Re: Network cards.

1998-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
3c501 cards should not be used anywhere, of course. I've heard some bad things about ne2000 clones, but have used several from different manufacturers and never had a problem. Performance isn't great, but considering the price, they aren't all that bad for a small network. Of course, if you

RE: Network cards.

1998-12-11 Thread Shaleh
On 11-Dec-98 Brent McMillan wrote: > I'll be setting up a network between my linux box and 2 other > machines for a cable modem. I hear that there are some network cards > that just don't work for linux. Crazy I know, but that's the rumour. > Does any one know off any cards I should av

Re: transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Chris Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I want to move my sendmail on my two working machines up to 8.9 > for the improved and built-in antispamming facilities there. > > That looks as if it will require a move to a more recent libc6, > netbase and libdb (and I haven't yet worked out what the

RE: Funky mouse.

1998-12-11 Thread Shaleh
On 11-Dec-98 Brent McMillan wrote: > I recently picked up an old (circa 1986) Digital, DEC VSXXX-AA mouse. I > picked it up because it didn't use a track ball, but rather an horizontal > and vertical roller on the underside. It look kinda like it had a PS/2 > connection, but it doesn't. What

Re: transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Chris Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I want to move my sendmail on my two working machines up to 8.9 > > for the improved and built-in antispamming facilities there. > > > > That looks as if it will require a move to a more recent libc6, > > netbase and libdb (an

movemail for slink communicator

1998-12-11 Thread Paul Reavis
What happened to movemail in the netscape communicator packages under slink? The installer advises against the chmod recommended by the program, but the external movemail application isn't there as it was in the hamm installer. I plugged in the xemacs one, and that worked, but I was curious as to

Monitor Troubles.

1998-12-11 Thread Anders
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this (probably not) but I am having a problem getting my monitor (A Sony Multiscan 200sf) to display in 1152 x 864 mode correctly...it is always too small to fit the screen and I cannot make it big enough in the horizontal axis to cover the w

Re: Network cards.

1998-12-11 Thread Gary Singleton
Just make sure you don't buy a WinNIC! - just kidding, couldn't resist, sorry. http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html will tell you what (not) to get. HTH, G.S. ---Brent McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll be setting up a network between my linux box and 2 other > ma

ftp install with funky NIC

1998-12-11 Thread Henry Kingman
Hey all, I'm attempting to install Debian via ftp on a Micron PII-267 but I can't seem to get ethernet working. The machine's motherboard is a PD440FX, and the NIC is an Intel 82557C-based Ethernet PCI 10/100. I think that's one of those ones that's right on the motherboard and thus part of Intel'

Tv grabbers

1998-12-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I have just gotten a wintv card, and it appears to be working fine. However, I can't seem to find a screen grabber for it. I'm looking for one that can be ran from the command line, and grab what ever is on the device without requiring any user interface. Does anyone know if a program like th

Re: transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Michael Stone wrote: > > You will need from slink: (newer versions okay if > > available) > > ldso 1.9.9-5 (libc6 depends on it) > > I don't think so: You're right. I don't know why it was on my sendmail upgrade list, maybe

Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-12-11 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Thank you for your answers. I was absent for a few days and couldn't follow on this thread that I started. My NFS/SAMBA server is in a lab with no connections to the external world and it is just serving a few Debian development workstations. That's why I don't care about security. Anyway, I t

APC Smart-UPS 1000 and Debian

1998-12-11 Thread David Stern
Hi, I'm not having any success with debian packaged software for my new APC Smart-UPS 1000 (listed as Linux compatible). I tried (individually) apcd, genpower, upsd. I keep getting the error message "can't connect to ups" or "can't talk to UPS", even though I've correctly configured the soft

wine problem in slink

1998-12-11 Thread ctang
hi, I recently upgraded to slink. But I have problem using wine. Everytime it starts, I see the message wine: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libwine.so.0: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info The lib in the system are libwine0.0.9711 0.0.981018-1wine

Re: rawrite[23] problem on nt 4.0

1998-12-11 Thread Richard Lyon
Yes I use rawrite2 under winnt 4.0. A couple of things you might try are: 1.Try a preformatted floppy. 2.If you are connected to a network logout and try running in standalone mode. Some of laptop computers should really be called winputers. -Original Message- From: Aaron

Re: Anyone know what this is?? (SPAM?)

1998-12-11 Thread Richard Lyon
-Original Message- From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Robert V. MacQuarrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian-User-Mailing-List ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, 11 December 1998 0:25 Subject: Re: Anyone know what this is?? (SPAM?) >PATRIOTISM A great British

Re: Dial-up problem

1998-12-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
eferen1 wrote: > > This is a follow up to my previous message. > I guess I should have been more specific about this problem. I installed > FreeBSD 3.0 to see if it would connect, but it didn't either. Here are the > details; > > 1. I have MS Network. The local provider provides the IP address. >

network card

1998-12-11 Thread Sam
How do I set up a new DNS and new network card?

X is giving me a headache.

