Re: weird entry in netstat

1999-09-12 Thread John Forest
Pollywog wrote: > I don't have Licq or other ICQ clone running, and I ran 'netstat' and got > this: > > udp0 0 pollywog.sunset.ne:1062 fes-d018.icq.aol.:gicqd > ESTABLISHED > > > Anyone know what this is about? > > > thanks > > -- > Andrew > I had something similar, also never

Re: lpd: daemon not started.

1999-09-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Justin Settle wrote: > I can't seem to print anything out with lpd + magicfilter. I can cat > file out to the printer and I believe that magic filter is setup > correctly. The problem is that if I do a lpc status it says "no daemon > present". I do a lpc up all and it says

Re: debian

1999-09-12 Thread Marcin Kurc
You can download boot floppies and base system. If you install base you can connect to the internet and use dselect to mark the packages you want to install. Dselect will automaticaly download and install them. You may want to check instalation documents at http://www.debian.org On Sun, Sep 12,

Re: debian

1999-09-12 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, if you can spare the $12, you can buy it from cheapbytes.com. Depending on how fast your connection is, this might be faster. :) If you have the burner, I understand linuxberg.com has the debian CD images that you can write directly to CD. I think there is a way, using nothing but the base

debian

1999-09-12 Thread Deborah Owens
How do i get it off of the ftp? do i just download each file? do you have a zip of the os? thank you.

Re: swap

1999-09-12 Thread Rob Mahurin
What does "swapon -s" say? Where should your swap be and where is it? Rob On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 06:15:37PM +0300, tf wrote: > I'm cheating here with netscape, but on my own machine! yee haw. > I don't seem to be swapping. the boot messages include "activating > swap", and I have a swap par

printer whoohs with LPRng

1999-09-12 Thread Brian E. Lavender
When I try to print something with my linux box, I get nothing. I am using LPRng. I also successfully configured my printer port. $ echo "Hello World" > /dev/lp0 will print hello world. I have to manually form feed the page But when I do $ lpr /etc/passwd it produces nothing. I then query the

Re: modem speaker

1999-09-12 Thread Marcin Kurc
use ATM0 instead ATZ in your initiation scripts for example: exec chat -v\ TIMEOUT 7 \ ABORT '\nBUSY\r' \ ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r' \

RE: modem speaker

1999-09-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Sep-99 Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > what do I have to do to disable the modem speaker when dialing to the > internet ? In your connect script, add M0 to your init string. -- Andrew

modem speaker

1999-09-12 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, what do I have to do to disable the modem speaker when dialing to the internet ? Many thanks. -- --- -> Powered by Debian/GNU Linux <- --> Linux User 140860 Machine 61143 <--

Re: Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Neil Booth
George Bonser wrote:- > > If both cards are PCI there really should not be a problem. Try swapping the > order of the cards in the PCI bus and see if that helps. Hmmm, yes they are both PCI - swapping the card order made no difference - the same card gets recognised first, and the second one ign

Re: ppp and kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-12 Thread Levi
On 12 Sep 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Levi writes: > > I cleared my ppp.log so I could tell what was new, but nothing ever got > > written to it after that. > > Then you may have a very different problem. Do you have debugging enabled? > Please post /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/pr

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-12 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Surely I would appreciate a 2.4 ready distribution. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: andreas palsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User List Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 8:36 PM Subject: Debian to be too late released > Hello.. > My questions is, if D

Re: Connect two computers

1999-09-12 Thread Kent West
Luis Moura wrote: > > Hi > > I have just connect two computers with windows 98 with a > RJ45 inverted cable, trought it's network boards. > How do I configure the windows 98 network in order each one > see each other ? > > Thanks > > Luis > First Redhat questions, now Windows? Humph. Just in

Re: linux

1999-09-12 Thread Kent West
> ecosse wrote: > > when i install linux at the end of the installstation it says > error configuering mouse what d i do > I assume this is not an X issue, but a command-line issue. It sounds like gpm is not properly configured. Try running gpmconfig and see what that does for you.

