Network Printing PRoblems

[Michael Perry]

I recently installed Debian potato and am having some recurring problems
printing to a HP 8000n networked printer.  I can print with no problems
using netscape or staroffice but when I print from nedit or mutt, the
printing exhibits the stairstepping effect.  I am using magicfilters and
the psonly600 driver.


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Re: Sound Blaster Live!

[Brad]

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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote:

> On 06-Oct-99 Brad wrote:
> > 
> > If you want, i can post a rough outline of what i did, and the relavent
> > config files.
> 
> Thanks, but I read the HOWTO for Alsa, installed the driver, libs, and
> utilities, only to find I don't know how to load the modules; I thought it
> would be a simple 'insmod  but it seems more complicated than
> that.  I will stick with my half-duplex driver.

It is more complicated to do by hand. But, if you use kmod it's really not
all that difficult.

alsaconfig (from the alsa-base package) will ask you for the necessary
info, and add the proper information to /etc/conf.modules. For Debian,
you'll need to grab that section (it's clearly marked) and put it in
/etc/modutils/.

If you really want to do it by hand, it looks like you need to insert the
modules in something like this order. The banged ones take options.

  soundcore

  snd (!)

  snd-mixer-oss, snd-seq-device, snd-midi, snd-pcm, snd-timer, snd-mixer
  snd-hwdep

  snd-pcm1

  snd-pcm1-oss, snd-mpu401-uart

  card-specific modules, in order (e.g. snd-sb16-dsp before snd-sb16-csp
  before snd-card-sb16 (!))

You could probably skip the oss ones if you don't want support for
OSS-style sound interfaces. You probably want this though. You might be
able to skip the snd-midi and snd-mpu401-uart if you don't want midi
support. And the above list may easily have errors.


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starting apps using dnd in kde/gnome

[Micha Feigin]

Under kde, when I try to drag files from the file manager to an app icon
to start it, it works fine when draging to an icon in the toolbar, but
when draging on a file on the desktop, It doesn't work, it starts the
aplication, but without opening the draged file (just like if I just
press the icon). Any way to make this work?

Is there a lighter file manager that supports the same dnd (drag and
drop) protocol as kde (is it a general protocol, or qt/kde protocol, will
gnome file manager work with it?). I am looking for something similar to
the mac if it exists.

Is there a tutorial or info on the net that anyone can point me to as to
how to interact with the dnd protocol? I am trying to write an app that
will work similar to simething I saw on the mac that enable to file apps
into popup drawers (instead of the desktop) and just to drag the files to
start over them to launch. Is there anything of the sort existing for
linux?

Re: fvwm 2.2 and missing menu items

[Rob Mahurin]

On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 04:05:34AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote:
> I just installed Debian 2.2 after reformatting my old Slink partition. I
> noticed that as root I had my fvwm 2.2 menus as I always had them with the
> old version (2.0.46-BETA I believe) in Slink. However, if I ran fvwm 2.2
> as a normal user, I got a menu that basically let me exit and nothing
> else. The .fvwm2rc file in my home directory does nothing but start xterm
> and use xv to put a background on my screen.
> 
> Is there some change I need to make so that fvwm 2.2 will operate
> correctly?
> 

Did you fix this?  Both my user and root menus have exit as the only
entry.  In addition, the "destroy" window-ops function sometimes kills
my Xserver.  None of this is a problem as when I use X it's usually
not for long and I start all my programs from the xterm; however, it
does suck a little bit.

Haven't tried other window managers because I got to those using the
menus options which are now gone.

Any help appreciated.

Rob

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-- William Blake

network card problems

[Wendell Buckner]

I have a DE-220PCT ISA network card which is in a 486 
PC.  And my goal is to eventually  have this P.C. as a client on my NT 
network.  I am completly new to this and don't really know what I'm doing. 
I have the network HOWTO (generic network configuration information) but i'ts 
not helping! I ran diagnostics on the network card and it appears to be o.k. I 
ran the following command and got the following error:
 
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 
up
eth0:Unknown interface.
SIOCSIFADDR:Operation not supported by device

eth0:Unknown interface.

SIOCSIFNETMASK:Operation not supported by device
 
Please don't tell me that the network module isn't compiled into kernel! (I 
haven't messed around with compiling the kernel, it scares me!)
 
Somebody please help me...
-Wxb1

Re: Mount samba share via MS-DOS

[Brian Servis]

*- On  6 Oct, Kent West wrote about "Mount samba share via MS-DOS"
> Anyone know of a product/method that would let me access a Samba share
> from MS-DOS 5/6, similar to how MS's old Workgroup Connections product
> would let me access a Windows share from DOS (which only works via
> NetBEUI, not TCP/IP - rats!)?
> 
> It needs to be free/shareware.
> 

I recall Microsoft has a free MS-DOS client suite for accessing shares.
I don't know the location of the package but it is on Microsofts ftp or
web site somewhere.  If I recall, the location was posted on the samba
mailing list just this last month so you might try searching the samba
list archives for late September or early October.

Brian Servis
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BuddyPhone for Linux?

[Hwei Sheng TEOH]

Is there a Linux version of BuddyPhone? I can't seem to find anything on the
BuddyPhone webpage...


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Re: network card problems

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I have a DE-220PCT ISA network card which is in a 486 PC.  And my goal
> is to eventually have this P.C. as a client on my NT network.  I am
> completly new to this and don't really know what I'm doing. I have the
> network HOWTO (generic network configuration information) but i'ts not
> helping! I ran diagnostics on the network card and it appears to be
> o.k. I ran the following command and got the following error:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> eth0:Unknown interface.
> SIOCSIFADDR:Operation not supported by device
> eth0:Unknown interface.
> SIOCSIFNETMASK:Operation not supported by device
>
> Please don't tell me that the network module isn't compiled into
> kernel! (I haven't messed around with compiling the kernel, it scares
> me!)

FYI: According to the kernel source, the DE-220PCT is an ISA
NE2000-compatible card.

First: The network module isn't compiled into the kernel (sorry).  Are you
using the stock Debian kernel?  If so, you should have the driver ready
for use.

The first thing you need to do is see what modules you currently have
loaded.  Running 'lsmod' will tell you that.  For example, this is what I
get when I run 'lsmod':

Module  Size  Used by
tulip  27132   1 
af_packet   5836   1  (autoclean)
es1371 23904   0 
soundcore   2372   4  [es1371]
sd_mod 15964   2  (autoclean)
sym53c8xx  46880   2  (autoclean)
scsi_mod   50800   2  (autoclean) [sd_mod sym53c8xx]

It shows the modules for my ethernet card, needed logic for my DHCP
client, lowlevel and support drivers for my sound card, and drivers for my
SCSI card.

If the module 'ne' (the driver for ISA NE2000 and compatible cards) isn't
shown, load it, like this:
   modprobe ne

Now, if you run 'lsmod', the module should show up.  The 'ifconfig'
command should then work.

Second: You didn't quite get the 'ifconfig' command right.  It should be:
   ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
(one too many zeroes)

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Re: network card problems

[Wendell Buckner]

Thanks Phil and Hubert for responding!  I've loaded the module (ne.o) and
ran the ifconfig command with success (with your help)!  Can either one of
you guys or anybody else in debian land tell me what HOWTO document I can
use to help me with my next step(s)...  i.e. should I ping my address?  I've
tried it already and it fails.

-Wxb1
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From: Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Wendell Buckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian Users Group 
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: network card problems


> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> > I have a DE-220PCT ISA network card which is in a 486 PC.  And my goal
> > is to eventually have this P.C. as a client on my NT network.  I am
> > completly new to this and don't really know what I'm doing. I have the
> > network HOWTO (generic network configuration information) but i'ts not
> > helping! I ran diagnostics on the network card and it appears to be
> > o.k. I ran the following command and got the following error:
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> > eth0:Unknown interface.
> > SIOCSIFADDR:Operation not supported by device
> > eth0:Unknown interface.
> > SIOCSIFNETMASK:Operation not supported by device
> >
> > Please don't tell me that the network module isn't compiled into
> > kernel! (I haven't messed around with compiling the kernel, it scares
> > me!)
>
> FYI: According to the kernel source, the DE-220PCT is an ISA
> NE2000-compatible card.
>
> First: The network module isn't compiled into the kernel (sorry).  Are you
> using the stock Debian kernel?  If so, you should have the driver ready
> for use.
>
> The first thing you need to do is see what modules you currently have
> loaded.  Running 'lsmod' will tell you that.  For example, this is what I
> get when I run 'lsmod':
>
> Module  Size  Used by
> tulip  27132   1
> af_packet   5836   1  (autoclean)
> es1371 23904   0
> soundcore   2372   4  [es1371]
> sd_mod 15964   2  (autoclean)
> sym53c8xx  46880   2  (autoclean)
> scsi_mod   50800   2  (autoclean) [sd_mod sym53c8xx]
>
> It shows the modules for my ethernet card, needed logic for my DHCP
> client, lowlevel and support drivers for my sound card, and drivers for my
> SCSI card.
>
> If the module 'ne' (the driver for ISA NE2000 and compatible cards) isn't
> shown, load it, like this:
>modprobe ne
>
> Now, if you run 'lsmod', the module should show up.  The 'ifconfig'
> command should then work.
>
> Second: You didn't quite get the 'ifconfig' command right.  It should be:
>ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> (one too many zeroes)
>
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> universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
>
>
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VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07

[B.Rodriguez]

I recently compliled a new kerlel for the first time (2.0.34 to
2.2.12), after fooling with my partitions and where Debian was located.
At boot time I get the message  VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07,
how I have no trouble booting it from my debian CD. Where do i begin?

