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USB not working during installation is one of the known issues, but my firewire cdrom wasn't recognized either. i added the same modules i always needed for 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 to no avail (those are: ieee1394, ohci1394, sbp2). i really wanted to try out 10.0 but I'll have to wait a bit longer, i guess :)

what have you got to lose? if it's a brand new laptop, you aren't going to lose any data--might as well try mandrake and see if you like the way it works on your laptop. 9.2 is working so much better on my laptop than 9.1 did, and i'm really looking forward to 10.0 and the 2.6 kernel.

i was trying to come up with a mental flowchart of this network, but anything over 3 firewalls in a home network and my brain crashes.

the rpm on this site doesn't work with firebird 0.7. i thought it did before, but i couldn't get it to work the other day. the Mozilla Firebird FAQ says firebird 0.7 needs j2re 1.4.2 or later. you can download the rpm of 1.4.2 here on sun's site you can easily find builds of firebird with gtk and xft built in (read: beautiful fonts). i know you can find it at the first link above, but i'm not sure if you'll have to go elsewhere for the mandrake rpms. some of these rpms might be good to add to this site's ftp server :)

why are you afraid of 1.1?? it works great in mdk and is MUCH better than earlier versions... it's probably what all of us were trying to use to give you help :o

ah well, never got it to find any of my network cards (integrated ethernet, orinoco mini-pci wireless, or cisco wireless card), which is odd since i installed over ftp. but the desktop was pretty. :D

thanks! :P SuSE didn't find my cdrom after the initial stage of the install, so i had to then switch to an FTP install. the YaST installer seems nice so far, although it about gave me a heart attack when i thought it had already formatted my partitions into one giant partition. i've backed things up, but that still wouldn't have been ideal. hopefully everything will be up and running soon. :D

mandrake 9.2 should work just fine as a server. if you're just learning linux and want to "play around" mandrake is definitely the best choice. the computer i'm writing from has been running a webserver on 9.1 for about 10 months and has never crashed and only been rebooted a few times since installation. you should be able to install apache (and probably other webservers) from 9.2's package management and others here can probably give you advice on security, etc.

There are a few things that I don't yet have in 9.2 that I used to have in 9.1 from Texstar. I'm not cool enough to build my own RPMs and prefer to stay away from installing something like KDE 3.1.4 from source. I joined the club a few days ago primarily as a way to donate for the free ISOs I've dl'ed from mandrakesoft, but was a bit baffled at the utter lack of RPMs that the club seems to give you. Are there other distros that seem to have very up-to-date packages constantly being built? Or is mandrake on par or better than most of the distros out there?

isn't it soffice, not ooffice?

maybe it's a printer driver issue? i only have a laserjet 6L, but it's always worked just fine printing envelopes. what kind of printer are you trying this on?

can you run RJ45 about 40 meters, then stick a wireless access point on the end of it? 100 meters is definitely pushing it for 802.11b range, especially if there is a lot of structure between the computer and the access point. it's a bit more pricey than some models, but i really recommend the cisco aironet cards. some other vendors seem to have spotty linux support, but cisco includes in the package software for windows/linux/mac, so you know it'll work in multiple environments and the software interface will be identical on all platforms. Cisco Aironet 350 info: Range (typical) Indoor: 130 ft (40 m) @ 11 Mbps 350 ft (107 m) @ 1 Mbps Outdoor: 800 ft (244 m) @ 11 Mbps 2000 ft (610 m) @ 1 Mbps

i hadn't come across unison before, thanks for the tip schussat! B) i'll definitely play with that because it sounds like exactly what i was looking for. the fact that it's smarter than rsync is really cool. i should try vnc too. it always seems like it would take more bandwidth to do vnc than just running one app over ssh, but i know that isn't true. if i didn't spend so much time fixing problems i never knew i had, i'd have a lot more spare time :lol:

Anna posted the answer in this thread:

format -> page -> in the top box pick the envelope you want (probably #10) and be sure to pick landscape orientation. say ok, then try printing. unless you're doing mail merges, you shouldn't need insert -> envelope... i find it easier to just add the addresses and format myself. :P

try mandrake control center -> boot -> drakboot -> default desktop = KDE (or if you just want to go into KDE temporarily, you should be able to log out, then select KDE from the login)

thanks kuchwas! (and can you post a how-to about installing linux on a braun coffeemaker?)

when it says it can't access the cdrom, if it gives you an option of selecting the correct driver from a list, you can try to figure out which driver might make your cdrom work. (mine, for instance, is a firewire drive that mandrake doesn't autodetect, but if i install 3 separate drivers, it works just fine... a pain, but it works) you might be able to google to find what drivers your cdrom uses.

ok, thanks for the replies. i may try the iphitus/fuzzylizard method one of these days but i'm not sure how the desktop will handle yet another server. i think it'd have to be imap because i'd want to sync the sent items just as much as the incoming mail. a question i should've asked in the first post: does anyone know if you can run multiple instances of a program like evolution? the main problem i'm having is that you cannot tunnel evolution through SSH if the desktop already has it open. most of the time when i want to use the mail, both computers are on my lan, so bandwidth really isn't an issue.

thanks! i gave up on using multimedia keys a long time ago, but acme works perfectly.

I've been using evolution for a long time now, and i download all the mail from the pop3 server to my desktop machine. then to access old emails from the laptop, i use SSH to open evolution from the desktop to the laptop. Is there a more elegant way to either sync the two machines, or maybe run evolution locally on the laptop but access the mail folders on the desktop? I'm not deadset on sticking with evolution and am open to any and all potential solutions. Thanks in advance--you guys (and gals) are always so helpful B)

is http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distribut...pclinuxos/rpms/ this what you are talking about? I haven't tried installing any of these to see if they work yet.

ok, thanks. i probably won't worry about it so much then :P

I just did a clean install of the download edition of 9.2 and things seem to be going smoothly, but this just looks weird to me: [bill@localhost bill]$ df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 5.0G 1.1G 3.9G 22% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 8.4G 232M 8.2G 3% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 2.6G 4.0K 2.6G 1% /mnt/windows why doesn't it say "hda7" and "hda8" etc? is this a problem, and if so, how do i fix it? thanks

Ok, at least it's not just me :o It's weird because nautilus seems to recognize the files (hence the correct OOo icons on .sxw, .doc, etc) but just not want to deal with them. i'll keep poking around and try to figure it out.