Re: [newbie] what is vcsa
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:43:59 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:46:12PM -0400, Greg wrote: hi everyone i was going thru my list of users in the log in manager and found vcsa listed as a user i never made a user with that name any ideas on what it is and how it got there how do i get red of it thanks greg It's the Van Council of Southern Australia: http://users.esc.net.au/~vcsa/ These bad-asses have obviously compromised your system; a reformat and reinstall is in order. Sorry! Todd From my /etc/passwd file: vcsa --- virtual console memory owner. -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] URPMI - An infinity of Dependencies
Having become convinced that something was fundamentally wrong with my installation of xfce4, I uninstalled the lot and attempted a fresh install via urpmi. It failed due to unsatisfied dependencies. Evidently xfprint was required. Installation of xfprint failed due to the absence of a2ps which failed due to the absence of I forget what but this loop continued until it was asking me for dvd libraries or something (I don't have a dvd) and I ran out of enthusiasm for the entire project I'm obviously wrong but I'd always thought that urpmi was supposed to take care of dependencies for me. Is there a way round this or should I resign myself to an xfce4less existence? -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Help: serial port on thinkpad ultrabay
On Thursday 01 Jul 2004 13:34, nut megger wrote: Continued Problem: Cannot detect the serial modem located on serial port on the Ultrabay, so I am unable to connect to my ISP through the external modem. I have the latest BIOS update installed and the serial port is ENABLED. ** How do I get Linux to see the serial port on the Ultrabay? ** I have tried the following: (1) Linux distributions: Mandrake 10, SuSe 9.1., Fedora Core 2, Redhat 9.1, Debian. (2) I have loaded Windows ME and been able to use the serial port (COM1) with no stress or strain. (3) PC Doctor indicates that there is a serial port. (4) Cant tell upon boot whether Linux reports on the serial interface. (5) Minicom and Kermit fail to recognize the serial port. (6) Can there be an IRQ or I/O port conflict? Who knows, Im only a newbie. (7) I have added Linux to my Dell notebook (Mandrake 10) and my Sun workstation (Aurora) no stress, no strain and been able to use gnome and kde to dial out the serial ports to an external modem. I prefer using gnome and kde to dial out since the minicom and Kermit commands defeat the purpose of having a windows manager. There must be some expert out there that can take me step by step through getting my X21 to utilize the serial port on the Ultrabay otherwise, the X21 is just a paperweight. From the command line the command dmesg | grep tty should give you a display something like this :- ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A If it does not then the serial ports were not detected on boot. In which case then you may have an IRQ conflict Try on booting linux hit the ESC key wjen you see the lilo boot screen. At the text prompt enter linux noacpi noapic That will disable the apic and acpi features which are the most common cause of hardware detection issues. If that works try again individually to see if it is acpi or apic at the root of the problem. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Elipse 3.0 code completion does not show selected item.
On Jun 30, 2004, at 22:17, John Zoetebier wrote: Avi Schwartz wrote: What I did was urpmi gnome-control-center --auto-select and urpmi took care of getting and installing all the necessary packages. I am a command line kind of guy :-) I had it already installed, that's why I did not see it in Mandrake installer. Next question: where do you set the GTK themes ? Run gnome-control-center and then you will see something similar to the KDE control center. One of the things you will see there is Themes. Open it and have fun. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] no man in msec 4???
I just switched to msec 4 from msec 3, to find out that man pages are not accessible anymore to a normal user: /usr/share: drwxr-x--- 27 rpm rpm4096 May 17 10:48 man/ I already changed this with perm.local, but what's the sense in making man pages unavailable?? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 05:50 pm, RAT wrote: Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :) 1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out that I have Conexant chipset and found a driver at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ but it's not for free and it doesn't even seems to work. Is there another driver for my modem which works? 2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions? Thx Radek I have an Acer 1355LC laptop, win modem of course and haven't yet been able to compile the driver because it is running Mandrake 9.2 and this has no kernel source. Which I need to compile the driver and I am on dialup, which is much like two tin cans with a string in the middle connecting them. But worse, there is no serial port that will allow connection of a hardware modem. So I have to keep it as dual boot. Windows wins again for a while in this instance. I refuse to pay for a driver when I have already paid for the modem with the laptop, and the driver comes supplied for windows. I have also not been able to get the sound to work. Have found a terrific howto for this laptop, but it needs a compiled kernel to work. You may want to check to make sure what you need isn't already compiled as a module with the stock kernel. The touchpad works a treat without any alterations, but I think that that you can download a driver from the synaptics site I did this just in case but didn't need it. Google for it as I have kept no record of it. But possibly, you will also have to compile a kernel to get both the modem driver and the touchpad driver to work. I actually think this is a prerequisite for Linux. NO, compiling your own kernel is not a prerequisite for Linux. While I have done it before to fine-tune a kernel for a specific machine, it is seldom necessary. About the only thing I have to compile for is the PCMCIA SCSI card, because it is not susported in the 2.4.x kernels. Good luck with it, just like the rest of us, don't give up. Keep wearing away at it. If you realy want to compile your own, you will probably want to get the source for the latest kernel. On a dialup, you may want to get Netscape's download manager, or wget for windows. Both will let you resume abouted downloads. For wget, take a look at: http://allserv.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/ Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mount usb with granting access
EE wrote: how can mount my usb drive with access privilege. When I wrote as a root mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb, I was able to access it the usb but I cannot read or write even though the /mnt/usb has drwxrwxrwx permission. Can anyone help mounting the drive as a root and grant the other users the write access to it. What version of Mandrake you are running may make a difference, but on 9.2 automount will automaticly mount most USB drives. Take a look at /mnt/removable, and see if it is there. I would guess that this is a FAT or VFAT file system, so if you realy want to mount it manualy, try something like: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb -o uid=500,umask=0 Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