Re: VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07

[Matthew Dalton]

Device 08:07 is /dev/sda7. Is this your root partition?

"B.Rodriguez" wrote:
> 
> I recently compliled a new kerlel for the first time (2.0.34 to
> 2.2.12), after fooling with my partitions and where Debian was located.
> At boot time I get the message  VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07,
> how I have no trouble booting it from my debian CD. Where do i begin?
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The upgrade messed with my sound(?)

[Chris Mayes]

Hello, all.  Well, I'm pretty puzzled by this one.  I'm not exactly sure on
the cause and effect, but sometime after my recent total upgrade on Potato,
my sound quit working.  When I try to reset it using sndconfig, I get this
at the test stage:

/etc/isapnp.conf:387 -- Fatal - resource conflict allocating
IRQ5 (see /proc/interrupts)
/etc/isapnp.conf:387 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing
request 'IRQ 5' --- further action aborted

Very odd.  Now, thanks to wmint, I can watch the activity on my interrupts. 
When I use sndconfig, the interrupt gets wiped (presumably because
everything is reset when isapnp restarts).  Soon after, i get the above
error.  Next, when I bring up xmms, the SOUNDBLAS reappears with the data
count at 37746 (as if the number really matters) on IRQ 5.  The data count
doesn't increment (or decrement for that matter) when I play anything.  The
program does not complain about the device being in use, either.  Does
anyone have any suggestions?  I am running Debian Potato updated last
Monday, kernel 2.2.10.

Thanks,

-Chris

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Quake 2 trouble.

[aphro]

I tried posting to linuxquake.com and got no response..maybe someone here
can help.

Quake 2 shareware runs great.. full 3D acceleration (TNT) no crashes no
problems what-so-ever. (quake 3 flies too)

the problem is when i try it with my quake2 cd.  It won't load..here is
the output:  Happens with both quake 2 3.19 from slink and from 3.20 which
i d/l offa cdrom.com. Happens both when i run from the cd, or copy the
files off it and run from hd.  checked the newsgroups and other places
didn't find anything that mentions this error.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/quake2] ./q2
   Added packfile ./baseq2/pak0.pak (3307 files)
   Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files)
   execing default.cfg
   couldn't exec config.cfg
   Console initialized.

   --- sound initialization ---
   sound sampling rate: 22051
   
   --- Loading ref_glx.so ---
   ref_gl version: GL 0.01
   R_SetMode() - CDS not allowed with this driver
   Initializing OpenGL display
   ...setting mode 3: 640 480
   GL_VENDOR: Brian Paul
   GL_RENDERER: Mesa NVIDIA RIVA 1.0

   GL_VERSION: 1.2 Mesa 3.0
   GL_EXTENSIONS:
   ...allowing CDS
   ...GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array not found
   ...GL_EXT_point_parameters not found
   ...3DFX_set_global_palette not found
   ...GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
   ...GL_SGIS_multitexture not found
   
   CD Audio Initialized
   == Quake2 Initialized ==

   --- Loading gamei386.so ---
    InitGame 
   --- Server Initialization ---
   0 entities inhibited
   0 teams with 0 entities
   -
   0.0.0.0:0: client_conneChanging map...
   reconnecting...


   Installation
   
   ERROR: LoadTGA: Only type 2 and 10 targa RGB images supported


    ShutdownGame 

(have to type 'quit' to exit the game at this point)

any ideas ?? hope so!

TIA  --> :)

nate

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Re: VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07

[aphro]

my first few compiles sometimes i forgot to compile in SCSI support and
since my root device was on SCSI it gave me a error like that ..


you use scsi ?

nate

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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, B.Rodriguez wrote:

> I recently compliled a new kerlel for the first time (2.0.34 to
> 2.2.12), after fooling with my partitions and where Debian was located.
> At boot time I get the message  VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07,
> how I have no trouble booting it from my debian CD. Where do i begin?
> 
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Re: problem with /dev/lp0

[aphro]

odd, i pulled that module info from the help of kernel 2.0.36 :/

ohwell..maybe the docs on it are screwed.

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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Debian Mail wrote:

> > which module is loaded for the parallel port? i prefer static kernels but
> 
> lp
> 
> > from what i can see you would need parport_pc loaded and not parport.  and
> > for 2.2.x you gotta tell it to support parallel printers in character
> > device section of config, again i always do my kernels as much static as i
> > can since it so rarely changes..only stuff like vmware, lm_sensors etc get
> > to be modules.
> 
> But parport and parport_pc only come with kernels > 2.1 and I am using
> 2.0.26...
> 
> Stef
> 
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Help choosing SQL server engine

[Alex V. Toropov]

I need to choose SQL server engine for phone billing system.

Just now it's running on MS SQL server, but I'd like to migrate it to linux
platform.

Size of the database just now is about 200 MB, main table contains about 700
000 records.

One of the main needs is that data storage should be safe. (Of course we'd
make backups and etc.,

but such features as data recovery in case of fault are very important).

Also I'd like it to be fast and not very resource consumptive, but this is
secondary.



So this is the situation. Any kind of suggestions will be very appreciated.

Alex

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

[esoR ocsirF]

On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:15:18PM -0400, addiction wrote:
> > Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl.
> > -Lex
> 
> I have been wanting to ask the same thing... I did try downgrading to
> get the swirl back but I can't find which version actually HAD the swirl
> to begin with. Does anyone know? Or is the swirl still there but simply
> 
I am running potato and this is what I have for the l_logo that is still
displaying the swirl.

$linux_logo -v

Linux Logo Version 3.0 -- by Vince Weaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
   Newest Versions at:
 http://www.glue.umd.edu/~weave/vmwprod
 http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/logos/penguins

/home/debian/apt/archives/linuxlogo_3.0-4_i386.deb
/home/debian/apt/archives/linuxlogo_3.0.1-1_i386.deb

I still have the debs and could mail them to you if you want.
hth,
   

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I can't connect to Novell network

[Istvan Benak]

Hello all!

I can't connect to a Novell network with my Linux. I downloaded the
ncpfs tgz, I made the make command, it compiled successfully. In my
kernel is the IPX support (as a module), I loaded in the ipx.o with the
insmod command, i loaded in the ncpfs.o module too. After these I typed
ipx_configure (auto_interface and auto_primary was off). I typed
ipx_interface add -p tr0 802.2 (the 802.3 is obsolate), and
ipx_interface add tr0 SNAP, and with the slist, I can see the servers on
the network (it's look like it will work), but when i typed ncpmount -S
PEDIA /mnt/novell -U myacc it asked my password, when i typed that in,
there was nothing, it was make nothing. I looked it with the strace
command, and in the log file I saw a line whit "Network unreachable"
words. I saw the /proc/net/ipx_route and it was:

NetworkRouter_Net   Router_Node
19930921   0F02 034CA255
0F02   Directly Connected

So, I don't know to the Novell Netware, and I can't adjudge this
ipx_routing is ok, or it's wrong!

Please help me who can!

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Re: I can't connect to Novell network

[Alex V. Toropov]

In fact I'm not Novell expert, but in my case everything works ok.
I'v used debian packages for ncpfs.


>NetworkRouter_Net   Router_Node
>19930921   0F02 034CA255
>0F02   Directly Connected
>
>So, I don't know to the Novell Netware, and I can't adjudge this
>ipx_routing is ok, or it's wrong!


As far as I understand, slist shoul show You the address of PEDIA server
(IPX_NET : IPX_NODE) and that IPX_NET should be reachable from Your host.
In case of Your ipx_route table PEDIA should be ether on F02 IPX_NET or
on 19930921   IPX_NET and Host at F02 : 034CA255 should be a valid IPX
router/bridge.

