Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:34, Doug wrote: > Greetings all > > I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. > I went and started the xeyes program found under the Amusement tab, nice > little diversion, but I can't remove them. No where in any of the docs have > I found any menti

Re: [newbie] Kooka Config

2004-02-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:42, John Richard Smith wrote: > I wounder what I need to do to get the full programme? Well for one click on "settings", go to "toolviews" and select all the options there. The program is there, it just isn't configured properly..it should've been configured t

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 27 February 2004 11:42, John Richard Smith wrote: > OK, done that, but again my CL sane is near nothing. I'm not quite sure what you mean by that??? > I suppose I ought to remidy that. > I will have a try later. Be sure to let kooka make an (empty or not) directory first (which goes in

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 27 February 2004 10:25, John Richard Smith wrote: > If I can get it to work well, I certainly would have > a regular use for such a tool. > > John Use it with "kooka" on KDE if you want a gui for it. Works very nicely in combination with "sane" The only thing sort of unclear is that it c

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 100

2004-02-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 26 February 2004 23:09, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Basically, I've got a 640x480 window on the laptops screen. I can adjust > the monitor and res settings to anything higher, and it works, but its > behind the 640x480 window so that I have to scroll to see all the desktop. > > WinXP did ha

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:47, Ray Hogaboom wrote: > I have a Pentium 1 100 MHz desk top It will have 64 megs of ram. I > want to use for firewall, router. Install two NIC cards eth0 would > connect to DSL modem. Then eth0 bridged to eth1 connected to a hub > that provides wired and wireless

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Running 10.0rc1 2.6.3 kernel

2004-02-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 20:36, Björn Lundin wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Here's a nice one back just for the fun of it.catch! > > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/triade/RPMS/jumpnbump-1.3-1.i586.rpm > > > > That is if you like squishing bunnies.my kids

Re: [newbie] Re: Running 10.0rc1 2.6.3 kernel

2004-02-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 00:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: > HmmmI wonder if this: > > urpmi testzilla-clients [Enter] > > would work. Sorry HarM (and everyone) if I screwed up again, as usual. )-: > > If that doesn't workHERE CATCH! > > ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-de

Re: [newbie] Re: Running 10.0rc1 2.6.3 kernel

2004-02-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 23 February 2004 19:04, Charlie Mahan wrote: > One final request. From me to all of you: > > Anyone that has installed any of the 10 betas or the RC please install > testzilla. > > urpmi testzilla [Enter] Charlie, I agree it's important to report bugs. I've already got a bugzilla account

Re: [newbie] building a binary from source rpm

2004-02-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 17:52, Robert Vojta wrote: > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hasn't the 'rebuild' function been moved out of rpm into the > > 'rpmbuild' package? > > See man rpmbuild. > > Yes, it was ... If you want to build binary, source, ... rpm > package than you h

Re: [newbie] building a binary from source rpm

2004-02-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 21 February 2004 14:36, Lanman wrote: > Can someone give me a quick review on building a binary rpm from a source > rpm? I haven't had to do it in such a long time, that I can't remember all > the steps. The src rpm is for Mandrake Cooker. "rpm --rebuild x.src.rpm" should do that.

Re: [newbie] LAN Write permission

2004-02-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 20 February 2004 21:24, martin brandt wrote: > I'll try that prog. but it doesnt sound like exactly what I need. I need > to be able to dl to the linux directory, so for example, select that > directory as the download destination on Bit Torrent. I think its possible > on windows <--> Wi

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 20 February 2004 11:15, John Richard Smith wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: > >>Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the > >>old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building > >>RPMs from so

Re: [newbie] Adding cdrom2 as an update source

2004-02-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 22:46, Marc Resnick wrote: > During installation I couldn't find cdrom2...but now I have and I need to > install the software on it. What info do I enter to add the source? Marc, Do me a favour and set Outlook to mail in plain text (i.e. not in HTML) I keep on having

Re: [newbie] Can't resize partition

2004-02-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 21:38, John Richard Smith wrote: > Marc Resnick wrote: > > Okay, I'm trying to install Linux again, but Partition magic won't > > resize my windows paritition so I can do it, and neither will the > > Linux install. I get an error 893 from PM. Anyone know what to do?? >

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 RC1 !

