Re: german isp's

2002-11-17 Thread Christian Mascher
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:02:02AM +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote: > > can anybody recommend a cheap linux-friendly isp in germany? > > > > Not Compuserve > > (I said "not compuserve" because compuserve's DNS apparently does not > respond to non-compuserve-office-dialin DNS requests. I can piong it

Re: pppd problem

2002-11-16 Thread Christian Mascher
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:03:24PM +0100, Emanuele Boieri wrote: > Hello all! > At last I successfully installed my modem (beta) drivers (dawned internal modems) >and the kppp application to get into the internet...BUT, after the number is dialled >it comes up an error: the problem (it says) is

Re: Modem connection. [wvdial or just pppd]

2002-11-16 Thread Christian Mascher
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:14:00PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 3:37 pm, infotechsys wrote: > >What do most people use to get a dial-up connection > > working? Will wvdial be a good choice? > I have tried lots of things, and wvdial was the only one that worked! im sure

Re:[OT] literate programming

2002-11-03 Thread Christian Mascher
On Sunday 20 October 2002 02:13 pm, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: > I've been looking for a way to improve the quality of my code, making it > more readable and understandable and easier to mantain embeding in it > some documentation. You might want to take a look at the Leo-Editor: http://personalpages

fetchmail restart or awaken?

2002-11-02 Thread Christian Mascher
Hi, still got the same problem with the way fetchmail is set up in debian (woody): after dialing with "pon provider" "/etc/init.d/fetchmail awaken" is called by fetchmail-script in ip-up.d. But fetchmail doesn't fetch mail, declaring a "temporary name server error". It does that all the time I'm

fetchmail: temp. nameserver problem

2002-11-01 Thread Christian Mascher
Hi all, I configured fetchmail with fetchmailconf and put fetchmailrc in /etc. The standard setup starts fetchmail in daemon mode on bootup (systemwide fetchmailrc is installed) and pon calls fetchmail in ip-up.d But this never succeeds to get mail, fetchmail complaining it can't locate the mai

Audio CD playing problem solved

2002-10-29 Thread Christian Mascher
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:27:31PM +0100, Christian Mascher wrote: > John Keniry wrote: > > Some versions of Windows play the CD by reading the data through the > > IDE channel, rather than using the soundcard->CDrom cable. I don't > > know whether this is true

Re: no cd-sound but es1370 works

2002-10-28 Thread Christian Mascher
John Keniry wrote: > Some versions of Windows play the CD by reading the data through the IDE > channel, rather than using the soundcard->CDrom cable. I don't know > whether this is true of Win98 but you could check the cable is > connected. Interesting. You did make me open my computer to have a

Re: /dev/dsp problem

2002-10-28 Thread Christian Mascher
> Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:34:49AM +0200, Martin Batermann wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a sound driver problem. When I try to start the > > sound server (via KDE's Preferences -> Sound -> Sound > > Server), it gives me a message: Error wile initializing

no cd-sound but es1370 works

2002-10-27 Thread Christian Mascher
Hi all, I'm Debian Newbie (two weeks). This is my first message posted with mutt, hoping I got exim and fetchmail etc. working yesterday (with smarthost ISP). As to the subject question: module es1370 is started at bootup and finds the sound card (actually creative sound-blaster audiopci 64v). I

Re: .forward file another question

2002-10-24 Thread Christian Mascher
> One more question regarding this file. Is there a way to have it just > send a carbon copy to another user? I am pretty sure if you had it > just > forward the mail back to you again that it would go in an endless > loop. > Thanks for everybody's help. I think you can just put a backslash on a

Re: kernel upgrading

2002-10-22 Thread Christian Mascher
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:48:22AM -0700, np rpr wrote: > Hi All, > I am a new debian user. and am trying to upgrade my > machine to 2.4.19, I downloaded the image and tried > deb -i kernel-image.. it told me to add initrd=/initrd > under vmlinuz, I did that but when I tried lilo.. I > got the e