Re: [expert] Help! devfs related? Strange behaviour of 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez
Hi, It seems that kernel 2.4.13 has corrected the supermount support, you may want to try it. I installed it a couple of days ago and I haven't detected any problem yet, with or without devfs. I still have to do a trick for X windows to detect my PS2 mouse, going to text mode and back to

Re: [expert] CD not working any more???

2001-11-02 Thread Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez
The easiest thing for you would be to go to rpmfind.net: fr2.rpmfind.net (for instace, it's the fastest for me, I'am in Spain) and look for 'kernel' You will find a mandrake package called 2.4.13-13mdk, download it and install it with rpm. This is a precompiled kernel with all the modules.

Re: [expert] Cameras

2001-11-02 Thread Mitch Thompson
On Thursday 01 November 2001 08:30, you wrote: Do you have the modules usb-uhci and usbcore loaded? No, I have usb-ohci and usbcore loaded. usb-uhci fails to load with dependency errors. So do I. Actually it mounts as /dev/cdrom2 but that is symlinked to scd0. There are 2048 device

[expert] Installation floppies

2001-11-02 Thread Jay
Hello All, I forgot to make the auto install floppy when I installed Mandrake. Can these be made after installation?? Thanks in advance. Jay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Xinerama on Mandrake 8.0 with Matrox G400

2001-11-02 Thread Tim Holmes
You have the wrong driver. Head to the webpage. www.matrox.com/mga Follow the links and download two things. The PowerDesk software, and the beta driver for the DualHead. Install the driver, then install the PowerDesk software. Run the PowerDesk software to configure your DualHead, then

[expert] Find

2001-11-02 Thread Julio Rodriguez
Hi everyone... Im trying to list only the files that that have a size between 4000 and 6000... I have no idea of how to do it!.. I read the find man and only see something like this: find -size +4000 or find -size -6000 How do I connect that two commands to search files between that sizes?

RE: [expert] WinXP and SAMBA

2001-11-02 Thread Todd Zashin
Thank you all for your responses regarding XP and Samba. We will take a look how we are implementing SAMBA in 8.0 and what will be the necessary steps to take to either upgrade SAMBA to work with XP or change XP to work with 8.0 SAMBA. I appreciate your time and help. Thrashin -Original

Re: [expert] Find

2001-11-02 Thread Alan W Jurgensen
hi Julio, Not sure if find can do it on it's own... but in UNIX, no tool is on it's own! This will work: find . -type f -printf %s:\t%p\n | grep ^[456][0-9][0-9][0-9]: good luck. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:03:44 -0400 Julio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone... Im trying to list

Re: [expert] Find

2001-11-02 Thread Alan W Jurgensen
man find would tell you that: -type f = show only files (not directories) -printf = custom output format %s = file size \t = tab := colon %p = file with path \n = newline and the grep command: ^= start searching for string at beginnin of a line

RE: [expert] Find

2001-11-02 Thread Rony Shapiro
Hi Julio, Using grep is a nice hack, and unix-ey in spirit, but in this case, find already supports what you want directly If you're looking for files between 4000 and 6000 bytes long in directory dir, you'd use find dir -size +4000c -and -size -6000c -print ('c' means the size is in

RE: [expert] Find

2001-11-02 Thread Dave Salovesh
Not sure if find can do it on it's own... but in UNIX, no tool is on it's own! This will work: find . -type f -printf %s:\t%p\n | grep ^[456][0-9][0-9][0-9]: That will match anything from 4000 to 6999. But: find . -type f -printf %s:\t%p\n | grep ^[45][0-9][0-9][0-9]: will match

Re: [expert] Find

2001-11-02 Thread Alan W Jurgensen
Dave, good point. use egrep with logical or | : find . -type f -printf %s:\t%p\n | egrep ^[45][0-9][0-9][0-9]:|^6000: On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:06:45 -0500 Dave Salovesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if find can do it on it's own... but in UNIX, no tool is on it's own! This will work:

[expert] installing mandrake 8.1 over nfs or ftp

2001-11-02 Thread faisal gillani
well i want to install mandrake 8.1 over NFS or FTP on my clients mainly cause my clients dont have a cdrom. so can anyone guide me on this ? also i understand that mandrake installation have more then 1 cdrom so if i dump thoes cds on my NFS FTP server what order they should be in ? i mean that

