print problem

2000-05-24 Thread MMRibar2
I have the Hewlett Packard 895c and every time I print out a photo I get lines though the whole page why? Looks like vertical blinds. Help me fix it Thanks Martha

Re: ipfwadm

2000-05-24 Thread ulla . russell
I no expert but don't you have to enable ip forwarding in the kernel first by executing the following: # echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward I assume of course that you are trying to set up ip masquerading. There a good article on this in the linux journal issue 43, available on line at

Building i585/i686 optimized packages?

2000-05-24 Thread Mattias Sundberg
I want to build my own packages for Debian and I want to be i586/i686 optimized, what do I have to do? Is it enough to compile the kernel as i686? //Mattias Sundberg - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gpm as repeater for X11

2000-05-24 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:25:01PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote > Hi > > What causes the following error? > > I'm using the frozen (potato) distribution. GPM is configured as > repeater and "ps fax" shows me that it's running as "-Rmsc" mouse > works on console. Whenever I try to start X as us

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:45:08AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:39:32PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended partitions enabled. > > > > > not sure, but this sounds very strange to me. > > afaik, you can nest extended patitio

Re: Check whether the user is local user

2000-05-24 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:43:04PM +0800, Wan Hing Wah wrote > Is it any method that I can check whether the user is a local user > (that mean use the computer by sitting in front of the computer > physically).It maybe useful so that I can make a program which is setuid > to root and check whether

Re: howto

2000-05-24 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:07:13PM +0100, Charles Stephen wrote > I have installed to ethernet adapter cards but only one is being detected. I > was able to gather some information on what should be done when you install > two or more ethernet cardsin the same machine from the fllowing site > h

Re: Mutt configuration

2000-05-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I love Mutt as an e-mail client. A few things I have not been able > to sort out yet. Any suggestions would be welcome. > > - I would like to have prober IMAP support. I use Mutt on a local > machine, for remote access I use Netscape (IMAP) over

Flirting with diaster (a bad installation experience)

2000-05-24 Thread Andy Krietemeyer
I attempted to install Slink as dual-boot to Win98 on my Dell PII300 last night, and, I think, narrowly escaped disaster. Here's what I did and what happened. Maybe someone can tell me where I went wrong. I do very much want Debian as a second OS on this machine. With the DOS tool, fdisk, I del

Re: 3C905 with AsusTek K7V

2000-05-24 Thread Nolan Clark
I am using the latest Debian kernel, whatever that may be. I'm sure you are more up on it than I am. I just downloaded it yesterday from the Debian ftp site. I really don't think this is a software problem either, because I had the exact some problem with a different nic (an NE2000 compliant gener

Re: Problems with ncurses programms

2000-05-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:49:16AM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:29:08AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > > Hello, I have some problems with programms that uses ncurses (I > > think this is the source of the problem). I use rxvt (But there is > > the same problem under xterm

ipfwadm

2000-05-24 Thread Nick
i am doing the following:   /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0   and get the following error: ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: protocol not available   do i need to compile my kernel?   thankx

Missing cd-rom chokes off the install process

2000-05-24 Thread Hugh Welwood
ÿMessage--- Missing cd-rom chokes off the install process Hi: name here is Hughie. Hope you can help me, if you will. I'm very new to Linux so have very little knowledge of choosing and organizing commands. I know that """ w """ wipes out Dos 6 and Windows 3.1, when you are in the process

deskjet695c printer

2000-05-24 Thread WLong42864
deskjet695c prints a seperator page each time a single page is printed. How can I get it to stop? How do I remove the seperator page so it won't print before any document I want printed? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Use apt-move "Moore, Paul" wrote: > Another question on apt... > > I've downloaded a lot of .deb files from various places on the Internet, and > I'd like to put them on a CD or something for safekeeping. It strikes me > that the best way of doing this would be to put them in some sort of format

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Brad
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:39:28PM +0200, Patrick wrote: > > I've found out that with (some ?) 2.2.x kernels you seem to need to reboot the > computer between an fdisk and an mke2fs to get ride of 'unconfigured > device'. > It doesn't matter which /dev/hda?? it is, as soon as some /dev/hda > parti

Re: NTP

2000-05-24 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 22 May 2000, A. Scott White wrote: > Now that my ntp is working, is there a particular ntp server I should use? Yes, you should use a stratum 2 or higher (3, 4...) server unless you're providing NTP services for a huge set of machines (100+). > I'm using clock.via.net because it is liste

generic apt question.

