On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hello again Brian,
> My CD-ROM is /dev/hdc so would the following
> be: ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom ? The floppy is
> now "supermounting" as it should.
>
That's correct. If you do an "ls -l" on /dev/cdrom, it SHOULD indicated that
it's already sym-linked to /de
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I have been reading the docs for compiling a kernel and it talks about patching
> the kernel for video 4 linux support and mentions during the process you should
> answer 'y' to V4L. Would anyone know if this is loaded by default when you
> install or do you have
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I want to know how to find a file on one disk knowing the file name or a part of
>file name.I didn't install Xwindows.Thank you for your help
>
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I thought the pppd in mandrake 7.0 had the demand feature back am i wrong?
>
I was informed of this in another list. I'm not running 7.0, nor am I using
KPPP or PPPD.
John
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> do you have a bp6 motherboard? I also am only running on one processor because of
> APIC problem when I run dual, Even with the NOAPIC in the append line in lilo I
> still can not seem to get the machine to run reliably with a smp kernel. I have
> tried making
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Maybe Red Hat 6.1 won't let a remote root in? Have you tried as a
> regular user?
>
That's the beauty of SSH. It bypasses the normal securities It shouldn't be
that, but it's worth a shot.
John
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> After installing Mandrake 7.0 what files do I edit
> to give me access to my floppy and cdrom?
> Thanks,
> Vern
>
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> is there a way to turn on dial on demand with kppp? i am trying to get my
> system so it will dial if needed and disconnect after 5 min idle time...
>
> any suggestions???
>
No. You need diald, I think to auto-run PPP.
John
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> This must depend on your hardware; it worked just fine for me in RedHat
> 6.1 as well as in Mandrake 7.0.
>
I think someone said it's partly BIOS dependant as well.
John
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got Mandrake version 7.0 and was wondering if it supports multi
> processor system. We are planning on running a web site which is going to be
> using lots of JSPs and would like to know if Mandrake supports a multi
> processor system. Has anyone h
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Absolutly, I have a dual PIII 733 with a half gig of
> ram but you will have to recompile your kernal to make
> it work with dual processors
>
Well, did you have both processors in the system when you installed? If so it
SHOULD have auto-detected them and set up
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 15:49 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > I posted a problem here a couple days ago that I was having
> > with StarMail blowing up every time I try to open my inbox
> > in StarMail.
>
> What the %@$ยง! are y
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Linux can shutdown your machine automatically AND safely only if you
> currently are running single processor mode. If you are shutting down
> from smp, the power manager has been disabled and is unavailable to do
> the shutdown. In the future maybe, but now from
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> Anyone get this Canon BJC2000 Printer work under linux (distro) ?
> i tried it with Mandrake 7.0 but it doen'nt work.
>
Have you been to the *nix printer compatibility page yet?
They'll tell you which print filter to use.
John
Have you guys at Mandrake had a chance to work on the Sparc
distro of Mandrake and is it Sparc 5 / 170Mhz compatible? I
know that the RedHat 6.1 version is NOT compatible with
this machine...
Thanks...
John
Hello, All...
I posted a problem here a couple days ago that I was having
with StarMail blowing up every time I try to open my inbox
in StarMail.
Well, I found a place to submit a question to TechSupport
at Sun. I have to commend Sun on their prompt tech support
responses! They're a LOT faster tha
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hi..
> When I do a shutdown -h now the system shutsdown the various file
> systems and then says system is halted..After this mine says..stopping all md
> devices, the screen then is filled with columns of scrolling numbers like
> d3>][]Could anyone tell me ho
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I'm referring to the problem that Mandrake 7.00 7.01 7.02 installers have
> initializing 'some' atapi cdroms. I have no clue why this is and Mandrake
> refuses to fix or even help someone fix this bug when they could obviously
> take some code from earlier dist
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I've tried various X-windows interfaces and I am amazed to find that after
> browsing through KDE, GNOME, XFCE3, WindowMaker, Afterstep, ICEWM, and
> Plain_X11.. NONE of them have a windows properties selection that allows
> for the editing of screen resolution!
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hello all,
> thanks for the overwhelming amounts of replies.
> Now the funny thing is that I have 2 boxes both LM7.02, on one the append
> worked, on the other box, there was already an append in the lilo.conf, I
> tried to add the mem=191M, and it accepted that w
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> Thank you for the quick answer, however I was just enlightened to change the
> permissions on /usr/bin/minicom and that did the trick. I will keep that in
> mind for the future though.
