Re: [expert] MDK 8.2, IBM ThinkPad 240, 3Com Megahertz 3CXFE575BT - lossage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or I may not see the reply in a timely manner. Thanks!] I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 on an IBM Thinkpad 240. Neither pcmcia.img nor network.img recognized my 3Com Megaherta 3CXFE575BT 10/100 PCMCIA network card, and this laptop doesn't come with a CDROM drive (and only a few weird ones work with it) so I was forced to put my laptop disk into my desktop, partition it, put the ISO images in a partition, then put it back in the laptop and install from there. When I was done, I had no network: my PCMCIA card was not recognized, and none of the normal networking scripts had been installed. This card works just fine if I boot Windows on the same machine, so it isn't bad hardware. WRONG Windows drivers get written for the dodges made to cram all that hardware into that little space. There IS a hardware situation which is corrected by a software driver. Unfortunately the driver is probably secret, proprietary, etc. In any event, it is a minor miracle when the linux drivers written to standards rather than to specifics work on laptops at all. Sorry, but the attitude displayed here has really been getting to me. I fear it is a wrong conclusion derived from right information, just not enough right information. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK 8.2, IBM ThinkPad 240, 3Com Megahertz 3CXFE575BT - lossage
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:29:33 -0800 From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or I may not see the reply in a timely manner. Thanks!] I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 on an IBM Thinkpad 240. Neither pcmcia.img nor network.img recognized my 3Com Megaherta 3CXFE575BT 10/100 PCMCIA network card, and this laptop doesn't come with a CDROM drive (and only a few weird ones work with it) so I was forced to put my laptop disk into my desktop, partition it, put the ISO images in a partition, then put it back in the laptop and install from there. When I was done, I had no network: my PCMCIA card was not recognized, and none of the normal networking scripts had been installed. This card works just fine if I boot Windows on the same machine, so it isn't bad hardware. WRONG Windows drivers get written for the dodges made to cram all that hardware into that little space. There IS a hardware situation which is corrected by a software driver. Unfortunately the driver is probably secret, proprietary, etc. In any event, it is a minor miracle when the linux drivers written to standards rather than to specifics work on laptops at all. Sorry, but the attitude displayed here has really been getting to me. I fear it is a wrong conclusion derived from right information, just not enough right information. Um... Do you fail to understand that there are numerous reports that pcmcia-cs should, and has, worked with this card in other people's machines? This strongly implies that it should have worked for mine---and demonstrating correct operation under Windows therefore removes one possibility, namely that either the laptop or the card is somehow defective compared to others of the same model. Perhaps you might want to do some research first, such as checking the supported cards section of the PCMCIA HOWTO in the pcmcia-cs release. Failure to do so means that you don't understand the point I'm trying to make, and flaming me out of ignorance is not a helpful response. If you -don't- want to do the research first, but don't understand what's going on, then perhaps keeping silent would be the most effective strategy, so as not to drown out others' attempts to be constructive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:09:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well this is ver. 0.7.2, the one that came with LM8.2. The exact error message is that it can't Find any suitable wordlists for the tag none. I changed the dictionary *I thought* to a different one, and below that box is Default: none. Howver much as I try I can't change that box? Femme a quick search on rpmfind.net for /usr/share/pspell/en-aspell.pwli gives: aspell-en-0.37.1-3mdk.i586.rpm aspell-en-0.37.1-1mdk.i586.rpm more some others from other distributions. bye jipe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kerberos 5 (GSSAPI) and CVS
Hi, Does anyone know of a web page, online book or some resource on setting up a CVS server using :gserver: access (kerberos 5 authentication)? I have found very little on this topic on the web. There is no place talking about kerberos keys or certificates for cvs. I did not find a place saying what do you need on the server and the client to make the thing work. There is a CVSNT software working on Windows as server with kerberos. I have a dual boot machine as a CVS server. I would like the same repository to be accesed no matter if the box booted up linux or windows. Can I set up the linux CVSROOT on a fat32 partition? Is there any difference on the protocol or server cvs files storage preventing this from being a reality? Any help or documentation reference would be nice. Thanks in advance, Jose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE3.0 install on LM8.2
I installed the KDE3.0 packages last night, just to take a look. They failed to install properly. As instructed (by the Mandrake web page) I downloaded all the rpms and then ran 'urpmi *' in the download directory. It failed on kdesdk and asked me if I wanted to try without dependancy checking. I said yes and it failed again, compaining about a cpio error in kdesdk. It asked if I wanted to --force it, I said yes an it installed, without kdesdk. I logged out, but KDE3 was not available from KDM. So I rebooted and there is was. I logged in, made a few changes as mentioned in the known problems sections of the install instructions and everything appears to work fine (well, kstars crashes as it starts up). I had a look around and was impressed. I eventually logged out and my other half logged in to check her e-mail. She did not select KDE3, but got it anyway. Logging out and reselecting plain KDE (i.e. not the KDE3 selection) from kdm also resulted in getting KDE3. I didn't want to force the upgrade on other users yet. Is it possible to still run KDE2 from kdm while the KDE3 install is present? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kerberos 5 (GSSAPI) and CVS
More on this topic... Does anyone know how to pass compile options to a RPM packet being rebuild? At the web site they say I must compile CVS using '--with-gssapi' option but I don't know how to pass it to the source rpm package while rebuilding: # rpm --rebuild --target athlon --with-gssapi cvs-1.11.1-6mdk.src.rpm --with-gssapi: unknown option If I take --with-gssapi away it works but I am not sure if the package is build with GSSAPI support. Thanks in advance. Jose Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a web page, online book or some resource on setting up a CVS server using :gserver: access (kerberos 5 authentication)? I have found very little on this topic on the web. There is no place talking about kerberos keys or certificates for cvs. I did not find a place saying what do you need on the server and the client to make the thing work. There is a CVSNT software working on Windows as server with kerberos. I have a dual boot machine as a CVS server. I would like the same repository to be accesed no matter if the box booted up linux or windows. Can I set up the linux CVSROOT on a fat32 partition? Is there any difference on the protocol or server cvs files storage preventing this from being a reality? Any help or documentation reference would be nice. Thanks in advance, Jose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] KDE3.0 install on LM8.2
Nick, The last week in newbie they have had full installation instructions, but what you missed was the urpmi.addmedia which creates a directory for kde3. (Don't worry I did the same ;).) -Original Message- From: Nick Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 May 2002 11:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] KDE3.0 install on LM8.2 I installed the KDE3.0 packages last night, just to take a look. They failed to install properly. As instructed (by the Mandrake web page) I downloaded all the rpms and then ran 'urpmi *' in the download directory. It failed on kdesdk and asked me if I wanted to try without dependancy checking. I said yes and it failed again, compaining about a cpio error in kdesdk. It asked if I wanted to --force it, I said yes an it installed, without kdesdk. I logged out, but KDE3 was not available from KDM. So I rebooted and there is was. I logged in, made a few changes as mentioned in the known problems sections of the install instructions and everything appears to work fine (well, kstars crashes as it starts up). I had a look around and was impressed. I eventually logged out and my other half logged in to check her e-mail. She did not select KDE3, but got it anyway. Logging out and reselecting plain KDE (i.e. not the KDE3 selection) from kdm also resulted in getting KDE3. I didn't want to force the upgrade on other users yet. Is it possible to still run KDE2 from kdm while the KDE3 install is present? Thanks, Nick. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify me immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd, unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What worked in 8.1 and does not in 8.2
