Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:17:50 -0500 (EST) > >j Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: >> > First off, I am a newbie in

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:17, j Mak wrote: >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: >> First off, I am a newbie in Linux >> and networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and >> both have built in

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up[SOLVED]

2006-01-26 Thread j Mak
Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote:> I see no ethernet there. Are you sure there is built-in ethernet? if so, (I assume it is since you've plugged it in right ;) is it perhaps disabled onthe motherboard by some jumper?Could be disabled in the BIOS too. Might want to

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Chris Howie
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I see no ethernet there. Are you sure there is built-in ethernet? if so, (I > assume it is since you've plugged it in right ;) is it perhaps disabled onthe > motherboard by some jumper? Could be disabled in the BIOS too. Might want to double-check that. -- Chris

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:17:50 -0500 (EST) j Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j > Mak wrote: > > First off, I am a newbie in Linux and > > networking. I have two computers, both about fo

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread j Mak
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote:> First off, I am a newbie in Linux and> networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both> have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other> sa

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Colton
On Thursday 26 January 2006 20:21, j Mak wrote: > First off, I am a newbie in Linux and > networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both have > built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other sarge. The one > with sarge connected t

Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

2006-01-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: > First off, I am a newbie in Linux and > networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both > have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other > sarge. The one with sarge connected to

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-16 Thread j Mak
--- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:32:14PM -0400, j Mak > wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks for everyone helping me setting up my > > sources.list. Now, it works fine. But I still > cannot > > find anywhere Nvidia drivers. > Hi J, > one of the neat tools in Debi

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:30:23AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > one of the neat tools in Debian is 'module-assistant'. Use Debian's neat > search tool: apt-cache like so: > 'apt-cache search nvidia' > to find nvidia related software but it is actually better to use > 'module-assistant' in this case!

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:32:14PM -0400, j Mak wrote: > > > Thanks for everyone helping me setting up my > sources.list. Now, it works fine. But I still cannot > find anywhere Nvidia drivers. Hi J, one of the neat tools in Debian is 'module-assistant'. Use Debian's neat search tool: apt-cache

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread j Mak
--- Matthias Kaeppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > j Mak wrote: > > 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find > > repository addresses. > > If it is empty, I suggest you first run apt-setup. > This will create a > first sources.list for you, and will offer you a > long list of debian

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:20:53AM +0200, Matthias Kaeppler wrote: > > You will probably also want to add these to your sources.list: > > # mplayer, acroread, LAME, etc. > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main > > # Skype, Java 5, Real Player, Flash, etc. > deb http://archive.unab

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:48:35AM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > There is a tool called "apt-setup", which will help you to make > entries for mirrors near you and/or the cdroms you have. And "apt-spy" will determine which servers are currently most efficient. -- Carl Fink [EM

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Matthias Kaeppler wrote: # Skype, Java 5, Real Player, Flash, etc. deb http://archive.unable-to-package.org/debian-utp sarge main contrib non-free restricted Doesn't work. And it looked useful! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Matthias Kaeppler
j Mak wrote: 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find repository addresses. If it is empty, I suggest you first run apt-setup. This will create a first sources.list for you, and will offer you a long list of debian mirrors from all around the world. These are for official packages

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 14.06.2005 um 01:38 schrieb j Mak: > 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find > repository addresses. There is a tool called "apt-setup", which will help you to make entries for mirrors near you and/or the cdroms you have. Of course, you can always edit your sources.list manually la

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:51:09AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:23:01AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > That won't quite work on sarge yet. It should in about two days' time, > > though. > > That is great news, so Gnome 2.4 will be a full meta package, does it > incl

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2004-01-22 Thread rthoreau
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:23:01AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:57:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Jaume Alonso wrote: > > >Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the > > >third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: > > > > > >GNOME 2.4 does

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:57:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Jaume Alonso wrote: > >Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the > >third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: > > > >GNOME 2.4 does not work :-( > >I use GDM and when I selectioned session GNOME and my user

Re: Newbie needs help

2004-01-21 Thread M . Kirchhoff
Jaume Alonso wanadoo.es> writes: > > Hi! > Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the > third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: > > GNOME 2.4 does not work. Gnome is semi-broken under Sarge. See the DebianWiki Gnome page for further details from Colin Watson:

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2004-01-21 Thread Kent West
Jaume Alonso wrote: Hi! Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: GNOME 2.4 does not work :-( I use GDM and when I selectioned session GNOME and my user name and password it didn't work, it says that did not find gnome-ses

Re: newbie needs help.........

