RE: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Brad Cramer wrote: > I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I > would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to one server > that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am having a heck of a > time getting it configured. Is there a simpler

Re: Exim and outgoing AUTH, a report

2001-09-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
File "wishlist" bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See details in http://bugs.debian.org/ Also check previous bug reports at http://bugs.debian.org/exim Cheers ;-) On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:41:37PM -0700, Achim Bode wrote: > > Whoever might be interested (Maintainer from exim package, > the main

Re: cron: how ? WAS: cron: why not?

2001-09-07 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach G. Crimp (on Fri, 07 Sep 2001 07:34:41PM -0700): > Suppose one wants a command to run on the third of every month at 8:30 am, > and only then. Neither "30 8 3 * * " nor "30 8 3 * 0 " > will work according to the crontab(5) exerpt above. The first will cause it > to run on the third, an

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:47:10PM -0700, Dean A. Roman wrote: >Will turning this "feature??" off in Win2K allow the dhcp-dns scripts in > linux to update bind? >How do I fix the problem of dhcp-dns not updating bind? Is it related to > the > win2K "feature??" Are you saying that the dhc

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
> Craig Sanders wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:17:04AM -0700, Dean A. Roman wrote: > > > I'm a bit confused, and it is probably because I don't totally > > > understand how the dynamic dns updates work. > > > > if the rejected updates are coming from a W2K machine then it has > > noth

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:47:10PM -0700, Dean A. Roman wrote: > Will turning this "feature??" off in Win2K allow the dhcp-dns scripts > in linux to update bind? no, it's unrelated. it'll just stop the w2k clients from attempting to update the dns server. > How do I fix the problem of dhcp-dns n

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Dean A. Roman
Craig, Thanks for all the info. It's amazing what Microsoft will try to pass off as a feature while the whole time opening up your entire DNS structure to the whims of any user out there. Anyway, back to the problem at hand: Will turning this "feature??" off in Win2K allow the dhcp-dns sc

Re: Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...

2001-09-07 Thread Rino Mardo
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:50:34PM +0200 or thereabouts, Tony Crawford wrote: > ... although the 2.2r*0* CD does? > > At first I thought I had a coaster, but it boots fine on other > machines. FWIW the Progeny 1.0 CD I got off a magazine cover > won't boot on the Toshiba either. > > Very curiou

how do i setup a maildir structure with postfix?

2001-09-07 Thread Rino Mardo
i'm using "postfix-20010228-pl04" and at present all mails goes to "/var/mail/user" and ~/Mail. i'm using a "~/.forward" file and "~/.procmailrc" to sort incoming mails to their specific folders (for lack of a better term). i've heard that using a maildir format would result in a faster and secur

Re: cannot use microsoft intellimouse 1.2A ps/2 compatible

2001-09-07 Thread Kamil Kisiel
If your mouse is a PS/2 compatible the device you should be using is /dev/aux (which is usually symlinked to /dev/mouse, but sometimes not..). Hope this is of help. On September 7, 2001 18:50, carlos mena wrote: > can anyone help me. i'm in the process of installing the official > binary-i386 ve

Re: Setup news help needed

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 06:15:42PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm a linux newbie. > > I'd like to read news on a linux machine on our company network that > accesses the internet through a firewall. I believe I'd like to use > slrn, as I'm a sometimes mutt user. > >

Re: graphic cards

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:18:02AM +0100, Peter Paul Millard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > I am in the going to change my graphic card in my computer my old one | > which is a SiS 6326 card which is to difficult to set up with my

Re: graphic cards

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:18:02AM +0100, Peter Paul Millard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am in the going to change my graphic card in my computer my old one > which is a SiS 6326 card which is to difficult to set up with my knowledge. The SiS 6326 is a decent card if you're doing text and/or

Re: Newbie : Modem question

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:43:19PM -0400, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi > I have a ITU V.90 56K modem. I dont know the manf. Is there a driver for > this in Debian ?? You'll have to research this yourself. If you can work out the manufacturer, that's going to help you

Re: cron: how ? WAS: cron: why not?

