Re: boot stall

2001-04-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0700, Eric Allen wrote: > greetings > ive just finnished my first debian install every thing was default > except i added the eepro100 netcard. on first reboot with > floppy it stalls at inetd. any suggestions? > > hardware is a dell inspiron 8000.i cant see

Re: APM - ACPI

2001-04-20 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:31:06PM +0200, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey wrote: > Hi, > > Anybody used ACPI? I've got troubles using apm on a SONY VAIO F801. > The processor is AMD K6-III Stepping 4. > As far as I know ACPI or APM is an issue for the motherboard and BIOS, rather than strictly depending o

Re: Debian Sid

2001-04-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:04:02PM -0700, Jason Victor wrote: > Hi. I know this may be the wrong mailing list, but > it's the only one I'm subscribed to. > > I have a potato cd, and recently tried Mandrake 8. The > shiny new GNOME and Nautilus made me drool, and now > that I think I'm ready to pu

Re: hdd crashed?

2001-04-27 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Joachim Schiele wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > i have a scenic mobile 500 with 2gb hdd > from TOSHIBA MK2104MAV, 2067MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=525/128/63 > and i have installed debian r2.2 stable > this has been working for me for

Re: ppp- and dns-problem

2001-04-29 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 08:27:17PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > If you're using ppp, you should just tell pppd to set a default route. It > has an option to do this, called defaultroute. Just add that to your > /etc/ppp/options, or /etc/ppp/peers/filename. > That doesn't work. I tried pu

Re: 2.2.19 won't run on toshiba sat 470CDT

2001-05-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:18:46AM +0200, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > hi, > > update: when cardmgr is started the kernel kills the interrupt > handler ... but still no clue why :(. > I got no idea why you're getting that problem, but if cardmgr is causing it, you could switch cardmgr during boot an

Re: 2.2/potato + 2.4.4 kernel on Toshiba 8100?

2001-05-04 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:23:32AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > I'd like to experiment with some USB stuff that requires the 2.4.4 > kernel. I've built 2.4.4 on top of a 2.2/potato desktop system using > the ~bunk updates and everything seems to be working ok. > > But my laptop is really my produ

Re: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:11:52AM -0700, Dhruva Reddy wrote: > > Where am I going with this? You may want to keep this > in mind as you check out the Linux Laptop site: > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop > That link redirects, but the "official" address is now http://ww

Re: Problem setting (new) default route with pppd after connecting

2001-06-21 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:49:15PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > > I configured my ppp connection with pppconfig, and I have defaultroute > set. However, a default route already exists (it points to the lan gateway). > When I build up a connection using pon it connects, retrieves an > IP and the na

Re: Problem setting (new) default route with pppd after connecting

2001-06-22 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:49:12PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:49:08AM +0800, Yuchung Cheng wrote: > > first enable the "debug" options in /etc/ppp/peers/you_isp_name > > then check the /var/log/messages to see if /etc/ppp/ip-up is executed > > then check run-parts --tes

Re: Transfers interrupted when uploading

2001-06-25 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:14:03PM +0200, Alberto Bigazzi wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have a very nasty problem: I can't upload files from my machine. > > What happens is that after the first few Kb's, the transfer hangs and I > can > only disconnect by hanging up. Note that SMALL, ascii tr

Re: How to make a pcmcia_cs.deb and drivers module

2001-07-04 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:24:32PM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote: > > > How to make a pcmcia_cs.deb package and > > drivers module by original pcmcia_cs source > > - untar the source in /usr/src/modules > - copy an existing debian tree from a pcmcia-cs-source package > into the above dir (so

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:32:50PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: > Anyone know if there's a tool to turn off the backlight or > the video subsystem without turning putting the whole laptop. > I like to start some mp3's playing and then shut the case. > I'd like the battery to last as long as possibl

