Re: Network newbie

Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, is there any walk-through written on how to configure my home > network? I've got two machines, with NE2000-compatible network cards. > I've recompiled my kernel to give me module support of them, but now I'm > stuck. Can anyone point me in the rig

IRQ and PS/2

Hi everybody, I have run out of IRQs. Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable the ps/2 bus. I have a regular serial mouse and AT-type (5-pin) keyboard. The motherboard also has somethi

Unable to boot from Sec.Slave IDE drive - Help!

Hi, I am using Debian2.0 on /dev/hdc(Secondary Master)without any problems. Recently I added a new 4.2G HD and wanted to add Linux to this new /dev/hdd(Secondary Slave). I get to the point of the installation process where it says 'Make Linux Bootable Directly from Hard Drive', I select 'Yes' an

Re: Network newbie

the net3 howto is not lacking, believe me ... it can work u miracles if ull read and really understand it ... did ur kernel detect ur lan card ? or if u included the module to autumatically be loaded unpon bootup (/etc/modules), did u see the message that looks something like eth0: 3c509 at 0

compiling with vfat option

Thanks for all the feedback about the LILO - System.map question that I had. But its not over yet !!, now I'm firing up another one ;) It turns out my initial kernel that came with the distribution had vfat as a module, this is reconfirmed by the fact that I have a line which says "vfat" in my /e

strange sendmail error msgs

Hello, On my hamm system, I've been getting strange error msgs since installing exim. Strange, because they are sendmail msgs: /usr/sbin/sendmail: error in loading shared libraries libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I did dpkg -s sendmail, and found that it i

Netscape: document-specified fonts problem

Hello, If I setup netscape to use document-specified fonts, on some (parts of) pages, the font wil be very ugly and almost impossible to read. It looks a bit like a picture in netscape that has not finished loading yet. Please help. TIA, Robert-Jan

Re: IRQ and PS/2

> > Hi everybody, > > I have run out of IRQs. > Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. > I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable > the ps/2 bus. I have a regular serial mouse and AT-type (5-pin) keyboard. > The motherboard

Basic networking info

After a long delay I am finally ready to put together a small training network in my apartment. First I have some basic questions. There are 3 machines one AMD 586 133 /64 mg (my primary machine) and 2 Intel 486 66 /8 mg. All have ISA NE2000 cards 1. Can I live with 8 mg in the 486s?

Why does ppp stall for no reason on 2.2.x kernels?

Ever since I have upgraded to the 2.2.x kernel on my slink, and bits of potato, system ppp is very flaky over a dialup 56k line. Often I am downloading a package or other large file and the download stalls. I can stop and restart the download and it will continue for a bit longer and the stall a

DVD?

What is the state of DVD in Linux? I've searched our site and nothing comes up on it? TIA -- Greg.

strange sendmail error msgs

Hello, On my hamm system, I've been getting strange error msgs since installing exim. Strange, because they are sendmail msgs: /usr/sbin/sendmail: error in loading shared libraries libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I did dpkg -s sendmail, and found that it i

X freezes!

I am a brand newbie to Linux. I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard installation and used dselect afterwards to add X server and clients. Linux sits on my first hd in partitions hda3 (linux) and hda4 (swap), the first two partitions are Dos16-big and host win 95. I successfully configured LILO so

Re: DVD?

> > What is the state of DVD in Linux? I've searched our site and nothing > comes up on it? > The dvd uses a new file system, so that is being worked on. The drivers for the hardware are not that much harder than cdrom (if I recall from others). However dvd as a movie media is quite some time

Re: IRQ and PS/2

*- On 28 Apr, Lazar Fleysher wrote about "IRQ and PS/2" > Hi everybody, > > I have run out of IRQs. > Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. > I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable > the ps/2 bus. I have a regular serial m