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 17:23, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 1. EURO sign In 8.1 I had to tweak /etc/sysconfig/i18n to get the EURO sign working in all apps including text based apps like mc. This doesn't work anymore in 8.2. With german locale and default charset set to 8859-15 I get the EURO sign in all HTML-based apps like Konqueror, Mozilla, and Galeon and also in OpenOffice (that's where I need it most) but not in Kwrite, Kate, or any text based apps. If I use the tweak propagated on MandrakeUser.org (de_DE@EURO) I cannot start OpenOffice because I get an error: 'OpenOffice does not support locale entry LANG=de_DE@EURO. Closed.' I could not get the EURO sign working in XEmacs in 8.2 and *that* has not changed in 8.2! Would have been surprised, though I realize what I'm about to suggest is an ugly workaround, and doesn't address the core problem, but you can modify your OOo shortcuts to prepend LANG=de ; (or whatever it's supposed to be to make OOo happy). This would effectively set the variable just for OOo and not affect other applications. Like I said, ugly. -- Brad Felmey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] SCSI RAID Parameters
I'm trying to set up a server with two DPT raid controllers. It sees my AHA2940UW card, and it see one of the DPT PM2144UW cards, but not the second one. It askes me if I want to give it parameters, but then when I say yes, it doesn't give me the option. I'm not even sure what kind of option I'd need to give it, to make it work. Since I've put all 10 drives together into one big array, it won't go any further until I get both cards recognized. Anyone else have this trouble with an idea? Thanks in advance. Lorne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test - messages not getting to list?
I have posted several messages about X working fine in LM7.2, but neither X4.2 or 3.3.6 working in LM8.2. None of my messages have made it to the list? Hardware AMD K6-2/233 w/64meg, VXpro chipset #9 Imagine 128 Video w/4meg NEC Accusync 95F When X4.2 is selected, X bombs with an Addscreen/Screeninit error When X3.3.6 is selected, X bombs with a no screens found error I copied the X86config and X86config-4 from LM7.2, but it still wont start? I need help -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux for Kids
holy hanna! thanks LX. that is awesome information and I know one guy that is going to be writing some letter in the next few days. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What worked in 8.1 and does not in 8.2
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:25 -0500, Brad Felmey wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 17:23, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 1. EURO sign If I use the tweak propagated on MandrakeUser.org (de_DE@EURO) I cannot start OpenOffice because I get an error: 'OpenOffice does not support locale entry LANG=de_DE@EURO. Closed.' I could not get the EURO sign working in XEmacs in 8.2 and *that* has not changed in 8.2! Would have been surprised, though I realize what I'm about to suggest is an ugly workaround, and doesn't address the core problem, but you can modify your OOo shortcuts to prepend LANG=de ; (or whatever it's supposed to be to make OOo happy). This would effectively set the variable just for OOo and not affect other applications. I found the solution to this one and - lo and behold - it's working in XEmacs too! In /etc/sysconfig/i18n I put in all lines a '.ISO-8859-15' at the end: LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 as exemple. Then I even get the Euro sign in console. For XEmacs I had to add a few lines to the /etc/emacs/site-start-xemacs.el wobo -- Registered Linux User 228909 Powered By Mandrake Linux 8.1 - Microsoft, Windows, Bugs, Lacking Features, IRQ Conflicts, System Crashes, Non-Functional Multitasking and The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington, USA. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Need X Help !! was [test - messages not getting to list?]
Original Message Subject: [expert] test - messages not getting to list? Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 09:21:23 -0500 From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have posted several messages about X working fine in LM7.2, but neither X4.2 or 3.3.6 working in LM8.2. None of my messages have made it to the list? Hardware AMD K6-2/233 w/64meg, VXpro chipset #9 Imagine 128 Video w/4meg NEC Accusync 95F When X4.2 is selected, X bombs with an Addscreen/Screeninit error When X3.3.6 is selected, X bombs with a no screens found error I copied the X86config and X86config-4 from LM7.2, but it still wont start? I need help -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] Ad Absurdum (was Linux for Kids)
I think Douglas Adams had the right idea. (from one of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books.) The 'Outside of the Asylum'. You build an insane asylum inside out, the 'outside of the asylum'. The rest of the world is 'in' the asylum (since the buiding is inside-out) where you hope that it will recover. Problem is that some of the worst inmates are running the asylum. -Original Message- From: daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:24:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [expert] Ad Absurdum (was Linux for Kids) On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: Jim Dawson wrote: And while we're at it let's start a grass roots campaign to get the Mafia to stop thier unsavory business practices as well... They don't care what anyone thinks. As long as the money keeps piling in they're happy. Ya, and while we are at it, let's start a campaign against greed, corruption, dishonesty, child pornography, corpulence, incompetent politicians, and, hell, why not stupidity too. Now we have our work cut out Dr John, The Night Tripper ;) well John...you've managed to corral the entire human race. Just how are we supposed to manage all that AND take on M$ at the same time, huh? Since we're outlawing stupidity that means my head will be on the chopping block every time I argue with my wife about how much time I'm in front of the PC coding. talk about a losing battle. sheesh! I might as well argue with a rock as think I'm going to win that one. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Screwball network bug (long)
Hello all, I'm working with a 6 computer network that is doing some very wierd things. First a bit of history: Current O/S's Win98, WinME, Win XP, Linux Mandrake 8.1. The original network was smaller and set up using Novell. NIC's on the older computers are DEC Chip combo's, some even have the 25 pin AUWI (?sp) port and were all using 50 ohm coax connections. The owner hired a network specialist to set it up to use Windows Networking. This fellow put in a LinkSys 8 port switch, and ran CAT 5 cable around the baseboards of the office, installed all available network protocols (NetBui, TCP, Netbios/IPX etc.)... TCP/IP was set up using DHCP on all machines and no IP ranges set. Some of the machines, then, were found using NetBUI, some on IPX/SPX and some with TCP/IP. I found this out by removing each protocol in turn except for TCP/IP. OK, but it worked and he was kinda happy except the network was SLOW, A factory re-furbed Micron PIII 800 with onboard NIC was used as the file server and all the network programs data paths set to it. Most of the machines on the network could log on to each other in an accecptable time (3-4 seconds) but the Micron would take over 1minuet to log on to any other machine (open Network Neighborhood and wait). But other machines found the Micron OK and could pull files off it as fast as any other. About now you're asking what has this got to do with a Mandrake Mailing List ! ! Read on folks, it get's better.. Dumb me, I said I can fix that and use a Linux box as a file server... First I removed all un-needed protocols and set up static IP address for each system. No speed improvement ! !. The rest of the network seemed usable but the Micron was still very slow, my reaction was naturally to blame the Micron. I brougt it to my service department and performed a complete O/S teardown and re-install (Win98se), set it up on my network and tested it hard using the same program he uses PLUS some very large file transferes (1Gb and over), It worked like a charm -fast- reliable etc. Put it back in service and got him back to work. At this point the network seemed perfect, no hang ups and speed was good. Next thing was to put together a Linux box to use as a file server. Used a Super 7 MoBo, K6-2 350 CPU 3.2Gb HDD and 196Mb mem, installed Mandrake 8.1 on it. KDE is available but I start it in RL 3 and don't log in as anyone, just let the screen blank