Re: WEP

2001-05-15 Thread Adam Shand
> Suggestion: don't trust WEP. It's another layer of obscurity, but > it's designed wrong and not at all secure. Some past articles on /. > have links to papers by people who've broken WEP. I wouldn't trust it > to keep my spare change secure. sorry i have to speak up, i'm no huge lover of wep

Re: SpeedStep / Geyserville lockups?

2001-05-15 Thread Heather
> > > > Is anyone else out there seeing lockups under 2.2.x (2.2.18 here) with a > > > > PIII SpeedStep (aka Geyserville) chip? > > > > > > > > I've had lockups over the past week I suspect are due to CPU step-speed > > > > changes resulting from power source switching. I believe that Speedstep ma

Re: Xircom and Potatoe

2001-05-15 Thread Jørn Helge B. Dahl
* dan.c | > Xircom Realport Ethernet 10\100 + modem 56 REM56G-100 | > | > i have installed debian 2.2r3 and it asked to configure pcmcia, no problems | > when it comes to configuring network via dhcp , again no problems | > when i reboot the laptop and the interface comes up, it has been recognis

XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Matthias Weiss
Hi! Can anyone provide me a XF86Config file for the ATI Rage 128 Mobility Chip. I'm using the "non free" XF86_Rage128 server but I'm not able to get it run. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with a 1600x1200 TFT on Debian 2.2r3. I tried to "dist-upgrade" to the "unstable" dist in Order to use the X 4.0

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Matthias Weiss
Ahm, unfortunately it didn't help. Here is the output after a startx: >> (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Matthias Weiss wrote: > > Ahm, unfortunately it didn't help. Here is the output after a startx: Just to be _absolutely_ clear about this - you are aware that the XF86Config file format changed in an incompatible way [for the better, imo] between 3.x and 4.x, right? -- I th

alsa troubles

2001-05-15 Thread Yannick Asselin
I got everything but my sound (and suspend/resume, but that's another story) running in linux on my Inspiron 8000 ( yay! ) Alsa installs okay, but I only have version .5.9 and I need .5.10 to get the Maestro 3 drivers for the sound chip I have in the laptop. Only thing is when I go to the ALSA web

Re: alsa troubles

2001-05-15 Thread David Miller
I got the latest Alsa working yesterday... The driver and library tarballs compiled and installed fine. But in alsa-utils, the 'alsamixer' module had a small problem. It compiled OK, but the makefile did not link it against the ncurses library (lots of errors about 'no reference to (ncurses f

Re: alsa troubles

2001-05-15 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Yannick Asselin wrote: > > Alsa installs okay, but I only have version .5.9 and I need .5.10 to get > the Maestro 3 drivers for the sound chip I have in the laptop. Only > thing is when I go to the ALSA website and install the sources and try > > [snip] > > quicker way to get i

Re: SpeedStep / Geyserville lockups?

2001-05-15 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:01:29AM -0700, Heather wrote: > > > > > Is anyone else out there seeing lockups under 2.2.x (2.2.18 here) > > > > > with a > > > > > PIII SpeedStep (aka Geyserville) chip? > > > > > > > > > > I've had lockups over the past week I suspect are due to CPU > > > > > step-sp

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Matthias Weiss
> Just to be _absolutely_ clear about this - you are aware that the > XF86Config file format changed in an incompatible way [for the > better, imo] between 3.x and 4.x, right? Yes, I know this. But my potato dist has the 3.3.6 version of xfree86, so I need the old format, don't I? -- GMX - Die

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Matthias Weiss wrote: > Yes, I know this. But my potato dist has the 3.3.6 version of xfree86, so I > need the old format, don't I? Yes, you do - I was just making sure we weren't talking at cross purposes... I'm not sure I ever got 3.3.6 to drive the r128 in my laptop, but i

Re: SpeedStep / Geyserville lockups?

2001-05-15 Thread Heather
>> Is anyone else out there seeing lockups under 2.2.x (2.2.18 here) with a > PIII SpeedStep (aka Geyserville) chip? > > I've had lockups over the past week I suspect are due to CPU step-speed >> changes resulting from power source switching. >> I believe that Speedstep mach

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:06:17PM +0200, Matthias Weiss wrote: > Hi! > Can anyone provide me a XF86Config file for the ATI Rage 128 Mobility > Chip. I'm using the "non free" XF86_Rage128 server but I'm not able > to get it run. > > I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with a 1600x1200 TFT on Debian 2.2r3

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB floppy: 1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my case from 6.0. 2. Partitioned the disk, leaving the hibernate partition alone, and installed into what would become the swap partition u

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread p
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:20:40PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB > floppy: > >1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my > case from 6.0. >2. Partitioned the disk, leaving the hibernate

netenv and a fqdn

2001-05-15 Thread Dr. Jon R. Fox
A lot of my mail gets bounced back with since my machine doesn't have a fqdn (mail looks like its from rsifox@ . Netenv has a DOMAIN= setting, but this doesn't seem to affect # hostname --fqdn rsifox how do I get it to represent my fully qualified domain name at work? -- Jon -- Dr. Jon R.

Re: WEP

2001-05-15 Thread tom
Thanks all for the replies. I've done the RTM thing and have one question. If the network.opts file doesn't identify the ray_cs module as having a key, then how do I find out what it is supposed to be? Or, more to the point, how can I validate the claim that it does have 56 or 128 encryption. An

Re: WEP

2001-05-15 Thread Adam Shand
> If the network.opts file doesn't identify the ray_cs module as > having a key, then how do I find out what it is supposed to be? the network.opts file is where you set your ip network settings, it has nothing to do with wep. you need to look in your wireless.opts file. there you will see a bun

Re: SpeedStep / Geyserville lockups?