2003-10-02 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:20:10 +0200, Zakaria wrote: > Hey I was trying to buy Debian Cd instead of downloading debian... A very good idea actually :-) > but they have for different Architectures Alpha ; ARM ; HPPA ; i386 ; > IA-64 ; m68k ; MIPS ; PowerPC ; S/390 ; Sparc ; source ; Hurd-i386 ; >

Re: newbie needs help.........

2003-10-02 Thread Kent West
Zakaria wrote: Hey I was trying to buy Debian Cd instead of downloading debian... but they have for different Architectures Alpha ; ARM ; HPPA ; i386 ; IA-64 ; m68k ; MIPS ; PowerPC ; S/390 ; Sparc ; source ; Hurd-i386 ; Hurd-source ... I'm getting Debian for my VIA EPIA M1, Would that woul

Re: newbie needs help.........

2003-10-02 Thread John Spray
Zakaria wrote: I'm getting Debian for my VIA EPIA M1, Would that would be i386? i know it is but i just wanna make sure that the right CD to buy thanks for your help Yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie needs help badly!

2002-11-30 Thread Rob Weir
[please wrap your lines to something reasonable] On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:41:38AM -0800, Fred Sloniker wrote: > I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my > previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you. There's a good > reason for that, though: Debian ate my email. >

Re: Newbie needs help badly!

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Fred Sloniker wrote: > I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my > previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you. There's a good > reason for that, though: Debian ate my email. > > I've been trying to get a window system working, but I decided to

Re: Newbie needs help badly!

2002-11-29 Thread nate
Fred Sloniker said: > I can't even boot into Linux now because fetchmail will eat more of my > email. Would someone please tell me what I need to do to get those > 300-odd messages delivered so I can stop using Windows? I can't remember fetchmail ever eating a message for me. what fetchmail does

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-25 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:42:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte > (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for Linux. > Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions in this drive, >

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte > (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for Linux. > Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions in this drive, > a Linux swap and a Linux nat

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:42:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte > (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for > Linux. Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions > in this drive, a L

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-24 Thread David Wright
> I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte > (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for > Linux. Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions > in this drive, a Linux swap and a Linux native. I'd like to keep the > Windows parti

Re: Newbie needs help finding newer packages ...

2001-10-10 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:52:06AM -0500, Brice D Ruth wrote: | I'm a newbie when it comes to debian - I've relegated myself to the | likes of redhat and mandrake for the past 5 years :( ... I have an | installation of debian 2.2 and it seems to be working all right. My | main problem is that

Re: Newbie needs help finding newer packages ...

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:52:06AM -0500, Brice D Ruth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm a newbie when it comes to debian - I've relegated myself to the > likes of redhat and mandrake for the past 5 years :( ... I have an > installation of debian 2.2 and it seems to be working all right. My >

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Renai LeMay
> Since you say 'I dont know anything about linux/unix' I would also > recommend a very well-balanced Linux intro book by Michael Kofler, > entitled _Linux_. It's on its second edition and is published by > Addison-Wesley. bookpool.com should carry it, along with many other > retailers. When I'v

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Rahul Agarwal wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to Unix/Linux. I installed debian linux according to the > installation instruction at debian.org. But my ethernet card(SMC EZ > Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211 Series)) was not recognized. Also I dont > have a gui installed. I found a driv

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:22:27AM -0400, Rahul Agarwal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to Unix/Linux. I installed debian linux according to the > installation instruction at debian.org. But my ethernet card(SMC EZ > Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211 Series)) was not recognized. Also I do

