Re: HowTo install X on Woody today - Please help, thanks :)

2001-09-04 Thread tluxt
Thanks James! - A few follow ups: --- "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:52:59AM -0700, tluxt wrote: > > What is the way to properly install X (to prepare for KDE) on a Woody > > system today? > > > 2. apt-get update && apt-get install x-window-system Tas

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, dman wrote: > | If I try to play the same file with xanim, the sound is all choppy and > | fast (sounds like The Chipmunks). > > I know nothing about xanim. > > What happens if you play an mp3 with xmms? I left the laptop at the office today. Just now from home I logged on a

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:10:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: [snip] > From "Email Quotes" in the Jargon File: > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html > > Most netters view an inclusion as a promise that comment on it will > immediately follow. The preferre

Re: Java 1.3.1 for stable (2.2) ?

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:48:10PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote: | On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:58:36PM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:09:42PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote: | > | On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:05:34AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: | > ... | > | > Put this in you sources.list: | > | > | >

Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:06:06PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: | When I compiled 2.4 with make-kpkg (taken from unstable), it did not | make initrd image. (So it crashed :-) Where should I look to get new | kernel for 2.4? You need to tell make-kpkg that you want an initrd. '--initrd' might be th

Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Use /etc/email-addresses to fake source of e-mail. It's easy and finely configurable! Cheers :-) On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:58:00AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > Hello: > > My debian system is inside an intranet, and therefore > I use a smart host for forwarding emails. There is a pro

Re: Matrox G450 comments?

2001-09-04 Thread Lee Elliott
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:10 am, Volker Schlecht wrote: > * Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010904 00:00]: > > mga.o is open source, mga_hal.o is not though, and you will need that to > > use it with XFree86 (for DRI anyway, I'm pretty sure you can get 2d only > > still). > > With Xfree 4.1.

Re: news servers and port 119

2001-09-04 Thread Paul B. Bertrand
You're right, the problem is ECN. It is set to enabled in the pre-compiled kernel packages. Thanks for your help. On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:05:24PM -0700 or thereabouts, Dmitriy wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:47:13PM -0500, Paul B. Bertrand wrote: > > I recently upgraded to a generic 2.4

Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
When I compiled 2.4 with make-kpkg (taken from unstable), it did not make initrd image. (So it crashed :-) Where should I look to get new kernel for 2.4? But did you compile apm as module like stock debian 686-smp kernel or did you compile as part of kernel? Can you tell me which one you used?

Voodoo5, unstable, X11 v.4, etc with more info

2001-09-04 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I am trying to run Quake3 on my debian Sid x86 computer. When I try to run quake, it starts then says : ...loading libGL.so: Initializing OpenGL display ...setting mode 3: 640 480 Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.1 XF86DGA Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized XFree86-VidModeExtension Act

weird apt behavior

2001-09-04 Thread Marc Horowitz
I am experiencing some strange apt behavior. I have a machine with a mix of unstable and testing packages installed. I'm trying to upgrade some packages from unstable, and failing. Specifically: # apt-cache show libnspr4 Package: libnspr4 Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 268 M

Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.

2001-09-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:41:07AM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: > I suggest NO APM for SMP machines... Yes, I know it was the case and HOWTO said so at one point in history. Is this still true? Enabling APM in BIOS surly crashed kernel but enabling APM on recent kernel shall not be real issue with

Re: exim: multiple mailboxes

2001-09-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Timeboy: > > Dear Debian Users! > > After configuring exim, to send mails to my gmx account [EMAIL PROTECTED], > i have to do the next step: Cause i have some more mailboxes for my > commercial and private mail, i need to include them into my exim > configuration. An example: My prvat

Re: Probleme mit Sendmail

2001-09-04 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Richard A Nelson wrote: > > Gads... Based on LKML feedback, I coerced the sendmail folk into > supporting fsync(dir) for Linux... Looks like we'll have to revisit > the conditions for using it! > > Please send me the following information: > 1) kernel on NFS server 2.4.5 w/o any additio

