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When you setup the printer, does it print the test page correctly?

Good to know that you fixed the problem.

In fact I had done just that before posting here.... The description says Description: Activates/Deactivates the internet interfaces The script runs two scripts /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_down The first one restarts network, the other one stops it, that's all. Why would you call this "service internet", and how is this different from "service network"?

Netgear lists Linux OS on some of their routers. I have one of those.

I am curious what does the service internet do?

Make sure that myhostname and mynetworks are defined in the postfix configuration file main.cf.

The best way is to use Knoppix to do the autodetection for you. If it's not available, this procedure worked for me in the past. Use it at your own risk! 1. Go to http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl and calculate a suitable modeline for your display. Be careful and choose only values suitable for your monitor, wrong modelines could fry the monitor - you've been warned! As an example, the modeline for resolution 1152x864 at refresh rate 85Hz will look like this Modeline "1152x864@85" 132.80 1152 1184 1688 1720 864 880 892 908 2. Add it to the Monitor section of XF86Config-4, just above the #Sony Vaio: # 1152x864 @ 85.03 Hz, 77.2 kHz hsync Modeline "1152x864" 132.80 1152 1184 1688 1720 864 880 892 908 The values 85.03Hz and 77.2 kHz are calculated values, also I changed "1152x864@85" to "1152x864" because that's how my modeline looks. Not sure, whether this is necessary. 3. Edit the Screen section. Remove (or better comment out with #) all subsections "Display" that contain virtual screens and replace them with this Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1152x864" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1152x864" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" EndSubsection 4. Save and start X. If it works, you can add more modelines and append them to the line Modes. You will be able to switch between them by pressing <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<+>/<->.

If memory serves me right, ATI advises to uninstall Mesa stuff before installing the ATI drivers.

Hmm, it's not only i810... I have infamous ATI M9 inmy laptop, XFdrake defined virtual screens for it too. How do you actually make it do proper hardware probing?

A quick googling has brought these posts: http://lists.progeny.com/archive/progeny-d...5/msg00276.html http://lists.progeny.com/archive/progeny-d...5/msg00207.html

You see, you have only one virtual screen 1024x768, and no high res screens. XF86Config-4 does not contain modeline definitions for your monitor, and you don't have any modes defined either. I don't know much about this, but could be the cause of your troubles. Instead of using XFdrake, try one of the XFree X configuration tools (XFree86 -configure, xf86config, xf86cfg). I would do this from the console. If you don't succeed, you may want to manually edit XF86Config-4 getting rid of virtual screens and replacing them with a list of display modes. There has been many posts around about that. You may also find ready-to-use XF86Config-4 files using i810 driver (google for XF86Config + i810) and tweak them to your like. Also, I've seen posts on this forum that refer to a website where you can enter details of your monitor (resolution, and frequency), and get the corresponding modeline to include in XF86Config-4. Another useful tool for tweaking screen resoultion and modelines is xvidtune. Be careful with it; at least, it can tell you what modeline is being used. If everything fails, your safe bet would be to get a Knoppix CD and use XF86Config-4 created by Knoppix.not [no need to include whole of immediately preceding post! - spinynorman]

From your description, there are two probs here. 1. During your first attemt, you had the desktop resolution much lower than the resolution of the display. I saw something like this when I was using 640x480 desktop on the 1400x1050 screen. You can change the resolution on the fly by pressing Ctrl+Alt+"+"/"-" (you know, those + and - on the right adge of the keyboard...). If you look at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, somewhere at the end you'll find: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Usually, the 1st mode is the default mode. You can manually edit the file to start X at a resolution you like. 2. "No screesn found" means that the videocard does not support any of the screens defined in the Screens section of XF86Config-4. Apparently, the original XF86Config-4 file was overwritten by Xdrake (or whatever it's called). My suggestion would be to boot into init 3 (console mode), and try to configure X again. When you're prompted to setup the graphic login, say "no" until you find the X configuration which you're happy with. To start with, accept the detected options, and see if you can start X. Then post the XF86Config-4 here, someone should be able to help. BACKUP that file before you start tweaking it. [no need to include whole of immediately preceding post! - spinynorman]

Did you run an XFree configuration tool after installing ATI drivers? You may want to backup the current XF86Config-4 and than run an X configuration tool. You can try Xdrake, or the ATI config utility which comes with the ATI drivers from ATI.