Re: Newbie needs help with IP-Masquerading

2000-08-09 Thread Jason Quigley
A list of steps you've already performed would be useful in order to pinpoint where things are going wrong. Cheers, Jason. --On Wednesday, August 9, 2000 6:22 -0500 Jason Schepman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HELP!! I can't get IPMASQ working. I've recompiled my kernel to add MASQ support a

Re: Newbie needs help with IP-Masquerading

2000-08-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
What does it say when you do: ipchains -L Ron Rademaker On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Jason Schepman wrote: > HELP!! I can't get IPMASQ working. I've recompiled my kernel to add MASQ > support and I'm pretty sure that I got it right. I've read through the > HOW-TO but I had problems following along (I

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-28 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the out

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by > > page and change pages when I want to

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Robert Mognet
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Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Michel [UNKNOWN] Dänzer wrote: > > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the o

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Paul Huygen
Quoting Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output pag

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by > page and change pages when I want to ? ls | more

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2000-01-07 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Armin Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But - ofcourse - problems appearing at once: > At the mo, my main-prob is, that kde says upon start, that > it cannot connct to xserver. hu ? under dselect there are Can you tell us the entire error message ? > Where can i find (despite the debian.org)

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-20 Thread John Foster
Tam Ma wrote: > > hi, > > more on X window info. > > I am install from cdrom. --- 1. use dselect as your installer. 2. set dselect to use apt as the file aquisition method from menue 1. 3. when setting up apt select file as the storage meth

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Tam Ma
hi, more on X window info. I am install from cdrom. Thanx, Tam On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, John Foster wrote: > Tam Ma wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I just install "slink" and all of the packages that I need. Now I want > > installl X window but I don't know which packages to insta

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread John Foster
Tam Ma wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Hi guys, > > I just install "slink" and all of the packages that I need. Now I want > installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys > give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I > don't want anything fancy yet

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Adrian Thompson
Hello, Depending on what graphics card you have, install the required Xserver. ie. XF86_SVGA. < that one is very generic to most graphic card types. Install all the bins and then the rest is up to you... like apps and games. You will be required to configure a script called "/etc/XF86Con

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread j way
> I just install "slink" and all of the packages that I need. Now I want > installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys > give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I > don't want anything fancy yet, right now I just want ordinary X window a

Re: Newbie needs Help!

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackman
I just looked in the CDROM HOWTO: that's not what teh device should be: you must go int /dev then ( as root) type mknod /dev/sbpcd b 25 0 also, in /etc/fstab, it's /dev/sbpcd, no partition number, it's a cdrom. make the devie, then try to install the module. for Howtos goto www.metalab.unc.edu/L

Re: Newbie needs help with installation

1999-07-13 Thread Romeu
Is the cd-rom attached to the sound card? There's a few trouble about it. I had to put mines at the onboard secondary IDE, since I have Win95, Windows NT and Linux on the same machine. NT does not recognize a CD-ROM at the sound card. I think there's a way to do so in Linux - Don't know how (I'm

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-12-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Firstly, I'm not sure which way you'll want to go, so please don't hesitate to ask me for more details on some point that I skim over... > The install worked fine (minus I can't boot from the HD). I don't have any experience with this, but the most common response I've seen to this proble

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-12-01 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > host" error. Also I have no clue how to install the software packages. > I tried to download to floppy and then transfer over (which is a problem > since my zip program doesn't do a split) > and then run DSELECT. When I choose the floppy access me

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. > > It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I > > can't boot from the HD). > > I'm having problems with the

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. > It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I > can't boot from the HD). > I'm having problems with the FTP. The modem connects fine to my ISP > (i'm using ppp) but when I try

Re: Newbie needs help connecting to isp

1998-06-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Stephanie Bloodworth wrote: > > I have recently installed the base distribution of hamm and ran > pppconfig. Now when I run pon the modem dosn't dial. Two processes are > created pppd and chat but I am not connected to my isp any help as to the > cause of this problem would be appretiated. >