2004-02-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 17:22, Derek Jennings wrote: > And if anyone wants to join in the bittorrent the link to the torrent file > is here http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/ > > If you do not know what bittorrent is see here > http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html > > derek Yeah,

Re: [newbie] Wlan0 not showing up with new kernel

2004-02-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 00:09, Marc Resnick wrote: > Scratch that. Both were already there. The wlan0 device uses the prism2_cs > module, which comes with mdk linux. Yes, but as all of the scripts were installed using the older kernel they're prolly pointing to the wrong modulesat least

Re: [newbie] Network down

2004-02-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 08:41, Lexx /Sigil wrote: > Also, can anyone tell me how to launch it as I can't > find it in my KDE > menu - thanks open xterm, type "kwifi" and hit autocompletion will have "kwifimanager" completed if it's installed right. Then hit for it to start. is your b

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2004-02-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 22:35, David Collyer wrote: > I am tinkering with Mandrake 10 B2 and am having a difficult time > changing the system fonts. I go to to the Mandrake Control Center and > select "System" and then "Fonts". I am able to highlight the font I > want, but there is not option

Re: [newbie] Wlan0 not showing up with new kernel

2004-02-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 19:40, Marc Resnick wrote: > I recently compiled and installed a new kernel so ACPI would work. Which one? > > Good News: ACPI works wonderfully. > > Bad News: Linux isn't recognizing device wlan0. Ifup wlan0 does nothing. > Service network restart says that it's bring

Re: [newbie] wlan connection applet?

2004-02-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 18:38, Marc Resnick wrote: > Does anyone know a good Wi-Fi connection monitor for KDE? > > TIA, > Marc well if your wifi is up and running there's "etherape" that'll show traffic through wlan0. Otherwise there's "kwifimanager" which doesn't really monitor but gives an

Re: [newbie] Network down

2004-02-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 16 February 2004 20:58, Lexx wrote: > After a trouble-free couple of weeks my network has decided to die. > I tried > # service network restart > to try to boot it back to life and wlan0 comes up OK but I can no longer > browse the internet (Mozilla) or use email (Ximian). > > When I ping

Re: [newbie] Looking for Derek Jennings!

2004-02-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 16 February 2004 14:29, Derek Jennings wrote: > Actually Harm the Belkin F5D6050 version 1 is also Atmel (usb > vendor/product=d5c/a002) and will work virtually "out of the box" with > Mandrake with the at76c503 driver supplied in Mandrake. The version 2 > Belkin requires a later version

Re: [newbie] Looking for Derek Jennings!

2004-02-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 16 February 2004 14:09, lanman wrote: > Thanks HarM ! Have you seen Derek's site regarding USB wireless setups? > He's got some interesting info on there. I appreciate the info, as I'm > looking at adding it to my laptop. Now, if they cann only get these > WinModems working. Sigh! Yep, I

Re: [newbie] Solved, thanks -- Fw: 9.2 boot hangs on "Starting pcmcia" on Compaq Presario 2100 notebook

2004-02-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:06, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > I told ya' I was a /real/ newbie -- God help you all. :-) > > I finally figured out I could go into interactive mode and Yes my way > through everything but, then I disabled the "on boot" for the pcmcia > from within Mandrake. > > Thanks. >

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 19:34, JoeHill wrote: > So how do use it as a screensaver, ie. get it to automatically trigger > after a period of inactivity (without X running). That would be cool to > just leave my machine running in text mode when I'm not doing anything... Frankly: I don't know...

