Re: '%Pon' can't connect

Rodrigo F. Baroni wrote: Hello all, When I type '%pon' to get connect at my internet server it do the call, send the user name and passwd, but disconnect after this. Does anybody knows what is going on ? Rodrigo I don't have a clue, and I doubt others will either based upon th

Re: Configuring XFree86 version 4

Deryk Barker wrote: One further piece of info: I tested the new system out by booting Knoppix, which ran just fine. So I thought I could snag the XF86Config-4 from that - put it onto floppy (!) etc. Did all that and it still didn't work - but the Knoppix-derived config used the nv driver and Kno

Re: cups and hpijs driver

Michael Olds wrote: Re: setting up DeskJet 960c as local printer on Woody box I have reviewed the cupsomatic perl script situation and this basically duplicates the work being done by the custom PPD and the foomatic-bin and foomatic-db (at least that's how I understand it). I have also installed

Re: Booting Kernel

Dominic Iadicicco wrote: Hello all, I boot debian from a floppy, I have my / partion on /dev/hdb1, Is there anyway to make lilo boot debian from /dev/hdb1? Do I reinstall lilo? Thanks.. The short answer is "yes". The long answer is "it depends". The first consideration is what you have o

Re: cups and hpijs driver

Michael Olds wrote: I'm catching up to this one late, and am being thrown off by the very start. I have a DeskJet 960C Same printer here. Works great with CUPS. I am pretty sure it's hooked up right as it was running under RedHat (meaning I have PnP turned off in the BIOS) and during one po

Re: Printer Recommendations?

Alex Malinovich wrote: I've finally gotten fed up with my roommate's Canon CBJ-2100 printer and all of it's associated problems (both software and hardware) and have decided to get a new one. My only requirements are that it's relatively inexpensive (< $200 US) and that it can be set up easily and

Re: cups and hpijs driver

Klaus Imgrund wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:09:32 -0600 "Donald R. Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Phil Reardon wrote: It turns out there is a debian package called hpijs, so I installed that along with foomatic-bin. But it still did not show up in the driver list. What do

Re: HP Winprinters

Michael Kahle wrote: Does anyone know where I can find the ppa (HP "windows" printer drivers for linux) website? Here is the link that was on LDP's site, but I get a 404: http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/ The LDP documentation that I was looking at is here (for refrence) http://www.ibibli

Re: cups and hpijs driver

Phil Reardon wrote: It turns out there is a debian package called hpijs, so I installed that along with foomatic-bin. But it still did not show up in the driver list. What do I do now? Phil Reardon You probably need a specific PPD file for your printer that is not included in the above. It

Re: cannot boot OldLinux

Steve M. Robbins wrote: -SNIP- < I'm at a loss now: where should I be looking next? Thanks, -Steve - lilo.conf --- boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=menu map=/boot/map vga=normal # Needed for debian kernel packages initrd = /initrd.img # Show me the LILO p

Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error

Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: Hi, After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the downloaded .iso, I think with xcdroast I am finally almost there. All except for this error: Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. mkisofs 1.15a39 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Re: mozilla mail reader

Bruce Park wrote: Hello debian users, I am currently using Mozilla 1.0.0 and I noticed a strange effect in the mail reader. The mail reader has "fields" such as subject, date, etc. In the date field, I get the time when the mail was sent or received instead of the date. Is this field configura

Re: cupsys setting for an 882C?

Robert L. Harris wrote: I found the HP driver I needed on the linuxprinting.org. The only problem now is the sucker is stair stepping and I can't find a way to turn it off. Dunno my printer worked fine "as-is". You might want to dive into your printer's docs and see if there is a switch

Re: cupsys setting for an 882C?

Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:59:44AM -0500, Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've got cupsys installed on my unstable system. It configures up beautifully except I get 1 line of whatever. If I print /etc/printcap with lpr I get what almost looks like stair step

Re: Cups

sdownes wrote: Struggling with Cups. It is installed with apt-get I can print a test page OK from Cups I can print through cups from my windows box Cups is updating /etc/printcap when I modify the printer Printing from Abiword to lp does nothing command line (lp -d lp@rm "filename") returns:-

Re: Clock running slow

Bill Moseley wrote: I setup a machine for a friend and every few days I ssh in to see how things look. Twice now I have found the date about twenty minutes behind. The first time I found this I ran ntpdate, made sure the hwclock was updated, restarted ntp-simple and thought the problem was fixed.

Re: where is my java?

Rick Pasotto wrote: I can compile and run java programs from the command line (java and javac are both in /usr/bin) in addition to running applets in mozilla but when I tried to install openoffice.org it said there was no java environment. Sometime in the past I must have installed java somehow.

Re: installing new kernel-image

Rodrigo Agerri (ylbaggar) wrote: hi everybody in order to install a new kernel in stable, I did apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 I configured /etc/lilo.conf keeping the older kernel (2.2.20) such as: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=kernel-2.2.20 r

Re: different flavors

Bill Wohler wrote: "Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -SNIP- < I'd be interested to hear if one can install Debian with only the first disk (assuming they have net access for the rest). -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD You sure can!

Re: ES1371 not functioning

Andrew R Reid wrote: -SNIP- < Yes, I have a Intel Lancewood mainboard with two Pentium III 450s on it. The board uses IO APIC to remap IRQ or something like that (I don't understand exactly) Do you mean PnP OS=yes? I could try it? I mean PnP OS=no. BUT, I just found the reference earlier

Re: ES 1370 not functioning (should never have been es1371 not functioning- sorry)

Andrew R Reid wrote: > This has been bugging me for months - so I want to fix it. > > I have an ES1370 on my server that I would really like to get going so that > when I work on it on weekends I can have nice sounds when I an in gnome ;-) > > This is the result of lspci -v > > 02:07.0 Multimedia

Re: upgraded kernel, lost eth0

Tim Verry wrote: I can mount -t smbfs now!!! Thanks everyone! I do have to modprobe smbfs but I'll figure that out. I ran apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386 (not sure about that tsc crap on this pentium 200) and it went pretty well. However, when I rebooted I saw a message flash by tha

Re: kernel recompile

Craig Jackson wrote: Just installed woody but I forgot to install UFS driver. Being somewhat new to Debian (I have in the past recompiled the kernel on Gentoo and Redhat) what is the standard procedure for recompiling the kernel under Debian? I need the source kernel. My present kernel is vmlin

Re: dial on demand, works & perfectly ....

Dave Selby wrote: OK heres my recepie for dial on demand, works great, doesnt seem to suffer from loseing first lookup ... Debian 3.0, pppd Oh what a world of trouble ! First kill the default diald demon for /etc/rc2.d to /etc/rc5.d mv S20diald _S20diald setup pppd with pppconfig BEWARE

Re: Help with Mozilla Mail

Tim Wood wrote: Hi, I'm feeling very foolish as I cannot work out what is going on with Mozilla Mail. I'm moving ISP and have accounts with iiNet and Bigpond. The SMTP is now set for mail.bigpond.com. I can receive mail on both accounts, I can send mail form my iiNet account, compose in that

Re: Modem dialup with wvdial and kppp

Christian Banik wrote: Dear Debian Users, i tried to configure my Com Port Modem with pppconfig. It doesn't work. The problem is not the Hardware, because he dials and even seems to go in the internet (with wvdial) . Under kppp Error massage 1 appears. But Konqueror or other Browsers can't show

Re: I cannot mount the woody installation cd-r

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using debian 2.2, I try to reinstall and upgrade to woody, so I download all the iso image files and burn to cd-r. When I insert the disk1 into my cd-rom drive and reboot the Linux box, it cannot boot. Then I mount the cd-rom from console, I get the following erro

