Makefile and -rpath

1999-05-26 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I would like to use an rpath command in a Makefile but I haven't figured out how to include it. Can anyone help? I need this: -rpath=/opt/sybase/lib TIA. -Ian __ Ian K. Setford

Re: Diamond Viper 550

1999-05-25 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I use this card. I use the SVGA server version 3.3.3.1. HTH. -Ian On Tue, 25 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > I will get a Diamond Viper 550 graphics card, soon. Which is the best > Xserver for it? Which X version do you recommend? > > Armin > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubsc

pseudo tty & ssh

1999-05-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have Debian installed on a Sparc but I can't ssh in. Telnet'ing in works fine, as do most other services. I receive the following error: Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. (and then the login hangs) I have UNIX98 ptys support in the kernel but I'm not totally sur

ssh @ pseudo ttys

1999-05-14 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I just installed a new box but when I try to ssh in I recieve this error: Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty Thisonly happens with sshas I can telnet in and out with no problems. Anybody know where the problems is? Or how I can turn off the pseudo ttys altogether?

Sparc Ultra5 (170)

1999-05-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I posted this question to the Sparc list but didn't get a reply so I'm trying it here. I have an Ultra5 that I would like to install on. The installation pages make no mention of this, or any other machine being "supported". I am curious because the RedHat installation manual specifically states

Re: Internet connection

1999-04-30 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I assume you are using pppconfig to set up the dialing. When it asks for a name for the connection give it a name. After everything else is OK type this at a root prompt: pon (where XXX is the name you gave the connection) and your modem should start-up. HTH. -Ian On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Al

scsi problems on HP NetServer LH II

1999-04-29 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have the above server running linux and all of a sudden I begin getting all sorts of SCSI timeout errors scrolling across the screen. It has 4 seagate drives in hot-swap configuration running from onboard AIC-7880 controllers. The machine has a NetRaid card but no devices are attached to it (no

Re: Linux

1999-04-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Honestly, use the link below to get started. It is by far the best way to go. The instructions include links to all the relevant disks. http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install.html This link assumes you are installing on a computer with an x86 (Intel, AMD, Cyrix) processor. Hope tha

Re: WOL ethernet

1999-04-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
; you can use some sort of nit-type device to form your own packet and send one > of > these. > > Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > > Does anyone know if a *nix (Debian) is able to create the so-called "magic > > packet" that tells a machine with a Wake-on

WOL ethernet

1999-04-20 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Does anyone know if a *nix (Debian) is able to create the so-called "magic packet" that tells a machine with a Wake-on-Lan adapter to power up? The research I've done on the web has been inconclusive. Don Becker's page made no mention of it either. Anyone? TIA. -Ian ___

WOL ethernet

1999-04-20 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Does anyone know if a *nix (Debian) is able to create the so-called "magic packet" that tells a machine with a Wake-on-Lan adapter to power up? The research I've done on the web has been inconclusive. Don Becker's page made no mention of it either. Anyone? TIA. -Ian ___

Re: Compressed X-protocoll?

1999-04-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yeah there is. It is called DXPC. Look in stable/X11. HTH. -Ian On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: > Hi, > > I heard rumors that there is a package for debian that uses a-soft-of > compressed X11-protocoll and makes X-sessions via modem possible > (without I wait 10 minutes

XVT with a .jpg background?

1999-04-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I am looking for a terminal emulator (xterm,rxvt, etc..) that will display a .jpg as a background. I read the docs on rxvt, xterm, and aterm but they will only display pixmaps (.xpm). Problem is that when I convert a 20K .jpg to a .xpm the size jumps to 1MB! That is too much so I am looking for

Re: support for multiple network cards?

