Dapper Dan

Hi danleff, busy, busy, busy! How are things with you? Humpfest, I'd set the router first to dhcp, then shut off your box, take out whatever nic is in your box, restart so it will be found not there. Then shut down again, put in the Intel nic, restart and let it be found and configured. Then in the mandrake control center, configure it for dhcp, then press "connect." Tell us what happens... Good luck!

Did you configure it with alsaconf? At the command line, open alsamixer and raise all the levels up.

I swear by the Orinoco Gold card. It's 802.11B though. I've had it working with a Linksys 802.11g router. I've had the Orinoco for quite some time and it's performance is outstanding with our Toshiba laptop. I've seen them on Ebay as low as $30.00.

Strangely enough, I own all three of the cards you mention and all work very well. Is your default gateway set correctly if using static ip from the router? With Linksys, it is likely to be... static ip of box 192.168.1.101 (the last being whichever number...) net mask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 (router)

On the modem, connect it to your machine and boot up. Kudzu should have no problem finding and configuring it. Once up and running, look for "kppp" in your menu open it, configure it and dial. Kppp has to be configured in the same way the dialer does in windows. Under the modem section, tell it to look for the actiontec at /dev/ttyS0. If it doesn't see it there, try /dev/ttyS1. If not there, try /dev/modem. Good luck.

According to Absolute Value Systems, it uses the Prism 2 chipset, thus should work... Proxim 802.11b 8434-05 PCMCIA Prism2/2.5/3 ext antenna connecters When you first booted did kudzu, "find" the card? Have you tried configuring it with the RH network utility? If not, open a terminal, become root and go: Code: system-config-network What does it say it is using for the driver? This router you have is 802.11b or 802.11g? Are you using WEP encryption by chance? If so, turn it off until you get your card configured. Also in system-config-network, is the box checked which tells the network to start at boot? Is system-config-network seeing it as a wired card or a wirless card?

You can take the right pug from one wire and the right input from the other, splice them and it will work. We use Audacity under Linux at my radio station and have no complaints. The best feature is the easy editing capability. Audacity, in many cases, has cut our production time in half. I highly recommend it as well.

Could you PM me one soon as I've got to set up a new account for my wife. Thank you. Dapper

I would like one also please. Thank you.

Originally posted by bloody: Quote: Mr.iamroot, not even the godly powers of root would free my disks from their prisons, sad ne? Okay, thank you danleff, that was much easier than logging out just to take out a disk I must say. I still though, have no idea why famd was using the drives, then again, I really have no idea what famd is in the first place. After killing famd it seems konqueror was still using the drives as well, strange. Have any ideas on a permanent fix for this? I used to run into the same thing with RH 9 and FC1. I don't seem to notice it as much under FC2 and 3 nor in SuSE or Slackware. When I did have the problem, often I could eject the cd just by closing the existing terminal and opening a new one, becoming root and... Code: umount /mnt/cdrom Code: eject /mnt/cdrom When that wouldn't work, I did exactly what egorgry recommended. Good luck!

Reboot, this time sign in as root and give the root password when it asks. Once signed in as root, run kusers and change or fix your password for regular user there.

Danleff turned me on to Puppy Linux which will fit on a mini disk. Don't let the name fool you. They're doing amazing things over at Puppy Linux!

LOL! We have one solid black cat I took in on Halloween five years ago! She's still with us, and no bad luck there either...

I got married on Friday the thirteenth. It's been marital bliss for eight years!

I have RH 6 on an old HP box just for fun. The difference between it and FC 3 is just unbelievable! FC 3 make RH 6 look like something from the stone age, but it was just five years ago!

Originally posted by Wilhelmus: Quote: Perhaps after that, I'll download SUSE. I've tried all the big distros as well as a good number of the Live CD's too. SuSE 9.1 Professional cost me around $90.00 at CompUSA although you can do an FTP install of SuSE Personal at no charge. In my mind, SuSE is the very best distro to begin using if you've never used Linux and migrating from Windows. It has a lot of easy to understand and very intuitive utilities to get you going. In the live CD catagory, Knoppix of course is the most popular Debian based version, but in my mind, Mepis is tops. Again, it has a lot of easy utilities to get you going, and with Debian's apt-get package utility with the Synaptic front end, downloading and installing any of thousands of programs is mind numbingly simple.

If you just want a GUI to point and click your way through, then Linux is just as easy to install and run as Windows in my experience. The thing is, Linux can be configured to be far more, but requires one to learn the proper commands to make it so. I just bought a Dell Diminsion 3000 and Fedora Core 2 found and configured all its hardware except the winmodem. That's no problem since I'm using broadband anyway. The main thing I like about Linux over Windows is, you don't have to purchase and install all kinds of software to get your box up to snuff. All the apps you mostly need are already right there on the install CD's and don't cost a thing. Once it's up and running and configured the way you want, it will run forever without breaking. No Norton and McAffee. No trojans, malware, miningware or spyware nor worms to constantly do battle with. With Linux, I can spend my time getting work done without forever worrying about getting infected the way I once did with Windows.

I know it's not "G" but the NetGear MA311 has worked flawlessly for me with every distro I've used it under, and there have been many...

Originally posted by iamroot: Quote: But if you use vesa, you wont get 3D acceleration and you wont get to use the full power of your graphic card. It's not a solution. Nor is it meant to be. It's only a means of trying to determine what the problem may or may not be.

Just for fun, have you tried "vesa" where "ati" is? Do you get a full screen then? You could try this: Comment out your vertical and horizontal rates and let xorg configure them the way it wants. I did this once with an Nvidia that was having similar problems and it worked.

I've used apt-get Debian and apt-get RPM for RedHat/Fedora, and both make package management much easier than installing RPM's or Deb packages without them. Slapt-get for Slackware does essentially the same thing, only with .tgz packages. It's really so simple, you can't mess it up. Just go: Code: slapt-get --install gaim And it does it all for you. Also, I've used Gentoo. Even though I can appreciate their philosophy, I for one just don't have the time necessary to get a Gentoo system up and running. Yet, when it is up and running emerge works well, but again, takes forever to build the apps. Yast in SuSE is pretty easy, and urpmi for Mandrake is easy too. All in all, I'd say Linux beats the pants off of Microsoft for ease of installing packages.

Hello Palos, Good to see you back! You gonna help us out with the new Linux users??!

For various reasons, I will NEVER buy another Epson printer. If it turns out that you can't get it working, you can never go wrong with an HP. If you buy an HP, your Epson will make a damned nice boat anchor. Let's hear more about that modem of yours. There may be a way to get it working without too much difficulty... as long as we know what make and model it is.

Does your ISP provide an external adsl modem? If so, I'd go from their external adsl modem to a Linksys or Netgear router to a network interface card (pci) in your computer. Or is the modem you presently have provided by the ISP? I'm using adsl through a Linksys router right now and have no problems.

Last week I installed a Gigabyte GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB. Works flawlessly under Slackware with the 7714 drivers. Couldn't figure out how to get it working under XP though, too much of a headache, so I said to hell with Windows...