Re: [newbie] Kernel source

2004-08-06 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 02:40, J. Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo, stephen > > I got the VMware patch. I want to get it in RPM file because its easier > for me to install because i am not an expert in linux. And how can I get > te mdk kernelsource (rpm) and do I need to compile it. can you give me >

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-06 Thread Len Lawrence
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:40:56 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > > Further to that. The router is now plugged in and running fine. > > Apart from service network restart there was very little action > > required. The hostname reverted to localhost.d

Re: [newbie] .ogg serial numbers

2004-08-06 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:42:32 -0400 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:25:01AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? > > > > I have two gb that I just noticed a sn in the tag. No > > particular care abo

Re: [newbie] Configuring CD-ROM for both gnome-toaster and Totem

2004-08-06 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:39:17 -0400 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:14 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: > > In order to use gnome-toaster to burn CDs, I appear to need > > "hdc=ide-scsi" in my kernel parms, and then I specify /dev/scd0 as > > the recording device.   I t

Re: [newbie] Kernel source

2004-08-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 06 August 2004 12:40 pm, J. Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo, stephen > > I got the VMware patch. I want to get it in RPM file because its easier > for me to install because i am not an expert in linux. And how can I get > te mdk kernelsource (rpm) and do I need to compile it. can you give me

Re: [newbie] Tight VNC

2004-08-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 06 August 2004 11:27 am, J. Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo guys > I tried to configure TVNC (tight). I got the server dialogbox. I typed > my No-IP adress (example www. mybox.noip.com) but it gives me this > message on the taskbar "seccion shell exited with status 1" Do I need to > configur

[newbie] Kernel source

2004-08-06 Thread J. Gregory Croes
Hallo, stephen I got the VMware patch. I want to get it in RPM file because its easier for me to install because i am not an expert in linux. And how can I get te mdk kernelsource (rpm) and do I need to compile it. can you give me some hint? Regards, Gregory

[newbie] Tight VNC

2004-08-06 Thread J. Gregory Croes
Hallo guys I tried to configure TVNC (tight). I got the server dialogbox. I typed my No-IP adress (example www. mybox.noip.com) but it gives me this message on the taskbar "seccion shell exited with status 1" Do I need to configure RFBdrake to use it with TVNC? What are the steps i need to take.

[newbie] Updates

2004-08-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
Newly updated rpms for Mdk 10.0 cdrecord-2.01-0.a35.0.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-cdda2wav-2.01-0.a35.0.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-devel-2.01-0.a35.0.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-isotools-2.01-0.a35.0.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-vanilla-2.01-0.a35.0.1mdk.i586.rpm gaim-0.81-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-encrypt-0.81-0.2md

[newbie] Dell Poweredge 700 and 10.0

2004-08-06 Thread Nurv
Just purchased two new Poweredge 700s, and have tried to install MDK 10.0C(ommunity)E(dition). Some interesting issues came up: - I have installed same distribution on other (non-Dell) machines, with no problem (i.e. CDs are good) - I have installed previous versions of various Linux distros on

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting harddrive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 06 August 2004 15:39, Tomas Tudja wrote: > BTW who is using yahoo mail with a box called mdk for messages from > this list? :> > > Tomas Tudja > 136 Church Road > N17 8AJ > London, UK > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hysteria.sk/catcher > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting harddrive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 06 August 2004 23:14, Tomas Tudja wrote: > What attention? I don't understand... Did I wrote something wrong > again? Yes and no. Like Lyvim said, this list is for Linux-Mandrake Newbies. Some of us have been here for years and still consider ourselves newbies. On this list most of us

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin Ferguson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Further to that. The router is now plugged in and running fine. Apart from service network restart there was very little action required. The hostname reverted to localhost.domain so /etc/hosts needed to be modified, and that was that. I am impress

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin Ferguson
Len Lawrence wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:04:37 +0100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Len Lawrence Sent: Thu 8/5/2004 10:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router? On Thu, 0

