[newbie-it] xmms 8.0

2001-06-08 Thread Maurilio Pannella
Ciao, ho un problema con la 8.0 Manfdrake. L'xmms non si avvia, sembra ci sia un probema con la libreria gtk+ se ho capito bene. Pensavo che fosse un problema del cd che stavo usando ma usando un altro cd ho lo stesso problema e allora ... volevo sapere se qualcuno aveva avuto un problema del

Re: [newbie-it] KDE non parte piu'

2001-06-08 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 19:00, mercoledì 31 dicembre 1969, hai scritto: [CUT] le domande sarebbero 2: 1) come posso fare per ripristinare KDE senza reinstallare mdk 8.0? Ciao, cerchiamo di capire la portata del danno... Hai provato a verificare se KDE funziona entrando con un altro account utente (se hai più

[newbie-it] Mdk 8.0 e porte seriali

2001-06-08 Thread Gino Pelliccia
Salve, ho provato ad installare la nuova mdk 8 su un pc pentium 133 con 48 mb di ramsenza riscontrare grossi problemi. Poi ho scoperto che non mi funzionano le periferiche attaccate alle seriali (mouse sotto x e modem (usr sportser message) in pratica il problema dovrebbe

[newbie-it] informazioni

2001-06-08 Thread franco de march
salve sono un utente inesperto di mandrake 8.0 ho installato alcuni programmi trovati su riviste i programmi vengono installati regolarmente da rpm ma non riesco ad aprirli o visualizzarli nel menu programmi di kde o gnome potreste aiutarmi? Grazie franco

[newbie-it] informazioni

2001-06-08 Thread franco de march
salve sono un utente inesperto di mandrake 8.0 ho installato alcuni programmi trovati su riviste i programmi vengono installati regolarmente da rpm ma non riesco ad aprirli o visualizzarli nel menu programmi di kde o gnome potreste aiutarmi? Grazie franco

[newbie-it] Nvidia

2001-06-08 Thread Ruben Patan
Siccoma l'NVIDIA non distribuisce i suoi driver con licenza GPL la Mandrake non fornisce più i Driver per il 3D. Gli ho scaricati dal sito ho seguito la procedura d'installazione e sembra tutto perfetto, all'avvio il MDK 8.0 visualizza il logo NVIDIA. Il problema sta nei giochi tuxrace non

Re: [newbie-it] KDE non parte piu'

2001-06-08 Thread Marco
- Original Message - 1) come posso fare per ripristinare KDE senza reinstallare mdk 8.0? Ciao, cerchiamo di capire la portata del danno... Hai provato a verificare se KDE funziona entrando con un altro account utente (se hai più utenti configurati) o come root? Se così fosse, il

Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8.0 e porte seriali

2001-06-08 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:39:50 +0200 Gino Pelliccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve, ho provato ad installare la nuova mdk 8 su un pc pentium 133 con 48 mb di ramsenza riscontrare grossi problemi. Poi ho scoperto che non mi funzionano le periferiche attaccate alle seriali (mouse

Re: [newbie-it] Domanda

2001-06-08 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:06:42 -0400 bellotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scusate forse è una domanda gia fatta , ma non la riesco a trovare in archivio . Vorrei sapere come fare per emulare lo scsi con il cdrom come avviene con il masterizzatore , in xcdroast mi vede solo il masterizzatore e non

[newbie-it] Problema con modem isdn w6692

2001-06-08 Thread Bledar Balla
Salve a tutti. Ho un problema con il modem isdn w6692 della winbond.Uso mdk 8.0.Però c'è una cosa strana perché nella configurazione di connessione draknet lo riconosce come periferica però non si connette? Che devo fare,(non è un problema di driver?) Grazie

[newbie-it] Vedere filmati

2001-06-08 Thread enrico noseda
Sono utente mandrake 8 e non riesco a vedere filmati internet, qualcuno può gentilmente spiegarmi come poterlo fare. Il mio problema penso sia la configurazione della applicazioni di netscape o l'associazione file di Konquerror. Potete darmi una mano. Grazie mille. Enrico

