Re: [newbie] about to give up (I did from linuxconf!)

On Seg 09 Dez 2002 21:04, gklofa wrote: uh I quite have the same problem and the solution is: First and most important: get rid of linuxconf, if you've never used, please, don't Second: Affter the first solution, it's been quite easy to keep my connection on mdk9.0 adsl. But, do you u

Re: [newbie] about to give up

Dennis, these are the settings used right accross all my systems, windows and red hat included, as well as windows 98 downstairs. They all work fine and fast, so I don't know. Maybe you have a different setup. This modem/router has all the relevant details to access my provider in it, i.e isp 150

Re: [newbie] about to give up

Greg, Sorry this is late getting back to you (I lost a hard drive so was out of commission for a bit (well, intermittantly it was going bad till it died totally)). Anyway, I'm glad you got your problem resolved. The GATEWAY issue I was referring to applied to having an ethernet card and using a

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Monday 09 December 2002 05:04 pm, gklofa wrote: > Well here we are guys, this is an email coming from my mandrake > system! But I have been in this pos before, but when re-boot, loose it > all and no connection again! I am not going to re-boot at this point in > time. To get it connected thi

Re: [newbie] about to give up

Well here we are guys, this is an email coming from my mandrake system! But I have been in this pos before, but when re-boot, loose it all and no connection again! I am not going to re-boot at this point in time. To get it connected this time, it did not automatically connect on boot, I had to

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:09, greg wrote: > O.K. ALL > some good developments here. Excellent! Just what I like to hear :) > I have set up my modem to a static setup. This obviously meant that my > windows xp and red hat systems would not connect to the internet after > setting it. This was o.k.,

Re: [newbie] about to give up

Hello. On Sat 2002-12-07 at 17:17:19 +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:00, Mark Weaver wrote: [...] > AND, dig this - those installations are going on the SAME machine - > nothing changed. Nothing. Nada. > > The first five times I installed MDK on this workstation, I changed so

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:09, greg wrote: Instead of depending on the MCC Wizards, why not just open up a nice terminal window, and type: netconfig ...put in all the proper information that you need to put in, save the configuration - linuxconf will direct you to what services need to be restarte

Re: [newbie] about to give up

O.K. ALL some good developments here. I have set up my modem to a static setup. This obviously meant that my windows xp and red hat systems would not connect to the internet after setting it. This was o.k., all I did was go in, change the settings from dhcp assigning, to a static address. This g

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Monday 09 December 2002 04:52, Joseph Braddock wrote: > PCI is funny that way. Your plug and play bios and/or OS have to > pick some order in which to initialize the cards. If one of the > cards has a limited number of IRQs it can use and a different card > grabs that IRQ first, then the limi

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sunday 08 December 2002 06:50 am, you wrote: > Third... if it aint working still... try another PCI-bus. You might have > a conflict. I had that problem once. I moved the card, and all was a > bliss. You can do a "cat /proc/interrupts" and it should show if the card is causing an IRQ conflict

Re: [newbie] about to give up (OT)

- Original Message - From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 10:52:14 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] about to give up > On Sunday 08 December 2002 07:39 am, you wrote: > > >A Cherokee Prayer: > >

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:44, Dale Kosan wrote: > No. I think the problem is the nic is not initialized. He said he was > seeing initizing of eth0 failed error... If the nic fails to get an address because of a dhcp error, won't initialisation of the interface fail? It's not clear from the posts

Re: [newbie] about to give up

No. I think the problem is the nic is not initialized. He said he was seeing initizing of eth0 failed error... John McQuillen wrote: Hi Greg, This is getting to be a long story, so I'll only include the essentials from previous mails... If interested, here is what is in the modems intern

Re: [newbie] about to give up

You cant tell me his Realtec card is not supported? I believe every Linux distro supports that chip set. Can he try loading the correct module with modprobe? -- http://www.winsweptrottweilers.com ICQ# 55846749 Registered Linux user #191829 A Cherokee Prayer: Oh Great Spirit, Help me always

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sunday 08 December 2002 12:54, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have a table set up on my router with static IP addresses. All the > machines use those static addresses, except the laptop which is set > to get an address from the router. The router has a fixed address > to offer that login, so it work

Re: [newbie] about to give up

Hi Greg, This is getting to be a long story, so I'll only include the essentials from previous mails... > If interested, > > here is what is in the modems internal software: > > PPP (VPI 8, VCI 35) ipa > > ipa 150.101.208.30 255.255.0.0 > > eth010.0.0.138 255.0.0.

