RE: gateway settings

2001-03-10 Thread Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net
You can set a gateway option for each interface. Add a line "gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" under the nic settings. Also, see man interfaces. -Rick Jansen ** Server Administrator [Linux - FreeBSD] Websites: www.shellz.nl www.tweakers.net ICQ#: 374

Netscape problems

2001-03-10 Thread Timothy Bedding
I am having trouble using the debian website. Could someone use it to tell me where on the debian FTP server I can find the package files (.deb files) for these two packages: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 2.91.66-4 libxpm4 Thanks

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
> > Put deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/source.list and then type > > apt-get install lame > > Well, the source-line didn't work, but I grabbed the .deb in my browser. It does work - did you remember to a) Put a space between forcix.cx/ and debian/ ? b) run apt-get update bef

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:20:00 EST, "Michael P. Soulier" writes: >On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:07:00PM +0100, Latreyte David wrote: You may also want to search for "gogo"[0], it´s based on lame, with some portions re-written in assembler[1]. Unequalled in speed and quality[2]. Unfortunately I kn

SAMBA not running

2001-03-10 Thread Agner-Nichols
Wondering if anyone might have some insight on why my smbd server is not running. SMB filesystem support is compiled into a 2.2.17 kernel (running on a Dell pentium 166). Per the SMB-HOWTO, /etc/services has: netbios-ns 137/tcp nbns netbios-ns 137/ucp nbns netbios-dgm 138/tcp nbdgm netbio

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Robert Waldner
(sorry for following up on my own post) On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:59:58 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >You may also want to search for "gogo"[0], it´s based on lame, with some > portions re-written in assembler[1]. Unequalled in speed and > quality[2]. Unfortunately I know of no .deb for it, you´d

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Erik Steffl
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:11:46PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > > > Yes.. I am using lame is great.. dont know if I installed it by apt-get or > > from source code tarball anyway go for it. > > I don't see lame anymore. I just grabbed a copy of bladeenc from

Re: Installing Linux

2001-03-10 Thread Eric Richardson
Andrew wrote: > > Hi. I am getting ready to install Linux and are > considering the way's to install it. I am wondering if > I can start the installation system and tell it to > download the packages,etc. If I can, please tell me > what I need and how to do it. Thanks. > I bought the 3 CD 2.2r0 b

Re: SAMBA not running

2001-03-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Agner-Nichols wrote: > > Wondering if anyone might have some insight on why my smbd server is not > running. SMB filesystem support is compiled into a 2.2.17 kernel (running > on a Dell pentium 166). Per the SMB-HOWTO, /etc/services has: > > netbios-ns 137/tcp nbns > netbios-ns 137/ucp nb

Re: mutt/fetchmail config

2001-03-10 Thread Robert Martinovic
> > ...or set exim to check its queue more often. 2-6 minutes might be a > > good interval. /etc/init.d/exim, if you're not running it from > > /etc/inetd.conf. If you *are* using tcpwrappers, I'm not sure > > > > you can also set > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 > in /etc/exim.con

Re: compiling the kernel

2001-03-10 Thread Pete Meyer
>> 3) In windows there is the idea of formating a partition >> or a floppy. Debian installation seem to do something similar. >> How does it work in Linux, and what is the utility that does it? I believe mkfs formatts a partition for linux (it doesn't make the partition). This is done mostly tr

BACKSPACE problems..

2001-03-10 Thread Vlad
Re, Having small problems with backspace.. when i ssh to my box from console and run screen, backspace works perfectly fine.. however, when i ssh from X (running Eterm) and run screen.. it stop working, ctrl+backspace does the job. what's funny.. backspace works if im NOT in screen.. any ideas

cannot compile QT 2.3.0; anyone else have difficulty

2001-03-10 Thread Pollywog
I tried to compile QT 2.3.0 and got lots of unresolved symbols, too much too post here. Did anyone else have such a problem with 2.3.0 ? thanks -- Andrew

Re: CNET Pro120c

2001-03-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i believe that silly card is the same as DFE530TX+ so use the rtl8139 driver c ya alvin On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Raphael Crawford-Marks wrote: > Hello, > > I'm installing Potato on a system with a CNET Pro120c card. What driver > module should I load for it? > > > Thanks, > > Raphael >

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya I have a few links for endcoding/decoding mpeg files mpeg1, 2, 3... http://www.Linux-Video.net look at the encoder and decoders links am trying tofind mpeg3/mpeg4 linux-based players than can also play its mpeg out to the regular TV... Am sorta testing the NetStream2000

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-10 Thread Colin Walters
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010309 10:25 +0100: > > Gnus 5.8 has the "nnmbox" backend, so which I assume reads and writes > > mbox files. > > Theoretically yes. But it doesn't work with anything else but ML (here), > and I can't find example

Re: ppp0 not found when switched to 2.4 kernel

2001-03-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > Sebastiaan wrote: > > ... > > > have you installed modutils-2.4.1 and the new ppp package from woody? You > > > will need those if you want to run 2.4 kernels. > > > > yes, I've got everything from unstable (modutils 2.4.2 and

Re: mp3 encoding

2001-03-10 Thread John Galt
Are you tied to mp3? There's a free alternative that's reasonably supported by Debian: ogg/vorbis. Try it. It's a little bigger file for file, but I was able to play ogg files reasonably on a 486... On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >Ok, I know there have been some licensing