Re: [expert] Installation floppies

2001-11-02 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
On Friday 02 November 2001 06:30 am, you wrote: Hello All, I forgot to make the auto install floppy when I installed Mandrake. Can these be made after installation?? Thanks in advance. Jay Yes..! mkbootdisk usage: mkbootdisk [--version] [--noprompt] [--mkinitrdargs args]

RE: [expert] WinXP and SAMBA

2001-11-02 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Hmm... I had multiple entries for my ControlSet, I.E. ControlSet.001, ControlSet.002, etc. I tried changing all of them, in both directions (at the same time, just to be sure) and still no luck. Thanks though. |-Original Message- |From: Michael Malinak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [expert] Find

2001-11-02 Thread Daniel Woods
Hi Julio, Using grep is a nice hack, and unix-ey in spirit, but in this case, find already supports what you want directly If you're looking for files between 4000 and 6000 bytes long in directory dir, you'd use find dir -size +4000c -and -size -6000c -print Actually, this

[expert] monitors

2001-11-02 Thread Greg Sarsons
I've got a new monitor that I do not see on the list how do I go about putting in the Freqs for it? There is no custom monitor selection. I'm running XF86 4.x.x I remember xconfigure I think was the name where I could specify the numbers myself. Once I do get the monitor up and running

Re: [expert] Migrating from 7.1 to 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread root
Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Hello there. Today we upgraded a customer's PC; it used to run Mandrake 7.1 now it's running 8.1. We did a clean install; in fact, it's a new disk drive :) I basically need answer to two things 1) Is the default Kernel not configured to route traffic ? 2) Is

Re: [expert] monitors

2001-11-02 Thread Mark D'voo
there is a customs monitor, it's under genereic monitor and you can choose one with the resolution refresh rate and anything else you need mark On Friday 02 November 2001 02:07 pm, you wrote: I've got a new monitor that I do not see on the list how do I go about putting in the Freqs for it?

Re: [expert] monitors

2001-11-02 Thread Greg Sarsons
I see the custom monitor selection but you have to use the predefined monitor selections. For example my monitor will do 50-160Hz in vertical. The closest section is the one that is 40-150. This isn't close enough as it is out of range. There is another on that is 50-100 but well this is way

RE: [expert] cable modem question

2001-11-02 Thread Battista, JohnX
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/support/linksys_router_help.htm#@Home Google.comits your friend.. Bookmark it -Original Message- From: Todd Zashin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] cable modem question I

[expert] cups

2001-11-02 Thread Greg Sarsons
I know I say this somewhere but I can't seem to find it now. How do I stop CUPs on port 631 sending out a broadcast every 15 minutes? Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] USB mouse

2001-11-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am getting the following errors from my USB mouse (MS intellieye). It was originally on a ps2 port (via an adaptor) on anopther motherboard and would occaisionally lock up (once a fortnight). On the new board on a USB port, it locks up quite regularly (twice whilst typing this!). The fix is

Re: [expert] cable modem question

2001-11-02 Thread Greg Sarsons
just FWI as for the Linksys stuff ... I'd stay away. My choice, and the one that I was using with Rogers, was a NetGear RT314. Greg On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 17:18, Todd Zashin wrote: I saw some communication regarding cable modems and I wanted to chime in with a question I have. Please

Re: [expert] Command line FTP mystery?

2001-11-02 Thread Erik Kaffehr
Hi! It's usually installed by default in Network/Filetransfer under the start menu. It has been around for quite a few distros. I can't say which CD it is on. Try http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ or http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gftp Regards Erik fredag 02

Re: [expert] cable modem question

2001-11-02 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
I've read sometime ago about the @home setup that gives a computer name and the changes needed in Linux to accept that config. Since I live in Brazil I hadn't that message archived, but you can find it in the web archives. About your friend setup: is possible to enable a network to use the

RE: [expert] cable modem question

2001-11-02 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Your friend is very confused. NAT devices (which Linux can do for you) hide the IP addresses names of your computers. In practice they don't actually hide it as much as they replace the connection so to speak. Packets going out to the internet are re-addressed so that they all appear to be

Re: [expert] Old DOS games?

