Installing debian from redhat

2002-03-21 Thread stephen
e. I read that installs have been done by downloading a rescue image and mounting this in /dev somewhere, however, the essential details of how todo this are lacking. How can I install from a working rh installation without using cdrom or more than 1 floppy ? any help will be appreciated. cheers, stephen

Re: indication on purchase laptop

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:02:29AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Along the way I have used a couple of the small ThinkPad X-series > > machines. I didn't get along with the "scrunched" smaller keyboards > > in them. > > This smaller keyboard was used until (and including) the X61. But when >

Re: Subject: firmware for broadcom drivers.

2015-04-17 Thread Stephen Allen
bject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150417100650.GA15337@stephen-desktop

Re: Debian netinstall over wifi?

2015-05-03 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 08:40:11AM +0200, Uroš Jarc wrote: > I have a question obout installing debian. Ubuntu has this option which can > install all mising packages from ethernet of wifi, while debian has only > ethertnet option. The firmware I prepaire works... > > But if I do netinstall, debia

Re: Installing Debian On ASUS Transformer Book T100TA

2015-06-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 02:27:17PM +0200, Francesco De Vita wrote: > Hello > > I created the page dedicated to the installation of Debian on the ASUS > Transformer Book T100TA [1]. Reviews, suggestions and contributions are > really appreciated. > > Best regards > Francesco > > [1] https://wik

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-14 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:47:30AM +0200, Michael wrote: Not bluetooth any reason it has to be bluetooth? An app your kids will find easy to use, and intuitive, is AirDroid. Has a client for Chrome/Chromium and of course one for the Android Phone side. Doesn't require cable. Use it all the time in

Re: Computer restarts during install

2015-11-19 Thread Stephen Chadfield
tall the base system step) What size is your root partition? If you run out of space when installing packages the system will crash. -- Stephen Chadfield

HDPREPEZ

2000-06-15 Thread Stephen Turner
option in HDPREPEZ.CFG). Or is there an easier way? TIA. -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England "8th March 2000. National No Smoking Day. Ash Wednesday.&

Not powering down

2000-06-16 Thread Stephen Turner
the switch. I tried setting CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF ("Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off") to Yes in the kernel settings, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Thanks in advance for any advice. -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sre

RE: pon Part II

2000-07-05 Thread Stephen . Oxley
information in there. Steve - -- ObCynicalComment: "One world, one web, one program" -- Microsoft promotional ad "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" -- Adolf Hitler ++ | Stephen Oxley, Shared Syste

Ethernet slowness

2000-07-26 Thread Stephen Turner
3.1.8-16 PCMCIA Card Services for Linux. ii pcmcia-modules 3.1.8-14 PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel 2.2.15). ii pcmcia-source 3.1.8-16 PCMCIA Card Services source. TIA. -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical Laboratory, Wilber

Re: plip installation (Host name lookup failure)

2000-08-01 Thread Stephen . Oxley
27;ll agree with that point. FTP is much more robust when it comes to moving files around. > Alex Steve - -- ObCynicalComment: "One world, one web, one program" -- Microsoft promotional ad "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" -- Adolf Hitler +--------

A few questions about the Tecra (a20) problem

1999-12-10 Thread Stephen Parks
zImage rather than a bzImage? Does it restrict you in any way? Stephen Parks

Re: pcmcia and nfs

2000-02-15 Thread Stephen Hardman
-- Start of PGP signed section. > [posted this also do debian-user, no crosspost] > > Hi all, > > I'm running unstable on my Toshiba Satellite with pcmcia support, > works very good. I'm now trying to move to nfs mounted homedirs > from my server. Mounting works without problem, but at boot up >

Re: pcmcia and nfs

2000-02-15 Thread Stephen Hardman
> -- Start of PGP signed section. > > [posted this also do debian-user, no crosspost] > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm running unstable on my Toshiba Satellite with pcmcia support, > > works very good. I'm now trying to move to nfs mounted homedirs > > from my server. Mounting works without problem, b

Re: How to re-install from PCMCIA-SCSI-CDROM?

2000-02-21 Thread Stephen Hardman
> > you could always do a floppy install for the base stuff. > > > > and then use that base install to get the cdrom working, when you get the > > cdrom working you can use dselect and point it to get the packages off the > > cdrom. > > Assuming you have a SCSI pcmcia card, -and- the slink insta

Re: mp3 use - laptop purchase

2000-04-04 Thread Stephen Hardman
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Ben Messinger wrote: > > > > I need to purchase a laptop within the next two weeks. One of the most > > critical factors is superb sound support. One of the primary functions > > of my laptop will be to serve up mp3's thr

Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Stephen Turner
other machines I should look at, or any other useful information? TIA. -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England "8th March 2000. National No Smokin

HDPREPEZ

2000-06-15 Thread Stephen Turner
option in HDPREPEZ.CFG). Or is there an easier way? TIA. -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England "8th March 2000. National No Smoking Day. Ash Wednesday." (On a calendar)

Not powering down

2000-06-16 Thread Stephen Turner
the switch. I tried setting CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF ("Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off") to Yes in the kernel settings, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Thanks in advance for any advice. -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sre

RE: pon Part II

2000-07-05 Thread Stephen . Oxley
tion in there. Steve - -- ObCynicalComment: "One world, one web, one program" -- Microsoft promotional ad "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" -- Adolf Hitler ++ | Stephen Oxley, Shared Syste

Ethernet slowness

2000-07-26 Thread Stephen Turner
3.1.8-16 PCMCIA Card Services for Linux. ii pcmcia-modules 3.1.8-14 PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel 2.2.15). ii pcmcia-source 3.1.8-16 PCMCIA Card Services source. TIA. -- Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Statistical Laboratory, Wilber

Re: plip installation (Host name lookup failure)

2000-08-01 Thread Stephen . Oxley
27;ll agree with that point. FTP is much more robust when it comes to moving files around. > Alex Steve - -- ObCynicalComment: "One world, one web, one program" -- Microsoft promotional ad "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" -- Adolf Hitler +--------

RE: PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-10 Thread Stephen . Oxley
tell me her/his experience with it ? > Thanks. > Jens - -- ObCynicalComment: It's not a bug, it's tradition! +------+ | Stephen Oxley, Shared Systems, Tel: +61 3 990 54749 | | G44, Building

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Stephen Hardman
> I think you've been spoiled. I have a Matrox Millenium card, pretty > common. Never have black bars under windows, nor matter which settings I > use. Always have them under Linux. Pushed the equations as far as they'd > go using the raw numbers from the manuals, and could not remove them.

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-21 Thread Stephen Hardman
I don't think this thread will end without it being killed off, it's based too much on peoples definition of the social issues involved rather than the localised issue of the software IMHO. > > Sorry, but I've misstated. I'm not speaking about the size of the compiled > code. I mean the code i

Extra `mouse' button on a Thinkpad T21

2001-03-05 Thread Stephen Peters
'd like to set this up as a middle mouse button, but I'm not sure how. I can't just remap it with xmodmap, since it's currently not even being read by X (tested using xev). In addition, none of the mouse configurations in gpm seem to activate it. Anyone have any

Re: apm

2001-03-07 Thread Stephen Rank
but I don't know how to do this, since I got rid of any trace of FAT on my system. Perhaps the BIOS/machine docs tell you how to do this? HTH, Stephen -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://www.dur.ac.uk/stephen.rank/ smail: Research Institute for Software Evolution, Department of Co

Re: Today's Challange

2001-03-23 Thread Stephen Hardman
> * fix /etc/lilo.conf to be correct & run /sbin/lilo; > alternatively setup a dif't boot method (floppy, or loadlin) Don't forget to set the bootdev to to the HD you're setting up.

Re: stupid kernel question

2001-05-11 Thread Stephen Rank
/ It's busy atm (they only allow 50 connections!), but I assume that it works if you try at a quieter time. HTH, Stephen -- 989604443

Re: compiling pcmcia-source

2001-05-17 Thread Stephen Rank
was used to build the > kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 for potato? And how about the .depend file? Have a look in /boot, which should contain config-2.2.18pre21. The depend will come from a make depend (either from you or from a make-kpkg). HTH, Stephen -- 990093227

RE: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Stephen Bamattre
. Highly recommended. Stephen -Original Message- From: Jonne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 7:00 AM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Laptop suggestions Hello there! I have a very brief question. I'm not that familiar at all with Debian, I used it a

RE: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Stephen Bamattre
faultless. Haven't tried APM, since I have no real interest in that kind of stuff... Stephen -Original Message- From: Alex Suzuki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:41 AM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions On Wed, Jun 06, 200

Re: xircom combo card + kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen Torri
What kind of xircom card do you have? I have not been following this thread lately. On 19 Jun 2001, Peter Solodov wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > > > Try putting the card into promiscous mode `ifconfig eth0 promisc`. > > Works wonders on almost all Xircom cards here in the

