Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?

2004-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:24:01PM -0500, Richard Hoskins wrote: > I presume a modern Windows has a concept of system time and so forth, > and doesn't go messing around with the hardware clock, so this is > probably not a problem for dual booters. You

Re: exim problem

2004-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:00:21AM +1100, Ivan Wills wrote: > Any suggestions on how to check if the firewall is sending a TCP RST? telnet to the port. If you get "Connection refused," then it is. If it times out, it's not. - -- .''`. Paul Jo

External DVD-burner

2004-03-02 Thread Hamid
Hi I have an external DVD burner which is connected to ieee1394 port. I guess that I need to load ieee1394.o and raw1394.o modules as the first step. But I don't know how to create something like /dev/hdc in order to mount it. Any input is appreciated. Thanks Hamid -- Using M2, Opera's revolut

SSHD

2004-03-02 Thread T. Albert
Hello debian-user, i'm having 'strange' problem with my sshd. i'm running woody. and here is info about my sshd. virgo:~# dpkg -l | grep -i ssh ii ssh3.4p1-1.woody. Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH) my sshd can accept from anymachine but my machine. i can ssh my debian

Re: agpgart aperture setting

2004-03-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:36:56AM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I just build a new computer and I'm trying to set up Debian Sid on it. > The motherboard is an MSI KT400 for an Athlon-XP processor. I'm using an > MSI video card with the Nvidia FX5200 chipset and 128M of memory. Your motherboard

上,硬着呢!

2004-03-02 Thread 何强
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Re: Howto set internet sharing with an ethernet card and a wireless one

2004-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:06:35PM -0500, Hamid wrote: > >>1- Sofware: How do I bridge these two interfaces ? What packages I need > >>? > > > >ipmasq > > So i just need to issue this command or it needs a little bit of tweaking ? You asked what pa

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

2004-03-02 Thread Graham Williams
Received Wed 03 Mar 2004 10:39am +1100 from MJ Inabnit: > Greetings: > > I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, but . . . What > application includes the "startx" command? I realize I can install > xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on the older com

Re: apt-get: purging a package that has already been removed?

2004-03-02 Thread Graham Williams
Received Tue 02 Mar 2004 9:08pm +1100 from Adam Funk: > Sorry if this is a stupid question, but... > > Suppose foo has already been removed without the --purge option, and I > later want to purge it. > > # apt-get --purge remove foo > gives the error that foo is not installed and therefore takes

Re: Re: Word file (Due to Internet Mail Filtering Policy : the content of the attachment(s) has been removed from this mail.)

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Spam block: Warning about your e-mail account.

2004-03-02 Thread bilbo
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Re: Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6

2004-03-02 Thread Robert Rati
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:22, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:00:57PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: > > I just installed the Debian 2.6.3 kernel for i686 machines and my ISA > > PNP card. I have an old ISA Plug and Play modem that I had working in > > kernel 2.4, but can't get 2.6 to recogni

onshore-timesheet: no connection to the server... clues, please?

2004-03-02 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I have overcome all the previous hurdles, but this one has me stumped. In the left frame, it says the following: Sorry, I cannot complete your request: o Cannot connect to backend: localhost:5432:timesheet: no connection to the server If you feel this is a bug, please report it. First thin

kernel-source module compiling question

2004-03-02 Thread Jerry Rubinow
I've been trying to compile the video modules in drivers/media/video, specifically videodev.c. I'm using kernel-source-2.4.24-3. When it tries to compile videodev.c, I get a compile error complaining the videodev.c is trying to use member "release" of video_device, which is undefined. Looking

Re: debian jr.

2004-03-02 Thread Roger Chrisman
Elvis Presley wrote: > where can i download debian jr. Elvis, I would reply something about 'debian jr.' being a set of children's packages that you can select in 'tasksel', but my ISP doesn't like me sending email to the cemetary. Sorry . . . . The other side. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

tun device on 2.6?