Hoyt Bailey wrote: As far as resolv.conf, if you are running DCHD, then the file should get rebuilt with the information from your DSL modem. But it is possible that you have overridden this. Could you post the contence of /etc/sysconfig/networks, and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? (Also ifcfg-eth1 if you have one.) There are some logs in /var/logs that may help as well, but I don't remember exactly where Mandrake puts things, and you don't want to post /var/log/messages! Should I remove dhcp, since this is a single user desktop machine I have no use for networking unless necessary for other things. There is no eth1. No, you need it to configure the port to talk to your router. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/networks cat: /etc/sysconfig/networks: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ Typo on my part - should be /etc/sysconfig/network cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= NEEDHOSTNAME=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ One thing I forgot to ask you - does your ISP use PPPoE? One way to check this is in Windows run winipcfg and check what interfaces you have. If you are using PPPoE, someone else on the list can probably walk you through the proper way of setting it up. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Tranfering Hard Disk from one PC to another
Hi Team Im just getting to know Linux and Mandrake and need to know how Linux/Mandrake handles the following situation:- 1) Lets say I install Mandrake on one PC, and setup web servers (Apache), services etc. 2) Then I move that hard disk to another machine - but this second machine has different m/board, video, network etc. (Im proposing to do it this way to minimise down time on the PC Im moving the hard disk to) Questions: What are the likelyhoods of Mandrake booting to a command line? Booting to a GUI? If it can only boot to a command line/gui what can I do to get it to recognise the new hardware? Would a full reinstall over the top recognise the new hardware and yet leave application setups (like Apache) configured? What whould you suggest is the best way to handle this problem? (And if simply installing on the second PC is the easiest then please tell me that too) :-) Thanks in advance to anyone who answers Cheers Mark :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Audigy LS
Hi I installed an Audigy LS and MDK 10 CE does not pick it up in the module (shows unknown) in harddrake. I also try to run the config tool but nothing happens. There are no drivers on the creative site for this. Anyone have any luck installing the audigy LS ? What other tools other than alsaconf are there to configure a soundcard ? or could perhaps someone send me their /etc/modprobe.conf file that has a audigy card installed. -- Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tranfering Hard Disk from one PC to another
Hi, I have only tried this with a desktop - not a server - and I was supprised at how good Mandrake 10 is It picked up new network cards, graphics card (it used a generic ATi driver), and new motherboard... When you boot, ensure fstab (i think thats the hardware recognition program...) is running. This will *hopefully* pick up new hardware... Good luck, and let us know how you get on... Ali PS: Why don't you experiment - obviously without any important data or critical services to risk? IF it doesnt work for you, let us know the hardware combinations you have for future referance... --- Mark Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Team Im just getting to know Linux and Mandrake and need to know how Linux/Mandrake handles the following situation:- 1) Lets say I install Mandrake on one PC, and setup web servers (Apache), services etc. 2) Then I move that hard disk to another machine - but this second machine has different m/board, video, network etc. (Im proposing to do it this way to minimise down time on the PC Im moving the hard disk to) Questions: What are the likelyhoods of Mandrake booting to a command line? Booting to a GUI? If it can only boot to a command line/gui what can I do to get it to recognise the new hardware? Would a full reinstall over the top recognise the new hardware and yet leave application setups (like Apache) configured? What whould you suggest is the best way to handle this problem? (And if simply installing on the second PC is the easiest then please tell me that too) :-) Thanks in advance to anyone who answers Cheers Mark :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tranfering Hard Disk from one PC to another
Mark Rogers wrote: Hi Team Im just getting to know Linux and Mandrake and need to know how Linux/Mandrake handles the following situation:- 1) Lets say I install Mandrake on one PC, and setup web servers (Apache), services etc. 2) Then I move that hard disk to another machine - but this second machine has different m/board, video, network etc. (Im proposing to do it this way to minimise down time on the PC Im moving the hard disk to) Questions: What are the likelyhoods of Mandrake booting to a command line? Booting to a GUI? If it can only boot to a command line/gui what can I do to get it to recognise the new hardware? Would a full reinstall over the top recognise the new hardware and yet leave application setups (like Apache) configured? What whould you suggest is the best way to handle this problem? (And if simply installing on the second PC is the easiest then please tell me that too) :-) Thanks in advance to anyone who answers Cheers Mark :-) Mark, Unless the BIOS handles the hard drive differently, you should have no problems booting to the command line. Booting to the GUI will probably work as well. Harddrake should detect the hardware differences on bootup, and offer to reconfigure things. I am not sure about Mandrake, but with RedHat you would also run into a problem if you downgraded the CPU. If you installed on a P-III, and then moved the drive to a P-I, you would have the wrong Kernel, and glibc for the CPU. Upgrading is not normaly a problem. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Website permission
Can you tell me what is the usual permission of a php and html files in website? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tranfering Hard Disk from one PC to another
Mark Rogers wrote: Hi Team Im just getting to know Linux and Mandrake and need to know how Linux/Mandrake handles the following situation:- 1) Lets say I install Mandrake on one PC, and setup web servers (Apache), services etc. 2) Then I move that hard disk to another machine - but this second machine has different m/board, video, network etc. (Im proposing to do it this way to minimise down time on the PC Im moving the hard disk to) Questions: What are the likelyhoods of Mandrake booting to a command line? Booting to a GUI? Exceptionally good (commmand line), I do it all the time... just make sure that if the drive is on primary master of the old system, that it is primary master on the new one, or you will not boot. Make sure you configure the system to boot to command line only before the swap and you will be fine. If it can only boot to a command line/gui what can I do to get it to recognise the new hardware? unless you have turned off harddrake on boot, then you should turn it back on prior to the changeover. It should detect anything different and make any of the changes required. Then just run drakeconf in a root login and setup the new X setup. Would a full reinstall over the top recognise the new hardware and yet leave application setups (like Apache) configured? Why? its not necessary. What whould you suggest is the best way to handle this problem? (And if simply installing on the second PC is the easiest then please tell me that too) :-) See above. Thanks in advance to anyone who answers Cheers Mark :-) -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Website permission
EE wrote: Can you tell me what is the usual permission of a php and html files in website? 644 for both. chmod 644 *.php chmod 644 *.html -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 12:28 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 11:21, Tom Brinkman wrote:
My data: From sbcglobal.net.