May be this will help You
Alex

Re: netscape and libc6 2.1

[Joey Hess]

Wakko Warner wrote:
> Is it a known bug that netscape is unstable with glibc 2.1?  I'm using
> potato packages of netscape 4.61 on a slink machine (slight modifications to
> make it work w/o upgrading to packages from potato) and it hasn't crashed.
> 
> The crash I'm experiencing is when I hit alt-w to close the window and NS
> dies (sigbus I assume)
yes, very known bug.

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Re: I can't connect to Novell network

[Istvan Benak]

"Alex V. Toropov" wrote:
> 
> In fact I'm not Novell expert, but in my case everything works ok.
> I'v used debian packages for ncpfs.
> 
> >NetworkRouter_Net   Router_Node
> >19930921   0F02 034CA255
> >0F02   Directly Connected
> >
> >So, I don't know to the Novell Netware, and I can't adjudge this
> >ipx_routing is ok, or it's wrong!
> 
> As far as I understand, slist shoul show You the address of PEDIA server
> (IPX_NET : IPX_NODE) and that IPX_NET should be reachable from Your host.
> In case of Your ipx_route table PEDIA should be ether on F02 IPX_NET or
> on 19930921   IPX_NET and Host at F02 : 034CA255 should be a valid IPX
> router/bridge.

AG! Pfuj! I hate this Novell something :)) 

I don't know about this nothing. The 19930921 network number belong to
RADIO server but it's network node is 01. The PEDIA Network
number is 36DC435C, how is this??? Jah, the ifconfig tr0:

tr0   Link encap:16/4 Mbps Token Ring  HWaddr 08:00:5A:14:2F:85  
  IPX/Ethernet SNAP addr:08005A142F85
  IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:0F02:08005A142F85

I will be a mad boy from this "lots of number"

Please say what must I do!

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how do i NAT a legacy network ?

[venu]

An interesting problem...

we have a legacy network which has IPs : 95.x.x.x ( NOT REGISTERED, i.e illegal)
that we can't change now !!! ( those network enginners of 1994,when the network
was installed; obviously did not know about rfc1918  )

now we want to connect this network to the Internet... we cannot re-number our
network... so i looked at using a linux box with NAT ...that should be straight
forward ... right ? wrong ! hey this is fun !!

and i am a bit confused...

NAT -- for 2.0.36 and 2.2.x is available ... but it does NOT support "Dynamic
NAT" i.e. 95.x.x.x NATed behind ONE IP
(http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/HyperNews/get/linux-ip-nat.html)
It does support static NAT though ... it should be good to NAT our internal web
server with a Legal IP (any comments ?)

The new NAT code IPROUTE in the  2.3.x kernels requires iproute ... whose docs
are not good enough for me(anybody care to explain ?)... and then the code is
still very alpha...

IP MASQ supports network NAT very wellbut the docs say that we have to use
only private IPs. so .. can i use IP MASQ to hide my 95.x.x.x network also
??

I also plan to use IPCHAINS to filter the trafficthe HOWTO is clear
enough... !

so what is the best solution ? ... we have been using Checkpoint FW-1 till
now... and it works fine i believe i can reproduce all functionality on
Linux too...

what says u ?

cheers
venu

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Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

[Brian May]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>An interesting problem...
>
>we have a legacy network which has IPs : 95.x.x.x ( NOT REGISTERED, i.e 
>illegal)
>that we can't change now !!! ( those network enginners of 1994,when the network
>was installed; obviously did not know about rfc1918  )
>
>now we want to connect this network to the Internet... we cannot re-number our
>network... so i looked at using a linux box with NAT ...that should be straight
>forward ... right ? wrong ! hey this is fun !!
>
>and i am a bit confused...
>
>NAT -- for 2.0.36 and 2.2.x is available ... but it does NOT support "Dynamic
>NAT" i.e. 95.x.x.x NATed behind ONE IP
>(http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/HyperNews/get/linux-ip-nat.html)
>It does support static NAT though ... it should be good to NAT our internal web
>server with a Legal IP (any comments ?)
>
>The new NAT code IPROUTE in the  2.3.x kernels requires iproute ... whose docs
>are not good enough for me(anybody care to explain ?)... and then the code is
>still very alpha...

I dont know anything about NAT code, other then...

>IP MASQ supports network NAT very wellbut the docs say that we have to use
>only private IPs. so .. can i use IP MASQ to hide my 95.x.x.x network also
>??

This is what I would do. The only possible problem I can imagine is
if you try to connect to the Internet host that really does have the
address 95.x.x.x (you would get the host on the local network instead).

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Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

[Robert Waldner]

On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 11:48:10 +0530, "venu" writes:
>NAT -- for 2.0.36 and 2.2.x is available ... but it does NOT support "Dynamic
>NAT" i.e. 95.x.x.x NATed behind ONE IP

If you use kernel 2.0.x, have a look at ipfwadm, the masquerading option does  
exactly what you want. The kernel does not actually know about RFC1918, it's 
all IP-adresses to him ;-)

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RE: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

[George Bonser]

> 
> and i am a bit confused...
> 
> 
> IP MASQ supports network NAT very wellbut the docs say that we have to
> use
> only private IPs. so .. can i use IP MASQ to hide my 95.x.x.x network
> also
> ??

Yes, you can ipmasq to nat anything. It simply uses masquerades the given
source address to the outbound interface regardless of ip address. It just
seems to be private addresses only from the documentaion since they assume that
is what people will use it for.


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installation hangs during (after?) downloading scsi stuff on P133

[Martyn Pearce]

Anders Lennartsson writes:
| Yesterday I tried to install debian on an old machine for use as a
| X-terminal at work.  The machine is a Dell P133 (the first machine
| I've acutually laid hands on with the F0 bug!) with 96Mb of memory, an
| Adaptec 2940 and a Seagate 1.3Gig SCSI HD.  It booted nicely on the
| rescue disk but after identifying the 2940 it downloaded some commands
| to it and then seemed to freeze.
| 
| Anyone experiencing similar events? Could it be the SCSI bios?


Jim Ray writes:

| I'm fed up with redhat.  end of story.  so, i downloaded debian iso's
| at work, burned to 2 cd's, took it home ready to install.  I inserted
| the cd--to boot--which it did just fine.  the debian boot process
| started just fine.  everything was going well until it got to the
| point about recognizing my scsi card.  i have an adaptec 2940 with a
| yamaha cd-rw attached to it--that's it.  all my hard drives are ide,
| and the cd from which i was booting is atapi.  but when it got to the
| part about recognizing my scsi card, the whole system froze.  i got
| response from the keyboard.  no ctrl-alt-delete response.  nothing.  I
| rebooted. same thing.  i booted from the scsi cd drive.  boot process
| went along fine, until it got to recognizing the scsi card, and the
| system froze.  is there an updated boot image i should use, from a
| floppy.  I noticed that the kernel for the cd boot image (debian 2.1)
| was kernel 2.0.39 (not entirely sure about that--i do know that it's
| pre 2.2.x) the redhat install worked just fine, recognizing my adaptec
| card.  should i remove the scsi card and install from there, or is
| there a more sane workaround?

To both:

Yes, I experienced the same (using AHA2940AU).  No, Installing / Not
installing the SCSI BIOS appeared to make no difference.  My guess is
that the SCSI code in the generic kernel is trying to cope with too many 
different card types, and screwing over the 2940.  In my case, the 2940
is an AU, not wide; which might be making things worse.  Neither of you
mention whether you're using a wide card or not.

I solved things simply by taking out the card for the install, compiling 
a custom kernel, and everything runs fine[*].  Jim, this should work for 
you.  Anders, I guess you'll have to pre-compile, since I guess the SCSI 
drive is the only one.  I'm afraid I can offer no advice about making
install kernels.  Suffice that I tried the alternate rescue images, to
no avail.

Mx.

[*] Actually, not all is fine.  Jim, this may particularly affect you; I 
have 3 devices: CD-ROM (Plextor 40TSi), CD-RW (Plextor PX-4220Ti), and
DVD-RAM (Panasonic LF-D101E).  Use of the CD-RW caused SCSI Resets after 
about 100M transferred, which naturally toasted me a coaster, and the
reset never succeeded --- it was a reboot job.  Turning off the BIOS
Installation on the card sorted this problem; I know not why...

On a sideline note, if anyone has got cdrdao working on a PX-4220Ti, I'd 
like to know how.  Come to that, just success with cdrdao would be of
interest.  Everything it writes is readable only by the CD-RW, which is
of limited benefit...

Re: PPPoE aka. PPP over Ethernet

[shaul]

You might try www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=linux-net&m=93554017019744&w=2
Have you tried to search the WEB ?

