Re: [newbie-it] Come si installa Grub?

2000-10-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 21.54 17/10/00 +0200, Alessandro wrote: posso consigliarti quello che e' stato consigliato a me in un'altra ML: leggi la documentazione di grub :) ciao Alessandro Be io volevo evitare proprio questo :) Ok mi tocca :O.

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2000-10-22 Thread Pierpaolo Cofano
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Re: [newbie-it] Come si installa Grub?

2000-10-22 Thread Alessandro
Be io volevo evitare proprio questo :) beh purtroppo Linux e' SOPRATTUTTO questo... leggere, studiare, rileggere, ristudiare.. e' per questo che molti hacker lo preferiscono Linux obbliga a pensare e a applicarsi, non si trova la pappa pronta come in casa M$. e per questo molte

[newbie-it] problemi di connessione

2000-10-22 Thread marco1
salve per connettermi uso kppp. ho regolarmente configurato il modem, il quale effettua la chiamata e si connette in rete, o almeno ci prova. ecco che messaggio mi vene visualizzato: Oct 22 18:28:40 marco pppd[2261]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Oct 22 18:28:40 marco pppd[2261]: Using

[newbie-it] Scanner Artec 1236 USB

2000-10-22 Thread Giorgio Lazzari
Salve non riesco a configuare uno scanner Artec 1236 USB con Mandrake 7.1 Con la 7.2 sara' possibile ? Esiste qualche driver per questo tipo di scanner ? Grazie -- , Giorgio Lazzarimailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] Come si installa Grub?

2000-10-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 14.16 22/10/00 +0200, you wrote: beh purtroppo Linux e' SOPRATTUTTO questo... leggere, studiare, rileggere, ristudiare.. e' per questo che molti hacker lo preferiscono Linux obbliga a pensare e a applicarsi, non si trova la pappa pronta come in casa M$. e per questo molte "manti

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Rod Baxter
I...err actually use Windows and IE5.5 for my mail, but I only get duplicate mail from mail groups, never duplicates of any mail sent directly to me. And sometimes the duplicates will be missing the header or similar. Rod - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[newbie] XFree86 4.0.1

2000-10-22 Thread Seth
I just upgraded to 4.0.1 but get the following error when I 'startx' could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' does anyone have any input? I'm lost here, I tried reinstalling all the packages but it changed nothing

[newbie] floppy problems

2000-10-22 Thread Marco Kwan
my floppy doesn't seem to work right... I tried to unmount it and manually mount it but get the following.. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems does anyone know whta this means?

[newbie] scandisk

2000-10-22 Thread chronos
Hi all, Not to beat a dead horse but yes I can assure you all that windoze cannot see linux. Windoze cant see anything outside of its partition, except linux can see windows. Personally I would uninstall linux and format your C drive and reinstall windoze and use partition magic and reinstall

[newbie] Sound in netscape

2000-10-22 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi again. Unfortunately no-one seems to know a solution to my RealPlayer installation problem so just a general question this time. Has anyone got sound on their netscape or other browser? I've been asked to produce a web site for a rock band that has some tracks played when you click on a

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread William Presho
Not exactly sure where the save configuration button is could you give me a hint. Believe me I am completely clueless Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Hendrickx Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread William Presho
I checked the hosts file and had the following in it: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost My IP address my name my ispdomain.commyname I have no idea where or how to check "top" or "ps-aux" How do you know if the IP address is static or dynamic, I was

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread Daniel
it comes up when you close the window, there's a couple of options, save changes, view changes, don't quit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William Presho Sent: 22 October 2000 10:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Unable to

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread Daniel
that ip addy is an internal one (hard drive) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William Presho Sent: 22 October 2000 10:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working I checked the hosts file and had the

Re: [newbie] realplayer probs

2000-10-22 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Thanks for that Trevor, Know I have RealPlyer7 and Netscape recognises it when I typre about:plugins in the URL field. However I still keep getting a plugin problem when trying to access sites that use sound files and video? Andrew

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread William Presho
Mine doesn't have that options only activate change see what changes are or forget about it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 5:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread John Hendrickx
DrakConf - "Network configuration" button - "Basic host information". You enter your network configuration in the second tab, "Adaptor 1". At the top of the dialog box, there's a Motif style check box "Enabled". If it's not checked then your network configuration will work for that session, but

Re: [[newbie] Cant find name server ?]