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-04 Thread Bud Rogers
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:03 pm, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > You might want to look at VMWare ( www.vmware.com ). When running at full > screnn , it runs pretty well, and you can barely tell you not in native OS. I'm familiar with VMWare. I have had it running on this box. -- Bud Rogers

Re: Timezone prob

2001-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:33:13PM -0500, Timeboy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi! > > Some days ago i made a new installation (poatato) and then upgrade to > woody. This all went fine. Only the configuration of timezone is not > correct yet. Dont't know why, but i couldn't select any of the >

Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:53:24PM -0600, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In case nobody told you, this is a mailinglist, not usenet. Wrong, it's both: news:muc.lists.debian.user > To be more precise, this is a reliable method of ensuring that > anything you reply to has already

Re: kde2.2 open 1 port

2001-09-04 Thread HdV
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Tao Liu wrote: > When kde2.2 is startup, > I find that port 18300 is opened. > what service listen on that port? Hmm, I also found that after firing up kde there was a new port opened on my system. I my case that consistently was a port just above 1024. lsof -i TCP: showed th

Probleme mit Sendmail

2001-09-04 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hallo, I having problems with sendmail. Ie when trying to send a mail via port 25, sendmail closes the connection, when I try to finish a mail with a . (dot). Here's a transcript ... Trying 192.168.0.2... Connected to bart. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bart.wg.lan ESMTP Debian Sendmail 8.12.0

Re: Java 1.3.1 for stable (2.2) ?

2001-09-04 Thread Dmitriy
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:58:36PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:09:42PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote: > | On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:05:34AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > ... > | > Put this in you sources.list: > | > > | > # Blackdown Java > | > deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackd

Re: Timezone prob

2001-09-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Timeboy wrote: >Some days ago i made a new installation (poatato) and then upgrade to >woody. This all went fine. Only the configuration of timezone is not >correct yet. Dont't know why, but i couldn't select any of the >european timezones. My question: What i have to put into my >/etc/

Re: Replacement for WRQ Reflections?

2001-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:07:38PM -0400, Sean Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of something that could replace > Reflections, specifically its support for HP's NS/VT protocol? Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 72. What specifically is NS/VT? HmmGoog

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Alan Shutko
"der.hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am 04. Sep, 2001 schwäzte Alan Shutko so: > >> And no Windows supports ssh, afaik. You add 3rd party software, > > That's changed recently: > > http://marvin.criadvantage.com/caspian/Software/SSHD-NT/default.php Looks like third-party software to me. My

Re: What is kapm-idled?

2001-09-04 Thread Steve Mayer
I've seen some slowdown's also when kapm-idled is enabled in the kernel: processes would be slower starting HD access was slower screen refresh was slower etc... Using kernel 2.4.9 on a Dell Latitude CP M233ST. Once I recompiled without the option, my speed is back. I notice that th

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:03:36PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Bud Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bud > > Rogers > > Sent: Saturday, 01 September, 2001 08:35 PM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: OT

Re: Help! with exim -- freezing mail

2001-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:00:23PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I either: (1) change exim's idea of my system id number or set it up > so it will detect it properly when I install? Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 72 characters. > For reasons I won't go into, I

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.04 21:39 Timeboy wrote: > On 2001.09.04 11:51 "LaGuardia, Kristofer S." wrote: > > > Quick question, if I > > want to create a partition for /usr, how would I specify the partition is > > for /usr? Is it a type? Anyhow... > > Hope i understand this question! What do you mean with spe

Quoting style (was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:26:35AM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > Please use postfix response and appropriate quoting > > style. > > What the hell does that mean ?? 'appropriate quoting style' I > understand, but asking someon

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.04 21:56 Timeboy wrote: > > A little warning: > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz<-!! > root=/dev/hda9 > append="idebus=33 hdc=ide-scsi" > label=Linux > read-only > > My vmlinuz is on this place: /boot/vmlinuz. But i mean yours will be: >

