pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

Greg Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support. Hi Greg! Make sure that /dev/modem is a link to ttyS1, and not ttys1. ^ ^ Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is mentioned di

Re: reading HOWTO files

Greg Norris wrote: > > > I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian > > system. > > However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and > > are > > gz. How can I read them? Thank you. > > try "gzip -dc somefile.gz|less" zless file.gz is a lo

Re: Linux article in Sunworl

On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > A pretty nice article in Sunworld: > http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1998/swol-01-linux.html Nice, although the "Linux is not Solaris" theme came through a bit strong. Also, I don't remember there being a Pentium _II_ bug,

Re: Linux article in Sunworl

On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 04:48:54PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Nice, although the "Linux is not Solaris" theme came through a bit strong. > > Also, I don't remember there being a Pentium _II_ bug, as the article > > mentioned. Caldera, Redhat and (ugh

Re: reading HOWTO files

On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 07:08:17PM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote: > > > I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian > > system. > > However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and > > are > > gz. How can I r

Where is Pretty Good Privacy

I am reading the O'Reilly book "PGP: Pretty Good Privacy" by Simson Garfinkel and am wondering if there is a Debian distribution? Or, must I download a version as discribed in appendix A and compile it myself? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: Linux article in Sunworl

Incase any of ya'll care, in my inexperienced opinion. Debian is definitely the best distribution. :). I tried Slackware, which as mentioned, was very difficult to maintain and upgrade, eventually I gave up. I tried RedHat which was easier, but wasn't quite as configurable. Then I tried Deb

Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

> Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is > mentioned directly in /etc/ppp/options, pppd will give the message: > Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support > This sounds like a bug to me. Does anyone here understand why pppd would > give such a deceptive error messa

[postgres] libpgperl: Pg.so: undefined symbol: PQconnectdb

Hello, I tried to use libpg_perl the first time, installed libpgperl, libpgsql, postgresql-dev. When tried to run the test.pl, I got the following error message: == perl: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol: PQconnectdb ===

pcmcia-cs 2.9.12-1

Hi, people, I have installed Debian 1.3 (stable dist) on my notebook Olivetti Echos P100E, with PCMCIA xircom Cem2 28.8 This pcmcia is not recognized by debian 1.3. So i search for someting more recent on www.debian.org. I downloaded pcmcia 2.9.12-1, that requires lib6c I would know if same pc

Re:PPP ??? #@$#

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think you need to recompile the kernel with IP_FORWARDING enabled. Butch At 14:53 -0600 on 1/2/98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have encountered a strange problem with dialing out on PPP, and it is >really bugging me now. > > I have got a slightl

Re: EQL - all traffic is via ppp1

Hi Kevin, I worked it out yesterday. My mistake was in not deleting the pppx entries from the routing table. Perfectly obvious in hindsight, but I do wish that people writing documents would give more examples. The closest I have come to a Portmaster is looking one up in the price list on Sat

Real world temperature inputs?

Is anyone aware of any temperature and or humidity sensor boars that hev Linux drivers, preferably debianized? I have just moved into a new house, and would like to measure some values. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996

Re: Linux article in Sunworl

One other thing I like about Debian, a non-technical thing, is that development is open. Sure, Redhat is all free, but there's still a vendor. With Debian, you can be part of the vendor. On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 10:02:54PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > One thing mentioned in the article

Re: Real world temperature inputs?

Stan Brown wrote: > > Is anyone aware of any temperature and or humidity sensor boars that > hev Linux drivers, preferably debianized? > > I have just moved into a new house, and would like to measure some > values. I'm interested in this too. I am trying to develop a dis

samba trouble - security = user/share

I'm having trouble with the 'security = user' option. When set, the Win95 computers can't browse or login - permission denied. When it is set to share, everything works fine. Anyone have this problem before? I'm using Samba 1.9.18alpha14 with encrypted passwords enabled. Thanks --- Paul Mille

samba/nmbd wins error

Can someone help me out with this missing IP address.. error? I don't know what I need to change or do.. /var/log/nmb: 01/04/1998 23:54:35 netbios nameserver version 1.9.18alpha14 started Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994-1997 initialise_wins: Missing IP address when parsing line 3D ILLUSION#00 884

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6, just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it this time, then you can go back to dpkg -i libc5_5.4.3

Re: Cut to the chase.

