liquidzoo

MandrakeLinux (as well as most Linux distros) are usually on a 6 month release cycle

Try it without the File Sharing option (just the other 2 options checked). For some reason the wizard won't complete unless you do that. Then, make the changes (follow the examples provided) in /etc/samba/smb.conf

Something to try Right Click on the Desktop and go to Configure Desktop. In the Behavior (default) panel, there should be 3 tabs on the top. The Farthest right being "Device Icons" click on that and make sure they are enabled.

Thanks you both for the replies! Adding 'yenta_socket' to modprobe.preload did the trick as I already had 'PCIC=yenta_socket' in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia. Now I just have to get samba working... edit: my typing skills are definately lacking late at night <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Glad to hear it worked. As for Samba...stick around here for a while. We have a Samba FAQ in the works that should be out soon.

Either that, or edit /etc/modprobe.preload to include: yenta_socket

I would recommend adding the update source through urpmi. Head to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org and set up an update source. Just follow the instructions and you will be all set. One thing: Make sure rpmdrake is closed when you are trying to add the source.

I would look in /etc/rc.d/init.d for where it's trying to start samba and remove the entry there. Might fix the problem.

disable the samba mount point in mcc would be my first guess.

Wow. That looks like a very nice script.

Moved this to Tips and Tricks. Very nice.

You will need to change the /bot to /boot in your lilo.conf file, then re-run lilo -v

Also, you'll be needing the win32-codecs from plf. Head to http://easyurpmi.zarg.org and add a plf (and a contrib) source to urpmi. Once you've dome that, type urpmi win32-codecs in a console (as root) and it will install what you need.

My best guess would be to try to reconfigure your mouse, either using MCC or mousedrake (cli). Something got messed up. I'll see if I can find something from my laptop's setup if I get a chance. It has a trackpoint mouse as well that works just fune.

in your xorg.conf fime, do you have this line: Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" In the Module section?

afaik there aren't any wireless adapters that will be picked up and installed during the install process. There have been many posts here about getting that particular adapter working. Check here for some useful info

We went over this in #musb, but my suggestion is to try XFdrake

Ix From conversations on #musb, I don't believe it is a router. I think it's the DSL Modem going to a Hub then out to the computers.

Try your update source for urpmi. That might have it. Another place to look might be http://rpmfind.net

everything with that is fine. All you're doing there is installing the java executable, not the plugin so everything is fine.

Disk defragment is not needed. I heard a test somewhere that went something like this: You can defragment Windows, and immediately reboot. When everything comes back up the disk will already be 10-20% fragmented. You can run a linux installation with very processor and hard drive intensive applications for 1000 hours straight and it will still be less than 1% fragmented. Cleaning the temp files you can do if you want, but it's not going to have a drastic effect on system performance afaik. It is possible that your antivirus software has a different executable name, but I don't know what it would be. It's also possible that it's a service. That's easier to check. Head into MCC -> System -> Services (I think) and check through the list to see if it's there.

You can try typing: $ Bit<tab> or $ bit<tab> That will give you a list of executable files starting with the letters 'Bit' or 'bit' (linux is case sensitive, remember). If there's only one file matching that criteria, it will fill in the full filename. In the examples above, don't type the '$'. This is just to show that I would be running this command as a user, not as root. Also, there it says <tab>, hit the tab key (in case you didn't know :))

Look in your ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.something/ folder for a file called lock If it's there, delete it and everything should be fine.

I haven't tried it myself, just something I remembered reading in the man page. Had to double check it to get the exact command.

There's a switch for Eterm that makes it so you wouldn't be able to focus on it. It would put it in the background, behind everything. Shortcut would look something like this: Eterm -x -0 --trans --scrollbar=off --buttonbar 0 -q -e 'top' That will make it completely transparent, force it to the background and you won't be able to focus on it, and run the top command. If you do that, you might want to use the -g switch as well. Here's the format: -g XcoordxYcoord+height+width (height and width might be reversed, size is in pixels (I think))

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