[expert-it] per leggere DVD e problemi cor IrDA

2001-11-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ciao a tutti! ho da poco installato mandrake 8.1 sul mio portatile e all'avvio tutto ok ma quando lo spengo mi fallisce il seguente processo: stopping IrDa[failed] che vuol dire? si puo' fare qualcosa? Poi vorrei un'informazione: ho il lettore DVD sul mio PC fisso e

R: [expert-it] per leggere DVD e problemi cor IrDA

2001-11-19 Thread Angelo Di Filippo
ciao a tutti! ho da poco installato mandrake 8.1 sul mio portatile e all'avvio tutto ok ma quando lo spengo mi fallisce il seguente processo: stopping IrDa[failed] che vuol dire? si puo' fare qualcosa? Probabilmente non si e' avviata la irda all'avvio della macchina. Non

Rif: [expert-it] NOTEBOOK

2001-11-19 Thread Ruben Patanè
---Messaggio originale--- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: lunedì 19 novembre 2001 19.01.40 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [expert-it] NOTEBOOK Ciao Vorrei sapere se la Ver. 8.0 o 8.1 di

[expert] Webmin

2001-11-19 Thread dgssoftware
Hi All, How secure is webmin, I know that is uses a https server, but I need to administer a machine remotely. The MDK 8 box has bastille loaded and currently all ports except ssh, are bolted down. How safe would it be for me to allow the port 1 for webmin. Is this good or is there some real

RE: [expert] Webmin

2001-11-19 Thread Franki
When webmin is running, it is bound to port 1 since webmin uses its own 128bit certificate for encryption, its very safe, no passwords get passed in clear txt and its rather difficult to run a brute force password script on a web based admin program. if your passwords are up to the task, you

RE: [expert] Webmin

2001-11-19 Thread dgssoftware
Are the password still 8 character significant for the crypt() function, or has Linux changed this? Thanks for your response. Dave When webmin is running, it is bound to port 1 since webmin uses its own 128bit certificate for encryption, its very safe, no passwords get passed in clear

RE: [expert] Webmin

2001-11-19 Thread Franki
actually, I think they are still 8 chars, but I make long ones anyway,, also, most people don't add gibberish till the end of the password, which sort of ruins the purpose, I use gibberish all the way though.. you can download a password cracker and test your passwords if you are unsure of

RE: [expert] Webmin

2001-11-19 Thread dgssoftware
Thanks again, i'll have to dig out the iptables howto to make sure that I don't open anything other than port 1, btw, is webmin tcp or udp? brain ache...monday morning actually, I think they are still 8 chars, but I make long ones anyway,, also, most people don't add gibberish till the

RE: [expert] Webmin

2001-11-19 Thread Franki
tcp rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 19 November 2001 6:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List Subject: RE: [expert] Webmin Thanks again, i'll have to dig out the

Re: [expert] Domain problem

2001-11-19 Thread Mitch Thompson
On Sunday 18 November 2001 07:54, Harold Hartley wrote: I have come up with a problem and hope someone can help me.. It seems I've done something without knowing I think. when I do a su and type the password, I get a VPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound So I hope someone knows the answer..

[expert] Problems with CMAP - SIGSEGV

2001-11-19 Thread Oscar
Hi all, I have a problem with a program I should use under LM8.0 (I'm using now LM 8.1) The program is cmap, downloaded from http://cmap.coginst.uwf.edu/ Now, under LM 8.1, when I try to run the program, it shows this error: [oscar@skr cmap]$ editor SIGSEGV received at b238 in

[expert] X lockup with audio CDs

2001-11-19 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, In LM8.1 w/standard KDE2.2.1: If I play an audio CD in my CD-RW drive with the KDE cd player (not tried other players), then I get a few messages in /var/log/messages saying something like /dev/sr0 not ready please insert a disk (?). After about three of these messages X locks up - the

[expert] Peculiar login problem

2001-11-19 Thread Antoine de Poorter
Hi, I run Mandrake7.1 with KDE as desktop environment and suddenly got the following problem. When I try to log on using the X grafical interface I enter my userid and password, I hear some disk activity, but a few seconds later the login screen appears again, without indicating an error. It is

Re: [expert] X lockup with audio CDs

2001-11-19 Thread Chris Spackman
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:00:50PM +, Nick Thompson wrote: Hi, In LM8.1 w/standard KDE2.2.1: If I play an audio CD in my CD-RW drive with the KDE cd player (not tried other players), then I get a few messages in /var/log/messages saying something like /dev/sr0 not ready please

[expert] kernel ..install or upgrade ?

