Re: Driver for SCSI-card "Iwill SIDE2935UW"

[Anders Hammarquist]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>I have an Iwill-SCSI-Card "SIDE2935UW" (see http://www.iwill.com.tw/).
>Under DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 it works very good. Now I wont
>to install the a Debian-Linux-Distribution (1.3.1), but it dosen't
>works.

If I'm not mistaken, that card is (more or less) equivalent to an
Adaptec 2940, so the regular aic7xxx driver in the Linux kernel should
work with it. It may be that you need a newer version of the kernel
than that which is on your CD for it to recognise the particular version
of the chip that is no Iwill's card. Try the root disks from special/v30
or the upcoming hamm distribution and see if they find you SCSI card.

Regards,
/Anders

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Man + Latex

[Dennis Dixon]

I am still working on reading text files.  Acting on Alexey Vyskubov's
advice I downloaded the man-db package.  Now, instead of:
   'zmore Xserver.1x.gz', when I use
   'man  Xserver' I no longer have control characters
interspersed in the text.

When I was installing man-db, however, I got the following error message:

Checking for languages ...de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in
@INC at /usr/sbin/chman config line 38 

Man still seems to run, so possibly this isn't important and should be ignored.


The other problem is with .tex files which I assume I use the Latex command.
My error message when I run:
   'latex guide.tex' is:

   'Can't find file linuxdoc.sty'

On Jens Ritter suggestion, I downloaded the 'sgml-tools' package which has
the file 'linuxdoc-sgml.sty'.  This not working, I renamed the
'linuxdoc-sgml.sty' file to 'linuxdoc.sty', which also didn't work.

Jens Ritter mentioned that the file 'linuxdoc.sty' is in 'gweb', but I
couldn't find the 'qweb' package anywhere. 


Sorry for taking up everyone's time with such basic questions.  Wish things
were easier. By the way, several times I've seen 'IIRC' printed on e-mails.
Forgive my ignorance, but what does that stand for?

Thanks for anyone's help.  


Dennis Dixon
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Fort Bragg, CA  95437

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Re: awe64, how?

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 09:07:14PM +0200, michael/badpixel wrote:
> hi!
> 
> one of my friends are trying to use his awe64 with linux...
> does anyone know what to use? can he use the standart sb16 driver in the
> kernel? what about alsa .. please send config files :)

http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/soundblaster.html

The howto is also on sunsite and mirrored everywhere.

Alsa is definitely not for you. It is a development project and has only
limited support for SB cards (as for any cards).
(Note: I *love* alsa and will work on it... it is just not what your friend
may want).

The standard sb16 driver will work but not support all features of your
card. Please see my howto, too.

Marcus

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Re: Hamm in Australia?

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 06:04:20PM -0700, Gasper Fele - Zorz wrote:
> Why don't U just get someone to bake it 4 U ?

Part of the problem is that we pay for bandwidth used in Australia --
$230/Gb on most of the backbones. It's just a bit cheaper to get
a CD from the USA.


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Re: saving copies of sent mail with mutt

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:47:36PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Is there a simple way to save copies of messages I've sent with the
> >mutt email client, other than Cc:'ing myself?
> 
> In your .muttrc do
> 
>   set record=~/Mail/sent
> 
> or whatever file you want to put it in.. Another option is
> 
>   my_hdr Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Or

my_hdr Fcc: a_file

to avoid saving all the messages to file manually. But "set record"
would be easier.

Hamish
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Newton connectivity?

[Carl Fink]

Does anyone have any suggestions (or FAQ pointers) for someone using a
Newton MessagePad 2100 with Debian Linux?  I have been offered a
really good deal on one (next thing to free).

I currently have a Bo system because I'm waiting for official CDs to
upgrade to Hamm.  I've found a bunch of good Newton web pages, but
nothing specific to Linux-Newton relationships.

Thanks.
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Re: Man + Latex

[Ole J. Tetlie]

* Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| The other problem is with .tex files which I assume I use the Latex command.
| My error message when I run:
|'latex guide.tex' is:
| 
|'Can't find file linuxdoc.sty'
| 
| On Jens Ritter suggestion, I downloaded the 'sgml-tools' package which has
| the file 'linuxdoc-sgml.sty'.  This not working, I renamed the
| 'linuxdoc-sgml.sty' file to 'linuxdoc.sty', which also didn't work.
| 
| Jens Ritter mentioned that the file 'linuxdoc.sty' is in 'gweb', but I
| couldn't find the 'qweb' package anywhere. 

dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web/qweb_1.3-3.deb
 
| Sorry for taking up everyone's time with such basic questions.  Wish things
| were easier. By the way, several times I've seen 'IIRC' printed on e-mails.
| Forgive my ignorance, but what does that stand for?

IIRC = If I Remember Correctly
Used if you're not 100% sure of what you're saying.

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Re: stumped

[Ole J. Tetlie]

* Matt Pittaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help
| and learned from there.

You can try the debian tutorial (at www.debian.org/~hp/ IIRC). It's not
complete, but the beginning is there.

| 2) What files do I need to install the "x" gui? Are there instructions
| to do this?

Minimal X: xbase, xfntbase, xlib6g, xserver-vga16 xserver-svga

(The last depends on what video card you have. The svga-server
 works with most cards.)

Mark these packages for installation in dselect (type +) and
choose install.

