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Is your XP install using FAT32 or NTFS as your file system? If it is NTFS, this may be the problem. Linux doesn't quite understand NTFS correctly. XP also has a bad habit of putting files at the end of the drive. When you partitioned your drive it would of had to move them. I suspect something got corrupted. If you have a XP disk you will need to perform a repair on the installation. After you have done that you will need to load up the Mandrake disk and perform a repair on that installation too. This is because the XP repair will wipe out the lilo entries. My solution is to use two hard disks. I have one for XP and one for Mandrake. Data I need to share between the two is on a FAT32 partition. Hope this helps.

Yes, it does matter. This will be why you will be getting the command not found response. I think you will find modprobe.conf in /etc but unless you are root you won't be able to save any edits.

I don't know about Thunderbird. I installed the archive file from the mozilla.org website. Although have to remember to change and cascade file permissions if you go down that route. To fix the HSF modem problem try the following: Create small file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ (name does not matter but must end with .rules) such that you get the following contents... % cat /etc/udev/rules.d/00-modem.rules KERNEL="ttySHSF0" SYMLINK="modem" This seemed to work for me.

Unfortunately the telecoms companies are trying to save money. One of my friends recently got DSL and he was provided with a non-LAN capable broadband modem. This was about 2 weeks ago.

I am trying to use KPPP to control a modem 56k connection. My modem is located at /dev/ttySHCF0 but KPPP does not allow this location in it's options. The config script which came with the modem drivers sets up /dev/modem to point to /dev/ttySHCF0 which KPPP can use. However, when I reboot /dev/modem is not present. I can regenerate the symbolic link, but I have to be running root privileges to do so. Is there a way to either a) stop the /dev/modem entry from being removed? B) force KPPP to use /dev/ttySHCF0? or c) modify an init script to add the link command? Thanks. Edit: There seems to be a couple of way of doing this. The first is that buried with the users .kde directory is a file called kppprc. The following entry should be present. [Modem] Device=/dev/modem This can be edited to read /dev/ttySHCF0. Unfortunately this caused a "unable to create modem lock file" which I wasn't able to get around. The second solution was provided by arvi on alt.os.linux.mandrake Substituting the appropriate values, this works and the symlink is in place on boot with no lock file issues.

Does this Tiscali web page help much? How to configure KPPP Dial up client in Linux

No Broadband is analogue as well - you are thinking of ISDN. A 56k modem only (AFAIK) uses the voice band of a telephone line whereas a broadband modem uses the whole available bandwidth. In effect DSL is an extension of 56K ;) (a narrow band connection is something like 10 Base-T) This was why I was trying to connect the 56K modem on the filtered side of the microfilter.

Hi, I am in the process of putting together a Linux PC for my parents to replace their old P166. The PC has an old 56K modem in it. I found some drives from Linuxant which are supposed to be compatible. However, when I try to dial out the modem dials but it can not connect. It seems to behave like there isn't anything on the other end of the line. The connection on my own computer is BT Broadband via the 'frog'. Is my ADSL interfering with my ability to dial out? I've tried to redirect the modem through the clear and filtered lines, but that doesn't seem to be having any effect. Many Thanks [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Edit: It was something to do with my arrangement of my microfilters on the line. A friend of mine speculated that it was the unfiltered noise from the ADSL which was disturbing the modem. Although I thought I had tried it through the filtered output :huh:

Hi, I've got a cheap digital dream l'elegante camera which can also provide a webcam output on USB. Once I have the resources I am intending to replace this with a Hauppauge WinTV USB TV Tuner connected to the AV output of my Kodak. But until then... The digital dream l'elegante will work on NetMeeting, but I can't seem to get it to work in Linux. I tried Gnomemeeting, but this just seemed to lock up. I have also tried xawtv. From this I get the error "open /dev/video0: No such device" which according to the FAQ means "The device doesn't exist. Means there is no driver module for the hardware loaded yet. Fix your hardware setup." So, how do I fix my hardware set up? Has anybody else managed to get this camera to work. Also to note, gphoto didn't like the camera either, although it did recognise it. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I know of a few people who have had problems with RAID and Mandrake. It might be worth your while getting hold of MandrakeMove and checking to see if it can see your raid array if you haven't already done so. It is possible to install Mandrake either on the same physical disk as Windows (on a seperate partition) or on a totally seperate physical disk. I prefer the latter - but then I don't use RAID. No you don't generally need a floppy drive. My system does not have one and it is happily sitting here running Win XP + Mandrake 10.1CE. However, I'm not running RAID and this may mean that you have to use the floppy to introduce some kernal mods during the install. You may have a few problems with the Alcatel. There is another very good thread on here (which was the one that brought me here in the first place). Search for it and it should solve any problems.

Thanks for this. I tried it on my normal machine to clone one of my accounts using: useradd -m -k source-directory new-user It works with the exception that Mozilla seems to get a little confused. I guess that means build up the basic desktop first and then clone it before configuring Mozilla. Then I guess the trick is to configure one Mozilla and then copy the Mozilla profile in by hand over the top of the automatically generated one for the other user. I don't want to really be installing two lots of Firefox extensions and themes if I can help it ;) I guess there might be a shortcut using the Firefox profile manager - but that isn't relevant to this (apart from if I was really keen I could script the whole process) Mark I'll take that the problem is solved and mark the thread solved - Artificial Intelligence

Ok, my contribution :D Do you want to learn the programming language? -or- Do you want to learn how to write programs? Those two things are completely different! If you want to learn the programming language then you should be looking for the books written by those who invented the language, ie, C Programming Language by Kernighan & Ritchie C++ Programming Language by Stroustrup (although Stroustrup seems to be written primarily for people who develop the compilers) C is primarily a structural language. C++ is C plus object orientation. C++ is not a pure object oriented language. Look at a language called smalltalk instead. If you want to learn how to write programs, I would recommend not using a visual development environment. In my experience (alas limited to Win32) these hide some of the detail away from you. gcc is your friend :D

You might also have to check that mysql has permission to read/write the mysql.sock file. I had a similar problem on Mandrake 9.1 and it was because the file was owner by root with read access for all others.

Hi, Have a look at the Mozilla PluginDoc http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html and in specific the faq for Java. I've used this technique withFirefox 0.10 PR on Mandrake 10.1 CE and it's works fine. Mark

Hi, I am setting up a computer for my parents using Mandrake 10.1 CE. They are fairly new to using computers. I am going to create separate users for my mum and dad. What I want to do is once I have set up one of the users for screen size, mouse behaviour, firefox extensions, menus, desktop items, etc, I want to copy the whole profile to the other user and then make a few small changes. Can I simply achieve this by copying the contents of /home/mum to /home/dad or are there other settings hidden elsewhere in the system that I will also have to duplicate? Mark Moved from Software forum to Terminal Shell Commands, Kernel and Programming by Artificial Intelligence