Re: [newbie-it] kernel 2.2.17

2000-09-10 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, bube wrote: ciao ragazzi ho appena finito di compilare il kernel 2.2.17 e tutto è andato a buon fine , però 2 cose mi lasciano perplesso : 1 xchè dopo che ho compilato il nuovo kernel , la mandrake 7.1 non fa più il mounting automatico di cdrom , masterizzatori etc???

R: [newbie-it] kernel 2.2.17

2000-09-10 Thread bube
-Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di Sebastiano Cordiano Inviato: domenica 10 settembre 2000 20.29 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] kernel 2.2.17 per avere questa opzione (li puoi trovare sul cooker, ma

Re: Ri:[newbie-it] Problemi con Modem USR 336 isapnp interno

2000-09-10 Thread Ciro
At 14.20 10/09/00 +0200, you wrote: Ehi non ti scoraggiare, non sempre funziona al primo colpo (quasi mai :-) !! Dunque, da quello che hai detto sembrerebbe tutto a posto a parte quel "too many arguments" nello script serial che mi ha fatto venire in mente una cosa: quando sono passato dalla

Re: [newbie] last one to be answered :(

2000-09-10 Thread Steve Weltman
OK then... As a Linux Mandrake user (on a laptop exclusively), I have had LOTS of issues with XF86Config not being set up correctly. All of which are reparable, from an otherwise operational Linux box. You'll have to pardon my geek-nature, but I don't understand what you mean by "brick"...I

[newbie] Sound configuration problem

2000-09-10 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
After completely re-installing my system, I cannot get the sound to work; guess I dont remember what I did the first time to get it functioning ;-( Plug and Pray Sound Blaster AWE card. When I try to start kmix, I am told "kmix:Could not open mixer, Perhaps you do not have permission to

Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem

2000-09-10 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Mark Thurston wrote: I have a US Robotics 56K Sportster modem, it is about 3 years old so it is not a winmodem. This seems to me to be a hasty generalization; I think that winmodems existed before 1997; Any comment ? Ron the Frog, swelteing under the winter sun on

Re: [newbie] grub question

2000-09-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michael wrote: I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able to reinstall grub afterwords? Mike Mikeafter the

Re: [newbie] grub question

2000-09-10 Thread Michael
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Michael wrote: I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able to reinstall grub afterwords?

Re: [newbie] LZH file

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
WarmFuzzy wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: Anthony wrote: How do I view a .lzh file? I was downloading some Dance Dance Revolution (really really cool arcade game) movies, and I came across some that ended in .lzh. I tried viewing them in GTV, but it didn't do anything. So what

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: Just type 'mc' at your terminal prompt - it should be part of the standard install. It's almost exactly like the Dos equiv. - a few Very interesting...something new to play with. thanks. I'm not ofay with the history of Linux - I suspect that Linus may have

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Mark Weaver wrote: Aaah Larry, don't worry about it. We all run a few neurons shy of a whole molocule now and then. Love that typo Mark - I thought you were referring to my monocle for a few Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie]

2000-09-10 Thread Azriel Newsome
Im having problems getting my Microsoft Intellimouse 3 button wheel mouse to work with Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe. The 3rd button will not work at all. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Re: [newbie] question

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
"Daniel J. Ferris" wrote: What is a good program to use that will log attempts to scan your box? Preferably something that can detect stealth scans. TIA, Dan Take a look at 'portsentry' go to http://freshmeat.net/ and search for it - I find it's pretty good. Cheers --

Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Mark Thurston wrote: I have a US Robotics 56K Sportster modem, it is about 3 years old so it is not a winmodem. Anyway, I can get linux to find the driver and query the modem, but it always says "the modem is busy." I need to get this running as soon as possible. Any help would be

Re: [newbie] grub question

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Michael wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Michael wrote: I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able to

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Mark Thurston wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in Linux. The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the selects a driver, but the driver does not work properly. The test page prints, but very very slowly and it is all jumbled up and

Re: [newbie] grub question

2000-09-10 Thread Jason Ashman
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able to reinstall grub afterwords? Mike --

Re: [newbie]

2000-09-10 Thread Jason Ashman
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: Im having problems getting my Microsoft Intellimouse 3 button wheel mouse to work with Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe. The 3rd button will not work at all. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-10 Thread Jason Ashman
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: I just checked on my install of 7.0 to double boot with Win98 and found that the installation detected my 128M of ram. Why would it work on my machine when I read that so many others must do the append mem= thing to get their RAM recognized? Not complaining,

