Re: [newbie] graphics question

g that can be converted to pdf correctly. This may mean editing makethumbs.sh and learning about XML/FO, but you might get lucky and only have to configure makethumbs correctly. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] upgrade 8.2 to 10.1: Error, some other host already uses address 127.0.0.1.

;t understand. One of them is: > > Error, some other host already uses address 127.0.0.1. I may be way behind the boat here, but it sounds like the entry in /etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1 does not use the same hostname as you have selected for your machine. -- Richard Urwin __

Re: [newbie] I just love it

o go back to school or something. > culatr2da = see you later today See I can get cryptic also:>) Don't get too hung up on the command line. You can always open the floppy icon and the home icon on your desktop and drag the file from the floppy

Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth

the label say on those CDs? If they are 10.1 Community Edition it may be worth upgrading. Since I am still using 9.2 I'll let others tell you how worthwhile it is. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] konqueror and info

g a hyper-linked document is ten times worse. It was a great relief to find that telling Konqueror "info:make" does exactly what it says on the tin. It turns a nightmare into a dream. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check

here and someone might burn you a set for a small consideration. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

r of your anti-virus app. > As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages > containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem > to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? No help here. I afraid. HTH, Happy New Year. -- Richard Urwin _

Re: [newbie] Looking for a program to compare the contents of directories

diff: b/d/f: No such file or directory -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

but not quite what you're looking for. Not having used it myself, I don't know how close. chroot may also be worth looking at, but I think it's too restrictive. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mand

Re: [newbie] The effect of 'chgrp' is not pemanent?

ectory permissions you have selected a high security level. Most of mine are drwxr-xr-x. If that's your problem then it would be safer to reduce the security level or just work within it. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Output of 'ls -l ...'

The fifth field is the file size; directories are just files and they have a size like any other file. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] win- linux

systems. > > > > This being a Mandrake list I can't believe that no one suggested > > Mandrake Move: our very own Live CD. > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#move > > Oh. Right oh! Forgot ALL about Mandrake. Is THAT what we run here? Oh y

Re: [toread] [newbie] MDK 10.1 Official SiS 180 Sata

Good question, not working for me, either. Richard On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 21:41, António Jorge Mota Vasconcelos wrote: > Hello. > I have a problem installing the MDK 10.1 Official. > It can´t load the sis_sata modules correctly. > I saw (trough Google) this is a general problem. >

[newbie] Color Prompts in bash - Pierre Fortin or anyone else

update the attachment. The process looks fairly easy - just hit the "action" link. It looks like the page could do with a tutorial as well. I might get around to that. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandr

Re: [newbie] Buying a 10.1 set?

the Powerpack from them, it took about a week for the cd's to arrive. This was the first time I have ordered from Linux Central. Now to find the time to do an install. Richard **

Re: [newbie] Install problem

Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) My Son in Law and I fiddled around with an old IBM thinkpad whose rom was broken. In the

Re: [newbie] TWiki - Plea for help!

On Sunday 14 Nov 2004 10:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 14 Nov 2004 09:47, Richard Urwin wrote: > > Unfortunately I don't have a copy of anything I added. Fortunately > > I haven't added anything in a while and it's no great loss anyway. > > I think that

Re: [newbie] TWiki - Plea for help!

r the cracking. Now, I make every backup > based on dates. When the panic dies down, if you want a hand developing a more robust backup scheme let me know. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of anything I added. Fortunately I haven't added

Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?

The important bits are the plug, and the monitor being plug&play. This monitor is plug&play, and appears to use a standard VGA plug. If your video card can produce a dot clock above 110MHz you should have no problem. -- Richard Urwin _

Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?

