R: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.0 su win2k

2001-12-11 Thread Davide Giacomazzi
Perchè vuoi installare Mdk sopra il virus per eccellenza ? Il mio consiglio è di installarlo su un disco a parte. -Messaggio originale- Da: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: lunedì 10 dicembre 2001 20.43 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.0 su win2k -

Re: [newbie-it] La mia MDK ha un bug.....?

2001-12-11 Thread Sandro
Il 19:04, lunedì 10 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: Allora... rimettiamo le cose in ordine... 1) il livello di sicurezza e' settato su medio, ma non penso influisca 2) effettivamente ha ragione Luigi, scarta i caratteri dopo l'ottavo A questo punto mi chiedo: 1) questa limitazione vale solo per

Re: [newbie-it] La mia MDK ha un bug.....?

2001-12-11 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, root wrote: Allora... rimettiamo le cose in ordine... 1) il livello di sicurezza e' settato su medio, ma non penso influisca 2) effettivamente ha ragione Luigi, scarta i caratteri dopo l'ottavo A questo punto mi chiedo: 1) questa limitazione vale solo per le password

Re: [newbie-it] La mia MDK ha un bug.....?

2001-12-11 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Sandro wrote: Non credo che il problema sia nel numero dei caratteri, io ho una password di 15 caratteri per l'utente normale e di 18 caratteri per root. Oltretutto, tempo fa in alcune distribuzioni, al momento dell'installazione e dell'immissione delle password per

[newbie-it] Ricezione fax

2001-12-11 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Salve, vorrei sapere se ci sia qualche tool grafico per la ricezione dei fax, che eventualmente si attivi automaticamente. Uso xfax per l'invio, e mi trovo molto bene, ma non ha l'opzione per la ricezione. Attualmente per ricevere fax digito fax receive nomefile da linea di comando.

Re: [newbie-it] lilo

2001-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grazie, è già qualcosa! Magari smanettando un po'... ENx Non so se, e come si possa cambiare l'immagine, però ti posso dire che aggiungendo append = nologo a /etc/lilo.conf nella sezione relativa a Linux l'immagine in questione non appare più. Ciao, Beppe. - Original Message -

Re: [newbie-it] La mia MDK ha un bug.....?

2001-12-11 Thread Sandro
Il 03:56, martedì 11 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Sandro wrote: Non credo che il problema sia nel numero dei caratteri, io ho una password di 15 caratteri per l'utente normale e di 18 caratteri per root. Oltretutto, tempo fa in alcune distribuzioni, al momento

Re: [newbie-it] La mia MDK ha un bug.....?

2001-12-11 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Sandro wrote: Il 03:56, martedì 11 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Sandro wrote: Non credo che il problema sia nel numero dei caratteri, io ho una password di 15 caratteri per l'utente normale e di 18 caratteri per root. Oltretutto, tempo fa in

[newbie-it] posta intranet

2001-12-11 Thread Rodolfo Colombo
Ho un problema che sintetizzo premetto che utilizzo felicemente e unicamente mdk 8.1, sto in una azienda con circa 300 computer che utilizzano windows nt workstation, un server NT, due server AIX il server NT fa da server anche per la posta elettronica ed ha indirizzo per esempio 10.100.100.10 e

Re: [newbie-it] Soundcards

2001-12-11 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
soundcards: OPTi sound system e OPTi SoundExpression MPU-401. La prima saundcard ha il Tool di configurazione che manda il messaggio: modprobe: Can't locate module isa-pnp. Grazie per gli eventuali consigli Fabio Congiu Solo per farti perdere tempo, lo so. Ho l'identico problema,

Re: [newbie-it] shutdown and usb

2001-12-11 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 21:44, sabato 8 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Ho un problemino da qualche giorno, lo shutdown abortisce, costringendomi ad un halt hardware nel momento di smontare l'usb. Come rimediare? Ciao, se non sbaglio c'è una soluzione per questo problema sul sito www.mandrakeforum.com ...

Re: [newbie-it] Shutting down Mandrake 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 22:47, sabato 8 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: ciao a tutti, ho un piccolo problema : [CUT] Domenico Ciao Domenico, il problema è lo stesso, quindi anche per te vale la risposta che ho dato a Stefano: guarda sul sito www.mandrakeforum.com ... cerca usb o shutdown o errata, non

Re: [newbie-it] devfs and sound

2001-12-11 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 20:27, sabato 8 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Come consigliatomi ho dismesso il devfs. sndconfig a quel punto ha fatto il suo dovere, ascolto file midi con playmidi e file wav, (da mc). Però da interfaccia grafica non ho suoni di sistema, non posso sentire file midi (kmidi abortisce

Re: [newbie-it] La mia MDK ha un bug.....?

