Re: [expert] Partition resize...

2003-07-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 01:34, John McQuillen wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 22:18, John McQuillen wrote: Hi everyone, I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard drive. I created partitions on the new drive with larger sizes to fill the new drive, then cloned the

[expert] Wireless network - wlan0: No such device

2003-07-08 Thread Robert W.
I am trying (still) to get a Belkin F5D6020 wireless adapter to work under Linux. PCMCIA recognizes the card when I plug it in. Using the prism2_cs driver, 'ifconfig -a' shows a wlan0 device, with no HWaddr or IP address. Running ifup wlan0 reports the error 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device'. Am I

Re: [expert] Wireless network - wlan0: No such device

2003-07-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 22:15, Robert W. wrote: I am trying (still) to get a Belkin F5D6020 wireless adapter to work under Linux. PCMCIA recognizes the card when I plug it in. Using the prism2_cs driver, 'ifconfig -a' shows a wlan0 device, with no HWaddr or IP address. Running ifup wlan0 reports

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 4:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a

[expert] Re: Wireless network - wlan0: No such device

2003-07-08 Thread edoardo
Robert W. wrote: I am trying (still) to get a Belkin F5D6020 wireless adapter to work under Linux. PCMCIA recognizes the card when I plug it in. Using the prism2_cs driver, 'ifconfig -a' shows a wlan0 device, with no HWaddr or IP address. Running ifup wlan0 reports the error 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No

Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets

2003-07-08 Thread Mark Williamson
Hmm I had the same problem with a davicom card.. changed the network card to a realtek and problem was gone.. I know that a lot of people will think that the realtek cards ain't very good, but over the last few year I have found them very reliable. Cheers Mark On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 05:47,

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 4:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a

Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite

2003-07-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 07 Jul 2003 10:43 pm, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: Hi, This is a little guide I published on: long snip Juan Luis, I think this would be of interest to many people. Would you consider putting it onto the TWiki pages? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome Anne Want to

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 23:57:46 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if

[expert] Using Postfix with no network.

2003-07-08 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I use Postfix to deliver my mail from mutt on my laptop running Mandrake 9.1. Sometimes I would like to compose mail while offline and have postfix queue it and deliver it when I'm back online. When I try to send mail mutt tells me there's no sendmail/network available. and I can't have the

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 07 Jul 2003 12:36:37 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles I got part of this from another source. But one question... is the (security) a constant I should insert or do I do that literally? Yes you list it as a constant Your_name (security) Your_email If you use a GUI

Re: [expert] Using Postfix with no network.

2003-07-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:00:03 -0500 Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use Postfix to deliver my mail from mutt on my laptop running Mandrake 9.1. Sometimes I would like to compose mail while offline and have postfix queue it and deliver it when I'm back online. When I try to

[expert] Mozilla disappears trying to Print Email

2003-07-08 Thread Bob Read
I've been using Mozilla Mail under LM9.0 for some time and it has been printing email w/no problem. A day or two ago Mozilla started to disappear every time I try to print email. This happens under KDE, Gnome and IceWM. Other programs print with no problem. I've found that the print

[expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?

2003-07-08 Thread Jerry A!
I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with the mozplugger package. Hey, I've got my config files setup so that the two can co-exist. So, looking at the man page I see that I can pass the rpm options

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 07 Jul 2003 12:49:05 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc,

[expert] ADSL PPPoE modems/routers : advices ?

2003-07-08 Thread Eric Fernandez
Hi everyone. I am looking for an ADSL PPPoE modem/router. Can some people do suggestions ? I was looking to the web, netgear seems to be nice (G814) but seems to have a lot of problems of synchronisation. The Efficient 5400/5500 has good review though, and an integrated firewall. Have you some

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 02:32 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 11:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's an IDE burner, not SCSI. I'm not interested in burnin at over 8x. Most of the time I burn at 4x. Other than the quality drives (Plextor and Yamaha), I just thought it might be a

Re: [expert] Mozilla disappears trying to Print Email

2003-07-08 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Bob Read wrote: I've been using Mozilla Mail under LM9.0 for some time and it has been printing email w/no problem. A day or two ago Mozilla started to disappear every time I try to print email. This happens under KDE, Gnome and IceWM. Other programs print with no problem. I've found that

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 01:44 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Tom, I don't even have those CDs anymore - they were 4 CD's of the Lord Of The Rings that he ripped. I eventually bought the store version and threw them away. TBH, since I've thrown them away, I can't remember if they were true 800 meg CDs

[expert] rsh and passwd:

2003-07-08 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List, With MDK 9.1 in two boxex, when using rsh I'm prompted to passwd:, i.e., it's not rlogin automatically (after set .rhosts etc.). During installation I set security HIGH, could it be the source of this issue? I need rsh to run lam-mpi. Any help here would be welcome. Cheers, --

[expert] Kernel Problems

2003-07-08 Thread Sven L.
Hello, I have a problem building a 2.4.21 Kernel. I use the sources of kernel.org with the supermountng patch and the preempt patch but I have tried with and without the patches. The problem stayes the same : 1. the partition check of hdb fails. That is my ide zip-drive. 2. the read/write

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:09 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: A 700 mb CDr has two sizes. 80 minutes, and 700mb. Only time minutes is important is audio images. I often burn way over 800 mb's of wav's to a CDr, but the time needs to be just under 80 minutes of playing time to make the CDr stable

Re: [expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?