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 15:40, JoeHill wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:50:12 +0100 > > H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: > > > Before I go ahead and wipe Debian off my laptop and replace it with MDK > > > I'd like to know if I can use the rather nice Mat

Re: [newbie] Wireless Notebook Card

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:40, lanman wrote: > HarM; Have a look at this site; > > http://www.gvc.ca I just havethey look OK but suffer from the same lack as most retailers do; they won't/can't tell exactly what chips they're using. Alas their cards are all cardbus too, so no slot 1. I

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: >Do you want Mandrake D/L on 4 CD's? (not directed at you > HarM). See an particpate in cooker or the Club. I have done so in the past and found the discussions to be either over my head or stupifyingly low. I found no way in which I t

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:11, Charlie Mahan wrote: > If you haven't noticed I'll apologize to a stump if warranted. I have, and FWIW your replies are always coherent, friendly, helpful and provoke a smile..keep on trucking:) Good luck, HarM BTW. I'm skinny and tall...does that mean I h

Re: [newbie] Getting a certain IP every time.

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:18, Marc Resnick wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 06:43 pm, lanman wrote: > > On February 13, 2004 06:33 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there's a way to make sure you get a certain IP > > > from the dhcp? My router won't assign IPs by MAC addres

Re: [newbie] Wireless Notebook Card

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 00:55, lanman wrote: > HarM; Look over your shoulder Dude! No! The other shoulder! See ? That's > me lining up behind you for that wireless card! If I find anything, > I'll let you know, and hopefully, vice-versa ? Ahah that was you, the hot breath in my neck all the t

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 17:00, Charlie Mahan wrote: > Space limitations and support issues don't you know. No, I don't i.M.O. there's lots than can be kicked in favour of mc. It used always be there and installed by default too. Since 9.2 that changed all of a sudden in Mandrake. No other

Re: [newbie] MCC "Network & Internet"

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 13:07, GV wrote: > Hi, > > how can I achieve the MCC functionality concerning the setup of an > Internet connection without going through the GUI? Which > scripts/commands do I have to run? > > Thanks Depends on what you you're looking for: there's "drakconnect" that fi

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 12:01, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: > For the moment I would like to help translate Linux - > this might be a possible way to get in - a lot of > Romanians moved to a more inteligible interfacewhich > is the one in their mother language. But I didn't do > this on Linux and I nee

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:54, Anne Wilson wrote: > Take the free download edition for now, then, and don't feel bad about > it. The time will come when you can buy. Meanwhile, do your > repayment by spreading the word about Mandrake and by offering any of > your experiences that may help othe

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:33, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: > I couldn't find them, but I'm still looking in the > packages! > I mean in 10b2. I looked for "mc" too...it isn't there! Either download it from cooker or install the 9.2 version. Leaving mc out of a distrib feels like forgetting to put on

Re: [newbie] GIMP-1.3-PRE2.0 usage warning

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:30, Wojciech Podgórni wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have just stepped into a rather serious problem with this version of > GIMP in my Mandrake 9.2. When I try to open large files, the message > appears: "Couldn't open SWAP file. Bad things will happen." and GUI gets > (alm

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 09:35, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Is it down or something ? I can't see anything :-( > I'll try later on... Looks like it's downthe crappy 386 timed out after all, heh?;-D Or maybe the fuses just blewOR Joe fell asleep on his keyboard, it's late night over th

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 15:34, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: > for home use at least... > I would like to support it if I'd afford this (I live > in a country where the price of the average package - > let's say 100euros - is the medium salary - and to buy > it is some kind of alien experience - techn

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 15:16, Ken Walker wrote: > It's not a scratch on Knoppix. > > Ken Agreed, personally I think the slackware live version does a better job than Move.faster too. Though I must say, the Chines Dictionary and the games are exceptionally cool on knoppix/freeduc:) Sti

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 14:00, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 06:12 > Subject: Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin > > FYI:

Re: [newbie] python 2.3 - for 9.1?