2004-03-02 Thread Bradley Alexander
I have just built a Sparc Ultra 2 with unstable and a locally compiled 2.6.3 kernel. I am trying to run openvpn, which requires use of the tun device. I set up /dev/net/tun as noted in the kernel documentation, but when I try to bring the device up by hand, I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] net]# ifconfig

Re: Gigabit Ethernet switch using Linux?

2004-03-02 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-03-02T19:15:42-0800, Nano Nano wrote: > Was going to refer you to the $99 Netgear gigabit 5-port switch at Frys > (outpost.com), until I saw the $1395 Netgear "Managed gigabit" 12-port > switch. I recently got a Compex GSC2008WM for a lot less. It is a managed 8 port 10/100/1000 switch.

Re: Fetchmail Query

2004-03-02 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004, Peter A. Cole wrote: > After adding this, both messages were delivered and consequently directed to my > spamdrop by mimedefang. What exactly did you add to your sendmail.mc? Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Gigabit Ethernet switch using Linux?

2004-03-02 Thread Nano Nano
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:06:10PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been looking at prices for a managed gigabit Ethernet switch, and > thought the prices are a bit up there... :-/ Was going to refer you to the $99 Netgear gigabit 5-port switch at Frys (outpost.com), until I saw the

Re: Intel Xeon, SMP kernel

2004-03-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > 1. When compilig a kernel (2.4.25) what is the proper CPU architecture > setting for Intel Xeon CPU? P4 if it is not an extremely old Xeon, P3 otherwise. > 2. Are there tests/demos to check the SMP system and to see the two CPUs > (in my case) actual

Re: sarge installation troubleshooting

2004-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > As I understand it, that usually happens if you're trying to install > onto a non-empty partition. The target filesystem needs to be blank. Yes, and for what it's worth, current versions of the installer detect this problem, give you a clear warning message and let you back u

Re: sarge installation troubleshooting

2004-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Erich Waelde wrote: > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/current/ Please don't use these. There are prominent links on the debian-installer's web page (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer) to the CD images we recommend you use. > Also note that you can search the l

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Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-02 Thread Maarten J H van den Berg
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 02:20, Chris Evans wrote: > On 3 Mar 2004 at 2:11, Maarten J H van den Berg wrote: Neil had some interesting points, but in the meantime here's my working lilo.conf (which was written by the SuSE installer) in case it helps you: boot = /dev/hda change-rules reset d

Re: Java in Woody

2004-03-02 Thread Larry
--- Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble with j2sdk1.3 running in Woody. > A > program that opened up a couple of frames and some > buttons worked fine in the jdk1.1.6 version. > > I moved to the sdk1.3 to get into native threads. > The > same program now fails to open the fr

debconf MemoryError

2004-03-02 Thread BaekRyun Je
Hello, i'm using sid and while system update debconf raising error. Setting up debconf (1.4.12) ... Sorry: MemoryError: () dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 what is this problem? __ Do y

Digital camera corrupted images

2004-03-02 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi all I have debian unstable up-to-date and a kodak dx3500 I download images and they get corrupted, while I see them fine on the camera. moreover, I had an onld memory card with pictures (I previously downloaded) and when downloading them now they are corrupt (images haf gray, bad colors). Any

Java in Woody

2004-03-02 Thread Larry
I'm having trouble with j2sdk1.3 running in Woody. A program that opened up a couple of frames and some buttons worked fine in the jdk1.1.6 version. I moved to the sdk1.3 to get into native threads. The same program now fails to open the frames and buttons properly. It seems erratic. Sometim

Re: Important notify about your e-mail account.

2004-03-02 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:16:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello user of Debian.org e-mail server, > > Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next > three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your > account information. > > For more

Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-02 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday March 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aha, didn't know that wrinkle: lovely. Mount says: > /dev/md0 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > > and cat /proc/mounts says: > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > /dev/r

Re: sqwebmail authuserdb support in Debian package?

