banjo

There is, indeed a firewall in the router.

Unfortunately, it is blocking access to the email accounts at

my hosting service unless I set it at the lowest level of security.

It is enabled (it was disabled by default), but at the lowest level,

which is defined as:

The Low security setting will allow all traffic except for known attacks. With Low

security, VersaLink is visible to other computers on the Internet.

I don't know enough about firewalls yet to figure out what is

being blocked or how to get around it, so I am hitting the books.

Thanks for the pointer to shorewall, I will read up on it.

Banjo

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I thought that I would post a final followup on this topic

even though it has been dormant a while.

I finally got my DSL connection going today, and my

Mandy 9.1 came up runnin'. I had to use my fnWindoze

computer to install the DSL service because that is the

only thing that will run Verizon's setup program. But

once I had the service started, all I had to do for the

Linux box was to plug the computer into the modem/router

and boot it, and it came up online.

Now I need to go research some firewall software.

Any suggestions?

Linux rocks!

Banjo

(_)=='=~

It did offer the first time. I said "OK go ahead" and it posted

an error that the web site was not available. So maybe the

network was glitchy. I am on dialup (for now.... DSL soon).

I will try again later to see if I can get it to work. Right now

I am using it to chat in clear air. It works great now that I

am using it correctly LOL.

Thanks for the help.

I'll let the board know how it turns out.

Banjo

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OK.

Boy is my face red........

I just ran aMSN again and tried logging into my hotmail in clear

air...... and the previous problem was that I had not entered my

whole logon name. I had left off the "@hotmail" part.

So, now that I have entered the proper account name it comes

right up. I knew it was something stupid that I was doing. RTFM

I still don't have the "tcl TLS" think that it says it needs. Anybody

know if this is something in addition to the system TLS code

that is already here? I don't want to clobber my working email

by installing anything on top of it.

Thanks to the fine folks on this board for the help.

Linux rocks!

Banjo

(_)=='=~

I don't have it here in front of me at work. I will

have to look it up when I get home. I downloaded

the source tarball from http://amsn.sourceforge.net/

I think it is version 0.93

Maybe I should try the Mandy rpm?

Banjo

(_)=='=~

I downloaded the tarball of amsn and unzipped it.

Following the directions, it runs OK out of the box.

However, when I try to connect, it tells me that TLS is not installed.

I know for a fact that it is installed because my KMail uses it.

I pointed aMsn to /usr/lib, where the SSL stuff resides, but it

still tells me that TLS is not installed.

The error box says that "tcl TLS" is not installed, whatever

that is. Is that a tcl plugin required to use TLS? Or is it

looking for TLS itself? Isn't TLS included in SSL?

I finally told it to go ahead and install what it wanted, and it

popped up an error saying that the web site it needs is not

available.

Anybody know what it is looking for and where it might be?

I am running a standard Mandy 9.1 install.

Anyway, I told it to connect without using SSL (ok, so somebody can

get in and steal my Hotmail SPAM, the horror!) and then it sends

a blip out the network and sits there doing nothing but blinking

the "Logging On" icon. Nothing more goes out the net or comes back

in. It sits there blinking until I ctl-C.

aMsn is getting good reviews on this board, but I cannot get

it to do anything for me but err out.

I must be missing something simple.

Thanks for the help

Banjo

(_)=='=~

Just as a followup note to this fiasco.........

For any other noobs out there.............

Go here:

http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/index.php

and get knoppix on a CD.

It absolutely saved my bacon today.

It will cost you $0.99 plus $1.50 postage for a total of

$2.49.

Don't wait until the crash to order it.

I have no financial interest in edmunds, but I can recognize

when my bacon has been saved.

Banjo

(_)=='=~

Never mind.............

I actually found the answer in the topic:

"Mandrakelinux is destroyed!!!! - SOLVED, unbelievable ..... i"

and should not have asked this question again.

Sorry sorry sorry ..............

I did not search long enough to find the answer.

The Nvidia README says that it may be necessary to

edit /etc/security/console.perms and delete the line

with <dri> in it................ if the permissions on the

nvidia files were reported too restictive.....which it

did.............. and which I did.......

After that I could run Doom3 ok, but the reboot failed.

And then I couldn't run anything any more.

So I went back into the file using knoppix and put

the line back and changed the permissions for <dri>

from 0600 to 0666 and it boots........ and the graphics

programs run.

Whew!

This is the best board ever.

Linux rocks.

Now, if you will excuse me................ I am going to go

do a backup.............

Banjo

(_)=='=~

HELP!

I installed a new nvidia driver and everything

seemed to be OK. I rebooted several times and

all was well.

I ran doom3 and now when I reboot, Linux tells

me that it cannot mount /dev/hda1 because the file

system is not recognizable. It says perhaps the

superblock is corrupt.

I booted the install CD in rescue mode and told

it to mount the drives. It did so successfully.

It all looks OK.

