canon lbp 8 III plus

1999-10-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I was borrowed a canon lbp 8 III plus, but I still have problems to make it work under debian 2.1 slink. Any idea about the (magic)filter I must use? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... A booming voice says, "Wrong, cretin!", and you notice that you have turned into a pi

Re: Last potato linuxlogo [again]

1999-10-07 Thread addiction
my mistake, the swirl is in the source package of version 3.0.1-1.. Now to just find that somewhere, which I'm having a hard time doing.

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-07 Thread addiction
> Hi, > Changelogs and bug reports are very helpful... > > I found this line in /usr/doc/linuxlogo/changelog.Debian.gz: > * Added the original swirl files to the debian directory (Fixes #46588). > > The bug report link (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/46/46588.html) mentions the > swirl is back in th

(I have a problem with my NIC) SC&C home page ?

1999-10-07 Thread shaul
I have a problem with my NIC. ifconfig reports that HWaddr is 00:00:21:CE:18:CF http://www.cavebear.com/CaveBear/Ethernet/ says that this 21 is SC&C (PAM Soft&Hardware also reported). Can you point me to their home page ?

ttyS*--?

1999-10-07 Thread pplaw
debs, 1. according to windoze, my lapbox modem is config'd for com5 @/on irq 10. the /dev file doesn't list a /ttyS4. how do i add it? 2. my deskbox modem is config'd for com4 @/on irq3. slink sees /dev/ttyS3 @/on irq 3, but nothing happens when i pon the isp. (my goal is to have successful

Re: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-07 Thread Michael Neuffer
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [991005 23:45]: > > On 05-Oct-99 Johnie Ingram wrote: > > > > ... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, community > > pavillion, check it out), or who knows good places to stay at in > > Atlanta? Or who wants to planepool with the Novar

Re: Printer suggestion

1999-10-07 Thread Justin Settle
Well, I agree with the laser printer. If you have the money and don't need color, get an older HP 4 or something of the like. For an ink jet, however, I own and Epson and, IMHO, they make a better product. They are a bit cheaper, but built just as well, have high res and are pretty fast. You me

Three questions

1999-10-07 Thread brian . ross
I have a system on which I've just installed debian. It has two network cards but during setup only one was recognised. I need to know how to: 1) Make the system recognise the other network card. Is there a utility which probes the card and determines what type it is and (hopefully) installs th

Re: NIS and groups

1999-10-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:46:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > I ever wondered why I didn't success in adding users to group floppy > on our network, until I saw in the Makefile that for security reasons > GIDs less than 100 are not included in the NIS distribution. > > How ca

Re: slink --> potato, no rlogin?

1999-10-07 Thread peter karlsson
> I upgraded to potato yesterday and most things seem okay, but I don't seem > to have rlogin installed anymore!?! What package is rlogin in? It has moved out of netstd (I think) to its own packages: rsh-client and rsh-server -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: noh

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-07 Thread Chris Schleifer
Hi, Changelogs and bug reports are very helpful... I found this line in /usr/doc/linuxlogo/changelog.Debian.gz: * Added the original swirl files to the debian directory (Fixes #46588). The bug report link (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/46/46588.html) mentions the swirl is back in the source packa

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-07 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:15:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl. > ... > Is there some hidden option to have it display the debian logo again, > or do i have to downgrade it? from the changelog.Debian.gz : ---

Re: Printer suggestion

1999-10-07 Thread Sean Johnson
Unless you need to have color, I'd suggest getting a laser printer of some flavor (I'm partial to HP printers in general). If you need color, go with an HP 8** printer. I don't know what numbers they have now, but I have an 890C, and have been very impressed. Sean Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:

Re: dpkg roadblock

1999-10-07 Thread Charles Lewis
OK, in the absence of any other suggestions, what kind of implications would there be in using 'dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq ' in this kind of situation where normal removal/purge techniques don't work? chas [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sequence: > 1. Used dselect to select all web packages in order to r

slink --> potato, no rlogin?

1999-10-07 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello, I upgraded to potato yesterday and most things seem okay, but I don't seem to have rlogin installed anymore!?! What package is rlogin in? Perhaps apt removed it for some reason? Also, when opening an eterm it complains that "bash: /usr/bin/check-sendfile: No such file or directory", what

exim-doc: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.