Re: Disappearing DHCP Lease

Jim Bowering wrote: On November 19, 2002 10:53 am, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Jim Bowering wrote: I'm using Libranet Debian 2.0. This machine always gets a DHCP lease from my ISP when it boots, but they seem to have a short default lease period. After about 2 hours I lose my lease. Th

Re: Disappearing DHCP Lease

Jim Bowering wrote: I'm using Libranet Debian 2.0. This machine always gets a DHCP lease from my ISP when it boots, but they seem to have a short default lease period. After about 2 hours I lose my lease. Ifconfig shows eth0 has no IP address. /etc/init.d/networking restart restores the le

Re: ide-scsi emulation fails due to missing module sr_mod in kernel2.4.18-bf2.4

Eduard Bloch wrote: #include * Donald R. Spoon [Sun, Nov 17 2002, 06:31:16PM]: I just had to go through this here, so I had better reply while it is "fresh" in my rather ancient mind! . The 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel is a "special" kernel that has been stripped of Please

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor

Re: ide-scsi emulation fails due to missing module sr_mod in kernel2.4.18-bf2.4

Michael Rauch wrote: hi, i recently replaced the SuSE installation on my desktop with debian/woody. now i have some troubles getting my IDE cd-burner (alias hdd) working. after reading the CD-WRITING-HOWTO and googling around for some time i figured that the module sr_mod (afaik SCSI CD-ROM su

Re: dpkg portmap error

mdevin wrote: I seem to have gotten dpkg into an inconsistent state for the portmap package. I can't install it and I can't remove it either. I have tried the following: apt-get install portmap apt-get -f install portmap apt-get remove portmap --purge apt-get install portmap --fix-missing Shoul

Re: lilo msg

Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:54:20PM -0800, Florentin Ionescu wrote: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 fn 08: 784 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors fn 48: 13328 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 sectors If i

Re: printing - do i give up?

Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all! i am stuck so far as my printing set-up goes. on my debian 3.0, i have an hp 710c printer attached. i installed cupsys, cupsys client, foomatic, foomatic-db and foomatic-bin packages installed along with all dependencies. as root, i did lynx localhost:631 a

Re: apt-get

Ron Sinclair wrote: I'm an occasional Libranet user but installed Debian 3.0 a few weeks ago. Everything is fine but was wondering something: when installing via ap-get, the install always defaults to installing from the cdrom device. > -SNIP- < Would I need to comment the cdrom lines?

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all, although i am getting increasingly comfortable with linux - and i thank this wonderful group for all the help - one problem still remains. off and on, i keep getting microsoft attachments. i have found suitable programs for msword and msexcel. however, i am st

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

Jeff Cours wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it's a simple matter of the ethernet card's module. I went through the installation process again last night and kept a written log: Any other suggestions? I

Re: systemwide fetchmail

Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all! when i boot up my system, it shows a message that reads - systemwide fetchmail not configured. well, i will like to setup fetchmail in such a way that at boot up, fetchmail is started in background - (as a daemon?) and then it does fetchmail for users as they

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

Jeff Cours wrote: > Hi, everyone - > > I'm in the process of building a new Windows/Linux dual-boot > workstation, and I'm running into a problem with networking. The brief > summary of the problem is that I can get Ethernet and TCP/IP working > under the 2.2 kernel series, but not under the 2.4 ke

Re: Installing debian via network

Michael Naumann wrote: 03.11.2002 04:29:40, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -SNIP- < On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: Now I have a second Box, currently running SuSe. This box is connected via ethernet to the woody box. What I want to do is to install debian

Re: Need help installing network driver

Andris Kalnozols wrote: > -SNIP- < My initial description was rather vague. I have burned the first three CDs and the Debian installer dutifully asks if I would like to read them and index the available packages. It does this and puts the appropriate entries for the CDs into /etc/apt/sources.lis

