Re: AW: [newbie] newbie books

2000-03-21 Per discussione Jon Hunter
I hated Unix for Dummies! It was the only Unix book in my town and I needed to look up some commands. After being told I was to stupid to learn the command I was interested in and that I should go find a Unix Guru and offer him pizza, it hit the wastecan at high velocity. Drazenko Djuricic

Re: RV: [newbie] 3Com 3CXe589E PCMCIA ETHERNET CARD

2000-03-21 Per discussione Jon Hunter
You have discovered the answer to your own question! Use kpackage to open the RPM for the kernel you have installed and you can read it for yourself. Install the kernel marked kernel-2.2.14-15mdk.i586.rpm instead. Carlos Salazar Mtz wrote: Hi, I've been spending 2 weeks trying to install my

Re: [[newbie] Yamaha OPL3-SAx Sound Card]

2000-03-21 Per discussione Jon Hunter
I also have an OPL3-SAx built into a laptop. Works great but I had to switch the DMA settings. Try flipping the two settings. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Yamaha sound card in my laptop and haven't had any problems with it in linux. I just configure it and it runs like a charm.

Re: [newbie] Drake Config

2000-03-20 Per discussione Jon Hunter
su not = 2 "superuser" You can su to other names. su freddyk password slasher I perfer to think of it as "Switch User"... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about all of these probs with finding thingys like logons as root (su) or linuxconfig. If I don't find thingys on the screen or

Re: [newbie] halt , then crush

2000-03-20 Per discussione Jon Hunter
ASCII_table wrote: Hi. after i type "halt" and the linux outputs all those [OK]'s, it suddenly dumps registers and the likes (after the lines "Power off" or how it is there exactly i dont remember). what could be the reason? Same thing happens to me on one of my machines. It is an AMD

Re: [newbie] pcmcia ethernet card

2000-03-20 Per discussione Jon Hunter
I also have an ect2 from linksys. It works great and always has. It is a NE2000 Compatible. This makes me think that your problem might be your pcmcia services. Do you have any other cards working? Below is my setup Toshiba 315CDS Linksys Ect2 Xircom modem Bios is setup for Controller Mode

Re: [newbie] halt , then crush

2000-03-20 Per discussione Jon Hunter
ASCII_table wrote: Hi. after i type "halt" and the linux outputs all those [OK]'s, it suddenly dumps registers and the likes (after the lines "Power off" or how it is there exactly i dont remember). what could be the reason? Same thing happens to me on one of my machines. It is an AMD

Re: [newbie] check this site out

2000-03-19 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Might tick off those of us without a broadband connection... Please don't post binaries. If you want to share a file, post it on the web. Tony wrote: Might amuse those who have not heard it yet! "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew

Re: [newbie] Recommend Serial Mouse instead of PS/2

2000-03-19 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Difficult to say without sitting in front of your machine but a lot of bios will allow you to remove an IRQ from the pool. Maybe you can set IRQ 12 = ISA not pnp/pci Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Alan: Thanks so very much for the comment. Yes, that IRQ 12 was conflicting with other PnP IRQ's.

[newbie] Cable modem help

2000-03-17 Per discussione Jon Hunter
not in the database they might call 2nd tier, who knows a little more, etc. Jon Hunter Computer Consultant / PC Fixit Dude Win95 users will have to use winipcfg instead of ipconfig. This GUI

Re: [newbie] f*cking MOUSE! @#24!! -- Please help!

2000-03-17 Per discussione Jon Hunter
.. :) But, excuse me for being a newbie.. When you say copy it to ~ what do you mean? And also, I've heard people speak of $HOME, but I'm not sure where it hides.. :) Thanks, bosco(). "Linux, it's like throwing everything you know away... But worth it.. " Jon Hunter wrote: bosco wrote:

Re: [newbie] booting up with BootMagic?

