remote printing

2002-04-14 Thread Tom Allison
I'm having a little trouble with my lpr and remote printing. I got kind of disgusted and am willing to consider CUPS instead. All I'm trying to do is to get remote printing to work. Two questions: ONE: under lpr I kept running into a problem where the 'lpc {remote IP} status' listed printer st

cd-rw external box usb ???

2002-04-14 Thread Holger Warm
Hello, does anyone know, if a cd-writer in an external box on usb works with linux and if what do I have to do. I'm using kernel 2.4.16 Greetings Holger -- "The Palestinians have to be hit hard. Now they have to be beaten. If they aren't badly beaten, there won't be any negotiations." Ariel Sharo

Re: remote printing

2002-04-14 Thread Jason Chambers
Tom Allison wrote: I'm having a little trouble with my lpr and remote printing. I got kind of disgusted and am willing to consider CUPS instead. All I'm trying to do is to get remote printing to work. Two questions: ONE: under lpr I kept running into a problem where the 'lpc {remote IP} sta

dselect: the access method area is already locked

2002-04-14 Thread Nick
I attempted to upgrade to Woody 3.0 but I still need to update the kernel. After upgrading it disabled my cd rom or PCMCIA port. My cdrom is not getting any power to it and in dselect it says the access method area is already locked? How can I reactivate my cd rom? I presume it has just stopped the

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Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread Dennis Kibbe
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:24:15PM -0700, wandering jason wrote: > hello everyone, > > i'm trying to make a decision on which laptop to > purchase. i've great respect for the debian community, > and so i thought i'd ask for advice here. > > i'll use the laptop mostly for programming, writing, > b

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2002-04-14 Thread Josh Knarr
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Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dennis Kibbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.14.1826 +0200]: > You can pick them up on eBay for under US$250 with a 2gig HD, 80Mb > RAM. Mine runs Potato just fine and I've loaded SUSE 7.1 on another > with acceptable performance using the KDE desktop. Considering the > price and the fact

nsc-ircc "wrong chip version"

2002-04-14 Thread Thomas Hood
You aren't the only person who has encountered this problem. You need to remove the "chip version" test (lines 700-706 in the 2.4.19-pre6 driver) from nsc-ircc.c. Then the module will load and work fine. The driver isn't wrong according to the specs available for the 87338/97338. However, some

iBook

2002-04-14 Thread Stefano Canepa
Hi all, I fell in love of new Apple iBook and PowerBook but I saw little infos about Linux on this laptop. Where can I look for infos? I just checked linux-on-laptop web site. Regards Stefano -- Stefano Canepa e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To follow the path: look at the master, follow the master,

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.14.2009 +0200]: > but yes, i second. and it's sturdy as hell. meaning: i've punched the > ones i had and they've fallen down several meters, and they're running > like a charm :_) and even though michael dell and bill gates have sex with eac

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:27, martin f krafft wrote: > but before i'd buy another dell, i'd think thrice about it. they are > capitalist arseholes, blinded by money and seemingly uninterested to > let their clients run anything but micro$oft... If they were really capitalistic then they would provide

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.14.2200 +0200]: > If they were really capitalistic then they would provide half-decent support > for Linux (not full support because they know we don't need hand-holding and > they want to save money). > > Linux users make up a reasonable sl

Re: iBook

2002-04-14 Thread Adam Lazur
Stefano Canepa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I fell in love of new Apple iBook and PowerBook but I saw little infos > about Linux on this laptop. Where can I look for infos? I just checked > linux-on-laptop web site. Try the debian-powerpc mailing list archives. I believe most of the stuff for the

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Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread David D.W. Downey
(This was originally screwed up due to forgetting the s in lists so it's a repaste and post) Actually I don't know what you guys are talking about. I am fiercely loyal to Dell as a customer simply beause I got EXCELLENT technical support from them with CPx laptops, PowerEdge and PowerApp serve

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David D.W. Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.14.2344 +0200]: > Actually I don't know what you guys are talking about. I am fiercely > loyal to Dell as a customer simply beause I got EXCELLENT technical > support from them with CPx laptops, PowerEdge and PowerApp servers, > and every s

Re: iBook

2002-04-14 Thread Bob Koss
On 4/14/02 3:15 PM, "Stefano Canepa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I fell in love of new Apple iBook and PowerBook but I saw little infos > about Linux on this laptop. Where can I look for infos? I just checked > linux-on-laptop web site. > I have Linux on all of my other (Intel) laptop

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread noah
At 03:27 PM 14/04/2002, martin f krafft wrote: and even though michael dell and bill gates have sex with each other, dell's laptops are not that linux-friendly, and their attitude towards support and the way to handle clients is below zero, their systems are still very reliable and robust, IMHO.

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread Nick
In my day we were more into train surfing than train hopping...Most laptops can take a fare amount of G's before they stop working my old AT&T survived as did my Toshiba laptop so if Michael Dell can spare a laptop I would be happy to be in a commercial and put it to the Dell laptop train surf chal

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2002-04-14 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Josh Knarr wrote: > > I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the > admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove > the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. You may want to set your newsreader to not strip the stuff below s

remote printing

2002-04-14 Thread Tom Allison
I'm having a little trouble with my lpr and remote printing. I got kind of disgusted and am willing to consider CUPS instead. All I'm trying to do is to get remote printing to work. Two questions: ONE: under lpr I kept running into a problem where the 'lpc {remote IP} status' listed printer st

cd-rw external box usb ???