and forget it.. He has no security concerns (read don't want to be bothered) so MSEC is set to poor. The Mandrake machine is not on the internet and they only go online with the others to get credit reports and then off right away, total time for each instance less than 10 min. Again I set the box up on my network and ran it 'till it dropped NO problemo.. Durn thing was perfect. Put the Linux box in service, changed the data path's to it and walked out very self satisfied... The next day I was hangin' out and one of the systems locked, the salesman tried to reboot it and it said can't find boot record on IDE0 EH? Wot's this? I looked at it and Nope nuthin', ran FDISK and there was NO partition defined. Brought the machine to my service department and diagnosed it with bad memory, (it wouldn't even trigger the video until I replaced the mem mdule) replaced the mem module, re-installed WinME, ran the same tests as with the other ones and put it back in service. Whew, things were working good. (I was a bit dis-satisfied because I still couldn't accout for the missing partition) The owner calls me 3 days later saying he can't get his backup to transfer over the network, it says network resource not available about 75% through the transfer (about 30Mb file size). I thought he just don't remember how I showed him to do it and went out to see what had gone wrong. NOW the whole network is slow, the Micron being the slowest but not substantially so. Can't pull a large file from any given machine to any other and have some file corruption on the Linux box (I can see the file name but the program can't run the executible or unzip one it needs) I have looked at everything I can think of trying to figure out what in the world went wrong, I'm leaning towards interference on the cables but really don't know what to think at this point. After a complete re-make of the network, running fine for about a week, it's worse than it was when I started. Ideas, anyone -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Need X Help !! was [test - messages not getting to list?]
On Wed, 01 May 2002 12:00:47 -0500 David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message Subject: [expert] test - messages not getting to list? Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 09:21:23 -0500 From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have posted several messages about X working fine in LM7.2, but neither X4.2 or 3.3.6 working in LM8.2. None of my messages have made it to the list? Hardware AMD K6-2/233 w/64meg, VXpro chipset #9 Imagine 128 Video w/4meg NEC Accusync 95F When X4.2 is selected, X bombs with an Addscreen/Screeninit error When X3.3.6 is selected, X bombs with a no screens found error I copied the X86config and X86config-4 from LM7.2, but it still wont start? X-4.2.0 uses XF86Config-4 X-3.3.6 uses XF86Config The Number Nine Imagine 128 Is supported by Both 3.3.6 and 4.2.0 so you should be able to use either in 8.2. If your installation is still intact from the console run: XFdrake and select the More option. Manually select your graphics card (verify that it is using the i128 driver), your monitor, and resolution (to start set it low 600x800 at 16 bit color- you can always increase the size latter)and server. Test the settings, save and reboot. Hopefully this should get you into X. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Need X Help !! was [test - messages not getting tolist?]
On Wed, 1 May 2002, David Rankin wrote: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have posted several messages about X working fine in LM7.2, but neither X4.2 or 3.3.6 working in LM8.2. None of my messages have made it to the list? Hardware AMD K6-2/233 w/64meg, VXpro chipset #9 Imagine 128 Video w/4meg NEC Accusync 95F When X4.2 is selected, X bombs with an Addscreen/Screeninit error When X3.3.6 is selected, X bombs with a no screens found error I copied the X86config and X86config-4 from LM7.2, but it still wont start? Does the XFree86 log show any errors? It sounds like it can't find a valid modeline to run. Try posting the errors from the log file so we can what it's failing on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Screwball network bug (long)
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Ken Thompson wrote: Hello all, I'm working with a 6 computer network that is doing some very wierd things. First a bit of history: Current O/S's Win98, WinME, Win XP, Linux Mandrake 8.1. The original network was smaller and set up using Novell. NIC's on the older computers are DEC Chip combo's, some even have the 25 pin AUWI (?sp) port and were all using 50 ohm coax connections. Have you tried disconnecting all machines then adding them individually? If there's a bad card it could be flooding your network with junk and causing retransmits. Do you have a Fluke handy to test the cables? I've seen *lots* of cable that has been incorrectly paired. I.e., the technician assumed that since it was a straight through connection the order of the wires didn't matter. You might also try putting a sniffer in place to see if it's just traffic causing the problem. The owner hired a network specialist to set it up to use Windows Networking. This fellow put in a LinkSys 8 port switch, and ran CAT 5 cable around the baseboards of the office, installed all available network protocols (NetBui, TCP, Netbios/IPX etc.)... When the network is dormant, do you still see lots of traffic? Is this a 10/100 switch? I.e., is it an actual switch or a hub? TCP/IP was set up using DHCP on all machines and no IP ranges set. Some of the machines, then, were found using NetBUI, some on IPX/SPX and some with TCP/IP. I found this out by removing each protocol in turn except for TCP/IP. OK, but it worked and he was kinda happy except the network was SLOW, A factory re-furbed Micron PIII 800 with onboard NIC was used as the file server and all the network programs data paths set to it. Aiieee!! This is the consummate Windows enjuneer -- enable everything and pray that it works. Most of the machines on the network could log on to each other in an accecptable time (3-4 seconds) but the Micron would take over 1minuet to log on to any other machine (open Network Neighborhood and wait). But other machines found the Micron OK and could pull files off it as fast as any other. About now you're asking what has this got to do with a Mandrake Mailing List ! ! Try using a PCI NIC in the micron? If the card is failing and storming the network you could notice this behaviour. Read on folks, it get's better.. Dumb me, I said I can fix that and use a Linux box as a file server... First I removed all un-needed protocols and set up static IP address for each system. No speed improvement ! !. The rest of the network seemed usable but the Micron was still very slow, my reaction was naturally to blame the Micron. I brougt it to my service department and performed a complete O/S teardown and re-install (Win98se), set it up on my network and tested it hard using the same program he uses PLUS some very large file transferes (1Gb and over), It worked like a charm -fast- reliable etc. Put it back in service and got him back to work. At this point the network seemed perfect, no hang ups and speed was good. Still sounds like cabling... Can you browse TCP/IP at reasonable speed? I.e., try enabling apache on the Linux box and putting a few large files up for download. Next thing was to put together a Linux box to use as a file server. Used a Super 7 MoBo, K6-2 350 CPU 3.2Gb HDD and 196Mb mem, installed Mandrake 8.1 on it. KDE is available but I start it in RL 3 and don't log in as anyone, just let the screen blank and forget it.. He has no security concerns (read don't want to be bothered) so MSEC is set to poor. The Mandrake machine is not on the internet and they only go online with the others to get credit reports and then off right away, total time for each instance less than 10 min. Again I set the box up on my network and ran it 'till it dropped NO problemo.. Durn thing was perfect. Put the Linux box in service, changed the data path's to it and walked out very self satisfied... The next day I was hangin' out and one of the systems locked, the salesman tried to reboot it and it said can't find boot record on IDE0 EH? Wot's this? Sounds coincidental... I looked at it and Nope nuthin', ran FDISK and there was NO partition defined. Brought the machine to my service department and diagnosed it with bad memory, (it wouldn't even trigger the video until I replaced the mem mdule) replaced the mem module, re-installed WinME, ran the same tests as with the other ones and put it back in service. Whew, things were working good. (I was a bit dis-satisfied because I still couldn't accout for the missing partition) The owner calls me 3 days later saying he can't get his backup to transfer over the network, it says network resource not available about 75% through the transfer (about 30Mb file size). I thought he just don't remember how I showed him to do it and went out to see what had gone wrong. NOW the whole
Re: [expert] Need X Help !! was [test - messages not getting to list?]
