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my home computer: CPU: P3-1GHz Motherboard: Chaintech CT-60JV2 Video Card: ATI Radeon 32MB AGP DDR RAM: 256MB Hard Drive: 40GB Sound Card: SoundBlaster 256 Live! Value Monitor: 17 Inch Floppy Drive: 1.44M Drive DVD: Raide 8X DVD CD-Writer: Sony 52x32x52 CDRW Mouse: Microsoft IntelliPoint Optical Scroll Mouse Speakers: 2-piece ZoltriXound ZX-MPro w/ 300W Sub-Woofer Network Card: RealTek 10/100 PCI Ethernet

I have never tried Windows + Linux networking, so I am seeking some advice. I'll explain my situation. I have a Windows XP Pro machine, a Mandrake 10.0 Official machine, sharing a cable connection w/ a D-Link Router. Also I have a Epson Stylus COLOR 600 Printer connected to my Windows Box. I had the printer connected to my linux box before, and have it correctly configured, and am able to print to it perfectly when it is connected to my linux box. My main priority is that I would like to be able to print from my Linux box to this printer, when the printer is connected to the XP box. It is a real pain that I have to disconnect the printer from XP box and connect it to the Linux box, just to print a document. Just simple printer sharing right? If I could get file sharing to work that would be nice too. I've enabled File and Printer sharing, and also explicitly enabled sharing of this printer in the windows. The printer is shared as Epson600. Lets say my XP computer name is XPBox. and workgroup is WORKGROUP. If I do ipconfig on my windows box it gives me an ip address. If I do ping <that ip address> from my linux box, it cant see it at all. However, if I go to like an iplocator website, it gives me another ip address. if I do ping <that other ip address> it pings it fine. I am guessing that ip address is the address of my router, because if I go the same iplocator site w/ my linux box, it gives the same address. otherwise, I cant get them talking at all. I've searched google, and everywhere I find it talks about editing etc/printcap but that file (for me) is the result of etc/cups/printers.conf, which by the looks of it is the result of the cups web admin. I am completely lost. I've asked some1 else, and he thought I need to first add my linux box to the windows workgroup. In my case the workgroup is WORKGROUP. I've tried adding the printer using both addresses with KDE Print but it always keeps asking for a password upon "test" and I dont know what to put in there. I always specify use guest at the beginning of the wizard. And no matter what I try it always fails that authentication, and then says "failed to create temporary printer" I dont know anything about smb, and I am completely lost. Please help. Thanks a lot, Latem

I can write to the zip disk by opening it in one window, and then dragging a file from another window to the zip, and choosing copy or move. But If I use Edit | Copy and Paste, or Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V , or any combination of these it complains with "Writing to devices is not supported". And today I tried burning an audio cd, and it worked good enough, with an average speed of 25x, burning 20 songs (~70mins) in 3:40 mins. This is acceptable, so I guess that works, and I dont know why it was so slow yesturday. Any ideas? Latem

