Re: Multiple e-mail personalities

2000-10-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "RC" == Ryan Claycamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RC> Does anyone know how to configure mutt to use multiple names RC> and how to configure exim so it sees how the message is RC> addressed and uses the smarthost for the right from address? I create a login account for each email

LI at boot after making \boot reiserfs

2000-10-26 Thread Pascal Hos
I seem to have messed up now. I just made all my partitions except for / reiserfs (this includes /boot). Now when I try to boot the computer Lilo doesn't get past LI and just sits there. Of course I do not have a rescue disk that will allow me to mount a reiser partition, so I'm stuck. I assume tha

Multiple e-mail personalities

2000-10-26 Thread Ryan Claycamp
I am trying to get something to work, but am having trouble. I have searched web pages and manuals, but I am just not seeing how to accomplish what I want. It is easily done on my Windows machine with Eudora, so there has to be a solution. The problem is that I have several e-mail addresses that

Re: [OT] why does ./configure fail silently?

2000-10-26 Thread kmself
on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 07:42:28PM -0700, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Why is it that ./configure scripts, if they fail, almost always seem > to fail silently? For example I'll get a line like > > Checking for extremely important crucial dependency...no > > and the script will h

Re: Mutt: save without prompting --- how? Multi-message save?

2000-10-26 Thread Mike
Mark Phillips wrote: > I use mutt to read my mail and I have a folder with debian-user in it. > When I come to messages of interest to me, I want to be able to easily > save them to another folder. I've got it set up so it saves to the > right place, but currently in order to save I need to press

Re: Modem Troubles (Connection)

2000-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Stephen writes: > I just switched from slackware and am trying to get a dialup connection > to work. I've tried bothe pppconfig and wvdial and they both do the same > thing, connect for 8 seconds then drop the connection. Post copies of /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, /etc/ppp/

Mutt: save without prompting --- how? Multi-message save?

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
I use mutt to read my mail and I have a folder with debian-user in it. When I come to messages of interest to me, I want to be able to easily save them to another folder. I've got it set up so it saves to the right place, but currently in order to save I need to press "s" and then hit return to ac

Re: Can I combine installing from CD with ftp?

2000-10-26 Thread kmself
on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:49:01PM -0400, Scott V. McGuire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is it possible to install mostly from CD but get any updated packages > over the net? I imagine this could be done after rebooting when > dselect runs. Would this work, or would dselect try to get everythi

Re: [OT] why does ./configure fail silently?

2000-10-26 Thread Damien
> Why is it that ./configure scripts, if they fail, almost always seem > to fail silently? For example I'll get a line like > > Checking for extremely important crucial dependency...no as i beginner developer, i encountered this in my own programs :) basically you list the dependencies you wan

Re: what will fail if I upgrade to "unstable"?

2000-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Krzys Majewski writes: > Anybody ugraded from "stable" to "unstable" lately? (I refuse to keep up > with the silly Toy Story names.) I sympathise. > What breaks? The recent libc6 breakage is supposedly fixed, but I am still having network problems, and I've seen reports indicating that others ar

Re: Linux novice can't find ftp and nfs daemons

2000-10-26 Thread jeff
IIRC, you'll need to start /usr/sbin/rpc-nfsd and /usr/sbin/rpc-mountd. If you want an ftp daemon, you'll have to install package "ftpd"? -jeff On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 08:00:10PM -0400, Mark Mohrmann wrote: > I'm trying to do a very simple task. Make two SPARC stations transfer files > between e

Modem Troubles (Connection)

2000-10-26 Thread Stephen Tuite
Hello, I just switched from slackware and am trying to get a dialup connection to work. I've tried bothe pppconfig and wvdial and they both do the same thing, connect for 8 seconds then drop the connection. My current isp is Mindspring. After using plog I get this, Connect: ppp0<->/dev/tt

Re: a question

2000-10-26 Thread jeff
Well, I think you found the place :) Starting with the basics... what type of system and CDROM drive have you got? Has the drive functioned properly in the past? Also, where ddid the CDROM itself come from? Has it ever worked? -jeff On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 03:44:49PM -0600, Henry Kelsey/Boul

Re: cgi-bin security

2000-10-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"Thomas R. Shemanske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I administer a couple of linux machines (potato based), and have a user > which want to run cgi-bin scripts, and I would like to know if there are > security concerns. Yes there are. Have a look at cgiwrap, it should take care of many if not mo

what will fail if I upgrade to "unstable"?

