Re: Laptop woes - Network Cfg.

1998-11-24 Thread clkrogh
> Regardless: I'm having trouble figuring out how my system should be set up > to connect a network: I have an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and a USRobotics > XJEM3336 w/10Mbs LAN Adpt, and am trying to hook up to a LAN. (If this card > won't work, I could try couple different ones... there are several layi

Re: RivaTNT & Quake2

1998-11-24 Thread Damon Buckwalter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone gotten the RivaTNT video chipset to work with quake2 and > linux? I can get the game to run, but when I try to switch it to the > open gl settings for the video, it just freezes. It appears to load the > open gl stuff, but no further. > > Any advice? > >

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Daniel Elenius wrote: > > I have this problem that has been bugging me for quite some time: > I can't get my DEL key working properly in Xemacs. I want it to always > generate delete-char, but it works like backspace, i.e. generates > delete-backward-char. I have a swedish keyboard. I've put > (re

RE: Root Menu entry

1998-11-24 Thread Shaleh
First, did you restart the window manager? If not, the menus might not be re-read. Two, as root try running update-menus w/ the verbose options turned on. See if the olvwm scripts get called. On 23-Nov-98 rathon wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian2.0 with olvwm. > > I can right click my mouse

Broken Window Maker packages

1998-11-24 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, My Window Maker (slink) packages are to much broken to re-install or desinstall. Does anyone have a suggestion. The others WM are ok. Thanks Message envoyé le 23-Nov-98 à 18:59:49 Par Mario Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DNS configuration

1998-11-24 Thread Jeff Katcher
Carmen Correia wrote: > > I have a machine with Debian Linux 2.0 installed and I am trying to > configure it as a DNS server. This machine is not connected to the > Internet, for now I am only using it to create a Intranet. My LAN as a > class A address with a mask of 255.255.0.0. in order to

Re: /dev/audio: device not configured

1998-11-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "i" == ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i> I compiled my 2.0.34 kernel with /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support, i> but whenever I try to reference such devices, e.g. cat on /dev/audio, i> it doesn't work, with the message: /dev/audio device not configured. i> May someobe tell ne what can I do t

Re: Root Menu entry

1998-11-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "r" == rathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: r> later on, I added a xemacs package(using dselect instead of dpkg)and r> under the pulldown menu: r> Root Menu-Debian-Apps-Editors It does not show up! You have to make the wm reread its configuration. Check if you have something like "restar

Re: diald time restriction

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Martin
Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi debians > > i´ve got only a short question: > > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? Yes. > and how? (config file, cron-job, etc.) Whatever. You can restrict certain portions of the config file to be operative

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Martin
Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have this problem that has been bugging me for quite some time: > I can't get my DEL key working properly in Xemacs. I want it to always > generate delete-char, but it works like backspace, i.e. generates > delete-backward-char. I have a swedish key

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-24 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Amanda Shuler, Stardate 231198.1331: > I have a question about ifconfig. > I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local > network. > I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 > I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > > then I check it with ifconfi

Re: diald time restriction

1998-11-24 Thread john
> is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? Yes. > and how? Turn on the command fifo and then send commands such as 'block' and 'unblock' from cron jobs. man diald and man diald-control. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

FVF working?

1998-11-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Has anyone got the fvf (future verses fantasy) mod working properly under linux squake? I can get it started fine, but it claims you press 0 or 9 to change class, and this makes no difference for me :( Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge

Re: Laptop woes - Network Cfg.

1998-11-24 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Ryan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I can't seem to do anything without running to you guys! You already | helped me through two problems (both my fault, of course), and here I am | again! | | I promise that as soon as I get going and am connected, I'll quit using you | all as a crutch. Yee

new SLINK build question

1998-11-24 Thread ESBAM
Can anyone in Debian land tell me why the new 2.1.0 build in all directories has base system disks that are 1.22 and 1.44 Mb compliant, but has rescue disks that are 1.78Mb ??? I've never even _heard_ of a 1.78Mb floppy disk until now. Not only that, but after doing a search in some hardware cata

Re: Desktop Publishing.

