Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Joel Gluth
David Webster wrote: > > Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not > directly supported? Hrm. Isn't that one NE2000-compatible? There's one floating around somewhere at my house, but I'm at work and can't check... Try using ne2k-pci as your network driver module. I have

Re:dependency mess

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 Mike wrote: > Or you could dpkg -i libjep then dpkg -i the kdelibs-dev etcetra. I > find often that while installing a program I get that. So I download or > install from cd the missing bits then reinstall or configure what I wanted > originally. I accidentally fixed it. A

RE: no sound

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 15 Feb, Pollywog wrote about "RE: no sound" >> >> On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: >>> I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via >>> the >>> Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front >>> installe

RE: no sound

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: >> I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via the >> Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front >> installed. RealAudio does not make any sound, so I checked to see if it >> wo

Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-15 Thread ktb
BTW I never did get close to finding the 2.2.1 file. I did log on ok to the ftp site but once I did that I couldn't figure out how to navigate the /contrib/stable.. stuff. Thanks, Kent ktb wrote: > Ok, I thought I would give installing kernel 2.2.1 a try. It's so easy, > right. Thought I

RE: no sound

1999-02-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Feb, Pollywog wrote about "RE: no sound" > > On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: >> I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via the >> Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front >> installed. RealAudio does not make any sound, so I checke

dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-15 Thread ktb
Ok, I thought I would give installing kernel 2.2.1 a try. It's so easy, right. Thought I would use dselect to help automate the process some because I have no idea what is going on here. Anyway I tried using ftp as the access method. I put "ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub"; into the site to access. I

Re:dependency mess

1999-02-15 Thread Mike
I have run across a dependency problem and I wonder if I should just install KDE from source. When I tried to install the package I needed, that one conflicted with one already installed, and I am afraid I will break my system if I start removing stuff. Or you could dpkg -i libjep then dpkg

RE: no sound

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via the > Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front > installed. RealAudio does not make any sound, so I checked to see if it > would > play a wav file; it doesn't. >

Re: problems in DSELECT

1999-02-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Feb, William Schwartz wrote about "problems in DSELECT " > I used dselect to update all my SLINK packages today, and it wants to update > my Apache... It is popping up with a dependicy problem, and wont let me past > this point. The screen has 2 packages listed on it: > > apache & apache-

no sound

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via the Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front installed. RealAudio does not make any sound, so I checked to see if it would play a wav file; it doesn't. Any ideas on what is wrong? thanks --

SGML with diagrams

1999-02-15 Thread Paul Reavis
I've just started diving into the SGML tools available under Debian, and really like e.g. debiandoc-sgml and sgml-tools. Unfortunately, to really use this for our internal docs here I need support for some sort of pictures and figures. Where should I go to find/build such a thing? -- Paul Reavis

RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card >since it is not >directly supported? ne2k-pci.o Find under pci ethernet devices in make config. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _

modem doesn't work at startup

1999-02-15 Thread Frankie
Hi, when I turn my computer on, and try to dial out (with xisp), it won't connect. after trial and error I have find that I can usually get it to dialout with wvdial. However, when wvdial is run, I get 5 or 6 lines of [07][07][07] etc., before wvdial works properly. My computer is a Pentium-60

problems in DSELECT

1999-02-15 Thread William Schwartz
I used dselect to update all my SLINK packages today, and it wants to update my Apache... It is popping up with a dependicy problem, and wont let me past this point. The screen has 2 packages listed on it: apache & apache-common The installed version is 1.3.3-4 and it wants to install 1.3.3-6. No

dosemu breakes local network

1999-02-15 Thread Serge Gavrilov
Hi! I have the following problem. When I start dosemu in console mode my local network breaks. I have network card which use IRQ9. I can recover normal state of network if I use ifconfig arc0 down /etc/init.d/network when dosemu has finished. In my dosemu/conf file I have the following string:

Re: SLRN woes

1999-02-15 Thread Victor Torrico
Quoting Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 15 Feb 1999q, Victor Torrico wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Using the latest potato version of SLRN. No matter which news server I use, > > when I do a slrn -create, it only creates a tiny version of the entire news > > list into ~/.jnewsrc_XXX.

