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Can someone explain the difference, especailly anything relating to linux I wanna but one whilst the sales are on here... The either + or - are signifantly cheaper than +- so

Michel, What are you doing here, I thought you were in Texas :wink: If I read what you said you just put the script in init.d You need to start it at whatver run levels you want. i.e. /etc/rcx.d where x is the run level. You need a S00xxx in each run level itsa started for and a K00xxx in the ones to shut it down. ./rc.d/rc2.d/S11internet ./rc.d/rc3.d/S11internet ./rc.d/rc4.d/S11internet. ./rc.d/rc5.d/S11internet /rc.d/rc0.d/K89internet ./rc.d/rc1.d/K89internet ./rc.d/rc6.d/K89internet Or am I barking up the wrong tree...

I'd try and set it via the CLI, Webmin or SWAT. You probably just don't have the permissions set properly I still use SWAT cos Ive been doing it a long time.... Now for some ranting.... Don't take this personally its just IMHO and my 2c on using SAMBA between 2 linux PC's. Firstly SAMBA is great, brilliant, I love it.... BUT Its for Windows machines to use Linux filesystems... as such its a cludge and not really very neat. Now going into lecture mode :wink: Use nfs ... its ridiculously easy once you learn it and its faster, more secure and uses less resources. Again you can set it up under webmin, linuxconf or I guess the Draktools. I prefer the CLI..... Its REALLY easy:: Heres my /etc/exportfs /home 172.16.122.0/255.255.255.0(insecure,no_root_squash,rw) This expoorts the /home directory to all local PC's in the 172.16.122.x range. You can also use a hostname or domain name like /home .home.net (insecure,no_root_squash,rw) You can specify by user etc. set it rw (like above) and control if root can write and if so how. After you have set this file up, whether by hand, webmin or whatever you need to 'push it' exportfs -ra will refresh this. On a client you would type mount 172.16.122.1 :/home /mnt/home assuming my ip address on the server is ....1 It will automatically mount it as -t nfs but you can be explicit if you want. Thats it Given your /mnt delays you could put this under /mount If you want it mounting automatically you put it in the /etc/fstab... There is no reason why the same directory can't be shared with both Samba and NFS. Its just NFS is a lot cleaner...

This is probably becuase of supermount You have 2 choices Turn supermount off: You have to manually mount or make an icon and set it as user in fstab Create a differnt mount point for other mounts The problem is it searches the CD etc whenever you go to /mnt (just like when you have a CD in in MYComputer in Windoze)

Its been annoying the hell out of me too. One thing I noticed is if I start with for instance xmms working and accessing the arts driver this happens If I 'login as other' user after shutting xmms down AND NOT selecting remember desktop everything is fine. Perhaps you have a mime type set for a sound file that starts aply when you mouse over. I have this with mp3's and it starts up some app or other, memory seems to be failing. If its being started through a mime file assoc then perhaps its not releasing it afterwards.

Hopefully lots of people from work will be visiting this site and I thought it prudent to change my name :-) The scanner check definately proves your USB stuff is working ... You (might) still have an issue with the USB storage though but your camera may be equally guilty. For the scanner, How about hotplugging it. Can you recognise it without restarting. Make sure you explain to your boyfriend properly, can't have him knocking Linux Point out that the scanner can now be used by any connected Linux PC over a network .... not the same in 98.... edits: Oh i forgot. I have a PC to upgrade 9.0-9.1 (well Ill reinstall). I'll do it without any USB mass storge attached and see what happens when i plug one in. Im not sure when Ill get round to doing it though ...

Hey, first off. The biggest favour I ever did myself was getting rid of Windows. It forced me to get everything working under linux and now I don't miss it at all. You can have different partitions on drives as tyme points out so you don't need to commit to just one. Regardling filesystems, its small files that reiserfs handles best, not large. Large an small in this context depend how you create them when you make the partition. xfs is the file system designed for multimedia (large) files by sgi. You might want to read the warnings on it though. You can REALLY TUNE file systems. Don't accept the defaults using graphical tools. Use a manual mkfs at the CLI. You might need to create a few and benchmark them. You also get different performance vis read/write depending on this. If you intend to write once and read many (MP3) then you can weight the filesystem for reads. A quick idea. Leave a spare partition, its not like your cramped on your drives. You can use this for benchmarking and you can play with the different filesystems and tuning options. Also you can have buffer space if you find one you like for something and move a partition here while you create a new one in a different filesystem.

If the usb mass storage is standard then you shouldn't need windows drivers. That doesn't mean it won't come with them but it should work without them albeit you can't remotely control your camera ... If you know anyone with a card reader you could try that. If it works then you know the camera is the problem not your config....

