RE: PPP Configuration

2000-11-04 Thread Nick Cook
On 04-Nov-2000 Marco Herrn wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to configure my internet connection on my potato system via > wvdial > an pppconfig, but neither of this works correctly. > When running wvdial, it starts the connection and holds it, but I > cannot > access the internet (I tried it with netsc

RE: Printer configuration on debian

2000-10-09 Thread Nick Cook
On 09-Oct-2000 Dwight Johnson wrote: > What is the preferred way to configure a PostScript printer on debian 2.2? > MagicFilter did fine for mine. - - Nick - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of new developments.

Speaking of isapnp...

2000-10-08 Thread Nick Cook
I'm trying to use isapnp in a last ditch effort to get Potato to recognize my SCSI card (PnP ISA). isapnpdump sees it, and writes the config file. However, the rather sketchy docs recommend putting the isapnp command early in the boot-up process. Call me chicken, but I don't wanna just mess aroun

network printer problems

2000-09-14 Thread Nick Cook
I recently had a sudden "ain't going to print" problem (although not on a network), and I got around it by dropping into root and going to "lpc". Then I issued the "abort" command, followed by "start all". When I exited lpc, everything was back to normal. YMMV, though. I don't know why it happend

Potato Creams Kernel. Film at 11:00

2000-09-01 Thread Nick Cook
Sigh. This is a frustrated vent, so feel free to move on... Just did the apt-get upgrade from slink to potato. 1. The install process failed with a "depend" something error (I've had to decamp to another computer, for reasons you'll see below). I can't get any more info than that from dpkg or ap

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-22 Thread Nick Cook
FWIW, I fixed my apt-get problem by following the old adage: when in doubt, blow it out. I purged apt from my system, manually ftp'ed (if that's a verb!) apt from the slink/admin directory, and re-installed via dpkg. Apt-get now goes online, gets the potato stable lists with no problem, and star