1999-04-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
If you have support for the card in your kernel it should be detected on bootup. The cards start at eth0...eth1..ethN (N being 1 less than the physical number of cards). You can then use ifconfig to add/bind IP's to cards to suit your needs. When you have a working setup you might add it to /et

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have a _very_ similar chip in my work computer. It is an ATI II+DVD I believe. It works in X with the Mach64 server. Mine only has 2meg because it is integrated into this POS Gateway motherboard. I don't really like the chip but it does work in Linux. HTH. -Ian

URL for gnome staging area?

1999-04-11 Thread Ian Keith Setford
What is the URL for the Gnome staging area? I am going to give it a try after years with AfterStep. TIA. -Ian __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92

Re: config X - s3 virge

1999-04-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
That card, the same one I have, is problematic at 24bpp. Get used to it at 16bpp. Search last years e-mail archives for details. This question used to come up a lot. -Ian On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I have a 4mb diamond 3d s3 virge video card. From XFree86.org, I >

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Bruce, if you are actually in fear for your life the police are the right forum for this. It appears that you are trying to once again publicly defame Eric in front of the Linux community. This message is about embarrassment and character assassination hid beneath a patina of fear. Regardless o

Re: Daylight saving trouble

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Look at the man page for tzconfig. Make sure that your link for /etc/localtime is correct and that /etc/timezone has the correct information. Also run hwclock to check to see what your BIOS is reporting as current time. That might be why linux is confused. I'd start there. HTH. -Ian On Mon,

Re: ifconfig doesn't show virtual interfaces

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I bet you are running a 2.2.x kernel and your version of netbase is from slink. It is a known problem. As you mentioned, the aliased interfaces will work but will not show up in "ifconfig." An easy solution is to upgrade the "unstable" version of netbase (it is very stable.) The only reason, I

Re: Announce: 3D graphical install for Debian

1999-04-01 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yup..you are right. It won't boot on my 486dx4/100. Damn..it's got a sweet OpenGL card in it too. -Ian On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Following up on the success of my VGA 16-color graphical install for > Debian, I am pleased to announce the next generation in installation > tools for

Re: How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Try $xterm -e mutt & That should do it. Also try man xterm for a plethora of other options you can give to the xterm program. Might also want to take a look a RXVT. BTW, the command above is just a beginning, if you need a login shell, different colors, or title you should get thse parameters

Netscape Installer??

1999-03-31 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I'd like to re-install Netscape but I can no longer find the Debian installer script/package. Where did it go? What are all the "other" packages, now in Slink, that mention Netscape? I just want something to do what the older installer did: 1) Extract the .tar.gz from /tmp 2) Install in proper

Re: ntfs package

1999-03-25 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Do you have ntfs support compiled into your kernel? The support is "experimental" I believe and that is for the read-only. I understand the read-write ability to be considered unsafe to use. I have had no problems with the read-only stuff working though. HTH. -Ian On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Richa

Re: SB PCI 64

1999-03-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Have you compiled a new kernel? When you do, make sure to check [Y]es on the first option which asks if you would like do add support for "experimental" stuff. Then go to the sound section and select [Y]es for the es1370 support. That's it. Hope that helps. -Ian On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Tuv- OK!

Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI

1999-03-17 Thread Ian Keith Setford
You must have the "experimental" selected when you compile your kernel. Then you can select the es1370 from the sound options and that's it. -Ian On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I have the above sound card, and when I modprobe es1370 it tells me device > or resource busy. I don'

qmail + mutt + fetchmail problems

1999-03-16 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Well I decided to install qmail upon suggestions from various people. I got the package source and compiled the .debs fine. Then, upon reading the docs, I found out that the "Maildir" format is preferred. So I set out to get that working in Pine. No go. I search the UW pages for info and see m

OT: CD-R suggestions

1999-03-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I'm looking for input on what kind of CD-R to buy. It will be a SCSI version with a 4x-6x write rate. It can have RW ability but I don't plan on using that. What brands should I strive for and which ones should I stay away from? It is going into a data-bank so an internal model is fine. TIA.

fmirror/mirror/lftp ?

