how to fix broken package

2003-09-06 Thread john john
Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. I then did this, apt-get install --purge xserver-xfree86 Anyhow, so I try to reinst

Re: Flash media reader/writers support

2003-02-22 Thread John
t out on a smart media card & a compact flash card. See: http://pqiusa.com/products/6-in-1.htm John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-03-05 Thread John
Have you checked the config files for ssh, here theyre located under /etc/ssh ( debian unstable ) cheers Gary Turner wrote: 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 c

Re: cdrecord doesn't work

2003-03-07 Thread John
Should this not be placed in a file in /etc/modutils/... since /etc/modules.conf is automatically regenerated from all the files in /etc/modutils/... by update-modules ?? , hmm at least on unstable it is :) Brad Eisan wrote: Florian, I basically read a pile of tutorials online and put these ste

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread John
I had problems with some compiled GTK apps on unstable, which required different libs ( png problems ), what i did was get hold of those libs and dropped them into /usr/local/lib/gtk_fix i then set up scripts for the couple of programs that need to use those libs as follows - #!/bin/sh expo

Re: Newbie questions

2003-03-10 Thread John
rsion is /usr/bin/nano. I also tried: # MOST_EDITOR='nano %s' and # SLANG_EDITOR="nano %s" #not sure re: quotes vs tick marks I tried both ways. Thanks for any input. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-10 Thread John
for me. & since I haven't followed the thread, I don't know if you ran: /usr/share/doc/ogle/examples/install-css.sh* That would get you a undebian library to run css. see ya John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-17 Thread John
There's a gui called downloader for x , it's in unstable anyway apt-get install d4x or alternatively download the source and build it yourself http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ It supports multiple connections for downloads ( iff the other side allows it of course ) Ive been using it for a long t

Re: download decelerator

2003-03-17 Thread John
Sorry, i could not resist. How about I swap your connection for my 56k modem, guaranteed to slow all connections down again, sorry I just could not help myself. :) cheers al davis wrote: With this discussion on a download accelerator ... What I really need is the opposite. I have a full ti

Re: download decelerator

2003-03-18 Thread John
as does downloader for x apt-get install d4x or http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ cheers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:39:18 -0700, al davis wrote: With this discussion on a download accelerator ... What I really need is the opposite. I have a full time connection. The p

Re: Looking for Squid How-To

2003-10-26 Thread john
try google 'debian squid howto' - Original Message - From: "Trey Sizemore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:43 AM Subject: Looking for Squid How-To -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

setting permissions

2003-10-30 Thread john
of a linux box with shared folders but setting permissions for t he folders like writing to it or ..writing to files and folders under it need to know what command i can use so i can write to all files and folders under any folder which is shared on a network thanks again john -- To

THE NAZIS DID IT!! (Re: shuttle disaster)

2003-02-09 Thread John
Now can this F**KING thread end? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing win4lin on debian

2003-02-11 Thread John
were encountered while processing: > Win4Lin_5.3.15b-d.i386.deb > I get the same error when the deb package isn't in the directory I'm in. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting CD-R

2002-10-08 Thread John
device cdrom does not > exist". > > When I try "mount -t iso9660{or auto} /dev/hdb1 /mycdr > I get "device hdb1: unknown device" > > Anyone know what I have to do here? Try /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hdb1 John P Foster www.saebr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which half are you in?

2002-10-21 Thread John
e word, humility. You need to delete /etc completely over an SSH connection from 4000 miles away, and then restore that from backup in the same SSH connection to fully love UNIX ;^> echo "pete::1210:1210:::/home/pete:/bin/bash" > /etc/passwd exit Yes, it hurt a lot

Re: Java Programming Environment

2002-10-22 Thread John
Hope this helps, John P Foster (who is STILL not the guy who makes the beer) Senior Research Scientist Golden Orb Technologies LTD http://www.saebr.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-27 Thread John
Alvin Oga wrote: hi oleg donno about the speifics of the tokyo paper but... the guy ( christoph ) that runs telemetrybox is a bright guy and happens to be sorta religious too ... and he is/was a teacher/professor at a theological university i like to argue with him (in person), why one can be

debian versus ms1998

2002-10-31 Thread John
together or not? If it proves not quite suitable can users revert easily or not? MS Word seems to have ironed out most of the problems. Can the same be said of the debian system? Grateful for some advice. John Warrington. --- [This E-mail was scanned by the Inter.Net.Works Virus Daemon

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread John
h a virtual machine that has 96MB of ram allocated to it(for me anything under 96MB is unusable) it is quite entertaining to see 4 virtual machines running at the same time on my afterstep desktop though! 5 OSs on 1 cpu!(1gb ram) nate We found that as well as RAM, a dual proc SMP box helped a great

Re: random crashing of a Debian machine - where to go?

