Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.22.26mdk

2004-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 5:20 pm, Lexx wrote: On Sunday, January 25, 2004 3:05 PM, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thus: This driver will be compiled for the latest kernel version kernel-2.4.22.26mdk which is available from any Mandrake update mirror such as this one. ftp

Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.22.26mdk

2004-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 7:43 pm, Lexx wrote: Put both files into /lib/modules/2.4.22-26mdk/kernel/3rdparty/at76c503 A file called usbdfu.o.gz file will already exist remove it and replace it with the attached usbdfu.o file. The at76c505-rfmd2958.o file is new. Then in a root terminal run

Re: [newbie] How to update menus

2004-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 9:10 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I just installed 9.2 and installed all of the programs I wanted. I was trying to find the program that installs them in the kde and gnome menus. I found something but forgot its name anyway it found 69 items and apparantly installed them in

Re: [newbie] Notebook Touch Pad Middle Button

2004-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 05:31:56 -0800 (PST) Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Gateway 400sp notebook running Mandrake 9.2. I would like to configure my touchpad so that I have a middle/third mouse button. Any suggestions? Cheers, Job Doesn't pressing left and right buttons at

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

2004-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 10:27 pm, Lexx wrote: X86 / 9.2 Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed. I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

2004-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 11:40 pm, Lexx wrote: X86 / 9.2 Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed. I get various errors when trying to unpack the

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

2004-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 12:22 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 11:40 pm, Lexx wrote: X86 / 9.2 Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. SNIP OK That is the atmelwlandriver The good

Re: [newbie] DrakX source code

2004-01-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 1:15 pm, R.I.Clarke C0052175 wrote: Hi all, Im am pretty much a newbie to Mandrake. For my degree I need to get hold of the source code for DrakX. If anyone could point me in the right direction i would be very grateful. thank you Richard Source

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 2:06 pm, Angus Auld wrote: I was wondering if anyone here has used, or is using either xmule or amule from plf? It is a file sharing client compatible eDonkey. I don't seem to be able to download anything. I can get the list of available servers and connect, I can

Re: [newbie] urpmi addmedia question

2004-01-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 18 Jan 2004 12:44 am, Mike Adolf wrote: Did a urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp... and got the error - retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of contrib... ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/Mandrake-linux/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/base/h dlist2.cz ...retrieving

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 3:40 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 19:07, Doug Roberts wrote: Any other ideas? Anyone? Shot in the dark - Have you checked the aRts settings from kde's control center?

Re: [newbie] Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 6:24 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: SNIP To install the Alsa driver 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not already installed) Did that..MCC and urpmi says that all those packages are installed.. 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/modules.conf

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Update Problem

2004-01-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 Jan 2004 1:33 pm, Smith, Robert A wrote: Hi all, I recently built a desktop machine with Mandrake 9.2. I used Mandrake Update to update the system, including all the latest security fixes, bug fixes and updates. All appeared to go well, but now, I've lost most of the

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.1

2004-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 6:46 am, vikrant joshi wrote: Hi , I am an absolute newbie to LInux. I want to install Mandrake9.1 on my windows 98 machine. How do I go about it ? This may sound a very very basic question . But if somebody can give me a step by step approach that will be great.

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem

2004-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 5:21 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem

2004-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Derek and all that have been following, Linux now detects my WLAN card after who know's what I did as wlan0. The only step remaining is to configure it to my network. I entered the Mandrake Control Center, and went to the Network settings to configure it. It still does not appear on

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem

2004-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
Well I think we both saw this coming, Derek. I got 5 errors after trying to restart the network. Error for wireless request Set Encode, Set ESSID, Set Mod, Set Bit Rate, Set ESSID. Then it say Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device. Here is the ifcfg-wlan0

Re: [newbie] SCO goes after Google

2004-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 5:22 am, anton wrote: http://www.forbes.com/markets/bonds/newswire/2004/01/09/rtr1205268.html Isn't it a bit worrying that 6000 companies have actually given SCO money? Won't that just give them the guts to go for more? How could you be so milk-livered! Cheers Anton