2004-03-02 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Eric Walstad wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to use non-system passwords with courier/sqwebmail. From > what I can mine from google, it appears that the authuserdb > authentication method is best suited for my system of under 25 users. > > Can anyone tell me if authuserdb support is compiled in

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-02 Thread Douglas Pollard
I believe the cd I am installing from may be faulty. I made a boot disk from it and it does the same thing when booted from. I get no messages to reply to. Tried the Debian boot cd and Linux booted to it alright. The Fedora cd came in a book I bought at barns & Nobles. I had gone th

[solved!] Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out > $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg > model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!! > solved the probleem -- the device

Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-02 Thread Maarten J H van den Berg
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:36, Chris Evans wrote: > On 3 Mar 2004 at 10:40, Neil Brown wrote: > > Wrong. > > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/md0 > > then mount /dev/md0. > > Once you have included /dev/hdc1 in an array, don't touch it again - > > just access the array (/dev/md0). > > Sorry, I was being hasty

Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-02 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday March 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3 Mar 2004 at 10:40, Neil Brown wrote: > > > Wrong. > > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/md0 > > then mount /dev/md0. > > Once you have included /dev/hdc1 in an array, don't touch it again - > > just access the array (/dev/md0). > > Sorry, I was being hasty

konsole: Home and End keys don't work!

2004-03-02 Thread Toshiro
When I'm using konsole, the and keys don't work in bash. The keys work fine in bash in xterm and console. Also, they work using vi in konsole. Anyone has the same problem? Toshiro. PS: I'm using sid, with all the latest packages. Nueva forma de conectarse a internet en URUGUAY -

Re: Screensaver fails!

2004-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 14:53, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > /usr/share/doc/rss-glx/README.xscreensaver: > regarding *running* rss-glx ^^^ sorry: but the line above is mine. It's not in README.xscreensaver > ** > EITHER -

Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-02 Thread Chris Evans
On 3 Mar 2004 at 2:11, Maarten J H van den Berg wrote: > Hope it's not too obvious, but... > Did you also actually _run_ lilo ? > Is fstab on /dev/md0 edited to reflect the new mountpoints ? No it's not too obvious and maybe I need to work through all the options again and document what went wr

Re: chkrootkit detects hidden processes in mozilla-firefox and xmms

2004-03-02 Thread Rick Luddy
> I'm not entirely sure whether this is normal behavior, a > symptom of possible badness, or simple user error. I'm a bit > worried it might mean my system has been compromised. Any help > or explanation would be greatly appreciated. You might be interested in http://bugs.debia

Re: qmail anti-virus

2004-03-02 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Rick Weinbender wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good open source (email) > anti-virus solution for Qmail running on Debian Stable. > Or even a reasonably priced commercial solution > if it is good. Bye > * > I see M$ has bought out RAV-anti-virus. > I've been looking at Clam anti-virus The clama

Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-02 Thread Chris Evans
On 3 Mar 2004 at 12:04, Neil Brown wrote: > > > You missed a step (step 9). You have to reboot so that /dev/md0 > > > is your root device. Once you have done that and are happy with > > > it, you add in /dev/hdb1 and let it resync. > > Ditto: did that, no go. > > Sorry, I missed where you said t

Gigabit Ethernet switch using Linux?

2004-03-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi guys, I've been looking at prices for a managed gigabit Ethernet switch, and thought the prices are a bit up there... :-/ All of the features I need could be provided by Linux, but the question is. Can I get hardware that'll give me 12-16 gigabit ports in one computer? Are there multi-port

sqwebmail authuserdb support in Debian package?

2004-03-02 Thread Eric Walstad
Hi All, I'm trying to use non-system passwords with courier/sqwebmail. From what I can mine from google, it appears that the authuserdb authentication method is best suited for my system of under 25 users. Can anyone tell me if authuserdb support is compiled into the Debian sqwebmail package

Re: chkrootkit detects hidden processes in mozilla-firefox and xmms

2004-03-02 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:37:32PM -0500, Rick Luddy wrote: > I'm not entirely sure whether this is normal behavior, a symptom of possible > badness, or simple user error. I'm a bit worried it might mean my system > has been compromised. Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated. > >

Re: What makes /dev/hdb1 say it's mounted/active when it isn't?