Primary DNS address 151.164.1.8
Secondary DNS address 206.13.28.12
Question: Where do I put it so rp-ppoe or DNS of whatever does
it will put it in '/etc/resolver.conf' because if I put it
there directely that whatever overwrites it.
tom $ cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
I dont have an /etc/ppp.resolv.conf mine is /etc/resolv.conf.
/etc/ppp/resolv.conf you should have one. I have no idea
^^
why one wasn't created, but it should have
nameserver 151.164.1.8
nameserver 206.13.28.12
... in it. AFAIK, /etc/resolv.conf is a file generated by the
binary file, /etc/resolv.conf.tmp As I said, I think you need
somebody more knowlegeable about all this than me. I only thought
I might be of help since I also use sbcglobal.net and they seem
to do things a little differently than many other DSL ISP's.
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
Back during 9.x development, Mandrake
developers told me this didn't make sense, but now it's the
Mandrake default, at least the fresh installs I've done
since.
What file is this information in?
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? (where ? = 0 or 1)
IPADDR=10.0.0.10
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.0.0.0
BROADCAST=10.0.0.255
ONBOOT=yes
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
^ that's for a very well supported
D-link 530 TX+ card. You might try setting this to =yes
(which means MII will be disabled).
I suspect you've got some LAN misconfigure(s), but I
can't go there. Never done it.
It wouldnt supprise me because I dont have a LAN and have no
understanding of same. Everything just happened.
Yes, Everything just happened for me. Other than some
initial problems when I first got DSL while usin 9.0, Mandrake
(cooker) installs have always configured eth0 for me after I
input the info during the install, and most all of the entries I
leave blank, or at default. About all I enter, IIRC, is
sbcglobal.net, my user ID and password. I don't start the connect
at boot, and I believe that is the default.
Then a rp-pppoe run of 'adsl-setup' to answer about a half
dozen questions. One of which one is to enter DNS, I just type
'server' and DNS is automagically obtained from sbcglobal.net.
Often after recent fresh installs (/home is saved), I don't even
need to re-do a 'adsl-setup'
I avoid usin Mandrake's 'drakconnect'. I believe recent
Mandrake versions install rp-pppoe when you choose 'adsl' during
install anyhow.
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Proud to be an American
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Re: [newbie] mount usb with granting access
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:54, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: EE wrote: how can mount my usb drive with access privilege. When I wrote as a root mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb, I was able to access it the usb but I cannot read or write even though the /mnt/usb has drwxrwxrwx permission. Can anyone help mounting the drive as a root and grant the other users the write access to it. What version of Mandrake you are running may make a difference, but on 9.2 automount will automaticly mount most USB drives. Take a look at /mnt/removable, and see if it is there. I would guess that this is a FAT or VFAT file system, so if you realy want to mount it manualy, try something like: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb -o uid=500,umask=0 Mikkel Mikkel, I am using LM10.0 and the usb drive has 2 partisions one ex3 and the other is vfat (fat32). rgd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Burning DVDs from an iso
Anyone have an opinion on the best way/program to burn a bootable iso to a DVD -R disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Quick Time codecs
Hi. Where I can find quick time codecs to run .mov files on xine or mplayer? -- Cezary Morga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GG# 169903 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: As far as resolv.conf, if you are running DCHD, then the file should get rebuilt with the information from your DSL modem. But it is possible that you have overridden this. Could you post the contence of /etc/sysconfig/networks, and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? (Also ifcfg-eth1 if you have one.) There are some logs in /var/logs that may help as well, but I don't remember exactly where Mandrake puts things, and you don't want to post /var/log/messages! Should I remove dhcp, since this is a single user desktop machine I have no use for networking unless necessary for other things. There is no eth1. No, you need it to configure the port to talk to your router. I don't have a router unless the DSL modem is acting as one. It is supposed to have a firewall? [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/networks cat: /etc/sysconfig/networks: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ Typo on my part - should be /etc/sysconfig/network cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= NEEDHOSTNAME=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ One thing I forgot to ask you - does your ISP use PPPoE? One way to check this is in Windows run winipcfg and check what interfaces you have. If you are using PPPoE, someone else on the list can probably walk you through the proper way of setting it up. Mikkel I don't have Windows installed but I don't think pppoe is involved. '/etc/ppp/resolver.conf' dosent exist the file '/etc/resolv.conf' does. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=192.168.0.1 NETWORKING=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search domain_not_set.invalid nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.1 I set this yesterday to the nameservers provided by sbcglobal but it always gets reset. I need a way to put the right nameservers in this file instead of my DSL modem. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:44, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2004 12:28 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2004 11:21, Tom Brinkman wrote: My data: From sbcglobal.net. Primary DNS address 151.164.1.8 Secondary DNS address 206.13.28.12 Question: Where do I put it so rp-ppoe or DNS of whatever does it will put it in '/etc/resolver.conf' because if I put it there directely that whatever overwrites it. tom $ cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf I dont have an /etc/ppp.resolv.conf mine is /etc/resolv.conf. /etc/ppp/resolv.conf you should have one. I have no idea ^^ why one wasn't created, but it should have nameserver 151.164.1.8 nameserver 206.13.28.12 ... in it. AFAIK, /etc/resolv.conf is a file generated by the binary file, /etc/resolv.conf.tmp As I said, I think you need somebody more knowlegeable about all this than me. I only thought I might be of help since I also use sbcglobal.net and they seem to do things a little differently than many other DSL ISP's. DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static Back during 9.x development, Mandrake developers told me this didn't make sense, but now it's the Mandrake default, at least the fresh installs I've done since. What file is this information in? /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? (where ? = 0 or 1) IPADDR=10.0.0.10 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=10.0.0.0 BROADCAST=10.0.0.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no ^ that's for a very well supported D-link 530 TX+ card. You might try setting this to =yes (which means MII will be disabled). I suspect you've got some LAN misconfigure(s), but I can't go there. Never done it. It wouldnt supprise me because I dont have a LAN and have no understanding of same. Everything just happened. Yes, Everything just happened for me. Other than some initial problems when I first got DSL while usin 9.0, Mandrake (cooker) installs have always configured eth0 for me after I input the info during the install, and most all of the entries I leave blank, or at default. About all I enter, IIRC, is sbcglobal.net, my user ID and password. I don't start the connect at boot, and I believe that is the default. Then a rp-pppoe run of 'adsl-setup' to answer about a half dozen questions. One of which one is to enter DNS, I just type 'server' and DNS is automagically obtained from sbcglobal.net. Often after recent fresh installs (/home is saved), I don't even need to re-do a 'adsl-setup' I avoid usin Mandrake's 'drakconnect'. I believe recent Mandrake versions install rp-pppoe when you choose 'adsl' during install anyhow. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Thanks for your advise I know all of ppp is installed but I dont think its being used. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:50:42 +0200 RAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :) 1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out that I have Conexant chipset and found a driver at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ but it's not for free and it doesn't even seems to work. Is there another driver for my modem which works? For what is worth, I have no end of hassles with winmodems in laptops - there is quite simple if a little costly way around this hassle - It works for me everytime now and I 'look after' 8 laptops running linux. The answer is a PCMCIA modem card - about $US60 from the Shack and a whole heap of other outlets. And the PCMCIA interface is freely available as source or binary, in fact I think it's even on the 3-CD download set. Worth considering? I've had no trouble with dial-up with a Zoom V92 PC Card (Series 1003 - Model #3075, Check it out at: http://www.zoom.com/products/dial_up_pc_card.html 2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions? My Acer 653LCI has one of those touchpads and has worked out of the box with MDK9.2, ok the scroll buttons don't work but it is quite useable otherwise. I beleive there is a generic Synaptics driver which can enable the scroll buttons. However, IMHO it's seems simpler to use a 'standard' ps/2 or usb mouse. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Howto update Mandrake 9.2 to 10.0CE