Timezone prob

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
Hi! Some days ago i made a new installation (poatato) and then upgrade to woody. This all went fine. Only the configuration of timezone is not correct yet. Dont't know why, but i couldn't select any of the european timezones. My question: What i have to put into my /etc/timezone for Europe Berl

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
> So now what should I do? I need a white-paper specifying > acceptable power and noise ranges. Are there any helpful > ATT techs out there with this info? The DOCSIS spec may detail things like this. I found this link, http://www.gi.com/noflash/docsis.html, from Motorola's pages on the 3100 mod

Re: Kernel upgrading

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:22:42PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: | Hi, | | I'm running Sid and am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.x from 2.2.x. | However, I am also running Mandrake Cooker, from which I configure and | install lilo. Are there any documents on installing a debian Installing a kernel-

Re: ot: vcd's on mtv

2001-09-04 Thread p
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:40:48AM +0800, --- wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:07:01AM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > > [Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:40:15PM +] p : > > > > > cannot open cd-rom device: /dev/cdrom > > > > > > permission denied > > > > User who is accessing the vcd in the cdro

Re: Mounting a disk using backup superblock [was: Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!]

2001-09-04 Thread Stephan Hachinger
> > number" etc. Can anyone please tell me what I'm missing? Does mount > > calculate the superblock offset in another way or should I give up or??? I > > need this data desperately as I mentioned. If anyone can help me, thanks > > thousand times in advance. > > > > if your that desperate are data

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
A little warning: image=/boot/vmlinuz<-!! root=/dev/hda9 append="idebus=33 hdc=ide-scsi" label=Linux read-only My vmlinuz is on this place: /boot/vmlinuz. But i mean yours will be: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17. You can let this part of lil

cdrecord error in write_g1

2001-09-04 Thread DvB
I fixed the problem posted earlier (not sure how, but it didn't involve making any changes to my system). Now, I have another problem with it :-\ I've run some searches on google and deja for the error message and it appears to be a fairly common problem with recent versions of cdrecord but no one

Re: Replacement for WRQ Reflections?

2001-09-04 Thread John Galt
I've had no problems using good old fashioned Unix tools, like startx -- query , ssh (commercial on the HP box, natch), and telnet. xterm-debian and hpterm are so close it's not even funny. On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Sean Morgan wrote: >I was wondering if anyone knew of something that could replace >Re

Re: Fonts in GTK

2001-09-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "J." Roger Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I had a working GNOME install from Woody. I just updated to Sid, >> and everything seemed to go quite nicely, but now in GNOME, or >> rather anything that uses GTK, I see only a bunch of little squares >> where I should be seeing text. C

Re: Fonts in GTK

2001-09-04 Thread John Galt
In case nobody told you, this is a mailinglist, not usenet. To be more precise, this is a reliable method of ensuring that anything you reply to has already been read, thus you shouldn't need to scroll through the question all of the time to get to the answer. However, for the people who wish to

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:58:42PM -0400, Don Berkich wrote: | So now my problem, apparently, is how to get the signal boosted. I | asked the tech about sending someone to amp the line. Here, roughly, is | the conversation. | | "If it is deemed necessary to put an amplifier on your line, then

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.04 11:51 "LaGuardia, Kristofer S." wrote: > Quick question, if I > want to create a partition for /usr, how would I specify the partition is > for /usr? Is it a type? Anyhow... Hope i understand this question! What do you mean with specify a partition? Ok. I think you like to know wh

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:58:42PM -0400, Don Berkich wrote: > "Give us a call if you have any more problems, however I must tell you > that we do not support linux, and that is probably your problem." > > Doh! Yes, I'm an idiot. Will someone kick me in the head, please? I > did, indeed, mentio

