wireless configuration on an OpenBrick-E

Hey everyone, I'm installing debian on an openbrick-e (http://www.hacom.net) and I've got a system up and running but I can't configure the wireless device. when I run iwconfig I get the following output: wilhelm:/home/isis# iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless ext

telnet

e problem spawning a getty for this session but I don't know what's going on. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Andy -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231

logging in over serial line

Hi All, I've set up a box here where the main method for logging in is through the serial line S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 9600 the problem is that the default setting is to not allow root loggins. Does anyone know where these permissions live? thanks, Andy -- Andrew D. Dixon Sof

Re: Dual-head G450 anyone?

mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231

Re: two questions

I find the list of packages needed to > do it? > > thanks, and sorry for my english. > > --yapedu/xgnu > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231

Re: how to purge my system of the Ximian stuff (Was: Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'")

Buffalo Phil wrote: > > how can I <> ? I'm not sure what the best way is but . . . find the offending ximian package (you said dpkg -l|grep ximian which sounds good) and run: #apt-cache show this should tell you all about the ximian package and the Debian package that it replaces.

Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

Mario Vukelic wrote: > > Hi! > > After an install of Ximian gnome for potato with red-carpet It's a bad idea to run Ximian with Debian. Ximian messes stuff up all the time (even in stable) so you'll have to keep dealing with stuff like this over and over again. My suggestion, purge your syste

Re: ssh authentication woes

Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi michael > > am guessing, you want to login into the remote machine > and have it display stuff local on your pc??? > > lets say remote == 1.2.3.4 > lets say here == 5.6.7.8 ( where you;re sitting ) > > here# xhost +1.2.3.4 > > here# ssh -l michael remote > -

Re: rc.d

wayne wrote: > > i am a debian beginer,i want to add some program into systemstart,just like > ipchains policy,adsl auto start.in redhat the file is /rc.d/rc.local, I'm not sure what rc.local is used for in Red Hat but in debian in the /etc directory there are a group of directories rcx.d/ where

Re: ls colors

Terry Warner wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:56:11PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon babbled: > > Hi All, > > anyone know how to change the colors that ls outputs? > > > > thanks, > > Andy > > > > > > You can change the values I believe with

ls colors

Hi All, anyone know how to change the colors that ls outputs? thanks, Andy

Re: laptop instillation via a PCMICA cd rom

___ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231

Re: CDRW won't work

"Shawn P. Garbett" wrote: > > I just installed a CDRW HP9500i on my box and I'm using Debian Sid. > > I went throught HOWTO, up to the point of writing to the CDRW. > > I typed the following command: > "cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image" ^ I'd guess that

Re: Help: removing ximian from testing

Hi Tim, Tim Wood wrote: > > I used the Ximian installer to download the debs and start the > installation but had to finish the installation by hand. FWIW you can use apt-get to install Ximian stuff but there packages are always broken so you're better off using the Debian packages. All the

ext2 fs question

Hi All, Does anyone know if the ext2 file system implements any sort of garbage collection? What I'm trying to figure out specifically is if I have a file, or a directory, at the beginning of my disk and it start to get bigger and bigger will it push the rest of the file system towards the end of

emacs

HI All, Does anyone know how to change the keybindings in emacs? Specifically I'd like to make my Backspace key delete the character before the cursor (seems like a natural thing to me) instead of what it's doing now (which is being wierd). Thanks, Andy

Re: Shareing nfs with windows problem

there's no need to mess around with permisions and stuff. HTH, Andy The nfs client that I am using on Windows has that as a choice. > > Brian > > Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Brian Schramm wrote: > > > > > > Has anyone gotten

Re: Shareing nfs with windows problem

Brian Schramm wrote: > > Has anyone gotten the pcnfsd system to work? I am trying to share a nfs mount > with windows (samba will not work in this case) and am haveing trouble with > pcnfsd. It will not authorize the users. > > I've never used pcnfsd but even the regular old nfsd is picky abou

Re: WINE/newbie

> Frans Schreuder wrote: > > Hai again, > > Have any thoughts on Wine? Wine would be great if it worked but it's still got a long way to go. Admittedly I haven't played with it that much and it seems like you need to set things up just right in order to get anything to work (except for solitare

Re: Jumpstart install of debian?

Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Another solution would be to use cpio to make an archive of the file > > system and then expand this out onto a clean machine. I recently did > > this and found it to be relatively pa

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

will trillich wrote: > > BYCMUYJTCP > (but you can alaways make up your own, just to confuse people.) > And you can alaways make up words too :0)

Re: Printer woes

always seem to mess them up. Besides, you'll always be just a little out of date. -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231

Re: Setting up NIS

Guide and the NIS/NFS HowTo at www.linuxdoc.org. I don't know how much overlap there is but I find that if I read the same information presented in a few different formats it's ususally helpful. later, Andy -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231

Re: USB CD burner recommendations?

may have changed in the meantime but I'd look carefully before buying anything. later, Andy -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

ng before upgrading so that I could revert to that state if there packages were broken, again ;( later, Andy -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231

Re: Jumpstart install of debian?

--- > Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : > Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability > at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't > \_ that important! > DISCLAIMER: > These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. > FYI: > perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231

ssh

Hi All, I've recently started having problems logging into my machine as root over ssh. Anybody know what may be causing this? Andy

automounting home directories with nfs

Hi All, I'm trying to set up a small network and I'll be using NIS and NFS for home directories. I was wondering if it's possible to only mount a user's home directory when he tries to log in. This way I'll only have one home directory mounted on the box at a time and I can avoid putting an unnec

Re: NFS v3 in debian.

Viral wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone used NFSv3 with debian ? I'm using my Debian box as an NFS client. Can't recall if it's v2 or v3 though. (I'm pretty sure I compiled both into the kernel) > > > I compiled NFSv3 in the kernel, but do I need any patches for the client. > I also used the nfs-ker

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Thu, 24 May 2001 07:00:44PM -0700): > > Which platform of hardware would be best? > > G4 from apple > > Pentium something from somewhere > > is that a serious question??? > the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC > is

One For The Record Books

Hi All, This is just a little rave about the "customer service" that you get when you "buy" a Debian GNU/Linux distribution. At 16:29:21 (EST) on Wed, 23 May I posted a question "file types" to the list because I had a problem getting the LCD on the front of my box working. I thought it was a tou

file types

HI All, I've got a device file /dev/lcd of type "c": bash-2.03# ls -ld /dev/lcd crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 156 Apr 8 2001 /dev/lcd ^ This file controls the lcd on the front of my box. I can print text to the lcd like so: #echo "foo" >/dev/lcd I just put Debian on th

broken man pages

Hi All, I've got a problem with my man pages. For some reason the permissions are wrong and it can't create a temporary file. stiq:~# man man man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied stiq:~# Any ideas? Thanks, Andy

Re: Kernel Modules

John Tatum wrote: > I am looking for info on how to configure kernel modules. I presume > there is a howto somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. http://www.linuxdoc.org this is where all of the general GNU/Linux docs live and for Debian specific documentation check out the Debian Documentatio

Re: dbootstrap

Leen Besselink wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives? > > In bootfloppies maybe ??? Dunno > All I can find are the executables in: "/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-p

dbootstrap

Hi All, Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives. I wanted to take a look at it and find out what it actually does but I haven't been able to find it. thanks, Andy

Re: staroffice package

b3 wrote: > The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer > first as root with /net, as this will do a "network install" - then > switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff > going. I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the install

Re: bothersome fsck on startup

> nujoma:/# cat /etc/fstab > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > > /dev/hdb3 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hdd1 /src2 vfatumask

Re: manual install

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:36:30PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Yes, you can do that. > > > > > > There is a script in /sbin (I think) called unconfigured.sh > > > that you want to

Re: manual install

Kevin van Haaren wrote: > I probably won't be able to help, but before ANYONE can help they'll need to > know exactly what machine you have. The more info you can provide on > make/model/processor speed/etc... the more likely you're to get help. It's a Briq from total impact (http://www.totali

manual install

Hi All, I've got a machine here that I'm trying to install Debian on. Right now it boots over the network but it does have a hard disk and I'd like to install Debian on the hard disk. My problem is that I can't get dbootstrap to run. I try passing yaboot the argument, initrd=root.bin in

Re: installation

Thanks for your help so far but I'm still a bit stuck. Ethan Benson wrote: > > > since you netbooted i am guessing this is a NewWorld powermac? > perhaps a IBM RS/6000? actually it's a Briq from Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com > > > if its a powermac setup your bootp server to use yab

Re: formatting a disk with dd

os written > > - you just want the tracks formatted, NOT the data... > ( dd copies track info and data ) > > c ya > alvin > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > HI All, > > I've got a hard disk that I wanted to format and I can&#

installation

Hi All, I've got a box here that I'm trying to install Debian (powerpc) onto. It has a 10 gig hard drive and an ethernet connection but no floppy or CD drive. Right now it boots over the network using bootp and tftp. It then mounts its root partition over nfs. Anybody have any ideas? I think I

formatting a disk with dd

HI All, I've got a hard disk that I wanted to format and I can't quite remember how to do this with dd. Anybody know? thanks, Andy

shutdown problems

Hi All, I've been having some problems on shutdown. My box goes through the usual routine but then near the end I get an error message: Warning can't open file: /var/run/shutdown.pid (recalled from memory so that might not be exactly the right warning) and then it prompts for the root password