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:15, Todd Slater wrote: > There's an app I want that requires python 2.3; anybody know if I could > grab the rpm's for 9.2 and use in 9.1? Or, even better, if there's a > python 2.3 package for 9.1? I've tried urpmi and rpmfind.net. > > Todd I think that's what I did

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:46, Ken Walker wrote: > Before you wipe off Debian, make a disk image, you may be going back to it. > > I recently installed 9.2 ( last week ) onto my laptop which loved MDK8.2. I > wanted to know what this wonderful new version had to offer. So I ticked > everything

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:25, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Hehe, looks you found itforget my grumble, grumble mail on the /etc/innitab issue..sorry;) > Thanks I am well acquainted with vi but not mc. Anyway it worked I loged > into a text screen issued startx, as me, and was automatically

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:33, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Please bear in mind I dont speak mandrake and linux poorly. What should I > do to the /etc/inittab file??? Quite frankly, you don't have to speak Mandrake lingo but it would help if you read the answers you get, better. I posted about 3 a

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:17, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > The complete Command Line and response. > [root @localhost root]# rpm -qa | grep auto > autofs-4.0.0-0.19mdk > autoconf-2.13.19mdk > automake-1.4-23.p6.mdk > > Hope this helps. Yep it isn't there, soedit the /etc/inittab file..hang i

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:06, Lexx wrote: > I'm using i586, will that matter? > Cheers > Lexx No, it means i386 and up whereas the i586 means not downwards compatible Good luck, harM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://tw

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 23:49, Lexx wrote: > Before I go ahead and wipe Debian off my laptop and replace it with MDK > I'd like to know if I can use the rather nice Matrix screensaver that is > in KDE, if not where can it be found? It's called cmatrix and is available as i386.rpm Its on rpmf

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 23:42, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > "rpm qa | grep auto" on the commandline. that should've been "rpm -qa | grep auto"...sorry HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's &am

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 23:03, Hoyt Bailey wrote: snipped... > Once in there you can run "mcc" (mandrake control center) by typing just > that > on the command line and see if you can reset the boot options from there > > HB: I couldnt. You have to be root i.e. "su" to be able to do that

Re: [newbie] Adsl-setup

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:07, Caio wrote: > I instaled the beta version of mandrake 10, ans adsl-setup is not even a > command... I did the normal instalation... what should I do? Well for 1 don't use HTML, I just "rescued" you from the "spam-bin". 2)How about simply installing it??? Check

Re: [newbie] Cannot create bootdisk reprise

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 22:44, Lexx wrote: > Excellent. Many thanks. > Lexx Try using smart boot manager for funny boots, i.e. recalcitrant BIOS'es. I always keep a floppy handy...you never know. It's a fine rescue disk for hosed mbr's and such too:) I've got mine from the Slackware9.1 CD

Re: [newbie] Cannot create bootdisk reprise

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 22:06, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Lexx > > That's because the boot image is too big for a floppy...use the install CD > for that or make a boot CD for your specific system. > > Good luck, > HarM Sorry I didn't get the gist of your que

Re: [newbie] Cannot create bootdisk

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 20:06, Lexx wrote: > I'm trying to make a boot disk so that I can put MDK on my old laptop. > However it appears the total size of the files exceeds 1.44MB! > It's a brand new floppy so I don't know what I'm doing wrong - please > help! > > Here's the error: > Unable t

Re: [newbie] Boot from floppy, install Mandrake from Internet

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 16:18, ejdodds wrote: > The objective is to install Mandrake on some older machines I've donated to > an elementary school in Berkeley, California. They have no CD-ROM drive > but are connected full time to the Internet via Ethernet throughout the > whole school. I'm

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 16:27, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I tried ctl-alt-F1, F2, Delete, Backspace. No response just that ugly > green screen with two white bars and a watch. > Regards; > Hoyt Well that about only leaves the "failsafe" boot option doesn't it:) If you didn't leave failsafe in the

Re: [newbie] ftp install how-to

2004-02-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 20:04, Charlie Mahan wrote: > Plus if one wants to "jump the gun" on Mandrake 10 there's always the full > ftp or hard drive install available by downloading the boot.iso image from > any cooker mirror. I know it works for a hard drive install because I > "cooked" my nei

Re: [newbie] OT Humor - - Fwd: Re: IE Phishing flaw has been fixed with a good twist (Humor)

2004-02-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 13:07, you wrote: > I love tux Racer Lol, I play Unreal Tournament, Doom, > Quake, and Tux Racer. Not a gamer but I love those games! > They all work in Linux so I don't have to use my Windows > box much. I've got the Loki version "Kohan" and "mindrover" running as

Re: [newbie] Help! Linux won't boot! --Even more info. Please help!

2004-02-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 12:37, Marc Resnick wrote: > Well I now realize what I did, which is a start. And I do remember the > sizes and names. At the start of the extended partition was hda5. It was > about 5 gb, and was my main partition for Linux. Next came my swap. It was > pretty small, pro

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 06:18, Greg Meyer wrote: > The package structure was changed significantly with 3.2 so that a straight > upgrade from 3.1.3 will not be possible. For instance, kmail moved from > kdenetwork to kdepim, so you cannot upgrade kdenetwork-kmail to > kdepim-kmail. Try remov

Re: [newbie] Help! Linux won't boot! --Even more info. Please help!

2004-02-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 03:11, Marc Resnick wrote: > Well I tried booting with the MDK cd 1. I booted from cdrom and chose the > upgrade option. As soon as I got to partitioning, I got the error 'Could > not mount hda5', and I could do nothing about it. Please tell me I'm not > going to have to

Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 05 February 2004 23:44, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of > packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but > with no success. Any ideas? > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > Paul I just ignore th

[newbie] prism2_usb driving me mad:-P

2004-02-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, I'm having a devil of a time getting a sitecom usb wl-012 to workehh, it's driving me round the bend: Here's the sad story in a nutshell: I connected and installed all the necessary stufthe thing worked using "kismet" and scanned fine for networks, couldn't get it to set to ad

Re: [newbie] Testing USB

2004-02-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 05 February 2004 13:31, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I would like to know how to learn whether the USB connection is working > properly. I have a printer connected to there and it does not work. > Could somebody here please help me? > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > Paul Open a t

Re: [newbie] Whats happinging

2004-02-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 19:52, aronsmith wrote: > The old box will just be used as a firewall the workstation will be a > seperate box > i had an old 500mhz compaq that I had stripped the am and drives out of > so I bought 3 Nics at the surplus shop All 3Coms I have downloadd IPcop > and with

[newbie] Wireless bridging question

2004-02-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
A fairly simple question but I haven't found a straight answer yet: Is it necessary for the wireless card to be an access point or can I bridge wlan0 (in ad-hoc mode) to eth0 as I would two normal ethernet nic's?? Thanks, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #1

Re: [newbie] GIMP and gfx tablets

2004-02-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 21:00, Todd Slater wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:38:03PM +, LtCdData wrote: > > do any of the Gimpers here using a gfx tablet for drawing in the GIMP? > > if so what ones work and is it easy .. or not.. to get working etc... > > > > LtCdData > > When I was loo

Re: [newbie] Yaayyy!

2004-02-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 02:30, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 02 February 2004 06:14 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Monday 02 February 2004 23:48, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > > But that's just my opinion. I'll spend money and beta test too, it's > > >

Re: [newbie] Yaayyy!

2004-02-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 02 February 2004 23:48, Charlie Mahan wrote: > But that's just my opinion. I'll spend money and beta test too, it's too > much fun not to. I'm with you there Charlie..I just started the 1.9G download of the 3 .iso's so, as it's gone midnight here that'll be around noon tomorrow bef

Re: [newbie] Yaayyy!

