ppp network settings

1998-06-06 Thread Paul Miller
I'm tring to setup dialup to my linux box. Currently, I can connect, login, and resolve DNS. I can not ping _any_ ip addressess (not even my linux box). I think I have the DNS and /etc/hosts configured correctly. However, the ppp0 <---> eth1 is not configured at all. I only have one ip addres

Re: AIC7XXX in 2.0.34

1998-06-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Jesse Goldman wrote: > > > This may be a silly question but it's related vaguely to the above which > > has already been brought up. Has anyone had trouble with AIC7XXX support > > for 2.0.34? Apparently, there have been many changes since 2.0.33 an

Re: Using Both IDE and SCSI Controllers

1998-06-06 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 02:35:32PM -0700, Allan Bart wrote: > > Hello, > > I was wondering if any of the users on this group have concurrently > run both types of disk drives. i am planning to use an advansys 5140 > and an internal ide controller on my old ast 486dx system. I used an ASUS SP3G

ppp0 and "SIOCADDRT: Operation not supported by device"

1998-06-06 Thread Paul Miller
The NET-3 FAQ says to use the following commands to setup ip masquerading through ppp0 : # Network route for ethernet route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 # # Default route to the rest of the internet. route add default ppp0 # # Cause all hosts on the 192.168.1/24 network to be m

help: uid_t structure !

1998-06-06 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I am trying to compile one file called xpriv.c which belongs to the Radio Track install ! Unfortunally i get that: xpriv.c: In function `give_up_root`: xpriv.c:30: `uid_t` undeclared (first use this function) xpriv.c:30: (Each undeclared iden

inode+superblock?

1998-06-06 Thread Mikhali Mifsud
What exactly is an inode and a superblock? Thanks. == On the plains of hesitation lies the bones of countless millions who, on the verge of victory, sat down to wait and in waiting died. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com

Re: help: uid_t structure !

1998-06-06 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Michael D. Figley wrote: > > Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > > ... > > What is going wrong ? > > > > uid_t structure isn`t already defined ? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Best regards, > >Nuno Carvalho > > > > I think including should fix. Yes, it`s enough ! :)) Thank`s, Michael ! :)) Best rega

Re: copying root partition

1998-06-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
Nathan E Norman wrote: > : When you copy an entire file system with cp -ax it skips any > : separate file systems, and doesn't even copy the mount points. So > : after copying, you have to check the directories that contained the > : mount points, and create them in the new system. I prefe

Re: help: uid_t structure !

1998-06-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nuno Carvalho wrote: > I am trying to compile one file called xpriv.c which belongs to the >Radio Track install ! Unfortunally i get that: > > >xpriv.c: In function `give_up_root`: >xpriv.c:30: `uid_t` undeclared (first use this function)

Re: CD-rom and Zip-drive

1998-06-06 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 07:49:17PM +0200, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with my secondary IDE channel. I have a CD-rom as slave ans > a Zip-drive as Master on that controller. When I insert my Debian-CD, > install goes OK. Then, after reboot, dselect starts and I say; load

Re: Xwin permission?

1998-06-06 Thread Mikhali Mifsud
I dont understand, modify what file? Xinit? X? thanks. ---Niclas Anderberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > > > How do I allow normal users run xwin? Thanks. > > You make sure the owner of the file is root, then you set the suid bit: > > (as root):

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-06 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> After my fun experience upgrading to hamm, everything has been goin well, >> but I have had one problem. After upgrading svgalib, squake seg faults >> when started. (so does quake2) Is there a problem with svgalib? >> >> svgalib-bin 1.2.13-3.2 >> svgalibg11.2.13-3.2 >> svgalib1 1.2.13-

Re: Q: Second Ethernet Card

1998-06-06 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I am planing on purchasing a 256k DSL to my Linux server. >> I currently have one Ehternet card that is connected to >> my home PC with a crossover cable. I will need to purchase >> an additional Ethernet card for my Server to connect to the >> DSL connection. >> >> Should I purchase the cable

