Re: [newbie-it] Re:connessione fallita

2001-08-22 Thread Stefano Salari
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: salve ho un problema con il modem un isdn interno riconosciuto perfettamente da mandrake (mi appare anche in hardrake) quando lancio la connessione questa fallisce senza segnalare errori. ho aperto un terminale x controllare il msg

[newbie-it] Modem Adsl Alcatel Speedstream 4060

2001-08-22 Thread Baron
Salve, sono passato da poco al mondo Linux, ho installato Mandrake 8.0 da un mesetto circa, ma non riesco ad accedere ad internet, la periferica viene riconosciuta da Hardrake sotto ? unknown device , riporto quello che mi dice : Fornitore: Efficient Networks, Inc. Modello: Alcatel Speedstream

Re: [newbie-it] Modem Adsl Alcatel Speedstream 4060

2001-08-22 Thread fabio
ciao,io ho il tuo stesso problema...come installare il 4060 con mandrake 8.0.l'unica speranza è che una volta me lo ha visto e riconosciuto,ha fatto tutto lui...forse perchè avendo una scheda di rete e due pc collegati hao trovato la sua configurazione, poi però dopo un paio di giorni non

Re: [newbie-it] Re:connessione fallita

2001-08-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: salve ho un problema con il modem un isdn interno riconosciuto perfettamente da mandrake (mi appare anche in hardrake) quando lancio la connessione questa fallisce senza segnalare errori. ho aperto un terminale x controllare il

[newbie-it] isdn usb?

2001-08-22 Thread Paolo Delmastro
ciao sono un assoluto pivello, ho appena installato il mio mandrake, il mio primo obiettivo sarebbe collegarmi ad internet... ho un modem isdn esterno collegato ad una porta usb, come raccomandato dal manuale ho verificato le proprieta' in winzoz e risulterebbe collegato alla COM6. sembra

[newbie-it] Single Network Firewall

2001-08-22 Thread Maurizio Massasso
Ciao a tutti Qualcuno sa usare il Single Network Firewall? Volevo sapere se una macchina con quello installato può solo più agire come firewall o è possibile settare il masquerading per altri tre pc (Win) connessi ad internet. Grazie Maurizio Massasso Asti

[newbie-it] Quale Proxy Server?

2001-08-22 Thread viger71
Vorrei installare un Proxy Server, sono indeciso tra WWWOFFLE e SQUID. Ma leggendo un'articolo su Linux M. mi pare di aver capito che servono risorse hardware non indifferenti e la configurazione non è delle più semplici. WWoffle invece pare sia semplice da configurare. Qualcuno che magari li

Re: [newbie-it] isdn usb?

2001-08-22 Thread bosva
Paolo Delmastro wrote: ciao sono un assoluto pivello, ho appena installato il mio mandrake, il mio primo obiettivo sarebbe collegarmi ad internet... ho un modem isdn esterno collegato ad una porta usb, come raccomandato dal manuale ho verificato le proprieta' in winzoz e risulterebbe

[newbie-it] Configurazione di SendMail

2001-08-22 Thread Michele Bigi
Ciao Credevo di avere configurato correttamente la mia macchina linux (monta mandrake 8) ma ho un problema con la posta: Ho chiamato la macchina pippo. Se mando un messaggio da root@pippo a root@pippo il messaggio sparisce se mando un messaggio da root@pippo a root@localhost arriva ma leggendo

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-22 Thread Kirby Urner
Just wanted to add that I've managed to get sound with the CDR drive (hdd). The CDRW (hdc) doesn't want to output to the sound card. Some info, in case helpful to any pro troubleshooters: hda: WDC AC28400R, ATA DISK drive hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 20, ATA DISK drive hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX160E,

RE: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation

2001-08-22 Thread Stefano POGLIANI
I used the installer, yes. This did not create problems. /stefano » -Original Message- » From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman » Sent: 21 August 2001 19:28 » To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stefano POGLIANI » Subject: Re: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation » » »

RE: [newbie] Which Linux?

2001-08-22 Thread Adrian Lynch
Cheers for the answers. Mandrake it is then. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Serial ports

2001-08-22 Thread Mark Licker
Question: Does IPtables control the serial ports (ttyS*)? I can't get gphoto2 to work with my camera (which connects through the serial port), and -- grasping for straws -- I was wondering if the firewall might have something to do with it. I'm using LM 8.0; have IPMasquerading setup, also a SOHO

Re: [newbie] rpm problem??