2000-10-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Bernard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed Mandrake 7.1 Everything seems fine and its found all my Hardware. I can connect to my ISP OK but when I start Netscape or the mail prog I get the message "cant find name server". can anyone help please? Best Wishes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Fw: mail server problem

2000-10-22 Thread rharvey
- Original Message - From: "rharvey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 11:16 PM Subject: mail server problem I have a linuxmandrake box. newest version... Linux uses postfix for a mail server. I think I have set it up to handle mail. I believe my current problem is

[newbie] Install using Cardbus pcmcia netcard

2000-10-22 Thread Jonas B. Jalling
Hi, Does anyone have any tips tricks on how to install mandrake using a cardbus pcmcia netcard. Im installing on a Thinkpad 760e without a netcard. Im using the pcmciabootdisk, but it cand find the card. Anyone who got any sollutions on this problem /Jonas

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
Huh? Are we talking about the same Pine here? When I attach a file to a message all I do in Pine is place the cursor beside the atrtachment header, preses CTRL T which then goes to another screen within the Pine windows already open where I can navigate to the file that I wish to Sometimes

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
I...err actually use Windows and IE5.5 for my mail, but I only get duplicate mail from mail groups, never duplicates of any mail sent directly to me. And sometimes the duplicates will be missing the header or similar. Now that is odd. When I'm not using Pine I use Pronto or Netscape.

[newbie] Fw: mail server problem

2000-10-22 Thread rharvey
- Original Message - From: "rharvey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 11:16 PM Subject: mail server problem I have a linuxmandrake box. newest version... Linux uses postfix for a mail server. I think I have set it up to handle mail. I believe my current problem is

Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
DataChannel wrote: If defrag finds any errors during the scandisk-like mode of it (first 5%) it wouldn't let me continue. I ran scandisk before running defrag and it didn't do anything to my linux partition because I rebooted to linux to make sure it still works and it worked after

Re: [newbie] This is friggin stupid!

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Mark Weaver wrote: Larry...John...Lonny and others, I've done it! I managed to get Linux-2.4-test9 to compile and work! It's running at the moment and it took a few times round and round to get TCP/IP and PPP to work, but by God it's working. Now I'm curious to see if I can get this

[newbie] Why so many problems with DHCP and Linux Mandrake 7 and 7.1?

2000-10-22 Thread Romanator
Is it possible to create a demo on the linux-mandrake web page that addresses DHCP, DSL and cable modems? I have checked out other newsgroups, and DHCP seems to be a very common problem? Any thoughts? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I...err actually use Windows and IE5.5 for my mail, but I only get duplicate mail from mail groups, never duplicates of any mail sent directly to me. And sometimes the duplicates will be missing the header or similar. Now that is odd. When I'm not using Pine

Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

2000-10-22 Thread Romanator
John Rye wrote: DataChannel wrote: If defrag finds any errors during the scandisk-like mode of it (first 5%) it wouldn't let me continue. I ran scandisk before running defrag and it didn't do anything to my linux partition because I rebooted to linux to make sure it still works and

[newbie] idebus=66

2000-10-22 Thread Marshall Lake
I've installed 7.1 of Mandrake on my system. I get the following at boot: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx My internal bus which the IDE uses will support 66 MHz. To /etc/lilo.conf I've added the line: append="idebus=66" to my first image

[newbie] USB Keyboard

2000-10-22 Thread Marshall Lake
I'm running the 7.1 vrsion of Makdrake. At bootup I get the following messages: usb.c: registered new driver keyboard input0: USB HIDBP keyboard keybdev.c: Adding keyboard: input0 keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable? keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable? After bootup the "Too

[newbie] 1371 Sound Card

2000-10-22 Thread Marshall Lake
I'm running the 7.1 version of Mandrake. At bootup I get the following messages: es1371: version v0.22 time 15:43:49 May 10 2000 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x07 es1371: found es1371 rev 7 at io 0x1800 irq 5 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 es1371: codec vendor

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread William Presho
Hey John Yup that box is enabled. Sure wish I knew what was going on. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Hendrickx Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

Re: [[newbie] Cant find name server ?]