Re: xircom combo card + kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen Torri
I am using a Xircom Realport2 Cardbus Adapter. Which driver do you use? The one with the kernel or with pcmcia-cs? Stephen On 19 Jun 2001, Peter Solodov wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Stephen Torri wrote: > > What kind of xircom card do you have? I have not been following this > >

Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ricardo Diz: > > Hi there! > > I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, > specially the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want > and then use the remember option, but I want it to be the default with > BlueSteel. > > BTW, whe

RE: PCMCIA to SCSI cards

2001-01-10 Thread Stephen . Oxley
tell me her/his experience with it ? > Thanks. > Jens - -- ObCynicalComment: It's not a bug, it's tradition! +------+ | Stephen Oxley, Shared Systems, Tel: +61 3 990 54749 |

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Stephen Hardman
> I think you've been spoiled. I have a Matrox Millenium card, pretty > common. Never have black bars under windows, nor matter which settings I > use. Always have them under Linux. Pushed the equations as far as they'd > go using the raw numbers from the manuals, and could not remove them.

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-20 Thread Stephen Hardman
I don't think this thread will end without it being killed off, it's based too much on peoples definition of the social issues involved rather than the localised issue of the software IMHO. > > Sorry, but I've misstated. I'm not speaking about the size of the compiled > code. I mean the code

Extra `mouse' button on a Thinkpad T21

2001-03-05 Thread Stephen Peters
'd like to set this up as a middle mouse button, but I'm not sure how. I can't just remap it with xmodmap, since it's currently not even being read by X (tested using xev). In addition, none of the mouse configurations in gpm seem to activate it. Anyone have any

Re: apm

2001-03-07 Thread Stephen Rank
but I don't know how to do this, since I got rid of any trace of FAT on my system. Perhaps the BIOS/machine docs tell you how to do this? HTH, Stephen -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://www.dur.ac.uk/stephen.rank/ smail: Research Institute for Software Evolution, Department of Co

Re: Today's Challange

2001-03-23 Thread Stephen Hardman
> * fix /etc/lilo.conf to be correct & run /sbin/lilo; > alternatively setup a dif't boot method (floppy, or loadlin) Don't forget to set the bootdev to to the HD you're setting up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: stupid kernel question

2001-05-11 Thread Stephen Rank
/ It's busy atm (they only allow 50 connections!), but I assume that it works if you try at a quieter time. HTH, Stephen -- 989604443 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling pcmcia-source

2001-05-17 Thread Stephen Rank
was used to build the > kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 for potato? And how about the .depend file? Have a look in /boot, which should contain config-2.2.18pre21. The depend will come from a make depend (either from you or from a make-kpkg). HTH, Stephen -- 990093227 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

RE: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-06 Thread Stephen Bamattre
. Highly recommended. Stephen -Original Message- From: Jonne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 7:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Laptop suggestions Hello there! I have a very brief question. I'm not that familiar at all with Debian, I used it a while

RE: Laptop suggestions

2001-06-06 Thread Stephen Bamattre
faultless. Haven't tried APM, since I have no real interest in that kind of stuff... Stephen -Original Message- From: Alex Suzuki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:52:47AM

Re: xircom combo card + kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen Torri
What kind of xircom card do you have? I have not been following this thread lately. On 19 Jun 2001, Peter Solodov wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > > > Try putting the card into promiscous mode `ifconfig eth0 promisc`. > > Works wonders on almost all Xircom cards here in th

Re: xircom combo card + kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen Torri
I am using a Xircom Realport2 Cardbus Adapter. Which driver do you use? The one with the kernel or with pcmcia-cs? Stephen On 19 Jun 2001, Peter Solodov wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Stephen Torri wrote: > > What kind of xircom card do you have? I have not been following this > >

Re: APM unusable since 2.4.10

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Rothwell
s question: Have you tried it with that option turned off? What is the hardware in that machine? (video etc) -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APM -- wmapm and user-initiated sleep/suspend?

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Rothwell
mal Linux box that means setuid to root. I have been considering changing that to just depend on the devicenode permissions for a while, but can't make up my mind. :-( -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Disk waker

2001-12-11 Thread Stephen Rothwell
e!!! (Thinking especially of the IBM Thinkpad t23 at least). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apm support changes 2.2.19 > 2.4.16

2001-12-13 Thread Stephen Rothwell
> append= apm=on in /etc/lilo.conf does not change anything > > any ideas? Have you accidentally enabled ACPI support? Can you post your boot messages? -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...

