the site has just been updated again with even more great stuff
Here are the main steps to share your internet connection :
First thing to do : setup your LAN. While you can't ping any machine
from any other machine, you'll be in trouble.
Then : setup your gateway's second network card so that your gateway can
access the internet, as if it was a simple
Okay Bruce, I'll give that a whirl!
Thanks!
Vern
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Vern;
Even if you in DOS under windows, you can not say do "cd /program
files/". Does under windoze uses the tilde "~". Under DOS in windows to
change to directory "Program Files" you would type "cd
You may also use from 'lilo' prompt "linux 1", for single user; "linux
2", for multi user/wo network; or "linux 3", multi user/w network,
leaving out the quotation marks. This will get you into a command line
in 'Text' mode.
don
I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
I do not know what is being tested with this blank page. If it is a
blank page test then all went well.
don
I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I
I'm a newbie in Linux, and I've install Mandrake
7 on my machine Cyrix MII 300.
the problems is it did not detect my mouse in
KDE windows.
for your information i've mouse with 3
button.
thank you
Andrew,
Just tried you site and found the date "Sunday, April 2, 100 ", may need
some touching up?
don
I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
Hi outthere... =)
I'm new to Linux and I want to get an Internetconnection from my Linux PC to
my ISP over a Win95 PC (through Samba) which is already connected to the
net. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanx
Michael
, i "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
BILL wrote:
Hi ,
I'm having the same problem (this may be a long letter),I have two CD players, a
read only and a burnnerRW(Iomega Zip cd r+w),and over the las three month or so
I have at different times had both working,but constantly have had to
Hi all,
I've upgraded from redhat 6.1 to Mandrake7.0-2 .While trying to
configure my sound (using sndconfig) I got this error:
sndconfig: error in loading shared libraries: libnewt.so.0.40: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
It worked fine with redhat 6.1 but
"Michael N. Proffitt" wrote:
Hi,
I just installed Mandrake 7.0 Complete and was hoping to use ssh to
connect to a remote host securely, but don't find the command anywhere.
Is it really here installed already or do I need to install it somehow?
Thanks for any help/pointers!
Mike
--
I tried sndconfig, but I received the following error message -
/etc/isapnp.conf:45 - Fatal - IO range check attempted while device
activated
/etc/isapnp.conf:45 - Fatal - Error occurred executing request
'IORESCHECK' - further action aborted.
Is that bad?
-Original Message-
From:
Hi there,
Installed Mandrake 7 on a friends machine, went in
ok.
Tried to install it on another, Pentium 133, with
Matrix Mystique card.
Getting message right at the beginning of boot
sequence, message reads:
in second stage
install
X11TranSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:
errno = 111
Hi,
I recently installed linux mandrake and am able to
login as root as well as the user I created.
The line I get:
[username@localhost username]$
How do I get from here to KDE or Gnome
interfaces?
Thanks in advance,
Rod
Hi,
Last night I was able to complete the Mandrake installation process, and
had setup lilo to boot the system. Unfortunately, I didin't create a
recovery boot disk. I started my computer up this morning, and after
post completed, the screen filled with the number 20 over and over
again. I
I think if you type startx then that should get you somewhere. I could be
wrong though.
-Original Message-
From: Rod Mailhot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 April 2000 21:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie]
Hi,
I recently installed linux mandrake and am able to login as root
BILL wrote:
, i "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
BILL wrote:
Hi ,
I'm having the same problem (this may be a long letter),I have two CD players, a
read only and a burnnerRW(Iomega Zip cd r+w),and over the las three month or so
I have at different times had both working,but constantly
Original Message
On 4/2/00, 3:32:41 AM, BILL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re:
[newbie] CD-ROM disappeared:
OK.I have since reconfigured the CD'S bacvk to where they had
started,...cd read only
on hdb,cd r+w on hdb,
my "dmesg reads fine with the exception of the last few lines
Thx I will try this...and let you know...:)
Jaguar
flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are the main steps to share your internet connection :
First thing to do : setup your LAN. While you can't ping any machine
from any other machine, you'll be in trouble.
Then : setup your gateway's
BILL wrote:
, i "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
BILL wrote:
Hi ,
I'm having the same problem (this may be a long letter),I have two CD players, a
read only and a burnnerRW(Iomega Zip cd r+w),and over the las three month or so
I have at different times had both working,but constantly
What, in your opinion, are the relative merits / dangers of running a proxy server as
opposed to
IPChains etc. when it comes to sharing a DSL connection?
(In a mixed Mandrake / Windows9* emvironment )
have you setup your X yet, if so just type "startx" --without quotes
if that doesn't work, you will have to setup X using one of the many config
tools (setup, xf86config, XF86Setup (bear in mind these commands ARE case
sensitive))
HTH
Jaguar
"Rod Mailhot" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'startx' would be the command you want, without the
quotes.
