[expert-it] modem adsl

2001-05-25 Thread a.marcedone
Io uso l'alcatel home. Ma non c'e' problema, con adsl: la maggior parte dei modem li devi attaccare ad una scheda di rete. Io uso una 3com (ottima) ma puoi prenderne una compatibile. Non comprare quelli con l'uscita USB. Ciao - Original Message - From: Daniele Bamberghi [EMAIL

[expert] Problem Teles ISDN 16.3c (isa pnp) with mandrake 8.0

2001-05-25 Thread John Seiler
Hello, i have a Problem with my ISDNcard from teles. The same card with the same parameters will work fine under Suse 7.0 and Red Hat 7.0. Under MD 8.0 it will not establisht a internet connection. here are some infos /var/log/messages localhost kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... May

[expert] Configuring VMware for raw disk?

2001-05-25 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I've been trying to configure VMware for my Windows 98 /mnt/windows partition. I have an AMD K6-2 400, 128 meg of RAM. Installation of the VMware rpm went off perfectly. I am speaking of the interactive installation procedure (I think it's called the file vmware-config.pl). I

[expert] Mandrake 8.0 and executables that don't.

2001-05-25 Thread Will Woods
Hi, I have just done a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 after having used 7.2 with no problems for some time. I am trying to install two different commercial symbolic math packages, Macsyma Pro 2.4 and Maple V. Both packages seem to install fine, but the executables they install are not

Re: [expert] USB startup question

2001-05-25 Thread Jerry Sternesky
Neal, This drove me insane for awhile and then I finally nailed it. I would type service usb status and get not running, yet it was starting the service at boot. what I had to do was create a file in /etc/sysconfig called usb. The contents of the file are as follows: USB=yes MOUSE=no

[expert] ximian mess

2001-05-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, Ive just installed ximian and have made a right mess of it!.. Does anyone know what the configuration applet is called. I hope to be able to start it from an xterm within ximian and undo the damage. The theory is I have selected multiple windows which are overlaying the main window

Re: [expert] adding second Hardisk

2001-05-25 Thread pedro marocas
From: Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pedro marocas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:05:12 -0400 pedro marocas wrote: Hi. After install a second hd(yes, i configure it in BIOS as a second master, i lost the jumper:( ),

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and executables that don't.

2001-05-25 Thread Hoyt
On Friday 25 May 2001 05:01 am, Will Woods wrote: Hi, I have just done a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 after having used 7.2 with no problems for some time. I am trying to install two different commercial symbolic math packages, Macsyma Pro 2.4 and Maple V. Both packages seem to install

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and executables that don't.

2001-05-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have run into this several times myself. With me, the latest such episode occurred with sixpack, a bibliography application for lyx. I installed it, which went fine. I then try to run it and get the same message you do. I then do a which executable and it properly identifies the

Re: [expert] getting time right

2001-05-25 Thread D. R. Evans
On 24 May 01, at 21:26, Stephen Boulet wrote: I really like using webmin for this. There is a nice module to synchronize your system time and hardware time with a time server. Done that. Makes no difference. (Except that date -u now gives an accurately wrong time :-) ) The Webmin thing

Re: [expert] network printing from SCO Unix to local printer on Mandrake

2001-05-25 Thread Lars Nordin
This would be better asked on one of the comp.unix.sco.* newsgroups but here is the answer anyway :) If you are using the scoadmin GUI, realize that it can only scan for other SCO boxes with printers (and I believe that it even says that some where on the menu or documentation). I have

[expert] Upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 over network?

2001-05-25 Thread Brian Hartman
Hi, all. I would like to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0. Unfortunately, I don't have a CD-ROM burner, so I can't just download the ISO and install. Is there a way to do an installation over a network (from an FTP site, for example? TIA.

Re: [expert] Upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 over network?

2001-05-25 Thread Julia A. Case
You can download the iso and mount it with the loopback device and run live_upgrade Julia Quoting Brian Hartman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, all. I would like to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0. Unfortunately, I don't have a CD-ROM burner, so I can't just download the ISO and install. Is there a

Re: [expert] Oracle 8i on Linux Mandrake - SOLVED

2001-05-25 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Fox wrote: A friend of mine got it to work this week. First: unset LANG unset LANGUAGE unset LC_* Any environment variable that starts with LC_ you need to unset. That will fix your SIGSEGV. Next, switch to GNOME to run the installer if some buttons don't work. Some of the

Re: [expert] email form to staroffice apps

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Belanger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a student at a Southern California University. I need to know how to transfer rough data in an email document (text-based data) to the spreadsheets or database appications in Staroffice... I know ms access has some of these capabilites (as I done it before),

Re: [expert] Configuring VMware for raw disk?

2001-05-25 Thread Woody Green
Benjamin Sher wrote: First obvious question: Do you RUN Vmware with hdc as raw disk with /mnt/windows MOUNTED OR UNMOUNTED? That is, do you have to UNmount /mnt/windows every time you run VMware in this case or do you run Vmware with /mnt/windows mounted? You can run it mounted but

Re: [expert] Configuring VMware for raw disk?