Re: [newbie] Adaptec WLAN Card

2004-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 6:09 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I've been trying to connect linux to my Wireless LAN for the past few days now. Though Adaptec does not officially support any drivers for linux, I managed to find a driver that claims to work with the card. The card is an Adaptec AWN-8030

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card

2004-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 9:01 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Mandrake Linux 9.2 isn't detecting my Adaptec AWN-8030. It works perfectly with Windows, and I've found that others are able to use it. I'm told that there should be some beep as I insert it, but there isn't. I have the iwconfig package

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card

2004-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 10:20 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 9:01 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card

2004-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 11:03 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 10:20 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card

2004-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Derek, I've located the Prism2_cs module, exactly where you said it was. That means I definitely have it. But when I launch the wizard to setup the LAN, therefore detecting network cards also, this module does not show up on the

Re: [newbie] reinstall sound

2004-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 2:10 am, James Cammarata wrote: I posted this earlier, didn't get any help on it so I'm posting it again. I lost every device out of my /dev/sound folder due to some freak Mandrake snafu, so I have no sound in Gnome. Can someone tell me how to reinstall the sound

Re: [newbie] Postfix spam blocking

2004-01-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 07:51:33 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:48:06 + Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a spam-blocker. Can anyone point me to a How-To on the subject? I've seen plenty of traffic on this list about doing it with a POP3 feed,

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin Question

2004-01-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:58:33 -0800 E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been running SA for several months now, and it has been extremely successful. My wife get's dozens of spams a day, and the filtering has gotten better as more spams get added to the database. Now I want to move

Re: [newbie] Postfix spam blocking

2004-01-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:48:43 + Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 10 Jan 2004 1:41 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:36:11 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flattered as I am that Joe has referenced my mailserver HOWTO there is a simpler way

Re: [newbie] Postfix spam blocking

2004-01-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:03:07 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 11:23 am, Richard Urwin wrote: I have to question that. I know it's better known, but I get far better rates under POPFile than I did when I tried SA. POPFile functions typically at

Re: [newbie] Managing downloads and packages

2004-01-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 4:35 pm, Warren Post wrote: Reposting at Margot's suggestion... * I'm trying to manage better my downloads and packages. From previous posts to this list, I've concluded that I should always prefer an Mandrake RPM, but if a suitable RPM is not available then I

Re: [newbie] Email fetching and distribution

2004-01-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 5:24 pm, Kasper Thunoe wrote: Hey list Could anyone please give some pointers as to how a setup would look with a program (server) fetching email from a remote POP3 account and then making it possible for users on a LAN to fetch email from the local server. TIA Kasper

Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT

2004-01-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 10:38 pm, Warren Post wrote: Frequently when I try to update my system, rpmdrake (urpmi) tells me that everything is already installed. For example, I have bind-utils-9.2.0-6mdk currently installed. bind-utils-9.2.1-2.2mdk is available on the update mirrors, but when I

Re: [newbie] Canon i470D Printer Driver?

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 7:07 pm, Larry Varney wrote: I have just purchased the Canon i470D printer. Mandrake 9.1 has lots of drivers for Canon printers, but none specifically for this model. Is there one that is compatible? I have tried a couple, and the pages come out 1/4 the normal

Re: [newbie] Upgrading, backing up, and restoring data - moving from 9.1 to 9.2

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 4:13 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, I've recently decided to take the plunge and use 9.2 as my base OS. I'm performing a clean install on a brand new hard drive. My old mdk 9.1 install still resides on two old hard disks. My question is this: Is there a simple

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 4:12 pm, Paul wrote: Hello all, I got my new printer in. Epson C44 USB. Hooked it up, and I can see in the logs that it is recognised as a USB bidirectional device: Jan 7 16:44:16 nwyfre kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4b8/0x5) is not claimed by any

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 5:26 pm, Paul wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for the tip. It did not work out, though. The driver is usb-uhci, but changing that to uhci, the restart complains that there is 'no such device' and that insmod failed. Paul On 01/07/2004 05:49 PM, Derek Jennings wrote

Re: [newbie] Help needed configuring SSHD and PAM

2004-01-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 1:46 am, George P. Stathis wrote: Hello, I'm new to Linux and I'm running Mandrake 9.2. I have just installed the sshd server that came with the installation disks. My sshd service is running fine but I'm unable to login to localhost with the root password. I get:

Re: [newbie] Where's KPPP?