Re: Lilo problem after kernel reinstall: LIL-

Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote: > Hey all... > > I recompiled my kernel 2.4.2, and did all of the System.map, > vmlinuz copying, then ran LILO (which seemed quite happy). > However, when I boot the computer, I get the following prompt, > after which it freezes: > LIL- > I had a similar problem. Mine

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

> I noticed that the BootX 1.2.2 ReadMe says in bold lettering "BootX and > miBoot should be avoided on "newworld" type machines". As I don't know > if my machine qualifies as a "new world" type machine, I have to ask: > has anyone tried BootX on a machine like mine? or is that not such a > good id

Re: slow shutdown

Rob Mahurin wrote: > 17:16 $ grep -C "Deconfiguring network interfaces:" /etc/init.d/* > /etc/init.d/networking-echo "NOT deconfiguring network > interfaces: NFS/SMB shares still mounted." > /etc/init.d/networking-else > /etc/init.d/networking:echo -n "Deconfigurin

slow shutdown

Hi All, I've been playing around with NIS and NFS and now my system hangs for about four minutes on shutdown. It goes along OK until it gets to: Deconfiguring network interfaces: then stalls and after four minutes shuts down normally. Has anyone else had a similar experience with NIS/NFS? than

Re: what i've learned, and explanation.

Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > > What might help is a daily post to the list with a subject line > > "NEW TO LIST? READ THIS!!" > > How about something automatically sent to anyone who subscribes to > the list(s), ONCE, not every day? And m

Re: Should arrogant, self-important people be encouraged to useLinux?

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:34:04AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > Tom writes: > > > > ...bad name...arrogant...self-important...blowhard... > > > > ...being an ass...bloated sense of importance...an ass... > > > >

syslog-ng

Has anyone out there had much experience with syslog-ng (Next Generation Syslog)? I'm looking at it for a project that I'm starting and I was just trying to get a sense of how stable, reliable, etc . . . it is. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Andy

amd and nis

Hi All, I've got a small network of linux boxen here (the server is Red Hat 7 and my client is Debian woody) and I'm trying to configure them so that you can login to your account from any machine on the network. I've got NIS up and running so that you can login from anywhere but I need some way f

gdm and NIS

Hi All, I'm trying to set up NIS to remote login to a server. The server is RedHat 7.0 which logs users into run level 3 and then lets them startx on thier own. The client is Debian (woody) using gdm to log users directly into run level 5. I was wondering if anyone knows how to tell gdm to get i

Re: nis login problems

Just figured out that this does actually work. The problem is that I had gdm running on the Linux box and the RedHat server logs you into runlevel 3. I'll start to look into gdm to tell it to deal with NIS but has anyone come across this problem before? thanks, Andy Andrew D Dixon

nis login problems

Hi All, I'm trying to implement NIS and I'm stuck. I've set up the server on our RedHat machine and the client on my Debian box. When I run ypcat I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ypcat passwd andrew.dixon:$1$h7CPc4pd$WilaTSJaZOPgHfvhqwVnJ.:11424:11424::/home/andrew.dixon:/bin/bash ming

Re: Sound

Sebastiaan wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > "Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > > > > cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp > > > > This yields the following error: > > > > rowling:/dev# cat /dev/urandom >

Re: OPL3-SA3 Sound problem

William Staniewicz wrote: > I'm trying to get my sound working with OPL3-SA3. > When I try to install the module, > I get the following error. What needs to be done > to make it work? > > localhostnl:/home/wstan# insmod opl3sa2 > Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o > /lib/modules/2.2.18p

kmod

Hi All, I've been having problems with dynamically loading modules. I've got a 2.4.2 kernel and I've configured kmod as described in Documents/kmod.txt. Sadly, I can't get it to work. I've been looking around for documentation on it and can't seem to find anything useful. Does anyone know of a g

Re: Sound

"Jeff Levy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp This yields the following error: rowling:/dev# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device Any thoughts? Andy

Sound

Hey Ya, I've compiled what I think are the right drivers into my kernel (soundcore and cx36xx). Does anyone know how I can test my sound to make sure it works?? Thanks, Andy

Re: Pretty boot up graphics?

> Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:57:28PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: > > > >> I seem to have heard of some package available for debian that lets you > >> have > >> a graphically nice boot up sequence. Can anyone tell me what package that > >> is? > > > > how about xd

Re: modules

phy" wrote: > I'm pretty sure it's the item "Crystal Sound Fusion" under "Sound card > support". > > Are you using the 2.2.18pre21 kernel source package or some other? > > "Andrew D Dixon,,," wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > I&

OT: netscape

Hi All, I'm using Netscape 4.7 but the spelling feature is turned off. This is a real problem for me because I spell like an eight year old. I've got ispell installed and I can't think of what other package it might need. Any suggestions? Thanks, Andy

modules

Hi All, I'm trying to compile support for my sound card into my kernel but I can't find an option for it in make config or make xconfig. I have, however, found the source for the right driver in sound/driver (it's cx46xx.c, I've got a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz based on the CS4630 chip). I was

sound support for Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the Turtle Beack Santa Cruz. I noticed that some of there other cards are supported in the 2.4 kernel (I think the 2.2. as well). Any help, hints, words of wisdom . . . would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Andy

How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

Hi All, Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? When X starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to disable it on boot up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm looking for a solution other than the obvious. Thanks, Andy

3com 3c90x drivers

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone's gotten the 3c90x drivers from 3com to work. I just downloaded them but when I try to compile I get a bunch of syntax errors. This is a new system do I might not have gcc configured properly. Also, would it be easier to just go with a newer version of the kerne

How to get rid of LILO

HI All, I'm trying to reinstall Win98 on my laptop (don't worry I just want a little practice using fips so that I can install Debian on a friends laptop:). Anyway I repartitioned and reformated the drive but when I try to boot from the hard disk it prints: LI to the screen and then hangs.

pcmcia ethernet card

Hi all, I'm trying to install a Netgear model FA 510 eternet card on my laptop. Right now the laptop has just go the Slink base system on it and once I get the ethernet card working I'll install all the other packages I need. I went through the network configuration in the install but it doesn't s

print trouble

Hi all, after recompiling my kernel I can't print any more. I rebooted using the old kernel and printing worked fine then so I'm pretty sure this is the problem. I'm using an HP laserjet 3p running off the parallel port. Any thoughts? thanks, Andy ___

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

I'm from the Apex Tech school of Debian install (first you learn how to use a tool then put the tool into your box). I had a really hard time installing from the CD's so I just installed the base system and then used apt-get to install any package that I found I needed. I would recomend this me

.deb files for StarOffice

Hey everyone, Does anybody know if there are .deb files for StarOffice? Thanks, Andy __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: Printing on an HP LaserJet IIIp

> Problem solved! I used magicfilter with the filter for the LaserJet III and > the > thing works. Let's hear it for the command line. > Andy > > Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > Hey Debs, > > I'm trying to set up my HP LaserJet IIIp printer and I

Printing on an HP LaserJet IIIp

Hey Debs, I'm trying to set up my HP LaserJet IIIp printer and I can't quite get it to work. I'm using printtool on my Potato box. (I'm not sure if this is bad because printtool is in the unstable distribution right now, but it seems to work OK.) Right now I can succesfully perform the test "Pr

Re: sawfish doesn't work

ol. Change the appearance to > microgui > or anything else, and then close out all your current windows. The new ones > should > be OK. I've been installing about 5 workstations this week, and that's what > I had to > do with all of them. > > HTH > --Mike

Re: sawfish doesn't work

I upgraded again and sawfish still doesn't work. Any suggestions? thanks, Andy Mark Gordon wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > I'm running Debian Potato and I just decided to try out Helix-Gnome. > > Everything was working great untill today when sawfish died on me. I > > did two things today that may

Re: Helix gnome on debian 2.2....

  use     >apt-get install task-helix-gnome after you set up your sources.list file.  The install instructions at     http://www.helixcode.com are very good.  I installed helix-gnome from fvwm2 without a hitch (I did have to restart my potato box though) but since then I have hosed sawmill but I

Re: home network question

Thanks for all of the pointers. I'll start playing with it and see if I can get it to work. Andy will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:31:28PM +0100, Simon Hales wrote: > > > To allow your LAN to use the Internet, the box with the PPP connection > > must perform "IP Masquerading", w

sawfish doesn't work

Hi Everybody, I'm running Debian Potato and I just decided to try out Helix-Gnome. Everything was working great untill today when sawfish died on me. I did two things today that may have cause the problem. I updated and upgraded my system: >apt-get update >apt-get upgrade which installe

home network question

Hi all, I'm currently running potato on my desktop machine and I'd like to configure it so that I can share it's ppp connection with my laptop over an ethernet connection. Anybody have any advice on how I should set this up? Thanks, Andy P.S. I've got a Netgear FA510c pcmcia ethernet card for my

Re: How a Debian/GNU is Storm?

"Helgi Örn" wrote: > * I've run pppconfig but when I run pon it says that no ppp is configured in > the kernel, which is not true. So, I'm without Internet in Storm. > I installed the slink base system, which configured the ppp conection right off the bat with no problems. The potato base syst

md5sum

I'm trying to download the CD images for the slink distribution of debian and when I run         md5sum -b binary-i386-1.iso   I get a checksum that doesn't match the one at       sunsite.org.uk/packages/debian-cd/2.1_r4/i386/MD5SUMS   when I ran the rsync:       rsync --verbose --progres