Think of the children, man! > -- cmg Actually ABBA music is technically highly complex. It comes out sounding mushy, but just try to play/sing it. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

and ask you the contents of various obscure files, to try to sort out exactly what problem you're having. The threads can be quite long, and they don't all end in a resolution, but many do. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?

the monitor's pass-band. So long as the maximum dot clock of the graphics board is well above the dot rate of the monitor you should have no problem, but by well above I mean something like ten times or more. -- Richard Urwin __

Re: [newbie] Help with a makefile

" first. So the effect is just to build "myapp". It avoids having to place the default target first in the file, which you may not want to do for reasons of your own. The "myapp" should match another target further down, as in: all: myapp . . . myapp:

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

Travis Crook wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 07:23, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:12:35AM -0500, JoeHill wrote: Best of luck in your future efforts with Mandrake, remember we're always here to help (though, running 9.2 still, I've been about as useful as tits on a bull around h

Re: [newbie] 10.1 powerpack download

Aron Smith wrote: D/L ed it again but K3b says not a usable image ?? trying again I had a similar problem recently with another dvd-iso file. k3b would not recognise it as an iso file. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSo

Re: [newbie] How to properly save Internet pages?

Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi, all. I have Mandrake Linux 9.1. When navigating in Internet with Konqueror, if I want to save a web page I choose the 'Save As...' item from the 'Location' menu. But all those small images that usually accompany and decorate a web page are not saved, so when I come back to

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.1 iso's

Roland Hughes wrote: I have brought down the 10.1 Official iso's (4) and am having trouble burning them. I have tried cdrecord on the command line and ran md5sums on the cd after and and it comes up with a different result than what came down with the files. Roland, What is the size of each o

Re: [newbie] Kppp settings problem?

Lorin & Jenny Pino wrote: Kppp will dial in and establish a connection. However, I can't access any web sites. If I try ping www.yahoo.com , I get ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com . If I try ping 216.109.118.66 as seen on an earlier post, I get conn

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Official

f problems on my install. Works fine under community though which I reinstalled. Don't know what changed between the two. Richard G. -- Registered Linux User: 256848 Failure isn't an option -- it comes bundled with microsoft windows Want

[newbie] dvd copy

Anyone know of any good dvd copy programmes , other than vobcopy, that can copy a dvd to HD in two roughly equal halves ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.ma

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Marek Pawinski wrote: I picked this up, i don't know if it pertains to the issue: Bad Md5sums? (maybe not) Just burned a CD from an ISO image and the md5sum doesn't match? The CD may be just fine... what you may be experiencing is padding which alters the md5sum. Before throwing away the CD and

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Marek Pawinski wrote: I picked this up, i don't know if it pertains to the issue: Bad Md5sums? (maybe not) Just burned a CD from an ISO image and the md5sum doesn't match? The CD may be just fine... what you may be experiencing is padding which alters the md5sum. Before throwing away the CD and c

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: ls -l Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? It doesn't. The sectors in question are the number of sectors on t

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - (note the " - " on the end, don't leave it off. change the /dev/scd0 to whatever

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:09:07 -0500, Tom wrote: Yes, but in newer Mandrake versions the CD drives are seen as dev=ATA:0,0,0 I use 0,0,0 for example only, 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' will return the actual numbers. The ATA device (burner) is linked to the numbers. EG, on m

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Adolfo Bello wrote: I always use CLI to burn my CDs too. cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -dao archivo.iso What is new to me is the use of "dev=ATA:1,0,0". I'll try it in next burn. Using Mandrake 10 fully updated. Thanks, Adolfo dev=ATA:1,0,0 is only for the 2.6 kernels where the devices

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Miark wrote: This is exactly what used to work for me. The only difference I see is that with kernel 2.6 I'm no longer using scsi emulation. so I'm checking /dev/hdc instead of /dev/scd0. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Miark Of course, the 2.6 kernels don't use scsi-emulation, so

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

Miark wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200, Alan wrote: Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Miark wrote: What do you do to verify discs? Do you still have the iso file ? Yes. Miark OK, simple enough. First check iso image file md5sum, you probably know how to do this anyway,but, In a terminal, cd enter md5sum check the return against the published md5sum. then you n

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Miark wrote: One other thing I considered: crappy media. And make no mistake, I'm using Ritek--the crappiest, most god-awful media on planet. But when I burned to a RW this morning, I had the same problem (burning with K3b, with verification checked). If your burner is modern, 8x is not particula

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Marc wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark Not a

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

n without that it is still useful to the black-hats. We cannot become complacent. Every element of security is important. The TheRegister link posted by Derek Jennings is very interesting and useful. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Servi

Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?