2001-12-11 Thread Gnubbo
On 11 Dec 2001 at 11:43, Luigi De Pascale wrote: No, non e' un bug. E' che e' sempre stato cosi' storicamente sui sistemi unix ed AIX. Ora che il problema sicurezza e' piu' sentito alcune distribuzioni stanno cambiando. COmunque a proposito di sicurezza: Provate ad installare nmap (dalla

Re: [newbie-it] Tuxracer

2001-12-11 Thread Gnubbo
On 10 Dec 2001 at 20:35, Fabio Congiu wrote: Date sent: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:35:30 -0500 From: Fabio Congiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] newbie-it@linux- mandrake.com Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[newbie-it] xawtv

2001-12-11 Thread Michele De Lorenzi
Ciao a tutti. Ho un problema con xawtv. Il programma funziona e ricevo bene i canali. Il problema si ha quando voglio catturare una immagine jpeg o ppm che viene catturata male. Vedere l'allegato: attachment: snap-la 7-20011212-080348-1.jpeg

Re: [newbie] mandrake xdos and vintage dos games

2001-12-11 Thread skinky
| On Sunday 09 December 2001 23:29, you wrote: | and i figured out how to get xdos to work [although in su mode] | {any way to launch it as a reg user?} Have you tried editing the /etc/dosemu.users file? You can add: fred c_all unrestricted private_setup for user fred. This gives the

Re: [newbie] ssh and x

2001-12-11 Thread Miark
Why have you set 10.0 and not 0.0? Miark - Original Message - From: ajax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:39 PM Subject: [newbie] ssh and x I'm having problems starting x through an ssh connection. When I log on I get the following

Re: [newbie] mozilla/galeon upgrade questions

2001-12-11 Thread chrisp
Preston wrote: Hello all, Using Mandrake 8.1 (download edition) I want to upgrade to Galeon 1.0. I also downloaded Mozilla 0.9.6 and installed it. Now, here is where things get screwy. While upgrading Mozilla it says 0.9.4 is needed. Shouldn't this be covered by the newer release? Is there

Re: [newbie] General firewall getting started type questions

2001-12-11 Thread Brian Parish
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 12:22 pm, you wrote: On Monday 10 December 2001 20:15, you wrote: Brian, LM installs the tinyfirewall by default. This is a very basic install of Bastille so you do not need to uninstall or turn it off. Just bring up a console and su to root, then change

Re: [newbie] where can I set mouse sensitivity?

2001-12-11 Thread robin
Paul Rodríguez wrote: where can I set mouse sensitivity either in linux or gnome? If by linux you mean the command line, you do it (as root) with gpm -r [some number] - see man gpm for details. Can't help you with GNOME, as I haven't used it for ages, but in KDE you can set loads of

Re: [newbie] Bastille

2001-12-11 Thread poogle
Thanks to Skinky Dennis, I've now used InteractiveBastille and checked www.grc.com and all ports show as closed. A stealth scan at sygate shows all ports blocked except the following so it would appear to be working (or nearly). FTP 21 CLOSED SSH 22 CLOSED SMTP 25 CLOSEDDNS 53

[newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts

2001-12-11 Thread Miark
Hi all, I've got myself in a real bind. I've spent this night replacing sendmail with Postfix and everything works except my CGI scripts which is more or less disasterous. The CGI scripts are set up to use /usr/sbin/sendmail. It works as normal users, but nobody (which apache runs as) can't

Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts

2001-12-11 Thread Randy Kramer
Miark wrote: I've got myself in a real bind. I've spent this night replacing sendmail with Postfix and everything works except my CGI scripts which is more or less disasterous. Miark, Sometime after you've had some sleep, would you mind posting a brief explanation of what the CGI scripts

Re[2]: [newbie] mozilla/galeon upgrade questions

2001-12-11 Thread Preston
Hello chrisp, Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 3:31:37 AM, you wrote: c Preston wrote: Hello all, Using Mandrake 8.1 (download edition) I want to upgrade to Galeon 1.0. I also downloaded Mozilla 0.9.6 and installed it. Now, here is where things get screwy. While upgrading Mozilla it says 0.9.4

[newbie] Help! how to uninstall

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Binder
I just got a new computer, and I want to remove Mandrake from my old one to free up space on it, and install mandrake on my new one. Only thing Is I have no idea how to uninstall Mandrake from my system. I do not want to Fdisk the whole thing, because I still have Windows Me on the computer

[newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Weaver
I can answer this in one word. Fdisk Seriously, you can kill the installation just by doing an fdisk on that partition and the entire thing is gone. there really isn't much more to it then that. If you're want to replicate your current installation to another machine _that_ is a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread NDPTAL85
On Tuesday, December 11, 2001, at 09:56 AM, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Weaver
O gawd! Tom...does that mean if I want to remain a good, faithful american that I have to get rid of my Mandrake computers? for that matter all my Linux computers?? I don't feel so good all of a sudden... ;( Mark Tom Brinkman wrote:

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Todd
OH GOOD GRIEF! GIVE ME A BREAK! - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:56 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake illegal? http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 BSD, Lunix, Debian and

[newbie] msec and Bastille

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Stewart
So I've trying to bone up on all things security-related and was trying to figure out what relationship, if any, there was between Bastille and msec. Is msec a UI layer over Bastille or is it a separate security tool? Are the two complementary or exclusionary. Should I run both or pick just one?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread gunner carstens
I surely hope this is a big joke! Else...poor kids. /gunner Tirsdag 11 December 2001 09:56 skrev du: http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker

[newbie] detecting an internal ISA modem

2001-12-11 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Just enquired on the price of an external USR modem and was quoted about R800. Before I end up having to fork out this dough I wondered how to make the system detect new hardware i.e. the ISA USR modem, eventhough it doesn't display it under the Mandrake Control Centre when I am logged as as

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:13 am, Mark Weaver wrote: O gawd! Tom...does that mean if I want to remain a good, faithful american that I have to get rid of my Mandrake computers? for that matter all my Linux computers?? I don't feel so good all of a sudden... ;( Mark Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] xscreensaver-gl

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Sorry for posting to the list before I had exhausted my options. I found the answer on the xscreensaver web site FAQ. On versions of xscreesaver 3.34 (as in the ones included in Mandrake) there is a default memory limit (to protect against runaway memory) of 50M. Nvidia cards send a false

Re: [newbie] detecting an internal ISA modem

2001-12-11 Thread Dan Shackelford
Assuming that is not a winmodem ... you might take a look at it via statserial and see if that gives you the info you need. At 05:19 PM 12/11/2001 +0200, you wrote: Just enquired on the price of an external USR modem and was quoted about R800. Before I end up having to fork out this dough I

Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts

2001-12-11 Thread Miark
Franki, Yes, I expected my experience to be just as yours was. Doing a which on sendmail brings up /usr/sbin/sendmail and this is where sendmail is executed from in my CGI scripts. As you said, this shouldn't be affected anyway. I do still have sendmail installed but only because install

RE: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts

2001-12-11 Thread Franki
you can have both installed, but only if they put the sendmail binary in different locations.. if they are putting then in the same place, that is the problem, it is the sendmail binary that is being used, and since it doesn't work with postfix, the mail will not be sent.. if you installed from

Re: [newbie] I need your immediate help!

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I recently found out that when using lilo, you need to always update it, even if it is already pointing to the right kernel image. Run '/sbin/lilo -v' after every kernel install, upgrade or compile if you are using lilo. Even though it may already be pointing to the right words, it needs to

[newbie] New Forum

2001-12-11 Thread Cortney M. Masters
http://12.245.225.36/sherief/ register..check it out. The Last Stop. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Networking Problem

2001-12-11 Thread Neil R Porter
Hi All I'm baffled. I have a 3 computer network at home. Using a switch, I have my Linux machine and two other XP workstations all connected. The Linux box acts as a gateway for the net and a print server etc. and the xp workstations are simply used for day-to-day work. I have it set up so I

[newbie] Networking Problem

2001-12-11 Thread Neil R Porter
Hi All I'm baffled. I have a 3 computer network at home. Using a switch, I have my Linux machine and two other XP workstations all connected. The Linux box acts as a gateway for the net and a print server etc. and the xp workstations are simply used for day-to-day work. I have it set up so I

[newbie] menudrake

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Rodríguez
To whoever maintains/develops menudraake, please make it easier to add custom icons (i.e. icons not in predefined locations. -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] auto update of files?

2001-12-11 Thread Liam O'Connell
Paul Rodríguez wrote: I heard once of a program that will automatically update files on your computer from a remote server. rsync? there is a manpage. ? Any body know how I can automate, say, going to a website, downloading and installing a src.rpm made daily from CVS while I sleep?

Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts

2001-12-11 Thread Miark
Frank, you talked me into nuking sendmail and re-installing Postfix from the tarball. It's done. The old main.cf is fine. I did a newaliases. I did a postfix reload. I have sent a few messages and they seem to be working. Some got caught in the queue earlier but they've been dribbling out

[newbie] Partition-setup trickery for a 40 Gb hard drive

2001-12-11 Thread Ville V Sinkko
Yesterday I bought a 40 Gb hard drive to replace my old 2-gig one. The oldish BIOS refuses to detect it so I asked around for alternative ways to get the disk working so that I can the olde Win95/Mandrake doubleboot on it. I received a helpful reply describing the general process, but newbie as

Re: [newbie] Partition-setup trickery for a 40 Gb hard drive

2001-12-11 Thread Onur Kucuk
VVS Yesterday I bought a 40 Gb hard drive to replace my old 2-gig one. VVS The oldish BIOS refuses to detect it so I asked around for alternative VVS ways to get the disk working so that I can the olde Win95/Mandrake VVS doubleboot on it. I received a helpful reply describing the general VVS

Re: [newbie] Networking Problem

2001-12-11 Thread Derek Jennings
Never used XP, but is this was a win98 question I'd say the problem was that you were not logged into the windows box with a valid username/password. For some reason if you give windows the wrong password it does not stop you logging on and seeing all the files, but it will stop you browsing

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Lanman
Who says Tom doesn't have a sense of Humour? Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Preston
Hello Tom, Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 9:56:07 AM, you wrote: TB http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 TB BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker TB operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos TB

[newbie] mandrake xdos and vintage dos games

2001-12-11 Thread chris huston
Hi, I'm trying to play a few of my favorite dos games using linux xdos. Is there a location where i can move the dos games into its directory structure so i can reach them via xdos? thank you, chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. ;)

[newbie] DVD Software?

2001-12-11 Thread Pete Taylor
Can anyone recommend the best DVD playing software? I'm using 8.1. Thanks, Pete Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DVD Software?

2001-12-11 Thread Terry C
Take a look at www.videolan.org TC --- Pete Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend the best DVD playing software? I'm using 8.1. Thanks, Pete Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DVD Software?

2001-12-11 Thread Miark
Ogle's works wonderfully for me: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Miark - Original Message - From: Pete Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:57 PM Subject: [newbie] DVD Software? Can anyone recommend the best DVD playing

Re: [newbie] mandrake xdos and vintage dos games

2001-12-11 Thread skinky
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 09:48, chris huston wrote: | Hi, | I'm trying to play a few of my favorite dos games | using linux xdos. | | Is there a location where i can move the dos games into | its directory structure so i can reach them via xdos? As per README.txt instructions, I made a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread PENA FAMILY
I tried going to the same site and couldn't get in. Probably overloaded with hits from too many curious lookyloos. - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal? Tom

Re: [newbie] detecting an internal ISA modem

2001-12-11 Thread Ed Tharp
OK try cat /proc/interrupts On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:19, you wrote: Just enquired on the price of an external USR modem and was quoted about R800. Before I end up having to fork out this dough I wondered how to make the system detect new hardware i.e. the ISA USR modem, eventhough it

Re: [newbie] Postfix and CGI scripts - FIXED

2001-12-11 Thread Miark
Hi all, The problem is fixed. For anyone interested, here's what happened. My CGI scripts were set up to use sendmail, which they should, but they also had sendmail-specific switchs added--something like /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t or somethinglike that. Anyway, Postfix didn't like the switches,

RE: [newbie] DVD Software?

2001-12-11 Thread Ingo Bauer
Well I should put my 2c worth in .. I like xine To be found @ http://xine.sourceforge.net Ingo -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD Software? Ogle's works

Re: [newbie] detecting an internal ISA modem

2001-12-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:52:39 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK try cat /proc/interrupts On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:19, you wrote: Just enquired on the price of an external USR modem and was quoted about R800. Before I end up having to fork out this dough I wondered how to

RE: [newbie] Networking Problem

2001-12-11 Thread Neil R Porter
Nope... It's off... Gawd I have no idea what's happening with it :( -Original Message- From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2001 22:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Networking Problem On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 13:03, Neil R Porter wrote:

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE on Mandrake 8.0

2001-12-11 Thread Grant Fraser
Yes, I did the upgrade. No, its not a problem. My machine still thinks its running 8.0 You get a few more icons too. When you do the upgrade make sure you download all of the developer files too. It doesnt matter if you are a developer or not, the files seem to take care of a lot of weird