I have 2.6.3-7mdk. Latem

Hello, I have Mandrake 10 Official, and everything worked fine for some time. I have a USB IOmega Zip100 drive, and a Sony 52x32x52 burner. A week ago my zip drive was messing up, and when I would put in a zip disk it would create a new mount point /mnt/zip2, mount the disk there, and add the appropriate entry in fstab. Anyway, after reading around the net I concluded that supermount doesnt work right w/ USB, so I changed my fstab. My old fstab: notice the zip2 entry, which was not there before, and even if I delete it, and restart, when I put in a new zip disk, it would create the new mount point, and add the line. So I changed the fstab: That seemed to fix it, and my zip disk seemed to work nice. But today I tried writing to the zip disk for the 1st time in a while. I kept getting error: "Writing to devices is not supported". And I could not fix it. I searched, and some1 on linuxforums had the same problem w/ floppy, and ppl suggested chmodding the appropriate /dev/ file (/dev/fd0 for floppy I think). anyway I tried that (chmodding the zip /dev file) but that didnt work. I also get the same error if I try to write to floppy. I am able to burn, however, it is really slow. Before, when I burnt stuff, it [K3b] would say starting burning at 52x or whatever I specified, but than it would complain how the burner or the media doesn't support that speed, starting at 0x. But it would burn w/ an average speed of 30-35x. A pretty full audio disk would take ~3mins to burn. This was acceptable, even though I had a 52x burner. But now I tried burning an audio CD of 10 tracks, < 1hr of music, and it had an avg speed of 5x, taking 13 mins to burn. This is just retarded... I really have a serious problem here, and I dont know what caused my system to mess up so bad. I dont think it was changing the fstab, but whatever caused the zip to start messing up, which seemed to me to happen out of the blue. I know I didnt do anything w/ settings and stuff. Also changing fstab to the original file, which was the Mandrake default, doesnt solve the problem. Please help me fix this. Thanks a lot, Latem [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Ok I got it fixed by changing fstab, but I am not sure I understand everything: this is how my fstab looked like: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 this is the new one: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 /mnt/zip vfat umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,exec,quiet 0 0 any comments? thanks, Latem

Hi, I have an Iomega Zip 100 USB Zip Drive, and I dont know if I am using it right. This is how it was always from the beginning. I had a Zip Device on my desktop, (unmounted icon), and a mounted icon "Zip Disk". The only options for this item are "Open" and "Properties". Clicking on "Properties" the general tab, gives the name "devscsihost1bus0target0lun0part4mntzip", and Location: /(devices). Everything worked fine most of the time. This is how I used it. I insert a zip disk into the drive, and then dbl click on the zip disk icon, and be able to use it fine. when I was finished I just ejected the zip disk. This was always odd to me bacuase I thought that I should have just the Zip Device icon, and then when I insert the zip disk I would do "mount", or it would automatically mount, and a new Zip Disk icon will appear. When I am finished I would right click on Zip Device and Unmount, and then eject. But whatever I accepted it how it worked. But sometimes it would screw up, and I would dbl click on zip disk, but nothing would be showing up, just an empty folder (the zip disk wasnt empty). I think trying mount in this case gave some error, and I had to create a new device (Zip) on my desktop, and then delete one of the 2 icons when I was finished. Today something different happened. I inseted the disk, and it auto mounted and changed the existing Zip Disk icon's text to "Zip Disk (part4) [mnt/zip]", and also added a new icon (mounted zip disk) with text "Zip Disk (part4) [mnt/zip2]". Only the zip2 would work, and clicking on zip1 would just give me an empty folder. Also now there are two zip folders in /mnt zip and zip2. So my question is if I am using zip correctly, and if not how do you use Zip Drives? I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake 10. Should I just delete this new zip2 folder in /mnt. It's chmod @ 777 just like zip, and floppy. But I am the owner of zip2, instead of root. Wird thing is my brother has never had any problems using the zip disk, and I think he has been using it the same way as me. here's my Zip Device desktop config file: [Desktop Action Eject] Exec=kdeeject %v Name=Eject [Desktop Entry] Actions=Eject Dev=/dev/sda4 Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=zip_unmount MountPoint= Name=ZIP Device Name[en_US]=ZIP Device ReadOnly=false Type=FSDevice UnmountIcon=zip_unmount X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel and my brother's: [Desktop Action Eject] Exec=kdeeject %v Name=Eject [Desktop Entry] Actions=Eject Dev=/dev/sda4 Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=zip_mount MountPoint= ReadOnly=false Type=FSDevice UnmountIcon=zip_unmount X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel Thanks, Latem

Ok, changing it to "embedded viewer" fixed it. Thanks, Latem

Everything was working fine yesterday, but this morning, when I try to open an html file with Konqueror, it gives a dialog box: "There appears to be a configuration error. You have associated Konqueror with text/html, but it can't handle this file type." Just before that I did a "Ctrl + Shift + N" to open a new tab while browsing a folder, and it gave that error, but I didn't think much of it because I think it used to do that all the time when you did Ctrl + Shift + N in a folder. Browsing the internet works fine though. I've tried restarting the comp but that didnt help. Any help/tips are appreciated. I have Konqueror 3.2.0, KDE 3.2, Mandrake 10 EDIT: It works if I go "Open in a new window", but if I dbl click or "Open in a new tab" it gives the error. Latem

I think it's an issue with KDE > some version.