1999-10-07 Thread shaul
texi2dvi can not handle exim-doc. Can you advise ? Package: exim-doc Version: 3.00-2 Severity: normal Attached output of 1) exim.log 2) texi2dvi --debug exim.texi - -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown

potato acroread won't run

1999-10-07 Thread michael
Hi, I just installed the acroread package from unstable by using apt-get. Now, when I try to run acroread, I see these warnings and errors: Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Warning: X locale

qt2 trying to overwrite /usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0

1999-10-07 Thread Charles Lewis
Installing the qt2 package give the following error: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/qt2_2.0.1-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0', which is also in package qt1g I can't uninstall qt1g without uninstalling a host of kde applications due to depende

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Steve Dodd
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:58:02AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > For what it's worth: I installed the 2.2.12 kernel on my working slink > installation (which has never had the problem), rebooted, and promptly > saw name resolution hang. I restored the 2.0.36 kernel, and > everything worked again.

NIS and groups

1999-10-07 Thread jtr
Dear all, I ever wondered why I didn't success in adding users to group floppy on our network, until I saw in the Makefile that for security reasons GIDs less than 100 are not included in the NIS distribution. How can I add my users to this group (GID 25) without leaving security holes; how do o

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Todd Suess
Also, for what it's worth, I am running a 2.2.12-3 kernel on my dialup potato box and name resolution works fine. -Todd At 11:58 AM 10/7/1999 -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: For what it's worth: I installed the 2.2.12 kernel on my working slink installation (which has never had the problem), reb

Re: cu or tip for /dev/ttySx access?

1999-10-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote: Clint> Is there a package which contains either of these utilities? I Clint> wish to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem Clint> cable to my ttyS0 port. Th

HP 692C Configuration

1999-10-07 Thread Renato Braga de Lima Guedes
Hi everybody, I have a HP 692 C printer instaled on my pentiun II running Debian 2.1 and I didn't get to configure it. I already tried to do it using the Magicfilterconfig but my debian doesn't have any filter for HP 692C printer. I would like to kown where I could find this filter or if I'm d

Re: download HTML Installation manual

1999-10-07 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 08:19:36PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: > Easier even: > wget -r http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ Actually, I prefer wget -r -l inf -np -k -t 0 retry if error ^^ convert absolute links to relative ones

Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-07 Thread Steve George
Hi, Basically there are two 'current' kernel level implementations for doing ip-filtering and masquerading. They are: ipfwadm kernel 2.0.* ipchainskernel 2.2.* There will be a new system for 2.4.* as you note which is more generic and technically could support no

Printer suggestion

1999-10-07 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I am interested in buying a printer, but I want to avoid as many installation problems as posible. For this reason I would appreciate if someone could advice me about a mark and a model. What do you prefer? An epson printer (highest resolution but expensive to mantain), a HP printer (very

Re: still can't resolve...

1999-10-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
tf wrote: >Hey guys, > >I'm still having problems with resolving. I've tried a few things, >but none of them solved the problem. So. Anyone have any more >ideas ?(thanks Pollywog for the input) > >I can access websites by ip address, but no other way. One day I >could use DNS,

Re: minicom lockup

1999-10-07 Thread Steve George
Hi, Sounds a little strange but it occurs to me that it could be either a) it's not resetting properly and is leaving a lock file so you could check in /var/lock, or b) perhaps it isn't able to resett the modem properly when you come out of minicom so is getting something stuck in it's craw. S

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Eric Hanchrow
For what it's worth: I installed the 2.2.12 kernel on my working slink installation (which has never had the problem), rebooted, and promptly saw name resolution hang. I restored the 2.0.36 kernel, and everything worked again.

Re: download HTML Installation manual

1999-10-07 Thread Colin Marquardt
[quoting fixed] * shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'd like to download the whole Installation Manual for i386 in HTML >> format: >> http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install > Perhaps with a shell script that uses wget ? > #! /bin/sh > wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/ins

canon laser printer

1999-10-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, A friend of mine make me a proposition about a LPB III plus canon laser printer, any comments?? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There are new messages.

Re: Kdevelop package on kde.tdyc.com/kde2

1999-10-07 Thread Achim Bohnet
>>>Stuart Ballard wrote: > Stuart Ballard wrote: > > > > apt-get just informed me that kdevelop depends on kdelibs2g (>= > > 4:1.1.2-19990906-1.0) but it is not installable. Does anyone know if > > this is a bug, a package that isn't yet uploaded onto the server, or > > something that I need

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
Since name resolution works with 2.0.36, your /etc/resolv.conf is probably fine. Can you ping or traceroute -n to your DNS successfully with 2.2.12 (use the ip address you have in resolv.conf)? On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 09:23:47AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > Last month I had a problem: in sho

Re: still can't resolve...

