Steve Scrimpshire

No problem. Write a letter to your bank or call them. Are they using ActiveX or some stupid thing like that?

In a console, you can type netscape-navigator and it should run. You can add a new menu item the ways I suggested with the 'Executable' line as /usr/bin/netscape-navigator

Try this as root: rpm -ql netscape-navigator or rpm -qa | grep netscape-navigator to get the full correct name then rpm -ql netscape-navigator-full-correct-name You should be able to tell which is the executable. I know netscape's installer from their website puts it in /usr/local/netscape/ You can add it to your menu with kmenuedit if you use KDE or with menudrake. It's not really a good idea to use non-MDK-specific RPMs until you have more experience as to what can go wrong, but we're here to help if you want to anyway :D

Yeah, but what do you know....you're still learning.

The extended charset has something to do with the encoding you use. Maybe this reply will prompt iphitus to reply...he knows alot more about it. utf-8 is what you need i think.

Don't like it. Reasons in order of importance: Not open-source Java problems Ugly Cluttered Poor ease-of-use Less choice of extensions/plugins

Wow. Why do module developers have to do things the hard way now? lol Try this. Open a console (the little tv-looking thing in your taskbar) and do all this (all the stuff I put inside <<>> is just an action or a comment...you don't actually type it literally): su <<hit enter>> <<type your root password and hit enter...you won;t see anything being typed>> <<use the cd command to be inside your madwifi directory>> mkdir /var/dkms mkdir /var/dkms/madwifi/ mkdir /var/dkms/madwifi/0.20040913-1mdk/ mkdir /var/dkms/madwifi/0.20040913-1mdk/build/ cp -R * /var/dkms/madwifi/0.20040913-1mdk/build/ cd /var/dkms/madwifi/0.20040913-1mdk/build/ dkms build -m madwifi -v 0.20040913-1mdk

There was support for some SATA chipsets in 9.2, but I'm not sure which ones. If you can get it to install, I would suggest upgrading to a 2.6.x kernel afterwards, because the SATA drive should perform better.

That looks right. What may be the problem is your isp's nameservers are not seen by ppp. Look in /etc/resolv.conf and see if they are in there. If they are not, you can find out from your isp what the nameservers should be. The file's syntax should be: nameserver your.isps.nameservers.ip nameserver your.ispssecondary.nameservers.ip For example, mine looks like this: nameserver 68.87.66.196 nameserver 68.87.64.196 Now, ppp may also need a copy of the file in /var/run/ppp and /etc/ppp, so in a console, su to root as above and edit /etc/resolv.conf as needed by issuing the command kwrite /etc/resolv.conf make your changes that you need, save it and close the file. Then, in the console, type cp /etc/resolv.conf /var/run/ppp <<hit enter>> ln -s /var/run/ppp/resolv.conf /etc/ppp/resolv.conf <<hit enter>> The last command makes a 'symlink' from /var/run/ppp/resolv.conf to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf so you won't actually have to have two different copies of it. If you edit /var/run/ppp/resolv.conf, then /etc/ppp/resolv.conf is changed as well. Then you'll have to reconnect for ppp to see it. The second command may give you an error like this: Error: /etc/ppp/resolv.conf file exists If that is the case, just do ls -l and make sure it looks something like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root daemon 29 May 22 06:14 resolv.conf -> ../../var/run/ppp/resolv.conf Hope I'm not going too fast here. :D

I've never used dkms, but the manpage says: So I would assume you need to put everything from your tarball into a new directory: /var/dkms/madwifi/0.20040913-1mdk/build/ but I could be way off.

Waitaminute....where was your music? If you made a separate /home partition on install and that is where it is, you don't have to format /home when you reinstall.