2004-02-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 02 February 2004 22:09, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 02 February 2004 03:57 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:39:24 -0500 > > > > Greg Meyer disseminated the following: > > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/pr-releaseprocess.php3 > > > > Very interesting. Of course, who among

Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 18 January 2004 23:32, Joe wrote: > Thanks for your help. I wondered if ifplugd had something to do with my > problem, seeing as it seems to matter whether or not it is plugged in. > > > Joe. Personally I'd look at dhcpd, it has some funny effects on gateways that use fixed IP's. On the

Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 18 January 2004 03:12, Joe wrote: > Another thing that I just remembered. When i start up, eth0 seems to > fail if the cable is plugged in, but says OK if it isn't. Dont know if > that tells you anything. Could be dhcp is getting in the way. If you can't get static IP up, try killing dh

Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 17 January 2004 21:42, Charles Ramsey wrote: > HardDrake tells me that I have a Realtek RTL-8139. > > Hope this helps you to success. That should work with 8139too module, try "insmod 8139too" if it isn't mentioned with "lsmod" in a terminal as su/root. Check "dmesg" if it won't load

Re: [newbie] compatible pcmcia network adapter?

2004-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 17 January 2004 04:50, Joe wrote: > I am giving up on getting my friends integrated intel NIC working on his > VAIO under mandrake. He is willing to shell out cash for a network card > that works well with 9.2. A local mom and pop shop here in Edmonton > sells an Asus wl-100 pcmcia nic

Re: [newbie] dosemu-stable 2003 Edition

2004-01-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 01 January 2004 09:52, boulanger wrote: > Hi, > > Here's something that looks interesting: > [ 868395 ] dosemu-stable 2003 Edition Released > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=868395&group_id=49 >784&atid=457447 Should I put this (dosemu-stable) on the twiki

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Open Gl.

2004-01-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 01 January 2004 04:20, Steven Nelson wrote: > I have a few questions. > -I am trying to completely uninstall Open Gl. It is not like a package. I > do not know if the 'urpme' will completely uninstall a program like Open > Gl. Do you know if this is the case? If it is will someone tell

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Open Gl.

2003-12-31 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 01:21, Steven Nelson wrote: > I need to uninstall Open Gl. Everything the Open Gl installation installed > needs to be uninstalled. If someone knows how to do this will they tell me? Use "urpme package-name" to uninstall a package, or use the software manager in MCC

Re: [newbie] libGLcore.so.1

2003-12-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 20:47, Johan wrote: > Thanks for your reply...but I am still in the dark...please maybe some > more info...like... > under what name > were > etc.. > Thanks > Johan Apparently it's the NVIDIA_GLX rpm you're looking for. Just do "urpmi nvidia" and it will show up amongst

Re: [newbie] copy a cd

2003-12-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 29 December 2003 12:08, Johan wrote: > Hi, > To make an exact copy of a cd will this be the format... > dd if=xx/zzz/test.iso of=/mnt/cdrom > or > dd if=xx/zzz/test.iso of=/dev/hdb > *** or *** > any other application unknown to me please. > Thanks Not sure what you're asking here: dd

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Problems, Mandrake 9.2.

2003-12-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 29 December 2003 00:40, Job Evers wrote: > I have done as instructed and there was no output. > My system must not even know that I inserted the > wireless card. > > I took a screen capture of my system setup in windozs, > if that might provide some insight on the situation. > http://web.

Re: [newbie] ftp server setup

2003-12-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
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 setup an ftp server on my linux box so that I can transfer

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 18:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > >I think somebody messed up on the initiallizing script...because I can > > find xinit in /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit and /usr/bin/X11/xinit. IMHO the > > initializing script seems to be looking for xinit in one place and the > > system has it stashe

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 18:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux modprobe: modprobe: insmod emu10k1 failed > Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux sound: Loading sound module (emu10k1) > failed Well they're not getting loaded that's for sure. I gathered that lspci sees the device for what it

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 18:03, Anne Wilson wrote: > Same one, HarM In that case I certainly would advise "urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom" to get at least the packages and dependencies data-bases as they should be. And of course see what dmesg has to say about errors on

Re: [newbie] capturing windows with scroll

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 11:48, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2003 05:45 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > What's wrong with "right-clicking" in the picture and then "save image > > as..."? > > Good luck, > > HarM > > The image