Re: [newbie-it] xmms 8.0

2001-06-08 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:01:22 +0200 Maurilio Pannella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, ho un problema con la 8.0 Manfdrake. L'xmms non si avvia, sembra ci sia un probema con la libreria gtk+ se ho capito bene. Pensavo che fosse un problema del cd che stavo usando ma usando un altro cd ho lo

[newbie-it] Cambiare i permessi

2001-06-08 Thread Corrado
Esiste un sistema rapido per modificare i permessi (user e group) di tutti i file contenuti in una directory? Grazie! Corrado

[newbie-it] Problema con modem isdn w6692

2001-06-08 Thread Elena Kouznetsova
Salve a tutti.Ho un problema con il modem isdn w6692 della winbond.Uso mdk 8.0.Però c'è una cosa strana perché nella configurazione di connessione draknet lo riconosce come periferica però non si connette? Che devo fare,(non è un problema di driver?) Grazie

Re: [newbie] No X Server, now what? (Head is dropping!)

2001-06-08 Thread civileme
On Friday 08 June 2001 01:56, Mick wrote: Hello again, I am getting very frustrated. Here's the background. New Asus A7A266 m/b AMD T/Bird 1ghz Proc, 512mb mem. ATI Expert 2000 AGP (Rage 128 Chip) Have loaded LM 8.0, goes all the way to Xserver, then reverts to prompt, despite asking it to

Re: [newbie] mutt

2001-06-08 Thread n6tadam
Hello John, All a mailbox is, is just a file. This can be created using the following command (making sure that you are root user) cd /var/spool/mail cat john You dont have to worry about changing the file permissons. HTH, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

[newbie] gdm-2.2.2 rebuild errors on MDK 7.2

2001-06-08 Thread Trev
Hi I have MDK 7.2 with some updates and Helix Gnome1.2, and i am trying to build gdm-2.2.2-1.src.rpm, but it says Could not find gdkpixbuf /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXdmcp I have Installed gdk-pixbuf-0.9.0-2mdk - gdk-pixbuf-xlibb-0.9.0-2mdk gdk-pixbuf-loaders-0.9.0-2mdk -

Re: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry

2001-06-08 Thread SpeedMan
On June 8, 2001 08:55 am, you wrote: Question, in the machines mentioned below did you use the 80wire connection cables on your hard drives or the old standard 40 wire cables? From what I have read on the net this can become an issue with CDROM drives and via chipsets if the 40wire cables

Re: [newbie] network sharing

2001-06-08 Thread Jeff
--- * Karel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bind-utils-9.1.1-1mdk. Have you tried the connection sharing that is offered in The Mandrake Control Center? Control Center? I think it's a graphical linux program but I have very small hard drive (540MB) and not installed X at all. Ok well

Re: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry

2001-06-08 Thread civileme
On Friday 08 June 2001 09:38, SpeedMan wrote: On June 8, 2001 08:55 am, you wrote: Question, in the machines mentioned below did you use the 80wire connection cables on your hard drives or the old standard 40 wire cables? From what I have read on the net this can become an issue with

[newbie] xdm not working on LM 8.0

2001-06-08 Thread Paul Hardiman
Hi, Anybody run into xdm not working. It seems to register the pid but do little else. -- Regards, Paul Hardiman InterMedia, Inc Technology Solutions 303-581-0606, Fax 581-0506, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:36, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the default GUI session during start up? For some reason the Gnome desktop is

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives, and Modem list?

2001-06-08 Thread bascule
expert is: http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/ i figure substitute 'newbie' for 'expert' for that archive also go: www.linmodems.org and: http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html for info regarding linux and modems bascule On Wednesday 06 June 2001 6:33 am, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] USb mice?