> So Sympatico, or Bell Canada, has decided to be a bitch and implement
> PPPoE or, as the title shows, PPP over Ethernet.  Has anyone ever
> heard of such a thing?  And the main question is, drum roll please,
> how can I get it to work over Linux?  I'd really hate to lose this
> ADSL.  It's been running quite smoothly lately, since the upgraded
> DHCPCD automatically updates IP addresses.  Anyways, if anyone has any
> clues, hints, suggestions, solutions,  PLEASE let me know.  If more
> information is needed, let me know and I'll see what I can squeeze out
> of tech support.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Marshal Wong
> 
> 
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Fw: network card problems

[Wendell Buckner]

(Re:network card problems)

 Thanks Phil and Hubert for responding!  I've loaded the module (ne.o) and
 ran the ifconfig command with success (with your help)!  Can either one of
 you guys or anybody else in debian land tell me what HOWTO document I can
 use to help me with my next step(s)...  i.e. should I ping my address?
I've
 tried it already and it fails.

 -Wxb1


This is a resend, cause I didn't get a response from this message.  I'm
sending it again. Please respond :)

disk image

[vincent leycuras]

Hi!

I just installed Linux Mandrake 6,0 because it was easy to download: you
probably know they have their distrib ready for download in .iso format,
ready for CD burning. I also know FreeBSD have it. Do you know a way of
finding the same thing for Debian Linux?

Vincent, France.

Re: minicom lockup

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bart Raatgerink  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a problem with minicom:
>
>I fire up minicom and do stuff (dialing). Then i quit.
>Now when i fire minicom up again it locks up
>Any ideas ??

How does it lock up. Can you be a bit more specific

Mike.
-- 
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

Re: Hardware Clock to GMT instead of local time

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jairo Souto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>You have to change the line in /etc/default/rcS which states
>the CMOS clock configuration, haven't you?
>
>
># Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT="" if not.
>GMT="-u" 
>

On potato, GMT is gone. It's now called "UTC" and must be set to
either "yes" or "no" (ofcourse for backwards compaibility GMT
will still be reckognized, but it's not documented anymore).

>By the way,  how can i set  the time to meet  to summer time
>(DST)  when  it starts  before  the  timezone defaults?  The
>system has to be synchronized to a ntp server.

I don't think that is possible, unless you write your own
timezone files. No idea how you do that ..

Mike.
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Re: disk image

[Cory Snavely]

See

http://cdimage.debian.org/

which will lead you through a series of questions and explain how to create
bootable iso9660 images for installing Debian.

c

- Original Message -
From: vincent leycuras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:03 AM
Subject: disk image


> Hi!
>
> I just installed Linux Mandrake 6,0 because it was easy to download: you
> probably know they have their distrib ready for download in .iso format,
> ready for CD burning. I also know FreeBSD have it. Do you know a way of
> finding the same thing for Debian Linux?
>
> Vincent, France.

Re: network card problems

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Thanks Phil and Hubert for responding!  I've loaded the module (ne.o) and
> ran the ifconfig command with success (with your help)!  Can either one of
> you guys or anybody else in debian land tell me what HOWTO document I can
> use to help me with my next step(s)...  i.e. should I ping my address?  I've
> tried it already and it fails.

Probably because you didn't put in any routes to get to the local network.
Try running this command, and then pinging your address:

route add -net 192.168.0.0 dev eth0

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Re: SQL server....

[jarek lewinski]

Try the work group server form Oracle.
We are running for more the 6 months and are quite satisfied.
A trial version can be downloaded from oracle web site.
If  You need more details do not hesitate to mail me.

Jarek

Re: Boot EPROM vs. floppy

[shaul]

What exactly do you mean by a booteprom ?
I believe that if you'll manage to replace your PC bios with a boot EPROM then 
then the EPROM will be accessed first. The floppy might not be accessed at 
all, depending on what you have put on the EPROM.


> Hi!
> 
> I have a question! If I make a booteprom and a bootfloppy which one will
> boot first?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bye! Benci!
> 
> Isten a'ldja a pingvineket & Linus Torvalds-ot
> Debian 2.1 Slink  2.2.9 200MMX/32MB/1.7Gb/S3VirgeDX4Mb
> 
> 
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Re: UDP logger

[Lindsay Allen]

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:

> For some strange reason, I can't seem to read its man pages even though
> they are installed, and /usr/share/man is in my MANPATH:

> Anyone know why that might be ?

I had the same problem on my part slink, part potato box.  (The files were
in /usr/share/...  instead on the old /usr/doc/...  Installing the latest
man-db package fixed it.
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RE: minicom lockup

[Paul McHale]

Bart,

I had the same issue with minicom.  It didn't exactly lockup for me, it
would refuse to access the port.  Or the port (device) would be
unresponsive.  I switched to ckermit and had no problems.  Might want to try
that ...

paul

-Original Message-
From: Bart Raatgerink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 6:39 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: minicom lockup


Hello,

I have a problem with minicom:

I fire up minicom and do stuff (dialing). Then i quit.
Now when i fire minicom up again it locks up

Any ideas ??

Bart.

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Kdevelop package on kde.tdyc.com/kde2

[Stuart Ballard]

apt-get just informed me that kdevelop depends on kdelibs2g (>=
4:1.1.2-19990906-1.0) but it is not installable. Does anyone know if
this is a bug, a package that isn't yet uploaded onto the server, or
something that I need to go get somewhere else?

Thanks,
Stuart.

Re: download HTML Installation manual

[shaul]

Perhaps with a shell script that uses wget ?

#! /bin/sh
wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-partitioning.en.html
wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-post-install.en.html

etc.

> 
> Hello, 
> 
> a very basic question:
>  
> I'd like  to download the whole Installation Manual for i386 in HTML
> format:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install
> 
> How can I do the operation in one time, without saving each chapter
> separately ?  (Just using the Save option with Netscape doesn't prove to
> be very smart.) 
> 
> thanks, 
> Alberto Bigazzi. 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Kdevelop package on kde.tdyc.com/kde2

[Stuart Ballard]

Stuart Ballard wrote:
> 
> apt-get just informed me that kdevelop depends on kdelibs2g (>=
> 4:1.1.2-19990906-1.0) but it is not installable. Does anyone know if
> this is a bug, a package that isn't yet uploaded onto the server, or
> something that I need to go get somewhere else?

Sorry to reply to my own mail, but after trying to install other bits of
kde, I can't seem to get *any* of it to install. The only packages that
exist seem to end in -cvs, and all have unmet dependencies or conflict
with each other. For example, kdebase-cvs depends on qt2, but when I
tried to install qt2 it tried to *remove* kdelibs3-cvs, which is about
the only part that I *have* been able to install.

Does anyone have any information as to which packages need to be
installed in order to get a kde2 installation on potato? If this is
currently not possible, how about a kde 1 installation with a recent
version of kdevelop?

Thanks,
Stuart.

Re: Java on Debian

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:45:28 -0700, Forte, Gene L wrote:
> Is Java currently available on Debian?

Yes. debian-java@lists.debian.org is dedicated to Java on Debian.

> Which elements?

The SUN JDK (non-free), the Kaffe JVM (free), IBM's Jikes java compiler
(free), gjc (the Java frontend for gcc) (free) and others.

> Is it open?

The major component missing for a truely free Java environment seems to be a
free implementation of the standard Java classes. The GNU Classpath project
(http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/) is working on it - I'm sure they'd
welcome help.

HTH,
Ray
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dpkg roadblock

[Charles Lewis]

Sequence:
1. Used dselect to select all web packages in order to remove them.
2. During the remove process received errors that the remove process was
unable to complete for some packages because there were files in /etc/php3,
/etc/htdig, and /usr/lib/apache.
3. Dutifully removed said files/directories.
4. Package list indicated apache, apache-common, and squid still installed
5. dpkg -r squid returns following error:

Removing squid ...
dpkg: error processing squid (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 squid

6. dpkg --status squid indicates squid is deinstall ok half-configured
7. dpkg --configure squid returns following error:

Setting up squid (2.1.2-1) ...
dpkg: error processing squid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 squid

What did I do wrong and/or what can I do to fix it?

