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wow - I was just asking about a simple harware issue - I had no idea that sucha debate would be sparked. I have to say, though, that everyone keeps talking about how great it is when a system automatically picks up and recongnises new hardware. Mandrake is very good at this. It is, however, perhaps equally important that harware should be uninstalled along with any related config files if the hardware is removed. This particular issue has caused me a few serious networking problems until Iwas given some help from this forum enabling me to get it sorted. If the config had simply been removed when the hardware was, then I would never have had those difficulties.

Since upgrading to 9.0 from 8.2 - I've found rpmdrake to be a much weaker product. I certainly don't know how to find out the source in the newest version

thanks - got it sorted. One question out of interest though Once I had added the source - I went to install samba on my machine. For some reason ther ewere 3 different samba-server packages that I could haev installed - two with the same version! Why would this be?

I recently installed 9.0 on an older machine (P133, 32Mb RAM) using CDs, but now it seems like my CD drive is busted. I still need to install a few apps - but I can't use the CDs. I figured I could just find an ftp mirror with all the mandrake packages (more than just CD1 I hope) and add that as a urpmi source. Trouble is - I can't find any mirrors. I went to the Mandrake download site and found a suitable mirror, but I couldn't figure out how to add it as a source - didn't seem like this was what it was meant for...

I had the server installed - evrything was installed - which was the weird thing. I does seem, after all, like it was to do with my problem with the Network card. I think my desktop must have trying to use eth1 to connect (which doesn't exist). I removed all reference to that and it works now. Thanks for all the help anyway.

Thank you - that was exactly what I was looking for. I'm currently having a minor problem, however. Every time I try to run the command, I get "unable tot access the first installation medium" I have cd1 in the drive when I run this command - is this right?

OK - there was an ifcfg-eth1 and I removed it. This seems to have fixed the problem - thanks :D

ok - I have been able to listen to other audio from other sites, so maybe this is a BBC issue after all. I will contact them

I was trying to listen to a rugby game that is broadcast live from the BBC for realplayer. In the past this has always worked. Today realplayer failed to get the file/stream. I would have thought that this was a server side problem if realplayer on windows hadn't worked fine. Any suggestions as to why realpalyer may be failing here - when it worked before? Does realplayer rely on any services? I could check if the services are all running. Also, my main linux desktop is no longer accessing the internet directly, but via another linux machine which is acting purely as a server - could this make a difference?

It seems like OpenOffice is favourite - I find this interesting. As I said earlier - OpenOffice is a very slow start up and doesn't seem to handle MS Office files as well as users may need it to

OK, I can see that I could simply add the other CDs as a specific source. I was thinking of a particular command, related to urpmi.addmedia, that specifically added the sources for the current distribution. So I could do: urpmi.addmedia MyCD file:///mnt/cdrom/MyCD/RPMS and add a source that way called MyCD - or I could use the command I am thinking of (but can't remember) to add all three Mandrake CDs in a robust way using only one command

I have recently set up a simple server for my home network. I will really need to get ssh working soon though as it will make my life soooooooooo much easier, as well as saving my monitor cable plug, which at present is being switched between machines constantly andI'm sure it does it no good. My server is running sshd and this seems to be working ( I did an ssh to localhost which succeeded). If I try to ssh from my desktop machine to the server, it simply times out after a long wait. I can ping the server from my dekstop - so I know that there is network connectivity (anyway the server shares the internet connection, so I wouldn't be able to post this if they were not connected). I am running firestarter as a frirewall on the server, but I am sure that this is only protecting the server's NIC which goes to the internet, and so should not affect a local network connection. I do have this bizzare problem: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=1799 which may be relevant, although I suspect it's a red herring. Any suggestions as to why this might be timing out? I have tried doing a service sshd reload on the server - made no difference

My removed NIC is not listed in the Control Cnter at all. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere (not even in ifconfig) after the boot has completed. What concerns me slightly is that it is started at boot - this may just be some phantom behaviour - but weirdness like this in my computer concerns me

I have just completed a basic install of Mandrake on a mchaine that I wil be using as a server. For some reason, however, only CD1 has been added as a source for RPM. I seem to remember that there is a specific command for adding al lthe distribution sources to urpmi (I have 3 CDs) Can anyone remember what this command is?

