[newbie] PCMCIA not detected

thing to do but I installed the kernel-pcmcia rpm, but still not working. I have no idea what to do to get this working. Any suggestions as to what to do? Thanks, Vern Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Intel i810e video adapter installation -- rpm error

1-6.i386.rpm, as far as the file format errors above I don't know. vern

[newbie] A question for Mandrake gurus?

quot;bit fiddle" it, or is it a matter of "packaging" the code. I notice each programmer, or engineer attaches their name to the package. vern

[newbie] Oh say can you C??

nker" processes, and what became of a.out?? Does C still equal C, or are there "flavors" of C?? Thanks, vern

Re: [newbie] How to run scripts at ppp-up?

Thank you Jose for the help, you have given me some more to think about. That's the way Linux has always been I ask a small question and wind up learning more than I bargained for! :-) vern "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: If you create a /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, it will be executed upon

Re: [newbie] slow connection speed

Is there an MTU/MRU test utility for Linux? There are several for windoze to tune the MTU/MRU for minumum fragmentation/ maximum throughput. I have happened upon a mtutest program written in C, but haven't figured out how to compile it yet. vern "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: No in

[newbie] MTU test?

Is there a method to test the throughput of a ppp dialup connection in Linux? I would like the chance to optimize my packet length maximum throughput and minimum fragmentation. vern

[newbie] How to run scripts at ppp-up?

I would like to start the program "portsentry" when my dialup connection is started to my ISP. In which directory might I insert this script?? thanks vern

[newbie] Yo Denis a DISCUSSION TIDBIT here.

w of how I use your present product, and what I'll be looking for in the future. Xfree 4.0 promises an end to the "crummy font" syndrome in X, the 2.4 kernel is starting to explore the UDF file system more and I hope will support multi session (packet writing) on the CDRW's that I miss so much!

[newbie] Rumors??

Is this STILL in beta?? Boy when will Macro$haft get off their collective butts?? vern "I heard that Microsoft has stopped all the developement on furthure windows versions, and concentrating the efforts on a BSD-based distro with propriatery graphical shell a-la Apple. The distro should be

Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?

But if the process is a part of another process running in the background with no window to drop the "X" on you need to know the PID and kill off just the "ugly" process. vern "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Younes Zouhair wrote: vern wrote: If you are usin

Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?

If you are using KDE you can use the "process management tool" I use it to ride herd on Nutscrape and the cdburners. In fact I have it permantly installed on my tool bar at the bottom! vern Wade wrote: Hi List, I have found an occasion or two to use the 'Ctrl, Alt, Backspace

Re: [newbie] Linux and BeOS

I'm thinking of tinkering with BeOS myself the new issue of Maximum PC has a copy of the "personal edition" which runs it as one big Windoze file. That's just the way I started with Linux, so who knows?? vern Wayne Petherick wrote: I know this is slightly OT so if anyone wo

Re: [newbie] epson stylus color 760

I just installed an Epson Stylus 740 yesterday, and I did a search in Google (linux) on the subject and found several nice websites on the subject. I don't think anyone has the color tweaks in for the super high res. mode about 1400 dpi. as I remember. vern Emanuele La Rosa wrote: Does

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and disk space

e port one of the encyclopedias to Linux I'm partial to Encarta 2000. vern Jason Lindsay wrote: Hopefully I'll get some good insights on this. Windows appears to have taken a massive poop on me over the weekend, and since I really haven't booted into it for quite some time now, I think I'm going to redo

Re: [newbie] Replies

Ron Greer wrote: I use outlook :) Hey Ron! I've got this r33l K00l visual basic script you should try!! Just kidding, still I find it odd that the guy who wrote that was kind enough to include his name and address!! H! Me thinks there's a false trail out there somewhere! vern

Re: [newbie] needed programs

io station in www.shoutcast.com If I download the file (*.pl) and use an "open with" command it works just fine. Any idea on how to get Netscape 4.72 to recognize the file type? Thanks! I'm sure you'll get tons of answers on this, but I believe that's a Perl script. vern -- Vernon Stilwell

Re: [newbie] 3dfx (Vern)

t; version of Win98 to exclude the HP bloat, and no dice! Linux is getting a little too "mainstream" I'm looking at OpenBSD now, my first partition might be open for experimentation! Bye Bye Bill, hello cute little devils and penguins! :-) vern Michael Holt wrote: I'm sorry to hear abo

Re: [newbie] Charles/DSL?

believe. vern Michael wrote: When i went to the phoneco in sitka and asked about a DSL they said,"Huh?" We'll have cablemodems by 2004. Til then it's 28.8. -michael- Paul wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: Paul DSL( Digital Subscriber Line) is the b

Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7

ar? I have a similar history with the Apple ][, still got pieces of a Commodore 64 around here somewhere, used it on packet radio in my ham days. Before you could talk around the world instantly! take care, vern -- Vernon Stilwell**Hardinsburg,Ky USA**[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

weirdness with the hard drive. I know windoze is a lot more tolerant of hard drive errors. vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root

[newbie] Documentation on kernel??

