Re: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread Debian Mail
> > The device is still /dev/lp0. lp1 and lp2 are still not configured, > > I read these words, but I don't understand what you mean by them. sos:~# tunelp /dev/lp0 /dev/lp0 using polling sos:~# tunelp /dev/lp1 /dev/lp1: Device not configured sos:~# tunelp /dev/lp2 /dev/lp2: Device not configured

Re: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread Debian Mail
> which module is loaded for the parallel port? i prefer static kernels but lp > from what i can see you would need parport_pc loaded and not parport. and > for 2.2.x you gotta tell it to support parallel printers in character > device section of config, again i always do my kernels as much stat

Re: silly consoles question

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 05:57:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It can be done using openvt, see openvt(1) (openvt is in kbd package, and also > console-tools maybe). > > -Lex Thanks Lex, I'm gonna read it at once! JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FORTH IF HONK THEN

Re: Hardware Clock to GMT instead of local time

1999-10-06 Thread Jairo Souto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Run tzconfig. > > On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:47:50PM +0300, Ali Onur UYAR wrote: > > I had been using Debian since July of 1998. It had been a dual boot > > NT/Debian Box. At the time of installation I remember selecting > > something like 'Set HW Clock to Local Time'

Re: expiring mail in Gnus

1999-10-06 Thread David Z. Maze
Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GH> 3) And I think this is your main problem. GH> GH> Once you read an article it generally has one of three "marks" next to GH> it: GH> GH> O means the article/mail was read, but is not marked as read. GH> E means the article/mail was read and marked as

netscape and libc6 2.1

1999-10-06 Thread Wakko Warner
Is it a known bug that netscape is unstable with glibc 2.1? I'm using potato packages of netscape 4.61 on a slink machine (slight modifications to make it work w/o upgrading to packages from potato) and it hasn't crashed. The crash I'm experiencing is when I hit alt-w to close the window and NS d

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-06 Thread addiction
> Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl. However > after the latest potato update I noticed this had changed to a pengouin, which > looks very ugly on my screen (the default is squeezed because of the > resolution, and the banner mode does not look nice because of my

Re: Installing potato

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
esl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone please help me. I would like to install potato. I started > with resc1440.bin found under potato subtree. Last I kenw, you shouldn't use those unless you want to help develop them; they're really not ready yet. Join the debian-boot mailing list if y

Re: Installing potato

1999-10-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, esl wrote: > Can someone please help me. I would like to install potato. I started > with resc1440.bin found under potato subtree. Along the way this thing > needs base2_1.tgz which I know is for slink. What am I missing here? I > have every

RE: Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-06 Thread B. Szyszka
> Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl. However > after the latest potato update I noticed this had changed to a pengouin, which > looks very ugly on my screen (the default is squeezed because of the > resolution, and the banner mode does not look nice because of my

Re: Sound Blaster Live!

1999-10-06 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Oct-99 Brad wrote: > > If you want, i can post a rough outline of what i did, and the relavent > config files. Thanks, but I read the HOWTO for Alsa, installed the driver, libs, and utilities, only to find I don't know how to load the modules; I thought it would be a simple 'insmod but it

Mount samba share via MS-DOS

1999-10-06 Thread Kent West
Anyone know of a product/method that would let me access a Samba share from MS-DOS 5/6, similar to how MS's old Workgroup Connections product would let me access a Windows share from DOS (which only works via NetBEUI, not TCP/IP - rats!)? It needs to be free/shareware. Thanks!

Re: Sound Blaster Live!

1999-10-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I am using SB 16 (Vibra I believe it is called) and I use the OSS-Linux > drivers, which cost me $20. They only allow half-duplex. Are there other > drivers that allow this card to be used in full-duplex mode? There seems

minicom lockup

1999-10-06 Thread Bart Raatgerink
Hello, I have a problem with minicom: I fire up minicom and do stuff (dialing). Then i quit. Now when i fire minicom up again it locks up Any ideas ?? Bart. -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kaaiman.demon.nl/

Resetting /dev/dsp

1999-10-06 Thread Sven Esbjerg
Hi I'm having some problems with /dev/dsp getting locked up (i.e. cannot write to dsp). Is there a way to reset /dev/dsp by hand (as root)? - or do I have to logot everytime? Sven Esbjerg

Re: Samba: When does smb.conf get read?