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:01, John Zoetebier wrote: What is the easiest way to update mandrake 9.2 to 10.0CE ? I have CDs for 10.0. My girlfriend did it straight up over the top of an existing 9.2 system (which was upgraded from 9.1 actually as well) No probs, no worries...but then again, she never has the problems I do.. stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products While you're chewing, think of STEVEN SPIELBERG'S bank account ... his will have the same effect as two STARCH BLOCKERS! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mount usb with granting access
EE wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:54, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: EE wrote: how can mount my usb drive with access privilege. When I wrote as a root mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb, I was able to access it the usb but I cannot read or write even though the /mnt/usb has drwxrwxrwx permission. Can anyone help mounting the drive as a root and grant the other users the write access to it. What version of Mandrake you are running may make a difference, but on 9.2 automount will automaticly mount most USB drives. Take a look at /mnt/removable, and see if it is there. I would guess that this is a FAT or VFAT file system, so if you realy want to mount it manualy, try something like: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb -o uid=500,umask=0 Mikkel Mikkel, I am using LM10.0 and the usb drive has 2 partisions one ex3 and the other is vfat (fat32). rgd Well, the mount command I gave you should work for the VFAT one - just change the partition number. The ext3 one should work with a standard mount command, as long as the user has write permision for the directory. (It should work the same as any other directory.) The only thing that would give you trouble is if you move it between machines, and the user number (UID) is different for the same user. From what I understand, 10.0 moved away from supermount, and to a differert automount program, so I can not help you with getting the drive to automount. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quick Time codecs
On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:54 am, Cezary Morga wrote: Hi. Where I can find quick time codecs to run .mov files on xine or mplayer? http://plf.zarb.org/ click on 'Packages', choose your Mandrake version. This site has everything Mandrake can't include for legal reasons. I also suggest you switch to the PLF xine and mplayer versions. They have capabilities Mandrake can't include (legal reasons again). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:38 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Yes, Everything just happened for me. Other than some initial problems when I first got DSL while usin 9.0, Mandrake (cooker) installs have always configured eth0 for me after I input the info during the install, and most all of the entries I leave blank, or at default. About all I enter, IIRC, is sbcglobal.net, my user ID and password. I don't start the connect at boot, and I believe that is the default. Then a rp-pppoe run of 'adsl-setup' to answer about a half dozen questions. One of which one is to enter DNS, I just type 'server' and DNS is automagically obtained from sbcglobal.net. Often after recent fresh installs (/home is saved), I don't even need to re-do a 'adsl-setup' I avoid usin Mandrake's 'drakconnect'. I believe recent Mandrake versions install rp-pppoe when you choose 'adsl' during install anyhow. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Thanks for your advise I know all of ppp is installed but I dont think its being used. -- Regards; Hoyt I forgot one thing Hoyt. SBC (at least here) requires I use my email address as my UserID. EG, [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of as rp-pppoe suggests, just tbrinkman. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quick Time codecs
On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:54 am, Cezary Morga wrote: -Hi. -Where I can find quick time codecs to run .mov files on xine or mplayer? The mplayer website has a huge list of codecs 'n stuff there. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:15:42 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: As far as resolv.conf, if you are running DCHD, then the file should get rebuilt with the information from your DSL modem. But it is possible that you have overridden this. Could you post the contence of /etc/sysconfig/networks, and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? (Also ifcfg-eth1 if you have one.) There are some logs in /var/logs that may help as well, but I don't remember exactly where Mandrake puts things, and you don't want to post /var/log/messages! Should I remove dhcp, since this is a single user desktop machine I have no use for networking unless necessary for other things. There is no eth1. No, you need it to configure the port to talk to your router. I don't have a router unless the DSL modem is acting as one. It is supposed to have a firewall? [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/networks cat: /etc/sysconfig/networks: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ Typo on my part - should be /etc/sysconfig/network cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= NEEDHOSTNAME=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ One thing I forgot to ask you - does your ISP use PPPoE? One way to check this is in Windows run winipcfg and check what interfaces you have. If you are using PPPoE, someone else on the list can probably walk you through the proper way of setting it up. Mikkel I don't have Windows installed but I don't think pppoe is involved. '/etc/ppp/resolver.conf' dosent exist the file '/etc/resolv.conf' does. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=192.168.0.1 NETWORKING=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search domain_not_set.invalid nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.1 I set this yesterday to the nameservers provided by sbcglobal but it always gets reset. I need a way to put the right nameservers in this file instead of my DSL modem. Hoyt, My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 - which defines my local network, yours _should look somewhat similar, being in mind that the ip numbers may be different. [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.5 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ My local loopback network (ipcfg-lo) is defined like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo DEVICE=lo IPADDR=127.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=127.0.0.0 # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) BROADCAST=127.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ Yours should not be any different. This is what I have in /etc/sysconfig/network [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=pilot.localhost.localdomain NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY= [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ And is what I would expect to see in yours, There's something not right about your network setup (not wrong, just not right). In just about every network setup I've seen HOSTNAME has been configured as above ie. the name of the machine on the local network Have you considered re-running the network configuration from Mandrake Control Centre for both your local network and your DSL setup now that you have the parameters supplied by your ISP I don't have DSL (only dial-up) and my etc/ppp/resolv.conf contains ONLY the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf nameserver 203.97.33.14 nameserver 203.97.37.14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ While /etc/resolv.conf contains: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search clear.net.nz localhost.localdomain nameserver 203.97.33.14 nameserver 203.97.37.14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ All of this stuff is initially setup when you do your network settings during installation. On my system /etc/resolv.conf is changed at every use, with what appears to be the content of /etc/ppp/resolv.conf being appended with a couple of blank lines then a commented line which says something like: # Temporary PPP, and then the content of /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. The appended part is removed when I disconnect. See if this helps any to nail it down, although I think re-running your network configuration wizards might be simpler than trying hit and miss edits to config files. But in saying this bear in mind what Tom Brinkman showed you in his responses in another part of this thread. Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to
Re: [newbie] router up Now?
