At 04-03-2001 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
I have a Conceptronic 56ET modem (it suports linux).
The problem is that I can't configure the dial-up because linux don't find
my modem.It's is connected to COM1 (ttys0) serial port in my computer.
Try this :: set your modem to /dev/ttyS0 :: note that big S
Try this : from file menu - edit - Preferences - Navigator - click the
"clear Histroy" button. HTH
At 04-03-2001 +0100, you wrote:
Any body knows...
What can I do for clean the history of Netscape?
THANKS.
ms raju honoured me by posting the below question direct to me. As I am a
dummy newbie myself, the message is forwarded here for other gurus to help
out. TIA, Regards
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 05:42:06 -0800
From: ms raju [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: firing up kppp and root
To: [EMAIL
Liz,
FYI,
I use kppp; when 'pppd died unexpectedly' I set the following :
modem time out = 360
modem busy wait = 1
modem pre-init delay = 1
modem post-init delay = 3
guard time = 255
pppd time out = 360
YMMV, HTH
At 22-02-2001 +, you wrote:
hi
everytime i try to get online i get "the pppd
You can call me crazy. What I do is install Linux-Mandrake, RedHat,
TurboLinux each on a separate harddisk in a removable tray. This is purely
for learning. I use Win95 at home, Win 95 + 98 at work. If any of the Linux
got mess-up my working OS is intact. Just IMHO. Regards
At 23-02-2001
FYI,
http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/numlockx/
At 21-02-2001 -0300, you wrote:
Hi everybody !!!
I have a little problem with NumLock key.
When a kernel started, the NumLock was on,
but after this, when X server is enable and the NumLock key down.
What can I do to fix it in ON forever ???
wvdial from www.worldvisions.ca
At 06-02-2001 -0600, you wrote:
DRX,
I really havent had much luck with kppp so you might try to run a script
to start the init of the modem
try to find a prog called wcdial at freshmeat.net
Perseus
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, DRX
wrote:
The modem beeps the
www.linuxave.net/~recover/index.html or
http://linux.davecentral.com/4126_sysutilfile.html
At 19-02-2001 -0500, you wrote:
Boy oh boy did I just mess up big time! Please tell me there is a way I can
undelete a directory.
Thanks, Steve just sitting here in a world of hurt :(
Hektor for your info,
In Win 9.X you need only to activate an external support software to enable
Chinese in an English software. In Linux - there two ways :
(1) get cle from http://cle.linux.org.tw/ this is plugin for Big5 code,
which you are looking for. I have no practical info on this
At 19-02-2001 +0800, you wrote:
I am very very new at this.
I tried installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 but it said that my Windows ME does
not support dosmode.
FYI :
http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/
How should I install it now??
Thanks
- Original Message -
From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL
At 08-02-2001 +, you wrote:
Loo:
What do you mean by "This is my $0.002"?
This is my $0.002 worth of opinion/information.
Regards.
Ok, so installation process is far beyond effective and easy to do.
At 04-02-2001 -0500, you wrote:
One of my old hard drives has some bad sectors. (I know from previous
Windows work.) If I use this hard drive for /home or swap, will Linux care?
Yes, very likely. I try to install Linux on an old drive with bad sectors
and almost blow my top; Suggest scan your
Jason,
I am also using USR modem with Netscape in Linux Mandrake 7.1.
If your modem connects OK; did you set up Netscape by {filemenu -Edit
-preferences - setup all the parameters}. Just my $0.002
At 01-02-2001 -0500, you wrote:
Hello,
I have small problem and can't seem to figure it
At 31-01-2001 -0800, you wrote:
I have installed linux 7.2 over 7.1. Under 7.1, I use
to connect by going to linuxconf and dialing the
connection. But under 7.2 installation, the pppd
daemon dies quickly,
Try this as root, in kppp setup : modem time out =360; pppd timeout = 360;
guard time =
Jason,
Thank you for your advice.
As root, I issued command in console mood : chmod 4755 /usr/bin/kppp. Then
login as user to use kppp, still no go. Back as root to check, found the
permission of kppp has an leading ' l ' ; in the general tab says :
pointing to 'consolehelper'.
It appears that
I am the sole user of my Linux box with RH 6.2.
Login as root, I could call Kppp, connect to ISP and surf the Net with
Netscape.
Login as user- Kmenu-Internet-Kppp- linux asked for root passwd, keyin
root passwd, hard disk light flashed a few times and nothing happens.
