[newbie] Synaptic pad tapping in v10

Hi. I have just installed Mandrake 10 on my laptop, and it looks amazing. Thing is, two things don't work, the Synaptics touch pad tapping and the pcmcia wi-fi card which is a Belkin model based on the Atmel drivers. Being a linux newbie im hoping to get some help getting them up and working.

RE: [newbie] Belkin f5d6020 v2 pcmicia wifi card

On Monday 05 April 2004 03:40 pm, Oliver Marshall wrote: -Hi, - -Anyone know a way that a newbie can get a a belkin f5d6020 v2 pcmcia -wifi card working on mandrake v10 ? - -Olly Hi. Have you tried googling for linux wireless howto or something like that? I picked up lots of useful info when I

[newbie] Squid user reporting packages

Im running squid on my mandrake 10 box, and I'm looking for a reporting package so that I can find out which users are viewing which sites, have some graphs to show how many sites accessed each hour etc. Can anyone recommend anything? I have tried webalizer but thought it was terrible. Olly

[newbie] Belkin f5d6020 v2 pcmicia wifi card

Hi, Anyone know a way that a newbie can get a a belkin f5d6020 v2 pcmcia wifi card working on mandrake v10 ? Olly winmail.dat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] Error when issuing commands from console

Hi, I have an odd error that has started happening over the weekend. When I issue certain commands, URPMI being one of them, I get the following output. /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so: unexpected reloc type 0x58

[newbie] Insitu upgrade from 9.2 to 10

Has anyone done an upgrade from 9.2 to 10 ? I have a box here that I use as a desktop machine (so OpenOffice, Firefox etc) as well as a test server to tinker with (irc, ssh, samba etc). I want to upgrade it to 10 from 9.2, but im worried it will bugger it totally, and that some of the stuff wont

[newbie] Changing icon sizes in Gnome

Hi, When I installed Mandrake 9.2 last week I set my icons to 48x48. Now that I am all setup and finished playing, I want to put them to 32x32. I remember using a util with a drop down list of icon sizes. However, now I cant find it or remember what it was. Any ideas what util this could have

[newbie] Ghosted my disk and now it wont boot

Earlier on I thought I would replace my dying 10GB disk on my linux test machine here and replace it with a 40GB one. They are the same make (fujitsu) and both IDE. Nothing else has changed. I used Ghost to copy the info from the small disk to the large one. It all went ok, and the only thing

RE: [newbie] Ghosted my disk and now it wont boot

it wont boot Oliver Marshall wrote: Earlier on I thought I would replace my dying 10GB disk on my linux test machine here and replace it with a 40GB one. They are the same make (fujitsu) and both IDE. Nothing else has changed. I used Ghost to copy the info from the small disk to the large one

[newbie] Swap file not being used since replacing disk

After swapping my 10gb for a 40gb disk and finally getting it working, I noted that the machine seemed really slow. When I looked in the system monitor in Gnome, it showed that 0MB of my swap file was being used and the RAM was sky high. It wasn't like that this morning. Any idea of where the

[newbie] VNC and Mandrake

All, Has anyone got a working VNC installation running on Mandrake ?? I have tried, and just get a grey desktop window appearing on the client. I have spoken to VNC and they say that i need to enter the windows manager and its path into the xStartup window. Do you know where KDE is stored ?

[newbie] Explain this if you can

I installed Mandrake using the recommended option, and basically went with the defaults.It all worked ok, but i couldnt telnet into the unix box from anywhere on the network. A client of mine told me to try re-installing it as a SERVER option, and that this would help. Now that i have done this,