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting harddrive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Tomas Tudja
What attention? I don't understand... Did I wrote something wrong again? >Tomas attention! -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux user #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakest

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting harddrive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 06 August 2004 15:39, Tomas Tudja wrote: > BTW who is using yahoo mail with a box called mdk for messages from > this list? :> > > Tomas Tudja > 136 Church Road > N17 8AJ > London, UK > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hysteria.sk/catcher > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting harddrive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 06 August 2004 15:36, Tomas Tudja wrote: > I was thinking and studing about the disk wiping topic and find out > some things... > > Disk pattern is a ferromagnetic plate. "Empty spaces" are positions > on this plate, where a disk heads are writing the bits. The bits are > writing by very

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting harddrive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Tomas Tudja
BTW who is using yahoo mail with a box called mdk for messages from this list? :> Tomas Tudja 136 Church Road N17 8AJ London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hysteria.sk/catcher -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomas Tudja Sent: 06 August 2004

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting harddrive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Tomas Tudja
I was thinking and studing about the disk wiping topic and find out some things... Disk pattern is a ferromagnetic plate. "Empty spaces" are positions on this plate, where a disk heads are writing the bits. The bits are writing by very simple process - there is a little electro-magnet on the disk

Re: [newbie] phpSysinfo - nice to have but how does it work?

2004-08-06 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
Bambang, >> BUT: last question: I can only see the "sum" of /home: registered >> users are not represented in detail for I am planning to use this tool >> for users to check their quotas on their own... >> > > if for that you should install webmin > webmin have capability for editing users

[Fwd: Laptop CPU Temps (WAS: Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup)]

2004-08-06 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sympa bounced this once (see below); hopefully, this time it'll make it. :-\ - Original Message Subject: Laptop CPU Temps (WAS: Re: [newbie] [EMAIL PROTECTED] install/setup) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:00:15 -0500 From: Chuck MATTSEN <[

Re: [newbie] phpSysinfo - nice to have but how does it work?

2004-08-06 Thread Bambang Gunawan
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 20:48:53 +0200, Harald T ZIPKO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --/* snip */-- > > BUT: last question: I can only see the "sum" of /home: registered > users are not represented in detail for I am planning to use this tool > for users to check their quotas on their own... > if for

Re: [newbie] phpSysinfo - nice to have but how does it work?

2004-08-06 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
Bambang, ... > http://localhost/admin/phpSysInfo that's it! Thank you and thank you and th... ;-) > actual path of your phpsysinfo file locate at /var/www/html/admin/phpSysInfo BUT: last question: I can only see the "sum" of /home: registered users are not represented in detail for I am pla

Re: [newbie] phpSysinfo - nice to have but how does it work?

2004-08-06 Thread Bambang Gunawan
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 20:03:11 +0200, Harald T ZIPKO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bambang, > > > are you running web server in your box? > > Yes I do. > > > you can read README file at /usr/share/doc/phpSysInfo-/ or > > I will do it ;-) (never thought of this before...) > > > you can see http://p

Re: [newbie] Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie

2004-08-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 10:31:10, C. Tresenriter wrote: > I must have misunderstood you. > > I have kde set to save the session when booting up and had the > folding client running in a terminal on an unused desktop but on > rebooting it didn't start.

Re: [newbie] Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie

2004-08-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 10:31:10, C. Tresenriter wrote: > I must have misunderstood you. > > I have kde set to save the session when booting up and had the > folding client running in a terminal on an unused desktop but on > rebooting it didn't start.

Re: [newbie] Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie

2004-08-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 10:31:10, C. Tresenriter wrote: > I must have misunderstood you. > > I have kde set to save the session when booting up and had the > folding client running in a terminal on an unused desktop but on > rebooting it didn't start.

Re: [newbie] phpSysinfo - nice to have but how does it work?

