Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work

Hi, I would like to get my network card to work but unfortunally I don't know which option on kernel(2.2.10) should I use for use the desired file: /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/rtl8139.c Could someone tell me which option should I pick up ? Thanks. Best Regards, Nuno Carvalho

Re: dselect and FTP

Don't know about download manager, but you can just restart dselect again and just bypass the select option and should put you back where you were. Dean Paul Nesbit wrote: > > My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I > am using dselect (or apt) to download a pa

Potato

Anyone using the Potato release on a machine that needs to be up. How stable is it at this point? Thanks, Ken Rea

Re: System freezes unexpectedly

* Chris Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the most recent time, I was actually sitting at my desk working on stuff > when the system froze. Everything stopped. I couldn't kill the X server or > switch consoles. The thing was totally frozen. I've checked the logs, but I You could try

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader in slink

Isn't the use of debian's acroread package might help a bit ? > Matthew Edwards wrote: > > > > I downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader for linux and installed it on my Debian > > 2.1 distribution (2.9.9 kernel). When I tried to run it, first it told me > > it couldn't find various libX... libs. After

su/PATH & newgrp/HOME

1) Is it just me or does su set the PATH to a default and forget the currently set one? Is this intentional? 2) newgrp unsets the HOME environment variable. Just wanted to verify this and see if I should post a bug report. Version: potato ( all updates applied as of today ) Thanks, - Kent

Re: bad login tracking

>> Any user can run lastb. > >you can fix that with chmod o= /var/log/btmp* When the file is rotated, the old permissions will be restored, so you would have to fix the cron entry as well. I agree that it is possible to prevent others from running lastb, but it is easy to do it incorrectly, and

Re: fetchmail / sendmail problem

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 02:44:48PM -0700, Oz Dror wrote: > a fresh install of potato. > I have installed the latest versions of fetchmail and sendmail. > > fetchmail times out, thus fail get mail. > I have no idea why. Is there a way to debug this problem. > > Any help will be appreciated. > Wh

C2 Certification

Hi, My name is Jasmine Chan and I was wondering which packages of Linux is C2 Certified. And if they are not, is there any steps taken to make Linux C2 certified. Thanks in advance for your help. Jasmine Chan

fetchmail / sendmail problem

a fresh install of potato. I have installed the latest versions of fetchmail and sendmail. fetchmail times out, thus fail get mail. I have no idea why. Is there a way to debug this problem. Any help will be appreciated. -Thnaks Oz Dror P.S. Please to not recommend switching to exim. -- <<<

printing with samba

I have a debian machine with an epson 900 printer; I use samba to print from another machine with windows98; here is the problem: when printing a large job (e.g. an A4 photo at 1440dpi) I get an error somewhere in the middle: a file begins to arrive in /tmp and at a random time the transfers sto

Re: bad login tracking

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: > Note that this is a Bad Idea (to get the usernames or passwords) > since it tends to 1) give you a list of the users' passwords and > 2) give others a well-known place to look for them too. > Any user can run lastb. you can fix that with chmod o= /var/lo

Re: Rearranging partitions

Hi, I think this too, that is better move /usr/lib to /mnt but FHS will be adopted and /usr/doc will be added to /usr/share, giving a total of: 250+264=514 against 505 of /usr/lib. So it's better move /usr/share, or not? Thanks,PH Bob Nielsen wrote: > I'd recommend moving /us

Re: LPRng problem.

> "Bill" == Bill Shui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> Shao Zhang wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:36:14PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > Hi, >> > I am having some problems with setting up my LPRng. > I was >> wondering if anyone could help me out here. >> >> If you just install

Problems encrypting with GnuPG and decrypting with PGP

> Why does the following not work? If I don't get any reply from > debian-user, I will post to debian-devel, as I am reasonably certain I > got these packages from potato. I reported a bug a while ago about gpg-rsa2 and gpg-idea2, and the answer was: You need libc6 2.1.x - or you can grab the so

Re: Mouse

install gpm Ronnie At 03:11 PM 7/27/99 -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: >> I have a HP Vectra with a bus mouse. When I run XF86Setup I cannot get the >> mouse to move. I have read in Linux documentation that /dev/mouse should be >> linked to /dev/ca[01]. I cannot find these device drivers. What shou

Re: System freezes unexpectedly

Chris Mayes wrote: > > Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence, > but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't > much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've encountered > a system freeze, the screen had been

Re: achieving secure web services for the masses

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Nate wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I would greatly like to hear as much feedback as possible about a > project that I am proposing will be licensed under the GPL. It is a project > that will bring about web mail that handles encryption and decryption. > The web based email wil

Re: mail list abuse? (was Re: sendmail/fetchmail how?)

