[newbie-it] io ho una epson stylus color 480

2001-03-17 Thread Kosmos
Io ho una epson stylus 480 che non compare fra i modelli di stampante supportati nell' elenco di configurazione,vi sono la 460 e la 500 come modelli pi simili.Una volta scielto uno di questi modelli, in hardDrake compare il modello di stampante ma nulla da fare per fare funzionare la mia

Re: [newbie-it] Scanner

2001-03-17 Thread Kosmos(Roberto)
io come ho scritto ho un colorado usb 9600 della primax di cui in windows non posso lamentarmi,ma visto che anch'io perferisco linux vorrei che qualcuno mi dicesse come poterlo provare anche qua...ciao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti, visti i problemi di compatibilit tra Linux, che

Re: [newbie-it] Scanner

2001-03-17 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:23:33 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti, visti i problemi di compatibilit tra Linux, che comunque preferisco a Windows, e le periferiche in genere, prima di comprare uno scanner volevo sapere se c' gi qualcuno che ne ha acquistato uno di recente e lo

Re: [newbie-it] [LM 7.2] SBlive e midi: silenzio totale

2001-03-17 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 02:22:19 +0100 "Alessandro \"Sgama\" Amadori" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eccomi di nuovo qui, reduce da alcuni esperimenti. Il pacchetto awesfx e' installato, ma al posto di /usr/bin/sfxload ho /bin/sfxload e della direcotry /usr/share/sfbank neanche l'ombra, tantomento

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0

2001-03-17 Thread Jay needs a Guinness
- -- It said uses Windows 98 or better so I installed SuSE 7.1 Proud user of SuSE 7.1 Professional Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 -BEGIN PGP

Re: [newbie] Wine Samba...

2001-03-17 Thread Graham Trott
I use Samba to provide file and print services for Windows 98 and 2000 clients; after installing Linux I get Samba running and drop in a standard etc/smb.conf file. After setting some smb passwords it always works fine. I'll send the file on request (to avoid burdening the list). -- GT

Re: [newbie] Grub startup delay is not working !

2001-03-17 Thread Joan Tur
Philomena escribi: Hi, GRUB doesn't use lilo.conf, it uses a file called menu.lst in the /boot/grub directory. You just need to edit that file, set your timeout . You may need to run install.sh to install grub onto your MBR, if it isn't there now. It wasn't. I've also had to exec "chmod

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1 install

2001-03-17 Thread Oder Santos
- Original Message - From: "Salvatore Eric Indiogine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:34 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE 2.1 install Greetings! I am downloading the Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.1 rpms from

Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?

2001-03-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Yeah, Chuck it does. Log in as root, open a terminal, and type the following exactly (Without the quotes). "ipchains -P forward DENY" That oughtta do! Remember, each time you start your PC, you'll have to do it, until someone sends you the instructions on how to automate it. Since I usually run

[newbie] PMFirewall and IPchains

2001-03-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Mark; Thank-you for not overstating the obvious! However, as I had mentionedin my initial post, it was my opinion, not the opinion of all users ofPMFirewall. That having been repeated now, I'd like to point out thatipchains takes only 3 lines of text ( at least for the networks that

[newbie] Problems configuring Linksys LNE 100TX v.4

2001-03-17 Thread Steven Watt
Hello I have been using Linux (Madrake 7.2) for about a week now. I had no problems with the configuration of my first ethernet card, which I use to connect to the internet. It was recognized and configured during installation. However, my second ethernet card, which I use to share files and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0

2001-03-17 Thread Pascal Poirier
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Ralph De Witt wrote: Bruce: In the future please do not post in html. A large majority of Linux users do not have the capability to read html formated messages, and most consider html formated messages as rude, and just ignore them. So turn of html formating for your

RE: [newbie] Setting up VNC

2001-03-17 Thread Bill Shirley
I start mine with: /usr/local/bin/vncserver -geometry 1152x864 and here's my xstartup: [root@elmo .vnc]# cat /root/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh #xrdb $HOME/.Xresources #xsetroot -solid grey #xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" #kwm /usr/bin/startkde HTH, Bill

Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?

