with that much ran, I'd stick with 128mb swap.. only 8.1 and before 2.4
kernels needed twice the ram..
8.2 with hardly every use swap if you have 512mb ram... so don't waste hard
drive space on a swap you'll never completly use. (unless you run a huge
heap of ram intensive applications at the
Terry wrote:
I am using a Linksys wireless router with my laptop, which has a Cisco Aironet
350 Series, and LM 9.0 beta 2. Things work beautifully with it. I didn't
even have to download drivers for the Cisco card. It was truly plug and
play. I plugged it in, and Mandrake automatically
In Mandrake 8.2, I can't get PCMCIA service to automatically start at
boot. I clicked the At Boot box in Mandrake Control Center, but it doesn't do
the job.
Lane
Lane P. Lester / Madison County, Georgia
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I have a new box running 8.2 and windows '98 and another box on which I'm
going to be putting XP. I want to get to get a wireless router to share
cable internet on the two machines. I don't know what compatability issues,
if any, there are with linux and wireless routers. Can someone
On Sunday August 18 2002 06:12 am, Peter Watson wrote:
Hi folks
I'm about to install LM on a new machine with 512Kb RAM. On my old
machine I only had 64Kb and used a swap file of 128Kb.
I've read in lots of places that I should have a swap file of twice
my RAM up to a limit of 512Kb.
On Friday 16 August 2002 05:34 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 11:46 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
Unfortunately some of us with half a brain sometimes forget to check the
i need more than half? damn
leave it to a women to figure out the problem
et wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 05:34 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 11:46 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
Unfortunately some of us with half a brain sometimes forget to check the
i need more than half? damn
leave it to a women to figure out
Isaac Curtis wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 01:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am going to have a fast internet connection soon and would like to be
able to provide friends/family with dialup internet access using a comp at
my place as the server. Is this possible? What hardware do I need?
On Sun 18 Aug 2002 05:20, b w wrote:
OK, a newbie problem.
I installed Mandrake 8.2 Thursday night. Was able to connect to the
internet with my Cisco uBR900 cable model (through Adelphia), but only
after some fiddling with the Mandrake Command Center (it didn't work
immediately after
On Sunday 18 August 2002 05:20 am, you wrote:
Hi there ronald,
I have a Pioneer DVD (sorry, don't ask me too much about it.. hehehe). I
believe it's a 50 speed drive.
As for unacking the maps, I have attached the script. You may have to edit
it with your install path of UT, depending on
dunno about some ISP's, but our ISP wants us to have our own DNS servers,
webservers, and even mail servers if we want
If you fancy some fiddling, I'd do something along the lines of NAT
(Network Address Translation) routed over PPP...
that way, the ISP is unlikely to know you are even
Isaac,
You are fighting an uphill battle Who is your isp
that you are going to be getting
and are you allowed to provide network services on
your internet connection. Please
check it out before you do it. :)
Kenneth Spress[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered user #252546 with the Linux
After much help from the list I got my network going at a simple level. Then
I moved on, getting dns working. I reached the point where everything seemed
to work at lan level, but I could only share my internet connection if I set
the win98 machines to dynamic addressing, losing the network.
i need some help and theres 2 ways i could do this.
1. i had to change /dev/modem to /dev/modem2 how can i make kppp use modem2 instead of modem?
2. how do i change /dev/modem2 back to /dev/modem?
an answer to either of these would be very helpful
thanks
On Friday 16 August 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 07:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
have you checked the systems at wallmart.com? no monitor (add whatever
you want) but the computers w/mandrake installed are a hard price to
beat. even as a reseller, with out volume
In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s mail, d.d. Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:04:52 EDT:
i need some help and theres 2 ways i could do this.
1. i had to change /dev/modem to /dev/modem2 how can i make kppp use modem2
instead of modem?
2. how do i change /dev/modem2 back to /dev/modem?
an answer to either
I used to run an ISP
I also have my system configured so I can dial into it
while I am on the road. This gives me internet and mail
access. (I have a T1 with my own mail server)
You are going to run into a few of problems with your idea.