2002-11-04 Thread John
t the battery? Could it be that you have some salt air dirtying up the battery terminals? This has been an issue to some people here (Gold Coast Australia). John P Foster Senior Research Scientist Golden Orb Technologies LTD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

[Very OT, local political parody, probable Terrorist links] Re: Microsoft'splans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread John
Government blame it on the previous Government of 6 years ago. I'm sure others can extend the story, or provide alternative plots. John P Foster (not the guy who makes the beer by the way) Joyce, Matthew wrote: Righto, I will email Senator Richard 'ludite' Alston and ask him

[OT] Re: World Higher Ed: Gender Balanced True Govt(s) OutgrowingMostly-Monogendermt(s)

2002-11-10 Thread John
adversely affects those contemplating marriage. Representation in Government should be tied to Economic and Social contribution to society, not by which sperm swims fastest. I rather policies are decided by things other than the random dice of DNA and meiosis. Feel free to flame me off-list. Joh

Re: Text files in "windows mode"

2002-11-13 Thread John
os > list.m3u You'll need the package sysutils installed John P Foster Senior Research Scientist Golden Orb Technologies LTD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software Selection Internet Admin School

2002-11-13 Thread John
ches last known user to login to that IP to page viststed - note that this doesnt necesarily(sp) identify who browsed to that page, just who last logged into that workstation... Then again I could just be full of it. John P Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: SonicBlue Rio S50

2002-11-14 Thread John
> this, or any other newer Rio model, and linux? Look at: http://rioutil.sourceforge.net/ This works for my rio800 John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread John
control AXFR and IXFR, and to blacklist attempts to dos your server (possibly not completely effective, but I'm sure it helps, consider it a PART of the solution) Hope this helps, John P Foster (not the guy who makes the beer) Senior Research Scientist Golden Orb Technologies -- To UNS

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread John
ewhere. It's a long time since I did any of this stuff, so I cant tell you anymore details. A clever Linux hackor could probably do it as root via /proc, but I have no idea how to get there. John P Foster Senior Research Scientist Golden Orb Technologies LTD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Thank you!

2003-08-20 Thread John
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Re: Thank you!

2003-08-21 Thread John
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:03, John wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >Please see the attached file for details. >[ A MIME application / octet-stream part was included here.

Re: xine runs slow when watching DVDs

2003-08-26 Thread John
s. I have > included both the output of xvinfo and the file ~/.xine/config if that helps. > I am sorry the email is so large but I was not sure what was needed. Yo pete!! Many people forget to enable dma on their dvdroms. Man hdparm & look at the '-d' option Also, have you t

linux(knoppix

2003-09-04 Thread john
ik heb hier de probeer versie van knoppix. en ik wilde deze graag instaleren op mijn pc hoe moet ik dat doen. ps. ik ben pas een beginneling met dit gebeuren. ik had graag een gemakkelijk omschreven installatie rpogam of antwoord. bvdjohn.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: s key stopped working in console and xterm

2003-06-08 Thread John
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 10:14:20AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > 1. How did i break the s key and how do i fix it? I have > knoppix lying around but i have no clue where to search. I edited /etc/inputrc a while back, got the syntax wrong & lost my 's' key

Re: Installing to PERC4/Di

2002-12-12 Thread John
e 6Mb/sec... John P Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

what /dev for smartmedia reader?

