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

2002-12-11 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-09 Thread greg
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-09 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
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 some

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-09 Thread John McQuillen
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., all

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-09 Thread gklofa
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

2002-12-09 Thread Dennis Myers
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 this

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-09 Thread Joseph Braddock
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

2002-12-09 Thread gklofa
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread greg
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,

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
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,

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread Anne Wilson
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

2002-12-08 Thread Anne Wilson
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 working,

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread Martin L. Johansen
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

2002-12-08 Thread Anne Wilson
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 configured

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread John McQuillen
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 eth010.0.0.138 255.0.0.0 loop

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread Martin L. Johansen
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 works

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread Dale Kosan
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread Dale Kosan
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread John McQuillen
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 (OT)

2002-12-08 Thread Angus Auld
- 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: Oh Great Spirit, Help me always to speak

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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

2002-12-08 Thread Martin L. Johansen
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 limited

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-07 Thread David Robertson
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 touch it

[newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread greg
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Mark Weaver
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Jim Snyder
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread David Robertson
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 first

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Anne Wilson
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 the

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread JM5379
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: In reply

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Joe Braddock
back with whether this is your situation or not. And if not, could you describe, one more time, your modem, the problem and what you have tried to fix it. Joeb ---Original Message--- From: greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/06/02 04:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] about

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Alexa Pongracz
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,

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
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 faults are many

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Marcia
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, with

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Todd Slater
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 great

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Jose
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

2002-12-06 Thread Mark Weaver
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

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
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 workstation

[newbie] About to give up on SAMBA

2002-09-27 Thread John Wilson
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

Re: [newbie] About to give up on SAMBA

2002-09-27 Thread Derek Jennings
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

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-16 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
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

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-16 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
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

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread Alex V Flinsch
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. Works

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
] 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

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread Michael H. Collins
/ - 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'm going to try this one last time before I give up. A few months back I bought linux

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread Necrotica
] 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 bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-15 Thread Mark Weaver
"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.

2000-06-15 Thread laurent . duperval
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.

2000-06-15 Thread Michael H. Collins
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

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-14 Thread David Talbot
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

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-14 Thread Glyn Millington
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 7.0 I did a

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-14 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
: 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 bought linux-mandrake 6.1 I installed a few progams one being qpopper mail server, It worked fine. A few weeks ago I

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-14 Thread Necrotica
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[newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-13 Thread Everette
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

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-13 Thread Sthitaprajna
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