Re: Module (eepro100) won't install

2001-12-14 Thread Stephen P Williams
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:32:17PM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > Since I have a two-processor system, I upgraded the kernel to 2-4-14smp, > and everything worked, except the network. I guess 2.2.19-compact has > built-in support for eepro100, but 2.4.14 doesn't. Running 2.4.12, I tried > insmod eepr

Re: File Transfers, taken from Re: an XFree86 problem, an xscreensaver problem, followed by anEnlightenment problem

2001-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:02:07PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am looking for a fast and reliable method for transferring files between > systems. > In response to the listed options, I have no access to a CD burner, I > have no working Ethernet cards, and currently it

Re: File Transfers

2001-12-14 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the Windows box have a modem? Does your Debian laptop have one? > I've done modem-to-modem file transfers before. Okay, this was so > long ago they were both running MS DOS 3.3, but it should still work. > > Can you *borrow* two external modems for a f

Re: Win2000 , Debian Dual Boot

2001-12-14 Thread Akintayo Holder
Paul Mackinney wrote: I've had great success using the Windows NT/2000 boot mechanism. Windows seems to like it and Linux doesn't complain. HA HA. Try GRUB. I have win2k on a separate disk. Don't want it touching my Linux install 1. Install Linux, with GRUB. Default with Progeny. 2. Swap d

Re: File Transfers

2001-12-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:50:10PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > But enough about the tight budget of a student. The Debian computer happens > to use PCMCIA cards, unlike the connected computer, a Windows98 machine, > with a built in ethernet port, that I am not allowed to alter in any way, >

Re: Working Rsync example to mirror intel,sparc

2001-12-14 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Friday 14 December 2001 08:36, Matt Chapman wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for using the wrong mailer earlier > > Does anyone have a working rsync.conf that mirrors only intel > and sparc? If so can I get a copy? I have tried several but I > still manage to download a whole bunch of stuff that I do

Re: File Transfers

2001-12-14 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Hardware and budgetary issues add difficulty to finding a fast and reliable method for transferring files between systems... Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:21:15PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > [snip] > > > The amusing part about getting an ethernet card i

Re: You have mail in...

2001-12-14 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi > > How can I turn off the "You have mail in /var/mail/alec" notification in > bash, if that's possible? put the following line in ~/.bashrc: biff n ...or uninstall biff entirely. Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343

Re: File Transfers

2001-12-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:21:15PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: [snip] > The amusing part about getting an ethernet card is that I have 2 that are > physically compatible with my Debian computer, but both of them are broken. [another] > Any more ideas for two awkward computers in an awkward

Re: File Transfers

2001-12-14 Thread Seneca Cunningham
I wish that the solution were so simple as this.. Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, $0.00 solutions below: > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:02:07PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: >> I am looking for a fast and reliable method for transferring files between >> systems. > ... >> In respons

Help please, setting up lm-sensors

2001-12-14 Thread Stan Brown
I;ve got a new machine with a custom 2.4.16 kernel. I have managed to get lm-sensors built, and the modules load. However sensor-detect does not give me enough info to get the rest set up. The machine is a Epox EP-8KTA3PRO with a VIA KT133A chipset. Here is a typescript of the sensors detect run

Re: You have mail in...

2001-12-14 Thread Craig Dickson
Alec wrote: > How can I turn off the "You have mail in /var/mail/alec" notification in > bash, if that's possible? Try "man bash" and read about the environment variables whose names begin with MAIL. I think if you unset some of them, it'll stop notifying you of new mail.

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-14 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 14 December 2001 16:49, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2001 08:50, Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs wrote: > > I have the same problem, that fix did'nt helps me out. I saw also the > > mailboxes in text-editor. I don't know why, the downloaded mailbox > > contains random newline cha

You have mail in...