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 11:50 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: > On Sunday 08 December 2002 11:15, greg wrote: > > When installing Mandrake, I have selected (when setting up > > net/internet) the ethernet option, and selected bootp/dhcp instead of > > entering any details. This is how Red Hat is config

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sunday 08 December 2002 11:15, greg wrote: > When installing Mandrake, I have selected (when setting up > net/internet) the ethernet option, and selected bootp/dhcp instead of > entering any details. This is how Red Hat is configured (ethernet > connection/dhcp) and works no probs. After this

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 10:48 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > If eth0 doesn't show up, no matter what you do, you're not going to get > on the internet (or any net for that matter). What about disabling > PNP/OS in your BIOS and see if that works? > > Once you can LEGITIMATELY get your ethernet card worki

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 10:15 am, greg wrote: > Anyway, I will try to answer the questions that you all asked in one > email, so that it is all in one place, and also give a run-down on what > my system is, and what I have done. > It does help to have as much information as possible in one place.

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 21:15, greg wrote: > When installing Mandrake, I have selected (when setting up net/internet) > the ethernet option, and selected bootp/dhcp instead of entering any > details. This is how Red Hat is configured (ethernet connection/dhcp) > and works no probs. After this, boo

Re: [newbie] about to give up

Hi all, and thanks to those who have replied with support (david, john, anne,joeb,alexa,marcia,jose,mark,stephan). Sorry for not replying sooner, but working very hard at the moment, and just turned my computer on today. I now have Red Hat back on, but I did a full re-install of Mandrake 9.0, and

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 05:00, Mark Weaver wrote: > David Robertson wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:41, Mark Weaver wrote: > > David, > > How is it that you're configuring your network and dialup settings? I've > got two Mandrake 8.2 servers running. Setup network once and haven't had > to t

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:00, Mark Weaver wrote: > David, > > How is it that you're configuring your network and dialup settings? I've > got two Mandrake 8.2 servers running. Setup network once and haven't had > to touch it since. One Mandrake 9.0 server running - same thing there. > My worksta

Re: [newbie] about to give up

David Robertson wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:41, Mark Weaver wrote: greg wrote: Hi, I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs full

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Friday 06 December 2002 05:23 am, greg wrote: > Hi, > I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the > looks, and frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the > most critical ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs > fully setup first time I boot in,

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:30:18AM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 03:08, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:41:03PM +0100, Paul wrote: > > > In reply to David's mail, d.d. 06 Dec 2002 11:56:42 +: > > > > > > >Having said that, I do still think Mandrake is a g

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Friday 06 December 2002 04:23, greg wrote: > Hi, > I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and > frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical > ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup first > time I boot in, wi

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 03:08, Todd Slater wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:41:03PM +0100, Paul wrote: > > In reply to David's mail, d.d. 06 Dec 2002 11:56:42 +: > > > > >Having said that, I do still think Mandrake is a great package: they all > > >have their faults! > > > > I know Linux's f

Re: [newbie] about to give up

Greg, please try again. I know it feels hopeless and it took me three different installs, and the last time two plus days to get it on, but it is so worth it. I have only 8.2 but two things did happen during installs. The first few times I installed it didn't recognize my a drive or zip,or cd, well

Re: [newbie] about to give up

/02 04:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] about to give up > Hi, I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup first time

Re: [newbie] about to give up

the 2 were the next 2 lines... what they say and what they do *g* took me a bit to figure it out, too --- Original Message --- From: Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] about to give up >On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:41:03PM +0100, Paul wrote: &g

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Friday 06 Dec 2002 10:23 am, greg wrote: > Hi, > I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and > frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical > ways. No internet! Greg, I've only vuagely read this thread, since I've been very busy and t