Try this. Install kppp, which you can do through Mandrake Control Center. (It may already be installed...in your menu, it should be under Internet -> Remote Access). Then run kppp and click the button to Show Log, so you can see what exactly the error is. It could be as simple as your ISP expects the full email address as the login: yourlogin@yourisp.net instead of yourlogin If this fails, you could post the exact errors from the 'View Log' in kppp and also post the contents of /etc/ppp/options (not actually posting your password here...heh). You can do that simply by opening a console (The little TV-looking thng in your taskbar)and then typing su Type your root password and hit enter (you won't see anything being typed). Then type cat /etc/ppp/options (it may be /etc/ppp/peers/options....it's been awhile since I was on dialup) You can copy and paste from a console simply by left-click dragging with the mouse to highlight and then come here to make a post and middle-click to paste it here (push both the right and left mouse buttons at the same time if you don't have a middle mouse button....my scroll wheel is also the middle mouse button).

You will more than likely have to reinstall. There is no easy way to fix this unless your / partition was ext2. For future reference, it is possible to do what you thought you were doing, but contrary to the typical Linux philosophy, it requires several reboots to be safe. Create the new partition reboot Format the new partition reboot Tell it the mountpoint is /usr and it will ask you if you want to move the contents of /usr there, just say yes. In theory, this should work correctly.

I concur.

Try this miniHowTo (which doesn't look too 'mini' to me): http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/PCTel-...dem-Config.html If you need clarification or help on specific steps, just let us know.

Hmmmm...I've never had this problem. What BIOS is it? Is it possible that you have somehow turned off the quickboot option? How old is your cmos battery, etc? Some BIOSes have an option called 'Reset BIOS configuration' which actually does not do what you would expect. You would think it means to reset it all back to factory defaults, but it actually means that is the only way to get it to accept anything besides the factory defaults. I ran into that little 'gotcha' when I was doing computer service with my brother.

/usr/share/firefox/firefox and/or /usr/share/firefox are empty?

Ok. I have checked and watched more closely. Upon launching Firefox, it uses 55% cpu very briefly, then drops to around 0.7%. However, every time I click a link or navigate to a new page, etc, Xorg begins to use about 79% cpu and firefox-bin around 15%. This lasts until the new page is fully loaded. Very annoying. This happens both with the tarball from mozilla.org and with the latest FF from Cooker, which has been hacked to show the version number at 1.0.4 because it has all the security fixes needed. Happened with 2005 LE (10.2 Official) and its latest xorg and with Cooker and its latest xorg. Edit: Apparently, it was my theme (Brushed 0.9.9.2). Switched to Modern Pinball 1.0.3 and all seems well. Still have spikes in Xorg's cpu usage, but they are much smaller and cpu temp does not seem to suffer from it.

It won't let me past the second question in the questions to determine my computer knowledge to tailor the questions to my needs. But that could be because I'm urpmi'ing to Cooker ATM.

gkrellm can read the sensors on my Toshiba Satellite. As you can tell, I'm not a n00bie... :P When I say it is Firefox causing this, I'm sure that is what it is. It would be pretty coincidental for it to be something else as I have the same background services/programs running as I always have and the only program version that has changed recently is Firefox. This abnormal rise in temperature only happens when I run Firefox and there is no unusual HD activity or CPU/Mem usage shown by Firefox or its associated files. As soon as I close FF, the temp drops. The pages I'm surfing don't matter, because I can understand temperature rise coming from Java applets or Flash, because I've always had those things cause it. On this laptop, temps do tend to rise when there is HD activity for any length of time, like scp'ing a large file to or from the laptop, but as I said, there appears to be no excessive HD activity.

Hmmm. Does anyone else have this problem? Installed the latest firefox from the tarball from the mozilla site and every time I run it, my laptop temp rises to around 70C. top shows nothing abnormal about firefox's cpu usage or anything associated with firefox for that matter.

What a small world.

There was no such thing in the warning message. <<edited due to the post I was responding to being edited>> How 'bout a screeny?

Fluxbox irssi Firefox Eterm Thunderbird gimp-2.2 Neverwinter Nights

slocate -c -u will just sit there for awhile and then return you to a prompt if it is successful. Otherwise it would tell you 'bash: slocate command not found'. And just because I don't know of a security flaw in the current slocate doesn't mean one doesn't exist. :D Which one had you heard of?