Need help: How to replace NIC card with another brand

2004-10-28 Thread Gary
I need to replace my NIC card and have an Intel NIC card as a replacement. The system is already built and configured for the old card. Do I need to add the module to the kernel? I have never done that after building the system, so how do I go about it? How do I configure the NIC for 10 meg speed a

Re: Need help: How to replace NIC card with another brand

2004-10-30 Thread Gary
Questions below... Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes > >I need to replace my NIC card and have an Intel NIC card as a > >replacement. The system i

Upgrading from Redhat to Debian, want to preserve home dirs, etc.

2004-09-15 Thread Gary
I have an old Redhat 6.2 system with kernel 2.2.14 on it from the year 2000. I am bringing it out of retirement and am switching to Debian. I need some advice. The system has two IDE hard drives on it configured like so: /dev/hda3 1.4G 923M 484M 66% / /dev/hda1 23M 3.4

Question about installing with Intel Ethernet Pro 100 (82557) PCI card

2004-09-24 Thread Gary
I am getting ready to install 'woody' from CD and just want to make sure I understanding this correctly. My reading of the Ethernet HOW-TO is that a driver for the Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100 has been included since early 1.3.x kernels. So I won't have to build it into the "vanilla" kernel, right?

Question about installing with Intel Ethernet Pro 100 (82557) PCI card

2004-09-24 Thread Gary
I am getting ready to install 'woody' from CD and just want to make sure I understanding this correctly. My reading of the Ethernet HOW-TO is that a driver for the Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100 has been included since early 1.3.x kernels. So I won't have to build it into the "vanilla" kernel, right?

Re[2]: VMware installation problem

2004-03-22 Thread Gary
e-any-any-update54.tar.gz There is a new version of the VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568 which supports the 2.6 kernel. It came out a few days ago. -- Regards, Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing - partitioning failing

2012-07-28 Thread Gary
I have a system with a Windows 7 installation (NTFS) which I'd like to keep and use "alongside" Debian. During the installation process I reduced the size of the main partition which left a "hole" that the installer labelled "unusable". I wasn't sure what to do with that, but tried to use LVM to ge

Re: Installing - partitioning failing

2012-07-28 Thread Gary
, run Debian installer. Thanks. You and (the other) Gary have both suggested that. Just burning the CD now :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: Installing - partitioning failing

2012-07-28 Thread Gary
Fixed! Thanks, all. The suggested tool worked perfectly, and the problem was indeed that there were 4 primary partitions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.

Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
about configuring things once I'veinstalled the .fw? I do have an old copy of the O'Reilly "Running Linux"(from 1996...). Is everything there still valid? That is, edit rc.inet1 and rc.inet2, and /etc/hosts, /etc/networks, /etc/host.conf and /etc/resolv.conf? TIA, Gary

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 10:25:56 +0100, Gary wrote: > > > While I was installing I got an error message about some missing > > firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I > > had to skip the setup of the network because of this. >

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 15:09:01 +0100, Gary wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > > > Install with > > > > > >    dpkg -i > > > > Okay. Done. Thanks. What do I have to do after this? It seemed to go > > okay, but th

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 17:30:29 +0100, Gary wrote: > > > Doesn't work :( > > > > [Very useful output log snipped] > > > Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant... > > ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device > > Now, why isn't the device

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
I wrote: Brian wrote: > > Have you > > got a /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file? Is wlan* mentioned?  > > Delete the file anyway; it will be regenerated. Reboot. > > root@jadetree:/home/gary# find /etc/udev/rules.d -name 70-persistent-net.rules > /etc

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-07-29 11:25 +0200, Gary wrote: > > > While I was installing I got an error message about some missing > > firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I > > had to skip the setup of the network because of this. >

Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

2012-07-29 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote: > > > The last one is my wireless adaptor. An Ralink RT5390 802.11b/g/n WiFi > > Adaptor. > > > > So maybe my wired adaptor will work? > > Probably. It does :) > > Still confused wh

Installing 3.2 kernel (was: Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw)

2012-07-30 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote: > > Still confused why the wireless doesn't work. > > It's not supported by the 2.6.32 kernel.  Installing a 3.2 kernel and > firmware-ralink from squeeze-backports should make it work. I'm guessing thi