Re: Need help installing network driver

Andris Kalnozols wrote: Forgive the cross-post but I think it's important that the boot-floppy folks know about this installation difficulty. I'm trying to install Debian on a Proliant DL360 server with Compaq's built-in NC7780 gigabit-ethernet based on the Broadcom 5701 chip. Status: Succeeded

Re: xf86config-4 setup problems

dave jk wrote: Having just installed debian I have hit a problem. I have a nvidia riva tnt2 model 64 card and a standard monitor I answered all the questions on install but the XF86 crashed ... In /var/log/XF86config I get ... (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a (II) Module f

Re: Changing Hostname

Antonio Rodriguez wrote: How do you change your host name after your installation is done? (network settings) Also, what are valid parameters for host name? I made afresh installation of woody in a 386 I got in an auction, and every time gdm starts it complains about the host name. I also notic

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

nate wrote: D.U. said: On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I giv

Re: Need your help,plse?

Cyberthor wrote: *Hello Let you know that my pure modem modem with ttyS2 already detected includes bauds but wvdial at text edit said * modem initialized but configuration does not specify a valid phone number , too login name and password ? anyway i t

Re: Need your help,plse?

Cyberthor wrote: * Hello , About 3wks ago i bought new debian 2.2 so i use kernel 2.4 , cuz of old pc use old mobo with isa slot ,anyway wvdial at text edit or terminal wont be success , after i tried with lspci , dpkg-reconfigure pppconf , and ln -sf /dev/por

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

Kent West wrote: Try KDE wrote: Kent West wrote: Suppose I wanted to set up some kiosks for web browsing, solitaire, etc (just generic users). I can envision three scenarios: 3) one server and the rest of the workstations are dumb terminals, having keyboard, mouse, and monitor connected t

Re: unknown restarts

Scott Henson wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 13:41, Scott Henson wrote: I reinstalled my system last week with a mix of unstable and experimental(gnome2 packages). Since then I have been experienceing some unexplained restarts. Basically the machine randomly restarts with no explanation in my log

Re: diald on debian?

Keith G. Murphy wrote: > -SNP- < > I should mention that pppd's own dial-on-demand feature seems to work > surprisingly well now. > > pon starts up pppd, it hangs around waiting for an outgoing packet, then > dials out. > > poff kills off the pppd process, disabling dial-on-demand. > > Turns

Re: NE2k-PCI module missing !!!

Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > I'am missing the ne200 module in deb. 3.0. What should I do to get a > ne200 based nic to work with debian 3.0 > > The ne2k-pci module is in both the 2.2.20 and 2.4.18 "stock" kernel-image packages from Debian. I suggest you use one of these packages or compile your

Re: CD Writing [was: Re: The Real Problem With Debian]

David P James wrote: > -SNIP- < > > I'm wondering why my modules.conf that I had to edit keeps reverting > back to the previous version every time I reboot; it is really kind of > frustrating. It means that every time I reboot I have to mess around and > reload the ide-scsi module as well as

Re: Woody installation: can't find my /dev/hdg to install to.

Barney Wrightson wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm trying to install debian 3.0 (woody) from CD to my Athlon PC. The >> installation program fails to find my hard drive (which other >> (commercial) distributions have located variously at /dev/hdg and >> /dev/hde). It merely invi

Re: Defeting Crappy Bios

TooMany Mirrors wrote: > There is nothing more that can be done in the bios as far as adding the > cdrom etc. It is how it is and my only options right now are to figure > out how to install linux after booting to a win98 floppy. :( > I also fdisked the whole disk, so most of the "bios" features

Re: Promise Ultra133tx2 Cotroller Card Problem.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I use the Prose Tech. Ultra133tx2 IDE Controller Card to > interface with my Hard Drive. I have been unable to get Debian to > install and I cant find any information on how to resolve this issue. > Can you offer any suggestions? >

Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hello, > Are there any problems with upgrading a machine from potato to woody while > it's live (in other words, not in single user level.) The machine in > question is a production machine that I don't not want to have down for > any longer than required. > > If there