2001-03-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Dan LaBine wrote: Yeah, Chuck it does. Log in as root, open a terminal, and type the following exactly (Without the quotes). "ipchains -P forward DENY" That oughtta do! Remember, each time you start your PC, you'll have to do it, until someone sends you the instructions on how to

Re: [newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-17 Thread Cyphfer
Additonal Note. If you are adding Windows 2000 to the mix, it must reside below 2 gigs of the first hard drive. On Fri, 16 March 2001, Romanator wrote: michael wrote: I was quadribooting for awhile (NT,98SE,RH,MDK7.2). Make sure windows is on first. -m- Jon Doe wrote:

[newbie]

2001-03-17 Thread Techsupport
Mark; Thank-you for not overstating the obvious! However, as I had mentioned in my initial post, it was my opinion, not the opinion of all users of PMFirewall. That having been repeated now, I'd like to point out that ipchains takes only 3 lines of text ( at least for the networks that I

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall and IPchains

2001-03-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Dan...In some ways we're saying similar things, except as to the point of "what" Pmfirewall is. And it is definately "not" a firewall, rather it is merely a means to get the ipchains firewall rule-set configured to a point to where it's functional. Notice I didn't say ready for prime time, but

[newbie] SB32: solved !

2001-03-17 Thread Joan Tur
Hi! Thanks to all of you who has answered my message! Now my SB32 works fine using sndconfig. I've had to download it either ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat

Re: [newbie] Wine Samba...

2001-03-17 Thread Eduardo Alvarez
Thanks GT. In my own experience im start with the red hat 6.2, and after 1 week with mandrake 7.1 (helium), and in this distro works very well, I get share my printers and dirs, and only changed few lines. but in this distro (7.2 odissey) i can't. I try and try and doesn't work. I chek the

Re: [newbie] Startup annoyance

2001-03-17 Thread Eduardo Alvarez
I can't remember were heard this, but i know that the cable modems ara based on windows technology. But dont worry, in the Unix Guru Universe -- http://www.ugu.com you can find a lot of help. Just try it... - ed@r - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[newbie] Soundcarts - Hardrake Configuration Wizard

2001-03-17 Thread phille
Hi, After 4 months without linux, a "simple" fix in the BIOS allowed me to install linux again.. happy happy joy joy! problem: the system recognizes my soundcard but there is no sound i'd like to change the irq setting but the hardrake config wizard doesn't give me this option ? is there some

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall and IPchains

2001-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
Getting back to PMfirewall leaving some ports open: I've got a complete mental block when it comes to comprehending the ipchains rules. I'm at even more of a total loss with the new iptables in 2.4.x kernels. I have found that I can completely secure my box, all ports, using a

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall and IPchains

2001-03-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Tom, That's how I've got my system running and I've found the combination to a very good one. As for wrapping your brain around the IPchains rules and such. I can appreciate how you're feeling having been there myself. It took a little while of looking at the man pages and then reading and

RE: [newbie] PMFirewall and IPchains

2001-03-17 Thread Franki
I just got pmfirewall working in my unusual circumstances.. ie hosting multiple domains,, (virtual IP's for ppp0) and before the firewall would only work on the static IP of the dialup, not the actual domain names.. it now works exactly as I wanted, and I have added alot to the ruleset as

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-17 Thread Meph Istopheles
Moose, I am using tcp/ip. I'm in the process of setting up a proxy server, so I needed something routable... Shouldn't be any problem with -- at least -- getting from the Windows box to the Linux box. You'll need other tools -- smb, Reflection, etc to get from the Linux to Windows.

[newbie] grub

2001-03-17 Thread robert macdonald
Hello, Long story short...tried to dualboot LM 7.2 with NT4. Really messed up! Now all I get is "grub" with a command prompt after it. Tried fdisk and format to no avail. Just want to install LM 7.2 on clean hdd. Can any one please give me some info? VERY new to Linux.

Re: [newbie] grub

2001-03-17 Thread Jean-Louis
Did you do a "fdisk /mbr" to clean to boot sector? On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote: Hello, Long story short...tried to dualboot LM 7.2 with NT4. Really messed up! Now all I get is "grub" with a command prompt after it. Tried fdisk and format to no avail. Just want to install LM 7.2

Re: [newbie] grub

2001-03-17 Thread robert macdonald
Yes I tried that But I get "Error: Unrecognized command" From: Jean-Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] grub Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 09:46:25 -0500 Did you do a "fdisk /mbr" to clean to boot sector? On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] Wine Samba...