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-10 Thread Roger Pithers
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: I just checked on my install of 7.0 to double boot with Win98 and found that the installation detected my 128M of ram. Why would it work on my machine when I read that so many others must do the append mem= thing to get their RAM recognized? Not complaining,

Re: [newbie] grub question

2000-09-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michael wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Michael wrote: I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able to

Re: [newbie] question

2000-09-10 Thread Paul
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Daniel J. Ferris wrote: What is a good program to use that will log attempts to scan your box? Preferably something that can detect stealth scans. TIA, Portsentry. You can find it through freshmeat.net and linuxapps.com Paul -- Q: What do prisoners use to call each

Re: [newbie] last one to be answered :(

2000-09-10 Thread Paul
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Kathleen Dickason wrote: Me too! I have even convinced my manager to let me have vi for winbloze on my machine at work :) Paul YESYESYES I agree! Kathleen Mark Weaver wrote: naaah...it's just a real pain to use till you get used to it. Vi is much easier to learn

Re: [newbie] Which kernel is recommended for updating for mdk7.1?

2000-09-10 Thread boynblack
Hello Roman, Saturday, September 09, 2000, 1:41:02 PM, you wrote: RB Hi, RB I noticed there are different flavors of kernels for updating. Another RB one was just released on Sept. 4th. RB 2.2.17. Before I ruin another update, which kernel is recommended? I RB have mdk7.1b Hydrogen installed.

[newbie] gnome

2000-09-10 Thread boynblack
Hello newbie, hey, I just went from Mandrake 7.0 to 7.1 and so far i love the changes. One of the things however that seem to be funky is my gnome. It will start the HD spinning wildly then crash my X. This happened three times in a row. Once when i added an app to the panel and

Re: [newbie] OT: cd createing

2000-09-10 Thread Goldenpi
Great help, now I know what joliet is I will use it to create my cd. - Original Message - From: "WarmFuzzy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: cd createing John Rye wrote: Goldenpi wrote: I have been

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Goldenpi
Where do neurons go in molocules? Could you be comfuseing neurons with nutrons. - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] penguin icons Larry Marshall wrote: Comment - We

[newbie] kernel headers after upgrade

2000-09-10 Thread Paul
Hi all, I have upgraded my kernel to 2.2.16. Now I heard something about kernel headers, so I got the kernel-headers rpm for 2.2.16. When I rpm -Uvh that, I get complaints about older files being needed by other older files. Is it safe to install this all with --nodeps, or is there something

Re: [newbie] Can PC Anywhere work

2000-09-10 Thread Digital Wokan
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, PCAnywhere version 9's host can offer you remote control via a web browser's Java VM. Barry Premeaux wrote: Neil Kate wrote: Is there a thing I can load on my Linux box to let me control a MS pc running PCAnywhere? You could try running it under wine.

[newbie] How do I get to the GUI?

2000-09-10 Thread John Kimmel
I am a pure newbie here. I can't seem to get xwindows started. I typed "startx" from about every directory i could get to with no luck. Always gives me an error. Don't remember the error at the moment. Guess I should have wrote it down. Am I doing something wrong or is it a bad install?

Re: [newbie] How do I get to the GUI?

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
John Kimmel wrote: I am a pure newbie here. I can't seem to get xwindows started. I typed "startx" from about every directory i could get to with no luck. Always gives me an error. Don't remember the error at the moment. Guess I should have wrote it down. Am I doing something wrong

[newbie] Setup UDMA 66 card

2000-09-10 Thread tom_chan
Hi all, I setup an Mandrake 6.1 and learn for linux, and I'm trying to add my DMA66 card into the linux box to utilize my 2 old 420M conner harddisk. the pci card using HPT366 chip. And I successfully update the kernel with the chip support. But when boot up the linux box, I found the

Re: [newbie] RE: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

2000-09-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Dacia and AzureRose wrote: I've not installed a voodoo3. Perhaps the linux drivers for the voodoo3 are compiled against a different version of glide (or OGL) then the screen savers/plugins that you want to use? Although that shouldn't be the case because my voodoo5 will run screen

Re: [Re: [newbie] last one to be answered :(]