Re: PPP problem

1998-06-06 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I also don't have device driver for Sound Blaster. I tried using MAKEDEV, >> but I don't have any docs. Can someone who got his/her SB to work tell me >> what to do? >> Thx in advance :) You'll need to have the sound drivers enabled, either as modules (the stock kernels come with there, rig

Re: 1 SCSI & 1 IDE hdd w/LILO

1998-06-06 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Yo- >> >> I just added a SCSI drive to my computer. I now have a 4.3g SCSI and a >> 2.1g IDE. I have moved Debian to /dev/sda1 and I have installed Winblows >> on the IDE (/dev/hda1) so I can play StarCraft and Unreal. I have had no >> luck with LILO. It will boot to Debian no problem but I

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > >> After my fun experience upgrading to hamm, everything has been goin well, > >> but I have had one problem. After upgrading svgalib, squake seg faults > >> when started. (so does quake2) Is there a problem with svgalib? > >> > >> svgalib-bin 1.2.13-3.2

Re: Problem with new hamm version of ncurses

1998-06-06 Thread Liran Zvibel
HI. I didn't upgrage to hamm yet,(I planed to so it this weekend, but then my monitor blew up, and when I fixed it (and after replacing my motherboard, cpu, memory, graphics card and modem) my power-supply stopped working (I might have to take it to a real technician to see if I did something wron

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-06 Thread Shaleh
The ldconfig was needed do to a bug in the next to the last release of the svga lib package. The maintainer helped w/ that one. I have no problems w/ sound. Is the permission on the audio devices ok and does sound work elsewhere? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

RE: Using Both IDE and SCSI Controllers

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Plaster
Hello Allan, I currently have a buslogic BT946 controller with one 1 gig conner scsi drive and then a 420 meg ide drive and an 850 ide drive. It all works fine. The scsi drive only has linux stuff on it and then one ide drive has a linux partition (/) for booting and that sort of stuff. Works f

notebook install problem

1998-06-06 Thread Tom Malloy
I am trying to install debian on a refurbished compaqu LTE lite 4/33 The following error appears when I am booting off my rescue disk "hda: unexpected_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError} hda: unexpected_intr status=0x01 {Error} Does this mean the drive is bad or is there a work around? I looked

mail

1998-06-06 Thread Michael Beattie
I have another problem after my upgrade to hamm, pine says: Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly where can I fix this? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- OFFLINE 1.50 "Virus che

Re: inode+superblock?

1998-06-06 Thread Tom Malloy
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > What exactly is an inode and a superblock? Thanks. An inode ( eye-node) is a datastructure on the disk the describes and stores a files attributes, including its location. Aeleen Frisch Essential system administration

printing with samba

1998-06-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Two Win95 client machines here have a weird problem printing to my LJ5L via samba; they often say that an error occurred writing to \\Server\LJ5L. Usually it works next time, although one of the clients is being particularly stubborn tonight. Anyone ever seen this? I print from NT more often than a

Compiling a kernel

1998-06-06 Thread Chris
Hi, There was some discussion a while ago about installing a new kernel. I was just wondering if someone had some definate instructions for installing a 'debian compliant' kernel (with correct system.maps, etc, etc). Following the instructions in the README for the kernel source does not work c

Re: Compiling a kernel

1998-06-06 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Get the kernel-package package (in misc I think). This is a wrapper for kernel compilation process that will allow you to produce a custom kernel-image package that may be installed with dpkg. On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Chris wrote: > > Hi, > > There was some discussion a while ago about installing a

Re: oops, the message

1998-06-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > d) if kernel-headers is installed after kernel-source, it seems to change the > linux >symlink to itself. libc6dev seems to demand kernelheaders even if > source is already >installed. this also causes "include/asm" is a directory > problems > > rick >

Re: Man errors?

