Re: Help! with exim -- freezing mail

2001-09-07 Thread Cam Ellison
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:18:48PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > It's not clear what you're describing. > OK. let me start again. I have exim and fetchmail running. There is a .fetchmailrc in /root that points to my IS

Exim and outgoing AUTH, a report

2001-09-07 Thread Achim Bode
Whoever might be interested (Maintainer from exim package, the maintainer from exim, users how have to have a quick fix). I do not know a better place to send this, since this is not a bug report, more a feature request and experience report. My Internet provider switched to SMTP authentication

give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread jdls
Greetings, Some questions; 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and most of the time I get stuck with "ld" related problems and I have to bother a lot of people on how to resolve it in

dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Dean A. Roman
Hello all,   I can't seem to get the dhcp-dns system to work on my debian linux box. DNS works, DHCP works, they won't work together? I get a denied update in the syslog as shown below from the machine that has checked out one of the dhcp addresses? I'm not sure why it would be trying to update t

Kernel Compile Problem

2001-09-07 Thread Tao Liu
When compile 2.4.9 kernel with gcc 3.0.2 : #make-kpkg clean #make-kpkg --append-to-version -tao3 kernel_image #make-kpkg clean #make-kpkg --append-to-version -tao4 kernel_image #make-kpkg clean #make-kpkg --append-to-version -tao5 kernel_image (install the three kernels) #cd /boot #ls -l ...

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
On Thursday 06 September 2001 04:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" > and "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from > source and most of the time I get stuck with "ld" related problems and I > have to

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
Oh, and I forgot to mention *why* you need the libperl-dev package. In the spirit of the question you asked (teach me so I can do for myself) Debian takes the very interesting (and IMHO very smart) approach to packaging libraries by dividing them in to user and developer packages. If al

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:02:00PM -0700, Dean A. Roman wrote: > Sep 6 15:07:31 srfs1 named[1944]: denied update from [192.168.100.100].1097 > for "mydomain.com" > Sep 6 15:07:31 srfs1 named[1944]: denied update from [192.168.100.100].1103 > for "100.168.192.in-addr.arpa" update requests are c

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Erik Steffl
subject, good subject is the key to good answers... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and > "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and > most of the time I get stuck with "ld" related problems and

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:16:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > Some questions; > > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and > "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and > most of the time I get stuck with "

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:25:30PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > subject, good subject is the key to good answers... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and > > "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from s

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:16:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > Some questions; > > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and > "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and > most of the time I get stuck with "

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread John Patton
> On Debian, at least, the library usually needed for compilation is the > static one (libfoo.a) as the shared libraries are "stripped" making > symbol resolution difficult. The shared library will still be used > for the runtime unless there isn't one to begin with or static linking > is specifi

Re: Mouse probs in X (was: Unidentified subject!)

2001-09-07 Thread Sebastiaan
High, I took the liberty to add a subject line. It reads soo much easier. On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Jack Grigg wrote: > Dear Debian support, > I have subscribed with mail address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > (but the return address for this email is also valid) > > I'm installing release 2.2 r2 and I'm hav

Desperate about mounting/unmounting/checking-root-problems

2001-09-07 Thread Norbert Nemec
Hi there, is there anybody out there who has experiences in this as well and might give me hints about it: Ever since I've been running kernel 2.4.x, my system has problems unmounting filesystems correctly at shutdown time and now suddenly it starts complaining at fsck-time during the boot. I

Re: Kernel Compile Problem

2001-09-07 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Tao Liu wrote: > When compile 2.4.9 kernel with gcc 3.0.2 : > > #make-kpkg clean > #make-kpkg --append-to-version -tao3 kernel_image > > #make-kpkg clean > #make-kpkg --append-to-version -tao4 kernel_image > > #make-kpkg clean > #make-kpkg --append-to-version -tao5 ke

Re: From RH to Debian: two pending problems.

