Re: [newbie] Solved, thanks -- Fw: 9.2 boot hangs on "Starting pcmcia" on Compaq Presario 2100 notebook

2004-02-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:06, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > I told ya' I was a /real/ newbie -- God help you all. :-) > > I finally figured out I could go into interactive mode and Yes my way > through everything but, then I disabled the "on boot" for the pcmcia > from within Mandrake. > > Thanks. >

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-15 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:09:31 -0500 Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:08 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:15 am, John Richard Smith > wrote: > > > I will want to be looking to construct afresh. Whats > > > your thinking a

Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?

2004-02-15 Thread Ayoub890
Aaron wrote: Christophe Rhein wrote: Me again... There are as far as I can tell three main choices Wine Cxoffice vmware win4lin Wine and crossover office are hit or miss not everything runs. vmware and win4lin offer the widest range of programs working (not games) transgaming is for games alt

RE: [newbie] 3Com Gigabit Ethernet 3C940 supported?

2004-02-15 Thread Josh
Like someone else stated, the sk98lin driver works fine with that motherboard. I use it with 9.2 and it works perfectly. Also, some other people suggested using the 3c2000 drivers. While they work, when I last used them with Mandrake 9.1, they didn't work very well. Certain sites couldn't be r

Re: [newbie] 3Com Gigabit Ethernet 3C940 supported?

2004-02-15 Thread Pat Patterson
> > I have a ASUS P4P800 Motherboard with a built-in Gigabit > > Ethernet Adapter Model and Chipset 3Com 3c940. > > > > Autodetection doesn't work and even selecting it manually > > doesn't work, because it's not in the list and all other > > available 3Com models won't work. > > > > Does anyone b

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:21 pm, Chris wrote: ->Being a newbie to spamassassin also, just set it up over the past week using ->CPAN to upgrade to the newest version. I've got actually two filters setup ->for spamassassin, one being "size is less than 25000, filter action is to ->"pipe thro

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

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:42:44 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: > > More testing to come soon, I will try going back into kdm and xdm and > see if i still get those errors. Will let you know my findings. Ok after changing from MDKKDM to KDM then to XDM and back to MDKKDM all seems to be fine now ??? Im n

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-15 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:21 pm, Chris wrote: > Being a newbie to spamassassin also, just set it up over the past week > using CPAN to upgrade to the newest version. I've got actually two filters > setup for spamassassin, one being "size is less than 25000, filter action > is to "pipe through

Re: [newbie] Dependency hell

2004-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 09 February 2004 6:30 pm, Roland Hughes monotonically droned on: > I am running Mandrake Community(Download) 9.2. I have kept it up to date > using "urpmi" but now have hit a dependency brick wall. The following is > what I get when trying to do a update: > > Some package requested cannot

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

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:27:48 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: > > I did install 3.2 on top of 3.1 the second time round. > I have just installed MDKKDM, it worked right off but, on boot up im > getting "interface eth0 failed" and "system loger failed" now i know > that eth0 is up as i can ping browse and s

Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:22 am, Robert Walker wrote: > > Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: > > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: > > >> Hello all, > > >> > > >> I am trying to setup som

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

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:02:07 -0500 lanman wrote: > > Yo! Dan ! I'm fairly sure that if you un-install KDE 3.2 and > re-install KDE 3.1 along with the MDKKDM rpm, you'll be able to log > into KDE straight away in the normal fashion. I did install 3.2 on top of 3.1 the second time round. I have jus

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-15 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Sunday 15 February 2004 12:05 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:40:17 +0100 > > "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Slackware in text mode makes a wonderful server on a > > 386 right up to 9.1! > > That's for sure. I haven't used a 386 in years, but I had > early version

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-15 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:08 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:15 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > I will want to be looking to construct afresh. Whats > > your thinking about 64 bit architecture. I read > > recently AMD have a chip that runs both 32 and 64bit > > thou

[newbie] Odd Mouse Pointer Behavior on Ctrl-Click

2004-02-15 Thread Marv Boyes
Hello, everyone. A day or two ago, I noticed an odd behavior in KDE 3.1.3. When I hold down the Ctrl key to select multiple items, my mouse pointer "teleports" after the first couple of selections: I'll select something, and my pointer will suddenly appear in another, seemingly random part of the s

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-15 Thread Chris
On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:07 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:05 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > I'm running with Kmail only. I don't have spamc or spamd, > its spamassassin. Is that wrong? > > Yes, no large messages checked. (don't get that many anyways). > > PS I know