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Sep, 2001 schwäzte Alan Shutko so: > And no Windows supports ssh, afaik. You add 3rd party software, That's changed recently: http://marvin.criadvantage.com/caspian/Software/SSHD-NT/default.php http://www.certaintysolutions.com/tech-advice/ssh_on_nt.html Not that I've had occasion to tr

Kernel upgrading

2001-09-04 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I'm running Sid and am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.x from 2.2.x. However, I am also running Mandrake Cooker, from which I configure and install lilo. Are there any documents on installing a debian kernel-image but not installing the bootloader with debian? I tried copying the kernel imag

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread Don Berkich
Thank you, thank you! That was incredibly helpful. I always wondered how to get info out of the modem. I went to the signal page on the modem and got -9 dBmV reported Downstream Power Level. Since this is well outside the +3 to -5 dBmV range given in the report, I called ATT technical support.

Re: AC97 sound HOWTO

2001-09-04 Thread Jonathan David Pearce
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, --- wrote: >On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:08:21PM -0400, Jonathan David Pearce wrote: >> I have a new mainboard with built-in AC97 sound. I installed the kernel >> module ac97_codec. That hasn't gotten me to where I need to be, though. >> What do I need to do to get this sound wor

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread F Zimmermann
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: > I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. I want to dual > boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. All of the tutorial I have seen show both > residing on the same hard drive. Well, I would like them on separate hard > drives. The hard

Re: apache & modauth_mysql woes

2001-09-04 Thread J.R. Blain
Using mod_auth_mysql 2.2, with later versions of apache, I had problems with it (building from scratch, both apache+mod_auth_mysql). The simple fix, was in apMakefile.tmpl change alloc.h to ap_alloc.h as alloc.h does not exist in current apache source trees. (not sure if it existed before, but I a

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Glad to hear about you using the Linux OS. and Debian is a great Dist. to use, a little more tricky than most others, (mandrake, etc) but in the end, I think you may prefer it over others. Quoting "LaGuardia, Kristofer S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the problem is that AFAIK not all windows support IPSec. And no Windows supports ssh, afaik. You add 3rd party software, that's all. (FWIW, not all Windows support PPTP, either... at least, not all the ones currently in service.) -- Alan Shutko <[

Re: ipmasq - recompile kernel?

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Andy Laurence wrote: | I've done an apt-get install ipmasq and it seems to have installed | correctly. However, when I type the command 'ipmasq' I get the error | message 'IP Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel'. I installed | Potato using the 3

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:41:22AM -0400, Don Berkich wrote: | Hi Folks, | | I've got a Sid box (kernel 2.4.8) with two Linksys Etherfast v.2 NICs | which have worked flawlessly for several years now (confirmed by | tulip-diag). I recently got a SB4100 cablemodem and had ATT install a | line. |

Replacement for WRQ Reflections?

2001-09-04 Thread Sean Morgan
I was wondering if anyone knew of something that could replace Reflections, specifically its support for HP's NS/VT protocol?

Re: apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-04 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Sep, 2001 schwäzte John Galt so: > Pretty often actually. Have multiple sources, be prepared to comment out > the ones that don't work right now, and re-update and re-upgrade if the > situation occurs again. Basically, http.us.debian.org is never the most > trustworthy under the best of c

Re: Ethernet Card recommendation

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:18:33AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | I have the 3c* in the kernel (not as module), my 3c509b has pnp disabled (i | did it using tjhe dos utility), but still the kernel does not recognize it! | The only thing that I could think of is that the kernel image was created

Re: Java 1.3.1 for stable (2.2) ?

