ISP

1998-11-06 Thread Lazar Fleysher
HI Could some one tell me how to set up an ISP on Linux. I remember seeing a howto on the subject, but can not seem to find it. How to apply for IPaddresses? Thank you ZORO Take these broken wings and learn to fly...

Re: Netscape and $XNLSPATH

1998-11-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > Tres Hofmeister wrote: > > > > > > On 1998.11.05, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > : > > > : Craig R. Hodges wrote: > > > : > > > > : > I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink. > > > : > When I attempt to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the

Re: Microphone always on!

1998-11-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On 6 Nov 1998, Gossamer wrote: > > I'm perplexed. > > My microphone seems to have grown a direct connection to the > speakers, even though I'm not running (AFAIK) any mic-using > apps! It's great for impromptu kareoke but really ... > > It's a SB16 card, I have the usual kernel drivers and I'm

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-06 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Patrick Ouellette; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > rumor has it that you need to update the bootsector file whenever you update > your kernel. > this is very true... I am using same method with the exception of the line added to the boot.ini; I just have a line that reads: C:\bootsect.

Re: Yet another lilo question!!!

1998-11-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > What I want to do is very simple. Yet i can't find a solution to the > problem. Here is the situation. (I am asking for someone else i may not > have all the correct informatiofn) > partion my drive with the following > hda1 win98 4gig > hda2/

Re: Netscape 3 & cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
cd wrote, > How about: > ~$ rm .netscape/cookies > ~$ ln -s /dev/null .netscape/cookies > At least that's where version 4.5's cookies file is. works beautifully on 3, for linux, unix, and mac. Been doing it for a few years now. rick --

Re: Microphone always on!

1998-11-06 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, > My microphone seems to have grown a direct connection to the > speakers, even though I'm not running (AFAIK) any mic-using > apps! It's great for impromptu kareoke but really ... > Same here. I think it's a "feature" Sasha.

Re: Lpd dying

1998-11-06 Thread wb2oyc
Make certain there is a spool file, and the name is the same as the print queue. Check /var/log/messages too. Paul

compiling a lesstif program

1998-11-06 Thread Andrew & Julie Daws
Hi folks, I am just starting to play around with programming under linux, and am curious to know just what options I need to use with cc for it to find the lesstif libraries, header files etc. Currently I have tried -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXm -lXt -lX11 and some variations on th

non-free archive?

1998-11-06 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I want download much of the non-free software but I don't want to have to get one package at at time. Is there a download-able disk image or something similar the split Hamm images for this software? Thanks, Wayne

Re: Netscape and $XNLSPATH

1998-11-06 Thread Kevin Atkinson
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Tres Hofmeister wrote: > > > > On 1998.11.05, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > : > > : Craig R. Hodges wrote: > > : > > > : > I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink. > > : > When I attempt to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the following error: > > : > > > : > netscape:

Re: hi

1998-11-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 10:30:56PM +0100, Michael Hofmann wrote: > Hallo > > ich habe eine Mahnung in Höhe von 34 DM bekommen. > Und zwar von meiner Bestellung im September von Linux > GNU. Da diese Bestellung aber nicht angekommen ist und > ich in einigen Newsservern über schlechte Liefereigensc

Re: Netscape 3 & cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Chris Dale
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 05:53:12PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without > prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights > try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. How about: ~$ rm .netsca

Microphone always on!

1998-11-06 Thread Gossamer
I'm perplexed. My microphone seems to have grown a direct connection to the speakers, even though I'm not running (AFAIK) any mic-using apps! It's great for impromptu kareoke but really ... It's a SB16 card, I have the usual kernel drivers and I'm running Festival for speech synth. bekj --

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Markus M. Schneider wrote: > > > Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > > > I recently upgraded as well but now communicator fails with a bus > > > error. I've also upgraded to the latest libc and X packages in > > > unstable. > > > > > > Has anyone else s

Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011

1998-11-06 Thread Henry Kingman
Greetings, I've been following this list for about a month or so and as a unix know-nuthin' have found lots of good advice and tips. So, first off, thanks! Now on to the problem! A while back I set up a bo system on an abandoned 586 that was sitting off in a corner somewhere, and set it up wit

Re: Netscape and $XNLSPATH

1998-11-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tres Hofmeister wrote: > > On 1998.11.05, Ed Cogburn wrote: > : > : Craig R. Hodges wrote: > : > > : > I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink. > : > When I attempt to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the following error: > : > > : > netscape: locale `C' not supported. > : > : The pr

