Dapper Dan

..a continuation of this..

Im running rh9 too. Give me a link where to download this tarball, and I'll see what happens when I try to compile it on my box.

I'm sorry, I should have asked sooner, but what distro are you using?

God, there sure is a lot of old guys here! I'm 46, and I think Maillion is in his 70's... Seriously, I don't know about you Mel, but it was a very liberating feeling for me when I wiped my last Windows XP from a hard drive.

If you can use gnome-terminal or konsole and try it again, you can copy the exact errors you're getting and paste them here. That will go a long way to getting help with what the problem is.

The easisest and best way, (eliminating wires to the laptop) would be to get a wireless router. We use the Linksys wireless G which is backward compatible to 802.11b, thus works well with Linux too.

Maybe avinash is having to boot Windows for e-mail because he can't get a connection under Linux. Here's a pci that will work too. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3454870526#ebayphotohosting

http://cabin.bigfiber.net/mirror/mandrake/9.1/

I think he's using Fedora, in which case Xmms is listed in Sound & Video as "Audio Player."

Depending on what distro you are running, (mdk 9.2?) It should already be installed. To find out, open a terminal and type: xmms [enter] Did it come up? If so, it should be in your menu somewhere.

In the case of Mandrake, no. In the case of Red Hat, yes. Mdk has, what I believe to be the best partitioning tool out there. It is as simple to use as PM for resizing, partitioning to allow for Linux in a dual boot with Windows. With Red Hat in a dual boot scheme, I use PM to first resize Windows and create a blank space. Then I install RH into that space. The part about hard drives being mirror images of each other, I'm not familiar enough with that to address it.

So after you start boot, you see some lines of characters fly by for a while, and then you just get a blank screen with nothing? What does the last readable line say?

If the graphics don't show up, then you should be in a non X shell mode or runlevel 3. Does it ask for user ID and password?

I'm kind of in a similar situation. I downloaded stage 1 tarball and extracted it to it's own directory. I understand you can run Gentoo from within a directory of an existing distro but I'm not sure at this point how. I think I have to fiddle with /grub/grub.conf in some way, but this is causing anxiety. I'd really like to check out Gentoo, but the more I look at their website, the more confused I get!

Uh-uh, not me..

Steve, on a kind of related note, I have one box at the end of a fairly long run of cat 5 that will only work with an old non 10/100 realtec nic. If I put a 10/100 card in this box, it won't work! I've tried several 10/100 nics and none will work except this old realtec. I don't really know why this is. What do you think?

Sounds like your xf86config isn't set up right. sign in, become root: su [enter] password: yours [enter] and (if still using Mdk) type: XFdrake [enter] If not Mdk, let me know. To begin with, set the screen to the lowest resolution, and try to find your monitor in the monitor section. If you can't find it, try using something as close as you can get. Play around with XFdrake and see if you can find something that will work. If this is just a waste of time and all different settings fail, run xf86config as root. It will give you a chance to set vertical and horizontal. Enter the values of your monitor. It may take several tries to get it right. The problem could also be the video card. Did you download and install the ATI "drivers" for your card from their site and install them? Your screen should be giving you some kind of error messages. Let us know what those are as it will go a long way in helping to figure out what the problem is. If all else fails, I would then e-mail Sony and ask them for advice on getting things to work with Linux.

boostud, the best way anyone can help is for you to tell us a specific thing you want to do. Then, once you're clear on that, tell us the next thing you have a question about. Don't feel intimidated about asking questions, that's the only way to learn! That and Google are the best tools you will find!

LOL! I should have guessed! I've been fightin' Fedora now for two days trying to get the fonts to look right on a IceWM menu. I installed Falsh 6 on RH 9, Mdk 9 and Morphix and it didn't make any font complaints. I will try to install on this Fedora box I'm working on for my Mother and see what happens.

I don't know what distro you are using, but I have the same problem with .ICEauthority in RH 9 which won't allow me to use Konqueror as root from my user login. I never cound find an answer, so I just use Nautilus as root when I need to visualize. On the daemons, I suppose you mean the services that automatically start when you boot up. In RH I get there by KDE/System Settings/ Server Settings/ Services. In Mdk, you will find "Services" somewhere in the Mandrake Control Center.

You would do it in /grub/grub.conf. In RH it's usually in the /boot directory. I don't know what you have in a SuSe grub.conf or how or where the kernels are listed, but here's my grub.conf which gives several as choices. Maybe it will give you some ideas. Sorry I couldn't help more. Code: # added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstalldefault 5# end added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstall# grub.conf generated by anaconda## Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.# root (hd0,4)# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6# initrd /initrd-version.img#boot=/dev/hdatimeout=10splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gztitle Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-28.1.caps.rh90.ccrma) root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-28.1.caps.rh90.ccrma ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-28.1.caps.rh90.ccrma.imgtitle Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-27.9) root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-27.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-27.9.imgtitle Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9) root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.imgtitle Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.imgtitle DOS rootnoverify (hd0,8) chainloader +1# added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstalltitle Win4Lin root (hd0,4) kernel /win4lin ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img# end added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstall

Also sounds to me like you are booting to runlevel 3. After signing in your username and id, become root: su [enter] and password [enter] type: kdm [enter] And it should come up.

Maybe Admiral LSD will drop in here soon and help you with the Gentoo questions. As far a kdm, it is a login manager. There are three that I know of. xdm, gdm and kdm. Configuring kdm will not automatically run kde unless you tell it to. You will see at the kdm screen,"sessions" which will show the desktop environments avaiable to you. You'll probably see in there Gnome and KDE and maybe others. Choose the one you want and sign in with your username and id. I hope this helps at least some...

You can become root by typing in a terminal: su [enter] You'll notice the $ sighn is now a # sign. This means you are Super User. You can now "untar" that file. Go to the directory where it was downloaded to. If it is in your home directory, you are already there. If not, you have to "cd" or change directories. Lets say for example the file is in your "tar" file, which is in your "documents" file, which is in your home directory. You would go: cd /home/myhomedirectoriesname/documents/tar Once in the same directory as the tarball you downloaded you do this: gunzip intel-v92ham-453.tgz [enter] Then: tar xvf intel-v92ham-453.tar [enter] Now you have to cd to the directory where all these files were untared. Go: cd intel-v92ham-453 Once inside this directory, you need to see what is in there. Go: ls [enter] You should now see the contents of this directory. Somewhere in there will be a README or help fie. Open it by using "vi". Let's say the name of the file IS README. Go: vi README [enter] There will be directions there on how to install. If you get this far and are confused by what it tells you to do, check back and I'll see if I can help further. Good Luck!

Which distro are you using?