2000-10-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody ugraded from "stable" to "unstable" lately? (I refuse to keep up with the silly Toy Story names.) What breaks? -chris

[OT] why does ./configure fail silently?

2000-10-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Why is it that ./configure scripts, if they fail, almost always seem to fail silently? For example I'll get a line like Checking for extremely important crucial dependency...no and the script will happily continue, generating makefiles and so on. chris

Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hm, I compiled parallel port support as a module. I already had > > options parport_pc io=0x3bc irq=7 > > in my /etc/modutils/options, so I appended "dma=3" to give > > options parport_pc io=0x3bc irq=7 dma=3 > > Now I can modprobe parport_pc, but

Re: TOT: Pointers to good introductory Linux material

2000-10-26 Thread kmself
on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 11:18:59AM +1100, Chris Kenrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > One of my ex workmates has shown signs of being interested in experimenting > with > Linux. She is, however, quite knowledgeable about computers, > programming IBM mainframes for some time. > > I'm planning o

Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Hm, I compiled parallel port support as a module. I already had options parport_pc io=0x3bc irq=7 in my /etc/modutils/options, so I appended "dma=3" to give options parport_pc io=0x3bc irq=7 dma=3 Now I can modprobe parport_pc, but when I try to modprobe imm I get: 17:52:05<~>$ sudo modprobe

TOT: Pointers to good introductory Linux material

2000-10-26 Thread Chris Kenrick
One of my ex workmates has shown signs of being interested in experimenting with Linux. She is, however, quite knowledgeable about computers, programming IBM mainframes for some time. I'm planning on giving her one of the 'live CDS', probably either the Linuxcare BBC or the SUSE 7 Live file

Re: Copy hard-drive

2000-10-26 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Matheson wrote: > I want to make an _exact_ copy of my hard-drive to my friend's > hard-drive, including partitions, boot-able, etc. Is their a way to > do this with LInux? I know that I used to use a program with Windoze > that could If the disks are the same size exactly,

Linux novice can't find ftp and nfs daemons

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Mohrmann
I'm trying to do a very simple task. Make two SPARC stations transfer files between each other. I've read the NFS HOWTO which tells me the nfsd and ftpd daemons should be found in /usr/sbin. I can't find them. Using ftp, I get a connection, but then the message "421 Service not available, remote s

Re: Ok folks help really needed! New Debian install

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
I think what you probably need to do, is make sure the bios settings on your laptop are set so that you can boot from the CD drive, and then boot it using the debian CD. Also, you might get some help from debian-laptop@lists.debian.org mailing list. Hope this helps, Mark. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMA

Re: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address'

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address', > > attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 07:47:26.313 > > Hmm, you know that since Linux 2.2, the first printer is /dev/lp0? Thanks! This is what I nee

Copy hard-drive

2000-10-26 Thread Matheson
Hey,   I want to make an _exact_ copy of my hard-drive to my friend's hard-drive, including partitions, boot-able, etc.  Is their a way to do this with LInux?  I know that I used to use a program with Windoze that could   thanks, Cameron Matheson

insmod joy-analog

2000-10-26 Thread Matheson
Hey,   I'm trying to figure out how to get all eight buttons (four buttons, four throttles) working on my gamepad.  The joy-analog module will only detect four buttons, so I have to specify arguments with bitmasks and stuff while insmod-ing.  I don't have a clue on how to do this, and the jo

Re: X

2000-10-26 Thread Gary L. Dolan
Andre Berger wrote: > > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:37:46PM -0500, chudpi wrote: > > > > > > Also, could anyone tell me how to activate the locatedb so I can use > > > locate? > > > Thanx. > > > XsX > > > > don't turn your computer off at night. > >

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Neil Booth writes: > FWIW I have exactly the same problem. Just started recently. I have > a dial-up connection too. The problem only exists when I'm not > connected to the internet. As soon as pppd is up, the problem > vanishes, and it reappears when I disconnect. > I haven't a clue eithe

Can I combine installing from CD with ftp?