2001-03-17 Thread marcia
Dear Eduardo, I would appreciate it if you sent your Samba file to me. I am setting up Samba so that I can network between my LinuxMandrake 7.2 and vmware-Win95. I do not know anything about it at all but I will learn. Thank you. Sincercely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall and IPchains

2001-03-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Mark, Tom, and anyone else who can shed a little light on the subject; Mark, Thanks for your response. And your support. I was about to "Light one Up" when I received your email. I owe you one. And now for a question that's probably going to open a "Can Of Worms". I will start by apologising up

Re: [newbie] Startup annoyance

2001-03-17 Thread Steven Watt
I had a similar problem which was fixed by disabling the Plug Play Operating System feature in my bios. The network card and cable modem worked fine after that. Steve Watt One of the messages I get as Linux loads is as follows: "Determining IP information for eth0 via dhcpcd ... failed"

Re: [newbie] grub

2001-03-17 Thread Charley Peggy Robinson
I've never run NT but in 95 /98/Me you make a startup disk when you do the initial load. FDISK is on my startup disk and it can be run from there. Also, you may have a boot disk that came with NT. CR

Re: [newbie] Problems configuring Linksys LNE 100TX v.4

2001-03-17 Thread Steven Watt
For some reason the instructions that I have been following did not get sent with my question about ethernet card installation. I'm trying again, and if it doesn't work this time, they are located at http://www.linksys.com/support/kb.asp?kbid=116. Steve Watt Steven Watt wrote: Hello I

Re: [newbie] grub

2001-03-17 Thread robert macdonald
CR, I have an NT boot disk that I made. I will try that. Thanks for the help. From: Charley Peggy Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] grub Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:10:41 -0800 I've never run NT but in 95 /98/Me

[newbie] netscape not connecting

2001-03-17 Thread mazdaracer
Just re-installed 7.2 in expert mode. I had tried to use lilo and it wouldn't time out, but that's another story. During the install, I set up a modem connection, entering the 2 DNS addresses for my server - earthlink.net, leaving the Domain name blank. Launching Kppp via the 'internet' icon

[newbie] Anybody know how to get Sane working?

2001-03-17 Thread root
I've just installed MD7.2 and I was hoping to get my scanner working with it. Although Sane is definitely installed, it does not seem to be able to recognise my scanner - a parallel port Plustek OpticPro 9630P. The scanimage command tells me that "No sane devices detected". The documentation on

Re: [newbie] Soundcarts - Hardrake Configuration Wizard

2001-03-17 Thread Jk212061
run sndconfig. if soundblaser compatible, these are the settings: Soundblaster 16 I/O port 0x220 IRQ 5 DMA 1:1 DMA 2:5 MPU I/O 0x330 be sure to exit root when done, i.e. dont run startx from root. jk

[newbie] GRUB on floppy

2001-03-17 Thread CastleKidd
How do I upgrade the kernel on a floppy for GRUB? Thanks in advance. ~Lance

Re: [newbie] Soundcarts - Hardrake Configuration Wizard

2001-03-17 Thread phille
thanks for the tip, but it doesnt work for me: I have a soundblaster live - sndconfig finds it, but the soundtest or modprobe? shows an error: .../emu10k1.0: init_module: Device o resource busy .../emu10k1.0: insmod .../emu10k1.0 failed .../emu10k1.0: insmod sound-slot-0 failed fyi: the card is

Re: [newbie] Example using tee command

2001-03-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Friday 09 March 2001 07:44, you wrote: tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep "foobar" foobar.txt | mailfile foobar.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, the first reason this won't work as written is because of your use of 'tail -f' rather than plain 'tail'. 'tail -f' is basically 'tail forever', and

Re: [newbie] Startup annoyance

2001-03-17 Thread Rog
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:39:25 -0330, you wrote: I had a similar problem which was fixed by disabling the Plug Play Operating System feature in my bios. The network card and cable modem worked fine after that. Steve Watt One of the messages I get as Linux loads is as follows:

Re: Re: [newbie] Just a newbie question

2001-03-17 Thread Allen Joseph M Hernandez
Found it.thanks for the tips! You might want to check out Object Central - you can download the whole VIDE (Visual IDE doe C++ and Java) help system including FAQs. http://www.objectcentral.com -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation

[newbie] Any alternative drivers?

2001-03-17 Thread James carlson
Does anyone know if there are any alternative drivers I could use for the Mach64GX? 256 colors suck. I have tried many others, so far nothing is working. Thanks, James -- James carlson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/17/2001

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall and IPchains

2001-03-17 Thread Paul R
Ok, so what are some good ways to convert PMFirewall rules to IPChains? I'm running IPChains now, witht the rules set up by PMFirewall (added a rule to close port 1024 which PMFirewall left open). But how do I make it close (as opposed to filter) ports. ALso, any specific unnecessary

Re: [newbie] Startup annoyance

2001-03-17 Thread Digital Wokan
Doubtful about the winderz tech thing. The instructions I got from Cox about my lack of DHCP configuration in the face of an upcoming address reassignment included instructions for Mac OS 8.5. I have gotten DHCPCD to work sporadically with Linux, and imagine my troubles probably stem more from

[newbie] Major Leakage.