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:36:49AM -0400, Samuel R. Scarano wrote: > Hm. So this guy's not really subscribing to the list, but wants us > subscribers to help you out? I think this is considered bad form -- I > don't think the mailing list is intended to allow people to mooch help > without actuall

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

If you're using GNU tar (Linux), check out the -z option. I use tar -xzvf which will un-gzip (is that a word?) and untar at the same time. Your example probably shows tar xvf anyway, so just add the z. Check out the man page for the rest of 'em. +---+-

Re: PCMCIA nightmare - help!

Another thing to check is the mode the PCMCIA is using. On my Toshiba laptop, there was a setting for Cardbus or PCIC-Compatible in the BIOS settings. If it's not a Cardbus card, turn off the Cardbus support and that might help. Once I set my PCMCIA stuff in the BIOS to PCIC-Compatibile, every

Re: sendmail/fetchmail how?

Install the exim package instead. It works great for a single-user setup and has a nice install script that will help anyone through getting it up and running in a number of different modes. +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP and windows CE (Help!)

Mike writes: > I execute: pppd -detach crtscts lock 192.168.0.7:192.168.0.69 /dev/ttyS1 > 19200 debug Try pppd -detach crtscts lock 192.168.0.7:192.168.0.69 /dev/ttyS1 \ 19200 debug local noauth nopcomp noaccomp nomagic You will have to do this as root or else put the options in a provider file

Re: System freezes unexpectedly

> "Chris" == Chris Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> [...] The thing was totally frozen. [...] Chris> Does anyone have any suggestions for diagnosing Chris> and possibly fixing this problem? Run a memory test. I suggest "memtest86" in the hwtools package, if you're using an

Re: bad login tracking

>UNKNOWN ttyp1ruf2-6.evoserve. Tue Jul 27 21:13 - 21:13 (00:00) >chadittyp1ruf2-6.evoserve. Tue Jul 27 21:12 - 21:12 (00:00) > > question, is there any way for as to know as to what exactly is the 'guess' > user name someone tried to enter w/c resulted in the UNKNOWN record

System freezes unexpectedly

Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence, but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've encountered a system freeze, the screen had been blanked, so I couldn't see

bad login tracking

hello all, when i invoke 'lastb', i get the following output : UNKNOWN ttyp1ruf2-6.evoserve. Tue Jul 27 21:13 - 21:13 (00:00) chadittyp1ruf2-6.evoserve. Tue Jul 27 21:12 - 21:12 (00:00) that is, UNKNOWN for someone who tried to enter a non-exixtent username (w/ refer

Re: Mouse

> I have a HP Vectra with a bus mouse. When I run XF86Setup I cannot get the > mouse to move. I have read in Linux documentation that /dev/mouse should be > linked to /dev/ca[01]. I cannot find these device drivers. What should I > be doing to make this happen? I think you can't find /dev/ca[0

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

Subject: Re: Flaming Debian Newbies Date: Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:38:52AM -0500 In reply to:Nathan E Norman Quoting Nathan E Norman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

Hello E.L., On 27-Jul-99, LeeE wrote: [snip...] > > Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will > be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a > good idea to include a script called `man' in the base system that > prints a message explaining th

Re: Rearranging partitions

I'd recommend moving /usr/lib, since it is the largest other than /usr/local, which you already have on a separate partition. Possibly /usr/share would be a good choice, as I think it will grow substantially when the FHS is fully adopted. Bob On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:57:51AM +, Paulo Henr

Re: will you be at linuxworld?

I can help set up, but can't promise to be there during the week. Work sucks that way. Dave Bristel On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:59:23 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-devel@lists.de

Re: dvi with type 1 fonts

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:06:13PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I have these standard lines in my latex files: > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > \usepackage{pslatex} Ah, perfect! Thanks! -- Chris Frost | -+--

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

>> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nathan> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Nathan> : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will Nathan> : be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a Nathan> : good idea to i

XFCom_SVGA server xfree86-3.3.3 and the ps/2 mouse.

