more ?s on ISDN and PPP ...

1998-02-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Hi, A while ago I posted a question on how to set up a TA to use sync mode, etc. from within chat. I now have the init string for my TA, but chat gags on it. The output from ppp is useless. It just exits with no error. The init string is AT$N1=1, which works from within minicom and I can displ

56k voice modem compatible with debian/vgetty

1998-02-14 Thread Colin R. Telmer
Sorry if this is a little off topic, but I have immediately by a modem for my debian (unstable) machine within the next two days. Given I have to do this, I thought I would get check out a voice modem - Is there a good 56k internal voice modem that is compatible with vgetty? Is there one that does

Re: Debian and FHS?

1998-02-14 Thread Joel Klecker
At 17:08 +0100 1998-02-14, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: >At the moment Debian follows the directory structure found in the >FSSTND. > >Are there any plans to follow FHS in the near future? It is intended that Debian 2.1 follow the FHS, with the exception that /var/lib/dpkg will not be moved to /var/sta

Re: Release names??

1998-02-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Please excues the question, but as a matter of interest, where are the names for the Debian releases derived? i.e. bo, hamm etc?? Characters from _Toy Story_ by Pixar. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Release names??

1998-02-14 Thread maor
Please excues the question, but as a matter of interest, where are the names for the Debian releases derived? i.e. bo, hamm etc?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

NFS mounting problem

1998-02-14 Thread Rob Duncan
I'm having some problems mounting with NFS. The baffling thing is that the client machine (aidan) can happily mount two other directories from the server (miles), but consistently balks on this one. Here's what I start with on aidan: aidan# mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type

Re: True Type fonts for X11?

1998-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I finally got PPP working and got Navigator 4.04 installed and was > shocked to see how ugly the fonts were! They are these tiny little > pixelated things that are stressful to the eyes to read. Even as I am > typing this I am appalled! Where can I g

Re: installed ksmbfs pkg, where is smbclient

1998-02-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Richard B. Talley wrote: : I can't find smbclient or smbmount anywhere on the system. I've been : through all the FAQ's and HOWTO's. Try the samba package: hamm/hamm/binary-i386/net/samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb bye, Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

installed ksmbfs pkg, where is smbclient

1998-02-14 Thread Richard B. Talley
Howdy, I wanted to add a Linux box to my home network so I dragged out an old 386 and downloaded the latest stable Debian release. I enabled smb support when I installed the kernal. Installation and smoke test went fine. I used dselect to install the ksmbfs pkg. (I want to mount some of my win

Re: True Type fonts for X11?

1998-02-14 Thread Shaleh
First, my Netscape looks just fine. Second there is a true-type font server being worked on. There is a package for hamm, it is a little new though. The server is call xfstt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EM

True Type fonts for X11?

1998-02-14 Thread Christopher Barry
I finally got PPP working and got Navigator 4.04 installed and was shocked to see how ugly the fonts were! They are these tiny little pixelated things that are stressful to the eyes to read. Even as I am typing this I am appalled! Where can I get more fonts, most importantly True Type fonts? I got

AZTECH 2320 PnP sound card howto ?

1998-02-14 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, i'm thinking about adding driver into linux for my Aztech 2320 PnP 16bit sound card. I've read Sound-HOWTO and looks like Aztech cards are unsupported ;( Is it true? If no, what's the right way to set up trhis card? >From Win'95 control panel - three devices: - aztech 2320 sound device (us

Debian and FHS?

1998-02-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
At the moment Debian follows the directory structure found in the FSSTND. Are there any plans to follow FHS in the near future? The biggest change I found is that /var/lib completely disappears (well it is deprecated now and to be removed in the feature) and is replaced by /var/state. The in

Re: wanted packages

1998-02-14 Thread Adam Shand
> I see that you appear not to be using a "fuzzy search" but the > referenced site is pretty impressive. As in most searches finding the > right 'key word(s)' can be tricky but this program is fast enough that a > few iterations is not at all a problem! Correct. We will probably upgrade it to i

Re: Xanim.....

1998-02-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have a Matrox Millenium 4MB video board with the regular SVGA X-server. I suggest upgrading to the XSuse Matrox server available at http://www.suse.com. It solved some problems for me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl

Xanim.....

1998-02-14 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Thanks for everyones help with the PPP problem. It's fixed now. :). I recently installed the XAnim package; I've tried playing AVI,MOV and MPG files. All of them play black & white, criss crossed with lines, and distorted with multiple outlines of the animation at different offsets. When I add the

RZ1000 error...?

1998-02-14 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I'm installing Debian 1.3.1 from the Infomagic Developer's Resource CD (Aug 97, kernel 2.0.29) on an old p5-60 with an Opti chipset and AMIBIOS (C)1992, Version 1.00.09AF2. The machine was an oldie and not-so-goodie (FDIV bug and all), but hopefully it's still a usable machine. Anyway, I'm

Sound card install...?

1998-02-14 Thread tsnake
I ran out of IDE controllers on my machine so I decided tosteal the SB from my fiance's computer to hopefully be able to use the IDE comtroller on it so I can actually use my CDROM drive. Anyway, I can't seem to get the computer to noticethe C Drive is there, and I'm not even sure if it knows the s

SGML - can one create new DTDs using Debian tools?