2001-10-13 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ricardo Diz: > > Hi there! > > I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, specially >the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want and then use the >remember option, but I want it to be the default with BlueSteel. > > BTW, where c

Re: apm support changes 2.2.19 > 2.4.16

2001-12-16 Thread Stephen Rothwell
bled the CONFIG_PM option? If CONFIG_PM is not enabled (it did not exist in 2.2) then APM support will not be built. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: OT: Help needed for disassembling Toshiba Satellite 5100-603

2004-10-22 Thread Stephen Ryan
n pull it apart. You'll have to do each catch one at a time unless you have many more hands than I do :-) HTH, -- Stephen Ryan Digital Rights Management is bad for all of us: http://www.bricklin.com/robfuture.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A few questions about the Tecra (a20) problem

1999-12-10 Thread Stephen Parks
zImage rather than a bzImage? Does it restrict you in any way? Stephen Parks

Re: making a new kernel

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Ryan
e description field for the kernel source, and libncurses-dev is a recommended package for the kernel source packages. Since you obviously haven't done this before, or else those packages would already be installed, note that you'll probably also need to install bin86, which is needed

Re: making a new kernel

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Ryan
needs to install some version of tk8.x-dev in order for "make xconfig" to work. -- Stephen RyanDebian Linux 3.0 Technology Coordinator Center for Educational Outcomes at Dartmouth College

Re: APM unusable since 2.4.10

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Rothwell
uestion: Have you tried it with that option turned off? What is the hardware in that machine? (video etc) -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

Re: APM -- wmapm and user-initiated sleep/suspend?

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Rothwell
mal Linux box that means setuid to root. I have been considering changing that to just depend on the devicenode permissions for a while, but can't make up my mind. :-( -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

Re: Disk waker

2001-12-11 Thread Stephen Rothwell
e!!! (Thinking especially of the IBM Thinkpad t23 at least). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

Re: apm support changes 2.2.19 > 2.4.16

2001-12-13 Thread Stephen Rothwell
nd= apm=on in /etc/lilo.conf does not change anything > > any ideas? Have you accidentally enabled ACPI support? Can you post your boot messages? -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

Re: apm support changes 2.2.19 > 2.4.16

2001-12-16 Thread Stephen Rothwell
bled the CONFIG_PM option? If CONFIG_PM is not enabled (it did not exist in 2.2) then APM support will not be built. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

Re: Stupid newbie question: eraserhead-style mouse

2002-01-28 Thread Stephen Ryan
u need the mouse working on text-mode consoles, remove gpm and let X handle the mouse by itself. I've had two different laptops using the same style mouse and they've both worked quite well. HTH, -- Stephen RyanDebian GNU/Linux Technology Coordinator Center for Educational Outcomes at Dartmouth College

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-09 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 18:23, Ron Reinhart wrote: > >It requires at least a 386 to run. The kernel of the GNU/Linux system > > (Linux) is a 32 bit kernel and 386 is the start of 32 bit chips from > > Intel. > > I hate to date myself so badly but it seems to me that professors where > running

Re: Driver for Intel 10/100 (Toshiba Satellite 1400)

2002-07-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Charles Lewis said: > Can't find a driver that works for my built in ethernet port. The device id > is 8086:1059. > None of the obvious drivers work (eepro100,eexpress,eepro,etc). Any ideas? > Please CC me, as I am on the road for the next 2 weeks. Thanks. Try cat /proc

Re: cd writing

2002-07-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, steve thompson said: > > I am trying to get cd writing working on a Fujitsu > Lifebook P-2040, which has an internal removal > cd-rw/dvdrom. > > First, does anyone recommend any particular cd burning > software? > > I installed xcdroast, but have not been able to s

Re: cd writing

2002-07-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joe Wreschnig said: > Two nitpicks; first, this is insecure if anyone else uses your system. > The proper mode (IMO) is 4750, and then add the users you want to burn > CDs to the cdrom group; only they'll be able to run the binary. > > Secondly, that's not the sticky b

Re: Using PS/2 and ImPS/2 in X

2002-07-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jeff said: > Oh Ye Debian Guru's! > > I have a Dell Latitude CPx with the combo touchpad and stylus > (eraser-head) mouse. These input devices share the PS/2 interface > along with the PS/2 connector on the back of the laptop. Also, this > touchpad/stylus is a regula

Re: Protege 3110CT NIC not recognized?