Include iostream.h

1999-09-12 Thread Dan Smith
Please send replies directly to me--I am not subscribed to the list What debian package contains the include file iostream.h? And if there is none, where can I download it? __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: weird entry in netstat

1999-09-12 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 05:40:36PM -, Pollywog wrote: > I don't have Licq or other ICQ clone running, and I ran 'netstat' and got > this: > > udp0 0 pollywog.sunset.ne:1062 fes-d018.icq.aol.:gicqd > ESTABLISHED you can use: "fuser 1062/udp" to get the PID of the process using th

dselect using smbmounted archive

1999-09-12 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I've been trying to get dselect and/or apt to work with an official slink CD rom which is smbmounted to /mnt. Unfortunately, the symlinks on the CD rom are not followed by the windows server, so a "straightforward" copy of the distribution is not available (looks for ...dists/stable... whic

Quake2 problems

1999-09-12 Thread Robert Rati
I'm having a problem running Quake 2. When I try to run it I get this error: --- sound initialization --- sound sampling rate: 11047 --- Loading ref_glx.so --- ref_gl version: GL 0.01 recursive shutdown Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx W

Re: ACER CD-RW's

1999-09-12 Thread David Blackman
Is there anything special about this drive? if it's scsi or ide it's probably supported by cdrecord. the OS has little to do with hardware support, it's the kernel and packages you install. --dave -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+:+ a--- C UL++ P+ L+++ E+ W++ N++ o K- w O-

swap

1999-09-12 Thread tf
hey guys, I'm cheating here with netscape, but on my own machine! yee haw. I don't seem to be swapping. the boot messages include "activating swap", and I have a swap partition, but top shows nothing but zeros in the swap line. any ideas? -t

ACER CD-RW's

1999-09-12 Thread lonewolf
My question is simply this. Will Debian linux ever support ACER 6206a CD-RW drives in the near future.   Thank you for your time   Shane O'Connor

Re: Got TP-560 to work in 800x600 256 colors! (with Debian 2.1 included X)

1999-09-12 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, John Miskinis wrote: > Many thanks to all those who helped. I am now > up and running 2.1 debian, using full 800x600 > and 256 colors on my Thinkpad 560. > > I am using the X that comes with 2.1, and it's fine. I'm glad you got it working. If possible, you'll want to get 16

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-12 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sat, 11 Sep, 1999 à 08:49:24PM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > > > Partition records exactly as they appear in MBR (EMBR): > > > In fact, I don't even know how he deleted that partition with DOS fdisk > since it normally is not capable of deleting an extended partition

RE: One Without The Other

1999-09-12 Thread George Bonser
You only REALLY need the first one. On 12-Sep-99 Allix Primus wrote: > So is it possible to just extract the first binary and install debian with > the minimum amount of software or is the second one required ? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAI

One Without The Other

1999-09-12 Thread Allix Primus
So is it possible to just extract the first binary and install debian with the minimum amount of software or is the second one required ?   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems building book from source, Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage

1999-09-12 Thread Christian Ericsson
Hi, I have downloaded the source from http://www.newriders.com/0914-9.htm, but I have problems building the book from the source. LaTeX keeps complaining about some fonts that are missing. The following fonts are missing: - ecrm0700, ecrm0800, ecrm0900, ecrm1000, ecrm1200, ecrm1440, ecrm2488 - ec

Re: your mail

1999-09-12 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Allix Primus wrote: > At ftp.linuxberg.com /.4/ISO/Debian/2.1_r2/i386 there are two binary files > binary-i386-1.iso (611.37 megabytes) and binary-i386-2.iso (516.03 > megabytes). I'm downloading the first binary file and was just wondering > if the second was another version

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-12 Thread Rev. DeFiLEZ
go to single user mode (not REALLY nessessary but good idea) umount /home cd /home rm -r mount /dev/blah /home go back to multi user mode ps you should you you cp -a when coping files (preserves link, rights, and owners) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:58:20AM -0700, [EMAIL

lpd: daemon not started.

1999-09-12 Thread Justin Settle
Hello, I can't seem to print anything out with lpd + magicfilter. I can cat file out to the printer and I believe that magic filter is setup correctly. The problem is that if I do a lpc status it says "no daemon present". I do a lpc up all and it says daemon started but if a lpc status is done a

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1999-09-12 Thread Allix Primus
At ftp.linuxberg.com /.4/ISO/Debian/2.1_r2/i386 there are two binary files binary-i386-1.iso (611.37 megabytes) and binary-i386-2.iso (516.03 megabytes). I'm downloading the first binary file and was just wondering if the second was another version or is it required to be downloaded.   [EMAI

Re: Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread George Bonser
On 12-Sep-99 Neil Booth wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Literally all that came in the box was a manual, a cable for > Wake-On-LAN, and the card itself. > > Could you elaborate? > > Neil. If both cards are PCI there really should not be a problem. Try swapping the order of the cards in the PCI bus and

RE: weird entry in netstat

1999-09-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Sep-99 Pollywog wrote: > I don't have Licq or other ICQ clone running, and I ran 'netstat' and got > this: > > udp0 0 pollywog.sunset.ne:1062 fes-d018.icq.aol.:gicqd > ESTABLISHED It seems that this is indeed the ICQ server; I had never seen an entry like that one while conne

Re: rexecd disappeared after update.