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-30 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote: > > I'm guessing this is a "get source and compile" jobby. > > No, squeeze-backports has binary packages (linux-image-3.2*) that you > can just install. Ooh! That's nice! Thanks! -- To UNS

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-30 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote: > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote: > > > >> > Still confused why the wireless doesn't work. > >> > >> It's not supported by the 2.6.32 k

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-31 Thread Gary
Keith McKenzie wrote: > On 30 July 2012 19:43, Gary wrote: > > I installed the packages, and then the one that that process complained was > > missing/out of date (our old friend the realtek package). Restarted. After > > selecting one of the 3.2 kernel options, the compu

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-08-04 Thread Gary
Brian wrote: > On Mon 30 Jul 2012 at 19:43:25 +0100, Gary wrote: > > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > No, squeeze-backports has binary packages (linux-image-3.2*) that you > > > can just install. > > > > > > That didn't go well :( > > It

sh command issue

2010-04-30 Thread Gary
do get my "a.out" file but the errors/warnings go to the screen... how can I make them go to the 'build.log' file? I have done full package updates on the system using Webmin, and everything as of this morning is current. Thanks kindly for any assistance you can provide. :) G

RE: sh command issue

2010-04-30 Thread Gary
system("g++ $files $incl $libs 2>build.log&"); The above works... thanks! -Original Message- From: I Rattan [mailto:ratt...@cps.cmich.edu] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:03 PM To: Gary Subject: Re: sh command issue On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Gary wrote: > I'm

How to get realplayer and mplayer to properly install?

2005-10-07 Thread gary
alls any startup icon, yet I downloaded the k-6 version which i believe includes a gui. Never got mplayer running . I have: a few years linux experience limited debian experience gnome desktop What am I not doing?gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: How to get realplayer and mplayer to properly install?

2005-10-07 Thread gary
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 00:52 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > gary wrote: > > >Hello - I recently installed Sarge and have been using synaptic to > >install packages. > >when I install realplayer, the icon appears in Applications> multimedia > >but I'm un

Re: Synaptic Package Manager read failure

2005-10-18 Thread gary
86_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > Suggestions? Thanks very much in advance. Not certain I understand your problem exactly - but run apt-get clean as root. It can't hurt.gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printer trouble

2005-10-25 Thread gary
ing like "client server not > found", if my memory serves me correctly). Note, the printer itself is > found on the USB port when setting it up. Anyway, all ideas are > appreciated. Thanks in advance. > --Mark > Maybe you're looking for cupsys-client - just a gu

Adding new hardware after installation

2005-10-27 Thread Gary
I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. I need to add a network card to a PC with recently installed Debian ("Sarge"). What's the best way to do it? I don't really want to sit in front of the thing again feeding it CDs, so if I could avoid doing a complete install that would be nice.

Re: nautilus cd-burner

2005-10-31 Thread gary
n nautilus cd-burning and command line burning a couple of years ago after discovering k3b. I'd encourage anyone having problems with cd burning to give k3b a try. -- gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nautilus cd-burner

2005-10-31 Thread gary
nuing in 5 seconds... cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may > > >have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. > > >cdrecord: No write mode specified. > > > > > > > > > I am running cd-burner as user of course, not as root. D

boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

2025-02-01 Thread gary
I get the message right after the boot sequence declares the / drive clean. The subject message repeats 3 times then the system boot stops. It still responds to the keyboard but there is no system to log into. When I go into the system in a chroot after booting with systemrescue, I find that j

Re: boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

2025-02-01 Thread gary
On 2025-02-01 09:29, g...@extremeground.com wrote: I get the message right after the boot sequence declares the / drive clean. The subject message repeats 3 times then the system boot stops. It still responds to the keyboard but there is no system to log into. When I go into the system in a ch

Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-18 Thread Gary Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable (woody) and am currently using Galon for >web-surfing. However, it seems to break on some sites - they seem to be >moaning about Frames support mostly. > >Anyway, which browser should I use under gnome to get the most pages >viewed? > >I'