2001-11-19 Thread rodrigo
Hi experts .. I have downloaded the cooker version of new kernel 2.4.13, but I'm not sure what is the best way to install this ... I have been browsing the documentation, but there isn't any mention to install a new kernel from the rpm's ... I need to boot from the bootdisk and uninstall

RE: [expert] Usb scanner problems 8.1; updating kde

2001-11-19 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I had a similar prob with 8.1 and my scsi scanner. Seemed due to devfs. I changed /etc/lilo.conf devfs=mount to devfs=nomount. Rebooted, let MDK refind the scanner via kudzu, then changed the lilo.conf back to devfs=mount and reran lilo again then Rebooted. All was fine -- still. Seems devfs

[expert] USB storage devices - what did you do to get them to work?

2001-11-19 Thread Hoyt Duff
Has anyone sucessfully used USB storage devices (both hard drives and ZIP drives -- as well as that cool little key fob device) with Mandrake 8.1? If so, did you have to do anything special to get them working? Thanks, Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [expert] USB storage devices - what did you do to get them to work?

2001-11-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I use an Archos Jukebox MP3 player/Hard Drive with 8.1 all the time. The only thing I had to do was FIRST turn on the USB device then boot with it on. LM8.1 recognized it immediately. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Hoyt

Re: [expert] Printing

2001-11-19 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
mike wrote: lpr filename prompts for the user name and password. I guess I need to know how to get lpr to not require a password. Since lpr never asked me for a password I don't really know what to do, but I wouldn't be surprised if the security section of /etc/cups/cups.conf has something

RE: [expert] USB storage devices - what did you do to get them to work?

2001-11-19 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hmmm, great to hear that. Anyone had any luck with getting the Pentax Optio 330 USB link to Work ? It uses the storage module. Everytime I have it turned on, it hangs on initializing... Anyone a Hint ? Using plain Mandrake 8.1, but with kernel 2.4.13 self compiled. Shouldn't make any difference

Re: [expert] Radeon VE

2001-11-19 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
Am Montag, 19. November 2001 14:30 schrieben Sie: I bought the card this weekend, plugged it in and began the Mandrake 8.1 install. The install appeared to complete but when the box rebooted, a black screen came up with the mouse pointer but the desktop never appeared. Do you have any

Re: [expert] Peculiar login problem

2001-11-19 Thread Tim Holmes
Two things: 1) Try loging in at a virtual console. Do a CTRL+ALT+F1, and it will give you a prompt. Try logging in, and see what it tells you. 2) Login as root, and check out what's going on in /var/log/messages. Find out what the error message is and then we can go from there. The

Re: [expert] blackbox mouse

2001-11-19 Thread Tim Holmes
That's why procmail is your bestestest of friend! Do a man procmailrc and ask a few questions if needed, then filter everything out into their own mailboxes. Much easier to sift through mail that's already sifted! :0) tdh --

[expert] Pcmcia ethernet card problem

2001-11-19 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I have a D-Link DFE-680TX fast ethernet pcmcia card; it was working fine under 8.1 connected to a 10 Mb hub. But now it is connected to a 100 Mb switch and samba connection or internet connection hang immediately. And it is working fine under WinME 8-( It's using tulip_cb module.

