I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up. How do I
change the Desktops from the command line? I want to try GNOME.
George
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onvenience for now.
Thank you for your time!
--- Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 08:46 pm, George P.
> Stathis wrote:
> > Hello, I'm new to Linux and I'm running Mandrake
> 9.2.
> > I have just installed the sshd ser
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:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ssh localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s passwor
as able to
configure VMware without any further problems.
-GS
--- Sharrea Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:00, George P. Stathis wrote:
>
> Firstly, please lose the "Reply-to" address. It
> causes replies to go
> directly to you rather than the
Title: Message
Hello, I am running Mandrake
9.2 and I am trying to install VMware Workstation 4 on it (http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html).
This software requires the
header files of the Linux kernel since it makes some changes to them. When I
downloaded the 3 disks of
j-pilot has install under file in the menu bar. This will install your books
if they are in pdb, or prc format.
George
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 08:47 am, Todd Slater wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:21:24PM +0300, Anarky wrote:
> >hi, I've got a palm m105 ... and thoug
I've just installed MDK 8.2 and was really pleased to find Evolution. Is it
possible to import Outlook 2000 info into Evolution.
George Baker
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
-Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680)
Wa
always got LILO back.
I'm a bit worried now that the C: drive is NTFS. If I use the MDK 7.0 boot
CD will I damage something? I have never used NTFS before and don't want to
mess things up.
I unfortunately don't have a MDK boot floppy disk.
Please advise.
George Baker
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alled
.directory - if I deleted this file then back in Linux everything was hunky
dory. Since the reinstall this has not been a problem
George Baker
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"The world is your oyster.but the future's your clam"
- Original Message -
From: Anne Wils
>From reading this list I gather you can run Win within Linux using vmware.
It seems as MDK 7.0 did not come with this - so is it possible to download
vmware and install it on MDK 7.0 or do I need to upgrade to 8.2.
George Baker
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"I declare a permanent
Is it possible to upgrade xmms to a newer version on MDK 7.0? I have
downloaded xmms 1.2.7. - MDK 7.0 came with xmms 0.9.5.1. I see I need glib
1.2.2 or better. Can I download the necessary libraries and then compile the
new xmms?
George Baker
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"The soul
Last night a process called "syslogd -m" started and my hard drive went mad
for over 7 hours until I killed the process. What is it doing and how
often - will it always carry on for so long or was it just a once off due to
me moving MDK to a new drive??
Please advise
George
Want t
I have been on this list for a few months and have saved all messages I
thought were important. Today I installed a new hard drive and moved MDK
over to it and resized the partitions without one problem. All due to the
advice given this list.
George Baker
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&quo
Can you delete Core Dump files?
George Baker
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permissions for it alone. WHAT have I done.
Please help
George Baker
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"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
- Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet (1887-1964)
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Dear Tech Support:
This year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that
the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of
space and valuable resources. No mention of this was included with the
product information. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself in
x27;t access the
drive. I presume they are still trying to access /dev/hdb instead of
/dev/hdc. Where do I change these settings?
George Baker
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"Africa is not for sissies - tata ma chance"
- Syd Kitchen
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I'm using MDK 7.0 with an external Rockwell modem on serial A or Com 1.
Using kppp if I query the modem the lights flash but then it says modem not
responding. Does not matter if I choose dev/modem or dev/ttys0. Either one
the modem lights flash but same result "modem not responding".
Help please.
lones the
Win partition that would be OK as I don't mind reinstalling MDK as I was
going to upgrade to Ver 8.2 anyway.
Any info would be appreciated.
George Baker
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I presume this is true for Mandrake later than MDK 7.0 but as I am still
living in the dark age is it possible to download the ogg encoder/decoder
and implement them in Xmms and Grip?
George Baker
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Anne Morrow Lindber
> > George Baker wrote:
> >
> >> Hi - I've just upgraded from a 486 to a P166 with a S3 Virge DX/GX PCI
> >> graphics card with 2MB memory. Installed MDK 7.0 today but can't get X
> >> desktop to display properly. There is a jagged box under the
> George Baker wrote:
>
> >I've got a Compaq DP 4000 P166 which creates a partition with the
software
> >to change any CMOS settings (you push F10). After installing MDK 7.0 with
> >LILO I can't get into the Cmos settings. Is there a way of pointing LILO
to
>
change any
settings.
Thanks
George Baker
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South Africa
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Hi - I've just upgraded from a 486 to a P166 with a S3 Virge DX/GX PCI
graphics card with 2MB memory. Installed MDK 7.0 today but can't get X
desktop to display properly. There is a jagged box under the curser and
lines running through the display. If I move a window it leaves shadows
behind.
I wa
Hi all,
I have setup a laptop in an NT environment and I would like to be able
to swap files directly, just as I can with my last remaining Mac.
