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

2004-02-16 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 01:51, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: If you installed 9.2 with the stock 2.4.22-10 kernel see that you install one of the newer/upgrade ones. You'll probably be able to boort with pcmcia enabled using one of those. Well, again, I'm an /absolute/ beginner here. I can get around

[newbie] Install and than no desktop

2004-02-16 Thread rheinandco
Hello, I installed some packages from the Mandrake 9.2 discovery pack and then most of my desktop is gone... The menus are changed, softares are gone and I can not access as root. What shall I do? Same thing happend when I tried to install my printer driver. Thak you for your help Christophe

[newbie] Need help upgrading from Mandrake 9.0

2004-02-16 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
Hi All, I recently got broadband installed and I wanted to update my Mandrake 9.0 installation to the very latest of... well... pretty much everything - Including KDE, Open Office, etc. My problem is that I don't fully understand the use of urpmi yet. I did the following, Set up some mirrors

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf 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 about 64 bit architecture. I read recently AMD have a chip that

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Feb 2004 12:07 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Feb 2004 4:11 am, Erylon Hines wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Need help upgrading from Mandrake 9.0

2004-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Feb 2004 10:19 am, Sweeney, Stephen wrote: Hi All, I recently got broadband installed and I wanted to update my Mandrake 9.0 installation to the very latest of... well... pretty much everything - Including KDE, Open Office, etc. My problem is that I don't fully understand the

Re: [newbie] Looking for Derek Jennings!

2004-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Feb 2004 12:20 pm, lanman wrote: Hey Derek; I was just looking at your sire for the interesting info you had about the Atmel wireless setup. Do you have any info on PCMCIA gear and how to configure them? I'm looking at adding a wireless card to my Asus Delgatto laptop ( what the

Re: [newbie] Looking for Derek Jennings!

2004-02-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 16 February 2004 14:09, lanman wrote: Thanks HarM ! Have you seen Derek's site regarding USB wireless setups? He's got some interesting info on there. I appreciate the info, as I'm looking at adding it to my laptop. Now, if they cann only get these WinModems working. Sigh! Yep, I

Re: [newbie] Looking for Derek Jennings!

2004-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Feb 2004 1:03 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 16 February 2004 13:20, lanman wrote: Any ideas or suggestions? Lanman, Don't know if your card has the same chipset but here's how I did it with a Belkin vers2 card that has atmelchips on it.

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

2004-02-16 Thread Dan Gordon
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 06:38:48 -0500 lanman wrote: Dan; Glad to hear that it worked out. I'm surprised that you never saw the bios data check successful line before. It's always there when the kernel is being decompressed. Linux checks the BIOS for hardware changes, BIOS updates, and to

Re: [newbie] Looking for Derek Jennings!

2004-02-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 16 February 2004 14:29, Derek Jennings wrote: Actually Harm the Belkin F5D6050 version 1 is also Atmel (usb vendor/product=d5c/a002) and will work virtually out of the box with Mandrake with the at76c503 driver supplied in Mandrake. The version 2 Belkin requires a later version

Re: [newbie] Looking for Derek Jennings!

2004-02-16 Thread lanman
On February 16, 2004 08:29 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 16 Feb 2004 1:03 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 16 February 2004 13:20, lanman wrote: Any ideas or suggestions? Lanman, Don't know if your card has the same chipset but here's how I did it with a Belkin vers2 card that

Re: [newbie] Linux Modem

2004-02-16 Thread franki
You might actually be in luck using mdk 8.. but I wouldn't try it with 9.2. (in fact I already have.) no luck whatsoever getting it to work.. but apparently it works on anything up to and including mdk9.1 good luck. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook

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

2004-02-16 Thread Robert Walker
Monday, February 16, 2004, 3:33:37 AM, you wrote: 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

[newbie] Updated Spamassassin lost Software in MCC

2004-02-16 Thread Dennis Myers
Does anyone know the packages that provide software update, install, uninstall etc , in the Mandrake control center? I did an update of Spamassassin and lost MCC altogether. I have reinstall drakxtools and drakconf packages but there are no tools for Software management. TIA for any help. --