When they are installed, use "XF86Setup" to tune the configuration.

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[off-topic] SCSI cables

[Rev. Joseph Carter]

[Story part, you can skip this if you want]

I'd like to start working on some packages that relate to Zip drives
(ie, Zip rescue/install) however I've discovered a problem..  My
external SCSI connector seems to have been damaged.  The damage
doesn't affect the card's internal connector or card operation, but
it does prevent me from using the external drive.

My Zip drive came with a 25 pin cable.  My SCSI card has a HD-50
connector.  I ended up having to pay $25 for an adapter.  This
adapter makes what sticks out the back of the computer about 4
inches long with a heavy SCSI cable attached to the end.  It's
damaged two cards' connectors now and I've determined in my own mind
that the HD-50 connector is too flimsy---which would explain why
people use centronics 50 or DB-25..  


[What I need, please read this part]

At any rate, I need to be able to use the drive again.  I've found
cables which will convert from the DB-25 of the Zip drive to a 50
pin male centronics quite affordably ($10 after shipping!) Now the
hard part is inside the machine.  My ATX case has a popout that
should accomidate a 50 pin centronics connector.  The internal 50
pin ribbon connector on the card is not in use.

What I need is a ribbon cable about 12 inches long with a female
50 pin centronics connector that can be mounted on the back of the
case and a 50 pin connector at the other end for the SCSI card.


Every external SCSI drive enclosure out there for 50 pin drives I
have seen has something like this on/in it.  I cannot seem to locate
one without the enclosure to go with it and cannot solder one
together myself.  Having a custom cable made in town will cost me a
minimum of $30, though I expect this would cost more because it's
for SCSI.

If you know where I can find one reasonably priced, please let me
know.  I'd really like to regain the use of my SCSI card.  All the
devices I'd connect to it save the Zip use Centronics 50 pin and are
external anyway..  Any help GREATLY appreciated!!


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Re: awe64, how?

[michael/badpixel]

> http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/soundblaster.html

thanks!
 
> The howto is also on sunsite and mirrored everywhere.

i claims to have read the howto, but :)
 
> Alsa is definitely not for you. It is a development project and has only
> limited support for SB cards (as for any cards).
> (Note: I *love* alsa and will work on it... it is just not what your friend
> may want).

yea.. i use it for my gus pnp :)
 
> The standard sb16 driver will work but not support all features of your
> card. Please see my howto, too.

well, some sound would be enugh :)

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fvwm95 install problem

[Ivan]

Hello again !

I have recently installed Debian GNU Linux ( Bo release ) which shares a
4.5Gb H/D with Windoze (all seperately partitioned).

I tried to install fvwm using dselect but I don't think it worked - but
then how do I tell - much X help needed !!!

Anyway, I have now downloaded the "latest" release from the fvwm95 home
page which is supposedly mostly self installing, self-configuring.

Having unpacked the files & running the config programme I run into errors.
 The config file creates its own makefile which, when used by make returns
errors.

If you need a copy of the makefile pls advise (it's not that big!)

The fvwm95 makefile has brackets "(" , ")" around the command "cd ..."
which seem to have been the cause of a syntax error the first time round.
I removed the brackets and terminated the line with a ";" - this fixed the
syntax error.  BUT did I do the right thing ??? (bearing in mind I am not a
script writer, programmer or hacker !)

The problem now is that the procedure is looking for /X11/Xlib.h and
/X11/Xutil.h.  I have Xlib6c.h - shall change the references to this
library instead on Xlib.h ?  Where is Xutil.h ???

Thanks in advance for your help.

Ivan.


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List of default installed files

[Zoong]

 Hi everyone,
I want to download only files that are needed for the first default
installation by Dselect of Official Beta hamm CD.
But where can I find the list, which site has it ? 
Please help.

TIA,
Zoong

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ACK! file ownership screwup!

[sjc]

Ok now I pulled a "Good One".
My hard dirve "died" 2 days ago...it was at 3 am...so I went to bed 
The next day I boguht a new drive on my way home from work (just slightly
larger one) My thought was to restore form my month old backups and be
done with it...

to my surprize the old drive worked again!. After the failure last night
(system that had been up for a while had IRQ timeouts and failed to read the 
drive..then it wouldn't boot again afterwards on cold boot)

I tried to backup to tape, but it failed again. SO I rebooted again
This time I did a cp -rf to the NEW drive...then I tape backuped from there
(so I could repartition and restore the new drive)

You may see my error...cp -rf by root...and EVERY FILE becomes owned BY ROOT!
This has been a headache. The /home dirs were EASY to fix
but...the rest has been a blurr. The only other Debian systems I
have acess is  master.debian.org (as a package maintainer) and my one
at work, but...it is on DHCP and I don't have its current
IP adress (which I need to "slip behind" the firewall :) )

Is there any way to restore my system?
I have the following problems that I have identified:
1) mail stopped owkring - This I fixed withjh some educated guesses and poking
around on master (of course...master doesn't use exim..so I had to guess abit)
but I would still like to see what an exim setup SHOULD be.