Re: Documentation for WingZ spreadsheet for Linux?

1999-02-15 Thread Paul Seelig
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > I tried out wingzpro not so long ago. I could not get it to accept input > from the keyboard into spreadsheet cells. It also gave a segmentation > fault when I tried to import .xls files. > Hmm, that's strange. Here it works almost flawlessly and i'v

Re: pine4.deb?

1999-02-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
The following are in /project/experimental and can be used to build a debian package: pine_4.10-0.diff.gz pine_4.10-0.dsc pine_4.10.orig.tar.gz Bob On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Pete wrote: > Hi again, > > thanks for the advice offered re root disks. I've got my machine up and > running. Wha

Re: kxicq error

1999-02-15 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I am really moving along with Debian, fixing one thing after another. | | What is missing here? I have never seen this error. | | | /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 pics/*.xpm /usr/share/apps/kxicq/pics | /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/apps/kxicq/wav | mkdir /u

CDROM trouble and Kernel message.

1999-02-15 Thread Björn Elwhagen
Hello! I'm having some strange problems. I can't eject my CDROM even tho it's unmounted according to mtab and all other places that i can think of. The message i get is simply: 1 21:59:52 marwin $ cdctrl eject cd_doEject[CDROMEJECT]: Device or resource busy Pressing the eject-button on the CD do

Re: Installing DOS

1999-02-15 Thread homega
Raymond A. Ingles dixit: > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I just reinstalled Debian and partitioned /dev/hda and /dev/hdc HDDs into > > various partitions, of which I reserved /dev/hda1 (200MB) for installing > > M$DOS6.x and /dev/hda2 (100MB) for IBM-DOS4.x > > Based on the

pine4.deb?

1999-02-15 Thread Pete
Hi again, thanks for the advice offered re root disks. I've got my machine up and running. What I am now wondering is: is there a pine4 package for debian? I could only find a 3.96 package. I'd install it myself (being an ex-slackware user, this is a task i'm well accustomed to) except pine won't

Stylus Color 600+kernel 2.0.36=slow printing?

1999-02-15 Thread Sergio Orsatti
When I execute the command to test Ghostscript Aladdin (5.5), using Uniprint driver (gs @stc600pl.upp -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 tiger.ps -c quit), it works but very slow. I heard about seting the LPSTRICT when compiling the kernel (2.0.36). Does it work? How can I do it? Thank you for your help..

Help with on-board sound chip

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am having trouble tryimng to get sound card installed on my home PC with an onboard sound card. Windows reports that it is ES1938 with PCI IO BASE D400. 'lspci' gives the following response 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 1969 The card works in Windoze. I tr

RE: ISP connect

1999-02-15 Thread Shaleh
On 15-Feb-99 eferen1 wrote: > I use the KDE window to configure dial-up settings. I have reconfigured the > connect script to this: > > noauth. Should be fine > > That is the only line in the script. I connect through MSN which requires a > PAP login. I did not put a DNS number in hoping ma

Re: 2048 block MOs and 2.2.x

1999-02-15 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Toens Bueker wrote: > Hi *, > > in the 2.1.x kernels I used my 640 MB MOs without > problems. > > With 2.2.x > > - I cannot mount those MOs any longer, [...etc...] > What the heck is this? I just ten seconds ago on [EMAIL PROTECTED] saw an announcement from Linus abo

RE: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > On 15-Feb-99 David Webster wrote: > > Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not > > directly supported? > > Try NE2000 PCI. That is how I am using it on my system. /--

Re: Documentation for WingZ spreadsheet for Linux?

