[newbie] wireless connection

2003-08-24 Thread MG
Hello all, was wondering if anybody has any ideas on this... I'm trying to get a wireless connection to another house near mine. I have a dial up account and my neighbor has a broadband business account and would allow me to use it. I currently use Smoothwall as a gateway-firewall but I'm going to

Re: [newbie] WM's in general

2003-05-27 Thread MG
Not sure if this is what you are talking about but, I boot to run level3 and use this little session selector. I like it better than kdm or gdm. Its on the MDK8.2 cd's not sure about later versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]$ Xtart WELCOME to Sessions Selector 1 KDE 2 gnome 3

Re: [newbie] WM's in general

2003-05-27 Thread MG
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 07:44 pm, you wrote: I used Civileme's 'Xtart', too...for a while. Whether it's a matter of environment deficiencies or what...under different managers some programs won't run or come up properly. If I remember correctly, Blackbox won't allow me to exit, so I end up

Re: [newbie] trouble with sis900 onboard ethernet

2003-02-26 Thread MG
Hi Richard, I have the same board k7s5a with onboard sound and network. I have MDK8.2 installed and it configured my nic on install but I had troubles with sound. Thanks! to your link I'm going to attempt to get my sound working again. Anyways I'm a newbie so can't help much but heres some info

[newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)

2003-02-01 Thread MG
Hello all, I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works screen has some small vertical lines and I think cmos batt weak. Has dos 3.x on it and it has a floppy drive3.5. Anyways I was looking around for a small linix to put on

Re: [newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)

2003-02-01 Thread MG
always donate it back for for somebody else to play with :-) On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:36 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 01 February 2003 08:58 am, MG wrote: Hello all, I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works

Re: [newbie] Geforce Driver

2003-01-25 Thread MG
safest bet is the IA32, thats what I used on my system which is a Athlon 1.5 XP, but view the readme first before downloading, I think the differences are 32bit and 64 bit processors but not sure. I am a newbie my self. The readme was not to hard to follow for me, and I dont follow so good! LOL

Re: [newbie] Phoenix 0.5

2003-01-05 Thread MG
Not sure if this is the problem or not but they mentioned in the release notes not to install on an exsiting directory or a mozilla directory. I put mine in /usr/lib/phoenix and mozilla in /usr/lib/mozilla Mike On Sunday 05 January 2003 07:20 pm, you wrote: Ok, I installed Phoenix to try it

[newbie] eth0 config

2003-01-04 Thread MG
Hello all, I installed a command line tool called ethtool I was curious about what speed my nic was set at, its an onboard device SIS900 and I'm not sure where the configuration file is at. Anyways when I run the command ethtool eth0 it says... [root@avatar mike]# ethtool eth0 Settings for

Re: [newbie] script help

2003-01-01 Thread MG
: MG wrote: Hi all, This question is not really Mandrake specific although I am using Mandrake8.2 (and like it alot!)...anyways trying to learn the bash shell. I wrote a small script (the Hello World script) and named it HW. I did a chmod 755 to it, so all could read and execute it. I

Re: [newbie] script help

2003-01-01 Thread MG
it in the current directory. Also, path's are NOT recursive, so when you put it inside a second folder inside the ~/bin directory, it will not see it. Put the HW script directly into your ~/bin directory, then then type just HW (NOT ./HW) Chuck On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:10, MG wrote: Hey Mark