2000-05-24 Thread Adam Shand
hey. at some point in the future i'd like to migrate the web based package finder i wrote (http://www.spack.org/debian/)to use apt as the back end (instead of manually ftping the Packages.gz files and hasing them into a pseudo database. however one of the features of the package finder is that i

Re: Java 1.2 JDK released for Linux...

2000-05-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
> I assume JavaSoft = Sun Microsystems? If so, the JDK 1.2.2 has been > out for at least a month or two. Yeah... that's what it kinda looks like. I guess the Enterprise Edition just came out yesterday. I had been watching the BlackDown site, since it was my understanding that they were the people

ncurses and x terminals

2000-05-24 Thread Justin Megawarne
I recently compiled ncurses 5.0 from source, replacing the debian package (I removed the debian package first of course), but now in any sort of X terminal my ncurses apps don't show in color. They are fine in a normal console though =/ Any ideas? -- __ ___

Re: Java 1.2 JDK released for Linux...

2000-05-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Joe Emenaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JavaSoft apparently released the Linux version of the JDK 1.2. > > Anyone know if anyone is packaging it already? I assume JavaSoft = Sun Microsystems? If so, the JDK 1.2.2 has been out for at least a month or two. As far as I know it's not packaged f

Java 1.2 JDK released for Linux...

2000-05-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
JavaSoft apparently released the Linux version of the JDK 1.2. Anyone know if anyone is packaging it already? - Joe

Re: WMMail.App + Mutt annoyances

2000-05-24 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:13:23PM -0400, t.bedlam wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:23:16PM -0600, Alberto Brealey was only >escaped alone to tell thee: > > > thing is wmmail apparently changes something in the various mailboxes it > > checks, tricking mutt into thinking they don't have an

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph A. Martin (The LaterDude)) writes: > Actually I use dpkg-scanpackage with great success. apt-move can also > move packages from /var/cache/apt into a directory structure. Check > the man page for dpkg-scanpackage, if you need more help ask me and I > will provide examples

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Peter Good
Also, it may be a dual boot windows/linux machine, which makes /dev/hda10 only the 6th partition. least that's how it works on mine /dev/hda1 (doze) /dev/hda5 (linux) /dev/hda6 (var) /dev/hda7 (home) /dev/hda8 (swp) Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 >

Staroffice w/JDK (potato)

2000-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i searched the archives and am curious how to get staroffice to work with the JDK in potato ? what directory do i point it to? seems no matter where i point it to it says no JDK found (i have both jdk and jdk-dev installed) on slackware and mandrake star office auto detects java.. not that i need

printing to SMB printer from unix

2000-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been workin for about an hour tryin to print to a smb printer, and it doesnt work. the smb server is win98. win98 shows the file being spooled but it never finishes spooling nor starts printing(so far just trying plain text. I am running potato, and samba 2.0.7 with a smbprint script: lo

Re: Hard links

2000-05-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > >> 108545 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Feb 19 17:34 usr > > ... I assumed that the hard links theory of files applies to directories > in the very same way. That would mean that - if it were possible - there > are 21 [hard] links to /us

Re: Hard links

2000-05-24 Thread Sven Burgener
The thing is that from this listing: >> 108545 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Feb 19 17:34 usr ... I assumed that the hard links theory of files applies to directories in the very same way. That would mean that - if it were possible - there are 21 [hard] links to /usr somewhere on the

Re: Callback HOWTO ?