2001-12-14 Thread Alec
Hi How can I turn off the "You have mail in /var/mail/alec" notification in bash, if that's possible? Thanks Alec

Re: Kernel config: make menuconfig: cannot find ncurses

2001-12-14 Thread Steve Kieu
> > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order > >> to use 'make menuconfig' > > make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > = End of the error message

Re: File Transfers, taken from Re: an XFree86 problem, an xscreensaver problem, followed by anEnlightenment problem

2001-12-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, $0.00 solutions below: On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:02:07PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > I am looking for a fast and reliable method for transferring files between > systems. ... > In response to the listed options, I have no access to a CD burner, I have > no working Ethernet cards, and cu

Help getting KDE!

2001-12-14 Thread Neal Lippman
I could use some pointers; I've gone back a few months in the mailing list archives, and just cannot find an answer to this. I'm a debian newbie, having been running Mandrake for the past year. I just got a second computer to use for debian, figuring I'd work out all the kinks on the install th

Re: Kernel config: make menuconfig: cannot find ncurses

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Norris
You'll need to install the -dev package as well, in order to use menuconfig. On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:26:43PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi all ! > > I'm trying to compile a new (2.4.13) kernel on an old 486 box. When I > try to configure it with "make menuconfig" I get the following erro

failed to build 2.4.16

2001-12-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I just tried to build kernel 2.4.16, but it failed in the link stage. drivers/char/char.o(.data+0x46b4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' drivers/net/net.o(.data+0x174): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.ex

Module (eepro100) won't install

2001-12-14 Thread Lars Jensen
I just installed woody with the compact kernel (2.2.19) , and the install went smoothly - my system found my network card (eepro100 driver) and it worked first time. Since I have a two-processor system, I upgraded the kernel to 2-4-14smp, and everything worked, except the network. I guess 2.2.19-

Kernel config: make menuconfig: cannot find ncurses

2001-12-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I'm trying to compile a new (2.4.13) kernel on an old 486 box. When I try to configure it with "make menuconfig" I get the following error: = Start of the error message = rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering dire

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #2382

2001-12-14 Thread Anthony F. Littrel Sr.
unsubscribe - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 8:01 PM Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #2382

File Transfers, taken from Re: an XFree86 problem, an xscreensaver problem, followed by anEnlightenment problem

2001-12-14 Thread Seneca Cunningham
I am looking for a fast and reliable method for transferring files between systems. David Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seneca Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SC> and other such difficulties, could it just be a few bad transfers > SC> by floppy, as large packages (>1.4M) have to b

Re: Are the X server starup messages kept in a logfile anywhere?

2001-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:31:34AM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm interested in reviewing how well I have the X server configured on a > new machine. > > Are the X server startup messages stored in a logfile somewhere? Depends on the X component. - X server: /var/l

X display managers: xauth problems, can't login, connection refused

2001-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
[This is a re-send. Posted earlier this week with no responses. Likewise no updates on my bug reports.] Keywords: xauth Xauthority wdm xdm gdm kdm MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE Client is not authorized to connect to Server I'm using wdm as a local X display manager under Sid/i386. Following a recent update

Re: moving to Debian

2001-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:08:37AM -0600, Matt Greer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think I'd be fine with potato despite the old packages. It seems > most people want woody instead. But I do have some questions on Debian > that will hopefully help me transistion over better. For server purposes,

Re: What does xconsole display? (was: Re: proper set-up of xconsole ?)

2001-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:18:29PM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:54:16PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > I've noticed that the default persmissions on xconsole are : > > > > > > ~

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:50:04PM -0500, David Teague ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:59:37PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my > > >

Re: Printing HOWTOs a problem. Newbie #61

2001-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:32:20PM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, Brenda says, > > > > After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the > > > page and is then across the tear line of the continuous > > > stationary that I use. > > > > Not sure what you mean by "suddenly

Re: computer hangs, how do I go about diagnosing?

2001-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:17:18PM -0500, Paul Reavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My computer is experiencing intermittent hangs. Generally I'm doing > something in X, but I really have no idea what the real pattern is. I > left my machine on last night and it hung overnight. > > I suspected hard

Re: What is locales?

