[techtalk] [techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

2000-12-16 Thread Tania M. Morell
hi, CDRDAO sounds like what I need so I downloaded it along with pccts (which is required to install cddrdao). I installed pccts successfully, but now when I go to install cdrdao, I get this, and the error at the bottom: [root@caladan cdrdao]# rp

[techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

2000-12-12 Thread Tania M. Morell
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tania M. Morell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:39:05AM -0500, Tania M. Morell wrote: > > I'm using PNY Technologies CD-R 700mb disks. > > No, I don't think it's bad media... I

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2000-12-11 Thread Tania M. Morell
aw Using "-nopad" didn't eliminate the extra second of silence. -T Angela Nash wrote: > > What media are you using? This looks to be something like bad media. > > Does this drive work under Windows, or have you tried? Sure it's terminated > correctly? > >

Re: [techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

2000-12-11 Thread Tania M. Morell
I was able to reset the drive like this: [root@caladan BobMarley]# cdrecord -reset dev=2,0 Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '2,0' scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' [root@caladan BobMa

Re: [techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

2000-12-11 Thread Tania M. Morell
Conor, Thanks. but I don't have an /etc/cdrecord.conf [root@caladan /root]# cat /etc/cdrecord.conf cat: /etc/cdrecord.conf: No such file or directory [root@caladan /root]# How is this file generated? should I just create it manually? Is this a file cdrecord looks for when it runs? I

Re: [techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

2000-12-10 Thread Tania M. Morell
Jason, Eric, I was trying to mount it because I thought I needed to. Thanks, I suspected there would be no way to do it but wasn't sure. I've also tried gtoaster which uses cdrecord as it's recording client It also recognizes the drive... both actually. But when I try to copy, it does not

[techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

2000-12-10 Thread Tania M. Morell
Hi all! Happy Holidays! I'm having a huge problem getting both my IDE Creative Labs CD drive -and- my SCSI Plextor CD-RW drive working under Mandrake 7.2 .. FIRST PROBLEM: How can I mount a IDE cdrom drive with an audio cd in it? Apparently iso9660 is not audio?? [root@caladan tmorell]# mount

[TECHTALK] Question about netscape, java applets and linux

2000-06-23 Thread Tania M. Morell
When I try to open the datek streamer ( a java applet) It opens but then I get nothing. Can someone tell me if I need to set up java on my linux box or somthing?? Any help is good -Tania __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can acces

Re: [techtalk] installing nic for 1st time

2000-04-12 Thread Tania M. Morell
Guys, Thanks a lot for your help withmy nic cards I was missing the alias in conf.modules on both machines this fixed it. Thanks so much. -T __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com __

[techtalk] installing nic for 1st time

2000-04-10 Thread Tania M. Morell
Hi, I'm installing 3com Etherlink II card on a 2 computers.. one running Debian, the other running RedHat. I've never done this before.. :) I know how to use ifconfig to configure the card .. I've done it at work but it seems that my puters at home can't "see" the new ethernet card. I know th

Re: [techtalk] hardware hassling me

2000-04-06 Thread Tania M. Morell
hing. Happy > > (Now I just have to buy a new floppy because I seem to have fried it by > putting the ribbon cable in the wrong way when I was at my wits end > before). > > "Tania M. Morell" wrote: > > > > Set your bios IDE1 and IDE2 options to "e

Re: [techtalk] hardware hassling me

2000-04-05 Thread Tania M. Morell
Set your bios IDE1 and IDE2 options to "enabled" instead of "auto". -T Sarah Hollings wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having problems with my new HD install. I'm beginning to think the > 2nd IDE jumper on my m/b has gone, but maybe its something else. Can > anyone think of anything? > > Symptoms a

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-21 Thread Tania M. Morell
"Tania M. Morell" wrote: > > Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Another example, Apache by default > > > stores most things in /usr/local, RH is in /etc/, same with Mandrake, > > > Caldera (I be

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-21 Thread Tania M. Morell
Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Another example, Apache by default > > stores most things in /usr/local, RH is in /etc/, same with Mandrake, > > Caldera (I believe goes with Apache). The list goes on. > > Of course, my question is -- why? With linux it was a chance

[techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-19 Thread Tania M. Morell
Hi all, I've used Berkeley unix and SunOS for years at my university but not linux. I use Mandrake at work and RedHat intermittently at home but I've yet to understand the differences between them.. Maybe I haven't used them long enough to figure it out, or maybe I'm stupid. What are the main d

Re: [techtalk] Getting a computer on a network.