Björn Olsson wrote: Yeah, It is available in Sweden as well. I will probably settle for the 2400 just to be on the safe side. It may be a few years old, but I understand it is still a very good scanner for its price. Björn I can vouch for that. John

Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?

Björn Olsson wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:29:13 +0100 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Björn Olsson wrote: Hi all, I'm planning on buying a scanner for my Mdk 10.0 system. Most Epson scanners seem to be well supported by the Sane project (www.sane-project.org).

Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?

Björn Olsson wrote: Hi all, I'm planning on buying a scanner for my Mdk 10.0 system. Most Epson scanners seem to be well supported by the Sane project (www.sane-project.org). Support for the plain Epson 2480 model is described as Good (CVS), but the 2480 Photo model isn't on the list. Does anyone h

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

t do as good a > job at rendering as gpdf: > > http://www.freeyourmachine.org/acroread.png > > The UI *sucks*, it doesn't even let me use my scrollwheel! > > gpdf may be lacking in some functionality, but for what it&#x

Re: Re: [newbie] Stolen document

__ > > I cannot believe that. > > > > > > > __ > > -- Virus Warning Message (on uusnwa0n) > > > > document342.zip is removed from here because it contains a virus. > > > Believe what? Ri

Re: [newbie] A question to the talented

loppy, which is on the distribution disks. Or investigate bootp and tftp - boot as a thin client. The first is probably the way you want to go. IIUC, it expects to have an FTP server out there with the distribution on, so you'd have to set that up, but I've not done either m

Re: [newbie] downloading Firefox

M.Schild wrote: Although, urpmi generally isn't much use for someone on modest download speed capability like Maryse. so what do you suggest? Maryse D4X Easy gui, reconnect, and resume download where download was cut off. John Want to

Re: [newbie] downloading Firefox

Hoyt Bailey wrote: Thank you John by the way 'urpmi D4X' works also(If you have contrib defined). Quite right, and as it's not a very big download , not much risk of being cut off. Although, urpmi generally isn't much use for someone on modest download speed capability like Maryse. John

Re: [newbie] downloading Firefox

M.Schild wrote: Here is a dumb question. I would like to download the latest Firefox.. I don´t want to make a mess of it because my connetcion is painfully slow and it announced it would take about one hour! How do I do it and install it? Step by step please. Do I have to log in as root to do it

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

Azrael wrote: Are you getting output on all 5 speaker ? John I am getting output on the 2 front and 2 rear speakers. Unusual to have a 4 channel , multichannel setup, but it seems you have output all around though I think it ought to be at least 5 channels, sometimes 6. However, when I run alsa

Re: [newbie] old_mmap & libfontconfig.so.1

lot of files 'looking' and again, for > heaps of times. I don't know how the shared library resolution code works; I would expect a lot of these for stuff that follows a path, such as $PATH and $LDPATH, but it's my unde

Re: [newbie] iso

hing > wrong?..Hhhhep...Melv >in Nobody's mentioned yet that you don't burn iso's like you may normally be doing. Ignore the window where you pull in all the files. Usually there's a file selector on the burn pane where you put the

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

Azrael wrote: I have a sound blaster live (platignum), it is 5.1 and I have 5.1 speakers. And it worked perfectly on every version of mandrake I can remember (i.e. 9 onwards). Really is weirdly annoying Are you getting output on all 5 speaker ? John

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

Hi Eric, I cannot access e-mail with ML 10.0. I am on the internet but no e-mail. This was sent by Linspire 4.5 on Portable computer. Richard H. Peddie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for people new to Mandrake's Newbie

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

Azrael wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: I just did my first fresh install of 10.1 (keeping my former /home), and everything is working well, except for an issue with the volume. In xine, or mplayer, when I try to change the volume, the volume does not get quieter or louder. If I

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

Azrael wrote: I just did my first fresh install of 10.1 (keeping my former /home), and everything is working well, except for an issue with the volume. In xine, or mplayer, when I try to change the volume, the volume does not get quieter or louder. If I use the gnome volume panel applet, ditto,