1998-06-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ossama Othman wrote: > > Hi, > > What does all of the following mean and how can I correct the problem? > > # man afclient > Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...man: can't open > /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory > man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.xemacs20.1.gz:

Re: Compiling a kernel

1998-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
kernel-package does this, including putting System.map- in /boot. It also gives you an option for creating a boot-floppy with the new kernel. What does system.map do? I've compiled kernels before without kernel-package and never had problems. Likewise, what about boot., boot.b, etc.? Bob

Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I have a soundblaster card I wanted to get working under my bo system. My system is currently running 2.0.33 so I downloaded the source so I could make a version with the sound blaster support. Here is what I did 1. make menuconfig - go through list and remove all the stuff that sounds li

Re: Xwin permission?

1998-06-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > > I dont understand, modify what file? Xinit? X? thanks. > > ---Niclas Anderberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > > > > > How do I allow normal users run xwin? Thanks. > > > > You make sure the owner of the file is root, then

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Try the make-kpkg package. Then make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision (version nunber) buildpackage in /usr/src/linux and dpkg -i kernel-imagedeb and you are done It is much simpler than the standard procedure George --

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-06 Thread Edward Betts
On Sat, 06 Jun, 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > > I was told a fix for this was an ldconfig . It worked for me, and > everything is fine now... except.. (who knew that was coming?) > > I am still having trouble with sound in squake and quake2. > > I dont

Re: Xwin permission?

1998-06-06 Thread Niclas Anderberg
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > > > > I dont understand, modify what file? Xinit? X? thanks. > > > > ---Niclas Anderberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > > > > > > > How do I allow normal users run xwin? Thanks.

Re: copying root partition

1998-06-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote: : : : > : When you copy an entire file system with cp -ax it skips any : > : separate file systems, and doesn't even copy the mount points. So : > : after copying, you have to check the directories that contained the : > :

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the input George, I have looked all through the bo archive (using dselect) for a package called make-kpkg. I do not see one on my mirror by that name. Doug G Kapetanios wrote: > Try the make-kpkg package. > Then make menuconfig > make-kpkg --revision (version nunber) buildpackage i

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Thanks for the input George, > > I have looked all through the bo archive (using dselect) for a package called > make-kpkg. I do not see one on my mirror by that name. The package is called kernel-package. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkie

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 6 Jun, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Thanks for the input George, > > I have looked all through the bo archive (using dselect) for a package called > make-kpkg. I do not see one on my mirror by that name. ^ Try kernel-package instead. The program to run (after you have installed

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Noel Yap
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Thanks for the input George, > > I have looked all through the bo archive (using dselect) for a package called > make-kpkg. I do not see one on my mirror by that name. That should be `kernel-package'. It should be in the `misc' section, IIRC. Noel -- transfer,

Re: copying root partition

1998-06-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I assume that on the new root partition, you have to manually create the > /proc directory (mount point) and from there the kernel will fill it > with whatever is required? Or will the kernel even create /proc? I have always manually created /proc.

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello, > > I have a soundblaster card I wanted to get working under my bo system. > My system is currently running 2.0.33 so I downloaded the source so I > could make a version with the sound blaster support. > > Here is what I did > > 1. make me

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ok, I have the right package now. I looked at the make-kpkg man file and its a lot more complicated then I had hoped :) I ran make-kpkg and it just made the files again as I had before. I probably changed a ton of things in the .config file while I was messing things up with the stuff I was do

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > What is the easiest way for me to take the kernel I am currently using (the > default one) and add the soundblaster support. Or if there isn't an easy way, > what > order of steps should I use to make a kernel? Do you have x-windows running? If so, run 'make xconfig' in your kernel source

Help:StarOffice in German?

1998-06-06 Thread lanceh
I downloaded StarOffice and installed only to find out it is in German, which I don't understand. Did I download the German version or is there a way to convert it to English? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

bridging?