2001-09-07 Thread John Hasler
G. Crimp writes: > Suppose one wants a command to run on the third of every month at 8:30 > am, and only then. Neither "30 8 3 * * " nor "30 8 3 * 0 > " will work according to the crontab(5) exerpt above. "30 8 3 * * " will run the command on the 3rd of the month and only on the 3rd of the month.

AMD 761

2001-09-07 Thread Rob Hudson
Anyone know the status of the AMD 761 chipset support in Linux? I have woody installed, plus 2.4.5 kernel. Any pointers appreciated. I can't get my video card to use the 4x AGP bus. Thanks, Rob

Re: cron: how ? WAS: cron: why not?

2001-09-07 Thread G. Crimp
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:58:10AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > > crontab(5): >Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by >two fields -- day of month, and day of week. If both >fields are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will be >run

Re: X windows Mouse

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:34:05PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: | Quoting Jack Grigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | > Dear Debian support, | > I have subscribed with mail address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | > (but the return address for this email is also valid) | > | > I'm installing release 2.2 r2 | > an

cannot use microsoft intellimouse 1.2A ps/2 compatible

2001-09-07 Thread carlos mena
can anyone help me. i'm in the process of installing the official binary-i386 version 2.2_r3 of debian, but when i get to the part of configuring xf86 and i'm trying to configure the mouse wich is a microsoft intellimouse 1.2A ps/2 compatible. i've tried different cconfigurations such as (1)

VA fullon 2240, DAC960, and Woody install problems.

2001-09-07 Thread Dennis Edwards
I keep seeing that the DAC960 raid controller is supported by the install set for woody.. but can't find any builtin support nor a module in order to install on this old Fullon 2240 box. I found a bug report (closed), but it had no real resolution other than 'you must be wrong, because we're u

X windows Mouse

2001-09-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, You could try running XF86Setup to setup your X environment. Mike Quoting Jack Grigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Debian support, > I have subscribed with mail address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > (but the return address for this email is also valid) > > I'm installing release 2.2 r2 > and I'm hav

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Re: dpkg/debconf complaining

2001-09-07 Thread Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:51:07 -0500 From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:32:31PM +0200, Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote: I'm beginning to have major problems with updating new packages for testing. I'm having problem with amongst others man-db. I'm having similar

Urgent: VALinux kernel recompile questions

2001-09-07 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Tomorrow I aim to recompile the kernel for a VALinux 2250 Raided server box running Debian 2.2 if at all possible. I need to recompile the kernel because of some really odd network interface problems (the two interfaces on the dual NIC always resolve against the motherboard NIC, eth0) and our file

Re: XFree86 upgrade

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Allison
Debian has a page on how to manage a PC that isn't "wired" to the internet. I forget the name, I call it sneaker-net but I don't believe that they do I do know that it exists on their website though, if that's any help (not much, eh?) dman wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:01:02PM -040

Re: Install Problems...

2001-09-07 Thread Dmitriy
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:22:10PM -0500, Andy Ward wrote: [nothing] Please refraun from using HTML in mail lists. It is depricated. -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Free Dmitry Sklyarov! ht

2.4.8 + umount'ing ZIP

2001-09-07 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
i am confused. if i mount my zip disk as root, i can still umount as a normal user. i have specified 'user,noauto' as the options in fstab, but i am seeing behavior expected of 'users,noauto' (not the plural user*s*). from `man mount`: (iii) Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems.

Re: ZIP driver problems with 2.4.9

2001-09-07 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:03:40AM +0100 or thereabouts, F Zimmermann wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, it was written: > > > with debian 2.2r0 and kernel 2.2.17 i'm able to mount and use my internal > > ide > > zip driver without any problems. when i installed 2.4.9 i got some errors. > > > >

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-07 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-09-07 19:13:13, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2001-09-08 04:15:49, Angus D Madden wrote: > > > but the bash script will choke if your maildirs are big. > > > echo copying messages ... > > mv $MAILDIR/cur/* $BOX/cur/ > > Try instead: find $MAILDIR/cur -type f print0 | xargs -0i mv '{}' $BOX/c

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-07 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-09-08 04:15:49, Angus D Madden wrote: > but the bash script will choke if your maildirs are big. > echo copying messages ... > mv $MAILDIR/cur/* $BOX/cur/ Try instead: find $MAILDIR/cur -type f print0 | xargs -0i mv '{}' $BOX/cur /Allan -- Allan M. Wind email: [EMAIL

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:17:04AM -0700, Dean A. Roman wrote: > I'm a bit confused, and it is probably because I don't totally > understand how the dynamic dns updates work. if the rejected updates are coming from a W2K machine then it has nothing to do with dhcp-dns. it's a fault with W2K.

