removed libc6, how to recover

2000-02-17 Thread Michael Kevin O'Brien
Hola~ Okay, I used apt-get to get a new version of libc6. The version has a script that is installed as a user file, so I get a "Do you want to accept the package maintainer's version" where "No" is the default. I blindly say no, libc6 then fails to configure. So, I force the removal of it and tr

Re: Apt-get through proxy

2000-02-17 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Radim Gelner wrote: > > How do I instruct apt-get to use a proxy server instead of directly > contacting the host? Once, I wanted to use lynx; to make it works via a proxy, it needs: export http_proxy=http://your.proxy:3128/ export ftp_proxy=http://your.proxy:3128/ Then I

Re: Sound ES1371 issues

2000-02-17 Thread Kent West
Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > > > When I "cat wls.wav > /dev/dsp" I get nasty squeals. When I "cat > > > > jesus.au > > > > > /dev/dsp" I get rough-sounding but more-or-less intelligible sound. > > > > > > > > "saytime" sometimes results in a quick blip, sometimes in a choppy "The > > > > time >

discussit and postgres

2000-02-17 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, im trying to configure disscussit but the configuration interface does not let me choose de DBMS so i'm puzzled here. Apart of that, if i install pike-pg that seems needed for roxen to comunicate with postgres, the configuration interface of discussit disappears. Any hint ? --

Re: Correct PAM settings for login

2000-02-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 06:11:24PM -0500, Joseph A. Martin wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > You also need to install libnss-ldap and configure it correctly. > > I have that installed and my passwd line reads 'ldap files'. But did you configure /etc/libnss-ldap.conf? If so,

Re: which 2.2 kernel?

2000-02-17 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 12:25:42AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I was wondering which is the stablest 2.2 kernel curently > I am never shure if it is the even or uneven numbers ( is it 2.2.13 or > 2.2.14 ?) > I am using kernel 2.2.9 , is it worth the update? 2.2.x \-- 2 is even -> stable 2.

Boot problem

2000-02-17 Thread Charles O. Hartman
(newbie alert!) (I've looked around the archives and haven't found anything that seems to help) This is about a 486DX-100 system. Debian Linux is installed on my hard disk, and I have a boot floppy. The floppy works OK, and uses the hard-disk root OK. When I try to boot from the hard disk, thoug

Is diald usable?

2000-02-17 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, After many troubles and trials diald is finally running on my gateway in a small network of four computers (all running Linux :-) ) All computers can connect to internet via the gateway and an external ISDN modem. - All works fine, except that bringing down the link takes a VERY long ti

samba 2.0.5a-1 < - > win2k

2000-02-17 Thread da Bobstopper
heya's i'm having a problem here with the bugfixed samba for slink (2.0.5a-1 i believe) when trying to connect from a win2k machine. i get the following error when i attempt to connect to the server: Remote procedure call failed the machine is visible in explorer or whatever, but shares are inac

rsync question

2000-02-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'm in the middle of do the rsync and I found out that the symbolic link from main/binary-i386/.../.../some-file to main/binary-all/.../.../some-file were actual the two same files. They are not symlinked. Therefore, my harddrive is filled up very fast. Could someone help? TI

Re: which 2.2 kernel?

2000-02-17 Thread aphro
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: palfra >Debian 2.1, codename slink, used kernel 2.0.36 IIRC this may not be accurate on all versions of slink as the one that comes with the oreilley book defaults to 2.2.12(anyone know why??) nate [m

Re: samba 2.0.5a-1 < - > win2k

2000-02-17 Thread aphro
make sure encryption is turned on an everything. id suggest moving to samba 3.0 if you can, ive found it to be very reliable and quite compadible with win2k. you can get it from CVS. im using CVS from 1-14-2000, running with security set to SERVER and pointing it to a PDC for password auth(nt4) i

SMP

2000-02-17 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have: bdg:~# dmesg | more Linux version 2.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991109 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #6 SMP Mon Feb 14 16:22:26 JAVT 2000 mapped APIC to e000 (00229000) mapped IOAPIC to d000 (0022a000) ... CPU0: Intel 486 DX/2 stepping 05 SMP motherboard not detected.