2000-10-22 Thread Bernard
Thank-you all for your help and quick responses. I can now use the net :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happy New Linux User. On Thu, 27 Nov 2036, you wrote: "Bernard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed Mandrake 7.1 Everything seems fine and its found all my Hardware. I can connect to my

[newbie] RPMLIB ?

2000-10-22 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
Downloaded and tried to install wine 2909 I There isan unsatisfied dependency: rpmlib == 3.0.3-1 Searched both rpmfind.net and linux-mandrake.com for rpmlib, seems there is no such thing. Where should I look ? TIA, Ron the Frog, puzzeld on the banks of the Paraguay River. --

Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

2000-10-22 Thread DataChannel
Partition table before defrag: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1657 13309821c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 1658 2491 6699105

[newbie] Prevent access to directories higher than user's home?

2000-10-22 Thread DataChannel
Is there anyway to create a user account for telnet that only has access to their home directory and nothing higher up than that and only be able to run certain programs?

Re: [newbie] The Craziest Thing!!!

2000-10-22 Thread Diesel guy
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, ai4a wrote: Running Mandrake 7.0 Netscape 4.74 Using the system as a Home work Station Have 2 users: userA userB All was working OK until the other day. I made no changes that I remember?? userB still works OK. userA works OK unless I start kppp. Kppp connects

RE: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

2000-10-22 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
There are a couple of different reasons for this. First, make sure you're not filling your harddrive to full - defrag re-arranges stuff by picking up blocks and putting them at the end of the drive and moving stuff back - if you're harddrive is more than %80 full, that makes the job much slower.

[newbie] mozilla

2000-10-22 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi After all the talk of the latest mozilla (M18) I decided to have a look and though, as I mentioned before in a previous mail, I have had no trouble with Netscape I do ike it and may use it more often. However is it flash 4 compatable. I have copied the flash4 plugins from my Netscape

[newbie] Steps on getting RealPlayer running In Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I noticed that a number of people are having problems getting the streaming video and audio working with Realplayer and Linux. Some MIME associations must be manually entered. If you would like a Realplayer7 installation included with .png (icons), navigate to http://www.real.com.

RE: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

2000-10-22 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Ok, a few comments here... Clicked OK to a few things and it comes to the partitioning tool. I resized my 20 gig windows partition down to around 13 to 15 gigs, and clicked "Auto Allocate" and it automatically created 4 partitions.( swap, root, usr, home, or whatever order it was). First, I

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Larry, Ok...I can tell when a challenge has been laid down and I've accepted it. Below is a block of text that I was typed out in gedit, copied to the clipboard and then pasted into this message. Here's how; 1) highlighted and copies text the usual way. 2) pasted it into the

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
The "dup" messages are coming primarily from the mailing list server at Mandrakesoft. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
I'm not sure if that's possible. Although I have been wondering about that myself. Fetchmail gets the mail from the ISP and passes passes the mail off to procmail who then filters the messages and deposits them to their prescribed destination. Those that are destined for my "Inbox" get deposited

Re: [newbie] Kernel d/l from update

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Denis, It really won't hurt anything at all to just leave the old kernel sit there in /usr/src. If there's something wrong with the way the new one is working you can always boot the old kernel and reconfigure and recompile the newer kernel to suit your needs. -- Mark /* I never worry

Re: [newbie] mozilla

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Andrew, While there are a lot of great reasons to run Mozilla these days, as you can see there are some things that don't yet work completely yet. It's still under developement. One of the things that isn't yet functional are the plugins. Java isn't working yet either. -- Mark /* I never

Re: [newbie] Prevent access to directories higher than user's home?

