Re: [newbie] Where to report incorect hardware identification?

2004-06-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 14 Jun 2004 15:48, David A. Ferguson wrote: Where to report incorect hardware identification? Mandrake 10 official is loading the wrong ethernet driver. The text in the 'Notice' is correct. It is a: Davicom Ethernet 100/10 MBit DM1902 The 'tulip' driver is incorrectly

Re: [newbie] Forbbiden

2004-06-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 18:52, OOzy wrote: H, after solving the issue of linking my windows html (/mnt/Win/www) to /var/www/html, I got another issue which is when I run my browser (127.0.0.1) I get a forbbiden msg. However, when I type cd /var/www/html I go directly to /mnt/Win/www) so what

Re: [newbie] clamav error

2004-06-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 11 Jun 2004 21:15, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Kindly see..ERROR.. how can I fix this please. The first update this same error showed .. I created an empty file by that name in /etc dir. Maybe something else should be done? ** ClamAV update process started at Fri Jun 11 22:05:59 2004

Re: [newbie] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???

2004-06-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 12 Jun 2004 05:36, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:00:39 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggestions for a package manager? The down side is that I have a 56Kb Modem to use to get the updates. Well, a package manager per se is really a database front end,

Re: [newbie] Apache Startup problems

2004-06-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 12 Jun 2004 10:16, Job Evers wrote: I cannot get Apache to start. I also don't have any idea what is going wrong since it says that it starts ok. Any advice would be lovely. [EMAIL PROTECTED] jobevers]# apachectl status Apache is *not* running. Use /usr/sbin/apachectl

Re: [newbie] What is Cooker?

2004-06-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 12 Jun 2004 12:14, OOzy wrote: What is the difference between cooker programs and regular once? Cooker is the 'bleeding edge' Mandrake distro. It changes daily, and will sometimes contain packages which contain nasty bugs. Because Cooker packages are compiled using the cooker

Re: [newbie] .tar.gz

2004-06-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 11 Jun 2004 16:29, Cookie wrote: try tar zxvf file On 11 Jun 2004, at 16:24, OOzy wrote: How to extract .tar.gz file. I tried tar -xvf file but no help Or click on it with konqueror derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] libcrypto.so.0

2004-06-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 11 Jun 2004 16:52, OOzy wrote: I am trying to install glimmer but it requires libcrypto.so.0. What is this and where can I find it? Go here http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php Follow the instructions to install software sources for 'contrib', 'plf' and 'updates' Then either type

Re: [newbie] allow users to halt from comman line

2004-06-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 10 Jun 2004 07:22, Eric Huff wrote: How do you allow users to halt from the command line? I've seen the click box a million times, but now i can't find it! Or, where is the config file? I just did a fairly minimal install on a box with ML 10.0, and it doesn't allow user halt by

Re: [newbie] A good fax program

2004-06-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 10 Jun 2004 10:02, OOzy wrote: LG Where can I find a good fax program to send faxed from my LM9.2 You already have one installed. Whenever you print a file look in the drop down list of available printers. One of them is Print to fax That will open up KdePrintFax Before you can

Re: [newbie] Unable to connect to DSL

2004-06-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 04:51, Edward See wrote: Hi list, A pleasant day to you all. I'm rather new to linux. We had setup a mandrake linux as proxy server with static IP to a DSL connection. I had done the following: Network Card Configuration: ifconfig eth0 222.126.25.250 netmask

Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office

2004-06-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 21:51, OOzy wrote: What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much functionality. BR Open Office is very similar to MS Office. It has 90% of the same functinality, it can read and

Re: [newbie] Problems installing libstdc++ library?

