Re: potato security ;(

1999-11-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:01:17PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > But nothing helps! Whenever I attempt to telnet in from work.machine (not > it's real name), I get: > Connected to strider [my machine]. > Debian GNU/Linux potato strider > login: permission denied > Terminated > Can anyone offer any

boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread Michael Haarman
I just installed Debian 2.1r2, 2.0.36 kernel on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDX. I figured out I needed the "tecra" images, everything goes like butter, installing from CD's. I built a custom boot disk after install and prior to rebooting the first time; just in case, I intend to build a custom ke

gpm on NEC Versa V

1999-11-09 Thread David Karlin
Hi, Anyone know which is the correct mouse type for the NEC Versa V? (It has a trackball on front of chassis.) Thanks. --David -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funk48.home.travelin.com Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

Re: Ethernet-Card for Laptop

1999-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
>I want to buy a pcmcia-ethernet-card for my notebook. I have a Sharp >9090 and I want to establish a little network with an old Pentium 75. > >First, is a 10 MBit/s card enough or should I buy a 100 MBit/s card? >Are these cards much more expensive? > >Furthermore, are there any problems with thes

Re: boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread Nuno Nunes
I've got Debian 2.0 on a Sat. Pro 460CDX, and I remember having a similar problem. If I recall correctly, I didn't need the tecra images; I think my recipe for success was using the source CD to boot the install, then the binary CD to install base and everything else (from dselect?), making sure n

Re: Ethernet-Card for Laptop

1999-11-09 Thread Seth Golub
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The issue of Cardbus being required for 100baseT is definately worth > noting. It's also not true. I have a 100baseT PCMCIA card. I haven't tried measuring the actual throughput, but it's definately much faster on a 100baseT network than a 10baseT ne

Re: Ethernet-Card for Laptop

1999-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
>> The issue of Cardbus being required for 100baseT is definately worth >> noting. > >It's also not true. I have a 100baseT PCMCIA card. I haven't tried >measuring the actual throughput, but it's definately much faster on a >100baseT network than a 10baseT network. (And it's capable of talking

Re: boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread matthschulz
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, Michael Haarman wrote: I got the same problem. At my Toshiba it helped to turn off the cache in the BIOS-Setup. It is slow then, but You can start the machine and then first thing to do is to compile Your own kernel. Make sure, You compile a zImage and with this it worked perf

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

1999-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, Andrew Clark wrote: >I would like to get a laptop and run Debian on it. Does anyone have any >recommendations for machines/manufactures to buy or avoid? I have just bought a Thinkpad 600E, PentiumII-400MHz, 64M, 10G, 1024x768x16bpp. Everything works fine except the built in

Re: Hibernation

1999-11-09 Thread John_J_Neff
I can't help with Hibernation but I use Partition magic for all my partitioning needs. It has a simple menu driven rescue disk tha is simple to use and fast. My 2 ¢ JJN

Re: Debian on Sony 505TX

1999-11-09 Thread Greg Kline
> >Your next step would be to search for a window manager on the system. if > >you do not find anything, of course you can always apt-get one > >(enlightenment is my personal fav - apt-get install enlightenment > >enlightenment conf). Then it would be wise of you to make a .xinitrc file > >in yo

configuration hardwareclock - timezone - localtime

1999-11-09 Thread matthschulz
Hi all, I'm sure this was handled before, but i couldn't find any useful stuff. Can somebody point me to a good description, how to set timezone and localtime, so i can leave the hardwareclock at CST/CDST and change the linux-systemtime between different timezones. How can i adjust the hardwareclo

RE: configuration hardwareclock - timezone - localtime

1999-11-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Nov-99 matthschulz wrote: > Hi all, > I'm sure this was handled before, but i couldn't find any useful stuff. > > Can somebody point me to a good description, how to set timezone and > localtime, > so i can leave the hardwareclock at CST/CDST and change the linux-systemtime > between differ

Re: Hibernation

1999-11-09 Thread R. Poss
Hello, I have been trying to get hibernation mode working on several different laptops of different brands (IBM, Toshiba), and unfortunately there is (apparently) no way to have it work under linux. I expect some messy APM BIOS hook into m$-win, for which I have (yet) not found any documentat

Re: Hibernation

1999-11-09 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 9 Nov, R. Poss wrote about "Re: Hibernation" > > Hello, > I have been trying to get hibernation mode working on several > different laptops of different brands (IBM, Toshiba), and unfortunately > there is (apparently) no way to have it work under linux. I expect some > messy APM BIOS h

Re: boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread David Reviejo
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 01:04:34AM -0600, Michael Haarman wrote: > On reboot, the POST happens, LILO (there is no Windows here, thank you) > and the Loading Linux . . . . . . . . . . . > I had the same problem on my Satellite 2560. This is from the "Linux on the Toshiba Tecra series laptops" page

RE: boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The rescue image to use is called tecra. So resc1440tecra.bin.