Re: [newbie] capturing windows with scroll

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 11:41, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2003 05:36 pm, Wojciech Podgórni wrote: > > You can capture the entire screen with GIMP. > > HTH > > Wojciech Podgórni > > Yes, but only the visible screen, how about the rest of the page? > In windoze, I can use a prog

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 09:22, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Schof solved his problem, but I have to disagree with HarM on the > subject of mounting disk. I hate to say it but I have to agree with your disagree-ance:) You're right of course, one mounts partitions not the whole disk. I got "mount"

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:25, John Schofield wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply! > > HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks. > {smile} You're welcome (grin) > > derek: It's ide-scsi. Which I don't really understand, since it's a > standard ATA CD-ROM, but I commen

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Problems, Mandrake 9.2.

2003-12-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:02, Job Evers wrote: > Is this a question better asked on this list or the > expert list? > > > I just purchased a Blitzz BWP612B NetWave Point PC > > 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN Cardbus PC Card. The > > product claims to support Linux Red Hat 8.0, so I > > would assu

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 20 December 2003 22:43, Charlie Mahan wrote: > I think the whole point HarM is that he has no network connection until he > installs the nvnet drivers. Actually my point was that; To get proper answers you need to ask the proper questions. I've no experience with nforce boards either

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 20 December 2003 01:33, Lance Benton wrote: > I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. > > Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install > I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed > > Hardware: > AMD XP 2600+/333 > K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadte

Re: [newbie] nForce and Mandrake 9.2 RPM error

2003-12-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 19 December 2003 23:24, Lance Benton wrote: > Well, looks like I'm going to give up again.. I hate going back to >snip< > my last email showed up as being from [EMAIL PROTECTED], I hadn't properly > configured my webmail client to show my name, so it defaulted to just my > email address.

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 18 December 2003 16:31, John Richard Smith wrote: > >Here is the relevant section in mine: > > > >Section "Device" > >Identifier "device1" > >VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > >BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" > >Driver "nvidia" > >Option "DPMS" > >EndSectio

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:07, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Anyway I'm still stuck with this squashed up gui boot script that annoys > me and I just know there must be a way to alter it ? > > John John, I just removed the vga=bla line in my default choice (win4lin in this case) and I get a

Re: [newbie] PDF Import Filter for KWord

2003-12-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 December 2003 21:10, deedee wrote: > This is certainly useful information for when I get multiple-page faxes > that are sent as individual pages. > > However, my applications have "Print to PDF" as an option from the print > drop-down menu. If the file has multiple pages, it produces a

Re: [newbie] PDF Import Filter for KWord

2003-12-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 December 2003 17:51, Tango Echo wrote: > find out how/if this is possible. Currently I have a > document I'm scanning in via Kooka but am only able to > send each individual page to a PDF file. Hence, a 5 > page docuement produces 5 individual files instead of > a single PDF file =/

Re: [newbie] mandrake default kernel source

2003-12-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 December 2003 05:33, babar haq wrote: > Hi > Can someone mail me the default kernel version in mandrake 9.2.Actually i > need to download the kernel-source in office and i forgot to bring the > kernel version from home. Can some one mail me the link i can download the > kernel source.

Re: [newbie] Boot hangs on startup (video problem?)

2003-12-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 December 2003 02:31, Steve Wechsler wrote: > > -Original Message- > > How can I change the menu so it defaults to "linux". > > > Steve Go into MCC (K -> configuration -> configure your computer) and choose "boot" and then "drakboot". Then click "configure" and OK it. Chose th

Re: [newbie] Boot hangs on startup (video problem?)

2003-12-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 11 December 2003 22:38, Steve Wechsler wrote: > > Driver "nvidia" and change it to Driver "nv" > > Thanks for your responses so far. It turns out that the file is already set > this way. Some more info: from the boot menu, if I choose "linux" it boots > fine into the window manager; if

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