[newbie-it] Materizzatore

2001-12-28 Thread Milko Ferioli
Ciao a tutti, ho un masterizzatore HP 9100 installato, come faccio a farlo riconoscere a Mandrake 8.1? Non avendo la più pallida idea di come si masterizza sotto Linux potreste aiutarmi. Grazie mille per gli aiuti, e Buon Anno Milko

[newbie-it] epson_stylus_c60

2001-12-28 Thread manolo simoni
grazie in anticipo ho installato una epson stylus c60 che dovrebbe essere ottimale con la mia mandrake 8.1 qualcuno mi sa dire quale driver dovrei utilizzare sul sito di mandrake non e' indicato o perlomeno non l'ho trovato quello proposto da hard-drake (non mi pare presente un driver per la

Re: [newbie-it] Materizzatore

2001-12-28 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 14:55, venerdì 28 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, ho un masterizzatore HP 9100 installato, come faccio a farlo riconoscere a Mandrake 8.1? Non avendo la più pallida idea di come si masterizza sotto Linux potreste aiutarmi. Grazie mille per gli aiuti, e Buon Anno Milko

Re: [newbie-it] Gnomemeeting

2001-12-28 Thread e/io
Alle 13:57, giovedì 27 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: Ciao, è proprio vero che la notte porta consiglio. Stamattina sono riuscito a compilare Gnomemeeting. Ho anche aggiustato un po' la traduzione, e finalmente la finestra si apre. C'è per caso qualcuno che lo usa, così che possa

[newbie] Segmentation+misc. install errors ?

2001-12-28 Thread lee
Hi Folks, Well I'm back to my son's box still trying to get 8.1 installed. Here is the gist of the guts :-) It's an FIC motherboard (va-503+) w/192 mg. of ram. Now the memory consists of 2 sticks,1 is a 128 mg of crucial ram that is cl2. The other is a stick I bought from Tiger Direct.

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:28:01 -0500 Maureen L. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled gleefully: I upgraded to KDE 2.2 and am using K-Office. So far it hasn't crashed or froze on me and I have imported all the documents I was using from Lotus SmartSuite and it hasn't lost a thing. I am very

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-28 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Friday, December 28, 2001): Tech support? Free downloads, but boxed packages that you pay for if you choose? Heh...sound familiar? Just a thought... The company I work for actually doesn't sell boxed sets. The total download is

[newbie] Firewire

2001-12-28 Thread Roger Sherman
I'm currently in the process of building a new PC (finally, everything is ordered except the RAM - and can anyone tell me why crucial.coms prices just jumped?), and I'm kind of curious about firewire - is it linux friendly? I do plan on doing some video editing with this machine, and some friends

Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-28 Thread Wes Gregg
On Thursday 27 December 2001 05:59 pm, you wrote: I agree. I have an Athlon 1GHz and I've given up trying to use nvidia's drivers. I too have noticed that there seem to be a lot of problems with AMD cpus and nvidia drivers. Because I have 1152MB RAM I use Mandrake's enterprise kernels.

Re: [newbie] Firewire

2001-12-28 Thread lee
Well not sure about the firewire portion of this post,but I can tell you that ram prices go up and down all the time. We have been blessed lately by cheap prices :-) Lee I'm currently in the process of building a new PC (finally, everything is ordered except the RAM - and can anyone tell

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-28 Thread Wes Gregg
If software were free how could the employees of the software company be paid to begin with? Lots (most?) non-profit organizations' employees draw salaries. Someone mentioned internet development as an example of free software helping us all. I saw the guy that wrote the

[newbie] Online Troubleshooting Resources HOWTO

2001-12-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
created a quick-look click that should be useful to all Linux users, newbie or guru. This link was originally part of Linux: An Eclectic Compendium for Linux Newbies that is now, according to the author, no longer maintained. Reted from 20011228 Lockergnome Penguin Shell Charles Want

Re: [newbie] Mandrake support

2001-12-28 Thread Ed Tharp
this is NOT mandreake suport, and you probly should look on the web pages you were on on mandrake-expert to contact them about the problem. what was the problem tho? On Wednesday 26 December 2001 21:11, you wrote: I have purchased mandrake powerpack 8.1. I got registered also. I did login.

Re: [newbie] clock on dual boot system

2001-12-28 Thread Kenn Murrah
thanks to everyone who helped me on this question, especially you, Anuerin ... this is a terrific reply. --- Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:08:22 -0800 (PST) Kenn Murrah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay, i know this is a trivial issue but it's driving me

[newbie] kernel update

2001-12-28 Thread Eric
I did a kernel header, doc, and kernel update with mandrake on my 8.0 system. Everything installed just fine but I can no longer use ppp to get on the internet. I tried modprobe -v ppp and it can't seem to find it. I am out of ideas. Crapola I shouldn't have updated through security

Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-28 Thread Steve
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:23:37AM -0500, Wes Gregg wrote: snip I hope you get it all worked out before you get tired of trying. Another question: My box (Mandrake Linux 8.1 Powerpack) says I have kernels 2.4.8 and 2.2.19. But when I installed (over and over) I never saw a place for

Re: [newbie] Segmentation+misc. install errors ?

