Re: mondo backup: is there someone successful ?

2003-08-07 Thread Bruce Banner
I use it all the time on debian woody.  Make sure your lilo.conf doesn't have any bad entries poining to a old kernel that isn't there anymore etc.  I had problems with a bad lilo.conf file.  I'm trying to rememberexactly what it was.Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Op wo 06-08-2003, om

Re: Newbie Modem Q

2003-08-14 Thread Bruce Banner
You need ahardware modem.  Most any USR modem will be fine.  They do make internal pci hardware modems as well.Chris Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I've just installed Debian 3.0 r1 on my PC. I'm a musician so I'd like to use it for recording and various musical tasks.The PC runs Windows98/200

Strange eth0 problem. Help!!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
Okay I only used the exclamation marks to get your attention. My problem is that I had to change my IP address from dhcp to static to setup my dlink broadband router then I changed eth0 back to dhcp. Now upon rebooting my laptop if I don't have my cable plugged in it takes along time for it to ge

Re: Strange eth0 problem. Help!!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
I set mine to 5 secs and never have aproblem getting dhcp info in that time frame. unless you are using pump. Thanks --- Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:03:16 -0700 (PDT) > Bruce Banner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay I only u

Re: Confessions of a reluctant port scanner

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
It doesn't look like anything to worry about they are false positives leaving your network. Your network is a private network 192.168.1.x and the false attacks are you hitting a dns probably your dns and your network hitting a website. 192.168.1 is a private network range that means they are unro

Re: Confessions of a reluctant port scanner

2003-07-13 Thread Bruce Banner
Also, the target IP is slashdot's ip... --- Bruce Banner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It doesn't look like anything to worry about they > are > false positives leaving your network. Your network > is > a private network 192.168.1.x and the false attacks > are y

Re: Drivers for NIC

2003-07-15 Thread Bruce Banner
you should use the e100 I don't believe that is compiled into the default kernel. You could try the eepro100 that is Donald Beckers driver for intel cards. But it seems both nics will need e100. You can get this from intel or it is in the kernel now. Peace --- Joachim Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: Mozilla Very Very slow in rendering

2003-07-15 Thread Bruce Banner
You might want to check your harddrive dma settings. If your harddrive is set to pio then your cpu will have to do the disk i/o instead of letting the chipset do it. The symptoms are when you are downloading anything your machine will slow to a crawl. You can check with hdparm -I /dev/hda and y

Re: Installing Debian on existing winxp+rh9.0 hdd

2003-07-15 Thread Bruce Banner
The way I have done it is install lilo on the first sector of /dev/hda9. Then you will need to update grub to tell him that there is another bootable install on /dev/hda9 or in grub speak I believe 0,8 . There are many different ways to do this. You can also convert your redhat to lilo and use t