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-19 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:07:59PM -0600, DvB wrote: >> I've never done this, but I've seen it done (with me own eyes! :-) I >> don't think it worked as well as the native Linux browsers and probably >> would crash as soon as it started doing its Direct-X crap but, for your >>

nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is ptknslookup in the ptknettools pkg. I'd prefer non X. Running Sarge. -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone tells you--- "I have a sense of humo

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Rus Foster wrote: >On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Gary Turner wrote: > >> I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier >> I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is >> ptknslookup in the ptknettools pkg. I'd pref

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Gary Turner wrote: >I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier >I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is >ptknslookup in the ptknettools pkg. I'd prefer non X. Many thanks to all who answered. I installed dnsuti

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:43:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> If only that were true. Every page I produce is 100% W3C compliant. >> That's not enough. In the area of CSS alone, IE for Windows is not >> compliant, while IE for Mac is. >

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: >-- Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >(on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 09:27 PM -0600): >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:43:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> >> If only that were

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:27:22PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> It's not really a question of who sucks and who blows ;) Java Script, >> Flash, frames, tables, and graphics are compliant technologies, so does >> Lynx suck if it doesn't support

regexp---remove comments---simplification

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Not an earth-shattering problem. I try to remove all those comments from various config files before emailing them to wherever. I currently chain some greps grep -v '^\ *#' some.conf | grep -v '^\ $' > condensed.file How would you combine these regexp's to remove a commented line (even if inden

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Colin Watson wrote: >On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:34:35AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> >> What is more reasonable, the shopkeeper cater to the customer --- or >> vice versa? > >Not everybody developing for the web is a shopkeeper (thank God). If I'm >not try

Re: regexp---remove comments---simplification

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Colin Watson wrote: >On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:18:48AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: [...] >> >> grep -v '^\ *#' some.conf | grep -v '^\ $' > condensed.file >> >> How would you combine these regexp's to remove a commented line (even if >

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Colin Watson wrote: >On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:04:15AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> Colin Watson wrote: >> >Not everybody developing for the web is a shopkeeper (thank God). If I'm >> >not trying to sell something and therefore achieve Perfect Marketing Zen >&

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
nate wrote: >Gary Turner said: > > >> page of nested tables, simply because that seems the best way to present >> your ideas. Then take a look at the page with Lynx. > >i don't think that's fair. lynx is not what I would call a feature >complete browser.

Re: [OT]: < 10pt in LaTeX?

2003-02-23 Thread Gary Turner
Nori Heikkinen wrote: >does anyone know if it's possible to specify a smaller than 10pt font >size for a LaTeX document without resorting to putting the entire >document in one big \tiny{}? --which is cool for my purposes ... i'm >just curious. No LaTeX guru by any means, but as far as I know, 1

Re: Need help configuring box as router

2003-02-24 Thread Gary Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 23 Feb 2003 14:25:07 -0600, >Justin Ryan wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 12:27, Nathan E Norman wrote: >> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: >> > >> > [ top posting SUCKS ] >> > >> >> [ self-righteousness SUCKS ] > > >[...] > >[Sinc

Re: [OT] what are you running? (was Complaint)

2003-02-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
> xemacs > mutt I'm using gnus, via GNU Emacs. It's a bear to set up, but I've been using it since the Epoch (I exaggerate, slightly) and when I used to read Usenet it was nice to have a common front-end for mail and news. That and mail expiry, which I believe Mutt can now do, we

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-02-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
et (10 or 100Mbit) Click "y" for "3COM cards" and then select "m" for [3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support]. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-28 Thread Gary Turner
A: See for yourself Brian Durant wrote: >If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just >got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time >editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's >computer, makes my eyes complain a

Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-03-01 Thread Gary Turner
nate wrote: >I guess I deleted the mail from I think "Sandip" but I decided >to try to get java working in phoenix 0.5 and it seems to work.. Thanks a bunch, Nate. I had to make a couple of changes, but only in detail. I've noted them below. Maybe it will help those that did it my way, as I did

Re: repost -- phoenix, java and other plug-ins. are there any .debs?

2003-03-01 Thread Gary Turner
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: >hello all > >this is my last attempt before i shift to some bloated browser. i have >tried installing phoenix and make java run on it umpteen number of >times. it *never* worked. > >phoenix installation is perfect. java is not. so, finally, i have >decided to try installi

Re: Couple of more questions.