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:13:00PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:56:25AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > Toshiba also lets you press Fn-F5 to toggle between LCD display, > > cathode tube display (it has a video-out port) or both. I could use >

agpgart kernel module

2001-07-31 Thread Drew Parsons
I've got a Toshiba 490CDT, with an S3 ViRGE/MX video card. Going through the kernel options, I noticed there's this new agpgart kernel module which is supposed enhance video performance. (It's followed by some DRI options, but S3 video isn't listed there). The 490CDT seems to have some AGP thing

Re: Sony Vaio SR33

2001-07-31 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:05:16PM +, p wrote: > > are you using alsa or oss? i see, using alsaconf, how that is > accomplished; but with oss, how does one change the direct memory > access (dma) setting? (it if matters, i compiled kernel 2.4.0 and > put oss directly into the kernel.) > I

Re: network connectivity problems

2001-08-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:21:06PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPEED GRAFIX INC wrote: Did you recompile the pcmcia-modules when you compiled 2.4.7? cd /usr/src/modules apt-get source pcmcia-cs cd /usr/src/linux make-kpkg kernels_image make-kpkg modules_image The pcmcia modules need to match the

Re: network connectivity problems

2001-08-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:54:48PM -0700, Sam Tingleff wrote: > > Isn't i82365 replaced by yenta_socket in 2.4.6? I had to modify > /etc/init.d/pcmcia and /etc/pcmcia.conf to use yenta_socket instead of i82365. > I don't know. lsmod tells me I'm still using i82365 (kernel 2.4.7, pcmcia-cs 3.1

Re: (no subject)

2001-08-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:34:18AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > recently reformated my ladies compaq/presario 1200-XL110 laptop, CM2070 > (series). Re-did windows, single click touchpad drivers are needed. Email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks Laptop mice are usually PS-2. Did you try a P

Re: Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...

2001-09-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:33:47PM +0200, Tony Crawford wrote: > although the 2.2r*0* CD does? > > At first I thought I had a coaster, but it boots fine on other > machines. FWIW the Progeny 1.0 CD I got off a magazine cover > won't boot on the Toshiba either. > > Very curious (and holdin

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:55:30PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Werner Heuser wrote: > >> know intuitively and I think thje other is discover. There is at > >> least two more. > > `divine' and maybe some of the ARP packages. > > `whereami', which is a suite to detect and co

Re: pcmcia-cs and configuring network...

2001-09-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:03:12PM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:09:11AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > The thing I'd find autodetection useful for is shuffling /etc/exim.conf > > around, one configuration for dialup (setting the ISP's SMTP ser

Re: Toshiba CDT740

2001-09-12 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:20:57PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > Hi, > > I just won a Toshiba 470CDT Pentium laptop on eBay. It has a 2G HD. > > Am thinking of shrinking the Win98 installation down to a minimum and > partitioning so as to squeeze Debian on there. Alternately (if this is > possibl

best practice for adapting to different environments?

2005-01-10 Thread Drew Parsons
inferior? Or redundant (behaving exactly the same as another package)? Seems to me this area of Debian needs to be cleaned up, would you agree? I'd love to hear your recommendations. Drew Parsons p.s. please CC: me, I'm not currently subscribed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: best practice for adapting to different environments?

2005-01-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 14:42 +0100, Koen Vermeer wrote: > Hi Drew, > > I'm using the guessnet package to set the right cups server, but you > could also use it to set your smarthost. > Arggh! Not another one! :) > A better solution may be to list all your smarthosts in exim. In most > cases, if

Re: best practice for adapting to different environments?

2005-01-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:24 +0100, Kai Hildebrandt wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:00:41 +1100 > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does your smarthost understand SMTP-AUTH? > > Then it schould work from ANY place with ANY mailaddress because you'

Re: Missing Time (There be Aliens?)

1999-08-31 Thread Drew Parsons
till seem to have lost my proper timezone, but that's not so important to me. Also the ntp daemon for setting the clock from the network won't work for quids, but I guess that is a question for another time. In short, try setting the clock from Windows (heh) and see if it'll work better after that. Drew Parsons

Re: proposal - Debian laptop package/distribution

1999-09-01 Thread Drew Parsons
-1999-03-03 on CD#1 (*not* CD#2) and rename them by hand, and only then could installation proceed properly.I thought CD#2 was supposed to be set up as a boot installation disk for tecra-type machines without requiring this sort of manual intervention. Drew Parsons

Re: Missing Time (There be Aliens?)

