Mel

Have you checked your firewall settings ? If settings are not right, firewalls will block other computers from connecting.

XP networks will generally find all computers connected to the router or hub but since you are using a domain your machines are not members of that workgroup so they cannot be accessed. Although a workigroup will locate other boxes connected by hub or router it can only accesss the ones that belong to the same workgroup and have shared folders.

I had the same problem with VISTA and a lynksis hub. Finally gave up and set up an old XP box with USB connection to cable modem as server.Internet works fine now. Only have 3 boxes networked but can go online with all 3 at same time.Don't know about your system but I don't notice any difference in speed.

I have a new Presario SR2173WM running VISTA. This computer is networked with my HP W2040 with XP and my daughters Presario running VISTA. Each computer has a shared folder named dwnlds for downloads and file transfer. The problem ; I can got to either of the other two computers on the network and upload files to the SR2173WM but when I am logged on to the SR2173WM (even as administrater) and try to download files I just get a requester saying I don't have permission to perform this action. I have tried every combination of permissions on all 3 boxes I can think of but the problem persists.Also,the read only attribute is checked on theSR2173WM and when I clear it the OS rechecks it. It doesn't seem right to me that anyone on another computer has more control of this box than administrator. Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thank you

It's hardwire ,used in eMachines. Go to http:\www.driverguide.com , join it (it's free ) Search the database. They have the linux driver. Driverguide.com has a lot of linux hardware drivers.

I'm using SUSE 10.0. I've recently started using k3b to burn ISO files. I prefer burning at 4x but k3b bumps it up to 8x. Is there any way to stop that? I like watching news videos on the web. When trying to play web videos with linux FireFox,I get a message saying I need to install directX but I can't find a working relationship between directX and linux firefox. Any suggestions will be appreciated. (I've lived longer and heard more than I care to admit so any attempt to offend me will be in vain.)

Thanks,Bill I've been burning at 4x with this drive for about 18 months.It is a different brand disks,though.My daughter bought them for my birthday.That may well be all it is. I've known for some time that some cd's are not compatible with 1x but never had a problem with 4x before.

Whoops FOrgot to mention PC speaker in KMix is probably turned all the way down in SUSE 10.0. Push it up or you won't hear anything.

SUSE sets up REALTEK sound rather well BUT the default settings suspends sound 5 seconds after startup.

This works for me on all SUSE distros I've tried including 10.0. Go to Control Center/Sound and multimedia unselect "Autosuspend if idle for [5 sec.] (Default is 5 seconds which means sound is turned off 5 seconds after startup.) Click "apply" Go back to Control Center and select "System Notifications". Check "Apply to all Applications" Click "Turn on all [sounds] Click apply From main menu select "volume control" push sliders for master,Master Mono and PCM all the way up. click "Apply" Restart computer and use the speaker icon to adjust volume>

OK After I posted my last reply ,a friend told me that text isn't on the SLES DL page anymore. I subscribed to the 30 day free trial so I could DL the disks. On reading the license I found it is an open source license.The time limit is on the free upgrades and support. I'm not an attorny but the license states you may use as many copies as you like on as many machines as you want but support and updates are limited to 30 days unless you purchase a subscription.

This is a qoute from the download page for the SLE9 free trial. "NOTE: The only limitation of this evaluation software is the duration you will have free access to updates and patches. Should you choose to license Novell Open Enterprise Server you will be provided with a new activation code." I assume that means you can keep using it but you won't get free updates and patches after the trial period.

Go here; http://www.novell.com/products/linuxenterpriseserver/ to download 30 day free trial.

You're right , Danleff. Justbill mentioned the mad dog and a hard drive and I got them confused. Must be getting senile in my old age.

How big is the MadDog ? Try formating a primary at about 30 gb then format the rest as extended and divide the extended partition into logical drives less than 38gb.That pavilion can't handle anything larger than 38 gigs.Most of the low end 40gig HDs have a jumper to restrict them to 38gb so those old HPs can read them.

64Mg isn't enough ram to install most distros. Make sure your swap file is at least 500 to make up for the low RAM.That may help although it will probably be a little slow. Hi,Danleff. Finally got back on cable so I can start DLing distros again.Now I can start playing with these old boxes again and just maybe say something that will help someone. Phone lines just ain't made to DL distros.