2001-06-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Mandrake sees the mouse as a PS/2 mouse. It doesn't matter if you have a PS/2 mouse and you connected it to your machine via a serial adapter, it's how it actually connects to the machine that it cares about. So if the PS/2 connection is how it gets to your machine, that's what kind of mouse

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-08 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error the floppy is probably not mounted

Re: [newbie] How to write a bash login script?

2001-06-08 Thread Michael Lewis
Thanks to everyone for the help. I'm just starting to learn scripting. I'm also going to get the O'Reilly book on Expect. Someone else suggested that as a good place to start. Nico, you may want to look at the IBM support site for the driver for your modem. I just did a quick search and

[newbie] LM 8.0 install disks

2001-06-08 Thread Jerry Greene
I tried to to a clean install of LM 8.0 powerpak (from BestBuy). CD-1 is read and the install proceeds. Then it asks for CD-2 which I insert and click ok. But it keeps asking for CD-2 whenever I click ok. When I click cancel, it then asks for CD-3, CD-4 with the same results. I took the

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-08 Thread Ed Kasky
At 08:24 AM 6/8/2001 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-08 Thread Thomas Adam
Hi, Please read my comments, beginning with [Thomas]. -- Original Message -- From: Andreas J. Guelzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 08:24:05 -0700 Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In

[newbie] diskdrake in LM 8

2001-06-08 Thread Louis T
Hello, List. Please forgive this newbie 's question :) I installed LM 8.0 Standard edition, but I just can't find diskdrake which let you modify partitions. I wonder if the manual misprint something or it only apply to the complete edition. Thanks for reading.

Re: [newbie] Sane

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Smith
Andreas et al., Thanks for helping me out with my earlier automounting problem, BTW. Works fine now. I wonder if you or someone on the list could point me in the right direction on hooking in a scanner on my linux box. Just some basic info on context would be an enormous help. One of the

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:28, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:36, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name escapes me. Which file controls the

[newbie] Nvidia Driver Set 1.0.1: FSAA Undocumented

2001-06-08 Thread Albion Baucom
After having problems with the Nvida driver installation I could not get fullscreen antialiasing (FSAA) to work with the new drivers. After doing quite a few tweaks and checking and re-checking my installation and configuration I e-mailed Nvidia and got the following responce:

Re: [newbie] Current IP Address

2001-06-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Try and grep out the information you need from the command /sbin/ifconfig. If you're root, all you need is ifconfig, since it's in your path name, however any other user, ifconfig is not. But that command will give you a lot of info, one of which is the IP address. Something like the

Re: [newbie] Current IP Address

2001-06-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Well you should be using some sort of connection software. I used kppp personally, and had no real problems with it. When connected it will tell you that it's done so. But you can set kppp to not disconnect when you log out. As long as the machine is booted, it will stay connected, of

RE: [newbie] LM 8.0 install disks

2001-06-08 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] LM 8.0 install disks Jerry, try installation in expert mode. It will ask for partitions maybe and other stuff that should not be a problem if you have used LM 7.2 or others, otherwise you can just accept most of the stuff as default. You will have to pick the packages, but

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-08 Thread Martin Fuchs
At 22:25 07.06.01 -0700, you wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error permissions for /mnt/floppy:

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error permissions for /mnt/floppy: drwxrwxrwx 1

Re: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry

2001-06-08 Thread Van winssen Ramaakers
The chipset to avoid is VIA with the 686B Southbridge. This means most modern KT133As and Apollo Pros. That is a large portion of the Motherboard Market That's nice to read, I recently bought Abit a KT7A. :~( I should have known this before... What disadvantages did I get, Civileme? My

Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:

2001-06-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error permissions

Re: [newbie] Two printing problems...