Re: [newbie] detecting an internal ISA modem

2001-12-11 Thread Ed Tharp
and MOST important, turn OFF plug and pray aware OS in the BIOS On Tuesday 11 December 2001 17:22, you wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:52:39 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK try cat /proc/interrupts On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:19, you wrote: Just enquired on the price of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the good laugh! :-D At 09:56 AM 12/11/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system,

Re: [newbie] sound driver (awe32 and terratec)

2001-12-11 Thread Brian Parish
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 4:26 am, you wrote: (Where )can I find drivers for Soundblaster Awe32 and Terratec Maestro 32/96? Is there any site where all linux drivers are gathered? Cheers, Stojs http://www.alsa-project.org/ You'll find a supported sound card matrix there too. /Brian

[newbie] Setting up internet connection in Mdk 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Curt Tresenriter
Hi all, My first post here, can someone can point me in the right direction. I'm using a D-Link 530TX+ LAN adapter - it installed the 8139too driver, but it won't configure and connect to the internet. I've been told my card needs the via-rhine driver and that I should be presented with a list

Re: [newbie] Help! how to uninstall

2001-12-11 Thread Brian Parish
That's true, but with one proviso - don't forget to tidy up the boot manager too. If you just use fdisk to remove the Linux partition, chances are you are killing your active partition and therefore your machine don't boot no more. Before removing anything, make your C drive (in M$ terms)

Re: [newbie] Setting up internet connection in Mdk 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Ed Tharp
is plug and pray aware OS turned off in BIOS? how do you know it won't configure? what file are you reading this information from? On Tuesday 11 December 2001 19:05, you wrote: Hi all, My first post here, can someone can point me in the right direction. I'm using a D-Link 530TX+ LAN adapter

Re: [newbie] Setting up internet connection in Mdk 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Curt Tresenriter
Yes, pnp is off. Not reading from a file, but when I click on the internet connection on the desktop, it tries to connect but fails and tells me to configure it. The LAN connection box asks for eth0 IP address, wind'ohs (in the TCP/IP settings) is set to obtain the IP address automatically. I

Re: [newbie] Setting up internet connection in Mdk 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Derek Jennings
open up netconf (From your KmenuConfigurationNetworking) Select Host Name +IP button Select Adaper 1 Select eth0 as the net device Select Via-rhine from the drop down box for kernel module Thats it. I have that card and it was auto detected perfectly. I wonder if you have an IRQ conflict.?

Re: [newbie] Setting up internet connection in Mdk 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Ed Tharp
in that case (your ISP requires you to use DHCP) do NOT put any number where ever you are attempting to configure it, instead, just get number automagicilly or use DHCP or BOOTP or something along those lines. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 19:41, you wrote: Yes, pnp is off. Not reading from

Re: [newbie] Setting up internet connection in Mdk 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Curt Tresenriter
Yeah, the dhcp/boot is selected. So the nic IP is also automatically assigned as well as the machine's IP? At 07:54 PM 12/11/01 -0500, you wrote: in that case (your ISP requires you to use DHCP) do NOT put any number where ever you are attempting to configure it, instead, just get number

Re: [newbie] Setting up internet connection in Mdk 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Derek Jennings
Hold on Curt i just checked on the D-Link site. It is the 8139 driver for that card. Check this out. http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=488 Mine must be the 530TX without the 'plus' So if it has installed the correct driver then whats your problem? Derek On Wednesday 12

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE on Mandrake 8.0

2001-12-11 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 22:48, you wrote: | Yes, I did the upgrade. No, its not a problem. My machine still thinks its | running 8.0 | You get a few more icons too. | When you do the upgrade make sure you download all of the developer files | too. It doesnt matter if you are a developer or

Re: [newbie] Kernal Panic

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:53:27 -0800 irl60 [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: Hi list Oh man have I done it this time! I am using LM 8.1. I was trying to install a local printer, went to the printer setup in Hardrake, than half way through that when I was asked to

Re: [newbie] Telnet display problems

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Weaver
On 10 Dec 2001 08:31:25 -0600 Ben Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: I have a problem in telnet. When I go to a console window this doesn't happen, but when I telnet into other servers, my display is staggered. Like this: Login: testuser

[newbie] NVidia

2001-12-11 Thread Steven Spears
Hello: I'm trying to install the new NVidia drivers on my wife's machine and I'm having a bit of a problem. When I install the rpm for 8.1 it says this: Preparing...### [100%] 1:NVIDIA_kernel

Re: [newbie] NVidia

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Rodríguez
This happenned to me as well. Did you by any chance update her kernel (the kernel module is compiled for the stock kernel). What I did was download the source rpm and then (as root): rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel.src.rpm rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_kernel...rpm then install the