Re: more fun with mutt, locale and perl

2001-09-07 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Wayne Topa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Try this instead of the above > > export LANGUAGE=en_UK > export LANG=en_UK > > Let the list know if that works, OK. Hey Wayne, thanks for the reply. Sorry about the delay; I've been busy putting out other fires on this end. I did what you recommended

Newbie : Modem question

2001-09-07 Thread Narasimhamurthy Giridhar
hi I have a ITU V.90 56K modem. I dont know the manf. Is there a driver for this in Debian ?? Thanx Narasimhamurthy Giri, Clemson University Computer Science Dept. --- Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. -

Re: lilo and text modes

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:19:51PM -0700, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, a problem with lilo has been plaguing me for a while and > > > I'm wondering if anyone else here has any experience with it. > > >

Re: Help! with exim -- freezing mail

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:28:27PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:14:41PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I str

Re: NAT translation and Aliased FQDN

2001-09-07 Thread Georges Goncalves
Le -09.07.2001 17:34:54-, « Ejay Birkmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « NAT translation and Aliased FQDN » EB> Hi All.. EB> EB> We are experimenting with debian to use as a masquerading router with our EB> test beds. I cant seem to find any info on this process i

Re: Help! with exim -- freezing mail

2001-09-07 Thread Cam Ellison
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:14:41PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly > recommend 72 as a good default. > I do not understand this -- I have line length set

Install Problems...

2001-09-07 Thread Andy Ward
I recently switched my hard-disks over to RAID 0 on my iWill KK266-R (AMI IDE MegaRAID controller, which is based on a CMD649 chip), but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the install disks to work.  I'm trying to install 2.2r3, using images provided (mind you, I'm booting li

Re: lilo and text modes

2001-09-07 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:08:29PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > On Friday Sep 07 17:25 Adam McDaniel wrote: > > ** When i do scan, I find one which I would like to make permanent, > > ** 130x44 0x0133. The problem is that if i set lilo reflect > > ** vga=0133 and reboot, it fails saying that mode is ina

Re: dpkg/debconf complaining

2001-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:32:31PM +0200, Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote: > I'm beginning to have major problems with updating new packages for > testing. > > I'm having problem with amongst others man-db. I'm having similar problems > with xserver-xfree86, xserver-common and more. > > For troubles

Re: woody

2001-09-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* gerard robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > However now (after upgrade) when I run a perl script I get this warning: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "f

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Robert Waldner
>> -- backups for Win98 can be done similarly... >> - need to have samba installed on the linux box... >> and test that you can see the windoze shares >> - backup the windoze boxes from the backupserver itself Ok, so you can backup win9x-boxen, but what about other windos´s? The

Re: woody

2001-09-07 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:31:30PM +, gerard robin wrote: > Thanks, I have followed your advice and so I have upgraded the soft > which I needed. > However now (after upgrade) when I run a perl script I get this warning: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: > backup server should export the host directory to each host I'm not too sure about this, because if I manage to compromise the machien being backed up, I can remove your backups on the host server. I ended up setting up a central backup server, that

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya brad -- many hundred/thousands of ways to do backup... -- i implement something similar to your stuff.. BackupServer:/Backup/HOST/Month/day.tgz ( one of 3 place where all backup files are stored ) backup server should export the host directory to each host -- you

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-07 Thread Angus D Madden
> On (02/09/01 15:32), Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > The main problem I have is that each mailbox/folder/whatever you > > want to call it, grows without bounds. I wouldn't mind something to > > automatically shoved mail in a folder for each month or something like > > that, but I don't think that IM

Re: lilo and text modes

2001-09-07 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, a problem with lilo has been plaguing me for a while and > > I'm wondering if anyone else here has any experience with it. > > > > I've compiled in 'Video Mode Selection Support' into my 2.4.9 > > kernel and everything is a