Re: Mail question

2001-03-10 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:22:00AM +0100, Marko Simendic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all! > > I have two computers running Potato and Windows. What should I set for the > "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to work on host2 and vice versa? Say you have two computers on your network, potato and mswi

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, > XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed. My > thinking is, test drive the RH for a while. then copy all config > files for reference to setting up Deb

lprngtool and filters

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Wohler
I just started using lprngtool and it seems pretty good. However, the printers that come with it can only handle text and PostScript. What filters do you folks use to print JPGs and the like, color and b&w, and how do you configure them (in concert with lprngtool?) -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL

resizing /

2001-03-10 Thread Sven Burgener
hey debs is there any way to resize the slash partition without physically 'moving' the hard disk into a different computer? is this at all possible?? resize2fs tells me about slash being mounted and that it's not possible to resize a partition in such a state... i suppose i have to use a speci

Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread hammack
Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed.  My thinking is, test drive the RH for a while. then copy all config files for reference to setting up Debian.  I may bump the HD to 20GB.  Comment and suggestions: 

Re: Auto Completion broken

2001-03-10 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:23:47PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I am noticing a strange problem. At the console or at a shell in an > xterm, pressing the tab key logs me out of that session. This was not > happening before. Has anyone seen this problem, and, if so,

Re: BACKSPACE problems..

2001-03-10 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:41:10PM -0500, Vlad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Re, > > Having small problems with backspace.. when i ssh to my box from console > and run screen, backspace works perfectly fine.. > > however, when i ssh from X (running Eterm) and run screen.. it stop > working, ctrl

Exim - Fetchmail - Procmail

2001-03-10 Thread MamoMC
Hi! When I send a message to myself (maurizio) locally exim passes the message correctly to procmail (I have a ~/.procmailrc) which moves it to ~/Mail/In which is read by Mutt. If I send a message to an e-mail address outside my PC world and the I fetch it by fetchmail (~/.fetchmailrc knows

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, XGA, V90 Gold > Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed. My thinking is, test drive > the RH for a while. then copy all config files for reference to setting up > De

Re: Auto Completion broken

2001-03-10 Thread Anthony Fox
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:23:47PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am noticing a strange problem. At the console or at a shell in > > an xterm, pressing the tab key logs me out of that session. This > > was not happening befor

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread Morai MacEoin Fraser
Price difference is because the dell Inspirion is a laptop. and a nice unit at that. though out of my price range by a bit. but the 400 is the choice I'ld make if you want to go with Dell. brian moore wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > > Dell has quoted: $218

installing win98 after everthing else....

2001-03-10 Thread rich
Howdy all, I've got a "tri-boot" box - linux, win95 and freebsd... I would like to install win98 and eventually erase win95. I have 2 hard drives configured as follows: master: /dev/hda1 win95 /dev/hda2 freebsd /dev/hda3 debian root /dev/hda4 debian swap slave: /dev/hdb1

xmh crashes

2001-03-10 Thread Rob Cymbala
"Go to the command menu bar and pull down the Message menu. Select the Compose Message command." At that point, a small dialog box appears. Before i can read what it says, everything's gone. No more xmh. mh works fine from bash login shell. Help! pc: Toshiba T4700CT notebook

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-10 Thread Andre Berger
* Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010311 02:25 +0100: > Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010309 10:25 +0100: > > > Gnus 5.8 has the "nnmbox" backend, so which I assume reads and writes > > > mbox files. > > > > Theoretically yes. But it

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > > Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB > > HD, 850mHZ, XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, > > with RH 7.0 installed. My thinking is, test drive the RH for > > a while. then copy all config files for reference to settin

Re: resizing /

2001-03-10 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:38:24 +0100 Sven Burgener writes: SB> is there any way to resize the slash partition without physically 'moving' SB> the hard disk into a different computer? I suggest GNU Parted for doing it. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/USER > 1.5 GNU Parted boot di

wvdial permissions

2001-03-10 Thread Wade Barocsi
I have been using wvdial without difficulty for weeks. Upon use this evening, I am getting "permission denied cannot open /dev/ttyS2". Any Idea on why this has changed? No one has made any (known)changes. What should /dev/ttyS2 permissions be on a standalone desktop system? ls -l:cr

Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-10 Thread Raphael Crawford-Marks
So now I'm trying to set up X. The motherboard has the intel FW82810 (also called i810) chipset onboard for video. What card should I select in the XFree86 setup? Tried the three intel cards on the list, none worked. Thanks, Raphael

Re: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 09:02:30PM -0800, Raphael Crawford-Marks wrote: > So now I'm trying to set up X. The motherboard has the intel FW82810 (also > called i810) chipset onboard for video. What card should I select in the > XFree86 setup? Tried the three intel cards on the list, none worked.

Re: wvdial permissions

2001-03-10 Thread John Hasler
Wade Barocsi writes: > I have been using wvdial without difficulty for weeks. Upon use this > evening, I am getting "permission denied cannot open /dev/ttyS2". Any > Idea on why this has changed? A known bug in wvdial. The port should be group writeable. Just change it back. > wvdial works fin

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