smbmount

2000-07-10 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i have installed samba-2.0.5a-1.deb and it does not contain either smbclient or smbmount. the debian search-contents feature on the debian home page has indicated that smbmount is in the "otherosfs/smbfs" which i presume is the module smbfs which i have installed under modconf/fs. but i canno

rm to mp3?

2000-07-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Does anyone know how to convert a .rm file to an mp3 format? I have downloaded several real audio .rm files (I can play them on the linux realplayer) but I would like to convert them to mp3 format. Any ideas? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux,

Re: Scale

2000-07-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 11:18:53PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 08:02:16PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > > It is approximately round (spherical). A better approximation is made > > with an ellipsoid (rather than a spheroid). > > The Clarke Geoid of 1866 (perhaps our

Re: remote shell question

2000-07-10 Thread John Galt
nohup it... On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then close down

Re: Scale Was [Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?]

2000-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 08:02:16PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > It is approximately round (spherical). A better approximation is made > with an ellipsoid (rather than a spheroid). The Clarke Geoid of 1866 (perhaps our first modern geoid) was an ellipsoid. Physically though, earth resembles mo

Scale Was [Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?]

2000-07-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:33:25AM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > Sorry to break in but.. > Looking upon the earth as flat is a fine assumption if you're working on a > small scale. You've got that backwards. Small scale is large area, large scale is small area, cartographically. It helps to

Re: remote shell question

2000-07-10 Thread John Hasler
Chris Mason wrote: > Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then close down the workstation from which I SSHed,

Re: remote shell question

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Werner
Chris Mason wrote: > Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then close down the workstation from which I SSHed,

Re: apt sources

2000-07-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:36:28AM -0400, Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > Is there anywhere that I can get a list of apt sources. I want to do a > dselect install from floppies and use apt to get the distribution > files afterwards. I'm looking for slink apt sources, preferably off > the ca.debian domai

Re: __STDC__

2000-07-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Note I've sent a carbon to the list as I think this is still relevant. itz> Hmmm. I have actually solved the compilation problem, and it was itz> unrelated; in other words, __STDC__ _is_ defined during normal itz> compiles. Any gcc guru here to explain why it doesn't show in itz> the output of

remote shell question

2000-07-10 Thread Chris Mason
Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading then close down the workstation from which I SSHed, and come back the next day

Re: __STDC__

2000-07-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> kronstadt:/usr/include$ gcc -E -dM -xc /dev/null > #define __linux__ 1 > #define linux 1 > #define __i386__ 1 > #define __i386 1 > #define __GNUC_MINOR__ 95 > #define i386 1 > #define __unix 1 > #define __unix__ 1 > #define __GNUC__ 2 > #define __linux 1 > #define __ELF__ 1 > #define

Re: What to use as an MTA

2000-07-10 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 07:52:19PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > 2) Unless you've registered your own domain and it can accept mail, the > > configuration generated by eximconfig won't quite work out of the box. > > Specifically, if you tell it you're @isp.net it wil

Re: lobotamy via HD swap

2000-07-10 Thread zdrysdal
i do not have hwclock... only "clock" as the debian version is 1.3 (bo) running kernel 1.3. old aye :) John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/07/2000 13:58:02 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64) Subject: Re: lobotamy via HD swap Zane writes

Re: lobotamy via HD swap

2000-07-10 Thread John Hasler
Zane writes: > Ie. our current box seems to be prone to the y2k bug and thinks it is > 1994. Have you tried the --badyear option to hwclock? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: How to print? (Xerox DocuPrint C15)

2000-07-10 Thread Corey Popelier
Erm one thing I noticed reading that was the first half made reference to lp0, whereas the printcap referes to lp1. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Horacio MG wrote: > > Hi, > > (please, Cc: the answer to me