2004-03-02 Thread Chris Evans
On 2 Mar 2004 at 17:47, CW Harris wrote: > Shouldn't matter, as long as your BIOS can boot it (which it obviously > can). It can, but is there any possibility that's it's requiring the controller or HD to be "active" as far as the kernel is concerned? I can't see how that's the case but my gras

Re: qmail anti-virus

2004-03-02 Thread Ollie Acheson
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:14:41PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good open source (email) > anti-virus solution for Qmail running on Debian Stable. > Or even a reasonably priced commercial solution > if it is good. > * > I see M$ has bought out RAV-anti-virus. > I've been l

Re: What makes /dev/hdb1 say it's mounted/active when it isn't?

2004-03-02 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:11:31PM -, Chris Evans wrote: > I hope this is the final stage in configuring this machine as a RAID1 > mirrored, three ethernet port firewall ... but I'm not quite there > yet. > > I've followed the guide at: > http://www.cs.montana.edu/faq/faqw.admin.py?query=Con

Important notify about your e-mail account.

2004-03-02 Thread support
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Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-02 Thread Chris Evans
On 2 Mar 2004 at 17:24, Cameron Moore wrote: > I've been battling the same problem using Debian testing/sarge with > SCSI devices. I followed (mostly) the same howto and have > subsequently tried many other things with no success. I'm willing to > help debug this as well if anyone has any advice

Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-02 Thread Chris Evans
On 3 Mar 2004 at 10:40, Neil Brown wrote: > Wrong. > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/md0 > then mount /dev/md0. > Once you have included /dev/hdc1 in an array, don't touch it again - > just access the array (/dev/md0). Sorry, I was being hasty in writing the Email, that's what I did, i.e. mkfs the /dev/md0

Re: help apt upgrade issue

2004-03-02 Thread Emmanuel Merliot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running a debian woody mixing stable and testing and very random few > unstable packages with the 2.4.24 kernel. I just did an apt-get -u > dist-upgrade and there was a couple upgrades none seemed very significant > but it bombed out at the end. Now it bombs out ev

A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-02 Thread stan
I've played with LVM on HP-UX, but only just enough to get a firm handle on the fact that I don't understand the complexities of it, and that is easy to screw up, but hard to fix :-) So, I find myself building a Debian MytTV machine. In addition to the 40G root drive, I installed 2 other drives,

different characters in file names in floppies

2004-03-02 Thread Jordi Carrillo
Hi, I have 2 PCs one with Mandrake and another one with Debian. When I write data to a floppy under Mandrake I see different characters in the files' names under Debian. I took a look at /etc/fstab In Mandrake says: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=io8859-15,sync,code

Re: mouse wheel doesn't work

2004-03-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:05:56PM +0100, Jordi Carrillo wrote: | Hi all, | | My mouse wheel doesn't work under Debian sarge. | While installing Debian, it asked about the wheel and | I said yes to the question. I don't know what question that was ... ... maybe its even a bug in d-i. | What can

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

2004-03-02 Thread Henrik Enberg
MJ Inabnit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, but > . . . What application includes the "startx" command? I realize I > can install xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on > the older computers. Anyway, I have x config

Re: exim problem

2004-03-02 Thread Ivan Wills
Vineet Kumar wrote: I bounced your message back to the list, to continue the discussion in the public forum. This way, others may be able to provide input into the discussion, and still others may benefit from reading the discussion now and in the public list archives. * Ivan Wills ([EMAIL PROTEC

Intel Xeon, SMP kernel

2004-03-02 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
Hello, 1. When compilig a kernel (2.4.25) what is the proper CPU architecture setting for Intel Xeon CPU? 2. Are there tests/demos to check the SMP system and to see the two CPUs (in my case) actually at work? Thanks, Sarunas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