1999-09-01 Thread Drew Parsons
Nathan Duehr wrote: > If you want some help getting NTP to work, let me know. Thanks for your offer. Actually, it's seems to be working now! (this always happens to me. I think there must be some daemon in my computer palying tricks on me) The reason I thought it wasn't was that I tried to c

sorting packages by size

1999-09-03 Thread Drew Parsons
ing chosen the "workstation" option. So, among other things, I got both emacs 19 *and* 20 installed! Now I'd like to be able to trim back stuff I don't actually need or want, and it would make more sense to sack the larger packages first. So what's the best way of

Re: sorting packages by size

1999-09-04 Thread Drew Parsons
Karl Erickson wrote: > Drew Parsons: > >The installation went by so fast, and I was so in > >shock after having figured out the problem with the > >tecra images that I mentioned the other day,... > > is there an archive of this list? i'm just starting in linux, ju

Re: pb with xircom eth+modem

1999-09-06 Thread Drew Parsons
> Christophe CALMEJANE wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a problem with my xircom card under debian linux : > I've a compaq ARMADA 1700 with a debian 2.1 and a 2.2.9 kernel... and > of course a Xircom pcmcia card (RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56K) > and under linux my network is fine, but not the m

Re: eth0: startup messages - pseudo newbie

1999-10-20 Thread Drew Parsons
configured inadequately, or if the restart and reset can be performed automatically upon resumption? Drew Parsons

Re: eth0: startup messages - pseudo newbie

1999-10-21 Thread Drew Parsons
> > For my part, I seem to be able to pull the ethernet cable in and out of my > > pcmcia card without losing the network. Perhaps I would have to leave the > > cable out for longer before the connection times out? > > Do you have a 10/100 MBit card? And did you have any autosense > problems wi

listing packages in order of size

1999-10-24 Thread Drew Parsons
h is a bit lame, but I couldn't think of anything better. If you think it's useful, feel free to let the people on the debian users mailing list know about it. (I don't subscribe there because the bandwidth is too large). Drew Parsons #!/bin/sh # lists installed Debian package

Re: Time/date lost on Toshiba after reboot

1999-10-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:30:49AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > going back usually to 1 Jan 1990 although sometimes other dates. As long > as I stay in Linux all is well; if I set the date correctly in DOS it > also stays correct even after complete shutdown and reboot. > > If I set the dat

Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
ping. Can anyone help me? What has happened to exim between slink and potato to cause this sort of problem? exim otherwise seems to work - it sent off this letter alright. And I don't think it's a potato bug, rather it's an unfortunate configuration problem. Thanks, Drew Parsons

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
On 26 Oct 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > That means that nobody lisens to port 25. > > Did you reboot after the update? If you have strange problems li

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-27 Thread Drew Parsons
> it would seem that sendmailor exim, as it where, isn't running at all! Are > you sure tat sendmail is actully running or that exim will start with the > correct parameters? Check out /etc/inetd.conf. Also, make sure the > exim-package is actually innstalled. Yes, that's the problem. I don't re

modem speeds, V.90, etc

1999-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
7;s the latter, but the question still remains of whether the carrier speed is "V.90 (56K)" or "34K" or what. Can anyone spare a short word to explain this business a little more clearly? The PPP How-To doesn't really go into these questions. Thanks, Drew Parsons

Re: default route not set with 3com dual modem/enet card

1999-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 12:30:36PM -0700, Michael Perry wrote: > Hi all- > > Just a question about something a few of us have noted where I work. I have > a Fujitsu Lifebook running potato which has a 3com 556 card which provides > both 100mbit ethernet and modem services. One thing we have noti

Re: modem speeds, V.90, etc

1999-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 08:55:55AM -0500, Charlie Hedlin wrote: > Once you get the connect message in your logs, you can adjust it to report > the right speed. If it says 115200, then you need to add an atw2 to your > init string (This is a standard command across 95% of modems, and it works > on

Re: Ethernet-Card for Laptop

1999-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 11:28:07PM +0200, Michael Thaler wrote: > Hello! > > 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

Re: UTC and localtime?

