Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, & MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering > to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to > MBR, > NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr;

Re: vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that will trillich wrote: > anybody care to suggest a few simple steps to get VPN > up and running? i've looked at the nano-HOWTO and don't > have any luck. other methods are delightfully accepted! > > rather than tell you how many methods and in what g

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Stefaans Mostert wrote: > Hi all > > Well I was wondering can one transfer lilo onto a stiffy and boot from > that? That sounds a bit kinky. You might want to ask on debian-adult. > > Scenario: > You reinstall windows (wich is on the same drive

Re: question regarding samba usage

2000-12-20 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:01:51PM -0500, Andy Bastien wrote: > > [snip] > > NTLMv2 improves on NTLMv1 by going from an 56 bit MD4 hash to a 128 > > bit MD5 hash. NTLMv2 is very difficult to atta

Re: question regarding samba usage

2000-12-20 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Ethan Benson wrote: > > the smbpasswd crap comes from MS changing win95b, win98, NT4sp4, W2K > etc to send a unsalted password hash instead of the password to the > server, where the hash is compared with the hash stored in the local > password file

Re: Devices for SCSI Tape Drives

2000-12-19 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Victor R. Cain wrote: > Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what > the different device designations mean, especially the > /dev/nst* and /dev/st* devices? > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt The /dev/nst* devices are th

Re: kernel panic

2000-12-18 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that q wrote: > debs, > > in one of my dual-boot deskboxes, i have a kernel panic: > > unable to load NLS charset cp 437 > kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 > > my potato on custom kernel 2.2.17 was functioning well until yesterday.

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 > filesystem. > It works very well, in my experience. PM doesn't work _in_ linux, but there is a "linux install" option that creates a bootable

Re: Network Monitoring recommendation

2000-12-14 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that sena wrote: > On 14/12/2000 at 17:26 +, Craig Coles wrote: > > I am looking for a tool to monitor the through-put of my connection to the > > internet. I want to know if my connection is maxing out, or my users just > > have slow connections

Re: potato and netsaint

2000-12-12 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Andy Bastien wrote: > > I'd like to install netsaint on a potato box. Unfortunately, the most > recent version requires glibc 2.2. Is is reasonably possible to > upgrade potato to glibc 2.2? This is a production box, (mainly D

potato and netsaint

2000-12-12 Thread Andy Bastien
I'd like to install netsaint on a potato box. Unfortunately, the most recent version requires glibc 2.2. Is is reasonably possible to upgrade potato to glibc 2.2? This is a production box, (mainly DNS, but it does one or two other things as well), so I can't screw it up ;-). Should I just try

Re: vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server

2000-12-08 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Giulio Morgan wrote: > > I am trying, unsuccessfully, to make a VNC connection from Windows98 (office > of > my client) to my woody machine. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something about > the usage of VNC, and if anyone could help, I would really

Re: SCSI

2000-12-04 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that john gennard wrote: > I've not had anything to do with the Scsi interface. A little while > ago in anticipation of trying it, I picked up a PCI board made by > Iwill and called a 2930U+ plus a secondhand 2.1Gig IBM OEM > harddrive (also a S/H CDR

Re: 2.4.0-test11, PCMCIA ethernet card through yenta-socket

2000-12-01 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > My PCMCIA "3Com Corporation", "3CCFE575BT", "LAN Cardbus Card", "001" > manfid: 0x0101, 0x5157 > function: 6 (network) > PCI id: 0x10b7, 0x5157 > is working fine under 2.2.17 and under the 2.4.0-test11 with the "old >

Re: NT4 in VMWare VM can't see Samba over network - Yes, PlainTextPassword set :)

2000-11-16 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Robin Collins wrote: > Not really a Debian issue but maybe someone can help me out here. > > There are two computers here, for the sake of discussion called A and B. B > runs Samba 2.0.7a on Potato. A is multi-boot. > > When booted to native NT4

Re: tnt2 vanta and dell 21"

2000-11-07 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Anders Lennartsson wrote: > It seems Andy responded to a question by Anders Lennartsson: > > >There are those who would have you believe that Anders Lennartsson wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I'm trying to configure X on a PII 300 Mhz dual proc with a Cre

Re: [debian-user] GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-07 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > > Hi! > > >--[Andy Bastien]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >--[Rüdiger Kuhlmann] > > > I have a GeForce2 MX, but I still don't get 3D running. At first, kdm > > > crashes unl

Re: [debian-user] GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-06 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > > Hi! > > >--[Jonathan Wheelhouse]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:01:46PM -0800, Cisco.Addict wrote: > > > Sorry, is there any way i can get my GeForce2 GTS 64mb working in XFree86 > > > 4.0.1 > > > (I

