[newbie] How to configure eth1 for wireless connection?

I have Mandrake 9.0, kernel 2.4.19, Linksys WPC11 ver3.1 andorinoco 0.13e.Now the card is already recognized:(/var/log/messages Apr 13 23:47:02 china cardmgr[2893]: socket 1: Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11bWLAN CardApr 13 23:47:02 china cardmgr[2893]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'Apr 13 23:47:02

[newbie] wlan-ng cannot be loaded in Mandrake 9

x OEM" categary. And if it's "prism 3", why is prism2_cs loaded rather than prism25? Any hints or thoughts would be highly apprecited. (ifconfig -a and lsmod are listed below) many thanks, Wei Wang ifconfig -a shows:wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 BROADCAS

Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation

- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 1:38 pm, Wei Wang wrote: I have Mandrake 9.0 and just recompiled the kernel

Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine

Hi, This sounds a bit soothing for me. ;-) Now it takes about 45 minutes to compile the whole kernel. I've heard the Pentium4 deficiency problem before I bought this laptop. But the comments I found gave me an impression that P4 1.8GHz is aboutthe same performance as a P3 1.2GHz, but there is

Re: [newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine

On Mon, January 20 2003 11:01 am, Wei Wang wrote: *snip* I am not sure if this is hardware related or OS related. I have Mandrake 9.0 on my Pentium 4 M 1.8Ghz laptop. Now the complete kernel compiling make clean bzImage modules *snip takes 80 minutes to finish. Every gcc stays on the screen

[newbie] Kernel compiling takes 80 minutes on P4 1.8 machine

Hi, I am not sure if this is hardware related or OS related. I have Mandrake 9.0 on my Pentium 4 M 1.8Ghz laptop. Now the complete kernel compiling make clean bzImage modules takes 80 minutes to finish. Every gcc stays on the screen for a second or so that you can read almost every one of them.

[newbie] DivX audio plugin (WMA) for linux

I am trying to view a WMA file in linux with xine. But an error message says "No audio plugin available to decode 'DivX audio (WMA)'. I searched on google and found that DivXa32.acm is the main suspect. But it seems that's a MS-DOS excecutable file only for windows. Is there such a file for

[newbie] pine4.5 installation on Mandrake 9.0

I am trying to install pine4.5 on my Mandrake 9.0 from source and get error message saying I don't have Openssl support. I already had openssl and openssl-devel 0.9.6g-1 installed. Am I missing something here? Wei

[newbie] mount problem

I know this is too naive. But I got confused of different helps I found on the internet. I get error message when I do mount /dev/cdrom mount: can't find /dev/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab mount /mnt/cdrom gives out: /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the

[newbie] libalsa2 circular dependency and libasound.so.1 confusions

I am trying to install libalsa2-0.9.0 from binary rpm. Dependency fail reads:error: failed dependencies:libalsa-data is needed by libalsa2-0.9.0-0.8rc2mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by libarts2-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-5mdklibasound.so.1 is needed by

[newbie] A general question about dependency

I am a total newbie to Unix/Linux world. Using the rpms recently, I get lost in the way packages are installed. Sometimes when I try to install a certain package on my system via an binary rpm, I get lots of unsatisfied dependencies. For example, a recent attempt to install kdelibs-3.1.rpm

[newbie] Dependency fail.

I am installing libglib-devel and it requires pkgconfig. I installed pkgconfig from source code. Now pkg-config sits in usr/local/bin. But kpackage still returns pkgconfig =0.12 is needed. How can I make the system know that pkgconfig is already installed? I know this is a very primitive

Re: [newbie] Dependency fail.

, 2002-11-26 at 00:00, Wei Wang wrote: I am installing libglib-devel and it requires pkgconfig. I installed pkgconfig from source code. Now pkg-config sits in usr/local/bin. But kpackage still returns pkgconfig =0.12 is needed. How can I make the system know that pkgconfig is already installed? I

Re: [newbie] Dependency fail.

- From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dependency fail. On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 00:14, Wei Wang wrote: Stephen, Thank you for your reply. I did ln and ldconfig. But kpackage still

[newbie] Pine installation on Mandrake 8.1

Hi, all, I am trying to install Pine 4.5 on Mandrake 8.1. I got the following error message. ranlib libpico.a cc -g -DDEBUG -Dlnx -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE main.o libpico.a -lncurses -o pico /usr//bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [pico] Error

[newbie]

I am trying to install sylpheed 0.7.6 on Mandrake 8.1. And I got the following error message. I checking for flex... no checking for lex... no ./configure: flex: command not found checking for flex... lex checking for yywrap in -ll... no checking lex output file root... ./configure: lex:

[newbie] sylpheed installation on Mandrake 8.1

Sorry for the previous mail without title I am trying to install sylpheed 0.7.6 on Mandrake 8.1. And I got the following error message. I checking for flex... no checking for lex... no ./configure: flex: command not found checking for flex... lex checking for yywrap in -ll... no

Re: [newbie]

David, Many thanks for your reply. I installed both bison and byacc, and flex rpms without any problem. Then I tried to install Sylpheed again. Got this message from ./configure checking for GLIB - version = 1.2.6... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If

Re: [newbie]

Oh, I installed libglib1.2-1.2.10-6mdk.i586.rpm. I think this is the one needed. Now I have 1.2.10 which is = 1.2.6. But I still get the same error message. Anything wrong here? From: Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Date

Re: [newbie] mozilla 1 on Mandrake 8.1 dependency problem

file to create aliases in for bash (which i assume is your shell). why do you want to have both versions of mozilla installed anyways? On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Wei Wang wrote: Maybe this question should be for mozilla mailing list. But could anyone using mozilla galeon give me a hand here? I

[newbie] zip missing in mozilla configure.

hi, I've got mandrake 8.2 and trying to install mozilla 1.0. during the ./configure, I got an error message of : zip not found in $path. unzip could be found in /usr/bin/ but zip is not in either sbin, usr/sbin, bin, usr/bin, or usr/X11r6/bin. Why is the zip missing? Anyway I could install

[newbie] Print pdf multiple page on single sheet?

Hi, How to set the parameters of lpr in printing pdf file with multiple pages on a single sheet?(Not duplex, I mean 2 logical pages on one side for example). I could only find help on ps file, text file, dvi file. No such support was found via the net. Surely there are tools such as xpdf and

[newbie] Connection sharing reconfiguration.

One Mandrake box and a windows box sharing one IP address. IP masquarading was set up via Mandrake control center Connection Sharing. Everything works fine except that everytime after Mandrake reboot, the configuration of Conneciton sharing has to be done again. Is there any way I could keep

[newbie] classes.zip not found in ICQ Java installation.

I am trying to install an ICQ Java version on my Mandrake 8.1. in ICQJava/install: JAVA_CLASSES=$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip And ./install prompts Invalid JAVA_CLASSES: file classes.zip not found I don't have a classes.zip in my j2re1.4.0/lib directory. What should I do? Wei Want to buy

[newbie] kdeinit: Fatal IO error.

I was playing a CD and just quit from kmanager. Suddenly got this message in the bash: /kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. [root@china software]# KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1 What does this mean and is it really fatal? Many thanks, Wei Want to

Re: [newbie] mid button of 3-button mouse.

Thanks, Dennis, I set the mouse to Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse instead It doesnt work at all at first The system gives warning sounds when I move the mouse around The cursor keeps moving at the edges of the screen Then I logout by Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace and relogin, then it works fine Wei

[newbie] mid button of 3-button mouse.

I just installed Mandrake 81 It recognised my mouse as standard 3-button mouse But I cannot use the middle button to do things like paste or scroll down the browser Did I install the wrong mouse? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom

Re: [newbie] mid button of 3-button mouse.

Yes, I did try Mozilla, Netscape communicator and Galeon Also the paste function never works in any application, from bash to browser It's quite painful without the mid-button paste ;-) Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom

sndconfig: soundcard not supported Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.

. Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:23:19 +0100 On Fri, 01 Mar 2002 01:06:36 + Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks guys, ;-) Still got problems here. When I set mount quiet, execute lilo and reboot, no mixer in /dev and cdroms is in /dev. When I set append=devfs=nomount quiet in /etc

Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.

hi, This is what I found in Soundcard in HardDrake: Vendor: ESS Technology Model: ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive This is the Kernel Module: snd-card-es1938 Bus Type: PCI And system prompts this when I try to open KMenu-Multimedia-Sound-Audio Mixer: Not able to open audio device Please check that

Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.

: I have this same problem. The sound devices are in /dev/sound but are not linked to /dev. I also have problems creating links from /dev/sound to /dev. If I get a solution, I will post it here. On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 05:43, Wei Wang wrote: This is what I found in Soundcard in HardDrake

[newbie] How to input Chinese character(Simplified).

hi, all, I've just set up Mandrake 8.1 English version. Could anyone kindly tell me how to input Chinese? Many thanks, Wei Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.

hi, all, I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my Acer 342T laptop. Mandrake recognised and installed the driver(I guess) for its soundcard: ESS ES1946 solo-1E. I could run CDplayer or MP3 player apps, but no sound comes out of the speaker. Could anyone give me a hand? Many thanks, Wei

Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem

Many thanks for help. This is what I found in Soundcard in HardDrake: Vendor: ESS Technology Model: ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive This is the Kernel Module: snd-card-es1938 Bus Type: PCI And system prompts this when I try to open KMenu-Multimedia-Sound-Audio Mixer: Not able to open audio