I am currently running potato and the xfree86-3.3.3 package from netgod. I download the XFCom_SVGA server with vmware. I installed and ran it fine for a day or two. Then I had to reboot and X would not start. It says that the ps/2 protocal is not supported with this server. Strange it ran for two

Re: Removing broken packages

>dpkg error processing blackbox >subprocess post-removal script returned error >exit status 1 Go to /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and look at blackbox.postrm. This is the script that is failing. You can 'force' things by just moving this script somewhere else and running dpkg --purge blackbox. You may

Re: Help with mounting a Xenix drive

I have set up the kernel with the Xenix driver as a module and have loaded it. On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, L.U.S.T List wrote: > -- > List: Linux User Support Team List > Sender: Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Help with mounting a Xenix drive > Date:

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

> These hexdumps always start with a line > Jul 27 01:30:19 darkstar pppd[295]: rcvd [proto=0xfd] ... > Does anyone no what that means ? 0xfd is "compressed datagram". Your link is using compression. Everything here looks normal. What isn't working? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasl

Re: Mouse

A bus mouse is actually /dev/psaux. You will need to 'modprobe psaux' to install the kernel driver for this device. Carl

Re: Take 2: wmsound 0.9.5-1: "Error on Play Event"

I'm not sure...but I think I solved this problem by installing the wsoundserver ftp://shadowmere.student.utwente.nl/pub/WindowMaker/WSoundServer-0.1.1.tar.gz Is this available as a package? If so, I couldn't find it... anyway...I found it at http://www.frontiernet.net/~southgat/wmsound/ Josh Mill

Mouse

I have a HP Vectra with a bus mouse. When I run XF86Setup I cannot get the mouse to move. I have read in Linux documentation that /dev/mouse should be linked to /dev/ca[01]. I cannot find these device drivers. What should I be doing to make this happen? Mark Kolb Systems Engineer Information

Removing broken packages

Hi all, I am new to Debian, having recently replaced Redhat 5.2 with Slink on my computer. Everything went well until I foolishly tried to install Blackbox 0.5 from unstable on my system. It didn't work, of course. I tried apt-get -remove, dpkg -r, dpkg --purge, dpkg -r --force- and always retu

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

tar xvzf GNU tar has support for Gzip as a flag (the z). What I used was tar, extract, verbose, gzip compressed, file On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Revenant wrote: > There's a very complex method listed in my "Running Linux" book. But, > given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. > > I

Re: mail list abuse? (was Re: sendmail/fetchmail how?)

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:36:49AM -0400, Samuel R. Scarano wrote: > On 27 Jul, Geocrawler.com wrote: > > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> > > Be sure to reply to that address. > > Hm. So this guy's not really subscribing to the list, but want

Re: startx-errors: Where is the log file?

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:21:47PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: > > On 27 Jul, Johann Spies wrote: > > | Then I installed xdm and it did get xwindows to work using icewm, but > > no > > | gnome and it ignores .xsession as well as my icewm-configuration

Re: Any tool to write/read/convert 16bit TGA files ?

See if 'convert' in the imagemagick package will do. Note that this is non-free, so you need to check the license also. carl

Re: dselect and FTP

Hello Paul. I tried this yesterday actually and it resumes where it was last time. Just reconnect, start dselect and choose "install" and it will continue. Regards... Andreas Paul Nesbit wrote: > > My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I > am us

Re: dselect and FTP

*- On 27 Jul, Paul Nesbit wrote about "dselect and FTP" > My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I > am using dselect (or apt) to download a package and lose my connection, > will I have to start the process over again? If so, is there any > reliable download manage

Re: dselect and FTP

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Paul Nesbit wrote: > My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I > am using dselect (or apt) to download a package and lose my connection, > will I have to start the process over again? If so, is there any > reliable download manager for Debian?

PPP and windows CE (Help!)