1999-03-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I would like to mirror the unstable tree at work. I have tried to accomplish this with several tools (fmirror/mirror/lftp) but I can't figure out how to get exactly what I want. When I use fmirror (which I like), most of what is downloaded are symbolic links to "slink" which are not useful to me

ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Aside from personal preference, does anyone know if a certain combination of colors is better to stare at than others? I can guess, from my own experience, that white text on a black background is better than black on white. Does anybody have any input on this? I would like to use the one that i

DNS--> h2n program

1999-03-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have been reading the O'Reilly DNS/Bind book and it mentions a program/utility (h2n) to convert a hosts file to the db.* files needed for DNS. I searched the debian packages in both stable/unstable and couldn't find any mention of it. Anyone know where I can find this program or one like it? T

Re: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-03-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I will assume that you are running slink because you did not say. I also assume that the version of "netbase" you are running is 3.11-xx. Download the "netbase" package from unstable/Potato (v. 3.12) and your IP aliasing should work normally. For some reason the slink/3.11 version of netbase do

Re: Oh, Brad! Oh, Brad!

1999-03-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Guess we have proof of good crack at Purdue University. ;-) -Ian On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > Let's do the time warp again! > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The > Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to ha

Safest way to segregate /usr (or others)

1999-03-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I would like to separate /usr onto its own partition on a different disk. First, I am under the assumption that this might speed my I/O times because both disks are Ultra2's. Secondly given my set-up below, what is the *safest* method to separate /usr. I thought of two ways but would feel safer

Re: Changing IP address: which config files?

1999-03-04 Thread Ian Keith Setford
A great many files could possibly be effected. It depends on if you are running DNS, sendmail, samba, etc.. The essential files are /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, and edit /etc/init.d/network for the ip changes. HTH. -Ian On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hi! > > Which files do I

Re: Debian Linux Install -

1999-03-04 Thread Ian Keith Setford
> If I remember correctly, this is asking you where all the base files are > stored on the disk. Now, C disk for Windows is > /dev/hda for Linux, but you need to insluce the partition # as well. > If you are not sure, fdisk and see where the Windows resides, but > generally it's on /dev/hda1 > S

netbase bug?

1999-03-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Can someone try to duplicate this problem please? I have 2 Debian boxes with 3c905b NICs. Both are running 2.2.2 but with netbase 3.1-1.21 the ip-aliasing stuff "works", as in the ip alias is created but ifconfig will not show the alias unless you call it explicitly with the interface name. Whe

IP-aliasing

1999-03-02 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have a one gateway with a 3c905b (Boomerang) running 2.2.2 just fine. When I use ifconfig to alias an ip it works no problem. On a different machine, an HP Vectra, with a 3c905b? (Cyclone) and the IP-aliasing works only with 2.0 kernels. Weird. I have compiled 2.2.2 for this Vectra 6 times wi

Re: dmsg?

1999-03-01 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Try "dmesg | more" or as root, look at /var/log/messages. HTH. -Ian On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > How do I find what my dmsg was so that I can show y'all whether my cd-r > was recognized? > > NatePuri > Certified Law Student > & Debian GNU/Linux Monk > McGeorge School of Law

Re: hostname & domain name changing

1999-02-25 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Edit /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, and maybe /etc/resolv.conf. Hope that helps. -Ian On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello, > when i installed my debian box, i only put in some out of nowhere hostname > and domain names, now it seems that i need to give it some real hostname and

IP-Chains help!?