Presumed it is permission
At 26-01-2001 +0700, you wrote:
Hi,everyone
Could any one tell me where can i get Real Audio Player
for Linux? or is it any other player for real audio format?
Tafta Z
Are you looking for this : http://www.real.com/player/index.html?src=downloadr
At 19-01-2001 -0500, you wrote:
Question 2. My computer came with a winmodem installed but I have an
external USR modem that I connected to one of the ports on the back (COMM1).
The problem is that ML7.2 does not know there is a modem connected (checked
Hardrake and there is nothing there, no
At 16-01-2001 +1300, you wrote:
Hi!
Just installed LM 7.2 but can't get the pppd working. How do I set it
up?
Under Windows 2000 the modem is in COM4. In LM 7.2 it is /dev/modem. Is
this right?
FYI, com4 in Win2K is /dev/ttyS3 in Linux, it is Big S.
At 16-01-2001 +1300, you wrote:
Hi!
Running LM 7.2. The system reboots ok but when I issue the 'halt'
command it hangs up and errors/segmentation faults appear.
What is causing this?
Thanks!
IIRC, the command is : shutdown -h now for immediate shutdown.
Because the address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] has SG country code, I had
forwarded the related messages to my ISP !
At 14-01-2001 -0800, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as transmitted by yavin.mandrax.org? If not
At 13-01-2001 -0800, you wrote:
im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some
recommendations.:)
FYI
I am using external 3Com U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem with Linux-Mandrake
7.1.The modem works; also 'cured' my Bios port IO conflict at 2f8 : com2
aka /dev/ttyS1.
Interesting, What intelligence and what hardware needed.
Best Regards from Republic of Singapore.
At 05-01-2001 +0100, you wrote:
Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally
(actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as
testers for
Thank you, please sign me UP.
My home address ( postal address) :
APT. BLOCK 3, #09-68,
UPPER ALJUNIED LANE,
POST CODE 360003,
REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE.
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best Regards and Salemat Tahun Bahru - Happy New Year - as in Malay - my
National Language.
At 05-01-2001 +0100, you
Please check : {file menu} - Edit - Preferences - Mail
Newsgroups - NewsGroup Servers - {your ISP News Server data} HTH
At 31-12-2000 -0500, you wrote:
Hi everybody,
When I try to subscribe to a newsgroup, I'm getting a message indicating
that the Netscape server is refusing connections,
Just my $0.002, Did you [press] the {apply} and {OK} after changing the
settings.
At 01-01-2001 -0600, you wrote:
On Sunday 31 December 2000 11:18 am, Romanator wrote:
root wrote:
Romanator wrote:
How did you fix the time setting of your basic am/pm setting? By
default mdk7.2 shows
At 30-12-2000 +, you wrote:
I'd like to know, can somebody put me straight on why we should be
optimising our kernels?
what is a kernel?
David and Alicia
From OReilly Running Linux, page 10 : "The kernel is the guts of the
operating system itself; it's the code that controls the
I thought I am the only person to receive multiple copies! There were (13)
copies of this posting
At 28-12-2000 +1100, you wrote:
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 22:04, ZER0 FREQUENCY wrote:
John Arkoulis wrote:
Can you please point me at a site (independent) that I can compare the new
Have to ask Santa, I counted (13) copies of a mail, and (6) of another,
Perhaps this is a way of saying : Happy New Year.
At 28-12-2000 -0500, you wrote:
Dear All, I have been getting 3 or more of some emails. What is causing
that?
Marcia
May be this is what you are looking for :
ftp://ftp.linux.yucows.com/pub/distributions/mini.
Regards.
At 29-12-2000 +, you wrote:
Sorry Herman, our machine has 48meg, will linux run ok?.which is the
lightest program manager and what size should i make my linux partition?
David and
Thank you, I did as root set "chmod 777 pppd" since I am the 'only' user of
my Linux box. Will do as you suggested. BTY, I am using TurboLinux 6.1
(Chinese).
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
At 23-12-2000 +, you wrote:
It quite simple really. As root issue this command
chmod
I got dupes rather frequently. So I just delete them.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
At 23-12-2000 -0600, you wrote:
I get some mail twice...I can't remember exactly who it was. Hasn't
happened for a couple of days though.
Mr. Smith
At 23-12-2000 +, you wrote:
Anyone got any idea how to adjust the print size in Linux? I had to get a
new printer that is compatible with Linux, and I should be happy that it
works at all, however - it is printing so tiny
Just for reference.