1999-02-15 Thread Johann Spies
On 13 Feb 1999, Paul Seelig wrote: > I've stumbled over the WingZ and WingZPro spreadheets which have been > released as binary freeware (!= open source) for Linux in december > last year (see "http://www.wingz-us.com"; for details). ... > I've downloaded from "ftp://metalab.unc.edu"; and instal

Re: sound card/which kernel

1999-02-15 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:27:51AM -0600, ktb wrote: > Hi, I'm attempting to compile my kernel (2.0.34) for the first time to > enable sound. I was reading in the sound HOWTO that there is a card > supported "Crystal CS4232 (PnP)" mine is "Crystal pnp Audio System > CODEC" I was wondering if any

Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: > Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not > directly supported? It's an NE2000 clone and is supported since (I think) 2.0.34 and I used the ISA ne2k driver successfully before that. CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=y Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: SLRN woes

1999-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Feb 1999q, Victor Torrico wrote: > Hello all, > > Using the latest potato version of SLRN. No matter which news server I use, > when I do a slrn -create, it only creates a tiny version of the entire news > list into ~/.jnewsrc_XXX. How do I get the full list from the news server? > > slrn

2048 block MOs and 2.2.x

1999-02-15 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, in the 2.1.x kernels I used my 640 MB MOs without problems. With 2.2.x - I cannot mount those MOs any longer, - when using 'fdisk' on them I get an error-message (ll_rw_block: device 08:30: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)) - and when trying to put a filesystem on them with 'f

ISP connect

1999-02-15 Thread eferen1
I use the KDE window to configure dial-up settings. I have reconfigured the connect script to this: noauth. That is the only line in the script. I connect through MSN which requires a PAP login. I did not put a DNS number in hoping maybe it would configure this dynamically. The IP is set to d

Proxy with apt question

1999-02-15 Thread Cristov Russell
Hi all. I've done this before but having stepped away from linux a while, can't figure out what I'm doing wrong now. I'm trying to connect to the internet through my NT server. I have WinGate installed on the server just for this purpose. The linux box can ping the server and other computers on

are your using nis? nis-mt is great!

1999-02-15 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all! last weeks I installed a number of PCs with nis and dhcp, one annoying thing was if you temporaly cannot obtain your network configuration maybe because the network or dhcp server is down, then nis did not work but after the network goes up, so the adm

Re: more memory for my Xserver

1999-02-15 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Eric Drayer wrote: > I am using the SVGA server > I have 64Mb ram and a 128Mb swap and a matrox millinium 2 with 4mb > I get the message from mathematica that my xserver is running low on > memory and it locks up > > what ever can I do First, while you're running Mathemati

Re: sound card/which kernel

1999-02-15 Thread Ralph Winslow
ktb wrote: > > Hi, I'm attempting to compile my kernel (2.0.34) for the first time to > enable sound. I was reading in the sound HOWTO that there is a card > supported "Crystal CS4232 (PnP)" mine is "Crystal pnp Audio System > CODEC" I was wondering if anyone has had experience with this card a

Re: Installing DOS and ATAPI CD probs

1999-02-15 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I just reinstalled Debian and partitioned /dev/hda and /dev/hdc HDDs into > various partitions, of which I reserved /dev/hda1 (200MB) for installing > M$DOS6.x and /dev/hda2 (100MB) for IBM-DOS4.x Based on the following paragraph, I assume

Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Dave Swegen
I have one of these (Genius I think) and I use the ne2k-pci module... Cheers Dave On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:56 -0600, David Webster wrote: > Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not > directly supported? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PRO

RE: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
please look at this page for driver info. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On

Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Dale E. Martin
David Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not > directly supported? Go to Don Becker's page: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ and download the driver. It's supported, according to this page. Note that I've not tried it.

more memory for my Xserver

1999-02-15 Thread Eric Drayer
I am using the SVGA server I have 64Mb ram and a 128Mb swap and a matrox millinium 2 with 4mb I get the message from mathematica that my xserver is running low on memory and it locks up what ever can I do thanxs for reading

RE: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Shaleh
On 15-Feb-99 David Webster wrote: > Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not > directly supported? > When I am unsure I compile all the ethernet drivers in and see if any succeed. Sometimes this works, other times I have to play more.