2003-07-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:04 am, Jerry A! wrote: Is the man page wrong, urpmi broken or am I doing something wrong? --Jerry Jerry, here I just use those commands with urpmi like I did with rpm. In other words: urpmi --force --nodeps filename IIRC. If not, just use rpm --force

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:09 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: A 700 mb CDr has two sizes. 80 minutes, and 700mb. Only time minutes is important is audio images. I often burn way over 800 mb's of wav's to a CDr, but the time needs to be just

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 04:13, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 4:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550

[expert] Radeon 9200

2003-07-08 Thread Anne Wilson
The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder), and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200 Atlantis. He said that one of their employees

Re: [expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?

2003-07-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:04, Jerry A! wrote: I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with the mozplugger package. Hey, I've got my config files setup so that the two can co-exist. So, looking at

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 05:59, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 07 Jul 2003 12:36:37 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles I got part of this from another source. But one question... is the (security) a constant I should insert or do I do that literally? Yes you list it as

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 06:48, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 07 Jul 2003 12:49:05 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if

Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets

2003-07-08 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hi Well I do not think it's a pbm with the network cards because I have 2 boxes with LM9.1 and 1 box with LM9.0 using the same type of card and they all show the same pbm. Also these Dell 4100 workstation come pre-installed with W2K and I don't have this pbm under Windows... What would be the

Re: [expert] Mozilla disappears trying to Print Email

2003-07-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:30, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Bob Read wrote: I've been using Mozilla Mail under LM9.0 for some time and it has been printing email w/no problem. A day or two ago Mozilla started to disappear every time I try to print email. This happens under KDE, Gnome and

RE: [expert] ADSL PPPoE modems/routers : advices ?

2003-07-08 Thread Frankie
I have a dlink DSL504 and I have to say, its very nice. I have flashed the latest firmware on it and the web interface is very nice, as an added benefit, it has a serial point, with witch i can connect my linux box and script commands to the router where necessary. Has the firewall, VPN

Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets

2003-07-08 Thread Thomas Backlund
Viestissä Tiistai 8. Heinäkuuta 2003 22:50, Frederic Soulier kirjoitti: Hi Well I do not think it's a pbm with the network cards because I have 2 boxes with LM9.1 and 1 box with LM9.0 using the same type of card and they all show the same pbm. Also these Dell 4100 workstation come

Re: [expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?

2003-07-08 Thread Jerry A!
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:54:02PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: : On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:04, Jerry A! wrote: : I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. : However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a conflict with : the mozplugger package. : : Hey,

Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets

2003-07-08 Thread Frederic Soulier
(from lspci -v) 02:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31) Subsystem: Unknown device 4554:434e Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at d400 [size=256] Memory at ff9fec00 (32-bit,

Re: [expert] Kernel Problems

2003-07-08 Thread Robert Crawford
Sven, Here's an idea. Make sure you have this set in make xconfig when you compile: # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y and then under # SCSI low-level drivers check these lines: # CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_SLOW_CTR is

Re: [expert] urpmi --allow-force broken?

2003-07-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 13:52, Jerry A! wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:54:02PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: : On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:04, Jerry A! wrote: : I'm using a 9.1 system. I'm trying to install the mplayerplugin rpm. : However, everytime I go to install, it complains about a

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-07-08 Thread kiosk
James, I think MOTD is an excellent suggestion. I guess it would work somewhat like a random sig generator, in that respect. I don't really need to do it with X- I always boot to a text login. I would probably have considered MOTD, if there were no one to ask. PITA that I am, I tend to wonder if

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-07-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 17:40, kiosk wrote: James, I think MOTD is an excellent suggestion. I guess it would work somewhat like a random sig generator, in that respect. I don't really need to do it with X- I always boot to a text login. I would probably have considered MOTD, if there were no one

Re: [expert] ntp error

2003-07-08 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
ntpd is not configured for general use 'out of the box'. Its default configuration assumes that you have a timeserver on your local network, whcih is on subnet 224.0.1.1. The documentation good - read it. You have to choose some time servers on the internet, and add entries for them in

Re: [expert] ntp error

2003-07-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 20:42, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: ntpd is not configured for general use 'out of the box'. Its default configuration assumes that you have a timeserver on your local network, whcih is on subnet 224.0.1.1. The documentation good - read it. You have to choose some time

Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite

2003-07-08 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
Hi, It is now published in http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome in the howto's section . You can also find it in: http://www.merlinux.org/merfaq/kazaalite2.1_english.html Question: Why I don't get any of my reply posts to the list, only when someone else reply to one of my posts?

Re: [expert] Radeon 9200

2003-07-08 Thread Seppo Jarvinen
I use Radeon All-In-Wonder with all functions available. you need to use Gatos project drivers to get everything working. http://gatos.sf.net/ On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:34, Anne Wilson wrote: The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video input. I took it back to the

[expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs

2003-07-08 Thread Larry Sword
**From:* Roger Ellison * *Subject:* [expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs * *Date:* 6 Jul 2003 21:03:58 - I just got a Compaq Presario 2500. The 9.1 install hangs in the graphical installer with the

[expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel

2003-07-08 Thread Robert Crawford
For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take when compiling kernels is putting them in the

Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel

2003-07-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
What kind of speed difference are you seeing between the xp-optimization and the stock kernel? On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 01:36, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also