2000-03-16 Per discussione Jon Hunter
bootloader to the mbr. Alan Jon Hunter wrote: go into fdisk and check to make sure that the "Active" partition is the one where bootmanager resides. Funk Soul Brother wrote: Hi! How do i get boot magic to boot up ? i have selected what OS's i have and it doesn t load

Re: [newbie] where do I find components

2000-03-16 Per discussione Jon Hunter
/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS Cory Hirano wrote: Hello there I was wondering where do I find components like qt and gimp the system components. Cory

Re: [newbie] no ftp access with Netscape !!!

2000-03-16 Per discussione Jon Hunter
If you have ever used CuteFTP under Windoze gftp is similar and does resumes also. Jeremy wrote: max wrote: i´m using a NT server with wingate for connecting to the web browsing http sites works perfect !! but wehn i click on an ftp link only the error message " the port u tryed

Re: [newbie] f*cking MOUSE! @#24!! -- Please help!

2000-03-16 Per discussione Jon Hunter
bosco wrote: Greetings all, I wrote once before of the problems I'm having with this blasted mouse. Everything I change in my centrally located /etc/X11/XF86Config file seems to take. I just got done swapping my 75dpi and 100dpi fonts around and they work like a charm.. However, FOR SOME

Re: [newbie] Fix ? Mandrake 7 install - Is it a xconfiguration*issue*

2000-03-16 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Pat Mellema wrote: your problem is caused by some setting in Xconfiguration. I had the same problem and had changed a setting that was probed. I rebooted from the floppy that I made and went back in and changed it back and the system came right back up. Pat --- Chuck Seiders [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] A Very Very Basic Question

2000-03-16 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Tony wrote: never done it this way but your image source in this case would have to be C in whatever directory you downloaded to."Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user)

Re: [newbie] Weird Networking Problem!!

2000-03-16 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Donny wrote: Really? How can i get it to join it again? At 05:33 PM 3/16/2000 -0600, you wrote: If you reinstalled your Primary Domain Controller then you changed the SID. It won't rejoin that Domain. Jeanette - Original Message - From: "Donny" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] RPM

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
That would not be an AMD 5x86 133 would it? I have one of those in another box. Here's the deal This is the fastest 486 chip (That I know of) that was ever made. Your system bus speed is 33mhz but the chip itself is running 133mhz. The name is a bit of "slight of hand" from AMD. It was put

Re: [newbie] How can I read Macintosh disks?

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
It is built into the system(I believe). Although I have not done this, if I was gonna try this I would as root: insmod hfs mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Try it, can't hurt. ; Jon Hershel S Robinson wrote: Does anyone know if there is a free utility to allow me to read Macintosh

Re: [newbie] Cyrix CPU problem

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
A little more info please. Who made your computer? If it was done by a shop or a friend it might have been jumpered wrong. Windoze just askes the chip"Hey what kinda chip are you?" Linux actually measures it's speed... Grab your motherboard book and open the case to check jumpers. Be VERY

Re: [newbie] Re: Fatal Server Error

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
If you don't have a mouse in Console mode do gpm -k (To KILL the mouse driver) gpm -h to get help Jeremy wrote: James wrote: Nightstalker wrote: :Have you looked in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, at the Pointer section :- It should look something like this: : Section

Re: [newbie] Help Please

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Hi Ronald! Ignorance is ok, we all start somewhere :) If you are using a floppy to boot this please check which image you used. I think you need to change your boot disk image, sounds like you are attempting to do a network install. As for the numbers: NFS stands for Network File Server

Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 2000

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Almost true, What I would do if I had a clean disk is start the linux install just enough get a shell by doing alt F2 - F6 until I found a console that would allow me to type fdisk /dev/hda I would make a 16meg linux partition at the front of the disk. and then I would reboot and use Windoze

Re: [newbie] booting up with BootMagic?

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
go into fdisk and check to make sure that the "Active" partition is the one where bootmanager resides. Funk Soul Brother wrote: Hi! How do i get boot magic to boot up ? i have selected what OS's i have and it doesn t load up when i boot it just goes to lilo.?? any help would be

Re: [newbie] problems with KDE that came with 7.0 (solution?)