On Wed, 01 May 2002 13:04:17 -0500 David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, Charles, I've run both XFdrake x86config numerous time and I have confirmed that the I128 server was selected, my correct monitor was selected (even tried generic monitors), and I've tried resolutions from 640x480 to 1280x1024 in every conceivable color depth. I still can't get X going?? Then my suggestion would be to rerun the 8.2 installation as Expert/Upgrade. You need not select any pkgs and you can skip both the Network and Printer config. The installation will completely re-install X depending upon which server you select. The whole process will take no more than 15min. There have been instances where either X or the vid driver is not properly/completely installed and re-installation will correct this whereas XFdrake and editing XF86 does not. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Need X Help !! was [test - messages not getting to list?]
Thanks, I'll give it a try! Also I don't get the text penquin on login anymore. Just the login prompt. What happened to my penguin? Some guy on the list last week was trying to get rid of his, now, I can't find mine -- go figure.. Lastly, I need some help with ftp. I can't ftp into my server via the internet. When I try and connect, I get the following: C:\WINDOWSftp 66.76.xxx.xxx Connected to 66.76.xxx.xxx. Compiled-in modules: mod_core.c mod_auth.c mod_xfer.c mod_site.c mod_ls.c mod_unixpw.c mod_log.c mod_linuxprivs.c mod_ratio.c mod_readme.c mod_pam.c mod_quota.c mod_ldap.c mod_wrap.c Connection closed by remote host. It never gives me a login prompt. Any ideas?? Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 01 May 2002 13:04:17 -0500 David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, Charles, I've run both XFdrake x86config numerous time and I have confirmed that the I128 server was selected, my correct monitor was selected (even tried generic monitors), and I've tried resolutions from 640x480 to 1280x1024 in every conceivable color depth. I still can't get X going?? Then my suggestion would be to rerun the 8.2 installation as Expert/Upgrade. You need not select any pkgs and you can skip both the Network and Printer config. The installation will completely re-install X depending upon which server you select. The whole process will take no more than 15min. There have been instances where either X or the vid driver is not properly/completely installed and re-installation will correct this whereas XFdrake and editing XF86 does not. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Some advices on saving battery on a LAPTOP
Hello I have 8.2 running on my Sony vaio notebook but the battery only runs for 25 minutes (it runs for more than one hour with XP). Could someone advise me on how to set up the configuration so as to save energy as much as possible? Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Some advices on saving battery on a LAPTOP
Have you tried the LinuxonLaptops site? try entering that in google and there is a whole website dedicated to that very subject. It has just given me a link to the tuxtime application for toshiba laptops. NB On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 13:45, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I have 8.2 running on my Sony vaio notebook but the battery only runs for 25 minutes (it runs for more than one hour with XP). Could someone advise me on how to set up the configuration so as to save energy as much as possible? Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Some advices on saving battery on a LAPTOP
Es Dimecres 01 Maig 2002 19:45, en Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes va escriure: I have 8.2 running on my Sony vaio notebook but the battery only runs for 25 minutes (it runs for more than one hour with XP). Could someone advise me on how to set up the configuration so as to save energy as much as possible? Strange thing... now I've got a HP OB6000 and before I had an Ahead laptop, and on both mandrake run for about half an hour longer than using windows... Is apmd installed and running (check that using drakxservices for instance)? Maybe there's a application that's using more cpu time than expected (check that using gkrellm)... Hope that helps ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Some advices on saving battery on a LAPTOP
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I have 8.2 running on my Sony vaio notebook but the battery only runs for 25 minutes (it runs for more than one hour with XP). Could someone advise me on how to set up the configuration so as to save energy as much as possible? Missed this one too: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered.html#toc1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Some advices on saving battery on a LAPTOP
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I have 8.2 running on my Sony vaio notebook but the battery only runs for 25 minutes (it runs for more than one hour with XP). Could someone advise me on how to set up the configuration so as to save energy as much as possible? http://linux.oreilly.com/news/lnxkernel_1100.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can Someone try to compile this?
Hi Guys, I'm currently attempting to compile the Toshiba TuxTime utilities, from buzzard.org.uk (http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/download.html), however I have been unsuccessful in compiling the 2.0 or 2.0.1 sources. Could someone who has a good compiling system please try to compile this for me? I would greatly appreciate it, as these tools are kinda important to me. NB [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Plugger 4.0, Realplayer Mozilla - Problem w/ ram links
LM8.2 Plugger4.0 Realplayer8 The problem: using Mozilla and clicking a Realmedia link (ram). Mozilla then goes to a blank page and the status bar says Running helper... Is there anyway to fix Plugger so that it does not give you a blank page? And yes, it does activate Realplayer8 but the blank page is annoying. example page: http://www.cbc.ca/audio.html Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Need X Help !! was [test - messages not getting tolist?]