2001-06-08 Thread David E. Fox
First, when I try to print envelopes in StarOffice 5.2, nothing happens, not even an error message. Printing letter (8.5 x 11) sized documents works fine. Does printing envelopes work in the Windows version of Star Office? I'd check that, just to make sure that it's not a SO or Samba

Re: [newbie] RPM Install

2001-06-08 Thread Mark Lucas
Thanks for the help on this. I've now got Webmin up and running. The next problem is installing MySQL server. I've downloaded the .RPM file and attempted to install it as I did with Webmin and all goes very well until near the end when it's unpacking the archive at 79% unpacked I get the message

[newbie] repartitioning

2001-06-08 Thread H.Narfi Stefansson
Hi, I accidentally only have 1 linux partition, /dev/hde1 For some reason DiskDrake didn't allow me to rearrange that partition during the install, I chose expert install and the Auto Allocate option in DiskDrake just gave me an error message [forgot what it was] . And now I'd like to

FW: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards

2001-06-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 5:08 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John

Re: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards

2001-06-08 Thread John
The geforce 2 should work in 8.0 unless you have some other problem is your system. But if you are determined to return it go with an ATI. You should be able to get either the Expert2000 or the RadeonVE for around $100 or less. At the moment the Expert2000 (Rage 128 chipset) is the best

[newbie] there's more than that

2001-06-08 Thread Pablo García Durán
Dear guys: I think I already said everything I wanted to say. You may keep misunderstanding my words, but I don't really care much about that. I think I am not an OS-defender any more. And probably it is useless to try to convince you, as it used to happen with me earlier. PS.- This is an

Re: [newbie] diskdrake in LM 8

2001-06-08 Thread poogle
On Friday 08 June 2001 12:20, you wrote: Hello, List. Please forgive this newbie 's question :) I installed LM 8.0 Standard edition, but I just can't find diskdrake which let you modify partitions. I wonder if the manual misprint something or it only apply to the complete edition. Thanks

Re: [newbie] Gnome keeps kicking in when KDE start up in LM8

2001-06-08 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:28, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:36, Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Paul wrote: It was Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:30:26 -0400 when Romanator wrote: For some reason the file name

Re: [newbie] Multiuser install of Star Office.

2001-06-08 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Richard: I am quite confused by what is happening. You write: 1. I logged out and logged back in as katrina, clicked on the setup icon I do not use any icon but run it from the command line. See my original instructions at step 2. So, I would suggest to nuke everything and restart over:

Re: [newbie] Mysql! How do I set the root password from a base install?

2001-06-08 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Jun 07, 2001, h3rb wrote: I am gonna reply to you with a Quote from my first message: I can't add any database's or anything cause it tells me that root@localhost is denied access. Emphasize on the anything part! Did you even try what I suggested? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded

2001-06-08 Thread Romanator
That's the one thing that Linux users have is a lot of faith in their OS. We also have a very large contingent of individuals all over the world devoting all of their time and effort to produce a great OS. Linux is always evolving and has a bright future. Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] diskdrake in LM 8

2001-06-08 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 08 June 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: On Friday 08 June 2001 12:20, you wrote: Hello, List. Please forgive this newbie 's question :) I installed LM 8.0 Standard edition, but I just can't find diskdrake which let you modify partitions. I wonder if the manual misprint something

[newbie] NFS Question.

2001-06-08 Thread Michael Lewis
I recently networked my laptop and desktop together and after juggling some adapters around, got them up and running. In O'Reilley's Running Linux, they said that you could set-up a NFS file sharing system, without having to set up a NFS file server. I just have a simple network with the two

Re: [newbie] Singel Network Firewall (SNF)

2001-06-08 Thread Julio
Still trying it out , seems pretty good though!!! Julio If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:01 AM Subject: [newbie] Singel Network Firewall (SNF) hi beginig of this

Fwd: [newbie] NFS Question.

2001-06-08 Thread Michael Lewis
I recently networked my laptop and desktop together and after juggling some adapters around, got them up and running. In O'Reilley's Running Linux, they said that you could set-up a NFS file sharing system, without having to set up a NFS file server. I just have a simple network with the two

[newbie] Opti Card Problem

2001-06-08 Thread Suresh
Hello friends, PLEASE DON'T MIND IF THE MAIL IS TOO LONG. PLEASE HELP ME TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM My OPTi sound card is not properly supported on Mandrake. Every time I boot I have to run sndconfig to configure the card. While the configuration is being done the first sound sample where Linux

[newbie] RAID controller support in LM8?