2002-07-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Dom Leon said: > Sam, you have hit it on the nose! > Everything you mentioned I did (after 4 days up til > 5am =) > > The command you mentioned: insmod eepro100 was it! I > was trying: insmod pci-scan That was what the > documentation said I should write since that was

Re: PCMCIA dongle cables (for my Motorola Mariner LAN)

2002-07-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, alberto said: > > Hi, > > I need to get the dongle cables for my Motorola Mariner PCMCIA modem/fax/lan. > > I have searched google, gone to Motorola website and the like, without being > able to find any useful info, particularly for the LAN cable. I did find a >

Re: Using PS/2 and ImPS/2 in X

2002-07-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jeff said: > Stephen Gran, 2002-Jul-14 23:42 -0400: > > > > I've never done it, as my laptop has a 3 button mouse built in, but I've > > seen other people's config files posted here and there that have several > >

Re: pro's and con's of Evolution mail reader?

2002-07-17 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: > Can you: > > - bounce and resend mail > - edit incoming mail > - filter freely > - read IMAP, POP, mbox and Maildir *without* just downloading to > a local directory and displaying from there > - integrate custom text processors >

Re: Working and economic wireless solution

2002-07-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, René Seindal said: > Hi, > > I am looking for a wireless solution for my laptop at home. I will need > a PCMCIA card and an access point. Later I might add wireless > connectivity for another laptop and a stationary computer. I would much > prefer something that wor

Re: adding scripts to /etc/init.d ?

2002-07-18 Thread Stephen Hardman
Checking application/pgp-signature: FAILURE -- Start of PGP signed section. > * myster sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-07-18 17:42 -0400: > > hello gale... > > > > 2002-07-18/11h, when Gale Stafford wrote: > > > I want debian to start pump when it boots up, so that I dont have to > > > manually ty

Re: Asix AX88190 PCMCIA NIC on a laptop

2002-07-23 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Johan Ehnberg said: > Thanks, this helps me on the way. pcmcia-cs is set up durinf setup. The > cardmgr is supposed to first identify and beep, then configure and beep. > But there is only one low beep, meaning that identifying failed. Is > there a way i can force dr

Re: X & external monitor

2002-07-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Stefano Canepa said: > Dear all, > I have a ThinkPad 380Z with X configured to run only at 1024x768. I > need to do some presentation using external projector which runs only at > 800x600 own can I change only external monitor resolution? leaving the > internal LC

Re: The screen is not centered on my laptop

2002-08-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michele said: > I've just installe debian woody on my athlon 1200 asus laptop, but during > the installation proces, after the boot prompt and a few init messages, as > soon as the penguin logo appeared, the text displayed on the screen moved > down about five lines,

Re: debian and hp-notebook?!

2002-08-05 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 13:07, Leif Hanack wrote: > Hello, > > what are your experience with debian and an hp-notebook and there hareware?! > > little or much trouble getting debian to run?! > > thanks in advance, leif Which one? HP has made many different models. As a general rule, HP is moder

Re: Text flooding into login box

2002-08-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Ben said: > At the very end of my boot into debian, a bunch of > network/driver/status information is displayed which then floods into > my login box. > > Anyone know of a way to send this to /dev/null or at least get rid of > it to make my login look cleaner? man klog

Re: Toughbook CF-25 w/o CD-ROM

2002-08-17 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joe Sypniewski said: > There are two good things happen to human race; development of the wheel > and Linux Debian. Thanx for help, there is no better supported software > than this one. > > Alexei Khlebnikov wrote: > > > > > I am a novice in Linux & I would appreciat

Re: Sony VAIO FX401 versus FX701

2002-08-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica said: > > Dear all, > > My Sony Vaio FX401 laptop was stolen. I was insured so I can buy an > other one. The closest to it I can find is Sony Vaio FX701. Does someone > have this model? I don't understand about the modem (56K V90 modem) if > it i

Re: Network help for woody/2.4 needed

2002-08-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Eric Richardson said: > Hi, > > I seem to have everything working okay but can't seem to get eth0 to > come up automatically on boot. Everything worked fine with 2.2.20 kernel > but now with 2.4.18-k6 it won't start without running ifup eth0. I'd > really like to ge

Re: startup program (browser)

2002-09-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, steve thompson said: > Thanks for the hints. I am running Gnome, and I think > I found the problem in .gnome/session in my home > directory. Should I just edit the lines referring to > Opera out directly, or would there be a better way. > It does not show up in the G

Re: startup program (browser)

2002-09-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, steve thompson said: > Saving the currnet session doesn't solve the problem. If I save the > current session with Opera not open, it saves the ~/.gnome/session > file without the four lines refering to Opera restart command, and > indeed the next time I boot up Opera

