[newbie] Network card locking up system on boot

2000-07-12 Thread Jon Sider
I've tried 2 different network cards now, and in both instances, the system slows down to a crawl on: Bringing up interface eth0 insmod: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep I tried a 3com 905b, and a INtel Pro/100 card, both PCI. When i put the

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi again Tom, When I was sure that I had all the changes done that I wanted to make I ran that menu update, however nothing changed. All the menus in Afterstep are the same as they were out of the box. I looked at some other menu files that already existed

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Thread Mark Weaver
Good heavens! I wasn't using Kmenuedit. Iw as doing it manually using mc and vi. I'll try it with Kmenuedit as root and see what happens. Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi again Tom, When I was sure that I had all the changes done that I wanted to make I ran that

[newbie] can't recognize UMAX-VistaS6 on AHA1520b

2000-07-12 Thread Didier Galland
My Mandrake 7.02 can't recognize my Umax Vista-S6 scanner wich is hosted by a Adaptec aha1520b scsi card. This card works well and is recognized trough its bios (My CD-burner is found) - sg driver (generic scsi driver) is installed V.2136 - My scanner is in ready mode when the sytem boots - scsi

[newbie] traceroute information needed

2000-07-12 Thread worldly linux
I'm looking for a good tutorial on traceroute. Specifically, I'm looking for a discussion of the different responses you can get, especially "network unreachable". I recently saw an excellent discussion of this, I thought in a Linux tutorial/manpage. But now I don't remember where I saw it.

[newbie] Network Card: Kudzu recognizes, Linux Fails

2000-07-12 Thread Pete Clapham
Hi -- I recently inserted an SMC 9432TX network card in my machine. As Linux was booting, Kudzu was called and recgonized the card. As expected, it called for the EPIC-100 network driver, as can be verified in DrakConf. However, as linux boots, insertion of eth0 fails (and is delayed),

[newbie] How to load Zip Module

2000-07-12 Thread Hugh
I decided to use my old ppa zip instead of buying a new one Trouble is I cant find instructions or howto's on how to load the proper driver does anyone remember how its done? This is a 250MEG drive if that makes a difference.. I have tried modprobe

Re: [newbie] Second window partition no longer available bug

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Malka
OK please help me because I am confused. Here is my data. The HD I wish to install Mandrake on is an 8 GB HD. It is presently partitioned as follows: One extended partition of 7.4 G Within it I have 7 logical fat partitions: H: 930 MB I: 1000 MB J: 482 MB K: 103 MB L: 310 MB M:1000MB N:

[newbie] can't find a CDROM

2000-07-12 Thread Young Kim
I have a Mitsumi X2 speed CDROM driver. when I boot with mandrake bootdisk. it couldn't find my CDROM driver. but mitsumi is in the CDROM driver option. can anybody know how fix this problem.

Re: [newbie] Sound in Windowmaker

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Clif Caldwell wrote: I've looked around and I still am not sure how to get all the bells and whistles going in Windowmaker. Any help would be appreciated. Clif Caldwell Does windowmaker have sound support? I think I have tried it out and did not get sounds going either...

[newbie] Sound in Enlightenment

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Justin Johnson wrote: also, is anyone else getting flaky sound running enlightenment? the sounds seem to be a little scratchy now and then. i can use the same sounds in I have not had sound running in E. yet. In KDE it goes all well, in another one there was no problem

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work. Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system. It doesn't??? I wonder what's different between your system and mine,

RE: [newbie] How to load Zip Module

2000-07-12 Thread A J Benamu
Hugh, I used modprobe imm and my old Zip 100 was recognized... but I can't get it to mount.. :( Good Luck, AJ -Original Message- From: Hugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 1:51 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] How to load Zip Module I decided to use my old

[newbie] Firewall

2000-07-12 Thread poogle
There is a really easy to use firewall available for free download in either tar .gz format or rpm for Mandrake 7.1 (rpm not tested on other versions) It is easy to install that even I could do it, in less than 5 minutes as well ! So for everybody like me who trembles at the mention of ipchains

[newbie] Mutt and sendmail

2000-07-12 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi all I am new to this list (used to have SuSE). I'm trying to configure mutt to send mail immediately, but it seems to fail :-( I have sendmail installed, and have it set up with the use of install-sendmail. Sendmail is running. In my .muttrc I have this: set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail

Re: [newbie] Sound in Enlightenment

2000-07-12 Thread Armisis Aieoln
I cant get sound in enlightenment to work at all when it works everywhere else, and its instaled in my kernel and works fine with xmms and such... its a soundblaster 128 dave On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Justin Johnson wrote: also, is anyone else getting flaky

Re: [newbie] can't find a CDROM

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Young Kim wrote: I have a Mitsumi X2 speed CDROM driver. when I boot with mandrake bootdisk. it couldn't find my CDROM driver. but mitsumi is in the CDROM driver option. can anybody know how fix this problem. Is it one of these old Mitsumi drives that have a separate