About lilo and text modes

2001-09-07 Thread MRZ
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:28:20 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've compiled in 'Video Mode Selection Support' into my 2.4.9 > kernel and everything is alright. Under my lilo.conf file i > have it set to vga=ask. Upon boot up, I am presented with a > list of possible video modes, with the opt

Re: lilo and text modes

2001-09-07 Thread Timeboy
On Friday Sep 07 17:25 Adam McDaniel wrote: > ** When i do scan, I find one which I would like to make permanent, > ** 130x44 0x0133. The problem is that if i set lilo reflect > ** vga=0133 and reboot, it fails saying that mode is inactive. I'm using the same vga mode. But in my /etc/lilo.conf i

Re: XFree86 upgrade

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:01:02PM -0400, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote: | Hi | I need to upgrade XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 4.something. Wuld it be possible | to write it down on a CD and put in on my system and use it. I dont have a | net connection at home. I can only dowload in my univ. And i need

3Com Mini PCI and Synaptics Touchpad Drivers

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Brooks \(Dimension11\)
I have not found drivers for the following devices: 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet Adapter 3Com 56K V.90 Mini PCI Modem Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad I'm running on a Micron Transport GX laptop. The touchpad is partially recognized but I can't get the cursor to display correctly; all I get is a

XFree86 upgrade

2001-09-07 Thread Narasimhamurthy Giridhar
Hi I need to upgrade XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 4.something. Wuld it be possible to write it down on a CD and put in on my system and use it. I dont have a net connection at home. I can only dowload in my univ. And i need the ugrade cos 3.3.6 doesnt support i810 chipset that I have. Thanx Narasimhamurt

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread jdls
Thanks to all you guys who responded to my questions...I believe I am on my way to being an: "expert"- one who knows more and more about less and less of something..until he knows absolutely everything about nothing... -Dr. Richard A. Eckhart

Re: lilo and text modes

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:25:02AM -0600, Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, a problem with lilo has been plaguing me for a while and > I'm wondering if anyone else here has any experience with it. > > I've compiled in 'Video Mode Selection Support' into my 2.4.9 > kernel and everythi

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:24:47AM -0500, Brad Cramer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and > I would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to > one server that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am > havin

Re: woody

2001-09-07 Thread gerard robin
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:57:06PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:13:20PM +, gerard robin wrote: > > > hello, > > I am connected to internet with a modem and to download > > a distribution potato or woody spents 130 hours ! > > In France potato exists on CD but woody

test pls ignore

2001-09-07 Thread Mike Pfleger
Sorry for the inconvenience. Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")

How to produce Hungarian documents?

2001-09-07 Thread Glyn Millington
I'm trying to convert my wife from W95 to Linux - Debian of course. The only difficulty is to find a way of producing documents in Hungarian, preferably in as painless a manner as possible - she currently uses Lotus for this and it works well. Can anyone point me to a program which will allow he

Re: Annoying Network Problem

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:56:34AM -0700, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In an off-list response, I might add. I also consider it very poor form to post personal mail to lists. In some nations (Britain), this is a violation of copyright law. > Hey, > > If you have trouble reading

Re: netscape unable to access lc3...

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:41:22PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed nescape 1:4.77-2 on a network of 7 machines in our small > school. Students have been unable to access hotmail for the past couple of > days. After entering their login and password they get the m

Re: Which mail client to switch? (was) Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:11:10AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > >> I guess, that this is a Netscape mailer problem, since > >> there is no problem with mutt. Apparently, Netscape > >> put a non FQDN "Sender: ", and the smarthost adds > >> i

Re: Help! with exim -- freezing mail

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:14:41PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:18:48PM -0700, Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > > > It's not clear what you're describing. > > > OK. let me sta

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Dondley([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi. > > I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 > machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to > share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print > doc

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Kevin Lee([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I > think it's also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, the > name of the driver please. >From the /usr/src/linux/Doc*/Configure.help (Kernel 2.4.9) RealTek RTL-8139

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > | > | Hi. > | > | > | > | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linu

Re: exim

2001-09-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Socket Secured ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 02:06]: > The contact webpage told me to ask my question here, but this looks > like a mailing list, so if this goes thru could you e-mail me the > response back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? > > I have run eximconfig a million times and can't get SMTP relayin

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:02:43PM -0700, Josh Reynolds wrote: | On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Kevin Lee wrote: | | > Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I | > think it's also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, | > the name of the driver please. | | the tulip driver s

Re: want gdm to manage remote displays ONLY...how?