Re: Stupid newbie question: eraserhead-style mouse

2002-01-28 Thread Stephen Ryan
u need the mouse working on text-mode consoles, remove gpm and let X handle the mouse by itself. I've had two different laptops using the same style mouse and they've both worked quite well. HTH, -- Stephen RyanDebian GNU/Linux Technology

Re: Debian PC Requirements

2002-04-09 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 18:23, Ron Reinhart wrote: > >It requires at least a 386 to run. The kernel of the GNU/Linux system > > (Linux) is a 32 bit kernel and 386 is the start of 32 bit chips from > > Intel. > > I hate to date myself so badly but it seems to me that professors where running >

Re: making a new kernel

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Ryan
e description field for the kernel source, and libncurses-dev is a recommended package for the kernel source packages. Since you obviously haven't done this before, or else those packages would already be installed, note that you'll probably also need to install bin86, which is needed

Re: making a new kernel

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Ryan
needs to install some version of tk8.x-dev in order for "make xconfig" to work. -- Stephen RyanDebian Linux 3.0 Technology Coordinator Center for Educational Outcomes at Dartmouth College -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: newbie question

2004-01-03 Thread Stephen Ryan
of the time you can copy/paste by selecting the text in the first application, then clicking the middle mouse button in the second application. This works for me across most applications. -- Stephen Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dell & Debian ?

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Birch
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 12:25 pm, Marcus Crafter wrote: > Hi James, > > I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 which i bought back in March last year. It's > been running Debian sid since the day it was delivered and has been > working well. X runs fine (I have an NVidia video card which works with > their b

Re: Debian Sarge and Wireless Network. Unable to receive ip address.

2004-05-23 Thread Stephen Birch
"H?kon A. Jensen"([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2004.05.22 22:14:30 +: > Hi, > > I've got a problem getting my wireless card to work with > Debian Sarge on my laptop (HP Pavillion ze4204s). > --- > The wireless card is working in WinXP, so I know it's something > wrong with my configuration. >

Re: Debian Sarge and Wireless Network. Unable to receive ip address.

2004-05-24 Thread Stephen Birch
H?kon A. Jensen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2004.05.24 11:30:24 +: > Thanks for the advice, but it didn't make any difference. > What exactly does the "wireless_key open" do? > Is there somewhere I can find more information on these > configuration options for wireless cards? This is from my notes on t

Re: newbie question

2004-01-03 Thread Stephen Ryan
em, but most of the time you can copy/paste by selecting the text in the first application, then clicking the middle mouse button in the second application. This works for me across most applications. -- Stephen Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Dell & Debian ?

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Birch
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 12:25 pm, Marcus Crafter wrote: > Hi James, > > I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 which i bought back in March last year. It's > been running Debian sid since the day it was delivered and has been > working well. X runs fine (I have an NVidia video card which works with > their b

Re: Debian Sarge and Wireless Network. Unable to receive ip address.

2004-05-23 Thread Stephen Birch
"H?kon A. Jensen"([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2004.05.22 22:14:30 +: > Hi, > > I've got a problem getting my wireless card to work with > Debian Sarge on my laptop (HP Pavillion ze4204s). > --- > The wireless card is working in WinXP, so I know it's something > wrong with my configuration. >

Re: Debian Sarge and Wireless Network. Unable to receive ip address.

2004-05-24 Thread Stephen Birch
H?kon A. Jensen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2004.05.24 11:30:24 +: > Thanks for the advice, but it didn't make any difference. > What exactly does the "wireless_key open" do? > Is there somewhere I can find more information on these > configuration options for wireless cards? This is from my notes on t

Re: hardware profiles?

2001-04-23 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Matt Pepper wrote: > I have a Dell laptop I am endeavoring to put Debian on however I have a > query I'd like to get answered first. Does anyone know if there is a way of > handling multiple hardware profiles in Debian similar to the concept within > Windows? I ask because whe

Re: Toshiba 8000

2001-06-29 Thread Stephen R Marenka
by not > downloading *ALL* of the ISO's. Disc-1 and whatever disk boots properly > on the Toshibas would be plenty. (I already have Disc-1) You can download just the boot-floppies from the following. <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-file-descs

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-23 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, eDoc wrote: > >From whence do I also download pcmcia-cs to match kernel > 2.4.12 and Unstable? (I looked around and the only site http > site I found would not respond.) http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ - i keep mine in /usr/src. >What are the steps I should follow,

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