Installing DOS and ATAPI CD probs

1999-02-15 Thread homega
Hi, I just reinstalled Debian and partitioned /dev/hda and /dev/hdc HDDs into various partitions, of which I reserved /dev/hda1 (200MB) for installing M$DOS6.x and /dev/hda2 (100MB) for IBM-DOS4.x The partition types I used (with cfdisk) were FAT16 (for M$'s) and FAT12 (for IBM's). I also ran `m

RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread David Webster
Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not directly supported?

sound card/which kernel

1999-02-15 Thread ktb
Hi, I'm attempting to compile my kernel (2.0.34) for the first time to enable sound. I was reading in the sound HOWTO that there is a card supported "Crystal CS4232 (PnP)" mine is "Crystal pnp Audio System CODEC" I was wondering if anyone has had experience with this card and if it is possible

RE: Little help with X

1999-02-15 Thread Shaleh
On 15-Feb-99 Tom wrote: > Howdy all, > > I forgot the command for the X setup that uses the graphical interface. > You know the one that starts out with choose the name of your mouse > device and the port that it is on. If you could email me directly that > would be great, since I have about 300

Little help with X

1999-02-15 Thread Tom
Howdy all, I forgot the command for the X setup that uses the graphical interface. You know the one that starts out with choose the name of your mouse device and the port that it is on. If you could email me directly that would be great, since I have about 300 digests to catch up on. Thanks. [EM

Re: Kernel 2.2.1 and Samba

1999-02-15 Thread alexander.schwartz
Finally it now worked. After installing smbfsx I had another problem: To identify myself to our NT-Server I used to use my username and workgroup, worked fine with the old version. But now I have so supply as the workgroup name the domain name to the smbmount-2.1.x commandline. Doesn't make 100%

Re: Symbios 53c875 SCSI

1999-02-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
hmm not off the top of my head, the driver when it loads should give a driver version (I don't use .34 anymore but I did) ; ie Feb 4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 11, function 0 Feb 4 08:37Feb 4 08:37:17 the-penguin kernel: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 11,

Re: Boot managers

1999-02-15 Thread Odin
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Tony wrote: > Now, I want to know how I can set up some kind of boot manager to select > between DOS partition and the Linux, so I don't keep having to stick the > floppy in. I CAN do this right? Other people have given you lilo advice so I won't bother here. lilo has an ex

Re: how to set up isdn dial-in ?

1999-02-15 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I've dial-out already running on ippp0. Now I'd like to setup dial-in w/ >PAP or CHAP on ippp1. Which files do I have to touch ... ? Use `isdnconfig' to create an ippp1 interface and an ipppd config for ippp1. Configure /etc/isdn/device.ippp1 and /etc/isd

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-02-15 Thread Jim Crumley
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:14:43AM +, Preston Landers wrote: > I'm having problems with using apt-get dist-upgrade to get from Debian > 2.0 to 2.1. My system currently has many slink packages installed, but > not all of them, and I would like apt-get to just upgrade them all for > me. > > I'v

Re: Symbios 53c875 SCSI

1999-02-15 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! Well, here is my screen's snapshot: This disk uses Linux 2.0.34 (from kernel-image-2.0.34_2.0.34-4) Press for help, or to boot! boot: Loading root.bin. Loading linux.. [...] ncr53c875-1: restart (scsi reset). ncr53c875-1: copying script fragments into the on-bo

Re: Troubles with ZIP-100 and LS-120.

1999-02-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/14/99 5:44:45 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've installed Slink (kernel 2.0.36) but I couldn't set up the ppa.o > module for the zip during the installation (I'll thank any help on this > matter. The lp.o module was installed with the default paramet

Re: Trubles with real player.

1999-02-15 Thread Shao Zhang
YeP! I am having the same problem after upgrading to the new kernel... BTW, how did you set the memory(512k) for the awe device?? I am not sure how much ram I have with my sound card, but it shows 0k on mine. All other configuration are the same... On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Paulo Silva wrote: > > H

Re: Symbios 53c875 SCSI

1999-02-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
HAMM install disks should see it right off the bat. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Hi!

Re: Strange 'find' result

1999-02-15 Thread wtopa
Subject: Strange 'find' result Date: Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:01:51AM +0200 In reply to:Johann Spies Quoting Johann Spies([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Can somebody explain this to me? > > $ find /cdrom -iname wx* > $ find /cdrom -iname wxx* > /cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/

Re: Trubles with real player.