I think it will be better off if you donate the money to debian instead, just spit out your problem in this list and I am sure you will get the answer in no time. good luck kusuma Greg Cox wrote: > > Need some help installing debian correctly. > > If anyone out there is a pro and wouldn't min

HELP: Network is unreachable

I am very new to Deian, just installed 1.3.1, and am trying to connect to the Net (I am a single user). My ISP provider (Sprint Canada) uses PAP, but I succeeded in getting EzPPP to connect following the instr. in the paackage. After connection is made, I try ping 142.104.7.11 (an a

Re: reading HOWTO files

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote: > Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:59:43 -0500 > From: Catouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: reading HOWTO files > Newsgroups: linux.debian.user > Resent-Date: 4 Jan 1998 23:49:21 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: rec

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6, just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it this time, then you can go back to dpkg -i libc5_5.4.3

Re: Cut to the chase.

I think it will be better off if you donate the money to debian instead, just spit out your problem in this list and I am sure you will get the answer in no time. good luck kusuma Greg Cox wrote: > > Need some help installing debian correctly. > > If anyone out there is a pro and wouldn't mind

Re: reading HOWTO files

Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:59:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Catouch) wrote: >I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. >However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are >gz. How can I read them? Thank you. If you intalled the Midnight co

Re: samba trouble - security = user/share

On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 11:42:56PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: > I'm having trouble with the 'security = user' option. When set, the Win95 > computers can't browse or login - permission denied. When it is set to > share, everything works fine. Anyone have this problem before? > > I'm using Samba

Re: Mail problems

On 4 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The new drive is divided into 4 partitions. one is unused, one is mounted > > under /var, the next is mounted under /usr and the last is swap. > > > > ERR Error locking your mailbox. > > > > And the following

login problems

Hi, I got Debian 1.3.1 installed from hamm and I had a problem at the end of the install. Now, all works fine, except for the prompt login: as soon as I start my computer, root is logged on and I can't exit from it. I created a user account but it doesn't change anything. Thanks for help Franck

Re: xvidtune

> When I run xvidtune, it works for the time being. When I exit X then > launch X again it's back to what it was before I ran xvidtune. How can > I get xvidtune to save the changes it makes? Run as: xvidtune >/tmp/my.settings To save your setting do: `show' & `quit' and extract mode line f

Re: samba trouble - security = user/share

On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 11:42:56PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: > > I'm having trouble with the 'security = user' option. When set, the Win95 > > computers can't browse or login - permission denied. When it is set to > > share, everything works fine. Any

SEGMENTATION FAULT

Hello, All the Xprograms (my own or source) compiled on my system (gcc) exits immediately showing Segmentaion fault when run . They however get compiled and linked without showinig any error . Any help . Thanks Faiz ul Haque Zeya [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Re: samba trouble - security = user/share

On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 06:54:59AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: > No.. It prompts for the password either way. Only when security = share > the password is accepted. Encrypted passwords were inabled in both > security settings, so there can't be a problem with /etc/smbpasswd. Hmmm. I have nothing s

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do > dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6, > just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for > libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it thi

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

Yes Remco is right, I have not tried it thou.., give it a try... and good luck kusuma Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > > > ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do > > dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6, > > j

Re: HELP !!!

  Al1 wrote:  SUBSCRIBE Please help me I'm a new user of Debian 1.31 and i can't finish the installation !!When I reach "Dselect" and i choose the CD-ROM to install the package I press OK and after I always got the same message: "Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [] " and I can't

Re: HELP !!!