Re: help with fonts / openoffice

Matt, You are facing 3 problems: 1. M$ quit offering the "corefonts" on their typography site a few weeks ago, hence the "404" error. These fonts are still available elsewhere, but the Woody msttcorefonts package still points towards the M$ site for automatic download. The solution is to g

Re: eth0 problem after kernal package upgrade

Neal Pollock wrote: > i recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18 using a kernel image via > dselect. Unfortunately when I boot the new kernel i cannot establish an > internet connection. Am I correct in assuming that i need to to check: > > a) eth0 is properly configured > b) dhcpclien

Re: CUPS configuration

christophe barbé wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a tool to configure printers in cups. > I know about kups but this tool is not in the debian archive and I would > prefer stay without kde libs. > > Ideally I would like a tool detecting available printers on the intranet > (like kups do). > > Otherwis

Re: fonts in openoffice working, but right way?

Richard Weil wrote: > So I got fonts to display in the UI of openoffice > again, after they suddenly disappeared due to an > update to testing last week, but I have a feeling I > didn't do it in quite the preferred method. Basically, > I installed fonts through the printer setup while > running sp

Re: demand dialing with pppconfig

John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I use pppconfig to set up my modem for dialout. Everything works well > if I use pon/poff from the command line. However, I would like to use > demand dialing. I turned on demand dialing via pppconfig and also did > a pon to start up pppd. I looked at /var/lo

Re: msttcorefonts self-installing exe availability

A R wrote: > I am trying to install the msttcorefonts package, but > the installation falis since the exe can not be found. > Does anyone have it by any chance and would be kind > enough to send me a copy? Or may be indicate where I > can get it from? > Thanks, > TR > > __

Re: Simple network problem

Robert Epprecht wrote: > -SNIP- < > I still have a small annoyance: > After booting a box pops up (without telling me which program is > responsible for it) saying: > > Choose your current network-environment ! > > > > Even if I choose things seem to work fine, though. > > Grepping for '

Re: Simple network problem

Robert Epprecht wrote: > I want to link an old laptop to my pc. > > I have done this before using Debian potato on my pc and another (older) > Linux installation on the laptop, so I know it is not a hardware problem. > Now I have woody on both machines. The pc side works OK and I can use > the n

Re: CUPS - unable to print postscript file

Andy Saxena wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:24:28PM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote: > >>By chance, are these Postscript files from xpdf? I have the problem >>when printing Postscript files generated from pdf files using xpdf, >>otherwise, all other Postscript files print perfectly. (The solu

Re: Can't make internet connection

Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > Hi All, > I'm brand spanking new to debian. I have managed to get Woody installed, > and now I'm trying to get ppp configured. I installed kppp and am using > that to try to connect to the internet. I created all of my account and > modem settings in kppp to match the o

Re: No fonts problem in open office

franck routier wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with open office showing no font in its user interface > (menus, dialog boxes, ...) making it unusable. > > The installed version is openoffice.org 1.0.1-5 in unstable plus gnome2 > from experimental (yes I know all that is expected to blow up !)

Re: learning how to set up a win modem

"Scott B. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I am wondering since I have a supra Express 56i how to set it up in my linux >>box. I have read the winmodem how to. This box is a Pentium 300 with 6.4Gb >>of hard disk space with 64mb of Ram. I am using speech synthesis built in >>to the kerne

Defoma Info Needed

I am tracking Debian "testing" with a few packages from "unstable". I run the XFS font-server, and frequently have to manually update various config files after an upgrade to get my fonts back. Most of this seems to revolve around using defoma. I am trying to get a handle on the defoma pack

Re: 3com 905B-TX won't work?