2001-12-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 27 December 2001 04:17 pm, lee wrote: Well I'm back to my son's box still trying to get 8.1 installed. Here is the gist of the guts :-) It's an FIC motherboard (va-503+) w/192 mg. of ram. Now the memory consists of 2 sticks,1 is a 128 mg of crucial ram that is cl2. The other is

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-28 Thread Wes Gregg
On Friday 28 December 2001 09:49 am, you wrote: This list like to MS-bash. A lot. Be careful in your MS-bashing, though; they made most of the tech revolution possible. Without MS the tech industry as we know it would be much smaller (most of us wouldn't have jobs in tech), we would probably

Re: [newbie] Segmentation+misc. install errors ?

2001-12-28 Thread tester
lee wrote: Hi Folks, Well I'm back to my son's box still trying to get 8.1 installed. Here is the gist of the guts :-) It's an FIC motherboard (va-503+) w/192 mg. of ram. Now the memory consists of 2 sticks,1 is a 128 mg of crucial ram that is cl2. The other is a stick I bought from Tiger

[newbie] Is This (browser type/function) Available in Linux?

2001-12-28 Thread Wes Gregg
Hi, I just remembered that I saw a program once that allowed you to type a website address (ie, http://gnttype.org for instance) and tell it how many levels deep you wanted it to go and it would start downloading complete pages to your hard drive for offline browsing. It

[newbie] Which Kernel?

2001-12-28 Thread tester
Someone writes in another subject's post... I hope you get it all worked out before you get tired of trying. Another question: My box (Mandrake Linux 8.1 Powerpack) says I have kernels 2.4.8 and 2.2.19. But when I installed (over and over) I never saw a place for choosing

Re: [newbie] Change Time

2001-12-28 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Friday 28 December 2001 11:01, you wrote: If you are connected to the internet all the time you can add a cron for rdate - I'm not always connected, so I wrote this little script: #!/bin/sh # # Name: settime.sh # This script syncs the Linux time to that on a public # NTP server (Atomic

Re: [newbie] Which Kernel?

2001-12-28 Thread Nelson Bartley
Civilme, this brings me to a new question, Does the DraX installer use a 2.4 kernel to perform the install? if so, what revision is it? NB On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 13:14, tester wrote: Someone writes in another subject's post... I hope you get it all worked out before you get

Re: [newbie] kernel update

2001-12-28 Thread tester
Eric wrote: I did a kernel header, doc, and kernel update with mandrake on my 8.0 system. Everything installed just fine but I can no longer use ppp to get on the internet. I tried modprobe -v ppp and it can't seem to find it. I am out of ideas. Crapola I shouldn't have

Re: [newbie] Change Time

2001-12-28 Thread Ed Kasky
But does it work??? ;-) I forgot to mention before to look at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm for an explanation of how the time server strata works and for any special requirements when using any of the public time servers. Ed At 03:21 PM Friday, 12/28/2001, you wrote -=

Re: [newbie] kernel update

2001-12-28 Thread Eric
That's what I get for not rtfm! So do I have to reinstall the os? If I reinstall, I do have the 8.1 waiting in the background but just want to do an upgrade, not reformat everything. So I guess there is nothing I can do? Thanks for responding civileme. eric - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] AOL Help!-Hardisk!

2001-12-28 Thread tester
AOL Systems wrote: How to mount and unmount second hardisk on my linux box Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well it should be in your /etc/fstab for convenience

Re: Re: [newbie] clock on dual boot system

2001-12-28 Thread Jim Dawson
Or Linux was configured to 'Hardware clock set to GMT'. -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:27:38 + Subject: Re: [newbie] clock on dual boot system Well at a guess I'd say you had different time zones configured

Re: [newbie] Which Kernel?

2001-12-28 Thread tester
Nelson Bartley wrote: Civilme, this brings me to a new question, Does the DraX installer use a 2.4 kernel to perform the install? if so, what revision is it? NB On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 13:14, tester wrote: Someone writes in another subject's post... I hope you get it all worked out

Re: [newbie] kernel update

2001-12-28 Thread tester
Eric wrote: That's what I get for not rtfm! So do I have to reinstall the os? If I reinstall, I do have the 8.1 waiting in the background but just want to do an upgrade, not reformat everything. So I guess there is nothing I can do? Thanks for responding civileme. eric - Original Message

Re: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Thread Jody Harvey
Borrow someones Windows box, setup your Hotmail account so you can send and recieve the email via POP3. Doesn't 'fix' the problem, but you get your mail. On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, skidley wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2001 10:53, chris swain wrote:

Re: [newbie] trouble installing rlt8139 netcard driver...