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:09:42PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote: | On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:05:34AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: ... | > Put this in you sources.list: | > | > # Blackdown Java | > deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian woody non-free | | s/woody/potato/ | |

upgrading to libc6.2.2.4 fail

2001-09-04 Thread trujo
When I upgrade to libc6 2.2.4 telnet and (perhap) apache fail Iuse woody an upgrade on 4-8-2001

Re: gcc

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:59:26PM +0200, Peter Ross wrote: | On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 05:00:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects/test$ gcc myapp.cpp test1.o | | In fact I tried it out and using g++ works perfectly and using gcc gives | you those error messages. Ac

Re: Error upgrading to woody: mv: cannot create file `/etc/exim/exim.conf'

2001-09-04 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Sep, 2001 schwäzte tluxt so: > Thanks for the confirmation. I have just done that fix, and > I think (after having several more errors, but just redoing > "apt-get dist-upgrade" several times), I may have succeeded in > getting upgraded to woody. (At least my final a-g d-u did nothing > b

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-04 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:38:04AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: | On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, dman wrote: | | > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:22:23PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: | > | Worse! I think I had the wrong sound card driver. I've rebuilt the kernel | > | sound, but now I get the dreaded "Can't Open

Unidentified subject!

2001-09-04 Thread Preston
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Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. > I want to dual boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. All > of the tutorial I have seen show both residing on the > same hard drive. Well, I would like them on separate > hard drives. The hard drives are arranged as... No worries here... Using

Re: What is kapm-idled?

2001-09-04 Thread csj
On 04 Sep 2001 09:53:03 +0100 Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 22:34, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > AFAIK, kapm-idled has something to do with apm management on newer > > kernels. That 80% CPU usage is apparently something of a lie, since > > when this process is switch

Re: ot: vcd's on mtv

2001-09-04 Thread ---
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:07:01AM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > [Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:40:15PM +] p : > > > cannot open cd-rom device: /dev/cdrom > > > > permission denied > > User who is accessing the vcd in the cdrom drive does not > have permissions to do so. Please add the user, s

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:10:30PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:50:18PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > PPTP will work over any IP-network. But ISTR that holes in it?s > > security-concept were found very shortly after $evilcompany let out the > > specs, although I do

RE: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-04 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
You might want to look at VMWare ( www.vmware.com ). When running at full screnn , it runs pretty well, and you can barely tell you not in native OS. HTH, Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Bud Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bud > Rogers > Sent: Saturday, 01 September, 2001

Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread LaGuardia, Kristofer S.
Title: Help installing Debian 2.2r17 I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything.  I want to dual boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000.  All of the tutorial I have seen show both residing on the same hard drive.  Well, I would like them on separate hard drives. The hard drives are arrange

A-Link Roadrunner

2001-09-04 Thread Rami T Nevala
whoops sorry about the subject =) well... the question was: Has anyone tried A-Link Roadrunner 10 1/8Mb ADSL internal PCI with Linux..? -- # End of message from Rami Nevala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Unidentified subject!

2001-09-04 Thread Rami T Nevala
Hi all, has anyone tried A-Link Roadrunner 10 1/8Mb ADSL internal PCI with Linux? Working? -- # End of message from Rami Nevala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Can't install latest gnucash

2001-09-04 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've been wanting to use gnucash for some time now, but wasn't willing to use the 1.3.x in woody when 1.6.2 is the current version. So I just compiled it :). What a rollercoaster ride that was. gnucash has a ton a dependencies and I ended up having to compile a bunch of other support packages. It w

Re: ipmasq - recompile kernel?

2001-09-04 Thread Martin Feeney
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 16:38:05 David Z Maze wrote: > Andy Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AL> I've done an apt-get install ipmasq and it seems to have installed > AL> correctly. However, when I type the command 'ipmasq' I get the error > AL> message 'IP Masquerade has not been enabled in the

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Sean Morgan
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:50:18PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > PPTP will work over any IP-network. But ISTR that holes in it?s > security-concept were found very shortly after $evilcompany let out the > specs, although I don?t have a URL at hand. PPTP is a great example of MS security in ac

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I've tried all you suggest but a new NIC or a new > cablemodem. The SB4100 is the SB3100, but with > a USB port (unused) and a "standby" switch on the > front. Otherwise the units are identical, so unless mine > is bad (a possibility -- but how to test the unit?), I don't > think I just ran ac

Re: Mounting a disk using backup superblock [was: Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!]