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:22:39AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On 6 Nov 1998, Peter Makholm wrote: > > > > > Falling by the wayside? > > He also compares Debian to Slackware as having to "roll your own" stuff. > As if Debian does not have a package manager. It looks like the Microsoft > people

Re: Netscape 3 & cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard Harran. wrote: > > Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without > prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights > try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. > > Cheers > Rich > If your willing to upgrade,

using 2 graphics cards and screens

1998-11-06 Thread Groumph
Hi, I have a computer with an ATI XPERT graphic card that works fine under debian. I have also an old screen and a Cirus logic graphic card. I'd like to know, is it possible to have a x server running on both cards, on two different screens, in the same time ? Using for example the second s

Re: enlightement on debian 2.0 hamm cd?

1998-11-06 Thread Will Lowe
> I am installing Debian 2.0 (hamm) from cd, but I don't see the > Enlightenment package on there... Am I just missing it, or was I > mistaken in thinking it was on there? Enlightenment wasn't really out until Hamm had been frozen. You can grab it off the web out of the slink distribution, thoug

hi

1998-11-06 Thread Michael Hofmann
Hallo   ich habe eine Mahnung in Höhe von 34 DM bekommen. Und zwar von meiner Bestellung im September von Linux GNU. Da diese Bestellung aber nicht angekommen ist und ich in einigen Newsservern über schlechte Liefereigenschaften von ihnen Erfahren habe, habe ich mir inzwischen Linux S.U.

enlightement on debian 2.0 hamm cd?

1998-11-06 Thread Kendrick Myatt
I am installing Debian 2.0 (hamm) from cd, but I don't see the Enlightenment package on there... Am I just missing it, or was I mistaken in thinking it was on there? TIA! -Kendrick

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 01:27:13 Kevin Grant writes: > > Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to > find a command shell (like csh or xterm or whatever) that > gives me a little scroll bar on the side so I can use the > mouse to scroll back and see what happened before. Are > there

Re: Netscape 3 & cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Tommi Kaariainen
"J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You don't have to do that if you make the cookie database (cookies.txt in > > ~/.netscape directory if I remember correctly) a symbolic link to /dev/null > > Aren't cookies cached in memory? Now that you mention it... Does anyone know are

Re: How can I create my own CD's?

1998-11-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 10:32:31AM -0800, Ty Mixon wrote: > how I can make my own CD-ROM set of the current Debian Distribution Grab the official images and use them. A list of mirrors carrying the images is at http://cdimage.debian.org/ . Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[E

debian KDE: kscd's CDDB access broken?

1998-11-06 Thread Rob Collins
the kscd that comes with the KDE debian install can not connect to any CDDB database. I'm sure it is a problem with the version of kscd (I read that v 1.2. works, but previous releases had problems) -- I want to upgrade minimally to get a working version of kscd. Does anyone know what needs to b

DNS woes

1998-11-06 Thread Gregory Dickinson
I'm resending this, I have reason to believe that it didn't go out the first time (if it did, pls excuse the repetition) # Greets all! Here's my (somewhat strange) situation, I hope someone can help. I have a 2.0 box configured as a DNS for our intranet. Said Debian bo

Problems compiling

1998-11-06 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Mario Filipe writes: > Hi Everyone > > Can someone explainwhy the following happens : > > 14:53:09# gcc -O2 -o iwconfig iwconfig.c -lm > /tmp/ccc10981: In function `float2freq': > /tmp/ccc10981(.text+0x53): undefined reference to `pow10' > /tmp/ccc10981: In function `freq2float': > /

majordomo stop working after installed sendmail 8.9.1

1998-11-06 Thread Maurizio Marini
hi, after installed 8.9.1 majordomo stop to work with annoying - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - helpdesk-list :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/helpdesk (expanded from: helpdesk-list) - Transcript of session follows - 550 :include:/var/lib/majordomo/

How can I create my own CD's?

