[newbie] Connecting a network

2004-02-08 Thread Lexx
Got the network up and running tonight. I went into DrakConnect to change the hostname and now it doesn't connect anymore. Is changing the hostname that drastic? It was userhost or something like that - the default, what ever that is. Any ideas how I get it back to how it was? Do you need any

Re: [newbie] Do I need to block these ports

2004-02-08 Thread Lanman
Maureen; It would be a good idea to block those ports even though they are fairly safe as is. Head into your Mandrake Control Center and find the Security section, where you can setup your firewall. That should allow you to block off the ports that you don't want open. Lanman ***

Re: [newbie] Missing .bashrc for root (Mandrake 9.2)

2004-02-08 Thread Alexander Shupliakov
Thanks a lot, now everything seems to be alright! Best regards Alex Warren Post wrote: El vie, 06-02-2004 a las 03:59, Alexander Shupliakov escribió: Could anybody please mail a copy of the original /root/.bashrc file? This is from 8.2, not 9.2, but for what it's worth: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Connecting a network

2004-02-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 1:30 am, Lexx wrote: Got the network up and running tonight. I went into DrakConnect to change the hostname and now it doesn't connect anymore. Is changing the hostname that drastic? It was userhost or something like that - the default, what ever that is. Any ideas

Re: [newbie] urpmi hdlists

2004-02-08 Thread Johan
Hi, Do you perform the following sequence..if not...your local list will be the date you added the link...this is my setup..scripts I use.. This one only once...unless you lost your list-media... su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update iscoza

Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy

2004-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:45 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: -I just got a new laptop that has no floppy. With both Mandrake 9.2 -32-bit and the AMD64 beta, every time they boot they print out an insmod -error during checking for new hardware because the box has no floppy -disk drive. Everything

Re: [newbie] Fox in the Henhouse

2004-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 07 February 2004 10:53 am, JoeHill wrote: - -Quote: - -In a dangerous sign of things to come, Microsoft has been allowed not only to -join, but also to chair the American Bar Association___s antitrust section. - -http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=8355

Re: [newbie] urpmi hdlists

2004-02-08 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:23:56 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thanks, Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Missing kernel config file

2004-02-08 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:28:19 + To: NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Missing kernel config file Missing kernel config file == OK, so, packages, kdeadmin-3-1-8mdk

[newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Resnick
The question: I want to add more space to my Linux partition. I used PartitionMagic to make my Windows XP NTFS partition smaller, but could only add that space to the overall Extended Partition, not the separate Linux space. I therefore suspect that there is some way through Linux to do

[newbie] Wherfore art thou $PATH?

2004-02-08 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] fubarski]$ echo $PATH /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.1_01/bin I don't particularly like the fact that I the // and the :: are a part of $PATH. I can't seem to find where these are inserted, however. I

Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.

2004-02-08 Thread Ron Stodden
Marc Resnick wrote: The question: I want to add more space to my Linux partition. I used PartitionMagic to make my Windows XP NTFS partition smaller, but could only add that space to the overall Extended Partition, not the separate Linux space. I therefore suspect that there is some way through

Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.

2004-02-08 Thread Rick Kunath
On Sunday 08 February 2004 03:38 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I spent a very long time getting my Wireless Network Card to work. Unfortunately, now that it works, It does not obtain an IP address from the access point until I reset the router, then do a service network restart. What does your

[newbie] No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-08 Thread Trey Sizemore
I have a new motherboard with an onboard VIA VT8233 sound card. I have installed MDK 10 beta 2. Looks great, runs fast, but no sound. I have run alsamixer to ensure volumes are up (although I didn't see a 'master' volume category.). I've also looked at kmix to see if the volume levels are

Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.

2004-02-08 Thread Ron Stodden
Marc Resnick wrote: The question: I want to add more space to my Linux partition. I used PartitionMagic to make my Windows XP NTFS partition smaller, but could only add that space to the overall Extended Partition, not the separate Linux space. I therefore suspect that there is some way through

RE: [newbie] No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-08 Thread Philip J Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Trey Sizemore Sent: 08 February 2004 16:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card I have a new motherboard with an onboard VIA VT8233 sound card. I have

[newbie] LCP timeout sending Config-Requests

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have everything configured on my computer to connect to the Internet through Mandrake 9.2. However, I always get the following message (in /var/log/messages): LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests The username/password are not authenticated. Could somebody here please help me? Thank

Re: [newbie] No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-08 Thread Giuseppe Spagnolo
I have a new motherboard with an onboard VIA VT8233 sound card. I have installed MDK 10 beta 2. Looks great, runs fast, but no sound. I have run alsamixer to ensure volumes are up (although I didn't see a 'master' volume category.). I've also looked at kmix to see if the volume levels are

[newbie] Is Easy URPMI site down?