-> J'ai eu le m^eme probl'eme, -> -> la solution est assez simple par rapport aux montagnes que l'on peut -> s'en faire : -> -> Sous linux les lecteurs (CDROM, Disque dur, Disquette) sont d'esign'e par -> des devices de la forme /dev/xxx. -> -> Le device de ton CDROM doit ^etre /dev/hdb/ (

nxterm and font size

Hi! If I want to use nxterm with a bigger point size than the default, what do I have to change/touch/add? TIA! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/

Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

On 4 Jan, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > This sounds like a bug to me. Does anyone here understand why pppd > would give such a deceptive error message? > > Kirk Hilliard > (using my Dad's account since ghoti.com is still down) I got this message when I first compiled PPP as a kernel module. S

Re: [postgres] libpgperl: Pg.so: undefined symbol: PQconnectdb

grin wrote: >I tried to use libpg_perl the first time, installed libpgperl, libpgsql, >postgresql-dev. > >When tried to run the test.pl, I got the following error message: >== >perl: error in loading shared libraries >/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Pg/Pg.so: undefine

Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: : Greg Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > : > Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support. : : Hi Greg! : : Make sure that /dev/modem is a link to ttyS1, and not ttys1. : ^ ^ : Whatever ttys

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

John Goerzen wrote: > > At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of > machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc. We are > moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems > will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K

Re: UPS

> > While the UPS-HOWTO is very informative, I was also looking for a > Linux oriented consumer review of UPS models and features, some Linux > user's web pages with a little more up to date info than the Aug 1994 > date shown in one part of the HOWTO, as well as a survey of first hand > exp

Re: Epson Stylus 400

Anthony Fok wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux. > > Sorry, you are out of luck. As far as I know, the EPSON Stylus COLOR 400 > is a Windows-only printer. Are you sure? A search through usenet yields this

Sendmail patch?

Er, off topic, but I know I saw a patch on this list at one point for sendmail, I believe it was called is_mx or something like that. It made sendmail capable of discovering whether its host was a valid MX relay for a domain (useful for blocking unauthorised relaying, eh). At any rate, now I can't

setting up debian on a gateway network

Hello all. I'm trying to get this Debian machine onto my office network. I can ping localhost but no-one else. The problem is b/c the network is a dumb gateway one, where one machine (not the Debian one) handles all the TCP/IP traffic for all the others via a single line to the net. Anyway, if an

strftime() produces segmentation fault

Not strictly Debian, but I *am* a Debian user so I am trying to ACeDB . However, both the text and graphical programs (tace and xace, respectively) produce a segmentation fault when trying to reinitialize the database. gdb just says: Prog

deb package format

I've been on a few software sites lately where the owner of the site is a software author. There seems to be a growing trend for linux package developers to provide packages in tarball and rpm format. The two sites I have in mind are the Tkrat (a mail client for X) and Rhide (Turbo C like environ

Re: Sendmail patch?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Er, off topic, but I know I saw a patch on this list at one point for >sendmail, I believe it was called is_mx or something like that. It >made sendmail capable of discovering whether its host was a valid MX >relay for a d

Re: Thanks -- Was: Grey Screen After Starting XF86

Krio wrote: > > I got Linux of the Boot magazine CD and since I had read about it here and > there I decided to try it. It looks great but it takes a while to get the Might you (or others on the list) tell me where you heard/read about the Boot Magazine CD/Article? I'd like to see what kind of

some problems

Hi, since about two weeks (christmas holidays) I spent day to day to get my Debian system ready. I reached a point were my xserver works quite well, running KDE to my satisfaction, but I still encounter some heavy problems which I am unable to solve. 1) My printer (canon,bjc800) doesn't work. I t

Re: deb package format

I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says /usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not found /usr/bin/checkbash: $TMP: am

Energy Star screensaver?

I believe that my video card and monitor are capable of powering down the monitor through software; is there any way to get Debian to make this happen? I would like both text and X11 to be able to do this... Any help would be appreciated. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting

I need help, part 2.

Hi everyone, Here is my situation : I have a working X server. I haven't got xtoolplaces, i have dl Ne3.04Gold for Linux Os.. I want't to conect myself on the internet I don't know how to do. Simple situation, simple question ! Simple aswer ? Please help me :) Thanx -- Pierre DUPUIS

Re: deb package format

Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: > I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or > Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only > RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says > /usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command n

dselect thru SOCKS4 firewall

I have not found a way to use dselect through a socks 4.2beta server. Can anyone help me get it working? I do have dftp_3.2-1 working through the firewall. If I cannot get dselect to work directly is it possible to: use dftp to get the new Packages files use dselect to choose which packages t

setup help....