2004-06-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 22:28, Jason Wilson wrote: Hello Folks, First off, I'm running the latest and greatest Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official. I seem to be experiencing difficulty getting a library installed in /usr/lib. I downloaded AIM 1.5 for Linux and I cannot install it because I have an

Re: [newbie] can not connect to the internet

2004-06-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 04:32, Bob Marly wrote: Do you have more than 1 network interface? I have only one nic. Take a look at /etc/sysconfig/network You should have the line GATEWAYDEV=eth0(assuming you connect via eth0) All it sais is networking=yes Also open a terminal enter 'su'

Re: [newbie] My KDE 3.1 (LM9.2) Fancy Menu is gone

2004-06-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 05:26, OOzy wrote: Ya but how? The menu I have has minimum items. The one b4 has many items. I can't even go to Terminal, there is no icon for it - Original Message - From: Pedro Blom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 11:24

Re: [newbie] Jerry-riging unsupported motherboard

2004-06-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 22:39, Eric Scott wrote: Yo, I have a box with an ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard that I assembled myself. {The computer, not the motherboard ;-)} I'm almost positive that ASUS doesn't have linux drivers for this product, and I don't really need them terribly, as

Re: [newbie] can not connect to the internet

2004-06-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 01:31, Bob Marly wrote: modem: external 3com cable modem isp: charter nic: Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC Problem: Mandrake recognises my ethernet card just fine; however, I can not connect to the interenet. I told it to use dhcp to configure all the

Re: [newbie] Networking 2 Linux PCs

2004-06-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 01:16, Steve wrote: Okay, I am not a network person but, I have two home computers running Madrake 10.0 connected to a D-Link wireless router and I want them to be able to share files on each other. How hard is it going to be to accomplish this and where do I start?

Re: [newbie] Strange boot options

2004-06-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 11:06 pm, Brian Meadows wrote: ... Thanks for the info, but I'm still not convinced. If this constant disk access really is normal for a Linux system, I'm going to buy shares in some hard drive manufacturers! The Ext3 file system will cause disc activity every 5

Re: [newbie] no MX found?

2004-06-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 05:05, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, When I tried to send email from yahoo to my domain, I got error: Message from yahoo.com. Unable to deliver message to the following address(es). [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 runs, no Inet connect

2004-06-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 21:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have mdk10 running on the machine now. Most things look okay (although as user I can't run OpenOffice install, but I saw a thread on that). Problem I face now: in gkrellm I see that there is an internet connect running.

Re: [newbie] how to get rpmdrake to work

2004-06-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 23:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I have problems with downloading rpm with rpmdrake. I have read the manual, copy paste the location of the ftp server from mandrake, put username and password and still no results. Can you guys help me out I like to download freevo

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 and apache2

2004-06-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 10:04, Klemens Arro wrote: Hi, I am trying to install apache on my router. When I compiled a new apache from source, it worked perfectly. But I want to use Mandrake rpm's (next time is easier to update). When I install apache rpm's and try to run it (httpd2 -k

Re: [newbie] getting new programs in the menu

2004-06-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 14:30, Thinker wrote: OK.. got that. Now, how do I find a list of all the available programs on my machine and the commands that execute them? On Jun 2, 2004, at 8:59 AM, PM wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 15:52, Thinker wrote: Hello All, I have been

Re: [newbie] missing httpd

2004-06-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 15:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to start http server on Mmandrake 10. I run /etc/init.d/httpd and nothing happens. I did a set -x in the script and this fails if [ -x $SBIN/$HTTPD -a ! -e $HTTPDPID ]; then I see that $SBIN/$HTTPD == /usr/sbin/httpd .

Re: [newbie] Strange boot options

2004-06-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 22:37, brian wrote: snip So most of those I understand, but anyone know what the numeric entries represent? Second question - 9.1 ran just fine on this PC (600 MHz PIII, 512 MB of memory) but once I'd installed 10.0 I noticed a lot of disk thrashing going on. I ran

Re: [newbie] Backing Up MDK 10.0 Partition

2004-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 31 May 2004 19:28, John Rathmann wrote: Can someone please tell me which package(s) are for backing up the Mandrake 10.0 ext2 partition (mirror image), and also for restoring it, if needed? In Windows ME, I use PowerQuest's Drive Image, which works extremely well, and I am looking

Re: [newbie] 10.0 and laptop modem [soundcard].

