Re: [newbie] Install problem

2004-11-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 03:39, Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) 3 options: 1)Over a network connection using the

Re: [newbie] Broadband router

2004-11-17 Thread Keith Powell
On Tuesday 16 Nov 2004 21:43, Margot wrote: amalasingh wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a broadband router compatible with UK BT based ISPs. I have supanet broadband. I have trouble with connecting from Mandrake since the ISP only supports Windows. Cheers Amala Singh Netgear

Re: [newbie] Install problem

2004-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) My Son in Law and I fiddled around with an old IBM thinkpad whose rom was broken. In

[newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Thread Peter Watson
For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the time, ie half of the time I am unable to connect to the internet with dialup and half I am not. I have disabled the

Re: [newbie] Install problem

2004-11-17 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) My Son in Law and I

Re: [newbie] Broadband router

2004-11-17 Thread kevin ferguson
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 21:11, amalasingh wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a broadband router compatible with UK BT based ISPs. I have supanet broadband. I have trouble with connecting from Mandrake since the ISP only supports Windows. Cheers Amala Singh There is a

Re: [newbie] anyone have a dwl122 working with 10.1 ppc?

2004-11-17 Thread Lincoln Rutledge
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:28:47 +0100, H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tuesday 16 November 2004 22:09, Lincoln Rutledge wrote: I have a dwl122 Dlink 802.11b usb dongle and an iBook. It's a prism2 chipset, supposed to be supported by linux wlan-ng. Does anyone have this working on

Re: [newbie] urpmi - file not found - FIXED

2004-11-17 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 04:01 am, Margot wrote: I'm getting the same problem. I've tried several urpmi sources, and tried rpm --rebuilddb each time, and still get the same response. On this occasion, I think it's *them* and not *us*. If we wait a couple of days, maybe they'll fix

Re: [newbie] Problem with Firefox

2004-11-17 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 04:49 pm, Iago González Rúa wrote: I have de same problem on Suse 9.1 and debian 3.1. I found this: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89736 Wow, thank you very much Gonzalez! I added '%u' into the exec line in

[newbie] urpm

2004-11-17 Thread Tim
Hello, I normally Lurk n Learn, but I'm a bit confused at the moment. How do you know what update you need? For example: Mandrake update might offer a list of updates for various bits of software BUT how do i know which updates i need? How do i compare whats on my system against the update

Re: [newbie] urpm

2004-11-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 15:40, Tim wrote: Hello, I normally Lurk n Learn, but I'm a bit confused at the moment. How do you know what update you need? For example: Mandrake update might offer a list of updates for various bits of software BUT how do i know which updates i need? How

Re: [newbie] urpm

2004-11-17 Thread mikkel
Hello, I normally Lurk n Learn, but I'm a bit confused at the moment. How do you know what update you need? For example: Mandrake update might offer a list of updates for various bits of software BUT how do i know which updates i need? How do i compare whats on my system against the

Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup?

2004-11-17 Thread scottclansman
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 01:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry folks, but I googled this forever and never found a howto basic enough for my newbieness. I've never setup a mail server before, and have given up on trying to install QMail (If you have any tips, let me know) on my

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 13:12, Peter Watson wrote: For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the time, ie half of the time I am unable to connect to the

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-17 Thread scottclansman
I shoulda done a little more research before posting; I realize now that Sendmail isn't what I need. Okay, so I need a POP3 server. Only a POP3 server; the corporation I'm setting this up for will have it's own SMTP server. Any recommendations for POP3 servers (Open-source, preferably)?

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 16:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 13:12, Peter Watson wrote: For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the

Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup?

2004-11-17 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Sorry about the misunderstanding; I shoulda looked more into what I'm talking about before I posted. I don't run the network of the company I'm setting this up for, but I have a web server on their internet connection (It was an I give you cheap website construction:You give me

Re: [newbie] anyone have a dwl122 working with 10.1 ppc?

2004-11-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 15:19, Lincoln Rutledge wrote: HarM, That is a great tip!  When I plug in the device under Mandrake, it loads the prism2 module, but yeah, iwconfig and ifconfig do nothing. Unfortunately neither apropos nor the iwconfig docs helped me.  But I will investigate

Re: [newbie] POP3? (Was Sendmail Setup?)