Ok, an update on the PPP/CE problem, with an unfortunate sticking point. I have a Jornada 680 with Windows CE on it. I also have a machine with Debian 2.1 installed on it. The two are connected through a serial cable on /dev/ttyS1. I execute: pppd -detach crtscts lock 192.168.0.7:192.168.

printing with samba

I have a debian machine with an epson 900 printer; I use samba to print from another machine with windows98; here is the problem: when printing a large job (e.g. an A4 photo at 1440dpi) I get an error somewhere in the middle: a file begins to arrive in /tmp and at a random time the transfers sto

Re: (3c509) Selecting 10baseT or 10base2 ?

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, William Park wrote: > Hi, > > My 3Com509B ethernet card uses 10BaseT (twisted pair) port by default. > How do I enable 10Base2 (coaxial) port instead? You need to go to 3Com's website and download the DOS program 3C5X9CFG.EXE. This will allow you to change the port. Sorry,

Re: a tool for system administration

>> AfterStep etc.) there is not one to fill the second yet, though >> individual initiatives are available, from vendors' particular >> SMIT, SAM, ADMINTOOL etc. to more novice user oriented tools by >> Red Hat, SuSe, TurboLinux etc. > Debian 2.2 will include LinuxConf, that s

windows FTP client for squid

Hello,   I research a FTP client (compatible squid) for windows to reach a server through a squid proxy and put some files into this server.   recent versions of WS_ftp, cute FTP, FTP explorer, FTP voyager, bullet proof FTP, didn't work with squid 2.2   thanks for your help   JEG

Any tool to write/read/convert 16bit TGA files ?

I failed to find any tool in potato that is able to cope with 16bit TGA format graphic files. I have an application where I need to convert some other format into 16bit TGA. Does anybody know a Linux program (preferable free, but non-free would be acceptable as well) that's able to write this form

dselect and FTP

My current ISP (school) limits my PPP sessions to only 90 minutes. If I am using dselect (or apt) to download a package and lose my connection, will I have to start the process over again? If so, is there any reliable download manager for Debian? -- Paul Nesbit Algonquin College Computing Scienc

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

One issue with all this is that the GNU tools are vastly superior to older ones (in terms of extra functionality) but most people never have the misfortune to have to use other unix systems that don't have them. Imagine tar without the 'z' option, find with only 'name' as a predicate, and so on.

Re: Networking ~ peer to peer

Walter writes: > IP address: as in the laptop: 192.168.0.2 ? What do you mean by "as in the laptop"? > Where is this leading me... I will now need to redo all this again later, > comments and tips appreciated. Actually, it looks pretty good. Since you refused to set a gateway you will not

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

Buffer overflows also happen when you use a single char with "%[...]" in scanf; this inputs as many chars as it can match, and null-terminates the string. Even when they aren't able to be exploited (i.e. not in a program with special uid), buffer overflows can make you program break in strange w

Re: startx-errors: Where is the log file?

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: > On 27 Jul, Johann Spies wrote: > > | Then I installed xdm and it did get xwindows to work using icewm, but no > | gnome and it ignores .xsession as well as my icewm-configuration (eg. it > | shows only 1 workspace). > | > Are you sure ~/.xses

Re: dvi with type 1 fonts

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Chris Frost wrote: > With dvipk(k) 5.82 (the version with comes with slink), how do you tell > dvips to use type1 outline formats instead of the type 3 bitmaps generated > from mk? I have these standard lines in my latex files: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{pslatex}

Re: Networking ~ peer to peer

Subject: Re: Networking ~ peer to peer Date: Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 06:47:58AM + In reply to:Walter Logeman Quoting Walter Logeman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Martin, John, all > > Naming my machine was easy, I called it psy. The domain name for > the network was harder... as t

Re: Netscape - Fontsizes

JonesMB wrote: > > Bernhard, > > If you figure out a way around this please let me know. This past > weekend I spent some time (again) trying to do the same thing. The > font sizes don't even change no matter what you specify in Netscape. I think i found a solution now: delete the line user_p

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will : be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a : good idea to include a script called `man' in the base system that : prints a message explaining that

mail list abuse? (was Re: sendmail/fetchmail how?)