Re: lobotamy via HD swap

2000-07-10 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I did that recently, when upgrading to a new motherboard. Assuming that the new machine has compatible hardware (i.e. that your kernel was compiled with all the necessary support included) it should work just fine. If you're configured to boot directly into X via xdm (or whatever), you may want t

lobotamy via HD swap

2000-07-10 Thread zdrysdal
Hi is there any side-effects from transporting the HD from a working slink machine to another machine. Ie. our current box seems to be prone to the y2k bug and thinks it is 1994. What will happen if i grab the disk from that machine and plonk it into a newer machine which is y2k safe? Will it

Re: Lilo-problem

2000-07-10 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > This line in your /etc/lilo.conf is what clobbered your /dev/hda1 > partition: > boot=/dev/hda1 > What that did was install Lilo in the boot sector of your DOS/Windows > partition and wiped out the DOS boot record. Which could have been restored with 'lilo -u'. -- John Hasler [EMA

Re: Lilo-problem

2000-07-10 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Johann Spies wrote: > > Hello Ashby, > > > If you are getting binary data from your /dev/fd0, then it should > > have nothing to do with your partitioning. Sounds like the boot disc > > you are using may be corrupt. Are you trying to boot off /dev/fd0 or > > /dev/hda? > > /dev/hda > > I also fo

Re: packages contained with the xfree86 distribution

2000-07-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know, but I guess this will be a working workaround: change the name of /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 create phony /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 run apt-get dist-upgrade change all dirs back again Ron On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Michael O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > >-- On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:34:53AM +0

Re: packages contained with the xfree86 distribution

2000-07-10 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ >-- On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:34:53AM +0200, % wrote: > xfree86 4.0 isn't packaged for debian (yet), patience... patience Right. However, I needed to install it so I could use my graphics card. So, I ran the binary install from xfree86.org. Now, I would like to update the versions of the c

Re: __STDC__

2000-07-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 09:00:55PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > kronstadt:/usr/include$ gcc -E -dM -xc /dev/null > #define __linux__ 1 > #define linux 1 > #define __i386__ 1 > #define __i386 1 > #define __GNUC_MINOR__ 95 > #define i386 1 > #define __unix 1 > #define __unix__ 1 > #define _

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harald Thingelstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry to break in but.. >Looking upon the earth as flat is a fine assumption if you're working on a >small scale. >And yes, it's rather popular to think of the earth as (approximately) >round these days, but we may not

Re: packages contained with the xfree86 distribution

2000-07-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
xfree86 4.0 isn't packaged for debian (yet), patience... patience On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Michael O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > I had to upgrade my xserver to 4.0. Does anyone know which debian packages I > need to version to 4.0 so that I can safely use apt-get dist-upgrade? > > MO > > > -- > Uns

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On 10 Jul 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Sorry to break in on this thread and being off-topic, but... > CIDR is 10 years old! Anyone still thinking in class A and class C > is probably still using COBOL too... sigh > Sorry to break in but.. Looking upon the earth as flat is a fine assumpt

packages contained with the xfree86 distribution

2000-07-10 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I had to upgrade my xserver to 4.0. Does anyone know which debian packages I need to version to 4.0 so that I can safely use apt-get dist-upgrade? MO

Re: Xfree Mode Switching?

2000-07-10 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
ktb wrote: > If that doesn't work for you make sure you in fact have different > resolutions to switch to in your /etc/XF86Config file. Different resolutions within the same color depth that is. This one had me for a while. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What to use as an MTA

2000-07-10 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Dave Sherohman wrote: > 2) Unless you've registered your own domain and it can accept mail, the > configuration generated by eximconfig won't quite work out of the box. > Specifically, if you tell it you're @isp.net it will assume that all @isp.net > addresses are local, preventing you from sendi

Re: equivs problem-o

2000-07-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, Brien> Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This has to be: Maintainer: Michael O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ciao, Martin

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> Still, it's simply wrong. It's like assuming the sun revolves around >> the earth simply traveling along a weird path (remember Keplers >> equasions?). > >Kepler's equations were for the orbi

Re: equivs problem-o

2000-07-10 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I've attached the file. I've tried equivs-build with a blank Changelog: line, without a Changelog: line, and with an empty Changelog file. MO >-- On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 09:53:45AM +0200, % wrote: > Hi, > > Brien> dh_installchangelogs > Brien> parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted

Re: IMP issue

2000-07-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 01:05:14PM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote: > > What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf look like? Is it only > > using DNS for host name resolution? If so, > > > > 1) insert "files " before "dns", or > > 2) is there any internal nameserver for your LAN? > > O

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 02:33:58PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > Don't networking configuration tools default to using the "Classes" > for computing netmasks, unless they are specified? ... and Ciscos default to using stupid proprietary protocols when you set up a circuit. How are stupid defaults re

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Werner
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Still, it's simply wrong. It's like assuming the sun revolves around > the earth simply traveling along a weird path (remember Keplers > equasions?). Kepler's equations were for the orbits of the planets going around the sun. I think it's probably Tycho Brahe you'

Re: Lilo-problem

2000-07-10 Thread Johann Spies
Hello Ashby, > If you are getting binary data from your /dev/fd0, then it should > have nothing to do with your partitioning. Sounds like the boot disc > you are using may be corrupt. Are you trying to boot off /dev/fd0 or > /dev/hda? /dev/hda I also found that my dos partition could no longer b

Re: IMP issue

2000-07-10 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 01:05:14PM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote: > > Matthew Thompson wrote: > > > > > > Hello, all > > > > > > I just installed imp/horde/mysql. My server is located at mattyt.net. > > > Here is my /etc/hosts: > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > ... > > > 192.168.1.1

MySQL and DBI

2000-07-10 Thread James Brown
I'm having a problem opening the data source of the MySQL server. The set up of my servers are as follows: 1. My remote server is a Unix Apache and is with an ISP. I've installed/unzipped the Data-Dumper, DBI, MSQL-MySQL Module and the CGI.pm into a folder just off the root. I named the folder

Re: IMP issue

2000-07-10 Thread Matthew Thompson
> Matthew Thompson wrote: > > > > Hello, all > > > > I just installed imp/horde/mysql. My server is located at mattyt.net. > > Here is my /etc/hosts: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > ... > > 192.168.1.1 doma.mattyt.net doma > > ... > > > > For some reason, when I point Netscap

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Bolan Meek
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Walter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Sorry to break in on this thread and being off-topic, but... > >>CIDR is 10 years old! Anyone still thinking in class A and class C > >>is probably still using COBOL too... sigh > >

Re: IMP issue

2000-07-10 Thread Bolan Meek
Matthew Thompson wrote: > > Hello, all > > I just installed imp/horde/mysql. My server is located at mattyt.net. > Here is my /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > ... > 192.168.1.1 doma.mattyt.net doma > ... > > For some reason, when I point Netscape (from outside mattyt.net

XMailTool Package Market Research

2000-07-10 Thread Bolan Meek
Greetings: God bless you. I'm not yet a Debian Developer, but my application is in the queue, and I'm assaying to become the maintainer of the orphaned package xmailtool, as well as the upstream maintainer. But I'm wondering if I'll be wasting my time, and could better contribute elsewise. So I

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Walter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Sorry to break in on this thread and being off-topic, but... >>CIDR is 10 years old! Anyone still thinking in class A and class C >>is probably still using COBOL too... sigh > >Excuse me, for butting in, but, all the >do

IMP issue

2000-07-10 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, all I just installed imp/horde/mysql. My server is located at mattyt.net. Here is my /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 216.39.146.1emerald.oz.net gateway 216.39.146.44 webmail.mattyt.net webmail 216.39.146.44 mail.mattyt.net mail 192.168.1.1 doma.m

Re: slink to potato ssh failed

2000-07-10 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 18:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I recently upgraded my slink box to potato with apt. Everything works > well but the new ssh: > > neptun:/home/papt# dpkg --configure ssh > Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ... ^ I think this was fixed around -7, an

Cheers for Debian

2000-07-10 Thread Curtis M. Brune
I just wanted to drop you folks a line and say "Thank You" for making a great linux distribution. I and my company have been using Debian since late 1998 and it's great. I recently upgraded my system to Potato and it went without any problems. Very well done. Keep up the great work. Cheers, C