1999-02-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Since I just picked up a new computer last week I no longer have to dual-boot. I now have a need to share a 56k dial-up. I'll admit that I haven't used/needed ip-masquerading since mid 1996 so I'm very rusty with ipfwadm. Now, if I'm correct, we have ipchains instead of ipfwadm and such? I am

Exceed 6 setup help

1999-02-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I just purchased a new computer so I wouldn't have to dual boot anymore. I must use Windows for MS Office (Excel) and games. Problem is that I have only one monitor. I have Exceed 6 but I can't seem to get it working. Does someone who has done this have time to walk me through this? What do I

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
It means that the server is not located in the US, excepting it from US encryption laws. -Ian On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english? > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http:

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Second place is taking a beating? I don't think so. Yes, I voted. -Ian On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Debian seems to be taking a beating on the recent /. poll > of distributions. Have you all voted? > > .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> > > > -- > Unsu

Re: 16 MB STB nVidia TNT 3D AGP

1999-01-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I recently bought a TNT based card and I use it with Debian. You have to download the binary XF86_SVGA Xserver from xfree86.org and place it it /usr/bin/X11/. The binary only server is from the newest Xfree86 release, 3.3.3 which has not been made into a Debian package yet due to time constraint

Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I am trying to get Quake2 to run under linux in an accelerated mode (i.e. OpenGL). Has anyone sucessfully accomplished this? Could you tell me what the correct command line syntax is to start the game in that mode? Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated! -Ian _

Re: new XFree86

1999-01-16 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I don't believe that Xfree86 3.3.3 has been packaged yet because the developer is busy making the Slink version ready for release. If you go to ftp.xfree86.org and download the *binary* XF86_SVGA server and then copy it to /usr/bin/X11 and edit /etc/X11/Xserver to match the server location y

SOLVED: WP8 unzip problem

1999-01-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
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problem gunzip'ing WP8

1999-01-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I downloaded the GUILG00.GZ in whole and in sections from cdrom.com and download.com today but I can't unzip them. Gunzip says it the wrong format: ~ shark:~$ gunzip GUILG00.GZ gunzip: GUILG00.GZ: not in gzip format ls -l shows: ~ shark:~$ ls -l GUILG00.GZ -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 286

nVidia TNT help!!

1999-01-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have tried and tried to get this Riva TNT video card up but I cannot. what I've done: 1) D/L'ed the binary XF86_SVGA server version 3.3.3 and put it in /usr/bin/X11/. (I was using this server with the S3V card earlier today.) 2) Configured my xf86config (3.3.2) for the Riva128 (Diamond

nVidia TnT xf86config choices

1999-01-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I just received my new TNT card and I have downloaded the XFree86 3.3.3 SVGA server and put it in place. Now what I need to know is if my current xf86config program has the TNT option under chipsets and the other chip specific options. If not, what should I select for RAMDAC, card, and should I p

Re: installing Debian and WinNT 4.0

1999-01-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have to use NT for work sometimes so I boot into it when I have to print Office97 stuff and to use Photoshop 5. Anyways, here is my lilo.conf, maybe it will help you. ##/etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz la

Re: Logo

1998-12-30 Thread Ian Keith Setford
When I started using Debian a little over 2 years ago I thought the capital "DEBIAN" that was multi-color looked really sharp. It would make a cool sticker, t-shirt, CD-cover or anything actually. Kudos to whoever designed it. It appeared on the web page 'back in the day and looked great! Keep

Re: Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-02 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have an older 310tx with the Digital 21140 AE chip which works great. I also noticed that Netgear decided to remove the Digital 21140 (Tulip) chip from their more recent models. If you have a 310tx card that says "NETGEAR" on the chip try and take it back. If you look hard enough you can s

RE: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh* (fwd)

1998-11-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Are you sure the CD is on its "master " selection? The physical switch/jumper is what I'm referring to. -Ian > Thanks for responding so quickly, but I'm pretty sure that /dev/hda is the > cdrom because I have only one SCSI harddrive. > Besides, it won't let me use any of the others because it c

Xircom RealPort anyone?

1998-11-18 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I was wondering if anyone knows what chip is used in the 10/100 Xircom RealPort PCMCIA adapter for notebooks. I read Donald Becker's page and it says that the card bus is unsupported but it has no mention of the adapter itself. Anyone using this with Debian? TTYL. -Ian _

2.1.127 errors

1998-11-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- When I try a make xconfig on .127 I get the following in the xtermI ran it from: ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.127/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_PMAC was not declared! WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_APOLLO was not dec

can't link to termcap

1998-11-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I d/l the Pine 4.05 tarball and I am trying to compile it. Everytime I compile (using the ./build lnx command) it bails when trying to link to termcap (-ltermcap "File or directory does not exist"). Any idea how to fix this? TIA. -Ian __

neXtaw widgets?

