Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-10-23 Thread Greg Vence
Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > I don't think it has already been reported on this mailing list, > anyway, just for who is letting the rc5v2 client run: > www.distributed.net > gives details. Ok, maybe the Linux community started late and we were > not > the greatest contributors, but we _did_

Re: What happened to rpc.portmap?

1997-10-23 Thread Rob MacWilliams
I just put an older copy of rpc.portmap back onto this system and everything seems to be fine now. dpkg -S /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap returns netbase, so I think I found some of the problem. The new netbase doesn't have rpc.portmap, only portmap, and dselect deleted the older version :-). This

Re: Redhat -> Debian PCI problems

1997-10-23 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
Thanks to everyone - the problem is solved. It turns out that the I had wrong broadcast address. I am so ashamed of myself - but I want to thank evryone for respong so speedily and helping me figure out what could be wrong. /---

Re: alien problem (bo)

1997-10-23 Thread Adam Shand
> I think this was fixed by a newer version of dpkg-dev. You might need to try > the version from unstable. I was having these problems and upgraded alien, rpm and dpkg-dev to the below versions and everything seems honkey dorey now. Thanks, Adam. ii alien 5.18 Install Red H

PPP 2.3 from hamm/hamm (unstable)

1997-10-23 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater [Andy]
Does this break under kernel 2.0.30 or do I just need to check out the syntax for new files: having set this up once, all that happened was that the modem hung. Still running unstable 24/7 and happy. Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTEC

Logging to debian...

1997-10-23 Thread Tony D. Koehn
I got a Terminal server that I am trying to get it to log on my Debian machine. I can't seem to get it to work. I added to my syslog.conf file. local7.*-/var/log/ts.log My Terminal Server should be set write for logging to my machine. Computone looked at it and made an

Router installation

1997-10-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Howdy.. I just purchased an Ascend Pipeline 25fx and I wish to connect it to my Linux machine through a hub. I also want to allow my roommate's Win95 machine access to the internet. I do not know where to start or what exactly needs to be done. The router has an ethernet interface and bridge/r

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-23 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Ok, congrats for you nice keyboard. I heard a PSR-don'tRememberWhichNow years ago and the sounds were nice. Don't get slave to gadgets though! get Mark E. Boling, "The jazz theory workbook", Advance Music... other books if you want, one especially good for pianists. If you learn jazz you can face

Help with network connection

1997-10-23 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
Hi, I dont quite know how to explain my problem. But here it goes: I have just installed Debian on the network but I cannot telnet outside. Somehow the DNS server is accessed because it interpretes the addresses correctly but does not connect. I have an ethernet card and I am on a network. Anyt

bash2.01 & Xfree86: how to make Backspace really be KeySym backspace??

1997-10-23 Thread Steve Hsieh
Hi, I'm going to repeat this post again, since it seems annoying that someone else should have encountered this problem, but no one replied the first time. In summary, xfree86 as shipped in debian appears to have backspace and delete both bound to the Delete KeySym, so it's not possible to generat

Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-23 Thread joost witteveen
> Hey Bruce, > > > You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt, > > which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason, [.. lots removed ..] > Maybe I'm missing something here (possibly the enormity of the battle on > 'our' hands... and I mean that serio

Re: Debian ppp server how-to?

1997-10-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 1997 at 01:10:25AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 05:15:08PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd auth +pap login modem :Y.Y.Y.Y > > > where Y.Y.Y.Y is what you want the caller's IP address to be

Re: Sound

1997-10-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 04:54:23PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Forget it. Get the kernel-package*.deb Install it, and use it (read the > > doc!) Here is a hint: > > > > # make menuconfig > > # make-kpkg -r custom_1.0 kernel_image >

Re: Redhat -> Debian PCI problems

1997-10-23 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > Did you try with kernel 2.0.31 ? It has a bunch of updated PCI devices > and network drivers (amongst others). Phil. No I actually tried 2.0.30. I had to swap hard drives (dirty stuff) because the machine I am trying to fix cannot talk to the outside

Re: Redhat -> Debian PCI problems

1997-10-23 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Now my question is - does it mean that Debian pci drivers are older that > > those in Redhat? Why would Redhat work and not Debian? Is the differences > > that deep? I always thougth the differences were minor. > > The drivers are in the kernel, not in a

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 04:45:14PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > 2.1.59 has that "problem" too, 2.0.29 too... it is just "out of memory" > > > (I recently reduced swap partition from 33Mb to 8Mb as it nearly never > > > worked - 32 Mb ram

Re: X upgrade

1997-10-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 12:05:16PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi, > > >From my mirror I see that the setup for X has changed considerably. I am > wondering what is the correct procedure to upgrade. I have X 3.3-4 > Here is what i think i should do. > > First upgrade xlib6 to 3.3.1-1, then

[Q] Cyrix 6x86L

1997-10-23 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hi I just upgraded to the latest unstable (libc6) stuff. Including October 18 version of gcc -- now every time I try to compile anything I get sig 11 and interneal compiler error. Also tar -zxpvf on many files that I have returns an error that CRC check failed (it worked ok on those packages befor

Re: make dep errors

1997-10-23 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Thalia L. Hooker wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to build a new kernel after installing a new base system. After > 'make config', I get this error message when I try to 'make dep': > > gcc -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o > scripts/mkdep scrip

Redhat -> Debian PCI problems

1997-10-23 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
Hi, I was recently asked to take over the sys admin of a linux server box. I immediately installed Debian 1.3.1 from the net instead of running the recently installed Redhat system. My idea was that since I use and like Debian it should be a piece-of-cake to get everything working. Well I was wrong

Re: Redhat -> Debian PCI problems

1997-10-23 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 23 Oct 1997 22:22:38 +0200 "Daniel J. Mashao" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > Now my question is - does it mean that Debian pci drivers are older that > > > those in Redhat? Why would Redhat work and not Debian? Is the differences > > > that deep

Re: Redhat -> Debian PCI problems

1997-10-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > Hi, > I was recently asked to take over the sys admin of a linux server box. I > immediately installed Debian 1.3.1 from the net instead of running the > recently installed Redhat system. My idea was that since I use and like > Debian it should be a p

Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...

1997-10-23 Thread Adam Shand
> The problem with this is that, if we were to embrace KDE now, > we implicidly also say "Programming for Qt is good", and thus > more people start programming for Qt. Then when GNOME/Berlin/WhatEver > comes out, we cannot switch anymore. Hmmm... not sure I buy that... but it's an interesting twis

Re: Sound

1997-10-23 Thread Jens Kerle
hm... i had to execute the script at the end of /usr/src/linux/Documentation/README.sound (right name and place?) to make the devices. Jens Jens Kerle e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WW

Re: Kernel Sources / Links needed ??

1997-10-23 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > I've heard that it might not be a good idea to create the 3 links > that the kernel sources ask for ?? Correct, for the reason why, read /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO

Kernel Sources / Links needed ??

1997-10-23 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I've heard that it might not be a good idea to create the 3 links that the kernel sources ask for ?? Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .