I've been working closely with Tomas Pospisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
to build new PCMCIA packages that we would like to submit to
woody-proposed-updates; however, before we upload them for inclusion in
the next release of woody, we would like to thoroughly test them -- a
job that is challenging, to sa
> Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route
> I must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have
> changed from the virgin debian system.
Why don't you try looking for all files that have been modified since
your install? You haven't upgraded any packages
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, it's been a month of me editing various files turning my virgin
> woody system into one that actually works :-) , and now boy do I
> regret not keeping a captain's log of at least the names of the files
> I changed. I was thinking that there would b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Stark) wrote:
> ... there are many programs in sbin that are useful for ordinary users
> including the two explicitly listed in the FSSTND, traceroute and
> ifconfig.
Hmmm... Let's see. From the ifconfig(8) man page:
NAME
ifconfig - configure a network interface
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 310 with ToPIC 97 PCMCIA controller. When
> pcmcia is started (in potato) if my network card (IC-CARD+ ethernet)
> is already inserted, it is detected as "anonymous memory".
> If I insert the card after starting pcmcia, it is detected correctly.
> This started a few m
Ian Lynagh wrote:
> >I am having problems with PCMCIA cards on my Dell Inspiron 3000.
> >I have a 3C589D and a "Psion Dacom Gold Card Global V34 PC Card".
> >I have a fresh install of Hamm from, IIRC, the 26/4/98 install
> >disks.
> I have fixed this by reinstalling and this time not using the up
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maarten Bezemer) wrote:
> Someone told me there are far more rpm-packages available, and other
> distributions also use rpm. What's true about that?
The core set of RPM packages, what RedHat produces, is much smaller
than Debian's main distribution. While some other companies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damon Muller) wrote:
> If anyone read my earlier message, I have resolved my problem of how
> to get the PCMCIA stuff onto a laptop without a CD-ROM or anything
> like that (just copied them off my windoze machine onto a floppy and
> mounted it as vfat on debian).
> Now I'm won
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oleg Krivosheev) writes:
> I'm going to recompile kernel.
>
> I've got kernel-headers, kernel-source and
> bin86 packages?
>
> What is The Debian Way to compiler the kernel?
> And how compiled kernel will fit into
> kernel-image package ?
A good way to do this is to use the k
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes:
> Root doesn't have rights to the X display because root doesn't own the
> display, the user who started the session does. A quick fix (but
> insecure) is to type `xhost +localhost' before su'ing to root. A
> better fix is to use xauth--try `man xauth' for m
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Fleureck) writes:
> However, there is still a problem. I get the following errors at boot
> time:
>
> > > hostname: can't open '(null)'
Do you have your host's name specified in /etc/hostname?
Brian
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Failing that, how do you convert gifs etc. into eps? The book tells me how
> to deal with that format (= encapsulated postscript?)
See the netpbm package. For example, you can do the following:
giftopnm some.gif | pnmtops > some.eps
For JPEG files, try
> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> There was one other bug when it tried to build cardinfo (it
Adam> couldn't find forms.h) but changing the #include to absolute
Adam> path fixed that.
Yes. I forgot about that. Of course, cardinfo is an optional part of
the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) writes:
> I'd use the debian package but there isn't one for a kernel newer
> then 2.0.30 that I could see.
Of course not. There would need to be a kernel-image-2.0.32 package
against which the PCMCIA modules are compiled.
> Okay I've recompiled the kernel for PCI
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gerald Livingston wrote:
> If I can find a sucker -- errr -- nice person to host for me, would
> it be possible for me to set up a MX on someone's system such as
> force-1.xxx.com and have mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] be
> held on the host system until it is somehow rec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Akins) writes:
> Hello. I'm considering trying out Linux (Debian in particular) and I have
> some questions concerning the Debian distribution.
>
> My machine:
> Pentium 90MHz laptop (DFI model 7200)
> Mouse Port mouse
> 32 meg ram
> 800 meg IDE hardrive
> 1.4meg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Leutloff) writes:
> I want to add a new style file to my system. I'm using an unmodified
> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf. Therefor I should be able to place new style
> files under /usr/lib/texmf/local. I've tried this but LaTeX never
> founds the new style file. I run texhash
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Brandhorst) writes:
> Brian Mays wrote:
>
> > ...
> > type `debian/rules build-modules'. This should build a new
> > pcmcia-modules-2.0.30 package in the parent directory
>
> this have built no new *.deb file - but the created m
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips) writes:
> Can you tell, just by looking at /proc/interrupts, whether there is an
> interrupt conflict?
>
> In particular, how does it work for pcmcia cards for a laptop?