1998-11-06 Thread Ty Mixon
Ok, I'm brand new to Linux, as well as Debian. I've looked around and looked around and can't seem to find the answear. I'm getting a new computer next month, and I want to use Debian on it, but I am a little limited on funds. One of the things I will have, however, is a CD-R drive. So what

Re: Netscape and $XNLSPATH

1998-11-06 Thread Tres Hofmeister
On 1998.11.05, Ed Cogburn wrote: : : Craig R. Hodges wrote: : > : > I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink. : > When I attempt to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the following error: : > : > netscape: locale `C' not supported. : : The problem is a broken X package(s). There is p

Re: tty's under X (continued)

1998-11-06 Thread Max
You (Richard Hall) wrote: > I'm having the same problem ever since I upgraded to glibc6. I haven't > figured it out either, just wanted to let you know that you aren't alone. It turns out that xterm needs to be suid root. I figured this out after I noticed that rxvt and xvt didn't have this prob

Netscape crashes after dist-upgrade slink

1998-11-06 Thread Kevin Atkinson
I just did another dist-upgrade toward the slink distyribution and now netscape crashes before it even starts with this message. communicator-smotif.real: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly [... and after it loads for a few seconds...]

Yet another lilo question!!!

1998-11-06 Thread Paul McDermott
What I want to do is very simple. Yet i can't find a solution to the problem. Here is the situation. (I am asking for someone else i may not have all the correct informatiofn) partion my drive with the following hda1win98 4gig hda2/ 100megs hda2swap 64mgegs hda3/usr 2gi

Full name of a mailing list?

1998-11-06 Thread Antal Ritter
Hi, I'd like to set the full name of a mailing list created with SmartList. I can do it by defining a user in the passwd file and setting its gecos field, but I don't like this solution. Could somebody direct me how else can I do this? Thanks for your help,

Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-06 Thread stick
Carl Fink said > Note: copied to both Helge and the mailing list. > In linux.debian.user, helge.hafting wrote: > > >lredir always fail with an error code. > > Are you using Novell DOS or DR-DOS? At this time, lredir doesn't work > with those DOS flavors. I ended up deciding to boot off an hdima

xboard and kde

1998-11-06 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
Does anybody knows why xboard does not work properly with kde? I mean, the menu bar does not react to the mouse clicks. trhanks for any suggestiom. ric ___ Riccardo Tommasini University of Berne - Institute of Applied Physics - Laser

installation trouble

1998-11-06 Thread Richard Hall
I am trying to install Debian on a machine that had NT on it. I made a rescue disk (resc1440.bin), but when I boot with it, I get errors related to the SCSI controller. The machine loops indefinitely with this message: (scsi:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 16 during SELTO (scsi:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 255

Re: smb logs

1998-11-06 Thread Pere Camps
Mirek, > I use separate logfiles for client computers: >log file = /var/log/smb.%m.log > > They are created automaticaly by smbd. I don't suppose that problem is in > file permissions because smbd runs as root. It worked! It was a simple problem. I didn't have the 'log file' in t

Re: Netscape 3 & cookies

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 07:47:06PM +0200, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: > "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [junkbuster] > You don't have to do that if you make the cookie database (cookies.txt in > ~/.netscape directory if I remember correctly) a symbolic link to /dev/null Aren't co

Re: Netscape 3 & cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Tommi Kaariainen
"J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know if it can be done with netscape 3; in case it can't, you could > work around it by installing "junkbuster" on your box and using that as a > web proxy. You don't have to do that if you make the cookie database (cookies.txt in ~/.

Re: Netscape 3 & cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Dale E. Martin
"Richard Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without > prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights > try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. Sure - leave them enabled in your pref

netscape 'cannot perform malloc'

1998-11-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, after installing the new slink netscape binaries I get this error messages when starting the program: ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so: undefined symbol: FE_GetToplevelWidget Cant load plugin /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignore

Re: Netscape 3 & cookies

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 05:07:52PM +, Richard Harran. wrote: > Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without > prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights > try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. I don't know if it c

Netscape 3 & cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Richard Harran.
Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. Cheers Rich

More kernel problems

1998-11-06 Thread Cristov Russell
After recompiling my kernel I'm noticing some error messages during the boot concerning memory. Hoping that someone here could help me, I dumped the kern.log to the attached log.txt.file. If I should send something else please let me know. I also get an error about LD 4 which I believe is the St

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-06 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I had a similar problem. NT bootloader likes to control the system and load bootsectors from a file. You should be able to solve it with the following. Boot into Linux (use a rescue disk if your machine does not boot into Linux) Install Lilo on the LINUX PARTITION use dd to copy the boot secto

Re: Newer kernels

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 03:59:45PM +, Martin Oldfield wrote: > Has anyone packaged a more recent kernel than 2.0.35 ? No. There are no newer stable kernels than 2.0.35 at the moment (although the prepatches for 2.0.36 seem to be stabilising now); if you want to have packages for newer kernels

Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
Note: copied to both Helge and the mailing list. In linux.debian.user, helge.hafting wrote: >lredir always fail with an error code. Are you using Novell DOS or DR-DOS? At this time, lredir doesn't work with those DOS flavors. I ended up deciding to boot off an hdimage file and mount my real DO

Newer kernels

1998-11-06 Thread Martin Oldfield
Has anyone packaged a more recent kernel than 2.0.35 ? Cheers, -- Martin Oldfield.