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Re: samba problems (was: Re: Serial conn. to WIN (success!) - thanks)

[Keith G. Murphy]

Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Now, the further problems: I hope perhaps someone can send me some
> suggestions about this 'cause I have read the smb.conf manpage thoroughly
> and don't know what to do (although I said I was probably able to solve
> this).
> 
> I'm using a ip connection over slip (serial cable direct) from a WIN 95b box
> to slink. I can also mount my win services (smbmount), no problem. And I can
> use the samba supplied services on the win box. But, the problem is that win
> doesn't find any computer in the Network Neighbourhood and claims it can't
> be browsed. If I Run >>//computername/resource" in win, I can see the
> resource, and then, if I press the "change to upper dir" button (don't know
> what it's called in English WIN vers), I get, after some time connected,
> the workgroup in the window, and then, after a second click I reach the
> network neighbourhood and then --- the computername is shown
> CORRECTLY!!!
> 
> I really don't know what causes this behaviour, and so I'm sending you the
> smb.conf as well as the dialup.dun file with this mail. I'm using Samba
> 2.0.5 or so.
> 
> Sometimes it also says that the groupname "workgroup" cannot be found,
> although I've configured both boxes to be in that group.
> 
I've run into this a fair number of times.  I think the problem is that
when Windows networking looks for other computers in the neighborhood,
all it can do through TCP/IP is broadcast to local machines.  It needs
WINS to be able to resolve names over a PPP or (I assume) SLIP link. 
(Why, I'm not quite sure; maybe someone can fill me in on this).  Try
setting up My Computer/Control Panel/Network on your Win machine to use
WINS, and point it to the IP address of your Linux box in the DUN TCP/IP
settings.  (pppd has a way to provide the WINS IP address from the
server, so you wouldn't have to set it on the Win machine, but I don't
know if SLIP has this).

In smb.conf on your Linux box, make sure to set:

wins support

I also set:

os level=65
domain master=yes
local master=yes
preferred master=yes

That way, browsing is all done through the Linux box and doesn't "drift
around".

One more thing: make sure those workgroup names match on your Win box
and in smb.conf!

Re: I can't connect to Novell network

[Keith G. Murphy]

Istvan Benak wrote:
> 
> "Alex V. Toropov" wrote:
> >
> > In fact I'm not Novell expert, but in my case everything works ok.
> > I'v used debian packages for ncpfs.
> >
> > >NetworkRouter_Net   Router_Node
> > >19930921   0F02 034CA255
> > >0F02   Directly Connected
> > >
> > >So, I don't know to the Novell Netware, and I can't adjudge this
> > >ipx_routing is ok, or it's wrong!
> >
> > As far as I understand, slist shoul show You the address of PEDIA server
> > (IPX_NET : IPX_NODE) and that IPX_NET should be reachable from Your host.
> > In case of Your ipx_route table PEDIA should be ether on F02 IPX_NET or
> > on 19930921   IPX_NET and Host at F02 : 034CA255 should be a valid IPX
> > router/bridge.
> 
> AG! Pfuj! I hate this Novell something :))
> 
> I don't know about this nothing. The 19930921 network number belong to
> RADIO server but it's network node is 01. The PEDIA Network
> number is 36DC435C, how is this??? Jah, the ifconfig tr0:
> 
> tr0   Link encap:16/4 Mbps Token Ring  HWaddr 08:00:5A:14:2F:85
>   IPX/Ethernet SNAP addr:08005A142F85
>   IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:0F02:08005A142F85
> 
> I will be a mad boy from this "lots of number"
> 
Istvan, it all looks very normal and similar to what I have.  ncpmount
is a very "silent" command.  I'm guessing that if you do 'ls
/mnt/novell', you will see what you are looking for!

Re: non-us source list entry

[Miguel A. Figueroa]

Thanks guys, works great!

Miguel

Brad wrote:
> 
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> 
> > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote:
> >
> > [ snip [
> >
> >  : deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US main contrib
> >  : non-free
> >
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/main 
> > non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
> 
> This version is a little nicer, and has the same effect.
> 
> deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib 
> non-free
> 
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change mailcap entries automatically?

[Debian Mail]

Is there a script to change the tool used to display images in the
mailcap file to xv, or must it be done by hand?

Stef

still can't resolve...

[tf]

Hey guys, 

I'm still having problems with resolving.  I've tried a few things,
but none of them solved the problem.  So.  Anyone have any more
ideas ?(thanks Pollywog for the input)

I can access websites by ip address, but no other way.  One day I
could use DNS, the next I could not.

This sure is cramping my style.

thanks for the help...


-tf

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

[Eric Hanchrow]

Last month I had a problem: in short, I installed potato, and noticed
that name resolution hung, although things worked fine if I used a
numeric IP address.

I've included below the plea for help that I sent last month.  It
describes the problem in detail.

Well, in case anyone's interested, I have some more information that
leads me to suspect that the problem is in the kernel (and thus,
presumably, in the Vortex driver).  Here's what I did:

* I installed potato from scratch.  I did this by installing slink
  from an official Debian 2.1 CD, and then doing `apt-get
  dist-upgrade' with my /etc/apt/sources.list pointing at

http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable

  Thus I wound up with the latest (as of this morning) binaries, but
  with the 2.0.36 kernel from the CD.  (Apparantly `apt-get
  dist-upgrade' didn't automatically give me a new kernel.)  This
  system worked flawlessly; in particular, name resolution worked
  fine.

* I installed kernel-image-2.2.12 (version 2.2.12-3), and rebooted.
  Name resolution hung exactly as described below.

* I reinstalled kernel-image-2.0.36, and rebooted; name resolution
  worked just fine.

So it seems to me that the newer kernel is doing something wrong.  If
anyone would like me to perform some experiments, so as to isolate the
problem, I'd be happy to do them; just tell me what you need done.
Unfortunately, I know nothing about how the net card driver works, so
I don't know how to investigate this on my own.

Here's the plea that I sent last month:

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my system?  At first I assumed it
was a bug in the resolver library, and opened a bug against libc6 in
Debian potato (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/45/45912.html); but the
Debian libc6 maintainer is sure that my system is merely
misconfigured.

Here's the problem:

When I type `ping blarg.net' at a shell, `ping' hangs.  I expect it to 
display

PING blarg.net (206.124.128.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 206.124.128.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=62 time=25.7 ms
...

Other name resolution also fails.  For example, Netscape hangs when
trying to visit web pages on machines other than mine.

On the other hand, if I type `ping 206.124.128.1', that works fine.
So I know that IP and the network card aren't entirely broken.

I've never sat around and waited to see if `ping' eventually gets
unstuck; I've always given up and hit control-C after no more than
perhaps a minute.

I'm using potato (that is, the still-unreleased version of Debian
GNU/Linux), which I installed by first installing slink (i.e., Debian
2.1) from an official CD-ROM, and then using `apt-get dist-upgrade'
from

 http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main

I did that update around 24 September.

Here is some information about the broken system:

Package: netbase
Version: 3.16-2

Package: kernel-image-2.2.9
Version: 2.2.9-2

  My network card driver is 3c59x:

Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker 
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel: eth0: 3Com 3Com Boomerang (unknown 
version) at 0xb800,  00:50:04:1b:f6:df, IRQ 11
Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, 
autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 24, 
status 182d.
Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and 
whole-frame receives.

This problem didn't always happen, although I don't remember exactly
when it started.  I know for certain that it didn't happen immediately
after I installed slink, nor did it happen immediately after I
upgraded to potato the first time.

I've also seen this problem on a different installation of slink (on
the same machine with the same hardware), but that problem
mysteriously went away.  I now have both slink and potato on this
machine, and slink works flawlessly.  Only potato has this
name-resolution problem.

I haven't noticed any error messages -- certainly none at the shell on
which I ran `ping', and none in /var/log.

I connect to the Internet via DSL, using a Cisco 675 router, which is
a little grey box that sits on the floor (the phone company gave it to
me when I signed up for DSL).  I have a phone cord that connects the
router and my phone jack; I have an Ethernet cable that connects the
router and my network card.

The router is quite configurable, and perhaps its configuration is
relevant: 

* I've got it set to act as a DHCP server, although since I don't know
  how to make Debian use DHCP, I've told Debian to use a static IP
  address.  Since I only have one computer, there is no risk of having
  two IP addresses conflict.

* It's doing something called `network addres

Re: disk image

[Marc Mongeon]

Vincent:

Look at http://cdimage.debian.org/

Marc

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>>> vincent leycuras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/07 7:02 AM >>>
Hi!

I just installed Linux Mandrake 6,0 because it was easy to download: you
probably know they have their distrib ready for download in .iso format,
ready for CD burning. I also know FreeBSD have it. Do you know a way of
finding the same thing for Debian Linux?

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Re: still can't resolve...

[Ben Lutgens]

On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:13:09AM -0600, tf wrote:
> Hey guys, 
> 
> I'm still having problems with resolving.  I've tried a few things,
> but none of them solved the problem.  So.  Anyone have any more
> ideas ?(thanks Pollywog for the input)
> 
> I can access websites by ip address, but no other way.  One day I
> could use DNS, the next I could not.
> 
> This sure is cramping my style.
> 
> thanks for the help...

