can't upgrade/re-install pkgs

2003-10-15 Thread J Y
If you reply to this please cc me thanks. Maybe there's a better way to do this? I'm trying to get my system working right (Debian3.0 w/k7 kernel) There are some packages and modules that don't work i.e alsa or sound, the screensaver module can't be loaded,and others. So I ran /usr/sbin/base-confi

Re: return of DNS problem-fixed!

2003-10-14 Thread J Y
Thank you all. You folks are TOPS!! I did an apt-get remove diald and manually removed /var/cache/diald and it works!! my shell knowledge is at a fledgling level so thamks for all the help. I hope I wasn't too much of a bother. I went to the archives to look at the thread. I am off the list again.

Re: return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
I changed some permissions but it didn't fix the problem. I did notice that pon highstream.net doesn't produce anything-no modem dial. kppp does get the modem to dial. The following output is too long and I didn't know what might be relevent. deblnx:~# ls -l /etc/resolv.conf -rw-r--r--1 ro

Re: return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
ls-l. Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:01:57AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > Hi, After getting grub to work and booting with the k7 kernel rather > > than the bf2.4 the DNS problem returned..or that's what I think I'm > > seeing-basically

Re: return of DNS problem-pppd daemon

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
Hi, I did not compile the kernel. as I said the bf2.4 kernel was working . I have an athlon cpu and thought I was running with the k7 kernel because that's what I selected during installation. I had been booting with a floppy though so when i got grub working correctly I began using the k7 kern

return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
Hi, After getting grub to work and booting with the k7 kernel rather than the bf2.4 the DNS problem returned..or that's what I think I'm seeing-basically a conection that doesn't work. So I ran plog, I got an exit status 1; I put exit 0 in the 6 scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx

Re: Grub

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
hanks again.. Quoting "Jerome R. Acks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 08:36:01PM -0800, J Y wrote: > > Hello, I booted from the floppy, and I found (with uname -r) that my > > computer is running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel (vmlinuz) with > > initrd.

Re: Re: ebay slow

2003-10-12 Thread J Y
Quoting Susan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My Ebay is so much slower than any other site. It's driving me crazy. > Is there any way to fix it? Also, how do I email Ebay? I can't find an > email address. > To email ebay (they don't make it easy) go to their main page, bottom. Click 'help', a p

Re: Grub

2003-10-12 Thread J Y
and slack but not Debian. Quoting "Jerome R. Acks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 07:56:37PM -0800, J Y wrote: > > > > > grub> > > find /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7 > > (hd1,4) > > > grub> > > find

Re: Grub, configuration not easy

2003-10-12 Thread J Y
id a uname -r and the correct kernel is running. I did remove the "vga=791 line and I have the boot/start up messages now. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks Quoting J Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, I don't get a start up log while debian is booting > > and I don't

No start up-boot messages

2003-10-12 Thread J Y
Hi, I don't get a start up log while debian is booting > and I don't understand that. Does someone know what, if any, line in my menu ist (posted below) would cause the start up log to be blanked? In other words I don't see anything no boot messages.The first thing I see after selecting debian in

Re: Grub, now booting debian from grub

2003-10-11 Thread J Y
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. GRUB version 0.92 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of

Re: Grub, latest adventure

2003-10-10 Thread J Y
Hi, This is my latest menu 1st. It doesn't work. Mostly I just boot whatever I want from floppy. SuSE (the 1st entry titled "linux" does boot) Maybe windows does now too. I haven't checked that since my most recent editing. I did enter "grub" at a terminal window, and when I typed "root (' th

Grub, need to change fstab?

2003-10-08 Thread J Y
Hi, I've been messing with grub without accomplishing much, accept an occasional kernel panic, error fs not found and an hour or more rescuing my system. I let grub do most of the work on the configuration that follows and it actually boots debian, with the SuSE kernel!!! Damn I think I u

Re: Questions about using the mailing lists

2003-10-08 Thread J Y
Hello, I am responding to this because I have online email and have been removed from the debian-users list even though I know my account was not over capacity. I have a graphical representation of how much of my inbox I'm using and I never let it get more than 50% but I have been removed from the

Sound Server + Grub vs lilo?

