Re: [expert] Getting a 100% linux compatible scanner
Diego, OK, I'll have a look at 1660. I just priced a 1660 here in Australia and they want around $400 for them. They have been superceded though by the 1670 which is useless for Linux so far. Oh well, back to the search Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 20:34:49 up 11 days, 1:42, 3 users, load average: 1.17, 1.16, 1.11 -- Never mud wrestle with a pig.. you get dirty and the pig enjoys it! Never try to teach a pig to dance. You waste your time and annoy the pig. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Single login server for Linux clients
James, I wish I could help, but alas no. As soon as my youngest daughter packs her bags and goes away somewhere I´m reclaiming my that computer and doing the same, so don´t be surprised when I start asking you how it´s done. :^) What is the best method to have one central Linux server handling login authentication for Linux and windows machines? What I would like to achieve is; 1) Provide only network server logins for Linux boxes and have no local accounts on any Linux machine. 2) Have /home/$USER reside on the centralized Linux login server and not on local machines. 3) Ditto for windows machines (I know I can achieve this with Samba for windows clients, unless there is a better way) If anyone has this type of environment set up, I would greatly appreciate your help and advice. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 08:58:55 up 10:19, 3 users, load average: 1.04, 1.06, 1.11 -- Never mud wrestle with a pig.. you get dirty and the pig enjoys it! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5
You need to get spamd up and running. You can bring up mandrake control center, go to system, and then to drakxservices. Enable spamd at bootup. How do you do that if it is not listed though? You could start it immediately by doing, as root/superuser /etc/init.d/spamd start. Did that. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 14:01:39 up 1 day, 18:50, 4 users, load average: 1.00, 1.02, 1.00 -- I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SD Card Reader in Mandrake 9.1?
Olof, Open KdiskFree and see if it is listed. If so right click and select open in Filemanager. Let us know how you go. My Toshiba Tecra 9000 running Mandrake 9.1 has a built in SD card reader (reports itself as SD Type A Controller) on the PCI bus. Does anyone know if it will be possible to get Mandrake to recognize it? Thanks ahead, Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 18:32:34 up 21:05, 3 users, load average: 1.36, 1.70, 1.42 -- I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] very strange filenames in 'ftp'
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] very strange filenames in 'ftp' I actually got hit with the UTF-8 stuff as well.. I am not even sure how it is really meant to work.. How the UTF-8 stuff managed get set, Me neither. Any aussies want to comment? I am unaware of a y (i..e, one with two dots, high-ascii, not the regular 'y') in Australian English. There isn't any. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 14:08:18 up 15:01, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.06 -- I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: Spam puzzler
By entering your address and requesting an encrypted email you agree to allow Advanced Web Promotions to communicate with you via email about our products and services. You can be removed from this mailing list at any time. The frequency of the mailing will be around two emails per month. That was enough to discourage me from using the service though. http://innerpeace.org/escrambler.shtml Then use this one with a fake email address and when it gives you the code, all you have to do is switch it with your own real email address. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 11:22:14 up 3 days, 17:54, 3 users, load average: 1.14, 1.09, 1.03 -- I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VMWare /usr/src/linux/include for 9.1
linux-2.4.21pre4-Xmdk Where X is the version number of the kernel it's source for... IF I'm right VMware needs this to match the number of the running kernel on you box. Make sure it does. If not it's worth it to install the upgraded kernel (they have improved it a lot) also make sure that the symlink linux points to the src directory that matches your running kernel (you might have more than one and it could be pointing at the wrong one. I downloaded and installed what I thought was the right kernel file. It worked, but still 12 hours too late. Nevermind, I still got done what I had to be it in a more roundabout fashion. Thanks people. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 00:04:25 up 7:03, 3 users, load average: 1.24, 1.36, 1.18 -- A woman's place is in the house... and in the Senate. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] VMWare /usr/src/linux/include for 9.1
Hello All, Slight problem, I'm trying to install VMWare into 9.1 and am having trouble finding the correct directory. Where is the directory for these header files? Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 19:04:19 up 33 min, 4 users, load average: 1.07, 1.14, 0.97 -- A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VMWare /usr/src/linux/include for 9.1
sounds like you need to install the kernel source. Try urpmi kernel-source Tried that and it tells me I already have it installed. If that is so, where are those files? Talk about confused!!! :^) Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 20:43:11 up 2:12, 4 users, load average: 1.19, 1.19, 1.08 -- You humans are all alike. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How do I update the urpmi database for cooker?