2) which doesn't work: (properly)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sjc]$ which netscape
/usr/bin/which: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/bin/which: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/bin/X11/netscape

3) netscape doesn't work - 
if I run it as /usr/lib/netscape/netscape it works fine...but from the warpper 
script (OR as a symbolic link) I get: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sjc]$ netscape
[: 0: unknown operand

That is it SO FAR. I am wondering if anyone has any advise?
Would it be possible for a few people to give me an ls -lR of /usr /var
/etc /boot /dev /bin /sbin ?
(ahd whetever else could be helpfull...but I think I got em all..obviously
I don't need /tmp, /hom e/proc etc)

ALl of my files are in  tact, and so are the file permissions...its just the
ownership that is screwed.

anyone willing to do this ...it will be greatly apreciated (btw I am running a 
somewhat recent hamm...so bo systems probably will be less than usefull)

if anyone is interested in helping otherwise...I could provide this of my 
system...so you can see what is screwed up (of course...that would be a big
file
...awwe hell I did that (for the curious anyway) it should be at
people.delphi.com/sjc/ls-lr.html soon

-Steve


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Re: Where is Netscape?

[Salvatore Sasegui]

>Just get the netscape-package which is no debian-package!! (tar.gz)  >from
your favorite NETSPAPE-mirror and put the netscape-package in >/tmp 

I have been in ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu and I have 
downloaded
the file gzip-1.2.4.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.Z
But it seems that this isn't the file :-(

>Then get the netscape installer (Debian-package) from your nearest
>debian-mirror:

Yes, I have downloaded from Debian the file netscape_3.01_4.deb and it 
is
the same one I have in the official Debian CD.

>The only thing you have to do now is dpkg -i netscape*.deb

I have stored both files in /tmp but it doesn't matter I try to install 
it
with Dselect or dpkg -i, I always get the same error message. It says that
the Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name:
/tmp/netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.[gz|Z] and that I
cannot rename any other file with that name.

So, it seems that I need that and ONLY that file with that long name but
it isn't neither in ftp.netscape.com nor ftp.debian.org :-(

Could someone please tell where can I find that file? Thanks,


Salvatore Sasegui.
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How to block mail relaying in smail (bo distribution)?

[Wojciech Marek Zabolotny]

Hi!

I would like to limit the possibility of mail relaying in one of my bo
boxes.
I would like to be able to use this box as a smart host for 
my home machine (connected to Internet via dialup with dynamically
assigned IP :-(). The same possibility should be available for
other legal users. Therefore the machines authorized to use this box as
mail relay should use a kind of password authentication (something like
APOP in POP-3 protocol). 
Mail originating from unauthorized machines should be rejected if not
addressed to one of local users.
How to do it? What methods of access control are available for mail
relaying?

TIA
Wojtek Zabolotny
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Re: postgres intallation failed

[Networking Wizard]

On Jun 27 1998 , Oliver Elphick wrote:
> To find out what is going wrong with initdb:
> Edit /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb and add the line `set +x' after the 
> first line.  Then become root and run the initialisation command (this
> is all one line):
>  su - postgres -c "PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin; initdb -l 
> /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/postgres/data -u postgres"
> 

Entering the initialization command, as you suggested,

%% su - postgres -c "path=$path:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin; initdb -l  
/usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/postgres/data -u postgres"

yields no output, even after adding 'set +x' at the second line of initdb 
script. 
The command executes silently, but, as a result, postgres server was not 
running. 

To make initdb talk, i assigned postgres a password and bash shell, then 
su postgres and entered the initialization line:

%% su postgres 
$ PATH=/bin:/sbin/:/usr/bin/:usr/sbin:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin
$ initdb -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/postgres/data -u postgres   

   > initdb: using /usr/lib/postgresql/lib/local1_template1.bki.source as \
input to create the template database.
   > initdb: using /usr/lib/postgresql/lib/global1.bki.source as input to \
create the global classes.
   > initdb: using /usr/lib/postgresql/lib/pg_hba.conf.sample as the \
host-based authentication control file.
   > 
   > We are initializing the database system with username postgres (uid=100).
   > This user will own all the files and must also own the server process.

   > rm: /var/postgres/data/base/template1: Permission denied
   > mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/postgres/data/base/template1': \
Permission denied
   > initdb: creating template database in /var/postgres/data/base/template1
   > Running: postgres -boot -C -F -D/var/postgres/data -Q template1
   > ERROR:  cannot create pg_proc
   > ERROR:  cannot create pg_proc
   > /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: line 269: 15069 Broken pipe  \
   cat $TEMPLATE
   >  15070   | sed -e "s/postgres \
PGUID/$POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME $POSTGRES_SUPERUID/" -e \
"s/PGUID/$POSTGRES_SUPERUID/"
   >  15071 Segmentation fault  | postgres $BACKENDARGS template1
   > initdb: could not create template database
   > initdb: cleaning up by wiping out /var/postgres/data/base/template1
   > rm: /var/postgres/data/base/template1: Permission denied

It seemed a write-permission denial in /var/postgres sub-tree. Therefore 
i switched back to root and changed the owner of /var/postgres:

%% chown -R postgres.postgres  /var/postgres  

This time postgres user was able to complete the initiatization script.
I was able to create users allowed to access and change databases, so i think 
postgres is running correctly now.
Yet i had to start postmaster by line command; i noticed that postgres 
directive 
is not contained in  /etc/rc*.d/ directories. Is it a desired feature or is it
due to my non-orthodox installation procedure?

In any case, thank you for your help


Paolo Pumilia


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Re: which C compiler?