2003-10-07 Thread J Y
Hi, I get this message when logging into my account & in the root account also. "error while initializing the sounddriver /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied) The sound server will continue using the null output device. From the kde menu clicking on information > sound brings up this messag

Re: Testing user-list

2003-10-07 Thread J Y
e, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:38:34AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > Hi, I don't seem to be getting messages from the users list. Sorry about > > adding to the traffic. I don't understand this list problem. My inbox > > has about 80 messages in it. (It can hold probably 500) I am using &

Testing user-list

2003-10-07 Thread J Y
Hi, I don't seem to be getting messages from the users list. Sorry about adding to the traffic. I don't understand this list problem. My inbox has about 80 messages in it. (It can hold probably 500) I am using online email. Why I am getting repeatedly dropped/bounced from the list-if indeed I have

Re: ppp daemon WORKING!!!!

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
ile now) I also have 22, yes twenty-two files, in /etc, named resolv.conf.ppp.temp with 4 digit numbers after the "temp". Should I delete these? Thank You very Much! JY Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:01:41AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > I loo

Re: off the list again

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
I know what it says but my inbox was only at 25% capacity. Something else is going on here. Quoting Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:52:24PM -0800, J Y wrote: > > My inbox (I'm using online e-mail) gets flooded with messages about > > m

Re: I'm off the users list again

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
I re-subscribed. I'm back!! Quoting J Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My inbox (I'm using online e-mail) gets flooded with messages about > microsoft security, but I'm not even near capacity-only using about > 20-25% of my inbox. Why am I getting thrown off the list? T

I'm off the users list again?

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
My inbox (I'm using online e-mail) gets flooded with messages about microsoft security, but I'm not even near capacity-only using about 20-25% of my inbox. Why am I getting thrown off the list? The list is working I presume.

Re: ppp daemon resolv.conf empty

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
lnx:~# I was thinking of looking through the dvd I installed from but this file probably gets set-up/created during installation. Once again, Thanks for your knowledgable asist!! Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:58:47PM -0800, J Y wrote: > >

Re: ppp daemon resolv.conf empty

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
again, Thanks for your knowledgable asist!! Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:58:47PM -0800, J Y wrote: > > And this ( which returned exit status 1) from 0dns-up: > > > > deblnx:/home/john# plog > > Oct 4 23:25:39 deblnx

Re: ppp daemon 0dns-up fails!

2003-10-04 Thread J Y
Purging configuration files for isdnutils ... Removing ipppd ... Stopping ipppd: ipppd. Purging configuration files for ipppd ... deblnx:/home/john# Following file from plog after removing addition exit 0 from usepeerdns: Oct 4 23:17:33 deblnx pppd[1070]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1

ppp daemon ip-up.d perm +

2003-10-03 Thread J Y
Hi, Permissions of ip-up.d: deblnx:/home/john# ls -l /etc/ppp/ip-up.d total 28 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1306 Apr 25 2002 00-ipppd -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 962 Apr 2 2002 000usepeerdns -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 2460 Jan 4 2002 0dns-up -rwxr-xr-x1

Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-03 Thread J Y
E ip-up.d files to debian? Although they might not be compatible. Thanks again. JY Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:48:20AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > The connection seems to be working now but I can't get any internet > > applications to "

Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-03 Thread J Y
roup, yes I am in the dialout group. Agh! And also slackware and SuSE both work fine! Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:34:36PM -0800, J Y wrote: > > I spent some time reading pppd man8 and after experimenting with > > /etc/ppp/options I found tha

Connection with pppd?