Which files are missing. If its kdm, gdm and xdm thats the fault of Mandrake. They made their own Mdkdm in 9.1 so it instgrates with the Galaxy themes etc. ... They are still on the CD's, you just need to add the packages :-) I'm personally IMHO etc. not in favour of this soft of thing becuase you soon end up only being able to use the Mandrkae tools. They have put in a lot of effort etc. but they certainly aren't perfect. Additionally they tend to go for the most common config or most compatible which often isn't the best tuned.... just my 2c

xavi: You could also say, I can't get my wifi working under linux so I'm condemned to cables :-) Any particular wifi? I was thinking of using it at home, my house is like spagetti. Have you got USB or PCI wifi cards? Try a thread on wifi linux??? Edit, Sorry I see you did and got no response. :banghead:

Hey I know its a binary file .... you run it. Just type xf86cfg from a console. Its an X prog but not on the menu's. Copy your XF86Config-4 (as a precauntion first) If you select the card you get a drop down dialog that lists the options for your card. I don't know another easy way to see them but it usually has lots of goodies, sometimes including overclocking or second display type etc. Its worth having a look just to see what options there are :-) Tip of the day. If you more a binary file and get crap on your cursor you can use the reset and clear usually works depending on console. Or type blindly stty sane <enter>

I have a friend who might know, Im emailing him.

Hey anna, that actually looks promising ... Whats you lsmod look like now compared to the last one ..?? aRtee: There a guy on another thread with a 'similar' problem with a modem - Im at work so I still havn't checked out mknod ... do you think it might work.... (the thread is why sdo I bother...)

mahiles, One problem is trying to get it recognised after the aborted 'other' modem. I'm sure eventually you will get it working but it might be worth considering how much customisation you've done compared to time wasted trying to get it working. I'd be fairly certain a clean install would work but I hate suggesting it because its defeatist and you shouldn't have to do it. It might however be easier for you. I found something in another thread that shows promise, it was regarding installing a digital camera after install and the problems are quite similar. I left a post with the guy so I'll wait and see if he thinks what he found is relevant to the modem :-)

3lade: Are you using firewall? If you used the Internet sharing wizard it activates shorewall the firewall. It seems to be routing OK but your network congih seems strange unless you have A LOT of PC's Your eth0 IP is class 'C' so I presume your netmask is 255.255.0.0 ? I don't know from what you said if your at work or home ... but if your at home you should really narrow it down. Anyway, it appears you have a route set from 192.168.129.0 so perhaps your blocked by the firewall. Your also going from a RFC address to a forwardable address. There s an option needs setting in shorewall. Anyway no point writing more till we know if your using shorewall :-)

Ahh, Can't remember off the top of my head, it was something generic sounding .. Its not as good as the more expensive ones but .... You have to use the xf86cfg (not xf86Config to see the options. (Well Im sure there are 101 other ways but that one works for me) No not really, its always best to check out personal experience :-) For me the issue is do I want top of the range or just a nice flat TFT. In theory DVI is better and all but when your jumping in at the budget end .. p.s. DPMS it the monitor power management ... it just activates it if int in the XF86Config-4. I honestly don't think youll have problems with a analgue DBA-15. One user had some problems but that was mainly because his card wan't well supported. Well, considering it was written by one guy without the help of the vendor you could say it was very well supported considering ... Ive always found monitrs one of those subjective things. Certainly I've had really good cheap ones but you need to pick it out yourself. The cheaper you buy the greater variability in quality. With a CRT etc. its usually the focus or something that is not perfectly aligned or banged in shipping. My advice is if it costs 10 quid more get a store that will connect a few up for you. I made the guys in PC world connect about 4-5 up before I decided on 'that one'. They were actually quite good about it, especially I guess since I fixed their mutli-monitor display whilst I was at it.... My experience is expect to run it in the native resolution, anything else is usally not as fast becuase its interpolated in software. Here is where a good card might be able to take the interpolation over .... but if you expect just a single resolution it should be fine.

I just chickened out and got a monitor which had a DBA-15 (normal VGA adapater). Somehow its not the point though, the whole idea of going to analogue and back to digital is ... well stupid ... but I played safe. I got a really cheap one 300 pounds from PC world when it ws on offer which isn't bad for a 17" TFT. I'm pretty pleased with it, it might not be as nice as a top of the range one but its sooooo much nicer than a big 20" CRT. It runs at 1280x1024. The reason I got it from PC world is I could compare them side by side.... I could tell the difference between mine and the 500 pounds plus ones but it didn't seem woth the difference. Just an idea but if yuor set on a DVI connecter perhaps you could look for combo-sets with graphics card and monitor ... Alternatively check the OPTIONS part of the driver for your video card and see if it has DVI specific ones. (I find an easy way is in xf86cfg)

Hi, I completely missed out on trying mknod ... It seems a missing link ... Is this generic for creating devices, i.e. say a device file for a modem or is it usb only?? I'm wondering if this is the bit that doesn't happen autonmagically if you don't have the device at install time??

Just got home from the bar, you really don't want any technical advice NOW, believe me.