Re: potato security ;(

1999-11-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:01:17PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > But nothing helps! Whenever I attempt to telnet in from work.machine (not > it's real name), I get: > Connected to strider [my machine]. > Debian GNU/Linux potato strider > login: permission denied > Terminated > Can anyone offer any

boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread Michael Haarman
I just installed Debian 2.1r2, 2.0.36 kernel on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDX. I figured out I needed the "tecra" images, everything goes like butter, installing from CD's. I built a custom boot disk after install and prior to rebooting the first time; just in case, I intend to build a custom ke

gpm on NEC Versa V

1999-11-09 Thread David Karlin
Hi, Anyone know which is the correct mouse type for the NEC Versa V? (It has a trackball on front of chassis.) Thanks. --David -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funk48.home.travelin.com Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

Re: Ethernet-Card for Laptop

1999-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
>I want to buy a pcmcia-ethernet-card for my notebook. I have a Sharp >9090 and I want to establish a little network with an old Pentium 75. > >First, is a 10 MBit/s card enough or should I buy a 100 MBit/s card? >Are these cards much more expensive? > >Furthermore, are there any problems with thes

Re: boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread Nuno Nunes
I've got Debian 2.0 on a Sat. Pro 460CDX, and I remember having a similar problem. If I recall correctly, I didn't need the tecra images; I think my recipe for success was using the source CD to boot the install, then the binary CD to install base and everything else (from dselect?), making sure n

Re: Ethernet-Card for Laptop

1999-11-09 Thread Seth Golub
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The issue of Cardbus being required for 100baseT is definately worth > noting. It's also not true. I have a 100baseT PCMCIA card. I haven't tried measuring the actual throughput, but it's definately much faster on a 100baseT network than a 10baseT ne

Re: Ethernet-Card for Laptop

1999-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
>> The issue of Cardbus being required for 100baseT is definately worth >> noting. > >It's also not true. I have a 100baseT PCMCIA card. I haven't tried >measuring the actual throughput, but it's definately much faster on a >100baseT network than a 10baseT network. (And it's capable of talking

Re: boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread matthschulz
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, Michael Haarman wrote: I got the same problem. At my Toshiba it helped to turn off the cache in the BIOS-Setup. It is slow then, but You can start the machine and then first thing to do is to compile Your own kernel. Make sure, You compile a zImage and with this it worked perf

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

1999-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, Andrew Clark wrote: >I would like to get a laptop and run Debian on it. Does anyone have any >recommendations for machines/manufactures to buy or avoid? I have just bought a Thinkpad 600E, PentiumII-400MHz, 64M, 10G, 1024x768x16bpp. Everything works fine except the built in

Re: Hibernation

1999-11-09 Thread John_J_Neff
I can't help with Hibernation but I use Partition magic for all my partitioning needs. It has a simple menu driven rescue disk tha is simple to use and fast. My 2 ¢ JJN

Re: Debian on Sony 505TX

1999-11-09 Thread Greg Kline
> >Your next step would be to search for a window manager on the system. if > >you do not find anything, of course you can always apt-get one > >(enlightenment is my personal fav - apt-get install enlightenment > >enlightenment conf). Then it would be wise of you to make a .xinitrc file > >in yo

configuration hardwareclock - timezone - localtime

1999-11-09 Thread matthschulz
Hi all, I'm sure this was handled before, but i couldn't find any useful stuff. Can somebody point me to a good description, how to set timezone and localtime, so i can leave the hardwareclock at CST/CDST and change the linux-systemtime between different timezones. How can i adjust the hardwareclo

RE: configuration hardwareclock - timezone - localtime

1999-11-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Nov-99 matthschulz wrote: > Hi all, > I'm sure this was handled before, but i couldn't find any useful stuff. > > Can somebody point me to a good description, how to set timezone and > localtime, > so i can leave the hardwareclock at CST/CDST and change the linux-systemtime > between differ

Re: Hibernation

1999-11-09 Thread R. Poss
Hello, I have been trying to get hibernation mode working on several different laptops of different brands (IBM, Toshiba), and unfortunately there is (apparently) no way to have it work under linux. I expect some messy APM BIOS hook into m$-win, for which I have (yet) not found any documentat

Re: Hibernation

1999-11-09 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 9 Nov, R. Poss wrote about "Re: Hibernation" > > Hello, > I have been trying to get hibernation mode working on several > different laptops of different brands (IBM, Toshiba), and unfortunately > there is (apparently) no way to have it work under linux. I expect some > messy APM BIOS h

Re: boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread David Reviejo
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 01:04:34AM -0600, Michael Haarman wrote: > On reboot, the POST happens, LILO (there is no Windows here, thank you) > and the Loading Linux . . . . . . . . . . . > I had the same problem on my Satellite 2560. This is from the "Linux on the Toshiba Tecra series laptops" page

RE: boot...reboot...reboot...

1999-11-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The rescue image to use is called tecra. So resc1440tecra.bin.