Bram Jessen wrote: > hey, > my network card won't work in debian (the card itself works under > redhat/mandrake and windows) > so I was wondering if I have to anything special to make it work under > debian (it ain't on the "driver module" list, at least, I can't find it) > > (I am a linux n00

Re: Mouse Problems On Install

Michael Burke wrote: > I am brand new to Debian and spent the weekend trying to get it to work. > > -SNIP- < > Several people have mentioned in other helpful posts that the file > XF86Config-4 needs to be changed. Currently, the configuration is as > follows: > > Section "InputDevice" >

Re: Canon LBP-660

Frederik Dannemare wrote: > On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Hey! >> >>Do somebody have expience about Canon LBP-660 printer >>on a Woody Debian System? >> >>How can I install it? > > > I think my parents have one of these, and unless my memory is off, the lbp-6

Re: System boots with 2.4.29 but problem with RTL-8139

J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I added the "initrd=/initrd.img" to the section of new kernel and it > works. :) Thanks :) > > But, second problem has cropped up. My ethernet has stopped working. I > am using RTL-8139. I checked the config file for the new kernel and it > says 8139cp and 8139too are not

Re: scsi & ide disk speeds?

nate wrote: > Svante Signell said: > >>Hi, > > >>I've always thought SCSI disks are faster than the IDE disks, but this >>does not seem to be the case (at least for device reads). Anyone have a >>good explanation, or am I missing something? > > > as another pointed out, your scsi disk is pret

Re: scsi & ide disk speeds?

Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > -SNIP- < > > However, with DMA off the speed is very low: > hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda > /dev/hda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 15.26 seconds = 4.19 MB/sec > I got just about the same answer(s) on my machines when I ran hdparm on them. ALL of the machin

Re: Installing new kernel

J.S.Sahambi wrote: > Sorry, I meant kernel-image-2.4.19-686 (I think this is the latest!) > > Currently I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. If I install the new kernel image > with the command: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 , > There are several kernel-image packages available that ha

Re: ext3 w/Woody 3.0r0?

Rob Leachman wrote: > Just wanted to check before I do something wrong... does Woody 3.0r0 > support ext3? I'm told to worry about kernel support, is it in the > distributed "2.2.20-compact #1" kernel? > > Also, while I'm asking these simple questions, I understand the way to > upgrade to ext3

Re: Printing problems....help???

Matthew Claridge wrote: > Donald R. Spoon wrote: > >> >> In my list of modules, I have the following loaded: >> >> parport >> parport_pc >> lp >> >> Since I don't see any of those in your 'lsmod" results, I would say >

Re: Printing problems....help???

Matthew Claridge wrote: > Its funny you should say that because when printtool tries to autodetect > a printer, it says I don't have parallel port modules loaded. > > the output of lsmod looks like this: > > # lsmod > Module Size Used byTainted: PF > Mvnetd

Re: Woody on a 486/50

David Sanders wrote: > I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. > I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.bat. > Everything seems to be working until it outputs something like: > RAMDISK: Found compressed image at sector 0 > Then it hangs and locks up

Re: PPP Internet Connection Not Working

.0.0 U 1 00 tap0 > > only appears if I shut down and restart LInux. Restarting KDE does not have > this effect. > > I noticed in man for diald: > > Routes for the proxy link should have "0.0.0.0" as the gateway. > > Is this

Re: PPP Internet Connection Not Working

Peter Christensen wrote: > I was hoping this thread would answer a question that's been puzzling me > concerning defaultroute. Some months ago there was a question about PPP on > this list and someone referred to "How to Hook Up PPP" by W. G. Unruh at > http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.ht

Re: dual boot win2k as boot loader

Barney Wrightson wrote: > Quenten Griffith wrote: > >> Well that is good to know that lilo can and backs up the org. MBR, but >> basically there seems no way to boot Debian with the WIN2k Boot >> loader. I don't have a problem with that but my friend may be leary. >> > > I believe it is actual

Re: how to find out pppd's exit status?

andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that creating a file each time I run pon and deleting > it each time I run poff or echoing some information when one of > those is issued doesn't always help: whatever information I want to > retrieve, I don't know the pppd's exit status.