1998-11-24 Thread Mark Phillips
>Just need to know if anyone is doing DTP with Debian and > what they recommend using. > > My wife has a home based business and I would like to create some > flyers, tri-fold pamplets and such for here. So ideally it has to be > easy for her to use, but if not I'll do all the work

Re: startx can't load libXmu.so.6

1998-11-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RD" == Richard Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RD> XFree86 is downloaded on my system, with Debian RD> running.(downloaded from the Debian site, stable location). RD> Startx gives the message "unable to load libXmu.so.6 Install xlib6g. Ciao, Martin

I do not have the X font "fixed" -- where might I find it ?

1998-11-24 Thread Darxus
I have no fonts on my machine with the string "fixed" (case insensitive) in them, and I've been running X successfully. I'm currently running Debian v2.1. ***PGP fingerprint = D5 EB F8 E7 64 55 CF 91 C2 4F E0 4D 18 B6 7C

Re: new SLINK build question

1998-11-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 04:52:04PM -0700, ESBAM wrote: > > I've never even _heard_ of a 1.78Mb floppy disk until now. >From /usr/doc/fdutils/README.gz: : Although most drives support more than 80 tracks some may not, and :repeatedly trying to read beyond track 80 might be damaging to them. :In o

All my computer will say is 1FA: :-(

1998-11-24 Thread Stan Brown
I was in the middle of a 1.2 to 2.0 upfrade this weekend when my CDROM decided to go toes up. dselect bailed on me and left things in an unstable stsate. I amaged to get it booted into single user and was well on my way to getting things straightend out, but somehow

Network Admin tool

1998-11-24 Thread rathon
Hi, Does Debian have a Network Admin tool ? If yes, can you tell me the path ? Thanks, Rathon. Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

Re: Network Admin tool

1998-11-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 10:03:24PM -0500, rathon wrote: > Does Debian have a Network Admin tool ? If yes, can you tell me the path ? Depends on what type of network admin tool you require, there are quite a few different kinds depending on what you need. If you are looking for general maintainance

Re: diald time restriction

1998-11-24 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? > > and how? (config file, cron-job, etc.) >From the diald man page: restrict or-restrict Normally filter rules apply at all times. T

Re: HELP: best place to place binfmt_misc directives?

1998-11-24 Thread Carey Evans
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wanted to set up again some of the misc binary modules capabilities > on slackware init i had a rc.local where to put such stuff where do i put > it in debian? Assuming you're talking about binfmt-misc, create a file in /etc/init.d called some

boot hot keys

1998-11-24 Thread jim r
Are there any hot keys available during boot up? specifically, one that puts the machine in single user mode? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jonathan Crowe wrote: > > > El Fri, 20 Nov 1998, George Bonser escribió: > > > > >Just exactly what is the procedure now to install netscape? I made the > > >mistake of "upgrading" netscape from slink to 4.07 ... then tried 4.5 ... > > >I have no netscape program anymore. There is a wrapper, if I

Re: Package Help Please

1998-11-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
> Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > > I am trying to install packages from a floppy/s using dselect but keep > getting the messages: > /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mount/packages/ does not exist > can any give me some advice on this? > or just general advice on installation (x window etc) > regards >

mailing list archives

1998-11-24 Thread maximill
As I'm writing this, the archive on www.debian.org was last updated 35 hours ago. Does anyone know of a mirror that is kept more up to date? even just a flat text file would suit me. thanks, -brad

Re: mailing list archives

1998-11-24 Thread Bradley Bell
Oh, never mind, I forgot that they're available as newsgroups. -brad On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I'm writing this, the archive on www.debian.org was last updated 35 > hours ago. > > Does anyone know of a mirror that is kept more up to date? even just a > flat text file wo

Re: boot hot keys

1998-11-24 Thread Mitch Blevins
jim r wrote: > Are there any hot keys available during boot up? specifically, one that > puts the machine in single user mode? If you are using lilo, you can add '1' as an argument to the command at the lilo prompt. Example: lilo: linux 1 pgp0uuLsIa2TN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
No, actually, that makes both DEL and Backspace behave like DEL. Like I said, I would really like it if Backspace deleted backwards and DEL 'forwards', so to speak.

Re: WG: Install KDE

1998-11-24 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > I like to install KDE under Debian Linux 2.0, but after Installation, when I > like to start KDE, the system will not find files like libmediatoo.so.0 and > libkdeui.so.0. All these files are on the system in the directory > /usr/X11R6/lib, but with the extension ...so.1. What's wrong? I

Re: mailing list archives

1998-11-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 10:39:42PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I'm writing this, the archive on www.debian.org was last updated 35 > hours ago. > Actually most of the list archives were updated less than 7 hours ago. The mirror did not finish properly as the connection was reset for some

HAMM: libc5 based X application failures

1998-11-24 Thread Rainer Dorsch
After upgrading from bo to hamm, xmaple did not work any more (the command line tool maple did work). The error message was "Segmentation fault" :-( Further I noticed, that netscape 4.07 did not work either (the same error message). Could anybody guess what is wrong or tell me how to find out

Mailing list software for non-permanent internet access?