2002-12-27 Thread John
'USB Storage-SMC ' '0180' Removable Disk _ My CD-Writer is /dev/sr0 /dev/sr1 doesn't work, nor /dev/sda1 nor /dev/sdb1. Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what /dev for smartmedia reader? (more info & long)

2002-12-27 Thread John
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 02:25:49PM -0500, Dave W wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:53, John wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me what my /dev is for the USB Storage-SMC? from this > > info?: > > > > scsibus0: > > 0,0,0 0) 'HP &#x

Re: what /dev for smartmedia reader? SOLVED

2002-12-27 Thread John
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 10:59:27PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > John wrote: > > zork:/# lsmod > > usb-storage61464 0 (unused) > > usb-uhci 20940 0 (unused) > > usbcore60896 1 [printer usb-storage pegasus u

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread John
a bit choppy. I use Ogle; I solved my choppiness by turning on dma: hdparm -q -d1 /dev/hdd(my dvdplayer) John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fvwm2 preference file?

1999-06-06 Thread John
2 directory. If your files arn't located there, do a "locate fvwm2" to find them. John Carline > > Best wishes, > Chip > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Powered by the Penguin

Re: Debian not included in Infomagic's June LDR (plus a little advocacy)

1999-06-14 Thread John
blem is that the wave of new users dumping windoze will be "stand-alone" users, and many of them may be in positions that will influence which distribution of linux a company will try. We should do all we can to promote Debian. If we ignore slights like this, we'll be relegatin

Upgrading libc6 - what is the impact ??

1999-06-28 Thread John
know how to tell dselect (apt) to just use one file from unstable, not the whole lot. Any ideas ?? John. === # dpkg -i dia_0.40-1.deb (Reading database ... 39519 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dia 0.20-1 (using dia_0.40-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dia

Re: I give UP

1998-07-29 Thread John
s well worth >my time and very rewarding. > >Regards, >Keith The learning curve is so steep for a novice that even Sir Edmund Hillary would have had problems :-) But once you've climbed out of the Microsoft generated smog you will be amazed at how far you can see. John --

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread john
Johann Spies writes: > I would also like to know how this can be solved. Have you tried contacting the fetchmail maintainer? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make mo

Re: Debian New User

1998-08-11 Thread john
Paul M. Foster writes: > You can try the pppsetup package from > www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html. This is a pretty simple > script that will assist in setting up your ISP connection. On a Debian 2.0 system you would be better off just running pppconfig. -- John Hasl

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-11 Thread john
Shaleh writes: > Try typing the word "reset" -- yes it will come out looking like > gibberish but type it anyway and hit return. This USUALLY works. In some cases you may need to type control-j instead of return. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

1998-08-14 Thread john
onging to hierarchically organized "zones". ... ... Seems pretty clear to me: 'host' queries nameservers. Why would you expect it to look in /etc/hosts? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: cgi script for dos2unix and unix2dos

1998-08-16 Thread John
deck of cards, I'll take a chainsaw!! John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Security Analyst & Kernel Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] .oOo. Windsor Linux Users Group Foun

Re: command line prg to set quotas?

1998-08-16 Thread John
cards, I'll take a chainsaw!! John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Security Analyst & Kernel Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] .oOo. Windsor Linux Users Group Foun

Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

1998-08-16 Thread john
ess, a query is done on the special "reverse mapping" domain to look up its associated host name. This, on the other hand, implies that 'host' does deal in IP addresses. Looks like a bug in the man page. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public dom

Re: PPP connects every second attempt

1998-08-23 Thread john
g files not getting rotated? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.

Re: Fetchmail.

1998-08-25 Thread john
it to mailagent for sorting and delivery. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: [pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean

1998-08-25 Thread john
yle scripts that will work only with old versions of pppd, if at all. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

1998-08-26 Thread john
g in the man page. Adam Shand writes: > this is a little old (i've been lazy with the email), but host does most > certainly work with ip#'s. The man page, however, does not: it contradicts itself on the subject. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread john
er it needs to have the options file present. Some pppd options are privileged and may only be given in certain files (or not at all) when the user is not root. Root, on the other hand, can give all options on the command line. Therefor it isn't too surprising that root can run pppd with no opt