Its no use saying what an icon looks like becuase that depends on the theme and window manager. It will work much easier from the command line with an ls -l - you can post the text as well and we'll know exactly what kind of file it is. Your com port is actually set by PnP so what it is in windows isn't necasarily the same in Linux. It depends which IRQ it gets assigned. Your problem probably half comes from the fact it wasn't there on install. If it had been it would 'probably' have been detected and configured automatically. I'm completely guessing but your icon might mean a broken link. In windows terms that would be a shortcut to something that's moved or disappeared. To put your current problem into a Windows perspective this is like when a hardware install goes wrong and you end up with multiple drivers. when you go into safe mode it suddenly shows you have multiple drivers. So you are probably left with some 'ghosts' of the unsupported winmodem install from earlier. If you read the bottom of static's link you'll see how to do this at the Command Line Interface (CLI)

I'd like to look into xfs more. It depends what you haver on the drive I guess. Im guessing it'll be movies and MP3 so not in the small files categories. Also theyre write once/read many types. I'm actually thinking of doing the same thing. It occurs that the perforamnce of the 120GB drive might not be different from SCSI. I have an older 10k rpm ST cheatah UW and AHA2940UW controller so Ill make some testing and see if the SCSI is any faster.

You can manually set the parameters when you create the filesystem. If you explicitly create it using the mk2fs however .... I haven't tested myself but xfs was designed by SGI specifcally for Multimedia files so maybe that is the option. I'm sat at a windows PC at work so I can't look up the mk2fs options for you (sorry) but try a man mk2fs. You didn't say how you created the filesystem, so I presume diskdrake. For ufs (the SUN filesystem) you specify free= to specifiy the root reserved space. If you don't its calculated by percentage. There is also fragsize= (this sets the smallest amount for a file, if you are looking at MM files this should be larger, it will waste some space but give faster contiguous access. You can also set rps = rev. per sec of the disk. Ive done quite a bit of tuning in Solaris for large files and it makes a BIG difference when you tune by hand. If you want performance don't rely on graphical tools becuase the make many default assumptions. In particularly the Draktools (IMHO) are fine to get something working for a noobie but don't optimise ANYTHING, basically they take the safe middleground on everything.

Thats a good question but I don't think the answer lies at the linux end. I don't know but knowing Winblows they might jcheck the packets are coming from another Winblows PC before forwarding them. Sorry I can't help further, but I wouldn't think your version of Mandrake or anything else is important. Basically you just use the normal LAN (although in your case through WiFi), its the job of winblows to forward those packets through your usb modem and that is where you might have problems. I briefly had XP home installed, it came with the damned laptop .... When I tried to network it it basicallt told me to format a floppy and go round all my other PC's which they presume are Win98 or 2K or something to update their networking. This is of course complete $EXPLITIVE because it implies they have done something to the protocol. I didn't look any deeper, just wiped the thing off my disk....

It was more in the form of a replacement scanner to apologise for the 'inconvenience' which I took as a bit of an insult to my integrity. Not very exciting i'm afraid. He more or less offered to get me a newer, better scanner and printer when I mentioned my problems with HP. Actually I should say the professional stuff is actually really good quality, its just the deliberately built in servicing needs that bothers me. I actually installed e-smith last night on a 10 year old HP that is still running faultlessly (even overclocked from 100-166 Mhz.)

Yeah your using the accelerated driver for X. Internet ... I think that is actually the httpd apache SERVER. I'm not 100% and im at work on my NT box. I'm not suggesting you turn everything off forever ... just take away everything but the basics and then incrementally add them. You'll probably find something that gives you a perfomance hit. It could even be two conflicting services... A big difference between Linux and Windows (other than one is GPL ..) is that Linux is intrinsically multiuser and network aware. Networking is built right to the core of Linux wheras in Windows its kinda tagded on the side. It is therefore sensitive to network tuning such as multicasting becuase most services are TCP aware so they look to see if packets are for them. This includes for instance the whole of X. In windows most things aren't network aware so they aren't hit by bad network config so much. The advantage with Linux is you can if you wish just run an app on another machine, practically nothing to it. Windows tends to mutilcast by default, this means it basically sends out untargetted network packets. This is what DHCP does, it constantly says, hey I'm here, anyone lokking for an IP address. This is why tuning your network can have such good effect in Linux... Its a little bit difficult to get used to coming from a windows world but once you change the way you think it becomes obvious... if difficult to explain (hope this makes sense) ... You only need smb and lisa for Windows networking, Try just backing off a bit on what you are trying to do and get it running nice how you like it before trying to do 'extras' .. I know the time thing is annoying but you could do it later!! Another quick note (but for another time) The kernel includes lots of stuff you don't need. Also you probably have a load of modules with dependencies you don't need. Theyre included so that the kernel is flexible for different configs but in the future you could recomile the kernel, remove unneccassary parts and also modules you won't need AND optimise it for your processor. Edit. Just seen your time thread. You don't need to rerun the drakgw if you used the same IP's. Just restart the firewall/router shorewall clear shorewall start