2001-09-04 Thread Rino Mardo
> number" etc. Can anyone please tell me what I'm missing? Does mount > calculate the superblock offset in another way or should I give up or??? I > need this data desperately as I mentioned. If anyone can help me, thanks > thousand times in advance. > if your that desperate are data recovery comp

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Rino Mardo
> > The connection is almost definitely secure, but the problem we struggle > > with at work is whether or not the client machine is secure. We're very > > reluctant (Indeed, we haven't) offered software-based VPN's to any of > > our employees or clients. It seems to us that the only comfortably

Re: zlib and files >2GO

2001-09-04 Thread F Zimmermann
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Nicolas Salvagno wrote: > i have just question > > It is possible to recompile the zlib in order to create some gzipped files > which are bigger than 2 Giga bytes ?? > > something like that. > > > #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 > #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE > #define

Re: ipmasq - recompile kernel?

2001-09-04 Thread David Z Maze
Andy Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AL> I've done an apt-get install ipmasq and it seems to have installed AL> correctly. However, when I type the command 'ipmasq' I get the error AL> message 'IP Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel'. I installed AL> Potato using the 3 ide-pci flav

nmap: No buffer space available

2001-09-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I'm using nmap to scan for unauthorized webservers on my internal network (class A, 10.0.0.0/8) using the following command: nmap -p80 -v -T normal 10.0.0.0/8 2>&1 | tee /root/nmap.log after the first 255 hosts I get the following message: sendto in send_ip_raw: sendto(4, packet, 28, 0,

Re: Annoying Network Problem

2001-09-04 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Sounds weird, I would firstly think it was the nic, and IRQ 4 doesn't seem right. IRQ 4 is usually set aside for your com ports. I would try using a different IRQ, or otherwise, try grabbing a different nic to test and see if the results are the same. cheers, Mike Quoting Matthew Hearn <[

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:53:06AM -0400, John Doe wrote: > Thanks for your reply! > > I've tried all you suggest but a new NIC or a new cablemodem. The > SB4100 is the SB3100, but with a USB port (unused) and a "standby" > switch on the front. Otherwise the units are identical, so unless mine >

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread Jason Healy
At 999618786s since epoch (09/04/01 10:53:06 -0400 UTC), John Doe wrote: > > The tech had a largish lcd meter. It was very impressive, but I've no > idea just what it was. He wouldn't let me get near it. His final test > was to plug in his own cablemodem: he saw it sync, and that seemed to be >

Re: Fonts in GTK

2001-09-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:26:35 -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Now, 'use postfix response' ?? "Reply below the text you're responding to". To borrow a sig: "Answering above the the original message is called top posting. Sometimes also called the Jeopardy style. Usenet is Q & A not A & Q." -- Bo

Annoying Network Problem

2001-09-04 Thread Matthew Hearn
I installed the stable (right now that's potato) release of Debian 2.2r3 on my old Packard Bell 133 Pent I with 32 Meg of ram. I finally managed to get my Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ configured properly on IRQ 4 at io 0x210, and it installs fine on bootup. Then I get about 15 minutes of active

zlib and files >2GO

2001-09-04 Thread Nicolas Salvagno
i have just question It is possible to recompile the zlib in order to create some gzipped files which are bigger than 2 Giga bytes ?? something like that. #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE Thanx -- ---

Mounting a disk using backup superblock [was: Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!]