1999-10-06 Thread Kent West
Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 6 Oct, Kent West wrote about "Samba: When does smb.conf get read?" > > Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but I can't find the > > answer in any of the docs/web sites. > > > > I've installed Samba, and left the workgroup=workgroup. Accordingly, > > when I

Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-06 Thread lexchive
Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl. However after the latest potato update I noticed this had changed to a pengouin, which looks very ugly on my screen (the default is squeezed because of the resolution, and the banner mode does not look nice because of my fonts).

samba problems - more infos - please help

1999-10-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I've got some more infos now... I'm loggin in to the linux box over ttyS1 (getty in inittab with options -L /dev/ttyS1 115200 network) with the windows dialup. The dialup networking uses a "modem emulation" inf (see attachment) for the serial line. Now, the problem seems to be that the wo

Re: Samba: When does smb.conf get read?

1999-10-06 Thread Bryan Allen
did you /etc/init.d/samba restart? generally that makes changes to smb.conf happy happy. however, if you hadn't noticed, windows network neighborhood is sort of broken. try relogging into that machine (assuming you haven't.. somehow i don't see you keeping a windows box up for two days), after you'

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1999-10-06 Thread Myridakis Helias \(r\) \(c\) \(tm\)
Hi Verry Good Work. I want a "Deb Manager" for "Deb Pacages" if it 's posible in X environment or else in Command prompt Please don 't forget it it 's verry important. (My english is not good, i am a Greek Colege Boy) I want a URL (ftp,http) Thanks you... Bye.

Re: non-us source list entry

1999-10-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote: > > [ snip [ > > : deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US main contrib > : non-free > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/m

Installing potato

1999-10-06 Thread esl
Can someone please help me. I would like to install potato. I started with resc1440.bin found under potato subtree. Along the way this thing needs base2_1.tgz which I know is for slink. What am I missing here? I have everything on potato downloaded and stored in another Linux box. I intend to acce

samba problems (was: Re: Serial conn. to WIN (success!) - thanks)

1999-10-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Now, the further problems: I hope perhaps someone can send me some suggestions about this 'cause I have read the smb.conf manpage thoroughly and don't know what to do (although I said I was probably able to solve this). I'm using a ip connection over slip (serial cable direct) from a WIN 9

Re: Java on Debian

1999-10-06 Thread lexchive
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:45:28PM -0700, Forte, Gene L wrote: > Is Java currently available on Debian? Which elements? Is it open? Where can > I find info? > Sure, look at www.blackdown.org for generic linux info, or have a look at the debian packages jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev. There are also extens

Re: expiring mail in Gnus

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Matthias Hertel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'd like to configure Gnus to make reading debian-users somewhat > newsgroup-like, ie. all messages that are read (as opposed to unread, > ticked, or dormant) should be deleted from my disk after three days. This is a common concern and sour

Re: Samba: When does smb.conf get read?

1999-10-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Oct, Kent West wrote about "Samba: When does smb.conf get read?" > Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but I can't find the > answer in any of the docs/web sites. > > I've installed Samba, and left the workgroup=workgroup. Accordingly, > when I started browsing for my Debian b

Re: problem in sendmail

1999-10-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 06:52:34PM +0100, Rajesh Mittal wrote: > Oct 5 15:09:09 scud sendmail[24598]: PAA24598: ruleset=check_mail, > arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > relay=localhost [127.0.0.1], reject=501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender > domain must exist Your mail is tripping over your anti-spam

Re: expiring mail in Gnus

1999-10-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ooops! Note the typo below. "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > 3) And I think this is your main problem. > > Once you read an article it generally has one of three "marks" next to > it: > > O means the article/mail was read, but is not marked as read. O means the article/mail

Re: expiring mail in Gnus

1999-10-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
Matthias Hertel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to configure Gnus to make reading debian-users somewhat > newsgroup-like, ie. all messages that are read (as opposed to unread, > ticked, or dormant) should be deleted from my disk after three days. I > thought that setting the following group

Re: Sound Blaster Live!