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Greg Vence wrote: >Vincent Murphy wrote: >> >> > Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's >> > on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a >> > whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go. >> >> I think a lot of

Re: smb logs

1998-11-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 03:31:45PM +, Pere Camps wrote: > Same stuff. Nothing happened. Can you tell me what permissions do > you have for your /var/log dir and for the smb.log and nmdb log files (and > ownership too). drwxrwsr-x 12 root adm 5120 Nov 6 09:37 /var/log -rw-r

dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-06 Thread Steve Ball
Hi all: My hdd is partitioned: hda1 [boot] NT DOS hda2 [boot] Linux hda3 hda4 I tried the various lilo.conf settings suggested to dual boot and system booted straight to Linux every time. Acting upon a recent submission, I reinstalled NT (without reformat or repartition). Now system boots strai

Re: Networking Newbie

1998-11-06 Thread Roberto Ripio
El Fri, 06 Nov 1998, ivan escribió: >When trying to install the ne (NE-2000 Ethernet Controllers) module using >the setup programme I am told that "/lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne.o: >init_module: Device or resource busy Installation failed." ¿Have you checked the interrupt settings in your card? I h

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Jim Crumley
> Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote: > > > Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to > > find a command shell (like csh or xterm or whatever) that > > gives me a little scroll bar on the side so I can use the > > mouse to scroll back and see what happened before. Are

Re: smb logs

1998-11-06 Thread Pere Camps
Mirek, > > max log size = 0 > I don't have this line I just took it out. > > /usr/sbin/smbd -a >^^^ Try remove "-a" parameter Same stuff. Nothing happened. Can you tell me what permissions do you have for your /var/log dir and for

Debian 2 stable installation

1998-11-06 Thread Bob Towers
My kit is K6-166MMX, 2.1GB IDE drive, 64MB RAM and LAN connection to the Net. The first Linux I ever installed was 1.2! I have recently installed Debien 2.0 from the bin distibution sold by CheapBytes. I had a problem during install.. After the packages had been installed and during the configura

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Greg Vence
Greg Vence wrote: > > Vincent Murphy wrote: > > > > > Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's > > > on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a > > > whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go. > > > > I think a lot of rpm's you se

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Greg Vence
Vincent Murphy wrote: > > > Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's > > on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a > > whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go. > > I think a lot of rpm's you see out there suck. One of the reas

Re: RealTek Ethernet card ?

1998-11-06 Thread Phil Sweeney
Dan Pomohaci wrote: > I have an offer to buy no-name Ethernet PCI 10T/100T cards with RealTek chip. > I > didn't found it in hardware compatibilty Linux list. Is this card good for > Linux? Some comments, please. i'm assuming it's the RealTek 8029 .. i have one and it works great with linux.. ju

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:40:24AM -0500, Chris Fury wrote: > So, um, what would you people like to see packaged? :) See http://www.debian.org/~johnie/ . And I'm sure we'd be grateful if someone were to go over the list of ancient bugs to see if they're still present. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Chris Fury
Vincent Murphy wrote: > It does annoy me also when you can't get the latest whizz bang version of > e.g. Eterm, but at the same time it's a great incentive for us to get up off > our butts and start maintaining them ourselves. True. I keep saying that I want to do something like that, but I never

Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards w/Debian

1998-11-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:34:23AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Does anyone know if a PCMCIA ethernet card with the following wonderful > > description will work with a Hamm/Slink system? > > > >Credit-card size, PCMCIA Type II form

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Vincent Murphy
> Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's > on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a > whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go. I think a lot of rpm's you see out there suck. One of the reasons I dig Debian so much is the .d