Re: Basic networking info

Hi > > After a long delay I am finally ready to put together a small training > network in my apartment. First I have some basic questions. > There are 3 machines one AMD 586 133 /64 mg (my primary machine) and 2 > Intel 486 66 /8 mg. All have ISA NE2000 cards > > 1. Can I live with 8 m

lilo, map and system.map

|> So the question is: |> Is the map file that is mentioned in lilo.conf not the same file |> as the Syetm.map file, and am I supposed to place the System.map |> file in a special location without lilo's knowledge? These are different files with different functions. The /boot/map file is a file

man-to-text filter

Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from man into plain text? e.g: $ man man | magic-filter $ magic-bin /usr/man/man8/man.8 $ man --magic-switch man Thank you. Marc Mongeon

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

> Could someone give an opinion on turning on "Antivirus" feature in the > motherboard BIOS? I recall hearing once that it should be avoided, but > I can't remember the arguments. > > FWIW, I have an ABIT BX6 MB. > -- > Arcady Genkin Hi Doesnt seem it will work. The virus destorys only Fl

Re: IRQ and PS/2

-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aan: Debian User Datum: woensdag 28 april 1999 19:12 Onderwerp: IRQ and PS/2 >Hi everybody, > >I have run out of IRQs. >Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. >I do not have a manual

Re: system shutdown from xdm

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:07:16AM +, Dave Whiteley wrote: > In the olden days I worked with a PDP11/44 running Unix. I did not know > a lot about Unix, but I was trusted to shut the system down by logging > is as a special user "shutdown". > I have made the user "shutdown"'s shell a script

Re: lilo, map and system.map

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: ~> ~> The standard procedure is to make a symlink between /System.map and ~> /boot/System.map-x.y.z (assuming that you're using the x.y.z kernel). ~> If you have more than one kernel on the system, you're supposed to ~> have a System.map-x.y.z file in /boot for each kernel

Re: Netscape: document-specified fonts problem

Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RJK> If I setup netscape to use document-specified fonts, on some RJK> (parts of) pages, the font wil be very ugly and almost impossible RJK> to read. It looks a bit like a picture in netscape that has not RJK> finished loading yet. RJK> RJK> Ple

RE: man-to-text filter

On 28-Apr-99 Marc Mongeon wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? > > e.g: > $ man man | magic-filter > $ magic-bin /usr/man/man8/man.8 > $ man --magic-switch man > Try this: $ zcat /usr/man/man1/bash.1.gz | nroff -man | col -b or, if the

Re: IRQ and PS/2

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:07:36AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have run out of IRQs. > Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. > I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable > the ps/2 bus. Normally this is

Re: man-to-text filter

Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from MM> man into plain text? zcat /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz |nroff -man nroff -man /usr/man/man1/man.1 -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Hey, Doug,

Re: lilo, map and system.map

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: > ~> > ~> The standard procedure is to make a symlink between /System.map and > ~> /boot/System.map-x.y.z (assuming that you're using the x.y.z kernel). > ~> If you have more than one kernel on the system, you're supposed t

Re: man-to-text filter

It's crude, but 'man -t manpage | pstotext' will do this (there are probably better ways using groff, but this comes to mind). Bob On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? > > e.g: > $ m

Re: man-to-text filter

In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from > man into plain text? [prompt]$ man somesubject |col -b > somesubject.txt -Mitch

IRQ and PS/2

You wrote: Hi everybody, I have run out of IRQs. Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus. I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable the ps/2 bus. I have a regular serial mouse and AT-type (5-pin) keyboard. The motherboard also

debian-user-digest Digest V99 #763

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Jens, On 28-Apr-99 Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Did you make sure that in /etc/X11/config you have the line: > > allow-user-resources > This one is set. > With regard to your .xinitrc, if you are running kdm then your > .xinitrc will not be > run. It is

Re: strange sendmail error msgs

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:48:13AM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > So, if sendmail is purged (according to dpkg), why does /usr/sbin/sendmail > exist, and why is it sending me this msg? I don't know why it's sending you that message, check the glibc-ness of different things, maybe? As to where it co

