Re: [techtalk] sound probs

2000-01-25 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
None of the following are necessarily solutions -- just a couple of thoughts about things you might look at. On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:02:54PM -0500, Nicole wrote: > My soundcard won't work in debian, not sure what kind of soundcard I have, > when I boot into windows, all it says is ES1879 Plug

[techtalk] Permissions kppp?

2000-01-25 Thread Sunnanvind
What permissions should kppp have? Who should be the owner? I can dialup as root, but if I try to use kppp as a user, it dials, then the ppp deamon "dies unexpectedly". I know that this is in the help file, but I've lost that. Sunnan -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind I am you. [E

RE: [techtalk] Really weird computer troubles

2000-01-25 Thread Brian Engle
what brand of network card do you have in the linux box? this is a long shot, but I was having the worst time getting a ne2000 to work under RH 6.1, apparently RH decided to take out the autoprobe option from the ne2000 kernel module, so it wouldn't detect an ne2000 that wasn't plug-n-praymy n

Re: [techtalk] Permissions kppp?

2000-01-25 Thread Nicole
I use ppp, but I always sudo to use ppp, i.e. at the command line, type 'sudo pppd' are you can just su to root and then do it. I was under the impression that it is a bad idea to be able to have any user have permissions to ppp. I forget why, I am sure someone told me a while, I am sure somethin

Re: [techtalk] Newbie question

2000-01-25 Thread Beverly Guillermo
Can you do anything else while you online? Try telnetting into your ISP. If you get unresolved host, you may need to enter a DNS entry from you ISP this should be placed in /etc/resolv.conf Beverly On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm a linux newbie and have been lu

[techtalk] Speaking of wierd computer problems

2000-01-25 Thread Brian Engle
I've been having some odd problems with my keyboard lately. It used to be, when I typed a long string of characters on the command line, or in a text file, and held the backspace key down or an arrow key, it would backspace until I took my finger off of the key. Saturday morning I came down to fin

Re: [techtalk] Speaking of wierd computer problems

2000-01-25 Thread pete
> press the backspace key for every character. same for the arrow keys. I > haven't done a whole lot of testing, I don't know if it works similary for > other characters. The computer dual boots windows, but I haven't booted into If it does the same for all chars, I'd suspect that your keyboard r

Re: [techtalk] sound probs

2000-01-25 Thread J B
Your soundcard is an Ensonic 1879. Creative Labs bought Ensonic...good luck finding a driver that worksCreative is not doing legacy support very well. My soundcard won't work in debian, not sure what kind of soundcard I have, when I boot into windows, all it says is ES1879 Plug and P

[techtalk] RH6.0 2eth cards

2000-01-25 Thread moebius
Hey All, I'm having a problem with RH6.0 and was wondering if anyone could help me. I have 2 ethernet cards, the first eth0 uses module (3c509), the second eth1 uses module (hp-plus) which has a dependence on (8390). My conf.modules is set up like so: alias eth0 3c509 alias eth1 hp-plus Upo

Re: [techtalk] Permissions kppp?

2000-01-25 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:22:45 +0100, Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >What permissions should kppp have? >Who should be the owner? >I can dialup as root, but if I try to use kppp as a user, it dials, then the >ppp deamon "dies unexpectedly". >I know that this is in the help file, but I've lo

Re: [techtalk] MP3's and my laptop

2000-01-25 Thread Marie Fischer
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Terri Oda wrote: > celeron under the hood) using a maestro sound card. It plays CDs > beautifully and seems to have no problem with wav files or anything > else... until I come to mp3's. Winamp skips, as did the other player I > tried in windows, as do mpg123 and xmms under

RE: [techtalk] Really weird computer troubles

2000-01-25 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
It was taking too long to delete all the unnecessary included lines from my previous message, so: I have a USR sportster 56k ISA modem. It's currently working to connect me through kppp. There's something weird in the chat script, is all I can figure. THe computers are connected through a NetGe

Re: [techtalk] RH6.0 2eth cards

2000-01-25 Thread Wendy_Winslow
What does dmesg say? And you said having alias eth0 hp-plus alias eth1 3c509 ...in /etc/conf.modules fails to brings up both interfaces nicely? wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/25/2000 09:19:12 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: techtalk <[EM

Re: [techtalk] RH6.0 2eth cards

2000-01-25 Thread moebius
Hey Wendy, dmesg reports failed initialization of eth1. Really nothing more. My conf.modules is exactly as below and still I can't figure it out for the life of me. Manual loading of the 3com works like a charm. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > What does dmesg say? And you said having > >

Re: [techtalk] Speaking of wierd computer problems

2000-01-25 Thread Sunnanvind
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Brian Engle wrote: > my computer turned off, I can only assume my son (8 months old) had > inadvertently flipped the power switch, My computer was inadvertently off monday morning - the power cord wasn't in properly. You might've had a power failure - is the vcr clock blinki

Re: [techtalk] RH6.0 2eth cards

2000-01-25 Thread Wendy_Winslow
Forgive me for asking the *basic* questions, but where did you put 3c509.o? /lib/modules//net? Also, do you have the interfaces configured on boot-up? What happens when you take the aliases out? Can you compile the drivers into the kernel, or do you have to use modules? Let me know how it go

Re: [techtalk] RH6.0 2eth cards

2000-01-25 Thread moebius
Hey Wendy, No problem, when the light bulb goes out if you check the fuse box first you might be jumping the gun ;) Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Forgive me for asking the *basic* questions, but where did you put 3c509.o? Yes, the modules are located in the correct directory > /lib/modules//ne

[techtalk] printer probs with 2.2.13 and lpd

2000-01-25 Thread Dakota Surmonde
Yup. I live :) So, I upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36 to 2.2.13 (yeah yeah, and this was a few months ago..can we say the cobbler's children go without shoes? ) and the printer quit working. It worked fine previously. In part, this was because the parallel port moved from lp1 to lp0 (why, I dunno

Re: [techtalk] printer probs with 2.2.13 and lpd

2000-01-25 Thread Laurel Fan
Does printcap mention the correct port? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Really weird computer troubles

2000-01-25 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 24-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] Really weird.. by Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > The problem lies somewhere between eth0 (my computer) and eth1 (the mac 4 > feet away). They don't want to talk to each other. Silly machines. Do they know what they are (have the correct ips for th

Re: [techtalk] printer probs with 2.2.13 and lpd

2000-01-25 Thread Dakota Surmonde
yeah. /etc/printcap looks like (sans comments) lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lp0: and catting to /dev/lp0 works :(... Vinnie On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Laurel Fan wrote: > Does printcap mention the correct port? > > > [EMAIL PR

Re: [techtalk] Really weird computer troubles

2000-01-25 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Jan 25, Laurel Fan conjectured: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 24-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] Really weird.. by > Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > > The problem lies somewhere between eth0 (my computer) and eth1 (the mac 4 > > feet away). They don't want to talk to each other. Silly machines. > > Do they

[techtalk] Introduction, and Question

2000-01-25 Thread Suzanne Messina
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Re: [techtalk] Introduction, and Question

2000-01-25 Thread Jennifer
> I've seen HP units, Compaq units, but those have been generally for HP > Netservers or..well, Compaq I just can't swallow (bad experiences). I heard today that Compaq was going to be putting FreeBSD on their machines.. So soon you can actually purchase a Compaq box loaded with FreeBSD n stuf