2000-10-26 Thread Scott V. McGuire
Is it possible to install mostly from CD but get any updated packages over the net? I imagine this could be done after rebooting when dselect runs. Would this work, or would dselect try to get everything over the net and ignore the CD? Of course "apt-get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade" after in

Re: SSH permission problems

2000-10-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > I accidentally did a chmod -R on my home directory and messed up the > permissions in my home directory (/home/ssahmed). Now, I am unable to > SSH from work into my home system. > > Init

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-26 Thread Neil Booth
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:- > socrates tmp$ telnet localhost 80 > telnet: could not resolve localhost/80: Temporary failure in name resolution FWIW I have exactly the same problem. Just started recently. I have a dial-up connection too. The problem only exists when I'm not connected to the i

Re: Upgrade from potato-frozen

2000-10-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Brian Clark wrote: > > >Greetings, > > > >I just want someone to verify that I have this correct. > > > >I'm currently running potato-frozen from way-back-who-knows-when, and this > >

Re: xdisplay not found by x clients

2000-10-26 Thread Erik Steffl
after you run startx you should see X desktop on the screen. use window manager's menus (or launchpad or whatever) to run programs, run xterm (or other terminal emulation program) to get command line (that's where you can start other programs from, the ones you do not find in menu) generally,

StarOffice "failed to load necessary components"

2000-10-26 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Has anybody running the 5.2 staroffice on a woody (unstable) Debian machine? I always get the message above. An strace is at http://www.westend.com/~ch/so.strace! TIA, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intern

Re: Upgrade from potato-frozen

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Clark
Brian Clark wrote: >Greetings, > >I just want someone to verify that I have this correct. > >I'm currently running potato-frozen from way-back-who-knows-when, and this >thing needs a serious upgrade. > >To do that (which is much needed that this point) I just need to change >every occurrence of t

Re: Using old libstdc library

2000-10-26 Thread David Zoll
Craig Law wrote: > > Ben/David, > > I've done as you both said and have only found libstdc++2.10 and > libstdc++2.10-dev packages on my CD. I've have searched the whole > of the Debian 2.2 CD that I have and there is definitely no > libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.66-4.deb package anywhere. Is it

Re: 2.2: MBR install whacks my system boot

2000-10-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ab> In any case, I'd set sda1 active and then set the value for root in ab> lilo.conf to /dev/sda and then go from there. I set sda1 active and changed the boot to /dev/sda in /etc/lilo.conf, and re-ran lilo, and now it works; thanks. Seems like th

Re: How to test HDD thoroughly? (Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 k ernel)

2000-10-26 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:13:44PM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: >>> A week or two back it started misbehaving and I asked a few of you guys >>> about >>> the place about what "Unknown vector XXX in CPU#0" and "hda interrupt lost"

a question

2000-10-26 Thread Henry Kelsey/Boulder/Contr/IBM
I am having a problem installing debian 2.2 and I am having a problem finding any place to ask someone a question, do you know where I can get some help??? the problem is when I boot from the cd I get to the boot prompt where you hit enter and when I do it just freezes. it say's loading but I never

Re: How to test HDD thoroughly? (Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 kernel)

2000-10-26 Thread kmself
on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:13:44PM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have a 486DX4/100 (kinda) running Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 kernel.. > > > > A week or two back it started misbehaving and I asked a few of you guys > > about > > the place about what "Unknown vector XXX in

Re: Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O

2000-10-26 Thread Erik Steffl
I tihnk there is a way to specify what should be returned as connect/busy etc. strings, it can also be changed to numberic code. so I'd check AT commands reference (should have come with modem) and set it explicitly in init string erik John Hasler wrote: > > Kristian Rink writes: > > E

xdisplay not found by x clients

2000-10-26 Thread Simon Harvey
i have just installed X on my laptop, it first loaded up fine, but then when i started x using startx and xsession, it flashed up with a messsage 'Cant find display ""' is there some sort of enviromental variable that has to be set manually because the installation dosent set it? can somebody ple