2003-10-02 Thread J Y
Hello All, On the advice of those more expert, about this site, I am starting a new thread. Anyway the problem has changed. I have looked at permissions on the /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net file. I didn't copy that file ( I'm switching back and forth from SuSE to debian). (I need a common /home?) B

pppd daemon

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
ame and try again." And yes I have tried to dialout many times. I'm getting a little punchy with this problem. Sorry about the email foul ups. Should I try to reinstall the dialout or whatever software group debian calls it with taskel? . Quoting Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
Sorry John I some how sent this 1st message toy ou instead of to the list. I only realized it when the post didn't appear. My apologies. Quoting John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > J Y writes: > > Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
minating on signal 15. Oct 1 17:15:46 deblnx pppd[1049]: Connect script failed Oct 1 17:15:46 deblnx pppd[1049]: Exit. Quoting John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > J Y writes: > > Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a > > shot. I'

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? failure

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
e /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net: Permission denied" appears. I did a chown 777 on the whole string of files but still the same error message. Yes I am discouraged. Thanks for the help and if anyone has any ideas I still will give it a shot. I'm out of ideas. Quoting J Y <[EMAIL

Re: Is the list working????

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
o did. ??? Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:02, J Y wrote: > > I've been removed from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??? > > I can't believe it! :0 > > > > -

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-10-01 Thread J Y
Thanks and where is group dip located? I did a whereis and locate for dip but got hundrends of files. Really thanks again. Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:32, J Y wrote: > > Hi, I did the following: > > > > Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /

permissions problem

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
Hi, (by the way I'm not on the lists anymore and don't seem to be able to resubscribe-if someone replies I'll read the reply in the archives-thanks) I did the following: Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon and edit the file 'orcon' to suit (e.g. include 'noauth', and in

Is the list working????

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
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I'm not on the users list anymore???

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
Would someone email me if this list is still working. I am not getting any messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have my comments been that offensive?? :( --- ***Protect your PC from local E-Mail Application security

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
Hi, I did the following: Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon and edit the file 'orcon' to suit (e.g. include 'noauth', and in my case comment out the sample chat script # connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" ) Then, to use the 'call' option with K

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
ve looked at and edited more files read more man pages..yadda yadda. I will reboot into deb and set up debug as someone else here recommended. We'll see thanks again to all this has been a real hard to figure out problem. JY Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 a

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up+

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
I forgot to add, sorry, that I tried all of this i.e. pon, wvdial , kppp logged in as root with identical results. Thanks. Quoting J Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I seem to be batting zero. So I'll take a break. > And come back to it. > Adding noauth from kppp or internet diale

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
pon highstream.net the modem dials up (as it does with kppp and wvdial) then it just sits there. No messages. when I type poff the terminal message is no pppd running and none stopped. Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > Hi! >

grub setup is driving me crazy

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
Hi I am very grateful for the community here and I appreciate the help I received. I will be trying to get my internet connection going when I reboot into debian. Which brings me to my issue of the moment :( I really have tried so many things to be able to boot from the grub SuSE installs (version

: Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread J Y
ing pon without the dryrun gets the modem to dial (well all these programs do that) but nothing else happens there isn't even any screen output with 'pon highstream.net" I do appreciate the responses. I will keep working on it. Thanks JY Subject: Re: pppd daemon dies To: J Y <[EMAI

pppd daemon dies

2003-09-27 Thread J Y
Hi Can anyone give me a clue as to what I am doing wrong? I keep getting failure to authenticate messages. the following is from the kppp details box: Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't find a

Re: re-installation snag wrong mouse selected

2003-09-23 Thread J Y
oting Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:35:28AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > Thanks..yes I know the command to reconfigure the xserver & mouse. I > > just can't get a terminal window to open. Well I did actually in Gnome > > but there was a

Re: re-installation snag wrong mouse selected

2003-09-23 Thread J Y
Quoting Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 16:28, J Y wrote: > > I re-installed deb3.0 and it looked great only two pkgs broke. > > BUT I screwed up and selected the wrong mouse type. Now I can > > login to a great looking desktop but I can't

re-installation snag wrong mouse selected

2003-09-23 Thread J Y
I re-installed deb3.0 and it looked great only two pkgs broke. BUT I screwed up and selected the wrong mouse type. Now I can login to a great looking desktop but I can't use it! :( There's a dialog box open at start up ( no big deal) but I can't alt+function key to a terminal/shell. If I could