2001-12-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:37:05PM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > What is the locales package, It provides national language support for locales other than ASCII-based American English. > and how do I configure it? 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' picks the set of locales that are constructed on your sys

Re: strange mozilla image problems

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Fischer
I think it's been happening ever since 0.9.6 in SID. On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 19:04, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:43:44PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > > http://www.planetquake.com/beyondtheportals/tdc/ > > Works fine here. Mozilla 0.9.4. What version is giving you trouble

Re: strange mozilla image problems

2001-12-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:43:44PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > http://www.planetquake.com/beyondtheportals/tdc/ Works fine here. Mozilla 0.9.4. What version is giving you trouble? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-14 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi > > Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo account into, > say "~/yahoo", instead of mixing it with the other mail in "/var/mail/alec". Not that I know of, as fetchmail delivers the mail it fetches from your yahoo account to yo

installazione

2001-12-14 Thread nino lambra
desideravo provare il sistema linux ho la versione easy linux - la debian 2.2 ma come si fa ad installarle basta dare il setup ? ho un disco rigido partizionato appositamente , in c e in d c ospita win 98 volevo mettere linux sull'altra partizione ma come si fà? le istruzioni sembrano dicano

Testing v. unstable (was Re: moving to Debian)

2001-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:23:33AM -0600, Matt Greer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:25 am, Kurt Lieber wrote: <...> > > Honestly, I'd recommend skipping testing and going straight to > > unstable. > > This is the first I've seen of this recommendation. I've scoured

Re: strange mozilla image problems

2001-12-14 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On 14 Dec 2001, Greg Fischer wrote: > Is anyone else noticing massive mutilation of images with mozilla when > there are several on one page? Go to this website with your mozilla > browser (I'm using the one in SID): > > http://www.planetquake.com/beyondtheportals/tdc/ > > Scroll all the way do

strange mozilla image problems

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Fischer
Is anyone else noticing massive mutilation of images with mozilla when there are several on one page? Go to this website with your mozilla browser (I'm using the one in SID): http://www.planetquake.com/beyondtheportals/tdc/ Scroll all the way down. Do you see stuff like this? http://magnesium.d

What is locales?

2001-12-14 Thread Lars Jensen
What is the locales package, and how do I configure it? I figure that I have to choose en_US ISO-8859-1 or en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 or both (or nothing?). What are these choices, and which one should I pick when installing woody? Thanks, Lars. %%%

fetchmail questions

2001-12-14 Thread Alec
Hi Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo account into, say "~/yahoo", instead of mixing it with the other mail in "/var/mail/alec". I tried the "expert" mode in fetchmailconf, but still didn't find this option. It seems to offer adding extra headers, such as "MAIL FROM"

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-14 Thread Glyn Millington
"Ian Balchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to get diald out of the system. I suppose that I can remove it > from init.d but would I not also have to remove the entry from each of > the rc[0-6S] files as well? Since update does an addition to these > files (as used with the numlock script

procmail: extraneous locallockfile

2001-12-14 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hi I recently changed my procmail rc file, and now I'm getting this warning: procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored in my procmail logs. The change was: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] { :0 c foobarlist_archive :0 in-foobarlist } which

Re: Joystick attached to USB port doesn't work

2001-12-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Bellows wrote on Fri Dec 14, 2001 um 02:53:41PM: > everything seemed to be installed and recognized with my USB joystick > but no applications would work with it. So here's what worked for me. > Most applications look for the joystick at: /dev/js0 not > /dev/input/js0. So I ad

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 14 December 2001 08:50, Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs wrote: > I have the same problem, that fix did'nt helps me out. I saw also the > mailboxes in text-editor. I don't know why, the downloaded mailbox > contains random newline chars, sometimes 2 newline chars. An example: I also have the same

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-14 Thread David Teague
Karsten How do I 'boot single'? I managed to miss Brenda's message. Would you send me a string to use to search the archives (once they are posted on debian.org) Finally what FM do I R to find out some of these things. I like to just read the manuals -- when I have time. It's final exam time, a

