[newbie-it] Aiuto

2000-02-15 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Carissima comunità ho bisogno del vostro aiuto ho un problema quando configuro un server con Linux Mandrake 7.0 quando fa il BOOT alla partenza dei DEMONI precisamente NETWORK mi restituisce una frase : /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network : [ :=:unary operator expected, nello stesso modo anche su

[newbie] Modem jumper settings

2000-02-15 Per discussione Donald Carpenter
Is there a way to get linux to detect my USR internal 56k modem when the cards jumpers are set to PnP? Right now I have to set the jumpers to PnP to work with windows and set the jumpers to com2 to get it to work with Linux.

[newbie] email....

2000-02-15 Per discussione L.I. Jorge A. Zarate Perez
OK I use Mandrake 7 the mail can send it, but the mail incoming can drop in the mailbox the maillog says... Feb 15 01:23:03 tlahui postfix/qmgr[18596]: 7E26A1085E: from=zarapejo@netscape. net, size=949 (queue active) Feb 15 01:23:03 tlahui postfix/local[18867]: fatal: open database

Re: [newbie] subscribe/unsubscribe

2000-02-15 Per discussione Vic
No joke, I posted some very easy instructions a while back I don't know if you saw them but unless these guys are new, then I don't know what the deal is, maybe I should post them like once a week automatically or something. On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, bluebottle mewed: I've just been deleting all

[newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-15 Per discussione Huseyin Kalkan
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Re: [newbie] Email Programs

2000-02-15 Per discussione bluebottle
I'm using kmail and the filter works very well. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, you wrote: What email program does everyone use? I am using csc mail for now until i can find something better, netscape doesn't do it for me and i need filtering... any ideas?

[newbie] RAM Problems

2000-02-15 Per discussione alan . tseng
I have a Micron system: 533 MHz Pentium III (Katmai), Via Apollo chipset, and 128 MB of 133MHz SDRAM. I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on my system, and it only sees 64 MB of RAM (instead of 128). Can anyone out there help me figure out what the problem is? Alan

Re: [[newbie] Internet connetions]

2000-02-15 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
Donald Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finnally got my modem to work and it connects to my ISP ok. But, After I connect, I can't get my mail nor can I connect to any sites. Any Ideas? = Sounds as if you neglected to edit /etc/resolv.conf add the lines:

Re: [newbie] RAM Problems

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
Using LILO? When you boot linux, start it with LILO: linux mem=128M It should come up with the full 128 meg. Try it by using 'free' from a shell. To make it automatic, edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the line append="mem=128M" to each stanza you use to boot linux. Enjoy the extra memory

Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append?

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
did the append line work for you after you joined the two together with a comma? I can't check right now, but have a read of man lilo.conf There's bound to be an example somewhere Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Brent Timmer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 14/02/2000 22:22:49 Please

Re: [[newbie] Ram incorrect]

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
That's the manaul page for lilo.conf in compressed format. Try reading it with man lilo.conf the file you need to edit is /etc/lilo.conf Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Westbrook" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 15/02/2000 01:14:04 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] paths in linux

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
It depend on the shell you are using. I'll assume you're using bash. Log in as your usual userid (please don't say this is root!) cd ~ vi .bashrc See that line that says PATH= Add stuff onto the end of it - seperate paths with colons Save the file and logout Log back in again set You

Re: [newbie] Modem won't work anymore in Linux......

2000-02-15 Per discussione Dan Ros
You can follow the thread titled "[expert] PPPD dying" and it should document the problems encountered. I haven't tried Russ' idea since I burned up too much time wrestling with this problem. But it seems to be the solution. Good luck and let us know how you did. I have found that fiddling

Re: [newbie] kfm hangs on reading /mnt/

2000-02-15 Per discussione Dan Ros
Any ideas why? Thanks. Disregard... just read http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3. -- http://www.uplink.freeuk.com - ICQ: 15212336 No witty comment or quote required.

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Commands...