1999-10-06 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:57:16PM -, Pollywog wrote: > I am using SB 16 (Vibra I believe it is called) and I use the OSS-Linux > drivers, which cost me $20. They only allow half-duplex. Are there other > drivers that allow this card to be used in full-duplex mode? I believe those cards only

X, WindowMaker, and the such

1999-10-06 Thread Brian A Phillips
I am having a problem running X on my machine. The main problem seems to be that WindowMaker crashes when I try to open a dialog box (for instance when trying to access 'settings' for a dock icon). However, if I run X as root, this problem does not occur. It also manifests itself in other wa

Re: non-us source list entry

1999-10-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote: [ snip [ : deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US main contrib : non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free Weird, eh? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips A

Re: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I assume you have only one printer port. LEAVE OUT the lp=0xnnn and let the kernel probe for the printer. Then look at what the kernel spits out, it will tell you where the printer is. Try "dmesg | less" to see it. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu

UDP logger

1999-10-06 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody know of connection loger like 'iplogger', but also for UDP? TIA! -- p.

Re: Sound Blaster Live!

1999-10-06 Thread Pollywog
I am using SB 16 (Vibra I believe it is called) and I use the OSS-Linux drivers, which cost me $20. They only allow half-duplex. Are there other drivers that allow this card to be used in full-duplex mode? thanks -- Andrew

problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>I use Debian with kernel 2.0.36. All information I >can get from the >BIOS of my Intel PC about the parallel port ist, that >io is 0x278 and >that the mode is normal (other possible modes: ECP, >EPP 1.9 and EPP >1.7). So I say modprobe lp io=0x278. The printer is a >HP LaserJet 4P >connected troug

Java on Debian

1999-10-06 Thread Forte, Gene L
Is Java currently available on Debian? Which elements? Is it open? Where can I find info? > > Gene L Forte > Intel Corporation/Platform Tools Operation > 5350 N.E. Elam Young Parkway, MS EY2-13, Hillsboro, OR 97124-6461 > (Tel) 503-696-2077, (Fax) 503-696-3730, (Mobile) 50

Java on Debian

1999-10-06 Thread Forte, Gene L
Is Java currently available on Debian? Which elements? Is it open? Where can I find info? > > Gene L Forte > Intel Corporation/Platform Tools Operation > 5350 N.E. Elam Young Parkway, MS EY2-13, Hillsboro, OR 97124-6461 > (Tel) 503-696-2077, (Fax) 503-696-3730, (Mobile) 50

Re: Sound Blaster Live!

1999-10-06 Thread longship
Andrea, Please don't waste your money on the SB Live. This card is on the list of cards without open source support because Creative refuses to release the information necessary to construct a driver. Buying this card doesn't help our case to get Creative to release the programming specs. There

[Linux: X-Terminal] with Debian possible ???

1999-10-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Guys, I have gotten 10 Bigtower complete, but without Harddisks, because they went Network Workstations. Now I like to make 5 of the machines to X-Teminals. Can anyone tell me, how to do that ??? OK, I like to make the X-Terminals bootable from Floppy with SYSLINUX and then I like to wo

[Linux: Network card] Accton EN5020 or EN 1650/51 (MPX)

1999-10-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello guys, I have gotten 10 Bigtower complete, but without Harddisks, because they went Network Workstations. They have always the NIC Accton EN5020 or EN 1650/51 (MPX). I do not know the type of it exactly, but the chip. Please can anyone tell me, what network driver I must use ??? The NIC's

Samba: When does smb.conf get read?