I don't have read the original thread of this message, but, if you don't get the penguin, maybe you have selected the highest security level when install. It can be your problem with ftp, and maybe with X. At msec 5 level, you can't connect to your X server. Try with a lower security level, such as 'msec 3' or 'msec 4'. hope this help. saludos, óscar. El mié, 01-05-2002 a las 20:49, David Rankin escribió: Thanks, I'll give it a try! Also I don't get the text penquin on login anymore. Just the login prompt. What happened to my penguin? Some guy on the list last week was trying to get rid of his, now, I can't find mine -- go figure.. Lastly, I need some help with ftp. I can't ftp into my server via the internet. When I try and connect, I get the following: C:\WINDOWSftp 66.76.xxx.xxx Connected to 66.76.xxx.xxx. Compiled-in modules: mod_core.c mod_auth.c mod_xfer.c mod_site.c mod_ls.c mod_unixpw.c mod_log.c mod_linuxprivs.c mod_ratio.c mod_readme.c mod_pam.c mod_quota.c mod_ldap.c mod_wrap.c Connection closed by remote host. It never gives me a login prompt. Any ideas?? Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 01 May 2002 13:04:17 -0500 David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, Charles, I've run both XFdrake x86config numerous time and I have confirmed that the I128 server was selected, my correct monitor was selected (even tried generic monitors), and I've tried resolutions from 640x480 to 1280x1024 in every conceivable color depth. I still can't get X going?? Then my suggestion would be to rerun the 8.2 installation as Expert/Upgrade. You need not select any pkgs and you can skip both the Network and Printer config. The installation will completely re-install X depending upon which server you select. The whole process will take no more than 15min. There have been instances where either X or the vid driver is not properly/completely installed and re-installation will correct this whereas XFdrake and editing XF86 does not. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- .-. oo| /`'\ Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 (\_;/) http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can Someone try to compile this?
On 1 May 2002, Nelson Bartley wrote: Hi Guys, I'm currently attempting to compile the Toshiba TuxTime utilities, from buzzard.org.uk (http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/download.html), however I have been unsuccessful in compiling the 2.0 or 2.0.1 sources. Could someone who has a good compiling system please try to compile this for me? I would greatly appreciate it, as these tools are kinda important to me. It compiled fine for me on my Mandrake 8.2 system. I needed to install libxpm4-devel from the 3rd CD (Mandrake/RPMS3/libxpm4-devel*). What errors are you getting? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws
jipe wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:09:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well this is ver. 0.7.2, the one that came with LM8.2. The exact error message is that it can't Find any suitable wordlists for the tag none. I changed the dictionary *I thought* to a different one, and below that box is Default: none. Howver much as I try I can't change that box? Femme a quick search on rpmfind.net for /usr/share/pspell/en-aspell.pwli gives: aspell-en-0.37.1-3mdk.i586.rpm aspell-en-0.37.1-1mdk.i586.rpm more some others from other distributions. bye jipe Thx I hadn't thought of looking on there :\ *blush* I'll try those see what happens Jipe. Merci Monsieur! -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can Someone try to compile this?
That was what was causing my compile to bugger up... how did you figure out that was what you were missing? Nb On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 17:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 May 2002, Nelson Bartley wrote: Hi Guys, I'm currently attempting to compile the Toshiba TuxTime utilities, from buzzard.org.uk (http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/download.html), however I have been unsuccessful in compiling the 2.0 or 2.0.1 sources. Could someone who has a good compiling system please try to compile this for me? I would greatly appreciate it, as these tools are kinda important to me. It compiled fine for me on my Mandrake 8.2 system. I needed to install libxpm4-devel from the 3rd CD (Mandrake/RPMS3/libxpm4-devel*). What errors are you getting? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can Someone try to compile this?
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 16:20, Nelson Bartley wrote: I'm currently attempting to compile the Toshiba TuxTime utilities, from buzzard.org.uk (http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/download.html), however I have been unsuccessful in compiling the 2.0 or 2.0.1 sources. Could someone who has a good compiling system please try to compile this for me? I would greatly appreciate it, as these tools are kinda important to me. NB [EMAIL PROTECTED] Done on an otherwise vanilla 8.2 system with 2.4.18-7mdk kernel. You should be able to untar and run the install script. What's that saying in Warly's sig Not tested beyond it compiles. http://bradfelmey.net/toshiba.utilities-v2.0.1-mdk82.tar.bz2 -- Brad Felmey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can Someone try to compile this?
On 1 May 2002, Nelson Bartley wrote: That was what was causing my compile to bugger up... how did you figure out that was what you were missing? Nb -DVERSION=\2.0.1\\ -DBINDIR=\/usr/local/bin\ -DXMESSAGE=\/usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage\ -c wmtuxtime.c wmtuxtime.c:93:20: X11/xpm.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [wmtuxtime.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/klowe/toshutils-2.0.1/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 The above lines indicated a missing header file ( X11/xpm.h ). In this case I knew that the file was part of libxpm so just hunted through the disks with ' ls *xpm*devel* ' until I found a match. If you're not sure which package contains the file you can also try searching on rpmfind.net for the missing file. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Multiple Web Server Mail Servers on one box
I've successfully setup Mandrake to host one domain, one website domain and one email domain. Relatively easy stuff. Is it possible using Mandrake to setup Apache to host multiple domains? I'm talking three public and one private. I believe this is called virtual hosting but I'm not 100%. www.a.com www.b.com www.c.com www.d.com In this same vein can I also host the email for three separate domains too? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well you get the idea I'm sure. I'm thinking you might need multiple IP's and multiple nics, which isn't a concern. Regards, Ran Hooper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can Someone try to compile this?