1998-06-06 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I dselect'ed the bridge package from the standard distribution on CDROM, and run with the updated kernel (2.0.30). 1) when I run brcfg, it reports: ioctl failed; package not installed. -- Why?? 2) the man page discusses only Ethernet-ethernet bridging, -- will WAN bridging also work?

modem is not responding

1998-06-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
Several weeks ago I bought a new ZOOM 56k modem. I have gotten consistently good speeds with it (in the order of 40,000 bps). After I had been using it for a couple of weeks, it began to intermittently fail to respond to ppp or minicom. There is no error message - just no response wh

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Ok, I have the right package now. > > I looked at the make-kpkg man file and its a lot more complicated then I had > hoped > :) > > I ran make-kpkg and it just made the files again as I had before. > > I probably changed a ton of things in the .

Re: CD-rom and Zip-drive

1998-06-06 Thread Marc van der Vossen
>MV> I have a problem with my secondary IDE channel. I have a CD-rom as >MV> slave ans >MV> a Zip-drive as Master on that controller. When I insert my Debian-CD, >MV> install goes OK. Then, after reboot, dselect starts and I say; load from >MV> CD-rom. That's the place it does not work. I tried ins

Re: Help:StarOffice in German?

1998-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded StarOffice and installed only to find out it is in German, which > I don't > understand. Did I download the German version or is there a way to convert > it to English? As I recall, there are two versions of several of the files, with

Re: account disabled

1998-06-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:29:18 -0400 (EDT) Paul Miller writes: > > Some of my users' accounts are getting disabled by the system. I > have not set any expiration dates, etc.. How do I re-enable them > and prevent this from occurring again? You should take a look at the values in the /etc/shadow f

Re: Virtual terminals

1998-06-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 14:21:37 +0100 (BST) M C Vernon writes: > > Dear all, > How can I address more than 6 vts? I have X installed, and it > usually runs on altf7, but when it's running, I get > Warning: dev (03:03) tty->count(1) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup > Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.03

loadlin and /

1998-06-06 Thread The . Sage
Is it correct that if I am using loadlin to boot Linux from a DOS partition, I can put the root for Linux in a logical partition, i.e. it doesn't have to be hda2-4? Can all Linux partitions then be contained in a logical partition or do any of them have to be a primary partition? Larry Walewski

Re: first script executed

1998-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
nico wrote: > Thanks for all your answers. > > I tried to look in the base files, but i didn't see anything ??? > I've tried to run ps ... at the begin, but nothing appears ( it only > show adduser, dselect, but not the prog which call them ???) > > I'm a bit confused and i'm still trying to fing

Re: loadlin and /

1998-06-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
Larry Walewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: > Is it correct that if I am using loadlin to boot Linux from a DOS > partition, I can put the root for Linux in a logical partition, i.e. it > doesn't have to be hda2-4? Can all Linux partitions then be contained > in a logical partition or do any of them

Re: which script is missing from rpm

1998-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > Which script is it that rpm doesn't have, that dpkg does? I had thought it > was the post-removal, but I'm being challenged on that: None. In fact, rpm has one script debian lacks: the verify script. -- see shy jo I'm on a long trip, pardon any delays in my

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Edward Betts wrote: > On Sat, 06 Jun, 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > > > > I was told a fix for this was an ldconfig . It worked for me, and > > everything is fine now... except.. (who knew that was coming?) > > > > I am still havin

Quake Sound Problem (was:Re: Quake Segfaults)

1998-06-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote: > The ldconfig was needed do to a bug in the next to the last release of > the svga lib package. I am sorry, I dont understand, what do you mean here? > The maintainer helped w/ that one. I have no > problems w/ sound. Is the permission on the audio devices o

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-06 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: [snip: quake crashing after hamm upgrade] > I was told a fix for this was an ldconfig . It worked for me, and > everything is fine now... except.. (who knew that was coming?) This probably makes it a bug in svgalib. > I dont know where the problem is,