I haven't a clue where to start.
I have an NT Worgroup with 4NT clients (all running NTServer4) one
Win2K laptop and a Mac with MacOS9.
Any pointers?
nters?
If it helps, I can use SMB to connect to a network printer within the
workgroup.
MTIA
George in Edinburgh
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s towards Win2K and Linux at the
same time (new laptop).
George
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e fine? My main aim is to have a LAMP setup with PHP.
MTIA
George in Edinburgh
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PC or MkLinux.
HTH
George in Edinburgh
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From: "Brian Durant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Newbie Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] LinuxMandrake on a Mac
> >Is there a LinuxMan
Tomek,
I don't think so. Just say that you'll join later.
G
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From: "Tomek Nowinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:05 PM
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Club Membership??
> Hi,
>
> Maybe I don't understand well english, but.
Thanks for the suggestion, Dan, but I already have those RPMs
installed (and reinstalled for good measure!).
WP8 was working fine for me under both LM 8.0 & 8.1, but got "hosed"
after I installed the Cooker release.
George
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= LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out
LD_VERBOSE= "$file"
Perhaps that error might give someone who knows much more than I, a
clue as to a resolution!
George
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ince the conversion,
you should do so, so that will clear any cached information out of its
memory.
Hope this helps.
George
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ld be alright.
If not...check to see if you've got soething startign that makes GMC fire up
Theres always the nuclear option of killing .kde and .kderc if all else fails
:(
--
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---
Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant
pr
] dosn't have at
least an everyone read attribute
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---
If anyone has seen my dog, please contact me at x2883 as soon as possible.
We're offering a substantial reward. He's a sable collie, with three legs,
blind in his left eye, is missing part of his ri
el automatically bad
Installing Kernel side-by-side with existing kernel, then checking lilo &
initrd before rebooting good
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---
It's a brave man who, when things are at their darkest, can kick back and
party!
-- Dennis Quaid, "In
Joseph Braddock wrote:
>
> Sorry, Nostradamus never said/wrote that. You left off the date of
> 1654 which normally is at the end of this,
not true. i only passed along what i found in enews,
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Web Site Review <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~*~*~ Tuesday, September 18, 2001 ~*~*~
Frank McKenna wrote:
>
> Thanks but I just checked and these messages are supposed to be
> going out in plain text. If these are going out in HTML format
> then I am sorry but I am not sure where else to change my settings
you must have found it. this is 'text/plain'
> Please find below a copy
Richie de Almeida wrote:
>
> Sorry George, I was just contributing to the conversation.
>
> I kinda wondered if I wasn't making myself clear but you understand
> your position well enuff you didn't take any offence!
>
> The thread itself was talking about a pa
Anke & Max wrote:
>
> Gidday All
[snip]
>> it is easier to teach good habits, than it is to change
>> bad habits.
>
> Well said g
>
> Thanks
> Max
thank you max. i do hope all of this does help 'all us newbies'.
-=-
perseverance can be a reward.
-=-
tc,hago.
g
.
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> Frank McKenna wrote:
[snip]
> Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals
that they do frank.
>
> Plato ~ "It takes a minute to have a crush on
> someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love
> someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone."
this is true.
so please disab
noted a post asking info to make multi installations of linux.
did you find help?
if not, reply your request. i can offer contact with someone
on another list, who, iirc, wrote a custom installation,
burn bootable cds.
tc,hago.
g
.
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Miark wrote:
>
[snip]
i thought that was 'cheese and mac'.
use tip of a spoon handle.
works for me.
tc,hago.
g
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FLYNN, Steve wrote:
>
> ROFL!
>
> I'd be absolutely stunned if a modem was asking for an email
> account name!
[snip]
my sides are still sore. ;)
at least anyone else doing a 'subject:' search on
hayes external modems, will know a little more about
setting 'hayes commands'
if you ever come to
Mark Johnson wrote:
>
> Agreed. You know it's amazing how many times we assume the worse in
> others
[snip]
no agrument with you points of this issue.
before long, this thread can make a good 'faqs for newbie'.
but will they bother to read it.
surely, a newbie to a list will note that majority
PENA FAMILY wrote:
>
> This is for the interest of anyone who is planning on buying a Linux
> compatible external modem.
[snip]
hayes is good. have used slower 'early models', grew faster with usr,
now motorola.
> All in all I enjoyed and recommend the Hayes external modem. The only
> trouble no
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
> Good god this is funny:
"God" if you can 'Good'. tymGBu. ;)
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/24/1814256
did not see it there, but did note similar on a few other enews list.
you will note 'trends' thru enews list and is hope fully an indication
that 'fre
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
[snip]
thank you for your responce.
i follow this list. i am threading subject.
i will reply thru list to this subject...
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
another wise man...