[jdassen]

On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:45:45PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> I remember a few months ago, a certain compiler and C++ libraries were
> recommended.  Since then there have been some changes.  Confusingly, there
> sre at least two compilers and more than one C++ library in the hamm
> distribution.

If you bring your system up to date with hamm, the gcc, g++ and egcc
packages all contain a README (/usr/doc//README) explaining the
current setup.

> Which ones are recommended?  

For C: gcc (GNU gcc 2.7.2.3 as that's the compiler with which Linux 2.0.x
kernels have been developed; there's a problem when a 2.0.x
kernel is compiled using egcs gcc).
For C++: g++ (from egcs 1.0.3a) with matching libstdc++ (2.8) (and libg++
  2.8 if you need the GNU extensions).

HTH,
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Re: Where is Netscape?

[Joerg Friedrich]

On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Salvatore Sasegui wrote:

> >Just get the netscape-package which is no debian-package!! (tar.gz)  >from
> your favorite NETSPAPE-mirror and put the netscape-package in >/tmp 
> 
>   I have been in ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu and I have 
> downloaded
> the file gzip-1.2.4.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.Z
> But it seems that this isn't the file :-(

Why did you download gzip? :-)

>   I have stored both files in /tmp but it doesn't matter I try to install 
> it
> with Dselect or dpkg -i, I always get the same error message. It says that
> the Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name:
> /tmp/netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.[gz|Z] and that I
> cannot rename any other file with that name.



>   So, it seems that I need that and ONLY that file with that long name but
> it isn't neither in ftp.netscape.com nor ftp.debian.org :-(

it is on ftp.netscape.com/pub/navigator/3.01 and so on

or you can get it from a local mirror:


ftp.gui.uva.es/.3/software/WWW/browsers/netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
ftp.rediris.es/mirror/netscape/navigator/gold/3.01/unix/netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz





> 

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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #536

[Ed Cogburn]

Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> 
> I just did an upgrade bo --> hamm using autoup.sh.
> 
> Amazing. But, there are a number of steps which left me cold; and flipping
> a coinn for the right action.
> 
> 1) during the autoup it had seeral "conflicts", adn it was not clear to me
> if I needed to do anything about them. E.g. I think it tried to remove
> something that depended on Perl, but I had perl installed, or something...
> "dependency problems .. libwww-perl depends on Perl, but perl is not
> installed.
>   ...  libnet
> 
> Anyway, there was no clear indication if all was OK, if it was a comment,
> or if some remedial action was needed (later).,
> 
> 2) After update, it says "now use dselect to upgrade the rest of your
> system", then reboot.
> 
> ?? How do I know what to upgrade? I would like to say; "whatever needs an
> upgrade, if I have it installed, do it."
> Instead, I had to go through dselect, look at hundreds of packages, try to
> remember which I had selected, and decide if they need update. Am I missing
> something here?
> 
> Greg Guthrie


There shouldn't have been any errors like you describe during the autoup
process.  Make sure the failed packages get upgraded.  If necessary, look at
the auotup script and manually verify that the packages it tried to upgrade
have indeed been upgraded.  Do this before trying anything else.  Use dpkg
to manually upgrade anything that failed during autoup.
After autoup, you should probably let dselect upgrade everything.  You
really want the newer v2.0 (hamm) packages because they are all compiled
against the newer libc6.  If you do this you won't need to keep libc5 on
your system (unless you got some commercial package that still depends on
it).  The hamm packages are newer as well; there is now very little if any
upgrading of v1.3.1 stuff, so if you want the latest versions you have to
upgrade to hamm + slink.


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Re: postgres intallation failed

[Oliver Elphick]

Networking Wizard wrote:
...
  >It seemed a write-permission denial in /var/postgres sub-tree. Therefore 
  >i switched back to root and changed the owner of /var/postgres:
  >
  >%% chown -R postgres.postgres  /var/postgres  

I think I'll add this to the postinst script

  >
  >This time postgres user was able to complete the initiatization script.
  >I was able to create users allowed to access and change databases, so i thin
  >k 
  >postgres is running correctly now.
  >Yet i had to start postmaster by line command; i noticed that postgres direc
  >tive 
  >is not contained in  /etc/rc*.d/ directories. Is it a desired feature or is 
  >it
  >due to my non-orthodox installation procedure?

It's probably because the postinst script failed.  You should have a 
/etc/init.d/postgresql file, with the following symbolic links to it:

/etc/rc0.d/K20postgresql  /etc/rc3.d/S20postgresql  /etc/rc6.d/K20postgresql
/etc/rc1.d/K20postgresql  /etc/rc4.d/S20postgresql
/etc/rc2.d/S20postgresql  /etc/rc5.d/S20postgresql


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Re: memory usage and Netscape

[Mark Panzer]

Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 
> Mark Panzer wrote:
> 
> > www.netbuyer.com
> >
> > I noticed the memory usage jump by about 5Meg when navigator was started
> > and after just staring at the page for 5 min I noticed the memory usage
> > was once again starting to increase.  Thanks for helping me out here.
> 
> OK, I see the exact same results. I have 256MB of swap (disk is cheap),
> so I would never have noticed. Besides, I hate the constant rattling of
> my hard drive when I leave such pages showing (I think the animated gifs
> do this) so I always back out of them when I hear the disk activity.
> 
> I hit BACK, then FORWARD again, and see that it doesn't start climbing
> right away. Maybe after awhile it would.
> 

Note: I'll be out of town for about 4 days for a family event, thanks
once again for your help.  Are there any known bugs in netscape (V4.05)
for Linux? If so where could I find the list.  Geeze I'm starting to
think I should write some code for my own web-browser.