How to print? (Xerox DocuPrint C15)

2000-07-10 Thread Horacio MG
Hi, (please, Cc: the answer to me as I'm not on the list) just got this new brand printer, and I'm trying to get something printed with it, but never configured a printer before now. The printer is recognized, as advertised by the relevant parts of dmesg: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP

locks and pppd

2000-07-10 Thread Lukas Eppler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a strange problem with my serial port /dev/ttyS0. /proc$ setserial /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 /proc$ tail -f /dev/ttyS0 & [1] 13643 /proc$ echo at > /dev/ttyS0 This hangs infinitely, BUT only if I have used pppd. There are

Re: Using Netmeeting thought a Debian Firewall

2000-07-10 Thread ferret
Closed-source software unfortunately. :/ I've been looking for something like it myself, but they have neither source nor a sparclinux build. On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Marc Dubrowski wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > > Will NetMeeting work thought a firewall or will I need to port > >

RE: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Walter Williams
Excuse me, for butting in, but, all the documentation I have read on TCP/IP still refer to "Classes". Walt >Sorry to break in on this thread and being off-topic, but... >CIDR is 10 years old! Anyone still thinking in class A and class C >is probably still using COBOL too... sigh

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harald Thingelstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >First: >The 10.x.x.x network range is, due to standard ip ranges, class A. >You have used a subnet mask to divide it into 2^16 sub-ip-ranges, using >four of them. > >So a simple solution might be (i've not actually done

Printer failure

2000-07-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
My printer has suddenly stopped working and I'm not having any luck determining the cause... I recently upgraded lprng from 3.6.2-2 to 3.6.12-6 and just made my first attempt to print after the upgrade. It fails silently and lpq just shows a message of the form Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson

Re: email to fax

2000-07-10 Thread Simon Tennant
Chris -- You could try using www.tpc.int. They have a neat service that turns addresses of the form: [EMAIL PROTECTED] into faxes with an advertising cover sheet. Just setup and alias in your /etc/aliases file and rerun newaliases. S. -- Simon Tennant, Web Team, Linuxcare, Inc. 415.577.6719

slink to potato ssh failed

2000-07-10 Thread papt
Hi! I recently upgraded my slink box to potato with apt. Everything works well but the new ssh: neptun:/home/papt# dpkg --configure ssh Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ... dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered

Re: Cannot echo capital M

2000-07-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting M.K.Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am facing a rather strange problem. > > I am unable to echo the character "M" on my bash prompt. > > I am able to get M by > perl -e 'print chr(77);' > > I am even able to put it in an email. Note the "M" right here. > But at the bash prompt, I just don

RE: ethernet card

2000-07-10 Thread Walter Williams
You have to be careful in buying hardware for your system. Not everything is supported. Investigate before you buy. You can simple check your kernel configuration to see what's supported with the standard issue kernel. I investigated my ATI graphics card before I bid on it on Ebay at Xfree86's

RE: Making new "/dev" entries

2000-07-10 Thread Walter Williams
To be honest, I am investigating Debian by following this list server. The system I am referring to is a 33mhz 386 with, ah well SuSE 6.3 on it. It sounds to me like Debian has more tools and capabilities that the RH derivates. I will look into the docs in the kernel source tree. Thanks Walt ---

Re: Network problems

2000-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 12:37:57PM +0100, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Although the kernel (2.2.16) is compiled with network-support and > the module for the NIC is loaded properly, I get a "connect : > Network is unreachable"-message each time... Insufficient data. Can you post the output of '

chrony and local time

2000-07-10 Thread Marcin Chady
I recently installed chrony, but it seems to be setting my clock to GMT rather than local time, i.e. it's one hour late compared to UK's current time. My Linux was installed with the hardware clock set to local time, because it shares the machine with Windows. How do I tell chrony about this? Marc

Re: Cannot echo capital M

2000-07-10 Thread Bolan Meek
"M.K.Pai" wrote: > > Guys, > > I am facing a rather strange problem. > > I am unable to echo the character "M" on my bash prompt. > > I am able to get M by > perl -e 'print chr(77);' > > I am even able to put it in an email. Note the "M" right here. > But at the bash prompt, I just don't get a

Re: Making new "/dev" entries

2000-07-10 Thread paul
> Thank you > > I do have my kernel source installed. Others > suggested using a script called MAKEDEV. I was > unable to find it. Wonder where I can get it. > Although "rolling my own" from scratch will, > no drought, prove to be more educational. > > Walt > The "MAKEDEV" script is in /dev.