Re: Missing voices in Festival

Kent West wrote: > Within the last day or so someone asked on this list about a text-to-speech > app and someone else suggested Festival. On a whim, I did an "apt-get > install festival" and everything appeared to install okay. However, when I > type "festival", I get an error message about "no def

Newsx 1.2-2 is it broken

hello , i'm using without problem newsx 0.11-5 in Hamm, since i've upgrade my pc with slink newsx 1.2-2 don't work correctly at home and at work. I can't fetch articles because i've a error message about a path missing in a messages at the remote server. Any idea ??? at this time i've downgrade wi

Old Unix 'compress' (.Z) utility?

I can't seem to find a version of the old Unix 'compress' utility, that generates .Z files. I know that gzip provides better compression, and can uncompress .Z files, but it won't work for me. I'm exporting some files to Minix, and Minix doesn't have a gzip port for all versions. I seem to reca

Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

On Wednesday, April 28, 1999 at 19:39:40 +1200, John Leget wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: 87e60a087b692aee4499ddcd6afe260a > > , i keep getting lots of the following > in the attempt of mp3'ing an audio cdrom to my hard drive > > Apr 28 18:58:31 gabriel kernel: hda: irq

libpcre.so.1 and libpcre.so.1.01 (was strange sendmail error msgs)

Hello, I've been running a hamm system for a few months and recently installed exim and libpcre1 (upon which exim depends). Since then, I've been getting console msgs: /usr/sbin/sendmail: error in shared libraries libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I'm guessi

IRQ and PS/2

Hi Everybody, Thank you for all your replys, however, I think that I did not describe the situation correctly. I have an older type pentium with AT-style board ( i think it is called that way, it has one 5-pin keyboard connector). I do not recall seeing anything in BIOS related to PS/2 bus (I wil

Re: Old Unix 'compress' (.Z) utility?

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > I can't seem to find a version of the old Unix 'compress' utility, that > generates .Z files. I know that gzip provides better compression, and > can uncompress .Z files, but it won't work for me. > > I'm exporting some files to Minix, and Minix

Re: Real need for upgrades?

On Wednesday, April 28, 1999 at 13:36:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: a01b3f03096f3ff19c87465729c10d44 > > The same goes for new kernel releases. While I see some using the very > latest Linux kernels (2.2.x), others still use older versions of

Contents of base/libc6

Hi there: Thank you for providing Linux as a free distribution. I am looking for the following files: ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libm.so.6 libstdc++.so.2.9 Which the following page ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz seems to point out to be located in: base/libc6 However

Mozart card buffer problems

Hi my mozart card under a 2.0.36 kernel (static support) doesnt work at all. for example, when trying to play a wave i get the error invalid audio buffer size of 0 although i enabled a 64k audio buffer but mod, midi, it doesnt work 2 /dev/sndstat doesnt exist, but the bootup messages show its a

Broken libtiff3g-dev

I have, in the process of upgrading my potato system, broken the libtiff3g-dev package. dselect gives the following errors while trying to upgrade the package: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1

Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 07:54:08PM +, Lazarus Long wrote: > On Wednesday, April 28, 1999 at 19:39:40 +1200, John Leget wrote: > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-UIDL: 87e60a087b692aee4499ddcd6afe260a > > > > , i keep getting lots of the following > > in the attempt of mp3'ing an au

starting problem

I'm a contended Debian user but now ,unexpected, I've a problem.with for me unknown reason. When booting all kind of things are started. at; 'starting printer spooler: lpd' nothing happens anymore, even after 15 minutes. I can only switch of the computer. with a rescue-disk i could come in the syst

dselect has me baffled..

... or I'm just dense today. I am installing slink from the Cheapbytes 4-CD set. The base package install went smooth. I selected the default dialup packages. However, when I tried to install it I got a lot of messages scrolling up the screen that looked like everything was going ok until I got

Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 05:00:50PM -0400, Ian Peters wrote: > I have, in the process of upgrading my potato system, broken the > libtiff3g-dev package. dselect gives the following errors while > trying to upgrade the package: > Reading Package Lists... Done > > installation script returned erro

Re: dselect has me baffled..