Can't get modem recognized Pt 2

2003-09-18 Thread J Y
S4 I tried to copy and rename another similar file but that doesn't work. Any suggestions?? J Y wrote: > Although I am able to use the modem in Mandrake & SuSE I can't get > Debian 3.0 to see the modem. It (the modem ) is located at /dev/ttyS4. I > used ppp config t

Can't get modem recognized

2003-09-18 Thread J Y
Although I am able to use the modem in Mandrake & SuSE I can't get Debian 3.0 to see the modem. It (the modem ) is located at /dev/ttyS4. I used ppp config to set up and the info is in there correctly. KPPP doesn't work and when I use pon at a terminal window I get a message that says 'unrecognize

re: unrecognized option

2003-09-15 Thread J Y
For some unknown reason my orginal terminal output message was truncated here is what I pasted into the orginal message: debianlnx:/dev# pon highstream.net /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/highstream.net: unrecognized option '/dev/ttyS4' debianlnx:/dev# ---

unrecognized option

2003-09-15 Thread J Y
option '/dev/ttyS4' debianlnx:/dev# /dev/ttyS4 is the correct location of my pci modem. It is not a winmodem. It is recognized by Mandrake & and, when I had it om my system, SuSE. Is there something I need to edit to get debian to accept this modem location? Thanks, an

Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread J Y
I am running debian 3.0 on an Athlon... Still trying to get basic functions working after lots of problems w/ x configuration. When I try to mount my cdrom, either from a terminal or graphically I get; mount fs type iso9660 not supported by kernal. The cdrom is listed in /etc/fstab. What am I d

Xserver follow-up + thanks!

2003-09-06 Thread J Y
Wow! I finally got to boot into my desktop! Thanks very much for this mail list, and the community here. Nick's response to my problem really helped. I recommend to anyone with xserver problems to have another look at those messages. (I saw there were some questions here). I still have an inability

Xserver

2003-09-05 Thread J Y
Hi I am new to debian, but have used those big commercial distros. I installed 3.0 but am not having any luck getting X to start. I reinstalled several times taking a lot of time checking the packages. But login just leaves me at the command line. I type startx and get this response: Build Operati

Beginner Again

2002-09-28 Thread j y
I have been trying to do scsi-ide emulation w/o success. I am actually running SusSE 7.3 I have wanted to load Debian but I can even get my cdrom or cdrw recognized anymore. I'm stuck, I have read the pages on emulation and edited fstab & mtab but I'm not getting anywhere. ---

Re: line width +

2002-05-01 Thread j y
if someone is interested I'll dig for it. Quoting "Karsten M. Self" : > on Mon, Apr 29, 2002, j y ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm just a novice with Linux-better with hardware, I guess. I put > togethe> r a Athlon > > 900Mhz machine and I only run Linu

Re: Home brew

2002-04-28 Thread j y
I'm just a novice with Linux-better with hardware, I guess. I put together a Athlon 900Mhz machine and I only run Linux on it. It wouldn't be hard to install XP, but I'm anti Microsoft. (a former Mac user) I had little problem putting together/selecting the components. Try computergeeks.com they

sorry for the mutiple posts & much thanks2 all

2002-04-09 Thread j y
Thanks everyone for the help with the 2 distros question. Thanks all, JY --- ***Protect your PC from local E-Mail Application security holes*** ***Maintain your Privacy - Passport Free*** http://www.x-mail.net

2 distros

2002-04-08 Thread j y
Hi, I'm even having problems sending this message. I don't know if its because I'm knew to linux, or brain drain. Does anyone know a simple way of getting two distros on a hard drive. I'm running suse 7.3 and want to try debian. Thanks

Re: 2 disros

2002-04-08 Thread j y
I would like to know if anyone has an easy way for loading a 2nd distro. Right now I'm running Suse 7.3 and would like to try the lastest debian-which I have on cd.Thanks --- ***Protect your PC from local E-

2 distros

2002-04-08 Thread j y
Hi I'm using Suse 7.3 right now and I want to put debian on my hard drive. Is there an easy way to do this. I'm into easy if possible. thanks --- ***Protect your PC from local E-Mail Application security holes