Re: Latest GnuCash .debs

2001-12-14 Thread Bill Wohler
Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gnucash 1.6.4 quite happily w/ sid. Plus, I've seen > here on the list that running unstable or stable is > the better way to go rather than testing. Someone Many months ago, that was definitely the case. Many packages leaked into testing with broken

Re: Missing disk image file on ftp.debian.org

2001-12-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:57:08PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: > A disk image file seems to be missing from ftp.debian.org. > > Specifically, in the directory > > /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06-14/images-1.44 > > the file base-1.bin seems to be missing. Try another mirr

bad file descriptor

2001-12-14 Thread Ryan Sackenheim
Hi, I'm running unstable on both my laptop and desktop, and a few days ago when attempting to install xserver-svga, I got a 'bad file descriptor' error from dpkg. Oddly enough, my desktop machine continues on, but on the laptop, dpkg hangs until I hit ^C and abort. Worse yet, it seems to be doin

Re: custom initrd kernel

2001-12-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi carlo eric's suggestion is good ...try to compile your kernel w/ all the usb support built in or as a module... initrd is a pain to deal with and typically needed/required for loading scsi drivers before booting .. ( reading the data from the scsi disk .. catch 22 problem that initrd fixes

newbie suggestion

2001-12-14 Thread jeff
just a quick pointer for anyone who wants to learn how to be a small-time sysadmin... some books that really helped me out a LOT...the 'little black book' linux series from CORIOLIS press...they're not overly technical and they have lots of nice pictures to help get you up and running in no tim

process/user management

2001-12-14 Thread Lev Lvovsky
hello, a bit newbie at this kind of stuff, but what would be some good resources to look at for resource managment for processes, as well as users? managing things like CPU time, quotas, and bandwidth. this, as well as info on securing boxes for mass shell usage. I know that's a lot, but any inf

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 18:32, Tony Crawford wrote: > Mario Vukelic wrote (on 13 Dec 2001 at 8:25): > > > The ugly thing with the rewriting is that the above rule in the > > eximconfig-generated conf file rewrites always, regardless of > > destination, i.e., also for local mail that stays on your ma

Re: Joystick attached to USB port doesn't work

2001-12-14 Thread David Bellows
On Friday 14 December 2001 09:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My joystick/gamepad attached to the USB port doesn't work on my > Debian (i386). > I made my own kernel with USB support (usbcore.o, usb-hdci.o, hid.o, > input.o, joydev.o, etc.) and I tested it using: > > jstest /dev/input/js1 > jst

Re: exim / rbl question - hehehee

2001-12-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 08:53, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hehehehe > > did you try *.org instead ??? ( http://www.exim.org ) Good guess! Way too many *.conf files in the last days :)

New kernel vs. 2nd ide ext2 hdd ???

2001-12-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I am building a development box that requires starting with slink. The system is up and functioning; but, now, I need to implement a 2.2.19 kernel. It builds successfully; but, has problems at bootup. The system: Pentium 150 64MB RAM /dev/sda1 - swap /dev/sda2 -

Re: iso images

2001-12-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Marcin Pakula wrote: > Is there a place where I can find iso images of 'woody' http://cd-image.debian.org/ -- Baloo

Re: Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables?

2001-12-14 Thread Jurgen de Wijs
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:40:56 +0100, you wrote: >> >> apt-get update >> apt-get install iptables > >Doesn't work. I use potato :). > When you ad the following lines to your sources.list file it works even on potato: # Adrian Bunk's packages to run kernel 2.4 on potato deb http://p

Re: exim / rbl question

2001-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:41:36PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > when i installed debian and configured exim, i was under the impression that > > exim was configured to reject any email from an IP address listed in the > > maps > > rbl databas

Re: exim / rbl question

2001-12-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:41:36PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > when i installed debian and configured exim, i was under the impression that > exim was configured to reject any email from an IP address listed in the maps > rbl database. > I don't think it's configured by default to use an