1999-10-06 Thread Kent West
Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but I can't find the answer in any of the docs/web sites. I've installed Samba, and left the workgroup=workgroup. Accordingly, when I started browsing for my Debian box via Windows' Network Neighboorhood, I found it in the "Workgroup" workgroup. Want

expiring mail in Gnus

1999-10-06 Thread Matthias Hertel
Hi, I'd like to configure Gnus to make reading debian-users somewhat newsgroup-like, ie. all messages that are read (as opposed to unread, ticked, or dormant) should be deleted from my disk after three days. I thought that setting the following group parameters for my debian-users group would acco

installation hangs during (after?) downloading scsi stuff on P133

1999-10-06 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi Yesterday I tried to install debian on an old machine for use as a X-terminal at work. The machine is a Dell P133 (the first machine I've acutually laid hands on with the F0 bug!) with 96Mb of memory, an Adaptec 2940 and a Seagate 1.3Gig SCSI HD. It booted nicely on the rescue disk but after i

Sound Blaster Live!

1999-10-06 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello World! Does Sound Blaster Live! works on Debian 2.0 ?? Please help me!

bug in mesag3 install ?

1999-10-06 Thread Pollywog
I have noticed that there *seems* to be a problem with some packages when they are upgraded. glib, gtk, and mesag3 come to mind. When I upgrade these with either dpkg or apt, the old packages are not removed. This morning, I tried to upgrade to mesag3 (for potato) and got an error about a failur

Re: brokenness somewhere in netbase or dpkg (or apt?)

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Ari Heitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is an already-reported and recently-fixed bug in the new (potato/unstable) "debconf" utility. Try installing the latest debconf first and see if that makes the rest of it work. The latest as of today is: debconf (0.1.53) unstable; the bug you encounte

Re: procps vs. bsdutils in unstable

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really don't know where I should post this, but I guess here would > be as good as any. The latest procps package is overlapping with > bsdutils. Namely /bin/kill is overlapping. Yes, the new bsdutils (not yet on the mirrors) has removed /bin/kill, s

non-us source list entry

1999-10-06 Thread Miguel A. Figueroa
Hi, This is a silly question but here it goes: The entry in /etc/apt/sources.list for stable non-US is: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US main contrib non-free I now have unstable installed and wanted the unstable stuff for non-US in my sources.list like so: deb http://n

Re: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread aphro
which module is loaded for the parallel port? i prefer static kernels but from what i can see you would need parport_pc loaded and not parport. and for 2.2.x you gotta tell it to support parallel printers in character device section of config, again i always do my kernels as much static as i can s

Re: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Debian Mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Should it? My machines running 2.0.36 are all printing on /dev/lp1 > > and that's to LPT1 and 0x378. I'm not sure why you're using 0x278 > > in the BIOS (conventionally LPT2). > > I changed it to 0x378 and said modprobe lp io=0x378 > The device is sti

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-06 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > David Teague wrote: > ... > > We do have an all Debian/Windows 9x setup. The Sun serves Win9x > > applications to machines in the student lab. > I believe you use samba on the Sun for sharing the directories; and how > did you set the smb.conf so that the Wind

Re: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread Debian Mail
> Should it? My machines running 2.0.36 are all printing on /dev/lp1 > and that's to LPT1 and 0x378. I'm not sure why you're using 0x278 > in the BIOS (conventionally LPT2). I changed it to 0x378 and said modprobe lp io=0x378 The device is still /dev/lp0. lp1 and lp2 are still not configured, and

Re: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-06 Thread Greg Vence
I've got an 8 port 10/100 switch we can use also... Nothing fancy just a NetGear box, but it works fine. Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > Woohoo.. Just got the permission to skip two days from office for ALS. Will > be there with my machine.. Dual celeron (300 oc'd 450) with a 19' monitor

Re: Mount as many partitions as possible read only (what do I do with /etc?)

1999-10-06 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:07:33AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > I did mount / with the sync option on a server of mine. So the danger > of data loss is reduced a bit. Since / is not that big a fsck is quite > fast. Thanks! This seems the best available solution for my system.

Re: Mount as many partitions as possible read only (what do I do with /etc?)

1999-10-06 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 08:15:14PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >What's The Right Way (tm) to have / mounted read-only? > My diskless package (I just uploaded 0.3.2 to master today) does what > you want (but for diskless systems). Sadly, my system is the network server: the one and only system that

brokenness somewhere in netbase or dpkg (or apt?)

1999-10-06 Thread Ari Heitner
Hi, A couple of days ago when I apt-get upgraded, it gave me a new version of netbase, 3.16-3. When it got to the install part, it ran its setup script and started asking me questions about my networking config (which surprised me -- why didn't it just use the config that was already there?).