1999-02-15 Thread Paulo Silva
James Dietrich writes: > Well, I looked at my configuration and just realized that I am not using > libnlock.so anymore. From the rvplayer changelog: > rvplayer (1:5.0-7) frozen unstable; urgency=low > > * Now contains a small shared library that is preloaded to work around the > bug

Re: how to set up isdn dial-in ?

1999-02-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MA" == Michael Agbaglo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MA> I've dial-out already running on ippp0. Now I'd like to setup MA> dial-in w/ PAP or CHAP on ippp1. Which files do I have to touch MA> ... ? You need a device.ippp1 and ipppd.ippp1 in device.ippp1 you have to enable the lines about allow

Re: XF86SETUP Help needed...

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
Try to install X on the minimum specifications first and try to improve it. That is do not select the big numbers but just the smaller ones E.g. try to get 640x400 mode working first by underspecifying the capabilities of your system. Also make sure that only your Xserver is installed. It is someti

Re: /bin/open

1999-02-15 Thread Serge Gavrilov
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:18:22PM +1100, Jiri Baum wrote: > Serge Gavrilov: > > Now i have installed Slink. But I have a problem: /bin/open does not work > > properly. > > Could it be a permissions problem? > > You can tell by trying the same thing as root; if it works for root but > doesn't wor

Unidentified subject!

1999-02-15 Thread Marcus Baranow
ail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

SLRN woes

1999-02-15 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello all, Using the latest potato version of SLRN. No matter which news server I use, when I do a slrn -create, it only creates a tiny version of the entire news list into ~/.jnewsrc_XXX. How do I get the full list from the news server? slrn -d works fine. slrn_getdescs works fine. Perplexin

Symbios 53c875 SCSI

1999-02-15 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! How can I install Debian on a system with Symbios 53c875 SCSI? Thanks, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling Th

Re: alsa drivers and slab

1999-02-15 Thread Frank Barknecht
Dear Matt, thank you very much for your long answer. I will try all this when I get the time to try the 2.2 Kernels ... Yours -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __/

Re: Trubles with real player.

1999-02-15 Thread James Dietrich
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:19:41AM -0300, Paulo Silva wrote: > James, > > I tried the solution you have proposed and it didn't work out. I get > an "segmentation fault" when trying to execute the script which loads > the small "libraby". I have compiled the library with the -share > argument. > >

Re: where is "rc.local"

1999-02-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The last thing /etc/init.d/rcS does is look for a file called >/sbin/setup.sh and if it exists, it runs it. I put all my local stuff >here. Ugh .. that's quite wrong. That hook is there only for the initial installation pr

Re: Trubles with real player.

1999-02-15 Thread Paulo Silva
James, I tried the solution you have proposed and it didn't work out. I get an "segmentation fault" when trying to execute the script which loads the small "libraby". I have compiled the library with the -share argument. Any hint? Paulo. James Dietrich writes: > > I've used the procedure in

Re: Boot managers

1999-02-15 Thread Curt Daugaard
I've been using Boot Control for some time and have no complaints. You can find it at http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bcpage.html. Good luck. Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 11:41:32PM -0600, Tony wrote: > Okay, I'd like to thank everyone who helped me set up Debian after

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-15 Thread Jiri Baum
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > I found some additional information about the cable modem: Ah, you have a cable modem... and if it's not really Hayes-compatible, you'll probably need to adjust the "chat script" that pon is using (most likely in /etc/chatscripts/ ). Once you get PPP up and running, tha

Re: /bin/open

1999-02-15 Thread Jiri Baum
Serge Gavrilov: > Now i have installed Slink. But I have a problem: /bin/open does not work > properly. Could it be a permissions problem? You can tell by trying the same thing as root; if it works for root but doesn't work for normal users, check the permissions on /dev/tty12 (or whichever VT it

Re: Which dirs to nfs-mount

1999-02-15 Thread Jiri Baum
Ole J. Tetlie: > I'm trying to set up my brothers computer so that it just boots by > itself, and then mounts /usr and friends from my computer. Have a read through FSSTND, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. One of its purposes is to let you do exactly that. It's in the debian-policy package. > C

how to set up isdn dial-in ?