[expert] Heads up... Netscape 4.79

2001-11-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
I've being *trying* to use NS4.79; but have just reverted back to 4.78. NS4.79 is the worst release I've seen to date... it crashes constantly. It messes up your mail *.summary files and if bad enough, any attempt to run NS4.79 will crash before displaying the first window; the only way to

Re: [expert] please read and comment..networking

2001-11-19 Thread Mark Weaver
On 17 Nov 2001 15:00:34 + richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well just maybe, the machine I was runing on was part of a BL great unix network , split over 3 continents It pretty obvioud that the use of encrytion is badly understood. If you send an encrypted password the

[expert] everything loads, but no sound.

2001-11-19 Thread Richard Wenninger
I'm having problems... I've upgraded my kernel to 2.4.13-7, and everything works except sound. In the process, I also got working a ieee1384 firewire external hard drive. This is a toshiba notebook computer (2805-s402). I can't figure out why sound doesn't work... there doesn't appear to

Re: [expert] please read and comment..networking

2001-11-19 Thread Ralph Forsythe
On 17 Nov 2001, richard wrote: It pretty obvioud that the use of encrytion is badly understood. If you send an encrypted password the other end must have the capability of de-encryption... Now surely that's a straight forward thing for some people to understand ?? Key sharing??? Seems

RE: [expert] everything loads, but no sound.

2001-11-19 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
Did you run aumix and check the settings of the channels, and save them? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Richard Wenninger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] everything loads, but no sound.

[expert] cdrom 3

2001-11-19 Thread Ed Tharp
I need to create a cdrom3 device in Mandrake 8.1,(I have hdb as a dvdrom, and hdd as a cdrom and the cdrw is usb) I also will need to set up ide-scsi in lilo and link my USB CDrw to the cdrom3. any ideas? is this going to be the same in 8.1 (with devfs) as it was in 8.0?

[expert] UML diagram tool for Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Søren Neigaard
Anybody know a good UML diagram tool for Linux? -- .. Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Søren Neigaard Registered Linux User #239437 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] old ipchains-fw configuration

2001-11-19 Thread Michael Dannhorn
Hi, I have to re-configure for a remote access vpn. Authentification seems to work so far over udp port xx. But I can't send data over 'IP protocol 50 bi-directional'. How is the ipchains syntax to open 'IP protocol 50 bi-directional' in my firewall rules? Thanx for your help! -- ciao

Re: [expert] UML diagram tool for Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 Nov 2001 6:30 pm, you wrote: Anybody know a good UML diagram tool for Linux? ArgoUML, it is written in JAVA so is cross platform, and i personally think it is a very nice tool. Search on google and it sohuld be first result. DIA also

Re: [expert] everything loads, but no sound.

2001-11-19 Thread Richard Wenninger
Yes. I verified mixer settings. I do have more information though... after booting the machine, when I load xmms, it hangs for a good while... and then closes automatically. The next time I load it... it works. I have sound. Everything seems normal. I have no idea why it hangs. KDE

Re: [expert] UML diagram tool for Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Søren Neigaard
Just downloaded it - WOW - as it happens I'm a Java developer (or something like that) I just love it, thanks for the link :) /Søren On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 19:55, Tom Badran wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 Nov 2001 6:30 pm, you wrote: Anybody know a good

[expert] Sony DSC USB Link - Mdk 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26

2001-11-19 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, Just picked up a new toy, now how to use it? It is a Sony DSC-S50, with a USB link. I have a laptop with Mdk 8.1, and Kernel 2.4.8-26 loaded. I read some posts in the internet where the device was recognized by 8.1, under a scsi device, /dev/sda1 (something like that) However, my

[expert] Netgear FA-311 and linux - anybody tried? Got working???? (fwd)

2001-11-19 Thread Rusty Carruth
I've got the weirdest problem. A friend bought a netgear FA-311 ethernet card, supposedly works with linux. (Well, ok, it supposedly works with a certain version of Red Hat, which is at least one version of linux. We won't go any further, ok? ;-) So, I took their (netgear's) sources,

Re: [expert] UML diagram tool for Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 Nov 2001 8:11 pm, you wrote: Just downloaded it - WOW - as it happens I'm a Java developer (or something like that) I just love it, thanks for the link :) No problem mate, i had spent ages looking myself, thought id save you some