Re: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Debian Mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I believe it is /dev/lp1=lpt1:. Are you sure you are using the correct > > device ? > > Yes, /dev/lp0 should be the correct device. Also I can see the printer > in a way, since tunelp /dev/lp0 only gives specific output if the > printer is connected.

Re: Where is "open"?

1999-10-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Oct, Serge Gavrilov wrote about "Where is "open"?" > Hello! > > I cannot find "open" package in potato. Does anybody know where is it? May be > open binary moved into some package? > > Thanks A search for bin/open on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html under 'Search the Content

Re: Apache segfaulting upon perl module load

1999-10-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Thank you, Doug. This turned out to be the solution. A complicating factor was that I was building from .deb files, since I run Debian, and the mod_perl source .deb blows up. I wanted to do things in such a way that I ended up with good .debs, to make it easier to deinstall, replace, etc. I did

Where is "open"?

1999-10-06 Thread Serge Gavrilov
Hello! I cannot find "open" package in potato. Does anybody know where is it? May be open binary moved into some package? Thanks -- Serge Gavrilov

Re: silly consoles question

1999-10-06 Thread lexchive
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 04:19:49PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm actually making many modifications of my system, > so I'm used to open two consoles in root, and 3 as user. > > Is there a possibility, as soon as I open the first console > as root, to automagically open the oth

Re: Mount as many partitions as possible read only (what do I do with /etc?)

1999-10-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Enrico Zini wrote: > What's The Right Way (tm) to have / mounted read-only? You're not really supposed to. / has to be read-write because it contains /etc. /etc has to be on / because it wants to be consistent both before and after the non-root partitions are mounted. You a

Re: Hardware Clock to GMT instead of local time

1999-10-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Run tzconfig. On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:47:50PM +0300, Ali Onur UYAR wrote: > I had been using Debian since July of 1998. It had been a dual boot > NT/Debian Box. At the time of installation I remember selecting > something like 'Set HW Clock to Local Time'. Now that I've dumped NT > completely a

Toshiba 220 CS - notebook

1999-10-06 Thread ESCORT
Whitch files should I download to install Debian 2.1 on notebook in title of message ?   Greetings Marek Chojnacki (Poland)   my e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread Debian Mail
> I believe it is /dev/lp1=lpt1:. Are you sure you are using the correct > device ? Yes, /dev/lp0 should be the correct device. Also I can see the printer in a way, since tunelp /dev/lp0 only gives specific output if the printer is connected. Stef

Re: silly consoles question

1999-10-06 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm actually making many modifications of my system, > so I'm used to open two consoles in root, and 3 as user. > > Is there a possibility, as soon as I open the first console > as root, to automagically open the others AFAIK no

Re: Sound Config Probs

1999-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I guess the post 2.0 kernels handle this differently. I know that if you use 2.0.3x the isapnp runs AFTER the kernel inits built-in's but BEFORE modules are loaded. The best thing would be for the driver to do the pnp stuff itself which is how (I think) it happens in windows. I'll have to revist

Linux/GDI printers/Samba

1999-10-06 Thread Paul McHale
Hi, I would like to use my Linux server as a print server. I have a Xerox Xe80 combined copier /printer. The problem is it follows the GDI initiative. This is where they design a printer that is so dumb you can't pipe text to it and have it print. They moved a good bit of intelligence from the

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/06/99 at 06:28 PM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:13:41PM -0400, Terry Katz wrote: >> 2.1.3-2 is one that does it ... >Seems to behave itself here. But then I only have fvwm2 installed, none of >these fancy new wms. I had in

Re: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-06 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Woohoo.. Just got the permission to skip two days from office for ALS. Will be there with my machine.. Dual celeron (300 oc'd 450) with a 19' monitor. Who's co ordinating... Regards, Vaidhy On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:30:30AM -0700, Greg & Heather Vence wrote: > I could haul my printer in again.