Re: GnomeICU, Gaim, Gabber and alike

2001-12-14 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Charles Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Did everybuddy get broken by the protocol change? The > last update on their website was 01 July 2001, last > version 0.2.1-beta6 . I'm not at my debian/sid box > right now, but I think that's the version I've still > got. Just checked the unstable pack

Re: cdrecord problem

2001-12-14 Thread shock
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:45:54PM -0600, shock wrote: > > I just did apt-get install cdrecord. I have an all-SCSI system, so my > > SCSI driver is compiled into the kernel. Following is the problem I'm > > experiencing: > > Ok, you've got SC

Re: Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables?

2001-12-14 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
Hi Petr, On Fri, 14/Dec/01 11:36:43, Petr Danek wrote: > Hi , > i think you should do this > > apt-get update > apt-get install iptables Doesn't work. I use potato :). > > > bye Petr [snip] Regards, Chris

Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-14 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, Brenda, dmane, et al. I have had some success today. I took hephaustus to work and sat down and had a network study session. (i haven't brought him home so excuse all the typos) I put imaginet's DNS into resolv.conf, checked out host.conf and nsswitch.conf. I made my domain name ians.cas

Printing HOWTOs a problem. Newbie #61

2001-12-14 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, Brenda says, > > After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the > > page and is then across the tear line of the continuous > > stationary that I use. > > Not sure what you mean by "suddenly"... it seems > a problem of this sort should happen gradually unless > the paper is slipping

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-14 Thread Tony Crawford
Mario Vukelic wrote (on 13 Dec 2001 at 8:25): > The ugly thing with the rewriting is that the above rule in the > eximconfig-generated conf file rewrites always, regardless of > destination, i.e., also for local mail that stays on your machine or > network (Which means that replys to local mail wa

Re: Information about modules

2001-12-14 Thread David Z Maze
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> I see on Redhat machines there is a file JS> /boot/module-info- with valuable information about JS> modules and there relation to hardware components e.g. JS> Is there something similar available for Debian? There's an /sbin/modinfo program that prints

lm-sensors (well really module handling) question

2001-12-14 Thread Stan Brown
I'm seting up 2 machines, one has woody on it, and the othher a base Progeny istall from CD. On both machines I have custom compiled using kernel-package a 2.4.16 kernel. On the woody machine I installed i2c, and lm-snsors using kernel-package, and all went well. Then I copied over teh two origina

Re: Sending mail from bash scripts

2001-12-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:58:51PM -0800, nate wrote: > > > Is there any easy way to send a message complete with subject and > > body from a bash script? I want to run something simple from cron, > > but can't seem to get the format down just right... > > > > what about > echo "my message" | m

Missing disk image file on ftp.debian.org

2001-12-14 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, A disk image file seems to be missing from ftp.debian.org. Specifically, in the directory /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06-14/images-1.44 the file base-1.bin seems to be missing. This is the correct directory for the latest stable disks, right? Why is the first base-sys

Re: Powerchute APC software for potato

2001-12-14 Thread nate
> I tried that with the Redhat source, but I got an error about > binary incompatibility. I run the INSTALL script, chose 'cdrom' as > source and entered current directory. Which .tar.gz did you use? > > I am running the 2.4 kernel though, using the > 'http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian pota

Re: Gericom Laptop: X Problem with the Screensetting

2001-12-14 Thread Wayne Sitton
You can test out different settings at the lilo prompt By making the argument there it will superceed the conf file vga=791 is correct for 1024x768x16 But, some have had success with vga=864 which should give you 1024x768x24 I was never able to get that mode to work on my laptop which is an ASUS A

network card

2001-12-14 Thread pb lazatin
does debain 2.2r4 support this network card?(is this the proper term?) windows sees it as "CNet PRO200 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter" driver by "DAVICOM" __ www.edsamail.com

Re: Vesa and Framebuffer

2001-12-14 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:18:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | I try to run the woody kernel image 2.4.9-686 hoping to change the console | resolution from 680 to 1024x768. I know that i therefore need the vesa stuff | ... compiling the kernel souce 2.4.9 by myself with non-modular en