Nelson, This rpm runed in my Toshiba satellite 4090CDT with Mandrake 8.2 http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/people/grimmer/RPMs/i386/7.2/ Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM8.2: mkisofs pbm (mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk) after Mandrake Update
Hi, I believe the mkisofs available through Mandrake Update is not working properly (mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk). I burnt several coasters because of that and had to downgrade back to the version in LM8.2 (mkisofs-1.15-0.a15-2mdk) to get everything working again. Images mounted on the loopback device # mount /mycd.img /mnt/loop -t iso9660 -o loop when the .img was created with mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk would show nothing. Is this a known pbm? -- \|||/ ( / \ ) ( O O ) __oOOo-( )-oOOo__ Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED LM 8.2 / Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp __Oooo___ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws
Mine, also has a bunch of *.map files, but it also includes seven *.pwli files all beginning with en- (for English) and having aspell somewhere in their name. I assume these are the actual dictionaries for English (British, Canadian and American). If you have aspell installed, you might try uninstalling it and re-installing it to see if it places the files there. Joe On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:12:29 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:46:15 -0500 Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Sylpheed Claws 0.7.2 and the spell checking seems to work fine. This might be a silly question, but are you sure you have the dictionary installed that Sylpheed is looking for? My dictionary path is usr/share/pspell/ and the default dictionary is en-aspell. I also tell it to check while writing so that misspelled words appear in red and if I right click on them it gives me a list of suggestions. Joe what I have in that directory are ISOxxx.map files. And one region one other .map file. So does that tell you anything? I don't know what to install if I must install anything either. I *thought* I had a speller installed, because Kmail used one. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Installing LM 8.2
Hi all, Got my LM 8.2 powerpack edition today,and trying to install on a AMD K6-2 500 with Ali chipset. I get as far as looking for packages to install, and get an error depslistordered mismatch against hdlist files Any ideas what is wrong? Thanks, Dan -- 7:28pm up 6 days, 2:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux for Kids
Government security systems at work. Senate, Congress and Whitehorse approve spending. Appropriation bill says $1 to by X copies of windwoze ninety weight. You can't buy or install anything but windwoze ninety weight without getting new funding, and if you don't buy it then you don't need the money so your funding is cut. Washingdumbs logic at it's finest. James On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:21:08 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, silkythreads wrote: And I'll take this bet !!! It's a very little known fact that the government got exactly what it wanted from Microsoft during the bru-haha do you really think MS didn't do for the US Gov what they told them to do or else. True, MS got some return but ... the government got it's monies worth and the people are paying the real price without even knowing it and MS gets to rule supreme. http://silkythreads.com// - Original Message - From: Jim Dawson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:58 PM Subject: Re: Re: [expert] Linux for Kids Who wants to bet that if several competing computer companies were to form a coalition to compete more effectively against Microsoft, Bill Gates and/or Steve Balmer would get the heads of the Justice Department, Department of Commerce, etc. on the phone and DEMAND that it be shut down on antitrust grounds. man! those guys are just plain mud-sucking evul :\ Ya, and our government seems to be no better. Has anyone here ever did some IT work for our government? The .gov domain is ran entirely on NT/2000 servers across a Cisco backbone. Now this really makes a lot of sense (sarcasm). Our government puts up a feckless fight in court while all the time using Microsoft crap. Go figure Dr John, The Night Tripper that is truely pathetic. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] browser nazi buster
Problem is that more and more websites are being created by people who say 90% of the public is using IE so I'll save money by not testing my webpage in other browsers/OS's James On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:29:52 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:23:14 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Brian wrote: Some sites are fooled by setting Opera to IE. This kind of junk sure makes one wonder why there are standards and some webmasters choose to ignore them in favor of proprietary junk. If more people complained to these sites then maybe they'd worry about W3C standards. I doubt it since part of the standards problem is the junk these webmasters are using to code these sites with. I think you know what I'm refering to. I can't bring myself to say it because speaking the words causes me to break out in hives. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Any even slightly competent webmaster should and does check his/her pages in several browsers to make sure as much as possible works or at least doesn't do something totally wrong. This is when I usually discover that a certain browser wants me to add additional formatting tags to do what most of the other browsers are doing. -- Brian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Home Page: http://www.brimac.com/~brianmac Fine Photos: http://www.brimacphotography.com Art for Sale: http://www.artbrowser.com Classified Advertising: http://www.sellit2000.com Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive, anyway. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [expert] Multiple Web Server Mail Servers on one box]
This should have went to the list. Sorry about this... Dr John Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Web Server Mail Servers on one box Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 18:27:11 -0500 From: J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ran Hooper wrote: I've successfully setup Mandrake to host one domain, one website domain and one email domain. Relatively easy stuff. Is it possible using Mandrake to setup Apache to host multiple domains? I'm talking three public and one private. I believe this is called virtual hosting but I'm not 100%. Yep, that is what it is called, and you can set that up in your Apache config files. Look at httpd.conf and commonhttpd.conf for this kind of setup. www.a.com www.b.com www.c.com www.d.com In this same vein can I also host the email for three separate domains too? Although there may be several approaches to accomplish this, I would suggest using the most straightforward and simple approach. Set up a DNS server, and make the appropriate records in your foward and reverse zone files. You can have MX records indicate which mail servers handle which domains (read up on dns setup and administration). [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well you get the idea I'm sure. I'm thinking you might need multiple IP's and multiple nics, which isn't a concern. Regards, Ran Hooper Have fun, and drink a lot of beer if things get difficult :-) Dr John The Night Tripper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installing LM 8.2
Daniel, This is a known prob with K6 and Pentium 1. See the errata at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3#k6 Just download a patch to a floppy and press F1 dring install. Works! Brian On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 09:33, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi all, Got my LM 8.2 powerpack edition today,and trying to install on a AMD K6-2 500 with Ali chipset. I get as far as looking for packages to install, and get an error depslistordered mismatch against hdlist files Any ideas what is wrong? Thanks, Dan -- 7:28pm up 6 days, 2:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KWrited security warning..?
I installed M 8.1 with the high security mode and left it connected to the lan/net overnight downloading some RPM's. Today I see a KWrited security warning on the desktop that lists a bunch of fonts and music files in the /usr/share directory. Can someone tell me the sigificance of this warning and files and what should I do about it? dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM 8.2 and mod_perl - I'm a going nuts
Well, first a success report - I successfully loaded Mandrake 8.2 onto my Dell Inspiron 8000, it even runs 1600x color just wonderfully, found the ethernet fine, I'm even able to play DVDs on it! But, whatever you do, DON'T close the lid, as after suspend/resume you are LOCKED UP! Anyway, I'm trying to install mod_perl on the above laptop (some laptop, eh? ;-), and I've done all the good 'rmpdrake' stuff, but when I try to add 'bingox' to the apache config file, it complains about: Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/httpd/conf/bingox.conf: Invalid command 'PerlModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration [FAILED] Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/httpd/conf/bingox.conf: Invalid command 'PerlModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration [FAILED] Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/httpd/conf/bingox.conf: Invalid command 'PerlModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration [FAILED] I tried to figure out what to LoadModule and AddModule, but could not find any modules in the place that the other loaded modules seemed to be to stick in there. So, has anyone added mod_perl to their Mandrake 8.2 setup, and did you have to do anything special to get it to work? Thansk! rc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kerberos 5 (GSSAPI) and CVS
Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: More on this topic... Does anyone know how to pass compile options to a RPM packet being rebuild? At the web site they say I must compile CVS using '--with-gssapi' option but I don't know how to pass it to the source rpm package while rebuilding: # rpm --rebuild --target athlon --with-gssapi cvs-1.11.1-6mdk.src.rpm --with-gssapi: unknown option If I take --with-gssapi away it works but I am not sure if the package is build with GSSAPI support. Thanks in advance. Jose Jose, have you looked at adding compile options to the spec file. This is the place where such options go before you run the rebuild arg. Dr John, The Night Tripper aka Craig Woods UNIX SA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can Someone try to compile this?