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
I agree with your diagnoses doctor ; kppp has a place in setup where it ask if it should get it's domain name from DHCP. Uncheck the box and it will probably fix this problem. Jeremy wrote: Jeremy wrote: [jeremy@fdialup185 jeremy]$ Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

Re: [newbie] Quick Zip question

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
WINZIP can read tar files... and they make tar for windoze also... my $02 Audrey Beck wrote: "Michael D. Kirkpatrick" wrote: I have a 4 gig and a 27 gig hard drive on my web server. Everything is ran off of the 4 gig hard drive. The 27 gig hard drive is basically for storing daily

Re: [newbie] Help Please

2000-03-15 Per discussione Jon Hunter
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Ronald Brown wrote: Hello Group, I'm a newbie, so forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.0. Ok...I am in the installation process and when I get to the part that ask for the following information: Please enter the following

Re: [newbie] Music Composer?

2000-03-14 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Richard I have a PDF of the page he tried to send you to. 83k will fit on a floppy 'til you find a machine will adobe acrobat reader (Available in DOS,WINDOZE,MAC,UNIX,LINUX and maybe a few other platforms) I lost track of your email address so if you are interested in this file mine is

Re: [newbie] Permissions on a directory

2000-03-13 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Have you tried smbclient? I have found it very helpful in the past. If you can smbclient -L servername_here and see something you at least know it is not a closed port on the router... Ernie wrote: I'm having a hell of a time getting my win and lin machines networked, I know the

Re: [newbie] Appending Ram

2000-03-11 Per discussione Jon Hunter
I don't know if it is too long but perhaps it is the two (2) copies of ide2=0xcc00,0xd002 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02 throwing you off... Perhaps you should copy the linux labeled area to a new name, remove the second copy of IDE statements. Rerun lilo, boot it, try it, and see what happens... Bob

Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP

2000-03-10 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Here's a couple of things you can try. fdisk /dev/sda now hit p to "print" to screen the partition table. Preformatted zip disks come from the factory with a primary fat partition of 4, hence /dev/sda4. However, now that we know a little history of the disk we can see that the previous owner

Re: [newbie] ATI Rage support

2000-03-09 Per discussione Jon Hunter
George Have you tried the Frame Buffer server? If not that, then you could use VNC and svncviewer I have a Slackware installation (Also) running the Xfb server with my Diamond S540. Expensive card that wasn't covered by Xfree86 3.3.5 works upto 1600 x 1200 x32bit

Re: [newbie] mail server

2000-03-08 Per discussione Jon Hunter
.1localhost.localdomain and when I start X it complains it can't find it's own address. Simple fix but I find it amusing... Jon Hunter NT Domain Administrator / PC fixit dude bosco wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by this either.. But in my netscape in Windows it just says "mail",

Re: [newbie] re : Explain this if you can

2000-03-08 Per discussione Jon Hunter
An easier way to fix this is to go into KDE and use the "Desktop Switching Tool" or instead of using Startx use KDM I love KDM as it allows you to browse through the different managers and choose the one you want for that session. It remembers your last choice and displays it in dropbox for

Re: [newbie] FTP install issues

2000-03-06 Per discussione Jon Hunter
Two suggestions: 1. Try ne2000 for your nic driver or 2. Copy the kernel off the disk onto your small DOS partition and use LoadLin J Michael Graham wrote: Here is the situation: I got an old laptop from a friend and am trying to get Linux running. The

Re: [newbie] X problem

2000-03-06 Per discussione Jon Hunter
At the lilo prompt: linux single log in as root and change /etc/inittab to go init 3 (Read this file, it is interesting) Sounds like you are converting an old Compaq. I have one I use as a file server. Works much better in Linux. Major crash every 3 months under Windoze. Hasn't crashed yet