I think I asked this before but um... what does your /etc/resolv.conf file
say?

Re:

[Kent West]

"Myridakis Helias (r) (c) (tm)" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Verry Good Work.
>
> I want a "Deb Manager" for "Deb Pacages" if it 's posible in X environment
> or else in Command prompt
>
> Please don 't forget it 
> it 's verry important.
>
> (My english is not good, i am a Greek Colege Boy)
>
> I want a URL (ftp,http)
>
> Thanks you...
>
> Bye.
>

If I understand what you're asking for, try "dselect". It will let you
install/deinstall Debian packages.

latex2html and GIF

[Charles Kaufman]

Dear Debian
I cannot make latex2html produce images in GIF format. There is an option
in the config file which may be GIF or PNG. When I use PNG (the default)
it works. When I use GIF it reports 'this version of pstoimg does not
support GIF format.' I do have netpbm-nonfree installed as well as netpbm.
chuck kaufman
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Re: still can't resolve...

[Bryan Allen]

have you put your ISP's nameserver(s) in /etc/resolv.conf? That's usually
the first thing to do. if you dun know them, call them and beat them for
IPs.

bryan.

tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away. - nin.

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, tf wrote:

> Hey guys, 
> 
> I'm still having problems with resolving.  I've tried a few things,
> but none of them solved the problem.  So.  Anyone have any more
> ideas ?(thanks Pollywog for the input)
> 
> I can access websites by ip address, but no other way.  One day I
> could use DNS, the next I could not.
> 
> This sure is cramping my style.
> 
> thanks for the help...
> 
> 
> -tf
> 
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Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

[Bob Nielsen]

Since name resolution works with 2.0.36, your /etc/resolv.conf is
probably fine.

Can you ping or traceroute -n to your DNS successfully with 2.2.12 (use
the ip address you have in resolv.conf)? 

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 09:23:47AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> 
> Last month I had a problem: in short, I installed potato, and noticed
> that name resolution hung, although things worked fine if I used a
> numeric IP address.
> 
> I've included below the plea for help that I sent last month.  It
> describes the problem in detail.
> 
> Well, in case anyone's interested, I have some more information that
> leads me to suspect that the problem is in the kernel (and thus,
> presumably, in the Vortex driver).  Here's what I did:
> 
> * I installed potato from scratch.  I did this by installing slink
>   from an official Debian 2.1 CD, and then doing `apt-get
>   dist-upgrade' with my /etc/apt/sources.list pointing at
> 
>   http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable
> 
>   Thus I wound up with the latest (as of this morning) binaries, but
>   with the 2.0.36 kernel from the CD.  (Apparantly `apt-get
>   dist-upgrade' didn't automatically give me a new kernel.)  This
>   system worked flawlessly; in particular, name resolution worked
>   fine.
> 
> * I installed kernel-image-2.2.12 (version 2.2.12-3), and rebooted.
>   Name resolution hung exactly as described below.
> 
> * I reinstalled kernel-image-2.0.36, and rebooted; name resolution
>   worked just fine.
> 
> So it seems to me that the newer kernel is doing something wrong.  If
> anyone would like me to perform some experiments, so as to isolate the
> problem, I'd be happy to do them; just tell me what you need done.
> Unfortunately, I know nothing about how the net card driver works, so
> I don't know how to investigate this on my own.
> 
> Here's the plea that I sent last month:
> 
> Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my system?  At first I assumed it
> was a bug in the resolver library, and opened a bug against libc6 in
> Debian potato (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/45/45912.html); but the
> Debian libc6 maintainer is sure that my system is merely
> misconfigured.
> 
> Here's the problem:
> 
> When I type `ping blarg.net' at a shell, `ping' hangs.  I expect it to 
> display
> 
>   PING blarg.net (206.124.128.1): 56 data bytes
>   64 bytes from 206.124.128.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=62 time=25.7 ms
>   ...
> 
> Other name resolution also fails.  For example, Netscape hangs when
> trying to visit web pages on machines other than mine.
> 
> On the other hand, if I type `ping 206.124.128.1', that works fine.
> So I know that IP and the network card aren't entirely broken.
> 
> I've never sat around and waited to see if `ping' eventually gets
> unstuck; I've always given up and hit control-C after no more than
> perhaps a minute.
> 
> I'm using potato (that is, the still-unreleased version of Debian
> GNU/Linux), which I installed by first installing slink (i.e., Debian
> 2.1) from an official CD-ROM, and then using `apt-get dist-upgrade'
> from
> 
>http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main
> 
> I did that update around 24 September.
> 
> Here is some information about the broken system:
> 
> Package: netbase
> Version: 3.16-2
> 
> Package: kernel-image-2.2.9
> Version: 2.2.9-2
> 
>   My network card driver is 3c59x:
> 
>   Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker 
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
>   Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel: eth0: 3Com 3Com Boomerang (unknown 
> version) at 0xb800,  00:50:04:1b:f6:df, IRQ 11
>   Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, 
> autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
>   Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 24, 
> status 182d.
>   Sep 24 07:21:13 potato kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and 
> whole-frame receives.
> 
> This problem didn't always happen, although I don't remember exactly
> when it started.  I know for certain that it didn't happen immediately
> after I installed slink, nor did it happen immediately after I
> upgraded to potato the first time.
> 
> I've also seen this problem on a different installation of slink (on
> the same machine with the same hardware), but that problem
> mysteriously went away.  I now have both slink and potato on this
> machine, and slink works flawlessly.  Only potato has this
> name-resolution problem.
> 
> I haven't noticed any error messages -- certainly none at the shell on
> which I ran `ping', and none in /var/log.
> 
> I connect to the Internet via DSL, using a Cisco 675 router, which is
> a little grey box that sits on the floor (the phone company gave it to
> me when I signed up for DSL).  I have a phone cord that connects the
> router and my phone jack; I hav

Re: Kdevelop package on kde.tdyc.com/kde2

[Achim Bohnet]

>>>Stuart Ballard wrote:
 > Stuart Ballard wrote:
 > > 
 > > apt-get just informed me that kdevelop depends on kdelibs2g (>=
 > > 4:1.1.2-19990906-1.0) but it is not installable. Does anyone know if
 > > this is a bug, a package that isn't yet uploaded onto the server, or
 > > something that I need to go get somewhere else?
 > 
 > Sorry to reply to my own mail, but after trying to install other bits of
 > kde, I can't seem to get *any* of it to install. The only packages that
 > exist seem to end in -cvs, and all have unmet dependencies or conflict
 > with each other. For example, kdebase-cvs depends on qt2, but when I
 > tried to install qt2 it tried to *remove* kdelibs3-cvs, which is about
 > the only part that I *have* been able to install.
 > Does anyone have any information as to which packages need to be
 > installed in order to get a kde2 installation on potato? If this is

The kde*-cvs stuff is from the current HEAD branch of the KDE cvs repository
and the debs will not install smoothly any time soon due to heavy KDE
development and reorganizations in the KDE CVS.  The binary packages
just save you the hassle to compile everything yourself but _nothing_
more.

If you don't like to use --force-* options of dpkg, remove
kde.tdyc.com kde2 from your apt sources  and stick with kde 1 until
kde 2 has a feature freeze.
 
 > currently not possible, how about a kde 1 installation with a recent
 > version of kdevelop?

Send a mail to the list [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask for a
Kdevelop version for the KDE 1.

Achim
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Stuart.

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canon laser printer

[Jean-Yves BARBIER]

Hi all,

A friend of mine make me a proposition about a 
LPB III plus canon laser printer,
any comments??

JY
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Re: download HTML Installation manual

[Colin Marquardt]

[quoting fixed]
* shaul  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> I'd like  to download the whole Installation Manual for i386 in HTML
>> format:
>> http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install

> Perhaps with a shell script that uses wget ?
> #! /bin/sh
> wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-partitioning.en.html
> wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-post-install.en.html

Easier even:

  wget -r http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/

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Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

[Eric Hanchrow]

For what it's worth: I installed the 2.2.12 kernel on my working slink
installation (which has never had the problem), rebooted, and promptly
saw name resolution hang.  I restored the 2.0.36 kernel, and
everything worked again.

Re: minicom lockup

[Steve George]

Hi,

Sounds a little strange but it occurs to me that it could be either a) it's not 
resetting properly and is leaving a lock file so you could check in /var/lock, 
or b) perhaps it isn't able to resett the modem properly when you come out of 
minicom so is getting something stuck in it's craw.

Steve

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:39:22AM +0200, Bart Raatgerink wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with minicom:
> 
> I fire up minicom and do stuff (dialing). Then i quit.
> Now when i fire minicom up again it locks up
> 
> Any ideas ??
> 
> Bart.
> 
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Re: still can't resolve...