2004-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 31 May 2004 21:26, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I've just installed 10.0 on a Hewlett Packard OmniBook 4150 that I got gratis (i.e., as is, no manuals etc.). It has an Ethernet/modem card Identified as Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 on PCI a bus 2:0:0. Under unknowns there

Re: [newbie] Pop-up Blocker in Epiphany

2004-05-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 30 May 2004 22:23, Matt Harrison wrote: Is there a pop-up blocker for Epiphany. I found some sources on a web site, but I have been unable to get them to work. Thanks for any help you can provide. I am running 10.0 Official and Gnome. -Matt Dunno. But if you install privoxy (in

Re: [newbie] Remote Kontact

2004-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 27 May 2004 23:38, Klemens Arro wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2004 08:02, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 26, 2004 12:35 pm, robin a écrit : Klemens Arro wrote: Hy, I was wondering if there is a way to use my Kontact over web. So I could read my mail, check my appointments,

Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?

2004-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 28 May 2004 03:08, Terence Golightly wrote: List, Where do I begin? First was having no local mail delivery. I thought I'd install Postfix. So I went to Derek Jennings web site. Nice, but I just have a standalone machine with an ADSL connection. I read some of the docs setup

Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?

2004-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 28 May 2004 23:42, Terence Golightly wrote: SNIP Which file do I use to set this variable? I was using webmin to attempt administration. It is in /etc/postfix/main.cf but you can use webminGeneralOptions'What domains to receive mail for' May 28 17:59:07 tbox

Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 28 May 2004 20:21, di di wrote: Hi, I am trying to sell an application that runs on Internet Information Server of Microsoft. My problem is that this forces me to show it under Internet Explorer on my notebook and I am using MDK 10 official in it!.I have heard of wine or

OT- Re: [newbie] Opera and my bank

2004-05-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 27 May 2004 04:20, rikona wrote: Hello Greg, Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 8:13:40 AM, you wrote: GM I occasionally run into this and have found that sometimes it is GM because of the site designer writing the code to IE, and although GM the site doesn't block you because opera

Re: [newbie] Samba server not working

2004-05-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 27 May 2004 12:00, Video 4Linux wrote: Can you read/write on a EXT2 FAT with a Windows machine connected to Samba? I thought that FAT32 was required for that? But maybe I'm confused with sharing a partition with a dual boot machine with Win and Linux (which I don't have). Bas

Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 27 May 2004 21:22, Robert Walker wrote: Thursday, May 27, 2004, 8:31:22 PM, you wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2004 20:14, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login

Re: [newbie] Samba server not working

2004-05-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 13:00, Video 4Linux wrote: I'm trying to set up a Samba server on my Linux Mandrake 10 machine. I've copied the smb.conf settings from the Samba Howto and look like this: [global] workgroup = Thuis netbios name = Linux printcap name = cups disable spoolss = Yes

Re: [newbie] Login Manager Shutdown Settings

2004-05-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 07:57, Video 4Linux wrote: Correct. I have sucurity level higher (though that that was wise to do as a newbie). Is it recommended to set it to high? No For a desktop machine it is recommended to set it to standard Hence the name 'standard'. Standard security in Linux is

[newbie] OT- Gallery was Ximian Connector for Mdk10

2004-05-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 09:56, Tobias Cloete wrote: I wan't talking about his family, I was talking about the site layout and graphix. Oja, and I cannot use Ximian's Redcarpet on mdk10. its not supported as far as I know. The installed moans with me about my version of mdk. Regards, Tobias

[newbie] Auto setup script for newbies

2004-05-25 Thread Derek Jennings
I saw this in Mandrake Club forum today http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=24377forum=11 It is a script to automatically configure a Mandrake 10.0 installation and does the following functions. Removes all RPM sources Sets RPM sources for

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 23 May 2004 09:05, Steve Mansfield wrote: SNIP I like Opera a lot, but I wish they'd produce a 'lite' version which was just a browser, the way Mozilla has done with Firebird/Firefox. That said (and talking about deadweight) I have Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Firebird and Firefox

Re: [newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 May 2004 00:14, g2 wrote: I would like to access and listen to aac files under MDK 10.0 O. I downloaded aacplugin-1.1.4.tar.gz However it answered: configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please install first *** I have not been able to locate this file.