If your XMMS is crashing when trying to play an mp3, make sure your shortcut/ menu shortcut command line is just "xmms" and not "soundwrapper xmms" or something like that. I think the rpm install, or the xmms install with Mandrake puts that command line in the shortcut, and it doesnt work. Besides that, and the minimizing thing/bug, XMMS owns. Latem

In Konqueror, if you go to Configure Konqueror... and under Behavior there is a checkbox for "show file tips" and "show previews in file tips". For some reason, even when I have "show previews in file tips" unchecked, but "show file tips" checked, it still shows the preview. Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug? How can I just jave the file tips on, so it displays the little yellow popup w/ file info, but no preview. Thanks, Latem

That's a bug? lol, and all this time I thoguht that's just the way XMMS was, and I didnt think it was a bug at all. Latem

I couldn't find Mono in a couple of the official Mirrors that I tried, but I might try getting it off cooker. Thanks for the answers all. :D Latem

Hello, do the different urpmi mirrors (listed at the easy urpmi site) have the same (roughly) contents? Or is there any one that is better than some other ones. Like could some mirrors have newer and more packages. I am specificaly referring to main, and uppdates, and not plf. My second question is in regards to Mono. The only packages they have on the offical website are for Mandrake 9.1 and version 0.26. Is there anywhere Mono 1 (as many packages as possible) for mandrake 10, or do I have to build it from source? According to this guy, he got it from urpmi (although he doesnt mention what version). Thanks, Latem

Hello, I have MPlayer, Totem Movie Player and Xine installed on my computer. I tried playing a .rm file, and all of them complained about not having a codec. Totem was asking for "cook.so.6.0" and "drv3.so.6.0". The other ones didn't provide the specific file names just said something to the effect of "dont have a codec for that". Anyway, I dled the essential codec pack from MPlayer's site. In it there are 8 .so.6.0 and 1 .xa file, including the cook and drv file. There are also a bunch of Windows files (.dlls, .qtx and such). My question is what am I supose to do with those 9 files. Where am I suppose to copy them? I have tried coping all over the place in lib dirs and such, and nothing worked. I thought there was an rpm for the essential pack. I think I remember getting it some time ago when I was using RH8, but I am not sure if I remember correctly. I could be wrong. Any help is much appreciated. Latem

Here are some resources you may find useful: http://www.programmingtutorials.com http://mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html - A free e-book "Thinking in C++ 2nd Ed." Volume 1 & 2 by Brucke Eckel. http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ Good luck, Latem

You may like MSYS. It is a set of *nix tools for windows. Baiscally like a small shell with most commonly used linux commands, and also comes with GNU compiler. In reference to Digital Mars, they are making D, the programming language. Kinda interesting. Latem

This is my modeversions.h (in /usr/include/linux): Maybe this is something new in 2.6, and the hsfconfig, is trying to do it the 2.4 way? Latem

the only contents in /lib/modules for me are folders 2.4.25-2mdk and 2.6.3-7mdk In 2.6.3-7mdk there's a folder "build" that's a link to /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk as well a folder "kernel" and a bunch of modules.xxxxxxx, files. EDIT: I found the header file it was looking for in /usr/include/linux I am guesssing I had the right path (/usr/src/linux) so should I just copy the header file there and try again. Or do I need to mess with configuring the kernel? Latem