1999-11-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 09:49:41PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > Could someone tell me how they managed time changes and what commands they > issued and in what sequence to change the hardware clock to UTC while > keeping localtime in the system? hwclock is the proper command for setting the hardw

potato security ;(

1999-11-05 Thread Drew Parsons
Hi, can anyone help me sort out the security on my potato box? I had no problems like this with slink... I have sshd running, which I believe is responsible for handling incoming telnet connections. I want to be able to telnet into my machine from certain defined addresses (eg from home). I've

Re: potato security ;(

1999-11-05 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:06:52AM -0500, Thomas Vogels wrote: > As others have pointed out, this is not an ssh problem. The > configuration of the /etc/hosts.* file should allow you to telnet to > your machine. But then, you _should'nt_ use telnet. > Try 'ssh -v' and let us know what ssh is un

Re: potato security ;(

1999-11-05 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:12:47AM -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > If you are actually getting as far as a login: prompt, this isn't a > hosts.allow problem. What's in your /etc/pam.d? I haven't touched pam.d, so it should be all at the potato defaults. I gather /etc/pam.d/login is the relevent file.

Re: potato security ;(

1999-11-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:02:05PM -0500, Charles H. Baker wrote: > Check /etc/inetd.conf to be sure that the line referring to > in.telnetd is not commented out. If it is you'll want to uncomment > it and send a kill -HUP ' to restart inetd and make it > reread /etc/inetd.conf-*+, where you subst

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

Re: Net-3-Packet

1999-11-23 Thread Drew Parsons
tion to a PC with CD-ROM.: "IBM Thinkpad 701C" - sure sounds like a laptop to me. Drew Parsons

Re: Multifunction cards functioning... er, multiply?

1999-11-30 Thread Drew Parsons
rnet and modem at the same time, so I'm not 100% sure. I'm running kernel 2.2.12 with pcmcia-cs v3.1.4-2. My card is a Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (REM56G-100). The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 490CDT. What's XJACK? Drew Parsons

Mail note - for the Laptop-HOWTO ?

1999-12-01 Thread Drew Parsons
t I had to do to get it running properly. I'm attaching my report for your edification. If you feel it's worth anything, feel free to add it to the Laptop-HOWTO. Drew Parsons Laptop Mail Configuration Suggestions. Some notes for ordinary users without too much sysadmin experience.

Re: Error compiling PCMCIA modules

1999-12-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 05:13:30PM +0100, Raph wrote: > > Well, seems like you are trying to build a kernel package (that is, > standard kernel+modules). I do not remember well how this is done > properly, but what I'm sure, is that it is not the proper way to build the > pcmcia-cs package. They a

Re: pcmcia ethernet cards

1999-12-08 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:50:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a toshiba satellite 400CDT that I use an IBM PCMICA ethercard in. > It was working in kernel 2.0.36. I upgraded to potato and it still worked. > I then downloaded and reconfigured 2.2.13 kernel and the ethernet card > stop

Re: ChemUSA (ASUS) 7300, Sound Problems (Yamaha)

1999-12-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:35:51AM +0100, Yann Vernier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 02:45:38PM +0900, Astro D. Boy wrote: > > Sound initialization started > > OSS: OPL3-SA chip not found > > Found OPL3-SAx (YMF719) > > at 0x330 irq 9 dma 0 > > Frankly, I don't see the error. It says you don't

Re: Yamaha Sound (Was ChemUSA/ASUS 7300)

1999-12-09 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:12:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > True VERY true, I have Debian on a desktop and I was convinced the sound > was horked. BUT NO. I just had to turn the sound WAYYY UP! > > I was interested in waht type of mixer software I could use to turn it up > from teh PC p

Re: install on 505

1999-12-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:46:27AM -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > 3) Got to the Install kernel, modules, etc. portion of the install, and > am prompted for install media. Tried literally every single possible > choice for the CDROM, including PCMCIA, and get an error every time. You could start by

Re: 2.2 kernel "flavors" needed for i386 -- any list?