2001-09-04 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Below you see a copy of the last thread I'm referring to. My HDD and especially the superblock no.1 is heavily demaged - but I now have managed to e2fsck the partition using the backup superblock number 32768. Debugfs /dev/hda2 can also show me the contents of the partition, but "mount -t e

Re: Re : append still does not solve the problem NB : Please cc: me if you have any solution

2001-09-04 Thread shyamk
Regarding your question as to where my parport is , It is pretty normal , not an additional fitting as far as I know. Regards, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam - Original Message - From: "Wayne Topa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 4:56 AM Subject: Re: Re : append still

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:28:39AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > > I think I can guess that if you're using Lotus Notes, most of your > > employee's are working on windows. if that's correct, then you should > > consider pptp instead of ipsec. I'm no windows whiz but I think that pptp > > is easier to

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread John Doe
Thanks for your reply! I've tried all you suggest but a new NIC or a new cablemodem. The SB4100 is the SB3100, but with a USB port (unused) and a "standby" switch on the front. Otherwise the units are identical, so unless mine is bad (a possibility -- but how to test the unit?), I don't think sw

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Alan Shutko
"Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yes that's also an option. but i think pptp won't work over the > internet. Incorrect. My wife's employer uses it for people with cable-modems and the like, to connect via internet to their network. Not that we've ever spent the time getting it to wor

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:28:39 +0800, "Rino Mardo" writes: >> I think I can guess that if you're using Lotus Notes, most of your >> employee's are working on windows. if that's correct, then you should >> consider pptp instead of ipsec. I'm no windows whiz but I think that pptp >> is easier to set t

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:41:22AM -0400] Don Berkich : > The cablemodem, however, does not appear to lose sync: > receive, send and online lights are steady-on. Do not go by what the lights say ! They will be on even when the upstream/downstream signals are weak. > How do I isolate the problem?

ipmasq - recompile kernel?

2001-09-04 Thread Andy Laurence
I've done an apt-get install ipmasq and it seems to have installed correctly. However, when I type the command 'ipmasq' I get the error message 'IP Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel'. I installed Potato using the 3 ide-pci flavour install disks. Does this mean I have to recompile the

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Rino Mardo
> I think I can guess that if you're using Lotus Notes, most of your > employee's are working on windows. if that's correct, then you should > consider pptp instead of ipsec. I'm no windows whiz but I think that pptp > is easier to set then ipsec on windows (on linux it's a different > matter). it

Re: exim don?t like to send

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.02 19:03 Stephen Gran wrote: > smarthost: > driver = domainlist > transport = remote_smtp > route_list = "* mail.gmx.at bydns_a" > (using your ISP) > > and in the authentication configuration section: > login: >driver = plaintext >public_name = LOGIN >client_send = "

exim: multiple mailboxes

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
Dear Debian Users! After configuring exim, to send mails to my gmx account [EMAIL PROTECTED], i have to do the next step: Cause i have some more mailboxes for my commercial and private mail, i need to include them into my exim configuration. An example: My prvate mailbox is [EMAIL PROTECTED] In

Re: Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others

2001-09-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > When I launch gimp (for the first time), the 'GIMP Installation' > window shows only lines and lines of squares instead of text. > > I have the same problem with gnumeric cells but only for a > magnification above 75%. And if I type 6 lett

Re: exim: how to rewrite?

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.03 17:13 Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi! > > > > It´s a big trouble! I did all i could do after reading several docs. And > > now? > > Exim is not able to rewrite my local address to the email ad

Re: HowTo install X on Woody today - Please help, thanks :)

2001-09-04 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:52:59AM -0700, tluxt wrote: > What is the way to properly install X (to prepare for KDE) on a Woody system > today? > 1. Ask on debian-user, not debian-www, as mentioned on the contact page. 2. apt-get update && apt-get install x-window-system > On the Woody page i

enlightenment and update-menus

2001-09-04 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I was trying enlightenment this morning and I had some problems with the system menus. it would only give the system menus not my personal menus (include $HOME/.menu/ directory). I played a little with '/etc/menu-methods/enlightenment': commented out the 'onlyrunasroot' setting (what is it anyw

Re: buggy broadband (?)

2001-09-04 Thread Christian Jaeger
Some ideas: - does ifconfig tell about erraneous packets? - are you seeing some message in /var/log/kern.log?` chj

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