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:33:54 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:11 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Okie Dokie I by brute force threats and vast quantities of beer have gotten my network up (partially) so far both units can connect to the net but not to each other. any help appreciated Connect the flubbergister to the quantum knot and turn on the power. You should now see the other side. Very carefully step through and you should be able to see each other now. No! No! No! You have to run the piddlemeister past the schmithousen before you connect the flubbergeister else the quatum doesn't knotrite Seriously though, I think we need a little more info to debug this, at least tell us what kind of beer you drank. Yeah, that should help. And even more important assure me it's at hasn't been buddied with frogs Cheers John (nz) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:28, John Rye wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:15:42 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 09:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: As far as resolv.conf, if you are running DCHD, then the file should get rebuilt with the information from your DSL modem. But it is possible that you have overridden this. Could you post the contence of /etc/sysconfig/networks, and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? (Also ifcfg-eth1 if you have one.) There are some logs in /var/logs that may help as well, but I don't remember exactly where Mandrake puts things, and you don't want to post /var/log/messages! Should I remove dhcp, since this is a single user desktop machine I have no use for networking unless necessary for other things. There is no eth1. No, you need it to configure the port to talk to your router. I don't have a router unless the DSL modem is acting as one. It is supposed to have a firewall? [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/networks cat: /etc/sysconfig/networks: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ Typo on my part - should be /etc/sysconfig/network cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= NEEDHOSTNAME=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ One thing I forgot to ask you - does your ISP use PPPoE? One way to check this is in Windows run winipcfg and check what interfaces you have. If you are using PPPoE, someone else on the list can probably walk you through the proper way of setting it up. Mikkel I don't have Windows installed but I don't think pppoe is involved. '/etc/ppp/resolver.conf' dosent exist the file '/etc/resolv.conf' does. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=192.168.0.1 NETWORKING=yes [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search domain_not_set.invalid nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.1 I set this yesterday to the nameservers provided by sbcglobal but it always gets reset. I need a way to put the right nameservers in this file instead of my DSL modem. Hoyt, My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 - which defines my local network, yours _should look somewhat similar, being in mind that the ip numbers may be different. [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.5 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ My local loopback network (ipcfg-lo) is defined like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo DEVICE=lo IPADDR=127.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=127.0.0.0 # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) BROADCAST=127.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ Yours should not be any different. This is what I have in /etc/sysconfig/network [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=pilot.localhost.localdomain NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY= [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ And is what I would expect to see in yours, There's something not right about your network setup (not wrong, just not right). In just about every network setup I've seen HOSTNAME has been configured as above ie. the name of the machine on the local network Have you considered re-running the network configuration from Mandrake Control Centre for both your local network and your DSL setup now that you have the parameters supplied by your ISP I don't have DSL (only dial-up) and my etc/ppp/resolv.conf contains ONLY the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf nameserver 203.97.33.14 nameserver 203.97.37.14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ While /etc/resolv.conf contains: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search clear.net.nz localhost.localdomain nameserver 203.97.33.14 nameserver 203.97.37.14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists]$ All of this stuff is initially setup when you do your network settings during installation. On my system /etc/resolv.conf is changed at every use, with what appears to be the content of /etc/ppp/resolv.conf being appended with a couple of blank lines then a commented line which says something like: # Temporary PPP, and then the content of /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. The appended part is removed when I disconnect. See if this helps any to nail it down, although I think re-running your network configuration wizards might be simpler than trying hit and miss edits to config files. But in saying this bear in mind what Tom
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:35, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:38 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Yes, Everything just happened for me. Other than some initial problems when I first got DSL while usin 9.0, Mandrake (cooker) installs have always configured eth0 for me after I input the info during the install, and most all of the entries I leave blank, or at default. About all I enter, IIRC, is sbcglobal.net, my user ID and password. I don't start the connect at boot, and I believe that is the default. Then a rp-pppoe run of 'adsl-setup' to answer about a half dozen questions. One of which one is to enter DNS, I just type 'server' and DNS is automagically obtained from sbcglobal.net. Often after recent fresh installs (/home is saved), I don't even need to re-do a 'adsl-setup' I avoid usin Mandrake's 'drakconnect'. I believe recent Mandrake versions install rp-pppoe when you choose 'adsl' during install anyhow. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Thanks for your advise I know all of ppp is installed but I dont think its being used. -- Regards; Hoyt I forgot one thing Hoyt. SBC (at least here) requires I use my email address as my UserID. EG, [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of as rp-pppoe suggests, just tbrinkman. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American I noticed that my tag line on the terminal changed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ I suspected that was my user ID provided by sbc, (in dot notation). 67.65.249.187. Yahoo accepts the email address. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