X config for Mouse

2000-02-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know what protocol should I put in the XF86Config for the Logitech wheel mouse? I tried the MouseMan protocol and the mouse cursor jump/move out of control :( TIA --- tcp

Re: SMP

2000-02-17 Thread aphro
you sure that MB supports dual processors? it seems as if linux doesn't say its a SMP capable MB at all. can linux run on SMP 486s ? never heard of anyone who ever ran a dual cpu 486, although ive heard of their existance.. nate On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Oki DZ wrote: litban > litban >Hi, litban > l

Re: X config for Mouse

2000-02-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
If it's ps/2 try either ps/2 or imps/2 Chanop Once upon a time, I heard Timothy C. Phan said > Hi, > > I'd like to know what protocol should I put in > the XF86Config for the Logitech wheel mouse? > -- ,-. | Chano

Re: firewall

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Werner
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:46:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is this to be a dial-up router? If so, I'd say to look at: > > http://mpsdr.unx.nu/MINI/ > > This thing runs off of a single 3.5" floppy - doesn't even use the > > hard drive. I've got it running here on a 486DX2/66 with 16

Re: Boot problem

2000-02-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Most of the time this means that you have Lilo configured wrong. There are essentially two steps needed to get Lilo going: editing the file /etc/lilo.conf to correctly reflect your setup, and then running the /sbin/lilo command to install Lilo. If you post more information, such as... 1) the loca

Re: Video card recommendation?

2000-02-17 Thread dan
Unfortunately there's not a video card for XF86/Linux that does both great 2D and 3D at the same time as far as I know. G400 is great for 2D but it's very CPU dependent as far as 3D is concerned. The reason why geforce cards are so slow currently in 3D in XF86 is because drivers are not ready yet

Re: afterstep

2000-02-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 07:38:31PM -0600, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Possibly a stupid question, but are you sure that you have xterm > installed? If I remember correctly it used to be included in one of > the main X packages (xbase?), but now has it's own package. > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:

Re: Video card recommendation?

2000-02-17 Thread Sean Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If you'll just be playing 3D games go with a 3dfx card. I know visual quality >sucks, but at >least your games will be playable. I've found the Voodoo3 to have excellent 2D visual quality, and very good 3D visual quality. I chose it over the other options because I hav

Resolved but not solved "Unable to handle kernel paging request"

2000-02-17 Thread Bob Brown
I re-compiled the kernel and it is working... When I removed the sdram I forgot that I had added an append to lilo.conf. Would that have caused the kernel to crash so utterly and completely? Thank God for the rescue disk...

Re: Your notice in Internet.

2000-02-17 Thread davidturetsky
Would this be of any help in my coding? David - Original Message - From: Zygmunt Orlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: Your notice in Internet. > You drive a car very often. Sometimes you must brake this car. > Ha

ppp_on_boot disconnects?

2000-02-17 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
I've got /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot so that my machine connects immediately on boot-up. However, the connection has been going down after a few minutes. The last few lines of ppp.log show this: Feb 16 20:41:27 roberts pppd[149]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x23 magic=0xc45a5c32] Feb 16 20:41:43 roberts pppd[

Re: Correct PAM settings for login

2000-02-17 Thread Joseph A. Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > But did you configure /etc/libnss-ldap.conf? Yes, I configured the host and base parameters. I didn't think I needed to configure any of the other options. > If so, does an "ls -l /home" show the correct owners (even if they are > gone from /etc/passwd)?

debconf: Dialog front end failed to initialise

2000-02-17 Thread Brendan Cully
Hi, sorry if I missed this thread. All packages in potato that use debconf now give me this message when I upgrade: debconf: failed to initialize Dialog frontend debconf: falling back to Text frontend furthermore they don't seem to fall back to text, they just move on. I've tried dpkg-reconfigur

Re: debconf: Dialog front end failed to initialise

2000-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
Brendan Cully wrote: > furthermore they don't seem to fall back to text, they just move > on. I've tried dpkg-reconfigure debconf, with the same results, and > also dpkg-reconfigure -fText debconf. The latter command just > completes, without errors, but without letting me reconfigure. Any > hints?