Re: tnt2 vanta and dell 21"

2000-11-06 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Anders Lennartsson wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to configure X on a PII 300 Mhz dual proc with a Creative > TNT2 Vanta PCI card and running Woody. > > X works in 1280x1024, but both xfree 3.3.6 xserver-svga and xfree 4.0.1 > xserver-xfree86 > have pro

Re: soundcore module

2000-11-06 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > What is the soundlow & the soundcore used for? > > I'm just trying to get my Sonic Impact to work (which should be a OSS > card) and cannot find any of the below modules in 'make xconfig'. The > present deb 2.2 has both m

Re: Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI

2000-11-06 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Dear community, > > I' ve a Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI (with a DELL > computer). The Turtle Beach device drivers proposed by Debian 2.2 are for > other > types of cards and don't work. Chipset

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Krzys Majewski wrote: > Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of > > months. > > it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy > > hdd & powersupply

Re: New X Server crashes

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > I wrote: > > MAS> Okay, it appears to be working now. > > Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm > having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, > > 1. xdm now takes over a min

Re: aside: perl's unpack()

2000-11-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Damien wrote: > > > I can tell you an easier way to decipher them, but I too would like to > > > know how they are contructed, i.e what's the algorithm. > > > > a.b.c.d > > > > n = d + c * 256 + b * 256 ^ 2 + a * 256 ^ 3 > > after reading the previ

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that wulfie wrote: > I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I too have had severe lockups > either starting XF86 4.0 or ctl-alt-Fx'ing to a text console. My specific > hardware is a 16Mb Sparkle Nvidia Vanta AGP 2x card, this on my main SuSE > (sorry!)

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Kristian Rink wrote: > > > Any other sugestions appreciated. I left off the NVIDIA 5or close to it) > > crds because the GeForce2 seem to prefer XF 4.0x. That is true. > > Basically, nvidia`s chipsets (at least for TNT2 I tried) also are >supporte

Re: sawfish heads-up

2000-11-01 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Colin Watson wrote: > Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There are those who would have you believe that Colin Watson wrote: > >> If you upgrade sawfish to the one in unstable at the moment, don't > >

Re: sawfish heads-up

2000-11-01 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Colin Watson wrote: > If you upgrade sawfish to the one in unstable at the moment, don't > follow the instruction that says: > > execute 'kill -9 `pidof sawfish`;sawfish&' in a terminal > > I did so without thinking, and of course lost all my stat

Re: En snabb fr?ga...

2000-10-29 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that V.Micic wrote: > Var kan jag ladda hem den senaste versionen av Debian i ISO format,jag har > letat men inte hittat... > Tack i Förhand I am the only one who tried to rot13 this?

Re: GeForce2 GTS & X 4.0.1c

2000-10-28 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > Recently I installed Branden's debs for X 4.0.1c (deb > http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ woody/$(ARCH)/) because, frankly, > vga16 @ 640 x 480 sucks with a GeForce2 GTS card. > > So, now, woohoo, the desktop looks great

Unidentified subject!

2000-10-27 Thread Andy Bastien
the Bermuda Triangle. Not even for lunch. There are those who would have you believe that Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ab> In any case, I'd set sda1 active and then set the value for root in > ab> lilo.conf to /dev/sda and then g

Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-27 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Krzys Majewski wrote: > Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hm, I compiled parallel port support as a module. I already had > > > > options parport_pc io=0x3bc irq=7 > > > > in my /etc/modutils/options, so I appended "dma=3" to give

Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-26 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Krzys Majewski wrote: > On 20 Oct 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > I don't know how to say this properly.. when backing up files from my > > IDE hard drive to my parallel port ZIP100 drive, the machine > > occasionally blocks: it's like ev

Re: 2.2: MBR install whacks my system boot

2000-10-26 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Paul D. Smith wrote: > I've installed Debian on a lot of systems, and this is the first time > it's ever done this. > > I'm installing 2.2 from a DOS partition on a 200MHz ppro, with 64M ram. > It has a 3c595 Vortex 10/100 autoselect enet card, and a

Re: domain change

2000-10-25 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Debian Ghost wrote: > Hey Guys, > I posted this question earlier in another way, but no one replied to it. > Maybe if I ask in another way: > > I changed the domain name of my machine (via DNS) and was wondering > if there was a global file that I ne

Re: Linux Tough guy

2000-10-25 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Cavaiani, Don wrote: > You seem to be much smarter by far than 98% of the people on this list. I > have been trying for a couple of days - via the Debian list yesterday - to > find out how to make my linux part. bigger w/o losing everything. I'm sur