If you have ubuntu 4.10 , puppy linux or an older version of Mepis and some free space on one of your drives, You can try installing one of those. They will usually find all your partitions when installing bootloader and rewrite part. table. Fat32 on hdb is probably screwing up partition tables, like windows ,it wants to be #1.

Try reading this http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PSC_1310 Oh,yeah it's either sane or xsane you need to edit to turn on HPOJ. Reading the above link suggests two or three drivers that work with different distros. Some distros need hpoj for scanning and hpijs for printing.Some just need hpijs.Also ,you may have to install hpoj and get your scanner working then install hpijs to get your printer working.(Don't know why but on some systems you have to get your scanner working with hpoj first then install hpijs for printing.For some obscure reason the scanner won't set up with hpijs installed on some systems.)

What distro are you using ?

You need HPOJ to and xsane to scan with hp psc. The HP scanner can't be found with the usual scanning drivers. Use gimp to scan and save then use kooka to process the images. When you setup the printer,the scanner is setup with it. I'll have to look at something and get back to you. You may have to turn on hpoj in one of the kernal files. I'm thinking fstab but not sure.Anyway the line you will be looking for is probably "HPOJ =off" If you setup your psc with hpijs,You'll have to change that to "HPOJ = on".

You just finished installing that brand new distro. It's time to check those other OS's,see if they load OK. You hit "reboot" amd run for the coffee pot. You hurry back to choose an OS and ...... ???HEY???? What happened to SUSE ? Where's Gentoo ? Slackware's gone too ! Don't despair , it's time for "UBUNTU to the RESCUE ." Problem ; Multiple OS's installed on the same drive, just different partitions. There is a good chance some distros ,like Mandrake, will only list the first OS it finds on each HD. Others ,like Mepis, sometimes like to think it's the only OS worth mentioning. If you set up a logical drive for each OS on a hard drive, almost all distros would probably find them all.But , hey, how many of us actually take the time to do that ? Not to mention the noobees that don't know how. My solution: Well,since I'm not good at editing MBRs, I keep a few gigs free on at least one HD and a UBUNTU install disk handy. I just install UBUNTU and so far it's found every OS on all drives and added them to the boot list no matter how the drives are set up. There are probably a few setups that can stump UBUNTU but I haven't found them yet. Hope this helps somebody.

If you see someone who never messes up, you're looking at someone who doesn't have a computer. For me ,older versions are usually better. Only thing I get from newer versions is drivers. ( SUSE now has the Suse version of LTwinmodem that is very easy to install and works great with most Lucent winmodems.) I usually use SUSE to access the internet but right now I'm experimenting with ububtu and kubuntu (KDE version of ubuntu).

Yes , two or more versions of linux are running happily alongside xp on a lot of computers. A little information would help answer the how part. Do you have more than one hard drive,or do you want to put them all on one drive? What os is installed and is it ok to remove and reinstall ? As much information as you can give on your hardware. ( different hardware needs different tweaks.)

Use ubuntu version 4.10 to find your OS's. I tried upgrading to version 5.04. Well, everything looked fine,until I booted windows. I don't know if it's just my machine,but with version 5.04,after booting windows, version 5.04 says all the OS's are not valid operating systems and refuses to boot anything.

You can still use all of that 15 gig HD. I assume from your post your system can handle a 5 gig HD. So do this. Boot with win98 floppy. Run fdisk. First be sure your 15 gig HD is selected. Select "1". (Create Primary Dos Partition or extended DOS partition.) 1. Select "Create Extended DOS Partition" and make another 5 gig partition. 2. Select "Creat Logical DOS Drive in Extended DOS Partition". Repeat 1 and 2 . Now your computer thinks the 15 gig HD is three 5 gig HDs. You can use one just for a swap file if you want. I had to learn this years ago to utilize a 10gig HD I bought for a 66mhz Packard Bell that couldn't use over 1 gig per HD. The machine thought I had 8 HDs and the drive still had unused space. And ,WOW!, I had a whole 8 megs of ram.