1999-12-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:00:53AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > If you guys on debian-laptop agree, perhaps you could upload a special > 2.2.13-laptop kernel to unstable, and work with debian-boot to work > out issues? > That could be useful. It's a little inconvenient having to fiddle with ke

Re: install on 505

1999-12-11 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 02:49:11AM -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > Sorry- even more vague than I thought I was. Frankly, it was a couple of > weeks ago, and only now has it become apparent that it was important, so > my memory of the message is not perfect and I have not had time to > replicate it. IIR

Re: Debian on Sony 505TX

1999-12-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:52:38PM +1100, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:01:01AM -0300, Dada wrote: > > At 12:31 PM 11/5/1999 -0800, you wrote: > > While installing and learning Debian still I keep doing > > most of my work in the Windows partition, since I can't go online >

Re: 2.2 kernel "flavors" needed for i386 -- any list?

1999-12-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:19:09PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Drew Parsons wrote: > > [ snip ] > > : The only thing against it I can think of is the length of time it takes to > : compile the whole kernel compared with the time it takes to just c

mail signature

1999-12-14 Thread Drew Parsons
Does any have experience in the fine control of an email signature? What I want to be able to do, basically is to be able to choose myself when I do and do not want my .signature file to be appended to an email (I usually only want to do that if I'm writing on official business). Does any one kno

Re: mail signature

1999-12-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:09:51AM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 04:07:04PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > > [Shouldn't this be on debian-user?] [debian-user uses too much bandwidth] > > > I'm using mutt, which either uses a defined signature, or

Re: mail signature

1999-12-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 06:28:05PM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 18:02, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > What I want is to be able to arbitrarily decide manually when I want the > > signature appended. This would be similar to choosing the role in pine

Re: mail signature

1999-12-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 06:34:20AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > Sorry, that's a keystroke sequence in vim, my vi clone of choice. As > another respondent suggested, I solve the problem in the editor. If you > don't use vim then you'd want to use a sequence with similar > functionality in your edito

unresolved symbols in pcmcia modules v3.1.6

1999-12-16 Thread Drew Parsons
I have a weird problem compiling the latest pcmcia modules (for pcmcia-cs 3.1.6-1). I compiled using make-kpkg modules_image, and the compilation seemed to proceed correctly. But when I install and run the new version, it complains that there are "unresolved symbols", as if some functions were nev

Re: unresolved symbols in pcmcia modules v3.1.6

1999-12-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 10:26:17AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dfparsons> I have a weird problem compiling the latest pcmcia modules > dfparsons> (for pcmcia-cs 3.1.6-1). > > i also had problems compiling the latest modules for 3.1.6-1 -- my > short-term work around was to say 'yes' to cardb

Re: unresolved symbols in pcmcia modules v3.1.6

1999-12-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 01:36:10PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > I have a weird problem compiling the latest pcmcia modules (for pcmcia-cs > > 3.1.6-1). > > I think this happens when the kernel version you have compiled doesn't >

Re: unresolved symbols in pcmcia modules v3.1.6

1999-12-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 09:31:24AM +0900, M. Miller wrote: > Hello, > > I get those errors at dmesg/bootup whenever i compiled a new kernel but > didn't compile pcmcia to go with it. You may want to go back into the > pcmcia sources and type debian/rules build-binary > that should make a .deb pack

Re: Off screen

1999-12-16 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 01:49:09AM +0100, Gilles Lamiral wrote: > Hello, > > News from my problem: > It happens only when X Windows is ran for root (startx). > No problem with a normal user. > You said earlier that you have no power management (APM) in your kernel. Have you thought about recompi

Re: Off screen

1999-12-17 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 07:45:13PM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > I had to grep the net for a version of phdisk.exe that would format a > suspend partition for me... It would be neat to have a phdisk.exe > for Linux. > That depends on the model of laptop. Not all laptops have suspend-to-di