Ok, I know this will be something simple, but for the life of me I can't figure it out today. I looked in man -k urpmi but nothing. I got this error whilst trying to update from the cooker. You may want to update your urpmi database Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 12:08:13 up 19:02, 4 users, load average: 3.51, 3.49, 3.48 -- PARDON me, am I speaking ENGLISH? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How do I update the urpmi database for cooker?
This error can also be produced if a static repository, such as a main source - in the terminology used by the Easy Urpmi Configurator, found at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ - is for whatever reason unavailable at the moment that the ftp request was sent; if that server does not accept the anonymous ftp login (due to having reached its maximum number of users, for example), urpmi will fail with this error. I was able to login and the transfer of files began. Everytime I hit the third file it stopped with that error. I tried three times before giving up and each time the third file was a different one. After doing what Bongani suggested to me on the Cooker list (urpmi.update -a -c -f //Updates all databases) everything updated just fine. My thanks to all who tried to help. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 17:32:45 up 1 day, 27 min, 3 users, load average: 2.82, 3.30, 3.37 -- All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cooker update
Benjamin, Make sure you have a Cooker ftp source defined. This may be the biggest problem. I can't seem to get one updated. Which sources are working for you? Have you tried http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php? (can be found via www.urpmi.org - urpmiweb) Got it done last night with approx 850Mb of updates. I don't know if my account can stand up to a bashing like this. :^) Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 beta3 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 15:04:44 up 2:57, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 0.99 -- So Richard and I decided to try to catch [the small shark]. With a great deal of strategy and effort and shouting, we managed to maneuver the shark, over the course of about a half-hour, to a sort of corner of the lagoon, so that it had no way to escape other than to flop up onto the land and evolve. Richard and I were inching toward it, sort of crouched over, when all of a sudden it turned around and -- I can still remember the sensation I felt at that moment, primarily in the armpit area -- headed right straight toward us. Many people would have panicked at this point. But Richard and I were not many people. We were experienced waders, and we kept our heads. We did exactly what the textbook says you should do when you're unarmed and a shark that is nearly two feet long turns on you in water up to your lower calves: We sprinted I would say 600 yards in the opposite direction, using a sprinting style such that the bottoms of our feet never once went below the surface of the water. We ran all the way to the far shore, and if we had been in a Warner Brothers cartoon we would have run right INTO the beach, and you would have seen these two mounds of sand racing across the island until they bonked into trees and coconuts fell onto their heads. -- Dave Barry, The Wonders of Sharks on TV Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cooker update
Can someone tell me whether or not I can update my install of 9.1 beta3 using 'mandrake update'? I can't download the whole cooker as I don't have that much download capacity with my account. There has to be a better way. Regards Trevor -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cooker update
Can someone tell me whether or not I can update my install of 9.1 beta3 using 'mandrake update'? I can't download the whole cooker as I don't have that much download capacity with my account. There has to be a better way. Make sure you have a Cooker ftp source defined. This may be the biggest problem. I can't seem to get one updated. Which sources are working for you? urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select Regards Trevor -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] support for gnome-python2 and pygtk2 in Mandrake 9.1
Would anyone happen to know if there will be support for gnome-python2 and pygtk2 in Mandrake 9.1? -- Regards Trevor === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kodak Digital Camera and MDK9
Toshiro, I have a Kodak DX3900 digital camera but it seems it doesn't work with Mandrake. Any idea? Yep, install GTKam (GPhoto 2). The DX3900 is included in it's list. -- Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] To fix or not to fix? That is my question!
The following problem showed up today, do I just delete this file? or is there a fix (which is preferable). Preparing...## Installation failed: file /usr/share/info/dir from install of guile-1.6.0-1mdk conflicts with file from package info-install-4.2-5mdk -- Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Update Mirroring
Hello Guru Types and others, Having numerous Mandrake 9 installations here it can be a rather large amount to download to do the updates for all machines. Would anyone know how I could mirror the updates to my system and do the updates from there? At least that way I only have to download them once instead of once for each install/reinstall. Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