In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > ... or I'm just dense today. > > I am installing slink from the Cheapbytes 4-CD set. The base package > install went smooth. I selected the default dialup packages. However, > when I tried to install it I got a lot of messages scrolling up the > screen that looke

ftpd wants pwd_mkdb + apologies

I apologize: I originally sent this mail while logged in as root; reply mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not be deliverable. >From the ftpd man page (netstd 3.07-7slink.3): ~ftp/etc Make this directory owned by ``root'' and unwritable by anyone (mode 511). The file

Re: deb vs. rpm

Thorsten Manegold wrote: > As I see it after reading the comparison at > > the rpm format is comparible with the dep format feature-wise. > Rpm is even ahead in some (IMHO important) areas like > file-dependencies whereas dep only supports package deps.

sendmail/fetchmail

ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages it just sits there on the first one and does nothing. to test my se

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

Ralf Comtesse wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hello Jens, > > On 28-Apr-99 Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Did you make sure that in /etc/X11/config you have the line: > > > > allow-user-resources > > > > This one is set. > > > With regard to your .xinitrc, if you are running kdm then

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - print solution (?)

Hi, Here is a message found on news://stardivision.com.support.installation (I did not test it yet) Best regards, Bernard - --- Subject: Debian Potato/glibc-2.1 Printing Fix/Workaround Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:11:44 -0400 From: Chris Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: StarDivision Gmb

New mailing-list created: debian-japanese (was Re: New mailing-list request (debian-japanese))

At Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:58:34 +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you create new mailing-list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] New mailing-list debian-japanese@lists.debian.org has been created. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I said in new mailing-list request message, this list is used to di

MTA

I have to say I am nearly converted user of qmail.. I installed qmail on my server at home, and I have to admit it is a sweet bit of software. Blows sendmail out of the water. Cheers Iodine (just another qmail user)

Installing via network

I need to install Linux on an embedded system with network connection and with no CD. Is it possible to install Linux from my local network. I have NT/95 (no Unix) system with CD driver on the local network? Thanks in advance, Benjamin >

Re: sendmail/fetchmail

add|ct|on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail > from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors > logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages > it just sits there on the first

apt-get and apt-cdrom

Hello, I have a problem with apt-get. (Sorry for overlong lines in the following.) My /etc/apt/sources.list is set up with apt-cdrom, and that part worked correctly: | [...] | Writing new source list | Source List entries for this Disc are: | deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main bina

Trackball setup: Zenith laptop.

I've installed Debian 2.1 on a Zentith Z-Noteflex 486. When trying to configure X in XF86Setup, none of the mouse drivers/settings appear to work with the trackball. Any ideas? Thanks, -Paul ___ Get your free, private email at http://mail.

Re: apt-get and apt-cdrom

On 29 Apr 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with apt-get. (Sorry for overlong lines in the > following.) Older apt's had 'issues' with certain CD configurations. Grab the latest version from potato (I think that has all the fixes..) Jason

Re: ISA vs PCI Modem

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Greg Scharrer wrote: My experience with PCI modems is that they are likely to be winmodems. My supplier stopped selling the ISA modems in favour of the new PCI modems, but now is restocking ISAs. I had problems with the PCI modems in Win 95&98. Auto-locating the drive

Re: Diald Setup

Hi, I set up pppconfig, got pon and poff working successfully, set up diald.options according to Johns instructions then started up diald and went browsing, it connects then hangs up. here's some of /var/log/ppp.log - Apr 28 14:10:50 confluent pppd[418]: not replacing existing default rou

re: sendmail/fetchmail yet again

the .fetchmailrc is, simply, as follows: poll pop.myserver.net protocol pop3 username myusername password mypasswd

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