2001-03-17 Thread Ozz
Hi Guys. I have just re-installed Mandrake Linux 7.2 on my laptop. I re-partitioned as follows: hda1 - 144Mb - Suspend. hda2 - 6.19Gb - Linux Extended; contains: hda5 - 15Mb - /boot hda6 - 128Mb - Swap hda7 - 6.05Gb - / Obviously, having re-installed from my original CDs, there were a

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall and IPchains

2001-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 17 March 2001 05:49 pm, Paul R wrote: Ok, so what are some good ways to convert PMFirewall rules to IPChains? PMfirewall is nothing more than a script you run, answer some straightforward questions, and then it writes ipchains rules according to the answers you give. .or

Re: [newbie] grub

2001-03-17 Thread Mark Weaver
use your Windows boot disk to start your computer and at the A:\ prompt issue the command to clean your boot sector - "fdisk /mbr" that will take care of it. Mark robert macdonald wrote: Yes I tried that But I get "Error: Unrecognized command" From: Jean-Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall and IPchains

2001-03-17 Thread Peter Smith
--- Dan LaBine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip! Why are many Linux-based programs so complicated to set up?? Here we are, snip! I'm no expert but I've got a few theories for you. Theory 1: Hacking code is fun. Writing a polished interface isn't so much fun. Since most of what you use under

Re: [newbie] Major Leakage.

2001-03-17 Thread Michael O'Henly
You should probably rebuild your RPM database with this command: rpm --rebuilddb M. On Saturday 17 March 2001 17:25, Ozz wrote: Hi Guys. I have just re-installed Mandrake Linux 7.2 on my laptop. I re-partitioned as follows: hda1 - 144Mb - Suspend. hda2 - 6.19Gb - Linux

[newbie] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: We all know about KDE and Gnome. Some have even heard of Window Maker, Sawfish, Enlightenment, Icewm and Blackbox, all of which are listed on Mandrake's graphical login menu and all of which are installed by default. Realizing that the days of my AMD k6-2 400 mhrtz with 128 megs

[newbie] Installing LM 7.2 on a Sony Vaio Laptop

2001-03-17 Thread Jason Stegman
I am have problem installing LM 7.2 on my Laptop. System Info: Sony Vaio PCG-F160 300 MHz P2 64 MB Ram 4 GB Fujitsu HD During installation it will do one of the following three things: 1) Hangs-up* on installing gpm 2) Hangs-up* on installing grep 3) Prompts user with: error installing

Re: [newbie] Installing LM 7.2 on a Sony Vaio Laptop

2001-03-17 Thread Joe Redd
You know, I had similar problems when I installed Mandrake 7.2 on my machine. I had 7.1 on there operating fine. I decided to format my drive, and add 7.2 fresh, because I wanted the custom install, and because I had not customized 7.1 because it didn't recognize my modem. Anyway, to get to

[newbie] Installation woes revisited

2001-03-17 Thread Miark
Hi again, As many of you have read in recent weeks, I've been unable to install 7.2 on my desktop machine, apparently because of problems with the hard drive's partition table or something. Today while in Winsucks, I ran some Norton AntiVirus and it said I have one "master boot record", and two

[newbie] 8.0 so far/cdrecord

2001-03-17 Thread Rog
Beta 2, at this point, has it's advantages over beta 1. Me being able to use cdrecord isn't one of them, unfortunately, but more on that later. If I had to pick a word, beautiful would be it - man, is this a pretty GUI. And I use Blackbox! Blackbox or no, visual excitement runs amuk. If I had

Re: [newbie] Installing LM 7.2 on a Sony Vaio Laptop

2001-03-17 Thread Jon Doe
On Sunday 18 March 2001 12:16 am, you wrote: You know, I had similar problems when I installed Mandrake 7.2 on my machine. I had 7.1 on there operating fine. I decided to format my drive, and add 7.2 fresh, because I wanted the custom install, and because I had not customized 7.1 because it

RE: [newbie] Installing LM 7.2 on a Sony Vaio Laptop

2001-03-17 Thread Ben Keed
get 2 fresh cds, i had the same problem, fresh cds fixed this -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Doe Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing LM 7.2 on a Sony Vaio Laptop On Sunday 18

[newbie] LM 7.1 set-up Maestro3 sound card

2001-03-17 Thread Colin Alway
Hi all, I'm trying to get my ESS ES1980 Maestro3 soundcard working with LM 7.1 (Kernel 2.2.15). I've established that I need to install ALSA sound drivers, and according to the web site, version 0.5.10b supports the maestro3 card. My problem is I've downloaded the package, compiled it up but