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Re: Where is Netscape?

[Ed Cogburn]

Salvatore Sasegui wrote:
> 
> >Just get the netscape-package which is no debian-package!! (tar.gz)  >from
> your favorite NETSPAPE-mirror and put the netscape-package in >/tmp
> 
> I have been in ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu and I have 
> downloaded
> the file gzip-1.2.4.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.Z
> But it seems that this isn't the file :-(
> 
> >Then get the netscape installer (Debian-package) from your nearest
> >debian-mirror:
> 
> Yes, I have downloaded from Debian the file netscape_3.01_4.deb and 
> it is
> the same one I have in the official Debian CD.
> 
> >The only thing you have to do now is dpkg -i netscape*.deb
> 
> I have stored both files in /tmp but it doesn't matter I try to 
> install it
> with Dselect or dpkg -i, I always get the same error message. It says that
> the Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name:
> /tmp/netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.[gz|Z] and that I
> cannot rename any other file with that name.
> 
> So, it seems that I need that and ONLY that file with that long name 
> but
> it isn't neither in ftp.netscape.com nor ftp.debian.org :-(
> 
> Could someone please tell where can I find that file? Thanks,
> 
> Salvatore Sasegui.


The gzip-xxx package isn't netscape, its gzip.  Delete it.  The 
navigator
versions (v3) of NS are under the ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/navigator/
directory.  Chose the subdir that corresponds to the version you want to
use.  The v4 (communicator) versions of NS are under the
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/ directory.  The installer .deb
package you have is for 3.01 (but should be usable for other v3 versions
(with a rename of the .tar file).  If you want a v4 version, get the v4
version of the .deb installer.


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Re: Kernel version

[Ed Cogburn]

Hank Fay wrote:
> 
> I notice that doing the "7 floppy + FTP" installation this week left me with
> version 2.0.29-7, and the .30-7 and .33.3 source code is available in
> dselect, as updated via FTP with ftp.debian.org.
> 
> 1) is there reason to upgrade my Kernel?  (I mean, there are reasons for
> upgrades, and since it isn't to get the public to buy a "new" version
> ...)


The kernel packages are huge.  That's the downside (if ftp'ing them).  
The
upside depends on your system.  Most people don't need to stay on the
bleeding edge of kernels unless the latter versions provide a needed
fix/improvement.  Recent 2.0. kernels provide fixes for systems using SCSI
for example.


> 2) if so, how?  Is Section 10.1 in the Debian FAQ all (well, we'll see if
> "all" applies ) that is required?  Will the modules (presumably now in a
> wrong-named directory) work as-is?


There will be a modules directory for every kernel version you
install/build.  2.0.33 kernel will use /lib/modules/2.0.33 for example. 
When you build the kernel you will also need to build the modules for that
kernel (make modules; make modules_install).

 
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Re: X-Window for 2.0beta

[Ed Cogburn]

Alex Kwan wrote:
> 
> I have succeed to download and install the Debian 2.0 beta,
> and now I want to install X-Window too, can I use the
> X window packages on the debian 1.3.1R6 CD-ROM
> (distributed by Cheapbytes), also do the other packages
> on the 1.3.1R6 CD-ROM will working  well under 2.0 beta?
> 
> Alex Kwan
> 


The stuff from 1.3.1 will require libc5, so you need to keep both libc6
(2.0b) and libc5 (1.3.1) on your system at the same time.  If you ftp the x
stuff from hamm (which is built against libc6) you won't need libc5.  Its
highly recommended that you download the libc6 versions.


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Re: getting pgp

[Ralph Winslow]

When Brandon Mitchell wrote, I replied:

Thanks for the clue, Brandon.  It didn't work for me; probably
because I don't have the version of apt that you do (I noticed
that you're on the unstable, rather than frozen, branch).
Now that I've discovered how to edit /etc/apt/source.list,
preparing a temporary list for an unstable access of the
latest apt package will most probably be a-piece-of-cake.
> 
> On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
> 
> > I updated my list of sites for apt to use to get .deb packages
> > to include ftp.funet.fi in the expectation that I would then
> > be able to get pgp??*??.deb but, no joy.   Did I simply make a
> > bad site choice, or am I, once again, missing something?
> >
> > The line in detail read:
> >
> >   http://ftp/funet.fi/pub/Linux/mirrors/debian frozen
> > main contrib binary
> 
> My sources.list:
> # Use for a local mirror - remove the llug http lines for the bits
> # your mirror contains.
> # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
> # See sources.list(5) for more information
> # Remember that you can only use http or file URIs
> deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
> #deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian frozen main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/
> #deb ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/ unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/
> #deb ftp://debian.crosslink.net/pub/debian/ frozen main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
> 
> Note the / after non-US and the explicit binary-$(ARCH) directory.  I
> think it's all described in the /usr/doc/apt/guide* file.
> 
> HTH,
> Brandon
> 
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Re: ACK! file ownership screwup!