2001-08-22 Thread Kevin Fonner
OK so I gave up on Mandrake Corporate Server and went with Mandrake 8 as my starting platform. However MDK come with RPM 4.0 and to put together the source rpms it says I need 4.0.2. I noticed 4.0.3 is in cooker but when I try to upgrade just rpm through software manager it wants to upgrade

RE: [newbie] Writing from Linux to Win-NTFS

2001-08-22 Thread Adams, Jamie
I would unmount your windows partition and cd to /mnt/windows and have a look in there when the NTFS partition isnt mounted. -- Jamie -- From: Benjamin Sher[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2001 12:33 To:Newbie Subject:

Re: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!

2001-08-22 Thread Mohammed Arafa
ever heard of nfs? network file system . i believe it comes standard with the mandrake cd.. u mount the remote pc's hd as those it was on your local pc - Original Message - From: h3rb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:56 AM Subject: [newbie]

[newbie] software manager hangs

2001-08-22 Thread Michael Koundouros
Hi folks, I am using mandrake 8.0. I installed it using lnx4win on a celeron 300mhz laptop with 64mb ram. I have been having trouble with the software manager as it hangs most of the time. what normally happens is when I start it, it says that its scanning Cd1. It usually (not always though)

RE: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!

2001-08-22 Thread Michael D. Viron
Start the NFS service after restarting Linuxconf's service handler... Then service nfs restart. In order to run NFS, you must also run portmap. Before you try service nfs restart, check on the status of portmap '/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap status'. You can, of course, also find the NFS howto on

[newbie] DCOP server error message??

2001-08-22 Thread Andre Dubuc
I received this error message as KDE was loading: Could not read network connection host. -- /home/andre/.DCOP server_localhost.localdomain_:0 I had checked, during my original installation of LM8, Network Computer (client)' and chose what then seemed to be a few appropriate items (I thought

[newbie] File Renaming

2001-08-22 Thread Newacct
I got many files that have spaces in them., I want to rename all the files with a space and replace to them with _ chracter like: file file.ram to file_file.ram how can i do this? I got many files over 200! thx people Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] X woes (Toshiba laptop)

2001-08-22 Thread Charles A. Punch
Are you sure you have the right Graphic Card selected. On my Toshiba Satrellite Pro 465 CDX, I had the same problem in installing MDK 7.1. After much fiddling around with the resolution, I finally resolved it by changing the Graphic card to the first entry on Tatung. All of the Generic settings

FW: [newbie] X woes (Toshiba laptop)

2001-08-22 Thread Adams, Jamie
Ooops! forgot to post to the list.. -- Jamie -- From: Adams, Jamie Sent: 22 August 2001 11:55 To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] X woes (Toshiba laptop) You could also try (from the console) /usr/bin/X11R6/DrakConf (i think that path is correct,

Re: [newbie] rpm problem??

2001-08-22 Thread Paul
You may have downloaded an RPM for Redhat which needs RPM v 4. Try getting the package for Mandrake from cooker or rpmfind.net and the present rpm should do fine. I think. It does for me. Paul On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:18:08 -0400 Kevin Fonner [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: KF I decided

Re: [newbie] File Renaming

2001-08-22 Thread Donnie Green
type cp file name file_name then rm file name or type mv file name file_name From: Newacct [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] File Renaming Date: 23 Aug 2001 08:34:12 +1000 I got many files that have spaces in them., I want

[newbie] Installation troubles on v7.0

2001-08-22 Thread Glenn Holden
Hello all I'm spanking new to Linux but not to computers. I am trying to install v7 from disk to an old machine. It's a P133/32. I've run the install several times now, each time getting a little better. I tried the server install first, since that is ultimately what I want this to be. (Mail

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-22 Thread Kirby Urner
Thanks Jim. Note that both CD players (CDR and CDRW) play through the speakers when I'm in the WinME environment on the same machine (tested a few times). I wouldn't think MDK'd require a cable where WinME does not. Kirby At 08:21 AM 8/22/2001 -0500, you wrote: For a CDR or CDRW to output

RE: [newbie] dual boot

2001-08-22 Thread Michael McGibben
Try editing /etc/lilo.conf - you will find (at a guess) that the last entry in the list is windoze 2000. Move it to the top of the list and save the changes. Then run /sbin/lilo Give it a try. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] mplayer