Re: HOW-TO report a bug?

2000-07-10 Thread Bolan Meek
zhaoway wrote: > > Hi, > > I cannot report a bug using neither reportbug nor bug. > The problem is that even I have set the EMAIL environment > or using the --email opt to set my from: line, the bug > message sent were still using my local not-FQDN hostname > hence got to be rejected by Debian's

Bug in ipchains... or is it...

2000-07-10 Thread Mark Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was just updating my firewall and created this nice script to do it for me (based on the ipmasq scripts). For readability I used a lot of variables and the long options (--add --source --destination etc etc) However, these long options do NOT work..

RE: Making new "/dev" entries

2000-07-10 Thread Walter Williams
Thank you I do have my kernel source installed. Others suggested using a script called MAKEDEV. I was unable to find it. Wonder where I can get it. Although "rolling my own" from scratch will, no drought, prove to be more educational. Walt -Original Message- From: kmself@ix.netcom.com

Debian + other distribution

2000-07-10 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Debianers, I have a HD 10.2 with win95 at the begin (first 1500MB) and another Linux dist. on a partition of 3000MB. (The distribution is Conectiva Linux, similar to RedHat). I want to install Debian 2.2 on another partition without remove neither win nor my other dist. How should I proce

apt sources

2000-07-10 Thread Derek Wueppelmann
Is there anywhere that I can get a list of apt sources. I want to do a dselect install from floppies and use apt to get the distribution files afterwards. I'm looking for slink apt sources, preferably off the ca.debian domain. 0 / Derek Wueppelmann (D Libraxus Inc. / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem using mouse with X & potato

2000-07-10 Thread Lucas
> I can't manage to configure my mouse under X. > My mouse is a Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.1A (2 buttons), of course on serial > port. forget this, I finally managed to get it working :) -- Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 7362432 PGP Public key : http://lucas.ians.be/pgp/pubkey.txt

problem using mouse with X & potato

2000-07-10 Thread Lucas
Hello ! I can't manage to configure my mouse under X. My mouse is a Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.1A (2 buttons), of course on serial port. I've tried to use gpm, but I get this (the mouse worked properly in XF86Setup) : Warning: /dev/gpmdata unable to get status of mouse fd (Invalid argument) then X s

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 08:59:13AM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > First: > The 10.x.x.x network range is, due to standard ip ranges, class A. > You have used a subnet mask to divide it into 2^16 sub-ip-ranges, using > four of them. > > So a simple solution might be (i've not actually done this

Re: Compaq Armada 1750

2000-07-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
What packages I need. I did modprobe tlan and installed pcmcia-cs but when inserting the network card it doesnt beeps. What can be wrong? Thanks, Paulo Henrique Quoting Stuart Andrews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (

Re: Network problems

2000-07-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
What do you get if you do: ifconfig route Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am currently building my own webserver but still I do have a > problem with my 3com 3C900-NIC. > > Although the kernel (2.2.16) is compiled with network-support and

Network problems

2000-07-10 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hello everyone, I am currently building my own webserver but still I do have a problem with my 3com 3C900-NIC. Although the kernel (2.2.16) is compiled with network-support and the module for the NIC is loaded properly, I get a "connect : Network is unreachable"-message each time I try to ping

Mutt and IMAP - Specifying server

2000-07-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Does anyone have an example of a .muttrc that works with an IMAP server? I can do everything except put the name of the server in. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Patrick Kirk Mobile: 0044 (0) 705 004 9046