1998-11-24 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, I would like to setup a mailing list, but I don't have a permanent internet access. Is there a software I can configure for that? Thanks Message envoyé le 24-Nov-98 à 02:42:10 Par Mario Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HAMM: libc5 based X application failures

1998-11-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 08:15:19 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > After upgrading from bo to hamm, xmaple did not work any more (the command > line tool maple did work). The error message was "Segmentation fault" :-( > > Further I noticed, that netscape 4.07 did not work either (the same error > mess

Re: Status of Debian in Ultra/Sparcs

1998-11-24 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > my techer is asking me for help him install Linux at two Sun Try subscribing to debian-sparc and debian-ultralinux mailing lists! Just send "subscribe" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] But

Re: DNS configuration

1998-11-24 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Jeff Katcher wrote: > > Carmen Correia wrote: > > > > I have a machine with Debian Linux 2.0 installed and I am trying to > > configure it as a DNS server. This machine is not connected to the > > Internet, for now I am only using it to create a Intranet. My LAN as a > > class A address with a m

Re: Installation help required

1998-11-24 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > > I am trying to install packages from a floppy/s using dselect Floppies are to painful! If you are able to, get a CD! This is from http://www.debian.org./distrib/vendors.html: AUSTRALIA Vendor: LSL Australia URL:

Re: Desktop Publishing.

1998-11-24 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Mark Phillips wrote: > > >Just need to know if anyone is doing DTP with Debian and > > what they recommend using. If you want bitmap graphics, there's GIMP; if you want vector, I remember something about a Japanese group creating something like GYVE. But about the

/etc/modules

1998-11-24 Thread Robert Rati
My /etc/modules file got erased somehow, and I know there were a lot of modules that my system usually loads at boottime, although I only added one. I'm not sure what they were, so could someone send me a copy of there's so I have an idea of what to try to put back into it? Does anyone have the d

Re: All my computer will say is 1FA: :-(

1998-11-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > I was in the middle of a 1.2 to 2.0 upfrade this weekend when my CDROM > decided to go toes up. dselect bailed on me and left things in an > unstable stsate. I amaged to get it booted into single user and was > well on my way to gett

Apache / Virtual Host

1998-11-24 Thread Stephane Leclerc
Hi Folk! I've a very special problem using Apache 1.3 and virtual host (named host). I created 10 Virtual Hosts with Apache. Each one is also associated with an account/password. In my example : client1.local (work) client2.local (don't work) client3.local (don't work) client4.local (work

ascd

1998-11-24 Thread Robert Rati
I use ascd to play cds, but it doesn't play through the speakers, for some reason. The man page doesn't tell if there's an option to tell ascd what device to send the music to. Is this a limitation of ascd or is there a way to get it to play through my speakers? Tia.

pkgsel

1998-11-24 Thread philipj
Hi I installed Debian v2.0, and after the first re-boot I am asked for a password for root. Ok, no problem so far. But, I discovered an application which runs automatically after you have logged in for the first time called PKGSEL. This allows you to chose a basic initial installation. However

PPP problems

1998-11-24 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all After running pppconfig and running pppd provider (where provider is the name of the file created by pppconfig), I get the following results (from tail -f /var/log/messages): CONNECT stuff and so . expect (ogin: login_name) 19200^M ^M NO CARRIER --f

Install problem

1998-11-24 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi I am having problems installing Debian 2.0 from a Chapbytes CD. It installs OK but on rebooting I get a message that says "3FA" and if I press return I get the lilo prompt. If I press return again I get the Loading Linux .. then the thing just reboots. Its an AST Ascentai M se

bug in xwd? (was Re: screenshot)

1998-11-24 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Michael wrote: > > On 23 Nov, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I made this groovy looking xdm login screen and now I want to make a > > screen shot of it. On the screenshot I want the background picture, > > the xlogin widget, and the xconsole. If I try to do this with > > `xwd -ro