I used a demo of Hancom for a little while and I really liked it. The two factors that stopped me using it where that it's not free ( :D ) and also that it doesn't open MS office files perfectly :( Actually, if it had opened MS Office files perfectly (it was pretty good!) then I might have considered paying the cost.

OK - also, why did you select that particular office suite/app?

Just out of interest - I wonder what office suits people are using out there? I use cxoffice with MS Office XP - mostly because I have to use MS office products for work and I have never yet found another office suite that can actually open all MS files without any problems - especially powerpoint presentations. Also, OpenOffice takes far too long to start up. Let me know...

Up until recently, I had 2 netwrok cards in my computer. A few days ago, I removed one and put it in another computer. I noticed that, unlike it had with 8.2, Mandrake didn't detect this and ask if I wanted to unload the config for the hardware - it kept trying to start the card. I went to /etc/modules.conf and removed the line that related to the network card module. The bizarre thing is that now, whenever I boot my machine, it says that it is trying to start the card (eth1) and, even more bizarrely, it works! ifconfig only reveals one card (eth0), as does the control center, but something odd is happening here. I have been having network problems recently (since removing the card) andI wonder if this is related... Any thoughts anyone...?

Hmmmm - I may have to do things that way - although I was hoping to avoid the expense of getting a cd drive (I'm already swapping things over from the HP, and I really don't think that swapping more things back and forth would actually make things easier) It already took a lot of persuading to ge my wife to agree to the purchase of the compaq - and that was pretty cheap! :D

OK, this may be a long one :wink: I have been using Mdk 9.0 on my desktop for a little while now, with 8.2 & 8.0 before that. I recently decided that using my main desktop as a server for the rest of the network (sharing some files, a printer and my internet connection) was not the best idea. So I bought a low spec machine - Compaq Deskpro P133 with 32Mb memory and a network card. A floppy drive but no cd. I tried for ages to get network install via NFS working - and eventually did (9.0). At this point I added the second network card that had previously been in my other desktop to the compaq. Before I did that, I was able to ssh to the compaq and the NFS mount containing the install files and RPMs was still available. I now was unable to get an internet connection from my cable modem, but I still had the NFS and ssh capabilites. Eventually I got the internet working so I was at the position where the compaq could access the internet and I could ping and be pinged from anywhere on my local network. At this point, however, I discovered that I could no longer ssh to the compaq (it just timed out - no other errors) and neither does the compaq mount the RPM sources via NFS anymore. I wondered if it could be a problem with 9.0 - so I tried installing 8.2 on the compaq - but now, I cannot get anything from the NFS server running on my main machine at all(an HP machine). I cannot even see it if I go to "mount points" in the control center - even though it seems to be running. I am setting up all my exports via webmin - so I doubt that it's a syntax error in the /etc/exports file. This is where I am currently at. I want to be at the stage where I can install a couple more packages from the RPMs via NFS (I want to use firestarter and need the packages database to resolve dependencies). I also need to be able to share a printer and an internet connection. I ideally need to be able to ssh to the compaq from my HP, which will still be my main desktop. At present, my only idea is that the network card I moved got damaged in the move - this seems a little unlikely as I can still use it to ping and get some LAN connectivity, although without ssh and NFS there is little I can do with it. Please, please help - I am soooooooo frustrated with this and I really need to get it working. My network currently has no printer and no internet access - I am having to use a dial up in my entrance hall to enter this - annoying when I am paying for broadband!

OK, tried that - no difference

If you install Mandrake, you will be able to install all the software that you want. Each of those products has a home page some of them are: Apache - jakarta.apache.org MySQL - www.mysql.org

I'm currently in the prpcess of trying to set up an old machine ot act as a server/router for my local network. I have got everything working so far, but I have a couple of questions about ssh: 1) I can't seem to log in anymore - "ssh <ip-address>" just sits there and does nothing. Is there anyway of "resetting" ssh so that I can establish a brand new relationship between my two computers? The server machine doesn't have a monitor so I NEED to be able to access the machine remotely. sshd is running on the remote machine and there are no firewalls. 2) Do I need to be logged in on the remote machine to be able to ssh to it? Please help - I need to dial up to get internet access before I can get online - until I ge this sorted!

Thank you - got it installed eventually. I removed loads of unnecessary files and uninstaled loads of packages and just squeezed it on in the end Thanks again

I have ssh to my other machine and set the DISPLAY variable to my ip address - but when I start any app on the remote machine it says that the local X server refused the connection. How do I fix this?