2001-12-28 Thread mooseman
X-RebelTech Is Here: http://www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Many Thanks Dennis! got 'er beat. that insmod was exactly the missing link for me. do i need to add it to any of my rc.local files so that it will reload on next reboot?

[newbie] Booting From Floppy

2001-12-28 Thread Rick
Yesterday, I installed 8.1 on my PC. It is installed on the second hard drive (/dev/hdb). When I installed it, I chose to use the EXT3 journaling filesystem. I would like to use a boot floppy to boot into Linux. So, during the installation, I created a bootdisk. However, now, when I try to boot

[newbie] how can I connect Linux-Mandrake 8.1 to a Windows/Netware LAN?

2001-12-28 Thread Matthew James
Hinew to Linux (and UNIX) so please forgive ignorance. I have configured the network parameters on Netconf, and when I try to open the local network tree I get an error could not connect to host localhost. I read this: You need to set up the lisa / reslisa daemon in order to be able to

Re: [newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]

2001-12-28 Thread skinky
On Saturday 29 December 2001 02:23, Wes Gregg wrote: | I have read several references that stated we need to only use a | (BEEFY) AMD-approved power supply. Especially with the faster/newer | AMDs and video cards as they draw lots of wattage. Also with more ram, | bigger/faster spinning

Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?

2001-12-28 Thread J. v. Maasdam
Hi Doug, Don't know much about Linux, as I just installed ML8.1 myself one week ago. Trying to find help on driver install in this corner. With my system all install went well. You might look in your windows 2000 partition for the file BOOT.INI. This should be something like: [boot loader]

[newbie] Thanks civileme!

2001-12-28 Thread Eric McClure
Thank you, I just did an upgrade to 8.1 and your trick with 8.0 worked fine getting the kernel back. I just want to say that you are the cat's meow for saving my information. Tell the boss you need a raise!!! Take care, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Thread Onur Kucuk
Friday, December 28, 2001, 9:46:51 AM, you wrote: JH Borrow someones Windows box, setup your Hotmail account so you can send JH and recieve the email via POP3. Doesn't 'fix' the problem, but you get JH your mail. Does hotmail really support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If so what is

Re: [newbie] Bandwidth Management - MAC Layer

2001-12-28 Thread Grant Fraser
I forwarded this to our local LUG. One of our members is from a local ISP that uses wireless technology. This was the feedback:  hi,    I remember the FreeBSD firewalling can govern bandwidth usage on an interface. *** Yes it can...It's based on firewall rules in which you divert packets to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Thread Jody Harvey
OK Does hotmail really support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If OK so what is the POP3 adress ? ... OK Sure does. I forget what the POP3 is, but is on the site. I have never really tried it in Kmail. So i will not make any promises. But I do know I have alot of users on my network that do

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:36:23 +0100 (CET) Jody Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: OK Does hotmail really support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If OK so what is the POP3 adress ? ... OK Sure does. I forget what the POP3 is, but is on the site. I have never really tried

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Thread Jody Harvey
Ha haoh yeah. On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:36:23 +0100 (CET) Jody Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: OK Does hotmail really support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If OK so what is the POP3 adress ? ... OK Sure does.

[newbie] Unable to read partition table

2001-12-28 Thread Dr. Antonio Botelho de Sousa
Thanks to all of you that answered my previous e-mail. But really the question was not correctly formulated by me, so the answers are not what i expected.My fault. Try to explain better. First let me tell you about my machine: I have two hard disks hda , hdb and the first has three

[newbie] Some MDK 8.1 Problems

2001-12-28 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hello all, I have been running Mandrake Linux since it's 7.2 release. I never had problems untill I upgraded to v8.1. I am running the following: An MSI 6163 Lite (VIA Chipset) M/B (with a Creative CT5880 Sound Card onboard) 533 MHz Intel Celleron CPU 128 MB RAM 1 15 GB Quantum HD, 1 20 GB

[newbie] Problems with MDK 8.1

2001-12-28 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hello all, I have been running Mandrake Linux since it's 7.2 release. I never had problems untill I upgraded to v8.1. I am running the following: An MSI 6163 Lite (VIA Chipset) M/B (with a Creative CT5880 Sound Card onboard) 533 MHz Intel Celleron CPU 128 MB RAM 1 15 GB Quantum HD, 1 20 GB