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
These rules would have to be set at the time when the user account is created. Check the users permissions that currently exist with Linuxconf. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure *

Re: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread Greg Stewart
Alright, I just re-installed my MDK7.1 partition, so I can look at what you're talking about. I'll be using your information to compare against what I have, and what has worked for me: under Host name tab input the DNS Name provided to me by @Home Null this out, and enter only the machine

Re: [newbie] USB Keyboard

2000-10-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marshall Lake wrote: I'm running the 7.1 vrsion of Makdrake. At bootup I get the following messages: usb.c: registered new driver keyboard input0: USB HIDBP keyboard keybdev.c: Adding keyboard: input0 keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable? keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread peter bunce
no its people who use ie without setting the defaults properly :-( i think another gift from m$ (like bugs etc) peter bunce Greg Cobb wrote: Is everyone getting two of the same message or is it just me? :)

Re: [newbie] This is friggin stupid!

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
John, I get the impression that there was a lot I was doing wrong in the configuring of the kernel before compiling it. Most of the problems though centered around configuring for sound and Network. I'm not too clear on why yet. With Kernel 2.4.0-test9 the biggest troubles were with getting

Re: [newbie] USB Keyboard

2000-10-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] USB Keyboard Marshall Lake wrote: I'm running the 7.1 vrsion of Makdrake. At bootup I get the following messages: usb.c:

Re: [newbie] Why so many problems with DHCP and Linux Mandrake 7and 7.1?

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Man! is that an idea or what?! -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread Romanator
Bill, Let me reboot to my Linux box and I can email you my files. Replace my addresses with yours and you should be up soon. Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William Presho Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Modules

2000-10-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Marshall Lake wrote: I'm running version 7.1 of Mandrake. I get the following message in my logs spuriously: insmod: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep I've tried "touch"ing /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep after boot but it doesn't

Re: [newbie] USB Keyboard

2000-10-22 Thread Marshall Lake
At bootup I get the following messages: usb.c: registered new driver keyboard input0: USB HIDBP keyboard keybdev.c: Adding keyboard: input0 keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable? keyboard: Too many NACKs -- noisy kbd cable? After bootup the "Too many NACKs" message will

Re: [newbie] printing from kedit

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Jeff Malka wrote: Thank you. I will check out the man pages. I heard of a2ps. How would one implement it to use it quasi transparently? I'm a newbie still trying to keep afloat. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - - 'enscript

[newbie] Segmentation fault

2000-10-22 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi again, God what a crap day I'm having today with the old Linux machine. Finally got RealPlayer working thanks to all the suggestions. However it all of a sudden decided to pack in. I tried starting it from the comand prompt but just got: Segmentation fault. What is this? Andrew

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
peter bunce wrote: no its people who use ie without setting the defaults properly :-( i think another gift from m$ (like bugs etc) peter bunce Greg Cobb wrote: Is everyone getting two of the same message or is it just me? :) Could you expand on that... maybe people could

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread William Presho
Hi Greg Well I set up like you said but still no luck. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Stewart Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 3:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working Alright, I

Re: [newbie] This is friggin stupid!

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
update on 2.3.4 -- managed to get sound working for my SB card but I still can't get anything happening with the Turtle Beach card. Anyone have any ideas? -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread Greg Cobb
The only thing I did to get my cable modem working is make sure I had DHCP set up, I made sure eth0 was where it belonged in the network card settings, then added my two DNS numbers. I didn't have to edit any files or change any other settings. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[newbie] CDrom

2000-10-22 Thread John Arkoulis
I was following the instructions on the Mandrake site to set my Creative Labs CDRW with Man. 7.1 I also have a DVD rom . Both before that were working fine. So after I gave the command cd /dev rm cdrom $$ ln -s scd0 cdrom two things happened. One: I realized that there were more instructions

[newbie] 2 serious mandrake problems.