Has anyone at Mandrake ever documented the difference between the "secure" kernel, and the "regular" kernels?? Is it only used in the highest levels of security? Thanks! vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky

Re: [newbie] 3Dfx

Hi I just purchased a Voodoo3 3000 and the drivers at the 3Dfx site are there but the one I started to download was 30+ meg. in length not something you want to try on a 24K modem hookup! :-( I have to wait till someone comes out with them on CD! vern Evan Holt wrote: Hi there, Sorry

[newbie] Where's the experts??

What has happened to the experts mailing list? No mail for almost 3 days! vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root

Re: [newbie] LILO again!

Good answer Michael, I'm keeping these answers so I can find them next time. I've heard the answers before but they just don't stick in my feable mind! vern Michael Holt wrote: vern wrote: I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I

Re: [newbie] LILO again!

Thanks Paul, I suppose I still need Brother Bill's handy work on the front of my HD for some reason. vern Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, vern wrote: I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I know it messes up the MBR on the disk

[newbie] LILO again!

I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I know it messes up the MBR on the disk and I need to use fdisk to do something and how do I reinstate LILO back on the MBR? thanks vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)

for everyone but it will get you started, and you can edit rules as you like. I keep tabs on my firewall with kfirewall on KDE. Hope this helps. vern PS IPCHAINS is in Mdk 7.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been setting up a samba server with adsl connected to several win98 boxes. I was told

[newbie] Another RTFM maybe?

In pouring over my logs I noticed a module error of sorts it says: "modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108" what does this module pertain to? And where might I find this module? Oh yeah the obligatory "porn test" to see if the wolfsucker at Texas Utilities is

Re: [newbie] A little security....

don't have to ask the same questions over and over. Vern PS. As I didn't have a spare 486 box for a firewall I use this script on my stand alone Linux box. Paul wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2000, Andy wrote: Its great everyones talking about windows firewalls, but what about Linux firewalls. I

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Help!

Thanks quayler! I'll give this a try! Vern quaylar wrote: i had the same problem with my soundcardafter loading the oss compatible modules snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss everything worked fine...system sounds and mp3 player too... On Thu, 04 May 2000 20:06:44 -0400, [EMAIL

[expert] Sound Blaster Help!

er working with this for 2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible. HELP! Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Have you hugged your penguin today? ***

[newbie] PPP security (firewalls and such)??

ram called kfirewall (front end for ipchains) but no docs, and as of this morning no website to get info on how to use it. What am I missing? I've looked into Ksnuffle but that seems a bit extreme for one machine and one very slow (24K) PPP dialup connection. Any help or ideas would be appreciated! Vern

Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results

can keep up with this throughput!! This should be on a page of Linux tweaks! Vern On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am running Mdk 7-2 with 13 GB HD and DMA33. When I ran my first hdparm -t to test the drive read speed the results were only 3 MB/sec and the RealPlayer radio I had running

Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results

Okay, being an old skeptic and a young Linux mechanic what's the "downside" of such a tweak?? Will I have data errors (read/write) corrupted files, and such?? Why is the "default" set so low?? Vern Larry Varney wrote: Mine was similar, until I did the "hdparm -d1 hd

Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results

Here's what my "hunk O junk" does pretty crummy by your standards!! Vern PS. Looks like I'm due for a tuneup! /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.62 seconds = 2.96 MB/sec Albert wrote: Depending on the motherboard / chipset hdparm -d1 /dev/hda is the common fl

Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1

e attachments! Spam comes in all flavors! Vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Located on a dust

Re: [newbie] Loging on

I usually select the console button, er konsole button from the tool bar at the bottom and "su" a session to just jump over and fix something quickly. Vern On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with out logout and logi

[newbie] CD-RW UDF?

that they are automatically in the UDF format?? Or are they merely not finished tracks? My ultimate goal is to use the CD-RW as a big floppy to archive data to. I hope "dump" and "restore" will use the CD-RW someday, if I can figure out all the ins and outs. Thank