2004-02-08 Thread Trey Sizemore
Can't access the site and wanted to install sources to use URPMI. Thanks. Trey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] DVD -RW

2004-02-08 Thread Poogle
Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW DVD+RW compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. Memorex DVD-R writes O.K. Unbranded (datasafe) DVD+RW writes O.K. Now here's the problem - Packard Bell DVD-RW's cause a complete lock up,

Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help. Marc Resnick wrote: The question: I want to add more space to my Linux partition. I used

Re: [newbie] Is Easy URPMI site down?

2004-02-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 12:27:26 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't access the site and wanted to install sources to use URPMI. use http://www.sulug.sun.ac.za/distros/mandrake/urpmiweb.php Charles -- Rule of Life #1 -- Never get separated from your luggage.

Re: [newbie] Is Easy URPMI site down?

2004-02-08 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:27 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: Can't access the site and wanted to install sources to use URPMI. Thanks. Trey No the site does not seem to be down, did you use http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php ? HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-08 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:53 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a new motherboard with an onboard VIA VT8233 sound card. I have installed MDK 10 beta 2. Looks great, runs fast, but no sound. I have run alsamixer to ensure volumes are up (although I didn't see a 'master' volume category.).

Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.

2004-02-08 Thread marc resnick
On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:44 am, Rick Kunath wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 03:38 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I spent a very long time getting my Wireless Network Card to work. Unfortunately, now that it works, It does not obtain an IP address from the access point until I reset the

Re: [newbie] Is Easy URPMI site down?

2004-02-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 08 February 2004 10:27 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: Can't access the site and wanted to install sources to use URPMI. Thanks. Trey Nope. http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php I have a browser window open there as I type this. I did notice

[newbie] How to access my documents ?

2004-02-08 Thread Christophe
Hello, I just installed linux discovery pack on my notebook and I want to access my documents on my windows XP c drive. How shall I procide on the Mandrake 9.2? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Linux and toolbook?

2004-02-08 Thread Christophe
Hello, I'm using alot Asymetrix Toolbook for my work (it runs on microsoft). Does anyone on this liste use this program with wine for exemple? Maybe then I can remove Win XP ;-) Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops

2004-02-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 07 February 2004 8:11 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: chomp! I tried to use a 95 boot disk to run the firmware upgrade. I got the same message to the effect that the archive won't execute in dos mode. thanks, Terry OK, I have no clue why

Re: [newbie] How to access my documents ?

2004-02-08 Thread marc resnick
On Sunday 08 February 2004 01:04 pm, Christophe wrote: Hello, I just installed linux discovery pack on my notebook and I want to access my documents on my windows XP c drive. How shall I procide on the Mandrake 9.2? Thank you Christophe In order to access your Windows partition, you'll

[newbie] installing a software???

2004-02-08 Thread Christophe
Hello again... I can not use my modem with linux because it is a hsf modem on a compaq nx9005 notebook but I found a driver or software zipped. How shall I do to install it in the MDK 9.2? (I've never done it and the coments on the website is really not clear for me :-( ) Thank you Christophe

[newbie] Cd-rom boot error

2004-02-08 Thread Magnus Poppel
Hi. I've booted Mandrake-Linux 9.2 wich I downloaded from the official site. When I did that, it froze, and came up with the line: ISOLINUX 1.76 Mandrake Linux isolinux: 0142429F Does any of you know this problem, and what I can do about it? Thank you Magnus Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] How to access my documents ?

2004-02-08 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:12:01 -0500 marc resnick disseminated the following: In order to access your Windows partition, you'll need to be logged in as root. I dunno, when I was dual-booting, Mandrake always detected and mounted Win partitions, and I never had to access them as root. Be aware

Re: [newbie] DVD -RW

2004-02-08 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:31 am, Poogle wrote: Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW DVD+RW compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. Memorex DVD-R writes O.K. Unbranded (datasafe) DVD+RW writes O.K. Now here's the

Re: [newbie] DVD -RW

2004-02-08 Thread Poogle
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 18:24, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:31 am, Poogle wrote: Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW DVD+RW compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. Memorex DVD-R writes O.K.

Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.

2004-02-08 Thread Ron Stodden
Marc Resnick wrote: Ron, The problem is that I can't resize the Ext2 Partition with PM, and don't know why. If I click Info, it says that it's an unrecognized format. What I was able to do, I did. I freed some hard drive space by resizing the Windows Partition, and moved in into the Extended

Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.

2004-02-08 Thread marc resnick
On Sunday 08 February 2004 01:45 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: Ron, The problem is that I can't resize the Ext2 Partition with PM, and don't know why. If I click Info, it says that it's an unrecognized format. What I was able to do, I did. I freed some hard drive space by

Re: [newbie] DVD -RW

2004-02-08 Thread Ron Stodden
Poogle wrote: Using Optorite DVD writer which is DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW DVD+RW compatible. X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14 with cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu installed. Memorex DVD-R writes O.K. Unbranded (datasafe) DVD+RW writes O.K. Now here's the problem - Packard Bell DVD-RW's cause a

Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops

2004-02-08 Thread Terence Golightly
Alistair, On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 03:21, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 03:11, Terence Golightly wrote: I tried to use a 95 boot disk to run the firmware upgrade. I got the same message to the effect that the archive won't execute in dos mode. In other words, the utility is

Re: [newbie] One question, one desperate plea for help.

2004-02-08 Thread Ron Stodden
marc resnick wrote: Why is this so serious? I have had no problems. I just needed more space. And even if I do this, how will I know that I will not just have the same problem as I did? I do have an external hard drive lying around somewhere, but I just know that if I try this, some problem

[newbie] CD Burning CLI style

2004-02-08 Thread JoeHill
http://bashburn.sourceforge.net/ -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 14:30:05 up 3 days, 2:18, 4 users, load average: 0.25, 0.13, 0.04 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++ See, free

Re: [newbie] How to access my documents ?

2004-02-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 6:04 pm, Christophe wrote: Hello, I just installed linux discovery pack on my notebook and I want to access my documents on my windows XP c drive. How shall I procide on the Mandrake 9.2? Thank you Christophe Mandrake will normally automatically mount your Windows

[newbie] kde3.2 for mdk9.2

2004-02-08 Thread LtCdData
anyone got the kde3.2 rpms from ftp://voidstar.dyndns.org/mirrors/kde32-for-mdk92/i586 to install ok ?? .. so far i have about half installed.. the rest fail for various reasons... LtCdData Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kde3.2 for mdk9.2

2004-02-08 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 18:11, LtCdData wrote: anyone got the kde3.2 rpms from ftp://voidstar.dyndns.org/mirrors/kde32-for-mdk92/i586 to install ok ?? .. so far i have about half installed.. the rest fail for various reasons.. I haven't got them all yet, but the way to do it - assuming you

Re: [newbie] CD Burning CLI style

2004-02-08 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:31:33 -0500 JoeHill wrote: http://bashburn.sourceforge.net/ What an excellent find. I just installed this and burned a cd with it. Thanks Joe. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Feb 8 15:59:17 EST 2004 15:59:17 up 3:24, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.17, 0.11

Re: [newbie] CD Burning CLI style

2004-02-08 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:01:05 -0500 Dan Gordon disseminated the following: http://bashburn.sourceforge.net/ What an excellent find. I just installed this and burned a cd with it. Thanks Joe. Actually, thanks goes to Todd Slater, who turned me on to Liferea, then sent me his RSS feed

Re: [newbie] Help running shell script

2004-02-08 Thread Marty Phee
I found something in dmesg: grsec: denied exec of ./build.sh by (bash:18269) UID(501) EUID(501), parent (bash:21641) UID(501) EUID(501) reason: untrusted On Sunday 08 February 2004 06:12 pm, robin wrote: Marty Phee wrote: I've had this problem with other scripts before and it's driving me

Re: [newbie] Help running shell script

2004-02-08 Thread Marty Phee
How do I make it trusted? On Sunday 08 February 2004 06:49 pm, Marty Phee wrote: I found something in dmesg: grsec: denied exec of ./build.sh by (bash:18269) UID(501) EUID(501), parent (bash:21641) UID(501) EUID(501) reason: untrusted On Sunday 08 February 2004 06:12 pm, robin wrote:

Re: [newbie] Help running shell script

2004-02-08 Thread robin
Marty Phee wrote: I found something in dmesg: grsec: denied exec of ./build.sh by (bash:18269) UID(501) EUID(501), parent (bash:21641) UID(501) EUID(501) reason: untrusted Maybe it's the directory the script is stored in. I've never run Mdk with security set to high, but it might only be

Re: [newbie] CD Burning CLI style

2004-02-08 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:32:44PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:01:05 -0500 Dan Gordon disseminated the following: http://bashburn.sourceforge.net/ What an excellent find. I just installed this and burned a cd with it. Thanks Joe. Actually, thanks goes to

[newbie] OT test

2004-02-08 Thread Dave Ashmore
Please forgive me for the test. Thanks Dave Ashmore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 3d acceleration only works for root user

2004-02-08 Thread Joe
Chris Ruzin wrote: I had this problem when I was running Gentoo. I had to make sure I had this in my XF86Config-4 file: Section DRI Mode 066 EndSection Once I did that, then glxgears ran great as any user. Double-check that, but I'm pretty sure that's correct syntax. Chris Thanks

[newbie] DVD-ROM DMA mode crashes system

2004-02-08 Thread Grant
I was having a problem with my DVD-ROM, and I've fixed it by disabling DMA mode for the drive. Here's the command I use to disable DMA: sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdd How can I make that permanent? Will doing that cause me any problems except for (theoretically) reduced performance? Does anyone

[newbie] S.O.S: Help with full root directory!

2004-02-08 Thread Ramin
Hi, I am getting full root directory problem! I was not able to login to KDE due to this, Fortunately i could login to xfce and i uninstalled some applications to free space. through this way i gained about 700MG from my 7.8GB / directory which was %99.9 full! I managed to login to KDE.

Re: [newbie] Do I need to block these ports

2004-02-08 Thread Ramin
On February 8, 2004 05:29 am, Lanman wrote: Maureen; It would be a good idea to block those ports even though they are fairly safe as is. Head into your Mandrake Control Center and find the Security section, where you can setup your firewall. That should allow you to block off the ports that

Re: [newbie] S.O.S: Help with full root directory!

2004-02-08 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 08 February 2004 06:17 pm, Ramin wrote: Hi, I am getting full root directory problem! I was not able to login to KDE due to this, Fortunately i could login to xfce and i uninstalled some applications to free space. through this way i gained about 700MG from my 7.8GB / directory

Re: [newbie] S.O.S: Help with full root directory!

2004-02-08 Thread Ron Stodden
Ramin wrote: Hi, I am getting full root directory problem! I was not able to login to KDE due to this, Fortunately i could login to xfce and i uninstalled some applications to free space. through this way i gained about 700MG from my 7.8GB / directory which was %99.9 full! I managed to login

Re: [newbie] OT test

2004-02-08 Thread Allen
On Monday 09 February 2004 03:44 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: Please forgive me for the test. Thanks Dave Ashmore Ok, just this once ;) -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/

Re: [newbie] Is Easy URPMI site down?

2004-02-08 Thread anton
It was down just before again as well, but now is ok. Strange. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... Does a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted? Does a good teacher overlook even the most humble student? Does a good father allow a single child to starve? Does a good programmer refuse to maintain his code?

[newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-08 Thread anton
Is there someone out there with a webserver and a nice traffic policy like to mirror this so this guys server doesn't get bogged down? And so unlucky b'stards like me on dialup can have a go without leaving the rest of the community waiting for ... well, days?

[newbie] Mail Config?

2004-02-08 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I need to configure my mail system and I want to include spamassassin in the mix. I figure there are a number of ways to accomplish this. What I would like are some suggestions. What programs are best to use with spamassassin? Or what programs do you use witn spamassassin? Regards; Hoyt Want

[newbie] urpmi inconsistency

2004-02-08 Thread Ayoub890
Hi, At first attempt at installing package_A directly thus: urpmi package_A gave me a message saying package_A had bad signature and stopped without installing it. When I installed package_B, which happens to depend on package_A thus: urpmi --auto package_B I got these lines: The following

[newbie] application/x.java-vm complaint in mozilla (2nd time)

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Still don't have a reply to this, so I'm reposting. I know I have Java installed, for many applets work, but there are some, eg http://world.std.com/~reinhold/BigNumCalc.html, which require a application/x.java-vm plug-in. I've Googled but cannot seem