Re: Cannot compile newest Afterstep

2000-02-17 Thread David J. Kanter
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 07:41:36PM -0600, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > AfterStep 1.8.0 compiles just fine here on potato, provided that all of > the necessary x-dev packages are installed. ---end quoted text--- Yeah, I must have been missing some dev libraries. I apt-getted the png, jpeg, and xp

Re: Video card recommendation?

2000-02-17 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:23:40AM +, Sean Johnson generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >If you'll just be playing 3D games go with a 3dfx card. I know visual > >quality sucks, but at >least your games will be playable. > > I've found the Voodoo3 to have excellen

Re: SMP

2000-02-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > you sure that MB supports dual processors? it seems as if linux doesn't > say its a SMP capable MB at all. It's concievable that the BIOS would enable it's SMP support when the second CPU card in added. It's also possible that there wa

Re: firewall

2000-02-17 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 20:40, Mike Werner wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:46:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Is this to be a dial-up router? If so, I'd say to look at: > > > http://mpsdr.unx.nu/MINI/ > > > This thing runs off of a single 3.5" floppy - doesn't even use the > >

Re: Rewriting the Content-Type header with exim/procmail? - Solved!

2000-02-17 Thread Marc Sherman
From: "Marc Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When I read pgp-signed mail sent from Mutt with Outlook > Express 5 on a windows box, outlook interprets the body > of the message as a text attachment, and displays no > body for the message. > > I suspect that this is because Mutt is sending the message

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread Ross Boylan
This reminds me: what are the best compiler options for AMD chips (I have a K6-2)? I principally thinking of gcc or egcs. If they have AMD specific options great, otherwise, what type of Intel is it best to pretend to be? pgcc is news to me. I take it this is an AMD targetted compiler. I would

Re: ppp_on_boot disconnects?

2000-02-17 Thread John Hasler
Matthew W. Roberts writes: > I'm not sure what that means. It's almost like the connection is > terminated after running scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d . I searched Deja > and the web but could not find any documentation on how this is supposed > to work. There's an init script that runs pon if /et

Re: Resolved but not solved "Unable to handle kernel paging request"

2000-02-17 Thread dan
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:53:03AM +, Bob Brown generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > I re-compiled the kernel and it is working... When I removed the sdram > I forgot that I had added an append to lilo.conf. Would that have > caused the kernel to crash so utterly and completely? > Thank God

Re: Your notice in Internet.

2000-02-17 Thread paul
> Would this be of any help in my coding? > > David > > - Original Message - > From: Zygmunt Orlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:21 AM > Subject: Your notice in Internet. > > > > You drive a car very often. Sometimes you must

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > This reminds me: what are the best compiler options for AMD chips (I > have a K6-2)? I principally thinking of gcc or egcs. If they have > AMD specific options great, otherwise, what type of Intel is it best > to pretend to be? Stick

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread dan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:28:11PM -0800, Ross Boylan generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > This reminds me: what are the best compiler options for AMD chips (I have a > K6-2)? I principally thinking of gcc or egcs. If they have AMD specific > options great, otherwise, what type of Intel is it best

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread dan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:07:57PM -0600, Phil Brutsche generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > gcc/egcs _is_ safer - pgcc is distributed as a patch to gcc and touches > many compiler internals (for optimizations). It's been known to make > things crash prone (like the kernel). > I have been using p

c references

2000-02-17 Thread davidturetsky
I have found anything by Herbert Schildt to be quite excellent and unusually comprehensible   C: The Complete Reference   C++: The Complete Reference   both by Osborne/McGraw Hill   David

ISO distribution

2000-02-17 Thread Michael Kayne
Can you please tell me is there is a distribution of Debian-Linux available for downloading? If there is can you point the way? Thanx - Michael

Re: c references

2000-02-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 12:51:33AM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > I have found anything by Herbert Schildt to be quite excellent and unusually > comprehensible > > C: The Complete Reference > > C++: The Complete Reference > > both by Osborne/McGraw Hill > > David Many people on comp.lang.c wi