[Jaakko Niemi]

>> 
>> --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>> 
>> Ok now I pulled a "Good One".
>> My hard dirve "died" 2 days ago...it was at 3 am...so I went to bed=20
>> The next day I boguht a new drive on my way home from work (just slightly
>> larger one) My thought was to restore form my month old backups and be
>> done with it...
>> 
>> to my surprize the old drive worked again!. After the failure last night
>> (system that had been up for a while had IRQ timeouts and failed to read th=
>> e=20
>> drive..then it wouldn't boot again afterwards on cold boot)
>> 
>> I tried to backup to tape, but it failed again. SO I rebooted again
>> This time I did a cp -rf to the NEW drive...then I tape backuped from there
>> (so I could repartition and restore the new drive)
>> 
>> You may see my error...cp -rf by root...and EVERY FILE becomes owned BY ROO=
>> T!

 If you can make another attempt to copy, then you might want to use the -p 
option
 of cp. Meaning to preserve the files ownerships etc.

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Re: synchronizing console, xterm and rxvt using bash.

[Ed Cogburn]

Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> 
> A recent blow up with new xtide version not working as I expected led
> to the revelation (should I have known?) that rxvt is not sourcing
> /etc/profile.  This led to one of the environment variables being set
> not as usually, and the program acted like it was broken, when it
> wasn't (a tribute to Dave Flater: it hardly ever acts broken...).
> 
> This leads me to believe that the flakiness of the x consoles I
> use---rxvt and xterm---and have lived with is not tolerable, in two
> ways: in the matter of not sourcing /etc/profile, and in the
> variable behavior with bash keystrokes.
> 
> Ever since when, I have been bothered by that xterms and other X11
> shells etc. don't really act like bash on the console.  Now as ever.
> Although rxvt does the keys basically right, and under the right
> circumstances (TM) can do readline, in some debian package releases.
> Recently there seems to have been another change, but now I guess it's
> "working".
> 
> Xterm I cannot get to act normally in this way...  Bash readline,
> etc., doesn't work at all.  Xterm is better in some other respects.
> The bottom line is that these two windows, the best of the bunch as
> far as I last determined (some time ago), don't work the same as a
> console.  WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET THESE TOOLS IN SYNC?
> 
> Where is rxvt getting its variables, and what needs to be done to
> assure the rxvt sources /etc/profile?
> 
> Alan
> 


This is in addition to what Joerg said.  Getting in sync in terms of the
keys is a real pain in the ^&%^&%^&.  For me, it involved customized
versions of default.map (kernel keymap), linux.ti (console terminfo),
xterm.ti (xterm terminfo), and Xresources for Xterm VT100 translations (I
had trouble with rxvt here - I'm now just using xterm).  Unfortunately, the
ones provided by default are barely adequate (aside from the
Backspace-Delete issue).  Key events like Alt-Enter aren't supported in
xterm without a lot of tinkering.  This has been a long running project with
linux for me.  I've finally after months of on and off tinkering, got
midnight commander to act (in terms of keys) identically in XTerm as well as
X.  If your curious, I can send you my files as examples.


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Re: stumped

[Ed Cogburn]

Matt Pittaway wrote:
> 
> Hi Ig,
>  I downloaded and, after some trials, installed Linux to a 2nd hard
> drive.
> 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help
> and learned from there.
> 2) What files do I need to install the "x" gui? Are there instructions
> to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Matt Pittaway
> Clarklake, Michigan, USA
> 


If you are literally starting from scratch, I'd seriously recommend 
getting
a book on Linux.  It would help tremendously.  Second, do you have the
'man-db' package installed?  Install it and 'manpages' package and it will
give you the 'man' command (short for manual), which is unix's version of
on-line help.  There's another source of help called 'info' too, but the
interface is downright arcane).  For some things, though, you'll need to
learn info as well.
If you get X up and running there are two packages I'd recommend, tkman 
and
tkinfo.  These make browsing man and info pages easy.


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[Fwd: List of default installed files]

[Alexander Gutfraind]

A good point. Being pretty new, I've been looking for a list of Important,
Standard,
Optional and Extra packages. When I've been installing the new beta dselect
suggested on my
first attempt to ftp the packs to download only limited ranges of packages.
My connection failed, but it's still a good idea, in my opinion, for a newbie, 
to
meet limited number of packs, explore them, start relying on their work and then
DL more packs that he
might be missing.
Maybe anybody can point me to the list of packages in these ranges(base,
important, standard...)?
Sasha.
Zoong wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
> I want to download only files that are needed for the first default
> installation by Dselect of Official Beta hamm CD.
> But where can I find the list, which site has it ?
> Please help.
>
> TIA,
> Zoong
>
> ==
>  Zoong Pham
> Division of IT. LaTrobe University, Bendigo, Australia
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Phone: 61-3-54423454(AH)
> ===
> UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
> UNIX users - who prefer AND gates, OR gates than Bill Gates
> C>C++?C:C++
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Re: suggest a backup media

[Alexander Gutfraind]

Hi!
I remember reading a comparison between backuping technics in PCmag
or Byte,
in the previous 4 months. Check their older issues. The article did
a good job.
sasha.

the lone gunman wrote:
I'm unsure of what backup media I should go with
for my Linux system.
I have a 4 gig harddrive.