MAKE MONEY BY EASY INTERNET WORK

2001-12-14 Thread YourFuture
MAKE MONEY BY EASY INTERNET WORK I'll make you a promise. READ THIS E-MAIL TO THE END! - follow what it says to the letter - and you will not worry whether a RECESSION is coming or not, who is President, or whether you keep your current job or not. Yes, I know what you are thinking. I never respon

Re: Getting email together with dman Newbie #61

2001-12-14 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:17:18AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > Brenda et al, > > a few points overlooked. > > 1. I was running wvdial manually on its own, $ wvdial, so expected > that it would connect and relinquish control back to the prompt. It > does no have its own prompt to accept input, an

Re: Error accessing cdrom device

2001-12-14 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > it's enough to do su - yourself (if you're using X and don't want to > restart it) That'll work for at least that console, but what about if you want to start an app from the menu -- I don't think the new environment will be picked up until you re-log

Vesa and Framebuffer

2001-12-14 Thread OliverFuchs1
Hi, I try to run the woody kernel image 2.4.9-686 hoping to change the console resolution from 680 to 1024x768. I know that i therefore need the vesa stuff ... compiling the kernel souce 2.4.9 by myself with non-modular entries for frambuffer and vega modes everything works fine with vga=791 on boo

Joystick attached to USB port doesn't work

2001-12-14 Thread lorenzo . zampese
My joystick/gamepad attached to the USB port doesn't work on my Debian (i386). I made my own kernel with USB support (usbcore.o, usb-hdci.o, hid.o, input.o, joydev.o, etc.) and I tested it using: jstest /dev/input/js1 jstest /dev/input/js2 jstest /dev/input/js3 and every time it reported me a m

Re: custom initrd kernel

2001-12-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:46:25 -0600 (CST), "Carlo U. Segre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All: > > I have been having a problem successfully compiling and booting > custom initrd kernels. The reason I need to make a custom kernel at all > is that I have a keyspan 49W USB to serial conver

Re: iso images

2001-12-14 Thread Steffan Baron
http://cdimage-unofficial.debian.net Gruss Steffan On Fri, Dec 14, 2001, Marcin Pakula wrote: > >Hi there, >One more NEWBIE >Is there a place where I can find iso images of 'woody' >I want to change to debian from mandrake and need to burn CD >thanks in advance >/marcin

Re: iso images

2001-12-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:54:33PM +0200, Marcin Pakula wrote: > Hi there, > One more NEWBIE > Is there a place where I can find iso images of 'woody' > I want to change to debian from mandrake and need to burn CD > thanks in advance There are several ftp-sites where you can get them. I know of f

Re: GnomeICU, Gaim, Gabber and alike

2001-12-14 Thread Charles Baker
--- Markus Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > I know recently that icq changes its protocol and > breaking some > > ICQ client like GnomeICU, Gabber, and Gaim. I > used GnomeICU and > > encounter a lot of problem like dropping message > silently. Just > > wondering if the protocol

iso images

2001-12-14 Thread Marcin Pakula
Hi there, One more NEWBIE Is there a place where I can find iso images of 'woody' I want to change to debian from mandrake and need to burn CD thanks in advance /marcin

Re: rawwrite2, the missing link

2001-12-14 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:02:52PM +, Richard Lincoln wrote: | Hello | | The link in the installation manual to rawwrite2 does not work. If you haven't found it yet, http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm (from google) -D -- He who belongs to God hears what God says. The r

Working Rsync example to mirror intel,sparc

2001-12-14 Thread Matt Chapman
Hi, Sorry for using the wrong mailer earlier Does anyone have a working rsync.conf that mirrors only intel and sparc? If so can I get a copy? I have tried several but I still manage to download a whole bunch of stuff that I don't want or need... :) -matt

rawwrite2, the missing link

2001-12-14 Thread Richard Lincoln
Hello The link in the installation manual to rawwrite2 does not work. Richard