Re: [newbie] Second window partition no longer available bug

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: /boot 10 MB /opt516 MB /usr1000 MB /home 1000 MB / 66 MB /var66MB swap is 100MB on another drive. Is this appropriate and are the sizes sufficient for a standard Mandrake install? Yep, this looks

Re: [newbie] How to load Zip Module

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Hugh wrote: I decided to use my old ppa zip instead of buying a new one Trouble is I cant find instructions or howto's on how to load the proper driver does anyone remember how its done? This is a 250MEG drive if that makes a difference.. I have tried modprobe On

RE: [newbie] Network card locking up system on boot

2000-07-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I'd start with the error message itself if I were you. Why is this occuring? Have you recompiled the kernel? What happens when you run... "depmod -a" Does this fix the error message upon reboot? -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Jon Sider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday,

[newbie] Lost root password

2000-07-12 Thread mendes
Hello Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login as root again? Thanks a lot. Eduardo

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work. Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system. It doesn't??? I wonder what's

[newbie] Upgrade

2000-07-12 Thread John Arkoulis
hey i finally got 7.1 !! Now the question. As I have 7.0 installed if I do an upgrade (choose the upgrade option) is there a risk that I will loose all my serttings and saved files?? -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux

Re: [newbie] Lost root password

2000-07-12 Thread bascule
at the lilo prompt, try linux s or linux single on some systems this will boot the machine to a single user mode with no need to login, then you can run (if memory serves) 'passwd root' at the prompt and change the password for root some people think this is a security flaw in linux but i have

[newbie] test

2000-07-12 Thread Denis Havlik
just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-) -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private:

Re: [newbie] Lost root password

2000-07-12 Thread Eric MC.D
AMHA, An other way, or if single no more exist (Sorry Bascule, I doubt it can be done in this mode): Start with the boot and rescue disk (cd inserted). After the intro message (if message is), type exit. Mount a root partition on the HD, utilize fdisk -l to see the existing partitions. After

Re: [newbie] test

2000-07-12 Thread Christopher Molnar
Damn, you told it you were leaving KRRSSSHH! On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Denis Havlik wrote: just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-)

[newbie] CD RW compatibility

2000-07-12 Thread benjamin michael mcclelland
not sure if first message went through... anyone know of any CD RW drive that are for sure compatible with Mandrake 7.1? I would like one that mandrake allready has the drivers to... Im looking for an external SCSI. Is USB supported with Mandrake... I thought It was only with the kernel that

Re: [newbie] test

2000-07-12 Thread bascule
YOU ARE NOW DEFENCELESS, THIS LIST WILL BE ASSIMILATED, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE basculus of borg Christopher Molnar wrote: Damn, you told it you were leaving KRRSSSHH! On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Denis Havlik wrote: just checking the lists health before leaving for a

[newbie] C Libraries - Where are they?

2000-07-12 Thread Pete Clapham
Hi, all -- I reloaded Mandrake 7.0 after running satisfactorily with 6.1, and there's a problem with the C libraries. They worked fine under 6.1, but gcc can't find them with 7.0 using a Make file. Does one need to treat gcc differently with 7.0 than with 6.1? Does anybody have any ideas

Re: [newbie] CD RW compatibility

2000-07-12 Thread Eric MC.D
benjamin michael mcclelland wrote: not sure if first message went through... anyone know of any CD RW drive that are for sure compatible with Mandrake 7.1? I would like one that mandrake allready has the drivers to... Im looking for an external SCSI. Is USB supported with Mandrake... I

Re: [newbie] CD RW compatibility

2000-07-12 Thread benjamin michael mcclelland
did that... was looking for experiences... If there were any that were especially easy to setup. I want to get one and have it working, not laying around like a lot of people that I have seen. Ben On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Eric MC.D wrote: benjamin michael mcclelland wrote: not sure if first

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Thread Mark Weaver
I used to dual-boot, but run primarily, (99% of the time) Linux. The other partition is Win98. About the only thing I use it for anymore is two graphics programs and an HTML editor that I just love. HomeSite 4.5. Other than that I live and breath Linux anymore. I love the stability, power,

Re: [newbie] Seeking Tutorial on compiling Kernel

2000-07-12 Thread Romanator
Thanks Mark, The first time is always the scariest. Roman Mark Weaver wrote: Roman, There are probably 1-2 ways that I've seen to do this. I've found the best and easiest ways are documented in the Kernel-HOWTO and the Firewall-HOWTO...or was that the IP-chains-HOWTO...at any rate,

[newbie] Acrobat Reader

2000-07-12 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I have an ongoing problem with Acrobat Reader. I have d/l'd both tar and rpm. I have installed both, and put an Icon on the KDE desktop. But I'll be darned if I can get the thing to run. The icon won't connect. I can bring up the readme file and so forth, but when I go to the icon or