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: naaah...it's just a real pain to use till you get used to it. Vi is much easier to learn than emacs. IMHO of course. -- Mark Uh-Oh, Mark, On some of the other lists I subscribe to this could turn into a real "jihad"

Re: [[newbie] grub question]

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able to reinstall grub afterwords? Mike

Re: [[newbie] Printer problems]

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Mark Thurston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in Linux. The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the selects a driver, but the driver does not work properly. The test page prints, but very very slowly and it is all

Re: [newbie] Sound configuration problem

2000-09-10 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
John Rye, Paul and Boynblack wrote: sndconfig as root from console. I knew it ! I HAD forgotten something ! Many thanks from the sunny banks of the Paraguay River, Ron the Frog. -- If someone annoys you, just turn the other cheek. Nothing gets the message

Re: [newbie] netscape segmentation fault

2000-09-10 Thread Charles Oriez
At 09:36 PM 9/8/00 -0400, Larry Marshall wrote: I do a lot of email and have several hundred email addresses in my Eudora addressbook. Right now it's easier for me to work with a text http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htm will convert Eudora to netscape, and I assume (fact check please)

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm only using it because of the huge accumulation of Word, Excel and Yep, my work dictates that I be Word-compatible. In fact, Star Office isn't quite up to that task, though it's pretty good. Anyone here have enough experience importing Word docs into Applixware to comment on it? I'm

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
John Rye wrote: Mark Thurston wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in Linux. The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the Look in your printers' manual - somewhere you should find a reference to earlier HP Deskjets which it is similar

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
And here is the kicker...In Windows I couldn't run more than 800x640 res, while in Linux I can go 1024x724. Figure that out, eh? This is a function of the video drivers you have installed on both operating systems. You could fix it in Windows but you have to go to a different conference for

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread john bodanske
you are - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 5:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] penguin icons Where do neurons go in molocules? Could you be comfuseing neurons with nutrons. - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] netscape segmentation fault

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htm will convert Eudora to netscape, and I assume (fact check please) that the mozilla address book matches the netscape windows address book. Yippee! You made my day. I just downloaded DAWN (didn't like the idea of filtering my addressbook through a

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Kathleen Dickason
I think it was a joke... Kathleen Goldenpi wrote: Where do neurons go in molocules? Could you be comfuseing neurons with nutrons. - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Mark Thurston
I need to do some C++ programming and I would prefer to do this on a Linux machine, is there a C++ compiler and editor in Mandrake-Linux? I have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 complete. Thanks Mark

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Paul
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Mark Thurston wrote: I need to do some C++ programming and I would prefer to do this on a Linux machine, is there a C++ compiler and editor in Mandrake-Linux? I have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 complete. Linux comes complete with everything. If you installed everything, or used a

Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem AOLme too/AOL

2000-09-10 Thread Charles Oriez
I'm also having a problem with a US Robotics 56kb modem. Connecting via linux I get 28.8 connection speed. via winblows it usually gets in the 49-51kb range. All other variables would seem to be the same same ISP same dialin number same x2 protocol same COM4 same PC ideas? Also, netscape

[newbie] Development Installation for mdk7.1

2000-09-10 Thread Romanator
I finally reinstalled the development installation. This time, it works well. The problem was that I updated too many things at one time. In addition, I downloaded the kernel 2.2.16-9 and used the update feature to update the kernel header, source and document files. If you download the header

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-10 Thread Romanator
A V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: I just checked on my install of 7.0 to double boot with Win98 and found that the installation detected my 128M of ram. Why would it work on my machine when I read that so many others must do the append mem= thing to get their RAM

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Mark Thurston wrote: I need to do some C++ programming and I would prefer to do this on a Linux machine, is there a C++ compiler and editor in Mandrake-Linux? I have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 complete. Thanks Mark Mark. (Large bulge in cheek) Every Linux machine is a complete C++ compiler and

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Kathleen Dickason
g++ Mark Thurston wrote: I need to do some C++ programming and I would prefer to do this on a Linux machine, is there a C++ compiler and editor in Mandrake-Linux? I have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 complete. ThanksMark

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Goldenpi
Oh, just forget it. - Original Message - From: "john bodanske" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] penguin icons you are - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem AOLmetoo/AOL

