[newbie] Kmail problem

2001-08-31 Thread Scott Pletcher
Hi all, For some reason kmail no longer allows me to save, print or otherwise work with attachments. If I left click on them, nothing happens, if I right click the only options I get are open url and copy to clipboard. This is true for all types of attachments, text, .ps, .pdf, etc. The copy

[newbie] PCMCIA AND NETWORK

2001-08-21 Thread Scott Pletcher
Hi All, I just got LM 8.0 up and running on my Dell Ispiron with a NetGear 10/100 pcmcia card. The card is correctly detected by cardmgr (I can see this during the boot sequence), but I cant't seem to get the ethernet device going. My (VERY) limited exprience has me trying things like ifconfig

[newbie] Notebook and LM8

2001-07-06 Thread Scott Pletcher
Hi all, I am about to purchase a new laptop to run Mandrake 8.0 (I haven't yet attempting a Linux install on a notebook) , and I wanted to know if anyone has any suggestions on what to avoid (specific hardware components, models, etc) or perhaps some particular hardware/models that work

[newbie] Samba Mounts and Memory

2001-06-26 Thread Scott Pletcher
Hi All, I'm using LM8.0, and I routinely mounts a few Samba shares from different NT and Win2000 machines in the department. Occasionally, I notice that the proccess mount.sbfs continually gobbles up memory, and I came in this morning, for example, to find that it had used up nearly all of my

[newbie] hdparm

2001-06-12 Thread Scott Pletcher
Hi All, I've got some troublesome readings from two identical hard drives set up the same. Does anyone know why they are performing so differently? I suppose hda may be bad, but I was hoping to find some other way to test this. Thanks! Scott THE DATA Here are the hard drives: hda:

[newbie] Compiler Error

2001-06-07 Thread Scott Pletcher
Hi All, I just installed LM 8.0 and went to compile some code that worked fine under 7.2. I got the following error: /home/scott/Work/Programming/C/FVT_Release/MatrixFormation.c:65: Internal compiler error in subst_stack_regs_pat, at reg-stack.c:1404 Please submit a full bug report. See