Re: [expert] PPP client Server setup

2002-11-06 Thread Sridhar
Try this url http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO Sridhar Julio Gutierrez wrote: Does any one know where I can find information on how to make 2 computers communicate thru serial prot using ppp? I want to be able to login into the server from client using a

Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-06 Thread Mark Williamson
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:32, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:21, Todd Lyons wrote: Alex Bennee wrote on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:02:25PM + : I've been finding problems with supermount'ed CDROMs where it seems to forget media is inserted - or at least cannot find *some*

Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-06 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 08:50, Mark Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:32, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:21, Todd Lyons wrote: snip As I've been following this problem and in one and only one case do I have this problem I've noticed that it seems to be hardware

[expert] FreesWan 1.98b

2002-11-06 Thread maxxik
Hi ppl ! I just installed freeswan 1.98b and have some trouble with it I install host-to-host connection. When i try ping host.on.other.side all ok ... but when i start ping -s 32768 host.on.other.side - no result ... no reply .. nothing ^(

[expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-06 Thread Harold Hartley
Has anyone else on here come across defected 8.2 cd's.. I came across a set yesterday when I purchased them at staples. it stops in the middle of the boot.img being very dissapointed of not having the 8.2 standard version. I'm not able to afford the powerpack version and no broadband to dowload

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-06 Thread Jim Tarvid
Working is clear, defective is elusive. Have you tried making a boot floppy diskette? If the contents will copy to your hard disk, you could try a hard disk install. This is also a time to find Linux friends in your area, It is likely at least one could help you set up a network install. Jim

Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-06 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:50 am, Mark Williamson wrote: I pass ide=nodma using lilo and the append line, then when booting up I use hdparm just to switch DMA on just for the hard drive hdparm -d1 /dev/hda and this seems to work If you want dma off on your cdrom, you should not have

Re: [expert] diskdrake sucks

2002-11-06 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Weird, I used DrakConf to repartition a HD and it worked pretty well. However, DrakConf only works with fat32 and ext2 filesystem, not with NTFS. Thats why I think you lost your fstab. Cheers, On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Miark wrote: He is right, however, that it would be nice to have the option of

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-06 Thread Jim C
http://www.cheapbytes.com/ Jim Tarvid wrote: Working is clear, defective is elusive. Have you tried making a boot floppy diskette? If the contents will copy to your hard disk, you could try a hard disk install. This is also a time to find Linux friends in your area, It is likely at least

Re: [expert] MDK 9 Sony Clié

2002-11-06 Thread Simon Ree
I have found that binding to ttyUSB1 will not work until the port is created and destroyed once prior to hotsync and not before pilot-link has had an initial connection. My method after clean install of Mandrake (only has to be done once) 1. command line 2. plug in and press hotsync 3. let the

Re: [expert] Problems I haven't gotten a hold on.

2002-11-06 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 23:21, James Sparenberg wrote: snip So no window manager has menus except KDE and Gnome? Permissions? All menu systems blocked, or is this just the Mandrake menu (e.g. menudrake)? Well Mandrake Menu is blocked and as such I can't get to something like wmconf

Re: [expert] massive resource problem with Mdk8.2 system

2002-11-06 Thread Todd Lyons
Franki wrote on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:59:32PM +0800 : breada_readahead8 0 255 rw file_readahead 124 0 16384 rw Seems like one of these two could be higher. io_32bit0 0

Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-06 Thread Todd Lyons
James Sparenberg wrote on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:32:59PM -0800 : umount /mnt/cdrom mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom As I've been following this problem and in one and only one case do I have this problem I've noticed that it seems to be hardware specific. Yep, it's

[expert] New Motherboard

2002-11-06 Thread Lars Ole Christoffersen
Hi I have just changed my motherboard from an old ASUS with USB to a brand new ( ASUS P4S8X) one with USB2 i suppose. Since then the USB ports does not work. The log give the following: Nov 7 20:38:48 lars_ole modprobe: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o.gz: Nov 7

Re: [expert] hacked?

2002-11-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Ken Hawkins wrote: I thinks its bad.. this was in my messages log file, where i went snooping after the hard drive on my laptop started thrashing, along with musical beeps from my speakers. I'm too dense, and have too many other projects on the go to chase this down, but if others have ideas, or

Re: [expert] New Motherboard

2002-11-06 Thread bascule
there are also usb-ohci and plain uhci usb modules, perhaps you need to look in etc/modules.conf and/or /etc/modules and replace any reference to usb-uhci with one of those, to test do (as root): # modprobe uhci or #modprobe usb-ohci see what you get bascule On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 8:01 pm,

[expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Holt
Hello, I just finished trying to recompile my kernel for the third time; I'm sure I followed all the steps exactly as described on the MUO pages and when it gets to the make install part - it fails on mkinitrd. I try doing it manually as the error message suggests and I get: mke2fs 1.27

[expert] Quick fixes for problems in 9.0

2002-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
For all of those small but extremely annoying little problems that keep coming up on this list. Someone has put together a page of Quick Hacks to solve them. Thought others might me interested in it as well. (Thanks to pclinuxonline.com I found this page.) http://www.pythonzero.org/ James

Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
Well since I bit...I guess I own. If everyone who is having this problem on one or more CD drives could send me details (Like make and model of the CD drive not the computer.) I can try and compile a list of problematic drives and maybe just maybe find a common thread. James PS. Send this to

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
Mike when you say rescue do you mean it can't boot or it can boot but the new kernel isn't usable? OR you don't know if it will reboot and don't dare find out *grin* James On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 12:03, Michael Holt wrote: Hello, I just finished trying to recompile my kernel for the third