>
Ahh..Ok. That'd do it. :-)
John
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I started out using RedHat linux about a year ago, then tried SuSE
> linux, and now I've recently loaded Mandrake 7.0. I've found when I
> used SuSE, I had no problem using minicom as 'user', but with both
> RedHat & now Mandrake, I'm denied permission to /dev/mo
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I downloaded the iso for mandrake 7.02 and
> burned to a CD. I then booted this CD on my
> P133 Mhz system. I did NOT get any cool
> graphical installer. I got the generic installer.
> And when I tried to install It hangs on
> initializing the CDROM step.
>
How d
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Where can I get a list of NTP time servers?
>
I found a pretty good list when I downloaded TARDIS for
Windows. :-) it's included in the documentation. Then
again, I also found a pretty good list out on the web
somewhere. Sorry, but it's been a while back. You mig
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> John,
> I have added 128M of ram to 64MB, I did not say I upgraded to 128Mb, hence
> the 192/191
>
Thanks. I've been beaten about the head and shoulders
because I missed that... and deservedly so. :-)
John
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Tried this, with no different results, but I may have done something (else)
> wrong. First thing I noticed was that my xinitrc file didn't actually
> exist. So, I just put the line "startkde" in it and saved it off. startx
> brought up the Plain X11 screen.
>
Tr
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello All,
> > > > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> hi,
> i often use Pine .but i remark that to every connexion pine ask me my password.i
>would 'want know how put a passwd in pine for that i don't write it at every
>connexion thank yoou for your help
> koch
>
Con
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my
> > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically,
> > however no such luck.
> > Can anyone help me on how
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> At 09:13 AM 03/20/2000 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
> >On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello All,
> > > > this question has probably already been raised, but I have
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my
> > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically,
> > however no such luck.
> > Can anyone help me on how to
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hello All,
> this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my
> original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically,
> however no such luck.
> Can anyone help me on how to do this.
>
First question:
Is bios seei
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
>
> Linux95.exe is a MS Windows gui front-end to loadlin.exe - a nice little
> program if you have several kernals and such to boot to and you usually boot
> first into MS Windows. Otherwise, other boot managers look a little more
> useful.
>
Ahh. I stick by my
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> A simple question, please:
>
> What is the path for the sound device in VMware for Linux. I found out
> from a kind list member that the path for the modem is: /dev/ttyS1 and
> he was absolutely right. It was a little breakthrough that made my
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Agreed, but my goal here is to save the world, not to get my system
> working. For each of these issues I've already managed to solve the
> problem for myself. I'm trying to improve future releases of Mandrake
> and spare others from having to work around the pr
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> 2. How do I get rid of LILO? As I recall it's a DOS fdisk command, but
> I'd like to know the exact syntax.
>
fdisk /mbr.
However, I would venture to say your system will be MUCH more stable
if you use LILO and do a cold boot each time you switch operating
sys
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> > >
> > > > network - Huh? what are you referring to?
> > >
> > > Beats me, but it's right there in DrakConf's list, between netfs and
> > > numlock.
> > >
> > UmmI think "network" is pretty self-explanatory, don't you?
>
>
> Not if you don't understand
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Like the subject says, I'd like to find a giant
> FAQ on having and setting up my own news spool.
>
Hmm..have you got 30 or 40 GIGS of drivespace to play around with, as
well as a dedicated connection? Chances are if you want to carry the
majority of the newsgrou
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Thanks, Russ!
>
> Russ Johnson said:
> > innd - "Internet Network News Daemon" Used to send and receive network
> news
> > (newsgroups).
>
> I presume this is =not= used by Netscape, Pam, and other news readers.
>
Correct.
>
> > ldap - "Lightweight Directory
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Yes udma/66. Promise controller. The other versions of linux I have
> can't even be loaded because the don't see the hard drive. They were
> talking about supporting it, but when you go to linux-mandrake site they
> don't talk about IDE controllers in there suppor
Anyone know where we can download the "official" fixed PCMCIA image
for Mandrake 7.02?
John
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Does this version natively support UDMA 4 IDE?
>
Is that the same thing as UDMA/66? If so, it has support for SOME
UDMA/66 controllers.
John
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> By the most amazing coincidence, I ran into very much that problem
> just yesterday--Netscape cache beynd the size I requested. More that
> that, going into Netscape and tell it to clear the cache . . . didn't
> clean up the #@$! thing, either!