I booted to knoppix and ran fsck on /dev/hda1 and

it tells me that it is clean.

When I mount /dev/hda1 in knoppix all of the data

is there.

Any ideas why Linux cannot mount my drive?

Is there anything I can do?

Can anybody help? I am over my head.

I would post /etc files etc, but I cannot get at them

because I am on another computer.

Thanks in advance

Banjo

(_)=='=~

Thanks for the info.

I will give that a try and see if it helps.

Banjo

(_)=='=~

I am trying to run Doom3 on my Mandy 9.1 and it will

not run. The problem looks like a driver problem so I

downloaded a newer Nvidia driver.

The graphics card that I'm using is the GeForce 3 Ti200.

When I installed the latest version of nVidia's unified

graphics driver for Linux IA32 (version 6111) and

restarted the computer, X11 wouldn't start.

I got the error that the nVidia kernel was unable to

initialize and that it aborted. So I removed the new

driver and reinstalled the older one to get the system

back up.

The drivers that I had working before (that came with

the Mandrake 9.1 distro) were version 4321 and

were comprised of two rpms, the kernel and the GLX packages.

When the 6111 driver was being installed, it asked if I

wanted to delete the GLX rpm, and I said yes, though it

didn't ask about the kernel rpm.

Anybody know what I did wrong? The new driver is supposed

to work with our kernel, which is 2.4.21-0.13mdk.

What is necessary to install the newest nVidia drivers on

Mandrake 9.1? Do I need to uninstall the two driver 4321

rpms first?

Thanks in advance.

Banjo

(_)=='=~

Having this board certainly helps discover the answers.

I also found some answers at this link:

www.linux-mag.com/2001-05/routing_01.html

which discusses how Linux routers operate.

So I guess that for the dialup the ISP DHCP server is

sending the info. When I finally hook up my lan the

router DHCP server will do the same.

Linux is so kewl.

Banjo

(_)=='=~

I made some more discoveries about what my

Linux system is doing for networking. and I thought

that I would post them here in case anybody else is

wondering about these questions.

I dialed up my ISP and logged on. Then I did a route

command to see what my routing table looks like.

Here is the output:

[root@localhost proc]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
208.200.159.28  0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         208.200.159.28  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0
[root@localhost proc]#

Then, I hung up the phone and executed the route command

again and got:

[root@localhost proc]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
[root@localhost proc]#

Nothing left but the loopback.

So, I guess the system knows where to go for internet

through the routing table (makes sense) and some nice

daemon somewhere has changed it based on my

connection to the ISP.

But here is a more confusing result......

I also dumped out the /etc/resolv.conf file in those two

situations, and here is what I got.

While online:

[root@localhost proc]# cat /etc/resolv.conf

domain localdomain              #kppp temp entry

nameserver 207.77.56.2  #kppp temp entry

nameserver 207.77.56.10 #kppp temp entry

[root@localhost proc]#

and after hanging up:

[root@localhost proc]# cat /etc/resolv.conf

[root@localhost proc]#

That explains where the system is getting the

DNS addresses.

Something is changing the system setup files

automatically. Is that the way resolv.conf is supposed

to work? Shades of fnWindoze! What is it that changes

the resolv.conf file on the fly?

I looked for routed:

[root@localhost proc]# ps ax | grep routed

and got nothing but the grep command, so it looks like

routed is not running...?

Anyway, it looks like the internet locations just happen

automatically by updating the routing tables. So I am

assuming that once I hook up a valid eth0 to a hardware

router running DHCP the routing tables will be fixed up

to send the TCP/IP requests out to the proper place......

unless I confuse it by trying to use the dialup

at the same time.... :D

We shall see.

But I would still like to know what is keeping the information

updated. Any gurus out there?

If I find out any more info I will post it 'cause I'm having

fun.

Linux rocks!

Banjo

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[formatted by spinynorman]

Thanks for the tip. I will look into it.

I don't have the hardware yet. I am studying the issues before

I actually go in and mess it all up LOL.

Looks like they have a Windowesque wizard.

But I always wonder what the wizards are doing to my system.....

Banjo

(_)=='=~

I think I just found an answer to one of my own questions.

It appears that when going through a hardware router,

the ISP DNS addresses are entered into the router

during setup. That makes sense. Name resolution is then

handled by the router.

Now if I can figure out how Linux knows where to look

for the network, i.e. eth0 or the dialup connection,

I will be on my way to grokking this system better.

Banjo

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Hello,

This is a very basic question, but I have not been able to

dig the information out of all the details that I am finding in

the HOWTO's and other docs. I guess it is just so obvious

that it isn't written down anywhere. But I can't figure it out.

I must still be a noob.

Here is my situation:

My Mandy 9.1 currently uses dialup. It works fine.

If I try to access the net without a connection it says that

the net is not accessible, which is also fine because the

net is truly not available. Once I dial up, everything

is found OK. All is well. I grok.