- Original Message -
From:
Rod Mailhot
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 1:53
PM
Subject: [newbie]
Hi,
I recently installed linux mandrake and am able
to login as root as well as
XFdrake is what I used to get my X to work. The initial graphical
install could get my STB Lightspeed 128 and NEC Multisync XV15 to work,
but when I ran XFdrake after the install it got me going even though
just made the same equipment selection. Actually all it asked for was
my monitor type
Hello,
I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.0. I have it boot to the KDE desktop. I
don't want it too. How do I change this? There is a config problem and my
screen is black. Monitor light stays amber and never goes to green. I want
to boot to console. Any help?
Bill
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Hi,
I recently installed linux mandrake and am able to login as root as well as the user
I created.
The line I get:
[username@localhost username]$
How do I get from here to KDE or Gnome interfaces?
startx
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer
Test worked
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, Michael Höhr mewed:
Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Description:
--
My new linux web server with Apache
- Original Message -
From: "Jason Dryer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 10:48 AM
Subject: [newbie] Corrupted boot table
Hi,
Last night I was able to complete the Mandrake installation process, and
had setup lilo to boot the system.
The modem I am using is a GVC external modem connected to the com2 port. I also have
a lan
connecting my computer to my brother's. This lan has been used to pass files, play
doom,
and to backup my system on to a CD. My computer has no CD writer. I have tried
hylafax, and
mgetty trying to
Hi,
I have Mandrake 6.1 and just got DSL. I installed the network card before
doing a clean install - its a Linksys Network Everywhere NC100 fast ethernet
10/100 PCI card. During install, the card was not be detected. I didn't have
the service hooked up at that point - don't know if that makes
I gave you a link in an email, make sure you cut and paste the link into
your browser so you get the whole thing, it wants to wrap to window losing
the last part of the address to the next line.
Michael Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Below I meant to say that the "initial graphical install could NOT". I
left out the "not".
- Original Message -
From: "Michael N. Proffitt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [[newbie]]
XFdrake is what I used to get my X to work.
Hi there,
Installed Mandrake 7 on a friends machine, went in
ok.
Tried to install it on another, Pentium 133, with
Matrix Mystique card.
Getting message right at the beginning of boot
sequence, message reads:
in second stage
install
X11TranSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:
errno =
linuxfaqs.org.uk is nearly finished goto www.linuxfaqs.org.uk and c what i
mean
Hi there,
I would really appreciate if someone could
help me installing Linux for Windows of the
latest PCPLUS CD-rom.
I have a Dell Dimension, 450 MHz, 256Mb Ram,
Toshiba DVD-ROM, 1 year old.
I got to the point where after running
install.bat
and setup.bat I have to reboot my pc to start
SORRY! I made a mistake!
The ip adress of www.linux.org is 198.182.196.56
flupke wrote :
Here are the main steps to share your internet connection :
First thing to do : setup your LAN. While you can't ping any machine
from any other machine, you'll be in trouble.
Then : setup your
Hello folks..I'm so new to Linux you wouldn't believe, so please be gentle
with me!!
I've loaded Madrake in the last couple of days. I'm stumbling my way around.
As I came to PC's pretty late (About 30 months ago), I've never learnt any
dos, so this command line stuff is a bit scary!!
A couple
Are you booting from the CD, or using a boot disk? Apparently there are
problems when booting from the CD.
-Original Message-
From: Hazel Norman Teferle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 April 2000 22:33
To: newbie newsgroup
Subject: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help
I was unable to install an acceptable Mandrake 7.0
system due to the misconfiguring of a serial mouse
as a ps/2 one when booting direct from the CD-Rom.
Using the patch provided under 'Last minute fixes'
from the official web-site, I tried re-installing
with boot disks containing either
Do the install files in question end with a .tar.gz or with a .rpm?
I do not know of any modern internal modems that work
very well with Linux, except if you go to http://www.linmodems.org
which should describe stuff about winmodem drivers,
now hoping that your internal modem is a real modem,
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Hello folks..I'm so new to Linux you wouldn't believe, so please be gentle
with me!!
2-Modems-Do no internal modems work aty all? I've got a pretty good hardware
driven internal one that'll run any flavour of windows.
Cheers
Andy
As long as you're not a
On the install CD, just install the package named make. That should be all
you need.
Tom
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote:
I'm brand new to Linux - used Unix a long time ago, but don't remember much -
I've downloaded a file manager in the form of source code, and need to do a
"make" to
The configure error your getting is in the fact that you don't appear to have
gcc (the GNU C Compiler) installed. Look in /usr/bin for gcc and see if it's
there, if not, pop in the install CD and install the gcc package.
