Re: [techtalk] PPPd, pcmcia network, debian, clueless

2000-11-30 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
>You could try the following: > >In your /etc/ppp/options file try > >ipcp-accept-remote >ipcp-accept-local >defaultroute > >This should allow your host to accept what your isp is giving you for >defaults and allow the isp to temporarily override your default route. I added the above three lines

[techtalk] PPPd, pcmcia network, debian, clueless

2000-11-26 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
I don't know if this'll get through, probably not, since I'm sending from a webmail adress (an evil one, even - OT: anyone have a good suggestion for good email? My regular popmail is expiring next month). Anyway, I was at a LAN the other day and used my network card for the first time. Some l

Re: [techtalk] Testing (Was: Re: Technical issues)

2000-11-22 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Laurel wrote: Scenario: You are designing a test plan for a small to medium sized (say, 5 core developers, 20,000 lines of code) open source/free software project. All of your fellow developers recognize the wisdom of testing, but some have no experience in more formal (meaning 'or

Re: [techtalk] apt-got xfree 4.0.1

2000-11-08 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Aaron wrote: Well, it'd be nice to have some more information -- what exactly were the steps you took in upgrading, what does X say when it refuses to start, etc. I was already running unstable, I was just doing my regular: apt-get update apt-get upgrade But anyway, here's my experie

Re: [techtalk] Lilo (or is it mbr?) woes

2000-11-08 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Laurel wrote: Yeah, the mbr manpage is sort of confusing, since it has about 50 options that you probably don't care about. Try install-mbr /dev/hda which should just install the debian mbr on /dev/hda, and then run lilo with the boot and root as the partition. I did this, but n

[techtalk] apt-got xfree 4.0.1

2000-11-08 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Well, I heard that Xfree 4.0.1 was coming in to debian-unstable, and that it was foolish to upgrade. I am that fool. :) Now, X doesn't start, what are the steps to get it running? Sunnan (I have a notebook screen and I read somewhere that Xfree 4 would not flicker as the old one does when combin

Re: [techtalk] Lilo (or is it mbr?) woes

2000-11-07 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
kent wrote: > I think "boot=" should be pointed to /dev/hda. > Try adding - > boot=/dev/hda > to /etc/lilo.conf > and run /sbin/lilo again. Laurel wrote: It doesn't have to be. (I have mine as boot and root both /dev/hda3) I think it's something to do with the debian mbr,

Re: [techtalk] Lilo (or is it mbr?) woes

2000-11-06 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
kent wrote: I don't know why the labels wouldn't change. Have your pointed lilo.conf to your new kernel as well? Why don't you post your lilo.conf so we can take a look. Yeah, I used the debian kernel-package to change my lilo.conf, but I checked it manually, and it seems pointed corr

[techtalk] Lilo (or is it mbr?) woes

2000-11-06 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
I haven't had any problems with this on other distros, so this might or mightn't be debian specific. The problem is that updating lilo doesn't seem to work. The labels I currently have running, the ones I can choose between at boot, are pglfb and h. The former is my linuxpartition, and the lat

Re: [techtalk] RE: Not using Netscape

2000-10-06 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Curious wrote [about lynx] Comments: probably the most famous cli browser though it's quite heavy and less able to properly present webpages with tables/frames Now, I haven't tried links, but the reason I use lynx over w3m (I have both installed, use both, but lynx a *lot* more) is that

Re: Not using Netscape (was Re: [techtalk] Re: SMP on Linux (lockups))

2000-10-05 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Jason wrote: The new builds of Mozilla are getting very good. I've switched to it as my standard browser now. Check out a new nightly build. It also has a full featured IMAP mail client. I have it installed for pages that need it, but it really eats a lot of memory. I use lavaps and

[techtalk] Mail configurations

2000-09-17 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Hello, everybody, I have been having trouble with my mail configuration since day one. Here is the situation; I have my mail with one isp (swipnet), and use another to dial up. My old isp doesn't allow me to use the SMTP server, so I want to use my own computer for sending. I configured exim wi

Re: [techtalk] package conflicts

2000-09-11 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Helena wrote: > /usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-wav.kdelnk from install of RealPlayer-7.0-7 > conflicts with file from package kdebase-1.1.2-33 Caity wrote: .kdelnk is a KDE Link file, used by menus and KFM/Konqueror. It is not critical in any way. At worst, you'll lose a menu entry. N