I'm thinking about CD-R or Travan-4 tape backup.  I'm pulling hairs,
though, trying to determine which is better (for me, anyway). 
I'd
like to go with DAT, but the drives are too expensive.

There are scsi CD-R drives for around $400 or so, and the HP T4
(Travan 4) internal scsi tape unit is about the same as for price (I
think).  I cannot afford to go any higher.

CD-R seems a better route, with the low media costs, and that most
cd-roms can read my backups.  Retrieval would also be considerably
faster.

But, I read a long FAQ about CD-R, and the Linux Cd-writing howto, and
CD burning makes me nervous because it's so sensitive.  I'm worried
cd
backups may fail, and my computer is probably pretty useless while
I'm
burning.  One 4 gig Travan-4 tape would pretty much do me, and
the
process is a bit simpler.  Plus, I don't think there's too much
of a
difference in write speed for CD-R and scsi Travan-4.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?  Perhaps a link to a backup
comparison site or something?  (Since this topic has probably
been
beaten to death!).

Thanks!
Matt

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Re: awe64, how?

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 08:52:00AM +0200, michael/badpixel wrote:
>  
> > The howto is also on sunsite and mirrored everywhere.
> 
> i claims to have read the howto, but :)

If you have read my howto, you may have specific questions. Feel free to
ask!

Marcus

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Re: ACK! file ownership screwup!

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"sjc" == sjc  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 sjc> That is it SO FAR. I am wondering if anyone has any advise?
 sjc> Would it be possible for a few people to give me an ls -lR of /usr /var
 sjc> /etc /boot /dev /bin /sbin ?
 sjc> (ahd whetever else could be helpfull...but I think I got em all..obviously
 sjc> I don't need /tmp, /hom e/proc etc)

That is a huge file. I'll try and mail you a more useful
 subset: 
__> find /etc -xdev \( \( -not -group root \) -or \( -not -user root \) \)  
-printf "% 12u\t% 12g\t%p\n"

That should only list the non root.root files. OK? I run
 slink, so you may still eed files from people running Hamm.

manoj
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Re: suggest a backup media

[the lone gunman]

On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:50:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> CDR has definite advantages. I had a SCSI 2x running fine on a 386 40mhz
> with 8mb of RAM and a 1gig IDE drive. If I generated the iso image on the
> box it was a little slow, so I nfs exported the directory with rw and
> no_root_squash options. This allowed me to build a backup volume from
> a faster machine on the network. It took little more time than it would to
> copy a 650mb image over ethernet. I was careful not to run any servers on
> the 386 so I left the network connected while roasting CD's. I even used
> the virtual consoles to telnet around my network while burning discs. I
> never had a problem keeping the CDR buffer filled. If I do this type of
> setup again, I will even try heavily pinging the box while recording and
> requesting all kinds of connects to get it busy writing to log files.

Considering this...  I have 96mb of memory, more than I need for
anything, really.  Is there anyway I could designate some of this
memory into a virtual buffer for a CD-R, to further lessen the effect
of CD write errors?


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Re: stumped

[Bjorn Isaksson]

On 28 Jun 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:

> * Matt Pittaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |
> | 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help
> | and learned from there.
> 
> You can try the debian tutorial (at www.debian.org/~hp/ IIRC). It's not
> complete, but the beginning is there.
> 

You may also want to try browsing the DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO at say
http://www.lh.umu.se/~bjorn/linux/howto/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html

/Bjorn

- - - - umop apisdn 'sdoo - - - -
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Re: Is Netscape Navigator really only for 16-bit color?

[Daniel Martin at cush]

Chip Grandits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've installed Netscape Communicator v4.05 on my bo system running
> Xwindows with the FVWM manager.  I don't have any Motif or Motif
> clones.  When I attempt to browse to a page which uses Java,
> Netscape just crashes immediately and goes away.  (No harm to
> anything else - as far as I can tell).  The one thing I turned up
> from my own research is to ensure that Moz_2.zip is in a particular
> directory ( I think /usr/local/netscape - whatever it said that's
> where it is on my system).  Does anyone know why it's going down?
> Do I need some additional Java Support Packages besides that which
> comes with Netscape?  Do I need another archive utility for
> moz_2.zip.  Is there a particular log file I can look at to get more
> info?

Tell me - how did you install netscape?  Did you install it with the
Debian netscape-installer package, or did you attempt to do your own
installation?  If you installed netscape without using the Debian
package, then try starting netscape up with:

MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape netscape

(where instead of /usr/local/netscape, you would actually put in
whatever directory you used - you seem to indicate that you put
netscape in /usr/local/netscape which is why I used that dir.).

If this works for you, you may consider replacing the symbolic link
that's invoking netscape (you can find out where this link is with
"which netscape") with a little script that looks something like this:

#!/bin/sh
MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape
export MOZILLA_HOME
exec /usr/local/netscape/netscape "$@"


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Inoperative ls in wu-ftpd-academ

[Bob Nielsen]

In wu-ftpd-academ 2.4.2.16-9 (hamm), I'm not getting any response to an ls
command with an anonymous connection.  I know there was a bug report on
an earlier version had included libc5 files in /home/ftp/lib with binaries
linked with libc6.  With that version, I copied the correct lib files into
/home/ftp/lib and everything started working again.

The current installation has the correct lib files reported by ldd, but ls
still doesn't work.  What is missing this time?