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-24 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, matt garman wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > without proper video acceleration in X this is no

Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-21 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Damon Muller wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Quoth Krzys Majewski, > > I don't know how to say this properly.. when backing up files from my > > IDE hard drive to my parallel port ZIP100 drive, the machine > > occasionally blocks: it's like ever

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-10-19 Thread Andy Bastien
Why did you need to edit out moduleversions.h? Did you get both the kernel and the GLX archives? There are those who would have you believe that Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > Yup. Did all of that. Do you think that editing the Makefile code so that > it would not load moduleversions.h had anything

Re: 2.2 - install - cdrom_module

2000-10-19 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > I'm just in the procedure of installing potato on a virgin system. > Everything seems to be ok, I'm just unsure when it comes to choose the > appropiate modules. > > This box has a ATAPI CDROM which is currently used by t

Re: PPP Problem (Timeout LCP ConfReq)

2000-10-19 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Michael Croon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm stuck with a problem related to ppp that is similar to the one already > brought up here by Ashby Gochenour's (see his post > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0007/msg00157.html in July). > Unfortunately, n

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-10-19 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a >TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III. >Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and >all that othe

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

2000-10-17 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Chris Gray wrote: > On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious > (non-graphics-intensive) work. I want to upgrade my video card. I'm more > interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both > platfo

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-17 Thread Andy Bastien
I know its way off topic, > but has anybody got a keyboard .cnf file they would like to share ?? > > Derm. > ----- Original Message - > From: "Andy Bastien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 3:52 PM > Subject: Re: What windows ssh clie

Re: x font server

2000-10-16 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Joseph Holland King wrote: > i just installed debian yesterday. today i downloaded and compiled the x > server and tried to get x running. in oreder to do so i rebooted my system > to make it recognize the mouse. when it tried to reboot it stopped wit

Re: Mouse freezing in X

2000-10-16 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Bob Nielsen wrote: > I have noticed in the past few days that if I switch from the X display > to a VC and back again that as soon as I move my mouse the cursor jumps > to the upper right corner of the display and stays there. This is on a > system r

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-15 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:21:37PM +0400, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I'm using PuTTY from windows to ssh to my debian box but I find that it > > disconnects my session after some idle time. > > > > Is i

kde2 problem

2000-10-13 Thread Andy Bastien
I've installed KDE2 from Debian's servers, but I haven't had much luck getting it running. What happens, basically, is kicker dies with a signal 11 almost as soon as it starts up (the status indicator is on "Restoring session"). What I do get is a placid blue screen with a couple of icons on it.

Re: X-window

2000-10-12 Thread Andy Bastien
Please type with two hands. Please used a fixed font when composing your messages. Please sit in an upright position before replying. There are those who would have you believe that kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Please do not CC: me. > Please use postfix followup. This means your response goes *

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:06:12PM -0700, Aaron Brashears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Andy Bastien wrote: > > > You might not even need to use NTLM to access the server, as Exchange > >

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Aaron Brashears wrote: > Hi there. I am running woody, and have the sad requirement that I must > use the company's exchange server. I've been using netscape for a while, > and it works fine using the format 'domain/ntusername/mailboxname' for > acces

Mutt time/date display

2000-10-09 Thread Andy Bastien
I use Mutt for my mailer, and I currently have it set up to display the time and date of incoming messages like "09:23 Sep 12". This is ok, but it's not the information than I like to have for every message. What I would like to do is display only the time for messages I've received today, only t

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > > > > > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > > > takers? > > > > > > > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a > > chicken! I kinda like i

Re: dac960 problems

2000-10-04 Thread Andy Bastien
I've run in to the same (or similar) problem. In my case, another driver in the kernel prevented the DAC960 driver from loading (I don't remember the exact error messages). What I ended up doing was loading the module from another floppy to complete the installation, then building a kernel on ano

Re: of Xservers and XSetup, of sabotage and kinks...

2000-09-16 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that S.J. Black wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:23:36 -0700 > From: "S.J. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586) > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: of Xservers and XSetup, of sabotage and kinks...

Re: Off Topic: SCSI Recommendations?

2000-09-15 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Leen Besselink wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:48:39 +0200 (CEST) > From: Leen Besselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Off Topic: SCSI Recommendations? > > > > I haven't run into any problems with my onboar

Re: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome

2000-09-15 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Michael Soulier wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:48:01 -0400 (EDT) > From: Michael Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Users List > Subject: RE: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > gnome in