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Charles Oriez wrote: I'm also having a problem with a US Robotics 56kb modem. Connecting via linux I get 28.8 connection speed. via winblows it usually gets in the 49-51kb range. All other variables would seem to be the same same ISP same dialin number same x2 protocol same COM4

Re: [newbie] grub question

2000-09-10 Thread Romanator
Michael wrote: I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able to reinstall grub afterwords? Mike Hi Mike, Do you

Re: [newbie] question

2000-09-10 Thread Romanator
Paul wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Daniel J. Ferris wrote: What is a good program to use that will log attempts to scan your box? Preferably something that can detect stealth scans. TIA, Portsentry. You can find it through freshmeat.net and linuxapps.com Paul -- Q: What do

RE: [newbie] configuring sound and network cards

2000-09-10 Thread Richard Garand
I'll try this and the DSL guide in the LDP HOWTOs, but i've already tried the hardware and network config.can anyone tell me where all the network information i have goes? (I've set it up 10-20 times in windows, but the linux network config is..different :) -Original Message- From:

[newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Jeff Malka
This is very basic but I am having trouble figuring it out. There is a program called imwheel that produces a file called /tmp/imwheel.pid. If I start it as a user I can overwrite imwheel.pid (which I need to do at boot up). If I happen to start imwheel as root, when I boot again as a user, I

Re: [newbie]

2000-09-10 Thread Greg Stewart
Depending on which XFree86 Version you chose to install, there is a file you can edit to get this to work. In /etc/X11/ : Edit XF86Config (us vi or your favourite text editor) The mouse section should look lije this: Section "Pointer" Protocol "IMPS/2" Device

RE: [newbie] configuring sound and network cards

2000-09-10 Thread Richard Garand
soundcard not supported, "ne.c: No NE*000 device detected at 0x250". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 10:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] configuring sound and network

[newbie] internet connetion

2000-09-10 Thread Tolga CUBUKCUOGLU
I can connect to the internet but netscape and the other internet programs don't work. for example netscape doesn't open page please help thank you

[newbie] Reinstall of 7.1 stalls

2000-09-10 Thread Dennis Myers
I'm reinstalling Linux due to stupidity. Now however, the installation stalls at "formatting hda1" it has already formated the other partitions. Hda1 is the / partition and so far it has been sitting there for an hour doing a 5-10 second blink on the HD light. Any suggestions? What is the command

Re: [newbie] last one to be answered :(

2000-09-10 Thread ed
try jed ( I like it) command line or console... prettty colors.. On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, you wrote: emacs will from from a command line and doesn't require X windows to be available. Save is ctrl x s exit is ctrl x c should be enough to get you through basic

[newbie] numero uno

2000-09-10 Thread patrick
mandrake is in the lead as far as retail sales for the desktop. u heard it from me first so please send lots of money :) i read this on maximullinux.com

Re: [[newbie] grub question]

2000-09-10 Thread Michael
Michael Scottaline wrote: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able to

RE: [newbie] last one to be answered :(

2000-09-10 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Where do you find VI for windows? Thanks, Mike On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Kathleen Dickason wrote: Me too! I have even convinced my manager to let me have vi for winbloze on my machine at work :) Paul YESYESYES I agree! Kathleen Mark Weaver wrote: naaah...it's just a real pain to use till

[newbie] battle stations, battle stations

2000-09-10 Thread patrick
is it true the gnome by way of the big companies intends to destroy kde. is this true. are we in for a war or what ? love pat

[newbie] how to updating the kernel

2000-09-10 Thread syhim77
syhim77 wrote how to updating the kernel ? i 've installed linux mandrake 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15 can anybody help me

Re: [newbie] battle stations, battle stations

2000-09-10 Thread Steve Weltman
Nah. The Suns and such of the commercial world are just starting to adopt to some of the nice things of the open source community, that's all. No reason to pull out the battle implements. It's JUST a desktop afterall. There's like, LOTS of choices. That's what makes Linux so great. I chose

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread syhim77
syhim77 wrote use kdevelop to program in c or c++, it is good c++/c programming editor. and kdevelop package includes in linux mandrake 7.0/7.1 installation cd Mark Thurston wrote: I need to do some C++ programming and I would prefer to do this on a Linux machine, is there a C++ compiler

[newbie] gnapster

2000-09-10 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! Since two days ago gnapster doesn't find any avaliable server when i open it. And i know it's working because of a friend who uses Windoze... Does anyone have any idea?? Thanks! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de