At 06:56 PM 5/1/02, you wrote: On 1 May 2002, Nelson Bartley wrote: That was what was causing my compile to bugger up... how did you figure out that was what you were missing? Nb -DVERSION=\2.0.1\\ -DBINDIR=\/usr/local/bin\ -DXMESSAGE=\/usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage\ -c wmtuxtime.c wmtuxtime.c:93:20: X11/xpm.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [wmtuxtime.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/klowe/toshutils-2.0.1/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 The above lines indicated a missing header file ( X11/xpm.h ). In this case I knew that the file was part of libxpm so just hunted through the disks with ' ls *xpm*devel* ' until I found a match. If you're not sure which package contains the file you can also try searching on rpmfind.net for the missing file. Even simpler let the rpm system, specifically urpmf tell you :-). When I ran urpmf xpm.h, it listed: libxpm4-devel:/usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h plus some extras, like xpm/help.xpm, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] browser nazi buster
On Wed, 1 May 2002 16:44:48 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is that more and more websites are being created by people who say 90% of the public is using IE so I'll save money by not testing my webpage in other browsers/OS's James On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:29:52 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:23:14 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Brian wrote: Some sites are fooled by setting Opera to IE. This kind of junk sure makes one wonder why there are standards and some webmasters choose to ignore them in favor of proprietary junk. If more people complained to these sites then maybe they'd worry about W3C standards. I doubt it since part of the standards problem is the junk these webmasters are using to code these sites with. I think you know what I'm refering to. I can't bring myself to say it because speaking the words causes me to break out in hives. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Any even slightly competent webmaster should and does check his/her pages in several browsers to make sure as much as possible works or at least doesn't do something totally wrong. This is when I usually discover that a certain browser wants me to add additional formatting tags to do what most of the other browsers are doing. -- Too bad some of us take our work seriously and want as many people as possible to view our efforts while others do just what's needed to get by. I remember when everyone was serious about making a site work with as many browsers as possible, and this was done without the aid of a program to do the code for you. Now people use something which does some or all of the tag generation and complains about how difficult things are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can Someone try to compile this?
On Wed, 1 May 2002, David Relson wrote: The above lines indicated a missing header file ( X11/xpm.h ). In this case I knew that the file was part of libxpm so just hunted through the disks with ' ls *xpm*devel* ' until I found a match. If you're not sure which package contains the file you can also try searching on rpmfind.net for the missing file. Even simpler let the rpm system, specifically urpmf tell you :-). When I ran urpmf xpm.h, it listed: libxpm4-devel:/usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h plus some extras, like xpm/help.xpm, Hey now! I learned something new today! I had been building a database of dependencies by querying with --provides and dropping the results into a filelist. It worked, but wasn't as straightforward as the above. How longhas urpmf existed? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Multiple Web Server Mail Servers on one box]
More specifically, this is called Name Virtual Hosting.
A very basic entry would be something like:
NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.1
VirtualHost 10.0.0.1
ServerName www.a.com
DocumentRoot /home/a-com/html
/VirtualHost
or you can even do:
VirtualHost www.a.com
ServerName www.a.com
DocumentRoot /home/a-com/html
/VirtualHost
The NameVirtualHost directive must be included for any of this to work.
Don't forget to specify the current name of the machine, ie if it is called
webhost.somecompany.com have this entry as well:
VirtualHost webhost.somecompany.com
ServerName webhost.somecompany.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
/VirtualHost
Make sure the one for the primary name of the machine goes above all other
domain entries.
A more detailed one would look something like:
VirtualHost www.a.com
ServerName www.a.com
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot /home/a-com/html
ErrorLog /home/a-com/logs/error_log
CustomLog /home/a-com/logs/referer_log%{referer}i
CustomLog /home/a-com/logs/agent_log %{user-agent}i
TransferLog /home/a-com/logs/access_log
Directory /home/a-com/html
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
/Directory
/VirtualHost
If you need more help with the apache side, just let me know
(I think this should also make it to my faq page one of these days).
As far as smtp, not sure how exactly one handles multiple virtual domains,
since I've never needed to do that.
Michael
--
Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Core Systems Group
Simple End User Linux
At 06:57 PM 5/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
This should have went to the list. Sorry about this...
Dr John
Original Message
Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Web Server Mail Servers on one box
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 18:27:11 -0500
From: J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ran Hooper wrote:
I've successfully setup Mandrake to host one domain, one website
domain and
one email domain. Relatively easy stuff.
Is it possible using Mandrake to setup Apache to host multiple
domains? I'm
talking three public and one private. I believe this is called virtual
hosting but I'm not 100%.
Yep, that is what it is called, and you can set that up in your Apache
config files. Look at httpd.conf and commonhttpd.conf for this kind of
setup.
www.a.com
www.b.com
www.c.com
www.d.com
In this same vein can I also host the email for three separate
domains too?
Although there may be several approaches to accomplish this, I would
suggest using the most straightforward and simple approach. Set up a DNS
server, and make the appropriate records in your foward and reverse zone
files. You can have MX records indicate which mail servers handle which
domains (read up on dns setup and administration).
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well you get the idea I'm sure. I'm thinking you might need multiple IP's
and multiple nics, which isn't a concern.
Regards,
Ran Hooper
Have fun, and drink a lot of beer if things get difficult :-)
Dr John
The Night Tripper
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Re: [expert]OT, WARNING TO NEW COMP PARTS BUYERS!