Re: [newbie] about to give up

greg wrote: Hi, I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup first time I boot in, with no further configuration, Red Hat the s

Re: [newbie] about to give up

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:41, Mark Weaver wrote: > greg wrote: > > Hi, > > I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and > > frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical > > ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup fi

Re: [newbie] about to give up

I has similar problems with my Toshiba laptop until I upgraded to a PCMCIA hardware modem. Now everything works wonderfully and I spend most of my time in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I was also just able to get Ogle to play DVDs on the same machine. On Friday 06 December 2002 06:41 am, Mark Weaver wrot

Re: [newbie] about to give up

greg wrote: Hi, I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup first time I boot in, with no further configuration, Red Hat the sa

[newbie] about to give up

Hi, I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical ways. No internet! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup first time I boot in, with no further configuration, Red Hat the same, didn't ha

Re: [newbie] About to give up on SAMBA

John A few comments 1/ Your workgroup name is LINUX, that means the workgroup name in your Windows boxes must also be LINUX (The default workgroup for a Windows box is WORKGROUP) 2/ A lot of your statements are unnecessary. Here is part of my smb.conf [global] path = /var/spool/cups

[newbie] About to give up on SAMBA

Hi there. :) After some frustrating hours of trying to set up SAMBA, by the book, I'm now faced with SWAT telling me that neither SMBD or NMBD are running. Curious thing is that they are when I check running processes. Further..when I restart SMBD SWAT reports it as not running but it does s

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

Here's something wild. Last night after getting the first reply to this list about how to get fetchmail to run in the background and get the mail at a set interval someone had said something about needing a script to start it every time I bootes the machine. Well, last night I started fetchmail by

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

Actually it's a new install. I originally wanted to get 7.1, but I mistakenly ordered 7.0. No big deal I've downloaded the ISO for 7.1 at work and I only have to burn the CD's yet. However, I'm finding 7.0 isn't as well behaved as I was led to believe. I absolutely LOVE the look, feel, bells and w

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

:~>> How does one accomplish this? :~> :~>fetchmail -d Alternatively, one can or add: set daemon to your .procmailrc cu D -- - Dr. Denis Havlik Mandrakesoft|||

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

From "man fetchmail": DAEMON MODE The --daemon or -d option runs fetchmail in daemon mode. You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling interval in seconds. In daemon mode, fetchmail puts itself in background and runs forever, query­ ing each spe

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

On 15 Jun, Mark Weaver wrote: > "Michael H. Collins" wrote: >> >> My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for >> checking in fetchmail itself. > > How does one accomplish this? fetchmail -d fetchmail -help is also useful. L -- Laurent Duperval

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

"Michael H. Collins" wrote: > > My fetchmail does not need a cron job, one can set the interval for > checking in fetchmail itself. How does one accomplish this? -- Mark I love my Linux box... My Linux Box ROCKS!

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

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Re: [newbie] About to give up.

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Re: [newbie] About to give up.

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Re: [newbie] About to give up.

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's > home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron > job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my > interval is 4 minutes. W

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

--- Original Message - > > From: Everette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:40 PM > > Subject: [newbie] About to give up. > > > > > > > Hello again > > > > > > I'

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

m: Everette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:40 PM > Subject: [newbie] About to give up. > > > > Hello again > > > > I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. > > A few months back I

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

> > At 11:40 PM 6/13/00 -0400, you wrote: > >Hello again > > > >I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. > >A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams > >one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine. > >A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

Type in telnet themachineyou'reworkingon 25 (Wait a few seconds then type (not a typo below)) HELO themachineyou'reworkingon It should say pleased to meet you ect ect. If it does not say pleased to meet you then sendmail is not configured properly and that is what's giving you hell. As for qp

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

On 13 Jun 00, at 23:40, Everette wrote: > Well it looked like every thing setup OK so I reinstalled qpopper but it > want work now in fact I tried some other mail server software and can't > get any of thm to work. A better option to qpopper and faster is fetchmail. It is usually installed by d

[newbie] About to give up.

Hello again I'm going to try this one last time before I give up. A few months back I bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine. A few weeks ago I downloaded and installed mandrake 7.0 I did a complete install doing away with every thing I