2000-02-18 Thread Tania M. Morell
Good news!, I can get to my work computer from home! Here's the wierd thing. After dialing in to work, I can telnet into it from any telnet client using the ip but if I ssh into one of the servers first and THEN try to telnet or ssh into it, it won't go. Maybe my puter won't trust the servers?

Re: [techtalk] Getting a computer on a network.

2000-02-17 Thread Tania M. Morell
Dakota Surmonde wrote: > > hmm..first, can you talk from it to your other servers? > Yes. > second if you can, then can you talk to it from machines on the same > segment? I don't know... what would be the same segment? > > Vinnie > Jeff Dike wrote: > > Run ifconfig and make sure that

[techtalk] Getting a computer on a network.

2000-02-17 Thread Tania M. Morell
Guys, I'm trying to get my desktop computer at work (which is connected with an ethernet card and has a static ip) 'visible' from the outside (but not necessarily outside our firewall. I can't connect to it from other servers here, it's natted, or whatever you call it. I've been playing with i

Re: [techtalk] 1st time adding a modem to linux.

2000-02-15 Thread Tania M. Morell
Hi again, I read through all those sites you guys suggested I go to and found this: Incompatible modems include those that are ~Rockwell SoftK56 My modem is a K56 flex. Bios tells me the modem's vendor number is 127A.. and an online PCI id list I went to says that this vendor number implies tha

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-15 Thread Tania M. Morell
> > why does it matter who's male, female, or other? I'd have to say > that one of my personal goals as a feminist is to have gender > not matter at all... but some of you seem to feel differently. > can you explain why? > > shane I've also got to say that this goal is going to be very difficu

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-15 Thread Tania M. Morell
srl wrote: > > why does it matter who's male, female, or other? I'd have to say > that one of my personal goals as a feminist is to have gender > not matter at all... but some of you seem to feel differently. > can you explain why? > > shane > Well, I was merely pointing out how difficult it i

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-14 Thread Tania M. Morell
I was once in a relationship a tiny bit similar to yours. My ex-boyfriend was a SysAdmin and I was a programmer up until I broke up with him 2 months ago (which happened because of reasons totally unrelated to this topic). We lived one hour apart but whenever he'd come and stay a few days, I wo

Re: [techtalk] 1st time adding a modem to linux.

2000-02-14 Thread Tania M. Morell
Hi, Thanks a lot for all the responses.. Getting all this help is really cool. Here are some answers to your questions. --Um.. Why are you using 'uart 16450' ? IIRC that's for old, slow --serial ports and new machines should have 16550. I have a program called 'CheckIt' and it tells me that

Re: [techtalk] 1st time adding a modem to linux.

2000-02-12 Thread Tania M. Morell
"Tania M. Morell" wrote: > > Nick Green wrote: > > > > have you tried dialing using minicom? > > its fairly easy to setup and will tell you if your modem is even > > set correctly. > > > > (of course, that doesn't mean kde will like yo

Re: [techtalk] 1st time adding a modem to linux.

2000-02-12 Thread Tania M. Morell
ize it, but kde just hangs > on "initializing modem".) > > nick > > - Original Message - > From: Tania M. Morell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 5:53 PM > Subject: [techtalk] 1st time adding a

[techtalk] 1st time adding a modem to linux.

2000-02-12 Thread Tania M. Morell
Hello everyone, I'm hoping someone can help w/ my modem problems. I have a creative labs modemblaster flash pci dl5630 and I've installed linux on the computer which is already running win98. Win98 had the modem on com3 irq 9 (it's pnp). I thought linux didn't like irq9 for a modem so i switched