>From: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Brian Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 FREQ and VMware, Mozilla etc.
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:56:45 +0300 (IDT)
>
>On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Brian Schroeder wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have just taken the plunge and upgraded my 7.2 system to Mandrake Freq
> > 20010619. This has broken a few things, however.
> >
> > 1. Mozilla copied my Netscape config quite accurately. It will find
> > anything on the local intranet.
> > However, it fails to find anything on the internet. Konqeror is the
>same.
> > Mozilla sits there "Resolving host www....", and eventually a pop-up
> > appears: "The operation timed out when attempting to contact www...".
> >
> > I have installed Netscape 4.78 from cooker, and that still works fine.
> > I have triple checked the proxy, and other, settings in Mozilla.
> > Is there anything else I should be chasing up?
>
>Do you use manual proxy settings or an automatic script (.pac URL)? I have
>had some problems with an automatic proxy script in the past, probably due
>to problems with the javascript interpeter (as that script is actually
>javascript).
Yes, it does use a proxy.pac URL. I have tried putting in manual proxy
settings, and it seems to work OK now.
>
> >
> > 2. I can't get VMware to work. It was very happy in 7.2.
> > I have removed and re-installed the VMware installation:
> > VMware-2.0.4-1142.i386.rpm
>
>I haven't used vmware for a long time, but one thing:
>Do you use kernel 2.4? If so: is this version of vmware good for kernel
>2.4? I figure that the vmware site will have more details about that.
This version of vmware is supposed to support Mandrake 8 and the 2.4 kernel.
But is that 2.4.3 only?
Is there a problem with the 2.4.5 that comes with FREQ?
>--
>Tzafrir Cohen
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
>
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