[newbie] Mandrake 8.1

2001-12-28 Thread carcour
Hi, It's the 4th time it's happening to me:when i boot under linux a message say:Linux BDME too big.Can anyone explain what to do to boot normaly. The other times I reformated and reinstalled Mandrake 8.1. Is there any other method Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Some MDK 8.1 Problems

2001-12-28 Thread tester
Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello all, I have been running Mandrake Linux since it's 7.2 release. I never had problems untill I upgraded to v8.1. I am running the following: An MSI 6163 Lite (VIA Chipset) M/B (with a Creative CT5880 Sound Card onboard) 533 MHz Intel Celleron CPU 128 MB RAM 1 15 GB

[newbie] c compiler and its problem in 8.0

2001-12-28 Thread eric
Dear mandrake 8.0 standard user: I used simple c program hello world, in printf(hello world) it did not print at all, until I add \n\n at the end of the line of hello world, then it print as what it should be. but that kind of result is not correct. it never happen at redhat 7.1 or

[newbie] Compiling a new kernel...

2001-12-28 Thread David Bovill
The instructions I have say download the 2 RPM's (source and header), but I just need to add a custom kernel based on the existing configuration. How do I go about this, as the packages are already installed? Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Thread Onur Kucuk
OK Does hotmail really support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If OK so what is the POP3 adress ? ... OK JH Sure does. I forget what the POP3 is, but is on the site. Nothing about it on neither the help section or settings. There is one, that makes hotmail check other pop sites like your

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:29:02 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't even going to respond to the hypothetical about the avaracious drug company withholding medication from poor people, but the logic of the answer bothered me so much I decided to. Even though my question was

[newbie] FINAL DESPERATE TEST

2001-12-28 Thread jal
If you're reading thismy kdenetwork upgrade was a success! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] FINAL DESPERATE TEST

2001-12-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:28:53 -0500 jal [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: If you're reading thismy kdenetwork upgrade was a success! = Congrats!! ;-) Mike -- Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. -- George Bernard Shaw

[newbie] FINAL DESPERATE TEST

2001-12-28 Thread jal
If you're reading thismy kdenetwork upgrade was a success! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-28 Thread Skippipix
ummm... wow. i would love to fire off on this topic, but i just don't have the time now. however, i would like to thank all of you. why? because we are having a awesome discussion about a fascinating topic and everyone is making really intelligent comments observations and this is what i

Re: [newbie] FINAL DESPERATE TEST

2001-12-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 28 December 2001 21:28, you wrote: If you're reading thismy kdenetwork upgrade was a success! I think you got it! -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] trouble installing rlt8139 netcard driver...

2001-12-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 28 December 2001 20:33, you wrote: On Friday 28 December 2001 11:38, you wrote: X-RebelTech Is Here: http://www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Many Thanks Dennis! got 'er beat. that insmod was exactly the

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Thread Damian G
nope, hotmail is not pop3, but M$ Outlook Express can fetch it anyway, if you tell it to... that way it's easier than ever to get the latest viruses!! ;o) Friday, December 28, 2001, 9:46:51 AM, you wrote: JH Borrow someones Windows box, setup your Hotmail account so you can send JH and

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-28 Thread Doug Lerner
Well, I've been living here in Japan for the past 18 years now and I find companies here more capitalistic and less regulated then in the U.S. Everything you buy here is strictly let the buyer beware. There is no such thing at all like money back guarantee like in stores in the U.S. And things

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:36:23 +0100 (CET), Jody Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK Does hotmail really support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If OK so what is the POP3 adress ? ... OK Sure does. I forget what the POP3 is, but is on the site. I have never really tried it in Kmail. So i

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-28 Thread Marten Boonstra
- Original Message - From: Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 7:55 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail nope, hotmail is not pop3, but M$ Outlook Express can fetch it anyway, if you tell it to... that way it's easier than ever to get

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-28 Thread Doug Lerner
Amazing how things can digress! Soon we'll throw in religion and whale hunting. :-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Saturday, December 29, 2001): I could go on forever... You could, but we're not talking about office suites anymore :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] How long to wait???

2001-12-28 Thread Andrew
Hi All, I have been having a long wait to do anything in Mandrake 8.0 w/KDE on 32m RAM. A few hours ago I put in *128M* and it only reads 65m or so, it is much faster. Maybe it would be faster still if *128m* was reading? How do I use the GUI to set the ram? If no GUI, can I get to

Re: [newbie] How long to wait???

2001-12-28 Thread skinky
On Saturday 29 December 2001 20:03, Andrew wrote: | Hi All, | | I have been having a long wait to do anything in Mandrake 8.0 | w/KDE on 32m RAM. A few hours ago I put in *128M* and it only reads | 65m or so, it is much faster. Maybe it would be faster still if | *128m* was reading? How