Re: 2.2: MBR install whacks my system boot

2000-10-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Andy Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /etc/lilo.conf says: >> >> lba32 >> boot=/dev/sda2 >> root=/dev/sda5 >> install=/boot/boot.b >> map=/boot/map >> delay=20 >> vga=normal >> default=Linux >> >> image=/vmlinuz >> label=Linux >> read-only >> >> image=/v

Re: 2.2: MBR install whacks my system boot

2000-10-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dzm> Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PDS> Now when I boot the system it prints "MBR", then does a hard hang. I PDS> can't even C-A-D or use the reset button, I have to power off/on. PDS> PDS> If I hold the SHIFT key down, it print

Re: X

2000-10-26 Thread Andre Berger
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:37:46PM -0500, chudpi wrote: > > > > Also, could anyone tell me how to activate the locatedb so I can use locate? > > Thanx. > > XsX > > don't turn your computer off at night. > > (the locatedb is rebuilt in a daily cron job

smbfs kernel update

2000-10-26 Thread Nick
what do i need to configure in my kernel to mount a NTFS folder to use with sambaclient thankx again list

Re: How to test HDD thoroughly? (Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 kernel)

2000-10-26 Thread Shaul Karl
e2fsck > I have a 486DX4/100 (kinda) running Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 kernel.. > > A week or two back it started misbehaving and I asked a few of you guys about > the place about what "Unknown vector XXX in CPU#0" and "hda interrupt lost" > meant.. > > Some people said that it sounds like

Re: IDS

2000-10-26 Thread Michael Smith
Try aide http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/aide.html. Chris Mason wrote: > I'm looking for recommendations for an Intrusion Detection system for my > firewall. Preferably a debian package but not restricted to. -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405

Re: Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O

2000-10-26 Thread Robert Waldner
On 26 Oct 2000 15:54:02 CDT, John Hasler writes: >You could also try replacing 'ATZ' in the with an explicit init >string. 'ATZ' just resets the modem to factory default. ATZ resets the modem, keeping whatever is set, the factory defaults are usually accessed with AT&F0 thru AT&F3. hth, &rw --

Re: command "tree" and "depmode" returnes in "unknowm" + verifing packages

2000-10-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> The Debian2.2 system I recently installed does not accept the command > "tree" and "depmode". > > I tried searching by: > > MINI:~# dpkg -l modutils > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | > Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Re

Re: IDS

2000-10-26 Thread Dan Hutchinson
If you have checkpoint firewall, you can get an IDS system from checkpoint that runs on WindowsNT, Solaris, and I think Red Hat. Also RealSecure is another site Dan "Chris Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for recommendations for an Intrusion Detection system for > my > firewa

IDS

2000-10-26 Thread Chris Mason
I'm looking for recommendations for an Intrusion Detection system for my firewall. Preferably a debian package but not restricted to. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://

Re: Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O

2000-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Kristian Rink writes: > Especially this line in the logfile that I marked in the cut-out is > ***very*** suspicious to me, mainly because in the chatscripts I couldn't > find any command telling chat to there send the dialup command > again... :/// That's just chat telling you that the modem echoe

Re: Any help before I go and spend $49.99 on a Book with the disks?

2000-10-26 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am about 10 seconds from going and buying a book with 1 CD in it. > It may have more, who knows, I'm tired of sitting here with my > laptop laughing at me. If it's an official CD you're looking for, go to CheapBytes.com and spend $6 for the 3-CD

Re: Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O

2000-10-26 Thread Erik Steffl
it looks lite it's a string received from modem, i.e. that the modem is set to echo. try to set it to non-echo mode by including appropriate AT command in init string. then you should see it send: send(ATE0Z^M) (I think E0 is the command to turn of echo) this, of course, might or migh

Any help before I go and spend $49.99 on a Book with the disks?

2000-10-26 Thread Viper5192
Can anyone help me? I am about 10 seconds from going and buying a book with 1 CD in it. It may have more, who knows, I'm tired of sitting here with my laptop laughing at me. Peace Paul Go here to see the TKCL proposed knife calendar pictures! http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=117294

Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Cool, thanks. What if I've got parport_pc compiled into the kernel, not as a module? -chris > In your modules.conf, put a line something like: > > options parport_pc irq=7 io=0x378 dma=3 > > but put the values that you are actually using (the io and irq are > probably the same, the dma is pro

Let's make this easier!