Re: [newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 May 2004 00:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 00:14, g2 wrote: I would like to access and listen to aac files under MDK 10.0 O. I downloaded aacplugin-1.1.4.tar.gz However it answered: configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please

Re: [newbie] Modprobe nvidia

2004-05-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sun, 23 May 2004 16:46:38 +0100, Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys I have to enter 'modprobe nvidia' after each boot to access kde. I'm not sure why my pc stopped booting directly into a graphical mode, but modprobe nvidia works. This is not convenient though, and I

Re: [newbie] Samba server for shares

2004-05-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 22 May 2004 16:49:30 +0200, Tobias Cloete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetz all. I've installed mdk10 with only a console and networking utils, selected samba as addon. Security mode is set to Highest. I want to use this server to store some documents from different usr's on our domain.

Re: [newbie] 10.0 How to get sound out of CD Player

2004-05-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 21 May 2004 04:38, Guy Rouillier wrote: I've installed 10.0 RC1 AMD64 on my eMachines laptop. Most things are working well. However, I can't figure out how to get sound out of the CD player (gnome.) Linux is using the ALSA sound system. If I run the Totem media player, I do hear

Re: [newbie] Need help with Samba Server

2004-05-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 21 May 2004 11:16, van Dyk, Wikus wrote: Hallo everyone , I just got Mandrake 10 and want to test it as a good alternative to Windows. However , I got the download version and don't have any Manuals or documentation for it. I want to ask 2 things : - I am struggling to configure

Re: [newbie] Need help with Samba Server

2004-05-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 21 May 2004 12:10, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 11:16, van Dyk, Wikus wrote: Hallo everyone , I just got Mandrake 10 and want to test it as a good alternative to Windows. However , I got the download version and don't have any Manuals or documentation for it. I

Re: [newbie] 'nother newbie network question.

2004-05-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 21 May 2004 19:14, John wrote: Hi again, and thanks to everyone who helped me with my last network question. I suppose this one might be actually more of a Windows question than a Linux question, but here goes. I have a home network of 2 PCs. One is running mandrake 10, the other

Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus

2004-05-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 May 2004 23:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2004 20:05, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a complaint. How can I get my share of virus laden emails? It isn't right that everyone get's a bunch and I'm only averaging one a week. Who's getting mine? fess up.

Re: [newbie] [OT possibly and quite long] Well I won't do that again...

2004-05-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 May 2004 01:16, Asa Rossoff wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Your trouble with upstream SMTP servers rejecting your mail may be because thet are doing a reverse DNS lookup as an anti spam measure. They look at the domain name in your headers, scoop.local and do

Re: [newbie] link to folder

2004-05-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 10:25, hugenots wrote: Haiz newbie, how do I create link to folder i gues LN is involved but I can make link to file, so ... force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exactly the same

Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10

2004-05-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 11:40, Tony S. Sykes wrote: I think I have found my problem with x not working. Here is a snip of my log file; (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.36.20.23.00 (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes (II)

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA and PCMCIA

2004-05-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 00:49, Adolfo Bello wrote: I just jumped into the wireless bandwagon with a Belkin F5D7010 pcmcia card. Previously I had installed the NVIDIA driver 1.0-5336. Every time I need to boot without the Belkin card plugged I lost X. I can no boot to runlevel 5 no matter if

Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?

2004-05-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 17 May 2004 03:08, David A. Ferguson wrote: Thanks to several tips I found my problem. Turning off 'Network Hotplugging' in MCC networking fixed it. One poster mentioned you could get the same effect by setting MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no in

Re: [newbie] X sometimes start sometimes does not ??!!