2001-09-07 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > Hello: > > I have switched from RH to Debian recently (for my desktop). > Unfortunately, I still have two pending problems which > I had taken for granted while I was using RH: > - turning on the sound If you have a pci card, try to acti

Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-07 Thread Ross Burton
> >Does anyone have any tips to getting a no-name ISA NE?000 clone working > >with Sid? I does work fine as I rebooted to Mandrake and used it... > Is it a PNP card? If so you need to use the isapnp tools. Otherwise the > card should have jumpers on it and you can set them to whatever IO and IR

Re: Debian's default MTA + MDA

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew Nesbit
> > Hello. I am still preparing to install Debian, but I am not sure of > > what the default MTA is. I get the impression that it is exim, but I > > have not been able to find any definitive answer anywhere in the > > Debian Documentation Project. How is one supposed to find out this > > sort of in

Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
Hi Ross, Sorry I missed your thread initially. If isapnp doesn't work (I never knew to try it) try this. I use insmod and it works fine where modprobe totally fails for some reason. modprobe 8390 insmod io=0x260 irq=5 I added this line to /etc/modutils/actions (modified

Re: Sylpheed

2001-09-07 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> How do I upgrade a single package and it's dependencies from the stable > versions to a less stable version like testing? a similar question (about samba) was posted and discussed on Debian Planet: see http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=322 pietro.

Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
Sorry, that should have been modprobe 8390 insmod io=0x260 irq=5 ne -David Nusinow krmt1984

how to run commands automaticly when boot up?

2001-09-07 Thread Tao Liu
Which script shall I add the commands to, so that the commands will run when boot up? -- Regards Tao Liu _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: i810 sound?

2001-09-07 Thread oivvio polite
I have this soundchip and it has been causing me a lot of woes. The sound will work for an hour or sometimes an entire day and then it will break and I'll get this kernel error: "i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?\n" My guess is that the driver still has a few bugs. But I'm no guru (don't ev

Re: how to run commands automaticly when boot up?

2001-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
Tao Liu wrote: >Which script shall I add the commands to, >so that the commands will run when boot up? Such scripts are held in /etc/init.d and have symbolic links to them from /etc/rc?.d where ? is the runlevel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wigh

AW: how to run commands automaticly when boot up?

2001-09-07 Thread Mayer, Christian \(Dregis\)
Hi put the script you want to run in /etc/init.d and create a link from /etc/rc?.d/. When you look at the links in that dir you see that they are called for example S22kdm. "S" means start, the link with the lowest number is started first, the highest is executed in the end of your startup proces

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Donna.
heh. I like that subject line. Here's another request for teaching assist. I'm a SCSI/CLI oldtimer who, in recent months, has gotten into video capture. This is like trying to learn 10 different new languages at the same time: IDE intrinsics (huge space is cheaper this way), sound recording and

lost gnome gdm question

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Lamers
Hello list, I think I did something very stupid on a debian potato system with ximian 1.4. I installed all this at home from within my own network on a machine for my brother. Then I moved it all to his home and installed rp-pppoe and connected to his cable provider. Sofar so good. Offcourse he

Re: how to run commands automaticly when boot up?

2001-09-07 Thread xio
if it's only for running commands, you might want to use /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. Looks like it's meant for "Miscellaneous things to be done during bootup." Cheers, Andreas -- fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage: The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away.

Re: How to obtain net load?

2001-09-07 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Tao, On Friday, September 07, 2001 at 6:25:16 AM, you wrote (at least in part): > On Friday 07 September 2001 11:35, you wrote: >> I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but have you examined >> /proc/net/dev ? This will give you both bytes and packets for each >> interface, both

XFS with GRUB???

2001-09-07 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Has anyone tried using GRUB to boot linux with an XFS root partition? I'm using GRUB from potato. I tried to use it but it can't detect the filesystem. I'm sure that I've set it correctly - where do I find GRUB that can load an XFS root partition? Paolo Falcone

simple scripts made difficult? :)

2001-09-07 Thread andrej hocevar
hello i'm just begining to write very simple scripts and came along these two problems. i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at the same time see it as usual on screen? ii) how do i pass a simple argument from a file or an output to a script that's just testing it, eg. a file has two argu

Re: simple scripts made difficult? :)

2001-09-07 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, andrej hocevar wrote: > i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at the same time see > it as usual on screen? man tee Martin

Re: simple scripts made difficult? :)

2001-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
andrej hocevar wrote: >hello >i'm just begining to write very simple scripts and came along these two >problems. >i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at the same time see >it as usual on screen? some_command | tee filename You can also use script to capture an entire session.