If the printer is not in the supported list,
At 12-12-2000 -0500, you wrote:
What is Fips?
O'Reilly Running Linux, Page 53, "... several programs that resize
partitions nondestructively. One of these is known as FIPS and can be
found on many Linux FTP sites."
In connection with this subject please visit the web site :
http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/
At 30-11-2000 -0800, you wrote:
Quoting Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Technically, WinME is Win98 without any trace of DOS under the covers.
You won't find autoexec.bat. config.sys, or any of
At 00-11-29 -0600, you wrote:
Every time I reboot my date reverts back 6 hours.
Suggest check your time zone setting. HTH
At 27-11-2000 -0800, you wrote:
Keep in mind that even numbered 2.2.16 kernels are developmental and odd
numbered kernels are considered stable. It is quite possible 2.2.16 will
not support your machine.
Cyphfer
In Running Linux, Third Edition, August 1999, Page 9, para 2 : The stable
kernel
At 26-11-2000 +, you wrote:
if you click on the kill icon and then on the desktop you lose all the icons
PMJI,
I was on Mandrake 7.1 , all icons on desktop suddenly missing, forgot what
I was doing, what I did was : K icon - Panel - Restart and I got the
icons back on desktop. HTH
Leon,
Just my $0.002, I am also using LM7.1 { plus Red Hat 6.0 and 6.2 ;-) } I
could get my e-mail from the same ISP; same user , through RH6.2, but not
LM7.1 and RH6.0 ; the error message : no user name ! After comparing the 3
drives, I discovered, user name not entered in the submenu in LM
At 01:36 PM 17-11-2000 +1100, you wrote:
There is an excellent Mini-HOWTO on font deuglification that comes with
the distribution.
Thanks Ot,
BTW, distribution = Mandrake 7.1 ? or Red Hat ?
Regards
At 08:13 PM 16-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
style and size. that can be done in the preferences.
Mark
Thank you, I did that, it reads slightly better, the improvement is rather
minute; before the change, the font was something like size5, from
preferences I changed to 24, now is something like
Grace,
Try my way : make a bootdisk from your Win98 - must have drivers to use
your cdrom drive. Use this disk to boot to DOS, that is when boot process
is completed you see A: on the monitor - insert linux cd into the cdrom
drive - type cd C: {if you cdrom has been detected as C: else change
Hey Watch Out !
I remember reading {unable to recall the source}: the files in linux /tmp
are not like those in \windows\temp. If you delete them, very likely you
have to RE-INSTALL. HTH
At 04:55 PM 14-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
I know in Windows you can safely delete the contents of your
Greetings, After 16 months to the day, last night I was able to connect to
the Internet from Linux. But, the web pages displayed in Netscape was very
small even smaller than this. And in the View Menu : Increase Font and
Decrease Font commands are greyed out.
What can I do please ?
TIA
At 05:39 PM 13-11-2000 +, you wrote:
Just a quick question...Please don't kill me.
What does i386, i486, i586 refer to?
i = intel, you are referring to the cpu's such as 80386, 80486, 80586 =
better known as Pentium
Peter,
At 08:24 AM 11-11-2000 +, you wrote:
it suggests that no one ever gets linux to work!
It is not true to say so. I have Mandrake 7.1, Red Hat 6.0 and Red Hat 6.2
all running on a separate harddisk, my HP deskjet 500 works. It is true
Linux is different from other OS now on the
Romanator,
FYI, I have Win95B, Mandrake7.1, Red Hat6.0, 6.2 each on a separate
bootable harddisk.
At 07:32 PM 11-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
Do most people have Linux installed on a separate drive or partition?
As requested, I try both : http://kompukit.com and http://www.kompukit.com.
Both gave me "ERROR 205 -- DNS name lookup failure. Please contact your
system administrator. " BTW is your server up 24/7 ?
At 09:31 PM 10-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
Could a few of you...test my new domain...to see if
Bill,
I notice you are using Windows Eudora, if you are in win9.x, then goto My
computer - Properties - Device Manager - Display Adapters - Print -
selected class or device - OK; do the same with monitor. You will get all
the specs; I printed my whole system. HTH
At 04:09 PM 08-11-2000 -0800,
At 11:27 PM 04-11-2000 +0800, you wrote:
make sure that my BIOS can handle a disk of that capacity.