1998-11-01 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have installed the neXtaw widget package in hopes of having the cleaner look to my apps. It appears to have worked half way. I have the outline and relative effectiveness OK but the bar and buttons do not look "right". They should be a solid color with an indented dot in the center of the

Re: Diamond Stealth 2000 / 4 megs

1998-10-29 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have and use a Stealth 2000. I have used under 1.3 and now under 2.0 Hamm. I use the S3V server and the card number in xf86config is 115. I have heard that the 24bpp mode is not well supported by this card so I run at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't really say that I've had problems with this

slink upg. error

1998-10-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I decided to upgrade to "frozen" slink and I used dselect to to do it. Now I am getting libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such object or directory. Did a package not get installed or is my system hosed now? Sorry if this is an old question but I haven't had the need to upgr

Re: Help required SB16 PnP

1998-07-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- You will have to download and use the isapnptools package. Once you have that installed just follow along with the instructions and you should have sound. By the way, sound *must* be compiled as a module in order for the isapnptools to work properly. -Ian __

Re: Advanced Power Management & Linux

1998-07-24 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I'm looking to install Linux into a(n almost brand-spanking new) Sony > Tower VAIO PCV-210 multimedia PC with the stable version of Debian 2.0 > (just released today). The PCV-210 has got this feature called "Advanced > Power Management (APM version 1.2) where it puts itself in "sleep" mode

Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- >From the oceans of code emerges Debian 2.0! And it is good! Come forward my brothers (and sisters) and embrace this glorious gift. Take forth this gift and sow it's seed for it will reign eternal. Brother Ian. (p.s. Can you tell I'm excited?) _

Re: Questions from a new user [forwarded]

1998-07-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Second: I recently did a clean install of Debian 2.0.34 (not an upgrade), > mistakenly believing this to be the current stable release. I've since > become convinced that Deb2.x ("hamm") is still the unstable version. > Nevertheless, I'd like to stick with it, since the comments I've read on

Re: Help with sound

1998-07-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I can't get my sound to work. Everything that uses sound says it can't > open the sound device. Bplay gave me the best lead with this: > bplay: /dev/dsp: Device not configured > > My question is, how do I configure /dev/dsp? MAKEDEV doesn't appear to do > anything. Do you have /dev/dsp s

Re: module dependencies

1998-07-02 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Hmm, did you run 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' after > building > the kernel? When you ran 'depmod -a' did it give any errors? depmod is the > prog that builds the modules.dep file in /lib/modules/2.0.34/ (On a Deb > system, depmod should be run at every boot). On my 2.

module dependencies

1998-07-02 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I am installing sound on a machine with a Creative Vibra 16 sound card. Pnp of sourse and I believe to have isapnptools set up properly. I am getting the error: no dependency information for module: "/lib/modules/2.0.34/misc/sound.o". What exactly is wrong? I have compiled sound in the ker

why no web update?

1998-06-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- How come the Debian 2.0 Beta has an article on slashdot.org but not even so much as a mention on www.debian.org? I think that such an important release should have a whole page describing why it is so *awesome* but I guess that isn't a common feeling. Anyway, how about someone updating the "

WXftp .debs??

1998-06-22 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I was wondering if Alex's WXftp program have been debianized. I scanned the ftp.debian.org directories but haven't found any. Does anyone know if they exist and if so where? Thanks- Ian _ Ian K. Setford

Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

1998-06-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- Does the kernel find the CD-ROM on boot? What is the device name? Try mounting the CD by device name. Run "dmesg | more" to see if the CD-ROM is found. -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: X problem (again) Win managers.