2003-03-01 Thread Gary Turner
Teilhard Knight wrote: [...] >Second. My ISP is a log on ASDL provider. That means I have to use my >Ethernet card and log with a username and a password. I do not have a static >IP, but everytime a log I am assigned one (dynamic). Any way to configure >this in Debian? My "card" (it is built in th

Re: Kernel-sourcecode directory

2003-03-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
alled. There may be more elegant solutions, but that's how I do it, to the best of my recollection anyway. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Advice needed in package building process

2003-03-04 Thread Gary Ford
d.so.conf && ldconfig I tried put that in the debian/postinst, but it didn't seem to do anything. Does anyone have any helpful hints? Many thanx, Gary -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powere

ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread Gary Turner
I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit the FM? tnx -- gt

Re: Nvidia driver

2003-03-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
new version of xserver-xfree86 gets installed. Just do: % dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 and answer "No" in response to the question about managing XFree86 server configuration with debconf. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim & iptables

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Hal wrote: >I'm using Woody as a firewall with NAT to protect a small network that >includes a mail and web server on an unregistered (192.168) >network. I'd like to configure the fw so that it can send mail alerts >to the users via the mail server on the protected net. If I set >exim.c

util-linux-locales Configuring Locales --- Unable to select

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
On an apt-get upgrade, the util-linux-locales package is among the upgraded packages in Sarge. The "Configuring Locales" screen comes up and I would like to indicate "no change". The problem is that I am unable to make a selection. The only option I seem to have is to scroll up and down the list

Re: util-linux-locales Configuring Locales --- Unable to select

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Gary Turner wrote: [...] > >I searched BTS for util-linux-locales, and/or Configuring Locale to no >avail. I am not BTS fluent, so my search could be faulty. > >I may be wrong about the package in which I see the error, though doing >"apt-get install --reinstall util-lin

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Charlie Zender wrote: >Hi, > >What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ >compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not >install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed >on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: > >error:

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
friend: <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=ethernet+crossover+dongle%7Cadapter&btnG=Google+Search> Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unstable/Java/Mozilla

2003-03-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
d on a Java2 JDK being compiled with 3.2 compilers? Thanks, Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unstable/Java/Mozilla

2003-03-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin [snip] This will work until *.deb files are available. I simply downloaded the j2re compiled with 3.2, unpacked it and copied the included javaplugin_oji.so over the one installed by the previous debian package (j2re1.4). Java is now playing with Mozilla again. Many th

Gnome2 user-defined menu?

2003-03-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
having to learn it. I also tried using a "Drawer" and that would almost work, but I don't want it to display an icon for the items, it needs to display a simple user-defined name, like "remotecomp" instead. Any suggestions? Thanks, Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Gnome2 user-defined menu?

2003-03-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've mostly migrated over to Gnome2, in unstable, and most things went > relatively smoothly. The one exception, so far, is user-defined > menus. How do I add such a beast? Under Gnome 1.x I had a menu that > sat in

Re: using diff command

2003-03-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
ou got somethin' funky going on! What you describe should only happen if you're specifying the "-q" or "--brief" option to diff. What does "diff --version" give you? Make sure you're running the actual diff binary, and not via some alias. Do "/usr/bin/diff File2 File1". Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using diff command

2003-03-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Hmm. You got somethin' funky going on! What you describe should only > happen if you're specifying the "-q" or "--brief" option to diff. What > does "diff --version" give you? Ma

Re: [OT] Backup solutions

2003-03-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
tive english speaker, or was just a bad writer, and it showed. However it's gotten better with each release and is now not too bad. I'm not complaining, because I didn't do anything to help make it better. The software, in contrast, works fantastically. Never a problem, and I have had to do plenty of recoveries. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory leak - somewhere :)

2003-03-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
some of the memory being used by the disk cache for the application. On a healthy system, that you've been using for a while, you should have very little "free" memory. That doesn't mean you don't have something that's leaking memory, it just means you'll have to look harder to find out if there is indeed something sucking up memory. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
x27;ve never done it, but there's nothing magical about *.deb files. They're simple "ar" archive files, usually containing a data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz file, among other things. For your purposes you could try and untar the data.tar.gz file, which would contain the actually libc binaries and go from there. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs over ssh with non standard port