FYI
Yes, your bios need to be able to 'see' the new drive at boot up. Suggest
look at the top left corner of your monitor at boot up, you will see the
bios maker, version, and date displayed -
FYI, very likely you have set your system time to GMT. Suggest go to
timetool reset system time to the time zone of your country's GMT-? That
was how I set system time in Linux-Mandrake 7.1 HTH
At 11:52 AM 04-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
When I go to change the date / time in KDE (as root), or
at 06:29 PM 02-11-2000 +, you wrote:
I do copies of software in school
Please do that outside your school.
Regards
At 04:58 PM 02-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
If I start the mandrake 7.1 install on a system with one ATA66 10.2Gb
Unformatted HD, will it format the disk when I get to diskdrake?
FYI
On 03-09-2000 I installed Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on a Seagate model ST310212A
10Gb. Un-partition, unformat, I have IDE0,
Alex, Gary,
At 03:20 PM 01-11-2000 -0500, you wrote:
installed them. They work very well. Two points: don't lose the key;
Sorry, this 63-year-old man forgot to suggest : not to buy the type that
use key to switch on/off, instead buy the "latch" type. No worry of lost
key. You only need to
Alex,
Since you have two harddisk, suggest putting your disks in removable
trays, config each as pri. master, insert whichever you wish to use and
boot-up. When you are comfortable with the OS's involved then do the
'marrying'.
I now have at home, Win95B, Win2000 (was WinNt 4 used by my son),
for Singapore :
a - Asia/Singapore
b - Singapore
Why double entries, any difference between the two, or just entered for the
fun of it ;-)
Please advise. TIA
L. H. Loo
FYI,
Presently I use Win95B, Win95C, and Win98 at work, at home I have Win95B.
To learn how to use Linux, I install Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and RedHat 6.0 each
on separate 10 Gb harddisks in a removable tray (will be doing same for
SuSe 6.3 on 4 Gb soon) - so that - Win and Linux do not 'see' each
James,
This is what I went thru' :
My Linux-Mandrake 7.1 is given by Maximum Linux Aug/Sept 2000; before
install, I set cmos/bios of my computer to auto detect IDE primary master
and primary slave only; boot computer to dos with cdrom support from Win95
boot disk. My cdrom was detected as C:\
FYI, I came across this in pcworld november 2000, if you are using
wordperfect go to : linux.corel.com/support/wp_8linuxfix.htm,else delete
this message. Regards
At 01-10-2000 04:12 AM, you wrote:
about how one would uninstall Redhat and install another Linux
distribution such as Mandrake 7.1.
Hi,
If you want to install Mandrake over RedHat, just boot your computer with
the boot disk from Mandrake (or a pure DOS boot disk). Proceed with
Yes, Yes. I did 'make noise' on the list. But .
At 26-09-2000 07:11 AM, you wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that the messages are repeating themselves on the
list?
--
Mark
At 26-09-2000 07:39 AM, you wrote:
What up here, why would it be hanging on the formatting of the partitions?
Is there a way I can make sure all the boot information is stripped off the
drive and that it's entirely clean before doing the install?
Mark,
Are you using a disk that is in use for
At 23-09-2000 09:40 PM, you wrote:
http://www.linuxnewgie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html
^
The address is http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html
^
note the typo. I 'went' there before sending this
At 21-09-2000 09:55 PM, you wrote:
Questions are:
1. What are my alternatives?
Try my paranoid-way : have a spare drive of reasonable size in a removable
tray, install your preferred OS into it, if anything were to happen, you
still have the other OS untouched. Regards
To install L-M over RH in the same hard disk, just proceed as if nothing
was there, L-M detects the existing linux file system and 'ask' you for
permission to delete, click OK, and carry on, that is what I did. Regards
At 22-09-2000 03:24 PM, you wrote:
I am currently running Redhat Linux 6.2
Greetings from a 'lurker'.
I think there is typo in the message below, please cross check with this
from PCWORLD, OCT,2000 :
At 20-09-2000 05:34 PM, you wrote:
7gb partitions in fat 32 will give you 8mb clusters, go larger and they
double to 16 32 mb clusters and I'm not sure but Im sure if
Thank you for the info. Regards.
At 16-09-2000 02:11 AM, you wrote:
OK, here I am again with the zip thing. Take a look at "
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html ". See if
the directories and files that are in the instructions are there. If not
go ahead and do what the
Yes, There is nothing wrong to post a message asking help in that person's
mother tongue. I have seen postings on the net in Chinese(GB2312),
Chinese(Big5), Indonesian National Language, and Malaysian National
Language and lastly in English. I myself read the first two Chinese and
English,
Ms Kohler,
I salute you, you upheld the spirit of this list.