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Question #1: The location /usr/local is reserved (by the Filesystem >Standard) for packages/programs you the local admin/user installs >yourself. These programs are not known by the Debian/dpkg system. dpkg >is not allowed to do anything in /usr/local, thus it mus

Compiling with libc5

1998-11-24 Thread XRDLAB
Hi, I wanted to compile a program on my hamm machine and ran into some problems. I found that the reason for the errors were due to libc5 dependency of the program. I installed libc5-altdev package and tried to compile the program with the following command line: gcc -nostdinc -I/usr/i486-lin

Re: Compiling with libc5

1998-11-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 15:23:27 +0530, XRDLAB wrote: > I wanted to compile a program on my hamm machine and ran into some problems. > I found that the reason for the errors were due to libc5 dependency of the > program. I installed libc5-altdev package and tried to compile the program > with the

PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread Chang, FKK
Hello all, I hope someone can help me with the following problem. I have three providers, with different names, so that i can use "pon " etc. The scripts are made with pppconfig and they work. Problem is, for each one I have different "options", such as dns xxx.yyy.zzz.uuu name "myname" auth

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Chang, FKK wrote: > Hello all, > > I hope someone can help me with the following problem. > > I have three providers, with different names, so that i can > use "pon " etc. The scripts are made with pppconfig and > they work. Good... :) > Problem is, for each one I have d

Re: PPP problems

1998-11-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > Hi all > > After running pppconfig and running pppd provider (where provider is the > name of the file created by pppconfig), I get the following results (from > tail -f /var/log/messages): > > CONNECT stuff and so > . > expect (ogin

xterm keystrokes: erase, home, end (and others)

1998-11-24 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hi! Some weeks ago you answered me a question (how to make key Backspace work in xterm). It has been working nice since then, but last week I broke something: keys Home, End, and Erase (not sure on its name, it is the one at the left of End) don't work in xterm, and they used to. Erase in fact wor

How to calculate the proper modeline? (DCF?

1998-11-24 Thread Jan Krupa
I am reading "XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO" and I would like to compute DCF/HSF but I do not know what DCF (dot clock frequency) is ? I mean I do not know where it comes from? Here are some information of my OS nd hardware: I use debian2.0. I have Matrox Millenium || AGP, 8Mgb videoRAM, monitor Bri

Re: Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
Actually, none of this works. The problem is that the backspace and DEL keys are somehow treated like the same key. So I can either have both do 'delete-char' or both do 'delete-forward-char'. There must be some lower level where I could set this up, but I'll be darned if I know how/where...

Re: List language?

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
I am equally confused. I would rather NOT have non-english on the list, if it is avoidable. Not that I have anything against other languages, but debian-user should be an open forum for discussion for all of its readers, and using non-english does not propagate that very well. Private discussions

Re: Desktop Publishing.

1998-11-24 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Chris Evans wrote: > > On 24 Nov 98, at 10:27, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > > Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > > > >Just need to know if anyone is doing DTP with Debian > > But about the publishing itself, that is, page creation and typography, > > there are at l

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread wb2oyc
>The above file is only for global options to every ppp connection that >will be made on your box, which rules out username parameters. I generally >as a rule never touch it. the Debian defaults seem to work okay. Several pppd versions back there was an option (-u) that specifies such parameters.

Re: Installation help required

1998-11-24 Thread Richard Lyon
I think trying to install packages from floppies is pretty desperate. You can pickup the full Debian distribution in Melbourne for less than $20. The bit bar in Fitzroy generally keeps a set in stock. Contact Tyson Dowd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for more details. Regards

Mouse speed in X

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
How do I change the mouse speed in X?

Re: ip aliasing

1998-11-24 Thread Piotr Wachowiak
i think that problem is with kernel - try to recompile it and be sure, that every options according to ip_aliasing is included and use _latest_ kernel do not compile ip networking options as modules greetz, Piotr Wachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Babs wrote: > I am running kern

kernal building

1998-11-24 Thread Arve Fahlvik
debian 2.0 i try to 'make xconfig' the final message is: make: wish: Command not found. in what package can i find the wish command? afa

2.0 install troubles

1998-11-24 Thread Steve Freeman
Wondering if someone could help a newbie:   I have been attempting to install Debian 2.0.  However, just after I get the "Uncompressing Linux" message, I get a page of hardware info for a fraction of a second, and then my system reboots.   I have tried to install from a DOS partition and a

