Havin_it

Sh1t. I guess they ignored my suggestion of distributing one warez'd copy of XP to all their staff. See, it's 'blue-sky thinking' like that would make me a much better Health minister.

The phrase 'Blue Screen of Death' has never been more poignant.

I'd also check the info in your config

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

If you just did it thru Control Center, you may find not all is as it should be. If in doubt, post the contents here and I'll have a look.

Also, if poss. can you show us the output of ifconfig and iwconfig commands? I often get hinky behaviour from my card - every now and then it just doesn't seem to accept all the config info (i.e. AP name/MAC address, ESSID, Encryption Key). Usually a reboot cures this...

PS - what make of card are you using?

Thanks! Just what I needed to hear.

I wonder if the next kernel will show up...

The scanner is under my desk, not all that remote. I basically got the server to end the confusion of me and the GF having to reorganise the print config every time we swapped which of us was connected to the printer, or every time I switched between Win and Linux boots.

I read a bit more about Sane/XSane, not to mention the saned server but they're not gonna help me on their own. The server allows a local scanner to be networked to other computers, but the problem is my scanner's no longer local to any machine. If I initiate a scan from the hardware end, I'd have to use port-triggering on the router to even tell it which machine to send to. Right now Sane can't see anything.

Found out more about the 'Scan To list' as well. It's not generated by examining the local machine - well it is, but it's checking against a limited list of known compliant apps. None of which exist in Linux-land, funnily enough. I guess if I could successfully install one of the Apps in WINE, that might bring us up to equivalence with Windoze...

Problem is, I'm not sure which port the scanner would use. Is there a standard?

In the meantime I'll try installing saned (daemon) and see if it has any useful options, but it don't look too promising.

PS - offtopic, but the banana in the smilies panel just stopped dancing. All the others are still going, but he's just frozen, staring straight at me. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

Here's my thinking thus far:

The JetDirect printserver can handle scans through a Java-based web interface (described as an 'embedded web server'). If the functionality of this server could reside on a local machine, that might solve the problem.

The PSC 750 has a 'Scan To' menu, which I guess is configured by the HP Director software when locally connected. If I can add the local IP address/port of a service that can receive the scan data, that would be potentially a solution.

(IP address not necessarily crucial, as my router can port-forward to a specific machine.)

Just clutching at straws of course - still lacking in hard facts.

Okay, here goes:

Scanner: HP PSC 750 All-in-one (works very nicely on M10.0 OE thankyou)

Network topology: Belkin 54G wireless all the way; PCMCIA card, DSLmodem/router, and now USB print server (setup EASIER THAN ON WINDOWS! ... for printing anyway...)

Hardware disclaimers:

PSC750: does not support network installation

Print server: multifunction (scan/fax) operations not supported

Additional note: HP JetDirect print server 380x (which allegedly WOULD handle scanning over network) currently priced at about 3x the Belkin. Obsessed with Wifi peripherals I may be, but I ain't that rich...!

Current scenario: print quite happily to network, but no scanning without switching printer back to local USB and switching port in Printerdrake.

THE DREAM: make it do what the manufacturers say it can't. Scan off network. Suggestions?

Dancing banana capability: checking.....

[OK]

J/K but I would really like some insight on the likely possibility of this hopeless pipe-dream. I'm used to disappointment.

...anyone? I really don't have a clue how to proceed.

Nope, the output is the same as urpme. Older sources that I have are not listed.

It looks like the rpm system is corrupted. (Not the first time I've had problems with it.)

Any advice on removing manually?

Hi all,

I'm now onto my 4th kernel, and it's getting a bit crowded with all the previous ones still there. I thought I'd get rid of all but the current and previous one, but only the kernels show up in urpme - no mention of the source packages.

Can I just delete the older kernel-source directories? And if so, is it better to do before or after removing the kernels?

Thx in advance.

