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  1. How come mandrake became mandiva?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    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

  6. Firewall and my home network

    in Security

    Posted

    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

  9. I want to watch TV on a MX440

    in Software

    Posted

    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

  11. Can't boot Windows XP Home..

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    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

  12. anoying xawtv icon

    in Tips and Tricks

    Posted

    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

  13. all this for aMule!!??**

    in Software

    Posted

    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

  14. No proftpd log (/var/log/proftpd)

    in Software

    Posted

    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

  17. Rescuing Data from Win98 by using Linux

    in Laptops and Portable Devices

    Posted

    It stalls directly after I type 'rescue' and confirm with '<Enter>'.

    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.

     

    Another thought I had is that maybe the disk needs defragmentation. Under Dos, I ran scandisk to check for errors, but it didn't find any. It did look a bit like a jiggsaw puzzle, however. Maybe it can't install because the HD is too fragmented??

     

    * 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 all gave a similar result. I got further using 'text install' one time, when the installer warned me it could not resize the windows partition. I am curious if formatting the whole disk would solve the problem, but of course I need to rescue the data first...

     

    * Suse Live Eval. CD stalls at the line 'going into tempfs'.

     

    Anyway, I'll try with Knoppix today. Maybe I will have better luck with that.

    Then when you press <Enter> instead of F1 it boots right? ... strange

  18. Rescuing Data from Win98 by using Linux

    in Laptops and Portable Devices

    Posted

    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

  22. Rescuing Data from Win98 by using Linux

    in Laptops and Portable Devices

    Posted

    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

  23. xMule woes

    in Software

    Posted

    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

  25. Looking for a bandwidth meter

    in Software

    Posted

    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

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