RE: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread Paul McHale
I believe it is /dev/lp1=lpt1:. Are you sure you are using the correct device ? -Original Message- From: Debian Mail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 10:11 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problem with /dev/lp0 I use Debian with kernel 2.0.36. All

printing through samba with Windows

1999-10-06 Thread Ken Long
Hi there! I'm having a rather difficult problem with printing through samba from Windows machines. What happens is there are a bunch of big Word documents (with pictures in there from digital cameras) that need to be printed out in batches. Normally a user can pick a bunch from explorer and rig

Re: Sound Config Probs

1999-10-06 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have compiled the sound support into my kernel for a > SB16 card also using isapnp. A few points which I > noticed. > > 1. you MUST not compile INTO the kernel, make sound > drivers a module. After installing your new kernel [snip] Not always tr

silly consoles question

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'm actually making many modifications of my system, so I'm used to open two consoles in root, and 3 as user. Is there a possibility, as soon as I open the first console as root, to automagically open the others JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Oh, I've seen copi

Re: New HD, DMA, errors...

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:16:20PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > Hi! I've bought a new HD and I'm having troubles with it. It's a Seagate > ST310232A (10 Gb). > > Boot: > > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at

bootpd: ioctl SIOCSARP: invalid argument

1999-10-06 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
I am trying to set up a boot server in order to boot and install debian-ppc in a 43P I have here, but I am failing miserably to set up bootpd. I've never set one of these before. And it is saying: ioctl SIOCSARP: Invalid argument Anyone has an Idea of what is happening?

problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-06 Thread Debian Mail
I use Debian with kernel 2.0.36. All information I can get from the BIOS of my Intel PC about the parallel port ist, that io is 0x278 and that the mode is normal (other possible modes: ECP, EPP 1.9 and EPP 1.7). So I say modprobe lp io=0x278. The printer is a HP LaserJet 4P connected trough a bidir

Re: Hdparm problem ?!

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 06:19:21AM -0700, Joakim Svensson wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > Be sure to reply to that address. > > Hi all, > > (I am on the mailing list, just using this way > of posting because I can't get to my home m

Re: Mail won't leave system

1999-10-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:05:15AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > In the last couple of days I'v suddenly been unable to send out mail > (I'm sending this from a different machine). > > I'm using Slink, with smail. I have two ISPs (Freeserve and Demon); it > happens with both. I get an error me

Re: Secure rdist?

1999-10-06 Thread Andreas Muck
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I know it must be an FAQ, but does there exist a secure replacement >for rdist, one which would not require having a /root/.rhosts file? You can use standard rdist over ssh (rdist -P ssh). Authentication can be either automatically (using .shosts or auth

Re: Secure rdist?

1999-10-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:59, Julian Gilbey wrote: > [Please Cc: me with replies!] > > I know it must be an FAQ, but does there exist a secure replacement > for rdist, one which would not require having a /root/.rhosts file? > Those things make me understandably paranoid. I'm not quite sure what

Hdparm problem ?!

1999-10-06 Thread Joakim Svensson
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi all, (I am on the mailing list, just using this way of posting because I can't get to my home machine right now) Just a bit curious about this message I get from hdparm. If a

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > IMO, the Debian install is a lot simpler. As I said Debian supports what the > > kernel supports, which is any sun4c, sun4m, and sun4d (we also support > > sun4u, > > ultrasparc, with the proper kernel). SPA

Re: Easy lilo question (win95 on /dev/hda, deb. on /dev/hdb)

1999-10-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Try edit your /etc/lilo.conf. I have come up with this one for your configuration described below, but I never tested. Assuming you only have 1 partition on both hard drives: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hdb1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/ma

procps vs. bsdutils in unstable

1999-10-06 Thread Marshal Wong
I really don't know where I should post this, but I guess here would be as good as any. The latest procps package is overlapping with bsdutils. Namely /bin/kill is overlapping. Okay. Thanks. Marshal

Re: latex french.sty

1999-10-06 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > > when i compil a file.tex this message happen: "french.sty" file not > found > where can i find this one? >From your favourite CTAN mirror (e.g. ftp.dante.de). in cweb-latex there is cwbl-french.sty. Jens P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At