Re: Which mail client to switch? (was) Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-07 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Craig Dickson wrote: >> uh-oh... too late :-( ? I have > 20 Mbytes of gziped >> email archive in cascaded folders. I have not found >> a better GUI replacement (yet). > Why do you need a GUI for an essentially plain-text application? I have got a 72 Mbytes email archive in cascaded folders. Ind

Burning .raw

2001-09-07 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello all! I just domnloaded the DEMUDI image to give it a try end the file happens to be in a .raw format which I don't know anything about. How do I do to successfully burn it in XCDroast? Cheer, Helgi Örn -- "She said, `I know you ... you cannot sing'. I said, `That's nothing, you should h

Re: simple scripts made difficult? (1 problem answered 1 open)

2001-09-07 Thread Hamma Scott
--- andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at > the same time see it as usual on screen? Check the tee function out. > ii) how do i pass a simple argument from a file or > an output to a script Are you talking about sending arguments via the com

Re: Burning .raw

2001-09-07 Thread ktb
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:58:50PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > Hello all! > I just domnloaded the DEMUDI image to give it a try end the file happens to > be in a .raw format which I don't know anything about. How do I do to > successfully burn it in XCDroast? You should be able to burn it as .raw

Bootloader with USB support

2001-09-07 Thread Jason Healy
Here at work I paved my Dell optiplex and put both Windows (cause I have to) and Debian (cause I want to) on it. I need a bootloader that understands USB, so I can pick which OS to boot. Right now I can't because the computer drops USB support after the BIOS, but before the bootloader. Since I on

Re: From RH to Debian: two pending problems.

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:19:10AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: | Hello: | | I have switched from RH to Debian recently (for my desktop). | Unfortunately, I still have two pending problems which | I had taken for granted while I was using RH: Do you still have copy of your config files f

Re: Burning .raw

2001-09-07 Thread Helgi Örn
On Friday 07 September 2001 14:21, Alexis Roda wrote: > Helgi Örn wrote: > > Hello all! > > I just domnloaded the DEMUDI image to give it a try end the file happens > > to be in a .raw format which I don't know anything about. How do I do to > > successfully burn it in XCDroast? > > Probably it is

What to do with source rpm files?

2001-09-07 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I need to test a piece of software under Debian/testing that it's being distributed in .srpm format only. Is there any way under debian to "unpack" this thing so that I can attempt to compile it? Thank you, -- Pedro

Re: Burning .raw

2001-09-07 Thread Helgi Örn
On Friday 07 September 2001 14:26, ktb wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:58:50PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > > Hello all! > > I just domnloaded the DEMUDI image to give it a try end the file happens > > to be in a .raw format which I don't know anything about. How do I do to > > successfully burn i

Re: What to do with source rpm files?

2001-09-07 Thread F Zimmermann
On 7 Sep 2001, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > I need to test a piece of software under Debian/testing that it's being > distributed in .srpm format only. Is there any way under debian to > "unpack" this thing so that I can attempt to compile it? > > Thank you, > > -- > Pedro rpm??? Frank

Re: What to do with source rpm files?

2001-09-07 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On 7 Sep 2001, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > I need to test a piece of software under Debian/testing that it's being > distributed in .srpm format only. Is there any way under debian to > "unpack" this thing so that I can attempt to compile it? > You could try to use 'alien'. It shoul

Re: Burning .raw

2001-09-07 Thread ktb
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:23:57PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > On Friday 07 September 2001 14:26, ktb wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:58:50PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > > > Hello all! > > > I just domnloaded the DEMUDI image to give it a try end the file happens > > > to be in a .raw format whic

Re: What to do with source rpm files?