2001-09-07 Thread Walter Tautz
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Tim Moss wrote: > Walter Tautz wrote: > > how do i do this? The reason is the graphics > > card does not seem to agree with X11 on the > > machine gdm would run on so I want to have > > it manage a remote display instead. Commenting out > > does not seem to work and the docum

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Josh Reynolds
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Kevin Lee wrote: > Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I think it's > also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, the name of the driver > please. > > > > > Kevin > the tulip driver should work - Josh

Fwd: a little help for people with ibm thinkpad 600

2001-09-07 Thread Bernard Reißberg
Hi folks, i have built and I'm building a website with the aim to help some people with their linux-boxes. It's a new site, so don't be disappointed if you won't find there a lot of stuff yet. But I'm working on it. I also won't promise the blue from the sky, because I'm not a professional.

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | > | Hi. | > | | > | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 | > | machine. My printer i

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > | Hi. > | > | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 > | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to > | share the printer through

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Eric Richardson wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > Damon Muller wrote: > > > > > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > > > suggestions. > > >> > > > The win4lin site does not seem to have released any patches or modules > > > for

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Richardson
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Damon Muller wrote: > > > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > > suggestions. > >> > > The win4lin site does not seem to have released any patches or modules > > for any kernels newer than 2.4.5 (I think). > >

Re: [OT] Any Canadian ADSL Telus users?

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:03:59PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: | I'm pondering broadband at home, and I'm looking at cable | (www.cogeco.com) and ADSL (quebec.telus.com). | | High-speed internet via cable is easy to connect to on Linux (I | did a few times on videotron) but I wonder about ADSL

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Ben Ford
Kevin Lee wrote: Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I think it's also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, the name of the driver please. Perhaps the rtl8139 module ;) -b -- Number of restrictions placed on "Alice in Wonderland" (public domain) eB

Re: devfs

2001-09-07 Thread Daniel Wagner
Daniel Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > problem: everytime i boot to 24.7. with devfs i have these msgs: > > > > can't locate module: /dev/xconsole > > can't locate module: /var/log/ksymoops/*.log can't create regular \ > > file. read-only filesystem

Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes

2001-09-07 Thread Matt Jones
From: dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user CC: Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:44:32 -0400 On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:40:01PM +, Vittorio wrote: | Ross Burton [debian-user] <06/09/01 21:45 +0100>: | > Hi, | > | > After noticing

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Paulo José da Silva e Silva
Yes, I have a realtek rtl-8139 working fine in my home network (It was made by genius, if I remember well the name was smartlink 10/100TX, but I man not sure). The kernel module you'll need is 8139too. Good luck, Paulo

[OT] Any Canadian ADSL Telus users?

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm pondering broadband at home, and I'm looking at cable (www.cogeco.com) and ADSL (quebec.telus.com). High-speed internet via cable is easy to connect to on Linux (I did a few times on videotron) but I wonder about ADSL. I hear the modem are connected via USB and you need to setup PPPoE. Does

Re: Burning .raw

2001-09-07 Thread Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
You should be able to just rename the .raw file to .iso. I did that once when I used EZCD to burn... regards - Ingi Þór

Re: graphic cards

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:18:02AM +0100, Peter Paul Millard wrote: | I am in the going to change my graphic card in my computer my old one | which is a SiS 6326 card which is to difficult to set up with my knowledge. I have an SiS 6326. It's not a great card (read its cheap and not for gaming),

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | Hi. | | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to | share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print |

Re: Bootloader with USB support

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:46:33AM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: | Here at work I paved my Dell optiplex and put both Windows (cause I have to) | and Debian (cause I want to) on it. | | I need a bootloader that understands USB, so I can pick which OS to boot. | Right now I can't because the computer d

Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:40:01PM +, Vittorio wrote: | Ross Burton [debian-user] <06/09/01 21:45 +0100>: | > Hi, | > | > After noticing (thanks!) that kernel 2.4.x uses an initrd image I | > managed to make it boot my Sid systems. | > | I wonder if you can help me. | | In a previous post of