2000-10-26 Thread Viper5192
It's a disc with /contrib /debian /non-free folders, for 2.2 Anyway to upgrade from 2.0.8? from CDROM? Peace Paul Go here to see the TKCL proposed knife calendar pictures! http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1172947&a=8635040 Join my new Knife Collector's Forum at: http://pub26.ezb

Re: Download from FTP

2000-10-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> What should I download from ftp.debian.org so I can start setting Debian up? > I would start by following the links in the `Getting Statred' section of www.debian.org. In particular, www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst > Peace > > Paul > > > > Go here to see the TKCL proposed knife

Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-26 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Krzys Majewski wrote: > On 20 Oct 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > I don't know how to say this properly.. when backing up files from my > > IDE hard drive to my parallel port ZIP100 drive, the machine > > occasionally blocks: it's like ev

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:52:50PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > No one able to help me in my posting "a whole bunch of questions" ? > > Hopefuly waitung for some help You might get better results if you post separate questions with spesific subject lines relating to your problems. I get a

apt-get upgrade

2000-10-26 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I am getting this error whenever I do a apt-get update then apt-get upgrade? How do I wrk around this? I think I must of screwed something up.. This is my sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non

Upgrade from potato-frozen

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Clark
Greetings, I just want someone to verify that I have this correct. I'm currently running potato-frozen from way-back-who-knows-when, and this thing needs a serious upgrade. To do that (which is much needed that this point) I just need to change every occurrence of the word frozen in /etc/ap

Ok folks help really needed! New Debian install

2000-10-26 Thread Viper5192
Someone brought me a disk with Debian 2.2 on it and the packages. My problem is I have a laptop with CDROM and floppy interchangeable, but not resident together. I also have part of a Debian shell on the laptop, no DOS partition, etc., just Debian and a Swap partition. When I go to the CDRO

Re: Sawfish Settings Won't Change

2000-10-26 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Forget it, I fixed it. For some reason Sawfish refused to create the ~/.sawfish/custom file by itself so I just had to touch that file to create it and now all my settings get saved. Thanks anyway. -Jeff Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I just installed sawfish-gnome from the unstable dist and I can

Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O

2000-10-26 Thread Kristian Rink
Hello, dear List'ers... Can anyone give me a hint about some *weird* dialup behaviour? Factually, I'm using an old 486 with an updated slink as dial-up server for a small LAN, and this machine dials to (different) providers through a simple modem line... After experiencing some problems with esta

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2000-10-26 Thread Brian Roberts
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Re: Sound on Diamond Sonic Impact, searching for a appropiatemodule

2000-10-26 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Andrew Sullivan wrote: > No, no, the OSS drivers do not have "OSS" in them. I'm sorry that I > can't be more help (as I said, I use ALSA instead), but you need to > find out what the module for your card is. It likely has some > sort-of short version of the chipset name on it. (You really need >

Re: Debian, PCMCIA and DHCP

2000-10-26 Thread Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul
Martin Fluch wrote: [...] > I forgot to say, that I use a PCMCIA card to connect to the internet... > [...] > > And thats the problem I have: I have no experience with that, I never > > played around with it and now I should get it working till Thuesday :-) > > Has somebody experience with this, pe

Re: print trouble

2000-10-26 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:44:59AM +, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > Hi all, > after recompiling my kernel I can't print any more. I rebooted using the old > kernel and printing worked fine then so I'm pretty sure this is the problem. > I'm > using an HP laserjet 3p running off the parallel port

Re:

2000-10-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Potato used a 2.2.x kernel, didn't it? You are going to be absolutely fine with that. In fact, last time I checked, Woody didn't even offer 2.4.x. Admittedly it's been a while. The kernel is one of the very few things I installed from a tarball (mainly, no, exclusively for the USB functionality)

Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
On 20 Oct 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > I don't know how to say this properly.. when backing up files from my > IDE hard drive to my parallel port ZIP100 drive, the machine > occasionally blocks: it's like everything freezes for about half a > minute before I can do anything again.

Re: Tcl development conf.