2001-08-22 Thread Aristos
hello i have installed Mplayer( http://mplayer.sourceforge.net )on my linux mandrake 8.0 box. The problem that i have is that the avi's play very very fast. My computer is a pIII 733mhz 128mb ram with a videocard nvidia tnt2 32mb. I played differend avi's with differend playing options that

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 09:33 am, Kirby Urner escribió: Note that both CD players (CDR and CDRW) play through the speakers when I'm in the WinME environment on the same machine (tested a few times). I wouldn't think MDK'd require a cable where WinME does not. That's because it's

[newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread Solver
People, why didn't anybody reply to my message, .a files for modules? I would like some clue as to what the problem is, please, not necessarily the solution for it. Please reply to it. Solver Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread Harvey Janson
The fonts in your msg are too small for me to read without straining my eyes. I am using KMail. Perhaps, other people also had trouble reading your post. peace, Harvey On Wednesday 22 August 2001 11:12, Solver wrote: People, why didn't anybody reply to my message, .a files for

Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread Tim Barnard
People aren't replying because you're probably doing what I did on my first posting, sending HTML formatted email. Try resending as Plain Text. Tim - Original Message - From: Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:12 AM Subject:

RE: [newbie] X woes (Toshiba laptop)

2001-08-22 Thread Ingo Bauer
Hi Chuck ; It is hard to tell what to do without knowing the model you are using. You may want to try http://www.linux-laptop.net/ for more indepth info on howto get linux running on your toshiba. Ingo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread Solver
I take it as a joke, as it was sent in Plain Text, anyway. In despair, Solver - Original Message - From: Harvey Janson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me? The fonts in

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Kirby Urner wrote: At 12:34 PM 8/21/2001 -0700, you wrote: Kirby, if you are using KDE desktop or Gnome click on the K or footprint (start button) and then look up for multimedia then sound and you will see several selections pick one that looks like a speaker and you will find sound

Re: [newbie] rpm problem??

2001-08-22 Thread Randy Kramer
I forget the details, but if you try to upgrade a system with an RPM manager below 4.0 to one above 4.0, you have a long row to hoe. One of the issues has to do with the need to update the existing RPM database. I would not attempt this without knowing more. Randy Kramer Paul wrote: You

Re: [newbie] dual boot

2001-08-22 Thread Matt Greer
matt conran wrote: Hi I'm having problems dual booting mandrake with win2000. It can boot in linu or 2000, but it defaults in to linux if you don't scroll down and select windows2000. Do you know of a way where the boot screen can default to windows2000. It boots into a linux gui first

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tom Brinkman wrote: Not sure about your only one needs to be plugged in and both should work comment, but I don't think so. AFAIK, only the connected CD drive would be able to play sounds. That's the situation here, my CDrom is connected, my CD-RW isn't. I'll be real surprised if this

Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread Tim Barnard
snip I take it as a joke, as it was sent in Plain Text, anyway. snip Then try again and double check the format. Your msgs are incredibly small and nearly unreadable. Tim - Original Message - From: Solver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-22 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:05:10 -0400 when Tim Holmes wrote: Not sure if this will help, but here's the alias I use for Mplayer. alias mp='mplayer -vo x11' I told him so on another list... It did not work. I suspect there's something with the setup of his system. Even with other players there

Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:24:05 -0700 when Tim Barnard wrote: People aren't replying because you're probably doing what I did on my first posting, sending HTML formatted email. Try resending as Plain Text. Or they just don't know... Paul Tim - Original Message - From: Solver [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Test Post - is format readable, etc?

2001-08-22 Thread Todd Zashin
yes ok -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn Holden Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:35 AM To: Linux Newbie Subject: [newbie] Test Post - is format readable, etc? Hello Testing for format, etc. Is this ok? New Newbie Glenn

Re: [newbie] Test Post - is format readable, etc?

2001-08-22 Thread Tim Barnard
Looks ok. Tim - Original Message - From: Glenn Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:35 AM Subject: [newbie] Test Post - is format readable, etc? Hello Testing for format, etc. Is this ok? New Newbie Glenn

Re: [newbie] dual boot

2001-08-22 Thread Kirby Urner
KDE and probably Gnome also have X-client interfaces to the boot parameters. Go to Mankdrake Control Center and look under bootup settings. You'll find some funky dialog boxes letting you pick the default boot OS. Kirby At 11:36 AM 8/22/2001 -0500, Matt Greer wrote: matt conran wrote:

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 11:50 am, Ronald J. Hall escribió: Now...another question - since my SB Xgamer Live! sound card does have another aux/in port, can I hook another audio cable to it? I know that seems excessive, but the reason I'm asking is (please correct me if I'm wrong here) but

Re: [newbie] What's Raklet?