>
Damn! You guys
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I was wondering what program I need to open .zip files. I have tried the
> archiver that comes with redhat 6.0, but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone
> know what program or patch I need? Thanks.
>
.zip files *should* be opened just fine (as long as they're not
cor
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Larry Sword mewed:
>
> >
> > http://www.linux-hacker.net/opener/
> >
> > He uses Mandrake-Linux also.
> >
> > Larry
>
> Huh? I got a 404 error with this link, uh oh, oops.
>
Heh. The URL got munged. It's www.linux-hacker.net/iopener
(The
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I've heard bits and tidbits of this multi head thing with the new X. I was
> wondering if this would allow multiple users to run multiple X sessions on
> the sam computer. ie. tty0 would be running a root X session while
> ctrl-alt-F2 would switch you over to t
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> The default Mandrake 7.0 install does not use the XFree86 XF86Setup
> program which is in a separate rpm. The xf86config is included in the
> basic XFree86 rpm and is usually not a very good way to configure your
> system. Use the Xconfigurator for the best result
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> When I installed Mandrake 7.0, the GUI installation wored perfectly. But
> now I cannot get X to work with my video card. Is there a way to use the
> same exact settings that the GUI setup uses?
>
try /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config. If that doesn't work, try
/usr/X11R
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Jeanette,
>
> You write as if someone is leaving the list...Is someone leaving the list?
> I hope neither you nor Civelme leave the list.
>
>
Civilme is taking a vacation from the list. He announced it
yesterday.
John
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> My home system has Windows 95 on hda and a vfat partion as hdb1, as well as Linux on
> hdb. I have installed Redhat 5.2, 6, 6.1; Mandrake 6, 7; as well as Caldera and Suse
> distributions on this machine. None have given me 2 LILO prompts.
>
Hmm...post your
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> i've MDK7.0.2 running quite well now. But my local 'Canon BJC 4200' prints only text.
> If I try to print out graphics, there ar only colored stripes
>
> Anybody knows that problem ?
>
> Any idea ?
>
The following URL has information on how to
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Did anyone else replying to the posting on linux filesystems
> receive a message like unto this one?
>
>
> Your posting (Subject: "Re: [expert] linux filesystem") has been
> sent
> to the moderator ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]") for
> approval.
> When the moderator appro
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Just a qucik non-help related email. How does Linux deal with thinigs like
> fragmentation on your hard disks? Does it suffer the same problems wind'ohs
> does or is this rectified by the FS itself or during boot? I have looked for
> some docs but cant find any
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > go ahead and switch to a different distro, but it's
> > kinda in poor taste to come asking on this list about a
> > distro to switch to from Mandrake!
> > John
>
>
> I disagree ... let the guy try another distro ... he may or may not come
> back to M
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I am thinking about buying a USB scanner and a USB printer (BJC2000), does
> anyone know if I will have any luck getting these to work with MDK 7.0-2?
>
Not likely. USB support is still in the Alpha stages with Mandrake 7.
An updated kernel MIGHT fix that at a no
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> First, my thanks to all of you who have written in with suggestions on
> how to configure the new RealPlayer7.
>
> I decided to begin from the beginning. I first tried to delete the old
> version and got the following error message:
>
DOH! Nev
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> First, my thanks to all of you who have written in with suggestions on
> how to configure the new RealPlayer7.
>
> I decided to begin from the beginning. I first tried to delete the old
> version and got the following error message:
>
Benjamin
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Josephmy usless cd collection is going to become wallpaper
> someday :-)
>
Just do what a friend of mine did with a BUNCH of NT CDs
his company was getting ready to throw away -- make it into
scalable armor. It just goes to show (drumroll, please)
that NT *is
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> /sbin/hwclock --systohc
>
>
Ron -- Thanksbut you're a bit behind in your reading, I
take it? ;-)
John
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> If it is not possible, how do I need to set it up upon re-install? I'm thinking
> I need to make this 7M partition the mount point "/" and the partition with
> linux "/boot", or is it the other way around?
>
You need to do it the other way around with the 7M
par
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Write permission for vfat file systems at mount time is only provided
> to the user that does the mount. So that is what you should do -
> have the user who wants to write be the one that does the mount and
> eventual umount.
>
> But first as root a
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I try to do this with the right click on the icon, I forgot to mention that I
> am using Kde, and it stays (super)mounted. Should this be done in the command
> line? If so, Ican unmount the device but have not learned the command to
> format a floppy, what is th
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> but at least I have learnt that the problem appears to be with Mandrakes rendition
> of the kernel.
