Re: apt-get hates me

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:16:59PM +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > "David J. Roundy" wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:52:21PM +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > > > > Anybody knows what is so new that it needs to remove all my setup ? > > > > > > Run a

which isdn card on ppc?

2001-03-18 Thread Alexander Feder
I was just trying to make my AVM Fritz/PCI card to work on my Motorola Powerstack, _before_ reading the isdn4linux-faq, section "does it work with ppc.." :/ weeelll.. so my question: which cards _do_ work with ppc? The faq unfortunately doesn't say a word about this question.. thanks, xandi --

Re: kdelibs3 trouble

2001-03-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:47:11PM -0600, Rick Cook wrote: > > The appropriate apt sources.list line is: > > deb http://kde.debian.net/debian potato main crypto optional kde2 > > > Oh yes, these are as installed on my 7300/200 and seem to be working fine > (quoth the person - me - who built the

Re: kdelibs3 trouble

2001-03-18 Thread Rick Cook
On Sunday 18 March 2001 15:27, Michel Dänzer wrote: > "David J. Roundy" wrote: > > > > Is there some other, better source for KDE packages? > > I used to get 2.1 debs from kde.tdyc.com, but that seems to be down right > now. kde.tdyc.com (aka kde.debian.net) is back again - at least temporarily. T

Re: kdelibs3 trouble

2001-03-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
"David J. Roundy" wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:50:47PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > "David J. Roundy" wrote: > > > > > The recent builds of kdelibs3 have caused KDE not to run at all. kdm > > > runs fine, except that the background is gray instead of blue, but when > > > I log in the

Re: Help with X on iBook?

2001-03-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kin Chung wrote: > > >Seemed strange indeed. So I just looked at the source again and > >saw that I had forgotten something. "UseFBDev" only works if you > >specify the bus ID in the Device Section, like > > > > BusID "PCI:0:16:0" > > Interesting item that one... I ought to try see what h

Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
Alan DuBoff wrote: > I noticed that when I rsync'd to the linux-pmac-devel tree from Paulus, I > lost my .config all together and it replaced it with a new one...I'm more > careful now! I use this script to circumvent that: #!/bin/sh cp .config .config.bak rsync -arvz penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-

Re: netatalk causes kernel panic

2001-03-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kevin van Haaren wrote: > since I don't have DDP compilied into the kernel anymore, and atalkd > wasn't started nbprgstr caused the kernel panic. removing the lines > calling nbprgstr fixed it. s/fixed/worked around A kernel panic is always a kernel bug... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCoope

Re: kdelibs3 trouble

2001-03-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:50:47PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > "David J. Roundy" wrote: > > > The recent builds of kdelibs3 have caused KDE not to run at all. kdm runs > > fine, except that the background is gray instead of blue, but when I log in > > the screen goes blank, but I don't get a sp

Re: kdelibs3 trouble

2001-03-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
"David J. Roundy" wrote: > The recent builds of kdelibs3 have caused KDE not to run at all. kdm runs > fine, except that the background is gray instead of blue, but when I log in > the screen goes blank, but I don't get a splash screen, and after maybe > thirty seconds I get dumped back into kdm.

Re: newbie trying to install debian linux on oldworld mac

2001-03-18 Thread William C Brennan
About 3 weeks ago I installed potato Debian from the CDRom onto my Apple 7200/90. It was my first Linux installation. As David Roundy mentioned, you really need to use BootX, the necessity of which is not even mentioned in the installation guide, which is a serious oversight of the PowerPC docum

Re: apt-get hates me

2001-03-18 Thread Bastien Nocera
Bastien Nocera wrote: > > "David J. Roundy" wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:52:21PM +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > > Anybody knows what is so new that it needs to remove all my setup ? > > > > Run apt-get with the -u option, and it will tell you what it is upgrading. > > The fol

Re: apt-get hates me

2001-03-18 Thread Bastien Nocera
"David J. Roundy" wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:52:21PM +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > Anybody knows what is so new that it needs to remove all my setup ? > > Run apt-get with the -u option, and it will tell you what it is upgrading. The following packages will be upgraded apt li

Re: apt-get hates me

2001-03-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:52:21PM +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Anybody knows what is so new that it needs to remove all my setup ? Run apt-get with the -u option, and it will tell you what it is upgrading. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

apt-get hates me

2001-03-18 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, I have a slight problem with today's testing archives: -(~/packages)-> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade The following packages will be REMOVED: abiword adduser alien ammonite bonobo bsdmainutils bug-buddy codecommander cvs debconf debhelper dh-make dia eog esound esound-clients esound-common e

Re: newbie trying to install debian linux on oldworld mac

2001-03-18 Thread John Wood
I am trying to boot from floppies, andf I get no keyboard response when asked to hit enter after I put in the root floppy on 3/18/01 10:38 AM, David J. Roundy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:27:07AM -0600, John Wood wrote: >> >> I am new at the idea of linux, and I have

Re: newbie trying to install debian linux on oldworld mac

2001-03-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:27:07AM -0600, John Wood wrote: > > I am new at the idea of linux, and I have had little to no expirence in the > installation of linux, but I have had tons of expirence in the Mac OS. I am > trying to install linux on my 7200 to make it into a web server. I ordered > th

kdelibs3 trouble

2001-03-18 Thread David J. Roundy
Hello. I am running unstable on the powerpc, and use KDE. The recent builds of kdelibs3 have caused KDE not to run at all. kdm runs fine, except that the background is gray instead of blue, but when I log in the screen goes blank, but I don't get a splash screen, and after maybe thirty seconds

newbie trying to install debian linux on oldworld mac

2001-03-18 Thread John Wood
Hey! I am new at the idea of linux, and I have had little to no expirence in the installation of linux, but I have had tons of expirence in the Mac OS. I am trying to install linux on my 7200 to make it into a web server. I ordered the debian 2.2r2 CDs from cheapbytes. My question is has anyone wr

Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:45:57PM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > Certainly I won't argue after spending more time on getting the 2.4 kernel > operational than I would have liked. But I guess that is how Paulus is using > it. that is no excuse. you can leave devfs set to NOT automount and mount i

Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Alan DuBoff
Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > By the way, make sure you secure your wireless so it is not open for > everyone with DHCP.. There are WAY too many of these, while it may be > "convenient" to get free internet to a hotel room from a nearby new > media agency, it is not fun from their point of view. Very

Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Alan DuBoff
Ethan Benson wrote: > > ... > > ... > gratuitously breaking peoples systems like this is exceptionally > rude. > > Certainly I won't argue after spending more time on getting the 2.4 kernel operational than I would have liked. But I guess that is how Paulus is using it. I noticed that when I

Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Alan DuBoff
Alan DuBoff wrote: > > Michel Lanners wrote: > > > Rememebr the fine options to ifconfig ;-) running 'ifconfig' without > > options will only show you configured interfaces, not unconfigured ones. > > Running 'ifconfig -a' will show _all_ interfaces. > > No, that was not it as I was using ifconf