1999-10-07 Thread Bryan Allen
have you put your ISP's nameserver(s) in /etc/resolv.conf? That's usually the first thing to do. if you dun know them, call them and beat them for IPs. bryan. tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away. - nin. On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, tf wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm still having problems wi

latex2html and GIF

1999-10-07 Thread Charles Kaufman
Dear Debian I cannot make latex2html produce images in GIF format. There is an option in the config file which may be GIF or PNG. When I use PNG (the default) it works. When I use GIF it reports 'this version of pstoimg does not support GIF format.' I do have netpbm-nonfree installed as well as net

Re:

1999-10-07 Thread Kent West
"Myridakis Helias (r) (c) (tm)" wrote: > 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

Re: still can't resolve...

1999-10-07 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:13:09AM -0600, tf wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm still having problems with resolving. I've tried a few things, > but none of them solved the problem. So. Anyone have any more > ideas ?(thanks Pollywog for the input) > > I can access websites by ip address, but no other

Re: disk image

1999-10-07 Thread Marc Mongeon
Vincent: Look at http://cdimage.debian.org/ Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hu

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-07 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Last month I had a problem: in short, I installed potato, and noticed that name resolution hung, although things worked fine if I used a numeric IP address. I've included below the plea for help that I sent last month. It describes the problem in detail. Well, in case anyone's interested, I hav

still can't resolve...

1999-10-07 Thread tf
Hey guys, I'm still having problems with resolving. I've tried a few things, but none of them solved the problem. So. Anyone have any more ideas ?(thanks Pollywog for the input) I can access websites by ip address, but no other way. One day I could use DNS, the next I could not. This sure i

change mailcap entries automatically?

1999-10-07 Thread Debian Mail
Is there a script to change the tool used to display images in the mailcap file to xv, or must it be done by hand? Stef

Re: non-us source list entry

1999-10-07 Thread Miguel A. Figueroa
Thanks guys, works great! Miguel Brad wrote: > > -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-

Re: I can't connect to Novell network

1999-10-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Istvan Benak wrote: > > "Alex V. Toropov" wrote: > > > > In fact I'm not Novell expert, but in my case everything works ok. > > I'v used debian packages for ncpfs. > > > > >NetworkRouter_Net Router_Node > > >19930921 0F02 034CA255 > > >0F02 Directly Connected > > > >

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

1999-10-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > 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

dpkg roadblock

1999-10-07 Thread Charles Lewis
Sequence: 1. Used dselect to select all web packages in order to remove them. 2. During the remove process received errors that the remove process was unable to complete for some packages because there were files in /etc/php3, /etc/htdig, and /usr/lib/apache. 3. Dutifully removed said files/directo

Re: Java on Debian

1999-10-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:45:28 -0700, Forte, Gene L wrote: > Is Java currently available on Debian? Yes. debian-java@lists.debian.org is dedicated to Java on Debian. > Which elements? The SUN JDK (non-free), the Kaffe JVM (free), IBM's Jikes java compiler (free), gjc (the Java frontend for gcc

Re: Kdevelop package on kde.tdyc.com/kde2

1999-10-07 Thread Stuart Ballard
Stuart Ballard wrote: > > apt-get just informed me that kdevelop depends on kdelibs2g (>= > 4:1.1.2-19990906-1.0) but it is not installable. Does anyone know if > this is a bug, a package that isn't yet uploaded onto the server, or > something that I need to go get somewhere else? Sorry to reply

Re: download HTML Installation manual

1999-10-07 Thread shaul
Perhaps with a shell script that uses wget ? #! /bin/sh wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-partitioning.en.html wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-post-install.en.html etc. > > Hello, > > a very basic question: > > I'd like to download the whole In

Kdevelop package on kde.tdyc.com/kde2

1999-10-07 Thread Stuart Ballard
apt-get just informed me that kdevelop depends on kdelibs2g (>= 4:1.1.2-19990906-1.0) but it is not installable. Does anyone know if this is a bug, a package that isn't yet uploaded onto the server, or something that I need to go get somewhere else? Thanks, Stuart.

RE: minicom lockup

1999-10-07 Thread Paul McHale
Bart, I had the same issue with minicom. It didn't exactly lockup for me, it would refuse to access the port. Or the port (device) would be unresponsive. I switched to ckermit and had no problems. Might want to try that ... paul -Original Message- From: Bart Raatgerink [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: UDP logger

1999-10-07 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > For some strange reason, I can't seem to read its man pages even though > they are installed, and /usr/share/man is in my MANPATH: > Anyone know why that might be ? I had the same problem on my part slink, part potato box. (The files were in /usr/share

Re: Boot EPROM vs. floppy

1999-10-07 Thread shaul
What exactly do you mean by a booteprom ? I believe that if you'll manage to replace your PC bios with a boot EPROM then then the EPROM will be accessed first. The floppy might not be accessed at all, depending on what you have put on the EPROM. > Hi! > > I have a question! If I make a bootepr

Re: SQL server....