2000-10-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hi!! > > I have a little problem because I am trying to compile something that > requires > the development files of Tcl/Tk. I > have installed both packages (tcl8.2-dev/tk8.2-dev), but it turns out that > the > configure script of this program > does not find tcl.h. I have checked that

Installing Debian Patotoe.. Problems with modules

2000-10-26 Thread André Esteves
Hi! I'm installing Debian Patotoe in a Pentium 75 Mhz with 8 Mb RAM and an MDA graphics board, it has two ne2000 ethernet cards, one ISA another PCI. 1. During module configuration (wich runs slowlyyy... probably the 8mb..): If I insert the ne module (with the correct configuration parameters) it

Re: XF86Setup

2000-10-26 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:51:25PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: > [...] > I suspect XF86Setup and xvidtune will pop up but are not really doing > anything. You have to be root to make changes via xvidtune effective. > If I select the option to start from scratch I get the errno=11 > message as

dpkg won't install (Internal Error)

2000-10-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
I have a vanilla potato system I just installed. Now I'm trying to get a few packages from woody. I was able to download the packages, but they won't install and I don't understand the error message: # apt-get install php4-mysql mysql-server Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency T

Re: Should I overdrive my monitor a little bit?

2000-10-26 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > but my monitor only has a horizontal frequency range of 30-60. I am > thinking that perhaps changing it to 30-63 won't hurt, but the XFree86 > Video Timings HOWTO warns about overdriving, so I am hesitant. You can exceed the bandwidth rating of your mo

Talk daemon

2000-10-26 Thread Preben Randhol
Is it possible to get the talk daemon to give an alert of a talk by running a program and not only the text message in the odd xterm? Sometimes the message comes in an xterm behind another app I'm using and I don't see it. I don't hear it as I have turned off the pc speaker and usually play some m

gpm and X mouse together

2000-10-26 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
How can I use both gmp and my mouse under X? My mouse is a wheel mouse, currently my XF86Config is set to IMPS/2 protocol and /dev/psaux as device. If I don't kill gpm when I switch to X from console the mouse doesn't work. I have tried to set the device to /dev/gpmdata in XF86Config but this doe

Problem: Warning Ron = 43, etc.

2000-10-26 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've noticed with leaving X that I see in the X boot msgs the following: Warning: Ron = 43, Rloop = 10, Roff = 46 What is this and should I worry? I have the right timings in my XF86Setup file for the monitor and it works fine. Thanks, Jonathan

Sawfish Settings Won't Change

2000-10-26 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I just installed sawfish-gnome from the unstable dist and I can't seem to change any of my Sawfish settings (themes, window behaviour, workspaces, etc). Everytime I try to change anything, it just changes it back to the default theme or setting that I'm trying to change. Anyone know how to fix

working php4 and mysql together...

2000-10-26 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
How can I configure PHP4 to work with mysql? I've the instructions to do it but when I install PHP4 manually. How can I do it if I installed PHP4 via apt-get? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo

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2000-10-26 Thread doppo
I'm thinking about upgrading to woody, because apt getting on potato dir jsut find old packages, and there's newer stable packages (like blackbox, it returns 0.5xx.xx when 0.60.0 is already released). So, before upgrade I have a question: What should I do with the kernel? I'm using the original ker

FTP problem

2000-10-26 Thread Richard
Hi guys, I have installed the Debian 2.2, with the ftp service (wu-ftpd) running. The problem is that initiate a connection from any machine takes a lot of time (more than 1 minute). The rest of the services (telnet, www ...) works fine. Does anybody knows why? Thanks. Richard.

Re: linux + its size ========but now where to go for the installation -please direct

2000-10-26 Thread Shaul Karl
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Fuad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to install debian which folder do I go to ??? Although I am quoting here www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install I believe you should read it all before attempting to do anything. /begin{quote} If you are using a web browser o

Re: Debian, PCMCIA and DHCP

2000-10-26 Thread Martin Fluch
Re: Hi, I forgot to say, that I use a PCMCIA card to connect to the internet... Martin On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > And thats the problem I have: I have no experience with that, I never > played around with it and now I should get it working till Thuesday :-) > H