RE: [expert] Netgear FA-311 and linux - anybody tried? Got working???? (fwd)

2001-11-19 Thread Scott Thurmond
I have that card and encountered the same issue. I didn't get the card to work properly under 7.2. Luckily LM 8.0 came out just after I purchased the card. I upgraded my box to 8.0 and it works perfectly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

Re: [expert] Netgear FA-311 and linux - anybody tried? Got working???? (fwd)

2001-11-19 Thread Richard Wenninger
FWIW - I believe I've seen this card work with MD 8.1. On Monday 19 November 2001 02:57 pm, you wrote: I've got the weirdest problem. A friend bought a netgear FA-311 ethernet card, supposedly works with linux. (Well, ok, it supposedly works with a certain version of Red Hat, which is at

RE[2]: [expert] Netgear FA-311 and linux - anybody tried? Got working???? (fwd)

2001-11-19 Thread Rusty Carruth
Scott Thurmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have that card and encountered the same issue. I didn't get the card to work properly under 7.2. Luckily LM 8.0 came out just after I purchased the card. I upgraded my box to 8.0 and it works perfectly. and then Richard Wenninger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] xemacs 3D effects in MDK 8.1

2001-11-19 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
This a apparently a new feature of xemacxs 21.4 - I picked up a copy of the source, and built. There are no 3D buttons... ;-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Permanently adding special entries to Menus

2001-11-19 Thread Al Andersen
You neglected to state which desktop you're using. If it's KDE: # cd ~/.kde/share # mkdir applnk That's what it should be in 7.2. I only used 8.0 for a few weeks before reverting to 7.2, but I remember I had this working in 8.0... You might have to make an applnk-mdk directory instead, but

[expert] NIS Domain Name and 8.1

2001-11-19 Thread Brian Schroeder
Under mdk8.0 this was not a problem. But with 8.1 - both an upgrade and a fresh install - I am finding that the NIS domain name is set to the DNS domain name whenever the network is (re)started. Since they are different, this causes ypbind to fail. I have set the NISDOMAIN variable in

Re: [expert] Netgear FA-311 and linux - anybody tried? Got working???? (fwd)

2001-11-19 Thread Julio Gutierrez
Mandrake 8 8.1 are supposed todetect this card, Also RH 7,7.1 7.2 I'm using a pair of these myself, under Mandrake 8 with no problems , they use a National Semiconductors chip so when you install Mandrake choose natsemi drivers or module, I hope this helps Julio So I installed Windows on an

[expert] damn shockwave

2001-11-19 Thread Praedor
I just don't get it. I HAVE the correct, most recent shockwave plugin installed. If I open up kcontrol - file browsing - file association - application it is there and set with use embedded viewer. Nonetheless, I go to a site with the annoying shockwave crap on it and I get the ever-lovely

[expert] damn shockwave

2001-11-19 Thread Praedor
I just don't get it. I HAVE the correct, most recent shockwave plugin installed. If I open up kcontrol - file browsing - file association - application it is there and set with use embedded viewer. Nonetheless, I go to a site with the annoying shockwave crap on it and I get the ever-lovely

Re: [expert] damn shockwave

2001-11-19 Thread Mark D'voo
konqueror is very wierd with shockwave. First try it with mozilla (or a mozilla based browser like galeon), If it works there then it should work in konqueror. Try going to www.macromedia.com, if you look in the top right corner it should say, if you have flash and still see this then click

[expert] Joystick install

2001-11-19 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: Joystick install Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to set up a joystick under Linux. Also, does the throttle control and the VOP buttons work under Linux or is that just wishful thinking. I have an A4Tech Scrollfire SF-5 joystick. Please help. Craig

Re: [expert] X lockup with audio CDs

2001-11-19 Thread Miaoling Chiu
Dear Nick, Though I don't actually know the solution to the problem you are having with KDE lockups, I will suggest not using a CD-RW drive to play audio CDs. The read/write heads on a CD-RW are much heavier than on a standard CD-ROM or DVD-ROM player because it needs a laser to burn CDs. Since