Well, let's take a look. Here's what my /proc/interrupts says:
0:3736694 timer
1:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Brandhorst) writes:
> I've tried it - but the the only change I've seen is the addition of a
> "cryptical" alphanumeric part to the error-messages:
> so I've got:
>
> pcmcia_core.o unresolved symbol apm_register_callback_R4e72ac41
> pcmcia_core.o unresolved symbol apm_un
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Brandhorst) writes:
> who can tell me what i made wrong;
>
> i've installed the kernel-sources(2.0.30) & package plus the
> pcmcia-sources - package
> i've recompiled the kernel with pcibios- and apm-support
> i've tried it either with or without module-version control
> Regarding Re: Unable F1-F4 mc running in rxvt; David Puryear
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
David> Download 2.20-3 from bo extracted rxvt to run that without
David> changing anything else, and that worked fine. So, I would
David> say 2.20-4 is different than 2.20-3.
I've trie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Puryear) writes:
> When running mc under rxvt, I can't use F1-F4, but I can use them in xterm.
> Again, rxvt is from hamm. With the rxvt from bo, I didn't have this problem.
Is this a problem with rxvt or with ncurses? The rxvt version in hamm
is not much different than
> Regarding Re: PCMCIA/kernel problems [scheme]; Mike Miller
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
Mike> Cardctl works fine for me, but my question was about how the
Mike> SCHEME variable gets set. When I insert my network card and
Mike> watch some diagnostic messages (echo $SCHEME) th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Miller) writes:
> After making a new kernel (using make-kpkg and so on, as
> specified in /usr/doc/kernel-source-/debian.README), you
> will have to make a new set of pcmcia modules. Instructions are
> in /usr/doc/pcmcia-source/README. If you make both the kernel
> and th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am attempting to install PCMCIA support on a DELL Latitude LX
> notebook. I have used floppies (Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 built August 01,
> 1997) to install the base system and want to get my CDROM working (SCSI
> PCMCIA adapter) working (I have the CD set 1.3.1).
> I ap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Fleureck) writes:
> I run debian 1.3/kernel 2.0.30 and have PCMCIA card 3C562D/563D.
> I am trying to access the network.
>
> I began installing pcmcia-cs 2.9.5-3 together with pcmcia-modules
> 2.9.5-3. So I had to upgrade to kernel 2.0.30, which I did.
> This still gave
Andrew Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Erik Andersen writes:
> > I have found that with the newest rxvt (released within the last week I
> > believe) it also messes up mutt, sets TERM to rxvt (which seems to break
> > a few things that don't know about TERM=rxvt, and also messes up the
> > sc
hen diald closes the link down. Of course, for this to work your
modem must support the industrial standard Hayes "AT" command set.
Fortunately, most modems support this.
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Jose Oncina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to install Debian 1.2 in a laptop, everything goes ok
> until I try to load the module of my PCMCIA card (the 3c589_cs).
>
> The program answers:
>
> "Can't locate module 3c589_cs"
>
> The same happened for any PCMCIA module.
>
> In ord
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have problem to compile the Linux kernel 2.0.28 using make-kpkg,
> here is a part of the screen dump, it didn't happen when I compiled
> 2.0.26
>
> MIDI interface support (CONFIG_MIDI) [Y/n/?]
> FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support (CONFIG_YM3812) [
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Ransbottom) writes:
> I am using suck and inn. I am using a file
> feed to collect news to send out.
>
> I am confused as to the mechanism to
> get the INN system to fill the
> .outgoing/news.ultranet.com file.
>
> I thought ctlinnd flush news.ultranet.com
> would do thi
Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Argh, this has caused me problems to no end! Can someone please send me a
> working configuration for suck and inn?
> I can get suck to gather news and send it locally, but I can't figure out
> how to get locally written messages sent to my ISP's
Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I recompile my 2.0.6 kernel with the source in rex I'm also
> expected to have to recompile the pcmcia-modules I'm using right?
Sometimes. It depends on what you have changed of the kernel's
configuration. When building the PCMCIA modules, the p
Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BUG: I also noticed that the binary is compiled with -O -g. I think
> all packages should be compiled with as much optimization as possible.
The binaries in the rxvt Debian package have been compiled with "-O2
-g -Wall" and later stripped as suggested
marcus hightower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where should I look for a stable kernel? I have to make a new kernel so that
> my Xwindows will work. (My mouse pad on the laptop freezes the keyboard). Is
> there a Debian packaged kernel that will guide me through it or do have
> kernel*.tar.gz from
$ dpkg -i pcmcia-cs_2.8.21-2_i386.deb pcmcia-source_2.8.21-2_i386.deb
$ cd /usr/src/kernel-2.0.7
$ make config dep
[ Answer questions about the kernel's configuration ]
$ cd /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs
$ debian/rules KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-2.0.7 clean binary-modules
$ cd ..
$ dpkg -i pcmcia-modules-2.0.7_2.8.21-2_i386.deb
If anything is unclear, send me a message.
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> "EDWARD" == EDWARD FORREST URENDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EDWARD> I once ftp'ed the pcmcia package from virginia, but then
EDWARD> uninstalled it. Where can I find it once more? I really
EDWARD> need it. It works really well with my pc card and laptop.
The PCMCIA package
account. Then the MTA, such as sendmail
or smail, actually delivers the message, sending it to mailagent if
instructed to in the user's .forward file. The delay that you have
observed is the time required for the local MTA to deliver the
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