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
They are switches. They alter the output you get back from various commands. For axample ls -a =directory listing of ALL files (includes all files beginning with '.') ls -l =Give me the list in 'long' format ls -al=Give me that list again, in long format and shaw ALL

Re: [newbie] Ram incorrect

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
Haven't I already told you how to fix this? Anyway, edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a line like the following to each stanza you use to boot linux: append="mem=256M" /sbin/lilo Restart. You can achieve the same manually by starting lilo with 'linux mem=256M' rather than just 'linux' Steve

[newbie] /mnt/floppy and pppd

2000-02-15 Per discussione Michael
Hi all, Just moved from RH6.1 to Mandrake 7.0 on the weekend, hey this is much niceronly two problems that won't go away though. Any help appreciated. 1. The 'recommended' Mandrake install doesn't seem to be able to drive my floppy properly. It used to work before Mandrake. On default

Re: [newbie] SBLive and kernel recompilation

2000-02-15 Per discussione Klaus Peter Elsner
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 21:12:52 -0800 (PST), Joe Knapp -Technician wrote: -What is the problem you guys are experiencing? I missed the origional -message, anyway, i have a SB Live and it detected at install and works -great. (mandrake 7.02). - -Joe Knapp great for you :-) I've installed MD 6.1 and

Re: [newbie] SBLive and kernel recompilation

2000-02-15 Per discussione Klaus Peter Elsner
-- if I recompile my kernel TCP/IP stops working and I have to resort to -reinstalling mandrake 6. - I have a question in general concerning IRQ's and the way they are handled inside Linux I'm swapping HDisks for testing different Configurations. IRQ's are fixed inside Bios setup So

Re: [newbie] Internet connetions

2000-02-15 Per discussione rjpeake
Quoting Donald Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I finnally got my modem to work and it connects to my ISP ok. But, After I connect, I can't get my mail nor can I connect to any sites. Any Ideas? DNS addresses correct? Mail client set up correctly? Routing set up correctly? Ron

[newbie] Connected to the internet, but can't access anything

2000-02-15 Per discussione Brent Timmer
I finally got my usr internal pnp isa modem working!! I can now connect to the internet. My problem now is that no matter what I do, I can't get anything. Netscape, e-mail programs, pinging. None of them work. I can't access anything. Anyone have any ideas?

[newbie] Sound module

2000-02-15 Per discussione Billy Noel -Jacob-
Hi, During boot the following appears in my screen: Loading sound module can't locate module sound [FAILED]. When I try in the terminal: modprobe sound I get a message: can't locate module sound How can I fix this problem?? Thanks in advance, Jacob alias BillyNoel

Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Brent Timmer
actually, I had to put append="hdd=ide-scsi mem=256M" Thanks thogh, got me closer - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append? did the append line work for you after you

Re: [newbie] paths in linux

2000-02-15 Per discussione Brent Timmer
Thanks a lot - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] paths in linux It depend on the shell you are using. I'll assume you're using bash. Log in as your usual userid (please don't say this is

[newbie] fonts in Mandrake 7.0-2

2000-02-15 Per discussione Rafal Jakubowski
Hi all I'm not sure if anybody could help me, but I have to try. Just few days ago I installed Mandrake 7.0-2. I've got a little problem with fonts. I think it's font server. I'm from Poland, so I'd like to have polish fonts. I installed them and now I've got polish fonts in text mode and in

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2000-02-15 Per discussione Brent Timmer
I have a hp 600c, and have found the right ghostscript driver to use with it, along with making a pdq file. How do I get it to use this driver and pdq file to print files now? I mean like a text file, graphic etc in say a kde or blackbox session(xwindows)?

[newbie] Printing to a HP 600C

2000-02-15 Per discussione Brent Timmer
I have a hp 600c, and have found the right ghostscript driver to use with it, along with making a pdq file. How do I get it to use this driver and pdq file to print files now? I mean like a text file, graphic etc in say a kde or blackbox session(xwindows)?

[newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-15 Per discussione John Catral
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Re: [newbie] telnet

2000-02-15 Per discussione David Russell
To be honest, haven't enabled http (no http server) or ftp. But, we're running over a TCP/IP network and ping, printing to a TCP/IP printer and http and e-mail client services work. I would say my TCP/IP is fine. The Mandrake box also works fine as a telnet client, but not as a host. -David

Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings

2000-02-15 Per discussione Ron Sinclair
At 01:38 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote: Is there a way to get linux to detect my USR internal 56k modem when the cards jumpers are set to PnP? Right now I have to set the jumpers to PnP to work with windows and set the jumpers to com2 to get it to work with Linux. Hi, Could you let me know if you

Re: [newbie] (un)setting aliases

2000-02-15 Per discussione flupke
You'll find some of them in /etc/profile.d/alias.sh Ed Negari wrote : I grep'ed the whole /etc and /etc/skel directory, but couldn't find anything. I noticed a bunch in ~user/.bashrc, but those aren't the ones I'm looking for. It's these: ed@club-ed:~$ alias alias cd..='cd ..' alias

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2000-02-15 Per discussione Jacob Bondre
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RE: [newbie] i have given up on mandrake 7.0

2000-02-15 Per discussione Dave holland
yes i am setting up as server thanks I'll give it a try -Original Message- From: Jim Witterschein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] i have given up on mandrake 7.0 I had that esperience once, during the

Re: [[newbie] Connected to the internet, but cant access anything]

2000-02-15 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
"Brent Timmer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got my usr internal pnp isa modem working!! I can now connect to the internet. My problem now is that no matter what I do, I can't get anything. Netscape, e-mail programs, pinging. None of them work. I can't access anything. Anyone have

RE: [newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-15 Per discussione Kevin Eldridge
To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface. This is from an email I got when I first signed up with this newsgroup. You people are like spammers. Filling up our email with your damn

[newbie] mySQL installation

2000-02-15 Per discussione Marc Herms (Mercator GmbH)
WHO could help me with mySQL installation? marc * * MERCATOR GmbH * * Your Presence Provider * *http://mercator.net * * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *

[newbie] GCC or CC not Found..Any Help?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Jim Witterschein
I've installed Mandrake 7..0 and now I am attemtpting to setup Samba. However, when I run ./configure, I get the following messages: checing for gcc...no checking for cc...no no acceptable cc found in $PATH I have modifed my path a number of times, adding path's to where I believe the GCC

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Aaron Zuercher
Not desperate.. just spoiled... :) Tried Post Office... has lots of promise, but lacks polish... know of any others? Aaron - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good

RE: [newbie] Nic problem

2000-02-15 Per discussione Kevin Eldridge
I have heard on here that you need to manually enter in your IP address, and DHCP information, and all of the other information. I don't think Linux detects IPs very well. When I had it try to detect my networking, it gave me some eroneous number that wasn't even anywhere near correct. At

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! After deleting /tmp

2000-02-15 Per discussione Aaron Zuercher
Have you tried rebooting? If the files were in a /tmp directory, they should have been temporary.. therefore, if you reboot perhaps the necessary files will be recreated. Aaron - Original Message - From: Brent Timmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate

2000-02-15 Per discussione James Mellema
David Regan wrote: I was not able to run MandrakeUpdate under v6.0 and now I have the same problem with v7.0. When I run the program it chugs away for a while and then comes back with "fetching of mirror list failed. Has anyone else had this problem or know of a solution. snip I think the

Re: [newbie] linux fail while boot up

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
At some point your hdc2 device has been corrupted. Try running fsck /dev/hdc2 when you get this prompt. Hopefully, you won't lose any data but be prepared Have you switched your box off with shutting it down first? Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst lights [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

Re: [newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Klaus Peter Elsner
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:44:04 -0500, Russell Simmons wrote: -i'm reposting this question, as no one has answered it...can anyone tel me -if this is possible?... - -Russell Simmons wrote: - - i have a dual boot box (windoze 98/lm 6.0) on a 5.1 gig wd hd...when i - partitioned the drive i gave 4

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2000-02-15 Per discussione Nick Clark
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RE: [newbie] Connected to the internet, but can't access anything

2000-02-15 Per discussione Murat Suluhan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Title: RE: [newbie] Connected to the internet, but can't access anything hi modify your resolv.conf like as $ pico /etc/resolv.conf # -- this is comment line letter #xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq is your isp's nameserver ip address. #If you don't know this address; #you can try ping www.your_isp.net

[newbie] pb cdrom

2000-02-15 Per discussione BARDIAUX Laurent SICoR
when i try to install Mandrake 7.0 on my system, i've got the message hdb : lost interrupt. (i have a goldstar cdrom) I 've ever fix this pb with my mandrake 6.1 by upgrading the kernel. Any other solution for the Mandrake 7.0 ?