2004-11-17 Thread Rene Borchers
Hi, I think you should have a look at the courier site http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html it looks like it could be the solution to you problem. mandrake has: Name: courier-imap-pop Version : 2.1.2 Release : 1mdk Group : System/Servers Size: 66007

[newbie] Kernel SOurce

2004-11-17 Thread Manaxus
Hello, I am trying to work with version 9.1 with respect to device driver development and I chose to install kernel source upon installation but I cannot find ANY .c file. The headers are there, but none of the .cs. When I searched I was logged in as root user, searching from the /

Re: [newbie] urpm

2004-11-17 Thread Tim
Thats great i didn't realize it was so user friendly (Mandrake update i mean) :-) Thank you everybody Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Kernel SOurce

2004-11-17 Thread mikkel
Hello, I am trying to work with version 9.1 with respect to device driver development and I chose to install kernel source upon installation but I cannot find ANY .c file. The headers are there, but none of the .c's. When I searched I was logged in as root user, searching from the /

Re: [newbie] Kernel SOurce

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
Hi, It should be in /usr/src/linux which is linked to /usr/src/name_of_kernel-source.mkd tsw --- Manaxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to work with version 9.1 with respect to device driver development and I chose to install kernel source upon installation but I

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Thread mikkel
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 16:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 13:12, Peter Watson wrote: For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the

Re: [newbie] Ports question

2004-11-17 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:20, hackhound wrote: My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP address. My DSL modem/router is configured only to allow ports 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP) to passthough to my ML9.2 box. I ran Nmap to confirm this, and it came back saying that ports 23 (Telnet) and 80 were open. I

RE: [newbie] Kernel SOurce

2004-11-17 Thread Manaxus
Hi guys, thanks for the responses. I checked in /usr/src/linux before I wrote to the list and there were no symlinks and there were no /usr/src/name_of_kernel-source.mdk either. I went back to my install of 10.0 and verified that it should be there so I am assuming that even though I selected

Re: [newbie] Digital camera Mandrake?

2004-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
These days, however, almost all new (quality) cameras have the ability to be mounted as a USB portable drive, which the industry (or at least Canon) refers to as PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol). Are you able to mount canon cameras as removable drives? My powershot A80 works great with

Re: [newbie] Ports question

2004-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 20:34, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:20, hackhound wrote: My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP address. My DSL modem/router is configured only to allow ports 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP) to passthough to my ML9.2 box. I ran Nmap to confirm this, and it came

Re: [newbie] Ports question

2004-11-17 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 09:34, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 20:34, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:20, hackhound wrote: My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP address. My DSL modem/router is configured only to allow ports 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP) to passthough to my

[newbie] Firefox Mouse Config

2004-11-17 Thread JoeHill
Hey all, I've tried every entry in about:config I can think of, and I can't modify the default scroll, ie. number of lines. I successfully set the 'alt' modifier to speed it up, but I would like the default scroll to be a lot faster. I've tried it with 'smooth scrolling' both on and off. Anyone

[newbie] Port this to Linux...LOL!

2004-11-17 Thread JoeHill
Quote: Although it provided few details about the software, which will soon be available for download from an MPAA site, the movie industry group said its software will help users remove copyright infringing movies, music, other files or P2P applications.

Re: [newbie] Firefox Mouse Config

2004-11-17 Thread mike
JoeHill wrote: Hey all, I've tried every entry in about:config I can think of, and I can't modify the default scroll, ie. number of lines. I successfully set the 'alt' modifier to speed it up, but I would like the default scroll to be a lot faster. I've tried it with 'smooth scrolling'

[newbie] Hard Drive Activity Indicator on KDE Panel?

2004-11-17 Thread Sevatio O.
Is there such an application that sits in the KDE Panel that shows harddrive activity? Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Firefox Mouse Config

2004-11-17 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:43:45 -0700 mike disseminated the following: mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlinesuserset boolean false Ack! I missed that one. Many thanks! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:19:49 up 2:50, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.73, 0.71

[newbie] How to host a video conference

2004-11-17 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi folks, Is there any package that I can use to host a video conference on the network, which the client I intend to use is gnomeeting. I've search freshmeat but haven't got any. Thanks. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 10:23:11 up 3 min, Mandrakelinux

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thursday 18 November 2004 03:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like you are setting a default route when you bring up eth0. If that is the case, then it will not be changed when you do the dialup connection. This is because pppd does not override the default route, but will set

[newbie] net work install of mandrake

2004-11-17 Thread Aron Smith
I have a fre compaq laptop I would like to install MdK on it problem being no cdrom drive no network card it does have an LS120 drive tho Anybody know of a guide to installing this box? BTW the WinBlows installation is borked but I can boot it in command line mode --

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Thread mikkel
On Thursday 18 November 2004 03:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like you are setting a default route when you bring up eth0. If that is the case, then it will not be changed when you do the dialup connection. This is because pppd does not override the default route, but will set

Re: [newbie] Ports question

2004-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 22:44, Stephen Kühn wrote: On the router itself you should (SHOULD) be able to setup port-forwarding - this allows a connection attempt at whatever port to be forwarded to a machine's IP on your internal LAN - for instance, on my router, I have port 80 forwarded to my

Re: [newbie] How to host a video conference

2004-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 18 Nov 2004 03:24, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, Is there any package that I can use to host a video conference on the network, which the client I intend to use is gnomeeting. I've search freshmeat but haven't got any. Thanks. Try asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne -- Registered

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 18 Nov 2004 04:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 03:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have encountered this problem too. The network in my office and home is different in respect of network class and thus subnet and default gw. So, to make things