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 12:49:19AM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > > "d" == dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > d> I have been using pgcc compiled kernels since 2.2.x without any > d> problems. People should at least be aware that you can optimize > d> for

laptop in a bad place - won't boot

2000-02-17 Thread Michael Kevin O'Brien
Hola~ I have a laptop that seems to be beyond help. When I try to boot it, I get: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. What exactly does this mean? When I boot the rescue floppy, then type rescue root=/dev/hda1 I get: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) reado

RE: quake2

2000-02-17 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Ti ringrazio per l'attenzione. Qualcuno in questa lista mi ha detto che per usare 'quake2' è necessario avere i CD originali (o comunque i files) della ID SOFT, e non quelli di non-free, che invece servono solo per lanciare il gioco originale. Io infatti non possiedo quei files, così tutti i miei

samba reexported ncpfs and WinNT

2000-02-17 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Hello! I have samba 2.0.5a server on slink, kernel 2.0.36 and ncfs 2.2.0.9. With ncfsmount I mount o netware 4.1 volume, and with samba I re-export some directories from that. Now everything is fine from Win9x clients. >From WindowsNT client copying a file to the to the reexported directory result

Re: ppp_on_boot disconnects?

2000-02-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:09:29PM -0600, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > I've got /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot so that my machine connects immediately > on boot-up. However, the connection has been going down after a few > minutes. The last few lines of ppp.log show this: > > Feb 16 20:41:27 roberts pppd[1

Re: ISO distribution

2000-02-17 Thread aphro
check ftp.linuxberg.com /pub/ISO they got isos of most every linux distro out there corel caldera debian suse slackware stormix redhat mandrake etc. nate On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Michael Kayne wrote: mkayne >Can you please tell me is there is a distribution of Debian-Linux available mkayne >for dow

Re: which 2.2 kernel?

2000-02-17 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Micha Feigin wrote: > I was wondering which is the stablest 2.2 kernel curently > I am never shure if it is the even or uneven numbers ( is it 2.2.13 or > 2.2.14 ?) > I am using kernel 2.2.9 , is it worth the update? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> finger @ftp.kernel.org [zeus.kernel.or

PCI card never can be set up

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all. Can anyone say how to stop the PCI D-Link 528 card taking an IRQ of 255 in this 1996 system using Phoenix BIOS 4.4? I had it go wrong on a friend's machine during installation and its driving me nuts as I have to go back today. ne.c PCI BIOS reports NE 2000 close at io0x4000 irq=255 NE*0

Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-17 Thread Michael Symalla
Hi! I tried to install a Soundblaster AWE64 under Debian 2.2. The Kernel 2.2.14 is compiled with the following options: <*> Sound card support <*> OSS sound modules Additional low level sound drivers ---> [*] Additional low level sound drivers <*> AWE32 synth But the only messa

PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all. Can anyone say how to stop the PCI D-Link 528 card taking an IRQ of 255 in this 1996 system using Phoenix BIOS 4.4? I had it go wrong on a friend's machine during installation and its driving me nuts as I have to go back today. ne.c PCI BIOS reports NE 2000 close at io0x4000 irq=255 NE*0

Re: firewall

2000-02-17 Thread webmaster
> > Sounds nice and the infos at there homepage looks good, but where to get > > it? > > Down at the bottom of the page - there's a banner labelled Download. > Under that banner are two links: > "Download by http" and > "Download by ftp" Ok, I saw that but last night I've got the message that the

Re: firewall

2000-02-17 Thread Grendel
** On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:03:50PM -0500, mountaincable.net scribbled: > I've picked up an ORION 486DLC-33 w/386 BIOS that I want to set up as a > firewall. Newer distr's of linux have min requirements above my system. > What distr. should I use (Debian has been recommended)? Is there an >

Re: ISO distribution

2000-02-17 Thread webmaster
> check ftp.linuxberg.com /pub/ISO they got isos of most every linux distro > out there corel caldera debian suse slackware stormix redhat mandrake etc. Check also: "http://linuxos.webprovider.com/"; Uwe