-=-
beauty of real is revealed only to those who persevere.
-=-
perseverance can be a reward.
-=
PENA FAMILY wrote:
>
> Just finished building my Linux box a few days ago. I took an old 4Gb
> Quantum Fireball which suddenly Linux doesn't recognize and keeps
> asking me for SCSI drivers and gives me a list to pick from.
>
> Nevertheless, I just want to turn this 4Gig drive as extension for raw
Paul Rodríguez wrote:
>
> Thanks, Randy. That sounds like it. I live in the NY Metro area, I'll
> look arround. I don't really know of any hobbyist places, but there
> must be some.
>
> Thanks!
>
> I guess this betrays my age a bit. I'd never seen one of these before.
> :)
>
> -Paul Rodríguez
ig (2x650mb) if you are using a modem connection.
George
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On Monday 10 September 2001 00:07, George Petri complained about
Mandrake 8.0 "expert-mode" graphical installation not even prompting for
the 2nd CD :). btw, I made a pure reiserfs 600 mb / partition and a 64 mb
swap.
I was looking at /root/ddebug.log and found this:
* step `mis
stuffing up the install
by having the X "Test Configuraiton" crash the install program, when someone
tripped over the power plug and when I forgot to choose reiserfs.
Is there a single-cd version of mandrake? Perhaps my friend burnt that and
the 2nd cd of the two-cd version?
thanks
miss something in the
install?
TIA,
George
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On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:53, etharp wrote:
> that gateway is for the computer you are on, so the gateway would be the IP
> your ISP assigns via dhcp, the gateway to the client computers (the rest of
> your home network that is connecting to the Internet) would be the linux
> box eth0 IP.
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:03, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:59, George Petri wrote:
> > I know this is a very, very trivial question but for some reason I can't
> > find the manual for it:
> >
> > How do I change the default login group
user name.
Now, if for some reason I wanted to change the group that I start up in
(so that new files that I make are owned by george.newgroup),
how would I do it?
Please point me to the relevant manuals or just give me the answer :)
Thanks in advance,
George
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Modes "800x600"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes 800x600"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
EndSubsection
EndSection
George
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1 -indirect localhost
To bring up the chooser at startup, I guess, you will have to add the line
"x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -indirect localhost" just before the last
line of /etc/inittab (mandrake 7.2), "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon":
No warranties, though! I
Just a guess but have you tried running X in 16bit?
Is X running in the same video mode as Tuxracer (640x480???)?
Hope it helps,
george
On Saturday 25 August 2001 13:31, Jeremy Davidson wrote:
> I finally got Tuxracer to work -- had to tell RPMDrake (Software Manager?)
> to install th
Sorry everyone but I queued a lot of messages in my outbox than my drafts so a
few too many messages got sent to this list.
Sorry!
George
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gopher:*:11513:0:9:7:::
ftp:*:11513:0:9:7:::
nobody:*:11513:0:9:7:::
xfs:!!:11513:0:9:7:::
How come xfs has a !!, instead of a *?
Thanks again,
george
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0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> >
> > If in doubt, say N."
> >
> > Should I turn this on and compile? I'm currently using Mandrake 7.2's
> > 2.2.17
> > kernel.
> >
> > Thanks,
So what does this mean?:
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { Dri
.
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George Baker
South Africa
command to view the mail (thought it was "top"). What is the command?
Anyway the 2 mails were both 49+megs, so I deleted them.
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George Baker
South Africa
x27;t believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
I'm using LM 7 and I notice it only has Genius Netscroll on PS2. I have
a serial
Netscroll mouse - any ideas how I can set it up?
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George Baker
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.
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George Baker
South Africa
I downloaded koffice from tucows but it is a Debian package, ending in
.deb. How do you install it.
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South Africa
civileme wrote:
> On Friday 20 July 2001 20:56, George Baker wrote:
> > A V Flinsch wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 18 July 2001 17:03, you wrote:
> > > > Trying to install koffice 2.0.1 and kfinance 0.2.0 and keep getting the
> > > > message that the C
rd drive,
* what are the recommended partitions to make?
* will I be able to copy my existing setup over to the new drive or
will I have to reinstall. I understand that I will have to point
LILO to the new drive.
Thanks
George Baker
South Africa
At 10:28 PM 07/19/2001 +, civileme
I'm using Windows 98, the DNS server is there but the "Default Gateway"
section is blank!
Why is this?
Thanks again,
George
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From: "Tomek Nowinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "George Petri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Frid
oops, forget to send to list!
> - Original Message -
> From: "Tomek Nowinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "George Petri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems
>
>
> >
- Original Message -
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "George Petri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems
> > --
Please excuse me for barging into this thread :)
But I just have to nominate two great browsers: konqueror and lynx.
George
- Original Message -
From: "James S Bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
my
problem.