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

On Sunday 26 Sep 2004 1:52 am, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Saturday 25 September 2004 03:37 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > | I think "Which" was told off and had to publish a retraction not so > | long ago for publicly giving that bit of advice. > | > | Some things to bear in m

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

very long and hard before I decide to connect myself to the case with a piece of wire. Another word of warning: some PSUs do not have an off switch. The button on the front of an ATX case leaves power to some parts of the motherboard. If there

[newbie] cpu and memory demand under dvd write

I've succeeded in writing my first dvd, not problems all went well. I used k3b. I've been thinking about the way some people report write errors off to media. Could it be a device buffer/HD problem. I know you can increase the HD buffer. I thought I would just test how the write is effected with

[newbie] VOBCOPY

When Vobcopy copies the selected vob files on a dvd CD it does do via the regional decryption code built into the dvd drive does it not ? Does that then mean then, that the resulting vob files sitting nicely on your hard drive are minus the regional encryption from there on ? What about dvdcss

Re: [newbie] Choice of DVD Blank Media over Device make

Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:45, John Richard Smith wrote: Stands to reason that with any hardware device, there will be variations in manufacturing standards. However, suppliers grading media against specific devices does NOT imply that there are issues with other

[newbie] Choice of DVD Blank Media over Device make

I bought a NEC 2510A recently. I have never bought DVD blanks before, whether dual or single layer. I note that here in UK, suppliers are grading the media make against manufacturer/device. That implies they have had trouble with some makes of media with certain makes of drive. I wondered if lis

[newbie] Choice of DVD Blank Media over Device make

I bought a NEC 2510A recently. I have never bought DVD blanks before, whether dual or single layer.I note that here in UK, suppliers are grading the media make against manufacturer/device.That implies they have had trouble with some makes of media with certain makes of drive. I wondered if list

Re: [newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players

Todd Slater wrote: My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and put it in my stereo's cd player; to my surprise, nary a skip! I thought I'd best back it up so I tried ripping it with cdparanoia to e

Re: [newbie] Scanning from the GIMP

Kaj Once again you saved my blood pressure from winding up into the paint cards, John. Of course the matter was that I didn't install xsane-gimp when I did the re-install. After doing just that everything runs the way I want. The reason I prefer to start xsane from the gimp is that I can add t

Re: [newbie] fuji finepix in LM10

Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup my Fuji Finepix 2400 in LM10. I did not have any problem doing this in earlier versions and in 9.1 there was an automatic setup. However in 10 it seems that I have to set it up manually again. I have made a /mnt/camera directory and put a line in f

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

John Wilson wrote: Oh, and guess which country is home to the most developed, efficent and most secret communications interception and decryting agency on the planet? Why it's Canada. For all that I'm still Canadian and always will be. I just don't trust government much. Any government. Ho

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

SnapafunFrank wrote: Bob Read wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:15, Bob Read wrote: If all else fails, I guess I'll try re-installing Mozilla -- but that sounds like a Windows solution. ;-) What about updating ? - Your Mozilla 1

Re: [newbie] What the hell is promiscuous and how do I turn it off?

at captures and saves all packets for analysis (for example, for > monitoring network usage). Normally a NIC will only receive packets that are addressed to itself. By putting the NIC in promiscuous mode it will receive all packets that it sees, no matter how they are addressed.

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:15, Bob Read wrote: If all else fails, I guess I'll try re-installing Mozilla -- but that sounds like a Windows solution. ;-) What about updating ? - Your Mozilla 1.3 is quite old by linux standards. Besides, there are a few security

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

Bob Read wrote: I use Mozilla mail heavily. (Mozilla 1.3) I normally use Inbox opened fully so that I can scan the incoming files quickly. A couple days ago, that screen seemed to have reduced the type font size so that it is now difficult to read. As a check, I counted the number of lines shown,

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

; Xandros, those that, like Mandrake, aim at pleasing the user, not > some draconian and corrupt legislators who came up with the DMCA. Probably something to do with where your head office is based. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your P

Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase

Arthur Dent body..." -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Question about Software

to a lot of you, sorry about that. I think the absolutely correct definition is that it is accessed through a web browser. In the great majority of cases that means it is web-server based, but it could be java/javascript/VB. See http://www.soronlin.org.uk/geekquiz.html as an example

Re: [newbie] Format NTFS?

rable. I can well recommend this CD; I've just gone through the diagnostic/repair process from hell on a friend's PC, and this thing was worth its weight in gold. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Format NTFS?

