[newbie] Nvidia Drivers

2001-03-21 Thread Joe Lore
Hi, I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and wanted to use the latest drivers for Linux that are posted on Nvidia's web site for my Gforce Annihilator Pro card. I downloaded the RPM and when I double click it, I get a list of files. One of these files is called install, if I double click that I get a

Re: [newbie] DSL

2000-12-13 Thread Joe Lore
, December 13, 2000 9:22 PM Subject: [newbie] DSL Joe Lore, just wondering how you've made out with your DSL connection. Glenn... Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #175132 Powered by Linux-Mandrake 7.1

[newbie] BA Infospeed and Linux

2000-12-10 Thread Joe Lore
I am at a loss. I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and use BellAtlantics Infospeed DSL. I have followed all the steps at the Roaring Penguin site and at http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/prog/linux/pppoe.html and I still cannot get it to work. I believe the Ethernet cards are setup ok because when I run

Re: [newbie] Bell Atlantic Infospeed DSL

2000-12-10 Thread Joe Lore
Hi, Well I do believe that it is being initialized at boot up and I am not sure how to stop it. Also how do I check to see if it has an IP address? Joe - Original Message - From: "Glenn Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 6:34 PM Subject:

[newbie] Grub questions

2000-12-09 Thread Joe Lore
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and have a few questions about the boot loader, grub. How do I get Windows to be my default OS in the list. Also, what is the command to get fdisk to remove grub from my boot sector? I will be putting Linux on a different hard drive soon and will need to

RE: [newbie] Booting from CD at install?

2000-06-25 Thread Joe Lore
Not true at all. I did the CD-ROM drive boot / install and it worked fine. I can now boot into either Windows or Linux using the Grub menu. Joe -Original Message- From: John Gist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

[newbie] FW: modem says it's busy

2000-06-25 Thread Joe Lore
Hi, I'm new to the list. I've got background running Solaris on a Sparcstation and I've done installations of Red Hat and Corel Linux but I'm still finding my way around Linux on an Intel box (and I'm lost). I've just gotten a new machine. My old machine had a Winmodem in it so I never had

Re: [newbie] ATA-66 support

2000-06-24 Thread Joe Lore
I am currently running with 2.2.14 and am getting ATA66 performace. Joe - Original Message - From: "Roland Hightower" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 6:52 PM Subject: [newbie] ATA-66 support Which kernel supports ata66 and where can I find the

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread Joe Lore
That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

2000-06-23 Thread Joe Lore
. Any help is much welcome as my girlfriend did like KDE very much more than windoze but she does want to hear it beep and blurp :) ... -f. -Original Message-From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: viernes 23 de junio de 2000 12:12To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

2000-06-23 Thread Joe Lore
. Any help is much welcome as my girlfriend did like KDE very much more than windoze but she does want to hear it beep and blurp :) ... -f. -Original Message-From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: viernes 23 de junio de 2000 12:12To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Esound server error.

2000-06-22 Thread Joe Lore
Hi, Thanks to all the help I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.1. I am having one small issue though. I have a Sound Blaster Live and the driver loads ok, I am able to play CD's and I get the test sound when I go to the configurator. I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I

[newbie] LAN connectivity

2000-06-18 Thread Joe Lore
HI, I am using Mandrake 7.1 and I am having trouble getting connectivity to the net through my LAN. I currently use a Win 98 SE box with internet sharing to provide net to the entire LAN, however, when I provide the IP for that box as the default gateway it just simply does not work. Has

RE: [newbie] LAN connectivity

2000-06-18 Thread Joe Lore
in Wingate and Proxyserver. It was all free. So much easier now with ipchains...and it doesn't cost anything either. Just a few thoughts on it...but remember, I too am a newbie. Bambi Joe Lore wrote: HI, I am using Mandrake 7.1 and I am having trouble getting connectivity to the net

[newbie] SB Live issues, still

2000-06-18 Thread Joe Lore
Hi, I got the latest drivers available from the SB Linux developers page but still am not able to get it to work. I followed the instructions as close as I could, however, being a "newbie" comments like "unload all sound drivers including soundscape" mean zip to me. Still when I use the

[newbie] 2 Consistent Problems

2000-06-18 Thread Joe Lore
Ok, this is getting confusing so I will just post the issues in this one mailing and hope I get some good answers. I am having 2 problems with my Mandrake 7.1 install (these were the ISO images available online). #1) On bootup the Emu10k1 driver fails. I followed the detailed instructions given