[newbie] (un)setting aliases

2000-02-15 Per discussione Ed Negari
I decided to give Mandrake a try and I just installed Mandrake 7 for the first time (although I've used other linuxes for about 5 years). Anyway, I noticed that Mandrake pre-sets a bunch of aliases for the user. Where are these set? I grep'ed the whole /etc and /etc/skel directory, but couldn't

[newbie] Nic problem

2000-02-15 Per discussione Ron Warren
I just installed Mandrake 7.0 and I can't get the nic to my cable modem to work. The nic to the network is working ok eth0, but eth1 will not activate under DHCP in control-panel. My Cable modem ISP is mediaone which uses DHCP. Both my nics are ESL-835-TB PCI (Nek 2000pci). I tried to

Re: [newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
Not only are you posting to the wrong address, but posting an unsubscribe message twice isn't going to make it work! Read the email I just sent you! Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "John Catral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/02/2000 01:12:09 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-15 Per discussione David Russell
If i doesn't, I've used Partition Magic for windoze with _great_ success. -David i'm reposting this question, as no one has answered it...can anyone tel me if this is possible?... Russell Simmons wrote: i have a dual boot box (windoze 98/lm 6.0) on a 5.1 gig wd hd...when i partitioned

Re: [newbie] telnet

2000-02-15 Per discussione David Russell
I know this is a lame question, but how? Search for telnetd? It won't be listed as a process. That's interesting that it's not default. However, in the inetd.conf file, the ftp and telnet lines are uncommented. -David check whether your telnet-server package has been installed. It doesn't

[newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Aaron Zuercher
Hello, I'm used to using MS Outlook Express and also Agent for email in Windows. Looking for a comparable program in Linux. Any Ideas? Thanks, Aaron

Re: [newbie] telnet

2000-02-15 Per discussione jtanyh
are you able to telnet out from your linux box? If yes, try to telnet back to itself. If it doesn't work, check that you have the telnet-server service there. If there isn't any, the telnet-server rpm can be found in the installation disk. hope it works for you.

[newbie] Email configuration

2000-02-15 Per discussione Paulo Moreira
Hi I'm having trouble with email, I can send email, send and receive news, but I can't receive email, I use mozilla, and I get the answer "no route to host", and I tried with email and the problem continues, can anyone help me ? Thx all Paulo Moreira

Re: [newbie] Nic problem

2000-02-15 Per discussione BryanMoorehead
Ron, I also have MediaOne. Here is my setup. Adaptor 1 - eth0 is connected to the cable modem Adaptor 2 - eth1 is connected to a hub that other PC's in my house are connected to Try this... From the command prompt as root: linuxconf Choose: 1. Networking 2. Basic host Information

Re: [newbie] ISA detection problems

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
I've never done this myself so there'll be switches you need to add onto pnpdump, I expect.. something like the following: man pnpdump pnpdump ~/pnpoutput vi ~/pnpdump(or whatever editor you like) isapnp ~/pnpdump I guess! YMMV Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst Ger-Bil

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
Might be a daft question but what's wrong with ELM and PINE? You desperate to have a GUI interface? Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Aaron Zuercher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 15/02/2000 14:21:47 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve

Re: [newbie] telnet

2000-02-15 Per discussione [ supafish ]
sure it will, if you do ps -e that's how you have a gander at all those wacky daemons. -fish From: David Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:18:54 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] telnet I know this is a lame question, but

Re: [newbie] Modem won't work anymore in Linux......