2001-06-08 Thread Sam
Hello all, I am thinking of purchasing the Abit KT7A motherboard with the integrated Highpoint RAID controller. However I can't find any RAID section in the supported hardware page on the site. Is it safe to assume that I won't have any problems running Mandrake 8 off a harddisk attached to

Re: [newbie] Newbie questions

2001-06-08 Thread Jeff Needle
Thanks for this! I'll give it a try. Not Command Center (not correct name) or Control Center. If you are using KDE then you click on the Kpanel icon and on the pop up list click on networking remote accessinternet dialer Kppp . All of your connection settings should be configurable from the

Re: [newbie] Newbie questions

2001-06-08 Thread Jeff Needle
When I click on Networking, I get the following submenu, with their submenus: File Transfer Lftp Instant Messenger Gaim Mail Netscape Messenger News Netscape Collabra WWW Bookmark Editor Konqueror Web Browser Links Lynx

Re: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry

2001-06-08 Thread Walter Luffman
On Friday 08 June 2001 12:18 pm, Mark Stewart wrote: The chipset to avoid is VIA with the 686B Southbridge. This means most modern KT133As and Apollo Pros. That is a large portion of the Motherboard Market Really? I bought a Tyan Trinity 400 S1854 specifically to run Mandrake.

RE: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry

2001-06-08 Thread Hans N.
Warning: this is off topic for the list. Speedman wrote On top of that even w/ only loading the drivers I have seen a number of machines stop booting until the Creative card was removed. I have a Compaq 7471 that I have done a lot of hardware upgrading to. About 2 weeks ago I attempted to

RE: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards

2001-06-08 Thread Franki
Hi I have had the same problem with the Nvidia drivers, it took about 10 attempts before it worked, but once it did, it was amazing... I think I ended up getting the src and rebuilding it... there is some info on the mandrakeforum page about getting the driver working in LM8, you might want to

[newbie] C++ in 21 days for linux?

2001-06-08 Thread Jon Doe
Does SAMS make such a book as Learn C++ in 21 days for linux ?

Re: [newbie] C++ in 21 days for linux?

2001-06-08 Thread OOzy Pal
Yes http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067232072X/o/qid=992066308/sr=8-1/002-0714472-4397661 --- Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does SAMS make such a book as Learn C++ in 21 days for linux ? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life?

Re: [newbie] Newbie questions

2001-06-08 Thread Jeff Needle
Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842 Ok, then Kppp must not be installed. you can check that with software manager by doing a find kppp and if it is not installable then you should have it somewhere. I am guessing that it didn't install. So if you have a software manager icon on the

[newbie] SSL doesn't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1.2)

2001-06-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
For some reason, I have not been able to use SSL in Konqueror since the early betas of KDE 2.1 (installed on LM 7.2), and I have been forced to use another browser. For example, when I try to log into Sourceforge.net (which requires SSL), the message I get is The process for the

[newbie] Current IP Address

2001-06-08 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi, I'm trying to write a bash script which needs the current IP address that I have been assigned by my ISp at any particular moment. How can I do this? TIA, Jord

RE: [newbie] Motherboard inquiry

2001-06-08 Thread Mark Stewart
The chipset to avoid is VIA with the 686B Southbridge. This means most modern KT133As and Apollo Pros. That is a large portion of the Motherboard Market Really? I bought a Tyan Trinity 400 S1854 specifically to run Mandrake. The spec sheets lists the chipset as VIA Apollo Pro 133A

[newbie] RE: [expert] Icons on Desktop in Xfce

2001-06-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:14 PM To: Mandrake Listserv Subject: [expert] Icons on Desktop in Xfce Hi, all. I was wondering if anyone knew about Xfce and how to add icons to the

[newbie] Singel Network Firewall (SNF)

2001-06-08 Thread ZeynalBandari
hi beginig of this month, mandrake announced release of Singel Network Firewall. has anyone on list installed it? what has your first impression been? regards /Zeynal __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account

[newbie] Two printing problems...