Before I changed anything, my computer used to be
called the default "localhost.localdomain".
Please help me fix my config files so that I can
use my Internet connection again in Linux!
Thanks,George
I installed LM 7 on a 1.2 gig extended partition. Now I see that /root
partition is nearly full, yet I have 300 MB free in /home. How can I
give more space to /root or specifically /usr.
Thanks
George Baker
South Africa
Trying to install koffice 2.0.1 and kfinance 0.2.0 and keep getting the
message that the C Compiler can't create executables. I have installed
gcc and gcc -c++. This is the config.log I get:
Thanks
George Baker
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This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
ru
u are using OSS (very likely), then run the command sndconfig as root.
You should avoid running it X (or so the warning says!) but it runs fine for
me in X. If you are using ALSA, I point you to www.alsa-project.org :)
- George
or IMPS/2 (Intellimouse?
or compatible) mouse and say so in /etc/X11/XF86Config or
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4. If you get the wrong one then you get funny (and
annoying) mouse behaviour.
I may be wrong but I guess it's worth a try :)
- George
nstalled mandrake,
> all go back to normal. but after a while, the mouse will act strangely
> again. any solution?
>
> thanks in advance
Have you tried using the mouse in Windows to see if it happens there as well?
Perhaps, the button is stuffed -- my Intellimouse broke after only 1 year!
- George
exception of the "failsafe" option). Now this is not neccessarily a bad
thing :) but some users want to use gnome and ice.
So what have I done wrong? And how do I get gnome etc. back? Typing
"startgnome" from failsafe does work so it's something to do with KDM and/or
X.
Thanks,
George
hed in the middle?
What does it mean? Is it important or a warning or something?
Thanks,
George
"N" minutes.
>
> Paul
So at appoximately what "load average" should I start to get worried about
the system being too busy (i.e. becomes so unresponsive that I can't do any
work)?
Thanks,
George
t my system is being "loaded" 0.49 out of 10, 1 minute
ago...or is it out of 5 or what?
Please help me :)
Thanks,
George
rts of internet-related subgroups, a
"games" group which includes all multimedia and games groups etc.
Thanks,
George
On Thursday 28 June 2001 08:10, n6tadam wrote:
> Hello George,
>
> I apologise. I was not clear enough with my explanation!! I know what you
> meant, when you re
Hi!
I've just noticed a new folder in my home directory, called "nsmail".
What made it? What is it for? And do I need it :)?
Thanks,
George
Hi!
Yes, I meant can I have a big group called "Power User", which contains
groups within that such as "Games", "Office" etc. But you've answered my
question anyway :)
Thanks,
George
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 14:34, Michael D. Viron wrote:
> George,
&
Is this possible?
Thanks,
George
Hi!
I know this may sound trivial but: How do I enable the joystick? I have an
integrated ES1373 sound chip on my motherboard and I plug a cheap analog
Radioshack joystick into the sound port. I am using OSS in Mandrake 7.2
(2.2-17 kernel), at the moment.
Thanks,
George Petri
Could it have something to do with this (in my /sbin directory):?
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 7548 Oct 3 2000 halt*
> > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Mar 30 16:03 poweroff -> halt*
> > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Mar
fore I upgraded KDE or XFree)? I've
checked the refresh rate used by X for 1024x768x16 and it's higher than what
is reccommended by my manufacturer but still within the limits of my monitor
(VX700).
Thanks,
George Petri
l the next time I boot into Linux.
But why does this happen in the first place and how do I fix it, permanently?
Thanks,
George Petri
ard.
> Were is the conf for sound
Try typing 'sndconfig' in a console. It is a Red Hat program (that should
come with your system) but it works for me in Mandrake 7.2. Avoid running it
in an X Session.
Hope it helps,
George
should be
looking for and where, I'd appreciate it. I'd really like to get this
straightened out, but I'm totally lost!
George
...surfing with Warp4 for now...
Good Day
Does anybody know what the estimated release date for LM7.2 is?
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geforce2 not working.
Thanks in advance.
George
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nd maybe I have something else wrong elsewhere. Any generic ideas
on what to check to make sure ssh works?And if I can get out the server
here with
telnet, I should be able to get out with ssh also, right?
Thanks,
George
"Daniel J. Ferris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mailed by:
[EMAIL PROT
So now my entire solution has been
undermined.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
George
I am still having trouble configuring my system for incoming calls. I found
something on the Internet about it, but it did not work. I have a 3com USR
voice faxmodem hooked to S1 (com 2). I can get a dialtone and the modem can
call out. (I have not successfully authenticated to my ISP, but I k
has something to do with Samba. If I get same problem
again, I will shut down that service to see if that solves the problem.
I do not know about SSH so I will try to find something online about it.
Thanks again,
George
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