2004-01-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 3:21 am, Bill wrote: Hello to the group, I must start out by saying I am very new to linux, However I do have some experience with Knoppix 3.2. I have even installed Knoppix on the harddrive. I have decided to try Mandrake v9.2 Download edition. I am having trouble

Re: [newbie] Where's KPPP?

2004-01-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 11:11 am, Bill wrote: Thanks to Derek and everyone who replied. I will have some reading up to do. I like Mandrake it has alot of goodies and it is hard to believe it is free!! This is the distro I am going to go with. I think I will be purchasing a copy to support

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

2004-01-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 10:42 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:45, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] Erm... When I said had you run the drakconnect wizard I meant had you gone into Mandrake ControlCentreNetworkingDrakconnect and pressed the 'Wizard' button. I ran

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

2004-01-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 8:07 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 06:45, Derek Jennings wrote: [...snip] The line PING 169.254.5.217 (169.254.5.217) from 203.146.175.77 means your Mandrake desktop is trying to reach your Windows box via a different subnet. Either because

Re: [newbie] kPackage error messages

2004-01-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 12:39 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, I saw VNC mentioned on another mailing list and so I thought I'd try it; so I downloaded it and then clicked on the downloaded file. kPackage opened up and offered to install it, so I said yes and told it my root password. But then:

Re: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

2004-01-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 1:48 pm, Jason Crowder wrote: OK. I found another problem with Mandrake 9.2 that I can solve. My crontab doesn't run. Below is what my /etc/crontab file looks like. I have backup routines that are supposed to kick off and create tar balls of my files. But nothing

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

2004-01-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 12:56 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:32, Derek Jennings wrote: Well it tells me that you only have a dial up connection. Your Eth0 interface is not there. Have you tried going through the wizard in drakconnect? heh - no, but here goes: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] DNS Server

2004-01-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 11:44 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:07:33 -0500 Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any URL to download the package and ManPages? urpmi bind should do it. as for manpages, you would be much better served by a nice Bind howto, which you you could easily find

Re: [newbie] Trouble with 9.1 installation

2004-01-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 8:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got Mandrake 9.1 for my PPC G4 and i've installed it with reasonable success with one problem. After booting linux from the boot prompt I am asked to log in as the local host, using the user name and password previously created in

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

2004-01-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 11:35 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi all, well I've been trying to get these two boxes [my Mandrake 9.0 desktop and my Thinkpad with WIN2KPRO] talking, and haven't been able to get Samba to do much of anything. I had an idea to try the basics, and surprise surprise, it's no

Re: [newbie] Help! Total Newbie on ppc

2004-01-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:22:46 -0600 Josh Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install 9.1 on a bw g3 ppc, original, 350 processor. So far I have been unable to even get a burned copy of mandrake or yellow dog to even boot. I am burning the iso correctly, mounting the disk, etc.

Re: [newbie] update from cooker files

2004-01-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:32:33 -0600 Troy T. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the stock mdk 9.2. I have dl'd all the cooker files ( yes all 2G+ ). I don't seem to have php installed because ?php phpinfo() ? returns nothing. How can I from console update my server so that it has

Re: [newbie] uses an invalid list file

2004-01-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:33:44 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry this was on list but I lost it. Kindly what to delete and where please. medium contrib-sunsite uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method Thanks -- Johan May

[newbie] Re: [expert] MSEC Problems

2004-01-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 03 Jan 2004 9:16 am, Michael Thompson wrote: Hi Expert, I have just re-installed Mandrake 9.2, and I am having a problem setting up MSEC. I want to be able to send the mail alerts off to mail. I have my main Postfix box up and running, I have Postfix on the