2004-03-02 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 13:57 -0800, MJ Inabnit wrote: > Greetings: > > I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, but . . . What > application includes the "startx" command? I realize I can install > xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on the older comput

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

2004-03-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 13:57 -0800, MJ Inabnit wrote: > I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, > but . . . What application includes the "startx" command? I realize > I can install xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on > the older computers. Anyway, I

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

2004-03-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
MJ Inabnit wrote: Greetings: I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, but . . . What application includes the "startx" command? I realize I can install xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on the older computers. Anyway, I have x configured, I bet it'd d

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

2004-03-02 Thread Slaanesh
Le mardi 2 Mars 2004 22:57, MJ Inabnit a écrit : > I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, but > . . . What application includes the "startx" command? I realize I > can install xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on > the older computers. Anyway, I have

characters in the floppy

2004-03-02 Thread Jordi Carrillo
Hi, I have 2 PCs one with Mandrake and another one with Debian. When I write data to a floppy under Mandrake I see different characters in the files' names under Debian. I took a look at /etc/fstab In Mandrake says: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=io8859-15,sync,code

mouse wheel doesn't work

2004-03-02 Thread Jordi Carrillo
Hi all, My mouse wheel doesn't work under Debian sarge. While installing Debian, it asked about the wheel and I said yes to the question. What can I do to make the mouse wheel work? Thank in advance, Jordi ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATI

what app includes 'startx' command

2004-03-02 Thread MJ Inabnit
Greetings: I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, but . . . What application includes the "startx" command? I realize I can install xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on the older computers. Anyway, I have x configured, I bet it'd display Fluxbox

Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?

2004-03-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I presume a modern Windows has a concept of system time and so forth, > and doesn't go messing around with the hardware clock, so this is > probably not a problem for dual booters. I think your presumption gives them too much credit. Every Windows sys

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-02 Thread H. S.
Douglas Pollard wrote: HS, I tried to boot with disc #1 Red Hat Linux Fedora. The monitor shows what looks like files being loaded but is not. The on screen printing seems to stay the same although it looks to be scrolling. I took the disc out and the same thing continued 30 min. or so. I had

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-02 Thread H. S.
Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:16, H. S. wrote: [...] To the OP: If you want to try Redhat, try Fedora. The installation is a dream as compared to Debian. Debian installation might be easier if you were to use the new installed, or so they say. The New Debian-Installer is Phenomen

xlib6g and unstable

2004-03-02 Thread Andreas Bach Aaen
I need to be able to install xlib6g on a debian unstable. apt-get install xlib6g gives me: - apt-get install xlib6g Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situa

"Make" error message -- Solved!

2004-03-02 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Roberto and friends: You were right, Roberto. The tarball was corrupt. I downloaded a new one, and it's already busy building the the Mplayer executable. Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: SOLVED (-ish) easy way to install sid by ftp?

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 20:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:33:43PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I think you are right. It is just too much like hard work to start > > fiddling with modules at that point - especially if th

Re: VT6105 LAN on motherboard working with Debian stable 3.0r2

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 11:28 +, Chris Evans wrote: > Motherboard is described at: > http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_cl_spec.jsp?motherboardId=181 > says: chipset is - VIA CLE266 North Bridge and - VIA VT8235 South > Bridge and: - VIA VT6105 LOM - VT6103 10/100 Base -T 10/100 Fast > Ethern

Re: new installer

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 16:47, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hello again, > A patern of my questions is emerging. Knoppix 'recognises' all my > hardware and actually I am growing fond of it, but I cannot use multiple > partitions on my hdd as I would like to. That is no problem. I have two boxes ru

Re: qmail anti-virus

2004-03-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good open source (email) > anti-virus solution for Qmail running on Debian Stable. > Or even a reasonably priced commercial solution > if it is good. > * > I see M$ has bought out RAV-anti-virus. > I've been looking at Clam anti-