Eric Scott wrote: Anybody know of a program that will let me format a given partition as NTFS? Fat32 might do it, Put Windows OS on the first partition on hda. Windows 2000 installation disc's own partition tool and formatter can create and format in both NTFS and FAT32, but not without destroy

Re: [newbie] How does one print man pages.

hanks but I beleive this suggestion was made long ago. And it's still inferior to "man -t sensors|lpr" (because that puts in the correct headers and footers) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? G

Re: [newbie] cons -make replacement.

course, and there is a genuine problem with using the date across a network. If you're looking into this sort of thing, you may want to check out "ant". -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? G

Re: [newbie] tar.gz files

kage with the urpmi suite. > > cause it is quite possible to > > simply forget that you're running as root and do something you > > could regret. It happened to me couple of times before... > > Good recommendation, and yes, I've, uh, had some problems w

Re: [newbie] Nvu rpms

compliant document. Example enclosed, the final version of which is at http://www.soronlin.org.uk/ -- Richard Urwin Welcome to Soronlin. On the left you will see a set of navigation buttons for pages in this site. On the right you will see notes and links to pages outside this site. Highlights

Re: [newbie] scanner

John Layt wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:08, David Wallis wrote: Hi there I'm a very new newbie. This is my first posting so please take pity on me As a Windows convert I have an Epson Perfection 1670 which I would like to use with my Mandrake 10 OS Any help appreciated David Wallis Linux sc

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

PM wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 18:35, John Richard Smith wrote: Much has been written on this thread about, Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem Netgear DM602 router/modem but a preliminary search on some uk suppliers this afternoon suggests the Netgear DM602 router/modem is no longer available here

Re: [newbie] Can't log in

cure. (Who writes those manual pages?) Type passwd into a root console. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Completely out of space - major problem!

7;visualize' your file system, you can't actually do any operations on > the file(s)/system though. The application in Jurassic park does exist out there somewhere, can't remember what it's called now, and it doesn't let you do anything either. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 4:35 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Of course this equipement isn't only a router/modem but also a 4 port > 10/100 LAN switch. I could just about cope with a 4port put this > leaves me with no room for expansion. > > I already have a DES1008D 8 port

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

Much has been written on this thread about, Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem Netgear DM602 router/modem but a preliminary search on some uk suppliers this afternoon suggests the Netgear DM602 router/modem is no longer available here in the uk. The model most often suggested is the, NETGEAR DG834 ADSL

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 04:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: . So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ? from each computer run the D-Link software

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

Margot wrote: We seem to be drifting a bit here... As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME - the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that installing anything that involves taking

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

Aron Smith wrote: . So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ? from each computer run the D-Link software ez as pi John Aron you got me there , whats with, D-Link software ez as pi ? John __

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

Margot wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm currently with Wanadoo for my dialup and I'm keen to leave them as soon as possible because I'm in the middle of a major row with them - they recently introduced spam filtering, and it is complete chaos - legitimate mail is not only being marked

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

ust put > > DSL in for my sister using Pipex, and they are not Linux hostile > > like some other ISPs. (Good prices too) > > > > derek > > Just one point - depending upon provider, protocol might be PPPoE. IIRC, here in the UK, ADSL is PPoA and cable is PPoE. --

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 3:07 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Aron Smith wrote: > > >MCC will configure your card real nice > > > > > > > > > > When you say configured, that is as a card

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

sl-start', and terminated > with 'adsl-stop'. It's easier to enable aDSL service this way, > than under Windoze. That's using a modem, right Tom? I don't need any of that adsl-start stuff. The user-id etc. stuff would be handy though. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

Bryan Phinney wrote: Since the router/modem is equivalent to any other type of ethernet connection, you would hook it up and configure it exactly the same way you would to any other router, right? Assuming that you are using the Dlink device now, hooking it up to the broadband modem as opposed

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK then I bow to experience. Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without those answers it don'

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. Personally

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