2004-08-06 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
Bambang, > are you running web server in your box? Yes I do. > you can read README file at /usr/share/doc/phpSysInfo-/ or I will do it ;-) (never thought of this before...) > you can see http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/ Well, I tried to find something useful there but obviously I didn't...

Re: [newbie] phpSysinfo - nice to have but how does it work?

2004-08-06 Thread Bambang Gunawan
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:26:14 +0200, Harald T ZIPKO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed phpSysinfo with rpmdrake - ok. so what do I have to do > in order to get it running properly on a 10.0 official box?# > > MANY thanks in advance... > -- --/* snip */-- are you running web server in you

[newbie] phpSysinfo - nice to have but how does it work?

2004-08-06 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
I just installed phpSysinfo with rpmdrake - ok. so what do I have to do in order to get it running properly on a 10.0 official box?# MANY thanks in advance... -- (o> Best regards //\Harald T ZIPKO V_/_ please no html - mails --

[newbie] SOLVED - port 22 : Connection refused

2004-08-06 Thread Johan Sch
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:38:22 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johan Sch wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I have the following hardware and OS'ses.. > > > >Gateway .. running Suse 9.0 with a firewall setup > >Laptop .. running Suse 9.1 with a firewall setup. > > > >Workstation .. r

[newbie] webmin-quota does not work after upgrading webmin to 1.51

2004-08-06 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
... is there any known problem? its obvious that after upgrading webmin 1.21 (included in mdk 10.0) to the official webmin 1.5x quota refuses to set quota definitions properly :-o ? -- (o> Best regards //\Harald T ZIPKO V_/_ please no html - mails -- _

Re: [newbie] MDK to dial a phone through a voice modem and play a wav file

2004-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, Is it possible for Mandrake to dial a number from it's modem and play a wav file (or any other file) to the person that answers? If so is it easy? Thanks, Tony. It depends on the modem. Take a look at the mgetty+voice package. If your modem has voice support, and is

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Len Lawrence wrote: Further to that. The router is now plugged in and running fine. Apart from service network restart there was very little action required. The hostname reverted to localhost.domain so /etc/hosts needed to be modified, and that was that. I am impressed. I did not bother to cl

[newbie] Starting folding at home automatically... Charlie

2004-08-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
I must have misunderstood you. I have kde set to save the session when booting up and had the folding client running in a terminal on an unused desktop but on rebooting it didn't start. Obviously there's something else I need to do. What is it I'm missing? Curt _

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestarter is running?

2004-08-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 09:08:09, Paul Smith wrote: > > > > Absolutely and without question Yes. Just a matter of the right Rules > > used for NetFilter. > > Thanks, Charlie. I wish I knew what rules I should set on... and I have > already consulted

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:08:42 -0600 Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 06 August 2004 04:42:04, C. Tresenriter wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:16:11 -0600 > > > > Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for remin

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-06 Thread Paul Smith
Charlie Mahan wrote: Thanks, Dan. I have iptables installed on my computer. However, at the site www.grc.com, it says that the majority of my ports are closed and not stealth. Is it really possible to get all ports stealth? Absolutely and without question Yes. Just a matter of the right Rules used

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread simon
> simon wrote: > > I installed the rpm then as root ran hcfpciconfig Julie, as your modem is an hsf type you might have to run hsfpciconfig, not the hcfpciconfig that was for my hcf type modem. Simon. -- Registered Linux user number 359744. ___

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Friday 06 August 2004 15:44, Julie Sloan wrote: > simon wrote: > > On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: > >>now in GUI... > >>in MCC -> hardware -> hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as > >>"unknown device." > >> > >>in MCC -> network -> make new connection ...I tell it modem, co

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 05:35:05, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Dan. I have iptables installed on my computer. However, at the > site www.grc.com, it says that the majority of my ports are closed and > not stealth. Is it really possible to get all port