[newbie] And back again

2004-02-15 Thread Aron Smith
Well I found that it's not a good idea to install 10.0 over 9.2 reinstalled it and got most things back lost a ton of e mail messages (sigh) so if anyone was trying to help me I hope I didn't put you to too much trouble. (now I gotta go chase down K mail) smitty Want to buy your Pack or Services

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

2004-02-15 Thread lanman
On February 15, 2004 06:37 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:36:16 -0500 > > Dan Gordon wrote: > > Thanks lanman that got me going, everything works well. I do have > > two problems. Kdm is not behaving, no matter what wm i select i end > > up with > > icewm. If i select default i ge

Re: [newbie] Erased mounting points of my IDe devices

2004-02-15 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 11:33 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 February 2004 15:33, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > I had to move my IDe devices (2 HDs, 2 burners and a DVD-ROM), and > > > > consequently Mandrake detected that and asked me to do a simple > > > > actualization of the con

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-15 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 15 February 2004 04:07 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > I can live with it, but it is at least 3 times slower than before. > > I'm not sure either, but I killed spamd and it played fine. It *could* have > been coincidence - I've seen greater ones. > > I'm running with Kmail only. I don't

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

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:36:16 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: > > Thanks lanman that got me going, everything works well. I do have two > problems. Kdm is not behaving, no matter what wm i select i end up > with > icewm. If i select default i get kde 3.2. Does anyone know if there > are some config fil

[newbie] Solved, thanks -- Fw: 9.2 boot hangs on "Starting pcmcia" on Compaq Presario 2100 notebook

2004-02-15 Thread Chuck Mattsen
I told ya' I was a /real/ newbie -- God help you all. :-) I finally figured out I could go into interactive mode and Yes my way through everything but, then I disabled the "on boot" for the pcmcia from within Mandrake. Thanks. (I'm sure I'll have some [other] foolish question /real/ soon.) Fo

Re: [newbie] Erased mounting points of my IDe devices

2004-02-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 11:33 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > On Sunday 15 February 2004 15:33, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > I had to move my IDe devices (2 HDs, 2 burners and a DVD-ROM), and > > > consequently Mandrake detected that and asked me to do a simple > > > actualization of the configuration

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:05 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: ->Well, it does run it's tests on each message, but even on dial-up I don't ->notice a slowdown that I would consider significant. My wife gets hundreds ->of messages a day, and the download process doesn't irritate her. I can live with it

Re: [newbie] Erased mounting points of my IDe devices

2004-02-15 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 3:33 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I had to move my IDe devices (2 HDs, 2 burners and a DVD-ROM), and > > consequently Mandrake detected that and asked me to do a simple > > actualization of the configuration. But because I have very short time to > > fiddle with my compute

[newbie] 9.2 boot hangs on "Starting pcmcia" on Compaq Presario 2100 notebook

2004-02-15 Thread Chuck Mattsen
I'm in need of a /patient/ listmember to walk me through this, if possible; admittedly, I'm a little frustrated at this point. I first installed 10.0 beta 2, and it would boot with no hitches, but it really seemed to be a bit of a mess, particularly for a newbie like me who didn't know how to fix

Re: [newbie] Erased mounting points of my IDe devices

2004-02-15 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On Sunday 15 February 2004 15:33, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I had to move my IDe devices (2 HDs, 2 burners and a DVD-ROM), and > > consequently Mandrake detected that and asked me to do a simple > > actualization of the configuration. But because I have very short > > time to fiddle with my comp

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread et
On Sunday 15 February 2004 05:16 pm, robin wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Margot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 07:05 > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10 > > > >>aronsmith wrote: > >>>Just upgra

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-15 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 13 February 2004 01:50 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hmm, I use Kmail and was following another thread where Spamassassin was > detailed (Derek J. I believe). > > I followed it as best as I could, but I've got a couple of questions. > > Speed. Wow. It slows my email download from cable spee

Re: [newbie] How to update to 10b2

2004-02-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:00:30 +1300 anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > newbie... sorry can't find it. Maybe start a new thread asking for > "mounting isos from the harddrive" or somthing if no one else answers. As root: # for instance # mount KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-14-EN.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop=/d

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread robin
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Margot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 07:05 Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10 aronsmith wrote: Just upgraded to mdk 10 any one know how to get KDE back? or Gnome even IceWm is all that

Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?