1999-02-15 Thread Michael Agbaglo
I've dial-out already running on ippp0. Now I'd like to setup dial-in w/ PAP or CHAP on ippp1. Which files do I have to touch ... ? Is there a problem w/ Mickeysoft ? - I saw a ms-chap flag somewhere (can't remember where it was).

Re: qt

1999-02-15 Thread Remco van de Meent
Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > I get the following errors when I install qt: > kernel/qimage.cpp :614: X11/Xlib.hno such file or directory > " " : : X11/Xutil.h " " " > " ": : X11/Xos.h " " " Are you sure that you have the `xlib6g

Re: Boot managers

1999-02-15 Thread ivan
At 11:41 PM 2/14/99 -0600, Tony wrote: >Okay, I'd like to thank everyone who helped me set up Debian after my >"segmentation fault" errors, I finally got to the console and used cfdisk. >Runs great now, I finally got in! > >Now, I want to know how I can set up some kind of boot manager to select >b

[SOLVED] Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-15 Thread Conrado Badenas
Thank you all very much! As some of you commented, the error was solved using "(export LANG=C; make-kpkg ...)": my LANG variable was set to "spanish". I have searched in the docs of kernel-source, kernel-doc and kernel-package and I have found nothing about taking into account the variable LANG. I

Help: Cannot remove or upgrade 'gnotepad+'

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have a problem with 'gnotepad+'. For some reason I cannot remove the application. vitasat# dpkg --remove gnotepad+ dpkg: error processing gnotepad+ (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Er

kxicq error

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
I am really moving along with Debian, fixing one thing after another. What is missing here? I have never seen this error. /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 pics/*.xpm /usr/share/apps/kxicq/pics /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/apps/kxicq/wav mkdir /usr/share/apps/kxicq/wav /usr/bin/install -c -m 64

RE: libwine/wine contradiction

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > This is funny. I try to install Wine and it needs libwine, but when I try > to > install libwine, it needs Wine. Like the question about the chicken or the > egg, which came first? ;) Very strange but the next time I ran dselect and chose "configure packages that

libwine/wine contradiction

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
This is funny. I try to install Wine and it needs libwine, but when I try to install libwine, it needs Wine. Like the question about the chicken or the egg, which came first? ;) lilypad:/home/pollywog# dpkg -i libwine0.0.971116_0.0.990131-1.deb (Reading database ... 49423 files and directories

Re: Strange 'find' result

1999-02-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Can somebody explain this to me? > > $ find /cdrom -iname wx* > $ find /cdrom -iname wxx* > /cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/wxxt1_1.66d-2.deb > > Why does the first 'find' query give no results? Are you quoting the argument to avoid shell expansion? $ f

Strange 'find' result

1999-02-15 Thread Johann Spies
Can somebody explain this to me? $ find /cdrom -iname wx* $ find /cdrom -iname wxx* /cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/wxxt1_1.66d-2.deb Why does the first 'find' query give no results? Johann -- | Johann Spies

Re: pausing

1999-02-15 Thread Joe Marchak
> This is real annoying, anyone know what could be causing this ? Check dmesg for any non-normal messages. I had long pauses like this on our mailserver, and dmesg logged the following each time: > Warning: possible SYN flood from 202.232.2.113 on 133.20.19.21:25. > Sending cookies. I never di

dependency mess

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
I have run across a dependency problem and I wonder if I should just install KDE from source. When I tried to install the package I needed, that one conflicted with one already installed, and I am afraid I will break my system if I start removing stuff. lilypad:/home/pollywog# dpkg -i kdelibs2g-

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Feb-99 debian wrote: > > Forgive me if I am wrong, as it has been 2 years since I ran KDE. But I > remember back on Slackware when I had to compile it. That it requires the > KDEDIR environment variable which points to the KDE installed location. Is > this what it could be complaining about