[newbie] Thanks and question re book(s) for learning [Mandrake] Linux

2004-02-16 Thread Chuck Mattsen
Thanks to all who've answered my install, boot, upgrade and kernel questions over the past couple of days; I've managed to get through quite a few sticky points (for me) with your help. A question ... what would y'all recommend as the best book for a complete newbie to both Mandrake and Linux; I

[newbie] Installing a linmodem

2004-02-16 Thread Steve Kaufman
Hello everyone, I am trying to make my PCTEL winmodem work in MD9.2. I found the following page from google http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/pctel.html#INSTALLATION it talks about needing the source for LINUX in a directory /usr/src/LINUX. MD default installation which I am using does

Re: [newbie] Thanks and question re book(s) for learning [Mandrake] Linux

2004-02-16 Thread Paul
Have a look at the books by O'Reilly, like Running Linux. These are very good IMHO. Paul On 02/16/2004 06:28 PM, Chuck Mattsen wrote: A question ... what would y'all recommend as the best book for a complete newbie to both Mandrake and Linux; I know there are the Mandrake-specific Definitive

Re: [newbie] logrotate tool for stout

2004-02-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:04:49 +0100 Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an application where I pipe its stout into a file, but the file grows huge over time. So I was thinking if there is a tool I can pipe my Does the application output grow over a period of time? Are you running it

Re: [newbie] Installing a linmodem

2004-02-16 Thread Olivier Esser
Steve Kaufman wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to make my PCTEL winmodem work in MD9.2. I found the following page from google http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/pctel.html#INSTALLATION it talks about needing the source for LINUX in a directory /usr/src/LINUX. MD default installation

Re: [newbie] Updated Spamassassin lost Software in MCC

2004-02-16 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 16 February 2004 10:03 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Does anyone know the packages that provide software update, install, uninstall etc , in the Mandrake control center? I did an update of Spamassassin and lost MCC altogether. I have reinstall

Re: [newbie] Updated Spamassassin lost Software in MCC

2004-02-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 16 February 2004 12:18 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 16 February 2004 10:03 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Does anyone know the packages that provide software update, install, uninstall etc , in the Mandrake control center? I did an

Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?

2004-02-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:38:00 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you David, yes I got a src rpm for k3b 0.11 here: ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/SRPMS/ I had to install a few dependency packages to allow me to rebuild, but I did get it to do so, and

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 February 2004 05:48 am, Derek Jennings wrote: -If in kmail you pipe through 'spamc', then you must have the spamd daemon -running. - -But if you pipe through 'spamassassin', then spamd is not used and you can -safely stop it. -The difference is that spamd is written in C and will be

[newbie] Network down

2004-02-16 Thread Lexx
After a trouble-free couple of weeks my network has decided to die. I tried # service network restart to try to boot it back to life and wlan0 comes up OK but I can no longer browse the internet (Mozilla) or use email (Ximian). When I ping my network it is unreachable. There are no packets being

[newbie] Open Proxy, Open Relay test scripts

2004-02-16 Thread Bryan Phinney
Ran across these while I was out trolling for some additional tests to run against my machine cause I am the slightly paranoid type. Anyway, one of the scripts will test your smtp server for open relaying. You need to run that one from a machine that is external to the network that you allow

Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?

2004-02-16 Thread deedee
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:16:49, Ayoub890 wrote: Will it help Wine much if one uses MS WIN2K DLLS with it? The question is whether it will help the software you want to run to use ms dlls or wine dlls, not whether it will help wine. It might help some programs, but hurt others. This is really

Re: [newbie] Network down

2004-02-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 16 February 2004 20:58, Lexx wrote: After a trouble-free couple of weeks my network has decided to die. I tried # service network restart to try to boot it back to life and wlan0 comes up OK but I can no longer browse the internet (Mozilla) or use email (Ximian). When I ping my

[newbie] Firefox and mouse gestures

2004-02-16 Thread Josenildo Marques
Maybe this is old news, but I have just discovered that Firefox can handle mouse gestures wonderfully well. The installation of the extension is as easy as pie (sorry if the expression is outdated!) Have a look at all the gestures supported so far

Re: [newbie] Preparing (hopefully) to install (Compaq laptop, anybody?)