Re: Potato on laptops

1999-12-17 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:49:09PM -0300, Dada wrote: > Still I have not been able to get the modem or sound card to work > under Linux on my Sony Vaio 505 TX. > > I have tried xisp as somebody suggested here, and I get a message > ' pppd returned 1!' when I try to dial. > > I have tried kppp and

Re: Potato on laptops

1999-12-18 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 02:34:39PM -0300, Dada wrote: > At 02:49 PM 12/17/1999 -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > > >Did you try wvdial? I found that that worked for me while pppd was > >misconfigured. > > Just tried... and got some progress ! > The modem is dialing. And it

Re: Boot Failed with Debian >= 2; Toshiba

1999-12-22 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 07:22:02PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > > Have you tried $ syslinux -s /dev/fd0, or the same with a: instead of > > the /dev/fd0 from dos? The -s option, if given, will install a "safe, > > slow and stupid" version of SYSLINUX. That is of course after you make > > the

Re: Debian Slink on Toshiba 2100CDS X-Screen update

1999-12-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 10:47:46PM +0100, David Reviejo wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 03:45:19AM +, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:47:21AM +0100, Ries van Twisk wrote: > > > I'm now using the SVGA server, but when I move a window > > > (afterstep window manage

Re: Boot Failed with resc1440.bin

1999-12-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 05:47:22PM -0800, Vasanth Rakasi wrote: > Where can find resc1440tecra.bin and drv1440tecra.bin? > I am trying to install 'slink' on an old ThinkPad > (755CX). > Please help. Thanks. > On the second installation CD, as I recall. Drew

Re: pcmcia annoyances

2000-01-10 Thread Drew Parsons
ia-cs and pcmcia-modules deb's in case of little accidents. It is annoying having to put the pcmcia modules on hold each time. Having a "manual install only" category seems like a sound idea. Drew Parsons

Re: Missing Time (There be Aliens?)

1999-08-31 Thread Drew Parsons
till seem to have lost my proper timezone, but that's not so important to me. Also the ntp daemon for setting the clock from the network won't work for quids, but I guess that is a question for another time. In short, try setting the clock from Windows (heh) and see if it'll work better after that. Drew Parsons

Re: proposal - Debian laptop package/distribution

1999-09-01 Thread Drew Parsons
-1999-03-03 on CD#1 (*not* CD#2) and rename them by hand, and only then could installation proceed properly.I thought CD#2 was supposed to be set up as a boot installation disk for tecra-type machines without requiring this sort of manual intervention. Drew Parsons

Re: Missing Time (There be Aliens?)

1999-09-01 Thread Drew Parsons
Nathan Duehr wrote: > If you want some help getting NTP to work, let me know. Thanks for your offer. Actually, it's seems to be working now! (this always happens to me. I think there must be some daemon in my computer palying tricks on me) The reason I thought it wasn't was that I tried to c

sorting packages by size

1999-09-03 Thread Drew Parsons
ing chosen the "workstation" option. So, among other things, I got both emacs 19 *and* 20 installed! Now I'd like to be able to trim back stuff I don't actually need or want, and it would make more sense to sack the larger packages first. So what's the best way of

Re: sorting packages by size

1999-09-04 Thread Drew Parsons
Karl Erickson wrote: > Drew Parsons: > >The installation went by so fast, and I was so in > >shock after having figured out the problem with the > >tecra images that I mentioned the other day,... > > is there an archive of this list? i'm just starting in linux, ju

Re: pb with xircom eth+modem

1999-09-06 Thread Drew Parsons
> Christophe CALMEJANE wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a problem with my xircom card under debian linux : > I've a compaq ARMADA 1700 with a debian 2.1 and a 2.2.9 kernel... and > of course a Xircom pcmcia card (RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56K) > and under linux my network is fine, but not the m

Re: eth0: startup messages - pseudo newbie

1999-10-20 Thread Drew Parsons
configured inadequately, or if the restart and reset can be performed automatically upon resumption? Drew Parsons