1999-10-07 Thread jarek lewinski
Try the work group server form Oracle. We are running for more the 6 months and are quite satisfied. A trial version can be downloaded from oracle web site. If You need more details do not hesitate to mail me. Jarek

Re: network card problems

1999-10-07 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Thanks Phil and Hubert for responding! I've loaded the module (ne.o) and > ran the ifconfig command with success (with your help)! Can either one of > you guys or anybody else in debian land tell me what HOWTO document I can > use to h

Re: disk image

1999-10-07 Thread Cory Snavely
See http://cdimage.debian.org/ which will lead you through a series of questions and explain how to create bootable iso9660 images for installing Debian. c - Original Message - From: vincent leycuras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:03 AM Subject: disk ima

Re: Hardware Clock to GMT instead of local time

1999-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jairo Souto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You have to change the line in /etc/default/rcS which states >the CMOS clock configuration, haven't you? > > ># Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT="" if not. >GMT=

Re: minicom lockup

1999-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bart Raatgerink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 ?? How does it lock up. Can you be a bit more specific Mike. -- First thi

disk image

1999-10-07 Thread vincent leycuras
Hi! I just installed Linux Mandrake 6,0 because it was easy to download: you probably know they have their distrib ready for download in .iso format, ready for CD burning. I also know FreeBSD have it. Do you know a way of finding the same thing for Debian Linux? Vincent, France.

Fw: network card problems

1999-10-07 Thread Wendell Buckner
(Re:network card problems) Thanks Phil and Hubert for responding! I've loaded the module (ne.o) and ran the ifconfig command with success (with your help)! Can either one of you guys or anybody else in debian land tell me what HOWTO document I can use to help me with my next step(s)... i.e.

Re: PPPoE aka. PPP over Ethernet

1999-10-07 Thread shaul
You might try www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=linux-net&m=93554017019744&w=2 Have you tried to search the WEB ? > So Sympatico, or Bell Canada, has decided to be a bitch and implement > PPPoE or, as the title shows, PPP over Ethernet. Has anyone ever > heard of such a thing? And the main quest

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

1999-10-07 Thread Martyn Pearce
Anders Lennartsson writes: | 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 nic

RE: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-07 Thread George Bonser
> > and i am a bit confused... > > > IP MASQ supports network NAT very wellbut the docs say that we have to > use > only private IPs. so .. can i use IP MASQ to hide my 95.x.x.x network > also > ?? Yes, you can ipmasq to nat anything. It simply uses masquerades the given source address

Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-07 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 11:48:10 +0530, "venu" writes: >NAT -- for 2.0.36 and 2.2.x is available ... but it does NOT support "Dynamic >NAT" i.e. 95.x.x.x NATed behind ONE IP If you use kernel 2.0.x, have a look at ipfwadm, the masquerading option does exactly what you want. The kernel does not actua

Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-07 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >An interesting problem... > >we have a legacy network which has IPs : 95.x.x.x ( NOT REGISTERED, i.e >illegal) >that we can't change now !!! ( those network enginners of 1994,when the network >was installed; obviously did not know about rfc1918 ) > >now

how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-07 Thread venu
An interesting problem... we have a legacy network which has IPs : 95.x.x.x ( NOT REGISTERED, i.e illegal) that we can't change now !!! ( those network enginners of 1994,when the network was installed; obviously did not know about rfc1918 ) now we want to connect this network to the Internet...

Re: I can't connect to Novell network

1999-10-07 Thread Istvan Benak
"Alex V. Toropov" wrote: > > In fact I'm not Novell expert, but in my case everything works ok. > I'v used debian packages for ncpfs. > > >NetworkRouter_Net Router_Node > >19930921 0F02 034CA255 > >0F02 Directly Connected > > > >So, I don't know to the Novell Netware

Re: netscape and libc6 2.1

1999-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Wakko Warner wrote: > 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-

Re: I can't connect to Novell network

1999-10-07 Thread Alex V. Toropov
In fact I'm not Novell expert, but in my case everything works ok. I'v used debian packages for ncpfs. >NetworkRouter_Net Router_Node >19930921 0F02 034CA255 >0F02 Directly Connected > >So, I don't know to the Novell Netware, and I can't adjudge this >ipx_routing is

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I can't connect to Novell network