Re: installing sarge/sid from cd

Colin Watson wrote: > -SNIP- < > > The installer for sarge is being completely ripped out and replaced. > Please don't expect it to be useful yet. If you want to install sarge or > sid, install woody and upgrade (from the CD if you like). > How far along in the process at this moment? Any "ro

Re: from `zip' to sid via network - A general outline needed

Harry Putnam wrote: > Hopefully I will already have accumulated enough knowledge and skill > to do this with minimum help: > > Summary: Beginning with no Debian OS at all, and over the network, > get a minimal install, and finally a full blown installation of `Sid'. > > -SNIP- < > I'm a retired

Re: mysterious offer of shell for 5 sec. at boot

David Teague wrote: > Back in June, Dan Jacobson asked about the shell offered during boot of a > 2.4.xx K 7 shell. (Mine is K6, but message and behavior is the same here.) > I never saw a response for this, and while his message is archived, there > is no response archived. > > I would like to

Re: Any suggestion on DE-530 NIC card?

Ying Yin wrote: > Hello, all > > I installed "Woody" on my computer from CD_ROM that labeled > "debian-30r0-i386-binary-1" and it can not recognize my DE-530 > NIC card. > > Would you give me any suggestion on how to find the NIC driver? > Thanks :) > > > Best regards. >

Re: PPP asks my ISP for password

Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. > I type 'pon', having set up ppp in the normal Debian way. Nothing > happens. I'll go back into it to t

Re: print html without netscape

Michael D. Crawford wrote: > It seems to me that you could write a command-line program that links to > Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine to render HTML into an in-memory > graphics buffer. Then you could dump the bitmap to the printer, or save > it as a TIFF file or bitmap EPS file. > > I hav

Re: How to set serial ports over reboot

Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to use setserial to set the parms on /dev/ttyS3. I can do this, > but the settings don't hold over a reboot. > > "man setserial" refers to "/etc/setserial.conf", but there is no such > file. A "locate setserial.conf" doesn't return the location of suc

Re: hard drive NOT found during install!

Waheed Islam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Could you PLEASE help! during installation... my ide controller card is not being recognised by both, potato and woody. It's an Acard AEC6280 Controller (no RAID, includes BIOS). The card is new and works perfectly in Win98, both my primary and sec

Re: Startup sequence problem

Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is an old issue, but it's started to bug me again. On my home machine (used to be potato 2.2.19pre17, it's now woody 2.4.18), ipmasq and openafs-client don't start up correctly from /etc/init.d. The scripts are there, and appear to be linked correc

Re: xdm serving x-terminal: success?

Denny Priebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, is anyone on this list successfully using xdm from xfree86 4.1 (current woody) to manage X terminals? For me it works with servers running xfree86 3.3.6 but not with servers running xfree 4.1. The server is running a recent woody (about one week o

Re: ide-scsi puzzle (for me, anyway)

Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently migrated from 2.2.x to 2.4.18 kernel. I'm running Woody. I have a CD reader and a separate CD reader/burner. The both were working before the migration. After the migration the CD reader would not mount known good CDs. I fixed this by changing

Re: dns setup with domain name

Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network even though I don't have a registered domain name? Is this possible? I guess all I would need to do is install bind or something? Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks Mike Yes. I did

Re: d-link dfe550tx ether driver

Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings: I am doing a manual install test on an older box. I plugged ref. nic into it and started the install via floppy/cdrom. When it's time to add driver support, I do not see a driver for the card among the Woody offerings. Is this

Re: ipmasquerading stops when dialup service is dropped

tvn1981 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have dialup and ip masq to share my dial up connection among my personal network. The problem is when I stop the connection, and redial again, I 'have' to rerun the rc.firewall in order for ipmasq to work. Is this a normal behavior ? Is there anyway

Re: Configuring a NIC

Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized. I've been looking over past NIC configuration inquiries on this forum as well as at DebianHELP.org. Most of the solutions seem to involve finding drivers, making modules and compiling a new kernel.

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