1999-09-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Sep-99 C. R. Oldham wrote: > Rob Mahurin wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:45:37AM -0400, Steve Rothanburg wrote: >> > Anybody know where I can find in.rexecd? I just ran dselect this >> > morning >> > and after the 8megs of updates rexecd is gone. >> >> I think that rexec is now consi

Re: rexecd disappeared after update.

1999-09-12 Thread C. R. Oldham
Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:45:37AM -0400, Steve Rothanburg wrote: > > Anybody know where I can find in.rexecd? I just ran dselect this morning > > and after the 8megs of updates rexecd is gone. > > I think that rexec is now considered evil for security reasons and ssh > is the

weird entry in netstat

1999-09-12 Thread Pollywog
I don't have Licq or other ICQ clone running, and I ran 'netstat' and got this: udp0 0 pollywog.sunset.ne:1062 fes-d018.icq.aol.:gicqd ESTABLISHED Anyone know what this is about? thanks -- Andrew

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-12 Thread Tom Pfeifer
> > Question: Was that possibly a Linux extended partition (type 85) as > > opposed to a DOS extnded partition? That would explain why DOS fdisk > > could delete it. > > Yes, originally this computer was set up by me with linux only. It was my > colleague who starte messing with DOS fdisk. (Stri

Allowing root to display to X...

1999-09-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hi all - I remember hearing once that if you linked your ~/.Xauthority to /root/.Xauthority, a root shell would be able to run X applications (within your regular user's X session). However, I tried this, and it doesn't seem to work for me. Any ideas? I'm trying to install Sun's latest Star Off

Debian 2.2 (Potato) Midnight Commander Fix

1999-09-12 Thread
Hi, People at Midnight Commander development have created a cool script to enter the directory you where when you was working with Midnight commander Therefore they have renamed the MC executable to mc.real, and created a script called mc. This script was supposed to call mc.real, but people at M

Cannot remove the 3dfx.o module

1999-09-12 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi all, I am using an old and trusty Voodoo-I-Card for the ususal stuff (quake, gsnes9x etc). Problem is, I can only use the card once as a non-root-user. After that I always get the message that something is using /dev/3dfx. But there is nothing using the device... Also lsmod shows the 3dfx-modul

Re: Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Neil Booth
Peter Iannarelli wrote:- > Hello Neil: > > via the card configuration tool from the manufacturer, > you should be able to change the IRQ and I/O mapping > for the card(s) in question. > > Peter Hi Peter, Literally all that came in the box was a manual, a cable for Wake-On-LAN, and the card itse

Re: linux

1999-09-12 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> when i install linux at the end of the installstation it says error > configuering mouse what d i do Get the mouse configured right. What kind is it, where is it? Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL P

Re: Got TP-560 to work in 800x600 256 colors! (with Debian 2.1 included X)

1999-09-12 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, John Miskinis wrote: > Sometime I will resume trying to get either external > CDROM to work, but for now I have a lot of cool things > to check out. I gues, the CDROM must be pressent at boot time. I have made the following experience with the internal CDROM of my TP 770: If

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: [...] > Question: Was that possibly a Linux extended partition (type 85) as > opposed to a DOS extnded partition? That would explain why DOS fdisk > could delete it. Yes, originally this computer was set up by me with linux only. It was my colleague who s

Re: Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Neil: via the card configuration tool from the manufacturer, you should be able to change the IRQ and I/O mapping for the card(s) in question. Peter Neil Booth wrote: > I have 2 PCI Planex ethernet cards in my machine, the first uses > "tulip.c" as its driver, and the second uses "de4x5.c

Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Neil Booth
I have 2 PCI Planex ethernet cards in my machine, the first uses "tulip.c" as its driver, and the second uses "de4x5.c". When I inserted the second card today and rebuilt my kernel (no modules), during boot-time initialization the tulip driver initializes successfully as eth0, but the second drive

Re: ppp and kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Levi writes: > I cleared my ppp.log so I could tell what was new, but nothing ever got > written to it after that. Then you may have a very different problem. Do you have debugging enabled? Please post /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

Re: qmail setup

1999-09-12 Thread Tommi L. Jensen
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 06:12:25PM -0400, Paul Nesbit wrote: > I'm trying to get pine working on top of qmail. > > I'm having problems with ./configure in /var/qmail/qmail1.02 > The output of ./configure is as follows: > > Your hostname is nezgnu. > soft error > Sorry, I couldn't fi