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-15 Thread debian
Forgive me if I am wrong, as it has been 2 years since I ran KDE. But I remember back on Slackware when I had to compile it. That it requires the KDEDIR environment variable which points to the KDE installed location. Is this what it could be complaining about. Maybe you should put export KDEDIR="

Re: Boot managers

1999-02-15 Thread Alec Smith
There is a 'UNIX for Dummies' book. It might be helpful in getting you through some of the userland basics, but it won't be much help as far as sysadminning goes. You can use lilo to dualboot the system, eliminating the need for a boot disk. Attached is a sample of my lilo.conf for booting Windoze

Cnews: potential minor bug

1999-02-15 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, experimented a little on which news-server to use: cnews or inn. Finally decided for inn and removed (not purged) cnews via dselect. Only problem was the cron-job (/etc/cron.d/cnews) remained, was not de- activated and caused lots of emails, because the pathes and files were (of cou

Boot managers

1999-02-15 Thread Tony
Okay, I'd like to thank everyone who helped me set up Debian after my "segmentation fault" errors, I finally got to the console and used cfdisk. Runs great now, I finally got in! Now, I want to know how I can set up some kind of boot manager to select between DOS partition and the Linux, so I don'

KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-15 Thread Pollywog
What does one do about KDEDIR after installing the Debian KDE packages? I want to install kxicq (from source) but it complains about not finding KDE. I can even find KDE with the 'locate' command, and it is working. There is a kde binary but no kde/bin. thanks -- Andrew

pausing

1999-02-15 Thread Geoff R Deasey
I have 3 machines that are Intel Pentium 2 machines, one is a dual processor and the others are not. However these machines have a real annoying pause, it lasts from 2- 15 seconds and happens quite a bit. This is real annoying, anyone know what could be causing this ? The dual has it the worst

Re: "Segmentation fault" installing Debian

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Tony wrote: > >This isn't a great workaround, not even a good one, but I'd go to a prompt > >and run fdisk (instead of cfdisk which the install starts for you). Press > >"m" for help, it's more primitive than cfdisk, but that's why I like it. > >Depending on where cfdisk is s

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-15 Thread Tim Heuser
Mark Wagnon wrote: > Tim Heuser wrote: > > > > Mark Wagnon wrote: > > > > > Tim Heuser wrote: > > > > > > > > Do you mean to have 2.0.34 as my kernel before upgrading to the 2.0.36? > > > > > > > > > > This was in the /etc/src dir right? > > > > You're supposed to be in /usr/src. This is where y

Re: "Segmentation fault" installing Debian

1999-02-15 Thread Tony
>This isn't a great workaround, not even a good one, but I'd go to a prompt >and run fdisk (instead of cfdisk which the install starts for you). Press >"m" for help, it's more primitive than cfdisk, but that's why I like it. >Depending on where cfdisk is segfaulting, fdisk could do the same thing

Debian thread-safe xlibs for x11amp compiling?

1999-02-15 Thread Matt Garman
I'm trying to do a roll-your-own x11amp, but can't get past the configure script. I get the following message: checking for thread-safe xlibs... no configure: error: You need to have thread-safe xlibs to use x11amp. Wha? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-15 Thread John Bagdanoff
The future has arrived. I didn't wait long enough. I turned my back, and sure enough the serial ports were back on auto and I couldn't connect. It wasn't different versions of setserial as I had thought. Anyway, Brandon, your solution of adding "serial" to /etc/modules appears to have worked.

Re: Network doesn't work

1999-02-15 Thread Mark Wagnon
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > The rev A model with the "Digital" chip is excellent - I have several in > hard use. I have a huge box of the rev B NICs (with the "Netgear" chip) > - haven't had a chance to stress test these yet, but I plan to do so > this week. I'm told you must use the tulip.c foun

Re: Network doesn't work

1999-02-15 Thread Mark Wagnon
Mitch Blevins wrote: > > I've never had problems with them. They're fast and dirt cheap. > I have also heard many other people sing praises to NetGear. They look pretty good. I'll have to pick up a couple this week. Thanks -- __ _ Mark Wagnon

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