2004-02-16 Thread raminux
On February 13, 2004 10:18 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Marc: There's a freeware program (Ranish Partition Manager) that is supposed to do everything that PM can do. I've never used it myself, but I've seen lots of good words about it elsewhere. Perhaps that might get Chuck going. Legally. My

Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?

2004-02-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:28, David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:38:00 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you David, yes I got a src rpm for k3b 0.11 here: ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/SRPMS/ I had to install a few dependency packages

Re: [newbie] Thanks and question re book(s) for learning [Mandrake] Linux

2004-02-16 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 19:28, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Thanks to all who've answered my install, boot, upgrade and kernel questions over the past couple of days; I've managed to get through quite a few sticky points (for me) with your help. A question ... what would y'all recommend as the best

Re: [newbie] Network down

2004-02-16 Thread Lexx
On Monday, February 16, 2004 8:36 PM, H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rumoured to have said: On Monday 16 February 2004 20:58, Lexx wrote: After a trouble-free couple of weeks my network has decided to die. I tried # service network restart to try to boot it back to life and wlan0 comes

Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Feb 2004 7:57 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 February 2004 05:48 am, Derek Jennings wrote: -If in kmail you pipe through 'spamc', then you must have the spamd daemon -running. - -But if you pipe through 'spamassassin', then spamd is not used and you can -safely stop it.

Re: [newbie] Thanks and question re book(s) for learning [Mandrake] Linux

2004-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
Chuck - could you please remove your reply-to line in Evolution? It causes replies to go to you instead of to the list. On Monday 16 February 2004 17:28, Chuck Mattsen wrote: A question ... what would y'all recommend as the best book for a complete newbie to both Mandrake and Linux; I know

Re: [newbie] Network down

2004-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Feb 2004 9:55 pm, Lexx wrote: On Monday, February 16, 2004 8:36 PM, H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rumoured to have said: On Monday 16 February 2004 20:58, Lexx wrote: After a trouble-free couple of weeks my network has decided to die. I tried # service network restart

Re: [newbie] Thanks and question re book(s) for learning [Mandrake] Linux

2004-02-16 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:08, Anne Wilson wrote: Chuck - could you please remove your reply-to line in Evolution? It causes replies to go to you instead of to the list. Oops. Done. -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?

2004-02-16 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 18:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:28, David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:38:00 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you David, yes I got a src rpm for k3b 0.11 here:

[newbie] concurrent sound while using 2 programs

2004-02-16 Thread Chungwei Hsiung
Hello everyone.. I have sound notification configured in gaim, but when I play music, all the notifications from gaim are gone. I remember this questions was asked before.. but I can't find it. any help is appreciated... Chungwei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Network down

2004-02-16 Thread Lexx
Remember last time this happened it was because you ran drakconnect and your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file lost its Wireless parameters. It looks as if the same thing has happened again since wlan0 appears to have encryption disabled. Yes, you are probably right - I will

Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?

2004-02-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:50, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 18:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:28, David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:38:00 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you David, yes I got a src rpm for k3b 0.11

[newbie] 'nother spamassassin question

2004-02-16 Thread Chris
I'm getting pretty familiar now with SA, have quite a few rules being used and its stopping about 99%, but my question is about bayes. Aren't the bayes scores supposed to be somewhere in the content analysis? I have the following in my local.cf for bayes, thanks Derek. # Enable the Bayes

Re: [newbie] 'nother spamassassin question

2004-02-16 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 17 Feb 2004 12:02 am, Chris wrote: I'm getting pretty familiar now with SA, have quite a few rules being used and its stopping about 99%, but my question is about bayes. Aren't the bayes scores supposed to be somewhere in the content analysis? I have the following in my local.cf

Re: [newbie] Network down

2004-02-16 Thread Lexx
Lexx Your DHCP is not working. You are not getting an IP address for wlan0 Remember last time this happened it was because you ran drakconnect and your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file lost its Wireless parameters. Nope, not this time. I checked that file and all seems to