Kernel Module Programming

1999-09-12 Thread Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm doing a kernel module (my first) and there is a problem with include headers from kernel. The error message is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/trab$ make clean rm -f hello.o [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/trab$ make gcc -Wall -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX -c hello.c hello.c: In function `device_re

Re: Enlightenment pager

1999-09-12 Thread Tommi L. Jensen
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 08:59:00AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right click on what? You can right-click on the Gnome pager applet in the > panel > to get it's properties, but no right click is available for the Enlightenment > pager windows other than what is present for all windows in X. No

Got TP-560 to work in 800x600 256 colors! (with Debian 2.1 included X)

1999-09-12 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, Many thanks to all those who helped. I am now up and running 2.1 debian, using full 800x600 and 256 colors on my Thinkpad 560. I am using the X that comes with 2.1, and it's fine. It took a lot of playing around, but I'm there. Sometime I will resume trying to get either external CDROM

Upgrading slink to potato

1999-09-12 Thread
Hi, I have this computer, running Debian 2.1, and another one running Debian 2.2 Now I want to upgrade the 2.1 PC to 2.2, but I don't want to download all the packages again since my connection is only 33k6. The 2.2 PC does have all the correct packages, but I can't get them installed correctly. (

LyX + Postscript

1999-09-12 Thread Marius Aamodt Eriksen
Hi, I'm having problems with LyX. When viewing a document created in LyX (either via Postscript of DVI) LyX produces blank output; just a blank page. All the components that are needed seem to be there (dvips, tex, etc.) Has anybody here experienced the same thing? Any solutions? Marius. --

Re: ppp and kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-12 Thread Illo de' Illis
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 04:54:41PM -0400, Levi wrote: > I seem to have a problem involving ppp and the new kernel. I've got ppp > set up and it works just fine with kernel 2.0.34, but I can never seem to > get connected with kernel 2.2.12. I've read the kernel docs and they say > 2.2.12 requires pp

Re: LessTif 0.89

1999-09-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 18:00:38 +0200, I wrote: > The debianisation patches for 0.88.9 don't touch the LessTif code at all, > thus they apply fine to 0.89.0. You may want to consider building it from > source. I've now made a non-maintainer upload of 0.89.0 to unstable. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen

Re: how can I disable XDM?

1999-09-12 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:11:39 GMT Björn Bondén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How can I turn off XDM? (I'm using slink). > > Well, I often just su to root and "killall xdm". A more elegant way > would be "init 2". /etc/init/xdm stop -- For public PGP-ke

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linux

1999-09-12 Thread ecosse
when i install  linux at the end of the installstation it says error configuering mouse what d i do     

Re: ppp and kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-12 Thread Levi
On 11 Sep 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Levi writes: > > I seem to have a problem involving ppp and the new kernel. > > What does your ppp.log look like? I'm having similar problems: my system > sends empty LCP packets when I run 2.2.12. I cleared my ppp.log so I could tell what was new, but noth

Re: lp1 out of paper

1999-09-12 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 02:46:30PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > On 11-Sep-1999, Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My /var/log/messages file has some 36000 entries like this in the last few > > days. (Well, 6000 some messages saying this message has repeated four to six > > times..) > > >

Re: lp1 out of paper

1999-09-12 Thread Peter Ross
On 11-Sep-1999, Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My /var/log/messages file has some 36000 entries like this in the last few > days. (Well, 6000 some messages saying this message has repeated four to six > times..) > > Sep 5 23:47:33 amidala kernel: lp1 out of paper > > I haven't gotten

lp1 out of paper

1999-09-12 Thread Seth R Arnold
My /var/log/messages file has some 36000 entries like this in the last few days. (Well, 6000 some messages saying this message has repeated four to six times..) Sep 5 23:47:33 amidala kernel: lp1 out of paper I haven't gotten the lpd system setup yet... will this go away when I setup lpd properl

cfdisk hates me ("FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk"

1999-09-12 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hey guys. I am a bit worried. cfdisk gives me this error: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk I, being one of the sort-of-cautious type, am scared. Here is a nice little output from df: amidala:/home/sarnold/redwood# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used

Re: ppp & serial device problem: please advise

1999-09-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Michael Phillips wrote: > I've been ransacking the FAQs and list archives, but cannot find any > information on this problem specifically. I'm using kernel 2.0 from the CD, > and I installed the system on my Windows box, using a 3.5" floppy to boot. > That's most likely irrelevant, so I'll cut to

mail 2 news: How to handle crossposts

1999-09-12 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have been experimenting with using mail2news in order to read the Debian mailing lists. I have problems dealing with cross posts. Let me explain: eg I am subscribed to debian-policy as [EMAIL PROTECTED] My .forward-debian-policy file contains: "|/usr/bin/mail2news -n local.lists.debian.