2001-11-02 Thread Harold Hartley
I'm not sure of all the games you can play on DosEmu.. Check http://www.dosemu.org and see whats there or type: man dosemu for info.. On Thursday 01 November 2001 04:28 am, you wrote: On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 14:06, Harold Hartley wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2001 08:49 am, you wrote: my

Re: [expert] cable modem question

2001-11-02 Thread Jon Doe
just FWI as for the Linksys stuff ... I'd stay away. My choice, and the one that I was using with Rogers, was a NetGear RT314. Greg I have 3 Linksys NIC's and a Linksys hub/switch that have not failed once. I like linksys stuff and would recomend them to anyone. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Help! devfs related? Strange behaviour of 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
You could possibly try: append= devfs=mount nobiospnp in lilo.conf It worked with my floppy drive, but the problem may not be the same. Bjarne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] monitors

2001-11-02 Thread Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez
Maybe you can use the 50-100 option just to get things working and then use xvidtune to obtain the real parameters for your resolution. Be careful not to force your monitor, leave some black spaces in the borders and when your image is centered and stable on the screen write down the

Re: [expert] cable modem question

2001-11-02 Thread root
Todd Zashin wrote: Greg, Why would you stay away from Linksys? Can you give me an example where the product line failed you? It seems to be a very popular product. Todd Just to chime in with my two cents worth: I have used the Linksys NIC with the old familiar tulip since the days

[expert] Ericsson HIS in Poland

2001-11-02 Thread Gniazdowski
Hi. MDK has the ability to configure network connection in instalation program. What i have see it can configure DSL, ISDN, modem connection. In Poland there is *very* popular connection - Ericsson Home Internet Solution (HIS). It uses simple AT terminal connected to COM port. Configuration

[expert] Quake 3 and Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Patrick Mayer
I am trying to run Quake 3 Arena on Mandrake 8.1. My hardware is as follows: PIII 800mhz, 768 megs ram Matrox G400, 16mb 1024x768x 16bpp Soundblaster Live! Asus P3B DRI runs well with the games packaged with MDK 8.1. However, Quake 3 Arena crashes just before it gets in play mode. The same

Re: [expert] Command line FTP mystery?

2001-11-02 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
On Friday 02 November 2001 05:10 pm, you wrote: I went to: www.google.com and asked 'gftp' and I got: http://gftp.seul.org/ But I recommend you rpmfind.net so you can download de RPM for your linux distribution. Try: http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gftp

Re: [expert] Quake 3 and Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Travis Olds
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Patrick Mayer wrote: I am trying to run Quake 3 Arena on Mandrake 8.1. My hardware is as follows: PIII 800mhz, 768 megs ram Matrox G400, 16mb 1024x768x 16bpp Soundblaster Live! Asus P3B DRI runs well with the games packaged with MDK 8.1. However, Quake 3 Arena

[expert] Linux laptop and desktop installation tips

2001-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Twu
Hi folks, Do you get a mysterious hang at random times during installation of your RPMs? Does the installer freeze when trying to detect the PCMCIA interface? These are the two most useful kernel flags I use. Use both at install time. lilo: linux ide=nodma PCMCIA=no

Re: [expert] Command line FTP mystery?

2001-11-02 Thread Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez
I went to: www.google.com and asked 'gftp' and I got: http://gftp.seul.org/ But I recommend you rpmfind.net so you can download de RPM for your linux distribution. Try: http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gftp Anyway, are you sure it doesn't come with your linux distro,

RE: [expert] cable modem question

2001-11-02 Thread Battista, JohnX
They are talking about the Linksys Cable modem... Not a network card. -Original Message- From: root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] cable modem question Todd Zashin wrote: Greg, Why would you stay

Re: [expert] libtinfo.so.5 not in ncurses-5.2-16mdk

2001-11-02 Thread bascule
i don't have an ncurses-devel package that i can find, there is no libtinfo package so this leaves my original question below , there must be at least one person running lame on 8.1, how is it done? bascule On Thursday 01 November 2001 7:51 pm, you wrote: Michael D. Viron wrote: Try

Re: [expert] Floppy

2001-11-02 Thread Larry Sword
Randy Donohoe wrote: I can't get my floppy mounted after trying everything I can find. I inserted nopnpbios in my lilo.conf, recreated my icon, etc. My floppy entry looks like, /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto

[expert] Floppy

2001-11-02 Thread Randy Donohoe
I can't get my floppy mounted after trying everything I can find. I inserted nopnpbios in my lilo.conf, recreated my icon, etc. My floppy entry looks like, /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,codepage=850,nodev,unhide 0 0 , in