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 August 2004 04:42:04, C. Tresenriter wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:16:11 -0600 > > Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for reminding me! I totally forgot to turn the protein > > folding back on when I switched to the new

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 06 August 2004 09:28 am, Julie Sloan wrote: > I gather serial vs USB is the keyword here? (sorry - I'm *completely* > ignorant. People probably wonder why I'm not on AOL :)) Serial as in, connects to the computer serial port which is the more traditional port for analog modem co

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 06 August 2004 08:44, Julie Sloan wrote: > simon wrote: > > On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: > >>now in GUI... > >>in MCC -> hardware -> hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as > >>"unknown device." > >> > >>in MCC -> network -> make new connection ...I tell it modem, co

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: now in GUI... in MCC -> hardware -> hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as "unknown device." in MCC -> network -> make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 (yes, 3), automatic on the IP, DNS, etc Julie, as the Mandrake Control Ce

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: The modem's a conexant hsf and I've d/l'd the apropriate driver from the linuxant site into the window$ partition Hi Julie, I have a Conexant modem running on Mdk10. It is an hcf modem and I also downloaded the driver from the Linuxant

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 09:34, Julie Sloan wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > http://pricewatch.com and search for external 56k modem and you will find a > > list of places that are currently selling a cendyne external serial modem for > > around $17 US. Granted, that is not a top of the line mo

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
Bryan Phinney wrote: http://pricewatch.com and search for external 56k modem and you will find a list of places that are currently selling a cendyne external serial modem for around $17 US. Granted, that is not a top of the line modem, but it uses an equivalent chipset to a Zoom external seria

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 06 August 2004 05:54 am, simon wrote: Julie, as the Mandrake Control Centre didn't recognise my hcf modem, it would not configure my internet connection properly. I used Kppp dialer instead and manually configured (most settings are default). http://pricewatch.com a

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: PS I am here because someone on the linuxchix mailing list said this is a good forum for newbies Glad you made it over here, Julie - welcome! Margot Thanks for pointing me here, Margot - you probably thought I forgot. That's why I seem to have so much clutter in

Re: [newbie] .ogg serial numbers

2004-08-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:25:01AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: > Hi all > > Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? > > I have two gb that I just noticed a sn in the tag. No particular > care about it, but it seems intrusive or prohibitive, or something. Use something to edit the t

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Gordon
On Friday 06 August 2004 07:35 am, Paul Smith wrote: > > Thanks, Dan. I have iptables installed on my computer. However, at > the site www.grc.com, it says that the majority of my ports are > closed and not stealth. Is it really possible to get all ports > stealth? > Yes it is, as long as you not r

Re: [newbie] Program to convert wma files into mp3 ones

2004-08-06 Thread Paul Smith
Paul Smith wrote: PS: >> Is there some program to convert wma files into mp3 ones? PS: >> PS: > #!/bin/bash PS: > mplayer "$1" -ao pcm -vc null -vo null PS: > lame --r3mix audiodump.wav "`basename "$1" .wma`.mp3" change the options on lame. Take a look at: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting harddrive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Tomas Tudja
Hmm... I was hating MS products just as rest of you (2 or 3 years ago) and was using debian/freeBSD/mdk ONLY. But... I find winxp2k2 as a very good OS (stable, nice, supported). I understand, why is everybody from here upset with MS, I was using win98, winme and theese systems really sucks. But it

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Tomas Tudja
Woold you please describe me the way, how the virus/worm/anykindofinfection comes to my winxp2k2 installation or how can a worm use a bug in outlook? (off course, no virus can reach even my remotely located mailbox because of strong antivirus and spam assisin system on mail server I am using... To

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-06 Thread Paul Smith
Dan Gordon wrote: Sorry for my ignorance, Dan, but where to find the iptables and how to install them? In a termial as root type "urpmi iptables" without the quotes. It may ask you for one of the instalation cd's, and it will be installed. Thanks, Dan. I have iptables installed on my computer. H