2001-05-25 Thread Julia A. Case
Have you or anyone else had luck running VMWare under the new 2.4.x kernels? I can't get the modules to compile Thanks Quoting Benjamin Sher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Dear friends: I've been trying to configure VMware for my Windows 98 /mnt/windows partition. I have an AMD K6-2 400, 128 meg

Re: [expert] getting time right

2001-05-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach D. R. Evans am Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:30:20PM -0600: Fine. Now please tell me how you did it :-) Hmm, well, I don't know. I just selected it at install time, and that's it. Maybe the thing is that my hardware time is running on UTC? Maybe you should try that? And DrakConf also

Re: [expert] getting time right

2001-05-25 Thread D. R. Evans
On 25 May 01, at 22:11, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach D. R. Evans am Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:30:20PM -0600: Fine. Now please tell me how you did it :-) Hmm, well, I don't know. I just selected it at install time, and that's it. Maybe the thing is that my hardware time is running on

[expert] Tuxracer with NVidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2?

2001-05-25 Thread Michael Leone
Hey all I downloaded tuxracer .61 SRC RPM from rpmfind.net (I had to use the RH 7.1 sources, since all the Mandrake sources groused about not finding libSDL, even tho I did install it), and rebuilt it (Linux Mandrake 7.2). Anyway, the RH7.1 RPM rebuilt fine, but I couldn't install it, since it

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and executables that don't.

2001-05-25 Thread Hoyt
On Friday 25 May 2001 10:43 am, Will Woods wrote: I seem to get a conflict with ldconfig-2.2.2-4mdk when I try and install it. Can I force it to install (and is that advisable?) Thanks for your help. Will I have not yet applied the fix to my computer, but a friend has to his (and

[expert] Wrong memory detection

2001-05-25 Thread Sarang Lakare
Hi, I am having problems with correct memory detection on two machines. Both machines have 1.5GB and LM8.0 on both of these detects 1.0GB. On one of the machines, 7.2 was installed earlier and it detected 1.5GB correctly. 1. ASUS K7V (VIA) Motherboard 2. SGI Zx10 workstation I have tried

Re: [expert] Tuxracer with NVidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2?

2001-05-25 Thread Todd Flinders
Yeah, I've been fighting similar problems for weeks. I have been trying to compile smpeg 4.2 or 4.3 and they won't find GL. They always disable opengl support because it cannot be found. You might try compiling the nvidia drivers from tar.gz. I was going to try that next. Most applications

Re: [expert] getting time right

2001-05-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach D. R. Evans am Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:35:31PM -0600: Yeah; I was hoping to avoid that, but all the people who seem to have Uhm, why did you want to avoid that? Long, long ago *G* when I was still running Windows occiasionally, I also had my clock set to UTC. Now, since Windows

Re: [expert] getting time right

2001-05-25 Thread D. R. Evans
Got it working! But it sure doesn't seem very logical. 1. Set BIOS clock to UTC. 2. Set /etc/localtime to link to the correct timezone. 3. Set UTC=false (yes, false!) in /etc/sysconfig/clock Now date and date -u both work, as does the regular clock on the desktop. Even though I received

Re: [expert] Tuxracer with NVidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2?

2001-05-25 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi did you install Nvidia's drivers as rpm or from a tar file? (just for curiousity, if you installed it from rpm try 'rpm -qf /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1'). it doesn't really matter, if that's the only thing missing then just install it with the 'nodeps' option: 'rpm -ivh --nodeps rpm file'.

Re: [expert] Tuxracer with NVidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2?

2001-05-25 Thread Michael Leone
On 25 May 2001 21:44:55 +, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi did you install Nvidia's drivers as rpm or from a tar file? (just for curiousity, if you installed it from rpm try 'rpm -qf /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1'). I never install NVidia's stuff from anything but tarballs. I have 3 different kernel

Re: [expert] Upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 over network?

2001-05-25 Thread s
Find you a site close by and download the network.img file and direct copy it to a floppy. dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0 (or is it /mnt/floppy?) make sure you have the exact address to the ftp site/Mandrake directory written down for reference cause it don't hunt for you. This is a pretty

[expert] Problems with my page...

2001-05-25 Thread Craig Sprout
Thanks to all of you who have taken time to contribute your comments and help to my little FAQ project. I hope to get some more work done on it this weekend, and hopefully double the current number of FAQ's. I had some problems over the past 24 hours, and as much as I would like to say that it

Re: [expert] getting time right

2001-05-25 Thread David Rankin
D. R. Evans wrote: On 24 May 01, at 21:05, David Rankin wrote: D. R. Evans wrote: On 25 May 01, at 0:47, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach D. R. Evans am Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:28:29PM -0600: This causes date to respond correctly, and the clock on the screen to

Re: [expert] getting time right

2001-05-25 Thread Ron Stodden
Hopefully someone reading will have some additionaly insight as to why time is slightly warped in our systems. One of my Mandrake 8.0 machines suddendly put itself on UTC and I was not able to restore it to running the hwclock on localtime. Much later: By copying from the good machine I was

Re: [expert] Upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 over network?

2001-05-25 Thread s
Yep when you're ready to install. It will work exactly the same as if you had cdroms in there (except for setting up your network parameters and ftp site info first). -s On Friday 25 May 2001 09:12 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2001, s wrote: After I do this, I just boot from the floppy?