Re: [expert] Printing

2001-11-19 Thread mike
On Monday 19 November 2001 09:48, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: mike wrote: lpr filename prompts for the user name and password. I guess I need to know how to get lpr to not require a password. Since lpr never asked me for a password I don't really know what to do, but I wouldn't be surprised

RE: [expert] xemacs 3D effects in MDK 8.1

2001-11-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
The original sources do not provide this. The 3D buttons and nice Icons are added by a set of additional files you have to manually install. With 8.0 Mandrake included this in their RPM's but now omits them. It should be possible to re-install the 8.0 RPM's then INSTALL (not upgrade) the 8.1

Re: [expert] Webmin

2001-11-19 Thread Galileo
dgssoftware and currently all ports except ssh, are bolted down. How safe would it dgssoftware be for me to allow the port 1 for webmin. Is this good or is there dgssoftware some real threats associated with this. Webmin is already installed The MOST secure way : make a ssh tunel to

[expert] Tyan Tiger MP and linux...

2001-11-19 Thread Steve
If anyone is using the Tyan Tiger MP S2460, could you please tell me how you were able to get udma 100 to work properly. Mandrake 8.1 wants to use udma 33 instead. I figure it may have something to do with Mandrake detecting the AMD 760MP chipset. If you have any pointers on setting up

[expert] Sony usb Camera

2001-11-19 Thread Jason Pearce
Hi people, I am haveing some problems setting up my Sony dsc-s70 digital camera ,I have read a couple of articles informing me that I should use usb-storage mod which I have . So I opened Hard Drake and saw it listed under Disks Listed as sony mass storage device ,but now it is not . It is

Re: [expert] Tyan Tiger MP and linux...

2001-11-19 Thread J Grant
Hi Steve I do not know the state of the current kernel but my mdk8.1 box had and is still having problems with my adaptec SCSI card did not work, IDE CDROM would not work, finally I got another SCSI card, but had to boot from floppy. Now i find out AGP is not fully supported yet, i have been

Re: [expert] Tyan Tiger MP and linux...

2001-11-19 Thread Steve
Let me know if you get your nVidia ge2 MX working. I have the same card and while it works in 2D quite well, it is lacking in the 3D department. Other than the udma and agp issues mandrake runs fairly good. I assume redat 7.2 probably has the same issues, though I may give it a try and see

Re: [expert] Tyan Tiger MP and linux...

2001-11-19 Thread J Grant
Hi Steve wrote: Let me know if you get your nVidia ge2 MX working. I have the same card and while it works in 2D quite well, it is lacking in the 3D department. Other than the udma and agp issues mandrake runs fairly good. I assume redat 7.2 probably has the same issues, though I may

Re: [expert] Joystick install

2001-11-19 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Can anyone tell me how to set up a joystick under Linux. Also, does the throttle control and the VOP buttons work under Linux or is that just wishful thinking. I have an A4Tech Scrollfire SF-5 joystick. Please help. I recently installed a Logitech

Re: [expert] Webmin

2001-11-19 Thread ltiu
Linux uses MD5 now for passwords so the new limit is 256 chars. On Monday 19 November 2001 01:40, you wrote: Are the password still 8 character significant for the crypt() function, or has Linux changed this? Thanks for your response. Dave When webmin is running, it is bound to port

Re: [expert] Sony usb Camera

2001-11-19 Thread Chris Spackman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:27:37PM +1100, Jason Pearce wrote: Hi people, I am haveing some problems setting up my Sony dsc-s70 digital camera ,I have read a couple of articles informing me that I should use usb-storage mod which I have . So I opened Hard Drake and saw it listed under Disks

[expert] Konqueror won't start

2001-11-19 Thread Erik Kaffehr
Hi! I'm having the following problem: I seem to get KDE in a situation where it cannot start konqueror. I don't know what happens, but I figure (after running strace) thatit cannot access dcop. Removing .ICEauthority and .DCOPserver_magnum.swipnet.se .DCOPserver_magnum.swipnet.se_:0