Re: soundcard driver

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 14:24 -0600, john wrote: > I'm using Debian 2.2 and kernel 2.2.19 that came with it. That's a pretty old version, you might want to consider upgrading to 3.0 (released in July 2002) > I've installed > xmcd and it works just fine but I get no sound. I installed alsa-base

Re: Mplayer won't "make" during install

2004-03-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Roberto: Thanks so much for writing. I had no problem before (in my earlier installation) with "make". None at all. I tried your fakeroot method. I was able to build "mplayer" but there lots of errors and warnings. So, I am reluctant to actually install it. May I ple

Re: kernel 2.6.2 ALSA config sb16

2004-03-02 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:04:04PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to setup kernel-2.6.2 with ALSA support > for a SB 16 PNP. I keep getting the error > > modprobe snd-sb16 > > Sound Blaster 16 soundcard not found or device busy That an ISA PNP card? Have you enab

Re: Free long distance?

2004-03-02 Thread Ralph Katz
On 03/02/04 12:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:15:02AM -0600, Todd wrote: Recently I read somewhere that there is a debian package that will allow free long distance phone calls, but now I can't seem to find it anywhere. Is anyone familiar with this? Know the package name? I

Re: Can't login to RXVT in X-SOLVED

2004-03-02 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Rob Weir wrote: [Please don't top quote! It makes your message harder to read, especially in long threads.] On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:18:16AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer said I can log into the console with no problem. The error message I get appears when I try and open a terminal in X. It appea

Printing problems w/CUPS, HP 5550, WP8

2004-03-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
My old printer stopped working, AGAIN, so I decided that it was time for a new printer. After checking www.linuxprinting.org and looking to see what I could find available in my price range I found an HP Deskjet 5550. I decided to take advantage of changing printers to also change from LPRng t

What makes /dev/hdb1 say it's mounted/active when it isn't?

2004-03-02 Thread Chris Evans
I hope this is the final stage in configuring this machine as a RAID1 mirrored, three ethernet port firewall ... but I'm not quite there yet. I've followed the guide at: http://www.cs.montana.edu/faq/faqw.admin.py?query=Convert+Root+System+ to+Software+Raid&querytype=simple&casefold=yes&req=sear

Re: Ann: gpm-X guide

2004-03-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:00:03PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | >>Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | >>For those who have had trouble or will have trouble in the future | >>getting gpm and X to cooperate, I have now published a short guide | >>on how to do it successfully. Enjoy. | >> | >>htt

Automatic Response [Re: Re: Word file]

2004-03-02 Thread paulc
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Re: whither ical?

2004-03-02 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Jonathan Corbet writes: Jon> Being an old-fashioned sort of guy, I've been using the Jon> Tcl-based ical calendar for many years. I've just found Jon> out - the hard way - that a recent sid dist-upgrade Jon> appears to have made ical go away. Anybody got any idea Jon> of why and wh

Re: whither ical?

2004-03-02 Thread panda
Hi, I have tried "ical" once. I think "plan" will also suit you. thanks panda Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:14:33 -0700 Jonathan Corbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Being an old-fashioned sort of guy, I've been using the Tcl-based ical calendar for many years. I've just found out - t

Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Hoskins
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought that GMT was "the same" as UTC? (At least within an > accuracy of 1 second). For all intents and purposes, it is. In this case, though, WfW helpfully set my hardware clock forward an hour in March, which I wasn't expecting. When I chose GMT

chkrootkit detects hidden processes in mozilla-firefox and xmms

2004-03-02 Thread Rick Luddy
I'm not entirely sure whether this is normal behavior, a symptom of possible badness, or simple user error. I'm a bit worried it might mean my system has been compromised. Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated. When I run chkrootkit (0.43-1), I get nothing unusual other than the

qmail anti-virus

2004-03-02 Thread Rick Weinbender
Can anyone recommend a good open source (email) anti-virus solution for Qmail running on Debian Stable. Or even a reasonably priced commercial solution if it is good. * I see M$ has bought out RAV-anti-virus. I've been looking at Clam anti-virus. Thanks, -Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: whither ical?