2001-09-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I need to test a piece of software under Debian/testing > that it's being distributed in .srpm format only. Is there > any way under debian to "unpack" this thing so that I > can attempt to compile it? Install the 'rpm' package and use it to extract the files. They should extract to something li

Re: Help! with exim -- freezing mail

2001-09-07 Thread Cam Ellison
Nothing quite like replying to your own posts: I sent the previous message last night & went to bed. This morning, everything is going where it should, I guess (in part) because I re-installed. However, some messages were still frozen, and I got an error message saying something about not bei

Sources for apt-get sources.list

2001-09-07 Thread John Purser
I'm running Woody and I'm confused about what sources to list for apt-get. When I look at the ftp sites I see directories for Potato and Stable. I thought Potato was Stable. Also I see Woody as well as Unstable AND Testing. I'm not sure what status Woody is in just now. Questions: Am I seeing g

Re: Which mail client to switch? (was) Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" wrote: > Craig Dickson wrote: > > > although Sylpheed (http://sylpheed.good-day.net) was fast > > developing into perhaps the best of the bunch. > > The interface looks nice > ( http://sylpheed.good-day.net/sylpheed-01.png ) > Too bad, it isn't in .deb yet. $ apt-ca

Re: Sources for apt-get sources.list

2001-09-07 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, John Purser wrote: > I'm running Woody and I'm confused about what sources to list for apt-get. > When I look at the ftp sites I see directories for Potato and Stable. I > thought Potato was Stable. Also I see Woody as well as Unstable AND > Testing. I'm not sure what

Re: What to do with source rpm files?

2001-09-07 Thread Pedro Sanchez
As far as I know, Alien doesn't know what to do with .srpm files. It only deals with binary packages in .rpm format. -- Pedro On Fri, 2001-09-07 at 09:40, Sebastiaan wrote: > High, > > On 7 Sep 2001, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I need to test a piece of software under Debian/tes

Segmentation Fault & All possible solutions Please.

2001-09-07 Thread shyamk
Dear members, Here is something I have not been really been able to understand .. SEGMENTATION FAULT . Please tell m: 1)What exactly is segmentation fault ? 2)When does it occur ? 3)How Do you Solve it ? Please help

Re: XFS with GRUB???

2001-09-07 Thread San Segkhoonthod
As fas as I know, you'll need the XFS/JFS patch for GRUB, try to see this: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#grubwork The best way is to have an ext2 partition for /boot, so you can always have GRUB load linux kernel. That way, it will be easier to change your linux root file system to so

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Dean A. Roman
Craig, I'm a bit confused, and it is probably because I don't totally understand how the dynamic dns updates work. 192.168.100.100 is the windows machine that checked out the IP address from the dhcp server(srfs1-192.168.100.20). Should update requests be coming from a dhcp client? How is th

network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Brad Cramer
I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to one server that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am having a heck of a time getting it configured. Is there a simpler way of doing this. I am main

lilo and text modes

2001-09-07 Thread Adam McDaniel
Hi, a problem with lilo has been plaguing me for a while and I'm wondering if anyone else here has any experience with it. I've compiled in 'Video Mode Selection Support' into my 2.4.9 kernel and everything is alright. Under my lilo.conf file i have it set to vga=ask. Upon boot up, I am presented

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:17:04AM -0700, Dean A. Roman wrote: > Craig, > > I'm a bit confused, and it is probably because I don't totally understand > how the dynamic dns updates work. > > 192.168.100.100 is the windows machine that checked out the IP address from > the dhcp > server(srfs1-1

NAT translation and Aliased FQDN

2001-09-07 Thread Ejay Birkmeyer
Hi All.. We are experimenting with debian to use as a masquerading router with our test beds. I cant seem to find any info on this process in the Debian documentation. Im looking to use one IP externally and NAT internal Addresses. I want to use a NS behind the NAT to host multiple Sites. I ne

Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes

2001-09-07 Thread Vittorio
Ross Burton [debian-user] <06/09/01 21:45 +0100>: > Hi, > > After noticing (thanks!) that kernel 2.4.x uses an initrd image I > managed to make it boot my Sid systems. > I wonder if you can help me. In a previous post of mine I've detailed the problems I met in compiling kernel 2.4.9 but none t

Re: Segmentation Fault & All possible solutions Please.

2001-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Dear members, > Here is something I have not been really been able to understand .. SEGME >NTATION >FAULT . > Please tell m: >1)What exactly is segmentation fault ? >2)When does it occur ? >3)How Do you Solve it ? It means that a program has tried t

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:34:34 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: >> Should update requests be coming from a dhcp client? > >Yes. Who else would they come from. Well, the update requests could ALSO come from the dhcp server itself. Whenever a DHCP request arrives on the DHCP server it could return an I

graphic cards

2001-09-07 Thread Peter Paul Millard
I am in the going to change my graphic card in my computer my old one which is a SiS 6326 card which is to difficult to set up with my knowledge. I am thinking of getting a savage 4 graphic card does this get picked up on the install or do I have to use xf86config to afterwards as I trying to

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hi, >why does the following not work: > > tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep something | while read i; do myprog $i; done It's because grep uses stdio, and it buffers the output at some blocksize (1K / 4K / 16K or something)

HELP: dd of=/dev/hda1, and now?