Re: Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-17 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I am surprised to note that debian distributions in cdrom donot contain netscape. Why is it that Redhat distributions contain netscape while debian cdrom doesnot? As I a newbie to Debian, could anyone please tell me the plus/minus points of debian over redhat distribution. Please consider

dosemu + netware

2000-02-17 Thread Przemek Bak
Hi all, I have slink + kernel 2.0.38 + dosemu 0.98.8-2 (compiled from potato sources). I want to login to netware server using dosemu. When I run 'dos' as _root_ (then 'netx' + 'login') everything works very well. But it doesn't work when I run 'dos' as a non-root user. I have messages: SHELL-332

Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Does anybody here know how to copy an audio using cdrecord or xcdroast, I've checked out the manpage of cdrecord but couldn't find anything interesting and xcdroast won't allow me to select my IDE cd-rom as the audio reading device, it'll only allow me to use my SCSI burner... but that one has to b

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
An irq of 255 ? Can't be!! io of 0x4000 ? You are using the ne driver... that one is for ISA ne compatible network cards and should ALWAYS be used in combination with the option io=0x and optional with irq=XX I guess you should try using the ne2k-pci driver, or insert the module with

Re: Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-17 Thread spongy
According to my docs here, you need to run your ide cdrom in scsi emulation mode, least that's how i had to do it. Not sure, but it worked for me. Peter Good. On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Does anybody here know how to copy an audio using cdrecord or xcdroast, > I've checked out th

OT: SCSI hostadapter SYMBIOS -> Adaptec

2000-02-17 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, I've got an Adaptec SCSI host adapter and tried to use it instead of my old SYMBIOS adapter, which has no bios interface onboard. After the change fdisk spit out a lot of errors, and I remembered that both adapters have different sorts of hard formats. Do anyone know of a way to go? Backing u

Re: ppp_on_boot disconnects?

2000-02-17 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
On Feb 16, 2000 at 10:28:11PM, John Hasler wrote: > Matthew W. Roberts writes: > > I'm not sure what that means. It's almost like the connection is > > terminated after running scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d . I searched Deja > > and the web but could not find any documentation on how this is suppos

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-17 Thread Darlock
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Michael Symalla wrote: Hi! I tried to install a Soundblaster AWE64 under Debian 2.2. The Kernel 2.2.14 is compiled with the following options: It's not the same case, but I have a SoundBlaster AWE 128 and only runs with the es1370 driver. You can try

Re: Correct PAM settings for login

2000-02-17 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Okay, I am having more problems. I decided to enable logging for slapd so I can see when connections are made, what is being searched for, and be better able to determine what is and isn't working with my setup. No luck. I can't get logging to work. I have set 'loglevel 1', 'loglevel 256', and othe

Re: Correct PAM settings for login

2000-02-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 08:19:23AM -0500, Joseph A. Martin wrote: > Okay, I am having more problems. I decided to enable logging for slapd > so I can see when connections are made, what is being searched for, > and be better able to determine what is and isn't working with my > setup. No luck. I ca

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-17 Thread Michael Symalla
Hi, I think that won't solve my problem as my AWE64 is not an pci device ;-( As far as I understood the help for the es1370 driver, it is for pci soundcards. On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:04:47PM +0100, Darlock wrote: > It's not the same case, but I have a SoundBlaster AWE 128 and only runs > with

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks for suggestion. I'm telnetting in from work so should be able to reboot as needed. Output of dmesg: ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x2c0: 00 c0 df b1 3a 25 eth0: NE2000 found at 0x2c0, using IRQ 10. ne.c: PCI BIOS reports NE 2000 clone at i/o

Re: Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ron Rademaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anybody here know how to copy an audio using cdrecord or xcdroast, > I've checked out the manpage of cdrecord but couldn't find anything > interesting and xcdroast won't allow me to select my IDE cd-rom as the > audio reading device, it'll only allo

Re: C++ dev environment advice

2000-02-17 Thread David Teague
Michael I'm sorry not to be more prompt in my reply to this. Some have advised using the STL -- the Standard Template (not 'type') Library. That is sound advice. ANSI C++ Standard Document is the athority, but is expensive and hard to understand unless you are a language lawyer, let alone bein