Re: [expert] Quick fixes for problems in 9.0

2002-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 13:30 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: For all of those small but extremely annoying little problems that keep coming up on this list. Someone has put together a page of Quick Hacks to solve them. Thought others might me interested in it as well. (Thanks to

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2002-11-06 Thread Piero Piutti
Hi, I'm having troubles running Unreal Tournament 2003 demo on my MDK 9.0 box fitted with working latest nvidia drivers. Here is the msg I get when launching ut2003_demo. Any clue? Anybody experienced and solved the same problem? Thanks! Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on

RE: [expert] massive resource problem with Mdk8.2 system

2002-11-06 Thread Franki
Hi Todd, I ran drakeopt on that machine, I played with hdparm, tried all sorts of stuff.. every time the speed went down, not up... eventually, I gave up and settled for what it had... and then I gave up on the whole install, I did want to work out what the prob was, but couldn't afford that

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-06 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Michael Holt wrote: Hello, I just finished trying to recompile my kernel for the third time; I'm sure I followed all the steps exactly as described on the MUO pages and when it gets to the make install part - it fails on mkinitrd. I try doing it manually as the error message suggests and I get:

[expert] FW: [lwlan-user] wlan-ng Warning for Mandrake Users: module conflicts

2002-11-06 Thread Mcleod, Ian
Any ideas people? -Original Message- From: Ran Talbott [mailto:ran;netgate.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lwlan-user] Warning for Mandrake Users: module conflicts After a lot of wasted effort trying to get linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre5

Re: [expert] MDK 9 Sony Clié

2002-11-06 Thread Toshiro
Your procedure worked! Thank you. Toshiro. El mié, 06-11-2002 a las 13:09, Simon Ree escribió: I have found that binding to ttyUSB1 will not work until the port is created and destroyed once prior to hotsync and not before pilot-link has had an initial connection. My method after clean

Re: [expert] Install trouble with ML9

2002-11-06 Thread Lorne
Boy, it could be a lot of things. Is is stable now? What I would try, is to remove everything but what is needed and try it. Get rid of the scanner, scis controller if you can although I've NEVER had any trouble with the 2940 series. But it would cut out a bunch of things all at once. Then IF

[expert] scanning ip addys

2002-11-06 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Is there a program out there that is like the old war dialers that can scan for ip's that are up and running. Something where I can put in a beginning addy and a ending addy and it will scan all the ips for a response? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Intruder security questions

2002-11-06 Thread PlugHead
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:04 pm, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi u guys, i need to ask some questions about security of my PC. I have the FTP service running, and want to know if it is safe or i could get a intruder from there, I Yes, an intruder can easily hack your machine via FTP,

[expert] LM9.0 ohphone relocation error

2002-11-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
Installed pwlib1, openh323 and ohphone, like I've done on multiple systems (see http://pfortin.com/Linux/ohphone/); yet on 9.0, all I get is: $ ohphone --listen --no-gatekeeper --bandwidth 2 --ringfile ohphone.wav --ringdelay 4 ohphone: relocation error: ohphone: undefined symbol: __ti7PThread

[expert] MCC/MandrakeUpdate 9.0 doesn't...

2002-11-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
SIGH If anyone asks why I don't keep my systems upgraded... the answer is simple: MandrakeUpdate has not worked for me since LM8.1 /SIGH Tonight, I've been trying to update 9.0 on my ThinkPad... Problems: * unable to connect to mirrors MOST of the time. * decided to try to upgrade harddrake

RE: [expert] scanning ip addys

2002-11-06 Thread Mcleod, Ian
nmap -Original Message- From: Bill Beauchemin [mailto:beau;billbeau.net] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] scanning ip addys Is there a program out there that is like the old war dialers that can scan for ip's that are up and running.

Re: [expert] scanning ip addys

2002-11-06 Thread PlugHead
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:03 pm, Bill Beauchemin wrote: Is there a program out there that is like the old war dialers that can scan for ip's that are up and running. Something where I can put in a beginning addy and a ending addy and it will scan all the ips for a response? Yes, there

Re: [expert] Intruder security questions

2002-11-06 Thread Miark
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:04:56 -0600 (CST) Gonzalo Avaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the FTP service running, and want to know if it is safe or i could get a intruder from there, I have the ssh server running and that's all i need, because i have a Floating IP because it changes everytime

Re: [expert] Intruder security questions

2002-11-06 Thread Salane
They will try such as New connection from 212.202.192.252 Nov 4 05:29:35 slking pure-ftpd: (?@212.202.192.252) [INFO] Anonymous user logged in Nov 4 05:29:35 slking pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [INFO] Can't change directory to /pub/: No such file or directory Nov 4 05:29:36 slking

[expert] XFree86 log file out of control

2002-11-06 Thread Brian Parish
Hi experts Just checked free disk space on my server (mdk 9.0) and found /var getting low on free space. The culprit was XFree86.0.log which had expended to 2GB. It was full of messages like: moutl(8, C70007) moutl(14, 123C5F) moutl(18, D0001) moutl(10, 12BC5F) minl(40) moutl(40, 2) minl(40)

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Holt
:-) yup - number 3 is the answer. I know from the previous times at this point that it's not going to boot; now I just want to see if maybe there's a bug in mkinitrd or something like that? Mike On 6 Nov 2002, James Sparenberg wrote: Mike when you say rescue do you mean it can't boot or it

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Holt
Cool, I'm on it! Mike On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I remembered some disussion of a like issue on cooker; gather modprobe loop and retry mkinitrd worked-around for some; the threads can be found with a search on 'could not find any device /dev/loop#' at

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Holt
Cool, give me a little bit and I'll send it - I've got to see if I can extract that stuff now. Mike On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:39:18PM -0800 : Michael Holt wrote: Hello, I just finished trying to recompile my kernel for the third