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FWIW, I've had more luck with non-usb cards.

If that doesn't work, can you tell us more about the network setup (such as what the machine is connected to, are you trying to get an IP by dhcp or setting it static etc) and if possible provide the output of /sbin/ifconfig and the contents of /etc/resolv.conf

Some external modems can still be winmodems - if you let us know the full make and model of the modem we can probably find out.

I've never used SWAT for samba configs, but if you try and launch it from the command line it should give some error messages as to what's happening.

I've split this from the original post as it's changing the topic a bit - should get more attention without the solved tag too.

First things first, make sure the network card and cable both work. Make sure the router isn't blocking the MAC address of your card. With the firewall on your machine turned off, try accessing the router - if that doesn't work then try runnning the dhcp client manually from the command line to ensure it's picking up an address.

One thing to check, if you're using a router ensure that's forwarding port 80 to the internal IP of your machine running apache.

There's several different servers for each of those (I'm assuming you want servers?). Assuming you've set up urpmi (see Easy-urpmi at the top of the screen if you haven't) then you might want to try bind for dns and dhcpd for dhcp. If you need more help, we'd need more details, like what you want the servers to do, for how many machines, things like that.

Have you tried connecting to localhost, that way you can verify if it's an apache error or something else.

Graphical toolkits are just building blocks for making GUI's, they're probably best thought of as just another library - one that you call routines from to draw things on the screen. QT is mainly thought of as a C++ based toolkit, but it also has bindings for C and python (and a few more). GTK+ (also called the GIMP toolkit) is the main toolkit used in gnome, it's originally C based, but has bindings for C++, Java, python, .NET etc. More "old-school" unix toolkits are TK and Motif.

Explain...?? but fortran is not so fast..and its libs are not so versatile like those in C..is it? (j/k) = just kidding. Numerically Fortran is very fast, faster than C in some applications. But, the libs are not very versatile and text handling is a pig. It's mainly used for scientific tasks that require lots of number crunching and in it's 90/95 forms it's really not that bad.

Most of my programming is on scientific code so it's mostly done in Fortran with the odd bit of C. Development is just in emacs with command line compilers.

It depends what you mean by more powerful. If it was written well in assembler then the code would probably run faster. Assembler isn't really suited to re-writing the whole Linux codebase though, and adding new features etc would be a very difficult task. In short, it's not worth it. Now, if you were suggesting a re-write in Fortran, thats something I would support..... (j/k) :P

It will probably run fine. It might be worth reporting this to the apps developer.

I managed to get one working with gentoo by recompiling the kernel to include the necessary bits and bobs - haven't tried it with Mandriva though - I would assume it's just trial and error in loading the correct modules.

I wonder if you could do something with wget and html2txt??

It seems you need to be running a dkms kernel too, search for dkms with your favourite package management tool and hopefully you'll the necessary support tools.

I haven't tried either of these to see how feasible they are, but can you not just select all the text on a page and paste it into a text editor? Some web browsers can save as text too. Obviously if you're wanting to automate large chunks this isn't going to be appropriate.

Of course the generality of this statement is going to depend on the skill of the programmer and the problem they are trying to solve, but you can read more about it here: http://www.eventhelix.com/RealtimeMantra/b...Performance.htm http://www.eventhelix.com/RealtimeMantra/b...erformance2.htm

Why would you want to do that? It would become much slower!

It might be worth thinking about making the USB HDD FAT format, that way you can still easily access the files from windows in an emergency or similar whilst safely being able to read and write from it in Linux.

It is. IIRC you can just add another port to the sshd_config: ListenAddress 10.0.1.1:22 ListenAddress 10.0.1.1:5555 obviously you'll need to replace 10.0.1.1 with your IP address. I haven't tested this, but I know it's something like that you should do.

You can change the port ssh listens on to something else, perhaps that would be a good way round it?

The problem is that there's little Mandriva can do about it! Most hardware manufacturers are not willing to provide linux drivers or even help open-source developers to produce a driver by providing documentation etc. At the moment most Linux users have to rely on the loading of windows drivers to get anywhere - which is obviously going to be a little hit and miss at times. One last suggestion would be to take a look at linuxant driverloader, whilst you have to pay for the software there is a free demo available.

I just want to echo John's statements - congrats and welcome to the board!