2000-05-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > There was an article in the computer magazin c't (judging from your > address, you do speak German) a while back. It was titled "Bei Anruf > Linux", and I saved it for further reading. I'm not at home right now, > but I could OCR the text and send it to you. Okay, I'm

Re: Making documentation easier to find (was: Re: exim mail routing...)

2000-05-24 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 24 May 2000, David Henningsson wrote: > >what i mean, is, the reason newbies don't FIND the documentation > >is because it is an ORDEAL to do so. apprentice-guru status is > >required to know to search /usr/doc via zgrep AND /usr/share/doc > >AND info pages AND man pages AND apropos... >

Re: multiple ne2000 cards?

2000-05-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
How are you running one of them now? The way I do this is with an entry in /etc/modules of this sort: ne io=0x300,0x320 You need to supply the right IO ports for the two cards (and, of course, they need to use different IO ports and IRQs). At 03:23 PM 5/24/00 -0600, Alberto Brealey wrote: > >i

global undefines in kernel modules 2.2.15

2000-05-24 Thread Michael Kevin O'Brien
Hola~ I downloaded the src for 2.2.15. Ran make menuconfig, dep, bzImage, modules, modules_install. The installed modules have undefined symbols for __global_cli, __global_save_flags, and __global_restore_flags. All of these symbols are defined in "arch/i386/kernel/irq.c". Anyone else seen this?

Firewall setup

2000-05-24 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Debians, Im am trying to setup a Debian firewall using ipchains, But I need some help in setting up the PCI Ethernet cards. One is an Linksys and the other a Kingston. Both should work under the Tulip driver but I dont know how to add the second eth1 card. The system detects the first and not

Howto - Database Access?

2000-05-24 Thread Gregory Cascante
Is it possible to access a INTERBASE DATABASE, on a linux platform (Debian) located on a different NT server via the ODBC support built into Zope?

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Patrick
Le Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes a dit: > Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to access /dev/hda10? I can > create it easily but trying to access it I get an 'unconfigured device' > message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a special boot time parameter? I've fo

Re: Hard links

2000-05-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > 108545 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Feb 19 17:34 usr > > and now I issue: > > hp90:/root # find / -inum 108545 > /usr > > All I got is /usr! How can that be explained? I must be missing Well, the inode for /usr is 108545, so when you se

multiple ne2000 cards?

2000-05-24 Thread Alberto Brealey
i've got 2 ne2000 cards, each working perfectly with the ne.o modules. my question is: how can i use the module to get _both_ cards working simultaneously? tia alberto

Re: Hard links

2000-05-24 Thread brian moore
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:16:42PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > >"ls -il" gives you the inode-numbers, so you'll see, which files are > >hard-linked. > >if you need to search the whole disk, then you want to use > "find -inum". > > Yes, that works. But only for some files I created for this test

PPP dial-up client + PPP dial-in server on same PC

2000-05-24 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! Can I setup two ppp connections (one client, one server ) on same PC at my office? One for dial-up to ISP to connect internet (I have already setup this one) and the other as a PPP Server to let me dial-in for remote access at home after the business hour. If can, How to set up? Thanks

Re: Hard links

2000-05-24 Thread Sven Burgener
>"ls -il" gives you the inode-numbers, so you'll see, which files are >hard-linked. >if you need to search the whole disk, then you want to use "find -inum". Yes, that works. But only for some files I created for this test just now. Assume I try to do it for /usr: 108545 drwxr-xr-x 21 root

Re: firewall-scripts

2000-05-24 Thread Didi Damian
I place them in /etc/init.d/ and then create symbolic links in the run levels like this: :/etc/init.d# update-rc.d foo start 30 2 3 4 5 . Note that my scripts are not "proper" scripts, ie. they only start the firewall and do not follow the 'start|stop|reload' procedure. The starting point (the "3

ISDNutils -->new version does not work

2000-05-24 Thread Jens Müller
I just upgraded to the new version of isdnutils (latest version from frozen) but it does not work. iprofd does not work, it says something about recompiling the kernel or so.   What should I do? If no-one knows something useful, I'll install the old version of isdnutils from the slink CDs...