Best Regards from a 63-year-old Chinaman
At 14-09-2000 09:52 AM, you wrote: .
Linux Mandrake 7.1 also set up my zip drive 'auto'. I am surprised. My Zip
100 is "fond of awol" it disappears and appears of its own will, I do not
know how to nail it down. Regards.
At 14-09-2000 07:04 AM, you wrote:
You may want to try 7.1. It set up my zip on my desktop without a single
PMJI, I thought I am the only person who is receiving duplicates !
At 09-09-2000 06:05 PM, you wrote:
Why oh why do I/we keep seeing double postings??? Is something
about my configuration???
John Rye wrote:
Oses do not have compatibility _problems_, but they do have trouble to
co-habit!
PMJI, Yes, this 63-year-old Chinaman does that, but very often instructions
writers write for *themselves* to read - forgetting that readers are
*dummies*. As a result, after RTFineM newbies are still in the dark-age.
Regards.
At 04-09-2000 11:51 AM, you wrote:
read the instructions. is
Further to my earlier posting - I have just used fdisk (msdos version)
under pure dos - "delete non-dos partition'" - to delete the 3
partitions SuSeLinux created on a 400MB harddisk and formatted it under
Win95 with no problem. May be you can do that also. But be very careful
with
Hey, something is going nuts. I said there were two copies of message. Now
I got FOUR ! For example the posting by Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subject : Kppp and Networking. If it is currency notes, the more the
merrier ;-)
Hello Linuxians
I am receiving two copies each of all the postings on this list. I use
Eudora 4.3.2 LightMode, is this the problem.
Regards
PMJI
Nothing wrong with your eye-sight. The message is not Big-5, neither is it
GB2312. I used Cstar2.97 to read it in both codes but *no go*. Cstar will
"read" Chinese created by Richwin, or TwinBridge or others if one of the
two codes is used. The message has Chinese characters but not
Just joking, do not let your boss sees your message.
Regards
At 18-08-2000 06:07 PM, you wrote:
Ya know... I kinda like it when Windoze has to re-boot!
It means I get to walk away from the desk, visit the lu or get my 85th cup
of coffee, or even chat with the neighbouring engineers who had the
PMJI
At 17-08-2000 11:34 AM, you wrote:
When I boot the machine successfully from A: drive
With what ? I presume you used the win9.X start-up disk. Does you boot disk
contain cdrom drivers.Try to access your cdrom drive, then cd\dosutils,
execute autoboot.bat from there.
NO GO ?
Then you have
PMJI, I thought you should have a hda5 partition ? But I could be wrong,
since I am such a "sin kek" (aka newbie) myself ;-)
At 13-08-2000 10:43 PM, you wrote:
My configuration has three FAT32 partitions on a single 6Gb disk, plus
the suspend partition, plus three Linux partitions!
hda1 -
Yes, that is a good idea. Thank you.
Yes, I am greedy, can send all the three over at my email address please ?
TIA, Regards
At 13-08-2000 01:34 AM, you wrote:
I have a few files I put together that makes a slight change to windows.
Anyone want them?
Change the 'starting windows 98' into 'shatered windows 98'N/A
Change the
Dennis, that file is just an advertisement, you can kill it. No ill effects.
Regards
At 08-07-2000 10:01 PM, you wrote:
see a file called "50ways.exe" on the zip(what is that? It's a Fujifilm
zip cartridge.)
At 12-05-2000 10:16 PM, you wrote:
I thought I read here that to manually shutdown you entered "shutdown
now" at the command line. Doing this, my system then shut down to single
user mode. Next logon my system complained that it had not been shut down
properly and did a bunch of
At 11-05-2000 08:37 AM, you wrote:
I don't know what happens after the trial period ends though.
Very often the software 'dies', leaving carcase in your pc.
At 08-05-2000 07:42 AM, you wrote:
What if he got himself a spare set of power cords ? It is not that costly.
Just my 0.002 cents' concern.
How, you may think, did I accomplish this? Well, when I went to work, so
did the power cords. While at home, the computer was usable by me only.
The website is :
www.linuxdoc.org *without* the S.
At 07-05-2000 05:00 PM, you wrote:
"netscape is unable to locate servername www.linuxdocs.org. please check
the servername and try again
-michael-
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