1998-12-11 Thread MallarJ
In advance, forgive the fact that you probably answer these questions a few times a month, but I'm yet another new Linux user swamped in X - and I'm sinking fast. In fact, I'm beginning to wonder why I'm bothering. Oh yeah, I detest Microsoft/Windows - that's it. It's disheartening, I'm usually

Re: SANE install Catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
Well, everyone has picked up on the date. Can anyone answer the question? _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ > On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > BTW: Your clock has the wrong date (1.1.1996) > > > > Alex.

adsl

1998-12-11 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just found out that ADSL service may be available in my area. Does anyone have ADSL internet service and how hard was it to get Linux to use it? I live in south florida and Bellsouth is now offering ADSL for $50-60 a month unlimited ($100 one time installation fee and $200 to buy the modem -

Re: nethack

1998-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Two things: : : 1) /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack should be chmod-ed 2755, owned by root : and belonging to group games. I suspect this is where your problem lies. : /usr/games/nethack is just a wrapper shell script to execute the nethack : bin

Re: About X

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: }-> }-> > Well I got X too work but how do I load a different window manager? }-> }-> Download window manager you want , install it, and }-> edit /etc/windows-manager so that at the start up of X it will run what

Re: backpack CD on Toshiba laptop

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> Anyone willing to educate me on how to mount a parallel port CD in }-> Linux? }-> }-> All the HOWTO's, FAQ-O-MATIC's and FAQ pages for both Debian and Linux }-> that I can find say things like "after mounting an external CD device }-> through the parallel port..." without ever actually te

Re: Canon BJC 4100 printer without color :(

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> Hi Debian users, }-> I have a problem. }-> I installed lpr and magicfilter from hamm and can't print in }-> colors with }-> my printer: Canon BJC-4100. I tried the bjc-600 filter. }-> Is there anyone with this printer? }-> Have a nice day,

Re: Cannon BJC-4100 printer

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> On mar, 08 dic 1998 10:55:11 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: }-> > Hi Debian users, }-> > I have a problem. }-> > I installed lpr and magicfilter from hamm and can't print in }-> > colors with }-> > my printer: Canon BJC-4100. I tried the bjc-600 filter.

Re: rawrite[23] problem on nt 4.0

1998-12-11 Thread BOHICA
Sounds like you are trying to use the "new" 1.743Mb floppy image. Every time I tried it I got the same error since rawrite will try to create a disk image that is bigger than the media, but since it doesn't do any "sanity" checking it errors out when it's own calculation of needed space doesn't

I have a problem: kernel panic

1998-12-11 Thread estela valle pendon
Hello: Could you help me? I have a message when I boot my Debian Linux system that says: kernel panic:EXT2-fs panic(device 03:02):ext2_read_inode:group>=group count

Re: About X

1998-12-11 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Yeah. My mistake. /etc/X11/window-managers > Hi! > > }-> On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > }-> > }-> > Well I got X too work but how do I load a different window manager? > }-> > }-> Download window manager you want , install it, and > }-> edit /etc/windows-manager so that at the s

Re: mutiple isps & proxy

1998-12-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > How do I detect which isp I am using, and automatically export the > correct proxy settings?? > > PS: I am not using pon & poff. I use my own dial up scripts... If you want to do it in an ip-up.d script, check the variable PPP_REMOTE. Perhaps something like: =-=-=-= #!/bin

Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

1998-12-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel Verdier) wrote: > Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you find a Debian package that has a config in /usr, it's a bug, > > because FSSTND compliance is mandated by the Policy. > > What about /usr/local/etc ? That's still a bug - packages may not put a

Re: Can't start fetchmail in ip-up.d

1998-12-11 Thread Mark Phillips
> In my ip-up, I have a line > run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > > So I put a file called fetchmail with a single line fetchmail. > > I also made it executable. > > But when my link is up, nothing happened. I tried to ps ax the >process. It is not there. I also ch

Re: X is giving me a headache.

1998-12-11 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | X is totally confusing me at the moment. Or rather, how to get it all | working, where are the good window managers, etc. There is a web page dedicated to window managers for X. There you can see most of them in action. I don't have to URL handy, but a search should find it.

Re: Can't start fetchmail in ip-up.d

1998-12-11 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, You may want to look in the file: more /usr/doc/fetchmail/fetchmail-up #!/bin/sh test -r /etc/fetchmailrc && \ fetchmail --syslog --invisible --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc It's an example you may use. Important thing is location of rc file. Works for me. That directory contains

RE: Exchange Client

1998-12-11 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I would also like to find one of these - Exchange is our mail server of choice (due to it's stability and cost-effectiveness, of course ), and a client that can read it's mail setup would be wonderful! There's a few of us Linux people in here, and we could make a nice toehold into our area if it co

Joystick

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Beattie
I've downloaded, compiled and installed the new Joystick drivers, version 1.2.13. Works fine. I want to try out the joystick in a game, to check it actually works properly. I have tried quake2, but no matter what I do, I cannot get quake2 to use the joystick, mainly because I can find no documenta

exmh presort fails

1998-12-11 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am trying to setup exmh to presort my email messages when I do an inc. I have created a .maildelivery file in my home directory, namely: X-mailing-list debian-user folder ? list/deb-user default - folder ? inbox but when I try to do an inc, it fails

Re: exmh presort fails

1998-12-11 Thread Jongki Suwandi
I think those "folder" words should be "+". -Jongki > Hi, > > I am trying to setup exmh to presort my email messages when I do an inc. > I have created a .maildelivery file in my home directory, namely: > > X-mailing-listdebian-user folder ? list/deb-user > default

Re: APC Smart-UPS 1000 and Debian

1998-12-11 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:17:07 GMT, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not having any success with debian packaged software for my new APC > Smart-UPS 1000 (listed as Linux compatible). I tried (individually) > apcd, genpower, upsd. I keep getting the error message "can't connect > to ups" or "ca

Re: Joystick

1998-12-11 Thread servis
*- Michael Beattie wrote about "Joystick" > > I've downloaded, compiled and installed the new Joystick drivers, version > 1.2.13. Works fine. I want to try out the joystick in a game, to check it > actually works properly. I have tried quake2, but no matter what I do, I > cannot get quake2 to use

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