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > The problem I see in 5.3 is less subtle. > > It will mess up this: > > $whatever =~ /thingiem/; > > Thinks the 'm/' is the beginning of a match and colorizes it, messing up > subsequent lines as well! Doesn't happen here. Package: vim Version: 5.6.012-1 -- see shy j

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 24, 2000, 1:27:53 PM, Keith wrote: >> One downside of vim that I just remembered, be careful the need for >> slamming the ESC key. Windows likes to think it means "shut this window >> NOW!" >> and if you have the confirmation turned off you lose messages in your Windows >> emai

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 2:23:00 PM, Viktor wrote: > Does VIM include color syntax highlighting on the console? I skimmed > over the VIM-HOWTO, but I could only manage to get color syntax > highlighting in gvim. Yes, it does. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrin

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Sean wrote: > > Frank Mehnert wrote: > > > I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax > > highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast editor in > > Debian with that feature built in? > > VIM Does VIM include color syntax highlighting on the console?

Re: Decoding BinHex4.0

2000-05-24 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > What is the way to decode an email obtain with attachments which say > they need to be decoded with BinHEx4.0? This originated from a Mac > > I am using metamail with elm which does not seem to be able to > do it. mimencode -u was also unsuccess

keysmoops

2000-05-24 Thread Jim McCloskey
I've been a happy user of `frozen' for some months now (very smooth upgrade---thanks to all the developers). But I'm trying to bring my log files under some kind of control. When I upgraded from slink to frozen, though, I acquired a whole new directory full---/var/log/keysmoops. And it's growing

Making documentation easier to find (was: Re: exim mail routing...)

2000-05-24 Thread David Henningsson
>what i mean, is, the reason newbies don't FIND the documentation >is because it is an ORDEAL to do so. apprentice-guru status is >required to know to search /usr/doc via zgrep AND /usr/share/doc >AND info pages AND man pages AND apropos... You're quite right. Could this be a solution? A new Deb

Decoding BinHex4.0

2000-05-24 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
What is the way to decode an email obtain with attachments which say they need to be decoded with BinHEx4.0? This originated from a Mac I am using metamail with elm which does not seem to be able to do it. mimencode -u was also unsuccessful. Are there any specific programs for this? Thanks. Seb

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Steve Lamb wrote: [cut] > The /only/ perl construct I know of that doesn't work is > something like this: > > if ($foo =~ /bar\/blam/){ > } > The problem I see in 5.3 is less subtle. It will mess up this: $whatever =~ /thingiem/; Thinks the 'm/' is the beginning of a match and colorizes it, mes

Re: Hard links

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> In an ls -l you get the # of hard links on the right side of the > permissions. How do I find where all of those hard links are located on > the harddisk? > "ls -il" gives you the inode-numbers, so you'll see, which files are hard-linked. if you need to search the whole disk, then you want to us

Hard links

2000-05-24 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi debians In an ls -l you get the # of hard links on the right side of the permissions. How do I find where all of those hard links are located on the harddisk? TIA Sven

Re: WMMail.App + Mutt annoyances

2000-05-24 Thread t.bedlam
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:23:16PM -0600, Alberto Brealey was only escaped alone to tell thee: > thing is wmmail apparently changes something in the various mailboxes it > checks, tricking mutt into thinking they don't have any new mail, even > when they do. i want to know if someone has a sol

Re: linux usb modem support

2000-05-24 Thread ferret
Check out http://www.linux-usb.org/ On Wed, 24 May 2000, David C. Ables wrote: > > I'm a debian newbie stuck with an annoying winmodem, so I'm about to buy an > external modem for my system. (the diamond supraexpress 56e has been > recommended to me.) > > my question is whether linux supports

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Lee Elliott
Ben Collins wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to access /dev/hda10? I can > > create it easily but trying to access it I get an 'unconfigured device' > > message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a special

Re: Reinitializing LPD

2000-05-24 Thread Matthew Wilson Emmett
"A. Scott White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been rebooting every time I edit /etc/printcap. I know there is a > better way to reinitialize the LPD system. Can someone tell me what it is? There are several ways to do this. You could 1) Kill the lpd that is running and start a new one.