Re: [pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean

1998-08-26 Thread john
t script that would recognize authentication failure, but it would have to be customized for each isp. Not worth it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread john
mpp? I'll look into this smoe more this evening and get back to you. Right now I have to go stack hay. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread john
Brian writes: > This setup, with no /etc/ppp/options file and only > /etc/ppp/peers/provider, has worked for months when pon(pppd) is called > from root. But why don't you have an options file? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread john
With my options file removed, ''pppd call provider' works fine for root but not for an ordinary user. A check of the source shows that this is the intended behavior. The purpose is security: the sysadmin may have put privileged options such as 'auth' in the options fi

Re: into the breach^h^h^h^h^h ppp once more

1998-08-27 Thread john
. Why not just use 'noauth' at both ends and be happy, at least until you get a connection up? > and why is the password nakedly displayed like that in the log? Because pppd is buggy. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread john
mall like that. It would be nice if there > was a script in the ppp package to check for these kind of permission > problems. That is a known bug in the ppp package. I may eventually have pppconfig check this sort of stuff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Emacs 20.2 stability in Hamm

1998-08-27 Thread john
Peter Weiss writes: > Emacs crashes every couple of hours by no reason. I run two emacs20's, one with gnus and one for everything else and don't have that problem. I don't usually have that many buffers open, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread john
; command can be given on the command line. Without the above precautions, I could run 'pppd connect get_root' and have the 'get_root' script run setuid root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread john
Eric Fain writes: > Does everyone else use last? It occurs to me that maybe people who don't > have a lot of users on their systems might not have tried last since > upgrading to hamm. Actually, I've never tried it before (two users). Seems to work fine, though. -- John Hasl

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-28 Thread john
Martin Bialasinski writes: > gtop shows root as owner and still I can signal it. You are still the real user. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Score: Smail 1, Bob 0

1998-08-28 Thread john
George Bonser writes: > I have no idea why Debian ships with that piece of junk as their standard > mailer. Because we haven't been able to agree on what to replace it with. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-28 Thread john
38400 & David Wright writes: > Unless this have been changed gratuitously, put the parameters to > pppd in the right order: serial-line, speed, options. Order doesn't matter. He does need 'noauth', however, and the '&' is superfluous. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-28 Thread john
can tell what does work. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-29 Thread john
David Densmore writes: > Aug 28 11:32:44 linux chat[3247]: send (ppp^M) This (ppp^M) is what is telling the other end to start ppp. Are you sending it when you use minicom? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-29 Thread john
This baffling. That stuff is ppp packets. I'll try this here and see if I can reproduce the problem. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Xisp and mutiple ISPs

1998-08-29 Thread john
> There is a neat utility called pppconfig, which allows for multiple ISP > configs. pppconfig sets multiple ppp connections. Unfortunately, it does not deal with: /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts /etc/smail/routers /etc/smail/config The multiple isp problem remains an unresolved issue. --

Re: Xisp and mutiple ISPs

1998-08-29 Thread john
k out a script that would munge the relevant files into submission, but a real solution must be scalable and compatible with everything elses that needs those files. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Danc

Re: PPP connection dying with Debian 2.0

1998-08-29 Thread john
ive pppd the option 'nobsdcomp') -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-29 Thread john
s to work now. After I excute this command, no connection > is established and the modem hangs up shortly thereafter. I get the same > result as root and as normal user. I just tried it: works fine for me. Do you have minicom set up for 8N1? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: 3 com(USR) modem

1998-08-31 Thread john
se, and also a seperate package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: cant't get ppp working.

1998-09-01 Thread john
Mark writes: > any clues,, what is it looking for? Try editing /etc/chatscript/provider and replacing the string '\d\c' with "" . Also try dialing in with minicom and working through the login to see what they want. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: cant't get ppp working.

1998-09-01 Thread john
y. It is expecting more login stuff, and echoes the packets with bit 8 cleared. Dial in with minicom and work through the login to see what they want. When you start receiving garbage ppp has started on their end. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Fetchmail don't work for me !