Before you consider OCZ or Central Computers *CenCom* Please read this site's forum list! http://discuss.madonion.com/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=Board=techotherhardwareNumber=700509page=0view=collapsedsb=5o=0fpart=allvc=1 Thx Much, a friend had given me that link from what i've read Seen it is for real. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws
Joseph Braddock wrote: Mine, also has a bunch of *.map files, but it also includes seven *.pwli files all beginning with en- (for English) and having aspell somewhere in their name. I assume these are the actual dictionaries for English (British, Canadian and American). If you have aspell installed, you might try uninstalling it and re-installing it to see if it places the files there. Joe Thx I may do that Joe. I don't have those files in the drop down list, it would be glaringly obvious those were hte ones to use otherwise I wouldn't have posted. However for me, they don't exist! I know I have ispell installed, but assume that isn't the same as aspell. Thx I will try your idea get back to you. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] browser nazi buster
On Wed, 01 May 2002 18:30:52 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2002 16:44:48 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is that more and more websites are being created by people who say 90% of the public is using IE so I'll save money by not testing my webpage in other browsers/OS's James On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:29:52 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:23:14 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Brian wrote: Some sites are fooled by setting Opera to IE. This kind of junk sure makes one wonder why there are standards and some webmasters choose to ignore them in favor of proprietary junk. If more people complained to these sites then maybe they'd worry about W3C standards. I doubt it since part of the standards problem is the junk these webmasters are using to code these sites with. I think you know what I'm refering to. I can't bring myself to say it because speaking the words causes me to break out in hives. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Any even slightly competent webmaster should and does check his/her pages in several browsers to make sure as much as possible works or at least doesn't do something totally wrong. This is when I usually discover that a certain browser wants me to add additional formatting tags to do what most of the other browsers are doing. -- Too bad some of us take our work seriously and want as many people as possible to view our efforts while others do just what's needed to get by. I remember when everyone was serious about making a site work with as many browsers as possible, and this was done without the aid of a program to do the code for you. Now people use something which does some or all of the tag generation and complains about how difficult things are. Truer (and sadder) words have rarely been spoken. Part of the problem comes from the fact (IMHO) that the Universities teach languages and WYSIWYG programs instead of theory and analysis. This alone really does make it hard for them because they don't understand what they are doing and how it relates to the world around them. I don't program but I do manage programmers and it amazes me how I can see the logic problems that are causing them fits and they can't. (heavy math background). James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws
I set mine to /usr/share/pspell and it works great. James On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:04:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I like this program Know some of you here use it. My only caveat so far is if I tell it to check my spelling, it complains it can't find a dictionary to use. I'm an english speaker use that language *badly I'll admit otherwise I wouldn't need a spellchecker yes? :)*. Problem, I can't find this dictionary. I tried some different ones it has avail in the drop down list, but to no avail. It has a warning beside the Spellcheckbox saying this is Experimental too. Any clues? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Screwball network bug (long)
Ken are some of the nics 10mb and some 100? If the hub isn't a true switching hub it can't handle the difference and the network will keep slowing down to try and accommodate the slowest box. Second make sure none of the boxes are plugged into port one if you have the crossover port connected these two are linked together and if you have 2 boxes going into these ports all kinds of fun stuff happens. Jams On Wed, 1 May 2002 11:35:52 -0600 Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm working with a 6 computer network that is doing some very wierd things. First a bit of history: Current O/S's Win98, WinME, Win XP, Linux Mandrake 8.1. The original network was smaller and set up using Novell. NIC's on the older computers are DEC Chip combo's, some even have the 25 pin AUWI (?sp) port and were all using 50 ohm coax connections. The owner hired a network specialist to set it up to use Windows Networking. This fellow put in a LinkSys 8 port switch, and ran CAT 5 cable around the baseboards of the office, installed all available network protocols (NetBui, TCP, Netbios/IPX etc.)... TCP/IP was set up using DHCP on all machines and no IP ranges set. Some of the machines, then, were found using NetBUI, some on IPX/SPX and some with TCP/IP. I found this out by removing each protocol in turn except for TCP/IP. OK, but it worked and he was kinda happy except the network was SLOW, A factory re-furbed Micron PIII 800 with onboard NIC was used as the file server and all the network programs data paths set to it. Most of the machines on the network could log on to each other in an accecptable time (3-4 seconds) but the Micron would take over 1minuet to log on to any other machine (open Network Neighborhood and wait). But other machines found the Micron OK and could pull files off it as fast as any other. About now you're asking what has this got to do with a Mandrake Mailing List ! ! Read on folks, it get's better.. Dumb me, I said I can fix that and use a Linux box as a file server... First I removed all un-needed protocols and set up static IP address for each system. No speed improvement ! !. The rest of the network seemed usable but the Micron was still very slow, my reaction was naturally to blame the Micron. I brougt it to my service department and performed a complete O/S teardown and re-install (Win98se), set it up on my network and tested it hard using the same program he uses PLUS some very large file transferes (1Gb and over), It worked like a charm -fast- reliable etc. Put it back in service and got him back to work. At this point the network seemed perfect, no hang ups and speed was good. Next thing was to put together a Linux box to use as a file server. Used a Super 7 MoBo, K6-2 350 CPU 3.2Gb HDD and 196Mb mem, installed Mandrake 8.1 on it. KDE is available but I start it in RL 3 and don't log in as anyone, just let the screen blank and forget it.. He has no security concerns (read don't want to be bothered) so MSEC is set to poor. The Mandrake machine is not on the internet and they only go online with the others to get credit reports and then off right away, total time for each instance less than 10 min. Again I set the box up on my network and ran it 'till it dropped NO problemo.. Durn thing was perfect. Put the Linux box in service, changed the data path's to it and walked out very self satisfied... The next day I was hangin' out and one of the systems locked, the salesman tried to reboot it and it said can't find boot record on IDE0 EH? Wot's this? I looked at it and Nope nuthin', ran FDISK and there was NO partition defined. Brought the machine to my service department and diagnosed it with bad memory, (it wouldn't even trigger the video until I replaced the mem mdule) replaced the mem module, re-installed WinME, ran the same tests as with the other ones and put it back in service. Whew, things were working good. (I was a bit dis-satisfied because I still couldn't accout for the missing partition) The owner calls me 3 days later saying he can't get his backup to transfer over the network, it says network resource not available about 75% through the transfer (about 30Mb file size). I thought he just don't remember how I showed him to do it and went out to see what had gone wrong. NOW the whole network is slow, the Micron being the slowest but not substantially so. Can't pull a large file from any given machine to any other and have some file corruption on the Linux box (I can see the file name but the program can't run the executible or unzip one it needs) I have looked at everything I can think of trying to figure out what in the world went wrong, I'm leaning towards interference on the cables but really don't know what to think at this point. After a complete re-make of the network, running fine for about a week, it's worse than it was when I started. Ideas, anyone -- Ken Thompson, North
Re: [expert] video problems in 8.2
Have you tried to manually set the horz and vert sync for this monitor? Sounds like they are incorrect. Using mandrake control center click on Hardware and then the X for display. Then click the more button this will allow you to change your monitor. Choose Custom and then follow the instructions to manually enter the horz and vert sync from your users manual. This should bring you up. If you still have trouble try a lower resolution to get you going and then adjust from there once it runs. If you are stuck at the command line run drakxconf choose Display Configuration and then Cancel This will put you in a mode where you can change the monitor in the same manor as above from the command line. James On Wed, 01 May 2002 11:00:52 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, just tried to install 8.2 and on two different machines, athlon 1.0 ghz epox 8kta3 pro mb with ati 3d rageIIc 8mg agp card and 200mmx intel with s3 trio 4mg video card both have a presario 1500 monitor ( trinitron tube ) on the regular settings of 1024x768 24 and 16 bit using generic non-interlaced SVGA 1024x768 at 60 Hz 800x600 at 72 Hz ( which I used with both 7.2 and 8.0 just fine ) , it will look stable for a minute or two then the screen goes blank for a few seconds then back on /off /on / etc. may be the monitor but don't know how to correct this problem. I really would like to run 8.2 but can't change both monitors out at this time. Any suggestions or known fixes ??? can I run a different version of Xfree86 , like the 4.0.3 patch level 7 Like I run in 8.0 ? Mike McNeese Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws
James wrote: I set mine to /usr/share/pspell and it works great. James Thats the default its giving me a headache. Were it not I wouldn't have posted ;p Thx though for your input -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