2002-04-14 Thread Holger Warm
Hello, does anyone know, if a cd-writer in an external box on usb works with linux and if what do I have to do. I'm using kernel 2.4.16 Greetings Holger -- "The Palestinians have to be hit hard. Now they have to be beaten. If they aren't badly beaten, there won't be any negotiations." Ariel Shar

Re: remote printing

2002-04-14 Thread Jason Chambers
Tom Allison wrote: > I'm having a little trouble with my lpr and remote printing. > I got kind of disgusted and am willing to consider CUPS instead. > > All I'm trying to do is to get remote printing to work. > > Two questions: > > ONE: > under lpr I kept running into a problem where the 'lpc

dselect: the access method area is already locked

2002-04-14 Thread Nick
I attempted to upgrade to Woody 3.0 but I still need to update the kernel. After upgrading it disabled my cd rom or PCMCIA port. My cdrom is not getting any power to it and in dselect it says the access method area is already locked? How can I reactivate my cd rom? I presume it has just stopped th

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Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread Dennis Kibbe
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:24:15PM -0700, wandering jason wrote: > hello everyone, > > i'm trying to make a decision on which laptop to > purchase. i've great respect for the debian community, > and so i thought i'd ask for advice here. > > i'll use the laptop mostly for programming, writing, >

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2002-04-14 Thread Josh Knarr
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Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dennis Kibbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.14.1826 +0200]: > You can pick them up on eBay for under US$250 with a 2gig HD, 80Mb > RAM. Mine runs Potato just fine and I've loaded SUSE 7.1 on another > with acceptable performance using the KDE desktop. Considering the > price and the fact

iBook

2002-04-14 Thread Stefano Canepa
Hi all, I fell in love of new Apple iBook and PowerBook but I saw little infos about Linux on this laptop. Where can I look for infos? I just checked linux-on-laptop web site. Regards Stefano -- Stefano Canepa e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To follow the path: look at the master, follow the master

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.14.2009 +0200]: > but yes, i second. and it's sturdy as hell. meaning: i've punched the > ones i had and they've fallen down several meters, and they're running > like a charm :_) and even though michael dell and bill gates have sex with ea

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:27, martin f krafft wrote: > but before i'd buy another dell, i'd think thrice about it. they are > capitalist arseholes, blinded by money and seemingly uninterested to > let their clients run anything but micro$oft... If they were really capitalistic then they would provid

nsc-ircc "wrong chip version"

2002-04-14 Thread Thomas Hood
You aren't the only person who has encountered this problem. You need to remove the "chip version" test (lines 700-706 in the 2.4.19-pre6 driver) from nsc-ircc.c. Then the module will load and work fine. The driver isn't wrong according to the specs available for the 87338/97338. However, some

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.14.2200 +0200]: > If they were really capitalistic then they would provide half-decent support > for Linux (not full support because they know we don't need hand-holding and > they want to save money). > > Linux users make up a reasonable s

Re: iBook

2002-04-14 Thread Adam Lazur
Stefano Canepa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I fell in love of new Apple iBook and PowerBook but I saw little infos > about Linux on this laptop. Where can I look for infos? I just checked > linux-on-laptop web site. Try the debian-powerpc mailing list archives. I believe most of the stuff for th

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2002-04-14 Thread DTi4565459
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Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread David D.W. Downey
(This was originally screwed up due to forgetting the s in lists so it's a repaste and post) Actually I don't know what you guys are talking about. I am fiercely loyal to Dell as a customer simply beause I got EXCELLENT technical support from them with CPx laptops, PowerEdge and PowerApp serv

Re: debian for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David D.W. Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.14.2344 +0200]: > Actually I don't know what you guys are talking about. I am fiercely > loyal to Dell as a customer simply beause I got EXCELLENT technical > support from them with CPx laptops, PowerEdge and PowerApp servers, > and every

Re: iBook

2002-04-14 Thread Bob Koss
On 4/14/02 3:15 PM, "Stefano Canepa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I fell in love of new Apple iBook and PowerBook but I saw little infos > about Linux on this laptop. Where can I look for infos? I just checked > linux-on-laptop web site. > I have Linux on all of my other (Intel) lapto

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread noah
At 03:27 PM 14/04/2002, martin f krafft wrote: >and even though michael dell and bill gates have sex with each other, >dell's laptops are not that linux-friendly, and their attitude towards >support and the way to handle clients is below zero, their systems are >still very reliable and robust, IMH

Re: debian laptop for a train hopper

2002-04-14 Thread Nick
In my day we were more into train surfing than train hopping...Most laptops can take a fare amount of G's before they stop working my old AT&T survived as did my Toshiba laptop so if Michael Dell can spare a laptop I would be happy to be in a commercial and put it to the Dell laptop train surf cha

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-04-14 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Josh Knarr wrote: > > I no longer wish to supscribe to this mailing list. I've mailed the > admin on my particular issue and received no response. Please remove > the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list. You may want to set your newsreader to not strip the stuff below

Re: Installing debian from redhat

2002-04-14 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Apr 11, Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Wilmer van der Gaast > > | Neil L. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:23:56 -0500 (EST): > | > [base2_2.tgz] The "2_2" refers to version 2.2, i.e., potato. If you > | > want to upgrade to woody, then you can modify /etc/apt/sou