Re: ISO IMAGE OF DEBIAN?

2000-05-24 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
There is a good ftp at ftp.kando.hu Somewhere in /pub there is a CD-IMAGES directory, inside there are lots of .raw files (you can mount them with mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 ) I know that potato's images are there. On Fri, 19 May 2000, -={ Menno Slaats }=- wrote: > Does anyone know

RE: Reinitializing LPD

2000-05-24 Thread Lewis, James M.
> I have been rebooting every time I edit /etc/printcap. I know there is a > better way to reinitialize the LPD system. Can someone tell me what it is? > use the startup files in /etc/init.d. cd /etc/init.d ./lprng restart or ./lprng stop ./lprng start There will be one of these for

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Frank Barknecht wrote: > [cut] > > Hey, no problem here with highlighting that code snippet using > > VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled Feb 10 2000 17:28:27) > (official wichert debian package) > Hey, where can I get that? The one from frozen (vim-perl 5.6.070-1, vim compiled May 1)

Re: Problems with ncurses programms

2000-05-24 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:29:08AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > Hello, I have some problems with programms that uses ncurses (I > think this is the source of the problem). I use rxvt (But there is > the same problem under xterm), and when i run dselect or when i use > vim inside mutt, that backg

Re: cpu arch performance

2000-05-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello list(s), > > Just something I noticed after setting up an x86 system after running > Debian on m68k. > > The m68k system was an Amiga with an m68060/50MHz which gave a BogoMIP > rating of 99.something. The x86 system is a dual PIII 650MHz system

Reinitializing LPD

2000-05-24 Thread A. Scott White
I have been rebooting every time I edit /etc/printcap. I know there is a better way to reinitialize the LPD system. Can someone tell me what it is? Thanks. A. Scott White Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy ACS Healthcare Solut

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Michael >Meskes wrote: >> Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to >>access /dev/hda10? I >>can > create it easily but trying to access it I get an >>'unconfigured >>device' >> message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a >>special boot time >

RE: Printing to a Hewlett Packard Jet Direct card

2000-05-24 Thread Lewis, James M.
To give you another way that works... I use lprng and this is how I have connected to an hp4k printer... tnp015|rm164_hp|Remote hp8kN(ps) printer :lp=tnp015.ten.alcoa.com%9100 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/tnp015 :mx#0 :sf :sh This is roughly equivalent to using the raw pr

Re: glibc 2.0/2.1

2000-05-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:33:21PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > I have a set of vendor-supplied libraries, which were compiled on a RedHat > 5.2 system, therefor they like glibc2.0. Are there problems with using > them on a glibc2.1 system (i.e. potato)? > Thanks There should be, but that's a case

glibc 2.0/2.1

2000-05-24 Thread Robert Kerr
I have a set of vendor-supplied libraries, which were compiled on a RedHat 5.2 system, therefor they like glibc2.0. Are there problems with using them on a glibc2.1 system (i.e. potato)? Thanks -- -bob Remember the... the... uhh. *

Testing firewall chains

2000-05-24 Thread Philip Lehman
I have set up firewalling on a gateway which connects my LAN to the net (using ipchains with a 2.2.14 kernel). How could I test my firewall chains from outside? Are there public services out there which would do a port scan on my server, for example? I'm pretty new to advanced networking and after

WMMail.App + Mutt annoyances

2000-05-24 Thread Alberto Brealey
im using mutt 1.0.1-9 from potato with the mailboxes option set in ~/.muttrc, which works great. that is until i install wmmail 0.63a-4. the thing is wmmail apparently changes something in the various mailboxes it checks, tricking mutt into thinking they don't have any new mail, even when they do.

Re: Callback HOWTO ?

