in Linux, it says that threre was an
error about
Kit,
Doesn't your system have any of it's own serial ports? Not the ones on
the card you have your mouse in.
Anyway, you don't need a slot.
Plug the modem into the extra serial port on the card your mouse is
plugged into. However, you'll have to figure out to configure that port
to it can
You need to install lilo to hda in this case. You need something to
boot from. hda1 is the actual partition for /.
"Potts, Ross" wrote:
I get a boot error after configuring the system on a new install. My system is
a Compaq Presario 4112 with a P200 for the CPU. It is maxxed out with 72
Check out http://www.linmodems.org for more info.
-Original Message-
From: Elvis Dieguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem
That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems
It's because the X server doesn't allow another user to connect to it.
Type : 'xhost +' (without quotes) in an xterm when still logged as the user
that started X. Then you will be able to start GUI applications from another
user (root or anybody else, or even from another machine on your
OK...I'll bite. How did you do that? Is there a HOW-TO somewhere on it?
-Necro
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Elvis Dieguez wrote:
That is not true. Lucent Technology winmodems CAN be made to work under
Linux. I have one and I got it to run correctly.
Elvis
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From:
Chris, you joined a mailing list. What this means is that ALL messages sent
to the list will appear in the mailboxes of ALL members. You can either
unsubscribe or sign up for the Digest version which combines several e-mails
into one larger e-mail.
Fred Buecker
From: "Chris" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: Re: [newbie] Shutdown errors.
Did either of you try 7.02?
Fred Buecker
From: Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:22:02 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Shutdown errors.
same problem , same AMD450 since it appears to be OK on
I have recently completed a fresh install of Mandrake 7.0 on my system and
fried my old bastardised 6.0/6.1 system. I have noticed a few problems with
KDE and am wondering if anyone else has had similar problems. All these
problems come from the KDE Control Panel not effecting certain changes I
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does one use this "autoboot.bat" file? The problem described
below is
what I experienced when trying to upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0 with the
$1.95 CD I
got from Linux Central.
Upgrading from 6.1 to 7.0-2 failed for different reasons on two
Ok, I've compiled the MesaGL libs to (hopefully) work with my Voodoo2.
The HOWTO says I need to set an environment variable with setenv. The
example it gives is:
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/local/glide/lib:/Mesa-3.1/lib"
Unfortunately, setenv doesn't exist anywhere on my machine. What's up?
Thanks for the replys..FLipz has got me in the right
direction, found out i didnt have package gcc installed.. not sure what you were
talking about with the kernal source. But anyway now I am seeing a little action
going on 8) still night right 8( .. when I change to the au88xx-1.0.5 newly
Eunicehere's how I do it:
1. Start Kedit (pencil pad on the Panel)
2. Type in Kedit: #! /bin/sh
3. Press Enter
4. Type in Kedit: /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k
5. Press Enter
6. Save file in Autostart directory exit Kedit
7. Right click your new file in Autostart
8. Choose Properties then
Pieterfirst off I've installed Mandrake literally 100's of
times since version 5.2 and never sen what you are describing.
Also, you don't say which version of mandrake you're installing
and don't tell just what options you've chosen as you did the
installation. But, you should be able to
RickI'm guessing that you're in KDE as root (but are in the
user's directory that can't change the desktop options, not in
root's directory) and can see the file .kderc in a kfm window.
Just right click the file and choose properties - permissions.
Change both ownership windows from root to
I just have to share this with someone. Ya know, the more I learn about Linux
Mandrake the more I love it!!
Up until this weekend I ran a dual boot system of Windows 98SE and LM7. I'm an
IT professional, and since I need to get certified in it, I decided to blow
away my 98 partition and install
From: "Bryan Foster" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [newbie] how to use a winmodem
Date sent: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 06:16:01 -0500
Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out http://www.linmodems.org for
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I hev just signed up to this list, although I've been using
Mandrake for about 8 months now (RedHat before), so I'm not
really sure if this is an already over-discussed issue (I could
imagine it to be). I've also sent this message to both expert and
newbie, because I haven't receive enough mails
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