2004-05-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 17 May 2004 11:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends, I use Mndrk 10.0 (download edition)- Kernel 2.6 . But when I loaded nividia drivers I have problems . X sometimes does not start. And it gives errors that NVIDIA(0) couldn't loaded. When I re-install nvidia driver once

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 May 2004 16:47, John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58, Peter wrote: Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the

Re: [newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL......

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 20:26, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 19:00, JRH wrote: snipI was never able to have the same modem working under Linux. The best thing to do, in my opinion, is to buy an ethernet modem (which is not expensive). With ethernet modems, you will not have any

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 09:36, Peter wrote: Hi All, Been running MDK 10.0 (CE) for about a week, and beginning to get used to it. (Thanks to Derek for his help). Still VERY new to Linux, so will be asking questions. I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing

Re: [newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 10:56, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I installed 10.0 official. I have a azt2320 ISA soundcard, which worked fine in 9.x and 8.x I added to /etc/modprobe.preload the snd-azt2320 line. Sound modules are loaded correctly at boot, but /dev/dsp is not created so xmms and mplayer

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 May 2004 05:13, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 7, 2004 04:41 am, Derek Jennings a écrit : On Friday 07 May 2004 05:41, Marc Lijour wrote: Would you know what to do in order to make the firmware uploaded automatically as soon as the device is detected on the USB port

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms

[newbie] Hauppage Nova-T TV Card

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
Does anyone know the modprobe.conf configuration to use for a Hauppage Nova-T Terrestrial Digital TV card The mandrake wizard does not detect it, and I cannot find any good guidance on Google. lspci identifies it as 00:0b.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) TIA

Re: [newbie] Need help getting my printer to work in Mandrake 9.2

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 May 2004 10:40, John Henderson wrote: Can anyone assist me in getting my printer (HP OfficeJet 4100) working? Mandrake Control Center sees the printer and autoconfigures, and even does a test print, but I can't print from any applications. Any ideas what I can check or tweak to

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 May 2004 05:41, Marc Lijour wrote: Would you know what to do in order to make the firmware uploaded automatically as soon as the device is detected on the USB port? At this point I have to use fxload manually each time I boot. To make a kernel module load automatically on

Re: [newbie] newbie - help with gnomemeeting

2004-05-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 May 2004 13:55, Peter wrote: Hi All, Have just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Laptop, as a Linux newbie, finding my way around it. question about gnomemeeting: can't connect to other users, get 'abnormal termination message' also how do i install programs/updates downloaded

Re: [newbie] monitor configuration gamma and brightness

2004-05-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 16:55, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, I need to switch back and forth between Mandrake 10 and Windows. In Windows I use Adobe Gamma to set up my monitor brightness/gamma which produces reasonable accurate color that I need for viewing artwork. However, when I switch

Re: [newbie] how to update samba in Mandrake Control Center?

2004-05-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 06 May 2004 12:16, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi all... I have Samba 2.2.8 installed... Can I update to Samba 3.x.x through MCC ?? If not, which easier way to update and still have the swat service to help me ?? thanx in advance. Flávio Henrique You can have both Samba 2.2.8

Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 00:42, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 04:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: I tried copying /etc/shadow to /var/spool/postfix/etc with perms 644 without success. I have seen others talk about how complex getting that to work is, not to mention the security

Re: [newbie] Help with samba configuration, plz! Urgent!