2001-05-15 Thread Heather
> > > > Is anyone else out there seeing lockups under 2.2.x (2.2.18 here) with a > > > > PIII SpeedStep (aka Geyserville) chip? > > > > > > > > I've had lockups over the past week I suspect are due to CPU step-speed > > > > changes resulting from power source switching. I believe that Speedstep m

Re: Xircom and Potatoe

2001-05-15 Thread Jørn Helge B. Dahl
* dan.c | > Xircom Realport Ethernet 10\100 + modem 56 REM56G-100 | > | > i have installed debian 2.2r3 and it asked to configure pcmcia, no problems | > when it comes to configuring network via dhcp , again no problems | > when i reboot the laptop and the interface comes up, it has been recogni

XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Matthias Weiss
Hi! Can anyone provide me a XF86Config file for the ATI Rage 128 Mobility Chip. I'm using the "non free" XF86_Rage128 server but I'm not able to get it run. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with a 1600x1200 TFT on Debian 2.2r3. I tried to "dist-upgrade" to the "unstable" dist in Order to use the X 4.

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Matthias Weiss
Ahm, unfortunately it didn't help. Here is the output after a startx: >> (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Matthias Weiss wrote: > > Ahm, unfortunately it didn't help. Here is the output after a startx: Just to be _absolutely_ clear about this - you are aware that the XF86Config file format changed in an incompatible way [for the better, imo] between 3.x and 4.x, right? -- I t

alsa troubles

2001-05-15 Thread Yannick Asselin
I got everything but my sound (and suspend/resume, but that's another story) running in linux on my Inspiron 8000 ( yay! ) Alsa installs okay, but I only have version .5.9 and I need .5.10 to get the Maestro 3 drivers for the sound chip I have in the laptop. Only thing is when I go to the ALSA we

Re: alsa troubles

2001-05-15 Thread David Miller
I got the latest Alsa working yesterday... The driver and library tarballs compiled and installed fine. But in alsa-utils, the 'alsamixer' module had a small problem. It compiled OK, but the makefile did not link it against the ncurses library (lots of errors about 'no reference to (ncurses

Re: alsa troubles

2001-05-15 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Yannick Asselin wrote: > > Alsa installs okay, but I only have version .5.9 and I need .5.10 to get > the Maestro 3 drivers for the sound chip I have in the laptop. Only > thing is when I go to the ALSA website and install the sources and try > > [snip] > > quicker way to get

Re: SpeedStep / Geyserville lockups?

2001-05-15 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:01:29AM -0700, Heather wrote: > > > > > Is anyone else out there seeing lockups under 2.2.x (2.2.18 here) with a > > > > > PIII SpeedStep (aka Geyserville) chip? > > > > > > > > > > I've had lockups over the past week I suspect are due to CPU step-speed > > > > > changes

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Matthias Weiss
> Just to be _absolutely_ clear about this - you are aware that the > XF86Config file format changed in an incompatible way [for the > better, imo] between 3.x and 4.x, right? Yes, I know this. But my potato dist has the 3.3.6 version of xfree86, so I need the old format, don't I? -- GMX - Di

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Matthias Weiss wrote: > Yes, I know this. But my potato dist has the 3.3.6 version of xfree86, so I > need the old format, don't I? Yes, you do - I was just making sure we weren't talking at cross purposes... I'm not sure I ever got 3.3.6 to drive the r128 in my laptop, but

Re: SpeedStep / Geyserville lockups?

2001-05-15 Thread Heather
>> Is anyone else out there seeing lockups under 2.2.x (2.2.18 here) with a > PIII SpeedStep (aka Geyserville) chip? > > I've had lockups over the past week I suspect are due to CPU step-speed >> changes resulting from power source switching. >> I believe that Speedstep mac

Re: XF86Config, X 3.3.6, ATI Rage 128

2001-05-15 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:06:17PM +0200, Matthias Weiss wrote: > Hi! > Can anyone provide me a XF86Config file for the ATI Rage 128 Mobility > Chip. I'm using the "non free" XF86_Rage128 server but I'm not able > to get it run. > > I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with a 1600x1200 TFT on Debian 2.2r

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB floppy: 1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my case from 6.0. 2. Partitioned the disk, leaving the hibernate partition alone, and installed into what would become the swap partiti

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread p
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:20:40PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB > floppy: > >1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my > case from 6.0. >2. Partitioned the disk, leaving the hibernat

netenv and a fqdn

2001-05-15 Thread Dr. Jon R. Fox
A lot of my mail gets bounced back with since my machine doesn't have a fqdn (mail looks like its from rsifox@ . Netenv has a DOMAIN= setting, but this doesn't seem to affect # hostname --fqdn rsifox how do I get it to represent my fully qualified domain name at work? -- Jon -- Dr. Jon R

Re: WEP

2001-05-15 Thread tom
Thanks all for the replies. I've done the RTM thing and have one question. If the network.opts file doesn't identify the ray_cs module as having a key, then how do I find out what it is supposed to be? Or, more to the point, how can I validate the claim that it does have 56 or 128 encryption. A

Re: WEP

2001-05-15 Thread Adam Shand
> If the network.opts file doesn't identify the ray_cs module as > having a key, then how do I find out what it is supposed to be? the network.opts file is where you set your ip network settings, it has nothing to do with wep. you need to look in your wireless.opts file. there you will see a bu