1. It is probably against the user agreement of
On Saturday 17 August 2002 10:54 pm, you wrote:
Hi,
I have a USB CD Burner (Kodak CD-R/RW) but I haven't been able to get it to
burn and as I understand it Linux (Mandrake 8.1) isn't capable of directly
talking to such burners it can only talk to SCSI/IDE burners? Is that
correct? However I
when i use kppp i push connect and it says modem ready then it says "sorry, the modem doesnt respond" anyone know why it says this? im guessing its cause i dont have my modem drivers setup right or something. any help is great
Thanks
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:51:15 +0800
frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dunno about some ISP's, but our ISP wants us to have our own DNS servers,
webservers, and even mail servers if we want
If you fancy some fiddling, I'd do something along the lines of NAT
(Network Address Translation)
On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isaac Curtis wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 01:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am going to have a fast internet connection soon and would like to be
able to provide friends/family with dialup internet access using a comp
at my place
On Sunday 18 August 2002 11:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isaac,
You are fighting an uphill battle Who is your isp that you are going to be
getting and are you allowed to provide network services on your internet
connection. Please check it out before you do it. :)
Hehe yeah right. I
yup... thats the one I mean...
was on the tip of my tongue...
rgds
Franki
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:44 AM
To: newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] I want to be a dialup server
On Sun, 18
On Sunday 18 August 2002 12:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used to run an ISP
I also have my system configured so I can dial into it
while I am on the road. This gives me internet and mail
access. (I have a T1 with my own mail server)
You are going to run into a few of problems with your
On Sunday 18 August 2002 12:00 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 07:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
have you checked the systems at wallmart.com? no monitor (add whatever
you want) but the computers w/mandrake installed are a hard price to
-Original Message-
From: Isaac Curtis
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 17/08/02 11:11 PM
Subject: [newbie] I want to be a dialup server
I am going to have a fast internet connection soon and would like to be
able
to provide friends/family with dialup internet access using a comp at my
Isaac Curtis wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isaac Curtis wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 01:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am going to have a fast internet connection soon and would like to be
able to provide friends/family with dialup internet access using a
Any decent modem can do 33.6 in both directions..
as for speed, there is not alot of difference in 33.6 to 56, especially
since no one ever gets 56k anyway..
they shouldn't really know the difference.
Your PC is fine, you could probably get away with less then that for this
purpose.
As for
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:06:20 -0400
Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not interested in getting in any trouble (and
certainly not in losing my cable internet!) so I won't do anything too
rotten. Still, most every ISP, broadband or otherwise, explicitly bars one
from sharing their
this is a test
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HOW DO YOU CONFIGURE THE XFREE86 CONFIGURE FILE TO MAKE TV OUT WORK ON
AN NVIDIA GE-FORCE 3 GRAPHICS CARD. I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO PLAY
DVD'S ON MY COMPUTER AND WATCH THEM ON MY TV , BUT ALSO KEEP THE MONITOR
WORKING AS WELL.
I HAVE ENTERED THE FOLLOEING LINES IN
On Sunday 18 August 2002 13:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any decent modem can do 33.6 in both directions..
as for speed, there is not alot of difference in 33.6 to 56, especially
since no one ever gets 56k anyway..
they shouldn't really know the difference.
Your PC is fine, you could
On Sunday 18 August 2002 13:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 12:00 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 07:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
have you checked the systems at wallmart.com? no monitor (add
whatever you
On Sunday 18 August 2002 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when i use kppp i push connect and it says modem ready then it says sorry,
the modem doesnt respond anyone know why it says this? im guessing its
cause i dont have my modem drivers setup right or something. any help is
great Thanks
What type of modem do you have (brand name or chipset on the modem)?
Joe
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:32:53 EDT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when i use kppp i push connect and it says modem ready then it says sorry,
the modem doesnt respond anyone know why it says this? im guessing its cause
i
Is there a way to auto logout inactive users? I have seen something
about TMOUT variable, but when I set it in /etc/profile and login at
console I get bash: TMOUT read only or something similar. So my
question is how do I get TMOUT to work? Also does TMOUT work for users
who are using X, gnome,
Thanks, Sridhar! That pointed me to the correction needed... The line
was:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,uid=0,gid=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0
When I went to the backup file, I saw that somehow it had gotten changed
from the original:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
I still don't know WHAT changed
On Sunday 18 August 2002 02:30 pm, you wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 13:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 12:00 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16 August 2002 07:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
have you checked the systems
snip This whole thing is a very unfair comparison.
Yep, was not trying to be fair to the hardware, just to the relative
Price Points
You're trying to compare a
system at Wal Mart that uses not only generic and onboard EVERYTHING, but
completely different parts. I'm talking 512 MB,
***OFF TOPIC ALERT***
***don't read if you're not interested***
On Sunday 18 August 2002 16:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 02:30 pm, you wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 13:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 12:00 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 16
I need to build the qt mysql plugin wihth multi thread support. I made
qt with the -thread option and everything seems to have built just
fine. Now I need to build the mysql plugin. what do I need to do to
make sure it has multi thread support?