It's not stuck - look for the little icon in the notification area of Gnome (you might have to add this to a panel if you don't have notification area running) and then click on the network icon. Unfortunately, because of this hiccup, AutoScan will only work in Gnome for now AFAIK. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was trying it in KDE

Try previewing the font with xfontsel or gnome-font-properties. There should be a similar tool for KDE, I just dont remember exact command.

Could you please give install/usage instructions? I installed the rpm under MDK9.2 (though it's MDK10 rpm, it installs, why not then?), it prints out some text in French, then gets stuck...

I run evolution + KDE. One thing that annoys me is that emails are open in tiny windows, about 1/6 of the screen. Even if I resize the windows and then store the settings (Window menu->Store Window Settings), the settings are preserved only during the current session. After restart, the windows are small again. Does anybody know how can the size of the windows be controlled/set? many thanks.

Including the nolapic noapic options in the lilo/conf and switching from the enterprise kernel to the standard kernel fixed the problem for me.

Hey, don't feel ashamed - I am still running 8.2 and was running 6.1 till recently :D . I don't know much about this particular problem - on my 8.2 system, reboot usually fixes problems with floppy/CD mount/automount :woops: However, could this article be useful? http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/1430

It looks like a routing problem. As root, run route -n and see what is default gateway. if you want to use eth1 for the internet connection, then the default gateway should point to the AP ie it must point to the 10.0.1.xxx subnet.

Which barnd/model is your laptop? I use the KDE klaptop applet for suspend/standby and speedstep-centrino+cpufreq for CPU throttling. If it's an IBM Thnkpad, you may want to look at tpctl - the ThinkPad configuration tool for linux. It should be somewhere on the Mandrake CDs, and I think, there are RPMs on sourceforge as well. Also, there are some Thinkpad related kernel modules which can make a difference: smapi thinkpadpm thinkpad Add these lines to /etc/modules to load the modules during boot. Note the second one - it has something to do with power management, but I am not sure.

Thanks to everybody replied. In conclusion, technology is helpless against someone's stupidity. I will make an attempt to talk to the guy. Meanwhile, I have unloaded the driverloader from /etc/modules.conf and turned off the card in Windows untill I decide to setup a wireless LAN. Thanks.

I think, 255.255.255.0 is the netmask. Frankly, I don't know what it does... Changing the subnet would mean that I will have to change all of the settings on the router and on the computers on the LAN. Not a big deal, but a bit of nuissance... Besides, that will not prevent eth1 from getting the IP address from the hostile network and receiving packets from them. Ideally, it would be nice to have a preview of the list of available networks and allow the connection to trusted ones using a GUI. Also, I would like to do authentication using a MAC address. WiFi routers can do this sort of things, so clients should be able to do this as well I suppose. As my example shows, the IP address authentication is not enough. Are firewalls capable of doing MAC authentication? Finally, the laptop is XP/Mandrake dual boot, that's another headache... What could be a right solution for XP?

I am yet to rollout a wireless LAN at home, and as a first step, I have installed the driverloader from Linuxant. The laptop has now two interfaces: integrated ethernet, eth0 - has a static IP address and connects to the wired hardware router on 192.168.0.1; wireless centrino card, eth1 -is supposed to get an IP address from a DHCP server, but usually fails to boot, as there is no access point around to connect to - till recently! One of my neighbours setup a wireless network last week. He has no idea about the network security, sand his access point broadcasts its ESSID and offers IP addresses to everyone around. It's certainly none of my business, except for the fact that the signal sometimes is strong enough for my laptop to get an IP address from that AP. Even better, that network uses the same private subnet, and his AP and my router have the same IP adresses. Eventually, I end up with having both eth0 and eth1 connected to 192.168.0.1 though this IP address physically corresponds to two different devices located at different housholds. What can I do about this? Certainly, I can turn off wireless for time being. But I would like to use it eventually, so that can't be a permanent solution. I am also reluctant to change my subnet from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.1.0 since quite a few settings will have to be changed (eg, samba server runs on this laptop). Any suggestions please?

How many active network interfaces do you have? Please post here the output of the `ifconfig' command (you will have to login as root first).