Re: smb logs

1998-11-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 08:12:25PM +, Pere Camps wrote: > Does anybody know what to put and where to put in order to have > some decent samba logs? > I've got the following but nothing nice comes out (ie: no smb log > files and an nmb log file which is pretty useless. > > ; smb.con

dpkg-multicd

1998-11-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I installed the dpkg-multicd package, but I don't see how to use it to install from multiple cd's. I have the cheap bytes cd set with main, contrib, and non-free on separate disks. Is dpkg-multicd supposed to let me flip disks as required, or does it assume that I have 3 cdrom drives? In the ac

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 01:40:47AM -0800, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: > In addition, Shift+PageUp/Shift+PageDown will scroll in xterm, > rxvt, and the console. ... and program screen (it works on console and on xterm). Mirek

Xmodmap, delete

1998-11-06 Thread Richard Harran.
I know someone posted about this earlier, but I've 'lost' the email. Could someone please tell me how to change the behavior of my backspace key (on AT keyboard) to be backspace (as in move cursor to left deleting) for all my X apps. I seem to remember it was something in Xmodmap, and unusually f

NFS install

1998-11-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, Im just setting up debian system on a new PentiumII. Got no Debian CD. I want to install the basesystem with NFS, can anybody recommend me a NFS server preferably in Germany/Northern Europe? Ciao, Christian.

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Chris Fury
George Bonser wrote: > He also compares Debian to Slackware as having to "roll your own" stuff. > As if Debian does not have a package manager. It looks like the Microsoft > people think that rpm is the only Linux package manager. Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread John Forest
Hi, While all this cloak and dagger stuff makes for good entertainment, I believe the following link sums up my feeling on this a lot better then I could. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981105.html Got that from http://slashdot.org John.

Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards w/Debian

1998-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:34:23AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Does anyone know if a PCMCIA ethernet card with the following wonderful > description will work with a Hamm/Slink system? > >Credit-card size, PCMCIA Type II form factor >Complies to PC Card 1995 Car

Re: Networking Newbie

1998-11-06 Thread alexander.schwartz
This simply means that you are (temporary or permanently) unable to load that module into the kernel, that doesn't has necessaryly something to do with the device itself. Make that you have done the following: make bzImage (or whatever to make the kernel) make modules make modules_install depmod

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 11:14:47AM +, Jiri Baum wrote: > Just because it's confidential doesn't mean it wasn't leaked > intentionally... Say with a view of getting some feedback on their > analysis from us. Perhaps unlikely, but possible. Indeed. The memo mentions that they have list archives

Email - can't send mail to users on local ISP

1998-11-06 Thread cleland
This is my first post to this list. I have been running Debian(currently Hamm)/ Win 95/98 for over 12 months, and gradually increasing the functionality of debian and using windows only when I have to. My email is working fine except when I try to send messages to other users on my local ISP. Fo

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on why MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

1998-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 12:09:54PM +0100, Roberto Ripio wrote: > El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribió: > > http://www.opensource.org/halloween.html Very interesting. I can't believe they describe Gimp 1.0 as Paintbrush. At least they weren't stupid enough to say nasty things about Pe

Networking Newbie

1998-11-06 Thread ivan
Hi All, I am currently trying to install Debian on a second computer which will be connected via a 10Mb ethernet connection to my main Debian computer (excuse me using Windows at the moment tho' :) ) There is a NE2000 ethernet board installed which is cabled to a Soho Basic Hub205 hub. When try

RealTek Ethernet card ?

1998-11-06 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Reply-To: Hello, I have an offer to buy no-name Ethernet PCI 10T/100T cards with RealTek chip. I didn't found it in hardware compatibilty Linux list. Is this card good for Linux? Some comments, please. Thanks, -- | Dan N. Pomo

Re: Suggestions for implementing xntp

1998-11-06 Thread alexander.schwartz
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > I have installed the xntp package, and managed to configure it to connect to > a time server all right. It seems that the deamon only works on boot up in > the default configuration, for my log file shows no activity ever since. The > documentation

Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Helge Hafting wrote: > I tried dosemu as I have a dos-program I need to run > at work. But I can't get access to drives using lredir. > I have tried "lredir D: linux/fs/d" > > Where /d is the mountpoint for a mounted partition with > some files I need. > lredir always fail w

DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-06 Thread Helge Hafting
I tried dosemu as I have a dos-program I need to run at work. But I can't get access to drives using lredir. I have tried "lredir D: linux/fs/d" Where /d is the mountpoint for a mounted partition with some files I need. lredir always fail with an error code. I downloaded dosemu from slink, it h

Re: Re: mutt trashes mail

1998-11-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Leon Breedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Nov 04 1998, David Wright spake thus: > > > Takes up 1.6MB though :( > try 'strip' on the executable, or turning off the '-g' option > to your compiler in the Makefile. my mutt executable is only > +/-400KB. Thanks. I'll do that to procmail too!