1998-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
I want to create a new DTD to describe a set of documents that I have created. I can see how to describe the document in a DTD but I do not understand how the formatters can be instructed how to present the newly defined tags. Is this possible, or is any one formatter restricted to interpreting a

Re: OSS setup

1998-02-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> This is from the OSS linux-x86 page. This does not sound right based on > how debian does other things. Could we perhpas offer a better solution > to them. > The URL is: http://www.opensound.com/linux-x86.html > BEGIN QUOTE: <...> It was already discussed. The better solution was indeed propos

OSS setup

1998-02-14 Thread Shaleh
This is from the OSS linux-x86 page. This does not sound right based on how debian does other things. Could we perhpas offer a better solution to them. The URL is: http://www.opensound.com/linux-x86.html BEGIN QUOTE: Debian Linux installation Notes: In order to get OSS installed on Debian Linux

Re: wtmp

1998-02-14 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello Dennis, = dpk wrote: > > I have seen posts on this before, but can't seem to find them in the > mail archives. I upgraded to libc6 (hamm), deleted /var/adm/lastlog,utmp, > wtmp - rebooted. As root I touched these files, did a 'login', and > I then appeared in the 'last' comman

Re: Masquerade_Domain

1998-02-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
eugene mendoza hat gesagt: // eugene mendoza wrote: > > I'm using mc file to configure sendmail.cf. > When the MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(XYZ.FOO.COM.AU) > is wriiten into the mc file it comes back with > the error A= argument required > Anyone know where i've gone wrong. > Regards, > Eugene I am no se

Re: On the fly compression with ext2

1998-02-14 Thread Bill Leach
Torsten; As you suggested might be possible the URL has changed: http://www.netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr/ -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more y

Re: wanted packages

1998-02-14 Thread Bill Leach
I see that you appear not to be using a "fuzzy search" but the referenced site is pretty impressive. As in most searches finding the right 'key word(s)' can be tricky but this program is fast enough that a few iterations is not at all a problem! Adam Shand wrote: > > > > Am I missing something?

gs question

1998-02-14 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
[ Due to the high volume, I'm not subscribed to this list. Please send reply to my private address. Thanks! ] To my dismay, I discovered that the Debian version of gs does not have the escp2 driver compiled in. I have an Epson LQ-300, which supports ESC/P2. I can print with the epson driver, bu

Re: isdnutils error

1998-02-14 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hello, >> >> At boot up, when "/etc/init.d/isdnutils start" is executed, there >> comes an error message: "isdn_ppp_bind: can't find usable ippp device" >> Then the ppp-connection is started and works. >> The connnection is then ALWAYS up. The isdnutils scripts takes in /etc/isdn/device.ippp0

Re: isdnutils error

1998-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At boot up, when "/etc/init.d/isdnutils start" is executed, there > comes an error message: "isdn_ppp_bind: can't find usable ippp device" Do you have /dev/ippp* ? You can do a "/dev/MAKEDEV isdn-tty isdn-io isd

Adaptec 274x

1998-02-14 Thread Gabriel Millerd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to get Debian's rescue disk to handle my Adaptec 2740 (EISA SCSI)... the boot argument ("boot: linux aic7xxx=no_reset") is not working. What am I doing wrong? The following is the last output before kernel panic occurs. Note I have

Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

1998-02-14 Thread Matt Kennedy
-Original Message- From: Oliver Elphick To: Matt Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, February 12, 1998 6:08 AM Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse problem >My problem is that I don't know where to tell programs like gpm or X >Windows where the mouse is actu

samba user-level access

1998-02-14 Thread Chris
Hi, Firstly, excuse me if this is off the topic. I am having problems getting user-level access to work from win95 clients to our debian linux server, which is running samba. The machine is configured as the domain controller, with the security=user option set. However when I try to use user-l

Re: On the fly compression with ext2

1998-02-14 Thread Anthony Fok
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > > There is a Debian package called e2compr including a kernel patch and > > an update chattr. > > Hello Torsen > This is a great notice for me! thanks for your info! > It will help me a lot! However, just a warning that the e2compr package

More .pdf IRS forms printing problems

1998-02-14 Thread Paul Tanner
After downgrading gs-aladdin it printed OK! ___ Some details: Using gv I displayed (note: it displayed correctly) the .pdf of the 4835 tax form. I marked page 1 and clicked 'print marked pages'. It started to print and stalled after printing the top 1 inch. I have recently (partially)

Re: BASH question

1998-02-14 Thread Scott McDermott
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 09:50:28AM -0700, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > 1) /bin/bash : No such file name > 2) /bin/bash : Invalid file or directorypr <<--where part of the error > message includes the last few characters of each line in the shell > script. /bin/sh is not linked to /bin/bash correc

Possible SYN flood

1998-02-14 Thread Krzysztof Adamski
Hi, can somebody explain this messages from my log file, the xxx.xxx.xxx.110 is an alias address to the machine, and there is a web site on it. The weird thing is that this messages always start at 17:45 EST Is there anything that can be done on the boarder router to stop this. Feb 9 17:44:00 bro

isdnutils error : I USE HAMM

1998-02-14 Thread Florian Attenberger
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isdnutils error

1998-02-14 Thread Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Hello, At boot up, when "/etc/init.d/isdnutils start" is executed, there comes an error message: "isdn_ppp_bind: can't find usable ippp device" Then the ppp-connection is started and works. The connnection is then ALWAYS up. Then i stop isdn "isdnutils stop" and restart "isdnutils start" manually