[Oliver Elphick]

tf wrote:
  >Hey guys, 
  >
  >I'm still having problems with resolving.  I've tried a few things,
  >but none of them solved the problem.  So.  Anyone have any more
  >ideas ?(thanks Pollywog for the input)
  >
  >I can access websites by ip address, but no other way.  One day I
  >could use DNS, the next I could not.

Have you recently upgraded the bind package?  The config files have
changed location. (I'm talking about potato, here.)

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Printer suggestion

[Manuel Arenaz Silva]

Hello,

I am interested in buying a printer, but I want to avoid as many
installation problems as posible. For this reason I would appreciate if
someone could advice me about a mark and a model.

What do you prefer? An epson printer (highest resolution but expensive
to mantain), a HP printer (very robust but lower resolution) or a
Cannon/Oki/... printer (secondary marks that are cheaper to mantain).

Take into account that:
1) Most of the time I am going to print postscript documents (with
graphics included) generated by latex.
2) The printer will be installed in my home computer, so I will use it
very few times each month.

Any suggestion will be carefully considered.
Thanks in advance,

  Manuel Arenaz

Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

[Steve George]

Hi,

Basically there are two 'current' kernel level implementations for doing 
ip-filtering and masquerading.  They are:
ipfwadm kernel 2.0.*
ipchainskernel 2.2.*
There will be a new system for 2.4.* as you note which is more generic and 
technically could support non-IP protocols (woo woo securing DECnet!).

In either instance you can masquerade a network range behind the public IP of 
the Linux box.

For various reasons I am more familiar with ipfwadm.  Under that system there 
are no masquerading rules just forwarding rules that masquerade so it is very 
straightforward.  The ipmasquerading HOWTO, and the Firewalls HOWTO are both 
very good.

So in short you can hide the network behind the Linux box however there is a 
wrinkle ;-)  I am not aware (I could be wrong ofc) of either solution 
supporting 'illegal NAT' where the system understands that the internal LAN 
IP's are wrong: so I don't think you will be able to connect to Internet hosts 
in the 95.*.*.* range because the Linux box will assume that these IP's are on 
the local side.  I'm afraid you're a bit snookered using a Class A range like 
that.

You can use something called port forwarding to allow access to the web server 
on the LAN from the Internet.  I cannot stress too heavily what a bad idea this 
is since if the server gets cracked you have left a nice open path into your 
LAN.  You would be better using a third interface on the Linux box and placing 
the web server here - sometimes this is called a DMZ (DeMilitarised Zone) which 
is an area with s lower security level but still protected.  If you want to 
know more I'd suggest reading/digesting 'Firewalls and Internet Security' by 
Chewsick and Bellovin.

To be honest if you have FW-1 in and a support company that is reliable I can't 
see what advantages there are to throwing it out in place of Linux.

HTH,

Steve

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:48:10AM +0530, venu wrote:
 
> we have a legacy network which has IPs : 95.x.x.x ( NOT REGISTERED, i.e 
> illegal)
> that we can't change now !!! ( those network enginners of 1994,when the 
> network
> was installed; obviously did not know about rfc1918  )
> 
> now we want to connect this network to the Internet... we cannot re-number our
> network... so i looked at using a linux box with NAT ...that should be 
> straight
> forward ... right ? wrong ! hey this is fun !!
> 
> and i am a bit confused...
 

Re: download HTML Installation manual

[Peter Palfrader aka Weasel]

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 08:19:36PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> Easier even:
>   wget -r http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/

Actually, I prefer
wget -r -l inf -np -k -t 0 
   retry if error
   ^^ convert absolute links to relative ones
   ^^^ do not recurse into parent directory
^^^ recurse deep infinite
 ^^ recurse

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HP 692C Configuration

[Renato Braga de Lima Guedes]

Hi everybody,

I have a HP 692 C printer instaled on my pentiun II running Debian
2.1 and I didn't get to configure it. I already tried to do it using the
Magicfilterconfig but my debian doesn't have any filter for HP 692C
printer. I would like to kown where I could find this filter or if I'm
doing something wrong.
Thanks,

Renato Guedes

Re: cu or tip for /dev/ttySx access?

[Ian Zimmerman]

> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ben> On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote:

Clint> Is there a package which contains either of these utilities?  I
Clint> wish to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem
Clint> cable to my ttyS0 port.  Thanks,

Ben> Not those programs specifically, but I think you will find
Ben> minicom a very suitable replacement (I like it even more so than
Ben> those programs). I use it to connect to my sparc attached to a
Ben> serial connection.

A crippling problem with minicom is that it cannot be used
noninteractively (i.e. from a script).  It expects a terminal device
to draw its windows onto and can't live without it :-(

Yes, I know I can write an Expect script to work around this, but then
I can write a complete cu reimplementation in Expect and I'll probably
end up with roughly the same amount of code.

Another problem with minicom is that it insists on doing VT100/ANSI
emulation and cannot do a straight pass-through connection.


As someone else pointed out, cu comes with the uucp package.  If you
feel like installing (and configuring!) uucp just to get a modem
dialer is horrible overkill, you're not alone :-(

Another possibility is to get ckermit from the non-free/comm section.

Once (or even twice!) in the distant past my irritation over this
situation led me to attempt to port BSD tip.  Unfortunately, it's
about the LEAST portable Unix code I've ever seen.

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Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

[Todd Suess]

Also, for what it's worth, I am running a 2.2.12-3 kernel on my dialup
potato box and name resolution works fine.

-Todd




At 11:58 AM 10/7/1999 -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:

For what it's worth: I installed the 2.2.12 kernel on my working slink
installation (which has never had the problem), rebooted, and promptly
saw name resolution hang.  I restored the 2.0.36 kernel, and
everything worked again.


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NIS and groups

[jtr]

Dear all,

I ever wondered why I didn't success in adding users to group floppy
on our network, until I saw in the Makefile that for security reasons
GIDs less than 100 are not included in the NIS distribution.

How can I add my users to this group (GID 25) without leaving security 
holes; how do other people on the list using NIS do this?

Thanks in advance,
joachim

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

[Steve Dodd]

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:58:02AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:

> For what it's worth: I installed the 2.2.12 kernel on my working slink
> installation (which has never had the problem), rebooted, and promptly
> saw name resolution hang.  I restored the 2.0.36 kernel, and
> everything worked again.

Weird. Have you (i) straced a process (like ping) which is trying to do name
resolution, to make sure it's not getting any error returns from syscalls
which it's failing to report, (ii) done a tcpdump to see what's actually
going out onto the wire? If you've got a box doing NAT on your segment,
tcpdump from the far side of that too? Where is the DNS server you're trying
to talk to? I'm wondering if the source address / port on the DNS requests
is the problem..

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qt2 trying to overwrite /usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0

[Charles Lewis]

Installing the qt2 package give the following error:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/qt2_2.0.1-0.1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0', which is also in package qt1g

I can't uninstall qt1g without uninstalling a host of kde applications due
to dependencies, and there are a few apps that I can't install without
installing qt2. Is the problem that qt2 is not quite ready for distribution
yet?

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Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX
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potato acroread won't run

[michael]

Hi,

I just installed the acroread package from unstable by using
apt-get. Now, when I try to run acroread, I see these warnings and
errors:

Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
Fatal System Error: Raise at top of Exception Stack
Aborted

I couldn't find anything in /usr/doc/acroread to help me figure out
what's going wrong.

Trying to make sense of the warnings, I checked to see that I had the
locales package installed, which I do (version 2.1.2-5). Now, I'm out
of ideas. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Michael

exim-doc: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.

[shaul]

texi2dvi can not handle exim-doc. Can you advise ?

Package: exim-doc
Version: 3.00-2
Severity: normal

Attached output of 
1) exim.log
2) texi2dvi --debug exim.texi


- -- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 
unknown


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slink --> potato, no rlogin?

[Ron Farrer]

Hello,

I upgraded to potato yesterday and most things seem okay, but I don't seem to 
have rlogin installed
anymore!?! What package is rlogin in? Perhaps apt removed it for some reason? 
Also, when opening an eterm
it complains that "bash: /usr/bin/check-sendfile: No such file or directory", 
what needs to be done to
correct this?


TIA,

Ron
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Re: dpkg roadblock

[Charles Lewis]

OK, in the absence of any other suggestions, what kind of implications would
there be in using 'dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq ' in this kind of
situation where normal removal/purge techniques don't work?

chas
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> Sequence:
> 1. Used dselect to select all web packages in order to remove them.
> 2. During the remove process received errors that the remove process was
> unable to complete for some packages because there were files in
/etc/php3,
> /etc/htdig, and /usr/lib/apache.
> 3. Dutifully removed said files/directories.
> 4. Package list indicated apache, apache-common, and squid still installed
> 5. dpkg -r squid returns following error:
>
> Removing squid ...
> dpkg: error processing squid (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  squid
>
> 6. dpkg --status squid indicates squid is deinstall ok half-configured
> 7. dpkg --configure squid returns following error:
>
> Setting up squid (2.1.2-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing squid (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  squid
>
> What did I do wrong and/or what can I do to fix it?
>
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Re: Printer suggestion

[Sean Johnson]

Unless you need to have color, I'd suggest getting a laser printer of some 
flavor
(I'm partial to HP printers in general).  If you need color, go with an HP 8**
printer.  I don't know what numbers they have now, but I have an 890C, and have 
been
very impressed.

Sean

Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am interested in buying a printer, but I want to avoid as many
> installation problems as posible. For this reason I would appreciate if
> someone could advice me about a mark and a model.
>
> What do you prefer? An epson printer (highest resolution but expensive
> to mantain), a HP printer (very robust but lower resolution) or a
> Cannon/Oki/... printer (secondary marks that are cheaper to mantain).
>
> Take into account that:
> 1) Most of the time I am going to print postscript documents (with
> graphics included) generated by latex.
> 2) The printer will be installed in my home computer, so I will use it
> very few times each month.
>
> Any suggestion will be carefully considered.
> Thanks in advance,
>
>   Manuel Arenaz
>
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Re: Last potato linuxlogo

[Jean-Philippe Guérard]

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:15:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl.
> ...
> Is there some hidden option to have it display the debian logo again,
> or do i have to downgrade it?


from the changelog.Debian.gz :

--

linuxlogo (3.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added debian/TODO entries (Fixes #40888, #40990, #41284).
  * Removed Debian Swirl Logo due to upstream changes (Fixes $45601).
  * Fixed faulty test in postinst (Fixes #43411).
  * Patched sysinfo_ix86.c to recognize my AMD K6-III.
  * New upstream release.

 -- Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:22:06 -0400

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My guess would be that there's no hidden option to get the swirl back.

Which is really too bad.
Did someone file a bug report asking the swirl back :-) ?


Jean-Philippe Guérard

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

[Chris Schleifer]

Hi,
Changelogs and bug reports are very helpful...

I found this line in /usr/doc/linuxlogo/changelog.Debian.gz:
* Added the original swirl files to the debian directory (Fixes #46588).

The bug report link (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/46/46588.html) mentions the
swirl is back in the source package. So it looks like a re-compile is needed in
order to get it back.

Chris Schleifer


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl. However
> after the latest potato update I noticed this had changed to a pengouin, which
> looks very ugly on my screen (the default is squeezed because of the
> resolution, and the banner mode does not look nice because of my fonts). Is
> there some hidden option to have it display the debian logo again, or do i
> have to downgrade it?
>
> Thanks,
> -Lex
>
>   
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Re: slink --> potato, no rlogin?

[peter karlsson]

> I upgraded to potato yesterday and most things seem okay, but I don't seem
> to have rlogin installed anymore!?! What package is rlogin in?

It has moved out of netstd (I think) to its own packages: rsh-client and
rsh-server

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Re: NIS and groups

[Ben Collins]

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:46:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I ever wondered why I didn't success in adding users to group floppy
> on our network, until I saw in the Makefile that for security reasons
> GIDs less than 100 are not included in the NIS distribution.
> 
> How can I add my users to this group (GID 25) without leaving security 
> holes; how do other people on the list using NIS do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> joachim

Depends on which dist (stable/unstable). In stable you can edit the 
/etc/login.defs
file and turn on CONSOLE_GROUPS, and add floppy as one of them. This makes any 
user
logging into the console able to use the floppy.

In potato, you must edit the /etc/pam.d/login file and edit configure the 
pam_groups.so
module.

Ben

Three questions

[brian . ross]

I have a system on which I've just installed debian.  It has two network
cards but during setup only one was recognised.  I need to know how to:

1) Make the system recognise the other network card.  Is there a utility
which probes the card and determines what type it is and (hopefully)
installs the correct driver for it?

2) Make the system utilise the other network card.

3) How do I assign a seperate IP number, gateway, etc. to it?



cheers

Brian


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Re: Printer suggestion

[Justin Settle]

Well, I agree with the laser printer.  If you have the money and don't
need color, get an older HP 4 or something of the like.

For an ink jet, however, I own and Epson and, IMHO, they make a better
product.  They are a bit cheaper, but built just as well, have high res
and are pretty fast.  You mention higher cost to maintain (what are you
referring to?) but I don't see that.  I have a 440 and it works very
well for color printing; If you have money, buy something with a faster
pages per minute.  I mention this because the 440 is about the same
price as the bottom of the line HP but that model has only one cartridge
- i.e. you can only do black and white or color.  The 440 has a CMYK
with a K cartridge and a CMY cartridge. 

Just my $.02
Justin
   
Sean Johnson wrote:
> 
> Unless you need to have color, I'd suggest getting a laser printer of some 
> flavor
> (I'm partial to HP printers in general).  If you need color, go with an HP 8**
> printer.  I don't know what numbers they have now, but I have an 890C, and 
> have been
> very impressed.
> 
> Sean
> 
> Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am interested in buying a printer, but I want to avoid as many
> > installation problems as posible. For this reason I would appreciate if
> > someone could advice me about a mark and a model.
> >
> > What do you prefer? An epson printer (highest resolution but expensive
> > to mantain), a HP printer (very robust but lower resolution) or a
> > Cannon/Oki/... printer (secondary marks that are cheaper to mantain).
> >
> > Take into account that:
> > 1) Most of the time I am going to print postscript documents (with
> > graphics included) generated by latex.
> > 2) The printer will be installed in my home computer, so I will use it
> > very few times each month.
> >
> > Any suggestion will be carefully considered.
> > Thanks in advance,
> >

Re: So whos going to ALS

[Michael Neuffer]

* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [991005 23:45]:
> 
> On 05-Oct-99 Johnie Ingram wrote:
> > 
> > ... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, community
> > pavillion, check it out), or who knows good places to stay at in
> > Atlanta?  Or who wants to planepool with the Novare team from Dallas?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Joey Hess and myself are going.  We have one extra space in the hotel room. 
> Preferably for a Debian developer, preferably one who needs to save the money.
> 
> We have two double beds and currently three people, a fourth is welcome.  If
> you want a spot on the floor, well that can be arranged as well (-:
> 
> We arrive Wednesday night at 7:30pm, so room is available from Wednesday night
> on thru Saturday night.

I'll arrive in Atlanta on Sunday afternoon and visit Simon Shapiro 
and his family for 2 weeks. It is no coincidence that the ALS is at 
the same time... :-) 

Mike

ttyS*--?

[pplaw]

debs,

1.  according to windoze, my lapbox modem is config'd for com5 @/on
irq 10.  the /dev file doesn't list a /ttyS4.  how do i add it?

2.  my deskbox modem is config'd for com4 @/on irq3.  slink sees
/dev/ttyS3 @/on irq 3, but nothing happens when i pon the isp.  (my
goal is to have successful apt-gets.)  what else can or needs to be
done?

ia, t.

bentley taylor.

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(I have a problem with my NIC) SC&C home page ?

[shaul]

I have a problem with my NIC.
ifconfig reports that HWaddr is 00:00:21:CE:18:CF
http://www.cavebear.com/CaveBear/Ethernet/ says that this 21 is SC&C (PAM 
Soft&Hardware also reported).
Can you point me to their home page ? 

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

[addiction]

> Hi,
> Changelogs and bug reports are very helpful...
>
> I found this line in /usr/doc/linuxlogo/changelog.Debian.gz:
> * Added the original swirl files to the debian directory (Fixes
#46588).
>
> The bug report link (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/46/46588.html)
mentions the
> swirl is back in the source package. So it looks like a re-compile is
needed in
> order to get it back.
>
> Chris Schleifer

Well, upon checking out the source for version 3.02, I don't see the
swirl mentioned anywhere in the code, the docs, or in any subdirectory
for that matter. I  s'pose I'll write the developer and ask him about
it.

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Re: Last potato linuxlogo [again]

[addiction]

my mistake, the swirl is in the source package of version 3.0.1-1.. Now
to just find that somewhere, which I'm having a hard time doing.

canon lbp 8 III plus

[Jean-Yves BARBIER]

Hi all,

I was borrowed a canon lbp 8 III plus, but I
still have problems to make it work under
debian 2.1 slink.

Any idea about the (magic)filter I must use?

JY
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