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

I was wondering about this... I previously did an in-place upgrade from 10.0 CE to OE, is there any reason for that not to work with this release?

My main worry is I seem to remember talk about XFree86 no longer being supported (though that was before I got 10.0 OE, I think) - should I be worried?

Thanks, will have to look at that. No sense having more services running than needed.

I read a lot of positive comments about webmin here, and as a lot of my MDK woes are with the fabulous Control Centre, I hoped webmin could take over some of the more troublesome tasks.

Apparently not yet though, until I can figure out how to connect to it. My localhost webserver is running fine, as is SSL, but I just can't connect to https://localhost:10000

I tried opening Konqueror as root, that doesn't help either. Anything I should be checking on?

EDIT: <NNGH!> never mind, the service wasn't started yet.

(Me luvs teh dancing bananana)

I'm a n00b and I compiled !

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You're a n00b with nearly 300 posts and are also on IRC. That's not nearly as n00bish as me!

<I can't believe I'm engaging in n00b one-upmanship>

Hmm, no change there. The original line was

/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0

and I changed it to

/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,rw 0 0

Anything else I should add?

Think it's about hda6 after a couple of reinstalls. Will just reboot I think.

Thanks for the help!

Oh, okay. Is the unmout /remount achieved by a reboot?

n00b n00b n00b

Okay, thanks for the info.

One question: um, what and where is fstab?

Hi again,

Here's a funny one. My /mnt/win_d is a FAT32 partition for sharing files between my Win and Lin partitions. It's owned by root who has full permissions, but its group and others permissions are both r-x. So I try

chmod -v o+rwx /mnt/win_d

which outputs

mode of `/mnt/win_d' changed to 0757 (rwxr-xrwx)

Yet, when I ls -l /mnt, it shows

drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 2048 Jan 1 1970 win_d/

Any idea why this is happening? Is it a FAT32 issue? Can I fix it?

Well, it's like this. Last time I did

urpmi --auto-select

one of the packages updated was kernel-source (from 2.6.3-15mdk to 2.6.3-16mdk). I would have expected the equivalent kernel also to be installed, but that didn't happen. I checked and the running kernel is still identified as 2.3.6-15mdk.

What action should I take? Are there risks if I leave it as it is and wait to see what urpmi does in future?

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

Never mind. I bit the bullet in the end, and gave CygWin another go (not before failing with mingw on Linux AND windows). Since that's what most of the developers and forum-posters of this particular SF project are using, I guess it makes sense.

The cygwin experience wasn't as painful as I remember, but I guess a bit of experience with Linux has improved my competence (and patience) with *nix and bash. I'd still sooner get a x-compiler working purely for speed reasons, but I guess that can be a long-term project.

Thanks anyhoo - if anyone does have some good tutorial links for setting up mingw, feel free to drop them here (their own docs in the Wiki are a bit impenetrable to me).

I don't think that will work because the source I get from cvs requires automake, plus it contains symlinks which just disappear when I DL the source into Windows.

I could be wrong - I'm so confused by all of this, my head is spinning. I've built mingw but I don't know actually how to use it!

Hi again,

Since entering the Linux world I guess I'm spiralling further into egg-headness (real word?) or at least I find myself having to learn ever more complex tricks to get what I want.

So I need to build a Win32 binary from cvs, and I'd certainly rather use my Linux system to do it, rather than go ing around with CygWin again (bad past experiences). I've read a bit about mingw32 and am still confused by it all. What would be ideal for me is an IDE that incorporates mingw32's abilities (maybe even some cvs support as well?), or at least some noob-friendly info on setting it all up and using it from the shell. Re my competence, I'm comfortable with building things from source, though I'll take an RPM every time if I can get one.

Any suggestions?

Thanks Mr spiny - I iz a foole.

I iz also still at a dead-end with this problem. Usually solve things myself by now but no such luck (GRRRR!)

PS I don't remember the smileys in ifconfig, for that bit read B)