1999-10-07 Thread Istvan Benak
Hello all! I can't connect to a Novell network with my Linux. I downloaded the ncpfs tgz, I made the make command, it compiled successfully. In my kernel is the IPX support (as a module), I loaded in the ipx.o with the insmod command, i loaded in the ncpfs.o module too. After these I typed ipx_con

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-07 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:15:18PM -0400, addiction wrote: > > Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl. > > -Lex > > I have been wanting to ask the same thing... I did try downgrading to > get the swirl back but I can't find which version actually HAD the swirl > to b

Help choosing SQL server engine

1999-10-07 Thread Alex V. Toropov
I need to choose SQL server engine for phone billing system. Just now it's running on MS SQL server, but I'd like to migrate it to linux platform. Size of the database just now is about 200 MB, main table contains about 700 000 records. One of the main needs is that data storage should be safe.

Re: problem with /dev/lp0

1999-10-07 Thread aphro
odd, i pulled that module info from the help of kernel 2.0.36 :/ ohwell..maybe the docs on it are screwed. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://w

Re: VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07

1999-10-07 Thread aphro
my first few compiles sometimes i forgot to compile in SCSI support and since my root device was on SCSI it gave me a error like that .. you use scsi ? nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/

Quake 2 trouble.

1999-10-07 Thread aphro
I tried posting to linuxquake.com and got no response..maybe someone here can help. Quake 2 shareware runs great.. full 3D acceleration (TNT) no crashes no problems what-so-ever. (quake 3 flies too) the problem is when i try it with my quake2 cd. It won't load..here is the output: Happens with

The upgrade messed with my sound(?)

1999-10-07 Thread Chris Mayes
Hello, all. Well, I'm pretty puzzled by this one. I'm not exactly sure on the cause and effect, but sometime after my recent total upgrade on Potato, my sound quit working. When I try to reset it using sndconfig, I get this at the test stage: /etc/isapnp.conf:387 -- Fatal - resource conflict al

Re: VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07

1999-10-07 Thread Matthew Dalton
Device 08:07 is /dev/sda7. Is this your root partition? "B.Rodriguez" wrote: > > I recently compliled a new kerlel for the first time (2.0.34 to > 2.2.12), after fooling with my partitions and where Debian was located. > At boot time I get the message VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07,

VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07

1999-10-07 Thread B.Rodriguez
I recently compliled a new kerlel for the first time (2.0.34 to 2.2.12), after fooling with my partitions and where Debian was located. At boot time I get the message VFS: Unable to mount root device 08:07, how I have no trouble booting it from my debian CD. Where do i begin?

Re: network card problems

1999-10-07 Thread Wendell Buckner
Thanks Phil and Hubert for responding! I've loaded the module (ne.o) and ran the ifconfig command with success (with your help)! Can either one of you guys or anybody else in debian land tell me what HOWTO document I can use to help me with my next step(s)... i.e. should I ping my address? I've

Re: network card problems

1999-10-07 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a DE-220PCT ISA network card which is in a 486 PC. And my goal > is to eventually have this P.C. as a client on my NT network. I am > completly new to this and don't really know what I'm doing. I have the > network HOWTO (generi

BuddyPhone for Linux?

1999-10-07 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
Is there a Linux version of BuddyPhone? I can't seem to find anything on the BuddyPhone webpage... T

Re: Mount samba share via MS-DOS

1999-10-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Oct, Kent West wrote about "Mount samba share via MS-DOS" > 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 TC

network card problems

1999-10-07 Thread Wendell Buckner
I have a DE-220PCT ISA network card which is in a 486 PC.  And my goal is to eventually  have this P.C. as a client on my NT network.  I am completly new to this and don't really know what I'm doing. I have the network HOWTO (generic network configuration information) but i'ts not helping! I

Re: fvwm 2.2 and missing menu items

1999-10-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 04:05:34AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.2 after reformatting my old Slink partition. I > noticed that as root I had my fvwm 2.2 menus as I always had them with the > old version (2.0.46-BETA I believe) in Slink. However, if I ran fvwm 2.2 > as a norma

starting apps using dnd in kde/gnome

1999-10-07 Thread Micha Feigin
Under kde, when I try to drag files from the file manager to an app icon to start it, it works fine when draging to an icon in the toolbar, but when draging on a file on the desktop, It doesn't work, it starts the aplication, but without opening the draged file (just like if I just press the icon).

Re: Sound Blaster Live!

1999-10-07 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > 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 fin

Network Printing PRoblems

1999-10-07 Thread Michael Perry
I recently installed Debian potato and am having some recurring problems printing to a HP 8000n networked printer. I can print with no problems using netscape or staroffice but when I print from nedit or mutt, the printing exhibits the stairstepping effect. I am using magicfilters and the psonly6