2001-06-08 Thread Jim Dawson
I have two printing problems: First, when I try to print envelopes in StarOffice 5.2, nothing happens, not even an error message. Printing letter (8.5 x 11) sized documents works fine. Second, I have a Win98 computer printing to my Linux box using SAMBA. Printing on the Linux box works fine

Re: [newbie] RAID controller support in LM8?

2001-06-08 Thread civileme
On Friday 08 June 2001 20:29, Sam wrote: Hello all, I am thinking of purchasing the Abit KT7A motherboard with the integrated Highpoint RAID controller. However I can't find any RAID section in the supported hardware page on the site. Is it safe to assume that I won't have any problems

Re: [newbie] More USB stuff

2001-06-08 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 08 June 2001 03:11, Chubby Vic wrote: Hi again Is there a way to test my USB port other than a mouse? I was trying to get it to recognise a USB mouse but no go. Anyone have a good idea of a USB-driven device I could connect up just to see how well it works? What other USB

Re: [newbie] more security

2001-06-08 Thread s
Are you running portsentry? Look in it's history and blocked files and see if those machines are in there. If so, delete them and put them in the allow and alway_allow files. Check your /etc/hosts.allow file and see if they are in there - they should be, as well as /etc/hosts.deny - they

Re: [newbie] How to write a bash login script?

2001-06-08 Thread Nico Krzebek
Lucky you! I didn't get the softmodem on my TP570 (lucent modem) into a working state. Since your script needs to be run just once after system boot, you could for instance append the line /path_to_script/acpsetup to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so it gets automatically executed when your box

RE: [newbie] RPM Install

2001-06-08 Thread Williams, Kris
Please send the instructions you got on installing Webmin -Original Message- From: Mark Lucas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:14 PM To: Linux Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM Install Thanks for the help on this. I've now got Webmin up and running.

Re: [newbie] Multiuser install of Star Office.

2001-06-08 Thread Richard Davies
On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:42, Richard wrote: Following your advice with slight modifications I have done the following. My copy of star office was supplied as something like so-5_2-en.bin this is a huge executable that you run to install it. I obviously haven't got it quite right but I am

Re: [newbie] NFS Question.

2001-06-08 Thread chamster
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:30:24PM +, Michael Lewis wrote: I recently networked my laptop and desktop together and after juggling some adapters around, got them up and running. In O'Reilley's Running Linux, they said that you could set-up a NFS file sharing system, without having to

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia is totally unfounded

2001-06-08 Thread Charles A. Punch
Dan LaBine wrote: I'm not sure what this guy is talking about, but whatever it is, he makes no sense. First, he sounds like he purposely became a skeptic about O/S evangelism. What exactly is that?? Is he saying that we've elevated the mighty Tux to the level of a diety? .

Re: [newbie] Current IP Address

2001-06-08 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi, Me again ;-) How can I check to see if my computer is currently dialled out or not? TIA, Jord On Friday 08 June 2001 13:43, you wrote: Try and grep out the information you need from the command /sbin/ifconfig. If you're root, all you need is ifconfig, since it's in your path name,

Re: [newbie] Current IP Address

2001-06-08 Thread Paul
It was Fri, 8 Jun 2001 18:57:15 -0400 when Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Me again ;-) How can I check to see if my computer is currently dialled out or not? You can simply ping www.yahoo.com If it responds, you're online. (Unless you work there ;-) Paul -- You never learn anything by doing it

Re: [newbie] RPM Install

2001-06-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Are you doing this as root? If you do that as root, try rpm -ivh FILE.RPM. That may do the trick, but it sounds like you're not running this as root. At least from what I gathered from the email. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us