Re: [newbie] mailserver

2004-01-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:26:30 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm going to start the new year by jumping off the mailserver cliff. Is there a twiki I can't find or a recommended tutorial or maybe even anyone willing to put up with me through this? I know just enough to be

Re: [newbie] mailserver

2004-01-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:02:28 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:45:31 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:26:30 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm going to start the new year by jumping off

Re: [newbie] MD9.2

2004-01-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 02 Jan 2004 10:36 pm, John wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 04:58 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 02 Jan 2004 9:21 pm, John wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 03:39 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 20:28, John wrote: Have you followed the advice

Re: [newbie] MD9.2

2004-01-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 03 Jan 2004 1:09 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 02 Jan 2004 10:36 pm, John wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 04:58 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 02 Jan 2004 9:21 pm, John wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 03:39 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 20

Re: [newbie] Shorewall and NFS

2003-12-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2003 7:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I'm sitting behind a hardware cable-modem router with a builtin firewall and most people tell me that I'm relatively (love the vagaries of that word!) safe behind it. Still, in the interest of being safety minded, I installed and

Re: [newbie] New project - Apache - MySql - Php - Ftp - etc

2003-12-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 6:22 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello helper types, I've finally, finally got all the machines together and online that I've been after. Now I'd like to get the system running with all the above. While doing that I'd like to document the procedure so it can be added to

Re: [newbie] grsecurity

2003-12-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 3:43 am, Troy T. Hall wrote: Some program called grsec keeps saying something about overstepping whenever postfix trys to do something. I can find almost nothing about it. How do I configure this thing? What is going on? I have the security level set on higher. Troy

Re: [newbie] postfix relaying

2003-12-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 2:05 am, Troy T. Hall wrote: Ok, well, i'm getting closers. gatekeeper can send/recieve mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] from classicnet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] cannot send mail as [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Physical memory is to high.

2003-12-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 11:51 am, Steven Nelson wrote: I will try to reply to the email the best I can. I thought the disk cache and the physical memory did not work together. Yes they do. Where else could the disc cache be other than in memory? If they do that would take up alot of space.

Re: [newbie] Physical memory is to high.

2003-12-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 8:39 am, Steven Nelson wrote: SNIP The disk buffers are changing in between 14.15mb-14.20mb and disck cache is staying at 306.79 (during using the computer in the current session regulary for five minutes). If someone knows how to correct this problem will they tell me?

Re: [newbie] server behind router behind cable modem

2003-12-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 8:32 am, Troy T. Hall wrote: I'm getting myself confused *sigh* I have a domain, camplighthouse.org my cable provider is gracious enough not to be bouncing the ip all over the place so its staying very steady at 64.72.62.150. My server and my workstation are both behind

Re: [newbie] Re: server behind router behind cable modem

2003-12-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 7:40 pm, Troy T. Hall wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 8:32 am, Troy T. Hall wrote: I'm getting myself confused *sigh* I have a domain, camplighthouse.org my cable provider is gracious enough

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: server behind router behind cable modem

2003-12-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 10:35 pm, Troy T. Hall wrote: I've attached the result of tailing the mail logs and all of the main.cf I'm using a purely stock Mandrake 9.2 install so postfix is what I'm using. I don't even have the box locked down well yet :( Troy Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] confused by Samba

2003-12-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 11:23 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi all, I'm having another go at trying to get my Mandrake desktop to talk to my WIN2K laptop. I tried a while back but gave up. I think I'm confusing the basic concepts here - I had the impression that I had to use Samba, but just now

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: server behind router behind cable modem

2003-12-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 12:29 am, Troy T. Hall wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 10:35 pm, Troy T. Hall wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 7:40

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 2:03 pm, Sergey Berezka wrote: I want copy from cd-rom to cdwriter in K3B. I append to lilo.conf line like this hdd=ide-scsi. Now I may copy from cd on the fly, or create image, but I can't read any cd disk on the cdrom. Sergey Berezka Sorry for my English.