2003-11-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
but cvs insisted on trying port 22. > Is it possible to do this? I haven't tried it, but perhaps you can twiddle the config file, ~/.ssh/config. In there try a block like: Host=cvs Port=1028 And see what happens. This is on the client. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
at by reading /etc/default/rcS and looking at the variable UTC. If it's set to "no" then run: hwclock --systohc --localtime if it's set to "yes" then run hwclock --systohc --utc If your hardware clock is set to local time then the issue may be that your h

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
e = testing, sid = unstable). Once you have that you'll want to tell apt the main release you want. Do that by editing /etc/apt/apt.conf and putting a line like: APT::Default-Release "stable"; in it. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-21 Thread Gary Turner
Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > The only thing I've found so far that isn't going >smoothly is I can't access my webserver from within the LAN. >I have a netgear dhcp-serving & port-forwarding router that sends all >traffic on 80, 25, & 143 to 192.168.0.3. I'm using the Netgear RT314 gateway

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-23 Thread Gary Hennigan
ry for a disk cache. This is dynamic and so if you start a process that needs the memory the kernel will shrink the disk cache. Use free (/usr/bin/free) to see how much disk cache is allocated. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread Gary Noack
Try Chrony. The Woody package should work straight out of the box with a standard dial up service. Gaz. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 24 January 2003 12:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up Hi,

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-26 Thread Gary Turner
Osamu Aoki wrote: > >Anyway, it may be good idea to put something like following in Debian >web site to reduce this type of confusion. >== >What Debian is best for me? > > Debian is available in 3 major flavors - stable, test

Re: /etc/shutdown.allow & user

2003-01-26 Thread Gary Turner
Egor Tur wrote: >Hi. >I read man for `shutdown' command. And this man describe how permit >any user using shutdowning. Need create /etc/shutdown.allow and list of >peaples that can use `shutdown'. I create it and now do from user >/sbin/shutdown -a -r now -- but I cannot reboot. Only root can do

Re: How can I control the display output (number of lines)

2003-01-26 Thread Gary Turner
Roland Wegmann wrote: >Hy all > >How can I control number of lines per 'page'? For example when I use the >command 'aptitude search gnome' the output is a huge list, that 'runs >over' my 'bash window' and I can only read the last search results. > >Which tool do I have to use that i can read the

Re: sit (compressed files)

2003-01-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
unt further. That, or tell the person who sent it to you to use Zip or something for which there are Linux utilities. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Turner
Bob Paige wrote: >> I'm a big Linux fan because of usability, extensibility, flexibility, >> and security issues. I believe that the different mechanisms >> available with GNU software, especially the Debian GNU/Linux way, >> lends itself well to dealing with these issues. But not even Debian

Re: I810 video problems

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Turner
Cory Rudder wrote: >I have a problem with X on my computer. I have an intel i810 board, with >debian 3.0r1 , and xfree86 4.1.0. >when I start X it tries to work then the server crashes. The error is >"modprobe: Can't locate module "i810"" \n [drm] failed to load kernel module >"i810". Modprobe do

Re: Debin Help

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Turner
jmullin wrote: >I have been trying for a year to get a Debian distro set up on my >computer. At the NYC Linux World Expo, the was a Debian booth and I >bought the lates Debian CD but when I tried to load it BANG no good. No >that the release was no good just it got a littel complicated. Igot as

Re: Which version of X should I use?

2003-01-29 Thread Gary Turner
Hal Vaughan wrote: >I'm re-installing Debian on a system. > >I tried this last month and ran into trouble with the video card (ATI Radeon >All-In-Wonder). It turns out the version of X in the current stable branch >does not support my card well. The previous version supported it and 4.2 >supp

Re: Slang for money

2003-01-30 Thread Gary Turner
Lloyd Zusman wrote: >"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Pigeon wrote: >> >>> OK, Just to make things more complicated British money changed [...] >> >> Some more wacky fun facts about British money. [...] >> >> [ ... ] > >Here's some more: What a wonderful