2000-02-15 Per discussione Steve Leseman
Thanks Seve. I'm actually using version 6.0 of Mandrake though. At 12:42 AM 2/15/00 -0800, you wrote: Steve, You're going to run into a slew of problems trying to get your modem to work in Mdk7.0. As far as "sorry, modem is busy", I had to initiate the following sequence to fix it: (assuming

[newbie] HELP!!! After deleting /tmp

2000-02-15 Per discussione Brent Timmer
Help!! I deleted the files in /tmp(thinking they were only temporary files). Now I can't get into blackbox, cant run simple commands like (xv, setroot, imwheel, root, and many other). Can someone tell me what I did and how I can fix it, please?!

Re: [newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Eunice Thompson
I used Partition Magic to resize the Windows partitions,and created a primary Linux native partition for Mandrake before installing. I'm running Win98/Win2000/Mandrake. Also I didn't install LILO,but just use a boot disk to boot to Mandrake. Hope this helps. Good Luck - Original Message

Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings

2000-02-15 Per discussione Brent Timmer
For all you with pnp modem problems, this is how I got my usr 56k internal ISA modem to work pnp: 1.Type "/sbin/pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf" ##this loads info on your ISA PnP board(s) into the appropriate .conf file. 2.Type "/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" ##this makes your existing ISA

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Dan Ferris
Aaron Zuercher wrote: Hello, I'm used to using MS Outlook Express and also Agent for email in Windows. Looking for a comparable program in Linux. Any Ideas? Thanks, Aaron Netscape. Or Kmail. Or Spruce. Or Balsa. Or Pine. :-) Or Elm :-) Actually, Magellen is what I am waiting

Re: [newbie] telnet

2000-02-15 Per discussione David Russell
Yes, I can telnet out. I went to the CD and the package is client/server. When I attempted to install, there was already a newer version on my cpu. Ideas? -David are you able to telnet out from your linux box? If yes, try to telnet back to itself. If it doesn't work, check that you have the

[newbie] Linux: 1 Me: 0

2000-02-15 Per discussione James Luongo
Ok, so I mentioned earlier I had problems with my SB Live! I have Mandrake 6.1 and tried to recompile the kernel to version 2.2.5 (Creative told me their beta drivers worked for only this version). Anyway, the compilation seemed like a success. Then I rebooted, and I got in, but nothing

Re: [newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
Right - I must have sent the following message to about 20 peope *today* all trying to unsubscribe. To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface. If you are still on the list and

[newbie] CD-rom

2000-02-15 Per discussione Eunice Thompson
I'm unable to use either of my CD drives ( one is a CD burner) in Mandrake 7.0 they are both Atapi/IDE drives. I' ve read posts and articles about recompiling the kernel to change the IDE to scsi . that doesn't seem to work because I really don't have any idea what I'm doing. Anyway my

Re: [newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
See my reply to you on the list - in the mean time To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface. Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst Jacob Bondre [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

Re: [newbie] I have a FM801 Sound card

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
If it's supported out of the box, su to root sndconfig Should sort things out Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst Fernando Camacho Olmos [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/02/2000 17:22:14 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)

Re: [[newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?]

2000-02-15 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
"Aaron Zuercher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm used to using MS Outlook Express and also Agent for email in Windows. Looking for a comparable program in Linux. Any Ideas? Thanks, Aaron = Give KMail a try. Doesn't do html though. Does allow

[newbie] Error in libjpeg.so.6 file

2000-02-15 Per discussione Lamar, Otis
I have the following in /usr/lib: libjpeg.a libjpeg.la* libjpeg.so - libjpeg.so.6.0.1* libjpeg.so.6 - libjpeg.so.6.0.1* libjpeg.so.6.0.1* libjpeg.so.62 - libjpeg.so.62.0.0* libjpeg.so.62.0.0* I am getting an error about libjpeg.so.6 not being a symlink. Is this correct? Or should

Re: [newbie] SBLive and kernel recompilation

2000-02-15 Per discussione James Luongo
So I guess Mandrake 7.02 supports the SB Live! I have 6.1 and it doesn't. I also screwed up LiLo or something when I tried to recompile the kernel. If anyone gets their SB Live working under 6.1 without having to recompile to the 2.2.5 version of the kernel, let me know. --- Joe Knapp

[newbie] You people that are trying to UNSUBSCRIBE need to read this!