Re: PPP problems

1998-11-24 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>I suspect it is your expect line for the login prompt. are you expecting >"ogin: your_login_name" or just "ogin:" ?? you cant expect the former, >your ISP expects you to enter your login. like so: > I wrote down 'login_name' but in this line appears my REAL login name >ogin: your_login_name

Re: Mouse speed in X

1998-11-24 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi Daniel : > > How do I change the mouse speed in X? > Treat man xset. the option "m". e.g. : "Very Fast" xset m 7 10 & "Normal(Fast)"xset m 3 10 & "System Default" xset m default & "Glacial" xset m 0 10 &

Re: Mouse speed in X

1998-11-24 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > How do I change the mouse speed in X? > xset [ []] see man xset. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 245

Re: kernal building

1998-11-24 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Arve, > the final message is: > make: wish: Command not found. You need to install the tk packages (possibly even the tk-dev one, too). So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operato

Typing software [OFF TOPIC}

1998-11-24 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Please does anyone know of where I can get hold of software which could teach me to type Regards --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. U

Re: 2.0 install troubles

1998-11-24 Thread Richard Lyon
I just installed Debian on a similar hardware setup. Some things you might like to check: Did you download the files over the internet? Are they corrupted? Check sizes with the originals. Have you gone through bios disabling shadow memory? What other hardware is installed in the machine? I ass

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
No, sorry but it still doesn't work. Xemacs doesn't seem to recognize my backspace for what it is ..!?

Re: Typing software [OFF TOPIC}

1998-11-24 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > Please does anyone know of where I can get hold of software which > could teach me to type > There is a debian package called ... typist! It works OK, though it has some bugs in some of the lessons: sometimes part of the previous page remains on the screen. It was good enough

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread servis
*- Chang, FKK wrote about "PPP options for different providers - how ?" > Hello all, > > I hope someone can help me with the following problem. > > I have three providers, with different names, so that i can > use "pon " etc. The scripts are made with pppconfig and > they work. > > Problem is,

NeoMagic 2160 (Dell Latitude CP)

1998-11-24 Thread Information
When will X windows come up with drivers for NeoMagic 2160 chipset. I can't seem to get X Server to run fine without it being a zoomed in version for X. Weird. Daniel

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi Daniel : > > No, sorry but it still doesn't work. Xemacs doesn't seem to recognize > my backspace for what it is ..!? > Perhaps your keyboard are not correctly configurated. My current key configuracion is : LNQRNMR2:~> xmodmap -pke | grep Back keycode 22 = BackSpace LNQRN

ipfwadm/ipchains

1998-11-24 Thread Michael Laing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am helping our local school district set up linux servers as POPS so people can dial in using PPP and access some specific servers in our WAN. I've got PPP working fine and now need to add firewall rules to limit access to only a short list of servers. It's n

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
Yes, but xemacs in X works fine, it's when I run it in the console that I get this problem. Is there a similar setting for the console somewhere? (thanks for your patience with me)

Re: NeoMagic 2160 (Dell Latitude CP)

1998-11-24 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
The next version will have the NeoMagic card support. For now..go to: http://www.precisioninsight.com they are the ppl who developed the xserver for that card set. works great as I am using it right on. On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Information wrote: > > > When will X windows come up with drivers

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi Daniel : > Yes, but xemacs in X works fine, it's when I run it in the console > that I get this problem. Is there a similar setting for the console > somewhere? Thats is diferent,I am thinking always in X. There is a Howto that explain that troube :

Suggestions for Webmail

1998-11-24 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I would like to install some webmail interface like the various freemail providers use. Did not find anything in the Debian package archive, so I wonder is someone has a recommendation on this matter. I am not an expert, so I am looking for a relative simple setup. Any pointers much appreciated!

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Elenius
Well, nothing in the HOWTO works!