Re: Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:49:49 GMT, David Wright writes: >I'm not sure reading and writing simultaneously is a good idea so it >might not matter if the burner has to perform both operations (via >hard disk). Well, on my 166 mhz machine it's possible to rip from hdc and burn to hdd on-the-fly, so th

How can go back to 'stable' from 'frozen'

2000-02-17 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, Other than replacing my ethernet card 3com595, I don't seem to have an alternative as I have a dual Processor Pentium machine (the second processor isn't recognised by the 2.0.36 kernel) with 'frozen' loaded and can't get my compiled kernel, 2.2.14 to talk to the internet. I want to go back

APT 0.5.x debian packages anywhere?

2000-02-17 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
Are there any Debian packages for Alsa 0.5.x yet? I've got a SB Live and I'd like to test it with them, so if there's a developer with a staging area, please come forward... -- V.K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

make dep failed as did make menuconfig

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Any suggestions on what to install? Still desperately trying to get a PCI card to work. flash:/usr/src/linux# make dep gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep scripts/m kdep.c make: gcc: Command not found make: *** [scripts/mkdep] Error 127 flash:/usr/src/linux#

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Well dmesg says it all Try not inserting the module at boot time for a change but insert it from the commandline. First remove all ne modules (if any are loaded), next try: modprobe ne io=0x2c0 irq=10 if that doesn't work try: insmod ne io=0x2c0 irq=10 (The first should work) Then do: /etc/init

Re: make dep failed as did make menuconfig

2000-02-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:25:08PM -, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Any suggestions on what to install? Still desperately trying to get a PCI > card to work. > > flash:/usr/src/linux# make dep > gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep > scripts/m > kdep.c > make: gcc: C

Re: Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am surprised to note that debian distributions in cdrom donot contain >netscape. > >Why is it that Redhat distributions contain netscape while debian cdrom >doesnot? Netscape is non-free. In this context, that means that it doesn't fit the DFSG (Debian Free Software G

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
If I take out the PCI card and put in a second NE2000 with jumpers set to io=0x300 and irq=11, is there any reason why that would fail? Getting desperate here. Patrick

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-17 Thread Ashley Clark
On N¨m, 17 Hai 2000, Michael Symalla wrote: > I tried to install a Soundblaster AWE64 under Debian 2.2. The Kernel > 2.2.14 is compiled with the following options: > > <*> Sound card support > <*> OSS sound modules > Additional low level sound drivers ---> > [*] Additional low level sou

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi Ron, The ne.o module loads cleanly. Its the false reading on ne2k-pci that kills me. I have to leave ne.o installed as its the card I've telnetted in from at work. Patrick

Re: Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
I have a Athlon 500 so I guess it should also be able to rip and burn on-the-fly, please let me know how you did this... Ron On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:49:49 GMT, David Wright writes: > >I'm not sure reading and writing simultaneously is a good idea so it

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
There is a reason why that could fail: irq 11 or io 0x300 could be taken already, you can check that by: cat /proc/interrupts and cat /proc/ioports There you see what interrupts and io adresses are taken by your devices, if irq 11 and io 0x300 are not taken... there would be no reason that that wou

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
So you have 2 ne compatible cards in that computer? Have you tried loading in ne2k-pci with irq=XX io=0xXXX arguments that make sense? (irq=255 is something I think is IMPOSSIBLE because as far as I know irq go between 0 and 16 (16 not included), in other words 4 bit not 8). Ron On Thu, 17 Feb 2

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Would modprobe ne2k-pci io=0x300 irq=11 work when: cat /proc/io... -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02c0-02df : NE2000 02f8-02ff : se

Re: mandb, man, manpath question

2000-02-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:31:53PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > > > > > After installing a few potato packages the manpages of some of them are > > > not available although they are there. > > > > I hope th

Re: PCI card never can be set up

2000-02-17 Thread aphro
try 1) getting the latest drivers from NASA (go to yahoo.aphroland.org search for nasa if you dont have the url i dont have it handy) 2) changing PCI slots nate On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric >Hi all. patric > patric >Can anyone say how to stop the PCI D-Link 528 card taking an