Re: pam_smb query

1999-10-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It should work fine provided you've installed the necessary packages. What errors are you getting from ./configure? Make sure, for instance, that you've installed the pam development package, libpam0g-dev. "Ellery, Alex" wrote: > Hi, > Does Debian Linux support David Airlie's pam_smb package? I

Sound Config Probs

1999-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have compiled the sound support into my kernel for a SB16 card also using isapnp. A few points which I noticed. 1. you MUST not compile INTO the kernel, make sound drivers a module. After installing your new kernel run modconf to add the sound modules into the module load list (so they will be

pam_smb query

1999-10-06 Thread Ellery, Alex
Hi, Does Debian Linux support David Airlie's pam_smb package? It doesn't seem to configure correctly on running ./configure. Thabks for your help. Alex Ellery Dr Alex Ellery, C.Phys, C.Eng, FRAS SPACE DIVISION Logica UK Ltd, Stephenson House, 75 Hampstead Road, London. NW1 2PL. UK. Tel: +44 (0)171

Re: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-06 Thread Greg & Heather Vence
I could haul my printer in again. Also, I've got a real machine this year... AMD K6-III 450MHz Viper 770, NetGear 10/100 NIC... 19" Optiquest monitor. Who's coordinating? TIA -- Greg. - Original Message - From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAI

Re: Splitting debian-user (was Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO...)

1999-10-06 Thread Tom Pfeifer
> But if we create _debian-user-unstable_, the _debian-user_ readers > would miss (would they care?) the discussions -- some of them > interesting -- about changes, and might therefore be less well > prepared to handle the upgrade to potato when it becomes stable. > > So I obviously can't make up

Re: Sound Config Probs

1999-10-06 Thread Mark Buda
> "bwarsing" == bwarsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bwarsing> Did: bwarsing> cat "some .au file" > /dev/audio bwarsing> Nothing happens. Can't figure out if its isapnp or some bwarsing> other config i have not completed yet. Um... did you recompile the kernel with sound s

Re: Easy lilo question (win95 on /dev/hda, deb. on /dev/hdb)

1999-10-06 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi Martin On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:52:09AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote: > Hello, > > Having had to installk win95, I did (on the first hard drive /dev/hda) and > then installed debian (on second ide drive /dev/hdb). > Take a /etc/lilo.conf like that: # LILO Konfigurations-Datei # Start LILO gl

Secure rdist?

1999-10-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
[Please Cc: me with replies!] I know it must be an FAQ, but does there exist a secure replacement for rdist, one which would not require having a /root/.rhosts file? Those things make me understandably paranoid. I'm not quite sure what a secure replacement would look like though; would it perhaps

Hardware Clock to GMT instead of local time

1999-10-06 Thread Ali Onur UYAR
I had been using Debian since July of 1998. It had been a dual boot NT/Debian Box. At the time of installation I remember selecting something like 'Set HW Clock to Local Time'. Now that I've dumped NT completely and I want to change it to 'HW Clock set to GMT' as I believe that is the way UNIXish m

Re: nfs boot off of a kernel on a floppy

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >If you'd like to save some spaces, you can select several directories to >be exported. Of course, the server and the clients have to be running >the same version of the OS. If I remember correctly, /lib, /bin, /sbin, >/usr can be exported safely. You have

Re: Mount as many partitions as possible read only (what do I do with /etc?)

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >It's trivial to have /usr read-only, but I have problems with the root >partition: > > - It has to contain /etc since it's required at early boot time to run rc > scripts > - /etc has to be read-write since you have to be able to change passwords, add >

Re: fatal error in SO 5.1

1999-10-06 Thread John
Been following potato, and have downloaded the latest 5.1a version, bombs out here also using kernel 2.2.13pre14. Guess ill keep trying things :) Brad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Brad wrote: > > > > > 2) Are you _sure_ is wasn't the

Re: Splitting debian-user (was Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO...)

1999-10-06 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 05:16:59AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: [...] > I'm not strongly for or against. I could certainly live with another > mailing list, but whatever we do, lets leave debian-devel to the > developers. I agree, Ed. ...developers and future developers. :-) Hmmm. A n

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