On 27 Jul, Geocrawler.com wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > Be sure to reply to that address. Hm. So this guy's not really subscribing to the list, but wants us subscribers to help you out? I think this is considered bad form -- I don'

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

> dear carl > > > >The more I think about it, the following is better. > >No more buffer overflow problem. > > > have heard lots about it in security bulletins ... > what is a buffer over flow ? and how does it appear in code ? A buffer is a block of memory designed t

Re: Network addressing

On the subject of wingate ... I fully agree I am a regestered user of wingate, but I don't use it. I have switched to using two products (you can probably get away with using either one instead of both, I have some freaky circumstances) - 123proxie and proxy+. Neither product is as big or as

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:41:18PM +1000, Revenant wrote: > There's a very complex method listed in my "Running Linux" book. But, > given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. > > Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from > gzip to tar etc. ? The later versi

Re: dvi with type 1 fonts

Chris Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With dvipk(k) 5.82 (the version with comes with slink), how do you tell > dvips to use type1 outline formats instead of the type 3 bitmaps generated > from mk? You do this in your (La)TeX source file, in LaTeX f. ex. with `\usepackage{times}' (or whatever

Re: PCMCIA nightmare - help!

On 27 Jul, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > In a wild fit of Debian advocacy, I persuaded a colleague at work to > partition the hard disk on his portable and install Debian. > > Installation was a breeze...it put the PCMCIA stuff in and booted nicely > with beeps and so on. But it had lost all

Rearranging partitions

Hi all, I have a /mnt partition in /dev/hda1 in the beggining of my disk (so I cant delete it and make 2, or not?) and a / partition full. My df -h shows the following: /dev/hda3 1.9G 1.7G 59M 97% / /dev/hda4 926M 785M 94M 89%

Re: ISDN: dialmode not in kernel???

On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 09:10:02 +0200, Rene Hogendoorn wrote: > Each time isdn is started, I get a 'dialmode not in kernel' message > (kernel 2.2.10). The 2.2.x kernels at the moment contain an older version of the ISDN code than does the latest 2.0.x. 2.2.10-ac12 contains an update for the ISDN

Re: LPRng problem.

I have a HP5L and I think it should be compatable with 6L. Here is my printcap and filter. On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:34:18PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > Shao Zhang wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:36:14PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am having some problems with setting up

Re: LPRng problem.

try to remove the lpd package first use dpkg --purge, this will get rid of the config file(ie. /etc/init.d/lpd), and you may remove the lprng package as well and reinstall it to make sure your system is *clean*. don't know why you had lpd in /usr/local/bin, you should not have anything under /usr/

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > struct foo { > char text[3]; > int num; > }; > sizeof would return 6 and not 5. So it's obvious that the compiler is > placing a pad byte between text and num to align num. I want it to > stop! That's odd. On most architectures, I would e

Re: LPRng problem.

Shao Zhang wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:36:14PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having some problems with setting up my LPRng. > > I was wondering if anyone could help me out here. > > If you just install lprng package and have a working printcap file, > then

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

Revenant wrote: > > There's a very complex method listed in my "Running Linux" book. But, > given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. > > Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from > gzip to tar etc. ? well, tgz is (supposed to be) a gzip'ed (i.e. compress

Re: LPRng problem.

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:36:14PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > Hi, > I am having some problems with setting up my LPRng. > I was wondering if anyone could help me out here. If you just install lprng package and have a working printcap file, then it should be fine. > I ha

Re: Converting from Redhat to Debian

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:05:41AM -, Jordan Howarth wrote: > I am currently running Redhat and have decided to try Debian instead. I wish > to yay! > install from the hard drive from an existing linux partition and have read the > instructions for doing this from > http://www.us.debian.org/

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

>Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from >gzip to tar etc. ? Given you have a not-too-old version of tar, cd-ing to the directory you would like to have the contents of the tar file extracted to, and entering tar xzvf should do the job. But then again, what's wron

Re: Networking ~ peer to peer

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Walter Logeman wrote: > > Martin, John, all > > I had my first go at the installation last night... and among the > many things on my learning curve is the networking, inspite of > all the help! > > > John> Walter writes: > > >> So will setting the network up conflict wit

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:41:18PM +1000, Revenant wrote: > There's a very complex method listed in my "Running Linux" book. But, > given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. > > Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from > gzip to tar etc. ? > > Thanx. Pe

Re: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy

> Jul 27 00:18:55 debian pppd[667]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy > ARP > The last line seems to indicate error. How to fix it? It's really just a warning. It does no harm. If it bothers you put 'noproxyarp' in /etc/ppp/peers/provider. > My ISP uses both "login:" and "Username