2004-03-02 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:14:33 -0700 Jonathan Corbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Being an old-fashioned sort of guy, I've been using the Tcl-based ical > calendar for many years. I've just found out - the hard way - that a > recent sid dist-upgrade appears to have made ical go away. Anybody got

Re: Howto set internet sharing with an ethernet card and a wireless one

2004-03-02 Thread Hamid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:27:36PM -0500, Hamid wrote: I have a wireless card up an running and I connect to internet through it. I also have an ethernet card (e1000) which is set up properly. Now I want to connect another PC to my linux box so it can

Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?

2004-03-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:13:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >>> BTW, it's "fun" to set the hardware clock to UTC on a dual-boot >>> Debian-Windows system. Windows doesn't "get it" and thus displ

Re: Mplayer won't "make" during install

2004-03-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I configured the Mplayer-1.0pre3 source tarball successfully. No error messages of any sort. (/configure --enable-gui --enable-win32). I was then told to proceed with "make". And, suddently, this is what happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/L-Files/Downloads/Mplayer/MPla

Re: knoppix/debian

2004-03-02 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > an anyone tell me if is possible to use apt to upgrade to sarge from > knoppix? > Thanks. > Gavin. I am running 2.6.3-2 kernel, unstable. I started with a Knoppix HD-install. Knoppix still does the boot-hardware-detection and se

Re: Howto set internet sharing with an ethernet card and a wireless one

2004-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:27:36PM -0500, Hamid wrote: > I have a wireless card up an running and I connect to internet through it. > I also have an ethernet card (e1000) which is set up properly. > Now I want to connect another PC to my linux box so i

Re: SOLVED (-ish) easy way to install sid by ftp?

2004-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:33:43PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I think you are right. It is just too much like hard work to start fiddling > with modules at that point - especially if the networking disappears and you > have to run up and down sta

Re: what does xlibmesa-dri provide?

2004-03-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nano Nano wrote: I'm running XFree 4.3 from SID with the FGLRX drivers from ATI. My OpenGL is working *very* well. Obviously a non-tainted kernel would be preferable, but framerate is God. Would xlibmesa-dri provide (1) additional, (2) alternate, or (3) orthogonal functionality? Is it the ope

Re: iptables firewall, help.

2004-03-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
John Hedge wrote: Brian, You might like to take a look at www.shorewall.net. It helped me when I was at a similar stage as it seems you may be. I agree. Shorewall has awesome documentation (like step-by-step) for most common situations. -Roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signat

Re: testing versus unstable: tradeoffs?

2004-03-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kai Grossjohann wrote: Ah, systemimager. I didn't know that exists. I wonder what it does. I'm afraid that we need more than simple system images -- maybe systemimager provides this. Kai In this message I describe some of the cool features: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user

Re: SOLVED (-ish) easy way to install sid by ftp?

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 17:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:42:44PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Yes, I did try Woody. Once again, I get problems with the networking. > > Networking is up from the CD, but dead when reboote

Howto set internet sharing with an ethernet card and a wireless one

2004-03-02 Thread Hamid
Hi I have a wireless card up an running and I connect to internet through it. I also have an ethernet card (e1000) which is set up properly. Now I want to connect another PC to my linux box so it can use the internet connection. 1- Sofware: How do I bridge these two interfaces ? What packages I

Newbie: setting wireless connection automatic

2004-03-02 Thread Hamid
Hi Finally I got my PCI wireless card to work, these are the steps that I have to do everytime I boot to linux: insmod airo iwconfig eth1 essid "network" mode managed key x dhconfig I was wondering if someone could tell me how to make all these automatic. Thanks Hamid -- Using M2, Opera's r

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