Re: [newbie] test

2000-07-12 Thread Fran Parker
Enjoy your vacation Denis! Bambi Denis Havlik wrote: just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-) -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail:

Re: [newbie] Seeking Tutorial on compiling Kernel

2000-07-12 Thread Mark Weaver
Don't I know it! -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: Thanks Mark, The first time is always the scariest. Roman Mark Weaver wrote: Roman, There are

Re: [newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems

2000-07-12 Thread Romanator
Roman, You never told me until now that it was a RW CD ROM. In the future before you ask for help, especially when its a long email - please type it in point form. I had used up 4 days of searching for help for you. Then, I find out that you are using a completely different CD. Roman Roman

Re: [newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems

2000-07-12 Thread Romanator
Roman, By the way ICUII is video camera utility and application that you can use with your computer. Roman Korcek wrote: To Dacia: Thanx, I will try it. To Paul: read further (and authorize me on ICQ...). To Roman: Hey Romanator, Wow. It looks like a nice mouse... Off topic

Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader

2000-07-12 Thread Phil Burton
Hi. If you have the cd with the e-books you do not have to download anything. The Acrobat Reader is in a file called linux-ar-40.tar.gz. Copy that file to /tmp then do # tar xzvf linux-ar-40.tar.gz ... then go to the directory it creates and run (as root) # ./INSTALL The principle should be

[newbie] Please be specific about your help inquiry

2000-07-12 Thread Romanator
Roman, You never told me until now that it was a RW CD ROM. In the future before you ask for help, especially when its a long email - please type it in point form. I had used up 3 - 4 days of searching for help for you. Then, I find out that you are using a completely different CD and no

[newbie] ICUII for Linux

2000-07-12 Thread Romanator
Roman, By the way ICUII is video camera utility and application that you can use with your computer. It will allow you to see the other user. There is Linux version available for this application. Roman begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:Roman -

[newbie] XFree86 4.0.1

2000-07-12 Thread John Catral
Hi! Has anyone tried using XFree86 4.0.1 yet? Are there RPM's for them and what files should I get to run on my mandrake 7.1? Any links would be very helpful. =) Thanks! John -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=- John M Catral ICQ# 7113128

Re: [newbie] test

2000-07-12 Thread Denis Havlik
HAHA, schurken!;- I got you - before I leave, I will ban both of you from all the lists to prevent your subversive actions while I am away ,- Beg on your knies and I will let you come back one day. Maybe. Big brother is watching you Denis

Re: [newbie] Sound in Enlightenment

2000-07-12 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:15:40 +0100 (BST),Paul wrote: I have not had sound running in E. yet. In KDE it goes all well, in another one there was no problem either (but what the was that one!) Paul === Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:19:49 It must be Afterstep Paul grin Olly P Biloxi

Re: [newbie] Seeking Tutorial on compiling Kernel

2000-07-12 Thread Keith Robinson
My own experience witrh (re)compiling the kernel is very positive. It has taught me the most about my system and about Linux. Take your time. Read lots and read the HOWTOs from Linus and all as you go. If you don't understand something as you work your way through it, hop on the Net and find

Re: [newbie] Seeking Tutorial on compiling Kernel

2000-07-12 Thread Keith Robinson
Oh, and may the *source* be with you. -- Keith On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: Don't I know it! -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: Thanks Mark, The

Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader

2000-07-12 Thread Dennis Myers
Phil Burton wrote: Hi. If you have the cd with the e-books you do not have to download anything. The Acrobat Reader is in a file called linux-ar-40.tar.gz. Copy that file to /tmp then do # tar xzvf linux-ar-40.tar.gz ... then go to the directory it creates and run (as root) # ./INSTALL

[newbie] Install partitions help

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Malka
I just received my 7.1 CDs and installed Mandrake 7.1 with no apparent problems! However that was no feat because I just used the "recommended" install. That installed everything together and I would prefer to have separate partitions for various mounting points. Prior to goinf the

Re: [newbie] Upgrade

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: hey i finally got 7.1 !! Now the question. As I have 7.0 installed if I do an upgrade (choose the upgrade option) is there a risk that I will loose all my serttings and saved files?? The risk is always there, but you need not worry. From my own

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: It doesn't??? I wonder what's different between your system and mine, a few days ago I noticed something missing from the menu, did 'su' to root, ran kmenuedit and everything went smoothly... There's just beginning a discussion among the

Re: [newbie] Sound in Enlightenment

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: I have not had sound running in E. yet. In KDE it goes all well, in another one there was no problem either (but what the was that one!) Paul === Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:19:49 It must be Afterstep Paul grin Olly P that's it! Thank

[newbie] Cron fails

2000-07-12 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, I have changed the times on crontab this evening and restarted cron (all as root of course, but "su"d in a window. Had to, since my computer is not on at night when the cron-entries usually are run. This is what I get when the hourly check runs: -- Forwarded message