Information about modules

2001-12-14 Thread Johann Spies
I see on Redhat machines there is a file /boot/module-info- with valuable information about modules and there relation to hardware components e.g. 3c509 eth "3Com EtherLink III" io "Base I/O address" "0x[0-9a-fA-F]+" i

lirc + irman

2001-12-14 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Hi, I have bought an infrared receiver from evation.com (irman). It works fine with xmms. But now I want to use lirc interface to communicate with other applications that don't support remote control. I know that lirc need libirman to work with my hardware so I get libirman, compile it, test and i

Re: ncurses user admin tool for debian?

2001-12-14 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
> I've tried linuxconf, but it does not create users with the same profile > than adduser . So I had problems with some permissions. > > Do you know why? > No sorry. I never used linuxconf for adding users.

Re: ncurses user admin tool for debian?

2001-12-14 Thread josep
> apt-get install linuxconf > linuxconf --text > I've tried linuxconf, but it does not create users with the same profile than adduser . So I had problems with some permissions. Do you know why? Thanks Josep

Re: ncurses user admin tool for debian?

2001-12-14 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2001.12.14 11:21, josep a écrit : > exists a non graphical user admin tool for debian using ncurses? > > I mean to add and delete users, manage groups, etc ... > using a menu but in text mode. > apt-get install linuxconf linuxconf --text

Re: GnomeICU, Gaim, Gabber and alike

2001-12-14 Thread Markus Moser
Hi! > I know recently that icq changes its protocol and breaking some > ICQ client like GnomeICU, Gabber, and Gaim. I used GnomeICU and > encounter a lot of problem like dropping message silently. Just > wondering if the protocol change issues being addressed? What client > should I use?

Fwd: failure notice

2001-12-14 Thread Cece
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tried a KMail bugreport in woody: The KDE team bugreport sys. says: == Version mismatch error KMail 1.2 does not correctly work on KDE 2.2.x. You have to update to KDE 1.3.x (which is part o

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-14 Thread Cece
Hello! > > I upgraded to woody, and now when I use KMail to download my email, > > it doesn't show the headers correctly, most email show "No Subject" > > and sender "unknown" But if I look at the headers in vi the info is > > there. > > ~ if you delete all the .index files in /Mail folder, when

Re: VNC

2001-12-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Seth Delackner wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:07:43PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems that as long as you don't kill the server, everything would be as > > what you left out. Interesting... It's kinda neat, I think. Next time you > > logged in to the remote host using the xvnc

Re: Error accessing cdrom device

2001-12-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Eric Brooks wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:47:10AM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > > Did you re-login after doing that? > > No, I didn't. I'll try that. Thanks very much. it's enough to do su - yourself (if you're using X and don't want to restart it) erik

Re: pcmcia partial troubles

2001-12-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >BUT.. I downloaded from D-Link support site a revised >pcmcia-cs-3.1.15r3.tgz file in which is included the needed module for >my pcmcia card: tulip_cb.c (in the documentation is written that it >requires 2.0,2.2,2.3 kernels, no

Re: Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables?

2001-12-14 Thread Petr Danek
Hi , i think you should do this apt-get update apt-get install iptables bye Petr - Original Message - From: "Krzysztof Mazurczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables? > Hi, > > On Thu, 13/Dec/01 17:57:22,

pcmcia partial troubles

2001-12-14 Thread Vittorio
Friends, I have a laptop with woody + a tailored kernel 2.4.16 + pcmcia-cs 1.3.27 (both from Bunk's stuff). Now I have a D-Link DFE-680TXD pcmcia ethernet card and, I cannot believe it, D-Link supports Linux! For my old pcmcia network card, a 3Com589, I compiled support for PCMCIA and my card rig

ncurses user admin tool for debian?

2001-12-14 Thread josep
exists a non graphical user admin tool for debian using ncurses? I mean to add and delete users, manage groups, etc ... using a menu but in text mode. Thanks Josep

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