2001-08-22 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 02:13, Paul-H. Gagnon wrote: From Robert Collins French/English dictionary, raclette: a. scraper (tool) b. Swiss cheese dish. Anyone sees a connection with 8.1? Well Swiss cheese is full of holes, isn't it? I hope this doesn't tell us anything about mdk's

Re: [newbie] File Renaming

2001-08-22 Thread Newacct
but thats slow i got many files On 22 Aug 2001 10:07:43 -0400, Donnie Green wrote: type cp file name file_name then rm file name or type mv file name file_name From: Newacct [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] File

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-22 Thread Kirby Urner
OK, that was it! Duh, slap forehead: no cable from CDR to Ensoniq (which I earlier specified as ISA, but I was staring cross-eyed at my modem -- it's a PCI card) which fortunately has inputs for CD and AUX. So now both the CDR and CDRW play thru speakers. Thanks to Dennis, Tom, s et al for

Re: [newbie] Test Post - is format readable, etc?

2001-08-22 Thread Sevatio
Your message didn't get through. ;-) Original Message On 8/22/01, 10:35:00 AM, Glenn Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Test Post - is format readable, etc?: Hello Testing for format, etc. Is this ok? New Newbie Glenn Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux

2001-08-22 Thread Joe Brault
Hello, I found this mailing list on the Mandrake site, and thought you all might be able to help me with my problem. I purchased a hard drive yesterday (maxtor 40GB 5400rpm) and installed it thru windoze. I can see and use the drive fine in windoze, however when I access my linux setup

Re: [newbie] X woes (Toshiba laptop)

2001-08-22 Thread Chuck Messenger
Thanks, Ingo (and everyone else) for the response(s). The linux-laptop site was neat -- there's a whole in-depth page just about my laptop (Toshiba 2060CDS). Alot of the information is out-of-date. But I did learn a few useful tricks I didn't know (like, how to get to the BIOS!) Anyway,

RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux

2001-08-22 Thread Michael McGibben
Hello there, Are you saying that windoze sees it as 4GB? A 4Kb drive is a very retrograde step! What sort of motherboard do you have, processor etc? Which version of 'doze' do you use? How have you partitioned your drive. Are you using Partition Magic or what? Send some more info please.

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux

2001-08-22 Thread Chuck Lalli
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 04:32 pm, you wrote: Hello there, Are you saying that windoze sees it as 4GB? A 4Kb drive is a very retrograde step! What sort of motherboard do you have, processor etc? Which version of 'doze' do you use? How have you partitioned your drive. Are you using

Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread etharp
either that or we (I) don't have a clue as to what your message was, and why you need to know about .a files and what they have to do with modules etither, anyway. On Wednesday 22 August 2001 12:24, Tim Barnard wrote: People aren't replying because you're probably doing what I did on my first

RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux

2001-08-22 Thread Joe Brault
Mike, Sorry, should have put that info in before :) I think I did a typo... the drive is a 40GB drive, 5400rpm. here's the rest of my specs: Motherboard: Tyan 1854s CPU: Genuine Intel P3 666Mhz Pri HD: Maxtor 15GB 7200rpm RAM: 256mb Video Card: Vodoo 3 3500TV AGP CD Drive: Creative

Re: [newbie] File Renaming

2001-08-22 Thread Paul
It was 23 Aug 2001 14:08:36 +1000 when Newacct wrote: but thats slow i got many files On 22 Aug 2001 10:07:43 -0400, Donnie Green wrote: type cp file name file_name then rm file name or type mv file name file_name Then you'd better type it in quickly. The system _does_

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux

2001-08-22 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:18:37 -0500 when Joe Brault wrote: If it is connected through the ATA100 interface, it is probably /dev/hde. My 40Gb maxtors are hde and hdf Paul Hello, I found this mailing list on the Mandrake site, and thought you all might be able to help me with my

Re: [newbie] No Taskbar, minimized programs gone

2001-08-22 Thread Peter Rymshaw
I fixed it. It was KDE and fixed it by rightclicking on the taskbar and then selecting add/extenal taskbar. --- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some of us, it may help if you tell us which desktop you are using -- KDE, GNOME, Blackbox, ...? Randy Kramer Peter Rymshaw wrote:

Re: [newbie] File Renaming

2001-08-22 Thread Newacct
Well isnt there a way like scripting in the shell? On 22 Aug 2001 22:54:40 -0400, Paul wrote: It was 23 Aug 2001 14:08:36 +1000 when Newacct wrote: but thats slow i got many files On 22 Aug 2001 10:07:43 -0400, Donnie Green wrote: type cp file name file_name then rm file name

[newbie] new rpm problem???

