Leo

Welcome to the board. :D

You could try their website : www.sendmail.org which has a FAQ as well as links to other useful documentation.

Is that of any use to you?

Leo

I have a d-link dsl-g604t modem/router and it works fine, what make/model/issues do you have?

Leo

I am just getting to grips with Arch on my PII Compaq Armade M700. It runs really nicely and took a lot less effort to get the basic setup running than I expected.

Leo

After that, it's up to you what broadband router you use, but get an idea of what NTL support.  By default they just give you a USB connected modem.

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Just to add to this, my mother-in-law got NTL broadband and the modem that came with it supported both ethernet and usb connections

HURRAH!!!

Thank you all for your help.

I got pissed off (patience is not a virtue of I posess) and decided to get rid of all network connections and reset the modem/router to it's factory settings. I then started from scratch, reenterd all information into the modem and set resolv.conf etc. I restarted the network and it all worked.

Thank you once again to everyone who helped.

Leo

One other thing, just double check that your router is your default gateway for traffic, although I guess you've prob got all this config'd already.

 

My example config below:

 

IP - 192.168.1.2

SM - 255.255.255.0

GW - 192.168.1.1 (router ip)

DNS - 192.168.1.1 or isp entry depending on my preference.

 

What failed errors do you get on boot?

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How do I check this?

Have you used the ethernet/network port before now?

If so, Is it on board?

And again if so, does it use the nVidia controller?

Cheers

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I have used it for LAN connections but not internet I am not sure about the controller but I think it is via (the eth0 is listed as 'eth0 via-rhine' - or something similar). It is on board.

Leo

What does your /etc/resolv.conf say?  What DNS entry is it using?  This should either point to your router if it's doing Proxy DNS or one of your ISP's DNS entries.

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nameserver isp.dns.ip.address1
nameserver isp.dns.ip.address2
nameserver my.router.ip.address

but still no dice.

To test, type nslookup at prompt, then the following:

 

set type=any

mandrivausers.org (for example)

 

it should then list a load of information relating to that name server lookup.  If not, check which DNS servers your using in /etc/resolv.conf and if router, change to external ISP DNS Server and test again.

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I'll give this a go tonight.

Thanks

Leo

Hello leo.  In what part of MCC did you try to change the setting from adsl to lan ???.

I am surprised you prefer CLI to using MCC. From what I understand, if you cannot do things from MCC then most times you can't do much better using the cli unless you are a programmer and know how to alter and patch files.

 

Have you had a working connection with this device in a Linux OS in the past???

 

Cheers.                          John.

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Hi John. I generally don't trust MCC as I am never sure what it is changing (plus it has a nasty habit of removing my menus). In most cases I have found CLI better as it usually involves a couple of extra lines in a config file or a few commands that I can read up on and see what they do (plus I find it gives me a better understanding of my system, which is something I am desparately in need of :D ).

In MCC I went to the security section and the firewall setting and changed the internet connection from ppp+ (as used by my old adsl usb modem) to eth0. This changed the internet conection from adsl to LAN (this is a good example of what I was saying about the confusing nature of MCC).

I have not seen the new device working with Linux yet, although I used Google to find examples and people report it working with both SUSE and Mandrake/Mandriva (both), so I know it is possible.

Leo

OK I found it, it was a firewall setting however it still does not work.

I am guessing that the problem is in establishing the connection for the internet from my pc to the router (or vice versa). I tried turning off the firewall on both the modem and the pc but still no luck.

Any other suggestions?

Leo

OK, I turned off IPv6 (no noticeable effect but now I know how to do it :D )

I checked miscellaneous Internet settings in MCC and it tells me my connection type is adsl but does not let me alter this (I hate MCC so would really appreciate a command line method of doing this)

Thanks for the help so far.

Leo

PS. I can ping the router using

$ ping -c 3 -I eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

but not any external ip addresses

I have a D-Link DSL-G604T and an ADSL connection but I am unable to get it working.