>
> Are there any "recomended" Linux packages out there ie Corel, Slackware
> etc??
>
Hmm...you're on a MANDRAKE list, bitching about the
MANDRAKE kernel? Might
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I have not figured out any solution beyound the three-fingered salute, I have
> a suspicion that it is caused by my harddrive. Do you, like I, have a large
> WDCaviar drive with EZ-Boot or their more modern DataLifeguard? I have no
> direct evidence that the
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Yes. But it doesn't update the HARDWARE clock. Axalon was good enough
> > to tell me -- hwclock is the command I was looking for. Doh! :-)
> > John
> Um, it updates the hardware clock on my system. Maybe there is an
> option somewhere that I set on install,
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Please dont send thru digitally signed messages.
>
BTW, appreciate that you did NOT choose to use HTML... my compliments!
John
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Please dont send thru digitally signed messages.
>
Do you mean PGP-signed messages? Why? Is your MUA choking on it? I
*could* be nasty and tell you what the "fine" folks in the
"linux-smp" list told me ("your mail program is broken, go get
another one.") but I won
I'm currently running KDE 1.1.1 on my Mandrake 6 system. I have the
following QT RPMs installed:
qt-1.44-10mdk
qt-devel-1.44-10mdk
qt-qgl-1.44-10mdk
qt-qimgio-1.44-10mdk
qt-qxt-1.44-8mdk
...is there any reason to upgrade to the next stepping of the QT
rpms? They're still 1.44, but they have a
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > I *think* you have to run the KDE Desktop Manager, but you can run
> > ANY "Window Manager" on top of that...
> > John
>
> Nop, the window manager must be kde compliant. Would have to ask Daniel or
> David if or how this might be changed in kde2
>
Ahh...O
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Are KDE programs compatible with IceWM or WindowMaker? I'm not all that
> impressed with KDE or GNOME, and thought I'd give one of the smaller and
> tighter GUI environments a try, but if apps won't run under them, then
> there's no sense in switching...
>
I *th
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> hwclock
>
Thanks.
John
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I tried to install Linux on a new box of mine, but the vidoe card isn't
> supported yet. So, I decided I would delete the partition that I created
> with the partition magic that it came with. Well, everyting went fine and it
> told me that the partition was de
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > I used to know this command, but I haven't used it in awhile and it
> > now escapes me...
> > After I use RDATE to set the software clock, what's the command to
> > write t
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Well, if you're root, just use rdate -s time.nist.gov (or whatever
> server you use).
>
Yes. But it doesn't update the HARDWARE clock. Axalon was good enough
to tell me -- hwclock is the command I was looking for. Doh! :-)
John
I used to know this command, but I haven't used it in awhile and it
now escapes me...
After I use RDATE to set the software clock, what's the command to
write the changes to the hardware clock? I know it's
--systohc, but I"ve forgotten what it is can someone refresh my
memory?
Thanks.
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > :-) Nice to know I can teach you Mandrake type folks something! :-)
> > Hey, you know what they say, RTFM! ;-P
>
> hehehe... well, in MandrakeSoft's defence, I'm not an employee so you
> can't accuse them of hiring stupid people... =) And yes, you did teach me
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I've got the cdrom writer working. I'm using xcdroast ok. I was able
> to create a cd using linux, no problem.
>
> I'm looking to create an iso file from a redhat 5.2 cd, not the
> commercial version, but a fully free one that happens to be bootable. I
> have
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > > Run linuxconf from a terminal. It deals with such setup and other stuff, like
> > > file systems and user accounts. Linuxconf is your friend.
> > >
> >
="
John
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Subject: Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:10:54 -0700 (MST)
From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > I have tried addin
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> I have tried adding append "mem=256" to my lilo.conf, but this causes
> the kernel to hang on bootup.
>
Umm...I *could* be wrong, but I *think* the line should be:
append='mem=256MB'
Give that a shot and see if it helps. Or, maybe someone
will correct me, but
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Vern wrote:
>
> > I'm back to using Micro$haft Outlook Express because I have three POP mail
> > accounts and have failed to find anything in Linux that will manage all 3.
> > Netscape will only allow multiple email accounts if they are IMAP and not
> > POP.
>
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > I don't suppose you can convert to *.rtf can you?
> > John
> ---
> troff doesn't know about RTF either...:-/
> It's pretty ancient.