RAT wrote: Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :) 1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out that I have Conexant chipset and found a driver at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ but it's not for free and it doesn't even seems to work. Is there another driver for my modem which works? 2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions? OI! YOU'VE HIJACKED ME BLEEDIN THREAD!! -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI - An infinity of Dependencies
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Have you tried added Charles Edwards list to your URPMI and using his Xfce4 RPM's? I have them installed here and they work fine for me. http://www.eslrahc.com Yep, but it doesn't deal with the dependency question. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI - An infinity of Dependencies
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:52:14 +0100 Graham Watkins wrote: Yep, but it doesn't deal with the dependency question. It will, but you will need to have as sources 1) My site 2) 10.0 Main 3) 10.0 Contrib 4) PLF The easiest way is to use http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/, there you can set-up all the needed sources other than mine. Charles -- Most public domain software is free, at least at first glance. -- Mandrake Linux 10.0 on BigBoy #184142 Registered Linux user #182463 *http://www.eslrahc.com* 2.6.5-1.tmb.6mdkenterprise -- pgp66A8pRdLY1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Audigy LS
On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:14, Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi I installed an Audigy LS and MDK 10 CE does not pick it up in the module (shows unknown) in harddrake. I also try to run the config tool but nothing happens. There are no drivers on the creative site for this. Yes. Creative has only Linux drivers for certain cards. Unfortunately Creative also doesn't give all necessary information to the ALSA team to write drivers for all cards. So before buying a card you should consult hardware databases whether your card is supported. There are hardware databases for Mandrake. For soundcards check out http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ but note that you may have to get a newer ALSA version then is in your distro and have to compile the driver from source. Also note that 'supported' doesn't necessarily mean all functionality (like S/PDIF) is supported. You can complain to Creative about lack of Linux support :) Anyone have any luck installing the audigy LS ? What other tools other than alsaconf are there to configure a soundcard ? or could perhaps someone send me their /etc/modprobe.conf file that has a audigy card installed. You seem lucky: - [Alsa-user] Need some people to test Creative Audigy LS support. From: James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: alsa-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06/05/04 16:27 I have created an ALSA driver for the Creative Audigy LS. I would like reports back as to how well, or not it works for you. The driver and instructions for installing it are on http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa Read the install.txt file to find out which other files you need from that web site. Be aware that it could crash your machine, although it does not crash mine, but make sure you have saved any important work to disc before trying it. E.g. sync Thanks James --- HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Thursday 01 July 2004 12:18 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I forgot one thing Hoyt. SBC (at least here) requires I use my email address as my UserID. EG, [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of as rp-pppoe suggests, just tbrinkman. I noticed that my tag line on the terminal changed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ I suspected that was my user ID provided by sbc, (in dot notation). 67.65.249.187. Yahoo accepts the email address. -- Regards; Hoyt Which makes me suspect your entire network is misconfigured. The only time my bash prompt got changed such as yours was early on in my DSL experience (2 years ago). Even then I had always edited /etc/bashrc to eliminate 'localhost' from my bash prompt. [ $PS1 = \\s-\\v\\\$ ] PS1= \W \\$I knew there was somethin wrong when I got a promtp like yours, and my dsl connection was fubar'd at the same time. Maybe you've got hostname screwed up somewhere along the line? I don't fool with it because it can break so many things. There's several hands on this list that would be better at helpin you than me. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audigy LS
Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:14, Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi I installed an Audigy LS and MDK 10 CE does not pick it up in the module (shows unknown) in harddrake. I also try to run the config tool but nothing happens. There are no drivers on the creative site for this. Yes. Creative has only Linux drivers for certain cards. Unfortunately Creative also doesn't give all necessary information to the ALSA team to write drivers for all cards. So before buying a card you should consult hardware databases whether your card is supported. There are hardware databases for Mandrake. For soundcards check out http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ but note that you may have to get a newer ALSA version then is in your distro and have to compile the driver from source. Also note that 'supported' doesn't necessarily mean all functionality (like S/PDIF) is supported. You can complain to Creative about lack of Linux support :) Anyone have any luck installing the audigy LS ? What other tools other than alsaconf are there to configure a soundcard ? or could perhaps someone send me their /etc/modprobe.conf file that has a audigy card installed. You seem lucky: - [Alsa-user] Need some people to test Creative Audigy LS support. From: James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: alsa-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06/05/04 16:27 I have created an ALSA driver for the Creative Audigy LS. I would like reports back as to how well, or not it works for you. The driver and instructions for installing it are on http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa Read the install.txt file to find out which other files you need from that web site. Be aware that it could crash your machine, although it does not crash mine, but make sure you have saved any important work to disc before trying it. E.g. sync Thanks James --- HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks for the info, i actually was trying the superbug info. Do i have to make the dir ./alsa-driver/pci/emu10k1 in root or does it exist ? When i patch patch -p1 ../audigyls.diff.txt i get a error : can't find file to patch at input line 8 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? and : patching file audigyls.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 26. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file audigyls.c.rej can't find file to patch at input line 30 I did look at the hcl before buying the card and saw audigy so i though hey magic man. -- Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.