Re: DNS configuration

1998-11-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: [ snip ] : Instead you can get real, official addresses from the local ISP, or : even use the reserved numbers for internal, disconnected networks (do : not remember them, should be at any HowTo), so that any IPmasq will b

Re: Suggestions for Webmail

1998-11-24 Thread Adam Shand
> I would like to install some webmail interface like the various > freemail providers use. Did not find anything in the Debian package > archive, so I wonder is someone has a recommendation on this matter. I > am not an expert, so I am looking for a relative simple setup. by far the best i have

Netscape 4.5 in slink (problems)

1998-11-24 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I had Netscape installed. Then I upgraded it to Netscape 4.5 that is in slink. Now, when I run netscape from xterm I got the following error messages: grep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory

Re: NeoMagic 2160 (Dell Latitude CP)

1998-11-24 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 10:11:11PM +0900, Information wrote: > > > When will X windows come up with drivers for NeoMagic 2160 chipset. I can't > seem to get X Server to run fine without it being a zoomed in version for X. > Weird. The XFCom-neomagic x server runs wonderfully on my Ga

Re: Typing software [OFF TOPIC}

1998-11-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, > Please does anyone know of where I can get hold of software which > could teach me to type The typist package. And then lots of practice ;-) HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn Coll

RIP on Debian?

1998-11-24 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian package? If so, which package? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

Re: 3Com card

1998-11-24 Thread joseph evan porter
Do you have a multi-processor motherboard? I know my 3com card had a hardware conflict with the dual processor stuff. I'm now using kernel 2.1.120 with the 3Com driver downgraded to 0.99E. That config seems to work with the SMP switch. If you're not using SMP, I don't know what to tell you. Y

Lilo and MBR

1998-11-24 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi Following up to my prevous mail is the lilo or mbr shipped with Debian 2 faulty ? When trying to boot from hda3 (hda1 is win98, hda2 is swap) it just says loading Linux the reboots. It never gets to vmlinuz. This is like what happens when it cant find vmlinuz when you forget to

Re: PPP problems

1998-11-24 Thread john
Rodrigo Moya writes: > After running pppconfig... Ok... > ...and running pppd provider... Don't you mean 'pppd call provider'? Why not just run 'pon'? > ...from tail -f /var/log/messages 'plog -f' does 'tail -f /var/log/ppp.log'. > ... > ... > What am I doing wrong? At a guess, you put quot

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread john
Chang, FKK writes: > Problem is, for each one I have different "options", such as > dns xxx.yyy.zzz.uuu pppd doesn't support this. Just pick the best set of dns servers and put them in /etc/resolv.conf. > name "myname" > auth pppconfig should have put these in the provider files. You don't ne

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread john
Michael Beattie writes: > This can be put in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets as this (I think its correct) > * > then in each /etc/ppp/peers/* file, have an option, "user " pppconfig does this automatically if you chose PAP authentication. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Ho

Re: PPP options for different providers - how ?

1998-11-24 Thread john
wb2oyc writes: > Several pppd versions back there was an option (-u) that specifies such > parameters. I believe it is now deprecated, but it does still work! :) hasler//usr/local/src/ppp/ppp-2.3.5/pppd pppd -u pppd: unrecognized option '-u' pppd version 2.3 patch level 5

Problems with Exim with ISP-dialupping

1998-11-24 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
I'm using an ISP to connect to the net. Exim's autoconfiguration makes a working configuration, except that I cannot mail @kolumbus.fi. Those addresses are considered local, and so if I try to mail some @kolumbus.fi, I get a return receipt: " ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown local-part "x" in dom

Re: Lilo and MBR

1998-11-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > Following up to my prevous mail is the lilo or mbr shipped with Debian 2 > faulty > ? When trying to boot from hda3 (hda1 is win98, hda2 is swap) it just says > loading Linux the reboots. It never gets to vmli

Re: How to calculate the proper modeline? (DCF?

1998-11-24 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I am reading "XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO" and I would like to | compute DCF/HSF but I do not know what DCF (dot clock frequency) | is ? I mean I do not know where it comes from? It's the number of pixels that the video card will send to the monitor each second.

Re: technical problems with kde and debian (loading of libs fail)

1998-11-24 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Mikael Suomela wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got following problem: when I try to launch kde it fails > complaining about missing libraries. I've installed kde using .debs from > ftp.kde.org and qt 1.41 from a .deb from ftp.funet.fi (a mirror of > ftp.debian.org). Any kde users

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but xemacs in X works fine, it's when I run it in the console > that I get this problem. Is there a similar setting for the console > somewhere? Just to be specific: Are we talking about XEmacs running on a true linux console (i.e. terminal type i

Re: diald time restriction

1998-11-24 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Peter Bartosch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? It's easy to say "diald is allowed to bring up the line from 3:00 till 4:00" either by "restrict" options in the configuration file or by sending block/unblock commands to the control

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