2001-08-22 Thread Kevin Fonner
OK so I gave up on Mandrake Corporate Server and went with Mandrake 8 as my starting platform. However MDK come with RPM 4.0 and to put together the source rpms it says I need 4.0.2. I noticed 4.0.3 is in cooker but when I try to upgrade just rpm through software manager it wants to upgrade

Re: [newbie] kdm not starting KDE

2001-08-22 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 August 2001 04:47 pm, thus spake Doug X: Hello LM users, I just upgraded to XFree86 4.1.0 and got X to finally restart. Then I upgraded to Texstar's kde2.2 rpm's. My problem is this. kdm won't start KDE, it always starts

Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Well the only response to the message you sent was the best on. The reason why I didn't respond to your post. The solutions that would cause the least amount of headaches would be to buy a REAL modem. Even if you did get the WinModem working, you'd be sending posts asking why it disconnects

[newbie] Re: Mandrake 8.0 internet desktop icon does not give me a button to connect disconnect to Internet. . .

2001-08-22 Thread WCBaker
Hi! I very recently installed Mandrake 8.0. The internet desktop icon in KDE (and I think, in Gnome, too) does not give me a button to connect disconnect to Internet. . . I'm wondering how I can go about troubleshooting this problem. Thanks! -warren Want to buy your Pack or Services

RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux

2001-08-22 Thread Michael McGibben
Lo Joe, A little more info please. Of the 40Gb you are using 15. What happens to the rest? The point is that if Doze sees it ok then Linux should. Are you using Mandrake 8.0? When you load Md 8.0 you are asked a) which drive and b) how do you want to partition it. If you assume that doze is the

RE: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux

2001-08-22 Thread Michael McGibben
Lo Joe, As is usual, I had an idea just as I was about to go to bed. Am I right in thinking that you can boot into Linux? If so, try the following for me and send me the results. From the command line, or from a terminal, run 'fdisk /dev/hda' (no quotes). Run too 'df' and send the results. Once

Re: [newbie] kdm not starting KDE

2001-08-22 Thread Doug X
Hi Dave and all, I tried changing /etc/sysconfig/desktop to {GNOME, Gnome, gnome} and rebooted each time, but each time it still comes back with kdm! Is it possible that this file is not being read? or is there something I need to do to activate it? Thank you fearless1 -Original

Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 8.0 internet desktop icon does not give me a button to connect disconnect to Internet. . .

2001-08-22 Thread Charles A. Punch
In KDE, click on the K then go to -Networking Remote Access -Internet Dialer. In GNOME, it's called Gnome ppp. If you want to put it on the desktop, you just drag drop it from the menu. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive addition in Linux

2001-08-22 Thread etharp
Ok, for _my_ wise a$$ rply; yes.; why?; are you trying to be insulting (?windoze explorer browser?). yes, that's understandable, none of those MP3s are illegally ripped are they? now the real stuff we are always glad to help someone just learning, and we are learning too, (I ain't

Re: [newbie] kdm not starting KDE

2001-08-22 Thread s
Yeah, that little shortcut wouldn't work for me either. There is a file called /etc/X11/prefdm in which you can switch the preference order of kdm and gdm. It might work tho I don't know for sure cause I switched to booting to console then startx. But I've heard it does. -s On Wednesday

Re: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!

2001-08-22 Thread h3rb
Thx..already got it working. =) Life is much easier now. h3rb On Wednesday 22 August 2001 09:36 am, Michael D. Viron wrote: Start the NFS service after restarting Linuxconf's service handler... Then service nfs restart. In order to run NFS, you must also run portmap. Before you try

[newbie] Version Differences

2001-08-22 Thread Han2097
Each version of Linux is bigger than the last. But are older versions necessarily more secure? For example, if I wanted to use LM 6.0 so it'd work on my 486, and just try to find out about any security flaws in it and fix those? Most of the basic linux programs- cron, ftp, the daemons- stay

RE: [newbie] How do I test my NIC?