Re: how can I disable XDM?

1999-09-12 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:11:39 GMT Björn Bondén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can I turn off XDM? (I'm using slink). Well, I often just su to root and "killall xdm". A more elegant way would be "init 2". -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This fo

Re: ppp and kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Levi writes: > I seem to have a problem involving ppp and the new kernel. What does your ppp.log look like? I'm having similar problems: my system sends empty LCP packets when I run 2.2.12. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with i

Re: Newbie Installation ?s

1999-09-12 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 09:13:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey all, > > I am trying to install Debian for the first time (first time installing any > GNU/Linux OS) on an old crappy 486 laptop currently running DOS/Windows3.1 > off 4 Megs of RAM (like I said, crappy), and I was wonderin

Re: Newbie Installation ?s

1999-09-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 09:13:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey all, > > I am trying to install Debian for the first time (first time installing any > GNU/Linux OS) on an old crappy 486 laptop currently running DOS/Windows3.1 > off 4 Megs of RAM (like I said, crappy), and I was wonderin

Newbie Installation ?s

1999-09-12 Thread NaKsanders
Hey all, I am trying to install Debian for the first time (first time installing any GNU/Linux OS) on an old crappy 486 laptop currently running DOS/Windows3.1 off 4 Megs of RAM (like I said, crappy), and I was wondering if there was a way to install Debian, and still keep it able to boot into

Re: ftp not working

1999-09-12 Thread Mark Buda
> "Miguel" == Miguel Wooding SF Ten Union <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miguel> More fundamentally, why would I need to use passive mode? FTP uses two kinds of connections: a control connection, and a data connection. The control connection is made FROM the client TO the server, and it is

Re: ftp not working

1999-09-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 05:04:01PM -0700, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote: > More fundamentally, why would I need to use passive mode? I have > looked around a bit, and it appears to be a work-around to be able to > ftp from behind a firewall. But I'm not behind a firewall, unless I > set someth

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-12 Thread Tom Pfeifer
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > Partition records exactly as they appear in MBR (EMBR): > >Starting EndingStarting Number of > # HD FSCyl Head SectCyl Head Sect sector sectors > (0,0,1): > 1 00 00 000 000

Re: ppp & serial device problem: please advise

1999-09-12 Thread ferret
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Michael Phillips wrote: > > Michael, please ensure you are not running a WinModem (ie, one that relies > > on the CPU to do all the work..) I have heard there is coming support for > > those less fortunate modems, but... > No, it is a Rockwell chipset, PCI, 56K internal mod

XF86 3.3.5 and debian - what is frame_register.rpm - is it needed?

1999-09-12 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I noticed this problem ALSO posted at comp.windows.x.i386linux I just installed XF86 3.3.5 to use on debian 2.1, but the postinstall script gives an error regarding undefined symbol register_frame. I noticed a .rpm file in the FTP dir named "frame_register" There is no mention of this i

Re: Where is the "http_proxy" env var being documented ?

1999-09-12 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, most programs will honor the environment variable http_proxy that lynx uses... man lynx will show a wee bit of information.. if you mean for apt, the apt-docs in /usr/doc/apt (on my machine.. :) describe it a bit too. Basically, each program is free to do what it wants with your environment

Where is the "http_proxy" env var being documented ?

1999-09-12 Thread shaul
Can you tell me where is the "http_proxy" env var being documented ? Thank you.

Re: ftp not working

1999-09-12 Thread Seth R Arnold
Miguel, years ago when I used slrip, I needed to use PASV mode ftp too. On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 05:04:01PM -0700, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote: > More fundamentally, why would I need to use passive mode? I have > looked around a bit, and it appears to be a work-around to be able to > ftp fr

Re: blackbox, plus a few..

1999-09-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 03:58:39PM -0600, tf wrote: > Hey guys, > > I finally got apt-get going--thanks. I can't remember,exactly, but is there > a dpkg --fix --broken that I can use to insure that I > have a "full" installation? I've got some of netscape 4.6, I think, but not > enough to

Re: ftp not working

1999-09-12 Thread Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union
More fundamentally, why would I need to use passive mode? I have looked around a bit, and it appears to be a work-around to be able to ftp from behind a firewall. But I'm not behind a firewall, unless I set something up terribly badly or I misunderstand. This is a standalone debian box and I conn