1998-06-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > This time I couldn't get those windows managers to run. People advised > me > to install them so I choosed fvwm95, the instalation was ok, dselect did > not find any problems, but when I first started X it did not appear like > the fvwm95 docs said it would be. I found the windows man

Dvorak keyboard in X?

1998-06-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I was wondering if the current xbase has support for a "dvorak" type keyboard. If so, is it an option within xf86config? Thanks, -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package installs

1998-06-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I have downloaded from an FTP site, a couple of .deb files that i want to > install on my > debian package. when i use the dpackage command, and i advise that i have > these files on floppy discs, it finds my .deb files and has them as > dselected, therefore it will not install them. this

Re: ISDN w/Debian

1998-06-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Is anyone running Debian -> Internet via ISDN ?? > Please mail me, I'd like to ask a few questions > about the setup. If you have questions regarding an ISDN router I could probably help but if you have an ISDN modem or internal adapter my knowledge is more limited. -Ian __

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > What is the easiest way for me to take the kernel I am currently using (the > default one) and add the soundblaster support. Or if there isn't an easy way, > what > order of steps should I use to make a kernel? Do you have x-windows running? If so, run 'make xconfig' in your kernel source

1 SCSI & 1 IDE hdd w/LILO

1998-06-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I just added a SCSI drive to my computer. I now have a 4.3g SCSI and a 2.1g IDE. I have moved Debian to /dev/sda1 and I have installed Winblows on the IDE (/dev/hda1) so I can play StarCraft and Unreal. I have had no luck with LILO. It will boot to Debian no problem but I can't get Windows

Re: Soundblaster 16 PnP Help

1998-05-30 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I am in the process of trying to get my SoundBlaster 16 pnp card set > up and have read through the Kernel-Howto, Sound-Howto, and SB16 pnp > mini-howto, and had a couple of questions on how to do this. If anyone has > this set up, SB16pnp card and Debian 2.0 (Deep Frozen), along with

anybody have/use ADSL?

1998-05-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- Service come online here in 3 days and I was just wondering if anyone has experience with it yet. I believe the head-end units will be Fujitsu multiplexors and the client side will have Orckit modems? Anybody have any info? Thanks, -Ian ___

3d pass through

1998-05-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I just got another machine which I would like to dual boot *grin* with Winblows so I can have fun playing StarCraft and Unreal. I would like to get a 3dfx card. Will linux care if the 3dfx card is installed? I don't wish to use the 3dfx card in linux just the regular pci card I already hav

major Netscape problems

1998-05-14 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have been having on and off problems with Netscape. Now it seems I can't get the problem to go away. Netscape will load but it will not go anywhere or do anything except it takes up 100% of my processor time and won't close unless I kill -9 the process. I have tried every version of Nets

Re: routing question

1998-05-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Please do so. You could tell us *what* problems you have. What makes you > "feel" something is wrong? How is the connection "corrupted"? What makes > you think your routes are messed up. I have a "bogus" connection sometimes as already stated. By corrupted I mean that sometimes I be worki

V.90 modem recomendation

1998-05-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I need to purchase a modem for a Debian box and I was wondering if anybody had a suggestion. I know to stay away from "WinModems" but they are rapidly becoming less conspicuous so I want to be sure I don't get one. Any suggestions are appreciated! -Ian _

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo > I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets > an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting > that he run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1". I know that mke2fs makes > several backup copies of the superblock, but I'm unsure of where these > are placed.