Ok I think I understand what I am suppose to do and whats happening. First I did rpmbuild --rebuild on the src.rpm file. Then I did rpm -ivh on the 2 rpms the previous command made in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 Then I ran hsfconfig, however it asked for my kernel source location. I am guessing this needs to recompile my kernel? I tried /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk: What path am I suppose to use? /usr/src/linux just points to the previously mentioned folder. Also isn't recompiling the kernel a little extreme? I guess I just need reassurance that this wont completely break my install. Am I on doing all this right? Thanks for all your help, Latem

Thanks for the feedback all. I did rpmbuild -- rebuild thing: But it didn't seem to do anything. Am I suppose to do something afterwards? I also tried your RPM bvc, and installed it but nothing seems to have changed. The modem description in the Hardware wizard thing is still the same. What did/am I doing wrong? Maybe I am not setting KPPP right? Specifically, I am not sure about the type of authentication I am suppose to use. I've tried usually PAP/CHAP, but also Script and PAP once. Which one am I suppose to use. Can I find this out from windows somewhere maybe? I've looked and couldnt find it. Also Should "Query modem" in KPPP return anything? All the fields come back empty for me. when connectiong what are the different stages of the process. First I think I get "Looking for modem..." (I think, it goes by way to fast); then "Modem ready." and then "Initializing modem..." but it just stays there. So do I still dont have my modem working, or am I doing something wrong with connecting maybe? I've never used modem with Linux before. Only used Linux @ work with broadband connection and the inernet always worked w/o any necessary set-up. Now I finally got Linux at home, so I am not familiar with some aspects of it that a "home user" may use. Thanks for your help, Latem

thanks for the reply. when I do rpmbuild <filename>.src.rpm on that .src.rpm file it says the rpm does not appear to be a specfile. what does this mean? Also if I look at the hardware wizard thingy, it lists my modem under Modems: Vendor: Conexant Interface (or whatever): PCI Bus: 14f1:2045 Location on Bus: 2:4:0 Description: HSF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp (w/ Handset) Modem (Worldwide SmartDAA) Module : Hsf:www.linmodems.org Media Class: COMMUNICATION_OTHER And if I run the configuration tool (the connect to internet wizard) it asks how I want to connect (modem, Cable, ...) and I click modem, next, it asks me for which modem. There are two radio buttons one for Conexant modem, and the other for Manual configuration. when I select the Conexant and press next a msg box comes up saying "We are sorry we support kernel 2.4 or above" even though I have 2.6 If i select manual config, then I can select the different COMs. I also tried using KPPP to connect using /dev/modem and ttyS0 - ttyS1. On modem and ttyS0 it just stays at "Initializing modem." on the other it says "modem busy". Any help is very much appreaciated. Latem

Hello, I just got Mandrake 10 recently, and I have Conexant SoftK56 (HSF) PCI Modem, and I definitly dont want to pay for drivers that come freely even with windows. I've searched all over the net on how to get it working, and found lots of information. For example some files/info I've found: hsflinmodem5.03.27.tar.gz - a bunch of .o files that need to be unarchived and built I think. it has french instruction. hcfpcimodem-0.99lnxtbeta03042700.tar.gz - appearantly the last freely available drivers (full) from Linuxant. hsfcompat_24-1.0d.tar.gz + http://www.olitec.com/pub/PCI_56K_V2_K2.2.17.tar.gz - as described here But nowhere did I find a dinitive and sure description of what to do and what to download, that I know will work. So if anyone knows exactly what needs to be done to get Conexant modems to work, can we please make up a nice post describing what needs to be done for different Mandrake and Kernel versions, and what files to use. And make the post a sticky? I am willing to host files as much as I can afford bandwith wise on my webspaces. One of them I think I have next to unlimited bandwidth... Just a proposal I think would help the whole community. Latem

Thanks for reply. I expected this would have been asked before too, so I searched but couln't find anything. I just wanted to make sure my install didnt go wrong maybe. cheers, Latem