Daveleh

Any suggestions on good (good as in 'good' and good as in 'I can afford it') online classes to really get up and running as a Mandrake sysadmin?  I know there's lots of tutorials and info everywhere, but I want to get up and running as my own sysadmin fast.

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

scheduled paiments is a new feature of Gnucash. Of course you did not see it with older version, because it wasn't there :)  Now it is 8) 

 

Yves.

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

incase it IS your hostname .. it can be changed permanently here:

/etc/sysconfig/network

example:

<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->[paul@dozer paul]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->GATEWAYDEV=eth0<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->NETWORKING=yes<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->FORWARD_IPV4=false<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->HOSTNAME=dozer.loudas.com<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->DOMAINNAME=loudas.com<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->GATEWAY=192.168.1.1<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->

 

then restart networking

service network restart

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.

Actually, Mandrake 9.1RC2 has it included on the CDs.

 

I have it installed and use it daily; mostly for regular checkbook stuff and bank reconciliation, but it works for me. I like it.

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

Thank for all the advice people!  I have broken my long tradtion of buying Lexmarks, and got an Epson C42UX.  Which worked perfectly first time with MDK.

 

THANKS!

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.

Looks like Epson wins.

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.

Looked at your /proc/modules a little more closely and compared to mine both with and without the zip drive attached. One difference which might be relevant involves sd_mod which appears connected with the creation of the sda* device files, i.e. it is listed when the zip drive is connected and is not when the zip drive is not connected. In yours sd_mod is designated "unused", not so in mine.

You may want to add sd_mod to the scsi modules when you do the rmmod/insmod thing or try it by itself.

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.

:?

Yes, it's a good idea to backup. Anyway, what seems to be so long ago, I found out that you could make Windows use only the partition you want, by using those steps:

1- create a DOS boot disk, able to see the CDROM drive (maybe freeDos is good for that, else a Win98 boot disk with CD driver is ok).

2- boot on the boot disk, and insert the CDROM, just to be sure you can access and read it.

3- eject the CDROM, you don't need it for now.

4- launch A:fdisk and delete the current Windows partition

5- with fdisk, create the C: partition anew where you want and the size you want, and format it as FAT (A:format /? to see how to specify volume name and I think it is /S to put the system files on the partition)

6- you'll have to reboot...

7- boot with the same boot disk and insert Win98 CDROM

8- A: is floppy, C: is empty DOS drive, and D: is cdrom, so:

9- D:install

10- plug and pray...

 

Yves.

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

Now that I dug up my Win2K disc which I had lost, I would like to replace my bloated XP installation with a more compact and stable windows installation on my Windows partition.  I'm not planning on rearranging any of the partitions, just doing a reinstall on my current one.  The thing is, I know that this will replace the bootloader with the crappy windows one.  What I want to know is, what is the best way to reinstall LILO after I have reinstalled windows.  Can I just boot into mandrake setup off of the CDROM and skip to the bootloader step, then install the bootloader and quit the installation right there?

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.

Oop!! Just reread your initial post with cat /proc/modules and you do have the scsi modules loaded I'm pretty much stumped. A few things I can think of to try:

 

1. Try a different usb port. In particular, if you have it connected through a hub, try connecting directly to the port on the box.

 

2.Remove the scsi moudules with:

 

# rmmod ide-scsi

# rmmod scsi_mod

 

and then reactivate with:

 

# insmod scsi_mod

# insmod ide-scsi

 

See if you have an sda* in /dev and if so try mounting.

 

3. Wait for 9.1 to come out next week, download, install and hope it all goes away.

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

Slight revision to my prior post. I'm not sure the first entry for sda is sda0; it might be sda1. You can try going through the number sequence for sdax from 0 to 4 till you find the right device file. My best guess is it will be either sda0 or sda1. 

Also checked my /dev both with and without my zip drive connected and indeed, /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda only appear after the zip drive is connected. Now that you know exactly where to look in /dev (i.e. for a /dev/sdax file) you may be able to track down your card reader device file directly by looking in /dev. Best of luck. Sorry for any confusion.

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.

You need to know which entry in /dev represents your card reader.  So boot up Linux, without the card reader attached.  Then open up a terminal or Konqueror to /dev.  At this point connect your card reader, wait a couple of seconds, then refresh /dev and look for new entries.

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

Hi pmpatrick

Leave the reader plugged in and reboot. Immediately after run :

 

$ dmesg

 

You should be able to find the device listing in the print out. However, this is really driving me nuts. I know there is a utility which will give you this info when run.

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,

Well there is always the fact that HD manufactures use a different definition of giga to the rest of us.  They say that 1gig is 1000Mb, not 1024Mb which is what software uses.

 

That doesn't explain the difference you experienced.  The only thing I can think of is that the drive wasn't formatted properly.

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:

Very small house...4 kids. 

 

If we put in a new computer, one of the kids has to go :)

 

D

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

No, it is NOT shown, and I have no idea why, but you have to manually type it in.

Here's a link that might help:http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=2373

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:

Andale Sans GUI or something like that. I can't check it now but you should find it easily.

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 :)

Does this work for you? It works for me, but I can't play the game after. It just returns to the prompt and doesn't report any errors at all. I'm on Debian Unstable. I'll try it on Mandrake 9.0 later.

http://icculus.org/~ravage/freespace/

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

Open Konqueror

Go to the website you want to be the main page.

 

Click on Settings

Save "View Profile Web Browsing"

 

Check the box that says - Save URLS in Profile.

Click on Save

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

goto  Menu>networking>www>Konqueror

 

goto settings>configure Konqueror 

 

on the behavior tab half way down u will see home url type in whatever you want your home page to be

 

click apply then ok

 

Hope this helps 

 

ump

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:

IMHO, just the following:

• --> because it has all the users own stuff.

 

[*]/var/* --> because it stores all dynamic stuff (html pages, spools, mysql stuff...).

 

[*]/etc/* --> obviously because it has all the configuration files.

• Another tree to save could be: "/usr/local".  

 

The rest of the system can be easily restored doing a reinstall.

Thanks for that, I've often wondered mysel :)