Re: simple scripts made difficult? (1 problem answered 1 open)

2001-09-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Hamma Scott wrote: > > --- andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at > > the same time see it as usual on screen? > Check the tee function out. > > > ii) how do i pass a simple argument from a file or > > an output to a script > Are you talkin

dpkg/debconf complaining

2001-09-07 Thread Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
Hi all, I'm beginning to have major problems with updating new packages for testing. I'm having problem with amongst others man-db. I'm having similar problems with xserver-xfree86, xserver-common and more. For troubleshooting purposes I added 'set -x' but It didn't help me very much. Hope anyon

Re: NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:05:30PM -0700, Kevin Lee wrote: > Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I think it's > also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux? If so, the name of the driver > please. there actually is a driver literally called RTL8139 which might work. a

Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...

2001-09-07 Thread Tony Crawford
... although the 2.2r*0* CD does? At first I thought I had a coaster, but it boots fine on other machines. FWIW the Progeny 1.0 CD I got off a magazine cover won't boot on the Toshiba either. Very curious (and holding on to those 2.2r0s), Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-

NIC

2001-09-07 Thread Kevin Lee
Does anyone know if SmartLink 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (I think it's also Realtek RTL8139) is supported by Linux?  If so, the name of the driver please.         Kevin

Re: XFS with GRUB???

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:32PM +0700, San Segkhoonthod uttered: > The best way is to have an ext2 partition for /boot, so you can always > have GRUB load linux kernel. That way, it will be easier to change your > linux root file system to some other file system. > If you are tracking unstable

Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Dondley
Hi. I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print documents to the printer connected to the Win98 machine? What do I have t

Evolution bug

2001-09-07 Thread Don Berkich
Hi Folks, Today I apt-got the latest Sid Evolution (Ximian email client) package. Eight Gnome-related library packages also upgraded/installed. Now Evolution crashes on startup with: - Glib-ERROR **: could not allocate -1783528032 bytes aborting... Aborted - I found a similar e

Re: dd of=/dev/hda1, and now?

2001-09-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Is there anything that I can do, now? Is there a way > to retrieve things and boot MSWin again. Use your Windows boot disk... Running 'fdisk /mbr' will fix Windows so that you can boot it again, but will 'break' linux. Make sure you have a linux boot disk handy. You've likely left out some deta

Mouse probs in X

2001-09-07 Thread Kent West
Please use a descriptive subject line when posting. Thanks! Jack Grigg wrote: I'm installing release 2.2 r2 and I'm having trouble getting my mouse to work in the X windows system. It is a microsoft mouse, connected to the COM1 serial port. I have editted the "/etc/X11/XF86Config" file with the

HELP: dd of=/dev/hda1, and now?

2001-09-07 Thread Davide Anchisi
Hi everybody, I have a little big problem. I have a 2 fs system (Windows on /dev/hda1 and Debian GNU/Linux on /dev/hda2). Everything began when I installed lilo on /dev/hda1 (boot = /dev/hda1 in lilo.conf), for mistake. Windows didn't boot any more. When I realized that I had installed lilo on the

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hi, >why does the following not work: > > tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep something | while read i; do myprog $i; done It's because grep uses stdio, and it buffers the output at some blocksize (1K / 4K / 16K or something)

graphic cards

2001-09-07 Thread Peter Paul Millard
I am in the going to change my graphic card in my computer my old one which is a SiS 6326 card which is to difficult to set up with my knowledge. I am thinking of getting a savage 4 graphic card does this get picked up on the install or do I have to use xf86config to afterwards as I trying to

Re: dhcp-dns problem

2001-09-07 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:34:34 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: >> Should update requests be coming from a dhcp client? > >Yes. Who else would they come from. Well, the update requests could ALSO come from the dhcp server itself. Whenever a DHCP request arrives on the DHCP server it could return an I

Re: Segmentation Fault & All possible solutions Please.

2001-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Dear members, > Here is something I have not been really been able to understand .. SEGME >NTATION >FAULT . > Please tell m: >1)What exactly is segmentation fault ? >2)When does it occur ? >3)How Do you Solve it ? It means that a program has tried t

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