Re: eth0: startup messages - pseudo newbie

1999-10-21 Thread Drew Parsons
> > For my part, I seem to be able to pull the ethernet cable in and out of my > > pcmcia card without losing the network. Perhaps I would have to leave the > > cable out for longer before the connection times out? > > Do you have a 10/100 MBit card? And did you have any autosense > problems wi

listing packages in order of size

1999-10-24 Thread Drew Parsons
h is a bit lame, but I couldn't think of anything better. If you think it's useful, feel free to let the people on the debian users mailing list know about it. (I don't subscribe there because the bandwidth is too large). Drew Parsons #!/bin/sh # lists installed Debian package

Re: Time/date lost on Toshiba after reboot

1999-10-24 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:30:49AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > going back usually to 1 Jan 1990 although sometimes other dates. As long > as I stay in Linux all is well; if I set the date correctly in DOS it > also stays correct even after complete shutdown and reboot. > > If I set the dat

Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
ping. Can anyone help me? What has happened to exim between slink and potato to cause this sort of problem? exim otherwise seems to work - it sent off this letter alright. And I don't think it's a potato bug, rather it's an unfortunate configuration problem. Thanks, Drew Parsons

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
On 26 Oct 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > That means that nobody lisens to port 25. > > Did you reboot after the update? If you have strange problems li

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-27 Thread Drew Parsons
> it would seem that sendmailor exim, as it where, isn't running at all! Are > you sure tat sendmail is actully running or that exim will start with the > correct parameters? Check out /etc/inetd.conf. Also, make sure the > exim-package is actually innstalled. Yes, that's the problem. I don't re

modem speeds, V.90, etc

1999-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
7;s the latter, but the question still remains of whether the carrier speed is "V.90 (56K)" or "34K" or what. Can anyone spare a short word to explain this business a little more clearly? The PPP How-To doesn't really go into these questions. Thanks, Drew Parsons

Re: default route not set with 3com dual modem/enet card

1999-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 12:30:36PM -0700, Michael Perry wrote: > Hi all- > > Just a question about something a few of us have noted where I work. I have > a Fujitsu Lifebook running potato which has a 3com 556 card which provides > both 100mbit ethernet and modem services. One thing we have noti

Re: modem speeds, V.90, etc

1999-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 08:55:55AM -0500, Charlie Hedlin wrote: > Once you get the connect message in your logs, you can adjust it to report > the right speed. If it says 115200, then you need to add an atw2 to your > init string (This is a standard command across 95% of modems, and it works > on

Re: Ethernet-Card for Laptop

1999-10-30 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 11:28:07PM +0200, Michael Thaler wrote: > Hello! > > 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

Re: UTC and localtime?

1999-11-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 09:49:41PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > Could someone tell me how they managed time changes and what commands they > issued and in what sequence to change the hardware clock to UTC while > keeping localtime in the system? hwclock is the proper command for setting the hardw

potato security ;(

1999-11-05 Thread Drew Parsons
Hi, can anyone help me sort out the security on my potato box? I had no problems like this with slink... I have sshd running, which I believe is responsible for handling incoming telnet connections. I want to be able to telnet into my machine from certain defined addresses (eg from home). I've

Re: potato security ;(

1999-11-05 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:06:52AM -0500, Thomas Vogels wrote: > As others have pointed out, this is not an ssh problem. The > configuration of the /etc/hosts.* file should allow you to telnet to > your machine. But then, you _should'nt_ use telnet. > Try 'ssh -v' and let us know what ssh is un

Re: potato security ;(

1999-11-05 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:12:47AM -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > If you are actually getting as far as a login: prompt, this isn't a > hosts.allow problem. What's in your /etc/pam.d? I haven't touched pam.d, so it should be all at the potato defaults. I gather /etc/pam.d/login is the relevent file.

Re: potato security ;(

1999-11-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:02:05PM -0500, Charles H. Baker wrote: > Check /etc/inetd.conf to be sure that the line referring to > in.telnetd is not commented out. If it is you'll want to uncomment > it and send a kill -HUP ' to restart inetd and make it > reread /etc/inetd.conf-*+, where you subst

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

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