However.....

I plan on moving to broadband soon through a router (the

hardware isn't set up yet) which means that all my net traffic

will have to go through eth0 instead of through the modem.

That is fine too, but.....

How does Linux know not to look at the modem for the

net access? How does it know to look at eth0 for the net?

Will I have to manually configure the system to switch it to

the ethernet? If so, where is that information stored?

Right now it just somehow knows to look at the modem,

but I have no idea how.

For example, my DNS servers are configured in the dialup.

That is fine while I am using dialup. But if I switch over to

ethernet, where do the DNS addresses come from? All

the information I have found about the route tables etc.

assume that it has an IP address? I need a DNS to get

the first IP address. Where does the DNS address come from

if not from the dialup?

Once it has a DNS IP, how does it know to look to eth0

instead of the modem for net access?

This question is more of a "How does it work?" question

rather than a "Please solve my problem" question.

I want to know how this works before I attempt to set it

up.

Anybody have any pointers to some very high level docs

about how all this network stuff hangs tegether in the Linux

box? I am interested in the high level flow, not the details

of protocols and routing tricks.

Thanks in advance

Banjo

Linux rocks!

However, you should be aware that people have

built entire careers on Unix shell scripting.........

It can be a huge topic, but much much more powerful than

DOS batch files.

Banjo

(_)=='=~

After bootup, my Mandy 9.1 shows the normal

box with a list of users for login. The box shows

four user names by default. Since there are five

of us, a scrollbar is displayed to get down to the

fifth user name.

I would prefer to show all five user names just

for aesthetic reasons and be rid of that annoying

scrollbar. Is there any way to set the

number of users that can be shown in the box?

If not, is there any way that I can specify the order

of the names in the list so that I can put the least used

user at the bottom?

Thanks,

Banjo

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Well, I am running Firefox now to give it a whirl.

It does boot faster than my old Moz.

While setting this up I found out about the

"about:config" command. I also now know about the

"about:plugins" command.

Can anybody give me a pointer to the complete set

of "secret about" commands in the browser? These

look to be very useful for getting into the skivvies of

the thing to make it crank.

Thanks,

Banjo

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Ah, yes. I did the upgrades to the configuration.

I can't tell if it makes it faster or not because my

56 K is obviously a bottleneck.

I'm not complaining. Firefox seems to work

just fine. It does, indeed boot considerably faster than

Mozilla on both platforms...... and I only use the

browser.

I use Quanta for composing web sites and Kmail

for mail.

I will go look for the plugins. Thanx for the pointers.

Banjo

(_)=='=~

I installed Firefox here at work on Win 2000 and it

looks good. Very fast.

So I installed it on my Mandy 9.1 at home. It seems

to run OK, but it is not substantially faster than my

old Mozilla. In fact, even though it boots up faster,

the page rendering is pretty much the same as Moz.

That is probably due to the fact that my

home system talks over a 56 K modem (we have

broadband here at work).

I am not seeing a major improvement

by moving from Mozilla 1.3 to Firefox 9.1 and I wonder

if I am missing something.

Firefox looks like Moz and acts like Moz and appears

to be Moz in a different skin. So what is it about

Firefox that is supposed to make it superior to my

old Moz? I am not taking a cheap shot at Firefox or

trying to be snide. I reallly am wondering if I have missed

a main feature or benefit of Firefox that would make it

worthwhile to go over to it.

What are the other benefits of using Firefox?

Anybody want to provide any illumination?

Thanks

Banjo

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Hmm. I hadn't thought of that.

I guess that is the fastest way to do it.

I would probably use the CLI instead of

Konqueror to do the copy. I come from the

old Unix days of iron men and wooden boats,

so it just feels right to do those operations

with a command.

But I am gettin' kinda lazy with all this GUI stuff.

This Linux ain't yer granpa's Unix no siree.

Thanks for the hint.

Banjo

(_)=='=~

I have created a user account on my Mandy 9.1

and now I am unhappy with the name. Just another

tragic mouse accident!

I would like to change the name of the user

to something else.

Is it possible to change the name of an existing

user account without mucking up the whole thing.?

Other than renaming the home directory and

correcting /etc/passwd, what else needs to be

done?

Can the control panel do this for me? (I am

not sitting at my Linux box right at the moment

or I would look that one up).

The only thing wrong with the account is the name,

so I would rather not have to start all over again

creating a new user and deleting the old one.

Thanks in advance

Banjo

(_)=='=~

Thanks for the info.

I will see about downloading Firefox at work tomorrow

where we have broadband........... I run on a 56K

here at home, and that can be painful for large

downloads.

I will post back later with the results.

Banjo

(_)=='=~

Thanks.

Maybe I will give it a try here at work

(on fnWindoze) tomorrow to see how it

looks. If I like it I can try it on my Mandy

at home.

Any idea if it will run on my old Mandy 9.1?

Banjo

(_)=='=~