Using the modem/router/AP I can get a connection to my ISP but am unable to browse any pages

I have set

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

in resolv.conf which allows me to open the config page foor the modem in Firefox (and this allows me to ping external IP addresses)

I do not think that the network is getting set correctly (and this may be a part of the problem) as at boot I get a whole load of failed messages for each network device.

I know next to nothing about networking so please be gentle and give me the Janet and John explanation

Thanks

Leo

Just to add a further opinion (whilst attempting to stay on topic :D ) I found papaschtroumpf's comments both useful and relevant to the topic as it was about blocking outgoing communications by application rather than as a whole and I am embarrassed to admit that it is something that had not occurred to me and has made me think more about my security setup. It was also a very good point about our attitude to security in that we tend to blame MS for a number of users indiscretions.

Leo

Have you tried any of the mouses on an alternative box? It would rule out any hardware problems to do with the usb on your current machine?

Leo

Welcome.

As a guess I would say that for some reason the mouses are timing out and turning themselves off due to inactivity (or if wireless they are low on battery power).

open a terminal and when the mouse fails type

dmesg

and have a look at the end of the output. If it is the systme turning off the mouse you should get some explanation there.

Do you have any issues with other usb devices?

Leo

do you think an anti-virus writer would have anything to gain from spreading paranoia about linux virii?  no...never!

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oh you cynic... :P

have you tried ogg2mp3 a nice little command line app that does exactly that?

Leo

John,

yes you are right, a clean install should fix most problems, I thnk that Trio3b probably meant the Display Manager (I will admit that I have also referred to it as the login manager )

Leo

The best place to start when looking for more information is the manual pages just type

man [command]

at the prompt in a shell and if there are any pages available they will be shown e.g.

man inittab

will display the manual page for inittab.

Another place worth a look is, as always, google or more precisely www.google.com/linux for a linux specific search.

There is also the search function on this board (see the top of the page) although personally I find this rather difficult to use as I ca never narrow down the search to my satisfaction (this may well be a user problem though :unsure: )

As for the sync option if you look at

man /etc/fstab

there is an explanation although I do not undertand it myself so I will not attempt to paraphrase it.

Bear in mind that you can also get help with the manual page itself by typing

man man

I hope this was not too 'Janet and John' for you, feel free to ask again if you need more help

Leo

1. Have you checked that you are booting into runlevel 5 (the gui)? If not then check the file /etc/inttab and ther should be a line:

id:5:initdefault:

where 5 is the runlevel (3 is command line). Failing that have you looked for the module that isn't loading? If it exists try maually loading it (modprobe [module_name]) and see what happens.

2. I don't know about t ther apps but tuxracer seem to have changed its name to SuperTux

3. Short answer is you can't. The numbering of each app is the version number of that app and gives no clue as to dependencies. However if you use urpmi then it ought to take care of any dependencies.

I hope this helps

Leo

Which version of Mandrake/Mandriva are you using?

I had a similar problem with a usb graphics tablet in an earlier release which hasbeen fixed in subsequent releass.

Leo

what has changed in your system between you last booting correctly and this error message occuring?

Leo

There are some apm modules available in the default build (enough to make my ABIT board work).

As for compiling your own kernel, relax, it really is not as bad as it sounds. There are lots of instructions on the board and all you need to do is add in some new modules (you can base it on a pre-existing build so you don't have to worry about not understanding exactly how the rest of it works). You would be surprised how straight forward it is (plus it sounds cool to say you compiled your own kernel :D )

Remember DON'T PANIC!

Leo

I am not sure what you are trying to do here however these instructions ought to work (it requires you to have CUPS running)

Leo

BTW I fixed the links in my previous post

I googled it and there were a number of sites experts exchange seems quite a good bet (scroll down to below the ads). Itt woould appear to be a rrebrandedLexmark 1150 and not partcularly reliable so may be worth checking that it works on windows.

Let us know if this works otherwise we will try something else

Leo

edit: corrected links