Re: [newbie] cd-rom

2003-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 4:35 pm, ronald wrote: Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything

Re: [newbie] cd-rom

2003-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 5:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 4:35 pm, ronald wrote: Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done something

Re: [newbie] Update question

2003-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 6:40 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: For the last few days I've been fighting with GIMP. When trying to print, it spits out papers with only a few lines of gibberish on them. Well, I uninstalled the thing and reinstalled. Now funny things happened : My Control Center

Re: [newbie] cd-rom

2003-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 5:44 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:33, Derek Jennings wrote: Ah.. well in that case I would suggest :- Log in as root and then type urpmi mc That will install midnight commander an easy to use text based file manager with an easy

Re: [newbie] cd-rom

2003-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 6:22 pm, John wrote: ronald thanks for response. I had changed to root but not to /etc. Did as you suggested.Came up with the following: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none/mnt/cdrom

Re: [newbie] Can't get sound to work in 9.2 new problem

2003-12-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 9:15 pm, Darryl Adams wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 19:05, Maureen wrote: robin wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 22 Dec 2003 11:10 am, Maureen wrote: I get a lot of static and the bells work but it won't play the intro or any of my games music. When I

Re: [newbie] ftp server setup

2003-12-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 12:42 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 23 December 2003 13:22, al wrote: First of all, many thanks to all of you who have helped me with other issues. Thanks Sharrea, the autostart script for kde works great. Now, my next question I would like to

Re: [newbie] Can't get sound to work in 9.2

2003-12-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 22 Dec 2003 11:10 am, Maureen wrote: I get a lot of static and the bells work but it won't play the intro or any of my games music. When I start KDE it gives an error message about not being able to use the sound without a lot of clicks and static and to run artswrapper as root or

Re: [newbie] speedtouch 330 usb on mandrake 9.1

2003-12-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 3:25 am, S N A K E wrote: how can i support speedtouch 330 usb on mandrake 9.1 STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* You need to install the mgmt.o binary library from Alcatel and then you will be able to use the wizard in Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 10:25 pm, John Schofield wrote: Thanks for the quick reply! HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks. {smile} derek: It's ide-scsi. Which I don't really understand, since it's a standard ATA CD-ROM, but I commented-out the line anyway, which

Re: [newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs

2003-12-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 11:58 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Mandrake other). The structure of your

Re: [newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs

2003-12-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 22 Dec 2003 12:44 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 19:27, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 11:58 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want

Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own

2003-12-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 10:44 pm, Lee wrote: I mounted a large drive on /usr/images. I then set up Samba and changed the ownership of /usr/images to be my user account as owner (chown myuser:myuser images) After doing a backup or a file copy to this folder from my WinXP machine, the

Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own

2003-12-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 11:18 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 10:44 pm, Lee wrote: I mounted a large drive on /usr/images. I then set up Samba and changed the ownership of /usr/images to be my user account as owner (chown myuser:myuser images) After doing a backup

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:16 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Well, I think my motherboard decided to just randomly die the other night. Worked fine the night before, but in the morning didn't respond to the power switch. I checked the power cables and swapped the power supply for a known good one -

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
. :-) On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek Jennings wrote: I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then become tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I would suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible

Re: [newbie] Compex WLU11A with Mandrake 9.2 Detected but unable to surf the net. ( post #1)

2003-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:34 pm, Benjy wrote: Hey there, Here are the following. /etc/resolv.conf searchhost local nameserver 165.21.100.88 nameserver 165.21.83.88 /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes GATEWAYDEV=wlan0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 DEVICE=wlan0

Re: [newbie] Compex WLU11A with Mandrake 9.2 Detected but unable to surf the net. ( post #1)

2003-12-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 5:56 pm, Benjy wrote: i've got for meself a compex wlu11a wireless usb adapter. did some research on it and i found that it was to use the atmel driver. came across this site: Jenning's Homelinux site. (found out i can't post URLs ) and it said to use the at76c503a

Re: [newbie] wat is cooker version

2003-12-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 10:15 am, babar haq wrote: Hi Can someone tell me wat is mandrake cooker rpm???i have been using red hat linux. i know wats rpm but wat is urpmi??? Thanx Babar Mandrake Cooker is the development strand of Mandrake. At Mandrake all development is conducted in the open.

Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)

2003-12-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I

Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)

2003-12-16 Thread Derek Jennings
Trey Sizemore wrote: SNIP It says that root (/) is full, and the iso images were in /home/trey so doesn't that count against root or am I having a conceptual error here. When I get back I'll try to isolate where the space hogs are using df and du again. I think it was the du command that

Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)

2003-12-16 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP It says that root (/) is full, and the iso images were in /home/trey so doesn't that count against root or am I having a conceptual error here. When I get back I'll try to isolate where the space hogs are using df and du again. I think it was the du command that showed file sizes but

Re: [newbie] Mdk 9.2 standalone firewall

2003-12-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 9:48 am, Johan wrote: Hi, I have seen some traffic about firewalls on the list...made me worry. This is a standalone box. Using mdk 9.2 with personal firewall activated via MCC. Is it working?... I do not know. The system was updated 14/12/03. The last screen is

Re: [newbie] incredible: chromium worked fine without drivers

2003-12-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 3:11 pm, Void lon iXaarii wrote: for a couple of versions, and with other distros tooo every time I install a new mandrake I then start chromium or tuxracer in a hope that someday the system will have 3d acceleration installed out of the box. In never worked ... with

Re: [newbie] Reading PDF attachments from Mozilla containing spaces in the title

2003-12-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 5:27 pm, Adrian Kuepker wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: This isn't a problem with Mozilla, it's a problem with your mail client. The point being that Mozilla is the mail client. Without built-in intelligent handling of common business document types, there simply can't be

Re: [newbie] Mdk 9.2 standalone firewall

2003-12-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:46 pm, Johan wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for a detailed explanation. Johan ** snip Personally I use clamdmail ( in contrib) which I call from procmail. Clamdmail is a neat little utility which will call clamav virus scanner, and spamassassin spam

Re: [newbie] Shorewall question

2003-12-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 5:45 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: In my Shorewall GUI everything is unchecked, so I figured all was well. However, a stealth scan at http://sygatetech.com reveals that the following ports are closed, but not stealthed : WEB 80 IDENT113 NetBIOS 139 SMB

Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 2:27 pm, Martin Brandt wrote: Im trying to install Bit Torrent (bittorrent-3.3-3mdk.src.rpm) on mandrake 9.2 for Mozilla 1.5. extracted the files (to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES) untarred BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2 then i added application/x-bittorrent;

Re: [newbie] missing screensavers

2003-12-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 8:48 pm, John Beaman wrote: I just installed ML 9.2 with medium security and most defaults. When I go to choose a screensaver, the list is blank. Where did they go? How do I get them back? While I'm writing, how do I get rid of the Edutainment applications?

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int,

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

2003-12-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 5:57 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip I am confused. How is this all connected? Where is the 10.5.66.0 subnet that appears in your route? the 10.5.66.0 subnet is my LAN, but one computer with IP 192.168.147.10 works as a gateway What does ifconfig show?

Re: [newbie] Psion utilities for Mdk 9.2

2003-12-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 11 Dec 2003 6:37 am, Paul Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I continue to be a big fan of the Psion 5mx, and would love to have it operating with Mdk 9.2. I've found utilites for Mdk 8.2, both plptools and kpsion... Yes plptools-kde is in contrib for

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

2003-12-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 which uses this gateway, everyone

Re: [newbie] Scan to PDF?

2003-12-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 3:05 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF file? Thanks Tango Echo Of course xsane - Install xsane RPM in the setup select the copy tab and set the printer command to be qtcups --stdin Now when you use xsane to print a

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