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-17 Thread aphro
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Michael Symalla wrote: msymal >Sound initialization started msymal >AWE32: not detected msymal >Sound initialization complete on SBAWE32 you need to use isapnp to init the wavetable portion of the card, it is probably the same on awe64. see man isapnp for more info nate -

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
If the card can work on irq 11 and io 0x300 it should work because both the irq as the io adress aren't taken. You should try it... Ron On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Would modprobe ne2k-pci io=0x300 irq=11 work when: > > cat /proc/io... > -001f : dma1 > 0020-003f : pic1 > 0040-

Re: Debian Newbie problems.

2000-02-17 Thread aphro
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: cetvm >Why is it that Redhat distributions contain netscape while debian cdrom cetvm >doesnot? it does not comply with the free software defenition(sp) let alone an open source one, debian is much more strict as to what they include. for some it can be

Re: Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-17 Thread aphro
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: ron >Does anybody here know how to copy an audio using cdrecord or xcdroast, ron >I've checked out the manpage of cdrecord but couldn't find anything ron >interesting and xcdroast won't allow me to select my IDE cd-rom as the ron >audio reading device, it'

Re: Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-17 Thread Robert Waldner
Well, I tried with the cpu being on its default 133 mhz, but did it only occasionally without buffer underruns, now I've overclocked to 166 mhz and that works just fine (of course I made sure that not any single unnecessary process is running while burning, no cron, no at, no anything). I'm rip

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
So to make it work - please point out any obvious things I may have forgotten assuming I get the jumper settings right. /etc/conf.modules alias eth0 ne alias eth1 ne options ne io=0x2c0,0x300 irq=10,11 /etc/modules #auto ne #ne2k-pci ip_alias ip_masq_quake ip_masq_raudio rarp - Original Mes

Re: How can go back to 'stable' from 'frozen'

2000-02-17 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > Other than replacing my ethernet card 3com595, I don't seem to have > an alternative as I have a dual Processor Pentium machine (the second > processor isn't recognised by the 2.0.36 kernel) with 'frozen' loaded > and can't get my compi

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Are you planning to reboot to make this work??? You can test anything using modprobe and/or insmod... But the config files look good, so it should work (assuming you got the jumpers right). Ron On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: > So to make it work - please point out any obvious things I

Re: firewall

2000-02-17 Thread John Gould
Hi there, I would use Debian Slink 2.1R4, there is a firewall HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO. Also there is a New Riders publication on setting up a firewall under Linux. Really good book, definatly worth a look. Others may recomment 'potato' but I wouldn't use thisd for a production server just

Re: C++ dev environment advice

2000-02-17 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, David Teague wrote: > Michael > > I'm sorry not to be more prompt in my reply to this. > > Some have advised using the STL -- the Standard Template (not > 'type') Library. That is sound advice. great advice > ANSI C++ Standard Document is the athority, but is expensive a

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread f . dost
The problem is the hardware. The PCI bios cannot assign a free interrupt to the card in the PCI slot. Therefore it assigned a value of 255 to it. Try to assign a interrupt to the pci device by changing the bios settings. Frank Dost

default bpp for x

2000-02-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Is there anyway to configure X to come up at a certain bpp. It always default to 8. I'd like it to have 24 bpp. I currently have to bring x up by xinit -- -bpp 24. TIA. --- tcp

Re: which 2.2 kernel?

2000-02-17 Thread John Gould
Hi there, Even second digit(s) kernels are stable, odd second digit(s) kernels are unstable or development kernels, use at your own risk. I've found no problems with 2.2.13, others may know different. Don't use 2.3.x unless you want bleeding edge and are prepared to suffer the consequence

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Would modprobe ne2k-pci io=0x300 irq=11 work when: For PCI cards (indicated by the fact that you're using the driver ne2k=pci) you don't need to bother with io= and irq= statements on the command line. All that information is read from

strange mke2fs problem - SOLVED

2000-02-17 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All thanks for all the advices indeed, it was "sparse superblock" feature which prevents partition mounting with slink rescue. thank you OK

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