Re: [newbie] screen resolution

2000-01-30 Thread Raymond Wells
Brett Wolfson wrote: I have installed Mandrake 7.0 with the recomended settings. It sucessfully detected my video card and monitor, however it set the defult resolution extremely high. The hardware does not have a problem with this however I do. All I want to do is change the defult

[newbie] @Home connected

2000-01-30 Thread Raymond Wells
Thanks for the many responses. I have removed one of the cards (SMC Ultra from Rogers) and gone with 3Com 3c503 -16TP. Also made use of Maxtor's screen shot of setup. All is well now. Will worry about local net later. Tthanks to all Ray Wells

[newbie] @home connection

2000-01-29 Thread Raymond Wells
I have installed Mandrake 7, expert/normal install... install detected both NIC cards and when asked, I input ip, host, gateway and name servers but I have no joy connecting to my tv/cable internet provider. Anyone have any hints about connecting via a cable modem?? Ray Wells

[newbie] Cable Internet

2000-01-29 Thread Raymond Wells
Still trying to connect to Cable internet. Mandrake 7 found NICs for eth0 and eth1 Have input ip, host, domain, gateway and namesserver info but on startup I get message "starting http . failed" this is the only failure message in startup...I am then told it "cannot activate local host