Re: [newbie] grub question

2000-09-10 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:48:35 +1200, you wrote: The first penguin said: ..linux will not even mount it. So how do I go about making a new boot disk? Mike The second penguin said I may need correction here mkbootdisk (uname) from a console as root --- Sun, 10

[newbie] wine and cdrom question

2000-09-10 Thread bascule
i have managed to get wine to get as far the initial screen when trying to run unreal, i navigate to the directory where unreal.exe is (d:\program files\unreal\ in win98) and type ./unreal.exe, i get the little splash screen but i am pulled up short with a dialogue box asking me to put the unreal

Re: [[newbie] gnapster]

2000-09-10 Thread Brent Hawkins
Have you tried some other addresses? Brent Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo! Since two days ago gnapster doesn't find any avaliable server when i open it. And i know it's working because of a friend who uses Windoze... Does anyone have any idea?? Thanks! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza

Re: [newbie] how to updating the kernel

2000-09-10 Thread Patti Wavinak
The way I did it was I went to my favorite ftp site -- Mandrake --- updates --- 7.1--- and downloaded the kernel 2.2.16 and kernel-docs 2.2.16. I then brought up the terminal and su'd into root and entered "rpm -ivh {the rpm name complete}" enter (without the quotes). If you have an IDE hd it

[newbie] Modules question

2000-09-10 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
This is really annoying and I'm certain the solution is so easy that I'm missing it. EVERY time I boot up, kudzu comes up and complains that my zip drive has been removed (which it hasn't). And morprobe -a ppa.o results in the error message that it can't find module ppa.o. ppa.o is in fact in

Re: [newbie] internet connetion

2000-09-10 Thread Greg Stewart
It sounds like a DNS problem, how do your have your DNS servers cofigured? Are you using kppp? If so, you may need to check for an assignment there. --Greg Forwarded Message I can connect to the internet but netscape and the other internet programs don't work. for example netscape doesn't

Re: [newbie]

2000-09-10 Thread Paul
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Azriel Newsome wrote: Im having problems getting my Microsoft Intellimouse 3 button wheel mouse to work with Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe. The 3rd button will not work at all. You probably need to get "imwheel" going. And yes, it is an RPM included on the cd's. Paul -- Q: What

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
Mark Thurston wrote: I need to do some C++ programming and I would prefer to do this on a Linux machine, is there a C++ compiler and editor in Mandrake-Linux? I have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 complete. Yes...there is a set of CNU compiler apps and they're first rate. As for editors, pick your

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
John Rye wrote: Call up your favourit editor and start writing your code. run man gcc from your commandline and you're off. I think you'll find this works better with g++ if you're going to feed it C++ code. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem

2000-09-10 Thread Greg Stewart
I had a Motorola ModemSurfer 56k ISA modem that was giving me that very same problem. Since it was ISA, it could not have been a winmodem, but it still would not respond. Unfortunately I can't provide you with any help--only consolation that you're not alone (don't know if *this* helps any). I

[newbie] voodoo3 configuring

2000-09-10 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
The install docs for the voodoo2 and voodoo5 do not instruct you to remove anything except old versions of Glide. The instructions for installing voodoo3/voodoobanshee here: http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/drivers/cards/video/3dfx/banv3.html do not mention removing any files. Which instructions

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
use kdevelop to program in c or c++, it is good c++/c programming editor. and kdevelop package includes in linux mandrake 7.0/7.1 installation cd This is why I like this list. I know GNU compilers but didn't know about kdevelop. Just popped it up and it looks like a really nice environment

Re: [newbie]

2000-09-10 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
sounds to me like you might have the "emulate chord middle" option running in your XF86Config file. Dacia --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Azriel Newsome wrote: Im having problems getting my Microsoft Intellimouse 3 button wheel mouse to work with Mandrake 7.1

Re: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I had this problem and I just put imwheel -k in roots bash logout file in root's home directory. Not pretty I guess but it works. Dacia --- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very basic but I am having trouble figuring it out. There is a program called imwheel that produces a

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
I tried the gcc, I actually used the command g++ at the command prompt and every time it gives me an error saying "iostream.h is not found." Is You must be real new to C++. You're going to have to read a wee bit to get things set up as it's beyond the ability of a conference like this to

Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem

2000-09-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Mark Thurston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem I do have a serial mouse, but the modem is on COMM3. I actually found the modem now, and Linux says

[newbie] Remote Printing Problem

2000-09-10 Thread Jeffrey Morse
I am having difficulty getting remote printing to work, I have a very good "Red Hat-Installation and Configuration" handbook and have followed the instuctions completely. But I get the error message 'print job has been qued' but cannot start dameon, connection refused, then it crashes my editor.