Tom
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote:
When I tried your command
At 23:13 02/04/00 , you wrote:
Are you booting from the CD, or using a boot disk? Apparently there are
problems when booting from the CD.
See http://www.pcplus.co.uk/discs/
Ken Rodgers
Ok. I think I need to explain the situation a little more. Most of the
description I gave last time was background info that led up to my
problem. The problem I'm having right now is that when the install
process gets to where it initiallizes the cd-rom, one of two things
happens (randomly
Well, I tried that. Here's what I got after typing "insmod ppa":
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
forstfed wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
This is what worked for me:
As su in a terminal window:
mkdir /mnt/zip
insmod parport
insmod
Well, I tried that. Here's what I got after typing "insmod ppa":
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Any ideas? I really want to get this thing resolved.
Mani
forstfed wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
This is what worked for me:
As su
Harald Hvhr wrote:
Hi outthere... =)
I'm new to Linux and I want to get an Internetconnection from my Linux PC to
my ISP over a Win95 PC (through Samba) which is already connected to the
net. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanx
Michael
Wingate is one program you can use.
Win98SE
my internal modem works well. but, it's definitely hardware-based. it
doesn't rely on the computer's processer.
check the hardware compatibility pages for what's a winmodem and what's
not.
larry
- Original Message -
From: bluebottle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
Hello again,
Installed Mandrake 7.0(AIR). Installation went well. Except for a stupid
mistake by me. When it got to the video card/monitor/resoulution questions I
must of fell asleep. When it tested the video resoulution the screen came up
blank and monitor light was amber(like sleep mode). Like
I have an Abit BE6 and I have had success using the kernal from gentus linux (Abits
own linux). I had to download the whole iso image to get the kernel as Gentus dont
distribute any other way- no pakages /source on their site (www.gentus.com). The
distro is basically redhat 6.1 with abit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I took the kernel and dumped the rest.
How, exactly, did you do that? I wish to do the same
Jon wrote:
Pak Wing wrote:
This is a strange one. I managed to install StarOffice fine as root.
As root, you're meant to have permissions for everything!
I didn't do "/bin/sh" though. running under bash worked fine.
Pak
Monte Milanuk wrote:
I have a Sun Microsystems
Anthony Huereca wrote:
As we all know, X crashes every once in a while, causing us to have to kill
it. However, I was wondering if there was a way to kill X without being root.
The reason is that my brother had X crash on him, and you can't kill it while
being a user, it says "Operation not
From the command line enter "sndconfig" (without the quotes ; )
Seth Hollen wrote:
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
what's your sound card?
have you tried LOTHAR on the command "soundconfig"?
-Original Message-
From: Roy Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000
I installed, from scratch, Mandrake 7.
It took 2.75 HOURS - usually takes 35 minutes.
The system is now glacially s-l-o-w with far too much hard drive activity.
It is also reporting a 2.2GB hard drive as about 5GB !!
Have I activated any compression system, like the DOS DoubleDisk, by
Dan Ferris wrote:
Here is a Samba question...
I want to make Samba to authenticate users from the domain, not
for the user. This is so I can have two shares. One is private
for me to use. On the other, the world (my home network in this
case) will be able to download files from.
Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days
experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read
the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my
existing Win98 OS.
Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)?
I
Mani Abreu wrote:
Nope. Just tried that, here's the result:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
(maybe 'insmod driver'?)
I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading the drivers for
the line printer first, before parport/ppa driver. How
Oh, and while I'm at it. Truth be told, I've only read messages that
seemed pertinent, and dumped all the rest. So another question:
Why does Mandrake 7.0 (Linux in general?) seem to run slower
than Windows95 when running the same application? That is, why
does a video file run some much
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey people I am getting to be even more dangerous, I looked in the /dev
directory. A little too much for the screen so I did 'ls -l [filename
of your choice]' then do a 'cat [filename of your choice] |less' then you
can read what devices are recognized by your
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey people I am getting to be even more dangerous, I looked in the /dev
directory. A little too much for the screen so I did 'ls -l [filename
of your choice]' then do a 'cat [filename of your choice] |less' then you
can read what devices are recognized by your
Oh yeah I forgot to mention, it uses the DEC21x4x module (tulip.o i think it
is)
- Original Message -
From: AnthonyMage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 8:09 PM
Subject: [newbie] NIC Card and Mandrake
Hi I have been trying to configure a Farallon
Hello folks..I'm so new to Linux you wouldn't believe, so please be
gentle
with me!!
Not a problem! You'd be surprised at the varied backgrounds here, I'm sure.
I've loaded Madrake in the last couple of days. I'm stumbling my way
around.
As I came to PC's pretty late (About 30 months
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