2000-10-22 Thread tweeter
I have mandrake 7.1, I am running a Abit BP-6 mobo with dual celeron 550s and an SB live card. and I cannot play any sound, because when I play an Mp3 through any program, the computer locks up. and I have no choice but to restart. I had no problem with this issue in 7.0 What do I need to do to

Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault (solved)

2000-10-22 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, you wrote: Hi Andrew, I received that message a few times. Log in as root and send the Realplayer7 folder to trash. Run the installation to /usr/local/Realplayer7 or /usr/X11R6/bin/RealPlayer7 -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Roman, Cheers for that,

Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

2000-10-22 Thread Rod Baxter
Running in safe mode will slow your disk access down a lot. Run defrag from within windows and it will be much quicker. It might even cure your problem. In safe mode windows is not very smart! If you need to use windows, consider going to windows ME, its much quicker, and seems to have far less

Re: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread Greg Stewart
Hmmm... Are you *really* supposed to be using a static IP address? --Greg - Original Message - From: "William Presho" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Greg Well I set up like you said but still no luck. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] 2 serious mandrake problems.

2000-10-22 Thread Greg Stewart
I honestly don't know what to tell you about the sound problem. But, for the memory issue: If you are using Lilo to boot, edit the /etc/lilo.conf file and insert as the very first line the following: append="mem=128M" if you are using Grub, Caroll wrote: "If you're using grub, become the

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Rod Baxter
I also subscribe to another group (to do with trains, not computers) and never get duplicates there, its only Mandrakesoft as far as I can tell. Regards Rod - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 5:08 AM Subject:

Re: [newbie] TAR Issue

2000-10-22 Thread Greg Stewart
Ooops... I started deleting a crap-load of mail from my archives and then just simply forgot about this one!! I hope you haven't been cursing me, waiting for a reply. :-) Try the following: tar -cMv --exclude /proc/* -f /dev/tape / --Greg - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

2000-10-22 Thread Doug McGarrett
At 08:08 10/23/2000 +1000, Rod Baxter wrote: Running in safe mode will slow your disk access down a lot. Run defrag from within windows and it will be much quicker. It might even cure your problem. In safe mode windows is not very smart! If you need to use windows, consider going to windows ME,

RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Thread William Presho
Greg @home gave me the IP address and told me to put it in the IP address block of windows. So I am assuming that I also have to put it in Linux. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Stewart Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 6:24 PM

Re: [newbie] 2 serious mandrake problems.

2000-10-22 Thread tweeter
Greg, I tried what you told me, and I still had no luck, it still tells me that I have 64mb ram. Any other ideas? Regards, Tweeter Greg Stewart wrote: I honestly don't know what to tell you about the sound problem. But, for the memory issue: If you are using Lilo to boot, edit the

RE: [newbie] 2 serious mandrake problems.

2000-10-22 Thread Daniel
tweeter: erm... you should be able to change it in mandrake setup put the disk in the cd rom drive, boot the computer, load off the disc and goto upgrade, go through the options til u come to memory, manually type it in, i dunno if u've already tried this, but it is one way -Original

[newbie] Shiptrak

2000-10-22 Thread mcoady
Is there a linux command, similar to shiptrak (I think) which one invokes when about to move a computer physically. This is a command to stabilize the reading head on the harddrive. Michael Coady -- M.

[newbie] shiptrak

2000-10-22 Thread mcoady
There was a command in Dos that stabilized the reading head on the hard drive when you were going to physcially move the computer. I think it was shiptrak. Is there a similar command in Linux for this operation? Michael Coady

RE: [newbie] Shiptrak

2000-10-22 Thread Daniel
not as far as i know, where r u moving it? it shouldn't really matter, i move my computers long distances and they don't get damaged, r u turning the machine off or just moving it around on? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mcoady Sent: 20

[newbie] zip 100 usb

2000-10-22 Thread jesse martinez
Did someone know if there is any support for my iomega zip 100 usb?? If so, please reply... thanks in advance... Jesse __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/

Re: [[newbie] idebus=66]

2000-10-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
Marshall Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed 7.1 of Mandrake on my system. I get the following at boot: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx My internal bus which the IDE uses will support 66 MHz. To /etc/lilo.conf I've added the line:

Re: [Re: [newbie] 2 serious mandrake problems.]