2001-09-07 Thread Davide Anchisi
Hi everybody, I have a little big problem. I have a 2 fs system (Windows on /dev/hda1 and Debian GNU/Linux on /dev/hda2). Everything began when I installed lilo on /dev/hda1 (boot = /dev/hda1 in lilo.conf), for mistake. Windows didn't boot any more. When I realized that I had installed lilo on the

Mouse probs in X

2001-09-07 Thread Kent West
Please use a descriptive subject line when posting. Thanks! Jack Grigg wrote: I'm installing release 2.2 r2 and I'm having trouble getting my mouse to work in the X windows system. It is a microsoft mouse, connected to the COM1 serial port. I have editted the "/etc/X11/XF86Config" file with the

Re: dd of=/dev/hda1, and now?

2001-09-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Is there anything that I can do, now? Is there a way > to retrieve things and boot MSWin again. Use your Windows boot disk... Running 'fdisk /mbr' will fix Windows so that you can boot it again, but will 'break' linux. Make sure you have a linux boot disk handy. You've likely left out some deta

Evolution bug

2001-09-07 Thread Don Berkich
Hi Folks, Today I apt-got the latest Sid Evolution (Ximian email client) package. Eight Gnome-related library packages also upgraded/installed. Now Evolution crashes on startup with: - Glib-ERROR **: could not allocate -1783528032 bytes aborting... Aborted - I found a similar e

Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Dondley
Hi. I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print documents to the printer connected to the Win98 machine? What do I have t

Re: XFS with GRUB???

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:32PM +0700, San Segkhoonthod uttered: > The best way is to have an ext2 partition for /boot, so you can always > have GRUB load linux kernel. That way, it will be easier to change your > linux root file system to some other file system. > If you are tracking unstable

NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Kevin Lee
Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I think it's also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux?  If so, the name of the driver please.         Kevin

Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...

2001-09-07 Thread Tony Crawford
... although the 2.2r*0* CD does? At first I thought I had a coaster, but it boots fine on other machines. FWIW the Progeny 1.0 CD I got off a magazine cover won't boot on the Toshiba either. Very curious (and holding on to those 2.2r0s), Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:05:30PM -0700, Kevin Lee wrote: > Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I think it's > also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, the name of the driver > please. there actually is a driver literally called RTL8139 which might work. a

dpkg/debconf complaining

2001-09-07 Thread Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
Hi all, I'm beginning to have major problems with updating new packages for testing. I'm having problem with amongst others man-db. I'm having similar problems with xserver-xfree86, xserver-common and more. For troubleshooting purposes I added 'set -x' but It didn't help me very much. Hope anyon

Re: simple scripts made difficult? (1 problem answered 1 open)

2001-09-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Hamma Scott wrote: > > --- andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at > > the same time see it as usual on screen? > Check the tee function out. > > > ii) how do i pass a simple argument from a file or > > an output to a script > Are you talkin

Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:40:01PM +, Vittorio wrote: | Ross Burton [debian-user] <06/09/01 21:45 +0100>: | > Hi, | > | > After noticing (thanks!) that kernel 2.4.x uses an initrd image I | > managed to make it boot my Sid systems. | > | I wonder if you can help me. | | In a previous post of

Re: Bootloader with USB support

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:46:33AM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: | Here at work I paved my Dell optiplex and put both Windows (cause I have to) | and Debian (cause I want to) on it. | | I need a bootloader that understands USB, so I can pick which OS to boot. | Right now I can't because the computer d

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | Hi. | | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to | share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print |

Re: graphic cards

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:18:02AM +0100, Peter Paul Millard wrote: | I am in the going to change my graphic card in my computer my old one | which is a SiS 6326 card which is to difficult to set up with my knowledge. I have an SiS 6326. It's not a great card (read its cheap and not for gaming),

Re: Burning .raw

2001-09-07 Thread Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
You should be able to just rename the .raw file to .iso. I did that once when I used EZCD to burn... regards - Ingi Þór

[OT] Any Canadian ADSL Telus users?