2000-02-15 Per discussione Kevin Eldridge
To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface. This is from an email I got when I first signed up with this newsgroup. You people are like spammers. Filling up our email with your damn

[newbie] MDKUpdate works?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Aaron Zuercher
Hi Everyone. Tried running MDKUpdate on my Mandrake 7.0 box. A msg says that it is finding packages, but then a window popups and there is nothing there. Now is there no updated packages for version 7.0 or is my Update not working properly. I've tried choosing different mirrors, but no change.

Re: [newbie] Why can't non-root user save to DOS partion?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Chuck
Update: Having learned about file and directory permissions, I logged in as root and attempted to enable write permission for Group and Others for a DOS partition. Unfortuately, these changes are ignored - when I view the permissions again they are the same as before (drwxr-xr-x). If I attempt to

Re: [newbie] telnet

2000-02-15 Per discussione Wayne Steele
Have a look at these files: /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny They are probably configured to deny access to everyone except localhost. To change this, read the man page on hosts.allow by enterning the following command at a shell prompt... man hosts.allow Then edit the host access files

RE: [newbie] 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Serge Manoukhin
you need in partition magic On 14-Feb-2000 Russell Simmons wrote: i have a dual boot box (windoze 98/lm 6.0) on a 5.1 gig wd hd...when i partitioned the drive i gave 4 gigs to windoz, (c), and i gig to use for linux, (d), (hda1=windoz, hda2=linux swap, hda3=/, hda4=/home)...i used linux fdisk

[newbie] Can't start XWindows

2000-02-15 Per discussione Antoniou, Stylianos
Well, Today when I tried to logon Linux (I have a dual machine and Windows have no problems) I could not start XWindows. The error message that I got is: execve failed for etc/X11/X (errno 2) _X11TransSocketUNIXconnect: can't connect: errno = 111 giving up xinit: connection refused (errno 1110:

Re: [newbie] Linux: 1 Me: 0

2000-02-15 Per discussione Wayne Steele
Oops. It sounds like you forgot to run lilo after replacing the vmlinuz file in the /boot directory. I made this mistake a few times myself when I first started compiling my own kernels. As for a repair, the only two methods I am aware of are: 1. Boot with a rescue disk, restore your boot

Re: [newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-15 Per discussione Aaron Zuercher
lol... nice vent :) first rate! Actually you make a very good point. If people can't even unsubscribe from a mailing list how do they ever expect to learn and use a operating system like Linux. Aaron - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] newbie@linux-mandrake.com

2000-02-15 Per discussione Joe Parker
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Re: [newbie] Unsubscribe

2000-02-15 Per discussione Joe Parker

Re: [newbie] Joystick/Gamepad

2000-02-15 Per discussione Ribbo
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: I have a rather generic gamepad that connects to my soundcard... what would I have to do to get this gamepad to work? some joystick module included in mandrake. you just have to recompile. for more information you may take a look at

Re: [newbie] Confuguring wu-ftp

2000-02-15 Per discussione synrat
i'm having the same problem. found a solution yet? - Original Message - From: "David Schur" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 6:17 PM Subject: [newbie] Confuguring wu-ftp I have wu-ftp installed yet i cannot get it to function as an ftp server,

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Dan Ros
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, you wrote: Might be a daft question but what's wrong with ELM and PINE? You desperate to have a GUI interface? Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst They both are nasty when used offline.