>
Geez...what about plain text??? You *should* at least be
able to get PLAIN TEXT to work?
John
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> The .com was missing from the url.
>
Yep. My bad. :-)
>
> An interesting site - the guy sure can rant when he wants. Also a lot of
> stuff on controllerless modems; nothing Linux-y found by me.
>
Never said it was a Linux site... just that it's a good
site for
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Run linuxconf from a terminal. It deals with such setup and other stuff, like
> file systems and user accounts. Linuxconf is your friend.
>
> To replace the question with one of my own, I'm not really understanding the
> "basic host information" group (that's
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> John Aldrich
> > (www.808hi/56k/trouble2.htm is the site I use now-a-days
> > for most 56k modem trouble-shooting.)
> > >
>
>
> John,
>
> THanks for the lead, but I cannot seem to quite get the above site.
> What is
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> John Aldrich
> > (www.808hi/56k/trouble2.htm is the site I use now-a-days
> > for most 56k modem trouble-shooting.)
> > >
>
>
> John,
>
> THanks for the lead, but I cannot seem to quite get the above site.
> What
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Maybe we can add a signature to the mailing list messages so that everyone
> sees mandrakeuser.org on each e-mail?
>
Heh. Yeahright. I'm subbed to the KDE list. Do you have any idea
how many times people post there requesting to be taken off the list?
Sheesh.
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > > Is there a way to decode MIME/Bas64 encoded files on the commandline? Reason
>being, I'm playing with a mail editor called CSCMail and it doesn't support decoding
>attachments ye
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> >%_I have just installed Mamdrake 7.0, My network admin gave me an static
> ip.
> When I enterned the ip information and the etc. my system couldnt see
> the network.
>
> So I reloaded my system and selected DHCP. now my system will connect .
>
> But why is my h
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> No daily, please! Monthly, rather.
>
> Perhaps the message that goes out when one has sucessfully joined the list
> can include a pointer to the FAQ for the benefit of new subscribers. This
> was not done when I joined the list late last year.
>
> Another way to
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I'll add to this -- what would be a nice toy project --
> a shell (perl?) script that starts setiathome and the X display as a
> screen saver.
> Then, it reads the powersave interval (when the screen turns off), and
> kills the X display (since it really ju
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I have some old unix docs that were written for troff -mm. What
> I'd like to do is convert them to HTML or .doc(WORD) or .wpr (WordPerfect).
> so I can edit them in modern context. I can convert them to .ps, or
> .pdf, but those don't help to go to an editable
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Following directions I got from mandrakeuser.org, I am
> able to get my wheel mouse to work correctly under X
> excEPT i have to open konsole and type "imwheel -k" at
> the start of every session. The instructions I got
> said adding that line to .xinitrc would do
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> My terminal servers are Livingston Portmaster PM3. They
> use Lucent chipsets. Their protocols are K56Flex/V.90. The
> server will tell the client first to try V.90. That is the
> default and is shown in the logs.
>
Ahh...Ok. Gotcha. I forgot you use the PM3s.
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > We have a FAQ - sort of - at http://www.mandrakeuser.org
> > What we need is someone that can set up a Cron job to send an
> > email on a daily basis to THIS (and the Newbie) list advertising
> > the FAQ.
> >
> Is this website listed in the welcome message
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I installed ML 7.02 fresh on a new Dell Optiplex GX1 and used a USB
> Keyboard & Mouse during the install, which went smoothly...but upon
> rebooting, the keyboard & mouse were no longer recognized (I could
> however plug in a PS/2 keyboard and log in). I tried
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Is there a way to decode MIME/Bas64 encoded files on the commandline? Reason being,
>I'm playing with a mail editor called CSCMail and it doesn't support decoding
>attachments yet.
>
> Probably really simple, but I've never had to do it before...
>
have you tr
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Not sure if this comes under the "Stupid Questions" heading or not, but is
> there any reason why the .iso images on the various ftp mirrors can't be
> compressed to make for a (slightly) quicker download?
>
Ok. Say you compress it to 500 megs (just a figure I pi
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> This probably isn't, strictly speaking, the right place to post this, but
> I trust the opinions and expertise of the people on this list more than
> the collective wisdom of most of Usenet.
>
If you want the opinions of people who run SMP machines all
the time a
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Non-Win Rockwells work, but they are not good performers. They
> have aggressive speeds, usually a notch or two higher than they
> should for given line conditions. They get LOTS of retrains
> which I can see on my logs here. They frequently disconnect
> with "
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