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

2003-01-30 Thread Gary Turner
will trillich wrote: >On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:37:32AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:48:17PM -0600, will trillich wrote: >> | On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:59:40PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: >> | > SMTP Authentication sounds like a prime candidate. [...] > >no

Re: ntpd not keeping time

2003-01-31 Thread Gary Turner
Pigeon wrote: [...] > >Like it... reminds me of "*Any* car can be made to do 0-60mph in under >3 seconds - allow me to demonstrate with yours." Achieving ~32 ft/sec^2 acceleration is not that difficult. Finding an unobstructed 121 ft "dragstrip" with a non-blockaded starting line might be more p

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Gary Turner
Narins, Josh wrote: >DEAR DEBIAN USER, this is joke e-mail. I think. > >We are manipulating the time in the headers >in order to cover the tracks from our efforts >to monitor the e-amail from sketchy users >such as yourself >to prevent them from posting rude or obnoxious e-mails > >We've noted you

Re: LaTex editor

2003-01-31 Thread Gary Turner
ian wrote: >I would like to know a good TEX editor...any recommendations? Emacs is my editor of choice for nearly everything. I am learning to like Cooledit. It's a very lightweight editor with syntax highlighting for several languages, including LaTeX2e. -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-02-01 Thread Gary Turner
JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: >On 01 Feb 2003 00:12:27 -0600 > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>If you decide to do this, You should probably make sure you install >>it >>in /usr/local which is, AFAIK, the designated place to put apps that >>you >>don't install with the package management system. >

Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Gary Turner
I run X with icewm. No KDE or Gnome. What would be the advantage(s) of adding one of these facilities? -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Well, you order it from the 'Society of Hardware and Information Technology Helpers, Executive Administration Division' websit

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Gary Turner
nate wrote: >Gary Turner said: >> I run X with icewm. No KDE or Gnome. What would be the advantage(s) of >> adding one of these facilities? > >a more integrated "experience". Generally a more consistant look & >feel between the apps. File managers with a

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-02-03 Thread Gary Turner
Jimbo De La Fuente wrote: >Hi List, > >I've been using RedHat for a couple of years. Now, as a result of their >change in EOL (only untill the end of year for the latest release RedHat >8.0) I want to switch to another distro. My preference goes to Debian. I do >have some doubts before really s

Re: give me the command line - REPHRASED

2003-02-03 Thread Gary Turner
Hans Christian Andersen wrote: >On booting my woody-box it goes directly into X without letting me command >startx. >How do I make it stay at a command line untill I order startx? The answers you were given address *exactly* that. -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone tells you---

Re: copying out of openoffice

2003-02-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
enoffice.org-debian-files/unstable uptodate 1.0.2-1+1 % apt-show-versions |grep xfree xserver-xfree86/testing uptodate 4.2.1-3 xfree86-common/testing uptodate 4.2.1-3 At this point, I'm running a mostly "unstable" system, but with some "testing" mixed in, as you can

Re: What this error means?

2003-02-03 Thread Gary Turner
César Augusto Seronni Filho wrote: >TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer externalIP:20522/20 shrinks window 448523626 Googling gave up this among others; http://www.der-keiler.de/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/focus-linux/2001-08/0026.html Of course, I don't know what the answer means any more than I gro

Re: simple (non-technial) software question

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
Phil wrote: >I'm setting -up linux machines at a school and the teachers are interested >in Mavis Beacon teaches typing and Mathblaster type programs. They want >programs that are fun for the kids and teach them things at the same time. > >Does anyone have any suggestions? "apt-cache search ty

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
Nick Hastings wrote: >Hi, > >* Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030205 11:31]: >> my /var is 465M. i'm trying to do and apt-get upgrade, which i >> haven't in a while, and got the following message: >> >> Need to get 69.0MB/109MB of archives. After unpacking 39.1MB will be >> used. >> E: Sorr

Re: apache, mod_perl, apt-get php4

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
cmustard wrote: > >I run apache 1.3.26 and mod_perl, i recently did 'apt-get install php4', which >installed fine and ran apachectl when finished which i assumed meant > > >I am sure there are great docs for this question, as i'm sure it's asked >all the time but i seem unable to find them. > >Th

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