[newbie] .ogg serial numbers

2004-08-06 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hi all Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? I have two gb that I just noticed a sn in the tag. No particular care about it, but it seems intrusive or prohibitive, or something. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from Man

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Gordon
On Friday 06 August 2004 06:28 am, Paul Smith wrote: > > Sorry for my ignorance, Dan, but where to find the iptables and how > to install them? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul In a termial as root type "urpmi iptables" without the quotes. It may ask you for one of the instalation cd's, and it w

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 06 August 2004 05:54 am, simon wrote: > Julie, as the Mandrake Control Centre didn't recognise my hcf modem, > it would not configure my internet connection properly. I used Kppp > dialer instead and manually configured (most settings are default). Thought that I would mention this real

Re: [newbie] TightVNC ssh

2004-08-06 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 05 August 2004 08:41 am, J. Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo, bryan. > > How can I setup Tight VNC ssh on my mandrake box? I will prefer an gui > installation. If not can you show me an easy way to installed via > commandline? I am a newbie. Forgive me if my question sucks. I posted a link

[newbie] MDK to dial a phone through a voice modem and play a wav file

2004-08-06 Thread Tony S. Sykes
All, Is it possible for Mandrake to dial a number from it's modem and play a wav file (or any other file) to the person that answers? If so is it easy? Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is c

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-06 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:16:11 -0600 Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for reminding me! I totally forgot to turn the protein > folding back on when I switched to the new machine. Woops. Two > weeks lost. Thank {Deity} the old system is still chugging away. > > Charlie > - -- I

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-06 Thread Paul Smith
Dan Gordon wrote: Chris, if you have just turned iptables back on did you reboot? it might help, also did you re-run the firestarter wizard? this may also help. All I have ever done was install iptables, then firestarter and reboot, then run the wizard and it was all steath. I have verified

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread simon
On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: > > now in GUI... > in MCC -> hardware -> hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as > "unknown device." > > in MCC -> network -> make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 > (yes, 3), automatic on the IP, DNS, etc > Julie, as the Mandrake Control

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-06 Thread German Guillot
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:33:41 -0400, Bill Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you see this post? I'm not convinced you are > exporting the DISPLAY variable. Can you post your > script? Yeah, I saw it. Sorry I didn't reply at the time, I was busy trying out all sorts of things and a bit overw

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-06 Thread Len Lawrence
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:04:37 +0100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Len Lawrence > Sent: Thu 8/5/2004 10:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: > Subject: Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router? > On Thu, 05 Aug 200

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread simon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: > The modem's a conexant hsf and I've d/l'd the apropriate driver > from the linuxant site into the window$ partition Hi Julie, I have a Conexant modem running on Mdk10. It is an hcf modem and I also do

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Margot
Julie Sloan wrote: Hi - my first post to this forum. I've been trying to inhale all the information out there and so far have made it through just a few of the info & man pages. I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but trying to make this work from the KDE GUI) dual

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Margot
Julie Sloan wrote: Julie PS I am here because someone on the linuxchix mailing list said this is a good forum for newbies to learn - and I've already found lotsa nice links in the links section. the "top ten commands" site has been especially helpful so far. Glad you made it over here, Juli

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 05 August 2004 22:33, Julie Sloan wrote: > Hi - my first post to this forum. I've been trying to inhale all the > information out there and so far have made it through just a few of > the info & man pages. > > I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but > trying

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 August 2004 23:50:11, Len Lawrence wrote: > Know what you mean. My laptop overheats as well. Watching DVDs is a pain > on my Sony VAIO because it freezes after an hour or so into the film. I > rarely run mine anyway for longer than t

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 05 August 2004 22:10, Dan Gordon wrote: > On Thursday 05 August 2004 09:06 pm, you wrote: > > You really have me confused now Dan :( Attached is my firewall.sh > > file from /etc/firestarter. To me it seems to have rules already > > in it. I turned iptables back on, checked at grc.co