Daveleh

Check out www.freeskills.com . Costs £75.00 ($99.00) for 1 years unrestricted access. They have a course called Linux Fundamentals which includes: Directory and File Commands - pwd - print working directory - cd - change directory - ls - list - Wild Cards - File Name Generation - mkdir - make directory - rmdir - remove directory - cp - copy - mv - move - rm - remove - ln - link - chmod - change mode of access - Symbolic Mode - Absolute Mode - umask - user mask - chown - change owner - chgrp - change group The vi Editor - Starting vi - Arguments - Exiting vi - Modes of Operation - Command Mode - Cursor Movement - The Screen Commands - Searching - Edit Mode - Text Insertion - Text Deletion - Text Modification - Text Movement - Named Buffers - Special Commands - ex Escape Commands - Command Addressing - Delete - Write - Read - Next File - Shell Commands - Search and Replace - Regular Expressions - The set Command - Switch Options - String Options You could also check out www.free-ed.net , this has a course called Mastering Linux and is free ! Hope that helps

That's interesting. Unfortunately everythings on Moneydance now though.

Before I go and really screw things up :D I have my own domain name of lehuray.org.uk Can I use the above description to change the domain name setting to lehuray.org.uk , bearing in mind that I use a dialup connection and don't have an internal network, or will that create problems connecting etc? I already have my hostname set to daves-linux.

You might want to check out Moneydance. It costs a little as opposed to Gnucash which is free but I couldn't get GC to work with regular payments, maybe I was missing something. Moneydance displays all due payments on the main screen and allows you then to enter them or delete them. Hope that helps

If you don't know of it already check out mtink, it's on the Kmenu, not sure exactly whereabouts as I am using a Win machine at the mo. Run it as root from a console, with the printer turned on, and it will show the ink levels in each cartridge. I use it with my Stylus C60.

Just to add to this. I have an Epson Stylus C60 which works fine. I also like the utility mtink. I run this as root from a console, with the printer turned on and it reports the levels of ink in each cartridge.

Nope, still nothing. I rmmod'd and insmod'd all the modules associated with scsi_mod and still no joy Never mind, it's probably something really simple. :?

That's interesting, Ill try to remember that :)

Just a thought but whenever I have re installed Windows (Win98SE) it has insisted on taking over the whole drive regardless of what linux partitions were also on there. This meant that I then had to re install Linux and shrink the Win partition down to a sensible size. Make sure you back up important dirs/files.

Thanks again. I'll try the rmmod idea in the next few days. I'll let you know how I get on

Thanks to everyone for answering however as stated in the first message in this thread the card reader is recognised. I can see it listed in USBView, Harddrake (under unknown/other) and Kmenu/config/kde/info/usb devices (as Vendor: Neodio, Product ID: 0x5010 ND5010 card reader). The problem is that there are no sdxx devices listed in /dev. I have tried the commands mount /mnt/sdax and mount /mnt/sdbx (where x is from 0 - 9) only to be told that special device sdxx does not exist. :( Perhaps I should try another distro (debian for example) or wait for ML9.1 One thing I did notice was one time when I rebooted with the camera (not the reader) connected and turned on the boot sequence got as far as: Finding Module Dependencies (OK) and then the following appeared: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 01100112 *pde=00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<d8829001>] not tainted EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: 00000004 ebx: 01100112 ecx: 00000004 edx: 00000004 esi: c15edebc edi: 01100112 ebp: d71d5f64 esp: d71d5f50 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process scsi_eh_0 (pid:379 , stackpage=d71d5000 Stack: 00000000 01100112 d774ece0d74e4200 c15ede00 d71d5f84 d88d22c9 c15ede00 d74e42ac d74e4344 00000282 d74e4400 00000000 d71d5f98 d88bfab1 d74e4400 00000000 d74e4400 d71d5fc4 d88c047c d74e4400 c1452860 d71d5fd8 00000000 Call Trace: [<d88d22c9>] [<d88bfab1>] [<d88c047c>] [<d88c0956>] [<c0107526>] [<d88c0880>] Code: f3 ab 0f 84 cb 00 00 00 53 e8 d1 91 90 e7 8b 5d 08 53 e8 e8 <6>hub.c: USB new device connect on bus 1/1, assigned device number 4 (the italics are my own) Then everything stopped with the cursor flashing in the bottom left of the screen and the only thing I could do was to switch off, turn off the camera and reboot. As I said if only I can determine what to mount in order to access the reader I will be happy.

Tried that. 685 items with the reader connected and disconnected :(

Hi pmpatrick I think this is the section that is relevant: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2 USB Mass Storage support registered. Do you know how to interpret it to find out the device? If so can you explain it please :)