[newbie] Fine tuning my PPP?

nd why should I care?? Every single packet is precious and I need every clock cycle I can latch on to! Thanks for any help! Vern

[newbie] My floppy went away!

and disable no change. Thanks for reading this! Vern PS. The IDE CDROM works after I told it that it was a scis (scuzzy)! :-) -- Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] take off your mailing list

Only if you take it off my mailing list, will I allow you to take it on the mailing list, whether you go to the mailing list or not! Oh Yeah! Let's see you say that in Perl!! Is it true that real programers write their email in octal?? Vern (still on the mailing list) :-) On Thu, 13 Apr 2000

Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beatWindowshandsdownon stability!!

tain memory vendors that won't support the use of their memory chips in the i810 motherboards. Linux seems pretty happy with 96 MB, so I am guessing I won't be shopping for more memory anytime soon! What are your thoughts?? Vern On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Jon wrote: "Stephen F. Bosc

Re: [newbie] Intel i810 video and Mandrake 7.0

it's an old 2MB card that seems to satisfy both Windoze and Linux. I bought a "real" modem,a "real" video card, I guess a "real" audio card is next! So this is not much help but it is at least my experience with that hardware. Vern On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote

Re: NDN: Re: [newbie] Prob2- Netscape

I wonder if the mailbox is full of duplicate mail?? HMMM! Hope this makes it! Vern On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linus linus (Mailbox or Conference is full

[newbie] A little different X rant.

message about not starting the Xserver. I feel the problems are in my startup scripts somewhere but I don't know where to begin. I also would like to atomatically start X in the 16 bit color depth. I do that with "startx -- -bpp 16" now and would like to do that at the startup. Thanks in adv

Re: [newbie] A little different X rant.

No it's one step beyond that, it's a blank screen with the reoccuring error message. Vern On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: Does it loop at the large Penguin at the terminal right at login? --- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I've been reading all the references to starting X

Re: [newbie] Prob2- Netscape

Thank you. Vern On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote: If you go to www.mandrakeuser.org there is a section on how to implement Mozilla fonts into Netscape. They actually work pretty good... -Necro On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, vern wrote: Here's My Nutscrape gripe! What can we do with those

Re: [newbie] DOS based directories

Okay Bruce, I'll give that a whirl! Thanks! Vern On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: Vern; Even if you in DOS under windows, you can not say do "cd /program files/". Does under windoze uses the tilde "~". Under DOS in windows to change to directory "Program

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

This may be a bit too simple, but I do 90% of my "surfing" in KFM right there on the KDE desktop. Don't use Nutscrape much since about ver. 3.0 or so. It's gotten much too big and buggy. But then again I'm not a "power user" whatever that is. :-) Vern On Fri, 31 Mar 20

Re: [newbie] Lack of download speed/completion

I've had similar experiences, and will be very interested in the answers you recieve. Vern On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: I have my computer connected to the Internet with a NE2000 PCI 10mhz card by way of a small home LAN. The connections are made by a 56K modem on good phone lines. If I

[newbie] Acrobat default on KDE.

What is the "quick and dirty" way to get KDE to start Acrobat by default on .pdf files?? My current setup triggers PS Viewer on .pdf files. I've read all the howtos and infos and readmes and I must have missed that somewhere. Thanks for your help in advance! Vern

[newbie] OH! OH!

are trying to "protect" us from our- selves! Looks like Mr. Gore's Internet is in trouble! Vern -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAI

[newbie] DOS based directories

t;Program_Files" "Program%20Files" The last one came from watching how X represents them. I have tried all the above from the command line and nogo. This may be an easily found answer but I keep overlooking it! Thanks! Vern

[newbie] The best audio/video cards for Linux??

I will be in the positon to purchase an audio and a video card and I want to get everyone's opinion which is the best supported under Linux?? They should be PCI type cards. (tired of fighting drivers!) Thanks! Vern

RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help

is useful! Vern On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: I bought MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 recently and I experienced the same problems Charles did on it being very slow. Also 6.0 takes about 30 minutes to install, and this new 7.0

Re: [newbie]

I apologize to you and the others Jon my send button has a "hair trigger" and it got away from me! Vern - Original Message - From: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 3:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Now while I am getting kinda used to

[newbie] Accessing floppy and cdrom?

[newbie] I wanna change kernels.

Hello All, I have the -1linus kernel installed and I want to change to the -15mdk kernel, how do I do this? I'm trying to get 7.0 to recognize my Xserver driver module thingy, and my CDROM. Both worked in 6.1. Vern