RE: Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Just for more fun and confusion I have a little more info. First of all I > should tell you that I am a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy and > consequently I was issued (I bought it, but it was deducted from my pay and > given to me like every other one of my classmates) my compu

Re: Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Can anyone give me a hand with this mouse thing, I just can't figure it out. If you are sure it is a serial mouse (i.e. a serial connector) and not a PS/2 mouse then you should be using gpm for the console and and /dev/ttyS0 for the device name in xf86config. If it happens to be a PS/2 mou

Re: Tulip Network drive

1998-05-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > > > > Does the hamm/kernel_2.0.33 include the Tulip network drive? > > > > > > Yes, but you may need to download and compile newer version of the "tulip" > > > driver depending on the particular card you use. (I had to.) > > > I have a NetGear 10/100 Fast Ethenet Card. Does this requ

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I am trying to upgrade to hamm, but dselect doesn't see the .deb files when > it tries to download them. I ftp to ftp.debian.org and > the files are there. What am I doing wrong? Have you tried the "auto-up" script? That is probably the best route. Once that is done point dselect to the

Re: ISDN

1998-05-08 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I'm think to change my phone to ISDN. I'd like to know if > PPP/IP masquerade setup for the Linux box would be the same > for ISDN. Will you be using an ISDN "modem" or a router? Most routers will do address translation negating the need for IP masquearading. -Ian

x-fer /home to new drive?!

1998-05-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have had my sytem running on a WD 2.1G for over a year but I just bought a Mylex SCSI card and a WD Enterprise drive. I have everything working fine but now I want to mount /home on its own partition on the new faster drive. What is the best way to accomplish this? Is it even advisable?

AfterStep bug??

1998-05-04 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I upgraded to hamm when it froze and since then I was upgraded to Afterstep 1.4 when I used dselect. I have been having problems with AS doing certain things and I was wondering if anyone else had experienced any of them. None of the backgrounds from the menu work, in fact, when I try to use

AfterStep 1.4 bug?

1998-05-04 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I upgraded to hamm when it froze and since then I was upgraded to Afterstep 1.4 when I used dselect. I have been having problems with AS doing certain things and I was wondering if anyone else had experienced any of them. None of the backgrounds from the menu work, in fact, when I try to us

Re: make-kpkg help!

1998-04-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > What version of kernel-package are you using?have you used is sucessfully > before? Using 4.06, just downloaded it yesterday from unstable/frozen. > the error that is gives is not a probalme with lilo...it is a problem with the > control file generated by the kernel-packge system. > basic

make-kpkg help!

1998-04-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I am trying to use make-kpkg to build a .deb package for a friend. I type the following command and receive an error after about 3min into the compile (on a PPro200). (from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33) #make-kpkg kernel_image -revision=custom.1.0 ...(compiles for 3 min) then, (if [ -f

errors!!

1998-04-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I am trying to compile 2.0.33 and I get the following errors: -- make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/arch/i386/lib' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x10 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \

boot errors!

1998-04-24 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I just compiled a new kernel and I get the following error messages on boot. I can't decipher them. If some knows what is wrong I appreciate your help. --- 4>] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 0010 ebx: 05cec018 ecx: 0680c5da

delete bo packages?

1998-04-14 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I usually do not delete the package files after I download them in case I need to re-install them. Because of this I have a lot of package files from my "bo" system still crowding my hard drive. I would like to delete the package files I downloaded before my upgrade to frozen. Is there a w

Re: Help with a PS/2 mouse and X11

1998-04-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I installed off of the 1.3.1 CD's, and haven't been able to get my mouse to > work with anything yet. (What program's could I test with besides X11?) > The mouse is a PS/2 style Logitech Mouseman 3 button mouse. > > I went into XF86Config and tried the following settings: > mouse protocol

Re: Multi-tasking

1998-04-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Is there a way I can multi-task in debian? Like with Win95, you can > open two programs and switch between them. I compare files, and it would > make my life easier if I could switch between two files, rather then > editing it, looking at a section, quiting, then editing and comparing

Re: Netgear 10/100tx nic

1998-04-07 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I'm trying to use a few netgear FA310TX 10/100 cards ('cause they're cheap!). > Although they are based on the DEC 21140-AF chip (tulip) they don't seem to > work well (or at all) with even the most recent tulip driver. I tried a > Genuine DEC nic (500tx) with a 21140 and it worked fin

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