2000-05-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Hi there, > > I am urgently searching any documentation regarding the creation > of a callback server and the client fitting to this... Do you know any > location where I may obtain this documentation / HOWTO ? There was an article in the computer magazin c't (judgin

Re: linux usb modem support

2000-05-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
"David C. Ables" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a debian newbie stuck with an annoying winmodem, so I'm about to buy an > external modem for my system. (the diamond supraexpress 56e has been > recommended to me.) > > my question is whether linux supports usb modems. the hardware-howto only > me

Re: `dired-man-locally' for XEmacs.

2000-05-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > If you put the following in your "~/.emacs" (or your > "~/.xemacs/init.el if you prefer) you'll be able to put the cursor > over a man page filename in `dired', and push `l' to display it in > the emacs manual viewer. This works for XEmacs. Anyone know a way >

Re: Slinkl Install

2000-05-24 Thread Jens Müller
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Wilson Emmett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jay Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Slinkl Install > Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I do a fresh install of slink, Will it detect my two pci Et

Re: Slinkl Install

2000-05-24 Thread Matthew Wilson Emmett
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I do a fresh install of slink, Will it detect my two pci Ethernet cards > automatically or will I need to change the module.conf file. I seem tor recall that the kernel stops searching for more ethernet cards when it finds one. So, you should change t

Slinkl Install

2000-05-24 Thread Jay Kelly
When I do a fresh install of slink, Will it detect my two pci Ethernet cards automatically or will I need to change the module.conf file.

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread jpb
"Joseph A. Martin (The LaterDude)" wrote: > > Actually I use dpkg-scanpackage with great success. apt-move can also > move packages from /var/cache/apt into a directory structure. Check > the man page for dpkg-scanpackage, if you need more help ask me and I > will provide examples. > > Ron Radema

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Jim Russell
> No, that wouln't work. I have debs from a lot of places (unofficial > packages, updated versions backported to slink, etc, etc) and I want to > combine them onto one CD. So I have to build my own Packages.gz I do that all the time. On my system, I have a directory /debian/local, where I dump

linux usb modem support

2000-05-24 Thread David C. Ables
I'm a debian newbie stuck with an annoying winmodem, so I'm about to buy an external modem for my system. (the diamond supraexpress 56e has been recommended to me.) my question is whether linux supports usb modems. the hardware-howto only mentions serial and internal modems, and I know usb is jus

Re: gpm as repeater for X11

2000-05-24 Thread Dan Brosemer
Try the following: Make sure /dev/gpmdata exists, and if not, 'mkfifo /dev/gpmdata' Configure gpm to use the 'raw' repeater type. Configure X to use the PS/2 protocol with the /dev/gpmdata device. This is the setup I have on my laptop and it has been working wonderfully. -Dan On Wed, May 24,

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 05:39 PM 5/24/00 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended partitions enabled. >> >not sure, but this sounds very strange to me. >afaik, you can nest extended patitions as much as you want. I believe you are correct, Oswald. Basically, you daisy-chain th

Re: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Joseph A. Martin The LaterDude
Actually I use dpkg-scanpackage with great success. apt-move can also move packages from /var/cache/apt into a directory structure. Check the man page for dpkg-scanpackage, if you need more help ask me and I will provide examples. Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess you should che

Re: firewall-scripts

2000-05-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:54:17AM +0200, Andreas Loosen (CRW.NET) wrote: > Hi, All, > > what is the recommended way to include my firewall scripts in potato? > > In slink I used to place it in /etc/init.d and started it from > /etc/init.d/network. ... Hi Andreas, You could check out the ipmasq

Re: Server-side spam and e-mail virus protection

2000-05-24 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Joe, ALL! Joe> I'm interested in implementing some form of spam and e-mail virus Joe> filtering at the daemon. Have you ever heard of NoCeM (no see-'em)? Maybe you'll find it interesting, www.cm.org is a good starting point. -- ignotus

Hello!