Thanks,
-Chuck
Want to buy your Pack or
On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:11 pm, chuck wrote:
I need to build the qt mysql plugin wihth multi thread support. I made
qt with the -thread option and everything seems to have built just
fine. Now I need to build the mysql plugin. what do I need to do to
make sure it has multi thread
Yes, I read the configure help file and added the -thread option. I
didn't make the plugin when I made QT. I would like to make the plugin
with multi thread support without remaking QT. I don't have a plugins-mt
directory so I'm not sure if something is wrong.
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 15:26, frame
It's a pci modem and it's plugged into a pci slot.
well i have 2 i can use
1.lucent not sure what chipset or whatever pci modem.
2.diamond supramax pci 56k modem
the first one is in right now cause i cant find a linux driver for the supramax
Hi Everyone-
Running 8.2 on a Sony Vaio GRX560 with a Sony Memory Stick card
slot..I scanned the archives, but have not seen anyone mention this
before, but has anyone gotten it work? Specifically how to access a
card once it is in the slot to mount it?
Thanks,
-Scott
--
Here's what qt3.0.5 online doc is saying:
Plugins and Threaded Applications
If you want to build a plugin which you want to use with a threaded Qt library
(whether or not the plugin itself uses threads) you must use a threaded
environment. Specifically, you must link the plugin with a
How would I setup linux so i can access it's folders from a windows machine
i.e \\bob\sharename
And where do you give your linux pc the windows machine name type thingy.
Not too worried about security as only my pc's on the lan, this linux box is
also a proxy server connected to the internet via
On Sunday 18 August 2002 06:08 pm, you wrote:
well i have 2 i can use
1.lucent not sure what chipset or whatever pci modem.
2.diamond supramax pci 56k modem
the first one is in right now cause i cant find a linux driver for the
supramax
Couple of things, sometimes it helps to quote the
et wrote:
AOL does not do linux, as I recall.
Well, it depends what you want to do -- you can certainly send and
receive email on Linux via AOL. (Don't know the details of how, but
know a few people who do it.)
Randy Kramer
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Been there tried to do that, it's not worth the bother. You can find a good US
Robotics hardware modem on ebay for under $30, then just plug it in and your
troubles will be over. I have gotten a couple old US Robotics 28kbs on ebay for
under $15 each and even at just 28K they seem much
On Sunday 18 August 2002 06:39 pm, you wrote:
et wrote:
AOL does not do linux, as I recall.
Well, it depends what you want to do -- you can certainly send and
receive email on Linux via AOL. (Don't know the details of how, but
know a few people who do it.)
Really? wonder how.
Randy
I,ve always burnt my CD,S on another system with MS
windows thats were I put my only burner and I like
downloading files to a slave keeping master free from
download files.But as I learn Mandrake I,d kind off like
to add a burner.Well it be a pain? are how do you even go
about burning from a
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:11:25 -0400
et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2002 06:39 pm, you wrote:
et wrote:
AOL does not do linux, as I recall.
Well, it depends what you want to do -- you can certainly send and
receive email on Linux via AOL. (Don't know the details of
Hi all
First, I apologise for the looong post but I think it may all be relevant.
After my sh*tty IBM Deskstar drive dying on me last week, I'm wondering
whether it was thru my own doing so can someone please help me determine
what the correct parameter for my hard drives are. I have two
i have another isp for linux and the modem is on the computer i just built only running linux not on this computer and im not sure how to find out info about the modem on linux
On Sunday 18 August 2002 06:08 pm, you wrote:
well i have 2 i can use
1.lucent not sure what chipset or whatever pci
Hi,
I went the gphoto website and was directed to another page to set up my
camera. Apparently, it has to be considered a mass storage device. (even in
windows) There is no problem with that. In fact, I prefer that. After
creating the directory /media/camera, I was told to add the
Sharrea wrote:
Hi all
Large snip, equivalent to a surgical procedure i'm sure. Sorry
couldn't resist :)
I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different
geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for
hda so I can't install without wiping the
There was IIRC a hacked AOL installer for Linux. Do a google search for
it. It may still be out there. Recent too afaik.
--
Femme
Good Decisions You boss Made:
We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that
character from Peanuts.
- Source: Dilbert
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You're corrected. One word: SAMBA.
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Good Decisions You boss Made:
We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that
character from Peanuts.
- Source: Dilbert
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