Re: Using Netmeeting thought a Debian Firewall

2000-07-10 Thread Marc Dubrowski
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Will NetMeeting work thought a firewall or will I need to port > the box to let it out. If I reme\mber right in the past I was able to > send video out but not receive it for the other side. Anyone haveany > ideas to fix this ? And what port will I need to op

Re: Cant find bzImage

2000-07-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
David Gisborne hat gesagt: // David Gisborne wrote: > Sorry for my igorance, but what exactly does installing the kernel-package > do... Does it set it up for recompiling? Hi David, kernel-package greatly simplifies the process of compiling a kernel. You just configure the kernel, call make-kpkg

Two screens

2000-07-10 Thread Frodo Baggins
Hi, I run a (almost) pure potato distrib with 2.2.17 kernel. Problem is, I have a Intel740 graphic card and a 17" monitor as standard output device. But I also have a S3 card a 15" monitor from an old PC which died sometimes ago. I would like to set up all this things such that I have a dual mo

Re: ethernet card

2000-07-10 Thread Corey Popelier
Do cat /proc/pci , and see exactly what it says about the type of ethernet card you have. Then goto a Ethernet-HOWTO or a hardware list in relation to Debian and you will get more of an idea as to what is required. Or install PCIUTILS, which will also give you further information on your PCI devic

Re: Helix Gnome Updater

2000-07-10 Thread Mark Herrick
Oh - I was under the impression it was a bit smarter than that :( I don't think I'll bother then - Thanks Joachim. On 09/07/00 at 22:44 Joachim Trinkwitz spake the following magic words: >"Mark Herrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've installed Helix Gnome on my potato system using: >> apt-

a mgetty.conf for elsa-microlink?

2000-07-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i just bought a elsa-microlink modem for receiving faxes, installed it but it doesn't want to work i asked some friends to try to send me a fax, i even tryed to send a fax through a locally installed fax, the modem beeing triggered by the answer_fax- script nothing helps, mgetty is

Lilo-problem

2000-07-10 Thread Johann Spies
My hd setup is as follows: /dev/hda 10Gb with 6meg dos partition /dev/hda1 on it and the rest free. /dev/hdb 8.4Gb with /dev/hdb2 (about 8Gb) containing my slink/potato. The previous Lilo would not work because of the 1024 cilinder problem. So I installed the new lilo and it ran without a prob

Re: HW for UPS

2000-07-10 Thread Johann Spies
I recently bought a Tripp Lite OnmiSmart 1000 TNT PNP and uses it with powstatd. It is my first UPS and I am quite happy with the way it behaves. On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:35:58PM +0200, Werner Reisberger wrote: > Does someone know which UPS hardware could be used with the debian > ups packet.

Re: Helix Gnome Updater

2000-07-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Mark Herrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've installed Helix Gnome on my potato system using: > apt-get install task-helix-gnome > and it works great, but does anyone know where I can get debs for the > helix-updater? Not packaged after all I know, but what would you do with it? (The updater

Re: ethernet card

2000-07-10 Thread Markus Fischer
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 09:09:56PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote : > Hey guys. My apologies if this is really basic, but I'm having a problem > getting Debian to detect my new Soho PCI ethernet card on boot. What's the > proper module name that I need to configure for this card, or how can I

Re: email to fax

2000-07-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
> Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email > address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken > by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email. You can use custom mail processing of XMail : http://www.maticad.

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jameson Burt wrote: > I run Debian potato Linux (upgrading it weekly) within a network > that others have setup for Microsoft Windows 95/98. > This network has (over the same ethernet cables) > computers and printers covering 4 C-class networks > as follows [first 2 digits a

Cannot echo capital M

2000-07-10 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, I am facing a rather strange problem. I am unable to echo the character "M" on my bash prompt. I am able to get M by perl -e 'print chr(77);' I am even able to put it in an email. Note the "M" right here. But at the bash prompt, I just don't get any M. Most important, other users on thi

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I run Debian potato Linux (upgrading it weekly) within a network that > others have setup for Microsoft Windows 95/98. This network has (over > the same ethernet cables) computers and printers covering 4 C-class > networks as follows [fi