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

Hi, On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:41:18PM +1000, Revenant wrote: > There's a very complex method listed in my "Running Linux" book. But, > given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. > > Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from > gzip to tar etc. ? The "gzip

.tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

There's a very complex method listed in my "Running Linux" book. But, given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? Thanx. -- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "The whole pr

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

Hi, Mutt (as distributed w/ Slink) will spawn Lynx in a text terminal and Netscape under X, by default. These are of course user configurable. On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:06:29AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > a little late but ... > > > Only HTML (among formats that some readers can handle) rea

LPRng problem.

Hi, I am having some problems with setting up my LPRng. I was wondering if anyone could help me out here. I have a HP 6L printer (ie it's a post script printer) I just installed the LPRng (latest stable version, and the filters that go with it). I deleted the origina

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

I've attached a typical log of a ppp-connection. I've cut of many lines. So [...] stand for an unknown number of lines. These hexdumps always start with a line Jul 27 01:30:19 darkstar pppd[295]: rcvd [proto=0xfd] ... Does anyone no what that means ? Everything worked fine with 2.0.36. Maybe, I'

LPRng problem.

Hi, I am having some problems with setting up my LPRng. I was wondering if anyone could help me out here. I have a HP 6L printer (ie it's a post script printer) I just installed the LPRng (latest stable version, and the filters that go with it). I deleted the origina

Re: PCMCIA nightmare - help!

Thanks. Guess I ought to have printed off the laptop howto before starting :-() Patrick - Original Message - From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User List Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 9:53 AM Subject: Re: PCMCIA nightmare - help! > > > I

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

Joop Stakenborg writes: > Hi there, > > The upstream maintainer of one of my packages is having problems > with his code. I thought it would be nice to use the debian mailing > lists, to see if we can an answer on this. I will forward any solution > to him. > > --

Re: removing badly-broken package

Hi, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >After a recent upgrade of some potato packages, xcontrib is in a very >broken state where I can neither upgrade nor remove it. > >dpkg reports: > >$ dpkg -l xcontrib >Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge >| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpack

startup question

I have a slink system, with 2.2.10, and until earlier today it was running fine. I rebooted the system to windows so a friend could play some games, and of course windows froze twice. Both times he missed lilo and it booted into linux. He ctrl-alt-deleted during the startup stuff, and it ran the

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

a little late but ... > Only HTML (among formats that some readers can handle) really handles > nested quotes well, IMHO. It's got a tag just for it. Do any > text-based readers handle HTML (by spawning Lynx or something)? Just > curious; I wouldn't *dare* post HTML here. ;-) pine (and i'm p

Re: startx-errors: Where is the log file?

On 27 Jul, Johann Spies wrote: | Then I installed xdm and it did get xwindows to work using icewm, but no | gnome and it ignores .xsession as well as my icewm-configuration (eg. it | shows only 1 workspace). | Are you sure ~/.xsession is being ignored? What does your file look like?

Re: PCMCIA nightmare - help!

> In a wild fit of Debian advocacy, I persuaded a colleague at work to > partition the hard disk on his portable and install Debian. good for both of you :-) > Installation was a breeze...it put the PCMCIA stuff in and booted nicely > with beeps and so on. But it had lost all the IP info and if

ext2 spec

Where can I find info on the ext2 file system? I'm writing an OS and will probably need ext2 support...

sendmail/fetchmail how?

This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi all, Would appreciate some help with setting up my mail. Here is the background: Installed 2.1 from cd, just the 40Mb or so basic system. Upgraded some things, such as X and so

PCMCIA nightmare - help!

Hi all, In a wild fit of Debian advocacy, I persuaded a colleague at work to partition the hard disk on his portable and install Debian. Installation was a breeze...it put the PCMCIA stuff in and booted nicely with beeps and so on. But it had lost all the IP info and ifconfig eth0 got no such de

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

On 26 Jul, Moses Leslie wrote: | I'm taking an intro C class, and of course everything there is run on win95. | For a project we're doing now, I need to be able to tell if a scanf("%d",&x) | actually gets an int or not, but scanf seems to freak out if it gets anything | but an int.

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