Re: [newbie] Installing a linmodem

2004-02-16 Thread Steve Kaufman
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:19 pm, Olivier Esser wrote: Steve Kaufman wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to make my PCTEL winmodem work in MD9.2. I found the following page from google http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/pctel.html#INSTALLATION it talks about needing the source

Re: [newbie] Thanks and question re book(s) for learning [Mandrake] Linux

2004-02-16 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:39, Paul wrote: Have a look at the books by O'Reilly, like Running Linux. These are very good IMHO. Thanks, will check it out ... I received some links to some online docs, as well, but there's nothing like the smell of a thick tome fresh from the bookstore. :-)

Re: [newbie] 'nother spamassassin question

2004-02-16 Thread Chris
On Monday 16 February 2004 06:08 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 17 Feb 2004 12:02 am, Chris wrote: I'm getting pretty familiar now with SA, have quite a few rules being used and its stopping about 99%, but my question is about bayes. Aren't the bayes scores supposed to be somewhere in

Re: [newbie] Installing a linmodem

2004-02-16 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 21:37, Steve Kaufman wrote: Il faut installer les sources du noyau. Il y a un package kernel source dans MD9.2 *mais pas sur les CD* (regarde dans le directory mandrake 9.2 sur un des mirroirs officiels. Il est possible qu'il faille recompiler le noyau (j'ai du le

[newbie] Can't print/send link/page with Mozilla

2004-02-16 Thread Chris
This just happened out of the blue. Mozilla 1.1 just decided that it won't let me send any links, or pages, nor will it let me print. This just happened this evening after my son was looking for some parts for his car so possibly a page screwed something up. When going into composer I can

Re: [newbie] Thanks and question re book(s) for learning [Mandrake] Linux

2004-02-16 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:13:11 -0600 Chuck Mattsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:39, Paul wrote: Have a look at the books by O'Reilly, like Running Linux. These are very good IMHO. Thanks, will check it out ... I received some links to some online docs, as well, but

[newbie] omposer is missing from the menus: what is the command for running it?

2004-02-16 Thread Ramin
After updating to the lastest version of mozilla (thanks to Charles Edwards), the mozilla composer is missing from the menus. In this situation i have to open mozilla first and from there open the file in the composer which make things a bit uncomfortable. I would like to add the mozilla

[newbie] Which application for playing audio files *.cda´s?

2004-02-16 Thread Ramin
Hi, I can´t find which application under Linux can play audio files ending .cda. None of the standard ones like xmms, KsCD, Totem, Kaboodle, or Noatun that i have tried can handle such files. Regards, Ramin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Unknown bridge resource

2004-02-16 Thread Norbi
Hi, I have Mandrake8.2. So far it was running on an old PC without any problem. Recently I purchased a new maschine and installed 8.2 again. Now there are one major problem: During boot Mandrake says: Unknown bridge resource:0 Assuming transparent. I think it has something to do with the

Re: [newbie]

2004-02-16 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 01:49 am, Happy wrote: subscribe newbie subscribe expert ... *Bangs head* -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://www.cannibalholocaust.net

[newbie] noflushd and kupdate error

2004-02-16 Thread rajive aggarwal
Hi, I am using Mandrake 9.2 on my laptop which I have configured as a firewall and want to minimise hard disk spin-ups to minimise noise and wear on a system that is on 24x7. I have installed kupdate with a default time-out of 10 minutes. Problem: my system logs are filled with the following

Re: [newbie] Which application for playing audio files *.cda´s?

2004-02-16 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 08:32, Ramin wrote: Hi, I can´t find which application under Linux can play audio files ending .cda. None of the standard ones like xmms, KsCD, Totem, Kaboodle, or Noatun that i have tried can handle such files. Regards, Ramin Ramin, .cda files aren't

Re: [newbie] 'nother spamassassin question

2004-02-16 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 17 Feb 2004 1:18 am, Chris wrote: On Monday 16 February 2004 06:08 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 17 Feb 2004 12:02 am, Chris wrote: I'm getting pretty familiar now with SA, have quite a few rules being used and its stopping about 99%, but my question is about bayes.