Re: [newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?

2000-09-10 Thread mrc
Gary, Does one have to disable Kmail in order to try exmh? Although I installed the necessary packages, the initial exmh dialogue will only come up if I'm accessing it as superuser, not as ordinary user. Michael Coady

Re: [newbie] Noise...

2000-09-10 Thread Greg Stewart
Don't know, but it sounds like EMI from your monitor--how old is it (also, could be read: "is it old")? Maybe the settings in linux drive it harder than Windows would, and the EMI damping just isn't very efficient. I'm no electronics engineer, so maybe I'm off on this, but does it continue if

Re: [newbie] how to updating the kernel

2000-09-10 Thread Romanator
syhim77 wrote: syhim77 wrote how to updating the kernel ? i 've installed linux mandrake 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15 can anybody help me Navigate to one of the mirror site, click on /7.1/updates/kernel-2.2.16-9mdk.i586.rpm Download the following: kernel-2.2.16-9mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] grub question

2000-09-10 Thread Romanator
"Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:48:35 +1200, you wrote: The first penguin said: ..linux will not even mount it. So how do I go about making a new boot disk? Mike The second penguin said I may need correction here mkbootdisk (uname) from a console as

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Not necessarily. This library file (iostream.h) is missing from the Standard install of drake 7.1, though it does install with the Developer version. Kathleen Larry Marshall wrote: I tried the gcc, I actually used the command g++ at the command prompt and every time it gives me an error

Re[2]: [newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?

2000-09-10 Thread Gary
Hi Michael, On Sunday, September 10, 2000, 10:07 AM, you hammered out in part about "[newbie] What's everybody's favorite email package?": m Does one have to disable Kmail in order to try exmh? You bring up a very good point, which I forgot about. I had the same problem initially, and the

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
Kathleen Dickason wrote: Not necessarily. This library file (iostream.h) is missing from the Standard install of drake 7.1, though it does install with the Developer version. I guess I wouldn't have thought anyone would believe they were "installed" for program development without doing a

Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?

2000-09-10 Thread Digital Wokan
Everyone seems to make it sound like you need to reinstall Mandrake and install it with the Developer option. This is NOT the case. I would use KFM and KPackage to find the library RPM's you need to install to put those development library files on your hard drive. KPackage has a tab for

[newbie] well now i have a new problem and it sucks

2000-09-10 Thread Mwinold
after trying to find problems with my linux xf86config file and discovering a poor install such as very few if any utilitys could be found i figured i havent done much with the system and simply formatted my linux partition and reloaded linux, well i figured i had a successful install i

Re: [newbie] question

2000-09-10 Thread olof.liungman
I would agree with John, portsentry is what you're looking for. I have it on our department's Sun Solaris boxes and it works fine. Comes with some good advice on installing and usage as well. However, sometimes it's too good. I keep getting warnings about attacks because there are some machines

[newbie] error running smbmount

2000-09-10 Thread pungki
Hi. computer 1 : windoze 98, hostname : teteh.net, share directory : c:\master computer 2 : mandrake 7.1, hostname : craven.net, samba version 2.0.6 When I type smbmount //teteh/master /mnt/winshares, I get no respon (hang) on Linux. But I can kill it, by pressing Ctrl-C. When I type

RE: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Abe
Hey, I've got the same thing set up. Here's the steps: 1. become root 2. in roots home directory open the file ~/.bash_logout with the text editor of your choice 3. add the line imwheel -k 4. save the file This should kill the imwheel process that belongs to root as you log out of root which

[newbie] startx giving me error messages

2000-09-10 Thread John Kimmel
Ok, here goes. I just installed Mandrake 7.1. I installed from windows 98via cdrom. Installation went fine as far as I could tell. After install,restarted PC at which time I can choose my OS or it automatically bootslinux and brings up login screen.I logged in as a user to $ prompt.I type

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