Re: [newbie] Programming C

2000-02-15 Per discussione David van Balen
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Dan Ferris wrote: Joe Knapp -Technician wrote: snip http://www.kdevelop.org There is another programming IDE for KDE as well, but I can't remember the name, or the web page. Code Crusader? dunno if it's kde specific though... DvB

Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings

2000-02-15 Per discussione Ty C.Mixon
Your best bet is to uninstall the modem in Windows. Then run a file called wmregdel.exe from the Win98 CD. Shutdown the computer Jumper the modem for Com2 Restart the computer Install the modem when it's detected in Windows Then you should have no more worries. Ty -- Ty Mixon e-mail:

Re: [newbie] SBLive and kernel recompilation

2000-02-15 Per discussione John Catral
If you gusy want you can just pay $20 for the drivers from www.opensound.com. You get 2 years of free updates. Its the easiest thing for your SBlive! =) John - Original Message - From: James Luongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 11:19 AM

Re: [newbie] Rage Fury 128 32Mb.

2000-02-15 Per discussione Mandrake Account
This card is supported in version 7.0 as well as it is supported in Red Hat 's beta 6.2 Piglet, Although it seems that the mandrake version had no problems with install. The Rage All in Wonder Pro 128 has problems when it comes to the screen becoming blured and destored. It works however if you

Re: [newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Chuck
What I'd love to know is what went wrong when I had Mandrake 7.0 use a 2 GB space which was unused space but physically situated within an extended Windows partition (that was the easiest way to install Corel Linux). I didn't actually resize any FAT partitions (just had DiskDrake create the

Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Sevatio Octavio
Try StarOffice. But, I'm still looking for a linux email client that can handle multiple accounts for sending. Seve -Original Message- From: Aaron Zuercher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can

[newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-15 Per discussione Eunice Thompson
I went to www.thelinuxgurus.org for the how-to on configuring CD drives. I followed the instructions and when I type 'make menuconfig' I get an error message that states "No rule to make target "menuconfig" Stop. So now what do I do? - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL

[newbie] Routing problem

2000-02-15 Per discussione Michael Holmes
Domain A and Domain B won't communicate. The PDC on Domain B's IP address is 128.168.0.2. All the servers are NT except for the router which is linux. Router - Linux (Mandrake) Linksys card IP - 192.168.0.19 (255.255.255.0) (Static) 3Com Nic - 128.168.0.3 - (255.255.0.0) I am using a

Re: [newbie] Modem jumper settings

2000-02-15 Per discussione G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, you wrote: At 01:38 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote: Is there a way to get linux to detect my USR internal 56k modem when the cards jumpers are set to PnP? Right now I have to set the jumpers to PnP to work with windows and set

Re: [newbie] kfm hangs on reading /mnt/

2000-02-15 Per discussione Audrey Beck
Dan Ros wrote: Any ideas why? Thanks. -- http://www.uplink.freeuk.com - ICQ: 15212336 No witty comment or quote required. Yeah, it's a bug. You can't go up to "/" root (hangs) and some vfat partitions, you can't use regular mount (hangs). If it's a vfat partition, you can edit the

Re: [newbie] help

2000-02-15 Per discussione Audrey Beck
Kit wrote: How do you uninstall a bad install of 7.0 CD...and then re-install 6.1? also, I tried a hayes smartmodem 2400 (external) just to see if it would connect...and it wouldn't. Got any ideas... also, WHERE is KPPP on the CD? what's the RPM called...? isn't the above modem a

Re: [newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-15 Per discussione David van Balen
I don't believe it's advisable to create a partition within space that's "physically situated within an extended Windows partition." Partitions inside partitions are a no-no... if I'm understanding the situation correctly, that is. I'm surprised Disk Drake let you do that. I'd consider that a

Re: [newbie] Fw: CDRproblems

2000-02-15 Per discussione David van Balen
Here's a message that was sent to this list a while back and which I used to get my cdrw working (the URL included in the message should help you to get scsi working). DvB Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:13:38 -0500 From: Paul Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Can't Install

2000-02-15 Per discussione Gregory Richards
My installation gets to "Setup Filesystems", but then it stops and says "no free partitions". I have 2 partitions, both absolutely empty, so I don't understand it! PLEASE HELP! Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and

[newbie] random 'find' process

2000-02-15 Per discussione David van Balen
I have noticed that my computer will often go into periods of furious disk access at very odd hours so, last time it happened, I decided to take a look and see what was going on (I also wanted to get to sleep). My search turned up a find process running as root for no apparent reason at all so I

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