2004-02-15 Thread deedee
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:36:35, Christophe Rhein wrote: >Me again... > >I need one software running with windows and that is Asymetrix Toolbook... >Is there someone out there using this software with wine and linux? >Is wine the best and easiest way to use windows software? I use both wine and vmwar

Re: [newbie] I want to create a dual boot. Anyone kind enough to advise me?

2004-02-15 Thread moey tony
simple. install whatever windoze you need and install linux last. Just remember to partition the hdd in such a way, you have enough space for your linux / and linux swap partitions ! - Original Message - From: "Web Site Response Address" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:28

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:20 am, Glenn wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 16:17, Dennis Myers wrote: > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 04:51 pm, Glenn wrote: > > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:30, you wrote: > > > > No I havent tried because while I know mandrake was likely derived > > > >

Re: [newbie] Updating LaTeX

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
If you mean that you've installed new packages within your LaTeX distro, the update command (as root) is "texhash". If you're talking about updating LaTeX itself, I don't know. Probably best to wipe your old distribution and start from fresh. Thanks, Robin! I mean something like what happens wit

Re: [newbie] Updating LaTeX

2004-02-15 Thread robin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some wizard to update LaTeX? Thank you a lot in advance! If you mean that you've installed new packages within your LaTeX distro, the update command (as root) is "texhash". If you're talking about updating LaTeX itself, I don't know. Probably best to wipe yo

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:40:17 +0100 "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Slackware in text mode makes a wonderful server on a 386 right up to > 9.1! That's for sure. I haven't used a 386 in years, but I had early versions of SLS and Slackware running on an old 386sx. Only had 4 megs (initi

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 15 February 2004 8:16 am, aronsmith wrote: > > > > Apparently the KDE packages have been "rearranged" - I suggest you try > > rpmdrake via mcc, search for anything with kde in the name - I think you > > need kdebase, plus (probably lots of!) de

Re: [newbie] All talk and no action

2004-02-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 4:03 pm, Owen Berio wrote: > When Mandrake 9.1 was first issued I purchased the seven disk set > and the corresponding "Mandrake Linux, The Definitive Manual. > The manual had defective binding glue. The pages immediately began > falling out in groups as well as single sheet

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:15 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > I will want to be looking to construct afresh. Whats your >  thinking about 64 bit architecture. I read recently AMD have a > chip that runs both 32 and 64bit though I don't know what mobos > will suit. Will Mandrake keep up with th

Re: [newbie] Use these KDE 3.2 RPM's !

2004-02-15 Thread lanman
On February 15, 2004 08:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 13:18, lanman wrote: > > Anne; I'd love to , but I have NO idea as to how to do it. Can you > > walk me through it please? Pretty PuLease Grin! > > No problem. First you have to register as a user, which gives you

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Margot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 07:05 Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10 > aronsmith wrote: > > Just upgraded to mdk 10 any one know how to get KDE back? > > or Gnome even IceWm is all that comes up.

[newbie] 3Com Gigabit Ethernet 3C940 supported?

2004-02-15 Thread Yvan
Okay, looking at the Mandrake Database of supported hardware I know it's not supported. It's even not mentioned there. I have a ASUS P4P800 Motherboard with a built-in Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Model and Chipset 3Com 3c940. Autodetection doesn't work and even selecting it manually doesn't work, b

[newbie] Updating LaTeX

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some wizard to update LaTeX? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Desktop shortcuts

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
It works! Thanks a lot for your help! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Use these KDE 3.2 RPM's !

2004-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2004 13:18, lanman wrote: > > Anne; I'd love to , but I have NO idea as to how to do it. Can you > walk me through it please? Pretty PuLease Grin! > No problem. First you have to register as a user, which gives you edit rights and will create a user page for you. For a

Re: [newbie] Use these KDE 3.2 RPM's !

2004-02-15 Thread lanman
On February 15, 2004 08:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 13:06, lanman wrote: > > Having successfully upgraded my KDE, I thought I'd provide a list > > of the packages that installed successfully. During the install, > > there were some choice selections which I was asked to m

Re: [newbie] Use these KDE 3.2 RPM's !

2004-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2004 13:06, lanman wrote: > > Having successfully upgraded my KDE, I thought I'd provide a list > of the packages that installed successfully. During the install, > there were some choice selections which I was asked to make, and > IIRC, I always selected the first of the two

Re: [newbie] Use these KDE 3.2 RPM's Updated !

2004-02-15 Thread lanman
On February 15, 2004 08:06 am, lanman wrote: Forgot to mention that this is strictly intended for those people upgrading KDE on Mandrake 9.2, and not for Mandrake 10.0. Also, please note in my previous email that one or two packages in my list are there, because they were left there by Mandrak

[newbie] Use these KDE 3.2 RPM's !

2004-02-15 Thread lanman
There have been several people on the list trying to install KDE's 3.2 desktop, who have been having many problems with which packages to install. The person who re-built the packages did a great job IMHO, and the new desktop works great, as long as you install only the packages you need, and

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread Margot
aronsmith wrote: Just upgraded to mdk 10 any one know how to get KDE back? or Gnome even IceWm is all that comes up. K mail crashes. whatv packages do I need? TIA smitty (who is more confused than ever) Apparently the KDE packages have been "rearranged" - I suggest you try rpmdrake via mcc, searc

Re: [newbie] Desktop shortcuts

2004-02-15 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:55:31 + Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 12:06 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > > Dear All > > > > Could someone here please teach me how to create desktop > > shortcuts? > > > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > > > Paul > Depends on which Window M

Re: [newbie] its installed

2004-02-15 Thread robin
Harold E Vine III wrote: i did the install last night. i ran all the updates this morning. it was actually easier than a rh install, and i've run rh since the 2.0 daysup and including fedora. at that point i gave up. the bugs were unbelievable. i tried lindows and while the install went flawl

[newbie] Deleting Symbolic Link and File

2004-02-15 Thread Job Evers
I would like to delete a symbolic link and also the file that it points to. Is there a way to do that? If its something obvious, I apologize for not seeing it; I read the rm and ln man pages, looked on google and in the Twiki - No avail. Cheers, Job -- gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyser

Re: [newbie] Desktop shortcuts

2004-02-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 12:06 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Could someone here please teach me how to create desktop shortcuts? > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > Paul Depends on which Window Manager you are using If it is KDE Right click on the desktop select 'Create New>Link to Applicatio

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

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Kaplan
Presumably you are using mdk 9.2 as well. You may have to run down each of the dependencies and grab the correct rpm from a directory of all mdk9.2 rpms (your install media or a download mirror). AFAIK urpmi only handles dependencies for rpms in the urpmi directory. In my experience all the de

[newbie] Desktop shortcuts

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Could someone here please teach me how to create desktop shortcuts? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2004-02-15 Thread lanman
On February 15, 2004 06:09 am, Dale Kosan wrote: > Okay, here is what I did: > > Downloaded all of the rpms from your sight, put them all in a kde32 > folder. > > Added that folder to my urpmi.cfg with urpmi.addmedia KDE32 > file://home/dale/kde32/ with hdlist.cz, that went fine. > > Went into the

Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?

2004-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:45, Aaron wrote: > >Although you can't use win4lin with W2K or XP. > > > > > > > >you sure about that? > > I thought I saw that the latest version does, hmn I will have to > check on that > Aaron > Probably what you are thinking of is the statement that they are manag

Re: [newbie] A factually correct article about Open Source

2004-02-15 Thread robin
Alastair Scott wrote: In contrast to the BBC's error-ridden efforts, an excellent summary. Particularly impressive is the author's understanding that Open Source is far from being just OSS (Open Source Software): http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/start.asp?P_Article=12404 (The "OpenCola" is no jo

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

2004-02-15 Thread Dale Kosan
Okay, here is what I did: Downloaded all of the rpms from your sight, put them all in a kde32 folder. Added that folder to my urpmi.cfg with urpmi.addmedia KDE32 file://home/dale/kde32/ with hdlist.cz, that went fine. Went into the graphical software install program, I was in Gnome when I did th

Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?

2004-02-15 Thread Aaron
Although you can't use win4lin with W2K or XP. you sure about that? I thought I saw that the latest version does, hmn I will have to check on that Aaron Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSo

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

2004-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:10, Philip J Scott wrote: > Once again Anne Thanks and to all who kindly contributed to this > slight problem. I HAVE SOUND...YIPPEE. > I ran the shooter and it sugested there was a problem in kmix any > way I fiddled and hey presto it works. > > Philip (happy linux us

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

2004-02-15 Thread Philip J Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charlie Mahan Sent: 14 February 2004 22:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 14 February 2