I am new to debian, and have a few questions. 1) boot reports SCSI: no device found (WD7000 SCSI Card). -- It is right(!), I have no scsi, and no scsi module in my /etc/modules. -- Why does it try to find one? is this OK?? 2) I find no man(1) command, and all the /usr/man/* pages are compr

Re: Energy Star screensaver?

> I believe that my video card and monitor are capable of powering down > the monitor through software; is there any way to get Debian to make > this happen? I would like both text and X11 to be able to do this... > Any help would be appreciated. This is more or less true for all (Intel?)-Linux s

Re: PLEASE, postmaster@debian.org, are you there?

If this message comes through, then t-online has dissappeared from the badmailfrom list. THANKS to Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and to Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Andreas Wehler -- Dr. Andreas Wehler Tel./Fax.: (+49) 202 75 36 64 Luebecker Str. 16 email: [EMAIL

Re: setup help....

Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am new to debian, Congratulations. > and have a few questions. > > 1) boot reports SCSI: no device found (WD7000 SCSI Card). > > -- It is right(!), I have no scsi, and no scsi module in my /etc/modules. > -- Why does it try to find one? is thi

Re: scsi problems, ncr53x8xx and 2+ devices resets bus

Gerard, here's an update on that problem i was having a few weeks ago with my ancient SOYO brand revision 1 NCR 53c810 card. On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Gerard Roudier wrote: > Here are 2 driver messages from your report and what they let me think: > > > Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0:0: ERR

German CHIP Extra Magazine with GNI/Debian 1.3.1 CD-ROM

Hello, I've just picked up a copy of the latest issue of the German magazine CHIP Extra (Issue 1/98), which comes with a CD-ROM containing Debian 1.3.1 and the Beta version of StarOffice 4.0 for Linux (They call it "stable", but I could not check that -- at least not yet). I usually don't read CHI

Re: German CHIP Extra Magazine with GNI/Debian 1.3.1 CD-ROM

Oops, sorry for the stupid typo in the subject... GNU is not GNI Cleto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

diskless workstation?

I have a spare 486 that I would like to utilise in some form for debian. Unfortunatly, it has no hard disc, although it does have a network card. The rest of the network consists of an NT4 server, two W95 workstations, and another debain (hamm) box, which currently talks to the others via basic TCP

Hitachi

Can you install debian linux on a Hitachi 166t MX ? it's a 166 MMX system with a TFT display -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Smail config for a ppp box

hello everybody! I'm afraid that's not the first time this question is coming, sorry for that (and for my poor english) -Speaking of Debian 1.3 and Smail 3.2.3- Well, using the debian.config script from installation, I have the following files: /etc/smail/config: visible_name=avo.fr -domains

[no subject]

hi could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields in /etc/ppp.options_out? thanx dave ps: a nice linux article in current Sky & Telescope -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Epson Stylus 400

On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Anthony Fok wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux. > > Sorry, you are out of luck. As far as I know, the EPSON Stylus COLOR 400 > > is a Windows-only printer. >

Re: PPP ??? #@$#

>> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:57:02 -0600, Butch Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: >> I have encountered a strange problem with dialing out on PPP, and it is >> really bugging me now. >> >> I have got a slightly adnormal server running. This is what it >> looks like. >>

Re: I need help, part 2.

Pierre DUPUIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, > Here is my situation : > I have a working X server. I haven't got xtoolplaces, i have dl > Ne3.04Gold for Linux Os.. > > I want't to conect myself on the internet > I don't know how to do. > Simple situation, simple question ! > Simple a

Re: some problems

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Bauer) writes: > 2)ISDN - I have a creatix 16.0 card. I wonder how can I load the HiSax > driver? With modconf just the telesdriver seems loadable ( what does > this mean:teles is old. use HiSax instead? Does this mean Debian uses > automaically HiSax instead or that it's

fetchmail fails with smtp error

On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: bob:vc-2:bob>fetchmail fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from post.metrolink.net I have ins

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.65 1998/01/05 23:38:10 johnie Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ . 1.2. Purpose of this

Re: HELP !!!

  -Message d'origine-De : Al1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Date : samedi 3 janvier 1998 22:39Objet : HELP !!! SUBSCRIBE    Please help me I'm a new user of Debian 1.31 and i can