Bob


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Re: older debian release?

[peter]

>On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, peter wrote:
>
>> hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older
>> release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that
>> one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB.
>
>Try using an older kernel; The 1.2.13 is smaller than 2.0.X, and has
>support for ELF binaries. With it, I guess debian 1.3.1 should be OK. And
>you might want to use 1.0.9, smaller still, but I don't know about ELF,
>maybe you'd have to use debian 0.93R6 which was a.out.
>
>Also, you may want to check out http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/mem.html .
>
>I don't know if this address is still valid!

yes, it's still valid, and not only that, i have everything up and running now!
the only part that i don't like about it is that i have to download a lot
of the standard tools and install them manually. it's really easy, of
course, it's just taking a lot of download time! :)

thanks to everyone who helped, my laptop is now useful again!

best,
peter



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bo --> hamm upgrade..

[Gregory Guthrie]

I find a lot of small changes, logs moved from (non-existent) /var/adm, to
/var/logs,
pppd argument changes, ppp setup changes, etc..

It took a bit of fiddling to bet the system re-working.

E.g. pppd now needs a "noauth" argument, files have moved, etc..

Is there a list of these changes, structural and functional?


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autofs HOWTO

[Paul Serice]

This message tells how I got autofs to mount floppies so that any member
of the  "floppy" group would  have read/write permission.  I'm wondering
if what  I did is  the right approach.  If  so, and if this isn't common
knowledge (as I couldn't find it), it should be helpful to others.

The difficulty asI see is is   that  "mount", when  mounting  "user"
volumes, by default uses the permissions of the requesting user.

When the user wants to  mount a volume, it  asks the automount daemon to
do so.  The automount  daemon in turn  calls "mount", and "mount" gladly
does it job and mounts the volume with the  permissions of the automount
daemon, not the  permissions  of  the user.  The   problem is  that  the
automount daemon  is  started  from the /etc/init.d/autofs   script with
permissions of   "root.root" and "rwxr_xr_x"  insuring  that no ordinary
user will be able to write to the floppy.

To "correct" this, I have carefully  edited the default Debian script to
change the umask to 002 just before starting the automount daemon.  Then
I start it with 'sg floppy -c "automount ...  "'. 

Now, when the automount daemon  does it's job, I  see something like the
following:

 drwxrwxr-x   2 root floppy   7168 Dec 31  1969 ./
 drwxr-xr-x   3 root floppy  0 Jun 28 08:24 ../
 -rw-rw-r--   1 root floppy   9199 Jun 28 08:18 README.TXT
 -rw-rw-r--   1 root floppy  25798 Jun 27 23:37 zer0


Thanks,
Paul Serice


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Turtle Beach Montego A3D

[Yamamoto Hirotaka]

Can someone successfully use Turtle Beach Montego A3D
PCI sound card with Debian2.0beta (hamm)?

Any help is appreciated!  Thanks.

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installing a modem under debian 1.3

[scott hussey]

I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom.  I am
curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man
page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or
/dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to install my modem as a dev. Currently,
pppd recognizes my modem as ttys2, but minicom gives me the message 'I/O
Error' when it tries to open ttys2. Any help is greatly appreciated.


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Problem installing a package with dpkg

[Katharine Osborne]

I'm trying to install the xlib6g package and am
getting the following error:

dpkg: error processing xlib6g_3.3.2.2-1.deb
(--install):
 trying to overwrite
'/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3', which is also in
package xlib6
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal
(Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xlib6g_3.3.2.2-1.deb

I've been through all the man/--help pages and I
have no idea how to fix/avoid this. If you have
any suggestions, please email me.

thanks in advance.

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Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

[John Kloss]

On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, scott hussey wrote:

> I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom.  I am
> curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man
> page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or
> /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to install my modem as a dev. Currently,
> pppd recognizes my modem as ttys2, but minicom gives me the message 'I/O
> Error' when it tries to open ttys2. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 

so I'm no expert here, but I certainly had to go through alot to get my modem
to work with debian (but then, I use a laptop with pcmcia card modem :-) ).

I think you mean /dev/ttyS2. The serial ports are /dev/ttyS# and equal com port
numbers minus one (i.e. com1 = /dev/ttyS0, etc). My modem card installs at com2
so I use /dev/ttyS1. I have been told that /dev/cua# is deprecated and that
docs using /dev/cua# are out of date (sigh ...).

I'm pretty sure that /dev/modem is just a symbolic link (at least it is on my
machine) so to make /dev/modem type

ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem

you also need to check to make sure that /dev/ttyS2 is set for the proper irq
and port # for your modem. read the docs that came with your modem and check to
see what irq it's expecting to use and what memory address and then type

setserial -a /dev/ttyS2

and see what it says. If not, you can use setserial to change those values 
(read the man pages on setserial), or you can check to see if one of the other
serial ports is actually the one you want (setserial -a /dev/ttyS0, etc). If
your modem is internal, debian should be able to detect it on start-up since it
detects most serial ports on startup but I'm not sure since again I use a
laptop and usually my modem isn't in one of my card slots on bootup. At any 
rate you can see which ports where detected by typing

dmesg

after startup and logging in. You'll get a list of devices detected at startup
and other messages too.

I'm sure someone else here can give you alot more info (probably more accurate
too), but this is my attempt.

HTH

- John Kloss



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