On Thursday 01 July 2004 13:47, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 12:18 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I forgot one thing Hoyt. SBC (at least here) requires I use my email address as my UserID. EG, [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of as rp-pppoe suggests, just tbrinkman. I noticed that my tag line on the terminal changed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ I suspected that was my user ID provided by sbc, (in dot notation). 67.65.249.187. Yahoo accepts the email address. -- Regards; Hoyt Which makes me suspect your entire network is misconfigured. The only time my bash prompt got changed such as yours was early on in my DSL experience (2 years ago). Even then I had always edited /etc/bashrc to eliminate 'localhost' from my bash prompt. [ $PS1 = \\s-\\v\\\$ ] PS1= \W \\$I knew there was somethin wrong when I got a promtp like yours, and my dsl connection was fubar'd at the same time. Maybe you've got hostname screwed up somewhere along the line? I don't fool with it because it can break so many things. There's several hands on this list that would be better at helpin you than me. Thats likely. I got some advise on changeing it but didnt implement the change, maybe its time. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:11 pm, David Robertson wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 14:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three download mandrake 9.2 CD's sent to me by a friend, and there is no kernel source that I am able to find. Kernel doc, yes. Do you doubt this? I attempted to download the kernel source from the mandrake site on dial up, and if memory serves it was 40 MB or something close thereto. I had a great deal of trouble trying to download it, as it kept dropping out, and never managed to get it. My ISP cuts me off after every five hours on line. The Internet speed often drops to the 19000kbps minimum it is allowed. making it even more difficult. Do you, doubt this? Why would I want to run Mandrake 9.2 with an older kernel? Would that make it or slmodem driver run better? Keep your hat on! No, I don't doubt what you say. Just remember that it can be difficult on a mailing list - especially a newbie one - to tell a person's level of expertise. I just thought that you might have missed the kernel source on the cd's. Only trying to help David Sorry David, I wasn't wearing my hat at the time either :-) lol -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:44 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 05:50 pm, RAT wrote: Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :) 1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out that I have Conexant chipset and found a driver at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ but it's not for free and it doesn't even seems to work. Is there another driver for my modem which works? 2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions? Thx Radek I have an Acer 1355LC laptop, win modem of course and haven't yet been able to compile the driver because it is running Mandrake 9.2 and this has no kernel source. Which I need to compile the driver and I am on dialup, which is much like two tin cans with a string in the middle connecting them. But worse, there is no serial port that will allow connection of a hardware modem. So I have to keep it as dual boot. Windows wins again for a while in this instance. I refuse to pay for a driver when I have already paid for the modem with the laptop, and the driver comes supplied for windows. I have also not been able to get the sound to work. Have found a terrific howto for this laptop, but it needs a compiled kernel to work. You may want to check to make sure what you need isn't already compiled as a module with the stock kernel. The touchpad works a treat without any alterations, but I think that that you can download a driver from the synaptics site I did this just in case but didn't need it. Google for it as I have kept no record of it. But possibly, you will also have to compile a kernel to get both the modem driver and the touchpad driver to work. I actually think this is a prerequisite for Linux. NO, compiling your own kernel is not a prerequisite for Linux. While I have done it before to fine-tune a kernel for a specific machine, it is seldom necessary. About the only thing I have to compile for is the PCMCIA SCSI card, because it is not susported in the 2.4.x kernels. Good luck with it, just like the rest of us, don't give up. Keep wearing away at it. If you realy want to compile your own, you will probably want to get the source for the latest kernel. On a dialup, you may want to get Netscape's download manager, or wget for windows. Both will let you resume abouted downloads. For wget, take a look at: http://allserv.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/ Mikkel Thanks Mikkel, Konqueror also allows me to resume, but when the mirror site doesn't drop me off, then my ISP runs out of the time it allows me to remain connected, so its a drop off, resume. drop off, resume, reconnect, drop off, resume ad infinitum, then can't connect to the mirror or something similar then sometime later, try again, resume, drop off. I hope to have, from the same friend that I have 9.2, Mandrake 10 in my hand soon and hope the kernel source is on that DVD or CD, and then all will be well I have never had any problems with Linux, three CD's are all I have ever got in the past, and then download smaller apps from the net [ drop off, resume, etc.. ] but never exposed a lappy to Linux before. The first time that I could ever afford one, other than the first machine ever owned some 8 years ago, never even heard of Linux then. Windows 3.1 was the thing. 3 floppys to install it, what great wonder and joy. There is always something to learn when you live in the third world part of a first world country. There are others less fortunate though so I don't want to complain, other than to our government who is after all responsible for the situation we live in. But the population in the bush is to small to make an impact. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 01:54 am, John Rye wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:50:42 +0200 RAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm totally new in Linux and kind of lost :) 1st - the modem in my laptop doesn't work. Ok, it's WinModem, but I search several forums and find some solutions. I've figured out that I have Conexant chipset and found a driver at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ but it's not for free and it doesn't even seems to work. Is there another driver for my modem which works? For what is worth, I have no end of hassles with winmodems in laptops - there is quite simple if a little costly way around this hassle - It works for me everytime now and I 'look after' 8 laptops running linux. The answer is a PCMCIA modem card - about $US60 from the Shack and a whole heap of other outlets. And the PCMCIA interface is freely available as source or binary, in fact I think it's even on the 3-CD download set. Worth considering? I've had no trouble with dial-up with a Zoom V92 PC Card (Series 1003 - Model #3075, Check it out at: http://www.zoom.com/products/dial_up_pc_card.html 2nd - my laptop has touchpad with scroll buttons. I also searched forums and I wasn't sucessful. I found a driver for my touchpad but it killed it so I had to go back to my PS2 driver. Any sugestions? My Acer 653LCI has one of those touchpads and has worked out of the box with MDK9.2, ok the scroll buttons don't work but it is quite useable otherwise. I beleive there is a generic Synaptics driver which can enable the scroll buttons. However, IMHO it's seems simpler to use a 'standard' ps/2 or usb mouse. Cheers John Thanks John, I live in Oz but should be able to get a PCMCIA modem card even here I reckon. I don't know how it works, and the cost will be considerably more I am certain, but will give that a try, if I can't get it working with 10. Thanks for that advice. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audigy LS