2001-08-22 Thread Glenn Holden
Thanks Tim for the response... [eric@ericekong eric]$ cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth I did: [glenn@localhost glenn]$ cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth cat: /etc/modules.conf: No such file or directory [eric@ericekong eric]$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth [glenn@localhost glenn]$ cat

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tom Brinkman wrote: I can't vouch for all hardare combo's, but it should work. My old motherboard had 2 isa slots and I used an SB AWE64 that had two headers for the CD drive sound cables. Both the CDrom and the CD-RW could play sound with cables connected from each. Ok, I'll give it a

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Paul wrote: It was Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:05:10 -0400 when Tim Holmes wrote: Not sure if this will help, but here's the alias I use for Mplayer. alias mp='mplayer -vo x11' I told him so on another list... It did not work. I suspect there's something with the setup of his system. Even

[newbie] Thanks to Tom Charles for responses for my last 2 problems! All cleared up!

2001-08-22 Thread WCBaker
Thanks to Tom Charles for responses for my last 2 problems! All cleared up! Cheers! -warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] ISP - KPPP - error 19

2001-08-22 Thread Les Jacobson
After finally getting Mandrake Linux 8.0 to talk with my modem, I have tried to connect to my ISP. I am able to do so via windows but when I try via KPPP I get an error code (19) which seems to indicate that there is some sort of authentication issue. One person has suggested that this is due

[newbie] Any hope for Java on Linux?

2001-08-22 Thread Dr. Evil
It seems very difficult to get the Linux java stuff working. When I installed Mandrake, it came with a bunch of java stuff: /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/javac /usr/bin/javadoc /usr/bin/javakey /usr/bin/javap However, when I set my java interpreter to /usr/bin/java in Konqueror, it wouldn't run

Re: [newbie] File Renaming

2001-08-22 Thread Donnie Green
You may have to ask someone for a simple sed and awk script. Sorry I was no help Donnie From: Newacct [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] File Renaming Date: 23 Aug 2001 14:08:36 +1000 but thats slow i got many files On 22 Aug 2001

[newbie] NetMeeting - Is Linux in the way?

2001-08-22 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
All, I have a Linux Mandrake (8.0) box with 2 ethernet cards - one to my ISP, the other to my home network, where the machines run Windows 98. The LM8.0 box does very basic IP masquerading for the other computers. I've had a wonderfully easy time with it to date, but now need to reach out to

[newbie] Problems with LM 8.0 Freq 3

2001-08-22 Thread Kouros Owzar
Hi. I downloaded the LM 8.0 Freq 3 ISO images. I was able to install it on my office computer (IDE drive). But it did not install on my home PC (SCSI drive). The computer boots from the CD. The installation process then begins and shortly thereafter, it chokes when it tries to load the Adaptec

Re: [newbie] How do I test my NIC?

2001-08-22 Thread Matt Greer
--- Glenn Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My NIC tests ok with it's software. How can I be sure the correct drivers, etc. are configured? How do I test it? as root, type ifconfig from a console. Your nic should pop up with an ip address. Then i'd ping the loopback address (ping

[newbie] Mandrake Linux 8.1 install

2001-08-22 Thread Linux Newbie
Can I install 8.1 off a hard drive vs. of CD distribution? My notebook does not have a CD-ROM drive. :-( How would I do it? Thanks for any hints! Edas

Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 8.0 internet desktop icon does not give me a button to connect disconnect to Internet. . .

2001-08-22 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear W.C. Baker: You are right. To connect to the Internet you need to click on the Mandrake Software Manager icon, Network and Internet, Connection. Don't touch the Internet Sharing button unless youa re connecting two computers. The Connection interface is quite confusing. Use the Configure

Re: [newbie] File Renaming Perks: Did someone say 'bash script'?

2001-08-22 Thread David E. Fox
for i in `ls /dirname | grep -e.+ .+`; do mv $i `echo $i | gawk '{ gsub(_, ,$0) }'` ; done ? :) what's wrong with 'tr'? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Modem Busy

2001-08-22 Thread unclerichard
Hi Folks: I know I'm on a hiding to nothing trying to get a windmodem going with Linux (Mandrake 8.0), but having got this fat I'd like to take it a little further before giving up. I've reached the stage where I get a 'modem busy error message. I figure this is possibly a conflict with one of

Re: [newbie] Test Post - is format readable, etc?

