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Hello everyone ! Just for the currous ones, yes I'm still alive :P . I'm not fooling around with computers anymore. I bought a sport bike 2 years ago and I'm always on it when I'm not actually working :D . I still run MDK 9.0 SMP on my old dual pentium machine (kind of a server for my needs) and I run xp on my desktop simply because I need it for my job. Now, I wanted to take some news about Mandrake today, like what is the new version, what are the new features and noticed that the mandrake.com site is down and I see Mandriva everywhere. What's goin on ? Thanks MOttS

FAQ updated to nVidia version 5336 http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=4567 MOttS

woupsy .. sorry for that

Hey thanks for the link Aru .. not even on mandrakelinux.com yet ! I'm downloading it right now .. avg rate of 400 KB/s .. should be done in 1:15 MOttS

No, you can use this PC to do port forwarding and firewalling as well. If you are a geek you can install IPtable and play with it right away. However, I suggest you to install Shorewall, which is a nice frontend to IPtable. Good luck MOtts

Don't know why you would use a proxy server to do that since the NAT protocol works quite well for that. And there is a nice wizard in the mandrake control center that configure this for your. I have pretty much the same setup as you. Ie one MDK 9.0 box with 2 ethernet cards. Card1 (eth0) is connected to my cable modem and Card2 (eth1) to a hub .. and me & my girlfriend are connected to this hub. I only had to run the wizard in MCC->Server->ICS (internet connection sharing) and configure the clients on the LAN to use dhcp at boot and everything was working. I mean my computer and the one of my gf were able to surf the net no prob .. that mean that my server (the MDK 9.0 box) shares the net. This wizard installs a firewall (Shorewall). If you want to run some services on your server (CS for instance), you will have to configure it. Ie write some lines in the config script of Shorewall (located at /etc/shorewall/rules) so that some ports are opened for remote connections. By default the server is really secured. I mean that all ports are hidden from the net so even if you run a CS server, no one will be able to connect to it. I wrote a simple FAQ about Shorewall some time ago. Here is the link for ya: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=4731 Good luck ! If you want some help to set things up, don't be afraid to ask ! MOttS

:lol: You got me on this one .. :lol: MOttS

:lol: Well, I only had to rename a file in /etc/dynamic/launchers/tvtuner as I wrote there : http://www.MandrakeUsers.org/index.php?sho...wtopic=5415&hl= HTH MottS

Hi Technonoid Are you sure you have a TV in connection behind your card? Because I basically have the same card (gforce mx440) and I only have a TV out .. no TV in. I need a seperate card to have the TV in (happagauge TVfm). Anyway, if you do have a TV in plug, load the proper driver (modprobe 'drivername' .. lsmod to check if it is loaded) and try TVtime. I was using Xawtv before TVtime and man .. this prog run very smoothly on my computer. Here is the website. http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/ Good luck! MOttS

Hi guys I know nothing about external power connector .. but what about setting the variable "NoPowerConnectorCheck" to "0" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx thereafter? .. my 2 cents MOttS

Hi x2x What about using the 'repair' option? Just boot the XP cd .. one of the first questions the installer ask you is INSTALL REPAIR .. something like that. You can do that with XP pro .. don't know with XP home but it worth the try ! Other than that .. boot Linux and save all your stuff on CDS and reinstall XP. MOttS

Hi guys It is an old post but this can be usefull.. at least that was for me. To remove permanently this anoying icon I had to rename as root (you can also delete the file if you feel bad today) file kde.desktop in /etc/dynamic/launchers/tvtuner. As simple as that. cd /etc/dynamic/launchers/tvtuner mv kde.desktop kde.desktop.bak But thanks for the hint ! MOttS

Hi Vdubjunkie This is probably not the answer you are looking for but here we go: You LOWID problem .. did you forward port 4662 from your server (gateway actually) to your desktop running eMule? Did you try the statically compiled version of aMule? .. those guys (eDonkey, eMule, xMule, aMule, whatever open source) usually make static binaries that don't need anything to run. Did you try the Linux version of eDonkey? Here is what I use: http://ed2k-gtk-gui.sourceforge.net/index.shtml Hope this helps a little .. MOttS

Hey .. thanks Anon ! This is what I was looking for basically (the ExtendedLog). I put the following in my /etc/proftpd.conf file and it started to log what I wanted .. ExtendedLog /var/log/proftpd/ProFTPd.read.log READ ExtendedLog /var/log/proftpd/ProFTPd.write.log WRITE Here is the man page of ExtendedLog for other to use .. http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/lin...xtendedLog.html Thanks again ! MOttS

Hi all I'd like my ftp server (proftpd) to write some log file .. like the Access and Error file for Apache. Now whenever someone log in and get files nothing is written into /var/log/proftpd .. anoying ! So what do I have to add in the config file? Thx MottS

Hey .. congrat! So how does it goes with it? just wondering.. MOttS

Ok. When you actually press <Enter>, the kernel is loaded into the memory and executed on the machine. So you have a kernel problem on your machine. Try with CD2 .. I heard somewhere that you can boot CD2. They put a different kernel on CD2 so that may work. Then when you press <Enter> instead of F1 it boots right? ... strange

Your laptop is supposed to be supported ... but sometimes new versions of the kernel stops to suport old material .. because well, it's too old. I don't think it is your case here though. Ok .. so when you boot CD1 (of whatever mandrake version .. maybe 9.2), press F1 and then type 'rescue'. You are faced to a list. Choose Go to console. That should work this way .. don't try the option Mount filesystem.... Then mount the usb stick and the fat partition. where does it stall exactly? MottS

Oh .. ok .. thanks! :lol:

Hi jgutty Of course you can change it ... Open the KDE Control Center and browse through Look&Feel, you should find the option you are looking for there. I'm not /home right now so can't tell you exactly where to go but this is there for sure. MOttS

Hi I don't understand why it doesn't work man .. sorry. However, you could try Knoppix now. Check if your hardware is supported first though ;-) MOttS

Hi Darkelve I don't think you need to install Mandrake or to download the Knoppix cd. You can actually boot cd 1 of Mandrake, press F1 to get more options and type 'rescue' (without the quote). You'll then be left in a friendly console with all the commands available for you to use. So you have to 1) Mount the FAT partition. Something like mkdir /mnt/vfat mount -t vfat /dev/hdaX /mnt/vfat where X is the number of the fat32 partition (probably 1 if you only have 1 partition on this HD). 2) Mount the USB stick. mkdir /mnt/usb mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb 3) Copy all what you want from /mnt/vfat to /mnt/usb with the 'cp' command. To copy a directory recursively use 'cp -R'. That's it! Good luck ! MOttS

HI Vdubjunkie xMule uses the eDonkey protocol so it basically works using the same ports. Pretty much all of the info is transfered through port 4662 (tcp & udp). So forward this port from your router to your pc and it's going to work. HTH MOttS

Ok thanks guys .. I REALLY appreciate it. I'm gonna look at those links and suggestions as soon as I get a little bit of time. THANKS AGAIN !! MOttS

Hi all I'd like to know the transfer rate through each of my ethernet cards. I have eth0 connected to a cable modem and eth1 to my lan. I'd like some stats too .. like peak value, monthly average and all that. Which software is doing that ? I'd like a nice GUI too ... something similar to BBMonitor or DUMeter in Windows. Thx for any input MOttS