Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew Whitlock
> I have a system with two S-ATA hard disks and I configured raid0 with them > using mdadm. Each HD has 200GB of capacity. What is weird is that after > configuring the raid, the newly created device (/dev/md0) is slower than > each of the disks individually. Look at the numbers: <> Just curious,

Re: Desktop Crashes

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew Whitlock
> My first step would be to check /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog. > Look for *any* kind of error messages. With the programs like Firefox > or The GIMP, I would run those programs from a command line, so that > when they crash, you might be able to see (in the console) some clue as > to why

Re: How to figure what package will satisfy it?

2005-10-29 Thread Andrew Whitlock
> I'd like to know what packages I need to apt-get, but more important is, > i'd like to know what neat commands will let me search this by myself, > so that this is the last time i ask this question... The two ways I use are to check this link to search the contents of packages: http://www.debia

Re: HP DL360 G4 Compatibility

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew Whitlock
> We are looking to replace a load of servers at work with HP DL360 G4's > and I just wanted to see if others were running these and what > problems/gotchas I needed to be aware of. In my experience with the DLXXX G3 line, at least for the IA32 boxes basic support is not a problem. The HPQ driver

Re: dhcpcd weirdness (resolution)

2000-10-11 Thread Andrew Whitlock
Problem: dhcpcd wouldn't run with config files, only when configured on command line Solution: the format given in the example config file in /etc/dhcpc seems to either be incorrect or, at least, it doesn't work for my ISP (@home). The format _given_ is as follows: OPTIONS='-h "(hostname)"' Thi

Re: dhcpcd weirdness

2000-10-11 Thread Andrew Whitlock
Well, I guess I _could_ use a shell script to start it, but it bothers me that it used to work yet suddenly does not. The config files sure seem to be written correctly. I have installed other packages since dhcpcd that mess with network things, such as ssh and oidentd, but I don't see how this w

dhcpcd weirdness

2000-10-10 Thread Andrew Whitlock
I have a box that provides network services to some other computers that is running Potato. It accesses the internet via cable modem, using dhcpcd to get its IP address. The problem I'm having is that it won't work unless I run it with configuration options on the command line, although I have my

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

2000-09-15 Thread Andrew Whitlock
> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15-Sep-2000 Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > > > Try: http://www.worldshare.net > > As I understand it, they offer free access only for MS Windows, not for Linux. That's sure what they say, but I've been using it for a while now on the laptop and it works

Re: Problem with Linksys LNE100TX NIC

2000-09-09 Thread Andrew Whitlock
I use this NIC in my boxes, and I _think_ your tulip driver is detecting the wrong card. What kernel are you using? Mine worked with the kernel's tulip.c driver as far back as 2.2.1, and it works in 2.2.17 and 2.4 test 7. Here is the message on init with 2.2.17 pre6: tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [

dhcpcd doesn't like IP-alias?

2000-09-08 Thread Andrew Whitlock
I'm having a lot of trouble getting dhcpcd to work on a virtual NIC, and I'm having trouble with IP-alias in general. It works fine if I set it up manually: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.5 up However, getting this to work by editing the "interfaces" config file in /etc/network fails to bring i

Co-dependency conflict

2000-06-21 Thread Andrew Whitlock
I'm using Debian 2.1 (slink) and I have two packages I'm trying to install, g++2.95.2-12 and libstdc++2.1-dev that seem to depend on each other. I have them unpacked but can't configure them since they claim, correctly, that the other is not configured. How can I get them to work? Andrew W. [EM

Re: LT Winmodem module (ltmodem.o) : Resolution

2000-06-15 Thread Andrew Whitlock
In the course of attempting to get the Lucent Winmodem binary-only module to work with my 2.1r Debian box, I did the following: Tried kernels 2.2.12, 2.2.14, 2.2.15, even 2.0.36 (it was there ) Disabled all integrated peripherals Removed all cards except vid card and modem Removed all cards _and_

LT Winmodem module (ltmodem.o)

2000-06-14 Thread Andrew Whitlock
I am having trouble getting the Lucent Winmodem module to work. I am running Slink (2.1r) with the 2.2.15 kernel. Here is what I enter and the result: -- insmod -f ltmodem.o (kernel mismatch info displayed, already cleared this issue by checking the archives) ltmodem.o: init_module: Device or r

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-08 Thread Andrew Whitlock
> > A typical newbie won't start with Debian > >While that is probably true, I don't think that should be the basis for > Debian's mode of operation. Debian needs new users and it needs to be > designed to appeal to new users while still maintaining the qualities that > separate it from the ot