Hi, I'm still trying to get my Smartmedia reader working in ML9.0 When I installed ML9 the reader was recognised and the following driver was loaded: disk/scsi|hardware_raid card usb-storage When I use the application USBVIEW I see the following: USB Storage Device Manufacturer: Serial Number: 0AEC501000001A002 Speed: 12Mb/s (full) USB Version: 1.10 Device Class: 00(>ifc ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 00 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 16 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 0aec Product Id: 5010 Revision Number: 1.00 Config Number: 1 Number of Interfaces: 1 Attributes: 80 MaxPower Needed: 100mA Interface Number: 0 Name: usb-storage Alternate Number: 0 Class: 08(stor.) Sub Class: 06 Protocol: 50 Number of Endpoints: 2 Endpoint Address: 01 Direction: out Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms Endpoint Address: 82 Direction: in Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms When I enter less /proc/bus/usb/devices in a console I see the following: T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 93/900 us (10%), #Int= 1, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=d400 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=16 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0aec ProdID=5010 Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer= S: Product= USB Storage Device S: SerialNumber=0AEC501000001A002 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 3 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=05fe ProdID=0011 Rev= 0.00 S: Manufacturer=Cypress Sem. S: Product=PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usb_mouse E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 4 Ivl=10ms and when iI enter less /proc/modules in a console I get: msdos 5364 0 (autoclean) vfat 9588 0 (autoclean) fat 31864 0 (autoclean) [msdos vfat] isofs 25652 0 (autoclean) inflate_fs 17892 0 (autoclean) [isofs] nls_iso8859-15 3356 1 (autoclean) udf 85472 0 (autoclean) ide-floppy 13316 0 (autoclean) sd_mod 11788 0 (autoclean) (unused) lp 6720 0 (unused) parport_pc 21672 1 parport 23936 1 [lp parport_pc] i810 59396 19 agpgart 31840 7 (autoclean) sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) i810_audio 21352 2 soundcore 3780 0 [i810_audio] ac97_codec 9928 0 [i810_audio] ppp_async 7456 0 (unused) ppp_generic 20064 0 [ppp_async] slhc 5072 0 [ppp_generic] af_packet 13000 0 (autoclean) keybdev 1920 0 (unused) mousedev 4116 1 hid 18340 0 (unused) usbmouse 2004 0 (unused) input 3456 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse] supermount 14340 3 (autoclean) ide-cd 28712 1 cdrom 26848 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi 8212 0 usb-storage 51952 0 scsi_mod 90372 4 [sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage] usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused) usbcore 58304 1 [hid usbmouse usb-storage usb-uhci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) ext3 74004 11 jbd 38452 11 [ext3] When I used my old camera in ML8.2 I was able to mount sda1 in order to view the contents of the card but in ML9 i get told that sda1 doesn't exist so I can't mount it. My question is, how can i tell what device to mount from the information given above, or is there more info that I need to obtain before I can decide that? Sorry for the long post but this is the only thing now that keeps Win98 installed. :( Thanks in advance

Hi, Thanks for replying, and also everyone else too. Yes I am aware of the 1000 and 1024 differences so I'm worried about the 38 - 39 - 40 Gb difference but the 31 Gb had me wondering that's all.

I have just bought a Maxtor Fireball HD, 40Gb and have had a problem getting ML9.0 to recognise the whole drive. When I installed it as a spare drive to my 13Gb Fujuitsu master and attempted to install ML on it I was asked which of the two drives did I want to use, hda - 12 Gb or hdb - 31 Gb. Hmm I thought that doesn't seem right. So I played around with the Jumpers and disconnected the 13Gb drive and attempted to install Win98SE. This told me that I had a 39Gb drive. At last I thought. So I out everything back and tried with ML again, still only 31Gb reported. So I disconnected the 13Gb master, left the 40Gb as slave and tried again, still only 31Gb. So in desperation I set the 40Gb as master, disconnect the 13Gb and installed Win98. This reported 39Gb and installed OK. Then I set the drive as slave and attempted to install ML. During the install I was asked if I wanted to use the entire Windows partition, to which I replied Yes, and was offered a drive size of 38Gb. I accepted this and installed ML OK. Anyone know why I was only offered 31Gb unless Windows was installed?

Hi cid, you said: Sounds good to me ... I managed to get rid of both of our kids in order to make room for my Linux PC:D

Sorry, I should have made that clear. Andale Sans UI will not be shown in the font list. Just type it into the left hand text box and then select an alternative in the right hand text box. You can choose anything you like. Hope that helps

Hi Peo, you said: The action you need to take is as follows (this is taken from the OO mailing lists at www.openoffice.org) Choose Tools/Options/OpenOffice.org/Font Replacement and replace Andale Sans UI with Helvetica. You can of course use any font that you wish as a replacement. Hope that helps

[quote="JaseP Try installing the RPMs for the OpenAL library. OK, thanks, I'll give that a try :)

Ok, I have downloaded the installer, ran it, installed the game from disc 1 into /home/user/freespace which gave me a KDE menu entry. When I click on the entry a 640x480 screen opens and immediately closes. When i try to run the game from a console I get the following error: Error: (src/gamesnd/eventmusic.cpp:1061): Unable to parse music.tbl! Code = 5. Segmentation fault Anyone any ideas? Celeron 500, ML9.0 , KDE3.0.4 Dave Le Huray Guernsey, Channel Islands

I don't have this option in the settings menu :(

This is how I have it set already and it makes no difference. Konqueror starts with the page file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html.

Can anyone tell me how to set Konqueror webbrowser to open on my home page of http://uk.my.yahoo.com I have set this in KDE Control Manager : Fila Manager : Home URL and can't find anywhere to set it under the Konqueror browser settings. Unfortunately Konqueror insists on starting on file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html . Thanks in advance Dave Le Huray Guernsey, Channel Islands ML9.0, KDE3.0.4

Hi Aru, you said: Thanks for that, I've often wondered mysel :)