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm pondering broadband at home, and I'm looking at cable (www.cogeco.com) and ADSL (quebec.telus.com). High-speed internet via cable is easy to connect to on Linux (I did a few times on videotron) but I wonder about ADSL. I hear the modem are connected via USB and you need to setup PPPoE. Does

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Paulo José da Silva e Silva
Yes, I have a realtek rtl-8139 working fine in my home network (It was made by genius, if I remember well the name was smartlink 10/100TX, but I man not sure). The kernel module you'll need is 8139too. Good luck, Paulo

Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes

2001-09-07 Thread Matt Jones
From: dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user CC: Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:44:32 -0400 On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:40:01PM +, Vittorio wrote: | Ross Burton [debian-user] <06/09/01 21:45 +0100>: | > Hi, | > | > After noticing

Re: devfs

2001-09-07 Thread Daniel Wagner
Daniel Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > problem: everytime i boot to 24.7. with devfs i have these msgs: > > > > can't locate module: /dev/xconsole > > can't locate module: /var/log/ksymoops/*.log can't create regular \ > > file. read-only filesystem

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Ben Ford
Kevin Lee wrote: Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I think it's also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, the name of the driver please. Perhaps the rtl8139 module ;) -b -- Number of restrictions placed on "Alice in Wonderland" (public domain) eB

Re: [OT] Any Canadian ADSL Telus users?

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:03:59PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: | I'm pondering broadband at home, and I'm looking at cable | (www.cogeco.com) and ADSL (quebec.telus.com). | | High-speed internet via cable is easy to connect to on Linux (I | did a few times on videotron) but I wonder about ADSL

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Richardson
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Damon Muller wrote: > > > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > > suggestions. > >> > > The win4lin site does not seem to have released any patches or modules > > for any kernels newer than 2.4.5 (I think). > >

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Eric Richardson wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > Damon Muller wrote: > > > > > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > > > suggestions. > > >> > > > The win4lin site does not seem to have released any patches or modules > > > for

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > | Hi. > | > | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 > | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to > | share the printer through

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | > | Hi. | > | | > | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 | > | machine. My printer i

Fwd: a little help for people with ibm thinkpad 600

2001-09-07 Thread Bernard Reißberg
Hi folks, i have built and I'm building a website with the aim to help some people with their linux-boxes. It's a new site, so don't be disappointed if you won't find there a lot of stuff yet. But I'm working on it. I also won't promise the blue from the sky, because I'm not a professional.

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Josh Reynolds
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Kevin Lee wrote: > Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I think it's > also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, the name of the driver > please. > > > > > Kevin > the tulip driver should work - Josh

Re: want gdm to manage remote displays ONLY...how?

2001-09-07 Thread Walter Tautz
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Tim Moss wrote: > Walter Tautz wrote: > > how do i do this? The reason is the graphics > > card does not seem to agree with X11 on the > > machine gdm would run on so I want to have > > it manage a remote display instead. Commenting out > > does not seem to work and the docum

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:02:43PM -0700, Josh Reynolds wrote: | On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Kevin Lee wrote: | | > Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I | > think it's also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, | > the name of the driver please. | | the tulip driver s

Re: exim

2001-09-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Socket Secured ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 02:06]: > The contact webpage told me to ask my question here, but this looks > like a mailing list, so if this goes thru could you e-mail me the > response back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? > > I have run eximconfig a million times and can't get SMTP relayin

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > | > | Hi. > | > | > | > | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linu

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Kevin Lee([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I > think it's also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, the > name of the driver please. >From the /usr/src/linux/Doc*/Configure.help (Kernel 2.4.9) RealTek RTL-8139

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Dondley([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi. > > I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 > machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to > share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print > doc

Re: Help! with exim -- freezing mail

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:14:41PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:18:48PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > > > It's not clear what you're describing. > > > OK. let me sta

Re: Which mail client to switch? (was) Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:11:10AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > >> I guess, that this is a Netscape mailer problem, since > >> there is no problem with mutt. Apparently, Netscape > >> put a non FQDN "Sender: ", and the smarthost adds > >> i

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