1998-09-01 Thread john
#x27;, delivering all mail to postman. Postman's .forward file then runs mailagent, which distributes the mail to the users. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ppp

1998-09-03 Thread john
Rick Knebel writes: > Is there anyway to make ppp with debian 2.0 redial on dissconnect? Brian writes: > Add persist holdoff to your /etc/ppp/options file. Better to put it in the provider file, so that it won't apply to all connections. -- John HaslerThis postin

Re: connection

1998-09-03 Thread john
Michael Underwood writes: > is there a package available that would allow me to make a serial > connection to a unix box (from com1), via my Debian PC? Do you have pppd on the Unix box? If so you can set up a ppp link and then just use the usual network tools. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PRO

Re: chatscript permissions

1998-09-04 Thread john
y members of the dip group are group readable. All the files in /etc/ppp are root:root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: chatscript permissions

1998-09-05 Thread john
t file is holding it back? The users must also have execute permission on /etc/chatscript. This a known bug in the ppp package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ping: sendto: Operation not permitted

1998-09-06 Thread john
id=0x16 magic= above> Looks normal enough. What does the rest look like? Have you tried pppconfig? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

How to setup NE-2000 PCI Ethernet Card

1998-09-08 Thread john
We have several of these cards, and they all installed without any arguments at all. Alex Kwan writes: > My LAN card was NE-2000 PCI (Realtek RTL-8029) > How to set up the Command Line Argument on > ne2k_pci module? Does anybody has this card too, > would you please share your experience wi

Re: How to setup NE-2000 PCI Ethernet Card

1998-09-08 Thread john
NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0x6c00, IRQ 12. eth1: PCI NE2000 found at 0x6c00, IRQ 12, 00:00:E8:4F:0D:1F. I repeat, this is with no parameters whatsoever. John Foster Kennedy Mutio writes: > I think I used the ne driver and used the arguments > > io=0x300

Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread john
Mason Loring Bliss writes: > 3) Is there an equivalent to the NetBSD practise of a nightly sup of > current sources? Look at apt, in unstable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: diald and ppp

1998-09-14 Thread john
Keith quotes me: > If you run pppconfig you can use the chatscript it generates for diald by > replacing > > connect "/etc/diald/connect" > > with > > connect "/etc/chatscripts/provider" That should be: connect "chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/p

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread john
sue is whether or not the device api set which the drivers > use to communicate with the windows operating system are proprietary or > not. Nobody has the right to forbid anyone the use of any api, published or not. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread john
of Pierce County farmers. > Maybe I'm wrong, but the world of Microsoft is not the world of Linux, > and the ownership of things in Gatesville is a lot more important than it > is in Linusland. It's money that matters in Gatesville. The only thing to be gained by sueing or 'hassling' me is bad publicity. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-16 Thread john
need to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject. Which is what should be at the bottom of every message. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: into the breach^h^h^h^h^h ppp once more

1998-09-17 Thread john
rets pppd will strip it off and send the bare password, but still log it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
${1:-provider} > But if I type pon bub (which is what I would have thought would've used > the "bub" connection), all that happens is the system thinks for a couple > of seconds and then returns me to a prompt. Send me copies of /etc/chatscripts/bub, /etc/ppp/peers/bub, /etc/ppp/p

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
pect' string. When pppd runs chat, it connects chat to the modem. When you run chat from the command line, it writes to the display and reads the keyboard. Try 'chat "" ATZ OK ATDT(phonenum)' again, but this time respond to the 'ATZ' with 'OK'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
respond to 'ATZ' with 'OK'. Try connecting to the modem with minicom to see what is going on. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
l: see my previous message. When pppd runs chat, chat sends 'ATZ' to the modem and then waits for up to 45 seconds for the 'OK' response. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ppp problems

1998-09-17 Thread john
s already. chmod g+x /etc/chatscripts . -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertis

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
Kent West writes: > I just tried 115200 per your suggestion. The modem did not respond in any > way. So I tried 38400, and the modem dials. So I guess the fast speed > just couldn't handshake with the slow modem. 57600 is probably the fastest speed your 14.4 modem can handle. -

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
ervers in /etc/resolv.conf? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: hamm ppp questions

1998-09-18 Thread john
link is up. To make it stop edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and comment out the 'debug' option. Do the above experiment first, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: control characters with bit 8 high & ppp

1998-09-20 Thread john
"high" control characters to the > asyncmap? Take a look at the 'escape' option. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don'

Re: configuring my kernel

1998-09-20 Thread john
ttle blip > comes across the screen. The blip says something about 'root no such > user'. This is a bug in the install program. It seems to be harmless, and I don't think it is related to your problem. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL

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