2000-10-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
tweeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg, I tried what you told me, and I still had no luck, it still tells me that I have 64mb ram. Any other ideas? Regards, Tweeter After editing /etc/lilo.conf, did you rerun /sbin/lilo ??? Did you then reboot for the change to take effect?

Re: [newbie] Shiptrak

2000-10-22 Thread Clayton Hoskinson
Daniel wrote: not as far as i know, where r u moving it? it shouldn't really matter, i move my computers long distances and they don't get damaged, r u turning the machine off or just moving it around on? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: [[newbie] idebus=66]

2000-10-22 Thread Marshall Lake
I get the following at boot: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx My internal bus which the IDE uses will support 66 MHz. To /etc/lilo.conf I've added the line: append="idebus=66" to my first image section and have run lilo as root. But

Re: [newbie] zip 100 usb

2000-10-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
Yes From 7.1 on. Charles - Original Message - From: "jesse martinez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:32 PM Subject: [newbie] zip 100 usb Did someone know if there is any support for my iomega zip 100 usb?? If so, please reply...

Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

2000-10-22 Thread Rod Baxter
Major difference with ME is that dos mode doesn't exist, only dos programs that would run in a dos window will work. But its much faster than 98 in just about every way, 98 was not a good OS in my opinion, but ME seems to be reasonable. But ME won't install on a machine any slower than a Pentium

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
The "dup" messages are coming primarily from the mailing list server at Mandrakesoft. I would have thought that too except that I've spent the last 3 days without a single dupe msg in this conference. How about you? I'm using Netscape 4.75 now - I used Pronto on the first of those 3 days.

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm not sure if that's possible. I'm not sure what in the message you don't think is possible so I can't comment on this. Although I have been wondering about that myself. Fetchmail gets the mail from the ISP and passes passes the mail off to procmail who then filters the messages and

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
To do so place the mouse cursor over the place in pine where the text cursor is and click the middle mouse button. The selected text will appear at the cursor position in pine. The reverse of this also works for pasting from pine to apps running in KDE. You and Mark Weaver have made my

[newbie] Networking setup for PCMCIA on laptop

2000-10-22 Thread Bombardier Systems Consulting
Hello, I have a Compaq Presario 1230 laptop with a PCMCIA card and am trying to set it up to have TCP/IP network access through my DSL service. I am connecting to a hub that is connected to a Cisco 675 external router. I have been using the NETCONF utility and have entered the LAN address

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: John Rye wrote: question here? Does your filtering system (procmail) pass the mail to some place where netscape or pronto pick up from? I jump from linux(Netscape) to Windows(Eudora) and get dupes in both. To be honest John I've never traced to see what

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I'm not sure if that's possible. I'm not sure what in the message you don't think is possible so I can't comment on this. Although I have been wondering about that myself. Fetchmail gets the mail from the ISP and passes passes the mail off to procmail who

Re: [newbie] printing from kedit

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Jeff Malka wrote: Thank you very much. Does it do the trick?? Cheers Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] printing from kedit I've attached a gawk script file. I use it

Re: [newbie] Aureal Driver problem

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Eddie Torres wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, you wrote: Hi, I have a sound card driver im trying to install, a TBS Montego II. While installing the drivers a error "Device/Resource in use" comes up and interrupts the process. The installation does not complete. Im have a P3 600 with 128mb ,

Re: [newbie] change monitor from command lind

2000-10-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul Rodríguez wrote: hI, EVERYONE! Tried reinstalling loinux but I think I put in the wrong monitor type so can't start x server. How can I chane the monitor from the command line. Is there a way I can get a menu so I can choose generic, or do I have to know exactly what to type?