Re: Errors compiling kernel

1998-11-06 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > make[2]: as86: Command not found as86 is in the "bin86" package. Just install it.

exim

1998-11-06 Thread Leon Breedt
i currently have this mail setup on my system: i download all my mail from my ISP with fetchmail, and it gets delivered locally by qmail. all outbound mail that isnt local, collects in a maildir and gets sent when next i go online. can i do the same stuff in a similar manner with exim? i know t

Scheduling/contact software for console

1998-11-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Is there any decent scheduling/contact/to-do type software akin to Sidekick for the console that has been Debianized, or not? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my

Re: Window Maker and Looking for the right window manager

1998-11-06 Thread Mitch Blevins
Kevin Grant wrote: > At the moment I'm using Window Maker as my window manager > but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it do some > of the things I'd like it to do. For instance, I'd like > to set program specific window "looks". Like have all > xterm windows come up with white writing

Re: apt-get update errors?

1998-11-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:34:04 -0500 Adam Lazur writes: > > Whenever I run "apt-get update" with slink stuff in my sources.list > I end up getting like 20 errors similar to: > > Get ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev [16.1k] > Error ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev > 550 /debian/dists/

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
In addition, Shift+PageUp/Shift+PageDown will scroll in xterm, rxvt, and the console. miket On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:34:45AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote: > > > Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to > > find a command shell (

Suggestions for implementing xntp

1998-11-06 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I have installed the xntp package, and managed to configure it to connect to a time server all right. It seems that the deamon only works on boot up in the default configuration, for my log file shows no activity ever since. The documentation is very thorough, but also very general. I was hoping t

Re: Window Maker and Looking for the right window manager

1998-11-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote: > At the moment I'm using Window Maker as my window manager > but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it do some > of the things I'd like it to do. For instance, I'd like > to set program specific window "looks". Like have all > xterm windows

Symbolic bookmark link

1998-11-06 Thread Cristov Russell
Hello again. I'm dual booting Debian and Win98 and using Netscape in both. What I'd like to do is have the same bookmarks available in both. I thought the best way to achieve this would be to make a symlink from the mounted win directory to my netscape directory. After doing this, if I open tkd

PCMCIA ethernet cards w/Debian

1998-11-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone know if a PCMCIA ethernet card with the following wonderful description will work with a Hamm/Slink system? Credit-card size, PCMCIA Type II form factor Complies to PC Card 1995 CardBus standards -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your prie

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote: > Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to > find a command shell (like csh or xterm or whatever) that > gives me a little scroll bar on the side so I can use the > mouse to scroll back and see what happened before. Are > there any li

Errors compiling kernel

1998-11-06 Thread Cristov Russell
Hello everyone. I've been trying to recompile my kernel for sound (SB32PNP) but have been getting errors. The very end of the compile message reads: make[2]: as86: Command not found make[2]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot' mak

Re: changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is > fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file > should I edit ? /home/userid/.xsession the last line should say olvm remember to make it executably. > Also, how I can I change my shell permanently f

[HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Peter Makholm
Eric S. Raymond has made another memo from Vinod Valloppillil public. http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html I do not thionk it's as interesting as the first, but it mentions Debian (and RedHat) [About RedHat] [...] One of the larger "grants" however has been the now

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Jiri Baum wrote: ... [extra level of indenting still Jiri] > > > While this appears at first sight to be a classic play out of the > > > Microsoft handbook, there is a subtle but very important > > > distinction. By releasing th

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, rick wrote: > chuck asked, > > > Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this ... > There's enough in there contrary to the ms party line that it's quite > clear that it's confidential. Just because it's confidential doesn't mean it wasn't leaked intentionally

Re: The next step: supercomputer via disparate nodes

1998-11-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Zack Brown wrote: ... > 2) no node is more or less vital to the system than any other (!) > > 3) nodes can connect and disconnect at will [...] How will it deal with a net.split? > 4) nodes can locally select to include or exclude jobs (via config file) > initiated by particular users. P

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