2001-08-22 Thread s
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 12:35 pm, you wrote: Hello Testing for format, etc. Is this ok? New Newbie Glenn It's still not plain ole text going by your headers: Subject: [newbie] Test Post - is format readable, etc? Content-type: multipart/mixed;

Re: [newbie] Any hope for Java on Linux?

2001-08-22 Thread Kirby Urner
If it's any consolation, I know Java developers who use Linux full time and consider it a fine development platform. I think IBM does a slick Java JVM -- but none of this is personal experience (I've written some Java in Windoze and that's it). Kirby Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux 8.1 install

2001-08-22 Thread bascule
can you boot your laptop off a floppy? assuming yu can then you can make the boot floppy from the hd.img file in /images on the 1st cd, copy the cdfiles to a partition on the notebook and boot i've only done this a couple of times so i'm not sure if you have to put the rpms in /Mandrake/RPMS2

[newbie] tuxracer :)

2001-08-22 Thread pepe torrres
im very happy cos i got mandrake 8 running perfect :) whan i run tuxracer ther appear an error about the video: couldnt find matching GLX video.. help! and by the way does someone knows how to configure a hotmail account in mozilla messenger?

[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 Samba question

2001-08-22 Thread Michael Picco
I've noticed that if I don't set up a Samba printer on my 8.0 box during installation, but wait and do it with the Mandrake Control Center, I'm not allowed to enter the information into the boxes asking for printer name, Samba host, etc. I click in the box, but can't get the cursor to appear

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-22 Thread Willy Sutrisno
Paul, excuse me for butting in on this thread, but after hearing so much about Mplayer I decided to try it. Went to their website, d/l'ed the source and tried to compile it. Got an immediate error message to the effect that I was using a bad (2.96) version of gcc. Said to -downgrade- it or

[newbie] Re: hoping to use CD-only install of Mandrake 8.0 on a Libretto palmtop. . . possible??

2001-08-22 Thread WCBaker
Here's a good question for you! I've put Mandrake 8.0 on a desktop and it's great (I'm new to Linux, by the way). Now I need to get Mandrake 8.0 on my tiny Libretto palmtop. The palmtop currently has a Japanese version of Windoze 95 on it and I'd like to keep a very tiny bit of the disk for

[newbie] eth0 not up on boot

2001-08-22 Thread Dennis Myers
For some reason my nmbd does not start on boot anymore. I have to insmod 8139too and then ifup eth0 to get samba totally on line. Some where I have changed something but don't know where to look. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. TIA -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842

RE: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 8.0 internet desktop icon does not give me a button to connect disconnect to Internet. . .

2001-08-22 Thread Michael McGibben
Hi there, I assume that you have set up a connection to your isp. If so, try adding kppp to the panel. When you click on the kppp icon, you should get a pop-up window with: quit, , setup and connect. (More or less)! Obviously you need to configure your modem etc. Check things out and try

Re: [newbie] How do I test my NIC?

2001-08-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Well here are a few commands to run to see if Mandrake sees the card and is going to have a chance in hell of using it. [eric@ericekong eric]$ cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth alias eth0 3c59x That machine has a 3Com card in it. So your 3c59x may read something completely different. If it's

Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread etharp
It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-} *Tom Brinkman On Wednesday 22 August 2001 19:20, Tim Holmes wrote: Well the only response to the message you sent was the best

Re: [newbie] Good source for icons?

2001-08-22 Thread s
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 04:18 pm, you wrote: Hey guys, Does anybody have a good source for high-quality icons for linux (or just high quality icons in general)? I've been searching all over, and though i've found a few, i haven't found nearly as many as i would expect. Just tryin to

Re: [newbie] Test Post - is format readable, etc?

2001-08-22 Thread steve
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:35:00AM -0600, Glenn Holden wrote: Hello Testing for format, etc. Is this ok? Looks fine from here. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when

[newbie] Dependencies

2001-08-22 Thread R C
How do I find out what the dependencies are for a program that has already been installed without them? Thanks, Roger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] How do I test my NIC?

2001-08-22 Thread Glenn Holden
Thanks Matt ifconfig and ping both return some data, but I think it's just a local loopback. When I ifconfig eth0, I get No such device. Where/how do I configure the eth0? Glenn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Greer Sent:

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