2000-05-24 Thread VEVE ROUDY
Hello! I'd like to know if I can find a linux application that can record Telephone Conversations. like phone recorder in Windows. if you get one please tell me the name . bye ...

Re: Cannot find libz1 and libxpm4

2000-05-24 Thread John Bagdanoff
>I guess, my problem is caused by the fact that I use dpkg >to investigate >dependencies and to install packages and not apt-get (I >must admit, that >I positioned it low priority on my installing list. Since >setting it up >didn't work right from the beginning, I skipped it for >later >experiments

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Could be, but why would you want 10 partitions? :) > i've see that ... > And does the kernel support this (yes I know fdisk can easily support > something like this, but that doesn't mean the kernel does). > according to devices.txt up to hd?63 wo

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:39:32PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended partitions enabled. > > > not sure, but this sounds very strange to me. > afaik, you can nest extended patitions as much as you want. Could be, but why would you want 10 partition

Re: cpu arch performance

2000-05-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Lee, On Tue, 23 May 2000, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello list(s), > > Just something I noticed after setting up an x86 system after running > Debian on m68k. > > The m68k system was an Amiga with an m68060/50MHz which gave a BogoMIP > rating of 99.something. The x86 system is a dual PIII 65

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> And i386 can have a max of 7(?) with extended partitions enabled. > not sure, but this sounds very strange to me. afaik, you can nest extended patitions as much as you want. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems

Re: howto

2000-05-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
Installation of modules is an area in which the various Linux distributions differ quite a bit. The HowTo you read doesn't reflect this variation. For a Debian install, just add this line to /etc/modules ne io=0x240,0x260 At 01:07 PM 5/24/00 +0100, Charles Stephen wrote: >I have installed to eth

Re: 3C905 with AsusTek K7V

2000-05-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
I seem to recall problems with older 3c59x.o modules and newer 3C905 NICs. Newer kernels have a module that works; older ones need to have the newer version of the module (available from Don Becker's site, http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html) patched in. SInce you don't say what version of Debi

Re: Mutt configuration

2000-05-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 09:47:55AM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Hi, I love Mutt as an e-mail client. A few things I have not been able ... > - I would like to be able to use a different name in the From: line than > my linux account name. My account is 'erik', but I have an alias > e.van

gpm as repeater for X11

2000-05-24 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi What causes the following error? I'm using the frozen (potato) distribution. GPM is configured as repeater and "ps fax" shows me that it's running as "-Rmsc" mouse works on console. Whenever I try to start X as user or root I get: Warning: /dev/gpmdata unable to get status of mouse fd (Inval

Re: /dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to access /dev/hda10? I can > create it easily but trying to access it I get an 'unconfigured device' > message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a special boot time parameter? Can you

Re: can't print

2000-05-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, Just to add some (perhaps) useful information: On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > >I did it by (manually) insmod'ing: > >parport.o > >parport_pc.o > >lp.o Only an issue with kernel 2.2.x and higher. With kernel 2.0.x it's a bit different. > I fo

Re: Transfering logfiles from one to another server ?

2000-05-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know about a normal modem, but AFAIK there is some kind of callback function in isdnutils (but that will only work with ISDN). Ron On Wed, 24 May 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > I think logging everything to another server via syslogd is quite a > good idea - I have just tried it and

RE: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you should check the manpage of deb-control. Ron Rademaker PS. You could also keep all the .deb's and install them, if needed, using dpkg. On Wed, 24 May 2000, Moore, Paul wrote: > From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz fro

/dev/hda10

2000-05-24 Thread Michael Meskes
Could anyone please tell me what I have to do to access /dev/hda10? I can create it easily but trying to access it I get an 'unconfigured device' message for instance from mke2fs. Do I need a special boot time parameter? Michael P.S.: Please CC me on replies. -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes

RE: Building my own apt archive

2000-05-24 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz from the > mirror and the > directory structure as used on the mirror, when you update using that > Packages.gz, it will seem as if there are much more packages, that you > don't all have, however if

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