Debian, PCMCIA and DHCP

2000-10-26 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, I have the folowing, quite urgent problem. Our ISP of our students dormitory changes to the end of this month (this is: on Thuesday) and I was just lucky to get this morning the information, that this will lead to a DHCP network. Hmm ... I'm even more luck, since originaly they wanted to chang

dove reperire i cd Debian

2000-10-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vi sarei grato se mi dite dove posso reperire i cd della Debian. io abito a Melzo / Milano GRAZIE [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.2: MBR install whacks my system boot

2000-10-26 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Paul D. Smith wrote: > I've installed Debian on a lot of systems, and this is the first time > it's ever done this. > > I'm installing 2.2 from a DOS partition on a 200MHz ppro, with 64M ram. > It has a 3c595 Vortex 10/100 autoselect enet card, and a

Re: 2.2: MBR install whacks my system boot

2000-10-26 Thread David Z. Maze
Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PDS> Now when I boot the system it prints "MBR", then does a hard hang. I PDS> can't even C-A-D or use the reset button, I have to power off/on. PDS> PDS> If I hold the SHIFT key down, it prints "MBR 2AF", then does the same PDS> hard hang. PDS> PDS> I ca

Re: cron, syslogd, klogd died

2000-10-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
> "CF" == C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CF> I have this problem periodically on a P133 with a slightly CF> screwey scsi root disk. It will mount / read-only, then many CF> processes die due to being unable to write to disk. Hmmthis _is_ a scsi drive, but it has not s

Re: Sound on Diamond Sonic Impact, searching for a appropiate module

2000-10-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:59:30PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Ok, it seems that although the Deb2.2 installation routine (on a clean > disk) did not compile any OSS sound module. Looking in > /lib/modules/2.2.17/ did not help, no file with a "OSS" in it. > What is "soundlow" and "soundcor

Re: Setting up on-board sound hardware, also internal modem

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
I don't have an answer to your question, but rather I've got a question. I have onboard cmpci as well, at least I think I do, but all I get in dmesg is: cmpci: version v2.41-nomodem time 18:27:22 Oct 13 2000 Nothing else! How did you get yours to detect something? And my sound doesn't seem t

command "tree" and "depmode" returnes in "unknowm" + verifing packages

2000-10-26 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
The Debian2.2 system I recently installed does not accept the command "tree" and "depmode". I tried searching by: MINI:~# dpkg -l modutils Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both

Re: Sound on Diamond Sonic Impact, searching for a appropiate module

2000-10-26 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > Sound refuses to work although adding user rland to group audio > > You shoudl start, first, to see if you can get things working as > root. Then, at least, you know it's not a permissions problem. I > normally do not advocate doing things as root, but attempting to g

2.2: MBR install whacks my system boot

2000-10-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
I've installed Debian on a lot of systems, and this is the first time it's ever done this. I'm installing 2.2 from a DOS partition on a 200MHz ppro, with 64M ram. It has a 3c595 Vortex 10/100 autoselect enet card, and an Adaptec AHA-294x Ultra SCSI card. The SCSI card has one disk (/dev/sda), whi

Re: make install, great, now make uninstall??

2000-10-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:43:00AM -0400, Jason Hammerschmidt wrote: > So let's say you did a make install, you testing the program, you > thought that's great, now I want to remove it... > I have the original configured Makefiles n all, is there an au

Re: make install, great, now make uninstall??

2000-10-26 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Jason Hammerschmidt wrote: > So let's say you did a make install, you testing the program, you > thought that's great, now I want to remove it... > I have the original configured Makefiles n all, is there an automated > command that goes through and does the opposite of ma

Re: make install, great, now make uninstall??

2000-10-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:43:00AM -0400, Jason Hammerschmidt wrote: > So let's say you did a make install, you testing the program, you > thought that's great, now I want to remove it... > I have the original configured Makefiles n all, is there an automated > command that goes through and does th

tasksel

2000-10-26 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I`m running 2.2 on my portable BAD-ASS-COMPAQ LTE 5150, which dosent boot of the cdrom, or support hotswaping the floppy and cdrom. So I`ve installed the base from floppy, and a whole lot of packages by hand from the cdrom. I have X up and running. But I`m fed up installing by hand, and I would lik

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