On Thursday 01 July 2004 21:13, Marek Pawinski wrote: Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:14, Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi I installed an Audigy LS and MDK 10 CE does not pick it up in the module (shows unknown) in harddrake. I also try to run the config tool but nothing happens. There are no drivers on the creative site for this. Yes. Creative has only Linux drivers for certain cards. Unfortunately Creative also doesn't give all necessary information to the ALSA team to write drivers for all cards. So before buying a card you should consult hardware databases whether your card is supported. There are hardware databases for Mandrake. For soundcards check out http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ but note that you may have to get a newer ALSA version then is in your distro and have to compile the driver from source. Also note that 'supported' doesn't necessarily mean all functionality (like S/PDIF) is supported. You can complain to Creative about lack of Linux support :) Anyone have any luck installing the audigy LS ? What other tools other than alsaconf are there to configure a soundcard ? or could perhaps someone send me their /etc/modprobe.conf file that has a audigy card installed. You seem lucky: --- -- [Alsa-user] Need some people to test Creative Audigy LS support. From: James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: alsa-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06/05/04 16:27 I have created an ALSA driver for the Creative Audigy LS. I would like reports back as to how well, or not it works for you. The driver and instructions for installing it are on http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa Read the install.txt file to find out which other files you need from that web site. Be aware that it could crash your machine, although it does not crash mine, but make sure you have saved any important work to disc before trying it. E.g. sync Thanks James --- HTH, -Frans Thanks for the info, i actually was trying the superbug info. Do i have to make the dir ./alsa-driver/pci/emu10k1 in root or does it exist ? I think it is created in the directory you are in when you untar the source. When i patch patch -p1 ../audigyls.diff.txt i get a error : can't find file to patch at input line 8 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? Where you in the alsa-driver directory? and : patching file audigyls.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 26. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file audigyls.c.rej can't find file to patch at input line 30 I did look at the hcl before buying the card and saw audigy so i though hey magic man. Look very carefully at the exact hardware you buy. Audigy is a success _as a name_ so many of their cards will have 'audigy' in their name. Hardware differences can be subtle or irrelevant between differently named cards and _one_ character in the name can mean a completely different chipset. That's not limited to Creative AFAIK... Have fun! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq Pressario and Mandrake 9.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mikkel, Konqueror also allows me to resume, but when the mirror site doesn't drop me off, then my ISP runs out of the time it allows me to remain connected, so its a drop off, resume. drop off, resume, reconnect, drop off, resume ad infinitum, then can't connect to the mirror or something similar then sometime later, try again, resume, drop off. I hope to have, from the same friend that I have 9.2, Mandrake 10 in my hand soon and hope the kernel source is on that DVD or CD, and then all will be well I have never had any problems with Linux, three CD's are all I have ever got in the past, and then download smaller apps from the net [ drop off, resume, etc.. ] but never exposed a lappy to Linux before. The first time that I could ever afford one, other than the first machine ever owned some 8 years ago, never even heard of Linux then. Windows 3.1 was the thing. 3 floppys to install it, what great wonder and joy. There is always something to learn when you live in the third world part of a first world country. There are others less fortunate though so I don't want to complain, other than to our government who is after all responsible for the situation we live in. But the population in the bush is to small to make an impact. Charlie. My mistake. I figured that with you trying to get the modem working, that you had to connect with Windows. Getting an OS installed on a laptop is always a chalange, unless you are using a restore setup that came with the laptop. Even installing Windows on a laptop usualy involves drivers from the Internet. On the four laptops I have played with, installing Linux has better then installing Windows... Winmodems are a problem with both OSs, unless you have the drivers... In any case, good luck with 10.0. I need to spring for the CDs, or hijace someones internet connection to download them. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:49:30 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does 'aconnect -o' say? And have you unmuted and raised the volume of something like synth in alsamixer? [EMAIL PROTECTED] dfox]$ aconnect -o client 64: 'Rawmidi 0 - EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)' [type=kernel] 0 'EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)' client 65: 'Emu10k1 WaveTable' [type=kernel] 0 'Emu10k1 Port 0 ' 1 'Emu10k1 Port 1 ' 2 'Emu10k1 Port 2 ' 3 'Emu10k1 Port 3 ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] dfox]$ I don't see anything that's related to synth in alsamixer nor in kmix. -Frans (puzzled) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] IM clents and webcams
Does anyone know of a Linux instant messaging client that will also support a webcam, preferably using the Yahoo protocol? I'm away from my family for a few months and my daughter likes to use Yahoo, so it would be good to be able to chat with her in this way. I'm running 10.00 PowerPack. David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MSFT Connecting to MSN with linux
A friend wants to try using linux on his pc but the main hang up is a MSN account he has had for a long time and wants to keep accessing. I have never heard of anything in linux that will allow you to authenticate and use MSN but I thought I would throw it out here and see what came back. I would really like to remove another pc from billy. Roly -- MicroSoft - The company that made the internet unsafe! Linux Counter #241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MSFT Connecting to MSN with linux
I current use Kopete, works well, you could try GAIM as another one Richard Quoting Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A friend wants to try using linux on his pc but the main hang up is a MSN account he has had for a long time and wants to keep accessing. I have never heard of anything in linux that will allow you to authenticate and use MSN but I thought I would throw it out here and see what came back. I would really like to remove another pc from billy. Roly This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MSFT Connecting to MSN with linux
Hi, I'm not sure if you were asking about MSN Messenger or MSN online service, so I'll try both: MSN MESSENGER GAIM is my personal favorite (and a lot of others as well). It not only does MSN but AIM/ICQ and Yahoo as well. It's one of the top sourceforge projects at: http://gaim.sourceforge.net I believe it is included on the Mandrake 10 CDs, or if you have urpmi set up to an FTP mirror, all you have to do is type urpmi gaim on a shell prompt and it will be installed automatically. If you don't know about urpmi, it's what runs behind the Mandrake Update tool. See this Wiki and learn it well. It is one of the top 5 things you'll come to love about Mandrake: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi Enjoy! GAIM a great client (and works on Windows/Mac/etc. too). As far as MSN online, I'd be highly dubious that there exists a client, however I thought it was just dialup or broadband service like anyone else (and not AOL-style proprietary content engine) so KPPP or any other dial-up client should work fine. I did a quick google and found a few posts from people who said there were able to connect to MSN. However, YMMV (your mileage may vary) Hope this helps, __ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA JWG Networks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) Phone: (208) 631-5440 -- Original Message Follows -- RH A friend wants to try using linux on his pc but the main hang up is a MSN RH account he has had for a long time and wants to keep accessing. RH I have never heard of anything in linux that will allow you to authenticate RH and use MSN but I thought I would throw it out here and see what came back. RH I would really like to remove another pc from billy. RH Roly smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