2004-05-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 16:20, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi all! I have a big problem (or not!?) here... I changed my win2k server for Mandrake 9.2 last night and everything is fine... I got success configuring samba, sharing some folders and files with my win98 clients... ok! but today

[newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Jennings
Can anyone offer advice on implementing Sasl authentication with Postfix on Mdk 10.0 I have followed the Howto on the Postfix site (http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/ ), and the one at MandrakeSecure, but am unable to get sasl to authenticate users using either pam or

Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 20:55, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 01:33 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Can anyone offer advice on implementing Sasl authentication with Postfix on Mdk 10.0 I have that working on mine. I have followed the Howto on the Postfix site (http

Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 21:52, bascule wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 9:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: How do you configure /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd to work with sasldb ? If I set SASL_AUTHMECH= sasldb I get # service saslauthd start Starting saslauthdsaslauthd[13725] :set_auth_mech

Re: [newbie] cleaning up old kernels

2004-05-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 02 May 2004 18:59, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I followed the thread regarding the security update, so I decided to upgrade my kernel. Urpmi worked flawlessly. After rebooting I decided to try my digital camerastill no luck. So I installed the 2.4 upgraded kernel. Camera works

Re: [newbie] Internet on 10.0

2004-05-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 03 May 2004 05:55, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: Derek Jennings, in this list, led me through the process of enabling Internet for Mandrake 9.2 and a wireless adapter. I now have another computer which I want to run with Mandrake 10.0, but the configuration which worked in 9.2

Re: [newbie] Galeon

2004-05-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 03 May 2004 13:29, GV wrote: Hi There, I'm not sure if I'm off topic but was wondering if the bundled Galeon browser can support flash based web sites. Is any way to upgrade/patch the version which comes with Mandrake 9.2? Thanks Galeon is bound to mozilla. So whatever plugins

Re: [newbie] Problem with Mandrake 9.0 and Mailman.

2004-05-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 02 May 2004 12:08, frankieh wrote: Hi guys. I've a small problem I was wondering if anyone can help me out with.. I've got mailman installed and working on my machine.. I rebuilt a cooker RPM back before 9.1 had come out.. Mailman seemed to be working great, but recently I

Re: [newbie] Security Advisory MDKSA-2004:037

2004-05-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 02 May 2004 17:34, Steve wrote: I read this security advisory and wanted to install the kernel update associated with it however, the advisory gives a list of about 20 rpm files for release 10.0. Do I install all of these? If not, how do I know which one(s) to install? The example in

Re: [newbie] Security Advisory MDKSA-2004:037

2004-05-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 02 May 2004 18:15, Steve wrote: Okay, Okay, my screen says: Mandrake Linux Release 10.0 (Community) for i586 Kernel 2.6.3-4mdk on an i686 /tty1 The kernel files available for download that look like they would match are: kernel-2.6.3.9mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] bus speed

2004-05-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 01 May 2004 10:09, Ian wrote: Since updating, I have seen that my transfer rate between partions has dropped to roughly 2 - 3 Mb/s, I was getting over 10. On bootup, moving to verbose output ,it tells me that the bus speed is 33mhz...   I believe it was set at 100mhz. in

Re: [newbie] review of updating proceedures

2004-05-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 01 May 2004 12:39, Thinker wrote: Hello all, I have been out of the loop for a bit. I just want to make sure that I have this correct before I update my Mandrake box... 1. From the Desktop type 'ctrl+alt+F1' 2. Login as root You could also just open a terminal on your desktop

Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall

2004-04-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 07:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Klemens Arro wrote: whats with samba and shorewall? I cant use samba server or Smb4K (guess that shorewall blocks it). When I take the whole firewall down Everything (no firewall) then samba works perfectly, but then I can't share my

Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall

2004-04-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 10:20, Klemens Arro wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 09:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Klemens Arro wrote: whats with samba and shorewall? I cant use samba server or Smb4K (guess that shorewall blocks it). When I take the whole firewall down Everything (no firewall)

Re: [newbie] write access to NTFS partitions

2004-04-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 13:33, David Lasry wrote: Hi all, I am new to this mailing list. I run Mandrake 10 and have complete read access to all my NTFS partitions. I was wondering how i can set it up so that i have write access as well. Any help is welcome Thanks DAvid Welcome Microsoft

Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall

2004-04-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 19:24, Klemens Arro wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 13:54, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 30 Apr 2004 10:20, Klemens Arro wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 09:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Klemens Arro wrote: whats with samba and shorewall? I cant use samba server

Re: [newbie] install button not active in rpmdrake

2004-04-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 28 Apr 2004 04:22, Rory wrote: When I browse software install packs in rpmdrake, if I select packages to download, the install button remains greyed out. I'm specifically trying to install packages from contribu and plf. I can install via urpmi in terminal, but not rpmdrake,

Re: [newbie] Installing a second network card via command line

2004-04-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 28 Apr 2004 08:03, Troy Robinson wrote: Hi guys, just got a version of mandrake and was trying to get it to see my second network card. I have one of those VIA EPIA CL 1 Mini-ITX motherboards (they're awesome) and it has two via-rhine III network cards. Mandrake has

Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...

2004-04-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 20:13, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:47:11AM +0100, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 26 Apr 2004 23:40, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:25:18PM +0200, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just discovered the new Opera 7.50 beta. Fastest browser

Re: [newbie] using different kernel, moving files over network

2004-04-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 24 Apr 2004 14:26, Todd Slater wrote: I'm trying to make my own livecd but I've got some embarassing gaps in my knowledge. I've never messed with my kernel, and Texstar recommends not using the default 9.2 kernel. So, I downloaded and installed the tmb kernel from contrib and

Re: [newbie] Need package that contains db.h?

2004-04-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 24 Apr 2004 17:06, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I am trying to install spamassassin 2.63 and need the file db.h does anyone know what package contains it? Regards; Hoyt Open a terminal type :- urpmf db.h and you get a list of all packages containing that string. But really the easy way

Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?

2004-04-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 13:55, Rick Kunath wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I had no idea as to what it wanted to install, package wise. I

Re: [newbie] How to configure eth1 for wireless connection?

2004-04-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 14 Apr 2004 00:58, Wei Wang wrote: I have Mandrake 9.0, kernel 2.4.19, Linksys WPC11 ver3.1 and orinoco 0.13e. Now the card is already recognized:(/var/log/messages Apr 13 23:47:02 china cardmgr[2893]: socket 1: Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card Apr 13 23:47:02 china

Re: [newbie] kdm.log file doesn't rotate

2004-04-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 Apr 2004 06:47, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I am wondering why the file /var/log/kdm.log isn't being rotated on my system? It seems to have been left out of /etc/logrotate.conf or /etc/logrotate.d for rotation. Why the oversight? I have been watching it grow to 2MB, and

Re: [newbie] samba problem

2004-04-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Apr 2004 21:58, Klemens Arro wrote: Hi, I have samba server running, but I can't connect to any other win server's neither can they connect to my server. I have tried to configure it with MCC samba wizard, but it fails when it asks for allowed users and I have tried to

Re: [newbie] Where do I manage DHCP setup on Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 09:23, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Where do I manage DHCP setup on Mandrake 10 Regards, Steve Server or client? If server then install the drakwizard RPM and there will be a new server set up section in Mandrake Control Centre. You can also use webmin if you install webmin

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Mar 2004 15:38, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 29 March 2004 07:20 am, Greg Meyer wrote: -I think that is entirely dependent on the quality of your signal. I am -getting 0% loss right now, but I am literally sitting on top of my WAP, which -is betwwen the joists of the floor

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Mar 2004 16:19, martin brandt wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone could recommend some software to compress to .rar. Id use rar for linux but thats retail if i want to use the compression commands. Anyone know any other programs that allow me to compress into .rar? Thanks a

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Mar 2004 07:27, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Yet another wireless question: Is packet loss normal running via wireless? I never see packet loss on my hardwired LAN, but when using my wireless laptop and I ping the other comps I get a small amount of packet loss. Usually in the

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 Mar 2004 13:52, Chuck Mattsen wrote: [un-hijacking the thread and starting anew here...] On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 05:00, Rory wrote: Hi folks, I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I'm trying to install the Mandrake Online Wizard found at:

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